Chapter 309: Mother-in-law's Tricks
Li Zixian looked at Li Yiwen with some suspicion.
It's not that she looks down on people, it's just that, compared with Lu Yiming, who is so "low-key" that you can easily find a lot of news reports about him - for example, he earned 300,000 US dollars from Bill Gates in his second year of high school, founded Tongxin Internet Cafe which is praised by users as the highest-end Internet cafe, fought to defend Hong Kong, established the Future Fund to save the boss who was about to jump off the building... and so on, Li Yiwen is still too inconspicuous. In the current domestic business field, few people know the existence of Li Yiwen.
Although Lu Yiming said that Li Yiwen was a young and promising billionaire, Li Zixian really couldn't think of any explosive topics that could be dug out from Li Yiwen.
There are so many rich people, but not many of them are worth reporting. The reason is that the wealth of most people is either obtained through illegal means and cannot be reported, or is not topical and not worth reporting.
Cases like Lu Yiming, who started from scratch and became a billionaire before the age of 20 and is good at making things happen, are the favorite subjects of journalists.
However, Li Zixian is Li Zixian after all, and she quickly learned a lot of useful information from the conversation.
For example, Li Yiwen's wealth growth was almost synchronized with Lu Yiming's, and it was almost always Lu Yiming who took him to success, so the two people's trajectories overlapped to a great extent. Interviewing Li Yiwen was equivalent to reporting on Lu Yiming from another perspective. It was nothing more than changing the protagonist's name from Lu Yiming to Li Yiwen.
A 27-year-old young man gave up his 5-to-9 job and went out on his own to make a living. In less than half a year, he became a billionaire!
This story can also be made extremely attractive if handled properly!
Thinking of this, Li Zixian adjusted his mentality and asked Li Yiwen: "Mr. Li, are you willing to take the time to accept my interview?"
Li Yiwen had been sitting next to Lu Yiming for a long time. Just watching Li Zixian talking to Lu Yiming, he had been anxious for a long time. Now seeing Li Zixian taking the initiative to talk to him, he almost jumped up with excitement and nodded in agreement: "Of course I am willing."
What work are you busy with?
What cousin?
Get out of the way!
On the way home after dinner, Li Yiwen felt dizzy. Although he didn't drink much, his face already looked a little drunk.
Lu Yiming said to Li Yiwen sincerely, "Cousin, I can only help you up to this point. How far you can go from here depends entirely on your own performance."
Li Yiwen was very touched and hugged Lu Yiming's shoulders: "Good brother..."
As his cousin's younger brother, Lu Yiming is very worried about his cousin's lifelong affairs.
As the saying goes, it is good to start a family and a career. Seeing his cousin Li Yiwen so motivated, Lu Yiming nodded with satisfaction and said to him emotionally: "I plan to open another company, you see..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly discovered that Li Yiwen had fallen on the back seat of the car, snoring loudly.
At Xu Fuji’s production base in Dongguan, the sound of machines roaring continues in the workshop.
Xu Yu was in a very bad mood. He walked into the office with a gloomy face. The food factory employees along the way dared not breathe, for fear that they would be affected by the evil fire of their boss.
However, the arrogant ones are afraid of the stupid ones, and the stupid ones are afraid of the desperate ones. A young man who had just joined the factory not long ago, after Xu Yu finished inspecting the workshop and left, couldn't help but whispered to an old employee next to him: "The boss seems to be very angry today, what happened?"
The old employee turned his head and gave him a blank look: "Have you not watched the news on TV recently?"
The new employee scratched his head and said sheepishly, "There's no TV where I live, and I don't watch the news."
The old employee asked again: "Where's the newspaper? You don't even read the newspaper?"
The new employee felt even more embarrassed, lowering his head and whispering, "I didn't even finish elementary school, and I don't know a few words..."
The old employee looked around and saw that no one was watching, so he whispered in the young man's ear, "Things have been very serious these days. Because we oppressed the mainland employees too harshly before, negative news about the company was published in the newspapers. Now it has caused a series of chain reactions, causing the boss to suffer heavy losses. Do you think he can be happy?"
The new employee finally understood what was going on, and then sighed and said, "Factories run by Taiwanese and Koreans are all similar. I have worked in almost all the factories in Baiyun. All crows are the same. Forget it, let's just do our own job well."
Old employees couldn't help but complain: "That's right, these black-hearted capitalists deduct our wages in various ways. Our wages are already very low, and they simply don't treat us mainlanders as human beings."
No matter how much they curse, they still need this job to support their family.
However, the enthusiasm for work is naturally not high. No one will work seriously if they can slack off. After all, who would be willing to work so hard for such a small amount of money ?
It's not like I'm a jerk.
Xu Yan walked into the office with a dark face. When Xu Cheng saw Xu Yan, he quickly asked, "How is the matter going? Has the loan we asked for been approved?"
It turned out that Xu Fan went out this time to apply for a bank loan to expand the scale of research and development of new products, hoping to use this to compete with foreign brands such as Ferrero.
As for the candy factories in the mainland?
In their opinion, no one can fight.
Xu Yu sat on the sofa, looking like a salted fish lying on its back. He rubbed his brows and said exhaustedly, "The loan hasn't been approved yet. That bastard Liu Shaofeng said that the higher-ups have issued a strict order that we should make up the overdue wages first, and promised not to arbitrarily deduct the wages of mainland employees in the future."
Liu Shaofeng is the president of China Merchants Bank. Without his approval, the loan applied for by Xu Fuji would not be approved.
After hearing what Xu Cheng said, he was immediately filled with anger and couldn't help cursing: "We came to the mainland to do business, and we have already given the mainlanders a bite to eat. What else do you want from us? Are the mainlanders all ungrateful ungrateful people?"
Having the same idea as his brother Xu Cheng, Xu Pi was also full of indignation at this moment, cursing: "Officials are two-faced. They asked us to invest and said everything was fine. Now that we are here, they are sharpening their knives. It is really shameless. Without us, can the mainland's economy develop? Fortunately, we did not bet all on the mainland, and the third and fourth brothers are still in the base camp, otherwise... humph."
"Everyone here is illiterate. They can't read English or Japanese, and they can't operate the machines. They still complain when they are asked to work in two shifts for 24 hours! I have given them eight hours of time to eat and sleep every day. What else do they want? Except when they are active when asking for wages, they are like lazy bugs, free and undisciplined, and they only work when I supervise them. They don't follow the rules, go to the toilet three or four times a day, and pee so much. They are all good-for-nothings, right? If they wet their pants, can't they just go home and wash them? I have already given them a job opportunity, and they still want to ask me for wages? Is this reasonable?"
The two brothers kept complaining, and it really felt like they had a lot of grievances but nowhere to vent.
In their opinion, they came to the mainland to open a business, and were deceived by those officials. Now that the mainland's economy has developed thanks to their investment, those officials want to get rid of them, which is even more vampire-like than vampires.
Even when their factories came, they got the land almost for free, and even when their companies were short of money for expansion, it was the banks in Xia that provided them with loans to keep them alive.
But they still think that all this is as it should be. They are the saviors of Xia State. They never think that it is the economic boom of Xia State that has made them successful, rather than them making Xia State's economy successful.
After the two of them complained, Xu Fan said angrily: "Now the matter has become a big deal. It has a very bad impact on the company. Some suppliers have even begun to worry that this incident will affect the sales of Xu Fuji's products."
Xu Cheng snorted in dissatisfaction, but then he had to give in and asked, "Then what should we do?"
Xu Yu slammed the table and said, "What else can I do? Give those guys money, give them a raise, as they wish. Today, I was even pulled in by the relevant department for a talk, and they asked me to promise not to harm the legal rights of all mainland employees. They said that if I don't make the rectifications as required, they will regularly send people to the factory to hold popular lectures on labor law, and teach workers how to use legal weapons to increase their legal rights. Do I still want to work in this fucking factory? Do I still want to make money?"
Xu Cheng got anxious when he heard this: "It's really unfair for the government to do this, isn't it? If it weren't for us who invested in setting up factories, they would have starved to death. How could they afford to build roads and live in houses? Aren't these built with the taxes we paid? Now, they want to educate these illiterate people about the law . Do they still want us to make money?"
For capitalists, not making money is equivalent to losing money.
When they were exploiting the workers' surplus value before, they never thought of treating the workers as human beings. Their minds were full of thoughts about how much money they could make.
As for whether the money is earned from customers or squeezed from employees, they don’t really care.
After all, it has been clearly stated in "Das Kapital": when capital comes into this world, every pore from head to toe is dripping with blood and filth.
They are used to exploitation and think that it is a matter of course. Now that they are asked to behave normally, they will inevitably feel that they have made huge sacrifices and concessions.
Xu Yu spread his hands and said helplessly, "What can you do? This is no longer a problem for our company alone. Many senior officials and Korean companies on the blacklist of Mingzhu TV have been punished by the authorities. Even if it's just for show, we have to express our stance. Otherwise, how can we do business?"
Xu Cheng gnashed his teeth and said, "Which bastard leaked this matter? If I find out who he is, I will kill him."
Xu Fan snorted lightly, his eyes fierce: "What do you think?"
Lu Yiming, the "capitalist thief" hated by the capitalists of Baiyun City, was now walking into the chairman's office of Shijinji with great confidence.
Su Yunjin, who was working, saw Lu Yiming coming in, and a smile immediately appeared on her face. She said softly, "Xiaoming is here."
As he said this, he stood up and made tea for Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming said politely: "You're welcome, Auntie."
Su Yunjin smiled, and her eyes became more and more gentle as she looked at Lu Yiming: "You came up with a brilliant idea this time! Shijinji's public relations crisis was finally overcome without any danger. Now the news is discussing the infringement of the legal rights of mainland employees, and no one is interested in the acquisition between Shijinji and Ferrero. This time it's really thanks to you, otherwise I don't know what to do."
Lu Yiming said with some gloating: "Xu Fuji is having a hard time now. The government has launched a special rectification campaign specifically targeting foreign-funded enterprises that oppress mainland employees. They probably don't have time to bother us. These capitalists want to replicate their cannibalism in the mainland, but they don't think about what era it is now. We are the people who rule the country. These capitalists dare to exploit us working people, and they will definitely be beaten to pieces by our iron fist."
Su Yunjin was immediately amused by Lu Yiming's words. Thinking of how confused and helpless she felt a few days ago, Su Yunjin felt even more grateful to Lu Yiming.
However, reversing public opinion has never been Lu Yiming's goal, but the basis for the next step. Now that public opinion has reversed, Lu Yiming took the opportunity to say: "While the heat has not yet subsided, we can launch our artist recruitment activity under the banner of supporting dreams. The one million prize will definitely bring advertising heat that radiates across the country."
Su Yunjin readily agreed and nodded immediately: "Okay, this was originally planned. Now we can take advantage of this popularity, which is definitely a huge profit. I'll leave this matter to you."
Lu Yiming's face was full of question marks. "No, Auntie, that's not right. Although I'm very useful, you can't use me to death. I still have to take the college entrance examination."
Su Yunjin said with a look of resentment: "But, who else can I trust besides you?"
“Ah, this…”
Lu Yiming was speechless for a moment, and then his face was full of melancholy.
Sometimes, performing too well can be a really annoying thing.
But then again, the success or failure of this project is related to the life and death of Shijinji, so Lu Yiming naturally doesn't feel comfortable handing it over to someone else.
After all, plans are dead, but people are alive, and living people always have their own ideas. Lu Yiming cannot guarantee that the business plan he has worked so hard on will not be changed beyond recognition by some smart person.
"All right."
Seeing Lu Yiming agreed, Su Yunjin smiled brightly, and her heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down at this moment: "However, you and Xiaoxue are both going to take the college entrance examination soon, can you handle it?"
When Lu Yiming heard this, he immediately thought to himself that something was not good.
Oh my god, I was tricked by my mother-in-law.
