In Taobao Technology, a more special place has been added, that is, the chairman's office where Li Zhengyi is located, where a sign has been added.

The sign reads: Jiangnan Alipay Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Alipay set up a special company to manage, which was Li Zhengyi's original request, as early as early April, Zhuang Xiangqiu registered the Alipay company in accordance with Li Zhengyi's request.

However, the current Alipay is still an empty shelf, only Li Zhengyi alone, and the other organizational structures have not yet been established.

The specific matters involved in the company are all managed by the relevant personnel of Taobao Technology Company.

Under the name of Alipay, Alipay has a product for the time being, and the objects it serves are also Taobao Technology and Taobao for the time being.

For Taobao Technology, Alipay grants the right to use it indefinitely, with zero fees.

After all, once Alipay is put into use, the first phase of the combination is Taobao, and the binding of the two sides is very deep because it belongs to the relationship of Li Zhengyi.

In fact, in the process of Taobao, the payment link is the prototype developed by Alipay, so it is very easy to combine and bind, in fact, as long as it is directly embedded in the original process.

Before the May Day holiday, that is, on the last day of the end of April, Alipay was officially launched, granting Taobao Technology full access to Taobao for the first time.

As soon as Alipay came out, all Taobao registered users felt the convenience of the payment mode for the first time.

For users, because there will be no changes to the process, they will not feel the trouble caused by the process, and will only be more convenient because of the change in the payment link.

The most direct embodiment lies in the user recharge, in fact, now in the Taobao online transaction process, the most troublesome part is also the recharge, although for users, now the trouble is not troublesome.

After using Alipay, existing Taobao users can directly recharge online as long as they have the online banking opened by China Construction Bank, and they can directly recharge online without making payments to Taobao Technology Company, which is very convenient.

In fact, the most ecstatic is not the Taobao buyer, but the seller, according to the original Taobao regulations, because manual withdrawal can not be operated frequently, so it can only be withdrawn once a week, and now Alipay is out, Taobao's withdrawal function is available at any time.

The delighted sellers gave Taobao and Alipay a super praise for the first time, and the reputation was once high.

The only inconvenience is that it only supports the online banking card of China Construction Bank, but whether it is a buyer or a seller, they firmly believe that since Taobao has opened China Construction Bank, then in the future, other banks will definitely be opened one after another, which is nothing more than a matter of time.

Products that can really bring convenience to users, there is no need to worry about its growth at all, and the only thing that needs to be guided is to let users take the first brave step.

What follows is often very simple, and it comes naturally.

April 30, 2002 is a memorable day in the history of Alipay.

On this day, Alipay was quietly launched, opening the first step of Alipay's transition from obscurity to a financial aircraft carrier, and also escorting Taobao Technology, a warship destined to rise to the sky, from the game field to cross the border, officially enter all walks of life in society, accompanied by advertising and publicity that gradually spread all over the country.

Taobao registered users, on the day Alipay was officially launched, has reached more than 1.5 million, while the eBay transaction website in the same period, the registered users are less than 3 million.

With the funds invested by Zhuang Yongsheng in place, Li Zheng began to make drastic propaganda actions, nationwide, multi-channel, and all-round publicity.

The registered users in the background of Taobao are changing all the time, steadily climbing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Alipay, a chess piece, has greatly boosted Taobao's status in the e-commerce industry.

Taobao Technology's heavy attack officially attracted the attention of eBay officials.

In fact, before this, at the beginning of Taobao's launch, eBay officials had already noticed the weak Taobao website, but at that time, Taobao was facing a group of legendary players, and there was no conflict of interest with eBay's main business direction, so the other party did not pay attention to it.

And Taobao's strategy is free, which makes eBay officials further disagree, in their opinion, as an Internet company, if it does not have its own profit model and core, it is impossible to support the company to a higher level of future.

So even if Taobao Technology has extended its tentacles out of the game, eBay officials have not paid much attention to it.

However, the launch of Alipay finally attracted the attention of eBay's officials.

eBay HQ.

The general manager of eBay convened the heads of various major departments and the backbone of the company to hold a meeting on Taobao Technology's initiatives.

The theme of the conference was about the impact of Alipay on Taobao technology.

The participants did not have enough understanding of Alipay, and they overwhelmingly believed that it would be difficult to promote this payment model, and it was unlikely to have much effect in a short period of time.

Among them, there are also discerning people, but they are in the minority, and their voices do not play a decisive role.

The vast majority of Internet practitioners who understand Alipay think that Alipay is just a payment tool built into the Taobao transaction model, and that its role is only limited to the Taobao website and has no expansibility.

Of course, Li Zhengyi will not tell them, in fact, in his heart, the role of Alipay is better than Taobao, and even surpassing.

At the end of May, while Taobao technology was developing rapidly, the relationship between Li Zhengyi and Zhuang Xiangqiu was also heating up rapidly.

Taking advantage of the time, Li Zhengyi first took Zhuang Xiangqiu back to Xiangning City and met Li's father and mother.

Mother Li was stunned by Li Zhengyi's sudden attack, and the girl she brought back was charming, looking like a good girl who was educated and knowledgeable.

Followed by Father Li and Grandma Li Zhengyi.

The surprise was so unexpected.

The more Li's mother looked, the more satisfied she became, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, and she began to keep knocking on the other party's family background, parents, etc., and the purpose of asking these questions was that she wanted to know if the other party's parents agreed.

However, there was a bit of a hiccup here.

When Li's mother learned about Zhuang Xiangqiu's specific family situation, she began to suffer from gains and losses in her heart, so she found an opportunity to secretly ask Li Zhengyi: "Zheng'er, Miss Zhuang's family is so rich, can you take a fancy to our family?"