Chapter 250: Who Is a Flash in the Pan?

On the eve of May Day, reporter Pan Xiaoqing of the Beijing Youth Daily published a commentary in the newspaper, condemning the conduct of unscrupulous merchants counterfeiting famous brands and deceiving kind university students.

And within three days, more than thirty newspapers across the country reprinted this article, making Pan Xiaoqing "nationally famous" in a muddled way.

The 1,000 US dollars Li Ye left for Dong Yuejin was not for nothing. He followed his own communication notebook and called the newspaper offices one by one. There were almost no people who didn't give face.

With the reprinting of a large number of newspapers, subsequent articles exploring counterfeit and shoddy goods exploded again. The reputation of "Counterfeit Fenghua brand, handcuffs come to the door" also spread throughout the Central Plains.

This effect was much better than TV commercials on TV stations.

Clothes are daily necessities after all, unlike electronic products like "Yanwu Yanwu." Many people just watch them, but they don't have the strength to buy them, so they just treat them as fun.

But who can't afford a piece of clothing?

Since lawbreakers counterfeit Fenghua brand, then Fenghua brand must be good!

Consequently, Fenghua brand clothing, which was already in short supply, fell into a situation of being sought after nationwide.

Hao Jian called Li Ye anxiously, "Godfather, I really can't get away, I can't escort the goods to Beijing, I let Mu Weimin take a trip for me..."

"It's not just domestic units asking me for goods, overseas merchants have also come back. The clothing we export is simply in short supply. I have already raised the price to 12 US dollars per piece, but I still can't hold it. I'm worried to death..."

"Workers are now working overtime for seven or eight hours. It won't work! Working overtime for four hours, we can't even finish the overseas orders..."

"Alright, alright! You have the final say, not more than four hours, but I think it's inappropriate to hand over Fenghua brand to external processing factories."

Hao Jian was really worried to death. Just a year ago, he felt that the pressure of supporting 10,000 workers was too great, and it was better to play the routine of reselling and external processing.

You know, more than 10,000 people, that's more than 10,000 mouths!

Not to mention how much wages are paid every month, just the rice eaten every day is an astonishing number.

Pengcheng Factory No. 7 now has eight canteens. The Dongfeng trucks of the Grain Company send a truck of rice every day,

and their own factory's small trucks have to run to the Vegetable Company several times a day. More than a hundred cooks are busy to death just to satisfy the "nutritional balance, eat full and eat well" required by the big boss Li.

But now, Hao Jian wishes he had 100,000 skilled workers.

Isn't it just ten trucks of rice a day?

We have money, we have foreign exchange. If you carry a stack of foreign exchange to the Grain Company, trucks will line up to fill your canteen.

If you carry two stacks, they will build a state-run big canteen at your factory gate, saving you the effort of cooking.

Unfortunately, there are no "ifs."

Pengcheng Factory No. 7 has been recruiting and training people, and now it has just exceeded 15,000 people.

Even if all clothing other than Fenghua brand is thrown to external units for production, more than 10,000 workers working overtime to produce Fenghua brand cannot satisfy the demand of the export market, let alone the vast domestic market like the sea?

Hao Jian only now realized the meaning of Li Ye's sentence, "Workers are the most precious capital."

"The old foundation of the state-run factory is still thick! It seems that I still can't avoid asking for help!"

Hao Jian sighed, drank some water to moisten his throat, and dialed the brother unit's phone.

"Eh, Factory Manager Ba, I'm Hao Jian from Factory No. 7! Hahaha, long time no see, long time no see. I have a batch of urgent work here, do you have any interest?"

"Right, right, right, it's Fenghua brand. The requirements for this batch of clothing are too high. If I let the workers work overtime at night, I'm afraid I can't guarantee the quality. I consider that you have many old workers there, so it must be the most suitable..."

"Money is no problem... Foreign exchange is also no problem. But you know that the quota we can get is not high. I'll give you 10%... 12% is the limit, that's it. Good, good, you must be quick!"

"Sister Zheng, it's little Hao! Is the work in your hand finished? If not, stop first and help me process a batch of Fenghua brand..."

"What kind of relationship do we have, sister and brother? Can I lack your foreign exchange? You ask me why I made such a big fuss? I... I don't know why we suddenly made such a big fuss!"

Hao Jian naturally knew why his Pengcheng Factory No. 7 suddenly made such a big fuss.

For more than two years, he had developed step by step according to the steps formulated by Li Ye. Every step was walked through misunderstanding and doubt, but at most half a year, the facts would prove Li Ye's wisdom and correctness.

And now the hot situation of Pengcheng Factory No. 7 is just an explosion after a series of preparations.

And Li Ye told Hao Jian that there would be many, many more such explosions in the future.

Saturday night, Beijing, Second People's Shopping Mall.

In the sales area of Pengcheng Factory No. 7, a place was specially set aside to carry out the "Student Special Session (Beijing Institute of Technology)."

In the situation where Fenghua brand is not sold much in Beijing, this special preferential activity aimed at fixed colleges and universities can be imagined how many people it will attract.

But unlike the crowded situation during discount promotions, this special sale was not noisy at all.

All students held their student IDs and queued up in an orderly manner, not even talking loudly, at most whispering and laughing among classmates who knew each other.

And at the entrance of the special session, there was a glass anti-counterfeiting display cabinet.

The anti-counterfeiting buttons, anti-counterfeiting labels, and a large number of detailed explanations displayed in the cabinet attracted everyone's attention.

"So the buttons of Fenghua brand are like this under the light! If I had known this, I wouldn't have been fooled by the fake goods last time."

"Last time it wasn't the reason for the buttons, it was that we didn't go to the regular store to buy them. Look, the sales clerks selling Fenghua clothing have different work clothes from others..."

"Right, right, right. When I came in just now, an old grandmother asked me to buy a set of clothes for her granddaughter. I refused, and she was very disappointed. I really couldn't bear to see it..."

"Absolutely not. Don't you know how hard it is to buy Fenghua brand now? Why do people sell it to us at a 30% discount? We can't use the name of university students to make money."

Li Ye and Jin Peng stood not far away, watching the university students slowly squirming, all feeling something.

"Xiao Ye, I now believe a little that these university students are the fashion-leading group of the future?"

"They are one of the important groups leading fashion. They have the strongest ability to accept new things, and don't look at them being tight-handed now, but they probably won't be too short of money in the future."

Jin Peng thought for a while and nodded, "Also, university students now get a salary of more than 50 yuan as soon as they start working, which is indeed richer than ordinary people."

"But Xiao Ye, how did you guess this time that those black-hearted merchants would aim at these university students and sell fake goods to them specifically?"

Li Ye shook his head and said, "I didn't guess it. This time it was really a coincidence."

Jin Peng didn't quite believe it and said, "Coincidence? Alright! If you say it's a coincidence, then it's a coincidence!"

It's no wonder Jin Peng didn't believe Li Ye, because on the day the newspaper published the article, Li Ye asked people from Pengcheng Factory No. 7 to make a "anti-counterfeiting display cabinet" and put several anti-counterfeiting signs under the light for bright display.

Based on Jin Peng's understanding of Li Ye, he must have thought of this method long ago. Otherwise, how could he put so much effort into manufacturing anti-counterfeiting buttons and labels? You know, the cost of anti-counterfeiting buttons is really not low.

But since there were such powerful anti-counterfeiting means, why wait until the counterfeit incident broke out to vigorously promote anti-counterfeiting?

It's as if Li Ye had been waiting for someone to jump over foolishly to build a ladder for Pengcheng Factory No. 7.

【Take one step, count three steps. This little junior brother of mine has the talent of Zhuge Kongming!】

"Brother Peng, Brother Xiao Ye..."

Ma Qianshan walked over quickly and whispered to the two: "Just now, a few students sold their clothes to scalpers. I didn't stop them according to your instructions,

but I'm afraid that this kind of thing will happen more and more. If you queue up, you can earn more than ten yuan. They earned the money, we shouldn't suffer this loss, right?"

"We won't suffer a loss."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Qianshan, when you watched others smoke Daqian Sect and couldn't even smoke small goldfish yourself, what were you thinking?"

Ma Qianshan said without hesitation, "Of course, it's Daqian Sect every day. Although I am smoking Mudan now, I also have to buy a pack of Daqian Sect to smoke every week."

Li Ye said, "So, if someone sells the clothes they love and can't bear to wear for more than ten yuan, then later, they will find ways to make up for it twice as much. This is retaliatory consumption."

"Retaliatory consumption?"

Ma Qianshan recited it twice, and then hurriedly took out a small notebook from his pants pocket and wrote these five words neatly on it.

"Hmph~"

Jin Peng looked at Ma Qianshan mockingly, turned his face to one side, and disdained it.

It's just that in his heart, he was reading "retaliatory consumption, retaliatory consumption, retaliatory consumption..." rapidly.

Jing University, Li Ye, who had just joined the Youth League Committee, obediently attended the Youth League Committee meeting.

"The 1st National University Student Debate is one of the most important activities of our school next semester. We need to select the main members and alternate members of the school debate team as soon as possible to ensure the complete success of the debate..."

Because Li Ye, this butterfly, flapped its wings, the "University Student Debate" became popular in the mainland three years earlier than in history, to the extent that the first national competition was even created.

The debate in October, preparing from May, shows how much Jing University attaches importance to this debate.

And students who felt they had some weight were also rubbing their hands and itching to speak, trying their best to strive for an opportunity to show their faces in front of the people of the whole country.

However, Li Ye, this "famous debater of Jing University," didn't have much interest in this.

After the meeting, Li Ye pulled his legs and prepared to slip away, but was stopped by Zhu Yonghe, a junior.

"Li Ye, you have nothing to do during the summer vacation, right? Then stay at school and contribute to the preparation of our school team."

"Senior Zhu, I have something to do during the summer vacation. I really can't help. I'm really sorry."

Zhu Yonghe said unhappily, "I have read your family information. You are not an agricultural household, and there is no farm work at home. What else can you have? Don't worry, I have already communicated with logistics, and the canteen will provide us with three meals for free..."

Three meals a day? Are you kidding? I have a pile of things at home, tens of thousands up and down in a minute. Do I care about your three meals a day?

Besides, you are not the school team yet!

Admittedly, Zhu Yonghe's debate team is very strong, but Zhu Yonghe absorbing Li Ye is not because he wants Li Ye to occupy a position in their debate team, but purely to use his "extensive knowledge and strong memory" to let him help check information.

Because Li Ye has a biological hard disk, he memorizes books super fast. Whether a book belongs to the scope of his major or not, as long as he flips through it in a hurry, he can memorize even the punctuation marks.

Even if he doesn't have time to finish a whole book, as long as he looks at the reading notes, book reviews, and golden sentences summarized by other classmates, combined with the content of other similar books, he can talk about it reasonably.

Originally, with Li Ye's level, he absolutely had hope of winning in the selection of the school team,

but now Zhu Yonghe has absorbed him into their debate team in an unclear way in advance, making him responsible for the work of organizing information. Then does he still have a chance to become one of the four debaters of the school debate team?

To enter the school team, one must be selected uprightly as a debater, rather than being labeled as an assistant and making wedding clothes for others.

"Li Ye, you can't do this," seeing Li Ye not taking the bait, Zhu Yonghe said unhappily, "Intelligence and wisdom are just nutrients that flash in the pan. Serious, diligent, and down-to-earth efforts are the ladder of active progress..."

"Sss~~"

"Senior Zhu, 'flash in the pan' is not a good word. Besides, what kind of ladder I take is my own choice. I don't walk steadily on the road paved by others."

"..."

Li Ye turned and walked more than ten meters, then looked back at Zhu Yonghe and said, "Senior Zhu, in next week's selection competition, let's see who is a flash in the pan."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 251 =====