The R&D department failed to provide a satisfactory answer to the board of directors, and now their annual budget has been cut again and again.
Their proposal was quickly rejected:
"Money, money, money, all you know is money. Isn't it enough for the company to support a bunch of useless people like you? You have to find yourself a sugar daddy to keep you company?"
"Seven hundred million is more than enough for a small business; to be any more greedy would be going too far."
"Exactly! Knowing that the other party is already flush with cash, why keep throwing money into it? Are all the people in the company idiots?"
The public relations department received a signal from General Manager Gu:
"Should we continue to find some more well-known bloggers to create a wave of public opinion?"
"The feedback before was very good; the other side had absolutely no chance to fight back."
"The live-streaming rooms were disbanded just like that, and online sales plummeted for days on end. But this idea was rejected again:"
"Do you really think the Lu family is spineless? We still remember the bloggers who were thrown into prison for taking a government job. Now, which blogger would dare to take money and do things in this sensitive situation?"
"Money makes the world go round. That was before. Now we'll raise the price for bribing bloggers, and someone will eventually take the bait."
Inside the meeting room, one department after another offered their ideas, but ultimately, they were all thinking about how to pocket money from the company's accounts.
Before President Gu could even stop this chaos, several board members were already losing their composure.
"Enough! They're a bunch of good-for-nothings. They can't even get things done; all they do is fight amongst themselves!"
"We can't just stand up for the Lu family's business alone. I refuse to believe that the other companies in the condiment business can sit still."
So the person in charge of Meizida Qianwei Food Co., Ltd., which had been in competition with Shengjing for more than ten or twenty years, came to Shengjing.
Neither Meizida nor Qianwei are domestic companies, but they are among the top sellers in the domestic condiment market, comparable to Shengjing Company.
Originally, these two companies were not exactly watching from the sidelines as Shengjing dealt with other small domestic enterprises, but they were certainly happy to see it happen.
Occasionally, they would even fan the flames and kick someone when they're down.
Unexpectedly, Shengjing Company, which had been hunting geese all day long, ended up getting pecked in the eye by the geese and capsized in a ditch.
The CEOs of Meizida and Qianwei were overjoyed. They watched as the newly emerging Lu family and Shengjing fought fiercely, while their two companies followed behind, picking up the market share that the latter had abandoned.
This is definitely a sure-fire way to make a profit.
But as time went on, both companies realized what was going on.
Although the Lu family is a small, newly emerging enterprise, how could it have managed to "linger on" until now under the retaliation of a large, leading enterprise like Shengjing Company?
Mr. Qu of Meizida and President Xiaosonggong of Qianwei are not fools. They are not so stupid as to think that Shengjing Company's actions against Lu's Soy Sauce Factory are just for show.
Since it's not just for show, it proves that the Lu family is definitely not some fledgling small enterprise.
They definitely have the strength to secure the market.
This power, combined with the Lu family's unique formula, was a devastating blow to Shengjing Company, which was the first to react.
The same applies to Mezida and Qianwei.
It was precisely because they understood this point that Mr. Qu of Meizida and President Xiaosonggong of Qianwei immediately accepted the invitation from Shengjing Company.
However, these companies are seasoned veterans of open and covert competition, and their meetings are only out of necessity. With both old and new grudges at play, their verbal exchanges are quite intense.
It was President Gu who couldn't stand it any longer and took the initiative to back down:
"Alright, I called you all here to discuss how to suppress the Lu family, not to have tea and chat!"
After a pause, seeing that both Mr. Qu from Meizida and Ms. Komatsu from Qianwei looked indignant and had stopped arguing, Mr. Gu breathed a sigh of relief.
So they changed the subject and started talking about serious matters:
"You've all probably already been exposed to Lu's products." He wasn't just making empty threats.
It was precisely because I had fought with Meizida and Qianwei that I understood the temperament and magnanimity of the enemies I was facing.
If they hadn't tried Lu's products and felt a real threat, President Qu and Komatsu would never have made the special trip to Shengjing Company to sit here and negotiate with him.
Mr. Gu didn't waste any words with the two of them and directly took out the documents that had been prepared beforehand:
"These are the performance reports of Lu's Soy Sauce Factory before our company intervened."
"Let me remind you both that when this report came out, Lu's Soy Sauce Factory was not yet more than three times the size it is now."
"Nor would we have these parallel production lines now!"
"Now we not only have everything, but our offline channels are also slowly expanding."
"Gentlemen, time is running out for our three companies. I hope you two will carefully consider what path our three companies should take next."
Mr. Gu's words were serious, but by no means alarmist.
He only told President Qu and Komatsu Miyako some of the facts.
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