Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Upon hearing the news, Tang Qingshan took several senior administrators from Xuyuan and made a special trip to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Under the pretext of a tour, he kept bringing up this year’s graduating seniors in his conversation.

Chen Yansen took the hint. He smiled and told Tang Qingshan that the technology and product departments could take on 200 interns. As long as they were competent, they would all have the opportunity to become full-time employees after graduation.

Tang Qingshan nodded in satisfaction, then said, ”The spots for students from low-income families are tight this year. There are limited part-time positions available in the cafeteria, dorms, and library. As their senior...”

”Pinbei Technology is short on customer service staff. I’ll have a word with the HR department. We’ll hire 50 part-timers to start. Just have someone send me the list of names. Thank you, Teacher Tang, for helping me with this urgent need.”

Chen Yansen agreed readily before Tang Qingshan could even finish.

Even though it was Tang Qingshan who had come to him with a request, the way Chen Yansen put it made it sound as if Tang Qingshan had helped him solve a manpower shortage.

This made Tang Qingshan exclaim inwardly, ’This kid knows how to play the game!’

University students were cheap and capable. Chen Yansen had no reason to refuse, and he could even earn a good reputation from it.

Besides, when Orange Technology was applying for its 3C certification, network access license, and radio transmission equipment type approval certificate, Tang Qingshan had used his connections extensively to help speed up the process.

Favors had to be returned; that was how relationships deepened.

Tang Qingshan was very pleased with Chen Yansen’s attitude. Before leaving, he invited him to give a speech at the freshman orientation gala.

Chen Yansen couldn’t be bothered with something that was all for show with no real benefit, so he found an excuse to decline.

Seeing that he wasn’t interested, Tang Qingshan didn’t insist.

Chen Yansen saw Tang Qingshan and the others off. Just as he returned to his office, he received a call from Cao Dahua.

”Remember Wang Hongde from You Pu Battery?” Cao Dahua’s voice was filled with unconcealed amusement.

”I remember. I heard they can only get orders from knockoff phone factories these days. Seeing you this happy, don’t tell me Wang Hongde got hit by a car?”

Chen Yansen sat in his chair and joked with a smile.

”Not quite, but close. You Pu’s batteries screwed over Transsion. This month, there were four phone explosion incidents in Abyssinia, and the investigation showed they were all caused by batteries supplied by You Pu.”

Cao Dahua slowly explained, then added, ”The news has spread throughout the circles in Shencheng City. No one dares to use You Pu’s products now, and a bunch of people are demanding refunds with contracts in hand. Then yesterday, the authorities shut down You Pu, seizing both their people and their goods.”

”Did you and Old Zuo have a hand in this?” Chen Yansen asked suspiciously.

”Hey, I’m a good guy, a model citizen. How could I do something like that? You can only blame Wang Hongde for being too greedy. To make money, he desperately cut costs and exploited his employees. He was careless with quality control, and that’s how so many defective products got sold.”

Cao Dahua quickly denied it and explained the cause of the matter.

”Got it. I was planning on dealing with him myself, but it looks like that won’t be necessary. By the way, didn’t Zhou Jinling go to Abyssinia? Does this affect our market expansion plans?”

Chen Yansen frowned and pressed with a serious tone.

”I’ve spoken with Xiaozhou. They opened an Orange Mobile Phone specialty store there. Before the incident, the Orange F1 was selling several dozen units a day. But in the last two days, sales have dropped to single digits.”

Cao Dahua sighed, the smile gone from his face.

There are two sides to every coin. Wang Hongde had not only screwed over Transsion, but he had also dragged the Orange Mobile Phone down with him.

The locals now had a deep distrust of smartphones made in Hua Country. After all, who would want to buy a phone that might explode?

Internally at Orange Technology, the first-generation phone was named the Orange C1, while the one developed specifically for the African Market was the Orange F1.

The Shencheng Factory had only produced one batch of 50,000 units, priced at 99 US dollars.