After arriving in Hawaii, Bai Yu first presented the relevant documents and stated the purpose of his visit to Hawaii, as required by local customs.
When the customs officer heard that Bai Yu had come to participate in the track and field competition and fishing competition by fishing boat, he was stunned. He really did not expect that someone would spend more than half a month traveling to Hawaii by fishing boat.
They had seen many boats before, but this time Bai Yu was on a fishing boat, not a cruise ship. These two types of vessels are completely different.
Especially since Bai Yu is now very famous in the IAAF, the customs officials really couldn't understand why he would come to Hawaii by fishing boat.
After all, given Bai Yu's status and fame, it would be perfectly normal for him to come by plane, let alone charter one. Could it be that this fishing boat belongs to Bai Yu himself?
Well, he guessed right. This fishing boat really was Bai Yu's own, and it was the first fishing boat he bought with the most money he had ever spent.
In addition to this one ship, he also owns a shipping company with eight vessels under his name. He will deliver three more this year, and may place additional orders.
Of course, Bai Yu wouldn't tell the customs officials about these things. He came to Hawaii to participate in a competition, not to show off his wealth.
After leaving customs, Bai Yu took Wang Hai to the hotel to check in.
For people like him who drifted at sea for more than ten days to reach Hawaii, even if they are outsiders, the supervision of them was not very strict during the pandemic.
After all, they sailed across the ocean, and apart from the crew on board, they wouldn't have much contact with other people.
Furthermore, they had been at sea for more than half a month, so even if someone among them had been latently positive, they should have shown symptoms long ago.
However, all forty-odd people on the ship were healthy and had no problems whatsoever.
Besides Bai Yu and Wang Hai, there were other crew members on their ship with passports who wanted to disembark and wander around.
Anyway, for the crew, this time they will rest for a day in the port of Hawaii, and then return to the sea to carry out their work. When they have caught enough fish, they will return to Sanya to unload the cargo.
As for how Bai Yu and Wang Hai left?
It's that simple. They can just fly back. Tickets are easy to find.
One of the reasons why Bai Yu didn't take a boat back was that he was going to participate in a fishing competition in Hawaii, and he would be staying there for a relatively long time.
The purpose of the Yuxue was to fish, so they couldn't stay in Hawaii for long. Once the ship was almost full, they would return to Sanya.
So my uncle and his family only stay in Hawaii for a few days, catch some seafood, and then go home.
As for Bai Yu's company's fishing boats, since their company pays membership fees to the local fisheries association every year, they naturally want to earn that money back.
Leaving aside the situation with her uncles, since it wasn't their first time in Hawaii, Bai Yu didn't need to worry about their affairs.
On the other hand, after Bai Yu and Wang Hai checked into the hotel, he connected to the hotel's network and started checking news from back home.
While at sea, Bai Yu had access to satellite internet, but the network was limited. Even if he wanted to use it, he didn't dare to use it too recklessly, otherwise, the limited network would be used up in the blink of an eye.
But now things are better; they've gone ashore and checked into a hotel where there's Wi-Fi available.
The first thing Bai Yu did after connecting with the internet was to make a video call to Li Shuang to ask if he had received the message from Douyin's official channels.
"Shuangzi, how's it going? Have the authorities contacted you yet?"
"No, if you ask me, Douyin doesn't take us seriously at all. They don't care about our statement at all."
It's been almost seven days, and the authorities haven't even given us a response, let alone sent any staff to ask for our feedback. They've completely ignored us.
When Bai Yu asked her questions, Li Shuang told her the truth and recounted what had happened in the past few days.
Li Shuang was also very unhappy about this, since Bai Yu wasn't the only one who was banned from speaking because of this. Their company's account also posted videos, and several of their streamers also posted videos using their respective accounts.
Then each account was banned to varying degrees, with the least ban being on their company's official account, which was banned for three days without affecting the live stream.
This shows what Douyin's official plan is: not only do they want to ban you from speaking, but they also want you to make money for them by doing live streams.
Li Shuang and his team naturally wouldn't tolerate this behavior from the authorities. They figured they could just stop the live-streaming sales for now, and their official account also stopped broadcasting for about ten days.
The company earned over a billion yuan a year for Douyin, but in the end, all of its accounts were affected because it told the truth, especially since it posted a video of the other party violating the law.
Bai Yu and his group were naturally dissatisfied with this. Since Douyin had this attitude, they decided not to stay any longer.
"Wow, the authorities are pretty tough on the side. Not bad, not bad. I want to see how tough they can be and how long they can hold out."
Shuangzi, send out our company's statement. Send it to all our company's accounts, including our affiliated streamers. We're switching platforms.
"By the way, you should talk to our streamers in advance. It's fine if they don't want to switch platforms; we can part ways amicably. We won't force them."
"Okay, I've already talked to them about these things. Our company currently has eight streamers, and they're all willing to switch platforms with us."
"Brother Yu, is there anything else you need to do? If not, I'll go get back to work now."
"Go ahead, just issue a statement, that's all. Don't say anything else. When Douyin officials call you, just say one thing: we need an explanation. Don't say anything else."
Also, I posted the unfinished video on Kuaishou (a Chinese short video platform), and Kuaishou really welcomes that! The video is guaranteed to go viral!
"Okay, then I'll get to work."
After Li Shuang finished speaking, he hung up the video call and went to arrange his work.
As for the statement Bai Yu mentioned, the statements from other people who switched platforms were very simple, just stating the reason for switching platforms and that was it.
However, Bai Yu and their company's official statement consisted of two long articles of five or six thousand words each, and one of them was a short article full of veiled sarcasm.
Bai Yu's short essay begins with his experience joining Douyin, recounting how he built up his account step by step through his own efforts.
He also wants to thank the Douyin platform for not banning or silencing him in the early stages of his short video career; otherwise, there would be no Bai Yu today.
He also wanted to thank the Douyin platform for keeping his account, which doesn't accept ads, doesn't use product showcases, and doesn't engage in traffic promotion, for so long. After several years, he was only banned because he spoke the truth and did something that many people wanted to do but didn't dare to.
He expressed his gratitude to Douyin for their leniency in only silencing him instead of banning his account.
Next, in order to further his career and avoid being banned from speaking without reason, he decided to switch platforms.
In Bai Yu's view, the official reason for banning him from speaking on the grounds of damaging the friendship between him and the Philippines is unreasonable and untenable.
At the end of his statement, Bai Hao also thanked Douyin for providing his company with a platform to sell goods, which enabled them to earn 2.5 billion yuan in the past year.
Of course, it's a mutually beneficial arrangement; while their company makes money, they also help Douyin (TikTok) earn a significant amount of money.
In addition, the use of last year's operating profit was revealed, including the donation of 2 billion yuan to the South China Sea Fleet.
Then, they announced that their company had secured the naming rights for a warship from the Navy, although it was only a Type 052D destroyer. Currently, their company is raising the remaining balance for the Type 052D.
Therefore, in order to avoid affecting their company's subsequent sales progress and prevent being banned for no reason again, their company's account will be switched to a different platform, namely Kuaishou, for live-streaming sales.
Once the ship, named Yuxue, is launched, any netizen who has purchased items from their company's live stream can be considered one of the ship's investors.
A lengthy statement was released, and it was a joint statement from Bai Yu and all the live streams under their company, which immediately caused a huge uproar online.
Especially considering that the fishing boat shipping company donated over 3 billion yuan to the Southeast and Southwest Fleets in just two years and even obtained the naming rights to a Type 052D destroyer, it's impossible for this to not generate a huge buzz.
Some people might ask, wasn't the previous donation only a little over two billion? How did it suddenly increase to over three billion?
Of course, building a 052D destroyer costs money. The construction cost alone is over 3 billion yuan, not to mention the maintenance costs, which are an even bigger expense.
The money that Bai Yu's company had donated before, even if all of it were put together, wouldn't be enough to build a ship, let alone get naming rights.
Therefore, Bai Yu and his group could only continue to donate money. Bai Yu owned a total of three companies. The company that had previously donated the most money to the Southeast Sea was the Internet company. The shipping company had also run out of money because it had added a lot of fishing boats.
However, Bai Yu also owns a factory that made a lot of money last year. It is a processing plant managed by Bai's father, and its sales in the live broadcast room alone reached more than 3 billion last year.
With their factory-direct sales model, which eliminates middlemen and their markups, even though their seafood is all sourced directly from suppliers, their profit margin is at least 30%.
If you come across some good seafood, you can buy it, process it a little, and resell it for double the profit.
Therefore, the processing plant under Bai Yu's name had a good profit last year. In addition to donating 100 million yuan to the East China Sea, it donated another 800 million yuan to the South China Sea this year, bringing their company's total donation amount to 3 billion yuan.
Then Bai Yu donated 100 million yuan in his own name and only then did he obtain the naming rights. This was because Bai Yu and his family had a clean background and were completely sincere and dedicated to national defense.
There was also a reason for giving Bai Yu's company a naming right, which was to make Bai Yu's company a model. Later, when the 052D was launched, it was named Yu Xue.
After all, it is a well-known fact that businessmen only care about profits. Faced with the prospect of profit, many people would rather give up the interests of the country in order to fight for their own interests.
And to be honest, there are quite a few businessmen like this in our country.
Companies like Baiyu, which donated billions of yuan to national defense within just two years of their founding, are considered an anomaly in any country.
Now that such companies have emerged, the leaders above are preparing to use Bai Yu as a model to cultivate the patriotism of our people.
After all, Bai Yu has accumulated too many advantages. He came from humble beginnings, became a top international athlete through his own efforts, and then started his own company from scratch.
Establishing someone like him as a role model of patriotism can have a very strong inspirational effect on the younger generation.
Less than two minutes after Li Shuang issued the statement as Bai Yu requested, his phone rang. The contact name displayed was "General Manager Chen of Douyin," the person in charge of their company's live-streaming e-commerce platform.
Li Shuang didn't even glance at the call; she immediately put her phone on silent and waited for the situation to escalate.
Bai Yu and his team released their statement at 8 PM sharp, and within five minutes, news about Bai Yu and his company had already topped the Douyin (TikTok) trending list.
Moreover, it's the kind of trending topic that the authorities can't suppress no matter what they try. Unless they delete all the related terms and phrases about Yuxue Shipping Company and Baiyu, suppressing the trending topic is useless.
Then Douyin exploded. Douyin's official account was immediately bombarded by Bai Yu's fans and a large number of netizens.
Bai Yu has no intention of paying attention to the various things happening online for the time being. Anyway, he is currently abroad, and it won't be easy for others to find him.
As for Li Shuang, Bai Yu had already told him that Li Shuang should ignore everything until someone of significant influence came forward.
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