Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Chapter 338: Chapter 276: Some Tarnish Under Scrutiny, Others Shine

Loyal Meituan users were indignant. Convinced that all companies were equally corrupt, they refused to believe that every single company and employee under Senlian Capital could be receiving overtime pay.

So, these people frantically gathered information from forums and QQ groups, and then went to the official social security website to look up the number of insured employees for each subsidiary one by one.

A day later, a detailed summary of the investigation was posted online.

The funniest part was that the person who posted it had been cursing out Kuai Pao and Chen Yansen just the day before. He was clearly a loyal Meituan fan, but now he had turned his sights on Wang Xin.

The comment section was filled with people mocking him.

"Dude, seriously! Are you nuts? You were the one praising Meituan, and now you’re the one trashing it."

"Senlian Capital has as many as 150,000 people enrolled in social security?"

"Even the couriers and delivery drivers get full social insurance and a housing fund? Even the cleaning lady in the cafeteria is covered by social security? What’s going on here?"

"The more you dig into some people, the more dirt you find. But for others, the more you dig, the better they look!"

The internet’s attention quickly shifted from Meituan to Senlian Capital.

Take the express delivery industry, for example. You could count on one hand the number of companies that provided social security for their couriers. Other than Cloud Speed, Shunfeng, Jingdong, and Bond, the rest didn’t offer full benefits, let alone things like high-temperature subsidies or overtime pay.

Some employees from Cloud Speed Express, the Orange Phone Factory, and Kuai Pao had previously posted their pay stubs online, and these now served as the best proof.

As users dug deeper, the real details of Senlian Capital’s compensation and benefits system gradually came to light.

Base salary, a housing subsidy equal to 20% of one’s monthly salary, meal and transportation allowances, full social insurance and a housing fund, quarterly bonuses, overtime pay up to triple the normal rate, supplementary medical insurance, holiday bonuses, a travel fund...

All in all, there were more than twenty different items.

It completely blew Meituan out of the water, leaving them in the dust.

You could say that Meituan Takeout had already lost half the battle before it even went live.

Two days later, Zhu Qingbao made a high-profile announcement on Weibo. He would be joining Kuai Pao Delivery’s Yanjing Branch the following Monday to work for Chen Yansen.

This turn of events made online users incredibly envious.

After a phone invitation, the production team for the CCTV-2 program *Dialogue with a Big Shot* rushed to Xucheng, planning to feature Chen Yansen in their next episode.

After all, *Dialogue with a Big Shot* typically invited industry titans like Li Yanhong, Wang Jianlin, Guo Changguang, and Zong Qinghou.

Although Chen Yansen’s net worth and influence were impressive, he had, at most, only been in the business world for two years.

Given the chance to promote his company on CCTV’s platform, Chen Yansen naturally wasn’t going to be coy about it and readily agreed.

It would save him millions in advertising fees, so why wouldn’t he?

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「Orange Technology Headquarters. Top-floor conference room.」

"Wang Xin’s management style is one-of-a-kind in the industry. He’s calm, rational, and has superb execution. The fact that he emerged from the Thousand-Groupon War was no fluke."

Ding Lei, sitting on the sofa, spoke to Chen Yansen’s back. "I think you should talk to him. Whether you invest or acquire the company, it’s better than getting into a price war."

Chen Yansen took a canister of West Lake Longjing tea from a cabinet, returned to the coffee table, and began to boil water and prepare the tea himself.

’He hadn’t expected Ding Lei to actually show up in Xucheng with a few bottles of good wine, just to have a drink with him.’

’Although there were all sorts of complex factors at play, it wasn’t hard to see that Ding Lei was a pragmatic and forthright man. After several interactions and collaborations, he had actually started to consider him a friend.’

’However, Chen Yansen also knew Ding Lei’s other side: he was petty, lacked tolerance, and couldn’t stand criticism. To put it bluntly, he was an open and honest jerk.’

’He wore all his flaws right on his sleeve.’

"You’re not interested?" Ding Lei asked curiously, taking the tea Chen Yansen handed him.

"I know Wang Xin’s personality and character better than you do. Even if he were to accept an investment from Senlian Capital now, it would most likely be a stalling tactic. There’s no telling when he might turn around and bite me."

Chen Yansen said with a slight smile, raising his teacup.

’Wang Xin was infamous in their circle as a "Three-Name House Slave." He came from a wealthy family and was incredibly ambitious, making him very difficult to recruit and control.’

’No sooner had he backstabbed Ah Li than he turned on Penguin.’

’You can’t tame a person like that!’

He could even accept people like Huang Zheng, Liang Bo, and Zhang Yiming, but his stance on Wang Xin had never wavered.

Hearing this, Ding Lei frowned slightly, but then he gave a faint smile and didn’t dwell on it.

He had sought out Chen Yansen to discuss a collaboration on a NetEase phone and, incidentally, to deepen their ’friendship.’

As for Wang Xin, he had only been mentioned in passing.

"Is the NetEase phone designed yet?" Chen Yansen didn’t bother beating around the bush and asked directly.

’What Ding Lei wanted was obvious: Orange Technology’s Aurora OS, its supply chain, and its manufacturing services.’

’He had given them to Zhou Hongyi, so of course he could give them to Ding Lei.’

’Why turn down good money?’

"I brought the schematics, PCB design files, assembly drawings, BOM list, hardware interface definition documents, and antenna design materials," Ding Lei said with a smile. "Could you take a look for me, President Chen?"

"As long as you follow Zhou Hongyi’s plan, your sales definitely won’t be low," Chen Yansen said nonchalantly.

’Don’t be fooled by the fact that Zhou Hongyi was just a ’layman’ in the mobile phone industry; his business strategy was far better than those of NetEase, Ah Li, or Shanda.’

Ah Li had fiddled with its Aliyun OS and even launched an Aliyun Phone last July. It had a 3.8-inch touchscreen, a Tegra 2 dual-core processor, a memory configuration of 512MB of RAM plus 8GB of ROM, and was priced at 2,688 yuan.

The result was, as expected, a total flop.

A month later, the Orange C1 burst onto the scene, with Xiaomi close behind, turning the Aliyun Phone into a complete joke.