Chapter 509: Women

Alibaba is now powerful, but in its own field, there are many other challengers, and it is not a situation of monopoly.

Nothing else—just because they are expanding, and on the path of expansion, other forces must either submit or be absorbed, and this process naturally encounters numerous challenges.

Who in this world has no ambition? Who wants to be trampled underfoot? Who doesn't want to build a career and be independent?

Moreover, there is Tencent, Tencent's biggest competitor, and Tencent is in nearly the same situation.

Otherwise, Tencent would have freed up its hands to deal with Chang'e Technology—it simply has no time.

Of course, Tencent is not as aggressive as Alibaba; many of their moves involve giving money, giving traffic, without intending to control anyone.

Of course, if they refuse, then support their rivals to destroy or cripple them—that's basic operation.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be two major camps: the Alibaba Group and the Tencent camp.

These two giants are locked in constant infighting, and so are those beneath them—for example, Meituan and Ele. me, Fliggy and Tongcheng, Didi and AutoNavi.

The ongoing infighting among the giants means others without affiliation can only become cannon fodder; if they won't submit, they die.

But now is the era when mobile internet has just emerged—everything is possible, anyone can rise and create miracles.

Xiaomi, Meituan, Didi, Ele. me are all rising, and there are many e-commerce players too—such as Mushroom Street, Pocket E-commerce, JinYinDao, Mia.

Don't think they've disappeared now—back then, there were far too many; don't judge this era of chaos with the later, calm internet age.

Alibaba now faces challenges on multiple fronts; entertainment is just one part—if you now clash head-on with the Principal, it might disrupt Alibaba's overall expansion strategy.

If the other side stubbornly fights back, for Alibaba today, it would be a loss not worth the gain.

Not only would it slow down our pace, but the opponent won't wait for you, the era won't wait for you—fall behind, and you lose the opportunity.

The business arena is a battlefield; lose one opportunity, and you lose everything—look, companies collapse every day, and so-called unicorns exit the market every year.

Yixia Technology, Weiying Technology, Beibei—all were once unicorns, now exited the market.

To affect Alibaba's entire strategic layout for the sake of the Principal and entertainment is not worth it for Alibaba today.

"If we don't remove the Principal as a stumbling block, our path in the film and television circle won't be smooth, will it?" said Yan Zi.

"Yes, but we've just entered this field and haven't yet sorted out the film and television circle—if we escalate things with the Principal, it would be a loss not worth the gain for us, and our progress will be slowed." said Fan Luyuan.

Alibaba now needs to clean up the rest of the film and television circle—who to absorb, who to force into submission—integrate these first, before dealing with the Principal's threat.

To come in and play so big right away means all your energy goes into handling Chang'e Technology, leaving no time for anything else.

"I'm not willing to give up," Yan Zi said gloomily—after going this far, they were now saying to quit?

Damn it, she didn't fight the vanguard for nothing.

"Don't be resentful—there are still many opportunities ahead; as long as we quickly integrate this circle, the ground will eventually be reclaimed, and Chang'e Technology will eventually have to compromise."

Then Fan Luyuan spoke again: "We hold the advantage—how big a wave can Chang'e Technology stir up?"

He was quite confident, and given Alibaba's towering scale, such confidence was indeed justified.

This left Yan Zi feeling despondent—meaning she was supposed to just endure it? How could she endure it? She immediately took out her phone and called Jack Ma to ask for his opinion.

Fan Luyuan didn't stop her—he also wanted to hear what General Manager Ma thought.

The call connected quickly, and Yan Zi explained the situation.

"I'm aware of this matter, but I've never been able to understand the Principal." Jack Ma was also paying attention and thinking about it.

Logically, a company founded in entertainment should find expansion extremely difficult—the Principal should be lucky just to run Chang'e Technology well, yet he managed to build Chang'e Technology without relying on capital institutions and seized a portion of the discourse power.

Of course, I understand his methods—he built it on games—but games aren't all-powerful.

One or two games cannot sustain a large internet enterprise—you need many games, like Pig Factory and Tencent, both of which have many games.

The main point is risk mitigation—games are highly unstable; one policy change from above can instantly reduce their value.

And games can't quickly raise that much capital, because in between, Chang'e Technology acquired Shengda Literature.

I don't know exactly how much strength or capital the Principal actually has.

Chang'e Technology originally wasn't built on games—it was built on Fang Hong's own accumulation and that 6.3 billion loan.

Games only served as a transitional phase.

"Then what do you mean?" Yan Zi didn't understand what Jack Ma was getting at.

If he's incomprehensible, do we just give up?

"It's up to you—if you want to fight him, I fully support you, but entertainment cannot drag us down." Jack Ma meant: if you keep going, fine—but don't go too far.

Alibaba's development pace cannot stop—if we fight too hard, it will disrupt our layout and let Tencent and other institutions get ahead.

A prolonged war? Alibaba isn't afraid—we've fought Tencent for years—who fears whom?

Still, this left Yan Zi somewhat aggrieved—she wanted Alibaba to take even stronger measures.

If it becomes a prolonged war, who gets hurt? Isn't it still her? She'd be stuck enduring constant insults from the Principal—keep this up, her reputation is ruined, and she might have to quit the industry.

Who can endure being told their ideology is flawed? The longer it goes on, the more people will believe it.

"I'll give you 1.5 yuan per share in Ali Pictures—you can buy as many shares as you want." Jack Ma was offering a carrot, hinting at profit.

After all, she's charging into battle for him—he can't let her work for free; he must offer some perks, or who will follow him later?

Originally, Jack Ma's plan was to hurt the Principal enough to force him to come to the negotiating table, then take advantage of the situation to enter Chang'e Technology.

But the Principal is too stubborn—he'd rather fight to the end than negotiate.

"Thank you, General Manager Ma," Yan Zi felt somewhat better.

In fact, Ali Pictures was founded as early as 2003, but achieved nothing for years—this year, Alibaba acquired Ali Pictures.

It went public in Hong Kong via a backdoor listing through Culture China, and now has a market cap of over thirty billion Hong Kong dollars.

If she gets 1.5 yuan per share, she could become one of Ali Pictures' major shareholders by investing one or two billion—her voice would carry great weight. After all, Ali Pictures isn't just about movies—it can empower Youku, UC, PP Assistant, and others, just like Chang'e Technology.

Of course, she also heard Jack Ma's hint that he wanted to make her rich.

"That's it—my opinion is, if you're going to fight, fight hard—but it depends on your own stance." Jack Ma supports Yan Zi's actions but opposes escalating the situation.

At this stage, everyone is fighting for market share—it's not yet time for all-out war.

Of course, he knows Yan Zi is smart—she won't be used as a pawn—this matter will essentially end here.

"Okay, President Ma, I understand." Yan Zi was deeply troubled.

Knowing she couldn't rely too much on Alibaba's strength, this matter still needed to be resolved by herself, she couldn't help but sigh.

At the start she had been full of confidence, thinking she could take the other side down, but she hadn't expected that once things stalled and needed to escalate, Alibaba got scared and backed off first.

Her thinking was definitely different from Jack Ma's; Jack Ma had many things to consider, had to weigh the whole picture.

It was impossible to throw all her chips onto this; how could she be like the Principal, acting without a care for consequences? They were wearing shoes, while no one even knew if the Principal was wearing any.

No errors in a single chapter—new content—only at—6—9—shu—ba—read!

Fan Luyuan stayed silent, knowing it in his heart as well.

They said their relationship was very good, but how good could it really be? It was nothing more than a relationship of mutual interest, one of lending a hand and helping each other out.

If it went beyond the scope of the matter, things would still go as they should.

Next, the negative news about Yan Zi continued to fly everywhere; Yan Zi kept using money to suppress the negative coverage about her, of course others were doing it out of respect for Alibaba's face.

Wangyi continued to verbally attack Yan Zi, and Chang'e Technology's subsidiary divisions even used this matter to draw in some traffic.

Just because other internet platforms weren't talking about Yan Zi's matter, only Jinri Toutiao and Bilibili were.

Some Wangyi felt this place was even more free.

Insiders were all following this matter, but seeing Yan Zi seemed to have no next move, they didn't know if she had given in or was holding back a big move.

Tencent's Big Entertainment head Cheng Wu was also closely following this matter, hoping Alibaba and Chang'e Yutu would fight to the death.

Then they could reap the fisherman's profit.

Including Bona and Huayi also hoped Alibaba would kill Yutu, then they'd have one less strong rival and things would be much easier.

But to everyone's disappointment, over the next few days Yan Zi was very calm, and Alibaba was also very calm, only suppressing public opinion and deleting posts.

There were no further moves; this was the rhythm of letting the fire die down.

On October 17th, that day "Xinurufang"'s box office exceeded one billion.

"The road comedy 'Xinurufang' is the sixth domestically produced film in recent years to surpass one billion at the box office."

"The secret of 'Xinurufang' breaking 1 billion: 'E-commerce plus traditional marketing!'"

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Such news was everywhere online.

But it was also this day that Yan Zi, through Huang Jiaozhu, made a phone call—to Liu Tianxian—because they didn't have the Principal's number.

Everyone in the circle knew about Liu Tianxian and the Principal's relationship.

The two had a very good relationship, were classmates too; later when Yan Zi got into trouble, Jiaozhu was still fine, which was quite strange.

Anyway, Huang Jiaozhu could always stay out of it.

"Hello, Xiaoming." Liu Tianxian didn't yet know the situation, only answering out of politeness.

"Yifei, how have you been recently?" Huang Jiaozhu first offered his regards.

"Doing great, can eat, can sleep, can run, can jump." Liu Tianxian joked, then asked: "And you?"

"I'm not doing so well." Huang Jiaozhu said.

"What's wrong, had a fight with your Da Baobei?" Liu Tianxian asked.

"No, it's just that a friend asked me to pass along a message, saying that this much is enough, everyone should let bygones be bygones." Huang Jiaozhu glanced at Yan Zi across from him.

Yan Zi nodded, indicating that was the case.

Since it was going to keep being fought like this, she might as well choose to let bygones be bygones; continuing like this would only damage her own interests.

"What person? You're making me confused." Liu Tianxian was baffled, not yet connecting it to that matter.

"Yan Zi." Huang Jiaozhu only said these two words.

Liu Tianxian was stunned, and roughly understood what the matter was.

"This has nothing to do with me, right? You're looking for the wrong person by coming to me." She didn't play dumb either, steering clear of the matter.

"I know it has nothing to do with you, I just want you to pass a message to the Principal, we all see each other all the time, making a scene like this isn't good." Huang Jiaozhu even started lecturing.

"Xiaoming, I think you should just call Fang Hong yourselves about this matter, lay it all out; I'm just a housewife, how could I understand so much." Liu Tianxian didn't want to be the middleman.

Oh, you think you can just call if you want to, and if you don't, one sentence and it's over? Where is there such a simple thing?

You have to know her man had already prepared for a fight to the death, heartbroken beyond measure.

This made things quite uncomfortable for Huang Jiaozhu; the route through the family wasn't going to work either.

"It's just this small favor, just help out."

"It's not that I won't help you, it's that I never get involved in Fang Hong's affairs. If you say let's go out for a meal or something, no problem, but for these matters, don't come to me." Liu Tianxian refused very decisively.

(End of this chapter)