Chapter 186: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
"Is it really good for Baidu?" Li Yanhong subconsciously repeated Zhao Zejun's last question.
The first reaction was, 'Of course it's good.'"
Since it is competition, like fighting, it is natural to stand on the side of the strong. Tencent、Alibaba, any of these two are stronger than Zelianke, at this time, joining forces, standing on their side, naturally is the biggest chance of winning; on the contrary, Baidu and Zelianke teamed up, in terms of overall volume, the two sides are at best a tie.
As for the benefits, only the winners can talk about the benefits, and where do the losers come from?
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zejun seemed to see through his thoughts, smiled faintly, and said: "To fight, you don't necessarily have to choose to stand on the side of the strong." Mr. Li, don't you think the current situation is a bit similar to the Three Kingdoms Wei, Shu and Wu. Wu Guo seems to have never been on the side of the strong. ”
The Three Kingdoms competed for power, and Dongwu was a well-known wall grass, which would be connected to Wei and Shu. But it is a wall grass, and the wall grass in the general sense is different, not who is strong will mix with whom, on the contrary, Shu is strong, Dongwu will join Wei to resist Shu, Wei is strong, it will join Liu to reject Cao, and whoever is weak will mix with whom.
Li Yanhong thought about it, the current situation is really a bit like this.
"Soochow has the Yangtze River moat, which is somewhat similar to Baidu's search engine, trying to watch the fire from the other side, watch from the wall, and protect itself is no problem. But as I just said, whether Liu kills Cao or Cao kills Liu, he will not let go of Dongwu in the end, and the best result of Dongwu is that he is in a corner of peace, and the winner is far behind. Therefore, for Soochow, the best choice is to form an alliance with the weak and maintain balance. ”
Zhao Zejun paused, and his tone slowed down, "Of course, there is no question of who destroyed whom. But the current situation of Baidu is that the search engine 'Yangtze River moat', that is, blocked the northern iron horse to the south, resulting in Baidu can not expand rapidly, more than enough, lack of enterprising ability, even if Zelianke fails, Baidu and Tencent, Ali together, the three carve up the rest of the market of Zelianke, Mr. Li, do you think, Baidu can grab the two of them? Especially in the financial area, although the layout speed of these two is not as good as Zelianke, but compared with Baidu, I am afraid ......"
Zhao Zejun didn't mock this time, and smiled.
"In any case, the winner is better than the loser. Li Yanhong said: "You must know that this time the team is different from the last internal meeting of Skynet, not just talking, but investing resources." ”
"It's because of the need to invest resources that Baidu must stand in line immediately!"
Zhao Zejun interrupted Li Yanhong's words: "Commercial competition is different from war, the resources of war are people, are materials, before the victory is divided, war resources are consumables, only when the war is over, the winner can collect the spoils." However, in business competition, there is no need to wait for the winner to be divided, and in the process of competition, the resources invested will continue to generate returns. As for winning or losing......"
Zhao Zejun let out a soft snort in his nose, "Mr. Li, do you really think that Tencent and Alibaba will definitely win?"
Li Yanhong didn't answer directly, thought about it, and asked: "Where do you think the situation will evolve if the two of us join hands?"
"The first situation is that the domestic Internet is divided into two camps, and both sides have their own wins and losses, but in general, they have been fighting each other for a long time.
It seems to be a stalemate, but it is actually a better healthy competition. Through competition, we will continue to expand our battlefield, that is, the Internet market, and let the Internet industry develop at a higher speed. This is good for both of us, but as leaders of both camps, we will be under much more pressure on ourselves.
As for the real losses, it should mainly be downstream small and medium-sized enterprises, cannon fodder and consumables that are in the front.
Finally, wait for the times to change, and when a certain opportunity comes, the pattern changes again. This opportunity may be some kind of technological concept to change the Internet, or it may be the direction of the country's major policies, so the time will ......"
Zhao Zejun smiled, "Whether it is you and me, or Tencent and Alibaba, we have always stood on the cusp of the domestic Internet, and when the time comes, the Internet will still be our world, but our respective strategies have changed again and entered a new era." ”
"To achieve monopoly in the true sense of the word through competition?" Li Yanhong raised his eyebrows slightly.
"So to speak, I personally am not afraid of competition, but rather welcome and hope for fierce competition at the same level. Just like a boxing match, you can only be stronger if you keep fighting against your opponents. And Baidu, what needs to be done is to choose an opponent at the same level, the opponent is too weak or too strong, and it doesn't make much sense. ”
"The first scenario ......," Li Yanhong thought for a moment, "Are there other possibilities?"
Zhao Zejun smiled faintly and asked with interest: "Mr. Li, Ali and Tencent, why do you want to join forces to deal with Zelianke?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, Zhao Zejun asked himself and answered: "Because Zelianke moved their biggest cake, the financial market is the common goal of these two, e-commerce is the core of Alibaba, online games, for Tencent is actually a very important piece, although there seems to be no conflict at present, but Tencent's several business groups, and Zelianke's several major business divisions, in the field of too many crossovers, there will be large-scale conflicts in the future." ”
Speaking of which, Li Yanhong has already understood what Zhao Zejun really meant, and said: "Between Baidu and Zelianke, there is no possibility of large-scale conflicts in business, on the contrary, you and I can complement and promote each other." ”
"This is one of the foundations of our cooperation. Zhao Zejun nodded: "Looking at it the other way, Ali and Tencent will not let go of the financial market, which is a big contradiction, and the business between them does not have much complementarity." Zelianke can stabilize for a period of time, maybe without external forces, the alliance between Ali and Tencent will split from within, or be under pressure from other sides. ”
said, laughed: "Mr. Li, Ali and Tencent, the two behemoths, once split, will inevitably bring huge market shocks, and the market we can seize at that time is by no means a star and a half." ”
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After a not-so-long conversation, Zhao Zejun left Baidu's headquarters.
Almost within a week, Baidu and Zelianke reached a cooperation.
The two sides have not made any public statements.
In the cooperation directory of Huayuan Finance, which is subordinate to Zelianke, there is suddenly Baidu, as well as a large number of Internet and entity enterprises that have close contacts with Baidu, and this list is still increasing.
Zelianke announced that it would give up the cloud storage business, and the current Weibo personal center's 'cloud storage' function was all handed over to Baidu Cloud, and Baidu acquired Zelianke's previous cloud storage project, as for how much, the outside world does not know.
In addition, Baidu will use the previous Skynet Alliance as the standard, and at the same time provide data access services to Zelianke's big data center, and in return, Zelianke will also share the previous big data research results with Baidu, and the two sides will carry out limited data docking.
These moves show that the two companies are not only cooperating and cooperating, but also deeply cooperating. You know, for any Internet company, data is one of the core secrets.
The list was published on Monday.
On the same day, Ma Yun and Ma Huateng had a phone call.
Although it was surprising that Zhao Zejun was able to convince Li Yanhong, it was no longer the time to consider what kind of ecstasy soup Zhao Zejun had poured into Li Yanhong.
The facts are in front of us, and the addition of Baidu has made great changes in the quality and quantity of Zelianke's ecosystem.
Qualitatively, Zelianke's financial ecosystem has an additional cornerstone: Baidu.
In terms of quantity, with Baidu, this ecosystem has the most upstream water source irrigation of the Internet, and at the same time, many downstream enterprises of Baidu are directly included in the ecosystem.
This is evidenced by the sudden increase in the multiple-fold list of cooperation.
Ma Huateng, who was polite and polite, did not hesitate at all after seeing the situation clearly and made up his mind, and said to Ma Yun: "We must take measures, otherwise the third-party payment and finance will be thrown farther and farther away." Even if you can't break this ecosystem, at least try to suppress it. ”
So, on Friday of the same week, Tencent and Alibaba also took action.
Tencent Game Platform, without warning, removed all games under the multi-play platform, and closed the login interface of Tencent Game Platform and League of Legends.
Users who use Tencent's paid products suddenly find that they can't pay with Zepay. A prompt will pop up on the page: Due to technical reasons, Zepay cannot be used temporarily, and the technician is working hard to solve it, please replace the payment software.
Below is the entrance to Tenpay and Alipay.
Alibaba announced that it will set up a separate big data center with Tencent to focus on customer behavior investigation.
Although the cooperation reached between the four companies in the Skynet Alliance continues, these seemingly inconsequential moves clearly divide two camps: the TA system and the BZ system.
Tencent Ali and Baidu Zelianke stand on the opposite side clearly.
A camp battle that affects the entire Internet industry has begun.
The industry predicts that in the next war, the Internet will be fragmented, and all small and medium-sized Internet companies will pay close attention to every move of both sides, ready to stand on the side at any time, and finally form two camps led by TA and BZ.
There is no room for coincident, there will be a protracted collision, and for a long time to come, the entire Internet will be filled with a tense atmosphere and gunsmoke, which is likely to become the biggest milestone event in the history of China's Internet development.
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