Chapter 137 This Road is Impassable
Chapter 137 This Road is Impassable (Additional Update)
Willow branches on the moon.
Jiang Miao put down his headphones. He had finished listening to the high-level meeting of Xiyuan Company. Through the translation software and the Korean language he had learned by himself, he had already understood the whole story.
"Haha, that's a good plan, but it's a pity that you don't have a chance."
Early the next morning.
Hailufeng Company issued an announcement.
Soon after, Kagoshima Eel Company also issued an announcement, and Brown Company issued an announcement last.
As soon as these three announcements came out.
The relevant practitioners were shocked.
They did not expect that the price adjustment mentioned by the three major eel fry companies was actually a collective price increase, raising the price of glass eels from the current 2.3 Hua Yuan per kilogram to 2.5 Hua Yuan per kilogram.
Of course, the price increase is not for the breeding seedlings, but for the edible seedlings.
Because the three companies also announced a piece of news at the same time, that is, strictly restricting the "mixing of farmed seedlings and edible seedlings", that is, farmed seedlings are not allowed to be used for edible purposes.
The reason given is very simple, that is, the cultured seedlings contain undegraded chemicals. It takes two to three months of cultivation to completely degrade the chemical components in the cultured seedlings.
The edible glass eels that have been increased in price are specially bred and do not contain any chemical ingredients in their bodies.
At the end of the announcement, a special reminder was given to customs in various countries to conduct strict inspections on eel fry that are not from the three major eel fry breeding companies, to prevent people from using farmed fry as edible fry.
Of course, the three major eel fry producers also expressed their welcome for customs in various countries to conduct random inspections of their products at any time.
As soon as this announcement came out, relevant aquatic product practitioners thought that the three major eel fry producers wanted to crack down on the middlemen.
However, some people who knew the inside story immediately began to imagine all sorts of things.
Also in Seaview Company, Shanmei.
Gu Haijing looked at the announcement that his secretary had just printed out and fell into deep thought.
His eldest son, Gu Baiming, who was standing beside him, said in surprise, "Dad, what's going on? Are there really two types of eel fry from Hailufeng Company?"
"How should I know?" Gu Haijing's eyes narrowed slightly, and then the corners of his mouth rose: "Haha, but I know someone is going to be in big trouble."
"Why?" Gu Baiming was puzzled.
Gu Haijing gently tapped the copy and said, "Don't you find it strange? Three months ago, Hailufeng Company issued another announcement, and there are also rumors among aquaculture practitioners in various places."
"Dad, are you saying that Hailufeng Company is directing and acting in their own drama for some people to watch?"
"Whether it is true or not, we will know soon. After all, the Xihai Company also collapsed in more than three months. This new unlucky guy is probably about the same."
"Jiang Miao is really scary." Gu Baiming felt a little awe towards Jiang Miao.
Gu Haijing admired Jiang Miao very much. After all, a man cannot stand firm without being ruthless. For a guy who dares to steal his egg-laying hen, he must be merciless. He smiled and said, "People like him are destined to soar to the sky. We are not his enemies. Following him, we can at least get some benefits."
Hearing this, Gu Baiming stopped thinking about the unlucky guy. After all, they just needed to eat melons quietly. He talked about the large number of eel fry purchased from Hailufeng Company. The first batch of fry has now been cultivated for more than five months:
"That's right, Dad. Our more than 1,000 acres of eels will be available on the market after the Chinese New Year."
Gu Haijing still had high hopes for his eldest son. Although his talent was average, he could still do the job of simply maintaining the status quo. He smiled and instructed, "I'll leave this matter to you. I don't count on your brother. As long as he doesn't cause any trouble, I'll leave everything else to him!"
Gu Baiming still took his brother's feelings into consideration: "Dad, you should pay more attention to him. If he gets addicted to drugs or gambling, his life will be ruined."
"Well, I'll let Dabao and Dongzi keep an eye on him. If he dares to get involved in gambling or drugs, I'll go over and break his legs right away."
...
at the same time.
The Lu store in southern Fujian.
Xie Xiaowei woke up naturally after sleeping, wiped his sleepy eyes, wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, stuffed the pillow behind his neck, picked up his phone and watched videos on the Yinfo platform.
Suddenly, he was recommended a video related to Hailufeng Company.
This is related to the fact that he has been searching for information about Hailufeng Company frequently in the past few months. The system thinks that he likes content related to Hailufeng Company, so it pushes it to him as soon as possible.
Looking at this simple video which was just released less than half an hour ago, there was no trace of laziness on his face. He was instantly startled and sat up.
“A price increase?”
"When! Three months ago?"
Xie Xiaowei quickly recalled that three months ago, Hailufeng Company issued an announcement to adjust prices. At that time, many practitioners thought that Hailufeng Company was going to cut prices, and there were rumors that the company's confidential formula had been stolen.
As one of the parties involved, Xie Xiaowei certainly knew about the secret deal between him and Zhang Xincheng.
Looking back now, he felt that there were many doubts about this matter.
"As soon as I return, I will represent the company and prove that the formula for eel fry is indeed effective. Zhang Xincheng will naturally know about this..."
"After my boss and I went to Busan, as soon as we came back, the farm's laboratory and eel fry were burned down, and then the boss was electrocuted to death? His lover and illegitimate child also died..."
"No evidence can be found for anything..." Thinking of this, Xie Xiaowei felt a chill on his back: "As one of the few people who knew about this, will I be..."
But he soon calmed down: "Probably not. As long as I don't take the initiative to publicize it, the other party will most likely not take me seriously. What's more, even if I take the initiative to expose it, it is unfounded."
When he thought of this, Xie Xiaowei realized that during the previous transaction with Zhang Xincheng, the other party did not give him any paper materials or electronic files, and all information was transmitted orally.
The financial transactions between the two parties are conducted through overseas bearer accounts.
At this point, Xie Xiaowei became more certain that this was a setup. He and Jiang Anye were just pawns, and maybe that old man Gao was also a pawn.
Although he speculated that these things might be related to Hailufeng Company, Xie Xiaowei had no intention of publicizing it.
As for thoughts of revenge for Jiang Anye, even though Jiang Anye had once saved his life, Xie Xiaowei had no intention of committing suicide to repay the favor. He had finally escaped from the whirlpool and now just wanted to live a good life with his wife and children.
What's more, he had done his best for Jiang Anye. At least before leaving, he informed his ex-wife and eldest son, which was equivalent to saving his wife and son. It was like paying back two lives with one life, which was quite kind.
"Xiyuan Group is going to be in big trouble." Xie Xiaowei sighed, then lit a cigarette and took a deep puff:
"call…"
He has decided that from now on, he will stay away from Hailufeng Company to avoid being involved in such things again.
Faced with such a ruthless and covert force, a small gangster like him is not even cannon fodder.
If you meddle in other people's affairs, you may die a miserable death.
...
Kim Won-ki and his son Kim Hao-rui rested for a night in Busan Port.
Just got up, one is getting ready to catch a flight to North America, and the other is getting ready to go back to headquarters.
Suddenly, Jin Yuanji's secretary knocked on the door.
"Come in."
The beautiful secretary hurriedly walked in wearing high heels. The sound of her heels tapping on the wooden floor sounded like a DJ, which made Jin Yuanji a little annoyed.
"Boss, something bad has happened!"
"Could it be that Han Yingze and his gang have changed their minds?" Jin Yuanji frowned.
The secretary panted, "Hoo, hoo… Hailufeng Company, Kagoshima Eel Company, and Brown Company issued a joint announcement this morning. This is the content that has just been translated. Please take a look, President."
When Jin Yuanji heard the name of Hailufeng Company, he snatched the file and opened it to read it, as if he was a manic patient suffering from stress.
The more he read, the more his hands shook. At the end, he was so angry that he smashed the documents and the lamp on the bedside table.
boom!
The glass from the lamp flew everywhere.
The secretary was frightened, but dared not move.
"Damn it! Bastards! Despicable Chinese! It's you who are responsible! Huhuhu..." Jin Yuanji had lost his mind and was cursing hysterically.
Jin Haorui, who was next door, heard the noise and rushed over. Seeing his father roaring, he quickly pulled his secretary and asked, "What happened?"
The secretary, as if she had been pardoned, quickly explained: "Vice President, this is what happened..." After hearing the whole story, Jin Haorui also collapsed and sat down. After a while, he patted his face, stood up and held his frantic father Jin Yuanji: "Dad! Calm down, we haven't fallen down yet."
Hearing this, Jin Yuanji regained some rationality, then sat on the mattress and covered his face with his hands: "I just lost my composure."
Although the loss of 4 million US dollars was a heavy loss for Xiyuan Group, Jin Haorui was right, their company has not collapsed yet.
After a while, Jin Yuanji stood up and regained his composure: "Ximan, notify the others to come to the meeting immediately."
"Yes, President." Secretary Jin Ximan hurried out to inform the company's executives.
An hour later.
In the branch office's meeting room.
Jin Yuanji's face seemed to have aged several years overnight. He said slowly in a dry voice: "Everyone, our plan has completely failed. I admit that this failure was due to my wrong decision, but our Xiyuan Group has not fallen yet."
Other executives certainly got the message, too.
They didn't expect that the three major eel fry producers would react so quickly, which left them with no time to react before everything was settled.
Just a joint announcement completely thwarted Xiyuan Group's scheme and dealt a heavy blow to their company.
Jin Haorui also knew that he had to stand up, otherwise his brothers and sisters would not let go of this opportunity. He stood up and bowed to all the executives to apologize:
"I'm very sorry. The failure of this project is also my fault. I will use all my savings and sell my car and yacht to compensate the client for the liquidated damages."
"Vice President, this is not your fault. It's all the conspiracy of our opponents."
"Hey! The vice president is also doing this for the company, there's no need to do this."
Several executives quickly spoke up. Although they hoped that Jin Haorui and Jin Yuanji, father and son, would bear all the responsibilities and losses, Xiyuan Group was not a listed company and Jin Yuanji was still a major shareholder. They did not want to be held accountable later.
Jin Yuanji sighed and said, "I will be responsible for this matter to the end. I will pay for the loss this time."
Although the loss of 400 million US dollars was a huge loss, Jin Yuanji had accumulated a considerable amount of wealth over the past few decades.
If all unimportant personal properties and personal yachts were sold, they could probably fetch around US$1.2 million.
Then there is his personal savings, which are in more than a dozen overseas accounts, totaling 2.3 million US dollars.
His son Jin Haorui can raise 5000 million US dollars.
This US$4 million hole can be filled.
If he doesn't do this, he will definitely not be able to hold on to his position as president.
Although Jin Yuanji holds 34% of the shares, when his father was alive, he set 36% of the shares as family collective shares. This part of the shares belongs to the four branches of the Jin family, plus the two daughters and their sons-in-law, but the proportions are different.
The 36% of family shares can be determined through internal voting, thereby determining the overall voting intention of the 36% stake.
In other words, although Jin Yuanji's lineage owns 6% of the family shares, it is of no use at all. As long as the other three lines, plus the shares of a younger sister, can reach 24%, which exceeds half of 36%, they can represent 36% of the shares for overall voting.
This is also to prevent Kim Won-ki's family, as the heirs, from infringing on the interests of other family members.
Now that he has made a wrong decision, he must pay the price for it, otherwise the rest of the family will immediately unite and remove him from office.
Jin Haorui had the same idea.
If his father loses his position as president, he, the heir, will also be in trouble.
When Jin Yuanji thought about the fact that 80% of the more than 300 million US dollars he had worked so hard to earn over the past few decades was gone in an instant, his heart bled.
When he thought of this, he became fierce in his heart: "Dachang."
"Yes, please give me your instructions, President." Park Dachang stood up quickly.
Jin Yuanji clenched his fists and said, "You appease Dr. Han Yingze and others. Next, we will continue to invest funds to develop artificial production technology for eel fry."
"This?" Park Daechang looked at Jin Yuanji with some surprise.
"I can't swallow this. I don't believe we can't figure it out." Jin Yuanji looked unwilling.
"I understand." Park Daechang knew that Kim Won-ki was angry, but there was nothing he could do because he was the president. At the same time, if he put himself in Kim Won-ki's shoes, he would probably be unwilling to accept it as well.
As Jin Yuanji and Jin Haorui bowed to apologize and took full responsibility and compensation, the crisis within Xiyuan Group was temporarily suppressed.
But Jin Yuanji did not forget the external crisis.
He quickly ordered Jin Haorui, on behalf of Xiyuan Group, to cancel the orders with the customers who had previously signed contracts and compensate them for 30% of the liquidated damages.
Otherwise, when those customers react and the two parties go to court, it will be a fatal blow to the corporate reputation of Xiyuan Group.
What's more, a large number of these customers are old customers of Xiyuan Group in Europe and the United States. If these customers are not compensated, there will be no business to do in the future.
In less than a week.
Brown's company, which had already arranged people to deliberately entrap Xiyuan Group, obtained US$7500 million in compensation through dozens of shell companies across Europe and the United States.
According to a secret agreement among Brown Company, Hailufeng Company and Kagoshima Eel Company, the three companies shared the US$7500 million, with each company receiving US$2500 million.
What a good man!
Brown, the CEO of Brown Company, called Xiyuan Group a great group of people and immediately paid more than half of the US$3000 million they had previously spent on purchasing technology from Hailufeng Company.
Jun'ichi Watanabe, the president of Kagoshima Eel Company, even wondered if he could do the same thing to trick a few more unlucky people.
After all, if they cheated 2500 million US dollars at a time, and cheated a few more times, it would be higher than their company's net profit in a year.
Fortunately, they still have their senses. This kind of thing can happen once or twice, but not three times.
Xihai Company, Anye Company and Xiyuan Group have already suffered setbacks at the hands of Hailufeng Company. In the future, other companies will probably not be so easily fooled by the technology leaking out of Hailufeng Company.
As Xiyuan Group continued to compensate its customers in Europe and the United States over the past week, the matter was soon exposed.
Many industry insiders at home and abroad only then learned that South Korea's Xiyuan Group had suffered a major setback with the eel fry. Some people estimated that Xiyuan Group had lost at least 200 to 300 million US dollars.
This incident also quickly spread on the Chinese Internet.
On the note platform.
Over the past week, bloggers have made various speculations about the two announcements made by Hailufeng Company.
It wasn't until the news came from the outside network that the comment section under the video of several bloggers who guessed part of the situation suddenly became lively.
Silent Fish: [Blogger’s divine prophecy! ]
Three Mice: [It seems that the blogger guessed it right, South Korea's Xiyuan Group has collapsed, hahaha. ]
Aluminum Alloy Ant Nest: [The Hailufeng Company is so terrifying! In front of it is the Ryukyu Xihai Company, and behind it is the Nankore Xiyuan Company. They are simply killing one at a time. ]
Things about chemistry: [Stealing the secret formula of another company, you deserve to die! ]
Mr. Zhang Dalei: [According to reliable information, Xiyuan Group may lose 400 million US dollars. This is really gratifying. These guys who like to steal things should be beaten with a stick.]
Animal Observation Network: [Is this a business war? I thought high-end business wars were all about watering money trees, and I didn’t expect there would be such high-end operations.]
The inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the earth plane: [@Observation Animal Network, at a glance, this is a low-end business war. I am the authentic old craftsman. V me 50 and let you see what a earth plane is. ]
Farmer Three Punches is a bit salty: [I guess no one will dare to steal technology from Hailufeng Company in the future. Every time this technology is stolen, a company will be sacrificed. ]
Kekexili Wolf Culture Media Co., Ltd.: [Lie down, eat melons, so cool. 】
Although the popularity of this incident on the Internet once reached the top five on major platforms, Hailufeng Company and Xiyuan Group did not respond.
Although everyone in the industry knows that Xiyuan Group has most likely fallen into the trap of Hailufeng Company, no one has any evidence.
Moreover, in the cause and effect of this incident, it is highly likely that Xiyuan Group took the initiative to steal the technology of Hailufeng Company. In this case, Xiyuan Group suffered heavy losses as a result, and others would only say one thing:
He deserves to die.
Except for those South Koreans who are both inferior and arrogant, no one would think that Xiyuan Group is innocent.
Others either chose to watch the show happily, or stand up for Hailufeng Company, or directly ridicule Xiyuan Group.
Of course, the Internet is here! There are always some weirdos who forget their roots and contribute to the human diversity of the world.
(End of this chapter)