Yang Lei listened carefully, there were various reasons, such as the loss of the factory's foreign trade orders, the unsalable main products, and those who did a good job were suddenly dismissed, and those who were not dismissed had to fend for themselves in advance.

These people are all shoe-making related work, there are few large enterprises in this industry in China, Li Ninganta is too busy to take care of himself, and there are even fewer good jobs in good companies.

Job-hopping is bound to jump to a high place, and of course, a few of you here want to enter X-Sports the most.

Refugee camps?

The word popped up in Yang Lei's mind, and it felt as if a group of homeless peers had all flocked to him to beg for a living.

Whether it's true or false, Yang Lei can't tell the difference.

The two masters of Lu Guan talked about all kinds of difficulties in life, as well as a mid-life crisis, where men have no money and are angry, and they are looked down upon by outsiders, which is too true.

If it weren't for the presence of so many people, it is estimated that the two brothers would sit opposite each other and drink a little wine, and they would definitely burst into tears.

Yang Lei and Tony glanced at each other, and they couldn't get much information for the time being, so they had to appease everyone, turn on the audience mode, listen to everyone's complaints, beckon everyone to drink, and get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows.

Maybe no one knows that a cigarette case placed on the table is equipped with a homophonic device to record everyone's speech, and a camera is installed in the leather bag on the tea table behind Yang Lei to take pictures of the whole scene, and the two are combined, and the sound and picture are transmitted synchronously.

Thousands of miles away in the capital, in the Shi Milk Dog Studio, an analysis team looked at the big screen and analyzed everyone's expressions and language.

"Can't hear the problem. ”

"Well, I think everybody's right. ”

"Do you need to go to Hu Jian and Yuedong to investigate?"

"It's useless to investigate, this must be the truth. ”

"I feel that we have to start with overseas orders for import and export, and we have to talk to the bosses of these factories to see what went wrong and why they lost overseas orders. ”

"This is a factory secret, and the boss may not have to tell it, right?"

"Who knows, maybe they thought we could help and tell the truth. ”

Several people expressed their opinions, but the final interpretation belongs to Boss Xu.

Xu Shiwei pressed her temples, closed her eyes to rest, and said softly: "It's because everything is too real, so I doubt it, could this be a coincidence?"

What coincidence?

There's no way someone is deliberately asking these people to resign and then arrange for them to come to X-Sports for an interview, right?

In the end, Xu Shiwei could only give Yang Lei a "cautious and optimistic" suggestion, and left a message by the way: "The goose neck looks good, alas, I miss the duck neck of the red maple so much." ”

Yang Lei was amused to see it, Zhou Heiya he couldn't make it, but fresh lion-headed goose was still okay, he asked the head chef of Chaozhou to make the freshly baked lion-headed goose neck in the early hours of tomorrow morning, and then arrange a small worker to take the first flight tomorrow to send it to Xu Shiwei, and let her taste it at noon.

If you have money, you can be willful.

After Yang Lei sent these masters back, he also wrapped a small red envelope for each of them, and finally discussed with Tony to prepare to recruit three of them.

Yang Lei instructed: "First divide an independent design room and arrange for them to practice on the new sub-brand products, with a probationary period of two months." ”

Tony was surprised: "Do you still need a trial period for them to do technology?" ”

Yang Lei shook his head, raised a finger and waved: "I know it's a bit insulting to do this, but first, we don't lack manpower, and taking them in is also out of kindness, they should be able to understand." Second, if they don't even want to be on probation, they don't really want to join us. ”

It's still the theory of "to do things, look at people first", Tony nodded: "Understand, I will keep an eye on them and not let them touch the core technology first." ”

Yang Lei said with satisfaction: "That's it, keep an eye on it, give Mr. Xu a little more time to investigate, and give us all a buffer period." ”

These masters jumped from Hu Jian and Yuedong, and it was not easy for a family to settle in Shanghai, and many worries and fetters could not be separated.

In the middle, there are also seven or eight other middle-level cadres and senior technicians from other factories, in general, it is equivalent to including some domestic sneaker-related masters.

In April, nothing big seemed to be happening in the country.

Before May Day, Yang Lei read the bonus approval document for overtime work on the factory and signed it.

Lao Yang pushed open the door of the office, held a stack of materials, and said worriedly: "Son, today five more cooperative foundries have collectively proposed to suspend cooperation with us. ”

Yang Lei raised his head: "What's the matter, haven't we suspended four in the first half of the year? Why are we suspending five now?"

Lao Yang's face was serious: "I suspect that someone is messing with us!"

Yang Lei handed his teacup to Lao Yang: "Take a sip of tea, sit down and talk slowly." ”

The foundry started two years ago.

In the past two years, X-Sports' sales have exploded, and even if the Fengxian factory and Wuyi Farm factory work overtime to produce 24 hours a day, it will not be able to meet all the demand.

The gap is huge, and outsourcing production has become inevitable.

Wenzhou Lao Zhu's shoe factory undertakes 30% of the business volume and undertakes overseas export tasks.

The Yunnan factory was only built half a year ago, but because of TPU materials, the lawsuit with Adidas was fought again and again, and the Yunnan factory only produced low-end shoes with non-TPU materials, as well as a small number of GEL shock-absorbing shoes, plus the technology of the workers in Yunnan was not as good as that of the Chinese workers, the quality of the finished products was relatively poor, and the output did not go up.

Therefore, there is a total of about 20 million pairs of sneakers in a year, and Yang Lei found 15 foundries, all of which were originally OEM for Adidas, with good technology, excellent quality, and pleasant cooperation.

Why didn't Yang Lei expand his own factory?

Knowing that from 2015 onwards, the wages of Huaxia personnel will rise to an unbearable level, Yang Lei is impossible to blindly expand the scale, in case the economy is not good in the future, layoffs will be very troublesome, and personnel management will also consume a lot of his energy, such as the Yue Yuen shoe factory in eastern Guandong, which has 100,000 employees at its peak, which is about the same as the total population of an ordinary township, and by 2018, only 12,000 people were laid, most of whom moved to Southeast Asia.

In the future, we will always move to Southeast Asia, so why expand?

That's what Adidas and Nike do, and it's the same with Apple's mobile phones, and big international companies don't build their own factories, they all outsource assembly to third parties.

Lao Yang spread out the information, put it in front of Yang Lei and said: "In the first half of this year, four companies terminated their summer contracts with us, and I asked Manager Zhong to identify two from the backup factory and replace them. Out of 4 in 2 was originally a loss, this time out of 5, and the suspension is all autumn orders, I'm afraid that you will be out of stock this year's Double 11!"

Yang Lei looked at these materials, and his head was big.

Who stopped badly, it turned out to be an accident with these families!

The one in Guandong has an annual production of 8 million pairs, reliable quality, this is his most trusted, favorite factory, and the OEM price is also high, so he didn't talk about friendship at all, and directly cut off his autumn orders?

The remaining two are in Hujian, one in Dongshan, and one in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and these five factories have terminated their contracts, and he has a direct shortfall of nearly 15 million pairs of sneakers.

Yang Lei asked Lao Yang: "Why did they bring it up together? How did the contract stipulate? Aren't they afraid of breach of contract?"

"What kind of promise, they said, this summer orders will continue to be made for you, not a pair of shoes will be given to you less, and the quality and quantity will be guaranteed, so that you can't be picky. But it's just not taking new orders in the fall, it's as simple as that. ”

Lao Yang said angrily: "And I have asked all of them, all of them are bullshit excuses, I even tried to ask if it was okay to add money, they didn't even ask how much money to add, and they all refused." ”

"Then it's not about money, it's for other reasons, I asked Xu Shiwei to check it. ”

Yang Lei said: "The standby processing plant should speed up the negotiations, hurry up to keep the autumn orders first, and there must be no accidents on Double 11 this year." The house is about to catch fire, so don't keep thinking about going to Australia to see Xinxin, help me get through it first. ”

The granddaughter and the son are more important, Lao Yang can still weigh it clearly.

X-Sports is the foundation and the cornerstone of Yang Lei's career, and the base camp can't go wrong, otherwise the cornerstone will be broken and the upper layer will easily collapse.

During the May Day, Lao Yang and Manager Zhong did not rest, quickly signed a new foundry, seized the time to produce, and barely pulled back a game, solving the urgent need.

Seeing that the gap had just been filled, Yang Lei finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said that Qianli collapsed in the anthill, which may be considered a rat hole, and must be taken seriously.

But it is not a way to be so passively sewing and mending, it is still necessary to find the most fundamental reason.

Otherwise, they don't know from which direction the enemy fired the bullets, whether they are in the housing area, in the reverse slope, in the toilet on the top of the mountain, or in the old squat of the Phantom Tank? If you don't find the enemy, you don't know how to counterattack, and it's very painful.

Yang Lei once suspected that it was the change in the foreign trade environment, the large-scale transfer of orders from foreign brands, and the transfer of businessmen in order to reduce costs.

However, on the first day after May Day, the official released a report on the manufacturing index, as well as the purchasing managers' index PMI, which are the two that best reflect the foreign trade situation.

Xu Shiwei is the most well-informed because she is close to the center of the capital.

She got the statistical report and sent it to Yang Lei as soon as possible: "You take a look at this first." ”

Yang Lei opened the report, and then compared the data of the previous quarter and the same period last year, both year-on-year and month-on-month.

"Hmph, the economy is improving. ”

"You don't believe the number?"

"My dad had dinner with the people who were engaged in statistics in Shanghai, and my dad asked their director, saying that the Internet is saying that you are doing statistics and writing all kinds of reports are all nonsense, but in fact, you don't even know the simplest counts. Then the director raised three fingers to my father and said Mr. Yang, for the comments on the Internet, I sent them five words, which is nonsense. ”

Xu Shiwei was speechless for a long time.

There was once an authoritative statistical report, saying that the average price of more than 50,000 yuan in Shenzhen fell by 9 yuan, and the media also said that the decline of 9 yuan is significant, big your sister.

Xu Shiwei sent another piece of data: "This is something I obtained from many sources, and it was sorted out after synthesis, top secret." ”

It is also a statistical table that reflects the data of China's foreign trade, but many of them do not match the official data, and it can even be said that there is a big gap.

In fact, the real foreign trade data is not as much as the official statistics, and many enterprises are taking advantage of loopholes and using false contracts to defraud the country's export tax rebate subsidies, which is the real money.

Yang Lei was shocked.

Xu Shiwei said: "You have to check the background of those masters, check the operation of their factories, I arranged for someone to check for a whole month, although those factories lost foreign trade orders, cut off the shoemaking department, but in the overall environment, foreign trade exports did not fluctuate much, everything is normal, they are just an example." ”

"You're saying someone is deliberately targeting us?"

"Yes, I suspect that they have accepted some of the benefits promised by foreign capital, first, money, or materials, but they cannot be found unless their warehouses are counted, and the road is blocked. Second, other stable, long-term, high-value, large contracts. Only these two can make everyone take the risk of offending you to terminate the OEM contract and switch to other brands. ”

"How to check long-term high-value contracts?"

"Customs knows, look at it. ”

Xu Shiwei sent the third table, the data came from the customs of Suzhou and Hangzhou, because these foundries that terminated the contract were too far away, and she only found one foundry in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Customs showed that the factory had reported several very large overseas orders.

Yang Lei is an insider, and at a glance, he found that the amount was wrong, this price exceeded 30% of the normal quotation, and it was the easiest category to cheat.

Oh......

It turns out that the cat is hiding here, and this factory is suspected of fictitious contracts and defrauding export tax rebates.

It's against the law!

Yang Lei became excited: "Can you report them? As long as they dare to cheat the state of money, I promise that they will be accurate when they report and arrest them." ”

Xu Shiwei said: "You are really blinded by revenge, and when you see a suspected flaw, you rush to bite it." Let me ask you, do you understand import and export? Do you understand the process of customs declaration and tax refund? Do you understand the overseas purchase contract and the tax system of the place where the import and export parties are located? It is indeed suspicious that it is 30 percent higher than the normal quotation.

Yang Lei was stunned by a series of questions.

Xu Shiwei said: "If I were a troublemaker, I would show you this clue now, and let you desperately chase me to bite, but I have at least ten ways to get out, and by the way, lay traps around you, so that you can touch them one by one, and lift them one by one, you must always be vigilant, for fear that you will fall down in which link, and you will not be able to get up, and all your energy will be exhausted!"

Like a bolt of lightning, it instantly illuminated Yang Lei's mind.

Xu Shiwei said: "Foreign trade is what they are best at, and they are experts. Now they've dug the pit and dragged you in, leaving you exhausted to deal with the situation, and if you follow their rhythm, you're going to lose the battle!"