Chapter 213

The next day at 10: 8 a. .

Employees of Yunsu Express, Kuai Pao, Orange Tech, Kuaide Taxi, Pinbei Tech, Orange Pay, and the Orange Phone Factory all received opening red packets ranging from 88 to 888 yuan after logging into their Orange Pay accounts.

Subsequently, all staff from Orange Tech's headquarters moved from Building 8 to Building 9 in the park, while Building 8 was retained by Orange Pay.

"Starting today, Orange Pay officially enters independent operations. Service fees from Pinbei, Yunsu, Orange Mall, and Kuai Pao will be directly counted as project revenue."

In the fifth-floor office, Chen Yansen said to Zhang Yinjia across from him.

Last year, he had intended to poach Cheng Wei from ZhiFuBao to weaken Kuaide Taxi's competition, but Cheng Wei, despite the high salary and position of project general manager, remained unmoved.

Chen Yansen had no choice but to settle for second best, hiring a headhunter to lure Zhang Yinjia over.

This man was formerly the general manager of ZhiFuBao's business intelligence department, during which time he developed a barcode payment patent—the earliest prototype of QR code payment in China.

Yet Zhang Yinjia's rank at Ali was only P9, his monthly salary barely exceeded 80, 00 yuan, with the rest being ZhiFuBao stock options, which in 2012 were essentially worthless.

Chen Yansen offered him a base salary of 100, 00 yuan, plus 100, 00 shares of Orange Pay stock options and 50, 00 shares of Orange Tech equity.

Zhang Yinjia said nothing and immediately defected from Ali to Orange Pay.

"Understood, boss."

Zhang Yinjia nodded with a smile, clearly satisfied with his new position and compensation.

At ZhiFuBao, he had seemed immensely prestigious, but P9 was merely mid-level management; Chen Yansen had given him the role of project lead for Orange Pay.

Directly report to the boss!

Although Orange Pay had just been spun off from Orange Tech and Pinbei Mall, with fewer than 210 employees total—nowhere near ZhiFuBao's 2, 00+ staff—Zhang Yinjia didn't care.

In his view, Orange Pay's stock options were worth far more than ZhiFuBao's.

When spinning off Orange Pay, Chen Yansen did not notify Tencent or DST, because before accepting their funding, he had already separated Orange Pay as its own entity.

Employment contracts and salary disbursements were processed through Orange Pay's corporate account.

These 200-plus people were merely occupying part of Orange Tech and Pinbei's office space.

After all, Orange Pay's initial R&D engineers and operations staff totaled only around thirty people; there was no need to rent a separate building for them.

Chen Yansen and Zhang Yinjia chatted a bit longer, mainly discussing Orange Pay's profit-oriented business direction for 2012.

Zhang Yinjia had ample experience here; even without thinking, he could simply copy ZhiFuBao's model.

After all, the core profit points were essentially two: payment processing fees and commission from financial product sales.

An hour later, Chen Yansen waved his hand, signaling Zhang Yinjia could go do his work.

Shortly after Zhang Yinjia left, Lin Chenfeng called: "Boss Chen, Mr. Ma has agreed to your request from yesterday."

"Alright, I know. I'll have Gao WeiLin coordinate the contract details with you."

Chen Yansen replied briefly, exchanged a few pleasantries, then hung up.

Tencent's two hundred million yuan was unimportant; he valued their traffic resources more.

The next three days.

Pei Yi and his team swiftly secured an office building and established thirteen ground promotion sites centered on Longcao Road, covering half of Xu Hui District.

On February 1st.

Kuai Pao Food Delivery officially launched in Hu Cheng; the marketing team ran ads on TV, newspapers, streaming platforms, and portals, and deployed some riders without orders to hand out flyers at commercial centers.

Meanwhile, Yunsu Express employees also handed out Kuai Pao flyers when delivering packages.

"Kuai Pao Food Delivery: First order gets 12 yuan off!"

Suddenly, Kuai Pao 's ads were everywhere across Xu Hui District.

"Bang!"

Zhang Xuhao sat in his office, holding a Kuai Pao flyer, and took a deep breath.

He hadn't expected Kuai Pao to arrive so fast!

On the first day of February, it had already reached Hu Cheng.

The initial launch was this aggressive—ads appeared everywhere online and offline, even QQ pop-ups pushed Kuai Pao Food Delivery's launch to users in Hu Cheng.

With traffic support, Kuai Pao 's first step into Hu Cheng went extremely smoothly.

At noon, orders exploded.

Liao Wei temporarily reassigned 100 couriers, dressed them in Kuai Pao uniforms, and helped Pei Yi ease delivery pressure.

In just one morning, total orders surpassed ten thousand, exhausting the two hundred-plus riders.

Ele. e riders in Xu Hui District couldn't get any orders—not because the system didn't assign them, but because all food delivery orders in the area had been snatched by Kuai Pao.

After the lunch rush, as orders dwindled, both Ele. e and Kuai Pao riders gathered on open ground in the commercial street to rest.

"Bro, how much do you get per Kuai Pao delivery?"

At that moment, an Ele. e rider approached and struck up a conversation.

"With surge bonuses, it's seven or eight yuan per order. What about you?" Li Zhou asked with a smile.

Remember, in Lu Zhou, the usual rate was barely over five yuan.

When he heard his company was sending experienced riders to Hu Cheng with pay two or three yuan higher, he didn't hesitate—he followed Pei Yi to Hu Cheng.

"Damn! Ele. e here only pays six yuan!"

Hearing this, the rider felt a sharp sense of disparity.

"Do you have five insurances and one fund? Accident insurance? Base salary? Quarterly bonuses?"

Li Zhou asked out of curiosity, not malice.

Base salary?

Five insurances and one fund?

A string of questions left the Ele. e rider stunned; his mind froze for a few seconds, then he reacted, incredulous: "You have all of these?"

"Of course! We even get electric scooters, food boxes, and uniforms—all free from the company. You don't even have a base salary?"

Now it was Li Zhou's turn to be shocked.

He assumed that if Kuai Pao had these benefits, Ele. e as a competitor must have them too.

You don't even have a base salary?

Li Zhou's question hit hard. The Ele. e rider nearly cursed aloud, but then he suddenly asked: "Bro, are you hiring?"

"Of course we are! Damn, I almost died this morning."

Li Zhou grinned, then swore.

"Where do I apply? Bro, point me in the right direction," the Ele. e rider pressed urgently.

"Wait, you're switching jobs?" Li Zhou blinked, then laughed in disbelief.

"Bro, I want to join Kuai Pao," the Ele. e rider sighed, confessing to Li Zhou that Ele. e offered no benefits at all—he'd even bought his own electric scooter.

Only then did Li Zhou realize how devastating Kuai Pao 's benefits were to Ele. e riders.

A few hours later, more than half of Ele. e's riders in Xu Hui District had swapped their uniforms and become Kuai Pao Food Delivery couriers.

But when delivering food, their phrasing was still awkward, occasionally blurting out: "Ele. e wishes you a pleasant meal."

This left customers confused, thinking Kuai Pao and Ele. e were the same company.

As more and more riders switched offline, Zhang Xuhao soon noticed something was wrong; when he learned they had all defected to Kuai Pao Food Delivery, he nearly choked with rage.

(End of chapter)