Chapter 320: Heavy-Duty Dynamometer, Terrifying Strength! Yu'e Bao Launch Imminent!

"Boss, this is the warm-up and promotion plan for the launch of Yu'e Bao, as well as the marketing strategy for launch day. I've already reached a consensus with Mr. Huang of Pinbei, Mr. Liang of Jinri Technology, and Mr. Zhang of ByteDance Tech. We'll do a cross-platform, full-network joint push at that time, to make sure the product gets sufficient exposure."

Zhang Yinjia set down a paper document and immediately began explaining.

"The launch date is set for October 11th, exactly one month ahead of Double Eleven. We'll encourage users to transfer their idle funds into Yu'e Bao to earn returns, forming a consumption + wealth management ecological closed loop."

Chen Yansen took the plan and flipped through it quickly, soon grasping all the information.

Starting from October 8th, Sister Chengzi Pay began pushing activity notifications to users, in the form of a dedicated landing page, detailing the wealth management functions of 'Yu'e Bao', emphasizing the low threshold and flexible advantages of '1 yuan minimum investment, deposit and withdraw anytime'.

Jinri Headlines and Lingxi Browser both gave prominent ad slots on their homepages for Sister Chengzi Pay and Yu'e Bao, with daily exposure exceeding 20 million.

The app download conversion rate is not the primary goal; the main aim is to cultivate more potential users, preparing for the launch of the Yu'e Bao product.

Social platforms like Weibo and forums are also important publicity channels.

The marketing staff of Sister Chengzi Pay also invited a batch of finance bloggers and major internet V accounts. Once Yu'e Bao launches, they will immediately share positive product usage experiences, building a good word-of-mouth effect for Yu'e Bao.

In addition, ads will be placed simultaneously on subways and buses in Yanjing, Hucheng, Jin Ling, and other places, reinforcing the concept of 'Yu'e Bao = upgraded version of demand deposits' to users.

And in 2012, the benchmark interest rate for demand deposits was 0.35%, and the one-year fixed deposit rate was 3%.

Simply put, the demand deposit returns of Yu'e Bao are even higher than the bank's one-year fixed deposit yield.

Moreover, the T+0 redemption mechanism means users can withdraw cash anytime, greatly enhancing their sense of trust.

"Got it, boss, no problem." Zhang Yinjia nodded in reply.

After saying that, he took Zhou Mingxuan and left.

Chen Yansen turned on his computer and logged into the data backend, routinely checking the business and financial data of each subsidiary. After confirming everything was in order, he opened his email and continued handling procurement, patent licensing, and marketing expense applications.

A physique value exceeding 30 had once again shortened his sleep duration; now he would automatically wake up after sleeping less than three hours a day.

Song Yuncheng had been on a plane all day, utterly exhausted, and fell asleep the moment she got back to her dorm.

Yet he felt not the slightest fatigue; his energy and stamina were still extraordinarily abundant!

The sky outside was gloomy, and a crescent moon leapt onto the faintly visible treetops, hanging in midair.

Chen Yansen raised his hand to check the time—quarter past six. Autumn was deepening; just past six, the streetlights in the tech park had already come on.

The original Rolex Explorer on his wrist had now become a Patek Philippe Calatrava mechanical watch.

This was a gift Song Yuncheng had bought him in Switzerland, spending two months of her salary and overtime pay.

"What an idiot!"

Chen Yansen stared at the watch and couldn't help cursing.

Though he didn't want to admit it, he knew clearly in his heart that Song Yuncheng was indeed different from those girls who 'only talk money, not feelings'. This girl knew full well he had a girlfriend, yet still threw herself at him without a second thought.

For a moment, a warm feeling welled up in Boss Chen's heart.

Chen Yansen smiled lightly, closed his laptop, stood up, and walked outside.

A minute later, he bumped into Old Gao in the first-floor lobby, who was just about to walk in.

"Boss, you're back from your vacation—business trip?" Gao Weilin asked instinctively. He had only said half the sentence before hurriedly changing 'vacation' to 'business trip'.

"Spotify's term sheet has been sent to your email. You'll be in charge of following up. The preliminary valuation quote is 2.8 billion US dollars. If Spotify's numbers haven't been fudged, we'll go with that price."

Chen Yansen stopped and instructed Gao Weilin.

"Mm, got it." Gao Weilin immediately replied.

Regarding the Spotify investment, he had known about it two days ago and was already compiling detailed information on Spotify, including the financing amounts and post-money valuations of each round, as well as Spotify's daily active users and paying user data at the time of each financing round.

"Right, one more thing. Help me buy two or three standalone villas in Luzhou. The area doesn't need to be too big—five hundred square meters is enough. The distance between each house must be at least five kilometers."

Chen Yansen instructed.

Three villas?

Gao Weilin was slightly taken aback, thinking: Besides Meng Jie and Song Yuncheng, who is the third person?

"Got it." Although curious, Gao Weilin knew not to ask what he shouldn't ask, and not to say what he shouldn't say.

After finishing his instructions, Chen Yansen walked out of the office building, got into the Bentley driver's seat, turned the car around, and slowly drove toward the Xu Yuan direction.

This year's incoming freshmen had just finished military training. After a month, most had adapted to the study and living environment at Xu Yuan.

Groups of three or five young people were coming and going at the entrance of the restaurant opposite Xu Yuan's east gate—either hometown gatherings, student council socials, or club dinners.

Chen Yansen's gaze swept briefly through the glass car window, and he sighed. Even though he had been reborn back to age twenty, he no longer had the heart of a young man.

For him, going to college was mainly about giving Old Chen and his mom an explanation, and incidentally reliving college life.

Thinking of this, when passing the Xueyuan Supermarket, he bought a dozen beers and a bag of snack braised food, and sauntered into room 8302.

"Bang!"

Chen Yansen kicked open the door; only Tang Zhenzhe and Song Yang were in the dorm.

"Sen-ge, long time no see! You didn't have to bring anything." Tang Zhenzhe silently closed Kuai Bo, smiling as he came over to greet him.

"Bobo and Zhu Xiaopeng haven't gotten off work yet?" Chen Yansen pulled over a chair, dropped into it, set the beer and snacks on the table, and asked.

"Those two can't bear to give up 1.5x overtime pay." Song Yang grinned as he scooted over, paused, then added: "Qiangzi is on duty at the startup park. I'll give him a call."

"No need, a dozen beers is just right for three people." Chen Yansen waved his hand, rejecting Song Yang's suggestion.

Tang Zhenzhe had been about to notify Meng Xibo and Zhu Xiaopeng, but hearing Chen Yansen say that, he voluntarily put down the phone.

Although Chen Yansen hadn't been back to the dorm for a while, he still reached in and pulled a bottle opener out of the drawer in one go.

Song Yang and Tang Zhenzhe couldn't hold much liquor; after a few bottles, their faces were red and they started talking nonsense.

From the courier station to the student council, then to the freshman girls—endlessly, back and forth.

Song Yang and Tang Zhenzhe, already in their third year, were still naive when it came to dealing with people and relationships.

Listening to their bullshit, Chen Yansen laughed heartily.

An hour later, he left the boys' dorm and walked toward the faculty apartments. As he walked, he mulled over the technical plan for the heavy-duty dynamometer.

Zuo Hongyu had taken the equipment list he drew up and purchased all the parts—industrial-grade hydraulic dynamometers, force sensors, and the like—and shipped them to the warehouse location Chen Yansen designated, in an industrial zone at the northwest corner of Zhuxianzhuang Tech Park.

Chen Yansen wanted to know what his strength limit was.

……

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The next morning, Chen Yansen didn't go to the tech park, but went straight to the warehouse where the mechanical equipment was stored.

With a ceiling height of five or six meters and an indoor area of over six hundred square meters, it was filled with a pile of brand-new industrial parts: titanium alloy frames, ten-centimeter-thick quenched steel plates, hydraulic buffer devices, S-type load cells, rubber damping layers, electromagnetic valve power-off devices, and industrial-grade data acquisition equipment.

For an ordinary person, faced with these components weighing several hundred jin, or even several thousand jin, without a crane or a mechanical arm, there was simply no way to start.

But Chen Yansen gave it a try, and the quenched steel plate weighing 2,000 kilograms could be moved around at will with just a light lift.

The morning passed quickly, and a heavy-duty dynamometer with a strange appearance was finally assembled.

The look was ugly, but as long as it worked, that was fine.

Right in front of the dynamometer was a circular metal striking block, connected at the back to an S-type load cell. One only needed to strike the pressure plate with force, and the signal amplifier could immediately collect the information sent back by the sensor, using an AD conversion module (converting analog signals into digital signals) to upload it to the data acquisition device, which would then analyze his strength value.

Chen Yansen raised his right hand, exerted a little force, and landed a precise punch on the pressure plate.

On the industrial touch screen beside him, the figure 6,239 kilograms immediately appeared!

Less than half his strength, and it was already six tons?

Chen Yansen looked at his right hand—the skin was intact, the phalanges undamaged. Clearly, given his body's strength, he didn't need to worry about exerting too much force and ending up with torn flesh.

With a tremendous "thud"!

Chen Yansen threw another punch, this time using seventy to eighty percent of his strength, and the number on the display screen skyrocketed to 10,299 kilograms!

'Shit!'

Chen Yansen drew a sharp breath. His strength was fine, but his flesh's durability wasn't enough yet. Under the impact of ten tons of force, the skin on the back of his hand instantly sent a piercing stab of pain.

The skin hadn't broken, but a large patch had turned red.

He vaguely felt that if he used his full strength and slammed a fist into a steel plate, his phalanges might very well crack.

He couldn't keep testing!

His physique still needed to be strengthened one more time!

Let's try leg strength!

Chen Yansen precisely controlled his strength at seventy percent, then suddenly delivered a front kick, striking the pressure plate heavily.

The ten-centimeter quenched steel plate groaned under the blow, and the heavy-duty dynamometer, weighing around ten tons in total, was forcibly pushed back three or four meters.

The numbers on the display screen climbed crazily, finally stopping at 17,136 kilograms!

It wasn't hard to imagine what would happen if Chen Yansen kicked a UFC champion with his full strength.

He'd probably be scattered into pieces on the spot.

Chen Yansen summoned the system panel and stared blankly at the number 31.16.

If the value were raised to 100, how much strength could he reach? Sixty tons or a hundred tons?

Combined with his terrifying spiritual power, it would be enough to let him avoid 99.99% of accidents. Even if someone acted deliberately, it would be very hard to escape the scan of his divine sense.

The maximum range of this heavy-duty dynamometer was 20 tons. Unless the hydraulic system was replaced to expand the range, otherwise, with Chen Yansen's strength, one more kick and the parts inside the device would all be completely scrapped.

After thinking it through, Chen Yansen lost interest in continuing the test.

Leaving the industrial zone, he drove back to the tech park, had lunch, and in the afternoon, starting with Shangcheng, held weekly meetings one by one with the person in charge of each project.

Huang Zheng was busy preparing for the Double Eleven promotion, and at the same time, to coordinate the launch promotion of Yu'e Bao, the product department had planned an "Order and Get Experience Gold" campaign.

For example, buying a 99-yuan electric kettle would come with 10,000 yuan of Yu'e Bao experience gold, valid for three days—the more you bought, the more you got.

The figure of 10,000 yuan looked tempting, but the actual cost was only 4 yuan. It could both boost the downloads of Sister Chengzi Pay and bring a new user to Yu'e Bao—absolutely a super bargain.

After completing the work report, Huang Zheng added: "Boss, I plan to invite KA merchants before Double Eleven kicks off and hold a Pin Bei merchant conference. It will both serve as a summary of 2012's work and allow us to take the opportunity to discuss next year's paid advertising cooperation with the merchants."

Nowadays, Pin Bei's profit methods were growing ever more refined. Besides the annual technical service fees, there were also various paid resources, with a gross profit margin reaching 8% of the platform's GMV.

From this, one could see that Huang Zheng was quite skilled at making money, especially knowing how to extract money from the merchants.

"You decide." Chen Yansen didn't object, gesturing for the other party to go ahead.

"Got it, boss." The corners of Huang Zheng's mouth lifted slightly as he replied with a smile.

Working at Pin Bei Tech didn't make him feel like he was working for someone else. As the boss, Chen Yansen only held a weekly meeting once a week, lasting less than an hour in total, and rarely intervened in his management and operations.

In addition, the generous annual salary and stock option rewards gave him a very strong sense of belonging to Pin Bei.

Next came the weekly meeting of Sister Chengzi Tech. After Zhou Shouzhi reported the financial and business data as usual, he specifically mentioned the progress of the Sister Chengzi Smart Living Hall project.

Nine days since launch, a total of 32 stores, with cumulative sales of 130 million yuan. Offline accounted for 71%, and the remaining 29% of the performance was closed through the Kuaipao channel.

Compared with the output of Sister Chengzi Mall, Pin Bei, Tmall Mall, Suning, and Gome's flagship stores, it naturally couldn't compare, but it added a brand-new sales channel for Sister Chengzi Tech.

In the future, when Sister Chengzi Phone's direct-sale stores spread across the country, they could create at least tens of billions in revenue a year.

"Boss, I heard Xiaomi plans to go to Tianzhu to explore overseas markets." After finishing business, Zhou Shouzhi said in a solemn voice.

In his view, Tianzhu, with a total population of over 1.2 billion but a smartphone penetration of less than 30 million, was perfectly suited for Sister Chengzi Tech's development.

"You've taken a liking to the Tianzhu phone market?" Chen Yansen countered.

"I think Lei Yi's vision is good. Tianzhu is like China three years ago. Once the potential erupts, annual smartphone shipments won't be lower than 100 million units." Zhou Shouzhi said with a serious expression.

"Focus on the light-asset operation model. Heavy-asset models like investing in and building factories—we don't touch. My trust in the Tianzhu market isn't high. After all, Pepsi and Samsung have both suffered losses there, and Sister Chengzi Tech might just be the next one."

Chen Yansen didn't directly object, only letting Zhou Shouzhi test the waters first, then bluntly stating his own concerns.

One had to know that the Third Brother treated everyone equally—whoever came got screwed.

For the Tianzhu market, going through e-commerce and distributor channels would be enough, making it convenient for Sister Chengzi Tech to pull out and run in time.

"OK." Zhou Shouzhi nodded, indicating he understood.

At the same time.

There were only eight or nine hours left until Yu'e Bao went live.

(End of this chapter)