Chapter 401

The thousands of flyers were snatched up very quickly.

"This is mine!"

"Mine!"

"I got it first."

"Bullshit, I clearly got it first."

Two middle-aged women almost started fighting over the scramble.

Zhou Andong looked at the flyer in his hand; no wonder so many people were grabbing them like crazy—it turned out one flyer was worth two yuan, though they couldn't be stacked.

To put it plainly, you still had to spend money to buy the liquor, but with a flyer, you could save two yuan per bottle. If you wanted to take more advantage, you had to buy more liquor.

If you had ten flyers and bought ten bottles of Qin Chi, you saved twenty yuan. If you bought a hundred bottles, you saved two hundred yuan.

In any case, the more liquor you bought, the more you saved. Plus, there were prizes inside the liquor, which instantly stimulated the consumers' nerves.

"A master is always a master; you have to admire it," Zhou Andong muttered.

"The airship flew to the south; hurry up and chase it, it will definitely throw more flyers in a moment."

Someone shouted, and hundreds or thousands of people chased forward along the main road.

Fortunately, there were relatively few cars on the road in this era, otherwise, something would definitely have happened.

Zhang Shenghui had truly begun his heroic journey of prying open the market in the Northeast. He invested over three million, and with the courage of burning his bridges, he used a marketing strategy with sensational effects.

He rented a large airship to cruise over the major cities of the three northeastern provinces, scattering flyers, and Jiangzhou received special care, with over a hundred thousand advertising flyers dropped.

This kind of shocking promotional method caused Qin Chi's sales to rise in a straight line. In less than two weeks, Zhang Shenghui struck while the iron was hot and released the news that Qin Chi white liquor was sold out in Jiangzhou.

It was full of momentum and extremely arrogant. With the posture of a king, he announced to the world that he had conquered Jiangzhou and that Jiang Xiaobai had been trampled under his feet. Under this wave of hype, Qin Chi liquor truly exploded in the Sanbei market.

Meanwhile, Jiang Xiaobai's market share was compressed by thirty percent in just half a month, and Yugong liquor also faced challenges, with its market share shrinking as well.

Jiang Huaicheng had not had an easy time these past fifteen days, and the promise to issue bonuses to all factory employees after the Yuxi Real Estate auction had also fallen through. He had been excited for several days after selling it for 80 million, having already planned how to distribute the money.

But what he never dreamed of was that Zhou Andong had transferred the money to the municipal finance department. And the city did something even more ruthless: it stopped issuing wages for the electronics factory, and the city used that money to pay the electronics factory's payroll.

Especially with Qin Chi's step-by-step pressure and Jiang Xiaobai's defeat in the Sanbei market, he was truly anxious. If he didn't quickly find a way to win back market share, the "prestige" he had worked so hard to establish would definitely suffer a huge blow.

"Meeting at ten!" A young girl from the factory office notified each department one by one.

Gu Bing checked the time and saw it was almost there, then walked out carrying his teacup. The weather was getting colder, and it would be several days before the factory provided heating; every day was hard to endure, and he could only rely on drinking hot water to keep warm.

He went to the restroom several times more than usual. Moreover, Jiang Xiaobai's sales had declined severely, which also made him a bit stressed; even his urine was turning yellow.

"Sigh!"

Gu Bing sighed; ever since Zhou Andong left, he could clearly feel that everyone had lost their spirit.

They were listless and lacked drive; even he had lost his passion, just coming in to kill time.

As for Jiang Huaicheng, let him do whatever the hell he wanted; anyway, he himself would be leaving soon, so why bother worrying about that.

Everyone had already arrived, but each one had a face full of sorrow. Jiang Xiaobai's sales were falling off a cliff, and they truly felt the crisis. It was as if they were seeing the scene from a few years ago playing out again.

Gu Bing entered the conference room, and pairs of eyes looked over; even Du Chunlai was listless.

Because apart from Gu Bing, he was the only one who knew that Zhou Andong could never return to the liquor factory.

Looking at the current situation again, he really couldn't see any way Jiang Huaicheng could reverse the downward trend.

Therefore, although the preparations for establishing the group had been completed, he had shelved them.

He had thought more than once about whether to resign with Gu Shuji and go join Factory Director Zhou.

Gu Bing sat down, held his teacup, and took a slurping sip.

"This weather is getting colder and colder; everyone should pay attention to keeping warm and don't catch a cold."

Gu Bing said casually, then put the teacup on the table.

At this moment, the conference room door opened again, and Jiang Huaicheng also walked in carrying his teacup.

"Gu Shuji, you're here quite early." Jiang Huaicheng said with a chuckle, sat down, and then scanned the room, "Everyone is here, right!"

Yao Jun was still playing the role of a lackey, "Here, not one is missing!"

"I think everyone has guessed the purpose of this meeting." Jiang Huaicheng habitually tapped the table, reminding everyone to focus, "Jiang Xiaobai's sales have declined severely; although it's only in the Sanbei, this is our territory, our backyard—how can we hand it over to others?

This is absolutely not allowed, and absolutely cannot be tolerated, so everyone speak up, brainstorm, how can we win back the market!"

No one below spoke, and Jiang Huaicheng frowned, saying with dissatisfaction: "What? Everyone here is part of the liquor factory's leadership, and now that a crisis has appeared, do you have no ideas at all?"

Fang Qiao suddenly said: "If Factory Director Zhou were here, he would definitely have a response, and he would never wait until now to be anxious, let alone ask us what to do."

Fang Qiao's words were like a loud slap, fiercely striking Jiang Huaicheng's face. This was pointing at his nose and scolding him: You are a piece of trash, not as good as Zhou Andong.

Jiang Huaicheng's face immediately turned black; he had never put Zhou Andong in his eyes, and he would never admit that he was inferior to Zhou Andong.

But Fang Qiao's words had forced him into a corner; if he didn't come up with something solid, wouldn't that be admitting he was inferior to Zhou Andong?

"Hmph!"

"I am respecting you, unlike Zhou Andong who likes to act like a dictator." Jiang Huaicheng snorted coldly, "Since you are all unwilling to speak, then I will speak."

Jiang Huaicheng picked up his teacup, blew on the floating tea leaves, took a sip, winced from the heat, then slowly put the teacup down and said confidently.

"Isn't Qin Chi's strategy just sales with prizes? If they can do it, we can do it too. We will also set prize amounts, with a minimum of one mao and a maximum of two yuan."

Speaking of this, Jiang Huaicheng habitually tapped the table again, his face showing pride as he said: "What is this called? This is called fighting poison with poison, using the enemy's spear to attack the enemy's shield."

Everyone looked at each other; this is the strategy you came up with? Plagiarizing others, and you still look quite proud.

It's just that Jiang Xiaobai is 100ml per bottle; even if the retail price is a bit high, the profit per bottle is only a little over one yuan. Are you serious about this sales with prizes, with a maximum of two yuan?