Chapter 036 (Part 2)
Friday, July 16, 2004.
This is a very ordinary working day, but today is destined to be extraordinary.
As Pengcheng Metropolis Daily went on sale, a large number of people bought it because of its title.
Some people read the report while walking on their way to work and cursed loudly after reading it. Some people rushed home after reading the report. Some people picked up their phones to call their families.
Some people saw this report at home. They were watching TV and the advertisement of Tesida was playing during the commercial time. "Taixida, for 40 years, has been specializing in making high-quality milk powder and rice noodles that the Chinese people can trust. Taixida is the choice of 80% of Chinese mothers."
The advertising slogans in the advertisement, combined with the report written by Lin Shuyue, are full of irony.
Countless people who saw the newspaper went to clinics and hospitals to verify the facts. After receiving affirmative answers, they angrily attacked any government agency they could think of.
Parents who had eaten Taixida products were so shocked and angry that they called the Pengcheng distributor headquarters.
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Pengcheng dealer headquarters.
Huang Tianying came to work at the company as usual. She first watered the lucky bamboo, money tree and green ivy that General Manager Lu Zhengtian liked, then wiped her workstation and mopped the office floor. As it was almost time to go to work, she hurried to turn on the company's power switch.
Their manager is very frugal. He turns off the power in the company as soon as he gets off work, and turns it back on in the morning when he comes to work.
She had just come back from opening the gate when the phone on her workstation rang. Huang Tianying immediately walked over, took a deep breath, and sat down. She answered the phone with the sweet smile she had been trained to wear before taking up the job, and in a gentle tone: "Hello, this is Taixi Da Pengcheng Sales Department. How can I help you?"
"Help you and your mother help you. You, Taisida, are so wicked that you make rice noodles with poisonous rice and sell them to children. You are so capable, why don't you eat the poisonous rice yourselves? I *****, you all will die a horrible death!" A series of curses made Huang Tianying stunned on the spot.
Their manager Lu Zhengtian is not well educated and does not require his employees to have a high level of education. Lu Zhengtian never reads things like newspapers, so there is no such thing as newspapers in the company. Huang Tianying has no hobby of reading newspapers.
So she still doesn't know what happened. The person on the other end of the phone threatened Huang Tianying that he would sue them and then hung up. Before Huang Tianying could react, the phone rang again.
Huang Tianying picked up the phone and continued to insult her. After she tried to soothe him with her gentle voice, the insults became even more unpleasant.
Huang Tianying hung up the phone almost with tears in her eyes. Her colleague finally arrived at this time: "
Tianying, Tianying, something happened, something big happened. ”
Huang Tianying wiped her tears and walked up to her colleague and asked, "What happened?"
Her colleague handed her the newspaper, and the headline caught Huang Tianying's eye at first glance. Huang Tianying even forgot to cry.
The phone in the company continued to ring. Huang Tianying's colleagues picked up the phone and the insults came through the receiver into the office. Huang Tianying called the company's general manager Lu Zhengtian, her brother-in-law, with trembling hands, but the line was always busy and no one answered.
In a villa in Pengcheng, Lu Zhengtian was holding a mobile phone and calling Taixida in Wancheng like crazy, but the line was either busy or no one answered.
The sun is shining brightly today, but for Lu Zhengtian, it is as cloudy as a cloud. He was just an ordinary businessman who spent a huge amount of money to be the agent of the Taisida product.
This kind of thing happened just two years after he became successful. Lu Zhengtian even wanted to die. He had no time to take care of the company. He picked up the car keys and drove to Wancheng.
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While Lu Zhengtian was worried and anxious, the Pengcheng government departments at all levels received reports from the public and, regardless of what they thought, still sent investigators to investigate and verify. Major testing agencies have received many testing orders.
Pengcheng TV also responded quickly. Their reporters took cameras and found the attending doctors of the children in question. They also bought all the rice noodles available on the market and sent them to a testing agency for expedited testing in front of the cameras.
And has been waiting in front of the testing agency's laboratory. When the results came out, the reporter presented them in front of the camera as soon as possible.
The clear markings above indicate which batches of rice noodles are qualified and which are unqualified. Anyone who can read can recognize the words "aflatoxin exceeds the standard".
Most of the rice noodles with excessive aflatoxin levels were produced by Taisida within two months. Rice noodles produced two months ago do not contain aflatoxin.
Two months may not seem like a long time, but according to what the boss said, Taisida’s production capacity is one ton per day, and it has been a total of 65 days from the starting date to now, so the amount of rice consumed will be an astronomical number. But Taisida’s daily production capacity is definitely not enough to reach one ton. But even if the daily consumption is calculated at 1,000 kilograms, 500 kilograms, or 300 kilograms, the number of words is still huge.
Rice noodles are packaged and canned. The expensive ones are sold for more than ten yuan a can, and the cheaper ones are sold for a few yuan a bag. The quantity ranges from 500g to 200g. How many kilograms of flour can be ground from one kilogram of rice, and how many kilograms of rice noodles can be made from this kilogram of flour?
How many infants and young children in the city choose Taisida because of its reputation? What about nationwide?
Wang Mingzheng had received Huang Qiang's call a long time ago, and he was waiting downstairs for the three to come back.
As soon as they met, the four of them hurried upstairs.
"From morning till now, the company's phone has been bombarded with calls. Even the cleaning lady has received many calls asking whether the information is true or not. The boss is here." While walking forward, Wang Mingzheng introduced to Huang Qiang and the other two what had happened in the past few hours from morning till now.
Lin Shuyue was very curious about the owner of Pengcheng Metropolis Daily. She once knew some information about Xun Heng, the boss behind Pengcheng Metropolis Daily.
He is a descendant of the Xun family in the capital. His grandfather was a general who followed the great man to conquer the world, and he was not persecuted during those ten years.
Now, all members of the Xun family are developing in the military and political circles. Xun Heng is an exception among all the children. He has liked doing business since he was a child. So after the reform and opening up in the 1980s, he came to Shenzhen alone to work hard. He has an extremely good vision for investment and invested in real estate companies in Pengcheng early on.
His Dingsheng Real Estate and Limin Real Estate previously owned by Yang Haoan are both regarded as the top real estate companies in Pengcheng. The Dingsheng Building where Lin Shuyue and her colleagues work is a building owned by Dingsheng Real Estate. It is precisely for this reason that Pengcheng Metropolis Daily, a declining newspaper, was able to rent such a large office building in Pengcheng's Pinghu District, where every inch of land is valuable, and even has a special cafeteria next to the office building.
But unlike Liming Real Estate, Dingsheng Real Estate has long since transformed into Dingsheng Group. In addition to real estate, its industries also cover the entertainment industry and the electrical appliance industry.
Pengcheng Metropolis Daily is also under the umbrella of Dingsheng Group.
It is said that Pengcheng Entertainment News was founded by Xun Heng and his friends, because Xun Heng, who was born into a wealthy family, had a dream of becoming a reporter since he was a child. Later, for various reasons, the friends who had started the newspaper together with me left the newspaper and started other businesses.
Xun Heng became the sole boss of Pengcheng Metropolitan Daily. Pengcheng Metropolis Daily became the least profitable and even loss-making company under his control. But even so, Xun Heng still did not give up Pengcheng Metropolis Daily.
Because of Xun Heng's powerful background, Yang Baozong did not dare to kill Huang Qiang. Even though he knew that Huang Qiang had evidence of his smuggling, he did not dare to do anything to Huang Qiang openly in Pengcheng. Instead, he took action against Huang Qiang after he entered Yangcheng.
Later, Huang Qiang was rescued, and Yang Baozong didn't even dare to let Huang Qiang disappear from the news industry.
Lin Shuyue had been curious about him for a long time.
When they arrived, Xun Heng was standing by the window of Wang Mingzheng's office.
He was about the same age as Huang Qiang and the others, all in their forties. He had a handsome face, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, and he looked very charming standing in front of the window and looking down.
Especially when he turned around, he didn't smile, and the sound of his voice when he spoke was the bubbling sound that girls are most attracted to.
But unlike the bubbling sounds produced by those boys with clips on the Internet in the previous life, his voice is very natural and attractive. When talking to people, he is very serious and gives others enough respect.
After the leaders exchanged some pleasantries, Lin Shuyue and the other two handed the camera to Huang Mingzheng. Wang Mingzheng inserted the card in the camera into the computer, closed the window, and projected the video onto the screen in the office.
I watched the interviews of the three people in silence. Xun Heng said: "Don't worry about reporting this. If anything goes wrong, I will take responsibility for you from above."
Xun Heng said this with confidence. His grandfather's generation was at a time of national crisis. His Xun family was originally a merchant family. At that time, a total of five young and strong men from the Xun family went out to save the country. Only his grandfather survived, and in their generation, two of his brothers and sisters had already sacrificed their lives for the country.
The "toxic rice noodles incident" violated national laws and touched the foundation of the country. This is something the country cannot allow, not to mention that this batch of poisonous rice came from the storage department!
How important are grain reserves to a country? How could someone who can work at the warehouse bureau not know this? Even though they knew the importance of grain reserves to the country, they still chose to take action against the grain reserves! They are stealing from their employer and neglecting their duties.
But no matter which one they are, they are all parasites of the country! Once discovered, the country will never tolerate these people!
Last night Xun Heng called his uncle in the capital. They talked for ten minutes and his uncle told him that he could report the matter openly. Some abscesses have to be punctured, otherwise they will continue to develop. The consequences are disastrous.
With Xun Heng's words, Wang Mingzheng and Huang Qiang breathed a sigh of relief.
Xun Heng copied all the undercover videos and left.
As soon as he left, Wang Mingzheng said to Lin Shuyue and the other two, "I know you are tired last night, but you have already walked ninety-nine steps. You have to take the next step. I have already made an appointment with Zhang Xiongfeng, the director of the news department of Pengcheng TV Station, and they will be here soon."
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear. As soon as Wang Mingzheng finished speaking, Xiao He from the front desk came to say that Director Zhang was here. Wang Mingzheng immediately went out to greet him.
Zhang Xiongfeng reached out and held Wang Mingzheng's hand: "Ah Ming, let's not say any more unnecessary words. It's almost noon, and this news is scheduled to be broadcast at noon. There is no time. When we are done in the evening, I will treat you to dinner."
"I understand. Let's get started."
The group went to Wang Mingzheng's office. When it comes to being interviewed by a TV station, the second time is familiarity. This time, Lin Shuyue was already familiar with it. She, Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng also accepted the interview with their backs to the camera.
After getting the interview materials and undercover materials, Zhang Xiongfeng and others set off without stopping.
It is now ten o'clock, and there are still two hours before the noon news is broadcast. These two hours are all post-production work. They have to tell the story of this incident as completely as possible within the limited time.
Lin Shuyue and the other two were finally able to go home and go to sleep.
Just as the three were sleeping soundly, the public opinion they brought about fermented again.
The central media’s midday news used the interview with Pengcheng TV, and people all over the country knew about Taisida’s “toxic rice noodle incident.” Countless parents of infants and young children who had eaten Taisida rice noodles rushed to the hospital with their children.
The number of infants and young children diagnosed with diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting has skyrocketed. At the same time, many children have been diagnosed with damaged liver function and impaired growth and development.
The Ministry of Health dispatched eight task forces to conduct investigations at various factories of Taisida, including the headquarters. At the same time, random inspections will be carried out on all milk powder and rice noodle companies' products across the country.
At the second branch in Dongguan City, all the leaders of the branch had already been criminally detained by the police, and the ten tons of moldy rice in their factory's granary had not yet been cleaned up and destroyed.
The machine in the polishing area was paused, and the rice in the rice bin that had not been polished and waxed had not yet become a finished product. °
Aflatoxin was detected in the rice in the soaking area and in the polished rice flour.
The fruit and veg section is delicious on a hot day! Flies are flying all over the rotten fruits and vegetables, and some of them will even fall into the fruit and vegetable processing machines and be taken away by the machines, eventually flowing to the next production link.
The flies are beaten into juice along with fruits and vegetables, mixed with rice flour, and after a series of operations including sterilization and drying, they become finished products and appear in the packaging area.
All of this was recorded by the camera and presented perfectly to the general public.
The dairy farm under Taisida's name was also raided and recorded by countless people. Just like the dairy breeding center around Dongguan City, the environment of these dairy farms was very worrying except for some areas that needed to be shown to outsiders.
In the exposed video, there is even a scene where feces falls into milk. It made countless viewers vomit again.
All the persons in charge of the Guangdong-Guangdong Warehousing Bureau who sold the moldy rice were secretly taken away for interrogation last night. They will be severely punished by law.
However, the matter was not over yet. The next morning, another piece of news appeared on the front page of the Central Daily News.
The report said that after random checks, different doses of melamine were found in the infant formula powder currently on the market. The melamine content in Taisida milk powder is the highest.
After investigation, it was found that melamine can increase the protein content in milk powder without any taste. Because of its low cost, Taixida’s chairman Wang Xinhua personally ordered the addition of more of these chemicals to milk.
The batch of milk powder with the highest content was shipped to the country's poor areas for sale on the day it was sold.
When the National Food Safety Ministry learned of the news, it immediately issued an order to recall all rice noodles containing aflatoxin and milk powder containing melamine on the market.
Governments at all levels and in all regions responded positively after receiving the order. Children in remote rural areas who had drunk Taishida milk powder have been taken away to the hospital for examination. Fortunately, the toxic milk powder containing melamine had just entered the market, and not many infants and young children had drunk it. The condition of the infants who had drunk the toxic milk powder was also within controllable range.
Taishida and other leaders of the milk powder factory that contained banned substances were all sentenced to criminal detention.
Things seemed to have come to an end here.
But a week after Lin Shuyue reported the poisonous rice noodles in Taixida, she received a package.
When the package was opened, a cat that had been tortured to death was found inside. When the box was opened, the cat's eyes were still open, staring straight at Lin Shuyue.
The scream of Li Mingfang, who was unpacking the package with Lin Shuyue, echoed throughout the building.
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