138: Chapter 139 A money-printing machine with a monthly turnover of 1.8 billion!

Looking at this financial report, which completely shattered the profit logic of traditional physical industries.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva.

Although as a professional manager, he couldn't get the massive dividends from the company's core equity.

But the underlying platform he had built with his own hands...

relying solely on the personal bonuses derived from that ecosystem, had already secured him millions in cash earnings this month.

For someone who, just over a year ago, was still bitterly begging everywhere for investment, this was an absolute windfall that transcended his social class.

Shen Du's gaze lingered on that long string of zeros for two seconds.

There was no ecstatic joy of sudden wealth in his eyes, only the faintest curve at the corner of his mouth.

"Well done."

He reached out, pulled a fountain pen from the pen holder beside him, removed the cap, and his tone returned to the cold, hard rationality of a trader.

"Since the liquid assets on the books are abundant, there's no need to let those people keep thinking about it."

Shen Du quickly signed his name in the fund allocation authorization section at the bottom of the financial report.

He pushed the document directly back in front of General Manager Chen Shengqiang and issued a crisp business instruction:

"Notify the Finance Department to process it directly through the public account, and transfer another 650 million to the Wu, Zhou, and Zhu families.

Make sure the total repayment amount from the previous period solidly reaches one billion."

"Before leaving work today, I want to see this old debt slashed by one-sixth."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang had just walked out of the office holding the folder.

A mail notification with a triple-encryption label quietly popped up in the bottom right corner of the laptop screen on Shen Du's desk.

It was a periodic settlement report sent by Wang Xing through Meituan's exclusive secure channel.

Shen Du moved the mouse and clicked it open.

A data sheet densely packed with merchant retention rates, rider subsidy curves, and daily active users unfolded on the screen.

And on the last page of the report.

The total revenue data for the two months of March and April was finally locked in thick bold font at 2.514 billion RMB.

The text on the screen was brief and pragmatic, revealing Wang Xing's signature calmness and restraint.

But between the lines, there was heartfelt relief.

Wang Xing knew very well that this local lifestyle and O2O subsidy war that broke out after the start of spring...

was so brutal that it was almost like feeding real gold and silver into an industrial meat grinder.

At the most critical juncture, with major capital forces encircling and competitors burning money frantically in an attempt to completely squeeze Meituan out of the game.

If not for Shen Du at that time...

unexpectedly transferring 500 million USD in foreign exchange ammunition from an overseas account and smashing it into the pot.

Meituan's financial chain...

would have completely collapsed and gone bust in the first half of last year due to the inability to maintain its massive local outreach and rider teams.

That capital injection, which spared no cost and was terrifying in scale...

not only smashed the encirclers back to the negotiating table...

but also allowed Meituan to forcefully raise its market share to a peak of absolute control during this round of brutal reshuffling.

"Mr. Shen, the two-stage liquidation has been completely finished, and Meituan's foundation is now completely stable."

At the very bottom of the email was a line of text typed personally by Wang Xing.

Shen Du looked at this report of victory, tapped his fingertips lightly on the cold touchpad twice, his eyes calm.

The computing power and ecological empire he wanted...

Meituan had already completed the most core piece of the puzzle on this key node according to the preset track.

Two days later, in the afternoon.

Accompanied by a crisp notification sound from the speakers.

The online banking backend for Jiyuan Technology's public account...

promptly displayed a notification that a massive interbank remittance of 1.5 billion RMB had arrived.

This was the profit dividend for the first quarter of this year, which Wang Xing had distributed after settlement according to the agreement.

Looking at that long string of zeros on the computer screen.

Shen Du did not choose to take advantage of the situation and throw this money to those three companies to pay off the debts early.

He pulled open the drawer beside him and fished out a physical online banking USB token.

With a "click," the metal interface was accurately inserted into the USB slot on the side of the laptop.

As a top trader who had crawled out of a pile of financial dead bodies, Shen Du had a near-paranoid cleanliness regarding the nature of funds.

Back then, to cover the expenses for the research team's component laboratory and living facilities...

Hong Yun had almost unhesitatingly emptied her own private capital of one billion.

Even though their relationship now had long since surpassed that of ordinary partners.

Even though Hong Yun herself had never even mentioned wanting this money back.

But in Shen Du's heart...

the borrowed private principal used to shoulder the burden must be stripped away and settled the moment the liquid funds returned.

Feelings are feelings, accounts are accounts; this bottom line must never be blurred.

He gripped the mouse, skillfully switched to the transfer interface, and brought up Hong Yun's top-secret private account located overseas.

His fingertips tapped rapidly on the keyboard.

"1000000000."

A full one billion RMB amount was cleanly and decisively entered into the remittance field.

Shen Du raised his hand and pressed his thumb heavily on the confirmation button of the physical USB token, which was flickering with a faint blue light.

In the center of the screen, a green interbank clearing progress bar loaded rapidly.

"Ding—"

As the progress bar jumped to 100% within two seconds, the system popped up a confirmation box stating, "Remittance accepted, expected to arrive within two hours."

Shen Du pulled out the slightly warm USB token and closed the laptop screen with one hand.

He leaned back into the large boss chair, turned his head, and his gaze fell calmly outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

At that dark red setting sun, which was gradually sinking into the opposite bank of the Huangpu River.

Early June in the Magic City.

The morning sunlight filtered through the large panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a slightly glaring streak of light onto the floor.

The air already faintly revealed the dry heat of early summer.

Shen Du leaned against the island counter in the open kitchen of the flat, holding half a glass of warm water in his hand.

He tilted his head slightly.

His gaze passed over the glass in his hand and landed on the LCD TV on the opposite wall, which was playing morning financial news.

"...Following South Korea's Samsung Electronics announcing a lavish 7 billion USD investment to settle in the Xi'an High-tech Zone.

Germany's Volkswagen officially laid the foundation in the Tianjin Development Zone yesterday.

Meanwhile, foreign-funded entity projects such as Nissan's Dalian vehicle plant, BASF Shanghai Asia Pacific Innovation Park, and the Pepsi Asia R&D Center are densely landing in many parts of our country..."

The female news anchor's distinct, articulate voice.

Accompanied by the grand long shots of heavy machinery and earth-moving construction on the screen, echoed in the empty living room.

Shen Du took a sip of water and casually set the glass on the marble island counter, emitting a dull, crisp sound.

He reached out and pulled over the slightly thick business laptop beside him.

With one hand, he flipped open the screen and directly brought up the real-time revenue line chart of the Xinghuo Software backend.

The cold light emitted from the screen reflected in his eyes, which held little emotional fluctuation.

In the business world, there are never any miracles that appear out of thin air, only the coldest transmission of supply and demand.

Multinational giants like Samsung, Volkswagen, and BASF are frantically pouring money into building factories domestically.

Directly creating massive recruitment demands and job positions at the grassroots level.

When the wages deposited into the bank cards of millions, or even tens of millions, of ordinary wage earners thicken in reality every month.

This massive grassroots purchasing power immediately spawned an extremely terrifying chemical reaction in the sinking market.

Even if ordinary people's incomes increase, they rarely go to buy high-end luxury goods that cost tens of thousands.

But when they have spare money in their hands.

Online shopping orders of a few dozen yuan.

And spending a hundred or eighty yuan in a Spark Live broadcast room to send a wave of virtual gifts to their favorite female streamers.

became the common way of dopamine consumption.