[{"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-345":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},2264558,4419,"Chapter 345: You Can Call Me Sen Ge—I Don","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-345",345,"\u003Cp>Xucheng, Zhuxianzhuang Technology Park, in front of Building 9.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fully black Maybach slowed to a stop; with a soft “click,” the hinge released and the door swung open, revealing a man in his thirties stepping out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White shirt, dark red tie, navy-blue suit, polished leather shoes gleaming, a strand of white hair resting on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him followed an assistant and a bodyguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two vehicles carried Jingdong’s accompanying business negotiation team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pinduoduo employees leaning by the windows couldn’t help craning their necks to look outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Pinduoduo had already surpassed Jingdong in daily active users and daily sales figures, Liu Qiangdong was a veteran of e-commerce, and now that he had come to visit their company, many were curious, watching the Jingdong founder from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen stood in place, not moving a step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the 418 Home Appliance Festival when Pinduoduo and Jingdong broke ties, this was the first time he had met Liu Qiangdong alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to last time, Liu Qiangdong’s smile now radiated far more brightness after securing $1.1 billion in funding from OTPP and the Saudi Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When your pockets are full, your heart isn’t shaken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for Liu Qiangdong, worth tens of billions, it was true!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong smiled warmly, but when he noticed Chen Yansen hadn’t moved, he silently cursed: This kid holds grudges hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Revengeful Chen Yansen”—only wrong names are ever given; never a wrong nickname.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Zong, it seems Xucheng truly produces outstanding talent, nurturing two internet tech giants worth over a hundred billion each: Orange Tech and Pinduoduo.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong stepped forward, smiling as he made small talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just a bit lucky—caught the wave of smartphones and e-commerce growth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen demurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’d love to have the same luck as you, Chen Zong—I’ve worked ten years and still can’t match your one year’s output.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong slipped in a subtle compliment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t forgotten his purpose: first, restore cooperation with Senlian Capital and bring Orange Tech back onto Jingdong; second, form a defense alliance with Pinduoduo to jointly seize Alibaba’s e-commerce market share; third, sign annual framework advertising contracts with Toutiao, Lingxi Browser, and Orange App Store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Alibaba pays for traffic—Jingdong certainly isn’t exempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, Toutiao’s cumulative registered users exceed 120 million, with 40 million daily active users; Lingxi Browser has been downloaded 64 million times, with 29 million daily active users; Orange App Store serves over 40 million terminal users.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Senlian Capital has become a pivotal traffic hub in the internet industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is another reason Liu Qiangdong is willing to bow to Chen Yansen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Liu Zong, shall we go to the office for tea first, or tour the Pinduoduo building?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen smiled but didn’t answer directly, instead steering the topic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go to Pinduoduo—I want to see exactly who helped you defeat Jingdong,” Liu Qiangdong joked half-seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen led Liu Qiangdong straight into Building 6, home of Pinduoduo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon entering, they saw the first-floor customer service center and administrative department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the left white wall hung a massive LED screen, scrolling real-time Pinduoduo sales data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“9:47 a.m., today’s sales: 290 million Huayuan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong looked up, studying it intently; from experience, he judged Pinduoduo’s daily transaction volume wouldn’t be below one billion Huayuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Pinduoduo’s daily sales were twice Jingdong’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Double Eleven promotion, Jingdong’s daily sales rose from 400 million to 500 million, but Pinduoduo’s increase seemed even greater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahead is the customer service center—mostly user support, with fewer merchant support staff; 20% are part-time students from Xuyuan University, a way of giving back to our alma mater. Of course, nothing compared to your customer service center, Liu Zong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen introduced calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s on the second floor?” Liu Qiangdong asked casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Merchant operations and major client acquisition.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen didn’t hide anything, answering honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong followed Chen Yansen up the stairs to the eleventh floor, where Huang Zheng had just finished the morning meeting and came over voluntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the office, Huang Zheng hurried to boil water and brew tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong sat before the tea table, mentally calculating Pinduoduo’s organizational structure and employee count.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly, it was only around 3,000 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jingdong employed 26,000, including 20,000 delivery personnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Liu Qiangdong’s face darkened—Jingdong, with its 6,000+ staff and ten years of procurement and sales experience, had still lost to these 3,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their labor efficiency was less than a quarter of Pinduoduo’s!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, if Chen Yansen hadn’t sought more human spirit fire, Pinduoduo’s structure, execution, and efficiency could have perfectly managed daily operations with just 2,000 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Liu Zong, please.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen handed a cup of hot tea to Liu Qiangdong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Zong, you used to call me Dong Ge. I think, behind closed doors, we should change the title—it’ll make communication easier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong probed cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But all my friends call me Sen Ge,” Chen Yansen said, sipping slowly from his cup, eyes half-closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine—I’ll call you Sen Ge, you call me Dong Ge; neither of us loses out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong paused, then chuckled awkwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How much did Jingdong sell during Double Eleven?” Chen Yansen asked casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“3.07 billion.” Liu Qiangdong smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, guiltily, he lowered his head to sip tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen instantly understood—Liu Qiangdong’s expression was fine, but his micro-movements betrayed him; he was lying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could understand that Jingdong faced immense funding pressure: last year it battled Dangdang, this year it was fighting Suning and Gome, while also competing with Ali, all while burdened by a capital-intensive operational model—a single super-large intelligent warehouse center could swallow up 700 to 800 million Huayuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he understood: Jingdong faced immense funding pressure—last year fighting Dangdang, this year fighting Suning and Gome, while competing with Alibaba, all while burdened by asset-heavy operations; just one ultra-large smart warehouse could swallow 700–800 million Huayuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put bluntly, it burned cash even faster than Kuai Di and Didi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jingdong could only inflate its battle reports to fool overseas investors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low-grade tactic, but shockingly effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day OTPP invested $400 million; the next, the Middle Eastern “sucker” rushed to throw money in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Taobao Waimai has launched and is in gray-scale testing,” Liu Qiangdong said suddenly, setting down his teacup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Taobao Takeout has launched, in gray-scale testing,” Liu Qiangdong said suddenly, setting his cup down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does Jingdong plan to enter takeout?” Chen Yansen asked, staring at Liu Qiangdong, each word deliberate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have no interest in takeout. Jingdong’s vision is to become China’s Amazon,” Liu Qiangdong vowed firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Amazon, years later, invested in Grubhub and added takeout delivery to Prime membership benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen asked only to see Liu Qiangdong break his promise later: “How about a bet? If Jingdong ever enters takeout, I won’t object—but Dong Ge must shave his head.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Liu Qiangdong’s expression twisted—he suddenly recalled Ma Liyun’s bald photo—and asked sharply: “So Ma Liyun shaved his head because he lost a bet to you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No,” Chen Yansen denied outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, I’ll take the bet—but there must be a deadline. If it’s fifty years, I won’t live to ninety.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifteen years,” Chen Yansen replied without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I’ll wait for Sen Ge to shave his head—ha ha!” Liu Qiangdong laughed loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Liu Qiangdong asked: “Alibaba’s entering takeout—aren’t you worried?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen smirked inwardly—Liu Qiangdong was afraid he’d get too close to Ma Liyun; within five minutes, he’d hinted twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuai Pao isn’t afraid of competition. Meituan, Baidu, Alibaba—it’s never short of rivals. Taobao doesn’t even have its own traffic gateway; how can it compete with Kuai Pao?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen poured more tea into Liu Qiangdong’s cup, speaking coolly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong’s face stiffened—the words stung, because Jingdong had no traffic gateway either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tencent was willing to give, but the price was too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Wenteng was worse than portal sites or video platforms—he tried to force-feed him QQ Group Buying, Paipai, and Yixun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worth a full $1.5 billion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did Jingdong need with those trash assets?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless absolutely desperate, Liu Qiangdong couldn’t accept Ma Wenteng’s equity swap offer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong looked at Chen Yansen, a flicker of envy in his eyes—he’d heard that WeChat and QQ’s primary traffic gateways had always been freely offered to Pinduoduo, Kuai Di, and Kuai Pao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the contract was signed by Ma Wenteng chasing after Chen Yansen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing hurts more than comparison!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Wenteng treated him and Chen Yansen completely differently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not necessarily—Taobao’s 600 million users aren’t fake. Ma Liyun is too domineering—abandoning good e-commerce to fight Kuai Pao for takeout.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiangdong sneered, stoking the fire further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why not discuss the real business first?” Chen Yansen suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood Ma Liyun’s underlying logic for takeout: as a threat, Taobao Takeout was weaker than Baidu or Meituan—the former only wanted to use takeout’s high-frequency consumption to boost Taobao’s user stickiness and retention; the latter aimed to kill Kuai Pao outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, Taobao Takeout was all noise, little substance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Ma Liyun realized the investment in takeout didn’t yield proportional returns—and even hurt e-commerce—he wouldn’t need Chen Yansen to act; he’d cut Taobao Takeout’s internal resources himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, knowing Alibaba, Taobao Takeout was pushed through by Ma Liyun against strong internal opposition; the heads of Tmall and Taobao likely hated Taobao Takeout even more than Kuai Pao did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Taobao Takeout, without a single achievement within the group, had secured a core homepage entry point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remember: for internet giants like Alibaba and Tencent, factionalism runs deep, and internal struggles are fierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, Ma Wenteng wouldn’t have established a separate division when pushing the WeChat project.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the WeChat project team and Penguin Headquarters aren’t even in the same city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I would like to invite Orange Tech to set up a store on JD Mall,\" Liu Qiangdong nodded solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t say the words “renew,” clearly unwilling to revisit the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, Orange Tech’s digital products cover smartphones, tablets, computers, power banks, smart speakers, and phone accessories, with monthly online sales exceeding ten billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pinduoduo brings its own traffic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Orange Tech’s products, Jingdong would naturally lose a portion of its traffic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen slightly raised his eyelids, gazing at Liu Qiangdong with a faint, mocking smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last year, it was he who wanted to cooperate, and he who wanted to terminate the partnership.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did he think of Orange Tech?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tool to summon and dismiss at will?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What benefits would Orange Tech gain?\" Chen Yansen's smile vanished; he asked coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1743,"2026-06-19T19:17:19.606Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","aa0ccc0c9249a673254d9b747f81a354e3ee6fd839f0d8b1446a73bf83352be0","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-346","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-344",387,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-cover.jpg"]