A day later, Ma Feng, who was in China, first received an invitation from investor Gu Kun to request an investigation.

At that time, Ma Feng himself was at the company's headquarters, that is, Fangzhou City, Donghai Province, and heard that Boss Gu, who had not asked him to do anything for a year and a half, had something to do, so he hurriedly offered to help.

Unfortunately, the first two days of inquiry did not get any results.

That night, he personally called Gu Kun back: "Brother Gu, I haven't seen a shopping group to Lanfang with zero or low group fee as you said, and there is no investment information on the Internet." I also asked the physical travel company for you, and there is no regular company that provides this kind of service.

Of course, I don't know about the irregularities, and I really didn't find the public advertisement, but everyone I know has seen it. However, if there is any follow-up news, I will notify you as soon as possible. ”

"Don't worry, I'll just ask casually first, and if not, I'll encourage you. Gu Kun was also slightly shaken, saying that he didn't need to pay too much attention, just pay a little attention to his daily life, but as he chatted, he also remembered someone, so he asked casually,

"By the way, the people of Trip.com, didn't they vaguely have the intention of engaging in that kind of model in the first place? Didn't I refuse without giving them a chance to finish speaking, and I didn't see them. What is happening now, how can it be seen that it is a little similar to their thinking, and they are really willing to stay out of it?"

Ma Feng: "Do you suspect that the people of the travel network organized it privately? I really don't see this, they don't have this kind of business on the Internet." But since you are suspicious, I will focus on helping you take a look. ”

Ma Feng said, first confessed, hung up the phone, went to understand the situation, and then replied to Gu Kun half an hour later: "Brother Gu, you are really a little godly, they really don't have any kind of packages on the Internet, but their company seems to have had some major events or big changes recently."

I asked their internal people today, and I found out that Boss Shen, one of the co-founders, had actually left. It's a very peaceful and bland kind of escape, so there is no wind on the rivers and lakes. It seems that an investor gave him thousands or millions of dollars, and bought him out.

Boss Shen didn't know where to go, maybe he was living in seclusion for a while on a foreign vacation, and he was disheartened and wanted to relax, didn't Jobs often go to the mountains to meditate when he was kicked out of the company. I don't know if it has something to do with it. ”

"Even the founder of that company has left?," Gu Kun instantly became alert.

When he heard this information, he was much more surprised than Ma Feng.

After all, Ma Feng is not a reborn, and Ma Feng does not know history.

But Gu Kun knows history, and he knows that Shen Beipeng should have started Sequoia Capital's subsidiary in Huaxia around 04/05, but now he left at least two years early.

After all, Shen Beipeng is not a small person, people who can write a stroke in the history of the Internet, and people below high school students who don't care about social news may not know, and people with a little common sense in the workplace have heard of the name.

Although Gu Kun was not a person in the Internet industry in his previous life, he could be regarded as having been in the workplace for more than 20 years, and he had so much social experience, how could he not know.

Since the historical trajectory has changed so much, it is appropriate that the travel network has blackened in advance.

Ma Feng didn't know that Gu Kun had so much inner drama, he just replied honestly: "It seems that he officially left in March, but it is said that he will not go to the company at the end of February." It was an outside investor who redeemed his shares. However, because it is a non-listed company, there is no need to announce the change of shareholders to the public.

They are very strict-mouthed, I can't even find out who the new shareholders are, it seems that they have a foreign background, but as you know, China's current requirements for Internet information service providers are that the direct operating company cannot have a foreign background, and the VIE structure must be divested to overseas technical service companies. The new shareholders in the Cayman Islands use a disguised fund to hold on behalf of them, and it is easy to keep it secret. ”

To put it mildly, the Internet information service providers operating in China at that time were not allowed to hold direct foreign shares. For example, in history, Sun Zhengyi invested in Ahri Baba, which is just a popular saying. In fact, the company is split into an operating company and a technical support company, and all the profits of the operating company are transferred to the technical support company with the constraints of the articles of association, and then the technical support company can be registered overseas and controlled by foreign capital.

Of course, it's not just Ahri, the first three giants of Fox Langyi BAT are all doing this, which is why the six giants carefully look at the company's registered place in the Cayman Islands.

In today's world, there is no need to go to the Cayman Islands, maybe in the future, more companies can engage in VIE structure directly in the Lanfang Islands, of course, the current conditions are not yet mature. After all, the reason why the Cayman Islands is reassuring is that the Caymanian side is not friendly enough to China and has never cooperated with the international financial sector.

This is like why Swiss banks reassure rich people, because Swiss banks do not cooperate, if Swiss banks are run by an old friend of the Chinese people, then many Chinese billionaires who put them in Swiss banks will not dare to let go of their money. This is also a limitation of business, because relations with China are too friendly, and some businesses that can only be done with an "absolutely neutral" posture cannot be done.

Don't talk nonsense, after Gu Kun listened to Ma Feng's answer, he was even more concerned about this matter in his heart, and he ordered: "I know, you have been keeping an eye on it for the past few days, and if there is no advertisement for their cheap group solicitation on the Internet now, it does not mean that there will be no in the future." I suspect they'll be moving soon.

In addition, I will check the composition of the recent Chinese passport to send the Lan side as soon as possible. When the time comes, I will check with you to see if the people who want to come in the future are Alipay accounts that have just been registered for a short time, and whether they are deliberately taking advantage of loopholes. What I'm most afraid of is that there are travel agencies that help people send fake materials or at least teach them how to do it more easily, one-stop service.

We also don't apply retroactively, and those who have already spent a monthly fee to become Alipay users, I will still fulfill my promise. However, starting from May 1st, the new Alipay users who have been admitted to the Alipay have made the threshold stricter for me, and the new user agreement clearly states that participating in a tour group with zero tour fee is a dishonest behavior that will deduct Sesame Credit Points in the future. On my side, it will be announced as soon as possible, and it will be implemented from May 1, and the financial review will be tightened and strictly controlled for the visas of people with zero low tour fees. ”

has already promised people, even if someone takes advantage of the loophole, Gu Kun still has to carry it out thoroughly.

He estimated that if Yang really bypassed the Lan authorities and forcibly engaged in self-subsidized and self-forced shopping tour groups, he would definitely help those who were greedy for cheap money to preemptively register Alipay accounts, and then help those people to act as agents, and pay how much monthly rent first.

For tourists, the visa fee for going abroad is a few hundred yuan, but if it is to go abroad, pay the monthly rent fee of the Alipay account for a year and a half, which is simply too cost-effective. For such a purpose, it must be willing to register.

If a batch of fish that have slipped through the net have come in, Gu Kun will pinch his nose and let them have fun for the whole process, and the law will not be retroactive. Even the publicity period that should be there should be - those visa management regulations can't be changed today and tomorrow immediately, and they will be announced a month in advance, which is already a relatively fast announcement of administrative regulations.

If someone in the remaining 20 days of April was not very determined to get Alipay to facilitate future visas after reading this announcement, but now after reading the announcement, in order to catch the last train and become Alipay users, Gu Kun will keep his promise and let these people enjoy.

is still the same sentence, a spit and a pit, and there must be credit for what you promise. And this is considered a "gradient dividend for early adopters".

Originally, people who registered as new Alipay users throughout 2002 were treated the same. Now, at least the users who came in the first four months of this year will be a little more noble and privileged than the users who came in the next eight months after May.

At least in the first four months of this year, you became an Alipay user, and you became a last year, even if you participate in a zero-fee tour group in the future, Lanfang people will still give you financial exemption and allow you to enter the country.

And for those who register in the next eight months, this road will be stuck, and even if there is an eye-opening zero group in the future, the Lan side will still refuse to visa.

All in all, Gu Kun wants to make every effort to make the Chinese world form a hard currency with a chain of credit and coercion and contempt in the future.

Perhaps a man who drove a Santana in the 80s and a Santana in 2000 cannot find superiority in the face of an upstart who rode a bicycle in the 80s but was already driving a Mercedes in 2000.

But Gu Kun must let a person who became an Alipay user in 2001 find a sense of superiority in front of a person who became an Alipay user in 02, 03 or even later.

Moreover, it is necessary to fully divide the ranks, so that as soon as the literati of the ancient imperial examination society meet, they will ask each other what year you are in the middle of the year, who is the same year, and who is the late birth. Even if a seventy-year-old man is sixty years old, he can only claim to be a late born in front of a young man who was raised a few years before him.

However, these are a bit far away, and now Gu Kun is doing this, the main purpose is to block the influx of low-cost groups into Lanfang in batches and cut off the source of customers.

Ma Feng understood Gu Kun's scale requirements a little, and said that he would immediately let the payment BMW rectify it, start to publicize it on the same day, and change to the newly revised user agreement for new users signed after May 1.

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After Ma Feng's order was finished, the defensive measures in the country of the Lan side were also carried out in an orderly manner.

Within a few days, Gao Jianxiong and the people of Blackwater Security Company secretly found out the movements of some guys who "buy luxury goods without affixing their passports and do not refund consumption tax".

"Boss, I found out, someone is stocking up. And they have not yet taken it out, so the market did not notice it in the early stage. They should be afraid that after we investigate strictly, it will be difficult to buy a large number of genuine products on the market for those big brands that you personally control in the future.

Therefore, in the early stage, they focused on hoarding your brand, and there were not many other brands that you couldn't control. It is estimated that the luxury brands of your competitors, such as donkey brands, will be directly purchased from foreign countries legally and in accordance with the formal dealer agreement, and they will not be able to control it at that time. ”

Gao Jianxiong reported.

"It's easy to understand and know that they are hoarding goods, it doesn't matter if they can't control all the supplies, within the scope of doing business in accordance with the law and contract, dealing with them in business and business is enough. When Gu Kun heard this, he was relieved.