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Chapter 524 0512 [Old Luo is still the most reliable]

"This is our family's factory?"

Chen Guiliang stood in a factory area of ​​the industrial park and asked.

Father Chen Xinghua said, "Yes, it occupies a large area. I never thought it would be this big, but the leaders said we can't let you down."

Chen Guiliang: “…”

Chen Xinghua continued, "Sales are still unstable; even locally, it's hard to sell. Nobody watches local TV programs anymore. I've also placed some ads at bus stops and on vehicles, but sales still haven't improved."

"How much did you lose?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Chen Xinghua said, "It's probably a few hundred thousand. But the Spring Festival Lantern Festival is coming soon, and I've already reached an agreement with the organizers. They've promised to give me a shop space."

Longdu's lantern festivals are truly impressive, and in the coming years, they may even reach a global scale. Over 95% of lantern festivals held in any country worldwide are organized and managed by Longdu teams.

Later, another incident went viral: South Korea invited the Longdu team to organize a lantern festival, and the following year they began working on applying for the lantern festival to be listed as an intangible cultural heritage.

Chen Guiliang said, "Let's wait until the highway is completed. JD.com is going to build a logistics center in southern Sichuan here. I'll help you promote it then and see how much we can sell online. Even if we go through offline channels, we still need a highway to reduce transportation costs."

Chen Xinghua scratched his head, looking rather embarrassed.

The main problem is that last year he boasted that he could find a market for the products, but in the end he still had to rely on his son.

Chen Guiliang walked around the factory and found that it had stopped operating.

Chen Xinghua explained, "Work has been suspended for more than a month, mainly because there is too much unsold stock in the warehouse. I plan to use the lantern festival to clear out the inventory."

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "Dad, you're not bad. You've even learned professional terms like 'overstock' and 'inventory'."

Chen Xinghua said, "I have been studying and reading books, and I often audit classes at the Polytechnic Institute. The leaders and teachers there are very welcoming to me."

Chen Guiliang muttered, "Then I'll have to donate several million."

“I’m just going to audit a few classes, why are you donating money?” Chen Xinghua said.

Chen Guiliang said, "I will donate money to the only undergraduate university in my hometown sooner or later, otherwise people will definitely talk behind my back. Donating a few million yuan to set up a scholarship will be a contribution to the education cause in my hometown."

Back home, Bian Guanyue was playing with the cat with her grandmother, while her mother was knitting a sweater for Chen Guiliang in front of the TV.

Mom Yao Lan complained bitterly: "See the factory? I told your dad not to make it so big, but he wouldn't listen to me. If someone flatters him a little, he gets all dizzy and doesn't know his own worth."

Chen Xinghua didn't dare to answer, and just kept smiling apologetically.

Chen Guiliang comforted them, saying, "It's alright, they'll sell."

Bian Guanyue said, "How about I ask my dad to use his connections? Maybe he can find a distributor in Chengdu."

“No need to trouble your dad,” Chen Xinghua quickly said.

Chen Guiliang said, "We'll talk about other things after the highway is completed."

……

During the few days of spending the Spring Festival at home, Chen Guiliang spent his time visiting relatives and friends and browsing Weibo to pass the time.

Li Xunhuan didn't even need to ask for help; a large number of Fang Zhouzi's enemies came to his aid.

Lady Luo was, of course, the first one.

The feud between Lao Luo and Fang Zhouzi has been going on for several years.

He created a blog called Bullog.cn and asked Fang Zhouzi to write a blog post for it. Fang Zhouzi then said that Chai Jing's news reports were wrong and sharply criticized her for promoting pseudoscience.

Luo Yonghao stepped in as a peacemaker, hoping that Fang Zhouzi would revise the wording of his blog post to at least consider Ms. Chai's feelings.

The two sides broke up.

Enraged, Luo Yonghao used his authority as the website administrator to directly block Fang Zhouzi's article on Bullog.cn, a website that claims to never delete posts.

Fang Zhouzi was furious and wrote an article criticizing Luo Yonghao on the New Silk Road website.

Last year, Lao Luo exposed Fang Zhouzi's wife for plagiarizing her thesis, which escalated the conflict between the two parties once again.

Just days before Han Han published his three articles, Sanlian Life Weekly praised Luo Taijun, Yu Jianrong, and Fang Zhouzi.

Originally, this was a eulogistic article, but Fang Zhouzi imitated Qiao Feng's tone and posted on Weibo: "How dare I, a fine man, be compared to someone like you?"

Luo Taijun, who was busy fighting with Siemens, posted a counterattack on Weibo the next day: "I, Xiao, am a fine man with a cleanliness obsession. I am very careful in making friends and can only tolerate being on par with and calling someone like Sima Lan my brother."

Fang Zhouzi was furious and began to expose Luo Taijun's English training institution for illegal operations, tax evasion, false advertising, and illegal schooling.

Luo Taijun questioned whether Fang Zhouzi's anti-counterfeiting fund and security fund had financial problems.

Just as both sides were preparing for a big fight, Fang Zhouzi suddenly realized that the Han Han incident had a greater impact, so he decisively abandoned Lao Luo, who was warming up, and ran to beat up Han Han.

Luo Taijun had already taken off her pants, but found that Fang Zhouzi was ignoring her, so she immediately stood on Han Han's side to help shout.

This incident has moved from online to offline.

Southern Media Group immediately sided with Han Han, because Fang Zhouzi had fallen out with the Southern Media Group a decade ago. Afterwards, under the mediation of unknown forces, the two sides put aside their past grievances and cooperated for two years, but have long since broken ties again.

After the Southern Media Group stepped in, a large number of public intellectuals also sided with Han Han.

Meanwhile, Luo Taijun also wields considerable power, with a large following of public intellectuals supporting him. Furthermore, he is adept at manipulating public opinion. The public intellectual community in China is experiencing an unprecedented state of division.

The game is currently evenly matched, with Han Han even having the upper hand.

Li Xunhuan, that clever little devil, actually discovered a business opportunity in the crisis.

He actively contacted booksellers, persuading Han Han to announce the upcoming publication of her manuscript and to claim that it would be sold at a loss, allowing everyone to study Han Han's manuscript and judge its merits...

"What an idiot," Chen Guiliang commented after reading the Weibo post.

Once the manuscript is printed and published, it is as if it has been put under a microscope, and all sorts of points of contention can be found.

Li Xunhuan was certainly not stupid, because he could make money by selling Han Han's manuscripts.

The fool is Han Han, who believes he has the advantage.

This move was so brilliant that it even attracted ancient book experts to join in the fun, seriously researching the "textual fingerprints" of Han Han and posting on Weibo and writing papers.

Then, this expert was accused of taking money from Han Han...

Chen Guiliang and Guo Xiaosi's Weibo accounts were bombarded with mentions.

Because both of them came from the New Concept Writing Competition, Han Han's incident will naturally implicate them as well.

Unable to bear the harassment any longer, Chen Guiliang simply disabled the comment section on his Weibo account. What business is it of his of the two groups of public intellectuals' brawl?

Moreover, Chen Guiliang had already offered some advice.

As a result, seeing that Han Han had the upper hand, Li Xunhuan stopped digging into Fang Zhouzi's past and instead focused on how to make money from the incident.

When it really matters, it's still Lady Luo who's reliable.

Luo was determined to destroy Fang Zhouzi, and he didn't bother with trivial matters at all, directly pointing to the financial problems of Fang Zhouzi's anti-counterfeiting fund and security fund.

Luo claimed that he had called the police and that he had taken a photographer to confront Fang Zhouzi right after the Spring Festival.

When Chen Guiliang returned to Beijing after the New Year, Fang Zhouzi and his lawyer were blocked by Luo Taijun.

Luo demanded a face-to-face confrontation regarding the financial issues of the two funds.

Fang Zhouzi ignored him, looking down at his phone while waiting for the elevator, leaving the lawyer behind to deal with Lao Luo.

Luo recorded the whole thing, and even pointed at the lawyer and said to the photographer, "Give him a close-up."

This phrase quickly became a popular internet meme, with netizens frequently saying "Give him a close-up." Even when someone feeds kills to the enemy in a game, teammates no longer curse but instead say, "Give him a close-up."

The current situation is quite amusing: Fang Zhouzi is relentlessly attacking Han Han, while Lao Luo is relentlessly attacking Fang Zhouzi.

ByteDance made a killing on Weibo!
Having thoroughly enjoyed the gossip of the entire Spring Festival, Xie Yang said in a half-joking tone, "How about inviting the three of them to sit down and have a high-level debate?"

Chen Guiliang chuckled, "In a real face-to-face debate, is the result even more obvious? Of course, Lao Luo would win. Who can beat him in a verbal battle?"

“That’s right, Lao Luo is incredibly good at talking,” Xie Yang agreed wholeheartedly. “What are your predictions for the outcome of this matter?”

Chen Guiliang said, "Han Han will be beaten so badly that he will stop updating his blog, and Fang Zhouzi will be beaten so badly that he will lose all credibility."

Xie Yang asked in surprise, "Only Lao Luo is the winner?"

Chen Guiliang said, "Han Han's team is full of useless teammates, and Fang Zhouzi has a lot of dirt on him. On the contrary, Lao Luo, although he is a Western worshipper and a complete Japanese in spirit, has always maintained this image. Moreover, he knows to strike at the heart of the matter and doesn't care about those small details. He just focuses on the financial issues and digs them out."

Xie Yang asked, "Do you think Han Han used a ghostwriter?"

Chen Guiliang said, "Even if it was ghostwritten, it couldn't have been his father. Could an elderly man write campus novels and racing novels? Do you even know what's popular among middle school students these days?"

"I don't know?" Xie Yang shook his head.

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "You graduated from high school less than ten years ago, and you already don't know what's popular among middle school students. Han Han's father graduated decades ago, and he can write a middle school romance novel like 'Triple Gate'? And he can even write it in a way that contemporary middle school students can empathize with?"

Xie Yang suddenly realized: "If it was really written by his father, then his father must be a genius. No, it must be a ghost story. Maybe his father was possessed by the ghost of a middle school student."

Chen Guiliang instructed, "Take advantage of the buzz surrounding these events and make good use of Weibo."

They were chatting when suddenly a staff member ran over.

"Fang Zhouzi has moved to Tencent Weibo!"

"He used to have an account on Tencent Weibo too."

"This time is different. Fang Zhouzi has announced that he will stop updating other Weibo accounts and will only post on Tencent Weibo from now on."

"Holy crap, how much did Tencent pay? They actually managed to snag Fang Zhouzi's exclusive rights."

Chen Guiliang and Xie Yang looked at each other in bewilderment.

Xie Yang asked, "Should we bring Fang Zhouzi back?"

Chen Guiliang said, "Hiring him? Forget it. Tencent Weibo spent at least several million yuan to buy Fang Zhouzi's exclusive rights, and they definitely signed an exclusive agreement. If we want to poach him back, we'll have to spend even more money, not to mention help pay the breach of contract penalty."

Xie Yang said viciously, "Help Lao Luo kill Fang Zhouzi as soon as possible! We can't let Tencent Weibo continue to attract traffic through this incident."

(End of this chapter)