When Lin Mai got up in the morning, the first thing he did was go downstairs to buy a newspaper.
When she walked to the newsstand and saw that all the newspaper headlines were about Guan Yonghua's defeat, she couldn't help but smile.
She bought a Chu newspaper, soy milk and fried dough sticks, and then returned home.
While eating breakfast, I read the newspaper.
The Chu News article about Guan Yonghua's defeat in the defamation case was written by Niu Lili.
The ugly face of Guan Yonghua, a thief shouting to catch the thief, is perfectly portrayed.
It also includes a close-up shot of Guan Yonghua arriving at the police station in a three-wheeled police car and being surrounded by reporters for interviews.
At first glance, it seemed that Niu Lili had deliberately matched this photo, but she liked it.
Guan Yonghua also saw the news about him published in the newspaper, and his face turned black with anger.
At nine o'clock in the morning, he went to the Ximan Garment Factory with a dark face.
The secretary was frightened when he saw his poor expression, but he still had to bite the bullet and said: "Mr. Guan, there is a boss Gao named Gao Zhiyuan who wants to see you. I will arrange for him to be in the small reception room."
"Where does this boss Gao come from? Why do you want to see me?" Guan Yonghua asked casually as he sat down at his luxurious desk.
He doesn't bother to meet those kind of cats and dogs, it's a waste of time.
"Boss Gao introduced himself as the wholesale boss of Hanzheng Street. He wants to be our agent."
Guan Yonghua's heart moved after hearing this.
His Ximan clothing happened to be in poor sales, so it wouldn't be great if he had an agent to help him sell the goods.
Guan Yonghua immediately went to the small reception room.
Gao Zhiyuan read this morning's newspaper and learned that Ximan Clothing had copied Unique Clothing.
He doesn't care who plagiarizes whom, as long as Ximan's clothing and Unique's clothing are the same style.
Because he knows that since those styles are popular in Jiangcheng, they will definitely sell well in the wholesale market.
The two met, got straight to the point, and quickly reached an agreement and signed a contract.
Guan Yonghua felt happy because he no longer had to worry about not being able to sell his clothes.
Lin Mai finished breakfast, studied until eight o'clock, and then rode his bicycle to the district government.
District Mayor Ouyang has prepared the loan approval slip.
Lin Mai got the approval slip and went to the bank, and successfully got a loan of 500,000 yuan.
Then I went to the Land Bureau and bought two pieces of industrial land and one piece of residential land that I was interested in.
After running around like this, it's past ten o'clock. It's time to go to the garment factory and deal with some factory affairs.
When Lin Mai left the garment factory yesterday, he informed Zheng Xudong and Wang Xiaoli to come to the factory for a meeting around ten o'clock in the morning.
When Lin Mai arrived at the garment factory, the two of them had already arrived.
At the meeting, Lin Mai first asked Zheng Xudong about the list of newly recruited Personnel Department personnel who had passed the reexamination yesterday.
Zheng Xudong gave her the list and then said: "Although some applicants lacked abilities and failed the re-examination.
But I kept all the good-looking girls as clerks.
Our factory doesn’t even have a clerk, so we have to serve tea and water ourselves during meetings.”
Lin Mai nodded: "Okay." Then he asked about the retest results for the recruitment of accounting personnel.
Ren Baozhu said that except for two that were not good, the others were all good, but she admitted the students on a merit-based basis and kept all the top dozen.
Lin Mai nodded, expressing satisfaction, and turned to ask Tao Zhiyun if the new designs for the Mid-Autumn Festival were out.
Tao Zhiyun handed her the designed clothing drawings: "The design is ready. I am going to show it to you and let you give me some advice. It will be the 8th in two days and I want to put it into production."
Lin Mai smiled: "You are the chief designer in the factory, what do I know! If you think it's good, go ahead and put it into production."
Tao Zhiyun shook his index finger: "You don't need to understand, just have inspiration. Aren't the styles you designed for the beginning of school season pretty good?"
Lin Mai didn't hesitate: "Okay, I'll give you a consultant after I deal with Tang Shunying."
She then asked if the mooncakes needed for the Mid-Autumn Festival Unico clothing promotion were ready.
Ren Baozhu pointed at Zheng Xudong with his eyes: "Manager Zheng said he wanted to contract the mooncakes."
Zheng Xudong saw Lin Mai's eyes turning to him and said: "Instead of outsourcing this order to other food factories, it is better to leave it to us to package the delicious food.
We have several chefs at Bao Hao Mei who can make Chinese dim sum, including moon cakes.”
Lin Mai thought for a while and agreed.
Bao Haochi is now somewhat famous in the three towns of Jiangcheng. If you make mooncakes as gifts, it will be very respectable.
In previous lives, famous hotels in Jiangcheng would sell glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival, rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, and mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Because it is available for a limited time and is made fresh, the line of customers who come to buy it is as long as a queue.
Those well-known hotels are not trying to make a lot of money by selling glutinous rice balls and moon cakes, but they are just trying to further increase their popularity.
Then the deliciousness of her bags can perfectly complement her Unico and increase her popularity through the mooncakes.
However, Lin Mai recommends not making mooncakes with traditional fillings.
Zheng Xudong asked puzzledly: "If you don't make mooncakes with traditional fillings, what kind of fillings should you make?"
"Fruit filling." Lin Mai saw Zheng Xudong looking at her blankly, and knew that he was full of confusion.
Not to mention that in the 1980s, no one had ever heard of fruit-filled mooncakes.
Even in the early 1990s, there were no mooncakes with fruit fillings on the market. It was not until the mid-to-late 1990s that mooncakes with fruit fillings were sold.
She said to Zheng Xudong: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I'll tell the mooncake maker later."
Zheng Xudong nodded.
Lin Mai looked at the crowd and said, "I want to increase the price of all clothing by five yuan from tomorrow."
As soon as she said these words, the whole place fell silent.
After a while, Hou Xinyi was the first to speak: "With such a price increase, we basically have no advantage at all in terms of price.
Although we have promotional activities, the small square towels purchased from Hong Kong that Ximan Laijia provides are still very lethal, which can completely offset the advantages brought by our promotional activities.
I suggest that it is better not to increase the price.
Even if the price increases, don’t just increase it by five yuan. A four yuan increase is also good, at least there will be a little price advantage.”
Except for Tao Zhiyun, Ren Baozhu and others nodded, expressing their agreement with what Hou Xinyi said.
Tao Zhiyun said: “Mr. Lin’s original intention was to build Unico into a high-end brand so that Unico would not be easily eliminated in the brutal competition in the future.
You cannot make Unique Clothing a high-end brand by relying on its price advantage, so I support Mr. Lin’s price increase."
Everyone became quiet again.
After a while, Ren Baozhu sighed: "Since price increases are inevitable, we can only accept the reality that sales will face a decline."
Lin Mai smiled and shook his head: "The decline is inevitable, but it won't be too severe.
Our price increase is actually on the same track as Seaman Clothing.
But we have a good reputation, and at the same price, consumers will be more likely to choose us."
Ren Baozhu and others nodded, they believed this.
Lin Mai continued: "Since you are worried that our sales in the mall will decline, then just develop another sales channel."
Everyone asked: "What channel?"
"It's a wholesale market." Lin Mai said, "You have forgotten that Boss Gao from Hanzheng Street came to talk to us about being an agent."
"I didn't forget, didn't Mr. Lin say that we would discuss agency matters with him during the National Day?" Hou Xinyi reminded.
Lin Mai smiled slightly: "Shopping malls are like battlefields, and the situation is constantly changing.
The reason we rejected Boss Gao before was because we couldn’t sell enough clothes ourselves.
Now that you are worried about the decline in shopping mall sales, this channel can be opened."
Ren Baobao objected: "Even if sales decline, excess clothing cannot support a wholesale channel."
Lin Mai turned to look at Tao Zhiyun: "Now we have to ask Director Tao to help us contact a larger OEM clothing factory."
Tao Zhiyun nodded: "No problem."
Lin Mai then ordered Ren Baozhu to discuss agency matters with Gao Zhiyuan.
After the meeting, Lin Mai told Zheng Xudong alone that there was no need to buy her any more residential housing in the future.
She is already in the real estate business, so there is no need to hoard houses and wait for them to be demolished to make a fortune.
Back in his office, Lin Mai asked a newly recruited clerk named Shen Xiaoping to bring Tang Shunying to her office.
Clerk Xiaoping immediately went to the Accounting Department and asked: "Who is Section Chief Tang?"
Although she checked the accounts in the accounting department for a long time yesterday, she still couldn't match the numbers of Tang Shunying.
Tang Shunying replied: "I am." Then she looked at Xiaoping doubtfully.
Xiaoping said: "Mr. Lin asked you to go to her office."
Tang Shunying suddenly became uneasy: "Why did Mr. Lin ask me to go to her office?"
Xiaoping shook her head: "I don't know."
Tang Shunying came to Lin Mai's office with a worried heart.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Xiaoping wanted to close the door and leave, but Lin Mai stopped her and asked her to stay in the office.
Xiaoping obediently sat down on the wooden sofa.
Lin Mai then looked at Tang Shunying: "From today on, you are fired. You can leave after handing over the work.
Collect your salary before you leave, and pay back all the embezzled money within three days, otherwise I will send you to the police station."
Tang Shunying's face turned pale, and she knelt on the ground with a plop, crying: "Mr. Lin, please, please don't fire me. I will pay back the embezzled money right away."
"It's okay if you don't want to be expelled. Then I'll send you to the police station. The end will be even worse."
Lin Mai didn't want to waste any more words with her, so he directly used his trump card.
Tang Shunying was frightened, wiped her tears, stood up, and walked away in despair.
Lin Mai asked Xiaoping to follow him and accompany her to hand over the work, then collect her salary and send her off to the factory.
Whether it's handing over work or collecting wages, it's all done in the Accounting Department.
Jin Chunbiao and Chai Zhaodi witnessed Tang Shunying's resignation.
After Tang Shunying left, Jin Chunbiao immediately ran to ask Chai Zhaodi: "Why was Tang Shunying fired? Do you have any inside information?"
Chai Zhaodi originally wanted to tell her that Tang Shunying was fired for embezzling public funds.
But when she thought that Tang Shunying would be fired because she secretly reported it, she swallowed all the truth.
She was afraid that Jin Chunbiao would find out that she was an informant and have a different impression of her, thinking that she was a villain.
So he shook his head and said, "How can I have any inside information? Just like you, I have a black eye."
Jin Chun expressed her belief and told Chai Zhaodi what Tang Shunying had told her before that Lin Mai would replace them.
Somewhat worriedly: "Tell me, will President Lin fire Section Chief Tang first and then us?"
Chai Zhaodi rolled her eyes at her: "Are you so brainless? After Tang Shunying provoked a few words, you believed her words?
Don’t you think that because she kept saying those things to you, she already knew that she was going to be fired?”
Jin Chunbiao thought about it carefully in his heart, and it seemed that it was true!
When Lin Mai wanted to recruit accounting personnel, she and Chai Zhaodi would only think that the company needed accounting personnel. Who would have thought that they were preparing to fire them.
If you are recruiting people for the purpose of firing them, you only need to recruit three accounting personnel, not a dozen.
But Tang Shunying would think that Lin Mai was recruiting people to replace them.
Except that she already knew that she was going to be expelled, there was no way to explain why she would have such thoughts.
Jin Chunbiao asked in confusion: "Why does she want to fire me? Why does she want to stir up trouble in front of me?"
"If you make you feel uneasy at work and even make trouble with Mr. Lin, she can use you to vent your anger and possibly get you fired, and she will have a psychological balance.
After all, she brought us into the factory. In the end, she was fired, but we were able to stay in the factory and continue working. Will she feel better?"
Tang Shunying suddenly realized it and said angrily: "Tang Shunying is really evil-minded!"
When Tao Zhiyun opened the water bottle, he passed by the door of the accounting room and heard the conversation between Chai Zhaodi and Jin Chunbiao.
He walked to the door and asked them: "Did Tang Shunying tell you that she got you into the factory?"
Chai Zhaodi and Jin Chunbiao nodded.
Tao Zhiyun sneered and said, "It was obviously Mr. Lin who asked her to bring you to work in the factory, but she fell in front of you and took credit!" After that, he left.
Chai Zhaodi and Jin Chunbiao, look at me and I look at you.
What the two of them thought at the same time was that Tang Shunying was really shameless.
A lie that deceived them into being grateful to her for so long!