Chapter 219: Chapter 128 Frequent Heavy Hits
After announcing the second piece of news, Yan Fei looked at the somewhat excited expressions of the journalists below and continued, “I hereby announce the third piece of news. In light of the land use rights dispute between Dream Technology’s subsidiary, Dream Foods Processing Factory, and the local township, we announce the permanent closure of this food processing factory.”
This was a bombshell announcement, but the journalists below hadn’t quite processed it yet when one journalist suddenly stood up and asked loudly, “Chairman Yan Fei, by shutting down your only Weight Loss Cookies factory, does that mean your company will no longer produce Weight Loss Cookies? Is there a serious quality issue with your Weight Loss Cookies? What about the complaints from agents and consumers? What will happen to the unemployed workers from your food processing factory?”
Lou Pingping immediately took over the topic and said, “My journalist friend, I have already made it very clear. Questions are not to be asked at will before the news conference is over, and it is not yet time for questions. Your sudden standing up to ask questions is an obvious disregard for the discipline of the venue, disrespect for our chairman, and disrespect for all the other journalists present. So, I’m sorry…”
Several security personnel from Dream Technology immediately stepped forward, dragged the journalist away, and began to escort him out of the venue. The journalist was somewhat stunned; he didn’t expect that a question he asked would get him kicked out—something that had never happened to him in his life, a brutal interference with his right to report. Known as the “king without a crown” among journalists, everyone feared the pen in his hands, allowing him to act with impunity wherever he went. Now, just for asking a question, he was being thrown out? So, he protested loudly, claiming his rights to interview and to ask questions, and that Dream Technology had no right to remove him. But it was clear, the security wouldn’t listen to his defense.
Seeing the journalist being escorted out of the news conference, all the other journalists felt a sympathetic anxiety, feeling their dignity as reporters challenged. A journalist stood up and said loudly, “Mr. Lu, isn’t this too authoritarian of you, to turn your back just because a journalist asked a question? You openly expel a journalist—are you not afraid that all of us journalists will leave together?”
Yan Fei snorted coldly and said, “Without rules, there’s no square or circle. If you don’t wish to adhere to the discipline of the venue, please turn around. The doors to the outside are open, anyone can leave. However, once you leave, you won’t be able to come back in again.”
That journalist was taken aback, not expecting Dream Technology to be so tough, and then saw that no other journalists stood up for justice. He was startled, quickly sat down, and kept quiet. One must know that the news conference of Dream Technology still carried news value; several bombshell announcements had already been made. If he left, he would lose his source of news, and he couldn’t afford that, considering it concerned his livelihood.
After this small interlude, Yan Fei continued, “I normally would not answer any questions before I finish my announcements. But since that journalist asked his last question in this room, I will still answer it. As I just said, our food processing factory in Shanghai has officially closed. However, I did not say we would stop producing Weight Loss Cookies. We have simply relocated the factory. The new location is in the Jinshan Development Zone, under the jurisdiction of Suzhou City, Lin Province. The new Dream Foods Processing Factory is going full steam ahead in production and has already produced qualified products. So, agents and consumers worried about our company’s product shortage, don’t worry about our output. Our current production is not only sufficient to handle the huge domestic market demand but can also expand to the whole world, so people worldwide can enjoy our Weight Loss Cookies. Employees from the Shanghai food processing factory have either moved with the new factory to the Jinshan Development Zone, or if they were unwilling to work there, have terminated their labor contracts and received severance payments in accordance with the contract. As for the quality of our Weight Loss Cookies! You shouldn’t be asking me, you should be interviewing the consumers, to see if anyone thinks there’s a problem with the quality of our products.”
This announcement caught all the journalists present by surprise. The reason they had attended this news conference was because they heard Dream Technology had run into a situation with no production plant and that production of Weight Loss Cookies had ceased, now facing significant difficulties. They came here to cover this news, a schadenfreude that was unmistakable. Little did they know that Dream Technology had quietly relocated the food processing factory to the Jinshan Development Zone, and it had already resumed production of Weight Loss Cookies.
One must realize that setting up a new factory—training workers, installing and calibrating equipment, and producing products—takes a considerable amount of time. Just as Dream Technology’s Shanghai food processing factory had closed, the Jinshan Development Zone in Lin Province had already started producing Weight Loss Cookies and even managed to produce qualified products, indicating that the new food processing factory wasn’t a hurried, temporary choice, but a well-planned layout. As soon as there was an issue in Shanghai, the Jinshan Development Zone was ready to take over the production seamlessly. It was the perfect solution for the production problem.
As for the Weight Loss Cookies, they were products deduced through the Drone Assisted Intelligent Brain and Technology Analysis system, with all aspects considered thoroughly—deemed perfect, without any quality issues. Despite being on the market for so long, the Weight Loss Cookies never had any reported quality issues. Even the competitive products being overtaken in the market couldn’t leverage any quality concerns against them, finding no point of attack. This was the source of Yan Fei’s strong confidence in inviting journalists to interview consumers freely.