Because of a series of operations of veteran immortality, Li Mu and Makino Technology's global prestige has gradually reached an unprecedented peak, Li Mu is worthy of the title of "World Young Leader", not only telling an extremely inspirational story to the world, but also planting a huge seed of good cause for the society.

However, the media has recently found that compared with Li Mu and Makino Technology's charity moves frequently making headlines around the world, Li Mu's companies have rarely made major breakthroughs in business, and the recent media news about Makino Technology almost all revolves around the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation established by Makino Technology in the United States, but there is no fresh news outflow for the business of Makino Technology itself.

In Li Mu's view, the overall business of Makino Technology is now in a stage of steady development, although Taobao has no particularly big moves, but the platform's trading volume is also hitting new highs, and its two core pillar enterprises have entered a very stable growth period, which is a very important stage, a good period to consolidate the business foundation and strengthen the enterprise from the bottom.

However, for the public who are accustomed to seeing Li Mu's rocket-like rise, such a steady, staircase-climbing growth does seem a bit boring and boring, so occasionally the media will jump out and shake their wit, thinking that Li Mu and his industry have entered a bottleneck period.

Li Mu has little energy to care about these groundless speculation news, he has recently focused on two things, the first: Baidu has begun to reach a preliminary consensus on the merger and acquisition of Yiting.com, and is currently in the internal evaluation stage, Li Mu Lion opened his mouth to propose a 20% share replacement, Baidu obviously has no way to accept, can only enter the evaluation stage first.

If you follow the normal pace of history, the valuation of Baidu in the first half of 2003 is at least more than 500 million US dollars, a music website wants to account for 15-20% of its shares is indeed a bit wishful thinking, but now Baidu, the actual valuation can reach 200 million US dollars to burn high incense, did not seize the traffic of online music, and missed Baidu Tieba, now Baidu itself is a lame teenager, and Yiting.com is another dominant, accounting for 90% of the entire Chinese online music and download market The above shares, at this time, take the opportunity to pit Baidu, although it is difficult to change 15-20% of the market value, but Li Mu feels that it is very likely.

In addition to Baidu's acquisition of Yiting.com, the second thing that Li Mu paid close attention to was SARS, which had gradually had an impact across the country.

Since March, there has indeed been a lot of news about SARS.

At the beginning of the month, Li Mu learned through Chen Ze's news channel that Yanjing had also confirmed the first imported case, that is, SARS has now arrived in Yanjing.

Fortunately, most of the current rumors have not formed a joint force, some say that there is an outbreak of avian flu in a certain place, some say that there is an outbreak of meningitis in a certain place, and some people have heard that it is a very drug-resistant pneumonia, most of these rumors are only spread locally, and the influence is not very large.

Senior Brother Liu was appointed by Li Mu to actively improve the logistics system and the self-protection of logistics personnel, while also paying attention to the social impact of various places.

From the beginning of February to the present, there are indeed some cities that have broken out in a small scale of related materials rush to buy, among which the most serious phenomenon is disinfectant, banlan root and white vinegar, some businessmen sit on the ground to start the price, it does have a certain impact on local prices, when Brother Liu reported the situation to Li Mu several times, he did not forget to ask Li Mu, Taobao whether to intervene in the area where the price hike of materials occurred, but every time Li Mu refused.

There are more than 300 prefecture-level cities in the country, and a few cities and regions have triggered a panic buy, which is not enough for Taobao to respond immediately, if Taobao begins to intervene in the price of materials in a few cities, this unusual move will definitely attract large-scale attention.

Recently, the situation of material coaxing in Guangdong Province has become more and more serious, and it has been so serious that dealers have increased prices to ask manufacturers for goods and transferred goods to other regions, so rumors have spread in several surrounding provinces all of a sudden.

Some people say that they have seen businessmen in Guangdong Province driving a large amount of cash to their provinces and cities to search for disinfectant, banlan root and other materials, and almost every store is empty and empty;

Some people say that this is because there is an outbreak of an infectious disease with a high mortality rate in Guangdong Province, and the disinfectant can kill this infectious disease bacteria, and the root of Banlan can also prevent the human body from being infected by this bacteria;

Some people say, hurry up and find a way to buy some disinfectant and banlan root at home, otherwise let the people of Guangdong Province buy it out, and if the infectious disease spreads at that time, it will be dangerous for you......

As a result, this kind of looting and panic buying behavior of merchants in Guangdong Province directly made the citizens of the surrounding provinces and cities nervous to the extreme, and the rumors spread faster and faster, and everyone rushed into pharmacies and supermarkets to rush to buy those legendary materials that can resist infectious diseases.

This time is the most negative impact of SARS since its emergence to the present.

When Senior Brother Liu reported the situation he had determined to Li Mu, he didn't forget to remind him: " Now at least more than 30 million urban population has been affected, Guangdong Province and several surrounding provinces have broken out of the rush to buy, and this rush to buy is spreading very fast, I heard that in some places, a bottle of white vinegar for two yuan sells for thirty or fifty, a bottle of disinfectant for three dollars sells for seventy or eighty, and a pack of five yuan banlan root sells for more than one hundred, which is still in short supply, if we don't intervene, this rush will soon spread to the ...... across the country."

Li Muting's brows furrowed.

According to Senior Brother Liu, the situation is indeed a bit critical now.

Rumors spread everywhere, the people were psychologically afraid, profiteers sat on the ground and raised prices, Materials are in short supply, and all of a sudden it covers many provinces and cities in the southeast, according to this scale, Taobao is indeed necessary to intervene strongly, the current Taobao SARS-related material reserves are huge, as long as you open the warehouse door, not to mention the material problems in several provinces and cities in the southeast, even if most of China has material problems, Taobao can also be suppressed, on the one hand, use materials to calm the people's hearts, on the other hand, use parity to suppress profiteers, but Li Mu always feels that the time has not yet come.

Li Mu said to Senior Brother Liu: "Senior Brother, the time has really not come yet. ”

Senior Brother Liu asked him, "Then can you tell me what kind of opportunity you are waiting for? ”

Li Mu said: "Judging from the various news we have received so far, the impact of this infectious disease is indeed getting more and more serious, but so far, the state has not made arrangements and instructions at the national strategic level, if we rashly intervene at the material level, it may accelerate the spread and spread of news, and the spread of critical speech is so fast that it is faster than all mobilization measures and material mobilization, once it is not well grasped, it will help the country." ”

Senior Brother Liu sighed and said: "To tell the truth, local officials in China have the habit of reporting good news but not bad news, folk rumors will amplify the facts, and local reports will narrow down the facts.

Li Mu nodded, as a person who came over, how could he not know this.

The concealment of information in the early stage of SARS also had a great impact on China's international reputation.

Li Mu also did not want to conceal the situation again and successfully concealed it until April or even May, he now also hopes to help the country start the national epidemic prevention war in March, but after all, he is just a businessman, if he wants to do this, he must not use brute force, but to seize the opportunity and use the skillful force of four or two thousand catties.

Li Mu flashed and blurted out: "By the way, senior brother, is there any news from HO?"

HO is the abbreviation of the World Health Organization, although Li Mu can't remember what role HO played when SARS broke out in his previous life, but he vaguely felt that HO should have a reminder after paying attention to the epidemic for such a big thing.

Senior Brother Liu said: "I have paid attention to the HO side, and there is no movement yet. ”

Li Mu smacked his lips and said to Senior Brother Liu: "That's it, Senior Brother, we can't rashly cause panic across the country, and second, we can't sit idly by and watch the epidemic and material problems develop and be indifferent, let's just formulate an intermediate strategy of taking a step back, as long as HO releases SARS-related news, we will immediately start to take action nationwide!"

Senior Brother Liu nodded and asked Li Mu, "What if HO releases the news, but the magistrates in various places are still hiding the news?"

Li Muyi waved his hand and said resolutely: "At that time, we will ignore them, if HO issues a warning, it proves that the seriousness of the epidemic must be taken seriously! News features, 24-hour rolling broadcast of the news of cases and suspected cases that we have collected all over the country and even around the world, if there are local officials who dare to conceal it, then we are responsible for reporting the truth to ensure that the country is not interfered with by a few people with ill intentions!"

Seeing that Li Mu was so resolute, Senior Brother Liu immediately became excited, patted his thigh, and said: "Then I will prepare immediately, once HO speaks out and YY speaks in China, Taobao will immediately cooperate and push out the materials we have prepared online, so that the people of the whole country can buy relevant materials at a reasonable price, stabilize the price of materials and the panic of the people!"

Li Mu nodded and said: "To do this well, Taobao and Muye Technology must be linked, so let's pull out the core members of the teams on both sides for a meeting in the afternoon to deploy this strategy!"