In the following days, a group of news reports suddenly appeared in the media, revealing the news that the bosses of Korean-funded enterprises in various places had run away. The conscience of heaven and earth, these reports are all about "a small number of foreign-funded enterprises", but the examples cited are all Korean-funded without exception. All the reports are testable, with specific names of provinces, cities and companies, as well as detailed information on the situation of these companies in arrears of employees' wages and bank loans.

Several major national media outlets have also published commentator articles, criticizing investors from "certain countries" for lacking basic professional ethics without naming names, spending a lot of money on making money, and being very harsh on their employees.

These articles also urgently call on local governments to strengthen the management of foreign-funded enterprises in their jurisdictions, to understand the assets of these enterprises in real time, and to prevent a small number of unscrupulous investors from evading their responsibilities by evading their assets. At the same time, the article also reminds units that have business dealings with foreign-funded enterprises to pay attention to economic risks, track the trend of receivables in a timely manner, and implement after-sales service terms.

Of course, at the end of the article, the commentators will still sing a few high-pitched words, claiming that China's determination to open up to the outside world is unchanged, and its attitude towards attracting foreign investment is unchanged, and that the "vast majority" of foreign businessmen are innocent and clean in nature, and everyone must not discriminate against foreign businessmen.

Chinese officials and business leaders are all too familiar with the eight styles of the media, and with an article in front of them, it's easy to identify what's dry and what's slang for the scene. In the media, which has always praised the major achievements in attracting investment, a commentator's article suddenly appeared that reminded the risk of foreign investment, and there was only one explanation, that is, this risk is already very serious, and everyone must pay close attention to it.

Almost at the same time as public opinion, Dongyuan company's customers invariably called or sent faxes, some of them proposed that they had purchased the machine tool undeservedly failed, and asked Dongyuan company to repair or compensate, and some claimed to have heard some rumors about the quality of Dongyuan machine tools, and asked Dongyuan company to clarify and make future after-sales service guarantees.

Of course, the sale of machine tools is not a one-shot deal, but has an after-sales commitment, such as free maintenance within one year, only spare parts within three years, and so on. To achieve these commitments, the first premise is that the manufacturer will still exist within one or three years, if the manufacturer goes bankrupt or is transferred to other investors, where can the customer find someone to repair?

The Changning Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce came to the door in a timely manner, and said to Li Taiyu very euphemistically, saying that the Industrial and Commercial Bureau received a report from some enterprises, claiming that there were quality problems with the Dongyuan machine tools they bought, and they were entrusting the relevant agencies to conduct testing, during which they were worried that the Dongyuan Company would flee from China like other "minority" Korean enterprises, so they asked the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to preserve the assets of the Dongyuan Company, at least to leave enough funds for compensation.

Lee Tae-woo was really mad. He came to the Changning China Merchants Bureau and questioned the officials who had helped him invest in Changning. Officials treated him as courteously as in the past, repeatedly emphasizing that there was no change in Changning's investment promotion policy and that the supra-national treatment that foreign-funded enterprises should enjoy remained in effect. After saying these words, the officials' later words were a little meaningful, and they said that they believed that Dongyuan Company was not the kind of dishonest enterprise reported in the media, that Dongyuan Company would never have the phenomenon of evading capital, and that Mr. Li's character could stand the test like real gold.

"Right, Mr. Li?"

The officials finally asked Mr. Lee about it.

"Of course, that's for sure!" replied Lee Tae-woo sneeringly, and went back in a gloomy manner.

The rest of the story is bland. Affected by the "leaked" machine 20 test report, Dongyuan Machine Tool has been completely rotten in the industry. He Ji'an wanted to try to find a few orders at first, but when he arrived at the customer unit, he said that he was a person from Dongyuan Machine Tool Company, and the other party directly served tea to the customer. Some friends who knew each other in the past were still thorny in their words, saying that their brothers were used to sell them, and it was understandable that Mr. He went to a foreign company and harmed old friends.

There are also more and more regular customers who come to claim claims. Some customers have not had problems with the machine tools they have purchased, but after seeing the report of the machine 20, they can't help but find something wrong. Some middle-level cadres in charge of equipment procurement were trained by the leaders to be like Sun Tzu, and this evil breath can only be found by Dongyuan Company, the initiator.

Li Taiyu is stumbling, and he can't make up for the financial hole. He asked the finance department to refuse to pay the foundry fee, and as a result, the people used the materials they received in the early stage to pay off the debt. Some of the customers who demanded compensation for the damages did not get a response, and a lawsuit was filed against Dongyuan. This time, the court, which had always been slow to move, acted very quickly and directly sealed the workshop of Dongyuan Company, claiming that if Dongyuan Company could not come up with the funds to pay compensation, the court would forcibly auction off these assets to pay off debts.

Lee Tae-woo called some other Korean businessmen he knew to find out about the situation, and the news he got was extremely unoptimistic. Some Korean businessmen are doing normal business, but others are in much the same situation as Lee Tae-woo.

Of course, the quality of Korean products will not be so unbearable, the problem is that the tone of everyone's publicity in the early stage is too high, and they are stunned to blow their products into Zenith Star Technology, which makes customers have undue expectations. Now that the soap bubbles have been blown up, customers who have paid high prices for Korean products are so easy to talk to, even if they are picky in the egg, they have to come and look for trouble.

Among them, Tang Zifeng's publicity in the early stage also played a big role. After more than half a year of publicity, many people's impression of South Korea is no longer so good, and they have some doubts in their hearts. Now that the news of Korean-funded companies running away has broken out, compared with what was written in the previous newspapers, most people have quickly turned black towards South Korea.

Eventually, Lee Tae-woo fled empty-handed, and after several rounds of summonses issued to him, the court confiscated the company and put it up for public auction, and the proceeds of the auction were used to pay the company's debts. Longhu Machinery Factory in Heling City, Jingnan Province purchased Dongyuan Company's plant, equipment and some of the recovered materials at a price of 1.5 million yuan, which was more than 1 million yuan lower than the assessment made by the accounting firm, because the court required Longfor Company to undertake the after-sales service of all Dongyuan machine tools until the end of the after-sales service period.

"What a great device, it's all mine now!"

Walking into the factory building of Dongyuan Company, looking at the imported machine tools, Zhao Xinggen, the director of Longhu Machinery Factory, smiled so much that he couldn't close his mouth. These machine tools are Li Taiyu from abroad to purchase, before and after spending nearly 3 million yuan, except for a few South Korean machine tools, most of them are Germany, Japan, Italy and other machine tool powerhouse products, far stronger than the old domestic machine tools used by Longhu Machinery Factory now.

"Mr. Zhao, you can pick up such a big bargain, but thanks to Mr. Han's guidance, you can't forget it. Wang Yingsong followed Zhao Xinggen's side and reminded him appropriately.

"Yes, yes, thanks to Mr. Han, Mr. Han is really my old Zhao's nobleman!" Zhao Xinggen hurriedly bowed to a middle-aged man walking on the other side of him and thanked him, with a bit of respect in his tone.

This middle-aged man, with a red face and a lofty spirit, was wearing the most popular sheepskin jacket in the circle of wealthy people nowadays, and the cuff of his left hand was habitually raised, revealing the shiny Rolex watch on his wrist, but it was Han Weichang, the head of the sales department of Linyi Machine. I don't know when people who know him change their mouths to call him Mr. Han, and he is happy to accept it.

Of course, there is a person who does not call him Mr. Han, but an old Han, as if greeting an uncle of the doorman. Han Weichang didn't dare to be embarrassed in front of this person, if this person called him Mr. Han at any time, his first reaction was not to be proud, but to feel cold in his vest, for fear that he had drunk flower wine with someone last month.

The person who made Han Weichang so in awe was, of course, his direct leader Tang Zifeng.

At this moment, Tang Zifeng was not in front of Han Weichang, so Han Weichang could still hold a little shelf. He smiled reservedly and said, "Mr. Zhao is too polite, I just pushed the boat down the river and helped Mr. Zhao a little favor, so I don't have to talk about it all day long." However, there is a sentence, I want to take the liberty to talk to Mr. Zhao, and I don't know if Mr. Zhao likes to listen to it or not. ”

"I love to listen, I love to listen!" Zhao Xinggen agreed extremely happily, "Mr. Han's words, when do I dare not listen to them." Before I had a chance to meet Mr. Han, I admired Mr. Han so much. ”

Zhao Xinggen's younger brother Zhao Xingwang, who was following Zhao Xinggen, pursed his lips, only he knew that Zhao Xinggen had something to say, and it was not really a good word. Three years ago, Linyi launched a metal baler, and the market response was excellent. Longhu Machinery Factory took a fancy to this product and wanted to imitate it, but it was misled by several technical points in the newspaper that were said to be Han Weichang, and took countless detours and lost 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.

After they finally figured out the truth, the brothers did sigh about Han Weichang's five-body throw, but at the same time, they also made a vow to chop up this guy and feed it to the dogs.

Who would have thought that such a guy who made their brothers cry without tears, but a few months ago, accompanied by Wang Yingsong, he came to give them support and let them cooperate with the acting. With half-believing ideas, the Zhao brothers acted according to the script, and finally pocketed the assets of Dongyuan Company at a surprisingly low price.

At this point, the Zhao brothers are embarrassed to remember the grudges in the past. It is true that people have dug a pit, but who makes them willing to jump into it? In the face of a person who can bring himself into the pit and can bring himself into the pit with Li Taewoo, turning enemies into friends is undoubtedly the most sensible.

As a result, Han Weichang became the closest friend of the two brothers.

(End of chapter)