Chapter 251: Times have changed, and taking concubines is no longer allowed
On Sunday, Li Yuan called Yu Yue over.
Because Qingtian Group is about to enter the lithium carbonate industry.
Although it has invested in Ningde Shares, Ningde Shares will not easily change suppliers at this time, so the company currently has no customers.
Of course, there is no raw material either.
The contract has been signed, but Oriental Lithium will not receive the raw materials that originally belonged to it until after June.
That afternoon, he found Song Jiajia again, took a few photos at random, and asked Jiutian Media’s operating account to send them out.
Song's shares only rose a little during the Chinese New Year. As the lifting of the ban date approaches, the stock price has fallen back a bit, and he must pull it up again.
Of course, the most important reason for looking for Song Jiajia this time was something else.
Jiutian Media has seized the initiative and has almost no competitors in the entire traffic market.
Even if Wen Yuxian terminated the contract and Liu Hao left, they still have Gu Dongsheng and the twin Yang brothers, who are internet celebrities worth tens of millions.
These are not the most important ones. The main force is between 5 million and 10 million. After all, those with tens of millions of fans are only a small part, and there are only forty of them in the entire Douyin platform.
Jiutian Media is working on multiple platforms. What if any platform wants exclusive rights?
Well, give me money!
Currently, Song Jiajia is leading the self-media layout in the north, because one winter, northern Internet celebrities went crazy!
Unique environment, ice and snow.
Unique customs, stockpiling, cheap cost of living, going up the mountain...
They are all deeply stimulating the big guy's visual nerves.
These elements are still a childhood memory for many people.
Song Jiajia has a very good strategic vision. She discovered that this type of content could attract enough traffic, so she started planning immediately.
" Gu Dongsheng has been reported too many times recently, and the platform can no longer sustain it. It just so happens that he has been granted live streaming rights recently, so can we let him start selling products?"
"Well, bring it."
Li Yuan won't care too much about this.
Gu Dongsheng wants to create profits for Jiutian Media, so the process of selling products is bound to be a bit tricky.
For example, when promoting some jewelry, they would use the worst quality Hetian jade as seed material. Anyway, many cheap jades can also be issued with Hetian jade certificates.
For example, a gold-plated copper block is called a gold bar.
Anyway, as long as you don’t disclose the content, you can sell it at a premium of two or three times and you don’t have to worry about being reported.
Or you can make an agreement with the manufacturer that he will get the goods at the lowest price and no one is allowed to sell at a higher price than him. Even if you sell three yuan for three hundred yuan, it is not against the law.
No one cares.
Even after a few years, live streaming sales are still full of scams. It is not uncommon for manufacturers and anchors to team up to cheat users.
The products sold in the official flagship store are always more expensive than those sold by the anchors, but they have lost all their reputation.
If it is a product like this, just block it. There must be some shady agreement behind it, and the price must be inflated.
For example, a bag of snail noodles costs 11 yuan in the official flagship store, but a big anchor sells it for 9 yuan a bag and gives away two bags, which is an average of 7 yuan.
The difference between the inside and the outside is 40%, which means the cost is very low, and the price given to the anchor may be less than five yuan.
If you can give this kind of discount to anchors, why can't you give it to users? Are you treating users as suckers?
It is true that the anchor can ship in large quantities, but this profit can be made in other ways. In this way, the users who buy in the official flagship store are simply treated as fools, and the anchor is working together to harvest users.
Products that treat their own brands as a joke are not of good quality either. You never know when they will run away after collecting some money.
You can’t have a conscience when you’re in the live streaming business.
Li Yuan isn't a good guy either, but he can't make that kind of money now.
But Jiutian Media needs it, otherwise the meaning of training anchors would be lost.
"Now you can put links in the live broadcast room. Do you need to put the link of BiXin up? The traffic growth rate of BiXin is very average recently."
"Sure! Open a shopping mall section on BiXin, and then build a warehouse in Jiangzhou to facilitate centralized shipment."
Previously, the BiXin homepage only had three sections: Play with Me, Information, and Mine.
But it will soon be changed to five, adding a shopping mall and a square.
Currently, short video platforms do not have their own shopping malls, so even if they sell goods, the transactions are not completed on the short video platforms and need to be connected to special shopping platforms.
This is also this year's opportunity. After the mall comes out next year, there will be no such good traffic channel.
For example, a certain wharf, which had been doing poorly during this period, began to sell counterfeit goods crazily and contacted a group of northern anchors in the United States on the short video platform to promote and sell counterfeit goods.
In the end, the matter became a big deal, and the platform simply stopped shipping the goods and refunded the money. Otherwise, things would not have ended so well.
"What do you want from me then?"
"It's also about BiXin. The user group of BiXin tends to be younger, but the entertainment value is not strong enough at the moment. It's just a single project of playing with others. The entertainment elements need to be richer."
In Li Yuan's opinion, playing games with others is certainly a good industry, but it is ultimately a niche industry.
He acquired BiXin because he valued BiXin's current user ecosystem.
With this kind of user ecology, it would be a waste not to do entertainment.
"You should discuss this with Mr. Yu from the group. We will set up an AI department under the name of Qingtian Group. Next, we will focus on AI large language models and AI painting to provide content assistants for BiXin."
"In the short term, we will focus on playing games with the mall as a supplement. However, the AI model needs data support from BiXin. The two sides will cooperate and the funds will be provided by the head office."
AI is the next mainstream trend and can incubate a trillion-dollar market value.
In particular, many AI painting tools will be able to generate videos directly by 2023. The generated pictures are almost perfect except for the lack of details of the fingers.
The video is still lacking a bit. If you want it to be good enough, you must give more detailed instructions and combine it with post-processing.
But in the future, as long as we can depict the pictures in our minds, it won’t be difficult to generate them through AI.
In other words, if one has creative ability, it is not a problem for one person to make a big movie.
You can even buy some character portrait rights at that time and don’t have to rely on two-dimensional images.
As long as the foundation is laid, Li Yuan will collect relevant data across the country and even the world to improve the algorithm model.
Song Jiajia said: "It's technology-related, I don't know much about it."
"Just ask me when the time comes. I'll take care of the general direction, and you'll be responsible for the specific implementation."
"Yeah, okay."
"Then I'll go first. I'm a little sleepy. I'll go back and take a nap."
After Li Yuan finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Song Jiajia hasn't reacted yet.
It was not easy for him to meet Li Yuan once, and his father even asked him to treat Li Yuan to a meal.
Originally, based on how she had gotten along with Li Yuan before, she thought these kinds of things were minor issues.
But suddenly...
She felt something was wrong.
She sent a message to Li Yuan, asking, "Are you free tomorrow? I've received my salary, so I'd like to treat you to a meal."
Her salary is that of a vice president of BiXin, which is currently 840,000 yuan a year.
"Take a rest tomorrow. I'll treat you when I'm free later."
Li Yuan refused.
Song Jiajia: “…”
Just refuse if you want to. Now you don’t even want to call me senior sister…
Li Yuan used to call her "senior" so sweetly...
Sure enough, if we can’t be lovers, we can’t even be friends.
She felt that it was because she didn't agree to Li Yuan last time that Li Yuan was angry now.
After Li Yuan returned home, he went to the bedroom to rest.
In the past, he was willing to coax Song Jiajia because Song Jiajia did not receive any salary, which was considered unfair employment.
Now that he is getting a salary, which is far more than what a fresh graduate should get, he doesn't owe Song Jiajia anything in terms of work, so their relationship is naturally different.
When I woke up, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.
He got up and ate something, then went to the study to recuperate.
He could continue sleeping, but he wouldn't be able to sleep tomorrow night.
Tomorrow is very important. The outcome of the game on the board will affect his profits this time, so he must watch it from beginning to end.
Just as he picked up his phone, he saw that Zhou Ranran had sent him a message at around four o'clock in the afternoon.
The content of the information was simple: Liu Hao was arrested.
He replied: "I just woke up, are you asleep?"
As soon as the message was sent, Zhou Ranran called.
After Li Yuan answered the call, he asked, "Sister Ran, what's going on?"
"Rape."
Li Yuan: “????”
"If Haozi had this kind of courage, he wouldn't have had no girlfriend before. He is not that kind of person at all."
Zhou Ranran said: "I don't know the details, and it happened several days ago. I only found out today when Aunt Xiuzhi came back to me crying."
"What exactly is going on?"
Aunt Xiuzhi is Liu Hao's mother. Liu Hao's family left the county after the Chinese New Year because the family was rich.
"Aunt Xiuzhi and her family went to meet the girl's family, and both sides agreed to get engaged."
"Isn't this a good thing? His family is crazy about getting married. Although Haozi is not old enough, it won't affect the engagement."
In the countryside, many people get married at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and even their children are not registered until they are three or four years old.
"I don't know what happened to Haozi. He had a quarrel with the woman on the night of their engagement, and then she accused him of rape."
"???, is this thing useful? So many people know that they are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Besides, aren't they engaged?"
"Aunt Xiuzhi said that it was the girl's family who set up a trap for Haozi. The girl's mother kept a recording and guided Haozi to say words of rape in the recording."
"Then what?"
"Then Haozi was arrested. We don't know what the situation is yet. I'm too lazy to move today."
Li Yuan hurriedly said, "Just rest at home. I'll come and ask about the situation tomorrow."
"Then you...work hard..."
"It's okay, just take a rest first and don't worry. I can definitely solve it faster than you can."
Li Yuan knew that Zhou Ranran was more concerned about Liu Hao. Although he didn't have much time, Zhou Ranran was about to give birth, so he had to take over this matter.
Things are definitely not as simple as Zhou Ranran said. Even if there is any evidence, mediation will be the main approach in this case.
How is it possible to arrest someone directly?
He sighed and went to the bedroom.
Jiang Yiling hasn't slept yet.
Jiang Yiling saw Li Yuan coming in, and immediately lifted the quilt and said, "Well... come on."
Li Yuan sat next to him and said, "I'm here to ask you for help. In your name, send a message to Hou Wenbin and others to help investigate the case of a man named Liu Hao. He should be detained now."
The woman is in Jiangzhou, and Liu Hao also bought a house here.
Jiang Yiling knew Liu Hao and was surprised to hear this. "Why was he detained? What did he do?"
"I just want you to ask someone. I don't know the details. Send a message and ask them to investigate what happened. Then contact me directly."
Since the last time, he had no chance to contact Hou Wenbin and his team, so this time he officially made the move.
"Oh, that's good."
Jiang Yiling immediately called Hou Wenbin and told him a few words before putting down the phone.
"He said to ask now and he would get back to you in two hours at most."
"Okay, then I'll go wait in the study. Go to bed quickly."
Li Yuan helped Jiang Yiling to hold down the corner of the quilt.
Jiang Yiling grabbed his hand and said, "Just stay here with me."
"I just woke up. I have to answer the phone later and disturb your rest."
"But if you sleep at someone else's place, it will affect my rest even more."
Li Yuan: “…”
"Hoo, come on!"
Li Yuan crawled into the bed, and Jiang Yiling quickly leaned on his shoulder.
Li Yuan waited for a while and found that Jiang Yiling had no intention of sleeping, so he asked, "Why do you want to stick to me today?"
"I don't know, I just want to stay with you for a while."
"Is it that exaggerated? We are already in this relationship, are you still worried that I will leave?"
"Worry about your heart leaving."
"Um?"
Jiang Yiling suddenly said sentimentally: "I will eventually lose everyone in the next ten years, the next twenty years, the next thirty years... By that time, I'm afraid I will be alone again."
She didn't realize this before, but recently she found that Li Yuan didn't leave the community at all. Then she suddenly realized that she hadn't been close to Li Yuan for a long time.
Although she enjoyed the feeling of being with her elders, it was impossible for them to stay with her for the rest of her life.
She couldn't expect her child to stay with her for long, as the child would have his or her own things to do when he or she grew up.
Only Li Yuan is the only one who can accompany her for the rest of her life.
"Then when the kids get married, we'll still have in-laws, so we won't be alone."
"What about you?"
"Haven't I always been here ?"
"But you were away a few days ago."
As she spoke, Jiang Yiling threw herself into Li Yuan's arms and shed tears.
"I really am working. If you don't believe me, you can come over and see me tomorrow night."
"I'm not going."
"Then you are imagining nonsense again..."
"No, I'm not thinking about you. I just feel insecure. I've been in a panic these past few days. I'm afraid that one day you won't come home anymore."
Li Yuan hugged Jiang Yiling's shoulders and said, "Why don't I go home?"
"Because you'd be more comfortable somewhere else."
"When working, it is naturally more convenient to be in the office. Similarly, when living, home is the most comfortable."
"Then other homes may also be fine..."
"Without you, can any other place still be considered home? Times have changed. It is not allowed to take concubines now..."
