Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

”Then I’ll hold onto it for you.” Song Yuncheng didn’t hesitate. She took the key from Chen Yansen’s palm and carefully tucked it into her pocket.

”Tomorrow, we’re going to Qin Island, and the day after that, Shuangqing. The next time you’re back in Lujiang, remember to get your passport. I’ll take you to even farther places in the future.”

Chen Yansen placed his hand on Song Yuncheng’s head and ruffled her hair gently, smiling as he spoke.

”Oh, okay,” Song Yuncheng replied obediently.

For the entire National Day holiday, Chen Yansen visited three cities, and they didn’t return to Xuyuan by car until late on the night of the 6th.

The dormitory gates were long since closed, so the two of them returned to Room 0418 with a tacit understanding.

The next morning, Song Yuncheng was seen pushing her suitcase toward the girls’ dormitory.

After taking a full six-day break, Chen Yansen sat on the sofa and finally turned his thoughts to the launch plan for his new project.

Unlike when he was putting together FoxTao, this time he had his own insights and programming skills for front-end, back-end, and mobile development.

He placed his laptop on his legs, his hands flying across the keyboard as he began to map out the product requirements for ’Pinbei’ from scratch.

Before Ah Li took over FoxTao, Chen Yansen had copied the entire merchant CRM database.

Of course, from a business perspective, what Chen Yansen did was unethical, but he wasn’t an ethical person to begin with.

Although most of the businesses in it were distributors and agents rather than actual source manufacturers, it was more than enough as an initial merchant resource for Pinbei.

He didn’t plan to completely copy Pinduoduo’s business model. Instead, he would combine it with some e-commerce strategies from a dozen years in the future to roll out a mature business model ahead of its time.

The goal was to get Pinbei’s daily order volume to 10,000, or even 100,000 or 1,000,000, in a very short period.

On one hand, he needed people like Zhang Yifeng, Yuan Wei, and Li Hui to help him connect with source factories in industrial belts to get firsthand goods at rock-bottom prices. On the other hand, he needed a traffic portal from Penguin.

Neither could be missing!

He had to get a firm grip on both the traffic and supply sides, and he had to be tough on both!

In the afternoon, as students began returning to campus, Chen Yansen took a trip to the bus station to pick up Meng Jie.

”I’m so sorry. My cousin was getting married. I’ll definitely go out with you next holiday.”

Meng Jie felt a little guilty. Every holiday, it was either her dad rushing her home or a relative getting married, and she could never get out of it.

”Sure,” Chen Yansen agreed with a smile.

’A man’s got to have a backup plan,’ he thought. ’Otherwise, wouldn’t President Chen have spent this National Day holiday in Room 0418 like all those single losers?’

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「A thousand miles away in Shencheng City, at Penguin Headquarters.」

Ma Wenteng, Liu Zhiping, and a few other senior executives were sitting in Little Ma’s office, chatting idly in small groups.

”KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK—” Ma Wenteng tapped the table. Seeing the group getting nowhere after all their discussion, he immediately tried to get them on track.

”Martin, you go first.” Seeing they were still silent, Ma Wenteng called on him directly.

”I have no objection. If Chen Yansen is willing to give up some equity, what’s the harm in giving him a primary traffic portal? As long as he can get Penguin’s e-commerce module off the ground.”

Liu Zhiping shrugged, a look of indifference on his face.

Gao Peng and QQ Group Buy had taken a lot of the group’s funds and resources, but now one was nearly dead and the other was half-dead.

Chen Yansen’s line that ’Penguin doesn’t have the DNA for e-commerce’ seemed to have been prophetic. This group of people couldn’t even figure out the local lifestyle services business.

They might as well hand the money and traffic over to someone more reliable to run the show.

”Mr. Ma, I disagree! WeChat is just getting started, and I don’t want to mix in too many commercial elements. It would ruin the product.” Zhang Xiaolong looked up, openly contradicting Liu Zhiping and leading the opposition.

”I think we can give it to him, as long as he can bring Penguin enough benefits,” said Zhang Zhidong, head of the QQ division, speaking nonchalantly.

”I heard E-commerce Ma plans to participate in Pinbei’s angel round,” Liu Zhiping added.