Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Sunning, which had originally sold 500 million, had wanted to use the opportunity to release its own battle report and promote its platform. Seeing this, they hastily retracted the report they were editing, erased all the specific data, and replaced it all with vague, conceptual buzzwords.

After reading Sunning’s report, you couldn’t remember any numbers. The whole thing left you with an impression of words like ’surge,’ ’skyrocketing,’ ’soaring,’ ’bucking the trend with high growth,’ ’dazzling first-hour results,’ and ’new peaks constantly being set.’

But if you were to ask what Sunning’s Singles’ Day sales figures were?

Sorry, no comment!

”19.7 billion Yuan?”

Seeing Ah Li’s battle report, Liu Qiangdong’s mood worsened. He had assumed that based on last year’s growth trend, Ah Li would hit 8 billion at most.

”Boss, should we...” Xu Lei started to ask.

”No need. Let’s just stick with 3.07 billion,” Liu Qiangdong said, resigned and listless.

It was one thing not being able to beat Ah Li, but the gap with Pinbei was also becoming more and more obvious.

If it weren’t for the undiminished enthusiasm of investors from the OTPP, Jingdong’s situation would be even more difficult.

’If I were to abandon the asset-heavy warehousing and logistics model and avoid a direct confrontation with Ah Li and Pinbei, maybe things wouldn’t be so exhausting?’

Liu Qiangdong mused to himself.

But then he had another thought and extinguished the foolish idea in his mind.

’The viciousness of the marketplace is no less than the peril of the battlefield!’

’If Jingdong willingly concedes defeat, will Ma Liyun let him off the hook?’

’Even if Ma Liyun stopped ruthlessly pursuing Jingdong, Chen Yansen wouldn’t show any mercy.’

When it came to being vengeful over the smallest grievance, no one in the internet business world could hold a candle to Chen Yansen.

The brutal competition in the courier industry had shown all the domestic tycoons a glimpse of Chen Yansen’s ferocious side.

Speed Peak, Yafeng, Su’er, and Aneng died silent deaths; the Three Passes and One Reach and Quanfeng were acquired.

Liu Qiangdong knew in his heart that for Jingdong, not advancing meant falling behind. They had to face the difficulties head-on!

Otherwise, the best-case scenario would be an acquisition, and the worst-case scenario would be ending up like Paipai Network or Yixun Network—either waiting to die, or waiting for some kind soul to come and take out the trash.