Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 499: You’re Going In Too

In fact, Chen Yiyang had indeed considered moving Bilibili to Lin’an before.

But when he was about to take over Bilibili, he found out.

Although Bilibili had losses every year, during the years when its market value was at its peak, it actually took advantage of the preferential policies from Shanghai to spend over 800 million to buy a piece of land, and then planned to spend more than 19 billion to build a new headquarters building.

This new headquarters building is right next to the land bought by Ugly Group, and it covers a larger area than Ugly Group’s land.

If it were the Bilibili of a few years ago, it indeed had this capability.

But this year, although the construction of Bilibili’s building is still ongoing, the progress has slowed significantly.

One reason is the lack of funds, and the other is that Bilibili also found out it doesn’t need so many departments, having adjusted many departments over the years, reducing the staff by hundreds.

Thus, such a large piece of land is wasted.

If not for the fact that the land was given by the Shanghai government, and construction was handled by a state-owned enterprise.

Otherwise, Bilibili really planned to stop building the skyscraper.

So if Chen Yiyang were to move Bilibili from Shanghai to Lin’an, the Shanghai government would certainly reclaim this piece of land, and all of Bilibili’s prior investments would be in vain.

Thus, Chen Yiyang pondered a bit and called up Cai Wei to ask if Yingkumi needed a new building.

"According to Yingkumi’s pace of making money and expanding, the original building definitely won’t suffice.

So why not have Yingkumi and Bilibili join forces to build on this land, creating two office areas, one for Bilibili, and one for Yingkumi."

"No problem with that." Cai Wei agreed to Chen Yiyang’s proposal quite enthusiastically.

Along with the great success of the original tide, the entire team had nearly expanded to a thousand people.

With so many people, the office building they rented before was no longer enough.

And the piece of land Bilibili bought has already seen construction of nearly half.

As long as Yingkumi supports with some funding, it wouldn’t be a problem to complete the building by next year.

And at Yingkumi’s current rate of development, by next year, it’s almost the time when Yingkumi will have the most staff, and they can completely move into the new company building, facilitating communication and exchanges between departments."

"Mr. Chen." Zhang Zaiming, who had been glared at by departing employees millions of times these days, walked into Chen Yiyang’s office.

"The layoff work here is almost done, is there anything else you need to instruct?"

"Nothing else." Chen Yiyang said while handing over a list to Zhang Zaiming.

"This list contains the names of former employees of Bilibili who have left the company, compile their contact information and send it to me."

"Alright." Without the energy to further inquire why Chen Yiyang needed these people’s contact information, Zhang Zaiming just wanted to finish these hated tasks as soon as possible, hoping to become the decision-maker at Bilibili quickly.

Watching Zhang Zaiming leave the office, Chen Yiyang made a call to the accountant.

"Have you finished gathering the evidence, prepare to call the police, and submit the evidence to them."

"The evidence is all collected, I’ll report to the police now," the accountant replied straightforwardly.

A few hours later, Zhang Zaiming finally sent over the contact information from the list that Chen Yiyang had given him earlier.

Then he noticed a few police officers entering his office, taking him away without a word, and seizing all his electronic equipment, including his desktop and laptop.

Afterward, Chen Yiyang sent an email to all the remaining employees at Bilibili.

The former manager of the gaming cooperation department, Zhang Zaiming, had serious occupational crimes while working at Bilibili, and has now been arrested by the police.

If any other employees have related evidence of embezzlement or corruption, it can also be submitted to the company.

Indeed.

Chen Yiyang had a reason for letting Zhang Zaiming handle the disliked task of layoffs.

After reaching an agreement with Chen Rui, he asked Chen Rui if he was aware of the severe internal corruption issues within the company.

Chen Rui said he had suspicions but was worried that hastily pushing for internal anti-corruption might make external investors lose confidence in Bilibili.

So he had been preparing related evidence for a while but had not reported to the police.

According to the existing evidence, the manager of the gaming cooperation department had embezzled at least tens of millions during his tenure.

Most of this money came from kickbacks from various gaming company departments.

Such a huge corrupt official, of course, Chen Yiyang had to eliminate him immediately.

But he didn’t want to completely waste the wrongdoer either.

Before eliminating him, Chen Yiyang let him handle the much-hated task of layoffs.

This way, it would be easier for the newly appointed manager of Bilibili to deal with the employees.

After sending Zhang Zaiming away.

The original management team of Bilibili was essentially wiped out.

Only one department at Bilibili was staffed.

That was the technical department.

Chen Yiyang did not plan to touch the technical department because over the years, Bilibili’s technical department had not made any significant mistakes overall. Since it could operate stably, there was no need to tamper with it.

Chen Yiyang only let the deepseek team provide some advanced technical support to Bilibili’s technical department to ensure they keep up with Bilibili’s future development.

So, even though there were intense internal upheavals at Bilibili, the website operated more stably than before.

The image quality also improved.

Regarding related review work, Chen Yiyang found a new collaborative outsourcing company through Le Shi Network, and this new company would work with the old one. Once the old company’s contract expired, Chen Yiyang would decide which company to use based on the situation.

"The game department’s tasks can be handed over to the team from Xiaobai Box to help handle. In the future, Bilibili will not develop games itself but only distribute games."

After saying this, Chen Yiyang continued, "The live streaming department will be restructured by introducing my live-streaming e-commerce company, and since most of Bilibili’s streamers have MCN companies now, it will only be a matter of engaging with the MCN companies.

Additionally, for departments like the commercial and operation departments, rehire some of the previously laid-off employees and have them take charge."

"I understand." Xu Yun nodded.

After selling Qingguo, Xu Yun simply brought his team over to Chen Yiyang.

Chen Yiyang did not disappoint him, directly assigning him the responsibility for Bilibili’s operations.

Even if Xu Yun lacked ability, he had single-handedly built a highly popular video app software.

Compared to the previous management of Bilibili, his capabilities were much stronger.

"By the way, this list is of the employees I’m planning to rehire. I’ve sent their contact information to your email, take a look."

"Mr. Chen." Xu Yun looked at the information sent by Chen Yiyang, puzzled, and asked. "If these people are important, why did we lay them off in the first place? Now in rehiring them, the severance compensation we previously gave will go to waste."

Chen Yiyang glanced at Xu Yun and explained helplessly.

"Bilibili’s losses are not solely a problem of senior management, there are quite a few people like Zhang Zaiming who manipulated situations left and right.

If I were to follow the normal procedures to investigate and ascertain the layoff list, the list would likely comprise those truly responsible for working but are not good at flattering the leaders.

Therefore, we had to lay off all those people first, and then determine who we truly need based on the work handover records and past data they’ve left behind."