From Taobao intern to the father of Pinduoduo

Chapter 80 Solving the Problem of Insufficient Production

Lin Mu returned to the rented room in a daze.

The matter concerning the pirated shops has been resolved smoothly. The Taobao employee, Sun Yuan, has been dismissed from the company and required to return the stolen goods. If he cannot return the stolen goods, he may even be handed over to the judicial authorities.

It is said that he embezzled nearly 20 yuan.

Lin Mu pondered that the Anti-Corruption Department had only recently been established and was headed by Jiang Fang, one of the Eighteen Arhats.

There is a rumor that an interesting incident occurred when the Anti-Corruption Department was first established.

Old Ma said to Jiang Fang, "You can investigate anyone except me."

Jiang Fang remained silent.

Old Ma added helplessly, "You can even check me."

Jiang Fangcai accepted the task.

Lin Mu thought this joke was mostly fake; how could the Embroidered Uniform Guard have investigated the Emperor?

Are we going to imprison the Emperor in the imperial prison?

But when it comes to corruption, the most serious cases are often not committed by high-ranking officials, but rather by these petty thieves.

Lin Mu remembered that in his previous life, there was a shocking case of massive corruption in Taobao's operations department: a Taobao employee responsible for reviewing furniture qualifications embezzled as much as 9200 million yuan in one year.

He lost nearly ten million yuan investing in stocks with the money, and was also cheated out of a lot of money by a friend with fake gold. While he was still dreaming of making over a hundred million yuan a year, he was caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Department.

However, corruption is something that cannot be eradicated no matter how strictly it is investigated and punished.

While people are being arrested one after another, new people are constantly taking the risk.

Even though Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty skinned corrupt officials and used their skin as straw, he still couldn't stop the rampant corruption.

But Lin Mu remembers that the Anti-Corruption Department later came up with a brilliant idea: setting up hundreds of reporting points offline to welcome public reports; and opening a public reporting website (website: jubao.alibaba.com) online, supporting real-name or anonymous reports, and verifying all reports as long as the materials are detailed.

Lin Mu thought to himself that he could learn more from Alibaba in the matter of fighting corruption.

No company in the world can completely eliminate corruption; even a small family-run business can have a husband secretly hiding money from his wife.

After returning home, Lin Mu took out his phone and saw two missed calls, one from Boss Gu and the other from Sheng Mingyue.

He hadn't paid attention during the meeting, but now that he had some free time, he called them back one by one.

He dialed Boss Gu's number first, and after the call connected, he said, "The matter of the pirated goods store has been resolved. Was that why you called earlier?"

Mr. Gu on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief: "I knew Mr. Lin was reliable. Mr. Lin, I have something else to ask you: the previous 15000 boxes of stock, plus the newly produced 5000 boxes, have all been sold out, and now the inventory is critically low."

"But there is still a large influx of traffic every day. I have rushed to the factory to oversee production. The plan is to have workers take turns and keep the production line running, with two shifts a day, each shift lasting 12 hours."

"Even so, daily production still can't keep up with demand. Mr. Lin, do you have any way to appease our customers and prevent them from leaving?"

Lin Mu actually had a way to deal with this.

In 2009, e-commerce was not yet widespread, and there were few cases of insufficient production capacity due to a surge in orders, but there are many cases that can be referenced in later generations.

He explained the solution in detail over the phone, which required the cooperation of Sheng Mingyue's account "Little Sheep Cuisine".

After listening, Boss Gu seemed thoughtful: "Okay, I'll make the arrangements right away."

After hanging up with Boss Gu, Lin Mu dialed Sheng Mingyue's number: "Sister Sheng, I was in a meeting and didn't answer your call. What's up?"

Sheng Mingyue said anxiously, "President Lin, someone has registered the 'Little Lamb Cuisine' trademark! Someone just called and tried to extort money from me, demanding 20 yuan to buy it back!"

"Huh? What?" Lin Mu rubbed his throbbing forehead, feeling that everything was going wrong. That's how it usually is; nine out of ten things in a day are out of control.

He does bear some responsibility for the trademark issue; in his haste, he made a mistake and forgot to remind Sheng Mingyue to register it in advance.

On the other end of the phone, Sheng Mingyue hesitated and said, "President Lin, how about we just admit defeat? Consider it a lesson learned from spending 20 yuan."

Lin Mu immediately shook his head: "It's not that time yet." He thought to himself: What a joke! He works himself to the bone for a year and only earns 1.5 to 1.6 million. The other party thinks he can make 200,000 just by registering a trademark? Besides, trademarks for these kinds of online celebrity brands are not as valuable as those for offline physical industries. It's not that difficult to change user perception after renaming them.

Lin Mu said, "Just now, Boss Gu called me. We're going to shoot some behind-the-scenes footage for the second film, right? After you finish filming the video about the orphanage donation, at the end of the video, talk about the recent pirated shops and the trademark being registered by others. Then officially announce that 'Little Sheep Cuisine' has been renamed 'Little Moon Cuisine.' Make sure to register the trademark in advance this time."

After finishing these two tasks, Lin Mu dragged his tired body to take a quick shower and went straight to sleep.

……

A few days later, on Tudou.com.

"Little Sheep Cuisine" has officially changed its name to "Little Moon Cuisine" and released a new behind-the-scenes video.

In the first scene of the short film, Sheng Mingyue thanked the camera: "Thank you for the support of netizens, thank you Tudou.com, thank you Director Lu for your support..." She thanked a number of related parties in succession and mentioned that she had received a total of 8 yuan in donations.

In the second act, Sheng Mingyue used her own money to buy snacks, children's clothing and other supplies, and returned to the orphanage with the donations and supplies, donating everything one by one.

In the third act, the camera captures the children's joyful expressions after receiving snacks and new clothes.

In the fourth act, Sheng Mingyue clarifies the matter to the camera: "First of all, because my online celebrity ID has been registered as a trademark, from today onwards, 'Little Sheep Cuisine' will be officially renamed 'Little Yue Cuisine'."

"Secondly, we would like to remind everyone that currently only the three Little Bee flagship stores sell genuine soft white bread; all other stores sell counterfeit products."

"This bread is independently developed by Three Little Bees. There is no similar product on the market. Please be careful if you buy a counterfeit product and pay attention to food safety."

Finally, Sheng Mingyue added with a smile, "Thank you all so much for your enthusiastic support. The number of orders is just too large. The packing workers are working themselves to the bone, but we still can't keep up with everyone's demand."

"So, for those who didn't manage to buy the soft white bread but are still interested, you can click the link at the bottom of the screen to join our exclusive customer group. We'll be giving out coupons from time to time and keeping you updated on the latest product information. Please be patient."

The short film ends with a sudden shift in style, cutting to the assembly line of a contract manufacturing plant. The workshop is clean and bright, but the level of automation is not high, and workers still need to manually squeeze fillings and vacuum pack them.

Then came an amusing scene: the video added special effects to a worker whose hands moved so fast they left afterimages, as if he had eight hands, working at an incredible speed while shouting, "Ah, unleash my primal power!" The faster he stuffed the filling, the faster the assembly line ran, until finally the afterimages overlapped and "smoke" appeared.

Just as the assembly line started to "smoke," the worker suddenly went black and collapsed, but was immediately caught by those around him.

The scene shifts to a group of workers striking a pose resembling the Eighteen Bronze Men, shouting in unison, "Let me do it!"

The camera finally focuses on a man's face, with the narration identifying him as Gu Ming, CEO of Three Little Bees Food Co., Ltd.

Gu Ming shrugged and said to the camera, "That's the situation."

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