In the afternoon, news broke out that the emerging Oriental Express and Amazon had completed their business merger, integrating into a new e-commerce platform called Oriental Amazon. Driven by this positive news, Amazon's stock price finally stopped falling and even rose slightly.
Of course, this was just news at the moment and the actual merger operation had not yet been completed. After all, Amazon is a listed company, and such actions involving significant equity changes require various reviews before they can be finalized.
However, after obtaining confirmation from all major shareholders, this merger was a done deal and there would be no other problems.
Therefore, on the second day, Oriental Express employees began to enter Amazon's office building in batches. Three days later, Oriental Express completed its headquarters relocation, moving all its employees into the Amazon office building, thus restoring some of the original appearance to the sparsely populated building.
Meanwhile, numerous institutions on Wall Street began to assess this merger and restructuring to determine the future trend of Amazon's stock.
Goldman Sachs Group was no exception. Under the assessment of over a hundred experts, a complete report was delivered to the elder.
"The probability of Amazon going bankrupt within three years is 88.32%, the probability of maintaining normal operations is 11.6%, and the probability of achieving results beyond the current ones is only 0.08%?" The elder flipped to the end of the report and saw the experts' overall forecast for Amazon's future development. He couldn't help but shake his head.
"Sir, do you think our report is incorrect?" the elder's secretary asked softly. "If so, I will immediately have them re-examine and revise it!"
"No, their report is perfect. All the data is seamless, and I don't see any issues!" The elder smiled slightly. "I was just thinking about the reports we submitted to Jiangnan Group every year. No matter which year, according to the predictions, the future development of Jiangnan Group would always stagnate, but their development has slapped me in the face every year, becoming an increasingly annoying fellow!"
"Sir, I don't think Jiangnan Group has a chance to reverse the outcome this time!" the elder's secretary shook his head. "Amazon is truly in a desperate situation this time, with no possibility of a comeback!"
"Firstly, the entire Amazon website is currently paralyzed. Almost all the programmers responsible for operations have left. Due to Amazon's relatively relaxed R&D policy, according to Bezos's own words, Amazon's code is wild and unconstrained. Everyone programs in their own way, and there are more than ten different languages for code comments alone."
"Furthermore, some programmers even use their own unique methods for commenting. Newcomers basically cannot understand these code comments, so even if Amazon hires 100 top programmers, they won't be able to fully understand all the website code within a month. This alone will give Huang He a headache."
"However, this is actually not important. What's truly important is that Amazon has lost almost all of its sellers!" The elder's secretary pushed up his glasses. "Actually, for Amazon, the most important thing is their merchant specialists. Each of these merchant specialists serves thousands of merchants and possesses their contact information, communication methods, and previously established good relationships."
"Therefore, even if Wanxian Pavilion does not have Amazon's merchant database, they can still find the contact information of most merchants through these business personnel and invite them to join Wanxian Pavilion!"
"Currently, 80% of Amazon's merchant traffic has already moved to Wanxian Pavilion, and Wanxian Pavilion's business volume has reached 80% of Amazon's average level. Wanxian Pavilion has almost perfectly acquired all of Amazon's intangible assets. And it's unclear when Amazon will resume operations. By the time Amazon resumes service, we believe we will have successfully absorbed all of Amazon's traffic, and then Amazon will have no possibility of a comeback!"
"Finally, and most importantly, the merger of Amazon and Oriental Express is not a wise decision. On the contrary, it is very foolish because it will offend the true giants of our domestic express industry, FedEx and United Parcel Service!"
"In the past year, with the continuous expansion of Oriental Express, wherever they went, they almost ate up more than half of the market share of FedEx and UPS. And they did so at an extremely rapid pace, which has made FedEx and UPS feel fear. At the same time, they have made corresponding plans and decided to join forces to strangle Oriental Express."
"The best method is to use their scale and price advantage to force the opponent out of business. Therefore, FedEx and UPS are planning to simultaneously launch discounted services, compressing the express fees to about half of the previous level, completely snatching the market back from Oriental Express, while also squeezing Oriental Express's profit margins and ultimately eliminating Oriental Express entirely."
"So I believe we can form a strategic alliance with these two express companies at this time, having merchants under Wanxian Pavilion only use services from these two express companies, and simultaneously, prohibiting these two express companies from cooperating with Amazon merchants!"
"Originally, this would have been difficult to achieve, but once Oriental Express merges with Amazon, the hatred of these two companies will immediately target Amazon, and prohibiting them from accepting Amazon's business will become a certainty."
"Think about it, no matter how good Oriental Express's service reputation is, it currently only covers five cities, occupying less than 1% of the entire United States. And once their merchants are unable to cooperate with FedEx or UPS, which merchants would be willing to continue opening stores on Amazon? They can't even deliver their express packages!"
"Therefore, our experts' predictions will not be wrong. It will be very difficult for Amazon to stand up again, unless Jiangnan Group also acquires one of FedEx or UPS. However, this is not a matter of tens of billions of dollars, but a massive acquisition of hundreds of billions of dollars. Jiangnan Group cannot afford this amount!"
"Hmm!" The elder let out a soft hum. He had to admit that both his secretary's and the more than a hundred experts' analyses were very reasonable, and he himself could not find any flaws. Amazon was destined to die.
However, for some reason, the elder felt that Huang He was a person who could create miracles. Perhaps he really had a plan to turn the tide, but what this plan was, the elder couldn't figure out no matter how hard he tried.
"Fine, we'll wait for Huang He's move and then react accordingly!" the elder finally said, resigned to his fate. However, he added, "Let Hao Jianguo find a way to figure out Huang He's true intentions!"
Not only did Goldman Sachs analyze it this way, but most institutions reached the same conclusion. Therefore, after the announcement of the restructuring news, although Amazon's stock price rose slightly, it only increased by a tiny bit, and Amazon's future remained very bleak.
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"True intentions my foot! I can't even get into Amazon's doors now!" Seeing the latest instructions sent by the elder, Hao Jianguo was dejected. Since Amazon was handed over to Liu Qiangdong for management, Liu Qiangdong had implemented a lockdown on Amazon, claiming to be conducting intensive training to cultivate new employees as quickly as possible and restore Amazon's daily operations.
Therefore, except for the employees of the nursing home, no one could enter Amazon's building, not even Hao Jianguo, their nominal superior. This was because Boss Huang had given Liu Qiangdong complete authority. Hao Jianguo was indeed just a nominal superior. As long as Huang He's trust in Liu Qiangdong remained, Hao Jianguo could do nothing to Liu Qiangdong.
So, Hao Jianguo could only see the elder's orders and curse, but he was helpless.
So what was Liu Qiangdong doing at this time?
In fact, Liu Qiangdong was not lying; he was indeed conducting internal training for all employees. However, the employees were not educated by Liu Qiangdong himself, but by more than a dozen bald Chinese men.
At this moment, each Chinese man was leading more than a dozen programmers, gathered around projection screens, meticulously explaining strings of code.
Meanwhile, Liu Xiangjiang was by Liu Qiangdong's side, communicating and explaining many things to him. Liu Qiangdong was taking diligent notes, even pulling out a notebook.
"The operational situation of the entire Jiangnan Mall is basically like this. The boss said that the e-commerce environment in the United States is different from that in China, but there are also similarities. There are only two most important core benefits: one is quality, and the other is express delivery!"
"As long as you can manage these two aspects, Amazon will move forward unimpeded in the United States, and no one will be able to stop your progress!" Liu Xiangjiang said solemnly at the end.
"Thank you, Old Liu, thank you so much. If you hadn't come, I would truly be at a complete loss. You say I'm a delivery guy, and suddenly they ask me to do e-commerce. This is truly a headache!" Liu Qiangdong couldn't help but say with a bitter smile.
"That's why the boss asked me to help you. This time, we've transferred almost the entire elite team of Jiangnan Mall to you. We won't return to China for the next three months, and we will help you build a complete team!" Liu Xiangjiang said with a smile.
That's right, Liu Xiangjiang led a team of elites, which was a powerful boost from Huang He to Liu Qiangdong. Although the people from Oriental Express did not understand e-commerce, the world's largest e-commerce platform, Jiangnan Mall, which had completely occupied the entire Chinese market, actually had unparalleled experience in e-commerce. When Huang He dispatched the entire elite team of Jiangnan e-commerce to be teachers for Liu Qiangdong, operational experience was no longer a problem.