As soon as Lu Yiming arrived at Youyuan Technology, Zheng Youyuan told him straight to the point the situation the company was encountering: "Mr. Lu, a copycat USB flash drive has appeared on the market."

"Copycat? So fast?"

Although Lu Yiming knew that the counterfeit USB flash drive would definitely appear. After all, no one would be jealous of such a huge market. But what Lu Yiming didn't expect was that the fake USB flash drive would appear so quickly.

It’s just the Chinese New Year. Is the technical strength of domestic pirated products that strong?

Zheng Youyuan didn't care. He immediately took out the copycat USB flash drive he bought from the market and handed it to Lu Yiming: "Take a look at this first."

Lu Yiming took it over for inspection and found that the USB flash drive in his hand was exactly the keychain shape he designed. He thought it was Mingyuan Technology's own product, but after a closer look, he found that the USB flash drive in his hand was made of rough workmanship, especially the shell connection.

There are even gaps visible to the naked eye.

He gently opened it with his hands, and the parts inside were immediately scattered on the floor.

Regarding the materials and craftsmanship, Lu Yiming suddenly became a little angry: "We produce this ourselves? Didn't I emphasize that Mingyuan Technology's products must strictly control the quality? Product quality problems will seriously damage our brand.

Figurative!"

Cheng Xiaohua told Lu Yiming with a grimace: "This USB flash drive is a counterfeit product, not produced by us."

Zheng Youyuan also said: "Because there has been a sudden increase in customer complaints about product quality in the past two days, I noticed this matter. Then I bought a few samples from the market and found that the situation was more serious than I thought."

When mentioning this matter, Zheng Youyuan's expression was more serious than ever before: "Fake and shoddy USB flash drives are now sold all over the streets. The other party's shipments are large, and they can be purchased in several computer stores and home appliance stores in Baiyun City.

As a result, a large number of customers came directly to Mingyuan Technology when they encountered quality problems."

The more Zheng Youyuan talked, the more excited he became. Thinking that he was taking the blame for the copycat for no reason, he immediately cursed: "Before selling fakes, I at least had to change the shells, but now I have even copied the shells directly, and I am not afraid of having a son without a baby!"

Putting aside the monetary losses, the damage to brand image caused by counterfeit and shoddy products is fatal.

After all, the customer doesn’t care whether what he buys is a fake, he only knows that Mingyuan Technology’s USB flash drives are easy to break, so the impression will naturally be bad.

It was only at this moment that Lu Yiming realized that the other party's copycat USB flash drive came directly from Mingyuan Technology. Even the appearance was exactly the same. The only difference was that the quality was several grades lower.

Lu Yiming asked: "Have you found the other party's production base? If the shipment volume is large, it is definitely not a small handicraft workshop."

Zheng Youyuan said distressedly: "I have mobilized people from the company to search around, but we have traveled throughout Baiyun City and can't find it. I guess that the other party's factory is probably not in the urban area, or even in this city. This

Where can I find someone for a short while?"

After hearing this, Lu Yiming also had a gloomy expression. He frowned and thought carefully and said, "This is not the way to go. If it doesn't work, talk to the people who sell fake USB flash drives. They can't and don't know where these fakes come from, right? Fake USB flash drives."

Where are the hottest sellers?”

Zheng Youyuan gritted his teeth and said: "It's Pengrun Electrical Appliances, they sell the most arrogantly, many salesmen dislike the fact that we give less rebates, and directly sell fake and shoddy USB flash drives to customers, just because copycat manufacturers give them higher profits.

"

When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately shocked: "Good guy, do you know how to sell fake products?"

Do you think you are Bing Xixi?

He has naturally heard of the name of Pengrun Electric. After all, the founder Huang Junlie was once the richest man in the Xia Kingdom, and then he was sent to jail by his shareholders and spent more than ten years crying behind bars.

This incident caused a stir throughout the country at the time. After all, it was not common for the richest man to go to jail.

As for Pengrun Electrical Appliances, it is purely a product of the times under the business philosophy of "channel is king". After all, the current domestic home appliance market requires technology but no technology, and quality but no quality. If you want to sell well, you can only set the price.

After the war, various promotional activities took off.

Therefore, the concept of marketing has been wildly hyped, and sales are king.

However, in fact, Pengrun Electric is actually a vampire, lying on the body of manufacturing companies to suck blood, causing the entire industry to enter a vicious cycle of bad money driving out good money.

Because the price war leads to low profits, because the profits are low, there is no money for R&D, and because there is no R&D, the company can only rely on price wars to maintain market share, and ultimately sinks deeper and deeper into the quagmire.

If possible, Lu Yiming really doesn't want to deal with this kind of profit-seeking platform company.

But there is nothing we can do. Nowadays, counterfeit USB flash drives are rampant, and they even know how to sell fake USB flash drives. It would be impossible if we don’t deal with this problem.

Lu Yiming thought for a while and made a decision immediately: "I will find a day to visit."

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year is a festival for people. It originates from ancient Eastern mythology. It is said that Nuwa created the world. After creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses, she created humans on the seventh day. Therefore, this day is also known as

Call it "human day".

Since the Han Dynasty, people have had festival customs. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they began to pay attention to them and became one of the dietary customs of the Han people.

In the southeastern coastal areas, the custom of living in the daily life is still retained.

When the chirping birds came from outside the house and Lu Yiming got up in a daze at the lake, Ning Xuehua was already busy. He saw mustard greens, kale, leeks, spring vegetables, celery, etc. neatly placed on the kitchen stove.

Seven vegetables including garlic and cloves.

Lu Yiming yawned and asked, "Do you want to eat Qibao soup today?"

Ning Xuehua said with a smile: "After eating big fish and meat for several days, it's time to eat some vegetarian dishes."

Since it was a day, it was natural to settle down physically and mentally and recuperate, but Lu Yiming had no rest. After a simple breakfast, he went out and went straight to Pengrun Building.

Because he had said hello before, Lu Yiming quickly met Huang Junlie himself.

This character whom he could only see in newspapers and on TV was now standing in front of Lu Yiming in real life.

"Mr. Huang, wish you a happy New Year."

Lu Yiming cupped his hands as a greeting, then introduced himself: "I am Lu Yiming."

Huang Junlie's attitude towards Lu Yiming's visit was lukewarm. He pointed towards the sofa with his right hand and said, "Mr. Lu, please sit down. I wonder why Mr. Lu came to see me today?"

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Pengrun Electric has created a new model of home appliance retail in Xia, and of course I want to learn from it. If we can create such a new model, Mr. Huang will definitely become one of the representatives of the Lingdong Business Gang in the future.

, there must be a place for you, Mr. Huang, on the list of the 100 richest people."

Faced with Lu Yiming's flattery, Huang Junlie was unmoved at all. Instead, he responded with a mocking tone: "When it comes to making money, how can I compare to Mr. Lu? At a young age, I am ranked sixth on the rich list.

The name is really breathtaking, I can’t compare to it.”

After a few polite words, Huang Junlie obviously had no intention of establishing friendship with Lu Yiming: "Let's talk, Mr. Lu came to see me during the Chinese New Year, so he couldn't have come to have tea with me, right?"

Because of the previous incident between Zuo Chunrong and Liang Shuzhen, Lu Yiming was directly blacklisted by many people within the Lingdong Merchant Gang, not to mention that he also offended Li Chaoren.

As one of Li Chaoren's die-hard fans, Huang Junlie is willing to meet him, which is considered a great honor.

Since Huang Junlie had said so, Lu Yiming was naturally too lazy to talk nonsense with him and directly explained his purpose: "Pengrun Electric Appliances has opened stores all over the country. It has a great reputation and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After all, it is a well-known giant home appliance chain retail enterprise.

Should we pay attention to our own brand image?”

When Huang Junlie heard this, his face suddenly darkened: "Mr. Lu, what do you mean by this?"

Facing Huang Junlie's anger, Lu Yi was obviously calm and said slowly: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to cause trouble. It's just that someone in your Pengrun Electric Appliances has been selling counterfeit USB flash drives recently. I don't know, Mr. Huang, do you know about this?"

Not aware?"

Huang Junlie replied without thinking: "Is there such a thing? Don't worry, Mr. Lu, I will check it carefully when I get back and give you a satisfactory answer."

However, how could Lu Yiming believe such an obviously perfunctory statement, and made it clear directly: "Currently, we, Mingyuan Technology, are the only ones in the world who have the patented technology related to USB flash drives. If Pengrun Electric wants to sell USB flash drives, we can completely cooperate.

"

The implication is to let Pengrun Electrical Appliances purchase goods from regular channels, and don't always do tricks that make everyone look bad.

But Huang Junlie didn't intend to give Lu Yiming this face, and even played Tai Chi with him: "Let's talk about cooperation later. I'm very busy. I'll have tea next time."

This was obviously about serving tea to the guests, and the other party had no intention of cooperating with Mingyuan Technology.

Lu Yiming naturally understood Huang Junlie's thoughts. When he stood up, his eyes became sharp: "Mr. Huang, as the saying goes, you should be polite before you attack. I have been polite when I should be polite."

Huang Junlie sneered and looked into Lu Yiming's eyes without hesitation, his tone even more mocking and disdainful: "Then I would like to see what Mr. Lu will do to be rude."

Before going out, Lu Yiming looked at Huang Junlie deeply: "You will see it."

When Lu Yiming went out, he met a woman who looked somewhat similar to Huang Junlie, but Lu Yiming didn't think much and left directly.

What he didn't know was that this woman was none other than Huang Junlie's third sister Huang Xiuhong.

Huang Xiuhong walked into Huang Junlie's office and asked: "When I just came in, I saw Lu Yiming. What did he come to see my second brother for? What happened?"

Huang Junlie said casually: "It's a small matter. It's just that someone among us is selling pirated USB flash drives. He came to threaten me. He asked me to cooperate with him to sell genuine USB flash drives, but I didn't agree."

Huang Xiuhong frowned slightly and asked: "Why didn't you agree? There is no need to offend a self-made rich man like Lu Yiming for this matter, right? When doing business, you should try your best to make peace. The Lingdong Business Gang is a thing of the past. Even if

Lu Yiming has offended Li Chaoren, so of course the Li family will come out to deal with him. Second brother, there is really no need for you to be a target in front of him."

She knew that Huang Junlie was a loyal fan of the Li family, and it was well known in the circle that Lu Yiming had offended the Li family, so she thought that Huang Junlie was helping the Li family vent their anger.

Huang Junlie shook his head, with a dumbfounded expression: "Third sister, your character is really not suitable for fighting in the business field. Do you think I did this just to vent my anger on Lingdong Business Gang and Li Chaoren? Wrong, very wrong.

Wrong, I was targeting Mingyuan Technology."

Huang Xiuhong was even more puzzled after hearing this: "You have never had any contact with each other before, and you have no business dealings with me. What are you doing against Mingyuan Technology?"

Seeing that his third sister still didn't understand the essence of the problem, Huang Junlie had to remind her patiently: "What we Pengrun Electrical Appliances is doing is the business of channel dealers. The essence of channel being king is that only we can dominate. As for those who

Production companies must obey our deployment and management."

"So when necessary, we can suppress their market share and let them understand who is the one who has the final say. Do you understand now? The relationship between Lu Yiming and I is not a dispute of will, but of interests.

The battle.”

There is no doubt that Huang Junlie is an ambitious businessman who is only interested in profit and uses any means.

The reason why he targeted Lu Yiming was not just for personal grudges, but to seek greater interests. He wanted to trample the prosperous Mingyuan Technology under his feet, so as to demonstrate the strength of Pengrun Electrical Appliances.
To be continued...