Chapter 43: Inside and Outside the Circle

When the sound of the elevator door opening interrupted the two, Li Jingwei didn't seem to have come back to his senses, and Zhao Yici was even more dazed. Her lips were slightly open, her face was flushed, fine beads of sweat oozed from the tip of her nose, and her eyes were moist and hazy. The two of them were still hugging each other, as if they were looking at each other, and as if they were reminiscing about something.

"Ahem. A cough finally brought the two people back to reality. The two hurriedly let go of each other and rushed out of the elevator as if they were fleeing.

Secretary Chen Xiaoye didn't want to deliberately cough to remind that if this beautiful boss was angry, wouldn't he want to fire his own squid. It's just that a few people were walking briskly towards the elevator just now, and she had to make a sound warning. Looking at the two who left in a hurry, she was really a little uneasy.

When Zhao Yici and Li Jingwei rushed to the conference room, Pan Liwei, Dai Yuping, and Lu Daocheng were already waiting inside. Seeing the red-faced faces of the two, they glanced at each other, and they were both a little puzzled. Pan Liwei muttered in his heart, "Is there adultery?"

Zhao Yici sat down in his seat, pretended to be calm and opened the folder, took another sip of coffee on the table, and said, "Let's have a meeting." Lao Pan, in response to Jingwei's plan to develop mobile social platforms, mobile payment and digital reading, you can first share your views. ”

"'Jingwei'? When did 'Little Plum' be upgraded to 'Jingwei'?" In the past, Zhao Yici was called Li Jingwei 'Little Plum', and this 'Jingwei' made Pan Liwei and the other three a little unaccustomed. So, there was a slight hesitation.

However, Pan Liwei is more experienced in women, and when he saw that Zhao Yici was embarrassed and angry, he immediately said loudly: "Zhao Dong, I think the three plans proposed by Jingwei are very good. By the end of last year, the number of mobile Internet users of Huaxia Internet had exceeded 200 million, and the compound growth rate in the past three years exceeded 80%. In particular, 4G technology has been partially put into use, and the speed of Internet access has been greatly improved, and it is bound to be promoted nationwide in the future, which will further stimulate the increase of mobile Internet users. ”

In addition, as of the end of last year, the annual transaction volume of online shopping has exceeded 100 billion yuan, especially the rapid increase in the proportion of online shopping using smartphones, and the requirements for mobile payment are getting higher and higher. Therefore, mobile payment is bound to be a huge market as well. For digital reading, this is not to mention, just look at what the passengers on the subway and bus are doing, and it will be clear. “

Subsequently, Pan Liwei and the three introduced the preliminary investigation and the plan for further implementation. As the discussion deepened, Zhao Yici gradually returned to his former shrewdness, and constantly raised questions on some details, prompting everyone to think deeply about the discussion. Overall, Pan Liwei's plan is very feasibility, and after today's discussion and improvement, the next step is how to implement it.

Li Jingwei is also very satisfied with the plan on hand, very operational, he only put forward some general development ideas and frameworks before, but Pan Liwei and the three of them have made in-depth consideration of the details involved in the framework, from market to technology, from promotion to application.

Zhao Yici's overall view and execution are very strong, and the execution of Pan Liwei and others is not bad, especially Pan Liwei's grasp of the details is very good. These are all things that Li Jingwei had taken into account when he pulled them into the entrepreneurial team.

Over the years, this founding team, coupled with the professional managers hired later, is indeed an important guarantee for the company's success to this day.

"There is an important foundation for the development of mobile social platforms, mobile payments and digital reading, and this is where we have the advantage of developing these, which is a large customer base. The 300 million users of Jixun are an important guarantee for the success of these three development projects. The development of mobile social platforms and mobile payments will be equivalent to building highways. If the road is repaired and there are no cars running on it, it is obviously not possible. Our advantage over potential companies to develop these projects is our existing 300 million users. Once the mobile social platform and mobile payment are developed, they will immediately become the actual users, like a car that is stuck at a gate and rushes to the highway. Digital reading, my initial consideration, is to pay attention to public welfare, to improve the national knowledge literacy as its own responsibility. “

After a pause, Li Jingwei continued: "For mobile social platforms and mobile payments, top secrets must be ensured during the development process, and domestic and foreign competitors must not be aware of them before they are officially launched. Mobile social platforms and mobile payments can be connected in terms of function. In other words, mobile payment can be used independently by merchants and consumers, or it can be embedded as a function into the mobile social platform to make it more convenient to use. The research and development of mobile social platforms and mobile payments should be carried out by Department X. Digital reading can be done directly by the R&D department, and it can be a bit more high-profile, so that competitors think that this is a key project for us to develop in the future. When launching digital reading in the future, it is important to pay attention to the protection of copyright. “

Along the way, Li Jingwei's grasp of the trend is extremely accurate, which is also the reason why several people present are very convinced. From the initial instant messaging, to messaging and mini games, to the social ecosystem, step by step to promote the company to today.

Li Jingwei believes that the biggest role of the Internet is the interconnection of information, reducing information asymmetry and communication costs, and providing convenience for people's work and life. This should be the internal logic that dominates the development of the Internet industry.

At the end of the meeting, it was already six o'clock in the evening, and it was time for dinner, plus a few people had not seen each other for a long time, so they had to get together.

Pan Liwei proposed that everyone go to eat Quanjude, but Zhao Yici vetoed it directly, and took everyone to the Maple Leaf Club.

As one of the top clubs in Kyoto, the Maple Leaf Club is quite famous for its southern private cuisine. Zhao Yici thinks that although Li Jingwei has studied and lived in Kyoto for three years in college, he may prefer the taste of the south. So, she brought everyone here. What they don't know is that from the moment they enter the door, they are noticed by someone with a heart.

The Maple Leaf Club consists of a main building and four podiums, with dining, entertainment, beauty, and fitness. However, it is only open to members and is a comprehensive platform integrating business, social, leisure, etc. The membership fee for naturalization is 1 million, and the annual fee varies according to the type of membership card, with 680,000 yuan for gold card and 880,000 yuan for platinum card.

Importantly, the club does not have the money to join, it has to be recommended by members and must go through a rigorous review. It is said that the club also issued black gold cards, but they were only given away and not sold, and few people knew the specific situation.

The Maple Leaf Club has not been established for a long time, less than five years. In such a short period of time, it has become a top club in Kyoto, which shows that the owner of the club is not simple.

It is said that the owner of the clubhouse is from the Bai family in the northeast. The Bai family lives in the northeast, and suddenly built such a club in Kyoto, which once made people think about its motives, and some people even said that the Maple Leaf Club was the bridgehead for the Bai family to enter the customs.

Bai Qianlu, the old man of the Bai family, explained on an occasion that he seemed to inadvertently explain that the Maple Leaf Club was established because Bai Qinghe, a granddaughter who studied in Canada, wanted to start her own business after returning and started such a club. Naturally, no one believed it.

However, although the club is developing rapidly, the Bai family does not seem to have made further moves.

The top floor of the main building of the Maple Leaf Club is divided into the office and living space of Bai Qinghe, the owner of the club. It is rumored that this is a forbidden area for members, so please do not enter. There was once a super gentleman who tried to break in and was thrown on the street with his legs broken, and not only did he not dare to put a fart in his family, but he also obediently sent 50 million as compensation. From then on, no one dared to be arrogant here.

Bai Qinghe was sitting in front of the coffee table by the floor-to-ceiling window to make tea and taste tea, and Sun Manhong, the manager in charge of the daily operation of the club, came over, poured a cup of tea for Bai Qinghe, and said: "Miss, Zhao Yici of the Zhao family came to dinner, and brought a few young men, all of whom were fresh. ”

Sun Manhong knew that Bai Qinghe didn't like people to talk nonsense, so he tried to introduce the situation as concisely as possible.

And her short sentence revealed all the important information: the only person who can be called the 'Zhao family' in Kyoto is the Zhao family, one of the five major families in Kyoto; Zhao Yici who came is Zhao Yici of the Zhao family in Kyoto, not Zhao Yici of other families; Zhao Yici came to eat and eat with a few young men, these are not insiders.

"If I'm not mistaken, in more than four years, this is the second time Zhao Yici has come, right?" Bai Qinghe asked.

It seems to be asking a simple question, but it is actually asking: "Can Zhao Yici bring here to eat, will it be an ordinary person?

Sun Manhong naturally understood the meaning of this question, and replied: "It's three executives of Jixun, and there is a young man who has never seen it." When I came, I went directly to the 'Pearl Hall' to dine, and I didn't see anything else. ”

"Is that Ling Hanqing of the Ling family still there?"

"I also had dinner with friends in the 'West King Hall'. ”

"Okay, let's go over and have a drink. Bai Qinghe stood up as he said and walked out first.

The layout of the Pearl Hall is fresh and elegant, and the warm yellow lamps reflect the main color of the dark red furniture, which looks quiet and warm.

Pan Liwei and others have heard of the Maple Leaf Club for a long time, but they have never had the opportunity to come, which is also like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around curiously.

Li Jingwei is not interested in the club, but he also understands Zhao Yici's intention to bring everyone here to eat, and he is also very happy, and the layout of this pearl hall is also his favorite style.

Without the seriousness of the afternoon discussion, the atmosphere was extraordinarily warm. Everyone is quite curious about Li Jingwei's life as a professor, and the topic also revolves around Li Jingwei's life in the United States.

However, after listening to Li Jingwei's detailed introduction, everyone came to a basic conclusion: Li Jingwei lived an ascetic life in the United States, and everyone urgently needed to save him.

Li Jingwei's life in the United States is indeed very regular: he gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning to run and do tai chi, then washes up and eats breakfast, rides his bicycle to class or goes to the research laboratory to do research, has lunch with several doctoral students he leads at noon, discusses everyone's research by the way, and continues to do research in the afternoon. Li Jingwei does not have many classes, and his classes are mainly for doctoral students. Go to the community swimming pool for an hour at 5 p.m., and read the day's important newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, while having dinner at about 6:30 p.m. Then I read books, play the piano, and go to bed at 10 o'clock on time.

Li Jingwei rented a room in the villa to an American female college student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and did not pay rent or food, but was only responsible for preparing breakfast and dinner, as well as doing laundry and cleaning. This American girl is very diligent, which makes Li Jingwei very worry-free.

Just as everyone was happily eating, there was a knock on the door. The quality of the waiters here is very high, and they will come immediately when they need to be served, but they will not take the initiative to disturb the guests when they do not call, after all, they are all rich or expensive here, and they may talk about sensitive or important topics between jokes, and they don't want outsiders to be on the side. Therefore, when they heard the knock on the door, everyone was also very strange.

After hearing a 'please come in', the people outside gently pushed the door and walked in, it was Bai Qinghe, who was dressed in white and was beautiful and moving.

"Miss Zhao, hello! I am Bai Qinghe, the boss here, please bear with me if I don't have good hospitality. Bai Qinghe said with a smile.

Bai Qinghe's figure was very low, and he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person. Although Zhao Yici was not happy to be interrupted from eating, he could only respond with a smile, "Boss Bai is polite, my friends like it here, thank you." “

She didn't know Bai Qinghe's intention, so after finishing speaking, she looked at Bai Qinghe and didn't say anything more.

Bai Qinghe thought about Lingling, knowing that Zhao Yici was faintly unhappy when he interrupted his meal, and immediately said with a smile: "I don't know if the food is good, so I took the liberty to come over and disturb everyone, sorry!" said and bowed slightly, and then said: "I have a bottle of red wine here, so I should make amends for everyone." ”

"Boss Bai, I got my mind. Today is me having dinner with a few good friends, and we have to drive later, and you can see that neither of us has been drinking. Or I'll invite you to drink with me next time. "Zhao Yici said this, saying that he would not blame Bai Qinghe for bothering them, and said 'next time', which also indicated that he would not mind this matter anymore.

Bai Qinghe didn't say anything more, nodded to everyone, and then said a few polite words to Zhao Yici before withdrawing.

Zhao Yici naturally didn't think that Bai Qinghe would come over without a purpose, but thinking that the two sides had nothing to do with each other, they were neither friends nor enemies, and they didn't have to worry too much about anything.

Bai Qinghe, who exited the room, returned to his cold face. He took two steps in the direction of the West King Hall, turned to Sun Manhong and said, "Go back." ”

Sun Manhong was puzzled and asked softly, "Is the wine still sent to Ling Hanqing?" Bai Qinghe expected that Zhao Yici would not accept this bottle of red wine, so this wine was intended to be given to Ling Hanqing's restaurant from the beginning.

Bai Qinghe didn't answer, just walked back quickly. Sun Manhong didn't dare to slack off, and immediately followed.

Back on the top floor, Bai Qinghe kicked off his high heels, stepped on the soft Persian carpet with his bare feet, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, stared out of the window for a while, and said to the one behind him: "You go out, go back and help me check if that old man is an insider." ”