Chapter 391: Rich in the Mountains Have Distant Relatives
Lu Yiming looked down at Duan Letian, who was hanging on his legs like a koala. He couldn't help but stretch out his hand to pinch his cousin's chubby face, squeezing it and rounding it, then smiled and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Before Duan Letian could complain, his cousin Luo Rujun appeared and scolded him with a stern face: "How dare you cry to your cousin? You spent all your pocket money on instant noodles, which made your mouth burn and you have ulcers all day long, and I haven't even hit you yet."
"Oh, my little baby is getting angry? Come and let me see, ah..."
When Ning Xuehua heard this, she quickly walked over, pulled Duan Letian into her arms, and asked Duan Letian to open his mouth quickly.
Seeing that there were many white "bubbles" on the gums, she touched : "Really, this internal heat is a bit serious, you have to pay attention to this, and eat less hot food in the future. I'll get you some herbal tea, you'll be fine after drinking it."
After teaching his son a lesson, Luo Rujun couldn't help but curse, "I don't know which wicked guy used cards to trick children into buying instant noodles. Our Lotte now buys at least three packs a day, and they can't even eat properly."
Ning Xuehua also echoed, "Recently in our neighborhood, almost every student on the street has a pack of instant noodles. I thought it was so delicious, but it turns out that the kids are just going for the cards."
Both of them obviously hated this and criticized the unscrupulous businesses.
Lu Yiming, who had been silent at first, could only cough twice and said , "Mom, aunt, stop scolding me. I made this thing. Mom, do you remember that you saw the commercial a few days ago..."
Luo Rujun, Ning Xuehua: "..."
Ning Xuehua remembered that Lu Yiming seemed to be a shareholder of Shi Jin Ji, but she didn't know that this product was created by Lu Yiming. After all, the signboard of the instant noodles was clearly a red panda.
"Did you make this instant noodle?"
Lu Yiming sighed and told the two the truth: "I am one of the major shareholders of Shijinji. In order to turn losses into profits and help the company overcome difficulties, I launched this card project."
Luo Rujun had a foodie son named Duan Letian, so he naturally knew how popular the Red Panda instant noodles were. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Did you really invest in Shijinji? Wouldn't that mean you're going to make a fortune?"
In front of his family, Lu Yiming was still quite reserved. He waved his hand modestly and said, "It's just average. I don't make much."
Of course Luo Rujun didn't believe that such a popular product couldn't make much money, and she just thought that Lu Yiming didn't want to be too ostentatious. Then she thought of the Hurun Rich List, and couldn't help her curiosity, so she whispered to Lu Yiming, "Mingzi, is your current assets really 4.2 billion?"
Four hundred and two billion.
In this era, people with 420,000 yuan are considered wealthy.
Being able to buy a large flat in the center of Baiyun City, who wouldn’t be envious if you tell others about it?
And what about 4.2 billion?
You can buy 10,000 large flats like this!
Anyway, Luo Rujun couldn't imagine how to spend so much money. To her, it was an astronomical figure.
Ordinary people, although not flocking to the rich list, are at least quite interested in it.
However, Lu Yiming hated the Hurun Rich List. He sighed deeply and said in boredom, "It's about the same."
By now, almost all of Lu Yiming's relatives and friends knew about his situation. After all, that bastard Hurun had posted all his photos online, and they were high-definition and uncensored, so it was hard for people not to know about it.
It is because the time is short and not many people know the Lu family’s address. Otherwise, those distant relatives from the hometown might come in groups to “borrow money”.
If you are poor in a busy city, no one will care about you; but if you are rich in a remote mountain area, you will have distant relatives.
Just when Lu Yiming was feeling deeply troubled, there were people who felt as melancholy as he did.
Ferrero Baiyun Representative Office.
Chu Tianyu looked at Lu Qinghe, the head of the sales department, with an uncertain look, and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on? Why is the sales of our Ferrero chocolate candies growing slowly even though the New Year is coming soon? Is it because you are not doing your job well?"
Faced with Chu Tianyu's questioning, Lu Qinghe was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
He previously switched from Shijinji to Ferrero, and was thinking about working in a foreign company. The salary would definitely be better than that of private companies in Xia Country, right?
However, the reality slapped him hard in the face.
During the first few days after arriving at Ferrero, he was indeed very excited. After all, he had been promoted and given a raise. Moreover, he worked for a foreign company, which made him more prestigious to talk about. He was envied by many neighbors, relatives and friends.
But the good times didn’t last long, and now Shijinji has soared to fame!
Those who did not leave at the beginning now have far more salary and career prospects than those who left.
Facing Chu Tianyu's doubts, Lu Qinghe had to explain: "Representative Chu, our sales department has really tried its best. Could it be that the discount is not strong enough, which leads to problems in product promotion?"
As a working person, how can you not pass on the blame?
Although he didn't know why the market reaction was suddenly cold, in Lu Qinghe's opinion, the product was not selling well because the price was too high, so there would be no problem in launching a wave of promotions!
Fearing that he had not completely shifted the blame, Lu Qinghe continued, "I visited several large supermarkets and found that Xu Fuji's recent candy promotions are very strong, with buy-two-get-one-free promotions going on like wildfire. Our Ferrero's sales are low, so we must have been targeted by them!"
As a returnee who has studied abroad for many years, Chu Tianyu is almost blind to the current situation in Xiaguo. After listening to Lu Qinghe's explanation, he felt that it seemed to make some sense, and immediately decided: "If that's the case, then we at Ferrero will also have a candy promotion. Xu Fuji's buy two get one free, right? We'll buy one get one free!"
He shoulders the mission of developing the Xia country market, and the Chinese New Year is the peak sales season for high-end chocolate like Ferrero Rocher. If the sales results are not good, Chu Tianyu will bear a great responsibility!
Seeing that he had successfully passed the buck, Lu Qinghe felt relieved and quickly agreed: "Representative Chu is wise, I will arrange it right away!"
At the same time, the headquarters of Xu Fuji is located in Xingguang Village, Huangjiang Town, Guancheng.
The Xu brothers also gathered together. The four of them looked at the report sent back by the sales department with worried brows.
Xu Yu looked puzzled and said, "Our promotion efforts are very strong, why are the sales so low?"
The third brother, Xu Hang, had been in the gang in Taiwan for a while. He frowned and looked fierce. "Could it be that the salesmen below were cheating? I've said it before, people from the mainland are unreliable!"
The second brother Xu Cheng shook his head and said something fair: "I have secretly inspected it, and the salesmen are basically very hard-working. After all, sales volume is linked to their bonuses, and no one will go against money."
The fourth brother, Xu Geng, pinched his chin and looked thoughtful: "What is the problem? Could it be Ferrero's doing? Chu Tianyu has also been promoting sales recently, directly putting up a buy one get one free promotion, which is clearly targeting us."
After hearing this, Xu Cheng said unhappily, "Chu Tianyu is such a piece of shit. He has to make things difficult for us Xu Fuji during the New Year, right?"
Xu Hang gritted his teeth and became irritable: "We can also do buy one get one free. Even if we don't make money, we have to increase sales first. We can't lose market share."
"I think so."
"Fuck him! How dare a banana man be so arrogant."
"Let's go head to head and see who wins in the end."
This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone, and Xu Fuji began to gear up to compete with Ferrero and become the dominant force in the Spring Festival candy market.
Just like that, without any communication between the two parties, a chain of suspicion between them was quietly born, and both parties tacitly started an "arms race" in the candy industry.
However, a week later, the two sides had fought several close combats, but sales still showed no improvement.
It’s not that there was no growth in sales. After all, it was Chinese New Year and there were quite a lot of people buying candies. But although sales increased, it was not a complete increase. It only increased a little bit, which was far from the original expectation.
Having suffered an inexplicable defeat, Xu Piao had no choice but to personally lead a careful and detailed market research, and he soon discovered the crux of the problem.
He returned to the company with a gloomy face and called a meeting of all shareholders.
Xu Hang asked in confusion: "Brother, why did you suddenly call everyone over for a meeting? What did you discover?"
Xu Fan let out a long sigh and told what he had seen with his own eyes: "After my careful investigation and research over this period of time, I have found the reason why our Xu Fuji's sales are not ideal."
Xu Geng couldn't wait to ask, "Is it that Ferrero who did this? I knew these foreigners are all evil-minded!"
Xu Fan shook his head, his tone full of emotion and sigh: "It's not Ferrero's problem. Ferrero's sales are even worse than ours."
People in China like to eat candy during the Chinese New Year, and chocolate is only popular among young people . During the Chinese New Year, more people buy candy than chocolate. Therefore, even if Ferrero offers buy one get one free, there is still no improvement.
This is different from after the 21st century, when people born in the 1980s and 1990s have all grown up and they are the main consumers of foreign things like chocolate.
Xu Hang scratched his head, with a puzzled expression on his face: "No, this is not right. This is not reasonable. If we don't eat candy or chocolate, then what should we eat during the New Year? Nothing?"
Xu Cheng also had a lot of questions in his head: "There are only a few relatively powerful candy companies in Guangdong Province. If it's not us or Ferrero, who else could it be? I haven't heard of any of our competitors' products selling very well recently. The market share can't just disappear for no reason, right?"
Facing everyone's doubts and confusion, Xu Yu smiled bitterly and finally revealed the answer: "It's not our competitors. The one who stole our business is Shi Jin Ji."
After hearing this, Xu Hang's eyes widened: "Brother, are you serious? Shijinji has already cut off its candy business. They sell instant noodles. How could they have snatched our candy business?"
Xu Yu sighed again: "I know this answer is outrageous, but it is the truth."
Then, in front of the company's shareholders, Xu Yu recounted what he had seen: "Shijinji recently launched a Jintu Spring Festival gift pack, which is similar to the Want Want gift pack and contains a variety of snacks. It contains not only instant noodles, but also other miscellaneous snacks mixed in and sold together."
Xu Hang felt a little confused and retorted: "Even if that's the case, it's nothing big. We are also making big gift packages."
Xu Yu shook his head and retorted, "It's different. The Jintu Spring Festival gift pack from Shijinji contains ten hero recruitment kits that can reveal Water Margin hero cards. Although this thing is simple, it is very popular among children. After my in-depth investigation, I found that many parents who bought New Year's goods, even if they originally did not plan to buy the gift pack from Shijinji, finally changed their minds after their children's insistence."
Everyone gasped after hearing this!
What are you doing!
It's obviously a company that sells instant noodles, but they come to attack us who sell candies during the New Year. Do you people from the mainland still have any moral principles?
Is there still a king's law? Is there still law?
At the same time, Chu Tianyu from Ferrero Baiyun Office also received feedback from front-line sales staff.
Even if no one noticed this matter at first, as time went by, the truth still slowly surfaced, leaving everyone stunned.
Especially Chu Tianyu, after learning the whole story, he felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.
He glared at Lu Qinghe with a sullen face: "Is this the answer you gave me? After all this trouble, in the end, the one who took our business away was not Xu Fuji, our competitor, but Shi Jin Ji, who had switched to selling instant noodles?"
The cruel reality cannot be changed by human will. Lu Qinghe could only sit there and take the scolding obediently, and he felt so regretful in his heart that his intestines turned green.
If he had known this would happen, why would he have switched to Ferrero?
Recently he heard from some old employees that because of his outstanding performance, Lei Peilin could get a year-end bonus of 200,000 yuan!
Two hundred thousand is enough to buy an apartment directly!
When Lu Qinghe thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Today's snack market in Baiyun City can be described as a mixture of joy and sorrow.
While countless people at Xu Fuji and Ferrero were looking worried, everyone at Shi Jin Ji was busy preparing a celebratory banquet.
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, Su Yunjin generously set up more than 20 tables at the Yufu Hotel for all the company employees to have a reunion dinner together.
At the dinner table, Lei Peilin, with a rosy face, held up his wine glass and was toasted by the top salesmen in the sales team one by one.
Everyone was in high spirits today because each of them made a fortune!
Relying on the blind box card drawing model, the sales of Shijinji’s products exploded, especially the big gift packages for the Chinese New Year, which were sold out directly.
After all, who can resist the joy of ten consecutive draws?
Although Lei Peilin had drunk a lot of wine and felt a little dizzy, he still said in front of everyone: "Compared to me, Mr. Lu is the biggest contributor to Shijinji. Let's all toast to Mr. Lu, okay?"
Everyone cheered in unison: "Good!"
Lu Yiming, who was standing in the crowd, picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Su Yunjin said proudly: "Everyone has a great time today. After the Spring Festival is over, the company will organize a shopping trip to Hong Kong, and all expenses will be reimbursed by the company."
After hearing this, everyone cheered again, and their eyes turned towards Lu Yiming and others with even more fanatical enthusiasm.
Working with such a generous boss will surely bring you great financial prospects.
