Chapter 425 Everything Goes Well

Everyone looked at each other and no one spoke.

"To be honest," Li Yan continued, "as long as the user base is sufficient, a turnaround will only take a moment."

"Compare the user base with Alipay which has hundreds of millions of users?" A certain vice president may not like Li Yan's somewhat frivolous look and his attitude was slightly displeased.

"Their user base is basically derived from online shopping. Although there are many people who shop online at present, apart from those who have a lot of business needs, for the majority of people who shop online occasionally for fun, do you think the demand for food delivery and online car-hailing services that are closely related to life, such as what I do, is higher, or is the demand for online shopping higher?"

Li Yan's tone was not very good either. Seeing that the other party did not respond, he continued to ask:

"In other words, if you were in my shoes, would you give up buying or using the Jiaolong phone just because it lacks a shopping feature? Currently, most online shopping still relies on computers, and there is no contradiction in demand at all."

"Everything you are saying now is based on the sales of Jiaolong phones, and we haven't even seen the so-called system." The vice president seemed to feel a little embarrassed and spoke with sarcasm.

"Then it's time to make a decision." Li Yan glanced at Leader Zhang.

"Jiang Jun, it's meaningless to say such things." Leader Zhang said, "Li Yan, so what you mean is that you want to build a payment platform yourself, and then you need the support of the four major banks?"

"Yes, Leader Zhang." Li Yan nodded, "I would like to hear your opinions."

"To be honest, if you just want to be a third-party payment platform, why don't you directly cooperate with Alipay?" said another vice president.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lao Huang frowning and looking at Leader Zhang.

Alipay is from Jiangnan Province. If Li Yan can indeed create a platform to challenge it, the leaders of Linjiang will naturally be happy to see it happen.

However, there may be more than one reason why Lao Huang frowned.

If possible, Li Yan doesn't want to mention Alipay, nor does she want to compare it with Alipay.

It is indeed as the vice president just said, everything Li Yan relies on now is all ifs and expectations.

The more you compare it with something real, the more likely it is to give people a sense of distrust.

Therefore, he did not even use Alipay to prove the credibility of the payment platform. That is why he knew that the questions raised by the previous bank presidents were all just pretending to be stupid.

Communicating with officials is so exhausting. They have a lot of ideas, but they basically don’t bring them up. They say one thing and think another, and they have to pretend…

But since it is mentioned at the end, I might as well touch everyone’s heart.

The deeper problem is that they are worried that once mobile payments become popular, people will start to develop various financial products, until one day they will be cut off from their path.

Especially facing the ambition shown by the various ideas proposed by Fu Qianbao...

When it comes to ambition, Li Yan in front of them is even more ambitious.

"I have a good understanding with Alipay, or I should say I have a good understanding with many companies. After they knew I was going to build a super life circle, they basically didn't approach me to discuss cooperation." Li Yan smiled, "They all wanted to grab a piece of territory and then start the overall development. I am no exception, so I am their rival."

The leaders didn't respond.

"But I am different from them. I rely on hardware to open up the market, so my foundation is more solid than theirs. It is much easier to give up a software than a hardware. So my layout is much earlier and more complete, but I can make a promise to you first."

Now everyone looked at him.

"My payment platform is just a payment platform, which only provides users with a convenient and secure payment method." Li Yan said, "The payment platform is a tool of Super Life Circle, but the banking software is not. All financial products, promotional activities and the like are managed by major banks themselves."

"Oh?" After all, he hit the pain point, and Lao Huang's interest soared. "You mean the cooperative bank just needs to work with you to develop and provide the client? You don't participate in other businesses?"

“I have no interest in financial games.”

Wow, this really makes everyone not know how to respond.

The emotion in the senior leader's eyes was extremely obvious, it was simply saying "You are still too young."

"I am completely different from Alipay. They are not satisfied with just being a payment tool. I just want to be a payment tool to support my life circle software." Li Yan said, "But I really need your help. The bank and we jointly develop the client, which is a kind of endorsement. People don't feel the need to bind a bank card to an unfamiliar software, but open the card through the official channel of the bank, so the sense of trust is naturally high."

"That's true." Old Huang thought.

"Therefore, I hope that everyone can enable quick payment. As long as you have opened a card in the corresponding bank app, you do not need to go through the online banking process and can directly start payment from the bank card." Li Yan said.

Leader Gao pondered for a while, and seeing that Leader Zhang didn't say anything, he spoke up, "What do you think, presidents?"

Fuqianbao is expressing its willingness to negotiate with Huaxia Bank for quick payment. With a payment platform, there is really no need to go the route of online banking. Lao Huang doesn't know whether his boss and Li Yan know this information. After thinking about it, he is ready to start the delaying tactic:

"Well, I'll go back today and..."

Li Yan expected this ending. He secretly sighed. After talking about this and that today, he still couldn't come to a conclusion. It was really bad before he left the house...

Leader Zhang unexpectedly interrupted Lao Huang's speech and said, "No need for that. Li Yan's demands are very clear. As long as the system security problem can be solved, this cooperation is just a matter of developing a client that adapts to the Hetu system. Whether it can be successful in the future is another matter."

As expected, there is still no effect at all! I said that metaphysics is not credible!
The senior leader was very good at adapting to the situation and agreed immediately, "That's right, you will definitely have to develop your own mobile client in the future, so it might be a good opportunity to practice now."

The tone was completely set. Regardless of whether we were willing or not, the cooperation was agreed upon.

Even if they go back to ask the president for his decision, the president will just ask "what did the leader say", and they will tell him the truth, and the result will still be cooperation.

Li Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, and the bank presidents immediately became "strategic partners". They immediately put smiles on their faces and began to discuss some specific forms of cooperation.

In fact, they didn't talk too deeply, and after another half an hour, the meeting ended successfully.

When leaving the venue, Li Yan shook hands with Leader Zhang. Leader Zhang rarely smiled and patted Li Yan on the shoulder affectionately, "Linjiang has very high expectations for you. Come on, young man."

Finally, I have grown from a "child" to a "young man".

This conversation almost drained Li Yan's energy. Fortunately, three consecutive negotiations ended successfully. He felt that he could see a bright future with his eyes closed.

After returning to the office, Li Yan immediately found Wang Zi and Wen Xin and made a meeting list, which actually listed seven meetings in one go.

"Is everything going to be finished today?" Wen Xin's jaw dropped.

"When holding a meeting to arrange work, it should be short and quick, and the personnel should be arranged and the time should be notified."

Now that Wei De has been able to cooperate, the franchise agreement for Bazhong Restaurant has been reached, and the mobile payment platform has been supported, the direction of subsequent work is very clear.

The meetings continued until 7:30 in the evening, and almost everyone was in the same state after the meetings.

It was stressful, but very exciting.

Li Yan's decisive and efficient manner during the meeting strengthened everyone's confidence.

As the saying goes, if things go well, everything will go well. It is a virtuous cycle. Once confidence is established, even impossible things can be accomplished.

These meetings were not only for senior management, but many middle-level managers also attended.

Li Yan made orderly division of labor arrangements for many subsequent tasks and set up several project teams. There was one large team for the development of each of the three major platforms, namely Ele.ba, Chelaila and Alipay. In addition, there was also a "WeChat" social software development team, a "Quick Video" multimedia platform development team, an algorithm optimization special team, a system security R&D team, and so on... Sun Miao was so busy. As the boss of the project department, he had to coordinate the management of various project teams and report relevant situations to Li Yan in a timely manner. The pressure was very high.

But he felt great, as it truly gave him an understanding of what it meant to be the "First Minister".

However, people expressed doubts about some projects and there were many speculations, such as "Micro Chat".

Li Yan had mentioned before that he would develop a simple chat software, but he had not made any formal request. Now that a project team has been set up, does it mean that his negotiations with QQ have completely broken down?
But everyone soon learned from the Ministry of Commerce that Li Yan had also assigned them special tasks, including talking to Weibo, QQ, and the shopping platform JD...

I don't understand it, but there is so much work to do anyway, there is no point in thinking too much.

Just listen to your boss.

The algorithm optimization group is under the greatest pressure.

Several key algorithms, such as the ultra-high compression algorithm that supports "Quick Video" and the order dispatching algorithm that supports food delivery and taxi-hailing...to put it bluntly, are actually the work of Li Yan. They have the ability, but because Li Yan's two algorithms are special, it is very difficult to optimize them - and there is also the possibility of Li Yan shaking his head and denying them after the optimization.

The most puzzling thing is the "assembly line research team".

They were drawn from the hardware development department, and when I first heard the name, I had no idea what they did.

Li Yan said that he communicated with Chuangzu and studied Chuangzu's integrated mobile phone sound field production line, and then...

“Optimize the pipeline to reduce costs.”

This sentence may sound light when spoken, but it is a heavy burden on the team members.

However, since they are unable to judge the difficulty specifically, their pressure is not as great as that of the algorithm group.

It was already half past seven, so Li Yan simply gave red envelopes to the last two groups of participants as meal allowances, then returned to the office and lay down on the bed.

It seemed as if suddenly...the great success of the mobile phone was just around the corner.

Although she had worked hard for this for a while, Li Yan actually felt a sense of unreality.

In my previous life, I was a graduate who failed an interview at the age of 24. Now I am 16 years old and am about to change the world in a big way.

I really must be dreaming... Li Yan suddenly jumped up from a half-asleep state, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Damn it, if this is just a dream, I’ll jump out of my wits.

【system? 】

【…】

[It's all right]

【…】

It's good that it's here. Li Yan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.

Things that seemed impossible before are now being accomplished.

In my heart, I actually felt that... it was almost there.

Li Yan smiled self-deprecatingly. Damn it, things haven't even really been done yet and already I'm complaining that it's not interesting enough. What a bad character.

However, he could understand the underlying reason behind this idea—the skill values ​​still seemed not high enough.

The mountain in reality has already been turned over, when will we be able to see the top of the mountain in the system?

"Think about it this way. It's really interesting to come up with something that surpasses the current level of human beings." Li Yan muttered to herself and got up to prepare dinner. "Don't think too far ahead. Make money to the point where it's not worth it first."

While cooking, he suddenly had another inexplicable thought: "Forget about controlled nuclear fusion, let's get the photolithography machine done first."

Maybe... when Jiaolong mobile phones become popular around the world, America will see it as a threat to Card Chip's neck?

There is no problem now, but let's develop skills to prepare for a rainy day.

What skills should it be?

The first word that came to Li Yan’s mind was “machinery and automation”.

At least "Mechanic" should be qualified as a third-level skill, but it's interesting that it hasn't been highlighted for so long.

Li Yan recalled and found that she had never been exposed to anything related to mechanics, either in theory or practice.

Even though he had recently learned some basic knowledge about the hardware section of mobile phones from Zhou Yang, this thing was more deeply linked to computers. Li Yan could understand it more than enough with his extraordinary computer ability, but he could not trigger the activation of the "machine".

So the next day, Li Yan followed the hardware development team to participate in the assembly line research.

No one in this group would have imagined that on the first day of the project, Li Yan and Huang Zhan would be leading the team.

There was a girl majoring in mechanical engineering (who was as precious as a giant panda) who silently wrote down the words “We are the most valued” on the first page of her notebook.

I have to say that Huang Zhan was indeed courageous in setting up an entire production line for the production of W8.

This is also the important reason why Li Yan chose Huang Zhan as the first partner. This huge factory will be the birthplace of Jiaolong mobile phone.

The factory is currently producing the Chuangzu W9, but it is far from being in full swing.

Due to various influences such as W8 being defeated by a lawsuit filed by Pineapple, the mobile version of Win system being not adaptable enough, and the impact of Robert system and copycat mobile phones, the birth of W9 did not attract much attention.

Huang Zhan himself was also influenced by Li Yan's Jiaolong. His enthusiasm and control over W9 were far less intense than those over W8. Moreover, many smartphone users were waiting for the release of the Jiaolong phone, which was actually a big blow to Huang Zhan.

Fortunately, Chuangzu has very close cooperation with Future Technology, which is an alternative version of the palms and backs of the hands are all flesh.

At the beginning, there was strong opposition within Chuangzu to Huang Zhan's plan to lend the factory to Li Yan to make mobile phones. However, after seeing the dismal sales of W9 and the huge "processing fees" and "dividend fees" offered by Li Yan, the group became quiet.

The assembly line is a man's speed reducer. Studying its operating principle is a great pleasure for many people, but "optimizing" it is a matter of another dimension completely.

Li Yan carefully observed each work area, and then tried to apply it to the production process of his own mobile phone, wondering what would be different. After thinking about it for a while, a "ding" sound came into his mind.

It was extremely loud and explosive, so loud that Li Yan even thought someone had smashed a big iron bell hard against his ear.

[Mechanical +1, Level 28 skill, total ]

28 points for the third-level skill means 56% progress.

Are you kidding me? It explodes like this once it’s activated?

(End of this chapter)