That night, Feng Yu had sex with Elena again. The next day, the Russian delegation returned to Moscow. Feng Yu did not ask what agreement Kirilenko had signed with Hua Xia's government. But from Kirilenko's intention to expand his cooperation with Tai Hua Trading, Feng Yu will not be affected.
After resting for another day in Beijing, the General Manager of Tai Hua Agricultural Products Company, Zhang Ming, arrived. Zhang Ming said that he had something important to report to Feng Yu.
When Zhang Ming saw Feng Yu, he immediately said: "General Manager Feng, this is a great opportunity!"
"What opportunity? Why are you so excited?" Feng Yu frowned and asked.
"Have you read this article?" Zhang Ming passed a copy of the newspaper to Feng Yu and pointed to the headline.
Human Meat Ham?
Feng Yu suddenly remembered that Qiudu's Ham Empire had reached a turning point. If Zhang Ming did not mention this, Feng Yu would have forgotten about it.
Qiudu was Hua Xia's and the world's biggest ham brand. The whole country had been fighting for their ham, and the distributors could not get their hands on it even if they had the money. At the same time, this ham was one of Tai Hua Trading's top products exported to Russia.
But a few days ago, there was a rumor that Qiudu was producing human meat ham. They also had evidence. The taste of the ham sausages was a smoky smell. Some people even claimed to have eaten fingernails, hair, and other human tissues in it.
This was reported in the papers, and the whole country knew about it.
Suddenly, Qiudu's ham had changed from a favorite food to a feared poison. Not only there were no more orders, but there was also a wave of refunds.
All of this was just a misunderstanding.
The real cause was a fire in Qiudu's cold storage. Because of the foam in the cold storage, the fire spread from the walls to the roof and released a strong poisonous gas. Qiudu's 2,600 tons of raw materials, pork, were burned, and the economic losses were more than 40 million RMB!
Qiudu's leaders were afraid of taking responsibility. Who could bear such a heavy loss? They reported to the city that it was only a small fire, and the cold storage was damaged. They only needed to repair it, and the economic loss was only 360,000 RMB.
To Qiudu, which had an annual profit of over 100 million, losing 360,000 RMB was not a big deal. The leaders of Qiudu City thought that this matter would be over soon.
But the pork had indeed been burned. They did not report that much of the loss, so they did not have the money to continue restocking. Therefore, the company's advisor, the fortune-teller, came up with the worst idea of his life.
The pork was only smoked. Many people in the south loved to eat smoked meat. After being smoked, it could also be made into ham sausages. Anyway, it had to be broken.
Therefore, the pork that had been burned and smoked by poisonous gas was mixed with fresh meat to make ham sausages and sold.
But as soon as the sausage was opened, there was a smoky smell. Moreover, because the meat inside was smoked, the color was not right, and there were bone fragments mixed inside.
This was an opportunity for Qiudu's competitors. They immediately sent their men to the newspapers to announce that Qiudu City was selling human flesh ham sausages. They also asked their men to spread the news that Qiudu City was working with the local crematorium. They were using human corpses to make ham sausages. Even Qiudu's employees did not eat the ham sausages!
When this news was published in the newspapers, it caused a huge uproar. The people were shocked. Qiudu City had been eating human flesh for so many years?
Although some people felt that this was fake, Qiudu City sold so many ham sausages every year. Not to mention a city's crematorium, even a province's crematorium, or even the whole country's crematorium would not be enough!
But the people did not think so. They firmly believed that it was human flesh. If not, why would the news be published in the newspapers? But they did not know what kind of newspapers they were reading. The news only mentioned that it was suspected, and it was spread by the people. Then, it became evidence.
The earliest news about human flesh was from Qiudu City. Who was the one who stabbed Qiudu City in the back? It was not an outsider. It was another ham manufacturer in the same province, Danhui Company.
They started spreading rumors in the local area and then spread it to the whole country. Part of it was through the newspapers, and part of it was by bribing Qiudu's distributors.
According to the contract, if there was a problem with the quality of the ham, Qiudu City would have to compensate the distributors. This was because the distributors had to pay first before receiving the goods.
This batch of ham had a problem, and the distributors knew about it. But at this time, in another city, Danhui, Danhui, gave them a discounted price.
The taste was about the same, but the brand was different. The distributors were selling their ham to Danhui, and their profits were much higher when they had a discounted price.
So, when the distributors changed sides, Qiudu's situation became even worse. The factory had stopped production, and the City Government was trying to negotiate with the distributors to publish an advertisement in the newspapers to prove that Qiudu's meat quality had a problem and that there was no human meat sausage!
But Qiudu City's brand was ruined. It had only been 3 days, and the whole country knew about it. Who would still buy their ham sausages? Even Ham Sausage was temporarily out of the question.
Feng Yu put down the newspaper and looked at Zhang Ming. He asked seriously: "Manager Zhang, tell me. Did you do anything?"
"Did I do anything? You are talking about spreading rumors? Absolutely not! They don't need us. Those wholesalers had spread this news through their small shops. Don't you know about this? "
Damn. I had been with Kirilenko and Elena these few days. Who reads the newspapers?!
"Keep the people in our company in check. No one is allowed to spread rumors! Human flesh? Crematorium? How can anyone believe such rumors?! What is this opportunity you are talking about? "
"Qiudu City had a problem, and there will be a huge gap in the ham market. We had started producing Tai Hua Brand of ham last year, and this is a good opportunity for us to increase our market share! You are on good terms with CCTV, right? Why don't you talk to them and ask them to change our advertisements? "
Tai Hua Ham's main product was Tian Peng pork. The weight, meat content, price, etc., were the same as Qiudu's. Currently, they were only selling in the 3 provinces in the northeast and Russia. The sales volume could not be compared to Qiudu City.
Even compared to Danhui City, Tai Hua Ham was still far behind!
But Tai Hua Ham had one advantage, and that was Tian Peng Pork. This pork brand had entered the hearts of the people. The slogan "Meat with a conscience, meat with a heart" was well known throughout the country.
This year, Zhang Ming had also booked an advertising slot on CCTV. It was supposed to be promoting Tai Hua Brand of animal feed. But now, he wants to change it to Tai Hua Ham.
"This year, our ham sales will drop, especially these few months. Especially in the past few months. However, it was indeed an opportunity to wait for the matter to pass. I think you should have a plan on how to snatch the market share. Don't disappoint me. Don't change the advertisements. If we change the advertisements after a few days, people will think badly of our animal feed. Get someone to shoot a 15-second commercial. It will highlight our Tian Peng pork. I will change it to another commercial in a few days. "
Feng Yu suddenly thought that this was a good opportunity to defeat Qiudu and Danhui. But Feng Yu must let people know that this rumor was created by Danhui!
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