Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Taobao’s Singles’ Day was already in its warm-up phase. The e-commerce department of Orange Technology had completed its registration on Taobao Mall last week.

The store currently had only one product, which would also be part of the promotional event.

Juhuasuan was running a slogan, ”Group Buy a Flight Attendant,” which made Chen Yansen do a double-take. It was only after clicking on it that he realized he’d been tricked by clickbait.

It turned out to be a marketing campaign by Taobao in collaboration with Southern Airlines. Users who spent 517 yuan on a bracelet would get a chance to buy a Mercedes-Benz Smart for 1 yuan in a flash sale and have lunch with 111 flight attendants.

It was practically the originator of risqué marketing. It seemed tacky, but it garnered tens of millions of views and had a remarkable effect.

The competition between Jingdong and Taobao was intensifying. Handsome Dong had publicly declared to Ma Liyun that ”B2C will surpass Taobao within 5 years.”

However, Ma Liyun didn’t respond, most likely out of disdain.

At the same time, Jingdong announced it would participate in the Singles’ Day promotion, an obvious retaliation for Taobao crashing its 618 festival.

”Next year, Pinbei will have to participate in 618 and Singles’ Day too.”

Seeing this, Chen Yansen muttered to himself.

In his memory, Taobao’s sales on Singles’ Day this year would break 5 billion, a 4 billion increase from 2010.

This signaled that the domestic e-commerce industry was about to rocket to its peak!

For the next decade, both the express delivery and e-commerce industries would experience explosive growth.

And Chen Yansen’s Pinbei and Cloud Speed were both ready, just waiting for the great era of e-commerce to arrive.

As soon as 8:00 AM arrived, the Human Dao Fire began to pour in!

A minute later, Chen Yansen pulled up the system panel. Seeing the fire value, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

Orange Technology, Pinbei, the Orange Phone Factory, and Cloud Speed Express had contributed a total of 4,160 wisps of Human Dao Fire. Adding the remaining 83 wisps, he had a total of 4,243.

Chen Yansen synthesized them into 42 wisps of Divine Dao Fire and allocated them to his Spirit.

After just a few breaths, his Spirit attribute rose to 11.25!

Compared to six months ago, it seemed to have increased by only 1.25, but Chen Yansen could clearly feel that the improvement in his memory and comprehension was far more significant than a simple 1.25 suggested.

From an energy perspective, this 1.25 increase had cost over ten thousand wisps of Human Dao Fire. Yet, when he had raised his Spirit from 1.32 to 10, it had only taken him over 800 wisps. The difference was more than tenfold.

Chen Yansen’s learning efficiency was even more terrifying than it had been half a year ago. In his eyes, abstruse knowledge in subjects like mathematics and physics was hardly more difficult than ’1+1=2’.

For a completely new language, he only needed to read through a dictionary once and watch one movie in its original language to deduce the phonetic logic and summarize the grammar, thereby fully mastering it.

It was less like learning and more like an innate talent.

This feeling of understanding things at a glance made Chen Yansen enjoy passing the time by absorbing new knowledge.

「Meanwhile.」

In Yanjing, Lei Yijun hosted representatives from Qiming, Temasek, and Qualcomm Capital. After two days of negotiations, Xiaomi finally accepted the B-round financing proposal, raising a total of 160 million US dollars at a valuation of 2 billion US dollars.

As the news spread, sales of the Xiaomi Mobile Phone immediately rose.

Although the Xiaomi Mobile Phone had many shortcomings compared to the Orange Mobile Phone, it was still an outstanding product in terms of cost-effectiveness.

At least in the 2,000-yuan price range, it had virtually no rival except for the Orange Mobile Phone.

When Chen Yansen heard about it, he didn’t pay it any mind.

His rivals had never been Xiaomi, but Apple and Samsung.

For Orange Technology, this was just the beginning.

Chen Yansen left the faculty apartments and drove to the Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

He first went to Building 8 for a morning meeting with Wang Teng, Gao Weilin, Zhang Cong, Zhou Ze, and the others, then went downstairs to Building 6, where Pinbei was located.