165: Chapter 165 A truly universal software: WeChat in its pre-research phase!

As soon as Lin Xiao finished speaking, Zhao Lei, who was beside him, couldn't help but let out a long sigh and shook his head.

"It's very, very difficult."

"The foundations of those two great mountains, Anli Group's Alipay and Tencent's QQ, are rooted too deeply; one could even say they are the bedrock of the Great Xia internet."

"It's not that other companies in the country haven't tried to challenge them, but for so many years, they haven't been able to shake them in the slightest."

"Even for you, Boss, I'm afraid that…"

Speaking of which, Zhao Lei suddenly paused and hurriedly looked up at Qin Mo.

Qin Mo just looked at the two of them with a faint smile.

Looking at this familiar smile, Zhao Lei remembered a long time ago, when he was chatting with Qin Mo, he had said that Anli Group's Alipay could not be moved, but at that time, the Boss had just smiled at him.

At the time, he was a bit confused and didn't understand what the Boss meant, but thinking about it now… perhaps the Boss had already set his sights on Anli Group's Alipay!

Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head to look at Qin Mo.

Lin Xiao also followed his gaze, and both their eyes carried the same unspoken question: "You were prepared for this all along, weren't you?"

Facing their gazes, Qin Mo just smiled.

"Over in the R&D department, there is indeed a pre-research project that can solve our troubles."

"The development of this software has even entered the final stage, but it still needs some time."

"So for now, let's just leave it as it is."

"There are only three days left until the third stage of the league of legends offline tournament; we will discuss everything after the tournament ends."

"These two months can be considered a vacation for ourselves, let's all relax a bit. There's no need to worry about Pinduoduo and Alipay for now; they won't be able to jump around for much longer."

After saying this, Qin Mo paused.

"Tell Zheng Yue."

"On the league of legends side, you can start promoting the viewing event."

"Three days is enough for us to maximize the hype for the opening match. Regardless of whether players are watching for the rewards or not, as long as they watch the match, they will know the excitement of esports."

At this point, Qin Mo let out a soft breath, a hint of certainty appearing in his tone.

"Two months later."

"After the league of legends tournament ends, we will come back and shake up the foundations of the Great Xia internet."

"Since they want so badly to keep Taobao's market share, then we will dig up the foundations of Anli Group."

Listening to Qin Mo's words, Zhao Lei and Lin Xiao looked at each other, their eyes filled with a bit of fervor.

Although logically and rationally speaking, the difficulty of challenging Alipay was ridiculously high, almost an impossible task—that was, after all, the bedrock of the Great Xia internet.

But for some reason, looking at the Boss in front of them with his calm expression, they felt full of confidence in this man.

Meanwhile, after saying these words, Qin Mo turned around and looked out the window again.

In the office building opposite, the project being pre-researched on one of the floors was an existence capable of stirring up the entire Great Xia internet.

And its name was WeChat.

In this world, Qin Mo had long ago poached the talented but unrecognized Zhang Xiaolong, letting him create a brand new chat software according to his own ideas.

Qin Mo only provided suggestions on the direction, leaving all the specific product design and interaction logic to be polished by Xiaolong's team.

In his past life, this software was the true national application.

It had 1.1 billion daily active users and 1.4 billion monthly active users.

Its installation base covered almost every smartphone capable of connecting to the internet; this was a feat that even QQ hadn't achieved, with a user count even double that of QQ.

Furthermore, this was not just a simple instant messaging software; it would also launch a payment function!

Once the WeChat Pay function went online, because it was already embedded in a communication tool that everyone was using, users didn't need to download anything extra.

Therefore, in a very short time, WeChat Pay ate up a large portion of Alipay's market share.

Ultimately, WeChat Pay captured 60% of the online payment market share, while at the same time, Alipay was left with only 35%.

The key was that in small-amount consumption scenarios, the usage rate of WeChat Pay even exceeded 70%!

Originally, Qin Mo didn't intend to launch WeChat so early, preparing to rest and build up strength for a while longer.

After all, WeChat would be challenging those two great mountains, Tencent and Alibaba, simultaneously—or even the deepest foundations of these two mountains.

But now that Ma Kun was showing no mercy, he had nothing left to worry about.

The landscape of the Great Xia internet was due for a change.

However, before that, he still had to launch the league of legends esports tournament first.

This was a project that had been in preparation for a long time, and he couldn't get distracted by e-commerce and payment matters.

The upcoming third and fourth stages would only last one month each, adding up to two months.

Two months later, the whole world would know the charm of esports.

...

Meanwhile, after Anli Group's announcement was released, it rushed to the number one spot on the trending lists of all major social platforms in just half an hour.

The rhetoric in the announcement about "data security reviews" and "suspected collusion with foreign forces" was something that netizens who had been on the internet for so many years could see through at a glance.

What reviews, what collusion—it was all a sham.

This was just Anli Group seeing Pinduoduo frantically snatching market share with the shared meals service and about to catch up to Taobao, causing them to panic, flip the table, and refuse to play with you anymore.

For a time, the comment sections were flooded with curses.

Anli Group had been prepared; they closed their official Weibo comment section the moment they released the announcement, but they couldn't close the comment sections elsewhere.

Weibo, Tieba, Zhihu—every place where this matter could be discussed was filled with cursing.

Clicking into the trending topics and browsing through, it was full of complaints and questioning.

"If you can't beat them, you call the parents; if you can't call the parents, you just unplug their internet cable. Your methods are too disgusting. I've used Taobao for over a decade, but starting today, I'm uninstalling everything!"

"Playing dirty because you can't win head-on—who at Anli Group made this decision? Old Ma wouldn't be this shameless, right?"

"Didn't they say Anli Group changed their helmsman? It's Old Ma's son, Ma Kun. This matter was likely his doing, but without Old Ma nodding, he wouldn't have the authority to do this."

"Pinduoduo has been online for less than two months and has already pushed Taobao to this point. Anli Group is panicking. If this continues, Pinduoduo really might steal Taobao's market share."

However, despite the cursing, most netizens were clear in their hearts that after this blow, Pinduoduo really didn't have many options.

Over these years, similar things hadn't failed to happen, but because those companies were small in size, they didn't really attract much attention.

But for this matter, in the end, there would likely only be one outcome: Pinduoduo bows its head, reconciles with Anli Group, and accepts the conditions. Otherwise, Pinduoduo would never have a chance to rise again.

Just as the entire internet was cursing, a few hours later, Pinduoduo pushed a full update, and the DuoDuo Wallet and 'pay later' features were launched simultaneously.

Many netizens in the comment sections said they would support Pinduoduo and link their DuoDuo Wallet, which looked like a big movement, but it was just survivorship bias; in fact, there weren't many users who actually linked DuoDuo payment.

Pinduoduo's market share dropping in the following period was almost a certainty.

At the same time, just when the entire internet's attention was drawn to the falling out between Anli Group and Pinduoduo, at 8:00 PM that night, the official league of legends Weibo account released a brand new announcement.

The viewing event was officially announced.