Xie Hongtao's work speed is remarkably fast.
After receiving the information, the driver set off directly for Hongyun Tractor Factory.
Dong'an City is not far from Baiyin City; it only takes half a day by car to get there.
Afterwards, Xie Hongtao, carrying his camera, made some inquiries and finally found Hongyun Tractor Factory.
I learned from chatting with the local residents that this tractor factory was not originally called Hongyun, but was a local enterprise in the city.
Later, after reforms, it became a joint-stock factory.
The factory manager was named Cao Hongyun. He was originally a leader at this factory.
With a series of maneuvers, the factory was transformed into his business.
There's no other reason than that when Cao Hongyun was in power, he squandered his wealth, causing the factory to suffer continuous losses until he was completely bankrupt.
During this process, Cao Hongyun accumulated considerable influence.
When it came time to get rid of the burden in the city, Cao Hongyun directly proposed restructuring. First, he valued the tractors at rock bottom, and then secretly bought a large number of shares, leaving only a small amount for the employees to distribute.
They successfully acquired the factory.
The factory workers were initially very dissatisfied with this, but this guy seemed to have suddenly become enlightened, and when the factory was located in the city, he couldn't get anything done.
After securing their own interests, they first announced wage and benefit increases, which calmed the workers and prevented them from rioting.
He then took control of the factory and started producing tricycles, making a fortune in no time.
The factory's profits improved, and the workers also benefited.
Hongyun Tractor Factory experienced rapid development from then on.
Even the surrounding local people's perceptions have changed, and they are giving Cao Hongyuan a thumbs up for his foresight.
Xie Hongtao didn't take the last sentence seriously.
Damn it, you, Cao Hongyun, are really good at playing games by harming our Qimingxing (Morning Star) for profit!
Today I'm going to tear off your fig leaf!
In the following days, Xie Hongtao squatted at the factory gate and took a series of photos.
But soon he discovered a problem: all the tricycles that came out of Hongyun's factory were unpainted.
Moreover, the vehicle does not bear the Morning Star logo.
After being transported out by truck, these trucks entered a village where people spray-painted and painted the Morning Star icon on them.
Only after this process is the product officially shipped to all parts of the country.
This puzzled Xie Hongtao.
Why go through all that trouble?
After some thought, Xie Hongtao had a vague feeling that there was a possibility: to avoid being noticed and to shift the blame!
That's incredibly cunning!
After gathering sufficient evidence, they first called Wu Changfeng.
After listening to Xie Hongtao's report, Wu Changfeng instructed, "I will send people to Baiyin City to seal up Baishan's inventory. You go and negotiate with Cao Hongyun immediately and make him pay compensation! If he refuses, file a lawsuit directly. At the same time, the company's public relations department will cooperate with your actions to create pressure and create momentum."
After Xie Hongtao received the order, both sides acted simultaneously.
This day.
Li Dapeng personally led the newly recruited employees and went directly there without even informing Bai Shan.
Following the address given by Xie Hongtao, they rushed to the Baishan warehouse and were immediately surrounded.
This surprise attack caught Baishan off guard.
Bai Shan rushed over, grabbed Li Dapeng's hand, and said with a grin, "Hey, Lao Li, why didn't you let me know you were coming? I could have prepared a welcome dinner for you. Come on, it's not too late, let's go eat first."
Li Dapeng waved his hand coldly: "No need. You should know why we're here this time, right?"
Bai Shan wiped the sweat from his brow and still protested, "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?" Li Dapeng pointed at the warehouse. "What do you mean? How come there are more tricycles in this warehouse than there are goods being delivered? Do you have some kind of magic to copy them?"
"Well..." Bai Shan argued, "These are all Qimingxing tricycles, there's nothing wrong with them, right? Look, they're all the same."
"Then the quantity doesn't match up. You ordered 30 vehicles last time, but there are 50 here. How do you explain that?"
"An explanation..." Bai Shan's eyes darted around as he said, "Alright, I'll confess."
Li Dapeng looked coldly at Bai Shan, "I'd like to see how you try to explain yourself!"
Do you really think we at Qimingxing don't know about your behind-the-scenes maneuvers?
Making money is fine, but if you're not aligned with Qimingxing, then don't use our Qimingxing name!
Li Dapeng originally thought that Bai Shan wouldn't be able to come up with any excuse or reason.
After all, the discrepancy between inventory and purchase quantities is inexplicable.
But to everyone's surprise, Baishan gave a very interesting excuse, saying, "Let me just say it directly, tricycles sell too well, they don't sell well in other areas."
“We distributors keep in touch regularly. I did engage in unauthorized sales, which was wrong of me. But I was trying to help other distributors with their cash flow. Even though I was at fault to begin with, does it warrant such a fuss?”
Li Dapeng was completely dumbfounded when he heard this.
Holy crap.
That's a good excuse!
Blaming everything on parallel importing is indeed against the rules, but generally speaking, if the person doing parallel importing doesn't report it, the company won't do anything about it.
Sure!
This made Li Dapeng look at him with new respect.
But Li Dapeng sneered: "Baishan, if you honestly admit to using Qimingxing's name to sell tricycles from other manufacturers, we'll just follow the rules."
"But you still have a glimmer of hope. If we didn't have sufficient evidence, would we have come here directly?"
Li Dapeng continued, "Dong'an City, Hongyun Tractor Factory, does that name sound familiar to you?"
Bai Shan was immediately startled.
He stared wide-eyed at Li Dapeng.
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