Rebirth 76: Industrial Internet Empire

Liu Qing smiled bitterly and said: "But what about the hundreds of thousands of employees in our grassroots post offices? We can't let them get laid off, right?"

Yang Mo nodded and continued: "Of course employees cannot be laid off. The era of e-commerce is coming, and the logistics and express delivery business will see exponential growth. As long as the postal service can put down its dignity and compete with private logistics and express delivery companies, in terms of service quality, With all-round competition in express delivery rates and delivery speeds, with the brand credibility of the postal service, can it still beat the newly growing private enterprises?"

After Liu Qing pondered for a long time, he sighed and said: "We have a huge group of retired employees to support, and the labor costs are not the same as those of private logistics and express delivery companies. In addition, they can choose to receive express delivery from remote provinces. You can refuse it, but we can’t. If you send it to the foot of the Himalayas, not only can we not refuse it, but we also have price restrictions!”

"This can be balanced by subsidies. In the eastern region where there are many express parcels, the express delivery company will be charged a fee ranging from 0.1 to 0.3 yuan for each express delivery. This is used to subsidize border and remote areas. The burden on retired employees is not unbearable. , Private logistics and express delivery companies need to invest a lot of money in warehousing sites, logistics vehicles, and receiving facades, and the postal service has ready-made free use. Coupled with the credibility accumulated over the years, it is not comparable to ordinary private companies! Yang Mo said gushingly.

"If you want to significantly reduce labor costs, you will need to transfer many employees who were originally engaged in delivery business to other departments. This is also a big problem!" Liu Qing said with concern.

Yang Mo chuckled and said: "This is not a problem anymore! Many delivery workers in rural towns are actually not afraid of hardship. As long as their salary is guaranteed, they can continue to stay in the express company, even if they want to be transferred to other departments. It’s not a problem. In addition to the newspaper and stamp issuance business of Xishan, the postal savings should be able to accept part of it, and can also open up third-party business..."

"Third-party business?" Liu Qing asked puzzledly.

Yang Mo nodded: "For example, real estate, labor agencies, hotels, tickets, and air ticket booking services. If any of them is successful, it will be enough to support many people. The stores and credible postal services required to engage in these businesses are all ready-made. Will it succeed? , the key lies in the quality of service, service with a straight face will definitely not do anything..."

Liu Qing fell into deep thought.

Yang Mo has spent a lot of money for the development of e-commerce. He actively guides the postal express business to enter market competition earlier. Even if it establishes a strong competitor for Zhiyuan Express in advance, he will not hesitate to lower the express delivery rates. , only online shopping has greater room for development.

"Director Liu, if you are still undecided, Zhiyuan Group is willing to be the first to try something new and establish a modern international logistics and express delivery company to form complementary and differentiated competition with postal express delivery!" Yang Mo said for a long time. It was Tu Qiong Ding Jian who put forward his own demands!

"Mr. Yang, do you think the domestic logistics and express delivery market is large enough to accommodate multiple logistics and express delivery companies?" Liao Tingxuan asked without losing the opportunity.

"Director Liu, Director Liao, let me tell you this! In a few years, the output value of the domestic logistics and express delivery market will reach tens of billions, and many high-quality express delivery and logistics companies will be hatched. Such is the general trend, the General Post Office should be sparse rather than blocked. , the sooner you put down your dignity and compete with private enterprises, the more e-commerce development dividends you will get!" Yang Mo said.

In fact, Yang Mo also knew in his heart that no matter how much he said, it would be difficult to impress Liu Qing. State-owned enterprises have too many rules and regulations. If they want to make the express delivery business independent, it will affect the interests of many people. Which state-owned enterprise employee can be like the express delivery boy? Are you willing to get up early and endure hardships until late at night?

It is not only the system that is hard to recover from, but also human nature, which does not worry about scarcity but inequality...

Liu Qing also knew that express delivery licenses for private enterprises would have to be issued sooner or later, so he might as well be a favor and issue this first private express delivery license to Zhiyuan Group.

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5 month 18 day.

The homepages of the three major portals Sina, NetEase, and Sohu all issued a message at the same time: Amazon China will be officially launched at 6:18 on June [-].

After clicking on the news title, a web link and download button will appear. Users can freely choose to browse the page or download the Amazon platform.

Click to enter the Amazon webpage, and a line of jumping characters will appear: Everything you need, online shopping is on Amazon!

The most eye-catching thing on the homepage of the website is the variety of coupons, all kinds of no-threshold, full discount coupons, and the discount range is jaw-dropping.

Clicking to enter the product details page surprised many people. The prices of some products are so low that people cannot believe their eyes.

Almost at the same time, a pop-up window popped up on the Tutoring Network for College Students: Amazon China is about to go online, and college students enjoy the privilege of purchasing Zhiyuan brand computers with zero down payment. The stock is limited, and it is a rare opportunity!

The pop-up news comes with a detailed application process:

1Download the Amazon China app

2Apply for Alipay transaction account

3Open the official flagship store of Zhiyuan Computer

4Fill in the details

5. Apply to buy Zhiyuan Computer with zero down payment

6After approval, sign a future repayment agreement.

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Amazon headquarters in Zhitong Building.

Yu Yu and Liu Dong stared at the background data, so nervous that they didn't dare to breathe.

You can hear a pin drop in the huge office.

After a long time, cheers broke out...

Yu Yu excitedly dialed Yang Mo's phone: "Mr. Yang, it took three hours and 7 minutes for Amazon to have more than [-] download users..."

"Where are you going now? Let's wait until we have 500 million!" Yang Mo said with a little lack of interest.

"500 million? According to the latest data, there are a total of 350 million computers with Internet access in mainland China. NetEase's registered free email system users can only reach 100 million. The number of Internet users is about 890 million. How can it reach 500 million download users?" Yu Yu said Xie asked.

Yang Mo chuckled and said: "So, you have to make plans to live a hard life. The lack of Internet users will greatly inhibit the development of e-commerce. Your next focus will be on improving the express logistics system. Distribution transfer warehouses will be established in major central cities, and plans to purchase computers with zero down payment will be promoted among college students as soon as possible!"

"Mr. Yang, are you saying that Amazon may be acclimatized in China? The performance will not be very good?" Yu Yu's heart suddenly fell to the bottom...