I have a debt of 3 trillion, and my creditors are begging me not to die.

Chapter 151 Fruit Company terminates cooperation with Sihai Electronics

After returning from a trip to Beijing, the New Year's Day holiday is over.

A foreign delegation led by the Bald Eagle Ministry of Commerce also came to the Sihai Electronics Factory for a field visit.

Originally, Yang Chen didn't want to go and just let Chen Lan deal with it, but these foreigners insisted on seeing Yang Chen. In the end, Zheng Kaiyang, the representative of the Ministry of Commerce of Longguo, had to make more than a dozen phone calls to invite Yang Chen to meet them.

Yang Chen came to Sihai Electronics Factory and met the group of foreigners.

Although Yang Chen doesn't flatter foreigners, he still has to show courtesy in front of his comrades from the Ministry of Commerce, so as not to make everyone lose face.

"Hello everyone, welcome to visit Sihai Electronics Factory." Yang Chen said with a smile.

Bald Eagle Commerce Department representative Ray Venton said with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Yang, you look more energetic than in the photo."

Yang Chen laughed loudly, and said: "Is it your CIA or FBI who did this? You must have found out everything about me."

Raventon laughed and said, "No, no, no, Mr. Yang, don't misunderstand me. We just need to do some homework in advance. I want to ask Mr. Yang a question. Is your factory ready to accept our inspection in advance? I don't think this is usually the case, right?"

Yang Chen smiled and pointed at Raventon, and said, "I knew you foreigners would find fault. Mr. Chen, are the surveillance videos ready?"

Chen Lan immediately nodded and replied, "I'm ready. Director Yang, everyone, please follow me."

Chen Lan brought everyone to a conference room, and the large screen in the conference room began playing the surveillance video of the workshop last month.

Through the surveillance video, we can clearly see that the workshop is clean and tidy, the workers work in an orderly manner, go to and from get off work on time, and eat in the cafeteria.

Yang Chen smiled and said, "This is the surveillance video from the 1st to the 10th of last month. I can't possibly predict that you will come to visit, so I asked them to put on a show a month in advance, right? You foreigners are like this. If you are not good enough, you think others are not good enough. If you harbor evil intentions, you think others are harboring evil intentions like you. Ms. Ravington, I remember you told the media before that if the streets of Bald Eagle's house were full of Dragon Country cars, once the two sides became enemies in the future, those cars would not be able to start, and they might even explode. I also want to ask you now, are all your cars designed like this? Once the two sides become enemies in the future, you can make Dragon Country's cars unable to start, or even explode?"

Raven was stunned for a moment, and his awkward expression made everyone feel awkward.

Zheng Kaiyang, the representative of the Ministry of Commerce of Longguo, quickly said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, you are so humorous. This joke is very funny. Haha... Come on, let's continue watching the surveillance video."

Ravington smiled awkwardly, then continued to watch the surveillance video with a stern face.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the workers' working and living environment, the foreigners didn't want to continue watching the surveillance video.

At this time, the German representative Adolf said: "It is well known that the wage level in Dragon Country is too low. You rely on exploiting workers to reduce product costs. Your DDR4 2133-8G memory is only sold for 99 Dragon Coins. Either you are dumping at a loss, or you are exploiting workers to reduce costs. This price is impossible to make, let alone make a profit."

Yang Chen smiled and said, “Look, I have predicted your behavior again. Boss Chen, show them the workers’ clocking-in and clocking-out videos, as well as their salary records. After coming all the way here, we can’t let them go back with prejudice.”

Chen Lan nodded and immediately played the surveillance video on the big screen.

The surveillance video was also from the 1st to the 10th of last month. The three shifts randomly checked the work numbers for fixed-point tracking to check their clocking in and out time, their working status, etc., of course, also including the wages paid to them and other benefits.

It can be clearly seen from the surveillance that the workers randomly selected by the foreign delegation strictly implement the 8-hour work system. They are not allowed into the workshop until the working time has come, and the power is immediately cut off for them to leave at the end of the working time. They are more punctual than computer programs.

The wages of the workers who were selected were basically between 9300 and 9800 after tax, more than double the average wage in Longguo's industry.

视频还以DDR4 2133-8G型内存卡为例，详细解析了它的成本，最终计算出来99元的出货价依然有20%的利润。

The foreigners looked at each other, all with incredible expressions on their faces.

"It looks fine."

“Their material costs are much lower than ours.”

"It's outrageous that they can still make a 20% profit on this."

……

At this time, Bald Eagle Business Representative Raventon said: "I believe this is all true, but the salary of more than 9000 dragon coins is still too little. The average salary of our workers is 3500 Eagle coins, which is about 2.5 dragon coins. Therefore, your salary should be doubled."

Adolf, the German business representative, also quickly said, "That's right! Your salary should be doubled."

Others also nodded and asked Yang Chen to double the workers' wages.

Yang Chen smiled and said, “Look, I have predicted your behavior again. Mr. Chen, play it for them.”

Chen Lan played the video she had made for everyone to watch, and explained: "A can of Coke from the vending machine on Bald Eagle Street costs 2.99 Eagle coins including tax, while a can of the same Coke in Longguo costs 3 yuan. A hamburger like this one costs 5 Eagle coins at Bald Eagle, while a hamburger of the same size costs 7 yuan in Longguo. If you buy a membership on Longguo's takeaway website Mi Tuan, you can get discounts through various coupons and spend less money. A family of three in Longguo only needs more than 30 Dragon coins for water per month, but you can see the screenshot of the water bill I sent from a blogger who lives in Bald Eagle. She lives in Portland, but goes back to China most of the time. Even so, her family's water bill for a quarter is 366 Eagle coins, an average of 122 Eagle coins per month..."

Chen Lan prepared many comparison projects and finally came to a conclusion that a Dragon countryman with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan must live a more comfortable life than a Bald Eagle family member with a monthly salary of 3,000 Eagle coins.

Raventon immediately said, "Protest! Protest! You can't compare like this. You are comparing our inferior projects. Why don't you compare the price of Apple phones in Long Country and our country? With the same monthly salary of 3,000, it takes a Long Country person three months without food or drink to buy one, while our workers can buy three phones with one month's salary."

Yang Chen immediately retorted: "The purchasing power of currency should be compared based on the necessities of life of residents, rather than industrial products. If you compare industrial products, it will include various hidden costs such as brand premium, tariffs, and trade protection costs, which cannot be compared. A car sells for 5 Eagle coins in the Bald Eagle country, but it sells for 60 in Dragon Country. If you use this car for comparison, it obviously cannot truly reflect the real purchasing power of the two countries' currencies. Because this car will be taxed a lot when it comes to Dragon Country, the purpose is to protect the development of the country's automobile industry. You are all experts in this field, and I don't need to explain more. For ordinary people, the first thing is to live, and the second is to live better. If you can't afford an Apple phone, you can buy a Rice phone. A worker with a monthly salary of 9.9 can buy three phones a month. And I buy a bag of screws online for 9 Dragon coins with free shipping, and your Bald Eagle military purchases a bag of screws for Eagle coins. Are you sure you should compare it this way?"

Raventon was speechless after being asked by Yang Chen. In fact, she knew in her heart that the workers of Sihai Electronics Factory earned 9000 dragon coins a month, and their living standard was higher than that of the senior white-collar workers of Bald Eagle Family. It was just that they came here to find fault. If they couldn’t find any fault to make Sihai memory sticks raise the price, then their trip would be in vain.

Zheng Kaiyang, the representative of the Ministry of Commerce, saw that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, so he quickly made a joke to lighten the mood.

After calming down for a while, Reventon continued, "Okay, even if what you said makes sense, the semiconductor industry has already formed a stable order, and you have seriously disrupted this order. Therefore, you must raise the price of your products, at least to the same level as other brands' products. We have worked so hard to form a stable order, and we will never allow anyone to disrupt it."

The other lackeys also quickly echoed Raventon's words, asking Yang Chen to abide by the established industry order.

Yang Chen smiled and said: "Order is meant to be broken. If it remains unchanged, how can mankind progress? Your companies can obviously use cheap and easy-to-use products, but you don't let them use them in order to make money. Everyone, please, for God's sake, be nicer to your people. Okay?"

Raventon and the other foreigners were all stunned. Isn't this their word? How did Yang Chen say it?
On the contrary, it belongs to Tiangang.

Zheng Kaiyang, the representative of the Ministry of Commerce, could hardly hold back his laughter. He was about to burst out laughing, so he quickly smiled and said, "Mr. Yang is so humorous. All the foreign representatives must want their own people to use cheap and easy-to-use memory sticks. There is no doubt about that. After all, no one would harm their compatriots. Everyone, don't you agree?"

The foreigners smiled awkwardly and nodded. At this point they didn't want to continue and just wanted to go home quickly.

But Raventon came with a mission, and he would be scolded if he failed to complete it.

"Mr. Yang, after saying so much, we just want you to abide by our order. If you don't abide by our order, we will take sanctions against Sihai Group and even impose stricter sanctions on Longguo's semiconductor industry. Are you sure you can afford the consequences?" Raventon threatened.

Yang Chen laughed loudly, and said, “Don’t force me to crash your stock market! I’m not pretending, even if you block all Dragon Country accounts, I still have a way to crash the Bald Eagle’s stock market. If you don’t believe me, you can try. Today you are here, I treat you as guests, I will have basic courtesy and respect for you. But this does not mean that you can speak nonsense in front of me. I welcome you to compete with me fairly, if you can beat me, I will applaud you. If you want to threaten me with crooked ways, then I can only say that you are wrong, not only will I not be scared by you, I will also retaliate against you! Let’s stop here today, go back and report to your leader. Mr. Chen, see you out!”

Chen Lan nodded, and immediately stepped forward and said: "Dear foreign guests, please follow me. Otherwise, I will call the security to ask you to leave." Yang Chen stood up and left without even looking at them.

Wherever these foreigners go, the local government and businesses will treat them like masters and try to please them. This is the first time they have been humiliated.

"How ridiculous! You don't take us seriously at all!"

"That's right, it's so disrespectful to us!"

"The young man has no idea of ​​his own limitations. We must teach him a lesson!"

"Ms. Raventon, please ask Apple to terminate its cooperation with Sihai Electronics Factory and stop placing orders with them."

"Yes, yes, that's a good idea. We must make him feel pain!"

……

Zheng Kaiyang quickly spoke nice words to Raventon and the others, and even apologized to them on behalf of Yang Chen.

Raventon said angrily: "You can't represent him! He treated us like this, it's clear that he doesn't care about the orders for Apple phones. In this case, then I will fulfill his wish."

Raventon angrily called the CEO of Fruit Group, Kurk, and said bluntly: "Mr. Kurk, please terminate your cooperation with Sihai Electronics immediately. Don't place any mobile phone orders with them in the future, and terminate the current orders immediately."

Kurk immediately asked, "Why? Didn't you guys finish the negotiation?"

Ravington said angrily: "It's more than just that we didn't reach an agreement. He doesn't respect us at all and doesn't take us seriously at all. I must let him know that this world has order, and we are the ones who make the order, and he must be the one who abides by the order!"

Kurk considered it for a while, then said, "Okay! I'll give the order now and do as you wish."

The Fruit Group acted quickly and Sihai Electronics soon received a notice of termination of cooperation. The Fruit Company also issued an announcement to the world announcing the termination of its cooperation with Sihai Electronics.

The mobile phone assembly division just lost the order for Sanxing mobile phones, and now it has lost the order for Apple mobile phones. It can basically be declared that there is no work to do.

Chen Lan quickly reported the situation to Yang Chen and asked him what to do next.

Yang Chen smiled and said: "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. I didn't want to be a foundry in the first place. You train those workers and let them make memory sticks as well."

Chen Lan replied, "Okay. That is... can the demand for memory sticks always be this great? Domestic companies are replacing foreign brands now, so the demand is relatively high. Once the replacement is completed, will their demand still be this great? The land for our Jiangcheng Industrial Park will be approved soon, so we can't make memory sticks as well, right?"

Yang Chen comforted him, “Don’t worry, even if I make them all into memory sticks, I still have a way to sell them, but I haven’t used any means yet.”

Chen Lan quickly replied: "Okay. Then I will arrange worker training now."

The termination of the cooperation between Fruit and Sihai Electronics had a huge impact, and Yang Chen kept receiving inquiries from leaders of relevant departments.

Netizens are also talking about it.

"It's over. Sanxing and Fruit have terminated their cooperation. Can Sihai Electronics survive by just making memory sticks?"

"This is all because Boss Yang is too aggressive. I heard that he didn't give Reventon any face at all, so Reventon was furious and asked Kurk to terminate the cooperation between Fruit and Sihai Electronics."

"Youth is just like that. It feels good, but the price you pay is too high. It's really unwise."

……

The Fruit Group terminated its cooperative relationship with Sihai Electronics, and most of these orders were transferred to Hu Shikang.

Hu Shikang's boss Hong Shikang was so happy that he shared his joy on his Weibo and other social media accounts.

"Thank you for the order from Mr. Yang of Sihai Group. I will remember Mr. Yang's kindness and will definitely invite him to dinner when I have time next time. Haha..."

Hong Shikang has a bad image in the minds of netizens in Longguo. He used to be very arrogant and said that he was giving food to mainlanders, and if he was unhappy, he could stop giving food to mainlanders at any time.

He even moved the factory to South Vietnam before, but moved it back within two years because the quality of the workers in South Vietnam could not be compared with that in Longguo. The most important point was that the electricity in South Vietnam was unstable. Once the power was cut off in Longguo, the power supply and production would have to be stopped there. He had no choice but to come back.

Therefore, seeing Hong Shikang being so arrogant, netizens will naturally not tolerate him.

"Damn it, you've got him pretending again. But you'll only be able to rely on others for your meals in this life. You don't have the ability to cook for yourself. So, you don't deserve to scam Boss Yang."

"Are you expressing your loyalty to your master? Boss Yang dares to say no to Raventon, do you dare?"

"Do you think Boss Yang didn't expect that if he offended Reventon, the fruit company would probably cancel their cooperation? I could think of it, and he could certainly think of it too. But he still did it. What does that mean? It means that he doesn't care about the fruit company's assembly orders at all. Now the memory stick production of Sihai Electronics Factory is done in three shifts. Why bother doing assembly orders with meager profits? Wouldn't it be better to switch to making more profitable memory sticks? With your knowledge and ability, you still dare to play tricks on Boss Yang? Forget it."

……

Hong Shikang, who was scolded by netizens to the point of becoming autistic, had no choice but to quickly turn off the comment function of his Weibo and other accounts, and delete those comments that were very offensive. He tried to pretend but failed, and was scolded by the entire network. He was really miserable.

The Fruit Group transferred part of the orders that originally belonged to Sihai Electronics to Dachuan Computer.

Dachuan Computer mainly engages in assembly business, such as computer assembly, PAD assembly, mobile phone assembly, etc.

Some orders for fruit computers and pads are placed here, but there are very few orders for mobile phones.

The mobile phone order that Kurk gave to Dachuan Computer was actually conditional, which was that Dachuan Computer had to collect debts from Sihai Group.

Dachuan Computer had sold a piece of land before, which was bought by Sihai Real Estate. However, Sihai Real Estate did not pay for it. Soon after, Sihai Group ran into trouble, and up to now, the 3.5 million yuan for the land has not been paid.

The condition Kurk offered was that Dachuan Computer should ask Sihai Real Estate to repay the debt immediately. As long as it could complete the task, Kurk would give it a portion of the mobile phone orders.

If there is business, you have to take it, not to mention that it is a natural thing to do, such as debt collection, so Hu Kang, the president of Dachuan Computer, accepted it.

Hu Kang called Yang Chen.

"Hey, Mr. Yang, do you think it would be convenient for you to let Sihai Real Estate pay us back for the land purchase money?"

(End of this chapter)