007CCG Chapter 121 - 37: Business Competition (Fourth Update)
Including the output from other farms, as well as the slaughter of cattle, sheep, and meat chickens, that added up to thirty to forty Yin Souls a day, easily exceeding ten thousand Yin Souls over the course of a year.
No need to kill a single person, one could effortlessly obtain a large number of Yin Souls.
This was something the cultivators of Tianyuan World would find difficult to accomplish, given their low productivity. To slaughter five thousand pigs, they would have to scour several cities and surrounding towns, going door to door to redeem them.
With that effort, it would be more efficient to just kill people.
But in modern society, a large farm could easily achieve this, and that was just the slaughter volume for one day.
Even so, this wasn’t the most impressive farm.
In Hua Country, where nine hundred million pigs were consumed a year, the most powerful breeding company had an annual turnover of sixty to seventy million pigs, with a market value of several hundred billion.
And Su Jie’s goal was precisely to become such a company, or even to surpass it.
“Starting from today, since we’ve acquired Mu Hua Company, we must make some major moves. Let’s start with raising salaries. All Mu Hua Company employees will get a 10% raise,” Su Jie announced indifferently, pleased with the Soul Summoning Banner’s absorption efficiency and even more eager for the employees to work diligently, providing more Yin Souls for him.
Some financial expenditure was not that important, after all, money was meant to be spent.
There was silence for a few seconds; the farm manager’s mouth hung open, his body shuddered, and then he finally realized.
“Thank you, Mr. Su. You were so right just now. Our slaughterhouse has too much killing, and the feng shui is bad. Now with the protection of the altar, we no longer need to fear sneaky demons.”
The attitude of the farm manager changed drastically in the face of the irresistible force of a pay raise, succumbing without bottom line.
What had seemed a somewhat eerie altar now felt dearer than his own ancestors’ tombstones.
Anyone daring to speak against it would be showing grave disrespect to Chairman Su.
When this news spread throughout the farm, it caused a sensation.
Stimulated by money, employees no longer had any qualms about the establishment of the altar. Instead, they praised it extensively, asserting that it was a proper gesture of respect for folk traditions.
“Mr. Su, there’s been a problem,”
Just as the farm was buzzing with excitement, Liu Yingying hurried in and found Su Jie.
“What’s the problem?”
Su Jie closed the protective glass and turned around.
“A lot of negative news about our company has shown up online, take a look at this.”
Liu Yingying took out her phone and showed Su Jie the messages.
“Explosive! Mu Hua Food Company has changed hands, Tianyuan Home has acquired Mu Hua Food for 6.8 billion Hua Yuan. What could be the intrigue behind a timber seller getting into farming? Please see our analysis below.”
“The actual controller of the new Mu Hua Company is under 25 years old. Such a leader is simply incapable of leading Mu Hua out of its loss-making trend. The company’s future is worrisome.”
“Our news reporter received an anonymous tip claiming that Mu Hua Company owes money to grain suppliers, has delayed payments for corn purchases, and faced suspension of pig feed supplies, leading to a tragic incidence of ‘pigs eating pigs’.”
“Mu Hua Company confronted with massive public protests. It is known that for many years, Mu Hua has been lenient in dealing with pollution, prompting concerns about the safety of the pork produced by such an enterprise.”
“According to consumer reports, we have obtained a sample of pork from Mu Hua to conduct tests, and found that multiple hormones exceed the standard. It’s suspected that during the breeding process, to maximize profits, hormones were massively misused.”
One news story after another appeared in Su Jie’s field of vision, all publishing negative information about Mu Hua Company, and it seemed they had also purchased a lot of popularity online, as many people were discussing it.
“Mr. Su, due to the impact of these news stories, our stock market value has been falling continuously, and now the company’s market value has already dropped by 18%, and it’s still sliding down,”
Liu Yingying said worriedly, as the adverse effects brought by these negative news pieces had begun to manifest in the stock market.
“The stock market, why fuss about that, we don’t need to make money off the stock market anyway.”
Su Jie didn’t care about the stock market at all, nor was he afraid of how much his nominal wealth had shrunk.
His game was about heavy asset cash flow; he couldn’t care less about the stock market, especially since the circulating shares outside were just about ten percent or so, rises and dips had no significant impact on the grand scheme of things.
Signaling Liu Yingying to not be so anxious, Su Jie asked, “Is it Yikang Company’s doing?”
“We’re looking into it.”
Liu Yingying gave a wry smile and continued, “Apart from these negative news stories, today there were villagers making trouble at the company again, and we did find out that indeed someone spent money to get those elderly men and women to create a disturbance.”
“Merely some underhanded tricks that can’t affect us in any way.”
Su Jie shook his head, as Mu Hua Company was extremely important to Guangyi County, since the company’s operations affected the livelihood of thousands of people; such a heavy-asset enterprise would be somewhat protected by the government, which wouldn’t allow it to fall into trouble easily.
Seeing Su Jie so composed, Liu Yingying also calmed down quite a bit.
Her experience was still lacking, after all, having followed Su Jie for just a few months, and upon returning to the country, she became somewhat flustered when suddenly faced with the suppression of a large company.
Though Su Jie also lacked experience, he who was accustomed to life-and-death situations, found the business competition before him to be too mild by comparison.
You must understand, when Su Jie competes with someone, it’s always with a do-or-die attitude.
Ring, ring!
Liu Yingying’s work phone suddenly rang. After she answered it, her face took on a somewhat peculiar expression.
“Who is it?”@@novelbin@@
Su Jie asked curiously.
Liu Yingying handed the phone to Su Jie, with a strange look, “It’s the chairman of Yikang Company, Yu Duanchong.”
“Oh, that is interesting.”
Su Jie took the phone and put it to his ear, and heard a voice from the other end of the call.
“Is this Mr. Su answering, haha, I am Yu Duanchong, the chairman of Yikang Company, your senior in the business. I hope I’m not disturbing you with my call.
Actually, I had some free time and saw quite a lot of negative news about Mu Hua Company on the internet, and thought, since we’re in the same industry, as someone with experience I should give you a heads-up.
Being in our line of business, one must act openly and honestly, not engage in fakery, producing things with pollution and hormones.
Aquaculture is not just anything, if you ruin your reputation, it makes business hard for everyone, don’t you agree?”
Yu Duanchong’s voice was somewhat rough, and while he seemed to be speaking politely, he placed himself in a high position, admonishing Su Jie in the tone of a senior and yet subtly accusing him of improper conduct.
“So it’s Director Yikang Yu, I’ve heard much about you. Before Mr. Song left, he told me he had an old friend. I hadn’t expected Director Yu to reach out so soon.”
Su Jie’s mouth curved slightly, the guy on the other end of the phone was really interesting, actually daring to call him, clearly a provocation.