Pinduoduo’s listing in Hong Kong has naturally attracted the attention of many local consortiums in Hong Kong. The most enthusiastic ones are naturally the major banks or financial institutions in Hong Kong. Because Pinduoduo’s stock issuance is a food delivered to the door for financial investment institutions.

HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Sun Hung Kai Securities, etc., sent several waves of people to visit the senior executives of Pinduoduo and Zhou Yujie.

The senior executives of Pinduoduo were not in a hurry and arranged a professional team to negotiate with local financial consortiums such as Hong Kong to discuss details of listing.

On the other hand, Pinduoduo, which once again received a huge sum of money, once again began to work hard to subsidize.

The main direction this time is not Toutiao, but Quxin and QQ.

Quxin is its own software, so it is not a problem for Pinduoduo to conduct social group buying on it. It is just that because there is no complete monopoly, Quxin and Pinduoduo's team are also negotiating together. Even if the promotion effect is best, it cannot affect the experience of Quxin users because there are too many links.

As for QQ, the link is definitely not available, but the password is OK. Each Pinduoduo page uses a unique algorithm to form a bunch of garbled codes. After the user copyes the garbled codes, he or she can jump directly to the specified product page after entering the Pinduoduo page.

This operation is naturally much more complicated than a direct link. However, as long as Pinduoduo's products are attractive enough and the price is sufficiently discounted, it can also absorb a large number of users from the traffic of Tengxun.

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"Is there no way to stop such links from Pinduoduo?" Liu Chiping looked at the data reported and couldn't help frowning.

Even though QQ has blocked Pinduoduo’s links technically, from the general data analysis, there are as many as tens of millions of passwords promoted on Pinduoduo every day, which is enough to show how powerful the Pinduoduo is behind it, making countless consumers a channel for their communication and introducing Pinduoduo to their friends or other relationship chains.

Considering that Quxin has no restrictions, Toutiao is using big data to drive traffic, and with the huge financing of Pinduoduo recently, if it continues to develop like this, the future scale of Pinduoduo will be really difficult to estimate.

Although Pinduoduo and Tengxun's business have no conflicts, any of the competitor's business has developed well, which is not a good thing for him.

"Technically speaking, it can be done, but we don't know Pinduoduo's encoding logic, so it is easy to accidentally hurt other words. And even if we really do this, Pinduoduo can change another set of logic at will. In terms of time cost, it is much easier to replace it than deciphering." Zhang Xiaolong replied.

As WeChat gradually became marginalized, Zhang Xiaolong's status in the Tencent system became very embarrassing, but Liu Chiping and Ma Huateng did not care because they also knew that this matter was not Zhang Xiaolong's responsibility.

Liu Chiping said: "Optimize the algorithm as soon as possible. Even if you cannot block all Pinduoduo's links, it is good to block the part."

Zhang Xiaolong thought for a moment and said, "It is not difficult to block the part, but what I am worried about is, if we do this, it will affect the user experience of QQ?

If QQ is blocked, will the user go to Quxin? It seems that it is not cost-effective to just block Pinduoduo's links."

"What you said makes sense." Liu Chiping nodded and said, "Then this way, the algorithm needs to continue to optimize, but we can secretly block Pinduoduo's links. They can send them out, but others can not receive them, as long as we don't let others see them."

Zhang Xiaolong asked: "If you do this, you will be exposed sooner or later."

Liu Chiping said: "Only set such a function in the group, and then if the user sends it for the second time, it will default to the normal mode. What do you think?"

"This is OK." Zhang Xiaolong frowned. He actually felt that this idea was not very good, but it involved the core strategy of the entire company. As long as the risk was reduced to a very low level, it didn't matter if it was implemented.

"This is a trivial matter. Judging from the current situation of Pinduoduo, we can't help it. In fact, the one that is most annoying should be Alibaba. We have helped in advance." Liu Chiping shook his head and said with a smile.

Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "Zhou Yujie's creativity is really amazing. Even the e-commerce industry that has long been formed in the market has been torn such a big hole. If Pinduoduo succeeds in the end, Toutiao's future scale will probably be no less than Tengxun and Alibaba."

"I care more about this than Pinduoduo." Liu Chiping turned on his phone and opened an APP in front of Zhang Xiaolong's face.

"Tik Tok?" Zhang Xiaolong understood what Liu Chiping meant and said: "I also know this APP that a short video platform belongs to Toutiao, and is currently becoming more and more popular on the Internet. This may be Toutiao's next main business."

The emergence of mobile Internet has made traffic more concentrated, which has also led to the rapid popularity of anyone and any product, because when friends gathered, everyone chatted casually, but now they play with their own mobile phones, which has also led to the rapid spread of content on the mobile phone.

In recent months, the most popular APP is the Douyin APP, which has a wide variety of contents and is suitable for most people's pursuits. When a person is browsing short videos with sound, it will naturally attract the attention of others. As long as the content is appropriate, it may attract several more users.

Liu Chiping said: "The software Douyin is different from other software on Toutiao. Zhou Yujie did not use internal traffic to attract traffic to Douyin. Except for Xiaomi's proactive pre-installation, in other cases, Douyin users are all from self-promotion among netizens and lists of major APP platforms.

Although there is no accurate number, the number of users of Douyin should have exceeded 50 million. And according to my previous investigation, the time it takes for a single user to use Douyin is as high as 45 minutes. You should know better than me what this number means."

"Mr. Liu, are you worried that Douyin will become a popular APP?" Zhang Xiaolong asked.

Liu Chiping nodded and said, "It's not that I'm worried, but that this situation will indeed happen. After Pinduoduo is listed, Toutiao's traffic diversion quota for Pinduoduo will be reduced. At that time, if Toutiao makes every effort to attract traffic to Douyin, Zhou Yujie will probably have another national-level APP in his hands."

"But we have blocked Douyin, and we can't seem to be able to interfere in other aspects." Zhang Xiaolong said tactfully.

Liu Chiping shook his head and said, "I have discussed with President Ma and am going to reopen Weishi. I hope you will be the person in charge of Weishi."
Chapter completed!