Half an hour later, all the bosses of those small factories arrived.
They didn’t know me yet. After sitting down in the company’s small conference room, Gao Sheng introduced them first: “Let me introduce to you, this is Chen Feng, the chairman of our Yalan Clothing. He will host today’s event.
Temporary emergency meeting."
Several bosses looked at me one after another, with serious expressions on their faces.
I waved to them: "Don't be so sullen, just chat with everyone and relax."
After saying that, I paused for a moment and went straight to the point: "Who is the boss of Fanwei Clothing?"
A middle-aged man with a somewhat stout figure stood up: "Dr. Chen, I am the boss of Fanwei Clothing. My name is Ao Fanwei."
I nodded and motioned for him to sit down first, and then asked him: "You should know that the sewage system in your factory is broken, right?"
"I only know now that I have sent someone to deal with Mr. Chen."
"It's good to be aware of problems and solve them immediately, but..."
I paused, scanned the bosses present, and then said: "The reason why I called you here today is that you should all know that all your sewage comes from our Yalan Clothing pipe network, and you also know this."
Do you all know that?"
Several bosses nodded, and one of them, a slightly younger one, said: "Director Chen, when we first settled in the clothing city, Mr. Chen told us to go through your company's pipe network."
"I know, that's why I called everyone here today to discuss and resolve this matter."
A man about forty years old, wearing a floral shirt and a gold chain around his neck, suddenly sneered and said: "Director Chen, I'm afraid you don't know that the underground pipe network of the entire clothing city has serious design problems.
Right? This needs to be rectified, but it’s not our turn to rectify it, right?”
The other three bosses thought he was right and nodded one after another.
What I hate the most is this kind of prickliness and self-righteousness.
I looked at him and said coldly: "There are problems with the underground pipe network of the entire clothing city, so why don't others have problems, including us, Yalan Clothing?"
He smiled disdainfully and said: "Of course you have no problem. For a company as big as yours, you can just spend some money to rectify it yourself. Then have you considered us?"
After a pause, he added angrily: "Besides, you were the ones who begged us to settle in the clothing city, but now you are telling us this, what do you mean?"
"Which company are you from?"
"If I dare say it, I dare to say it. I'm an Emmy costumer."
"Okay, I appreciate your character, then you can go."
He stood up decisively, kicked the chair violently, and said: "Just leave, as if no one cares about you."
"stop!"
"What?" He stopped and glanced back at me.
"Did the chair offend you? Hold the chair up for me."
"Why don't I help you?"
"You can try it!"
He stood there blankly, looking at me. After about five seconds, he came back obediently and lifted the chair up.
After he left the meeting room, I turned around and said to Gao Sheng: "Kick this company out of the clothing city and remove all their channels and resources."
Gao Sheng was a little dazed, and then whispered to me: "Boss, do we have to bear liquidated damages like this?"
"How much is the liquidated damages?"
"one million."
I took a breath, I didn't expect the liquidated damages to be so high, but he had already offended me.
I didn't think much about it, but turned to Gaosheng and said, "Then just buy his factory for me."
Gao Sheng also knew my temper, so he nodded and said no more.
I looked at the bosses of the other three companies and asked them, "Do you have any more questions?"
The three people immediately shook their heads and fell silent.
I changed my tone and continued: "I came to you today to solve the problem of sewage discharge. I don't mean to assign responsibilities to anyone. Since everyone is doing business in the same place, we have to work together..."
The three of them nodded, and Ao Fanwei said: "Director Chen, this incident is indeed our company's fault, and I am willing to take responsibility."
I raised my hand to him and said, "Don't rush to take responsibility. Since we promised to let you use our company's network in the first place, both of us are responsible for this matter."
After a pause, I continued: "What I want to say is that we must solve the problem fundamentally and rectify the entire underground pipe network."
The younger boss said: "Director Chen, I understand what you mean, but the amount of this project is not small!"
The other two bosses also nodded. The workload of this project is indeed not small, and it requires professional people to do it.
I said to them in a deep voice: "So I need you to jointly report it and let the people from the management committee handle this matter. Of course, we will take the lead in the appeal."
"This is counter-intuitive. Director Chen, you can inform us at any time, and we will obey your orders at any time."
I nodded, and then said: "Okay, now let's talk about the matter at hand. The drinking water sources of nearby villagers are currently affected by sewage discharge, causing some villagers to become sick and hospitalized... This matter is not small, and we cannot escape it.
If you admit it, just admit it, and if you need to compensate, just compensate it. You don’t have any objections to it, Mr. Ao?"
Yao Fanwei shook his head: "No objection."
"Okay, I will call all these villagers to the company later, and we will explain it to them together. I will also find professionals here to detect whether it is caused by the impact of sewage discharge."
After finishing speaking, I said to the other two bosses: "This matter has nothing to do with you. You can go back first, but after you go back, check your company's sewage system to make sure there is no problem."
They both nodded and left together.
Only Ao Fanwei was left in the company, and he looked quite haggard. After all, this matter was not a big deal for him, and he was just the boss of a small company.
In other words, this matter could make him bankrupt at best, or land him in jail at worst.
I asked Gao Sheng to clean up the big conference room first and prepare to receive the villagers.
Then, I took out a cigarette and handed it to Ao Fanwei, and then said to him: "Mr. Ao, I admire you for taking the initiative to take on this matter, but you should also know that once this matter is confirmed,
Even if our company will bear half of the responsibility, you will still pay a serious price."
Yao Fanwei lit up his cigarette, nodded heavily, and said in a deep voice: "Yes! Our company's efficiency has not been very good recently, and there is still a backlog of goods in the warehouse."
As he said that, he sighed again: "My wife had a fall a while ago, and she is not discharged from the hospital yet. Now that such a thing is happening again, I am really exhausted mentally and physically."
I was silent for a while and asked him: "What is the current size of your company?"
"We are actually transformed from a small workshop. We don't even have our own designs. It can be said that we are surviving in the cracks."
Although he said it aggrievedly, I believe in Chen Dajiang's vision. He would not find a company with no ability to settle in the clothing city for no reason.
I then asked: "What kind of style or version of clothing are you carrying? Can you show me?"
"We have been cooperating with some big manufacturers for sportswear. We will make whatever they ask us to produce."
"For example? Are there any of the famous sports brands on the market produced by you?"
He nodded and then told me several famous sports brands.
And there is one company that we cooperate with on a regular basis, and we make money entirely from our cooperation with this big company.
I suddenly had an idea in my mind, and immediately asked him: "Have you never thought about setting up a brand by yourself?"