"The extremely strategic conservative oligarchs are to stabilize the overall situation; and the extremely radical tactical ones are to consolidate the overall situation. So you see Mars, as an industry giant, he must be extremely radical in this tactical to reduce the threat from the outside. Most of the time this kind of oligarchic enterprise does not in a state of ‘what I want to do’, but in a state of ‘what I can’t let you do’.”

"For example, ordinary companies consider our auction, and only consider whether these resources are worth selling 5 million US dollars, and whether they can make money back if they buy them. However, what Mars has to consider is, what if they don't snatch such resources and get them by their competitors? Once they are obtained by their competitors, they will have an impact on their status and market share. For them, they can accept spending money, but they cannot accept risk. Therefore, even if the resource is only worth 5 million US dollars, or even not worth 5 million US dollars, in order to prevent competitors from getting them, they are willing to spend 20 million US dollars in!"

"For exchanging various resources for money is the logic of ordinary business owners. Taking a lot of money for status is the way oligarchs consider problems."

In later generations, the competition between Tencent and Alibaba was so intense, especially in emerging fields where both companies were not good at and had no historical advantages. Both sides were desperately trying to get to the end with each other, such as taxi, takeaway, mobile payment and other fields. The scale of the two companies was in the billions, which is what the real oligarchs had to do.

When the oligarch heard that his competitor wanted to invest 50 million US dollars to do something, he was willing to invest 80 million US dollars to face him. Even when he heard that his competitor wanted to invest 50 million US dollars to do something, he was willing to spend 100 million US dollars to do something, not to compete with him for the market, but to make him unable to do this.

Mars directly wanted to buy out $12 million, which was the case in Li Mu's opinion. They wanted to directly take these resources from the source and completely eliminate all competitors' opportunities to obtain these resources.

Therefore, Li Mu didn't care even more about the 12 million US dollars. He wanted to pull Mars and his competitors into the ring he built and let them fight each other. The number he fought in the end would definitely be far more than this amount.

Li Ziwei thought for a moment and finally understood what Li Mu said about the huge difference between oligarchs and ordinary business owners. She nodded with a teaching face and said, "Mr. Li, I understand what you mean. It was like the great Long March of the Red Army that transferred as many troops to the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area as possible. It is a strategy that the Long March must not be shaken. At this level, it must be kept stable. Climbing snow mountains, crossing grasslands, crossing the Jinsha River, forcibly crossing the Dadu River, and capturing the Luding Bridge, these bold and risky tactics are actually the core of stabilizing the strategic goal as much as possible."

Li Mu nodded and agreed: "Your metaphor is very good. This is strategic conservatism and tactical radicalism. Radical tactics are actually to make the strategic goals more stable."
Chapter completed!