Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

These people were assigned to the grocery, group-buy, or takeout businesses.

Kuai Pao’s expansion in the south accelerated, its scope of operations widened, and the depth of its services grew.

From food, entertainment, hotels and travel, hair and beauty, and movie tickets to groceries and takeout, it covered almost every O2O category, and its transaction volume grew at an incredible rate.

Every day, new cities were brought into Kuai Pao’s sphere of influence. With its one-two-three punch of group-buy, groceries, and takeout, competitors like Meituan, Qian Du, and Dianping all had to be on high alert and guard themselves carefully.

In terms of product experience and fulfillment capability alone, the other three competitors were no match. Forget counter-attacking—they were struggling just to defend.

After burning through more than a hundred million yuan on its takeout business, Dianping quickly faced reality. It followed Meituan’s lead in pulling back its defensive lines to focus its energy on the group-buy track.

Zhang Tao had to admit he just couldn’t make the takeout model work.

For a time, both Dianping’s and Meituan’s takeout services fizzled out, leaving only Qian Du Delivery to continue fighting Kuai Pao head-on.

Relying on Qian Du’s immense capital and traffic resources, Qian Du Delivery’s stations also blossomed across the coastal, central, and northern markets. However, their order volume was not high, averaging only about 700,000 orders per day—less than a tenth of Kuai Pao’s.

Li Yanhong, feeling his strategic layout was complete, summoned Wang Zhongpu, Gong Zhenbing, and Xiang Hailong, among others, to launch a counter-offensive against Kuai Pao and Fast Taxi.

DiDi Dache restarted its promotional event offering existing customers a 12-yuan discount, with two opportunities per person each day.

The group-buy service launched a check-in event that gave out no-minimum-spending coupons: 5 yuan for three consecutive days, 10 yuan for seven, 20 yuan for fifteen, and 50 yuan for thirty.

In other words, by spending thirty seconds a day checking in on Qian Du Delivery for a month, a user could get 85 yuan in no-minimum-spending coupons.

The marketing for the takeout business was even more simple and brutal: a 10-yuan no-minimum-spending reward just for logging in daily, plus a limited number of large 20-yuan rewards available at specific times.

At the same time, Li Yanhong made a public statement through the media, announcing that Qian Du would invest a minimum of 20 billion yuan in its LBS business.

Anyone with eyes could see that Li Yanhong was officially declaring war on Senlian Capital.

The ride-hailing war of 2012 was just a skirmish; this time, he was going all out.

Meanwhile, Chen Yansen had just finished enhancing himself, raising his Spirit value to 100.76, when a KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK sounded at the door.

”Come in!” Chen Yansen responded.

Wang Xueting gently pushed the door open and led a tall woman inside.

She looked to be in her late twenties, with a delicate and gentle beauty. While not stunning, her standout temperament was her strong point. The professional skirt revealed a pair of straight, slender calves, and a pair of glasses rested on the bridge of her nose.

Wang Xueting, having learned her lesson from last time, had specifically chosen a candidate who was married with children and a stable family life to avoid anyone else getting the wrong idea and knocking on the boss’s door in the middle of the night.

”Boss, this is Meng Yun,” Wang Xueting said softly.

”Sit.”

Chen Yansen gestured with his hand.

He then gave a wave, and Wang Xueting, taking the hint, immediately turned and left the office.

Meng Yun, actually twenty-eight years old, had a degree in management from Tsinghua and a master’s in strategy and consulting from Lyon Business School.

After returning to the country, she worked at a foreign consulting firm for just two years before getting married and having a child.

She was steady and composed in her work, with a calm personality and, notably, an extremely strong memory.

”Mr. Chen, hello,” Meng Yun said respectfully with a smile on her face.

The job at Senlian Capital offered salary and benefits 50% higher than her foreign firm, and she was very tempted.

Meng Yun knew that whether or not she passed the interview depended entirely on the young man before her.

’Twenty-one years old, an entrepreneur for three years, controlling over a dozen unicorn companies—an internationally recognized business genius.’