bookcurios Chapter 102 My attempt to show off backfired spectacularly! I, Cai Chenggong, am utterly finished!
Chapter 102 My attempt to show off backfired spectacularly! I, Cai Chenggong, am utterly finished!
Cai Chenggong exclaimed in surprise.
Hou Liangping, on the other end of the phone, was also stunned with anger.
"What are we supposed to arrange? Is it even necessary?"
"Just find someone to help you win a few bids in Linjiang Province. That should be enough to get you through this difficult time, right?"
"Who would help you get an interview and report from CCTV? Do you think asking someone for a favor doesn't involve owing them a debt? Especially CCTV!!"
Cai Chenggong was dejected and collapsed onto the sofa.
"Then what's going on?"
"I definitely can't persuade the Central Power Company to do it!"
"If I had that kind of ability, I wouldn't need your help!"
"Moreover, my colleague Lao Liao from the marketing department, who said it was the Economic Observer column, contacted him and said he wanted to come and interview him."
Hou Liangping said angrily, "How could you not tell me about something so important?"
Cai Chenggong had a bitter face.
"Haven't I already troubled you enough? I call you so often that I feel embarrassed, so I didn't want to bother you!"
"I was planning to come to Yanjing in person to thank you after tonight's program airs, and also to give you the gift I carefully prepared in person, so I didn't call."
Hou Liangping was furious.
"Don't send me any gifts, I don't want anything!"
"Out of brotherhood and for the livelihoods of over a thousand employees, we've helped you time and time again. But what have you done?"
"You're a fucking hopeless case! Your company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and you finally managed to win a few bids through connections, but have you even forgotten your own name?"
"When a TV station comes to interview you, can't you be a little more careful? Can't you ask yourself honestly, what the hell do you have that's worth interviewing and reporting on? Besides, this is CCTV, not some small local TV station!"
Cai Chenggong hurriedly said, "Monkey, this really isn't my fault!"
"They said our group is a model of enterprise reform!"
"They also said that our continuous success in winning bids in Linjiang Province not only demonstrates our strong capabilities but also showcases Linjiang Province's first-class business environment."
"Furthermore, Lao Liao said they wouldn't charge a penny and would even buy their own round-trip airfare, so I assumed this was a TV advertisement arranged by you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhong Xiaoai's angry curses suddenly came from the phone.
"You believe everything they say? Are you a three-year-old?"
Even if you are careless and believe that the other party is a national media organization that is there to help you promote your work.
"It's one thing for you to paint and clean the factory area overnight, but what's the deal with bringing so many private cars to show off?"
"Who in the entire Jingzhou doesn't know that your Dafeng Factory is dilapidated and on the verge of bankruptcy? What are you pretending for? You want to act like a successful person? Do you, Cai Chenggong, even have the ability to do so?"
"A simple street interview with any passerby will tell you're lying. You're trying to put on a show without real ability. Who would believe you've won bids in Linjiang Province based on merit?"
Cai Chenggong was on the verge of tears.
"I...I'm so sorry, Xiao Ai, Liang Ping, I was really careless!"
"I didn't expect their interview and report to turn out like this. I thought it was a rare opportunity to be on TV, especially CCTV, so I wanted to give it a good presentation and promotion. I didn't expect them to do this to me."
Zhong Xiaoai retorted angrily, "They can mess with you because you have problems yourself."
"If you are truthful and don't fabricate facts, how could they possibly mess with you?"
"If you had been even a little more alert and given us a call, this wouldn't have happened..."
The phone suddenly went silent.
Cai Chenggong looked and realized that the device had automatically shut down due to a lack of power.
Having not charged his phone for two days, Lao Liao made several phone calls today.
The phone naturally ran out of battery.
"What on earth is going on?"
"Didn't you promise to promote it for us?"
"It feels like they're completely trying to ruin us."
Xu Meili was extremely anxious.
"Hey, don't ask, I fucking don't know what happened!"
Cai Chenggong tried to turn on the machine, but there was no response at all.
"How can you turn it on if you don't charge it?"
His mother-in-law's reminder jolted Cai Chenggong awake from his reverie.
I rushed back to the master bedroom, found the charger, and quickly plugged it in.
But the battery just ran out completely, and it will need to charge for a while before it can be turned back on.
After leaving his phone on the bedside table, Cai Chenggong hurriedly returned to the living room.
"Honey, give me your phone right now, I need to make a call!"
"I left my phone in the bathroom!"
"Then hurry up and get it!"
Cai Chenggong was extremely anxious, like an ant on a hot pan.
And this time.
The Economic Observation column continues.
However, the short film had already finished playing, and the camera switched back to the studio.
"In Linjiang Province, local garment companies have joined together to raise questions and protest."
"In Handong Province, the general public does not have a high opinion of Dafeng Garment Group."
"So how did this company, which considers itself to be very strong, manage to win bids in multiple provinces?"
"Behind such a peculiar scene, is there something fishy going on or is it genuine fairness? Professor Kang Yaohui, what are your thoughts on this?"
Kang Yaohui smiled slightly.
"I will first give my personal conclusion: the continuous winning of bids by Jingzhou Dafeng Garment Group in Linjiang Province must be due to some shady dealings, and is not a so-called fair competition."
"And I can give five reasons why I came to this conclusion."
Kang Yaohui held up five fingers, appearing very confident.
This naturally infuriated Cai Chenggong.
No matter how angry he was, he couldn't just go into the TV and beat up the special guest, Kang Yaohui.
Meanwhile, in the studio, Kang Yaohui smiled and said:
"Firstly, some of their projects are very ordinary clothing procurements, such as school uniforms, prison uniforms, and work clothes. There is no technical content involved. In principle, the lowest bidder should win the bid directly. Why is there a comprehensive evaluation?"
"Just like when ordinary people buy clothes, they don't care about brands. As long as the quality is acceptable, they basically buy from whichever store offers the lowest price. But for these items, they don't care about the price, but instead focus on other secondary factors. Isn't that obviously something fishy going on?"
"Secondly, their traditional garment industry has very low profit margins and fierce competition. Costs at every stage are cut as much as possible. However, Handong is nearly 2,000 kilometers away from Linjiang, and its transportation costs are much higher than those of local companies, yet it has been able to win bids one after another?"
"Isn't there reason to suspect that they might cut corners and use inferior materials in order to win the bid? In our previous street interviews, we also heard many locals in Jingzhou say that the clothing produced by this company was of poor quality..."
"Nonsense!!"
Cai Chenggong pointed at the television in a fit of rage, his eyes bulging with anger.
"Those who gave the interviews were definitely shills hired by the TV station; they just wanted to frame me!"
Seeing her husband's furious expression, as if he were about to kill someone.
Xu Meili didn't dare to hand over her phone; instead, she sat down to the side first.
However, Cai Chenggong's roar could not stop Kang Yaohui's narration in the studio.
"The third point is also the most important point."
"During the program team's street interviews, passersby and street vendors all had extremely low opinions of the company."
"They believed that not only were there problems with the quality of their products, but also that the workers' welfare was poor. When they learned that a TV station was coming to interview them, they painted and cleaned overnight."
"The factory is clearly behind on paying the workers' wages, yet they've brought in a large number of private cars and parked them in the factory area, pretending they were bought by the workers. What kind of behavior is this?"
"Without sufficient strength or high enough wages for the workers, they are so brazenly engaging in fraud. It's not hard to imagine what the quality of their products will be like."
Cai Chenggong heard this.
I almost fainted from the rush of blood to my head.
He was just trying to show off and promote himself.
Unexpectedly, he lifted a stone only to drop it on his own foot!
The program's photography team filmed and documented it in its entirety.
Now he was truly speechless and had no way to deny it.
Based on this alone, the whole nation will know that Dafeng Apparel Group is all talk and no action, lacking real strength.
They can't even afford to pay wages, yet they pretend the workers can afford to buy private cars.
This is a joke...
It's estimated to be enough for hundreds of millions of Chinese people to talk about for years.
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether the bidding process is legal or compliant.
Dafeng Apparel Group will inevitably become infamous.
From now on, no one will dare to do business with the group, and no company will dare to let itself win the bid.
however……
This dog expert still hasn't finished speaking.
"Fourth, let's look at the company's production workshop. Besides the bustling and busy production scene, what else is there?"
"A closer look reveals that their production equipment is very old, and the workers are generally older."
"Knowing that a TV station was coming to interview and report, one would expect them to pay close attention to production management, but what actually happened?"
“Their clothing fabrics and garments were not stored in an orderly manner, and fire safety measures were inadequate.”
Cai Chenggong closed his eyes in anguish.
He has no way to deny this point.
He also wanted to rejuvenate the company, like those garment factories along the coast, which are full of young men and women.
But what could he do?
This is a persistent problem left over from the restructuring of Dafeng Factory years ago.
Would you dare to fire those stock-holding employees who are not young but lack quality?
They would often pitifully say that they had elderly parents to support and young children to raise, and that they needed to make a living and couldn't afford to lose their jobs.
How can we weeding out the weak and selecting the strong be achieved?
Moreover, they have a union and are very united and close-knit.
They were all long-time coworkers, some for several years or even more than a decade, so of course they were united.
Moving any one of them will have far-reaching consequences.
Unless they resign voluntarily, Cai Chenggong really has no way to deal with them.
"The last point is also something that many people tend to overlook."
"Regardless of whether or not a comprehensive evaluation should be conducted, and regardless of how the surrounding residents evaluate it."
"Whether a company has good business reputation and real strength can be determined simply by looking at its tax return."
"Whether the performance figures are fabricated and whether the company's business operations are sound can actually be determined by looking at its tax records."
"Because truly capable companies will inevitably pay a lot of taxes due to their business activities, and their tax returns will certainly look very good."
"No matter how much tax deduction there is, companies still have to pay taxes to pay wages and bonuses and to distribute dividends to shareholders. If they don't pay taxes but claim that their salaries and benefits are good, then they are definitely evading taxes."
"So in the future, if you want to know whether a company is truly capable, instead of checking how many lawsuits it has, how many people it pays social security for, how many contracts it has signed, or how many bank loans it owes, it's better to check its tax payment situation!"
"According to the tax payment information found by the program team, the business situation of Jingzhou Dafeng Garment Group is very worrying. The company has more than 1,000 employees, but its revenue last year was only more than 40 million yuan. Even if half of that is profit, it would barely be enough to pay salaries."
That last sentence hit me hard.
Cai Chenggong's defenses were completely broken when he directly used the money from selling houses and shops to pay salaries.
"Quick, grab my phone and call your best buddy!"
"What's the point of fighting anymore? It's over, Dafeng Factory is finished, and I'm completely finished too!"
"Even if you're finished, don't let Hou Liangping off the hook! If it weren't for him telling you to hold on, you would have been a resident affected by the demolition compensation long ago!"