Four hundred and seventieth chapters to overcome the difficulties together
"Let's talk about it. Such a big thing happened and it coincided with the Chinese New Year. Now people all over the country are watching our Ahri's jokes."
Jackma glanced at all the Ahri executives present, and everyone bowed their heads wherever he looked.
Jack Ma's reputation in Ahri is so high that he is almost "deified".
Now that he is angry, no one dares to get into trouble.
The only exception is Cai Xin, who is Ahri's largest individual shareholder besides Jack Ma, and is Jack Ma's right-hand man.
Cai Xin advised: "I think this matter is not likely to be done by the Zhonghe Group. The method is a bit too low-level."
Jack Ma pondered for a while, then waved his hand and said: "Put this aside for now. We need to check if Yang Weidong has any problems first?"
"Ah, isn't that right? We're going to investigate our own executives when it's baseless?"
"Yes, we can't just say what Zhonghe Group says?"
"We can't mess up our situation. I think we need to take a long-term approach."
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Hearing these remarks from the executives, Jack became extremely angry.
As the company gets bigger and the team gets bigger, people have more thoughts.
Jack Ma looked at a middle-aged man with glasses and half-white hair and said, "General Gu Yong, tell me what to do?"
Gu Yongjiang is also a legendary figure. He used to be the vice president of Sohu. On the eve of Jack Ma leaving the capital and returning to Lin'an to start Ali, it is said that he went to Sohu for an interview. The person who interviewed him at that time was Gu Yongjiang.
Later, Gu Yongjiang left Sohu to found Youku Video, and also acquired Tudou Video, becoming China's largest video website in one fell swoop.
Later, Ahri acquired Youku Tudou Group, and Gu Yong also became the chairman of Ahri Entertainment Strategy and Investment Committee, and his immediate boss was Xiaoyaozi Zhang Yong.
Seeing Jack Ma asking him, Gu Yongjiang secretly complained in his heart.
He recommended Yang Weidong to join Ali, and he rose through the ranks and became the president of Youku.
It would be fine if Yang Weidong had no problems, but he cannot escape responsibility if there are problems.
After thinking for a while, Gu Yongjiang said: "I think it is necessary to investigate and verify, not to unjustly accuse a good person, and not to let any bad person go.
You just have to pay attention to the impact. If there is no problem, it will not sound good if it gets out, and it will also have a great impact on Weidong's personal reputation."
Jack Ma nodded, looked at a small middle-aged woman with single eyelids sitting on one side, and ordered: "Jiang Fang, your Integrity and Compliance Department will be responsible for investigating this matter."
Jiang Fang nodded solemnly, "Mr. Ma, please rest assured that if you leave this matter to us, we will definitely get to the bottom of it."
The middle-aged woman's voice was not loud, but it still made other executives' necks shiver.
Jiang Fang is a student of Jack Ma and one of the Eighteen Arhats. Her job number is 13.
At the same time, there is also a nickname called "The Master of Extinction", who once personally sent 6 Ahri executives to jail. As for the ordinary employees involved, there are many more, at least several hundred people.
The Integrity Department led by Jiang Fang is responsible for investigating several controversial incidents such as the Ali B2B "Fraud Incident", the "Juhuasuan Incident", and the "Mid-Autumn Mooncake Incident".
Ali established the Integrity Department in 2009, making it one of the earliest Internet companies in China to set up its own anti-corruption department.
Similar to Ruixiang and Zhonghe, the main functions of Ali’s Integrity Department are corruption investigation, prevention and compliance management.
This department is independent from the internal audit and internal control departments of each business line. It only reports to the group CPO and has no cap on investigation authority.
"Um, Mr. Ma, are you considering withdrawing the lawyer's letter from Zhonghe first?
I heard that Zhonghe has reported the case to the public security bureau, and also sent us a lawyer's letter to counter sue us for defamation.
I suggest taking it slow first, let’s check it out before we make the next decision..."
Jack Ma interrupted the executive’s speech, “No need, I’ve already sent it out, there’s no reason to withdraw it.
Even if there is a problem, it’s not the competitor Zhonghe Group’s turn to point fingers.”
Seeing that Jack Ma had said this, no one dared to mention the withdrawal of the lawyer's letter.
They just hope that Yang Weidong is okay, otherwise Ah Li will be embarrassed again.
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After Ahri opened fire, it was like a signal gun being fired, and other companies began to pull the triggers one after another.
Many media outlets, including Yangcheng Daily and Phoenix News, sued Tiantian Toutiao for arbitrarily reprinting news from their platforms, allegedly infringing copyright.
Today's Toutiao is enough to give these traditional media headaches, and now Tiantian Toutiao has popped up.
Moreover, Tiantian Toutiao has grown rapidly with the traffic support of Zhonghe Group's matrix products, and has the momentum to become the second Toutiao. This is simply driving them to a dead end.
All the manuscripts that were written so hard were moved to their platform by these porters of nature.
The attention, traffic, and advertising fees all go into the pockets of these unscrupulous news aggregation apps, and they don’t get a penny of benefits.
Whether it is to protect their own interests or to warn Tiantian Toutiao, they must do this.
The legal battle between traditional media and Toutiao has been going on for two or three years, and most of them have not yet reached a conclusion.
Zhonghe Group's legal department naturally followed suit and started countersuing these traditional media like Toutiao.
The Legal Department of Zhonghe Group said, "Without any factual basis, the article deliberately fabricated as "plagiarized by Tiantian Toutiao" has violated the reputation of Tiantian Toutiao. Zhonghe Group will take up legal weapons to defend its reputation."
Qiandu’s iQiyi sued Douyin, a subsidiary of Zhonghe Group, saying: “Without permission, Zhonghe Group uploaded its online copyrighted film and television work “Emergency Doctor” through a short video and requested that the infringement be stopped immediately.
We will apologize publicly and compensate iQiyi for RMB 30 million in losses.”
Zhonghe Group publicly responded: "The short videos involved in the case were all uploaded and published by users. Zhonghe Group did not directly provide online playback of the short videos involved in the case, so it does not constitute direct infringement."
In addition, Zhonghe Group also took Qiandu to court. The reason for the lawsuit was that "Qiandu Search grabbed the content of DouShi without permission and was suspected of infringement." It also requested Qiandu to publicly apologize and compensate 30 million yuan in economic compensation.
loss.
Penguin is even more fierce, suing Zhonghe Group for infringing Penguin's copyright and prohibiting the three major live broadcast platforms of DouShi, Kuaishou and Bilibili from live streaming the game Honor of Kings.
Zhonghe Group is required to compensate for losses of 100 million yuan and publicly apologize.
Zhonghe Group naturally refused to comply, and DouYi countersued WeiShi, claiming that the latter had moved DouYi's short videos.
When things have reached this point, everyone understands that the three BAT companies are going to attack Zhonghe Group.
The reason is simple, the cheese of three companies has been touched.
The e-commerce sector conflicts with Ali, the entertainment sector conflicts with Penguin, and the content sector conflicts with Qiandu.
On the surface, the threat Zhonghe Group poses to Qiandu is much smaller than the other two.
But Qiandu is also impatient. As Zhonghe's advertising business develops, they feel that Qiandu's advertising business is shrinking, and a large number of advertisers have gone to Zhonghe Group.
This is not bad, the friendship between brothers and sisters can only be put aside.
For Qiandu, the advertising business is the last lifeblood, and whoever makes the move will be in a hurry.
Huya, Douyu, Zhihu, Maimai, Weibo and other platforms have also begun to take sides. With the support of the bosses behind the scenes, they have sued Zhonghe Group based on their own reasons.
Zhonghe Group is regarded as an enemy of the entire Internet circle, and it took over this cause and effect for Zhang Ming.
Zhang Ming spent the Chinese New Year happily in his hometown in Fujian Province, and his life was very free and unrestrained.
Zhang Yida could not live a good life in the new year, so he flew back to the capital on the first day of the new year.
All senior executives of Zhonghe Group have also been recalled to overcome the difficulties together.