Chapter 392: The stickmens sense of justice (8.4K)
In the conference room.
"....What? Gaul?"
I heard this place name come out of Tian Liangwei's mouth.
Gu Qunqing was stunned for a moment.
After regaining consciousness.
He quickly shook his head and denied repeatedly:
"This...this is impossible...how could it be Gaul?"
"Among the seven companies, the only one located in Gaul is the Varenne Pesticide Company, but the person they came to the meeting with was the chairman of their group. How could this be a reaction?"
In Gu Qunqing's view.
If we ignore the size and scale of the company and judge purely from the perspective of internal ranks, only two of the seven participants in the entire meeting are least likely to react.
One is Kyouichiro Tokuda of Aspen Club.
Another is Gareth Toure of Varenne Pesticides.
Because they are all top leaders of their respective companies, theoretically they are the ones least likely to jump back.
After all, once the meeting video is exposed, it will basically be a huge blow to the corporate image.
They will seek death only when they get tired of living crookedly...
Theoretically speaking, unless Song Huizong was possessed, they would never be able to do that kind of thing.
The result was unexpected.
Is that Gallic company really going against the grain?
Looking at the confused Gu Qunqing, Tian Liangwei couldn't help but smile and explained what he learned from Hou Xingyuan:
"Manager Gu, you don't know something about this."
"The initial trigger of the incident was actually the Yuli de Oliveira you mentioned."
"At the beginning of this month, Risazzorno had just fired the marketing specialist named Yuli de Oliveira due to poor product sales in Q3 and Q4."
"This practice is very common among European and American companies, not to mention that Risazorno's performance in Q1 this year may be very high. According to the gambling agreement, Yuli de Oliveira will have to pay a large sum of money."
"So in order to save money, Risazzorno fired Yuli and compensated him with a considerable amount of non-competition subsidy, but it was far from the bonus."
Hear this.
Gu Qunqing couldn't help but nodded.
He has worked at Sanofi for many years and knows everything about this area.
Marketing specialists are a scapegoat in European and American companies, so generally speaking, the terms of their contracts are ridiculously signed.
For example, if you can achieve XXX performance, how much money can you give, etc.
The amount of this money will generally be very, very high, about 100 months’ salary after tax.
However, there is often an additional sentence after these clauses, that is, the company can unilaterally terminate the contract.
That is to say, you cannot actually get this money, it is just used for some accounting operations.
This is an unspoken rule in the industry, so most market specialists only care about salary compensation during the competitive period, and everything else is just a cloud.
This is the case under ordinary circumstances, let alone Rissazzono.
This time, Risazorno attracted many new users in the early stage of the outbreak of public opinion. Compared with Q4...that is, the fourth quarter of 2022, which was squeezed by a beetle, sales will have a sharp increase.
If Yuli de Oliveira is not fired, Risazzorno estimates that he will receive at least a year-end bonus of nearly one million euros.
Then Tian Liangwei paused and continued:
"After being fired, Yuli de Oliveira once went to the headquarters of Risazzono to make a fuss. In his excitement, he mentioned something related to Webex - Dean Hou didn't know what he said specifically.
But most of the time it’s like, ‘I have evidence’ or something like that.”
"These words eventually reached the ears of Gareth Toure of Varenne Pesticides. Unexpectedly, Gareth Toure also backed up a video of the meeting."
"Perhaps it is considered that instead of being exposed by Yuli de Oliveira, it is better to negotiate some conditions with the Academy of Sciences in exchange for some benefits."
"So Gareth Toure comforted Yuli de Oliveira and came to the door today."
After saying that, Tian Liangwei also sighed with emotion.
In fact, when he heard the news from Hou Xingyuan, he was as shocked as everyone present.
This can be said to be a werewolf killing...
Then Gu Qunqing suddenly thought of something and asked:
"Wait a minute, Academician Tian, I have a question."
Tian Liangwei glanced at him:
"But it doesn't matter."
Gu Qunqing pondered for a moment, organized some words, and quickly said:
"Why would Risazzorno send Yuli de Oliveira, a scapegoat who might be fired at any time, to participate in such an important matter?"
"The level of this kind of meeting is usually above VP or even SVP. Although the marketing specialist can be regarded as the most ordinary company executive, there is still a gap between the qualifications to participate in this kind of meeting, right?"
"Oh, you're talking about this. Dean Hou just happened to tell me about it."
Tian Liangwei smiled and explained to Gu Qunqing:
"The date of that meeting is December 8th. Manager Gu, I heard that you studied abroad at the University of Bologna. You should know what date this is, right?"
"December 8th?"
Gu Qunqing was stunned for a moment, then blurted out one word:
"Inmaculada Concepcion?"
Tian Liangwei nodded:
"That's right."
Inmaculada Concepcion.
The Chinese translation of this word is called the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, or the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It is one of the important Catholic festivals, celebrating the Virgin Mary's gift of Immaculate Conception, and is held on December 8 every year.
Italy is a standard Catholic country, with about 90% of religious believers being Catholics.
The rest of Protestantism, Judaism and Islam only account for 10%.
Therefore, every year on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, all companies in Italy will have a day off.
Even when Italy was attacking Ethiopia, they had to choose a truce on this day, let alone a company.
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"Risazzono's CPO and his deputy are both devout Catholics, so they were absent from the online meeting that day."
Tian Liangwei sat back down and continued to explain:
"So, Yuli de Oliveira, the marketing specialist who is second only to the product officer and is not an Italian, was sent out."
"After all, several core foreign companies did not inform the meeting in advance of such an important matter before the meeting - the VP-level meeting itself is a threshold, and it is not surprising that the participants will talk about anything."
"In short, due to legal holidays, Yuli de Oliveira was temporarily put on the shelf. Whether it is because of his stubbornness or a coincidence, it just happened."
Gu Qunqing nodded thoughtfully:
"I see......."
You think this is a coincidence, but it really isn't that big of a deal.
To put it bluntly, the day was not chosen well, other executives were not able to take time off, and Yuli de Oliveira was temporarily pulled out.
Then a series of things happened.
The core problem of the whole matter lies in the discord among the participants.
After all, no matter how bad the day was, it could not influence Gareth Toure, a Gaulish man, to intercept the video of the meeting.
It can only be said that this guy has been holding back from the beginning and has no good intentions.
In Xu Yun's opinion.
Although there was no evidence, he highly suspected that Gareth Toure and Yuli de Oliveira were not the only ones who had back-up plans...
Foreign companies have often done this kind of discord between face and heart.
For example, Kimberley acquired Schermer back then.
For example, IKEA was involved in the child labor scandal in the Asan area.
Another example is the insider trading involving Rajat Gupta, the former co-head of McKinsey.
Basically it's all backstabbing from internal sources or partners.
His eyes returned to reality.
Now after listening to Tian Liangwei's introduction, Xu Yun had a general idea.
But he soon realized something, blinked, and asked:
"Teacher, that Gaulish man named Gareth, what did he ask for?"
Tian Liangwei looked up at him and said:
"A fertilizer contract with a five-year period and a total amount of 150 million Chinese dollars."
Xu Yun: "???"
Then, without waiting for Xu Yun to ask for details, Tian Liangwei explained:
"Of course, this contract is not given specifically for you. It is specifically related to the situation of Vareni's company."
"The main business of Varenne in China is the production of chemical fertilizers, and the annual sales of cockroach pesticides are only three to four million. This is one of the important reasons why Gareth jumped back. He is actually not too worried about being caught.
Disinfection industry boycott.”
"Varenne's annual fertilizer sales in China are about 20 million, but domestic fertilizer production capacity is generally overcapacity these days, so Gareth Toure proposed such a five-year cooperation intention."
"As for our Academy of Sciences... Considering that the quality of Vareni's fertilizers is indeed pretty good, we asked our affiliated Agricultural Research Institute to sign a cooperation intention with Vareni."
Only then did Xu Yun feel enlightened.
As Tian Liangwei said.
Although China is a major exporter of chemical fertilizers, its annual export scale has been hovering between US$6 billion and US$7 billion.
But on the other hand.
High exports do not mean there is no need for imports.
From a national level, the country's dependence on imported fertilizers is still quite large.
Our average annual import of chemical fertilizers is around US$3 billion, which is close to US$20 billion when converted into Chinese currency.
The main ones are mineral potassium fertilizer and chemical potassium fertilizer.
At present, domestic fertilizers are mainly sold in field crop areas, while imported fertilizers are sold in cash crop areas. The demand is not low.
So now that Gareth Toure has taken the initiative to come to the door, the Academy of Sciences naturally has no reason to refuse - the money for fertilizers will be spent anyway.
It's like you have to buy vegetables every day. There is a vegetable farmer who always sells very good vegetables, and he happens to have something you need urgently.
As soon as the two parties came together, they signed a long-term food supply agreement.
Gareth Toure had a long-term contract to protect his capital, and the Academy obtained the meeting video without much effort.
Wait, the meeting video!
Think of this.
Xu Yun just realized another thing:
The Chinese Academy of Sciences already has the webex meeting video in its hands!
Doesn't that mean...
Looking at Xu Yun, whose eyes were getting brighter and brighter, Tian Liangwei nodded heavily:
"That's right, Xiao Xu, HKUST has now decided... to release that video!"
"Of course, the way of disclosure may be a little special."
........
While Xu Yun and others were talking.
outside the wall.
A hacker group codenamed ‘????’ suddenly posted a message on a certain Twitter:
[A video was accidentally discovered on the personal network disk of the president of Neon As Pharmaceuticals. Out of the sense of justice of the Republic of Korea, we feel it is necessary to make it public]
There is a video in the appendix below the dynamic.
This is an account with over 200,000 followers. Compared to hacker individuals or organizations like poizon, Prohet, and lulz anonymous, it is not particularly popular, but it is not completely unknown either.
The value of a 200,000-strong account on a certain website is often higher than that of 5 million followers on Weibo.
This ‘????’—translated into Chinese as the strongest hacker group in the Han Kingdom—is not particularly active, but whenever it releases news, it is basically related to the scandal of Neon Enterprises.
also.
This account also has a relatively cold attitude towards China, often shouting remarks such as "XXX belongs to our Republic of Korea".
Therefore, although this account is not particularly popular, in fact the fans are still very active - most of the fans are stick figures.
After the account posted the update, a large number of fans quickly clicked on the video.
The content of the video is a screenshot of an online meeting. You can see that there are seven dialog boxes distributed in the conference room at this time - this picture has obviously been processed by the recorder. Except for the two hosts, the other pictures are in a regular distribution state. It can be seen that
There is no dialog box that belongs to the recorder.
The video starts playing more than ten seconds later.
A woman marked as the host of the meeting and noted as ‘Corinna Asensio’ spoke:
"Gentlemen, may I ask, are we doing the silent prayer before dinner?"
Immediately afterwards.
The words were simultaneously translated as...
Japanese.
Next.
This is Adams Boronat, Vice President of Bayer Group Greater China.
He introduced the origins of the seven people attending the meeting and said an important sentence:
"...As for the reason for starting this meeting at the last minute today, it is naturally...our original plan to cut off supply to Huadun Biotech has completely failed!"
Further down the line is the quarrel between Gareth Toure and Isco Edu...
Adams Boronath's Rounder...
until......
Corinna Asensio comes up with a poisonous plan that starts with pets.
After Corinna finished speaking, a Japanese voice sounded in the conference room:
"Ms. Corinna, when can this plan be implemented?"
You can hear it very clearly from the tone and surrounding environment. The recorded voice of the person speaking is obviously much clearer, and the sense of position is closer to reality.
If nothing else, this person is the person who recorded the video.
See here.
Most Bangzi fans have already figured out a general context in their minds:
The person in charge of Neon Enterprise of Asi Club participated in a meeting to suppress Chinese enterprises, but for some very dark reasons, he secretly recorded a video while attending the meeting.
You really deserve to be a neon person, Smecta...
Although Bangzi is a country with a lot of moral shortcomings, there is one aspect that deserves praise:
That is, they have never forgotten the history of neon's invasion.
Back then, Liu Qiang burned down the sacred toilet and fled to Bangzi territory by plane. After the incident, he was regarded as a hero by Bangzi people.
Bangzi officials even hired a luxurious team of lawyers to defend Liu Qiang. After senior Neon officials personally went to South Korea to extradite Liu Qiang, large-scale demonstrations even broke out in Bangzi.
This is really not a whitewash of Bangzi. It has only been eleven years since this incident happened, and relevant video records can still be found. This should be regarded as one of the few advantages of Bangzi.
Later, Liu Qiang was deported back to China, but he encountered a large number of personal attacks by the Japanese Japs at home, which was really sad...
all in all.
When stick people treat neon, they often burst out with an amazing sense of justice.
Some people even joked that the reason why Bangzi has no character in other matters is because his character is focused on his attitude towards Japan...
So it's very fast.
A large amount of Korean content mixed with "ghosts" and "Xi Ba" and the like began to appear on the Internet and gradually began to spread.
all in all.
Under the running water of these sticks.
Three hours later.
It is not surprising that this news was observed by "accidental" observation by Sichuan Province Observation, which is observing everyone except Sichuan Province.
Sichuan Provincial Observation quickly forwarded this content to domestic social platforms and directly tagged it with the tags #雪云##中科大学##小鸟#.
It just so happened that the popularity of related topics had not subsided at this time, so this Weibo post also appeared on the hot search list by coincidence...
And then.
The incident broke out.
Actually.
This is not the first time Xu Yun and others have had disputes with foreign companies.
For example, as early as the night when ‘One Mantis’ was launched, HKUST encountered the evil hands of several neon foreign companies.
In the end, the unlucky guy, the University of Science and Technology of China, was implicated.
Later, USTC and the National University of Science and Technology jointly organized a counterattack and gave those foreign companies a severe blow.
And what a coincidence.
In the previous hacker attack incident, HKUST also blamed the stick...
After that incident.
‘One Mantis Killer’ has also enjoyed some public opinion dividends and its sales have increased significantly.
From a time perspective, it saved the company about half a year of development time.
But compared with the leak of this meeting video, the original hacker attack was nothing.
after all......
This time, it was not a certain company from a certain country that committed the murder, but a total of seven foreign companies!
The four words "joint encirclement and suppression" are undoubtedly sensitive points in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Since 1840, we have often encountered bullying from foreigners who banded together.
Not to mention that Xu Yun's incident also involves topics such as pet lovers, the conflict between men and women, etc.
Of course there are some crazy people among them, but there are also passers-by who were misled at the beginning but later woke up.
In the case of the above multiple groups and psychological complexities.
In less than five hours, the topic #webex七外公司# quickly became the top trending topic.
What broke out at the same time was...
Consumers’ enthusiasm for shopping.
...........
Half a day later.
Huadun Biotechnology Headquarters.
"Dr. Xu!"
The door to Xu Yun's office was pushed open from the outside, and Gu Qunqing's figure rushed in:
"Sixty thousand, sixty thousand!"
Gu Qunqing's words seemed a bit confusing, but Xu Yun immediately understood what he meant:
"Aaron, daily sales exceed 60,000?"
Gu Qunqing nodded heavily and quickly came to Xu Yun's desk, waving a document in his hand:
"Ten hours ago, our daily sales were only around 7,000. Normally, by this time, our daily sales would be just over 2.5 at most."
"I didn't expect that the hot search suddenly exploded and directly boosted product sales by a large margin."
“There are still nearly four hours until 12 o’clock, and it’s no problem if the daily sales exceed seven or even eight!”
After speaking, Gu Qunqing took another deep breath, his tone still extremely excited:
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"Even based on the most conservative analysis, this wave of consumer sentiment can last until at least tomorrow - and in fact it will last longer."
When Xu Yun heard this, he nodded in agreement.
The current trend of a beetle eradication is somewhat like the recommendation position he reached when he was writing novels in his previous life. The highest data peak is not the day of the push, but the day after the push, and the long tail effect can generally last for several days or even a week or two.
Nowadays, the national sentiment of consumers has been aroused. Regardless of how long this mentality will last, at least it will be difficult to subside in the short term.
Because this is a spontaneous behavior rather than a deliberate hype or provocation marketing technique.
To be honest, there are actually not many people eating patriotic rice these days.
For example, a certain hair dryer is popular with Dyson and is advertised overwhelmingly, claiming to be the highlight of domestic products.
Another example is the scammer Guo Shenghua who claimed to have planted the national flag all over the neon website in 2013.
They all fall into the category of marketing patriotic sentiments.
But marketing and exaggeration are ultimately false behaviors, so you won’t see that hair dryer advertisement on Xiaopo.com these days.
But a beetle is different.
This hot search is not a marketing example initiated by the company. From the beginning to the end, Huadun Biotech has never advocated or said anything like "We are being targeted by foreign companies. Come and buy our products to support domestic products."
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The hot topic this time is that foreign companies are not clean themselves, causing their chicken feet to be exposed.
Therefore, consumers did not need any instigation and spontaneously used actions to support Huadun Biotech.
When Chinese consumer groups are inspired by national emotions...
The original white elephant, Hongxing Erke, is the best example.
Driven by the wild consumer psychology, Baixiang suddenly soared from 7% of the instant noodle market share to 71.4% of the monthly instant noodle market sales. The sales of Qitianguang live broadcast were as high as 10.397 million. (You can see this on Douyin Palm Selection.
part of data)
Not to mention Hongxing Erke.
After the public opinion broke out in July 21, the single-day sales of shoes and clothing were 5203.3W, the official flagship store was 2977W, the brand flagship store was 160 million, the sports flagship store was 2381.2W, the children's clothing flagship store was 1383.2W, and the Hongxing Erke factory store was 149.9W, with a total of seven live broadcast rooms.
Sales volume is approximately 390 million yuan.
This is only the online situation. There are 4,266 offline stores, with a single-day offline sales of approximately 130 million, and a total of approximately 520 million online and offline.
520 million a day, how terrifying.
And now...
This aroused emotion fell on Huadun Biotech without any warning.
Early that morning.
On one day, sales exceeded 76,000 units, and sales exceeded 1.3 million Chinese coins.
January 18th.
On one day, sales exceeded 97,000 units, and sales exceeded 1.6 million Chinese coins.
January 19th.
For the first time, sales exceeded 100,000 on a day, reaching 114,514, and sales exceeded 2 million for the first time!
The original live broadcast of cockroach disinfecting at the University of Science and Technology accumulated the first wave of popularity for "One Cockroach Killing".
The hacker attack on the day the product was launched once again solidified the popularity of "One Mantis".
And the ‘leakage’ of the meeting video…
Then all the accumulation of the original product was completely released in one fell swoop!