Scheming White lotus (19): Gu’s move left other companies dumbfounded.

When he woke up the next morning, Zhou Qinghao found that his muscle soreness was not as severe as before.

It seemed that his muscles had slowly begun to adapt to the exercises that Gu Juntian had arranged for him.

Defeat Gu Juntian, sleep with Gu Juntian, and he will reach the peak of his life in no time.

Zhou Qinghao, who had a lot of things to do in life, washed up early, and when Gu Juntian came to call him to go jogging, he smiled at Gu Juntian and said, “Good morning!”

After saying that, he saw the tie clip that he had given him yesterday, which was worn on Gu Juntian’s tie.

Gu Juntian really valued him and always kept him in his heart, which made him want to tease Gu Juntian: “Brother Juntian, I am very happy to see you so early in the morning. If I can see you as soon as I wake up one day, I will be even happier!”

Gu Juntian said expressionlessly: “Let’s go downstairs and go for a run.”

If when he woke up, Zhou Qinghao was lying next to him, smiling at him, maybe even without clothes on… No, he couldn’t think about it anymore, he was going to have a nosebleed!

When Zhou Qinghao saw Gu Juntian like this, his smile became even brighter.

Zhou Qinghao had a good appetite while eating breakfast, and when he arrived at the company, he was full of inspiration and drew several design drawings in one breath.

Design manager: “…” Love really made people crazy.

Zhou Qinghao had been extremely efficient recently. In just two weeks, he had completed work that would take others a year to complete.

The manager of the design department was named Zhong. He was also a designer in his early years. He worked so hard that he had a lot of health problems. When he finally became the department manager, he felt that it was not worth it to ruin his health, so he started to take care of his health.

He stopped doing design a long time ago. Now he chose to promote young people and let them stay up late to do design.

Wasn’t this also giving young people opportunities?

Because he never put others down and was a senior aesthetician in the design industry, he was highly respected in Gu’s company and had secured a leading position in the design department.

He had admired Zhou Qinghao before, and now he praised Zhou Qinghao in front of Gu Juntian.

Gu Juntian was very happy to hear this and found it very useful.

Zhou Qinghao was his boyfriend, and praising Zhou Qinghao was praising him!

This manager had a really good vision. The original owner fired him, which was a bad move.

In the original plot, the original owner promoted Huo Pinghai because of his good relationship with Cheng Mingyan, and also framed Zhou Qinghao with the crime of plagiarism and drove him away.

Manager Zhong from the Design Department was very dissatisfied with this and showed it in front of the original owner.

The original owner was arrogant and couldn’t stand others contradicting him. He also felt that Manager Zhong didn’t do any design work on a daily basis and was a useless parasite in the company, so he fired him.

Manager Zhong immediately joined another company, and several designers in the design department followed him to another company…

Given the original owner’s behavior, how could the Gu family not be taken over?

Although this manager of the design department had not done designing for a long time, he had a good sense of aesthetics and was good at managing his designers. He never took credit for the work of his designers. What a talent!

Besides,  he was now in management, so he didn’t need to draw pictures anymore!

Thinking of this, Gu Juntian had a heart-to-heart talk with the manager: “Manager Zhong, my grandfather has always told me that you are a talented person. Please give me more advice…”

He said a lot, first increasing the salary of Manager Zhong, and then started talking about Zhou Qinghao: “Manager Zhong, you know, Qinghao is my boyfriend. I plan to let him take over the Holy Emperor after we get married. Now, I will just push his design out…”

Manager Zhong was actually a little worried before, fearing that Zhou Qinghao would take his position as department manager.

However, he thought too much. Mr. Gu planned to give the Holy Emperor to Zhou Qinghao. Under such circumstances, Zhou Qinghao would definitely look down on his position as department manager.

This was not the key point. The key point was that Zhou Qinghao was about to become successful, so he must have a good relationship with Zhou Qinghao!

Manager Zhong left happily.

Gu Juntian was also very happy.

Manager Zhong, who had talked to him for a long time, would definitely train Zhou Qinghao well!

As for letting Zhou Qinghao manage the Holy Emperor after marriage…

Gu Juntian planned to give half of his shares in Holy Emperor to Zhou Qinghao. If Zhou Qinghao wanted to manage it, let him do it. If Zhou Qinghao didn’t want to manage it, that was fine too.

The original owner squandered the entire Gu family for love. He just gave some shares to Zhou Qinghao. It was not too much right?

Gu Juntian continued to work, but Manager Zhong came to the design department with his hands behind his back.

As soon as he arrived at the design department, he saw Zhou Qinghao drawing the design drawings.

Zhou Qinghao drew a design for an ancient-style necklace in one go, and then turned around and started drawing the design for the same style of earrings…

The style of this work was similar to his previous works, but also slightly different.

Manager Zhong already knew that Zhou Qinghao was talented, but now, he was still shocked.

Zhou Qinghao’s talent far exceeded his imagination.

Such people really needed to be cultivated well!

Manager Zhong praised Zhou Qinghao and showed the drawings that Zhou Qinghao had designed during this period to other people in the design department.

Except for Huo Pinghai, everyone in the design department was convinced by Zhou Qinghao. As for Huo Pinghai, he was still resentful and even felt that Zhou Qinghao might have paid others to draw so many design drawings in a short period of time.

He was Mr. Gu’s boyfriend. If he wanted some design drawings, Mr. Gu would definitely find a way to get them for him.

Turning around, Huo Pinghai started complaining to Cheng Mingyan.

Cheng Mingyan said that after he left Gu’s, he could be arranged to work for Chu’s.

Chu’s was a bigger company than Gu’s! Huo Pinghai was extremely grateful and told Cheng Mingyan everything, of course, he couldn’t help but exaggerate.

Cheng Mingyan turned around and told Chu Zhan all this.

What he told Chu Zhan was, of course, not only the news he got from Huo Pinghai, but also some other news, which were told to him by people who came to him to complain about Gu Juntian.

Through his previous understanding of Gu Juntian and the information he got from Cheng Mingyan and Cheng Mingyan’s friends, Chu Zhan had a “clear” understanding of Gu Juntian.

He was ready to take action against the Gu family.

Gu Juntian’s birthday was in early January, and this year’s New Year’s Eve was in February.

As for the Chu family, they started to attack the Gu family in mid-January, using various means, including but not limited to poaching people from the Gu family, stealing the Gu family’s raw materials, and blackmailing the Gu family on the Internet.

These were all common tactics, and Gu Juntian countered them while secretly setting a trap for Chu Zhan.

In fact, he didn’t even need to dig a hole, Chu Zhan had already done some things that made him amazed.

How to say it… Chu Zhan poached many people from Gu’s company whom he originally wanted to fire.

He had been here for a short time, and although he had made some reforms to Gu’s company, he did not dare to make too big a move. He wanted to wait until after the New Year, and then slowly lay off those people he wanted to lay off one by one.

Among these people, some did not do any real work in the company but only knew how to flatter others, some liked to form small groups to exclude others, and some secretly sold out the interests of the company.

He disliked these people, and then, most of them were poached by the Chu family!

Chu Zhan was such a good person. Not only did he save him a lot of trouble, but he also saved him a lot of money.

He had to pay compensation to employees when they were fired, but he didn’t have to pay compensation if the employees resigned on their own.

Gu Juntian happily saw off a large number of Gu’s employees and told his parents about it happily during dinner.

Zhou Qinghao heard some rumors in the company and was very worried about Gu Juntian: “…” He was really worried for nothing!

These days he was worried about disturbing Gu Juntian, so he rarely took advantage of Gu Juntian. It seemed he could continue this in the future.

Besides… Chu Zhan was set up by Gu Juntian, right? Gu Juntian was really amazing!

Seeing Zhou Qinghao looking at him with admiration, Gu Juntian was in a good mood and said, “By the way, I have recently slightly improved the method of making artificial diamonds. Now the cost of cultivating artificial diamonds at our Gu’s artificial diamond cultivation base has been reduced a lot, and the speed of making artificial diamonds has also increased a lot…”

Zhou Qinghao admired Gu Juntian even more.

As expected of someone he liked, he could do everything!

After Gu Juntian talked about what he had done recently, he looked at Zhou Qinghao and said, “Qinghao, we are going to do strength training today.”

Zhou Qinghao now did strength training three times a week.

Gu Juntian attached great importance to this and personally instructed Zhou Qinghao every time, not afraid of trouble, and repeatedly taught him how to use fitness equipment.

He also had no doubt about why top students from prestigious universities could not learn how to use fitness equipment after so many attempts.

There was nothing to question, he worked really hard, it was reasonable for Zhou Qinghao to give him some benefits!

As for taking a cold shower afterwards…just get used to it.

Taking a cold shower could exercise the body, and he was also doing it for his own health.

So, it was another wonderful night in which Zhou Qinghao worked out hard so that he could sleep with Gu Juntian as soon as possible, and at the same time tried to take advantage of Gu Juntian as much as possible.

Gu Juntian was in a good mood, and the Gu family was not worried about Gu’s situation at all, but it was different for others.

Some shareholders of Gu’s company were very dissatisfied with Gu Juntian’s actions. Because of Chu’s endless actions, Gu’s stock price began to fall.

As a result, the market began to predict the future of Gu’s company, believing that it would be finished not long after Old man Gu stepped down and handed over the company to Gu Juntian, who was only in his twenties.

There were a lot of rumors out there, and Gu’s stock price kept falling.

Gu Juntian was not at all panicked by this situation. He just spread the word that if anyone wanted to sell shares, he would buy them!

His grandfather had a good vision. In addition to developing the Gu Group, he also invested in other industries in his early years and made a lot of money.

Gu’s parents donated whatever money they had, and although his grandfather loved his son, he also felt that it was better for his son not to have too much money.

When house prices were still high, he sold all the real estate investments he had made in his early years and gave all the cash to his grandson for safekeeping.

Gu Juntian was really rich, and he had no hobby of spending money, so he simply took out the money to buy shares.

Shareholders who had a good relationship with Gu Juntian and had always supported him had no intention of selling their shares. However, it was different for some shareholders who had a bad relationship with Gu Juntian.

They didn’t trust Gu Juntian and had wanted to sell their shares for a long time. Now Gu Juntian wanted to buy… After some arguing, they sold their shares.

In fact, they also wanted to sell it to someone else, but now many people had been poached from Gu’s company, and Gu Juntian had been carrying out reforms, so there was inevitably some turbulence, so that the stock price had been falling.

Apart from Gu Juntian, there was no one else who was capable of buying Gu’s shares in large quantities.

Chu Zhan wanted to acquire Gu’s, but he did not intend to buy Gu’s shares at this time.

Gu Juntian held a lot of shares. No matter how many scattered shares he bought, he could never surpass Gu Juntian and could compete with Gu Juntian.

In this case, it would be better to wait until Gu’s problems became more and more serious and the stock price becomes lower and lower before directly negotiating an acquisition with Gu.

Thinking of this, Chu Zhan spent money to discredit the Gu family.

Seeing so many negative news about Gu’s on the Internet, even Gu Juntian was criticized, and Gu’s stock continued to fall. Cheng Mingyan, who has been getting closer and closer to Chu Zhan recently, asked Chu Zhan worriedly: “Brother Chu, will Gu’s be in trouble? Although Gu Juntian is too much, Gu’s is Grandpa Gu’s life’s work…”

Chu Zhan said, “Don’t worry, I just caused some minor troubles for Gu. Gu will be fine.” His Mingyan was really kind. Even though Gu Juntian treated him so bad, he still cared about Gu Juntian.

Hearing Chu Zhan say this, Cheng Mingyan felt relieved.

However, the people around Cheng Mingyan were all gloating over the misfortune.

Among them, anyone who had spoken to Gu Juntian and spoke up for Cheng Mingyan was blocked by Gu Juntian.

Gu Juntian didn’t care about his friends at all, so they naturally didn’t care about Gu Juntian either.

Now that Gu Juntian was in trouble, they were quite happy!

“After Mingyan broke up with Gu Juntian, things have been getting better and better!”

“Chu Zhan is so good to Mingyan! He is much better than Gu Juntian!”

“Compared to Chu Zhan, Gu Juntian is really nothing. As soon as Chu Zhan made a move, Gu Juntian was in a state of panic.”

“Gu’s stock price has fallen so much, Gu Juntian will not be able to stand up to us anymore!”

“Gu Juntian must be regretting it now.”

……

They thought Gu Juntian must be feeling very uncomfortable at this moment.

And this was just the beginning. From now on, Gu Juntian would feel more and more uncomfortable.

In the blink of an eye, it was February, the end of the year.

Around the Spring Festival holiday, the sales volume of jewelry was generally high, and the sales volume of gold jewelry would reach a peak.

Many people buy gold to give to their elderly or children at home, and companies that sell gold jewelry also organize various activities.

Put a few inflatable dolls at the store entrance, let ugly people give out balloons at the store entrance, hold activities where you can get gifts for a certain amount of purchases, and let customers smash golden eggs…

In short, there are all kinds of tricks.

Gu’s stock price had been much lower recently. Because the Internet had penetrated into thousands of households, even ordinary people knew the negative news about Gu’s.

Some people said that the new president of Gu’s company was too young and didn’t know how to manage, so that Gu’s company was in chaos; some people said that the new president of Gu’s company promoted his cronies and drove away the team left by the old president; some people said that the new president of Gu’s company had no choice but to sell the house and buy shares in the face of falling stock prices…

Many people now said that Gu Juntian was incompetent, but among all the negative news related to the Gu family, not a single one said that Gu’s gold was bad.

This was also related to Gu Juntian. He didn’t care about other negative news, but if someone said that Gu’s gold was not good… he would sue the other party immediately!

Not only that, he also bought a lot of soft advertisements and had people put them everywhere, saying that the gold produced by Gu’s Old Town Gold was of high purity.

In fact, the gold purity of these brands that sell gold jewelry is in accordance with national standards. There is basically no difference between different brands. But after he placed more advertisements, people could see it by searching on the Internet, right?

In addition, Gu’s had just launched a series of jewelry that could bring good fortune, career, and romance, and had also hired someone to promote it…

The sales volume of Gu’s gold jewelry was not low.

At this moment, Gu Juntian also unleashed a major move—starting from February 1, Old Town Gold would launch a “Buy Gold, Get Diamonds” promotion!

As long as you purchase 50,000 worth of gold jewelry from Old Town Gold, Old Town Gold would give you a one-carat diamond!

With a minimum purchase of 10,000, you would get 30 points of diamonds as a gift!

For this event, he also invested a lot of money to hype it up along with the negative news about Gu.

Thanks to those negative news reports, Gu’s visibility and attention were higher than ever, making advertising particularly easy!

“There is too much negative news about Gu’s company. The company’s CEO is getting anxious. In order to stimulate sales, he is organizing an event where you can get diamonds for free if you buy gold!”

“The new president of Gu’s company is spending a lot of money to stabilize the stock price. He gives away diamonds for free when you buy gold!”

“Old Town Gold is facing bankruptcy. After selling houses to buy stocks, the boss started a gold sale and even gave away diamonds!”

“The price of artificial diamonds has dropped significantly, and Gu’s is even giving away diamonds!”

“In the past, the free diamonds given when buying gold were coupons for buying diamonds. Now, Old Town Gold gives away real diamonds!”

……

When artificial diamonds first came out, the cost of making them was very high, but as time goes by, the cost of making them is getting lower and lower!

Nowadays, the cost of producing a one-carat artificial diamond is only around three thousand yuan.

Gu Juntian recently modified Gu’s machine for cultivating artificial diamonds. Now, it cost less than one thousand yuan for Gu to produce a one-carat artificial diamond, and the bulk of the cost was electricity.

In addition, the efficiency of diamond manufacturing had also increased. Now Gu could manufacture artificial diamonds very quickly!

Shops like Old Town Gold that sold gold jewelry usually sold their gold jewelry at a price that was much higher than the gold price on that day. Calculated by gram, sometimes one gram cost one or two hundred yuan or even more.

Therefore, Old Town Gold’s gross profit margin had always been between 30% and 40%.

If we remove various costs such as rent, labor, and publicity, the net profit would of course be much lower, but the fixed costs were limited. If more jewelry was sold, the net profit would go up!

Now, if a customer bought gold jewelry worth 50,000 yuan, they would give him a one-carat diamond for free. It was really not a loss at all, and they could even make a lot of money!

If the customer bought a small amount, they would give him a smaller diamond, and if he bought a large amount, they would give him a bigger diamond. They also had three-carat, four-carat, and five-carat artificial diamonds!

The largest man-made diamonds on the market today are over 150 carats!

In short, give, give, give, give for real!

During the delivery process, they could also persuade the customer to have the diamond set in a ring at Old Town Gold. If the customer agreed, they could make another profit.

What about the customers? Many of them originally wanted to buy gold, but now they could get a diamond for free, so why not?

Previously, there was a lot of negative news about Gu’s on the Internet, and it even became a hot topic. In order to take advantage of the popularity, bloggers from all walks of life explained this matter one after another, which made ordinary people familiar with the brand of Old Town Gold, and invisibly increased the popularity of Gu’s.

Now, the young president of Gu’s company who couldn’t manage the company spent all his money to give away diamonds. This matter had become a hot topic again, and he had earned the title of “Spendthrift President”.

In order to increase sales, he gave diamonds to people who bought gold. If he didn’t spend money, who would?

Various bloggers on the Internet started to analyze the incident of giving diamonds away with gold in the old city, and many people had also explained to the public what artificial diamonds were…

Ordinary people already knew about the brand Old town Gold from short videos, and now they know about the free diamonds… Those who were planning to buy gold went straight to Old Town Gold and bought it!

Someone gave them diamonds!

Although the price of diamonds had dropped a lot in recent years, in the minds of many people, diamonds were still very precious and they wanted to have one.

As for whether it was natural or artificial, it didn’t matter. It was said on the Internet that there was actually no difference between them!

“Hubby, let’s go buy some gold. It’s a good way to preserve its value!”

“You said before that it’s not worth spending a lot of money on diamonds for a wedding, and that gold jewelry is best… I agree, let’s go to the old city to buy gold!”

“Honey, how about I give you a diamond ring? I didn’t even buy you a diamond ring when we got married!”

“In the past, you couldn’t even buy a one-carat diamond for 50,000 yuan, but now you can get one for free if you buy 50,000 yuan worth of gold jewelry… Buy it!”

……

Countless people from all over the country went to Old Town Gold’s stores to buy gold jewelry and at the same time received real diamonds from Old Town Gold!

Gu’s move left other companies dumbfounded.

The Chu family actually also had activities where after buying gold, they would give away gold lucky beads or jade.

But the gold lucky beads they gave were very small, and the jade they gave was just ordinary stuff, not worth much at all. Everyone still preferred the diamonds given by Old Town Gold.

Although artificial diamonds had been around for a long time, a one-carat artificial diamond still cost around four to five thousand yuan on the market.

If you bought jewelry worth 50,000 yuan in Old Town Gold, you would get 4,000 to 5,000 yuan worth of artificial diamonds for free. This was definitely better than some stores that only gave you a few small luck-changing abacus.

In short, buy it!

Sales of Old Town Gold had increased significantly.

Chu Zhan, who had spent a lot of time and money to discredit the Gu family during this period, was stunned when he saw Gu Juntian’s actions.

Gu Juntian played this move so beautifully!