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The deal with Meiters Express was a contract price set by headquarters, but the drivers still got a 10-cent commission per order.

Before, they only picked up a few dozen orders a day. If the company had only given them a 10-cent commission then, they would have cursed their boss and his ancestors for eighteen generations.

But now, things were different!

Meiters was getting tens of thousands of orders a day, for a guaranteed minimum of one million orders a month!

The commission alone was 100,000 yuan!

Split three ways, each of them could take home over 30,000!

Hauling packages back to the sorting center every day required at least a dozen trips. It was exhausting and difficult work, but the thought of the handsome reward instantly filled the three of them with energy.

”Brother Bin, think you can make it to the second floor?” the remaining delivery man asked with a sly grin.

”I could make it to the third! Let’s go. We’ll take this load back to the sorting center first.”

Gu Wenbin gritted his teeth and stood up, his limbs feeling as if they were filled with lead and his muscles aching with soreness.

Cloud Speed Express had directly slashed the base shipping fee for e-commerce orders under 2.5 kilograms to just three yuan.

Any client shipping over 100 orders a day could enjoy this special contract price.

This news quickly traveled from Hu City to Hang City.

Taobao shop owners around Yiwu did the math and realized that by switching their partner courier to Cloud Speed, they could save 1.5 to 2 yuan in costs per order.

For a merchant with over 100 orders a day, that meant savings of 5,000 to 6,000 yuan a month.

In 2011, this was no small sum!

For a time, the business volume at Cloud Speed’s Yiwu stations grew explosively.

In a single day, they signed dozens of contract price partnerships and even secured the warehouse and distribution services for Pot King and Huiqisi Department Store. Their couriers were stationed directly in the clients’ warehouses, loading packaged goods onto trucks for the logistics center as soon as they were ready.

Cloud Speed, originally just an obscure little courier company, had ridden Pinbei’s coattails to sudden fame in the e-commerce and logistics industries.

Faced with Cloud Speed’s sudden price drop, the station bosses of the ”Three Passes and One Reach,” Tiantian, Guofeng, and Speed Peak grew anxious. Most of them were franchisees responsible for their own profits and losses, and now many of their clients were flocking to Cloud Speed.

How were they supposed to make money?

So they all called their respective headquarters, wanting the companies to step in and warn Cloud Speed against this ”no-profit, kill-the-competition” behavior.

Soon, Shentong’s boss, Chen Dejun, got Liao Wei’s phone number and called him, fuming. ”Boss Liao, you can’t do business like this! If you keep this up, none of us will make any money!”

”Boss Chen, a misunderstanding! It’s all a misunderstanding! The three-yuan price is Cloud Speed’s contract rate for medium-to-large-sized merchants. The people under me misinterpreted it. I’ll put a stop to it right away,” Liao Wei said evasively, trying to laugh it off.

He was trying to placate Chen Dejun first, then snatch another wave of customers before dealing with the fallout!

”Boss Liao, I don’t care if you meant to or not, but don’t be the one to stick your neck out! If you touch everyone’s piece of the pie, don’t expect Cloud Speed to have an easy time!”

Chen Dejun didn’t care about any of that. Whether Cloud Speed’s price cut targeted small sellers or medium-to-large merchants, it was, in essence, stealing food from everyone’s bowl.

He couldn’t stand for it!

”Boss Chen, you can’t put it that way. This is just reasonable competition. You all can eat this pie, but I can’t?”

Ever since latching onto Chen Yansen, Liao Wei had grown bold.

Seeing that he couldn’t fool Chen Dejun, his tone instantly hardened.

Shentong might be a minor giant in the industry, but he, Liao Wei, wasn’t afraid. He lacked neither money nor business.

’If Chen Dejun wanted a fight, he’d see it through to the end!’

”Fuck!” Chen Dejun swore as he slammed down the phone.

He then convened Shentong’s senior management to study a corporate strategy to counter Cloud Speed’s price cuts.

But in a price war, the only weapon is price.

Before 5:00 PM that day, all Shentong stations nationwide received a notice: for clients with over 500 daily orders, a three-yuan base shipping fee would be implemented, matching Cloud Speed.