One day later, Ma Feng, who was in China, first received an invitation from investor Gu Kun to assist in the investigation.
At that time, Ma Feng himself was at the company's headquarters in Fangzhou City, Donghai Province. Hearing that Boss Gu, who had not asked him for help for a year and a half, had something to do, he quickly offered his help.
Unfortunately, the first two days of inquiries did not yield any results.
That night, he personally called Gu Kun back: "Brother Gu, I haven't seen any shopping groups in China that go to Lanfang with zero or low fees like you mentioned. There is no investment information online. There is no real investment information.
I also asked the travel company for you. No formal company provides this kind of service.
Of course, I don’t know if it’s illegal. I really haven’t found any public advertisements. Everyone I know has seen it. But if there is any news later, I will inform you as soon as possible.”
"Don't worry, I'll just ask casually first, and encourage you if you don't." Gu Kun was also slightly shaken, saying that he didn't need to pay too much attention and just pay a little attention to it in daily life. However, while chatting, he also thought of someone.
Asked casually,
"By the way, didn't the people at Biancheng Travel Network have a vague intention to engage in that model? Didn't I refuse without giving them a chance to say it, and I didn't even see it. What happened now?
Seeing that the thinking is somewhat similar to theirs, are they really willing to stay out of it?"
Ma Feng: "Do you suspect that people from Biancheng Travel Network organized it privately? I really haven't seen this. They don't have this kind of business online. But since you are suspicious, I will focus on helping you take a look."
Ma Feng said, first he apologized, hung up the phone, went to find out the situation, and then sent another reply to Gu Kun half an hour later: "Brother Gu, you are really smart. They really don't have any kind of package online.
But their company seems to have had some big events or changes recently.
I asked their internal people today and found out that one of the co-founders, Boss Shen, had actually left. It was a very peaceful and ordinary way, so there was no news at all in the world. It seemed that an investor had given him the money.
I bought him for tens of thousands or millions of dollars, so I bought him out.
I don’t know where Boss Shen went. He may have been living in seclusion for a period of time on vacation abroad. He was frustrated and wanted to relax. Didn’t Steve Jobs often go to the mountains to meditate after being kicked out of the company? I don’t know if this has anything to do with it.
related."
"Then the founder of the company left? When did it happen?" Gu Kun immediately became alert.
When he heard this information, he was much more surprised than Ma Feng.
After all, Ma Feng is not a reborn person, and Ma Feng does not know history.
But Gu Kun knows history. He knows that Shen Beipeng was not supposed to set up Sequoia Capital's subsidiary in China until around 04/05, but now he must have left at least two years in advance.
After all, Shen Beipeng is not a small figure. He is a person who has made a mark in the history of the Internet. People under high school and below who do not care about social news may not know him. People with a little bit of common sense in the workplace have heard of his name at least.
Although Gu Kun was not a person in the Internet industry in his previous life, he had been working hard in the workplace for more than 20 years. He had such rich social experience, how could he not know this.
Since the historical trajectory has changed so much, it is only fitting that Biancheng Travel Network went dark in advance.
Ma Feng didn't know about Gu Kun's inner drama. He just answered truthfully: "It seems that he officially left in March, but it is said that he stopped working in the company at the end of February. An external investor redeemed him.
His shares. But because it is an unlisted company, changes in shareholders do not need to be announced to the public.
They are very strict. I can't even find out who the new shareholder is. It seems to have a foreign capital background, but as you know, my country's current requirements for Internet information service providers are that direct operating companies cannot have foreign capital background and must have a VIE structure. Spin it off to an overseas technical service company. The new shareholders added in the Cayman Islands use disguised funds to hold the shares, so it is easy to keep it secret."
Speaking of common sense in the industry, Internet information service providers operating in China at that time were not allowed to have direct foreign shareholding. For example, in history, Sun Zhengyi invested in Ali Baba, which was just a popular saying. In fact, the company was split into
An operating company and a technical support company are bound by articles of association to transfer all profits of the operating company to the technical support company. Then the technical support company can be registered overseas and controlled by foreign capital.
Of course, Ali is not the only one. The first three giants of Hulangyibat and the next three giants all do this. This is why the six giants all have their companies registered in the Cayman Islands if you look carefully.
In today's world, it is not necessary for everyone to go to the Cayman Islands. Maybe in the future, more companies will be able to do vie structures directly in the Lanfang Islands. Of course, the conditions are not mature yet. After all, the reason why the Cayman Islands are reassuring is because of the Cayman Islands.
It is not friendly enough to China, and the international financial sector never cooperates.
This is like why Swiss banks reassure rich people. It’s because Swiss banks don’t cooperate. If Swiss banks were run by an old friend of the Chinese people, then many Chinese wealthy people would not dare to release their money in Swiss banks. This is
It is also a limitation of business. The relationship with China is too friendly, and some business that can only be done with an "absolute neutrality" attitude cannot be done.
Without further ado, after hearing Ma Feng's answer, Gu Kun became even more inseparable from the matter. He ordered: "I understand. You have been keeping an eye on them these past few days. There is no information about them on the Internet now."
Advertisements for cheap group tours don't mean they won't happen in the future. I suspect they will take action soon.
In addition, I will check as soon as possible the composition of the people who have recently sent Chinese passports to Lanzhou to sign. Then I will check with you to see if the people who have gathered together and want to come in the next period have just registered with Alipay not long ago.
Are there any loopholes in the account? What I'm most afraid of is that there are travel agencies that help people send fake materials or at least teach them how to do it to make it easier to pass the review and provide one-stop service.
We cannot retroactively apply to the past. For those who have paid monthly fees to become Alipay users, I will fulfill my promise as usual. However, starting from May 1st, the threshold for newly admitted Alipay users will be stricter.
, it is clearly stated in the new user agreement that, for example, participating in a tour group with zero tour fee is a dishonest act that will deduct Zhima credit points in the future. I will announce it as soon as possible and implement it from May 1st. For zero and low tour fees,
The visa and financial review of the foreigners must be additionally tightened and strictly controlled.”
Gu Kun had already promised someone something, even if someone took advantage of it, Gu Kun still had to implement it thoroughly.
He estimated that if Mr. Yang really bypassed the Lanzhou authorities and forcibly set up a self-subsidized tour group that forced shopping, he would definitely help those who are greedy for petty gains to register Alipay accounts, and then act as an agent for those people. How much monthly rent should they pay first?
fee.
For tourists, the visa fee for going abroad originally costs several hundred yuan. If it is to go abroad, paying the monthly rent of an Alipay account for one and a half years is a great deal. For such a purpose, they are definitely willing to register.
If a group of fish that slipped through the net had already come in, Gu Kun would hold his nose and let them enjoy the whole process, and the law would not be retroactive. Even the public notice period should not be less - those visa management regulations, but
You cannot say today that you want to change it and then change it immediately tomorrow. Publicizing it a month in advance is already a relatively quick publicity for administrative regulations.
If someone in the remaining twenty days of April, after reading this announcement, was not very determined to get Alipay to facilitate future visas, but now after reading the announcement, he suddenly became an Alipay user in order to catch the last train, Gu Kun will still stick to his word.
Promisingly let these people enjoy.
As the same saying goes, every spit is a pit, and what you agree to must be credible. And this is regarded as a "gradient bonus for early users."
Originally, people who registered as new Alipay users throughout 2002 were treated the same. Now, at least the users who came in the first four months of this year will be more expensive than the users who came in the eight months after May.
A little more privilege.
For those who have become Alipay users at least in the first four months of this year, and those who became last year, even if you join a zero-fee tour group in the future, Lanfang people will still allow you to pass without financial review and allow you to enter the country.
For those who register in the next eight months, this road will be blocked. Even if there are unscrupulous tours with zero tour fees in the future, the Lanzhou side will still refuse to sign.
All in all, Gu Kun will make every effort to make the Chinese world form a hard currency chain of trust and pretentious contempt in the future.
Perhaps a person who drove a Santana in the 1980s and was still driving a Santana in 2000 cannot find a sense of superiority in front of an upstart who was still riding a bicycle in the 1980s but was driving a Mercedes-Benz in 2000.
But Gu Kun must let a person who became an Alipay user in 2001 find a sense of superiority in front of someone who became an Alipay user in 2002, 2003 or even later.
Moreover, it is necessary to fully separate the ranks, to the extent that in the ancient imperial examination society, when literati met each other, they would ask each other which year you took the exam, who was born in the same year, and who was born later. Even if a seventy-year-old man passed the exam at sixty,
In front of a young man who was elected a few years earlier than him, he could only call himself a late-born.
However, these are a bit far away. The main purpose of what Gu Kun is doing now is to block the influx of low-priced tour groups into Lanfang in batches and cut off the source of customers.
Ma Feng had a brief understanding of Gu Kun's standard requirements, and said that he would immediately ask Pay BMW to make rectifications and start publicizing them today, and that new users who signed after May 1st would use the newly revised user agreement.
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After Ma Feng finished his instructions, Lan Fang's domestic defensive measures were also carried out in an orderly manner.
Within a few days, Gao Jianxiong and the people from Blackwater Security Company secretly discovered the movements of some guys who "buy luxury goods without stamping passports and not refunding consumption tax."
"Boss, we found out that someone was hoarding goods. And they had stocked up but hadn't taken out the goods yet, so the market didn't notice it in the early stage. They were probably afraid that after we tightened the investigation, those big companies that you personally control would be affected in the future.
Brand, it’s hard to buy genuine products in large quantities on the market.
Therefore, they focus on stocking your brand in the early stage, and not many other brands that you cannot control. It is estimated that if they want to stock your competitor’s luxury brands such as Lv Brand, they will directly purchase them legally from foreign countries, in accordance with the formal dealer agreement.
Let’s go, I won’t be able to control it when the time comes.”
Gao Jianxiong reported this.
"Understood, it's easy to deal with them if they are hoarding goods. It doesn't matter if they can't control all the supply of goods. Within the scope of doing business in accordance with the law and the contract, dealing with them in a business-like manner is enough for them." Gu Kun