60: Chapter 60 The Old Factory of Sanlu Group

That evening,

Bai Jingqing finished washing up and lay in bed,

ready to go to sleep.

But if he didn't play with his phone for a bit before sleeping,

wouldn't that be the same as not playing with his phone before sleeping?

So, at this moment, he was still holding his phone and surfing the web.

Right now, online entertainment in this world was still relatively scarce.

Aside from reading novels, listening to music, and playing games,

all one could do was read the news.

He actually wanted to scroll through Douyin for a while,

but at this point in time,

Douyin hadn't come out yet.

However, this served as a reminder to him.

Maybe in the future, he could collaborate with Douyin before it became a massive hit,

or perhaps create his own version of Douyin.

Wouldn't he make a fortune in the future?

Tired of novels, games, and music,

Bai Jingqing was currently using UC to browse the news,

wanting to learn as much as possible about what was happening in this world.

Actually, the news itself wasn't that interesting.

He was mainly looking at the witty comments from netizens below the news articles.

He had just refreshed the feed

when he saw an article titled,

"Shocking! The average person spends this much time on their phone every day!

Playing with your phone brings so many hazards!

One man even developed impotence from using his phone too much!"

The UC of this world was no different from his previous life,

specializing in using clickbait titles to grab attention.

Bai Jingqing was a phone seller himself,

so he clicked into the article to take a look.

The article mainly discussed some of the hazards of using a phone,

many of which were baseless alarmism.

The comments below read:

"You're right, my impotence now is exactly because I played with my phone too much."

Someone replied to him: "Brother, it's fine to lie to us,

but don't lie to yourself."

"Developing impotence from excessive indulgence in adult films,

how can that not count as being caused by playing with a phone?"

"Don't say anything more,

asking for a URL online,

it's urgent!"

"I've found that people really can't live without their phones nowadays,

especially me; I basically never let go of my phone all day.

Sometimes I wonder if I might actually be a phone stand?"

"When I was buying a phone before,

all my friends advised me not to buy the Gionee Voice King,

saying this phone isn't very good.

I just wouldn't believe it!

A person must have their own principles and opinions!

After buying it and using it for three months,

I found out it really isn't very good."

"Everyone, please note, definitely do not play with your phone before bed,

it's very harmful to the eyes.

And don't put your phone next to your pillow when you sleep,

because the radiation from phones is very high.

Leaving it by your pillow at night is very dangerous

and can lead to human genetic mutations,

causing irreversible harm to human health!"

This commenter had clearly been successfully brainwashed by those marketing accounts.

When Bai Jingqing saw this comment,

he thought, 'Don't play with your phone before bed?'

'So you're talking about me, then.'

'What you said does make sense,

I really do need to make some changes!'

So Bai Jingqing rolled over

and continued playing with his phone.

Pressing down on one arm all the time was indeed uncomfortable.

After thinking for a bit, he also replied to a comment,

saying: "Oh, forget about phones,

I often wonder if having such a big sun next to the Earth is harmful.

Those who say it's not harmful,

do you dare to take the sun down and put it next to your head,

basking in the sun all night while you sleep?"

In this era, the internet was just starting out,

and people's cognitive levels were relatively low,

which led to a proliferation of marketing accounts that relied on alarmism to gain attention.

Many people actually believed them,

including some highly educated intellectuals.

In reality, when putting a phone by the pillow,

rather than worrying about the dangers of radiation,

one should worry more about the danger of the phone exploding while charging at night.

Bai Jingqing flipped to the next article.

"Domestic milk powder Feihe recently won the Gold Award at the World Selection of Quality in Europe,

becoming the only infant milk powder brand in the world to win this major award.

This fully demonstrates that the quality of Feihe milk powder has reached advanced world levels

and has gained widespread recognition from the international community!"

The article briefly reviewed the hardships domestic milk powder had faced over the years,

and the culprit behind all these hardships

was the earlier Sanlu Milk Powder scandal.

The news then recounted the entire course of the Sanlu Milk Powder scandal,

including Sanlu Milk Powder's illegal use of melamine,

which led to urinary system abnormalities in hundreds of thousands of infants,

kidney stones in dozens of infants,

and even several cases that developed into renal insufficiency,

resulting in multiple deaths!

Ultimately, the supervisory departments also confirmed that Sanlu Milk Powder indeed had serious quality issues,

and Sanlu Milk Powder was eventually shut down by the government.

Since then, domestic milk powder lost the trust of the Chinese people,

and everyone flocked to buy imported milk powder from Europe and America,

leaving the domestic milk powder market in a slump for a time.

The site of the Sanlu Group factory, which once won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, remains desolate to this day,

serving as a warning to domestic food manufacturers

that food safety is of paramount importance!

Now that Feihe milk powder has won this gold award,

it may be the hope for the resurgence of domestic milk powder.

Bai Jingqing wasn't interested in milk powder,

but a few sentences in this news article made him keenly sense something.

He immediately went to search for detailed information about the Sanlu Group in this parallel world,

and then discovered to his surprise that the Sanlu Group factory site

was actually right there in Shi City where he was!

Moreover, the group's factory buildings were indeed just as the editor had said,

still desolate to this day.

After being forcibly shut down by the government,

it had been abandoned ever since,

and it had already been seven years this year.

At this time, Bai Jingqing was preparing to make a big move,

and he was worried about not having a suitable factory building,

so he developed a bit of interest in that desolate factory of Sanlu Group.

Early the next morning,

he took a bus to a county under the jurisdiction of Shi City.

The pillar enterprise of this county used to be Sanlu Group.

He visited the old factory site of Sanlu Group in person

and found that the factory buildings were still very large.

Beside it was now a whole expanse of open fields,

and not far away was a large lake.

Next to this lake stood a stone tablet

with three mottled, red-painted characters: Songshan Lake.

The large tracts of land around it

seemed to have once been planted with forage grass;

Sanlu Group really had raised cattle once.

But now, it was overgrown with all kinds of weeds,

making one sigh at the unpredictability of the world.

After taking a look around,

Bai Jingqing was very satisfied with this place.

First of all, the old factory of Sanlu Group was truly massive,

with the factory area alone covering ten to twenty square kilometers.

Adding in the desolate fields next to it,

Bai Jingqing roughly estimated it could even reach 100 square kilometers,

comparable to an ordinary small county town!

And from this aspect, one could also see the former prosperity of Sanlu Group.

Such a large area perfectly met his needs for growing bigger and stronger in the future.

Secondly, this place was also very remote,

located in a suburban county under the city's jurisdiction,

sufficiently secluded,

and not easily investigated by others.

If he arranged the factory and production lines here,

his system should be able to be hidden even deeper.