Chapter 303: Countermeasure (2)
Although we already know the general process of this interview, for news reports that are to be made public, we still have to pay careful attention to details in the content.
Sometimes, the imprecision of one or two words may cause a news incident and lead to disputes.
In his previous life, Lu Yiming had seen a lot of news about companies that had gone bankrupt due to a small problem. A bunch of videos of big guys’ bankruptcies were constantly flooding the ghost section of Bilibili, and he didn’t want Shijinji to become one of them.
Lu Yiming was thinking about how to explain his thoughts to Li Zixian. Li Zixian thought he was not going to reveal the specific information, so she quickly said, "If it's not convenient to tell me, you don't have to."
However, to Li Zixian's surprise, Lu Yiming smiled and told her everything: "There is nothing inconvenient to disclose. After all, we are in a cooperative relationship now, and we will need your help in the future. What I mean is that since the competitor has already made a move, we can't just passively defend, so we must take the initiative to fight back."
"uh-huh?"
Li Zixian raised her eyebrows, her curiosity growing: "So?"
Lu Yiming said with a serious face: "They can criticize us, and we can also criticize them. In the end, we still have to use magic to defeat magic."
Facing a war of words in public opinion, passive defense is always the worst option, so Lu Yiming had already thought of a countermeasure.
"They say we are unpatriotic if we don't cooperate with them, so we will expose their true colors and expose their dirty laundry."
"ah?"
The pen in Li Zixian's hand paused in shock, and her expression was full of shock. It was obvious that Lu Yiming's words surprised her.
But Lu Yiming ignored her surprise and continued, "Many businessmen set up factories in the mainland. Not only are the salaries of employees very poor, but even their dignity cannot be guaranteed. They often deduct wages, beat and insult employees, and even force them to kneel. This kind of thing is not uncommon. Is it patriotic to cooperate with such a company? Pah."
Lu Yiming was not speaking nonsense when he said these words.
The core goal of reform and opening up is to attract foreign investment to set up factories in China, promote the economic development of Xiaguo, and enable the people of Xiaguo to have jobs, food to eat, clothes to wear, and hope for their lives.
But capital is ruthless, and human hearts are even darker.
It is natural for foreign capital to pursue profits when setting up factories in China. After all, this is the nature of capital. However, some people not only have no bottom line in making money, but also do not treat domestic workers as human beings. Not only do they exploit them at will, but they also beat, scold and humiliate them at will. What they do is simply outrageous to both humans and gods.
Lu Yiming cited several examples.
Although she was a journalist, Li Zixian had never heard of such news. She was shocked and outraged.
After listening to Lu Yiming's brief introduction, she immediately remembered a piece of reportage she had studied when she was in school - "Contracted Laborers" written by Xia Yan. The plight of the workers in the report was very similar to what Lu Yiming described.
You know, the Xia Kingdom abolished the contract labor system as early as the 1940s.
"Is it really as serious as you say, Mr. Lu? You have to know that if this is reported, it will not be a trivial matter."
Lu Yiming had a serious face and cold eyes: "The situation is only more serious than I said, this is not an isolated phenomenon!"
"I'm not like some people who just talk nonsense. If you are a reporter, you can go to some factories to interview them and see if they have the situations I mentioned. Take Xu Fuji as an example. I haven't heard of them conducting body searches after get off work or making employees kneel down. But their wages are really low, and they often find excuses to deduct wages. They order mainland employees around and don't treat us as compatriots at all."
Li Zixian felt like she had grasped something, so she asked, "So, you didn't sell the candy business to them because of this consideration?"
Although the actual reason was that Lu Yiming didn't like being taken advantage of by Xu Fuji, since Li Zixian asked him so sincerely, Lu Yiming naturally took advantage of the situation. It was a very enjoyable experience.
"Of course. Although we had to transform our business and reluctantly sell our candy business due to poor management, the company has feelings for the workers and naturally hopes that they can have a good job. Ferrero is a foreign brand from Europe, and their salary is really high. I considered the vital interests of the company's employees, but Xu Fuji couldn't get what he wanted. He turned his love into hatred and labeled us as unpatriotic. Do you think we are wronged?"
Li Zixian, as a journalist, was very sensitive. She looked at Lu Yiming who was indignant and knew that he couldn't believe everything he said. After all, the head is determined by the buttocks. Lu Yiming must have some interests in mind when he said this. But what does this have to do with her as a journalist? As long as the news is true and the content is explosive enough, she dares to report it!
After she took a pen to write down the key points, Li Zixian had already conceived the script in her mind.
She had a hunch that this show would definitely shock the industry and create a sensation across the country!
Her program actually has some overlap with the interview on Turkey TV, but she pays more attention to people's livelihood, and this time the topic is really focused on the workers.
Nowadays, the whole country is carrying out a vigorous production campaign, and various investment promotion activities are being carried out to build factories. If I can expose some of the bad things in it, promote the progress of the industry, improve relevant laws and regulations, and benefit the people of Xia, then wouldn't I be famous in history?
Just thinking about it made Li Zixian feel happy.
Not only will he have a successful career, but he can also reap a wave of benefits from Shijinji and ask for a favor from Lu Yiming. It's simply a win!
Li Zixian put away the notebook filled with key points, stood up impatiently and said, "What Mr. Lu said should indeed be reported and reflected well. That's it for now. I will go back and discuss it with my team and make a program. You guys go ahead and do your work. I won't bother you anymore."
Su Yunjin tried to persuade him to stay, "Let's have a meal together before we go."
Li Zixian's heart has already flown back to the editing room. She can't wait to get the program online tomorrow and naturally doesn't want to delay it at all.
"No, no, you guys eat, I have to go back and prepare the ingredients for the show. "
After sending Li Zixian away, Lu Yiming looked at Su Yunjin with a smile on his face: "Aunt Su, this is done, let's wait and see the slap in the face."
Su Yunjin was a little uncertain: "Is this the end? Are you so confident? Xu Fuji brought people to visit their factory at the beginning, but we haven't done anything yet."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "The beautiful reporter will take people to visit Xu Fuji's factory again."
Three days later.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Xu Yu sat in front of the dining table, on which was a cup of warm milk and two slices of browned whole wheat bread.
This was his unshakable eating habit. While eating bread and drinking milk, he would usually read some newly delivered newspapers and magazines to learn about some major events in the industry before going out.
He took a sip of milk and then unfolded the newspaper leisurely.
However.
Opening lightning strikes.
He was stunned by the huge words "Survey on the production and living conditions of workers in Wanzi factories in Dongguan" in the business section.
He hurriedly spread out half a square meter of newspaper on the table and read the report carefully.
After reading the report, he flew into a rage and could not help but slam the table and yell, "This is outrageous!"
Half a cup of milk spilled out of the glass bottle on the table and directly wet the newspaper.
Of course, he didn't care about all this anymore. He dropped the newspaper, changed his clothes, went out and headed straight to the company.
"Hello, Mr. Xu."
"Good morning, Mr. Xu."
As soon as he entered the company gate, all the employees bowed to him and greeted him.
Under normal circumstances, Xu Yu would occasionally nod or wave his hand in response, but today he simply ignored everyone and shouted, "Is anyone from the secretariat here? Notify all supervisors and above to come to the conference room for a meeting, immediately!"
Seeing Xu Pi's impetuous look, the employees couldn't help but talk about it.
"What happened to Mr. Xu? It's so early in the morning."
"He looks so scary."
"Isn't he usually like this? Have you ever seen him smile?"
"Yeah, who cares? Anyway, these rich people all have weird tempers."
"Shh, don't talk nonsense, be careful, the walls have ears."
Xu Fan rushed to the conference room. Soon, the company executives who had received the news also arrived one after another.
"What happened? Why do we need a meeting all of a sudden?"
"Today is not the time for the regular Monday meeting."
The executives walked into the meeting room, all of them were confused. However, seeing Xu Fan's unhappy face, they consciously shut up, sat down in their seats, and waited for Xu Fan to speak.
Xu Yu glanced around and asked coldly, "Have you read the newspaper this morning?"
When everyone heard this, they looked at each other in surprise.
It is a luxury for a worker to sleep one more minute in the morning. Who has the leisure and energy to read a newspaper? Do you think I'm the boss?
Xu Cheng coughed lightly and spoke to break the deadlock: "Brother, just tell me what happened. Look how anxious you are. It's like your butt is on fire."
Xu Yu glanced at everyone, gnashing his teeth and shouting with dissatisfaction: "Don't you know? I saw a report about our company in the newspaper this morning, saying that we exploit our employees, work 996 every day, are the head of evil capital, stand on the opposite side of the working class, and exploit our compatriots' cheap labor under the guise of patriotism..."
He got angrier and angrier as he spoke, and in the end he asked his secretary to bring in newspapers and magazines. He said angrily, "Hurry up and read what you haven't read! From today on, everyone in the company must show me a few copies of the day's newspapers and magazines when they get up. You can subscribe to them at your own expense. If this happens again in the future, I'll deduct your wages!"
When the supervisors heard that they were required to read books and newspapers every day and that their wages would be deducted if they did not, they immediately complained . They felt that the newspaper was not wrong, as the four brothers of the Xu family did these things a lot.
The lives of these workers are really hard. Working in the factory during the day is already tough enough. Not only do we have to go around the workshops for inspection, we don't even have time for a lunch break. When we get home at night, we are like dead dogs and just want to sleep. We have to go to work at 8 o'clock and wish we could get up at 7:50. And we are still expected to read books and newspapers?
Will you give me a way to survive?
If I were willing to work so hard, I would have been admitted to a prestigious university and studied abroad. Would I still need to be your grandson here every day?
The key is that you have to pay for the subscription yourself, and if you don’t watch it, your salary will be deducted.
Is there still law?
Is there still law?
After everyone finished reading the newspaper, someone couldn't help but say, "Mr. Xu, the newspaper didn't mention our Xu Fuji by name. Doesn't it mention some company?"
Xu Cheng also said, "Yes, brother, it says that there are factories in the mainland that discriminate based on region, conduct body searches, make people kneel, and harass female workers in the factories. There are many things in it that we don't do at all. Are you too sensitive?"
Xu Fan cursed: "Although he didn't mention us, everyone would think it was us! This is a newspaper in Wancheng. Among all the companies in Wancheng, aren't we the largest candy manufacturer? It's because they didn't mention us by name that this move is so vicious Xu Fuji, we could refute them one by one, or even go to court to sue them for slander and rumor-mongering, but now we don't even have a chance to refute! Anyone who sees this newspaper will think of our company first."
"Isn't this too cruel? Is this immoral? Who did this?"
“Who is framing us?”
"We have to clarify, there are some things here that we really didn't do!"
Everyone was filled with indignation and emotion.
Seeing that everyone was united in their hatred of the enemy, Xu Fan felt a little better, but then he sighed again, "Who else could it be? It could be Shi Jin Ji. It's impossible for others to slander our Xu Fuji for no reason."
After saying that, Xu Yu rubbed his brows, looking pained: "The key is, is it useful for us to explain now? Can you explain to every user? The person who wrote the report is so vicious. He directly said this and that about us, and boasted about Shi Jin Ji, packaging Su Yunjin as a housewife who had to shoulder the burden to save the company, and directly occupied the moral high ground. Who is the one who suffered a setback at Shi Jin Ji recently? It was us. The report didn't mention our names, but every word was scolding us."
"Damn it, these mainlanders are really heartless. It's fine if they don't want to cooperate with us, but they don't even let us speak? Aren't they too overbearing?"
"It is simply outrageous for the narrow-minded mainland Chinese to do this."
"So what should we do now?"
Xu Fan showed a helpless expression: "Let's stop the war of words for now. The previous reports should be removed and cancelled. In short, let's keep a low profile for a while."
Facing such an opponent, Xu Yu was really frustrated. He originally thought he had a sure win, but he didn't expect that the wildfire would burn him in the blink of an eye.
Xu Cheng also frowned, "Who on earth gave Su Yunjin the instructions? Such a vicious and cruel method is not something a weak housewife like her could come up with."
