Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 455: Lei Jun’s Request

"If Yiyang Automobile encounters cash flow problems in the future, Rice can provide some support."

Talking about this topic, Lei Jun also gave Chen Yiyang a private promise.

Of course, unless absolutely necessary, it is best not to bring up such private promises in the future.

"There’s one more thing."

Seeing the conversation about the automobile industry was about to end, Lei Jun put down the chopsticks in his hand and spoke again.

Chen Yiyang knew that this was getting to the main point.

Just the exchange of information about the automobile industry wouldn’t be enough for Lei Jun to pick him up at the airport.

"I heard you’ve had some disagreements with Qian Du."

Lei Jun asked about a topic that surprised Chen Yiyang.

Chen Yiyang instantly realized that the CEO of Qian Du was also from a technical background, surely having a friendship with Lei Jun.

It turned out Chen Yiyang’s guess wasn’t far off. Lei Jun and the CEO of Qian Du had quite a good private relationship.

Previously, when Lei Jun participated in the ice bucket challenge, the next person he nominated for the challenge was the CEO of Qian Du.

"You must be joking." Chen Yiyang wasn’t fooled by the previous exchange with Lei Jun.

He couldn’t admit his retaliation against Qian Du in public under any circumstances.

So Chen Yiyang straightforwardly said, "I have neither business conflicts nor personal grievances with Qian Du. Where did you hear that kind of rumor? It’s pure nonsense!"

"Isn’t Qian Du’s investment in the video platform Kiwifruit competing with your investment in the short drama platform?" Lei Jun asked further when Chen Yiyang denied it.

"Just normal competition in business, it doesn’t amount to a conflict or anything." Chen Yiyang deflected again.

"Here’s the thing." Seeing that Chen Yiyang wouldn’t say a single truth, Lei Jun resignedly continued, "Qian Du asked me to pass a message, saying they hope Kiwifruit can sign a cooperation agreement with your Qingguo Short Drama to jointly develop the short drama market in the future."

"That’s certainly fine, the short drama market is too small now. All parties should unite and work hard to expand the market first."

"And about that Europe matter?"

"What Europe matter?" Chen Yiyang continued to play dumb.

Lei Jun was utterly helpless and began to regret taking this task.

But the matter had to be clearly discussed with Chen Yiyang.

Otherwise, if a conflict arises later, he’d be caught in the middle, neither here nor there.

With this thought, Lei Jun continued without hesitation, "Qian Du believes you have sent people to Europe to sabotage their local deployment of autonomous driving technology and hopes to reconcile with you.

As a sincere gesture, they promise not to involve themselves in any competition or conflicts with you or any forces or companies in the future."

This was exactly what Chen Yiyang had been waiting for.

While Qian Du’s invasion into Chen Yiyang’s domain wasn’t critically important, it was as annoying as flies.

This time, his main adversaries were Ali and Long Cheng.

When dealing with these two forces, he couldn’t afford to be distracted.

So it’s a good thing for Qian Du to exit.

This meant he was freed from being constantly on the defensive.

"Then it’s settled." Chen Yiyang immediately clapped and said, "I’m agreeing only because I trust you. If Qian Du causes trouble again, it won’t be dealt with so easily."

"Rest assured, my reputation is worth a little something." Lei Jun reluctantly replied.

"By the way, why didn’t they send someone over to personally discuss this?"

Previously, Chen Yiyang hadn’t realized Lei Jun came to reconcile him with Qian Du, because no one from Qian Du actually came.

In principle, for such matters, even if Qian Du’s CEO didn’t come, at least a deputy should have.

But none came; they had to rely on Lei Jun to use his reputation to help.

"Over there, they’re awfully bureaucratic; no one is suitable to come, and sending anyone might mess things up."

Regarding this, Lei Jun was also quite helpless.

If it hadn’t been for personal ties and his good-natured temperament.

He wouldn’t have bothered with such matters.

"What do you mean, bureaucratic?" Chen Yiyang was very curious.

"You know Qian Du and Jili collaborated to create a car brand, right?"

"Yes, I know." Chen Yiyang nodded his head.

"When releasing a new car, Jili’s CEO couldn’t attend due to personal reasons and only showed up via video connect.

Seeing that Jili’s CEO wasn’t there, originally scheduled to go on stage, Qian Du’s CEO also refused to attend.

The host awkwardly invited him several times, but Qian Du’s CEO stayed seated, not moving.

He felt that if Jili’s CEO didn’t come, he should also show off and sit in the audience.

But this car brand, though nominally a collaboration, was always led by Qian Du.

Jili’s CEO didn’t come, because the future of this sub-brand wouldn’t affect Jili’s main business.

But Qian Du’s autonomous driving and smart driving technology relied on these car brands to realize.

Yet, Qian Du’s CEO just sat there for face value, turning a moment meant to show off a new brand into a laughable news item.

It’s predictable the senior officials under such a person would also be very concerned about face.

Personal apologies face-to-face are simply impossible.

Even the last time they called Chen Yiyang was considered an exception.

What was supposed to be a submission ended up in a quarrel with Chen Yiyang.

"Well, not coming might be a good thing." Chen Yiyang stated indifferently, "After all, they are seniors, I’ll tolerate it this time."

"In a decade, you’ll probably become a senior to every entrepreneur in the country." Lei Jun chuckled, "I saw a PPT being sold about your investment and venture history, quite fascinating, though I wonder if it’s accurate."

Chen Yiyang had heard of that investment and entrepreneurship PPT from others before.

But due to being too busy recently, he had forgotten about it.

Now, hearing Lei Jun bring it up again.

So, after returning to Zhang Yuling’s house in the evening, Chen Yiyang found a tablet and spent some money to buy a copy.

The creator of this PPT was unknown, but they seemed to have collected quite a bit of information on Chen Yiyang.

The first few pages of the PPT started by praising Chen Yiyang, complimenting him as an investment genius with exceptional foresight, and then analyzing his investment trajectory.

However, Chen Yiyang’s history before he made his fortune wasn’t covered.

The first investment case started with his transformation of Old Western from a tutoring institution to a live-streaming e-commerce company.

Stating that Chen Yiyang seized the most profitable trend at that time.

Additionally, he made excellent investments in several internet celebrities and movies like Wandering Earth.

Which caused Chen Yiyang’s live-streaming e-commerce company to initially lead other similar companies by many strides.

And Chen Yiyang amassed considerable funds through this path.