[{"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-317":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},2264530,4419,"Chapter 317: 40 Million a Day, 1.2 Billion a Month—Li Yanhong in Panic! Live Loud or Die!","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-317",317,"\u003Cp>The next day, at dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luzhou, Luyang District, Rongfeng Garden Community.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man in his early twenties sat in front of his computer, constantly yawning; it was a rare holiday, so naturally he stayed up all night gaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dragon Scale Horse! My body’s really weak now—back when I was seventeen or eighteen, I could pull three all-nighters without nodding off. My stomach’s starving. I’ll order takeout.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Junjie patted his hollow stomach and muttered to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since KuaiPao Takeout became popular in Luzhou, many homebodies have lived lives where meals arrive automatically at their doors without them ever stepping out; Wang Junjie wasn’t a total shut-in, but he was a loyal KuaiPao user.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, KuaiPao was a local internet company of Luzhou, so of course he should support it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out his Orange C2 smartphone, opened the KuaiPao app, but accidentally tapped one extra time and landed on the group-buying channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d planned to exit immediately, but his peripheral vision suddenly caught a new button in the menu: “Group Buy Delivered to Door.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Group Buy Delivered to Door?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s this new feature?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curious, Wang Junjie immediately began investigating and soon understood what Group Buy Delivered to Door meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For group-buying sets from Caidiexuan, Luzhou Madam, or Daimei Hotpot, previously you had to visit the store to redeem them; now, with an extra delivery fee, KuaiPao riders could bring the food straight to your door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordering group-buy items like takeout!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining “group-buy discounts” with “instant delivery”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For users, this meant enjoying low group-buy prices while experiencing takeout-style speed—delivery to the door within 29 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For merchants, the takeout model’s higher consumption frequency reached more customers, easily tripling to quintupling order volumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, identical meal sets could dramatically speed up preparation, reduce marginal costs, and expand profit margins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Yi deliberately launched this new feature on the second day of National Day, aiming to catch Wang Xin off guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plan proved successful: by 11 a.m., popular restaurants across Luzhou’s districts were overwhelmed with orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brands like Luzhou Madam, an economical chain, had already joined Meituan, KuaiPao, Dazhong Dianping, Lashou, and WoWoTuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet by noon, their backend received 86 two-person group-buy sets, 32 four-person sets, and 17 eight-person sets—each with at least eight dishes, up to sixteen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kitchen staff, seeing the thick stack of orders, nearly fainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How the hell are we supposed to finish all this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dining hall manager urgently contacted KuaiPao staff; after negotiations, they temporarily disabled the Group Buy Delivered to Door feature until the restaurant cleared the backlog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Yi hadn’t expected so many users to stay home during National Day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merchants hadn’t anticipated so many customers would appear the moment Group Buy Delivered to Door went live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, one Luzhou Madam branch in Yaohai District pushed through until 3 p.m., finally clearing both dine-in and group-buy takeout orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After learning of this, KuaiPao’s marketing department immediately reported it upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kang Guodong pulled together product and development teams to urgently roll out a group-buy delivery cap feature, defaulting to 20 orders per store, with the maximum limit set by each merchant based on actual capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the cap was reached, users could no longer use Group Buy Delivered to Door at that store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This balanced the experience for both group-buy and takeout users!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After adjustments, the overload eased; though there was a minor uproar, KuaiPao’s Group Buy Delivered to Door feature achieved its intended effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On launch day alone, it added 200 million yuan in GMV to the platform!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That figure previously took a full week to achieve!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the afternoon of the third day, when Wang Xin finally reacted, he canceled his vacation, ordered Beijing HQ’s Wang Huiwen to pull a team of R&D engineers into a task force, and pushed city operations managers nationwide to counterattack KuaiPao’s move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most effective tactic in past group-buy wars had always been price cuts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To protect market share, Meituan launched subsidies of 10 to 15 percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the same group-buy item, KuaiPao sold it for 99 yuan; Meituan dropped it to as low as 84.9 yuan—a direct 14.1-yuan cut!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No ROI evaluation, no long-tail effect—just order volume and GMV. First, hold the Meituan line!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lashou quickly followed; under Li Yanhong’s coordination, Gong Zhenbing rapidly assembled teams to work overtime developing Group Buy Delivered to Door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, programmers at Meituan and Lashou were complaining loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their perfect National Day holiday was ruined—engineers who had been with family or girlfriends had to rush back to headquarters after receiving calls from their bosses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lashou was better off, backed by Baidu, and Li Yanhong was generous enough to pay double wages to anyone called back to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xin remained his usual stingy self: overtime meant only compensatory time off; overtime pay?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a chance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when the project manager received the product document, he planned to call a meeting with the product manager, frontend, backend, and QA leads to review requirements—but he called out for half an hour and got no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on? Don’t you all want to work anymore?” Tang Ling, suppressing her fury, demanded sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months ago, Zhu Xianbao’s resignation scandal had humiliated her, but the company didn’t punish her—instead, it promoted her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she treated her subordinates like dirt, and herself no better; such a worker was the boss’s ideal loyal dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My classmate works at Lashou—they pay double overtime wages. What do we get? Just compensatory time off!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A QA team member retorted gruffly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong with compensatory time off? Are you losing out? Just rest after the project ends!” Tang Ling fired three questions in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everyone else, though angry, dared not speak up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew Tang Ling had driven away key tech staff, yet the company hadn’t scolded her—meaning the boss approved of her actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You want to be a dog? Doesn’t mean everyone wants to be an animal. What the hell? Have you even read? Do you know labor laws?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The QA employee didn’t spare Tang Ling a single inch—when pushed too far, people say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gu Rui’s right! Other companies pay overtime according to labor law—why can’t we? No overtime pay, no work!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a backend programmer stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, they might have swallowed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was National Day—a holiday meant for rest. Why should they work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now they didn’t even want to pay overtime?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want compensatory time off either!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oppose compensatory time off! We want overtime pay!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike last time, more and more employees stood up—until the entire team halted. HR received word immediately and reported the scene to Wang Xin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon learning of the collective strike, Wang Xin clasped his hands, unconsciously tapping his index fingers together. After a moment’s thought, he looked up and told HR: “Change it to double pay—only for National Day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning: one-time only.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood, boss,” HR nodded, didn’t dare delay, and rushed out of the office, taking the elevator straight to the tech department to relay the message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Double pay’s about right—barely worth working.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Meituan’s benefits are terrible. Better than Lashou? No way—I was an idiot to take Meituan’s offer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“KuaiPao has the best salary and benefits system! Overtime pay calculated down to the minute: 1.5x on weekdays, 2x on weekends, 3x on holidays.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn! If I worked my current hours at KuaiPao, my income would jump over 50%. Could that even be true?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ask Bao Ge! He works at KuaiPao’s Beijing branch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After their “victory,” the group chattered excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Ling sat alone at her desk, face pale with rage. Logically, she should’ve benefited—but there was no trace of joy on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shanghai, CN District, Anhua Road 492, Dazhong Dianping Headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Tao, after learning the latest industry developments, was stunned—he had no takeout business and no delivery capacity, leaving him defenseless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he poached riders from Meituan, he’d first need to develop a takeout-ordering app.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I should’ve copied Meituan and Lashou—entered the takeout market earlier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Tao regretted bitterly, but now he had no choice: he faced Meituan’s price war and KuaiPao’s assault on Dazhong Dianping’s group-buy business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking it through, Zhang Tao summoned Dazhong Dianping’s CTO, marketing director, and operations head to strategize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First: should Dazhong Dianping launch takeout?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second: should Dazhong Dianping roll out Group Buy Delivered to Door?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third: Meituan had launched up to 15% subsidies—should Dazhong Dianping follow?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the final four days of National Day, employees at Meituan, Lashou, and Dazhong Dianping could all expect to spend their holidays working overtime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All major group-buy platforms reluctantly joined the price war, slashing prices—users benefited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially in food categories, nearly everything was available at 10% or even 20% off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KFC’s original 79-yuan fried chicken set was slashed to 59 yuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didi and KuaiDi Taxi’s competition intensified; during National Day, both raised subsidies for returning customers to 12 yuan off per ride, up to three times daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined, their daily cash burn reached over 80 million yuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If converted to hundred-yuan bills and burned one by one in a furnace, this sum could burn nonstop for ten days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yanhong stood before his office window, unable to sit still; every six hours, Xiang Hailong came to him to approve marketing budget requests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each request: up to 10 million yuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the endless stream of traffic, thinking: at this burn rate, his 1.2 billion yuan investment in Didí would be wiped out in under a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought made his breathing heavy, his scalp prickling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was 1.2 billion yuan—not 120,000, not 12 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninety-nine percent of China’s listed companies didn’t have a market cap of 1.2 billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yanhong panicked!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This terrifying rate of spending made him shudder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Cheng Wei in Hangcheng headquarters had also gone mad—over forty million yuan in subsidies per day; in the past, he never dared imagine he could spend so recklessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The investment firms behind both sides fell silent upon hearing the figure of “forty million yuan per day,” but did not intervene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, they had no authority,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>second, they knew the ride-hailing war had reached a critical moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever could no longer bear the losses would be the first to fall out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The winner takes all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To monopolize China’s ride-hailing market!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Norway, Kirkenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crab fishing vessel sailed across the Barents Sea, its hull rising and falling over the dark, deep waters; Chen Yan stood on deck, picking up a piece of king crab leg and putting it into his mouth—tender and succulent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opposite him, Song Yuncheng, bundled in thick winter gear and a windproof hat, had wrapped herself tightly and was slowly chewing on a piece of crab meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearby, the chef prepared dishes from the catch: king crab, black cod, and Atlantic redfish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though lacking elegant plating or rich seasonings, the ingredients were fresh, and the flavor was surprisingly excellent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Chen Yan was vacationing in Northern Europe, Li Yan, Wang Xin, Zhang Tao, and others couldn’t sleep a single night because of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind howled over the sea, and the sails above cracked loudly in the gale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss, when are we going to Spotify’s headquarters to discuss cooperation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yuncheng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Norway was fun, but she hadn’t forgotten the real business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No rush—we haven’t visited Sognefjord yet. Sweden and Norway are close; we can go there on the last day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood Song Yuncheng’s mindset—like most Chinese people, she felt guilty if she didn’t work for two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But life must be lived wildly—what’s the point if it isn’t?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1937,"2026-06-19T19:17:19.606Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3bf3e0bb11143eaf7d7fff9c5ff355987b40c23cc7f59cce8b7f29ead01c3996","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-318","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-316",387,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-cover.jpg"]