Regarding business competition, all industry leaders long for natural monopoly, and so does Li Mu.
Natural monopoly is a state that is almost impossible to form under the modern economic model, but all businessmen are eager to be infinitely close to natural monopoly.
No matter what industry you are in, peers are your biggest competitors. Google, which has influenced the Internet industry, must also hope to defeat all search engines; Apple, which has made a lot of money from the iPhone, is also deliberately trying to compete with Samsung and other competing manufacturers. Struggle; after becoming bigger, Shunfeng has built its own fleet and hopes to defeat all opponents in the high-end express delivery market; when Boss Ma has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars, he is also badmouthing JD.com everywhere, hoping that JD.com will be finished soon.
It can be seen that the real giants are eager to become oligarchs. Even if they know that they can never eliminate competitors, they will still launch indiscriminate attacks on all competitors.
The same goes for Li Mu.
He knows that he will never be able to monopolize any industry in the free market, but this does not prevent him from trying to get infinitely close to a monopoly in this industry.
What Li Mu pursues is to turn his industry into a super product like WeChat in later generations, so that all similar competing products put together are not as good as his own. This is not a monopoly. But being infinitely close to a monopoly is the key to truly dominating and leading an industry.
Therefore, driven by this goal, Li Mu will not be merciful to any opponent. He will not spare his life with a hero's mentality just because Shunfeng has not yet developed. Instead, he will kill him as soon as possible before he wakes up. The result is horrifying.
Therefore, whether it is Shunfeng, Letao Express, which was integrated by Letao with three express delivery companies, or the State Post, they are all competitors in Li Mu's eyes.
In order to completely block Shunfeng's development path, Li Mu and Brother Liu analyzed the current situation of Guangdong-Hong Kong express delivery and agreed that the best way at the moment was to directly poach people from Shunfeng with large sums of money and a simple and straightforward meal.
In corporate competition, there is no problem that money cannot solve. First, spend money to acquire a transportation company with transportation qualifications for both places. After the hardware is in place, immediately double the salary to poach all Shunfeng's core employees in charge of Guangdong and Hong Kong business. His business suffered a heavy setback in a short period of time.
The poached people, together with their own employees and transportation companies with transportation qualifications between the two places, can directly start Taobao Logistics' own Guangdong-Hong Kong express business, and at the same time spend another 10 to 20 million yuan to fight on price. Taobao With a strong cash pool, they spend 10, 20 or even 350 million to engage in price wars at a loss. Shunfeng simply cannot keep up with this pace. Once they cannot make money from the Guangdong and Hong Kong express delivery markets, they will die. Far.
Now that Taobao Logistics' stalls are so large, and Taobao, a powerful e-commerce platform, continuously generates parcel orders, the express delivery demand within its own closed loop can already support the entire Taobao Logistics, and the overall operation is extremely smooth. With such a powerful opponent, even the most daring capital would not dare to invest in the tailwind.
Once Shunfeng's capital chain is broken, it will either go bankrupt or sell out, and there will be no third option.
Just when Li Mu was thinking about strangling Shunfeng within Guangdong Province, Wei Lan had been alone in Shenzhen City for three days.
These three days were the most boring three days she had lived in a long time.
Before she met Li Mu, Wei Lan was running around all day long about family affairs, and she couldn't even take a moment to spare her brain;
After meeting Li Mu, Wei Lan joined Wanying Real Estate with full enthusiasm. She shined in the commercial real estate project planned by Li Mu. She was so busy that she was as busy as a top, and she was never bored at all.
It's better this time.
She came to Shenzhen City alone, had a meal with Li Mu and then rushed into the hotel. From then on, she didn't go anywhere for the next three days. She stayed in the hotel room most of the time and went downstairs to the restaurant for meals. Have a meal, or even call the hotel directly to have the meal delivered to the room.
When she's had enough of staying in the room, she goes to the hotel's swimming pool or gym to swim and run, that's all.
Although there are many interesting places in Shenzhen City, Weilan really cannot be mentioned at all.
Wei Lan didn't come to see Li Mu in the past three days. Even if Li Mu asked her out for dinner, she declined on the grounds that she had an appointment with her best friend. The reason was not that she didn't want to see Li Mu, but that she felt like she was here. Under such circumstances, it would be redundant to meet with Li Mu.
After all, there is a popular beauty like Chen Wan presiding over the beauty in the golden house. The talented man and the beautiful woman are particularly suitable for each other, so he just joins in the fun.
Moreover, when she unconsciously compared Chen Wan with herself, Wei Lan always felt a little inferior.
Wei Lan booked her flight back to Yanjing on Saturday morning in advance. Although Li Mu gave her a holiday until Sunday, she really didn't want to continue to stay in a hotel in Shenzhen so boringly. The flight was booked until Sunday. On the night of Friday, Wei Lan sent a text message to Li Mu, saying, "Mr. Li, I'm going back to Yanjing tomorrow morning. You have to take care of yourself in Shenzhen City and don't be too tired."
For Wei Lan, since she decided to leave tomorrow, she had to say hello to Li Mu both emotionally and rationally, so she sent him such a text message in a friendly tone as much as possible, and deliberately chose to send it around nine o'clock in the evening. Regardless of whether Chen Wan left or not, this time was not suitable to meet Li Mu again. Li Mu only needed to reply with a few words of greetings, get up and pack up tomorrow, and go directly to the airport.
However, when Li Mu received this message, Chen Wan was no longer in Shenzhen City.
When he thought about Wei Lan staying in Shenzhen City for several days, and he didn't meet her during that time, he felt a little inappropriate. He never regarded Wei Lan as his subordinate, but as his long-term partner. Moreover, after the last kidnapping case, the relationship between the two was closer than ordinary friends. If Wei Lan was just let go, he felt that he had not done enough as a friend.
I have been wanting to ask Wei Lan out for a meal in the past two days, and Senior Brother Liu happened to be there too. Although they were not familiar with each other, they knew each other. It would be good to get together. Or Wei Lan could bring her best friend, four of them. It would be appropriate to have a meal and chat together.
It's just that Wei Lan never made time, and he didn't expect that she would be leaving tomorrow, so Li Mu instinctively wanted to meet her.
But it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and he had just finished his meal not long ago. Wei Lan was probably about the same, but Li Mu still asked tentatively: "You are leaving tomorrow morning? Do you want to come out and find a place to sit?"
Wei Lan was a little confused for a moment after receiving the text message, but after a moment, she secretly made up her mind and replied with her fingertips: "I just had dinner, it's so late, you should have a good rest, don't worry about it."
Li Mu didn't know that Wei Lan was hiding from him intentionally. He thought that the first thing she did when she arrived in Shenzhen City was to contact him. Naturally, she regarded herself as a close friend. Since she was a close friend, he naturally couldn't not even see her. Just letting her go as soon as he saw it was unjustifiable both emotionally and rationally.
Although Li Mu is not very good at socializing, he is very attentive to real friends. When he was working as a North Piao in Yanjing, if a family friend came to Yanjing for business and contacted him, he would definitely go. Pick him up at the station or airport, and then treat him to a meal. After that, the friend will go to do his business, and Li Mu himself will continue to be busy with work. But before his friend leaves, Li Mu will definitely treat him to a meal again. Let’s chat, have a couple of drinks, and ask him not to forget to contact me next time he comes.
Because of this habit, Li Mu feels that it is a very ritualistic thing to meet and sit with friends before they leave the place where they are. If this part is omitted, he will first feel uncomfortable. .
So Li Mu texted back: "Well, I've just finished eating. I don't think we should eat anymore. Just like we did when we went to Sugar Club, sit down at a bar and have two drinks. Tomorrow morning, if your best friend If she doesn’t see you off to the airport, then I will see you off. If she does, then I won’t go, and I will treat it as seeing you off tonight.”
Li Mu mentioned Sugar Club, which made Wei Lan feel sour.
When I went to Yanjing alone to seek help, I originally imagined that Xiao Chenfeng from the Urban Construction Group could help me tide over the difficulties. Unexpectedly, he deliberately set a trap for me. At that time, Wei Lan almost lost her innocence to Xiao Chenfeng. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and hit Xiao Chenfeng with a hard handbag before he could react, and then took the opportunity to escape from the clutches of the devil.
At that moment, Weilan completely lost confidence in Yanjing as a whole and her own Juncheng Real Estate. She just wanted to escape as quickly as possible, but unexpectedly, because of a thunderstorm in Shanghai, all flights to Shanghai were canceled that day.
Unable to escape, Wei Lan's mentality, which she had been holding on to, completely collapsed. At that moment, she decided to give up. When she called her father on the overseas phone call in the hotel, she cried bitterly. Later, she finally thought about owing Li Mu a meal. Then he decided to make a complete break with the city of Yanjing, and sent a temporary text message to Li Mu to invite him to dinner.
Li Mu happened to have just eaten at that time, so Wei Lan had no choice but to treat him to a drink instead.
What Weilan didn't expect was that it was that meeting with Li Mu that completely changed the trajectory of her life. She had already decided to give up Juncheng Real Estate, sell off all the assets that could be sold, leave China, and go to the United States to be with her parents. It was Li Mu who gave her new hope and helped her turn everything around.
Thinking of this, Wei Lan unconsciously remembered that not long after that, she fell completely in love with this monster-like big boy. And still later, when her life was hanging by a thread, it was this big boy who racked his brains. He saved himself and made himself even more devoted to him.
Wei Lan stared at her phone in a daze, going through all the past events in her mind. Suddenly, she felt that she really wanted to see Li Mu right away...
So, Wei Lan quickly replied: "Okay, where will I meet?"
"Are you at your best friend's house? Shall I pick you up at the community where your best friend lives?"
"good."
(End of chapter)