Sun Tongyu is well aware of the current domestic logistics situation.

Right now, no logistics company has made high efficiency its service tenet. Although EMS is the fastest postal service, its efficiency can only be considered good. If an express delivery goes from Beijing to Guangzhou, the possibility of taking a plane is very small. It is basically transported by road or rail. The possibility of road transportation is the highest. Generally speaking, a whole truck starts from Beijing and travels more than 2,000 kilometers. Even if it does not stop for a moment except for refueling, the driver eating and going to the toilet, it will take at least more than 30 hours to reach Guangzhou. However, the time node that Sun Tongyu saw was far less than this time!

He looked it up and found that the earliest buyer in Guangzhou received Lychee was at 10 a.m. on the second day of the flash sale.

This post was posted at 11am on Taobao. The title is: "Fuck! Taobao's delivery is incredible! I placed an order at 8am last night and received it at 10am!"

In the text, the buyer wrote in detail about the delivery process: "I arrived at the office at 9:30, and just after a meeting, I was about to go on a trip. The reception desk called and said there was a courier for me. I was wondering, I didn't buy anything before, how could there be a courier for me? When I got to the reception desk, I saw that Taobao was written on the courier package and the order. I thought I was dreaming, but when I opened it, it was Lychee. It took only more than ten hours for me to receive the goods. This is too fast!"

Afterwards, the buyer took a photo of his lychee with a digital camera and posted it in the thread. In the photo was a work ID card, on which the words "Yangcheng Daily" could be vaguely seen.

A bunch of replies followed: "Taobao hired a plane to deliver it to the poster, right?"

"This speed is too scary! Even flying is not that fast! I checked and the earliest flight from Beijing to Guangzhou is at 7:30 in the morning, so it will be after 10 o'clock when we land at the airport!"

“Taobao is awesome!”

"I envy the OP. I also tried to grab it last night but didn't get it. I can only wait for next time."

"Haha, you are not as good as me. I am from Erbin in Northeast China. I received it at 8 o'clock this morning. The post office said that I would be the first one to be delivered first. It only took twelve hours!"

Seeing this, Sun Tongyu was even more confused. How could it be possible? Being in Northeast China, he received the goods within 12 hours after placing the order?

Looking further ahead, there are still some surprises. Some netizens from Sichuan and Chongqing said that they also received the goods before nine in the morning. Sichuan and Chongqing are more than 1,500 kilometers away from Beijing, and the traffic is not smooth. Sichuan roads are notoriously difficult to travel, and even highways are difficult to drive on.

Sun Tongyu racked his brains for a long time and concluded that Taobao would not adopt the method of all-air transportation because the post office could not do it at all. So he concluded that these goods were definitely not sent from Beijing because there was not enough time.

The only possibility is that these goods were sent from somewhere else...

When Sun Tongyu thought of this, his head buzzed, and he had vaguely figured out Taobao's delivery model.

The reason why users in Yangcheng can receive the goods on the next morning must be because the shipping place is in Yangcheng.

The reason is the same that buyers in Shanghai, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Erbin can receive the goods the next morning.

Sun Tongyu wrote down the names of these cities and couldn't help but admire Taobao.com. How could they think of shipping in this way? By selecting a few cities across the country to ship goods, they solved the problem of insufficient EMS capacity and slow turnover? This is amazing!

Hangzhou is very close to Shanghai. Sun Tongyu suddenly thought of his old classmates. He has more acquaintances in Shanghai than in Beijing, so it should be more convenient to inquire.

After a few phone calls and another half an hour of waiting, Sun Tongyu received a call from an old classmate, who said on the phone: "Brother, I asked someone to find out what you asked me to check. Shanghai EMS did receive a batch of Taobao express parcels two days ago, a total of 125,000 pieces, all of which were shipped locally in Shanghai."

When Sun Tongyu heard this, he felt something was wrong and immediately got up and rushed to Boss Ma's office.

At this time, Boss Ma was communicating with his two most core people about the launch of his own c2c platform.

Lu Zhaoxi is responsible for building the platform. Some time ago, Mr. Ma personally decided to buy a new domain name and planned to create a website called Yitao. The website has been under development for a long time, but it involves front-end and back-end systems, ordering systems, and inventory systems. It will take some time to go online, so he talked to Boss Ma about the specific time for the website to be launched.

Cai Chongxin is responsible for the integration of logistics resources and must be prepared to strangle Taobao at critical moments. Boss Ma also learned some specific details from him.

As for the payment channel that Boss Ma is responsible for, Boss Ma also informed the two: "Zhou Hao's Alipay took advantage of a loophole at the beginning. The central bank did not realize that someone would do this with the payment channel, so Zhou Hao succeeded before they had time to react. Moreover, Alipay only served the Light of Hope at the beginning, and it was purely for public welfare. The central bank could not interfere, so Alipay was allowed to develop in this way. Now the central bank has informed all major banks that they are not allowed to open merchant interfaces for payment channels at will. All interface applications must be approved by the central bank."

Cai Chongxin asked in surprise: "So, we can't create our own payment channel?"

Boss Ma smiled and said, "It's not difficult, but not that easy. I'm already working on it. I can probably get through it by finding some connections, but it'll take some time."

Lu Zhaoxi said: "Alipay was started right under the nose of the central bank. At the beginning, it was just for charity and the central bank certainly didn't think much of it. But now it is getting bigger and bigger. Zhou Hao's ambition to spy on the entire online payment has long been exposed. Why doesn't the central bank deal with him?"

Boss Ma said: "The central bank will never do such a thing. Wouldn't it be asking for trouble if they cracked down on Alipay? Besides, all of Zhou Hao's industries are linked to Alipay. If the central bank wants to touch Alipay, will Mr. Ye behind it agree? Don't forget his father's position. The central bank also has to look at his face. What's more, the top leaders have long known what Zhou Hao did and personally issued instructions, believing that e-commerce has great development in the future and requiring relevant departments to keep paying attention. How dare the central bank destroy Alipay? It can only suffer in silence and can only find ways to block the latecomers."

Boss Ma waved his hand and said, "Don't worry. Although this is a bit troublesome, it can be done, and it will not be later than the launch of our platform. Don't be affected and do your own thing."

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Boss Ma said, "Come in." Sun Tongyu pushed the door open and looked at Boss Ma breathlessly, saying, "Boss Ma, there's a problem..."

Boss Ma saw Sun Tongyu's expression and thought that he must have something urgent to do, so he said hurriedly, "Don't worry, wait until you catch your breath."

Sun Tongyu nodded repeatedly, then took a few deep breaths to slow down his breathing, and said dejectedly: "Taobao's 500,000 Lychees have already been shipped, and now it is estimated that more than 80% of the orders have been delivered!"

As soon as these words came out, Boss Ma threw his hands and said with great certainty, "Impossible! Forget about delivery in two or three days, it would be good enough to leave the capital!"

Sun Tongyu hurriedly explained: "But Taobao didn't concentrate all the goods in Beijing! They only sold 100,000 units in Beijing, and the other 400,000 units were all distributed. I searched a lot of posts on the Internet and counted their addresses and the time they received the express delivery. I found that buyers in the five cities of Shanghai, Yangcheng, Erbin, Sichuan and Chongqing, and Hanjiang all received the goods on the morning of the second day of the sale. I called my classmate in Shanghai to inquire, and he said that Shanghai EMS received 125,000 express parcels from Taobao on the night of the Lychee flash sale, and all of them were from Shanghai!"

Boss Ma had just overturned Sun Tongyu's feedback with great confidence, but when he heard this, he immediately lost his confidence. He didn't say anything for a long time. Cai and Lu also looked at each other. Everyone understood what Sun Tongyu meant. They all understood that Taobao had distributed 3 MP players to six cities for delivery. They were also shocked by Taobao's approach. They originally wanted to block them, but suddenly found that they had found a perfect solution and found six ways out for themselves. The person who could come up with this strategy was simply a genius...

Boss Ma's face was uncertain. After a long while, he slammed the table and yelled, "Asshole! Zhou Hao is such a good playboy! We put the rope around his neck so that he can get around!"

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