Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 438: Attacks from All Sides

"Some media outlets are reporting that our livestream e-commerce company has product quality issues, and buyers can’t get their complaints addressed."

"Jindong has notified us that the price war with Ugly Group needs to continue, and we need to increase our investment."

"Our domestic automotive supply chain partners hope we can shorten the payment cycle, as they deem the current cycle unreasonable."

Over the next few days, bad news kept pouring in from the assistant one after another.

However, when things reach this level, Chen Yiyang actually becomes less anxious.

Because he knows that the mastermind behind this series of attacks against him is definitely not one person; it’s multiple parties united against him.

If only one or two people were launching attacks against him, Chen Yiyang would be more concerned.

After all, individual motives are hard to predict and generally not very rational.

If there were truly those types of mad dogs, even just finding this mad dog would be a troublesome task for Chen Yiyang.

But with a large-scale attack like this, it can’t be accomplished by just one or two mad dogs; it’s at least a pack of mad dogs.

Since that’s the case, he decided to talk to them one by one and see who the members of this noisy pack are.

His first suspect, of course, was Wei Yujun.

Not to mention, the collective demand from suppliers to shorten the payment period definitely has Wei Yujun’s involvement.

However, Chen Yiyang and Wei Yujun are old enemies.

If Wei Yujun really had such power to stage such a grand scheme against him, he would have done so long ago, not waited till now.

It’s likely this time Wei Yujun simply followed the crowd, joining the charge with others.

Thus, Chen Yiyang didn’t rush to negotiate with the parts suppliers of Yiyang Automobile.

The payment cycle for Yiyang Automobile is average among new energy car companies, approximately four months to clear.

So the suppliers’ collective agitation is likely because Chen Yiyang’s large-scale domestic production hasn’t commenced, leading to limited shipments and profits, thus orchestrated by Longcheng.

However, once Yiyang Automobile’s first model Baize Lingguang is launched, Chen Yiyang would need to renegotiate with these suppliers.

Therefore, he decided to put them on hold and, when the time comes, change suppliers if necessary and negotiate terms as needed.

Chen Yiyang then went to negotiate with the people from Kiwifruit, hoping to strike some cooperation agreement between Qingguo and Kiwifruit.

Then.

Chen Yiyang was met with rejection.

After attacking Qingguo short video, Kiwifruit concentrated on nurturing its own short drama team while engaging in a flow and public opinion battle with Qingguo.

They were clearly going for the kill.

Chen Yiyang could only call Xu Yun over.

"Currently, Qingguo’s traffic has retreated somewhat from before the new year, but its growth trend is clearly better than all other video platforms on the market now."

Xu Yun said, "However, Qingguo is still mainly rooted in the short video field, so a direct collision with Kiwifruit won’t happen for the time being.

But because of actions by Kiwifruit and some other video platforms, our short drama collaborating teams have started changing allegiance."

"I remember you signed exclusive agreements with them, didn’t you?" Chen Yiyang inquired curiously, "How can these short drama teams still change allegiance then?

"The exclusive agreements restrict the teams, not the individuals." Xu Yun said, "Now Kiwifruit has used substantial funds to directly poach the talents from those teams.

Some short drama teams have even disbanded in place, then founded a new company to collaborate with Kiwifruit, discarding the old company’s shell entirely."

"I see." Chen Yiyang nodded and then thought for a moment before saying, "What difficulties does Qingguo face if it wants to continue developing?"

"It’s still a money issue." Xu Yun replied, "Firstly, we need to expand the short drama teams and buy content from other teams.

Secondly, we need to acquire users, constantly spending money to buy traffic."

"Alright, I understand." Chen Yiyang waved his hand grandly, approving billions more in funding for Qingguo.

Even though he didn’t initially invest in Qingguo with optimism about its future.

But Qingguo’s current growth momentum does prove that it can indeed develop an app with a large user base.

As for whether it can be profitable, that’s not something Qingguo should consider right now.

Qingguo’s daily active users even surpassed a hundred million around the new year.

If it can maintain that, Qingguo’s valuation could reach hundreds of billions.

This investment is definitely necessary.

After meeting with Xu Yun, Zhang Yuling called Chen Yiyang.

"I inquired through my contacts about the situation with Kiwifruit targeting Qingguo. It’s partly due to their fear of Qingguo’s traffic surge. The other reason is because of the major shareholders’ demands."

"Kiwifruit’s major shareholders?" Chen Yiyang paused momentarily and then reacted.

Kiwifruit, as a video platform, has large internet companies backing it."

And the company backing Kiwifruit is named Qian Du.

Yes, the same Qian Du that’s into search engines.

"I have no enmity with Qian Du, so why suddenly target me?" Chen Yiyang wondered.

The battle between Jindong and Ugly Group was because Ugly Group threatened Jindong’s core interests."

So the two prepared early and fought first." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

But I don’t have any company at hand threatening Qian Du’s core interests."

Wait, maybe I do."

Chen Yiyang almost forgot that he is a major shareholder of DEEPSEEK."

If AI large models are developed to later stages, they can completely replace search engines."

After all, search engines require users to search themselves, but AI large models can directly provide the accurate answers users want."

Qian Du’s revenue relies on advertising income brought by search engines."

But if AI models develop, then Qian Du would be out of business."

In the future, Qian Du’s efforts in bid ranking and inserting ad links in the top search results would all be useless."

The DEEPSEEK that Chen Yiyang holds does indeed infringe on Qian Du’s core interests."

Thinking of this, Chen Yiyang didn’t delay and flew directly to Peng City to Tengxu’s headquarters to look for Wu Changxun.

"In the past, you always came to Lin’an to find me, yet today, you directly come to Peng City. Is it because something big has happened?" Wu Changxun received Chen Yiyang in his office."

"Stop pretending." Facing his old friend Wu Changxun, Chen Yiyang was quite casual, saying directly, "Don’t tell me you don’t know about the recent attacks against me."

"Oh, yes, I saw some news."

Wu Changxun sat down, taking a sip of tea, speaking leisurely, "The kind of formation you’re facing, we’ve at Tengxu faced from time to time since developing, so I hadn’t paid much attention."

"You sound quite proud now, don’t you?" Hearing Wu Changxun’s words, Chen Yiyang rolled his eyes irritatedly.