Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

August 31st, the day before classes started at Xuyuan.

Qian Du announced its ”Mobile Cloud” strategy, officially establishing its LBS (Location-Based Services) division. With its map services as the core, it began to expand into O2O services.

In the Yanjing Region, Kuai Pao launched its ”5 Yuan Breakfast, 6 Yuan Lunch, 7 Yuan Dinner” plan. They took meals originally priced between 20 and 30 Hua Yuan and offered them at a flat rate with free delivery. This limited-time, limited-quantity promotion left Meituan Takeout completely overwhelmed.

Since most of Meituan’s delivery riders were part-timers, there were too many workers for too few orders. During a typical lunch rush, a rider could often only deliver three or four orders.

People were out to make money, not to live on air.

After familiarizing themselves with the routes around nearby residential and commercial areas, some Meituan riders jumped ship to Kuai Pao Delivery without a second thought.

For a time, Meituan Takeout became a ”sacred training ground” for riders. As soon as they gained a bit of experience, they’d use it as leverage to quickly jump over to Kuai Pao’s delivery department.

Many netizens in Yanjing complained that while Meituan Takeout was cheap, the delivery staff had poor service attitudes. They would often just dump the food on the ground without even calling.

It made ordering takeout feel like begging for scraps.

Little did they know, the Kuai Pao Deliverymen who handed them their meals with a smile a few days later were the very same Meituan riders from before.

They had simply swapped their uniforms and become full-time riders for Kuai Pao.

With a full suite of benefits like a base salary, social insurance and housing fund contributions, order completion bonuses, and quarterly bonuses, plus comprehensive coverage including accident insurance, medical insurance, and third-party liability insurance, a rider could earn three to four hundred a day and easily clear ten thousand a month.

Even in Yanjing, a monthly income of ten thousand Hua Yuan in 2012 was definitely top-tier.

The saying ”you get what you pay for” was perfectly embodied by the delivery guys.

Meituan was unintentionally funneling a steady stream of quality workforce to Kuai Pao, while the riders who remained were either inefficient or had bad tempers.

If a customer dared to complain, the rider would dare to show up at their door to ”argue.”

At 9:30, WeChat version 4.3 was released, adding Shake-to-Transfer-Images, voice search, and video chat features.

Half an hour later, Sunning publicly announced it would spend 66 million US Dollars to acquire the mother-and-baby e-commerce company Red Child, further accelerating its category expansion.

Jingdong, Sunning, and Gome, the three largest online giants in digital products and home appliances, having just finished battling through the ”418 Appliance Festival” and the ”815 Appliance Festival,” were now simultaneously expanding their business boundaries to challenge Ali.

Who wouldn’t be jealous of the massive e-commerce pie, with annual sales exceeding one trillion Hua Yuan, when Ali had snatched seventy percent of it?

During this period of rapid e-commerce development, Toutiao and Lingxi Browser gradually became major advertising channels for various e-commerce platforms. Major players, including Taobao, Tmall Mall, and Jingdong, all became key account (KA) advertising clients for Today Technology and Byte Technology.

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At ten in the morning, Chen Yansen left the faculty apartments at an unhurried pace.

He headed toward Xue Lin Road. He had no plans to go to the office, so he didn’t even bother to drive.

The sophomores and juniors had all returned to campus and were busy with dorm gatherings, student council dinners, and club parties. The seniors, on the other hand, dove straight into the library as soon as they got back, most of them preparing for graduate school entrance exams. The rest continued to drift along aimlessly, holed up in their dorms playing video games or ”studying biology.”

At a second-tier university like Xuyuan, you had students who got into Project 985 graduate programs every year, as well as slackers who couldn’t even manage to graduate.

It might seem surreal, but it wasn’t a contradiction at all.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

A rumor had been circulating recently that the university wouldn’t issue a diploma if you didn’t pass the CET-4 English exam.

The three most ”patriotic” guys from room 8302, Zhu Xiaopeng, Song Yang, and Tang Zhenzhe, were so scared they started carrying a CET-4 vocabulary book everywhere. Whether they were eating or on the toilet, they’d pull it out to memorize a few words.

Chen Yansen had originally planned to tell the three of them that the source was correct—Tang Qingshan had indeed given the order.

But the ultimate ”deterrent” effect wasn’t very significant; the passing rate for the CET-4 in the ’10 Journalism class was only around 80%.

’Across the entire university, a good seven or eight hundred students haven’t passed the CET-4. They can’t possibly withhold diplomas from all of them, right?’

But seeing how seriously Zhu Xiaopeng, Song Yang, and Tang Zhenzhe were studying, Chen Yansen didn’t have the heart to interrupt their newfound enthusiasm.

In Xucheng at the end of August, the weather was still scorching hot.

Chen Yansen casually glanced around, his view filled with spaghetti straps, miniskirts, and long, fair legs.

Most of them were sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The newly-arrived freshmen hadn’t yet adopted such a bold style of dress.

Of course, those who were exceptionally gifted were another matter entirely.

Before long, Chen Yansen spotted a Telecom booth selling campus SIM cards. A banner hanging from the sunshade read: ”Qingcheng D1S, as low as 399 Yuan!”

Obviously, this thing was a contract phone package cooked up by Telecom and Orange Technology.

Chen Yansen took a few steps forward and saw Tang Zhenzhe and Song Yang sitting side by side, holding up a promotional poster and explaining the campus SIM card plans to underclassmen.

”Hey, underclassman, how about the 999 Yuan Orange C3? Buy the phone, sign up for the network, and get the 129 Yuan a month plan. Don’t think it’s too expensive! You get a 70 Yuan rebate, so the monthly fee is only 59 Yuan. It’s a super deal!”

Song Yang rattled on, a shrewd look flashing in his eyes. He was like a completely different person from the socially anxious guy he’d been two years ago.

After all, he had been a campus courier agent for two years, meeting all sorts of people. He had long since become adept at handling interpersonal relationships.

”Too expensive? Then how about the Qingcheng D1S? It’s cheaper, only 399 Yuan! Sign up for the 46 Yuan plan, you get a 23 Yuan rebate each month, plus 500MB of data and 200 minutes of talk time.”