In the early stage, in order to occupy the market and squeeze competitors, e-commerce platforms are willing to sell more benefits to merchants.

The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman gains profit.

So we can see that the platform suffers billions of losses every year, and only merchants are making money.

Just as when the competition for live broadcast platforms was the most intense, the anchors' value rose, and they all signed sky-high contracts.

The same is true now. In order to win the support of the Pinru faction, JD would rather give up part of its own interests and give them more support.

Luo Xiu took Guan Shiyu out of the Jingdong office building and met a group of peer merchants downstairs.

"Mr. Luo, what do you think of the meeting just now?"

Everyone looked at Luo Xiu with anticipation.

They all want to know how this e-commerce leader chooses.

"How do you think? Isn't the meeting meant to be listened to?" Luo Xiu joked, "I admit that the concierge is pretty good."

"Mr. Luo, we want to hear what you think about choosing one of the two platforms."

"Everyone is very dissatisfied with this matter, just wait for a leader to come out and speak out."

"That's right, we are all willing to follow you, Mr. Luo."

...

They said one by one, and on the surface they expressed respect for Luo Xiu, but in fact they wanted to give him a step forward.

On the one hand, Luo Xiu represents the Pinru faction of hundreds of brands and has enough strength. On the other hand, he is young and prone to impulsiveness, and will jump out after being rude for a few words.

When the platform really starts to settle the bill, it also starts with this leader.

At that time, these people who were greedy would "rebel" immediately and seize the market that products were given out.

Luo Xiu glanced at everyone and said seriously: "Between the tall and hard walls and eggs, I will always stand on the side of the eggs."

This sentence was said by Haruki Murakami, who said, "This wall is too high and too hard. If we don't stand on the side of the egg, the egg will be smashed immediately."

"Mr. Luo, do you mean to support JD.com, right? JD.com is obviously the weaker party at present."

"It is obviously wrong for me to be weak, but what I really want to say is that everyone has a good life now because these two companies have not yet decided the winner. When they decide the winner, they turn around and start to find ways to dig money from the merchant's pockets."

Luo Xiu left this sentence and left with Guan Shiyu.

The rest of the people pretended to be enlightened and talked loudly:

"Mr. Luo's words make sense. Let's follow Mr. Luo to join JD.com!"

"That's right, although my family mainly sells goods on Taobao, we can't let Taobao dominate."

"The weak do not represent justice, but we have no choice between eggs and stones. We can only protect the eggs. Otherwise, after the stone deals with the eggs, we will turn our heads and smash them at us."

...

They said this, but many people thought to themselves, you all go to Jingdong, I will stand on Taobao, and the resources on Taobao are mine.

Even if everyone knows that standing on the side of JD.com and avoiding Taobao as the dominant one is more in the interests of all merchants. But how is the collective interest important?

Since it is impossible to guarantee that everyone is selfless, of course, we must first guarantee our immediate interests.

Therefore, everyone says that they are on JD.com. In actual actions, these bosses will still give priority to their immediate interests.

Moreover, for many businesses, they actually have no choice. There is only one bargaining chip in their hands. Giving up immediate interests means being directly eliminated.

...

On the way back, Guan Shiyu looked at Luo Xiu, "You are becoming more and more lying."

"When did I lie?"

"You just said that the tall and hard walls and eggs are, and you want to stand on the side of the eggs. Didn't you mislead them and say you want to stand on JD?"

"I did say I wanted to stand on the side of the eggs, but I didn't say that JD.com is an egg. Compared to JD.com and Taobao, we Pinru are eggs. I stand by myself in this wave." Luo Xiu spread his hands, "As for how they understand, I can't control it."

"Will anyone believe what you just said?"

"It's one that can be fooled."

"You said you didn't lie?"

Guan Shiyu smiled happily with an expression that she finally caught you.

"This cannot be called a cheat, because I'm telling the truth."

"Have you evolved to be able to deceive people with the truth?"

...

Luo Xiu and Guan Shiyu were in the imperial capital for three days. In addition to talking about JD.com's cooperation, they visited local physical shopping malls and also visited Xiaomi's new office.

As an investor in Xiaomi, you have to pay attention to the progress of the project.

History has not gone astray. Luo Xiu watched the demonstration of MIUI and saw the initial version of MiTalk, a chat software destined to be replaced by WeChat.

It is expected that Xiaomi's first hand warmer will be released in August this year...No, the first mobile phone M1.

Since that is the case, Luo Xiu can also feel at ease to invest additionally.

Of course, this time it is no longer an exclusive investment for me, but a joint investment by many capitals including Xiaoyu, Chenxing, Qiming and other companies.

After the work in the imperial capital was completed, Luo Xiu directly bought a plane ticket to Xihang.

“Don’t we play here for two more days?”

Guan Shiyu sat on the plane and looked at the gray scenery outside the window.

"Goodbye. Stay in Brother Dong's territory for too long. I'm afraid Lao Ma will misunderstand." Luo Xiu held his chin in distress, "How do you think I should explain to Lao Ma? Brother Dong and I are innocent."

"Disgusting." Guan Shiyu gave him a blank look.

...

As everyone predicted.

Taobao also hinted at the mid-year merchant meeting that all products participating in the 618 event must be cheaper than other platforms.

For merchants that violate the activity rules, the platform will directly comply with the price difference.

Merchants know that choosing one of two is inevitable.

Actually, it’s okay not to choose, but if you want to go to the event and get more traffic on the platform, you have to follow their rules.

At the end of the meeting, Luo Xiu was also summoned to have a separate conversation.

"Mr. Luo, you should also participate in JD.com's goods conference. I wonder if you can reveal their playing style this year?"

Luo Xiu didn't expect them to be so direct, so he had to say directly: "What are they planning to do this year? I think you should know better than me."

"Well, we did vaguely hear some news, but we didn't know much."

"They have a lot of support for merchants this time and have given them a lot of support. Of course, our Pinru's foundation is always on Taobao. No matter how good the conditions they give, our backing will still be on Taobao."

Luo Xiu began to throw the bait.

"Serving merchants well is the purpose of our platform. What we have been doing is how to help merchants grow. What we are most proud of over the years is to see a large number of Taobao brands like Pinru grow up."
Chapter completed!