You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 406

Mingyue was shocked, and looked at Qin Shaoyan helplessly, "What on earth are you trying to do? You went through so much trouble just to ruin Suoyin Company?"

"That's about right." Qin Shaoyan nodded absentmindedly.

"Then you can just teach that couple a lesson. There's no need to do this." Mingyue frowned. "Now the company is bankrupt, hundreds of people are owed wages and are going to lose their jobs. This is too much of a fuss."

Qin Shaoyan patiently explained: "Lessons also require a proper way to be taught. Black-hearted bosses like them only remember the food and not the punishment. If we want to teach them a deep memory, we must find a way to grasp it and understand their underlying logic."

"What do people like them value most? Of course it's money. Destroying the company is equivalent to destroying their money."

"There's no need to be so extreme." Mingyue sighed.

"You don't have to worry about the rest. If Suoyin Company goes bankrupt, we can take over." Qin Shaoyan said gently, "This way no one will lose their jobs."

"Ah?" Mingyue was startled. Suddenly, she looked at Qin Shaoyan with suspicion. "Actually, this is your real purpose, right?"

"How is that possible?" Qin Shaoyan denied flatly, "I just wanted to vent your anger at first. I didn't expect Suoyin Company to go bankrupt so quickly."

"But it's good to teach other animation companies a lesson. These bosses who cheated on subsidies didn't suffer much loss. It was just a loss of time. This can be regarded as a small rectification of the industry."

Mingyue ignored Qin Shaoyan's complaints. She thought carefully for a while and asked worriedly, "Suoyin Company has 500 people. Will it be difficult for you to take over this company?"

The difficulty of running a company of 50 people is not on the same order of magnitude as that of running a company of 500 people. Moreover, Qin Shaoyan is an Internet company and has no experience in animation.

"Let's give it a try. We can't just ignore it." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "I also have connections at CCTV. At worst, I can make some low-cost cartoons and sell them to get some subsidies."

"???" Mingyue was completely shocked. "Cheating subsidies? Then what's the difference between you and those black-hearted bosses?"

"Of course there is a difference." Qin Shaoyan retorted confidently, "At least I'm not a black heart."

"They cheated on the subsidies in any way they could to reduce costs. Their purpose was to make money and enrich themselves. They didn't care about the development of the animation industry at all."

"I cheated on subsidies to keep the company running and to use government subsidies to pay employees. This is a different idea."

"Humph." Mingyue said bluntly, "It turns out that you don't hate subsidy fraud, you just hate that it's not you who is committing subsidy fraud."

"What you said..." Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment, "It does make sense."

He wanted to acquire Suoyin Company not only to vent his anger on Mingyue, but he also wanted to swallow up an animation company.

Mingyue thought for a moment and asked, "So how are you going to take over Suoyin Company now?"

"Don't worry." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "It's not the right time yet. Boss Huang still has room for exploitation."

……

Huang Zong has actually reached his limit. He has been hiding here and there these days. In order to avoid debt collectors, he doesn't even dare to go back home. He and Yang Li are hiding in a small hotel.

The house had been mortgaged to the bank a long time ago, and it would not belong to him anymore after a while, so it would make no sense whether he took it back or not.

Yang Li was so frightened that she didn't know what to do for a moment. She hid in bed and cried.

Huang Zong was upset by the crying and shouted angrily: "Why are you crying? You cry every day. It's bad luck!"

"You still blame me. If you hadn't borrowed money from a loan shark, would we be so miserable that we can't even go home?" Yang Li complained while crying.

"You mean it's all my fault?" Huang Zong said angrily, "Who did I do this for? For the company and for you."

"How dare you yell at me!" Yang Li screamed, "What do you mean by for me? You are doing it for yourself!"

"It's unreasonable!" Huang Zong was so angry that he slammed the door and walked out.

After leaving the hotel, he ran directly to a telephone booth to buy a new phone card, took out the address book and called Xia Lian.

"Ms. Xia Lian, aren't you considering injecting capital into the company?" Huang Zong asked anxiously.

"I've already said it before, we won't invest any money in Suoyin Company." Xia Lian refused coldly.

"But Suoyin Company is about to be destroyed, and the shares you hold will be useless." Huang Zong threatened.

"So what? We didn't suffer any loss anyway." Xia Lian remained unmoved.

"..." Huang Zong was so angry that his eyes went dark, but the situation was stronger than him, so he said humbly, "Then I will sell the company to you. You name a price and the whole company will belong to you."

Xia Lian smiled slightly, "Why would I want Suoyin Company?"

"Soyin Company is still valuable!" Huang Zong explained quickly, "We have employees, equipment, and some copyrighted animations, all of which are still valuable."

"I don't see any value in it." Xia Lian said calmly, "Goodbye."

"Wait a minute!" Huang Zong said hurriedly, "Let's meet and talk about it. I have connections in other provincial TV stations and can get subsidies."

"Then come over this afternoon." Xia Lian gave an address and hung up the phone.

Huang Zong was overjoyed when he heard this, and left in a hurry without even returning to the inn.

He made up his mind to take the money and leave, hiding for two years first, and at worst he could go back to his hometown.

……

Qin Shaoyan had an unexpected guest, Qu Bingbing's teacher, Principal Yang Yuanli.

"Principal Yang, what brings you here?" Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised and quickly stood up to greet him, "Please take a seat. Xiao Chen will make some tea!"

"No need to make tea." Principal Yang waved his hand and sighed, "I never come to you for no reason. Today I'm here to ask for your help."

"Ah?" Qin Shaoyan was very surprised. "Ask me for help? What's the matter? Is it about money?"

"No, it's not about money." Principal Yang looked melancholy. "Something happened recently that is related to the animation industry. It also has something to do with you."

"Is it related to me?" Qin Shaoyan looked confused and pretended to be clueless. "Animation industry? Is it related to me? We don't have much connection with the animation industry."

"That Qvod website is your company, right?" Principal Yang asked directly.

"Yes, I am the largest shareholder of Qvod.com, but the daily operations are handled by others. I am mainly in charge of the campus network." Qin Shaoyan was a little confused, "Did something happen to Qvod.com?"

"Strictly speaking, this matter is related to Qvod, but not very much." Principal Yang sighed, "But I really don't know who to look for. I have no choice but to look for you at the risk of my reputation."

"It's okay, Principal Yang, just tell me. I'll do my best to help if you need anything." Qin Shaoyan said quickly. "One of my students opened an animation company called Suoyin, and recently signed a contract with an American company for a large sum." Principal Yang began to explain what happened.

Qin Shaoyan didn't say a word while listening to Principal Yang's story.

Principal Yang continued, "I don't know much about this matter, and I shouldn't have intervened. But this concerns the livelihoods of more than 500 people, many of whom are from our school, so I can't just ignore it."

"Qvod.com is one of Suoyin Company's first parties. Qvod.com must have some connection with the American company. I was wondering if I could ask President Qin to mediate."

Qin Shaoyan asked seriously: "Principal Yang, how do you want us to make peace?"

"I only have one request." Principal Yang asked solemnly, "Can you drop the lawsuit and not let the people from Suoyin go to jail?"

"Just this one?" Qin Shaoyan was a little confused.

"Yes, that's it." Principal Yang nodded. "Let them solve the other problems themselves. As long as people are still here, there is still room for maneuver."

"If I go to jail, it will be completely ruined."

Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment and said sincerely, "Your school and I have a connection, and I can't just stand by and watch."

"I tried my best to mediate and persuade the American company not to sue and to resolve the matter privately."

Anyway, he didn't really want to sue, he was just doing Principal Yang a favor.

"Thank you, Mr. Qin." Principal Yang said gratefully.

"However, I still have something to say." Qin Shaoyan suddenly said, "I still know something about Suoyin Company, but it has nothing to do with this matter."

"Do you know that Suoyin has been taking advantage of national policies to defraud subsidies?"

"What?!" Principal Yang frowned, "Is this true?"

"I won't speak without evidence." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "The biggest problem of Suoyin Company is not fraud, but exploitation of employees."

"In order to cut costs, they usually implement a 996 work system, from 9 am to 9 pm every day, working six days a week."

"They often force employees to work for three consecutive days to meet deadlines, even depriving them of sleep. This is beyond description as unscrupulous, not to mention the small matter of withholding wages and bonuses."

Principal Yang's face had begun to turn pale, and his hands holding the teacup were shaking.

"Principal Yang, I'm not exaggerating." Qin Shaoyan explained seriously, "Because my girlfriend is also in Suoyin Company, she told me all this, it's absolutely true."

"My girlfriend also graduated from a communication university. I didn't expect that they would exploit even their juniors."

"This is absolutely insane!" Principal Yang slammed the table and stood up.

Principal Yang was shocked and angry. He didn't expect such a thing to happen.

He made up his mind that he would not care about what happened next. As long as Huang Zong did not go to jail, he would let him fend for himself.

Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment and said, "Principal Yang, what is the current situation of Suoyin Company?"

"I don't know. It's likely to go bankrupt." Principal Yang frowned and said, "I heard the situation is very bad. Many people have come to the company to collect debts, and the employees don't know what to do."

"We can't just watch hundreds of people lose their jobs." Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment, "Principal Yang, do you think this Suoyin company is still worth saving?"

"What's the point of rescuing it? It's better to close down this kind of company as soon as possible!" Principal Yang said angrily, but his tone softened again, "But these hundreds of people losing their jobs is indeed a big problem."

"Well, I think our company can absorb some of these people." Qin Shaoyan said carefully.

Principal Yang was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, "Boss Qin, you are not joking, are you?"

"Of course not." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "Our game company needs some 3D modelers, animation and special effects, so we can absorb some of them."

"Thank you so much, President Qin." Principal Yang shook hands with Qin Shaoyan excitedly, "I'm here to thank you on behalf of those students."

"It's a pity to waste the remaining animation talents." Qin Shaoyan thought about it and gritted his teeth, "I might as well be a good person to the end. It just so happens that our Qvod.com also needs to make animations, so we can recruit another group of people."

Principal Yang said with emotion: "Boss Qin is such a good person, thank you."

"You're welcome. This is what I should do." Qin Shaoyan smiled. "I discussed with you before about setting up an animation studio to train animation talents. Now that we have a ready-made one, we can move forward the plan."

"Okay, okay!" Principal Yang nodded. "With President Qin's strong support, the animation industry will have another excellent force."

"I will do the work of the employees at Suoyin Company, so that it will be more convenient for you to receive the work."

With Qin Shaoyan's promise to accept the employees of Suoyin Company, Principal Yang was in a good mood.

He was afraid that the situation would become more serious if it dragged on and that Qin Shaoyan would go back on his word, so he immediately asked someone to contact the employees of Suoyin Company and asked all of them to prepare their resumes and wait to go to the new company.

Qin Shaoyan also acted decisively. The HR of the game company and Qvod arrived at Suoyin Company the next day and began to review the information of employees one by one.

The employees of Suoyin Company, who were originally worried about how to find jobs, signed up enthusiastically one after another, with mixed feelings of worry and joy in their hearts.

It's already November and there are still three months until the Chinese New Year. It's basically impossible to find a new job, which means I'll be unemployed for three months.

Moreover, Suoyin Company still owed them wages and bonuses, so they had no hope of year-end bonuses. However, without their wages, they were penniless and life would be very difficult.

When they were worrying about what to do, suddenly a company said it wanted to take them in, which was like a life-saving opportunity.

My only worry now is that the other company doesn’t want me, so I would rather lower my salary to ensure that I get accepted.

After careful review, HR accepted most of the employees.

Some went to game companies, and some were directly assigned to new animation companies.

The new animation company’s office is located in the SOHO office building, where the former Suoyin company was located. They don’t even have to move and can work on the same spot.

My only worry now is that the other company doesn’t want me, so I would rather lower my salary to ensure that I get accepted.

The once bustling company has become quiet; the debt collectors have left.

The company changed people, and there was no point in them continuing to make trouble. The messy place was cleaned up and looked brand new.

Everyone is ready to welcome the new boss with full enthusiasm.

(End of this chapter)