"Since there's nothing wrong, Uncle Zhao won't keep you in suspense. I heard you're going to enter the express delivery industry, right? Are you going to invest in that damn Thunder Express?"
She seemed to be very satisfied with Ye Chen's answer.
Zhao Qian stopped talking nonsense and said with a dry laugh.
However, Ye Chen raised his eyebrows. What's going on?
Where did Zhao Qian hear the news that he was going to enter the express delivery industry?
"No, Uncle Zhao, where did you hear the news?" Ye Chen asked in surprise.
"The internet is full of videos of you appearing at Thunder Express. Given your style of doing things, if you weren't interested in Thunder Express, how could you go there? I heard that the entire Internet is hotly discussing this matter now. Don't tell me that you just passed by and took a look and it was all a misunderstanding!" Zhao Qian grinned.
What the hell?
The video of me appearing at Thunder Express is circulating on the Internet? My appearance at Thunder Express was a few days ago.
Those videos have only just started to appear online now?
Suddenly.
Ye Chen seemed to have thought of something.
This guy Duan Haobo is probably using himself to build momentum for Thunder.
"I really don't know what's happening on the Internet. I just got up and had dinner and haven't had time to open my phone. But now that things have come to this, I have to be honest with you, Uncle Zhao. I really want to enter the express delivery industry, and Thunder Express is my next target!" Ye Chen said with a faint smile.
"What are you thinking, kid? Hasn't the express delivery industry been monopolized by a group of warlords for a long time? Moreover, the financial sponsor Ali is behind the SF Express, STO Express, YTO Express and YTO Express. Add to that the fact that SF Express has a market value of more than 200 billion yuan, and you're trying to snatch food from the tiger's mouth!" Zhao Qian asked tentatively.
"Isn't it exciting and challenging to snatch food from a tiger's mouth?" Ye Chen replied jokingly.
Zhao Qian was suddenly choked with speech.
With an extremely wonderful expression, he continued, "No wonder people on the Internet say that you don't invest in potential but only in challenge. This is indeed very exciting and challenging!"
After saying that, Zhao Qian smiled awkwardly again, "But since you dare to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, it is definitely not a whim, so... is there any point?
"Uncle Zhao, you know what, I was just impulsive. If it were you, would you still think of stealing food from the tiger's mouth when SF Express, YTO Express, STO Express and JD.com have monopolized the entire express delivery market?
Somehow, listening to Zhao Qian's funny Shanxi accent, Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh and make fun of him.
"You're talking nonsense, aren't you? Although we're both nouveau riche, how can I compare with you? When I was your age, your uncle Zhao and I were still digging coal. I used to think I was pretty awesome, after all, I didn't finish junior high school, and I drove a Rolls-Royce with assets worth tens of billions in my forties. But compared to you, I'm nothing more than a fairy Diao Chan and an old sow!"①
Listening to Zhao Qian using the metaphor of Fairy Diao Chan to an old sow, Ye Chen's mouth began to twitch wildly.
What the hell is this talking about!
"Uncle Zhao, what do you want to say?"
Although when Zhao Qian asked him if he wanted to enter the express delivery industry, Ye Chen knew the purpose of his call.
But at this moment, he couldn't help laughing and pretending to be stupid.
"Well, I don't know if you are short of money. Although Uncle Zhao spent 300 million to buy a private jet last month, he still has several billion in spare money on hand. So, would you like to consider taking Uncle Zhao out for some fun?"
Perhaps the word "showing off" has long been engraved into the bones of the nouveau riche, Zhao Qian laughed without any sense of incongruity.
"Uncle Zhao, it's not that I don't want to play with you, but I don't want you to wade into this muddy water, because the risk factor of snatching food from the tiger's mouth is too high. Facing the three express delivery companies that belong to the Ali system, as well as Shunfeng and JD, which is independent of itself, the space in the express delivery industry is already saturated to the point where it can't be saturated anymore. If you want to open a hole to enter and share the pie, you need at least hundreds of billions, and burn hundreds of billions in it! So this is a gamble. If you win, you can officially enter the competition, and if you lose, hundreds of billions will be wasted. Based on this background situation, I don't want you to follow me into the water!"
Ye Chen continued in a serious tone, "I know that you may think that I must have a good idea before I dare to attack, but... to be honest, I am also in a gambling mentality, and I am even prepared to fail and become a joke. In this case, do you think I can let you go with me? If you really lose, wouldn't that be a pitfall for you? Uncle Zhao, I know you are not short of money, not even hundreds of billions, but if I drag you down with me, I will be responsible for you!"
Ye Chen lied with open eyes very sincerely.
What about holding a gambling mentality, what about being prepared for failure. In the end, it was just to politely reject Zhao Qian.
If it weren't for his good impression of Zhao Qian and the fact that Zhao Qian was Zhao Jiwei's father, he would not even bother to be tactful and would have refused outright.
"I see!"
Hearing the sincerity in Ye Chen's words, Zhao Qian was also a little frightened.
Even though he is a nouveau riche and can come up with hundreds of billions, it doesn't mean he dares to take the risk of losing all his money!
Otherwise, I would have been finished long ago.
Even though in the eyes of the public he is the kind of rich man who makes people hate him, the kind of nouveau riche who shows off all the time, but he has never been blind when he should be rational!
The reason why he called Ye Chen was that he had developed trust and optimism towards Ye Chen through what Zhao Jiwei had said and what Ye Chen had shown.
But now, under Ye Chen's sincere refusal, he hesitated. After thinking for a while, Zhao Qian said, "Are you planning to gamble tens of billions on this industry?"
Ye Chen smiled and said, "Yes, it's a gamble. I just want to see if I can use money to carve out a path in this industry that has been divided and monopolized. After all, tens of billions are still affordable for me!"
"I thought I was crazy enough, but I didn't expect you to be even crazier than me!" Zhao Qian smacked his lips.
Zhao Qian, who had always been pretentious, now really felt that he had met an opponent who could beat him.
Compared to what Ye Chen said about hundreds of billions, it is still affordable.
His Rolls-Royce and private jet and whatnot are so insignificant!
"It's nothing crazy. If you fail, it will just be like paying tuition to gain experience!" Ye Chen said calmly.
If you fail, it means you are paying tuition fee to gain experience?
Zhao Qian, who always claims to have plenty of money, suffered another critical blow.
"Then the experience points and tuition fees are really astronomical!" Zhao Qian said with a twitch of his mouth.
"Okay, let's not talk about that anymore, Uncle Zhao. If you really want to spend your spare money, I can show you a way!"
Ye Chen, who suddenly recalled the memory of a certain point in his previous life, chuckled playfully.