109: Chapter 109 Destroyed! Double Eleven Opening Ceremony

"Little Boss Bai, there's something I still need to remind you of."

Seeing that Double Eleven is just around the corner,

this batch of goods was what we prepared for the upcoming Double Eleven.

If something goes wrong with this batch,

then I think the impact on our honor phone sales during Double Eleven will be very significant."

Zhao Ming was afraid that Bai Jingqing didn't realize the severity of the problem,

so he offered a timely reminder.

Bai Jingqing nodded,

and then made a decision,

saying indifferently: "Destroy them all."

Although Zhao Ming had considered this idea,

he still felt a bit reluctant.

Hearing Bai Jingqing say "destroy them all" so decisively and calmly,

his eyes widened instantly: "Destroy only the affected phones?"

Bai Jingqing shook his head: "Destroy them all!"

Zhao Ming's mouth hung wide open: "Destroy them all?

Little Boss Bai, did you actually listen

to what I just told you?

If there's a problem with this batch,

it will have a huge impact on our honor phone sales for Double Eleven!

And the cost of these phones isn't low either!

The value is roughly twenty million!

If we do this,

the loss for us will be truly massive.

Do we really have to destroy them all?"

Bai Jingqing nodded: "Destroy them all.

However, we can't destroy them for nothing;

we still need to earn something back from this."

Zhao Ming was still puzzled: "Earn what back?"

Bai Jingqing said: "Reputation!"

With Bai Jingqing's approval,

this batch of phones was collectively transported to the Central Square in Shi City.

On the day of the destruction,

Bai Jingqing contacted major domestic media outlets,

slipped them some money,

and had them make a big deal out of it.

Thus, a very grand spectacle appeared.

On this day at Shi City's Central Square,

a total of 10,000 honor v8 phones were all fed into shredders.

The components produced from crushing these phones weighed over a ton.

The media members invited by Bai Jingqing were certainly not useless hacks who took money for nothing;

they wrote about the event in the news,

praising Huayao Phone's high quality standards and strict quality control.

The Paper: "Affected by a container fire a few days ago,

a large batch of honor phones might have had issues.

No one expected Huayao's method of handling this.

Just this morning,

a total of 10,000 potentially problematic honor v8 phones,

with a total value of about 20 million,

were completely pulverized by shredders at Shi City Central Square,

and the raw materials were properly recycled.

Huayao Phone's attitude of taking product quality seriously is a lesson for all manufacturers!"

Phoenix News: "With Double Eleven approaching,

major phone manufacturers have begun stocking up frantically,

preparing for the upcoming Double Eleven buying craze.

But just because they might have been slightly affected,

Honor crushed and destroyed all 10,000 phones impacted by the fire,

without any regard for the losses during the upcoming Double Eleven.

This spirit of being willing to lose money to pursue high quality is a fine tradition of our Dragon Country manufacturers,

and it is forever worth learning from!"

...

Other mainstream media reported similarly,

triggering a discussion across the entire internet.

Some people felt Huayao was just putting on a show,

but others felt this was genuine,

and that Huayao's quality control requirements were truly high.

"If it's really a show,

spending twenty million for a show is quite a grand gesture."

"Using twenty million worth of phones to make this advertisement—

the ad fee is undoubtedly a bit too expensive.

So I'm more inclined to believe Huayao is truly pursuing high quality,

which is why they destroyed all 10,000 phones,

just so customers can experience truly high-quality, high-end Huayao Phones!"

"This is what true high-end is,

meticulous about quality control

and taking responsibility for every product.

From now on, I'm only buying Huayao!"

From that day on,

the concept of Huayao Phone's high quality standards became deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In fact, regarding the issue of Huayao Phone's quality,

Bai Jingqing also felt it was quite a headache.

To better hide the existence of his System,

he had set up many production lines,

handing over components taken from the System to the production lines for assembly.

But this had a drawback:

manually assembled phones were certainly not as high-quality as those assembled by the System.

Moreover, with manual assembly,

not only was the assembly time slower,

but the cost was also higher

because he had to pay wages to those assembly workers.

However, Bai Jingqing was not a heartless capitalist who would sacrifice everything for profit;

he still insisted on this method.

On one hand, it helped hide the System's existence,

and on the other, it could boost employment for local residents in Shi City.

An increased employment rate would simultaneously drive up the overall income level of Shi City residents,

and he could gain a good reputation.

Why not do it?

So all he could do now

was to set higher quality requirements for assembly,

strengthen training for those assembly workers,

be stricter with them,

and try his best to produce phones with a quality close to those assembled by the System.

When several leaders and officials of Shi City had met the ministers previously,

they saw that the three ministers were so close to Bai Jingqing,

and they had already formed the intention to befriend him.

Furthermore, after just a few months of development,

Huayao had truly grown big and strong.

Its scale was getting larger and larger,

even becoming a high-tech pillar industry for Shi City!

In the past, as a moat for the capital city,

any slightly powerful enterprise in Shi City would basically run to the capital,

while any heavily polluting or low-tech industries would run to the cities surrounding the capital.

So Shi City had always relied on selling natural resources and cheap labor for urban development.

But who would have thought

that Shi City would one day have a high-tech industry as its pillar!

These officials were now also very grateful to Bai Jingqing for his huge contribution to Shi City's development,

including his boost to the local employment rate,

the increase in resident income,

and the massive amount of taxes he paid.

Coupled with seeing how close Bai Jingqing was with the three ministers,

these officials basically gave a green light to all of Huayao's requests.

Someone even took the initiative to nominate Bai Jingqing as an NPC Deputy.

However, it wasn't time for the NPC Deputy elections yet,

so Bai Jingqing didn't take the matter to heart.

Finally, under everyone's watchful eyes,

Double Eleven began!

At midnight on November 11, 2016,

the Double Eleven Shopping Carnival officially kicked off!

In fifty-two seconds, the transaction volume broke one billion!

In six minutes and fifty-eight seconds, the transaction volume exceeded ten billion!

Ali attached great importance to this Double Eleven event,

inviting many celebrities to participate

and journalists from all over the world to witness it.

Ultimately, it set a record transaction volume of 120.7 billion!

Ma Yun was grinning from ear to ear;

Ali already had the faint posture of becoming the first major company to step into the future!