[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp":3,"chapter-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-240":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Get Stronger Every Payday—With One Billion Employees!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2264453,4419,"Chapter 240: Daily Orders 400,000, Valuation $1 Billion! (Request Monthly","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-240",240,"\u003Cp>“Chen Zong, I’m Xiao Naibing, majoring in Internet of Things Engineering. Here’s my resume, please accept it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Naibing, unabashed, offered the resume with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen chuckled silently, didn’t reach out to take it, but sized him up before asking, “The spring recruitment fair is right over there. If everyone came to you like this, what’s the point of hiring HR?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Naibing was a senior, about to graduate—just a young man in his early twenties—and he turned pale and flushed under Chen Yansen’s gaze, clearly lacking strong mental resilience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry, Chen Zong. Since there were no positions matching my major, I dared to bother you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Naibing’s face flushed red; he scratched his head and confessed honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Resume.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, joy surged across Xiao Naibing’s face; he quickly re-offered the resume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he was a senior and Chen Yansen only a sophomore, he dared not claim seniority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen flipped through it briefly, then said, “There’s an IoT development engineer position in Shencheng. Starting salary is 6,000 yuan—not high, but meals and accommodation are covered.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Chen Zong. I’ll take it.” Xiao Naibing agreed readily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, everyone knew that subsidiaries under Senlian Capital paid 6,000 yuan monthly, but actual pre-tax income reached 8,000 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go back and wait for the offer. Don’t do this again. Understand me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen returned the resume with a smile, reminding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Chen Yansen’s gaze, Xiao Naibing turned and saw a crowd of classmates watching from afar; he immediately understood, feigning disappointment, sighed heavily, and trudged back to the dorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young minds really are sharp.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen silently assessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he continued toward the faculty apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, he went downstairs, got in his car, and drove to the tech park.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including autumn and spring recruitment, he planned to hire 500 graduates from Xu Academy. The number seemed large, but after distribution across projects and departments, it barely made a ripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventy percent of the positions were internships: operations specialists, design assistants, and business roles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Tang Qingshan was extremely satisfied and had already warned him: he must speak as an outstanding alumnus at next semester’s autumn orientation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell was an “outstanding alumnus”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen had zero interest in such pointless, no-return tasks—but Old Tang had invited him twice. He’d give the man face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen parked in front of Building 9 and took the elevator to the eighth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss, the issues you mentioned last time—I had the tech team revise them according to your instructions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Bo hurried forward upon seeing Chen Yansen, volunteering a report on Toutiao’s development progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today Tech currently had only sixty-odd R&D engineers, so they shared the same building with Orange Tech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lingxi Browser launches tomorrow,” Chen Yansen said casually, leaning against his desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In just two months, this development speed matches Zhang Yiming’s personality—efficient yet steady.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Bo paused slightly, then smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I believe Toutiao won’t be worse than Lingxi. In terms of R&D strength, Zhang Yiming can’t compare to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen spoke lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just encouragement—it was fact. Orange Tech and Pinbei Mall had swept through over a dozen universities in the province from February to March, recruiting over three hundred outstanding graduates from Huazhong U, Luzhou Polytech, and Zhoulai Polytech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were R&D engineers skilled in algorithms, machine learning, and computer vision, as well as top talents in big data development and natural language processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many had spent two or three years gaining hands-on experience during their junior, senior, or graduate years under their advisors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Bo’s team naturally received a share of these hires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the main reason Toutiao’s development had progressed so far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All thanks to your support, Boss,” Liang Bo smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aim for a launch on April 1st. I position Toutiao as a traffic engine—it must complement Pinbei, Kuai’s Taxi, and Kuai Run with traffic and data. Though it started late, it’s the project I value most.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen set the demand, then painted the big picture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d said this to Pei Yi, to Cheng Weixing, and to Huang Zheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he said it again to Liang Bo—and from the man’s emotional response, it clearly worked well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined with his spiritual sense influence, Liang Bo felt like he’d been injected with adrenaline, eager to return to his desk and work 24 hours straight for his boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood. Rest assured—I’ll manage the timeline and launch as soon as possible without compromising quality,” Liang Bo straightened his posture immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright. Go do it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen patted Liang Bo’s shoulder and waved him off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Bo nodded, bright-eyed, and strode toward his desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, spiritual sense can be used like this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in his office, he plopped onto the sofa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out his phone, downloaded the file package Zhang Yiming sent, and installed Lingxi Browser a day early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interface was clean, square, utterly devoid of design flair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the top: a search bar and URL input field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, five icons: News, Novels, Beautiful Images, Video, and URLs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scrolling further revealed an information waterfall—mostly text and images; videos showed only static thumbnails, and before playback, users were reminded again how many MBs the video would consume and whether to switch to Wi-Fi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No choice—2012 data prices were still too high. If users thought the app ate too much data, even the best product would be used less often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen tried swiping left and right—no lag at all. Clearly, Zhang Yiming prioritized Orange Phone compatibility in mobile app optimization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All content on Lingxi Browser was scraped 100%. Zhang Yiming only marked the source at the very bottom of each article.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you didn’t look closely, you’d never notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen tapped a video with a giant car headlight thumbnail. After watching for ten seconds, he instinctively swiped down—but no new video appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Lingxi Browser v1.0 lacked this feature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swiped left to return and refreshed the homepage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the video section’s content had changed entirely—mostly headlights and rear ends, occasionally mixed with celebrity gossip clips, as if testing his next interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen put down his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He roughly estimated: Lingxi Browser had selected his preferred video content from massive data in just ten seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant features had been extracted and tagged during content ingestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put: if users liked category A content, the system recommended items tagged with A.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhang Yiming really has talent. His experience at Kuxun, Fanfou, and 99fang gave him deep expertise in recommendation engines, letting him complete Lingxi Browser so quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes, unable to help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad Zhang Yiming was too shrewd in equity structure—he refused to give up controlling stakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if ByteDance’s staff exceeded 100,000, he’d never get a single spark of the human flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The product’s good—but you must make way for Toutiao!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning at eight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lingxi Browser’s promotional posters appeared on the homepage of the Orange App Store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this placement cost money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Zhang Yiming was still optimizing promotion plans for 91 Assistant, Wandoujia, and App Store, aiming to further boost product exposure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, UC Browser, QQ Browser, and Baidu Browser were in rapid growth phases—the first had massive user accumulation, the latter two had over 100 million users from their flagship products driving traffic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yiming could rely only on his product itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the resource allocation Chen Yansen gave Lingxi Browser, he understood the man’s intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ByteDance’s seed round, Senlian Capital received too small a stake—Chen Yansen treated it like pure business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resources were given—but you had to pay!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yiming sighed. He knew Chen Yansen’s approach was beyond reproach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t want to lose control of his company—and that wasn’t wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only profit, no loyalty!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Weixing’s Kuai’s Taxi had received Chen Yansen’s full support; they started together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Lingxi Browser launched, Kuai’s Taxi’s valuation broke $600 million, with over five million users in Hangcheng and Jinling, and daily orders reaching 300,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yiming felt no envy—he knew Cheng Weixing had long become the second-largest shareholder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If given another chance, Zhang Yiming would still choose to bring in Yuanma, Toutiao, and Ethereum Capital to dilute Senlian Capital’s influence on ByteDance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At day’s end, Lingxi Browser’s 24-hour downloads totaled just over 80,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemed impressive—but entirely paid for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop spending, new users vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yiming could only pin his hopes on the first batch of seed users.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, compared to Cheng Wei, Zhang Yiming’s startup conditions weren’t bad—he started with four VC firms throwing money at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Wei couldn’t even find an investor willing to meet him; his 800,000 yuan startup capital was pooled with old colleagues, and he couldn’t even afford a dev team—Didi’s first version was outsourced twice over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuai Run, after integrating Ele.me’s delivery riders, rapidly expanded its team to 2,200, with daily deliveries reaching 240,000 orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, over 400 part-time food delivery riders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shanghai’s food delivery market had become Kuai Run’s backyard—so long as delivery capacity kept up, order volume could keep soaring across the entire city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xiaopeng of Jinshajiang Venture Capital could no longer hold back and called Chen Yansen again, demanding investment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ali and Penguin’s intentions are equally strong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Zhiping, to win over Chen Yansen, even offered a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a food delivery platform with no competitors and daily orders exceeding 400,000, this is not much!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1590,"2026-06-19T19:17:19.606Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c2a474e452caa1ac5398f8f0082a6729a5d596902b171cedc9ba9cf2e49b1523","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-241","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-239",387,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-cover.jpg"]