A whirlwind marriage with a high-ranking official: Lights out, don't force me to take the initi

Ye Wenxi had already experienced the military region's cautious and measured approach during the site approval process.

The matter is already laid out before us, and Zhou Xuchen has already made his point clear, yet the two leaders have still not made any statement.

This is getting a bit tricky.

Ye Wenxi instinctively gripped her sleeve, a surge of tension rising within her.

She couldn't let this matter slip by. Zhou Qiwen was here today, so she had to seize the opportunity.

"By the way, Director Chen, has our safe arrived?" Ye Wenxi turned to the logistics department, her voice a few decibels faster than usual.

"It should arrive today," Director Chen replied.

"That's great! Now our anti-counterfeiting solution finally has a place to go. I've had it with me for days," Ye Wenxi said to Section Chief Chen with a smile.

"Anti-counterfeiting? Is it a measure to combat counterfeits?" Zhou Xuchen chimed in.

"Yes, it's one of them." Ye Wenxi nodded. "How about... I report my initial ideas to the leaders and ask for their guidance and suggestions?"

"You already have ideas and concrete plans?" Zhou Qiwen looked up, his tone showing interest.

"These are just some preliminary plans; most are still in the planning stage and await concrete implementation," Ye Wenxi said sincerely.

"Okay, I'll listen then." Zhou Qiwen nodded.

"Let's go to the large conference table; Teacher Li's session is over," Zhang Yunxia said from the side.

"Please, everyone, I'll go get some materials." Ye Wenxi stepped aside and gestured for them to proceed.

Zhang Yunxia guided the leaders to their seats, while she herself sat in a nearby seat, waiting for Ye Wenxi to arrive.

Ye Wenxi picked up the documents, turned around, and saw several people already sitting there properly. She took a deep breath, gripped the manuscript paper in her hand, and walked over.

This was the first time she had ever managed the military region from above.

The first thing she talked about was the anti-counterfeiting coding scheme. However, she didn't go into too much technical detail. She just gave a general introduction to the design logic of the anti-counterfeiting coding and the idea of ​​a "unique outbound number".

"In this way, every piece of clothing that leaves the garment factory will have a 'unique identification number'," Ye Wenxi said, pointing to the six-digit number on the blackboard.

"This number corresponds one-to-one with our internal customer files. We can track who bought it, when they bought it, and what style it was for every single sale." She raised her head, her gaze sweeping over the people present. "If someone tries to return counterfeit goods in the future, we can just check the number and know that this number has never left our inventory."

"Are you planning to print it on clothes?" Director Huang asked.

"We plan to embroider it on the label," Ye Wenxi replied, "and have it hand-embroidered by our technicians."

"Oh dear, that will take quite a bit of effort," Director Huang exclaimed.

Ye Wenxi smiled and said, "That's the technological barrier. The more technological barriers we build, the higher the threshold for counterfeiters, and the greater the cost of copying a single item."

She paused, then turned around and picked up a few more fabric samples from the table, clipping them to the blackboard.

"This number is just one of the technical barriers. Another is to find a way to improve the fabric itself." She pointed to the patterns on the fabric, "These are fabric patterns I designed. I want to find more textile factories to cooperate with, so that they can produce exclusive fabrics for us."

Upon hearing this, the eyes of several people, including Zhou Xuchen, lit up.

This was a plan Zhou Xuchen was unaware of last night. If this plan can be implemented, then the source of all counterfeits will be cut off; if they can't even get the materials, what will they use to counterfeit?

"We've already reached a cooperation agreement with one company." Ye Wenxi paused. "I was thinking that if we could control it from the source, the effect would be the best."

She smiled, her tone becoming more relaxed: "I learned this from the military. Our military region has special supplies, you can't get them outside the military region."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qiwen's lips slowly curled up, his eyes filled with undisguised admiration.

Just when everyone thought that these two solutions were ingenious enough to block most counterfeits, Ye Wenxi took out the product marking image again.

She used a small clip to hang the picture on the blackboard.

"This is the product label of Wenxi Garment Company." Ye Wenxi took half a step back.

Zhou Qiwen looked at the drawing and examined it for a while: "Did you design this?"

"Yes."

"What does this have to do with anti-counterfeiting?" Zhou Qiwen looked away from the picture and at her.

"To complement this, we will print it on product packaging, promotional brochures, and use it at department store sales events. This will allow consumers to immediately recognize the brand as Wenxi Garment Company when they see this logo."

In this era, the concept of a brand was still very vague, trademark registration was not yet open, and terms like corporate logo and brand image were completely foreign to most people.

At best, all you can do is make people remember "the products from a certain factory are good" or "the dishes from a certain restaurant are authentic".

Ye Wenxi should try to control the scale of her expression and not say anything too advanced.

"Actually, I got the inspiration from a restaurant." She paused. "Why do people speak so highly of a certain state-owned factory or a certain state-owned restaurant? It must be because their names and their products are linked together in the minds of ordinary people."

"I just wanted to use a picture to represent our names."

She looked at the people present, her tone softening:

"Compared to any technology or measure, what can help us prevent counterfeiting the most is actually the public's word-of-mouth and consumer recognition. As long as consumers can recognize genuine products and only recognize genuine products, those counterfeit manufacturers will have no sales. Without sales, there will be no more counterfeits."

The meeting room was quiet. Zhou Qiwen looked at the picture, his gaze falling on the two letters in the middle, as if he was studying something or pondering something.

The efforts and dedication Ye Wenxi demonstrated during this series of events, her anti-counterfeiting solutions, brand planning, and source control were now a satisfactory result in Zhou Qiwen's mind.

But his gaze still fell on the delicate, intertwined hands, which were covered in flowers but not concealed.

"Why draw these hands?" he suddenly asked. "Wouldn't it look better if you just drew flowers?"

Zhou Qiwen and the others looked at Ye Wenxi with smiles, all of them sharing the same question.

Suddenly, Zhang Yunxia, ​​who hadn't spoken until now, opened her mouth.

"Deputy Commander Zhou, I asked Wenxi the same question." She leaned forward. "My answer was almost exactly the same as yours."

"Guess what she said?"

Zhou Qiwen turned to look at her. Director Huang and Director Chen also looked over.

Zhang Yunxia paused, her tone noticeably more forceful:

She said that the hands are the main focus, and the flowers are just an embellishment.

She looked at Zhou Qiwen and Director Huang and said, word by word:

She also said that these hands that support each other are the most beautiful.

The group fell silent for a moment. Zhou Qiwen repeated it softly, as if to himself.

He smiled, and as he smiled, he nodded again and read those four words aloud once more.

"Helping each other up..."

Suddenly, no one at the conference table spoke, but those four words weighed heavily on everyone's hearts.