The four hundred and fourteenth chapter is the target of public criticism
After the noon news of Jiayi TV on August 27th reported that Wang Xinyu, director of Xiangjiang Electric Group, proposed to replace its aging wiring but was rejected by the new major shareholder, word quickly spread among all walks of life in Xiangjiang.
On the morning of the 28th, major newspapers reprinted reports on the matter and expressed their own comments on it. This matter caused strong dissatisfaction among the customers of Xiangjiang Electric Group.
For a time, the newly acquired Singapore consortium was criticized by countless citizens of Xiangjiang, and some excited citizens came to protest outside the Xiangjiang Electric Group. They asked Qiu Deba and others to agree with Wang Xinyu's opinion, serve the citizens of Xiangjiang, and replace its aging
Line, responsible for the safety of Xiangjiang citizens.
At the same time, with the promotion of Luo Decheng and others, MacLehose also received proposals from many councillors, asking the Heung Kong Electric Group to replace the aging lines for the sake of the safety of Hong Kong citizens.
Newspaper reporters are very powerful. As long as there are signs of something happening, they can find out countless related issues. They even re-examined the major accident that broke out at the North Point Precision Products Factory on January 20, resulting in 11 deaths and 19 injuries.
Come out and talk about the dangers of aging circuits.
The specific cause of the fire has not yet been investigated clearly. The reporter did not blame the aging wiring, criticizing some shareholders of Xiangjiang Electric Group for not caring about the personal interests of Xiangjiang citizens and only thinking about making money.
Shareholders who ignore the opinions of responsible directors are not qualified to control a public service enterprise.
On this day, Qiu Deba, Guo Fangfeng and others seemed to instantly become selfish capitalists who did not care about the lives of Xiangjiang citizens and only wanted to make money.
Faced with various attacks from the outside world, Qiu Deba and the others immediately knew that they and others had to fight back. Otherwise, if the public opinion continued, their reputation in Hong Kong would be ruined, and it would be difficult for their companies to develop in Hong Kong.
More difficult.
Qiu Deba and others also knew the importance of the media, so they immediately arranged a press conference to conduct crisis public relations on the incident. They also contacted Shaw and Qiu Degen, hoping that their TV station could report some good news for them.
Run Run Shaw did not agree to the request of Qiu Deba and others. He has already given you face by not reporting this matter. He asked his TV station to come out to compete with Jiayi. I am afraid he is overthinking it. He does not want to stand on the side.
Go to the opposite side of the Chinese family in Xiangjiang. You may not help Li Guangyu, but you absolutely cannot help Li Guangyu's opponents.
People like Qiu Deba are outsiders to the Xiangjiang family. When facing competition between foreign families and the Xiangjiang family, the Xiangjiang Chinese family is very united. Even if they don't provide help, they will never hold them back.
Qiu Degen also rejected the request of the Singapore consortium. Although Qiu Degen and Qiu Deba have similar names, they are not related to each other. This time, ATV and Jiayi maintained their relationship and condemned the Singapore consortium.
Qiu Deba and others then contacted several major newspapers in Xiangjiang, and the news they received was very pessimistic. Neither the Ma family of Oriental Daily, nor the Jin Yong of Ming Pao, nor the Hu family of Sing Tao Daily agreed to their request.
Nowadays, these big families have deeply felt the influence of Li's Consortium in Xiangjiang. In the past, they only heard about it. They did not think that Li's Consortium is terrible. Xiangjiang is still under the rule of the British. It has always been here.
In the world of British-funded consortium, they don't think that Li Guangyu can do anything to them because they and others are under the care of British-funded consortium.
However, what happened today gave them a wake-up call. They also contacted the British-funded consortium, and the news they received disheartened them.
Henry Keswick and others only promised that the government would not cause trouble for themselves and others. As for public opinion outside, I and others needed to find a solution. They also said that the government could not control the news media reports. What Xiangjiang implemented was
freedom of speech.
This put an end to Qiu Deba and his friends' idea of the Xiangjiang government stepping in to suppress public opinion. Faced with accusations and questions from countless people outside, Qiu Deba, Huang Zuyao and Guo Fangfeng discussed how to respond next.
Huang Zuyao said: "Deba, this time Li Guangyu obviously wants us to invest more funds in Xiangjiang Electric Group, which will affect the development of our other industries. And even if we agree to replace the aging lines this time, Li Guangyu will definitely still
They will come up with other ways to continue to let us inject funds into Xiangjiang Electric Group. Their Li Group has few shares in the company, and they don't care about this investment. We can't do that."
Guo Fangfeng also said that she and others must not let Li Guangyu lead the way this time, otherwise it will only get worse. Their investment in Xiangjiang Electric Group is not equivalent to that of the Li Group, which only holds 13.1% of the shares.
, they control 70% of the shares, and their funds cannot be spent by the Li Group.
Qiu Teck-ba now even has a hint of regret for intervening. He originally thought that the British government's deterrence, coupled with the influence of the British consortium in Hong Kong over the years, could easily withstand the attack of the Li family consortium, but all of them were unreasonable.
Something reliable.
There is a problem on my side, the government can't handle it, and the British consortium can't do anything. That's not what I told myself at the beginning.
Qiu Deba said: "This time we still have to make a commitment to the outside world. The aging lines must be replaced, but we need time. We can do it step by step. Now we have to deal with the public opinion. On the Li's consortium side, we have to do more.
Be careful, they will probably come up with other things by then."
At 10:30 in the morning, in the conference room of Xiangjiang Electric Lighting Group, Qiu Deba and the other two people were interviewed by many media in Xiangjiang.
Among them, Oriental Media asked: "Sheng Qiu, what do you think about the external reports? What will Xiangjiang Electric Group do next?"
Qiu Deba said: "Thank you for your concern for our group. As a public service enterprise in Xiangjiang, we will also uphold the concept of serving Xiangjiang citizens and do a good job in the company's operations. Regarding external reports that we have vetoed the replacement of aging lines, it is seriously untrue.
We said at the beginning that we would make corresponding arrangements after understanding the group's situation, and we definitely did not say we would not replace the aging lines."
A reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily asked: "Sir Qiu, you have never run this type of company before. Now that you have such a company, when do you expect to understand it? One month, two months, or one and a half years, and
Aging lines threaten the safety of Xiangjiang citizens at any time, I wonder what your plans are now?"
The reporter present looked like I know it, and I didn’t know what Qiu Deba was thinking. He actually asked a reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily to ask, doesn’t he know that this is the He family’s company and that Li Guangyu is still a shareholder in it.
Qiu Deba really didn't notice that this was a reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily. When he asked questions, he had already avoided reporters from Xiangyu Daily and Jiayi TV. Unexpectedly, he found a reporter from Li Guangyu's side.
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Qiu Deba said: "We are also very concerned about the electricity safety issue of Xiangjiang citizens. We only learned after reading a lot of news today that the power supply of some of our customers in Xiangjiang will be so unstable. We have already conducted investigations on this issue.
It is agreed that starting next month, we will replace some aging lines one by one."