"It was a few factory employees who swapped out the limited edition postcards and sold them to outsiders at a high price."
Zheng Xuan, who was still out of town, called Li Yaolin to report the results of her investigation.
She thought no one would be willing to do this for these 100 limited edition postcards, but as she investigated further, she found that it was true!
If it were just ordinary limited edition postcards, no one would care if a few were damaged. Coincidentally, the factory employees also thought so, thinking that it was just a few postcards and no one would know if they were swapped out. Besides, a postcard that costs one or two yuan can be sold for three hundred yuan. If he sold more than ten of them himself, it would be enough for this month's salary!
The second batch of postcards happened to be produced before the Chinese New Year, and he urgently needed money to go home for the New Year, so when a relative who claimed to be doing purchasing on behalf of others found him to cooperate, he agreed to it out of greed.
There were a total of 100 limited edition postcards in the second batch. When they were delivered, they would be packaged into 100 blind boxes, and then mixed with other already packaged blind boxes and sent back to Xingzhou Island.
He tampered with half of the blind boxes and replaced them with other blind boxes when loading the goods. Under normal circumstances, Xingzhou Island requires the production of 6,000 blind boxes, and the factory will produce more in case of emergency.
It's just a few dozen blind boxes, and the factory won't care. Besides, Xingzhou Island would soon need them to print 300,000 postcards, so the factory would not care about the remaining quantity of the second batch of postcards.
It was by taking advantage of the factory's oversight that the employee successfully replaced half of the limited edition postcards and sold them to the purchasing agent.
This factory is a small factory, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small workshop. Zheng Xuan chose them because she had worked with them before and felt that their products were finely made and not rough. In the case of a small order, they were willing to give a very reasonable price. Unexpectedly,
it was okay when taking small orders, but once a large order was taken, the loopholes in management became prominent.
"It was only after we called the police that the worker found out that his relative who was doing purchasing on behalf of others sold blind boxes for 800 yuan each! Now he has lost his job and is also suspected of theft and has lost everything."
If it were just an ordinary blind box, its value would be no more than 30 yuan each, but the factory employee sold blind boxes containing limited edition postcards. Judging from the fact that the purchasing agent sold them for more than 800 yuan and people were rushing to buy them, their value is far more than 30 yuan, so he stole and made a profit of tens of thousands of yuan, which is a serious crime.
Li Yaolin said proudly, "My postcards are not expensive at 10,000 yuan each."
Zheng Xuan: "...Is that the point?"
"Go on."
Zheng Xuan sorted out his thoughts and said, "After this incident, although the boss of this factory has been apologizing and wants to get forgiveness and make some compensation, I want to hear your opinion."
Li Yaolin said, "In fact, I have always thought that there are so many warehouses at Baoren Port Terminal. It would be nice for us to buy or rent one and make cultural and creative products."
Zheng Xuan: "..."
She asked, "Have you had the idea of opening your own factory for a long time?"
"I just thought of this! You know that after this incident, everyone knows that my postcards are valuable, so there will definitely be people willing to pay a higher price to buy limited edition postcards!
"The other workers are unwilling to take risks for 800 yuan, so what if the price is raised to 8,000? They dare not sell dozens of postcards, so selling one or two will be enough to cover their wages for one or two months, right? And if there are one or two less, we don't know, right?
"So, it is unrealistic to wait for other factories to check and correct themselves, and wait for the workers to resist temptation consciously. It is better for us to open our own factory and make the workers our own people, so that we don't have to worry about them doing similar things."
Zheng Xuan said: "But if we open our own factory, we need to invest more money, right?"
"I didn't open my own factory before because I didn't have enough money, and Xingzhou Island was just developing, so there was no stable supply and marketing relationship for cultural and creative products. Now it's different. Judging from the increasing sales of cultural and creative products, our cultural and creative products are still very mainstream and quite popular and loved by people. The prospects are so good that we can definitely make it bigger and stronger..."
Of course, Li Yaolin's idea didn't just come up with a sudden inspiration. In fact, she had long known that someone in the factory had stolen her limited edition postcards and sold them to others.
The smart housekeeper can monitor the online public opinion about Xingzhou Island, and naturally paid attention to some abnormalities in the data of the limited edition postcards. This investigation found the purchasing group, and reported the matter to the island owner very early.
Li Yaolin could have directly approached Zheng Xuan and her boss to tell them about this when she found out about it, but in this case, it was inevitable that someone would question whether Zheng Xuan was not capable enough to continue in her current position.
Moreover, it was not the project team led by Zheng Xuan who discovered this, but her boss, so the nature of the matter was different.
Self-examination and self-correction still had a chance to make up for the mistakes, but if the island owner came forward in person, even if the island owner did not pursue the matter because Zheng Xuan was a roommate and a good sister, it would only leave people with a bad impression that she was a relative, had no ability, and relied on relationships to get to the top.
Therefore, Li Yaolin asked the smart butler to send the data of the decline in sales to the sales department, so that the sales department would pay a little attention to it, and then indirectly remind Zheng Xuan with the feedback of the lower postcard winning rate.
Zheng Xuan still couldn't see the problem, and she wouldn't take the initiative to tell her about it, to avoid hurting her good sister.
But she would find another reason to put the factory on the agenda, and as for the postcards, they were lost, so she would just take it as a lesson for herself.
Zheng Xuan didn't know that the island owner had already made up his mind. She sighed and said, "It was my negligence. I underestimated the value of this postcard. You clearly told me so at the beginning..."
Li Yaolin said, "Even the boss of their factory doesn't know about this. You are far away on Xingzhou Island. It is normal that you didn't discover this in time. You don't have to take all the responsibility on yourself."
Zheng Xuan was still a little puzzled. She was the one who found the factory and discussed the production and cooperation matters. It was her fault that she failed to discover the hidden dangers caused by the inadequate internal management of the factory.
Li Yaolin said, "But this incident did cause some losses to Xingzhou Island. Why don't you pay for the 50 blind boxes? A total of 1,500 yuan will be deducted from your bonus."
Zheng Xuan: "..."
She felt much better after receiving the fine.
1,500 yuan sounds like a lot at first, but after she became a supervisor, her salary increased a lot, and this little money can be made up by working overtime for a month.
Li Yaolin said, "This matter must be kept secret and cannot be publicized everywhere, otherwise there will be a second one."
"Are you worried?"
"I asked them to handle it in a low-key manner because I was worried that this matter would get out. Tourists would find it difficult to believe in the probability of winning a limited edition postcard if they knew that the limited edition postcard could be replaced by an employee."
Zheng Xuan understood: "The original probability of a limited edition postcard was 1.66%. If you buy 60 blind boxes, you will have a chance to get one. If they are not rich and buy 120 blind boxes, but no limited edition postcard is issued, then they have reason to suspect that we have tampered with it."
She asked again: "There is a question. Others have said that this limited edition postcard is so magical, why don't I become particularly lucky even though I carry it every day?"
This time, she unfortunately lost 1,500 yuan in prize money.
Li Yaolin was also confused and could only ask the little mermaid.
The little mermaid said: "She is the employee of the island owner. After signing the contract, she has already been blessed by the sea god, so this 'Sea God Blessing Seal' will not work on her either!"
Li Yaolin: "..."
You should have told me this earlier!
The little mermaid: "The island owner didn't ask her!"
"I didn't ask you at the time, and you reminded me on purpose!"
"That's because... you are the island owner, and she is the island owner's assistant!"
Li Yaolin: "..."
Brother Xuan is still your colleague, why are you so hypocritical.
Li Yaolin didn't dwell on this matter anymore, and began to think about building a factory.
Of course, this factory cannot be built on Xingzhou Island, but if the site is outside the use right area of Xingzhou Island, then it can only apply for management and factory construction through normal channels.
Although the purpose of building a factory cannot be achieved through the system, taking Li Yaolin's investment in Qianlai Tourism and becoming the actual controlling shareholder as an example, it is considered an asset under Li Yaolin's name, and its revenue is also counted within the revenue scope of the system.
Processing and producing cultural and creative products does not require a large-scale factory. In addition to some products that cannot be replaced by machines, postcards can actually be mass-produced by machines. Even some scenic spots' postcards are printed and produced by the stores themselves, and the process is not complicated.
Li Yaolin considered opening a factory and recruiting 20 to 30 employees with experience in this field to process and produce because Xingzhou Island still has other cultural and creative products to produce.
She planned to open this small factory in the name of the company, so that she could save some approval procedures and processes. But since the design and production of cultural and creative products are under the management of the marketing department, the factory's affairs will also be handled by Manager Jiang.
As for the reason for opening the factory, Li Yaolin said lightly: "Although most of the best factories in the field of processing cultural and creative products are in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, those places are too far away after all, and there are too few factories nearby with mature production processes that meet our conditions, so I have long wanted to do it myself, and I will take this opportunity to cancel the cooperation with the other party..."
The party at fault this time was in that factory, so Xingzhou Island proposed not to continue the third cooperation with the other party, and the other party had no reason to ask for compensation.
Manager Jiang said, "But in this case, the launch date of the third batch of blind boxes will have to be postponed."
"It's fine to postpone it. We didn't tell the public when the third batch of blind boxes would be launched. Before the factory is set up and the third batch of blind boxes is produced, we should focus on other cultural and creative products. The cultural and creative team should spend more time designing more cultural and creative products." After
the blind boxes are sold out, maybe people will talk about them even more?
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"The purchasing agent was arrested?" When Song Ruqing heard that she didn't get the postcards she wanted and the purchasing agent was arrested, she was confused and worried, "Will we be okay?"
What if the police came to torture her? Her acting career would be ruined!
The assistant said with some guilt: "What they sold was not illegal, so we buyers will be fine. It's just that... we may not get our money back."
"If a few hundred yuan can't be refunded, then it can't be refunded." Song Ruqing said irritably.
How did the other party get arrested? Is there a traitor in the group? Otherwise, how could a few dozen limited edition postcards attract the attention of the police and cause them to arrest people?
She was in a bad mood and met Sister Ying who came to the company to discuss something. When the assistant saw Sister Ying's smug look, he said with envy: "I heard that she went to Xingzhou Island with Zhou Qunfang to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Day, and she also won a limited edition postcard by taking advantage of Zhou Qunfang's good luck. After the stock market opened, the stocks she bought have been rising. Also, there have been changes in the middle management of Lujiao Media recently, and she is very likely to be promoted, so this time she came to our company to discuss cooperation on behalf
of Lujiao Media..." Song Ruqing was even more annoyed. She glared at the assistant who was incapable of doing anything but making trouble and had time to eat other people's gossip here. She even began to hesitate whether she should also bow to Zhou Qunfang to take advantage of her good luck.
She still couldn't let go of her status, but she instigated an artist from the same company who was famous for speaking his mind to ask Zhou Qunfang, and got an answer.
Zhou Qunfang said: "Why don't you go to Xingzhou Island by yourself? What if you meet the island owner? Wouldn't it be better for you to just go and take advantage of the island owner's good luck? If you can get a photo with him, you will be famous all over the Internet?"
Song Ruqing thought: That's right! Zhou Qunfang's luck only improved after she went to Xingzhou Island.
It happened that she didn't have any announcements recently, so she went there to play for a day or two, just as a vacation.
She asked her assistant to hold the phone and wait for a whole day until others refunded their tickets, and the assistant grabbed the ticket without saying a word. Thanks to the fast Internet speed, she was able to grab it.
"Sister Qing, are you going to stay overnight? Their hotel seems to be open." The assistant asked.
"Of course."
"The hotel only has luxury suites left now. It happens to be Valentine's Day and costs 2,880 yuan a night. This trip is not arranged by the company, so it may not be reimbursed. Are you still staying?"
Song Ruqing: "..."
She gritted her teeth and said, "Yes!"
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Island owner: I am becoming more and more like a boss, although I know I am still just an employee...
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