Chapter 45: News Interview! The Dissuading Public Opinion Ferments!

For instance, Dongfang Net, a key national news website,.

It frequently provides comprehensive news, lifestyle, and entertainment information for the people of Modu, serving as a vital channel for locals to access information.

As well as Modu's mainstream evening newspaper, Xinmin Evening News.

Following Fengyi Technology's press conference, they investigated Lin Yi's background.

With the channels and resources of these two media outlets,

they naturally located most of Lin Yi's information very quickly.

However, precisely because they learned this information,

reporters from both media organizations were shocked.

No one expected that the person who had caused a sensation across the entire Modu Sports Center last night, sending shockwaves through Long Guo's battery industry,

was still a university student.

It must be noted that after last night's press conference, many people lost sleep.

The vast majority of these were battery manufacturers from across the country.

Although it currently appears that Fengyi Technology has not yet mass-produced the new lithium batteries,

in their view, this is merely a matter of time.

Compared to traditional ternary lithium batteries, the new batteries

possess numerous advantages: on one hand, increased capacity, reduced size, and faster charging speeds;

on the other hand, with cobalt removed, the battery cost is extremely low.

This means Fengyi Technology can sell the new lithium batteries at an extremely low price.

When performance is inferior in every aspect yet the price is much higher than the competitor's,

one can imagine the level of attraction this holds for enterprises with heavy battery usage.

For example, electric vehicle companies, mobile phone manufacturers, and so on.

How great an appeal this will generate.

Yet for traditional battery producers, this is nothing short of a catastrophic disaster.

It can be said that Lin Yi's sudden disruption of the new energy battery sector has left many unable to eat or sleep in peace.

However, incredibly, such a person

is not the second-generation rich heir, born with a golden spoon in his mouth, as many had speculated.

On the contrary, investigations show that Lin Yi was born in a famously impoverished mountainous region of Guizhou Province.

Then, over two years ago, he came to Modu after passing the college entrance examination.

Compared to Lin Yi being a rich second-generation heir,

his current identity holds far greater appeal for the media.

After all, if he were a rich second-generation heir, ordinary people would surely think he was simply born lucky,

possessing various entrepreneurial conditions others wouldn't even dare to imagine, such as initial startup capital, connections, and so on.

Naturally, such success would fail to generate significant public discussion.

But Lin Yi is not like that.

This is a typical story of a poor boy starting a business and turning his life around.

The stories hidden within this are exactly what media professionals would dig deep to uncover.

Thus, a reporter from Xinmin Evening News, accompanied by a photographer, arrived at Modu University of Engineering to interview Lin Yi without notifying the school administration beforehand.

They wanted to obtain first-hand information.

However, the reporter discovered something at Modu University of Engineering,

which made the reporter covering this story very excited.

Initially, when the school administration heard from the gatekeeper that reporters from Xinmin Evening News had come to interview someone at the school,

they were quite pleased.

Although the University of Engineering is located in Modu, at the end of the day, it is merely a second-tier institution.

In this international metropolis of Modu, there are countless schools superior to it.

Not to mention Fudan or Jiaotong University; even the nearby Shanghai International Studies University and University of International Business and Economics are considerably stronger than the University of Engineering.

Now, reporters from Xinmin Evening News had come to the school for an interview.

As a local institution, the school administration naturally knew the status of this newspaper within Modu.

Although the administration did not know why Xinmin Evening News had suddenly arrived, they still accepted the interview.

This was also an opportunity to promote the school.

As it turned out, the first thing the reporters from Xinmin Evening News did upon entering the school

was to look for a junior-year student named Lin Yi from the Mechanical Automation department.

At that moment, the school representative looked completely bewildered; who was this Lin Yi?

Had he done some good deed worthy of an interview by Xinmin Evening News?

Consequently, after a series of investigations, this representative

discovered that this Lin Yi had already been advised to withdraw from the school a few days prior.

"Advised to withdraw?"

At that moment, the reporter wore a strange expression.

"Yes, the documents state it was due to excessive absenteeism and skipping classes!"

The school representative said this,

then he asked:

"May I ask, Miss Reporter, what is your reason for seeking this student?"

Yet at this moment, the reporter looked at the school representative in charge of reception with a strange expression, thinking to herself,

"Is this really how you operate? You directly advised a promising entrepreneurial star to withdraw,

and most importantly, according to Mr. Jia of LeEco, if this student were to sell Fengyi Technology, it would be worth one billion;

for such a billionaire, your school would actually discard him? Even Tsinghua or Peking University probably wouldn't be so unwise!"

Of course, these thoughts remained in the reporter's mind and were not spoken aloud.

Instead, she already had the news draft formed in her heart.

Since Lin Yi was not at the school, the reporter lost interest in staying there.

However, before leaving, the reporter casually interviewed a few male students, asking them about Lin Yi.

As it happened, these male classmates recounted several things about Lin Yi.

For instance, selling tea eggs and small commodities at the university, setting up a small convenience store in the dormitory, and so on.

At the same time, he frequently worked part-time jobs off-campus.

He even sent a portion of the money he earned to his parents in the mountainous region.

With the reporter's interviews, the image of a student born into poverty yet constantly striving to improve became increasingly vivid and lively.

As for the school advising Lin Yi to withdraw, that was merely because Lin Yi had offended a school leader.

It was only because a certain leader abused public power for private gain that the advice to withdraw occurred.

Otherwise, there were many students at the school who skipped classes; why was only Lin Yi advised to withdraw?

Upon hearing the account from this fat student surnamed Wang,

the reporter from Xinmin Evening News felt that a spectacular headline news story had been born in her mind.

A student born into poverty yet constantly striving to improve,

yet suppressed and expelled by a school leader because he had offended them.

And the reason this student was advised to withdraw was surprisingly due to his entrepreneurship.

Thus, this student carried a heavy burden and moved forward, and at last night's press conference, the company he founded shone brilliantly.

What a perfect news story!

The reporter thought to herself.

Soon, the reporter from Xinmin Evening News, having obtained first-hand information, left the school.

However, not long after she left, reporters from Oriental Net and Sina News arrived at Modu University of Engineering.

So many reporters showed up at once, and they were all looking for one person.

Even a fool would know something must have happened.

However, upon hearing that Lin Yi had been urged to withdraw, these media reporters, just like those from Xinmin Evening News, began conducting impromptu interviews within the school.

They happened to encounter a few students who knew the inside story.

Thus, that very evening.

Xinmin Evening News published a front-page headline story.

"Ten-Billion-Yuan Entrepreneurial Genius Urged to Withdraw by School!"

This headline immediately grabbed the readers' attention.

"This newspaper visited Modu University of Engineering today,

intending to interview Mr. Lin Yi, the owner of Fengyi Technology, who released a new lithium battery technology last night.

Indeed, after our investigation, Mr. Lin Yi is not the rich second-generation heir some assume; he was born in the mountainous regions of Gui Province.

According to our investigation, that mountainous area is a well-known impoverished region in Gui Province, with an average annual per capita income not exceeding 2,000 yuan..."

Next, the newspaper described how Lin Yi changed his destiny by coming to Modu through the college entrance examination.

It also detailed how he was different from others during his university years.

While others were playing games or falling in love,

Lin Yi worked part-time under the scorching sun and transformed his dormitory into a small shop to serve his classmates.

Finally, the newspaper stated that Lin Yi used every penny he saved to start a business,

thereby giving birth to the enterprise known as Fengyi Technology.

Of course, the newspaper emphasized how the school administration suppressed Lin Yi over trivial matters and issued the expulsion handling.

"The author cannot help but ask: what is the purpose of the quality education students receive at school?

Is it to be an obedient baby, or to become someone who can contribute to society?

An entrepreneurial genius like Lin Yi, who directly incubated a ten-billion-yuan industry,

yet faces expulsion merely for skipping a few classes... This is a matter worthy of deep reflection...!"

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