Chapter 157 A set of combo punches, the Fruit Group is in a huge crisis
Kurk is a person who listens to advice and immediately notifies the European side to transfer the mobile phone to the Dragon Kingdom market and sell it to the loyal fruit fans in the Dragon Kingdom. After all, the fruit fans there are willing to buy a thimble for 60 yuan. This small problem can be solved by himself. Overcome.
The European Union refused to accept the fruit mobile phones produced in Asan with E. coli exceeding the standard. The fruit department decided to transfer the fruit mobile phones produced in Long Country to Europe. The news that the mobile phones produced in Asan were transferred to Long Country soon spread to Long Country.
Fruit users, who were already ridiculed, have suffered again.
"Haha... I'm laughing so hard. Fruit fans are in luck, the shit-flavored fruit phone from Asan Kingdom is coming. Please remember to support it."
"If I was a fruit fan in Tama, I would immediately throw my phone away, and I would be a fruit black person for the rest of my life. Tama obviously looks down on Longguo Market and doesn't treat the fruit fans here as human beings."
"If these fruit fans can still adapt, I will really look down on them. Even if these mobile phones are disinfected and sterilized before being transferred in, the fruit fans will still pay the bill. I will look down on them for the rest of my life."
"As for mobile phones, which brand cannot be used? Most people use a thousand-yuan phone, which is enough. Why do they have to be so cheap? It is impossible to destroy so many mobile phones. We should disinfect and sterilize them before selling them to the Longguo market. Our aircraft carrier has been launched for the third time, when will you stand up? Which mobile phone at the same price is not more technological than fruit? " br>
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Even loyal Apple fans can't stand this. Although some people are a bit extreme, the truth is absolutely correct. Mobile phones that are not wanted by the EU are sold to the Dragon Country market. This clearly does not treat Dragon Country users as human beings. Even if these mobile phones are disinfected and sterilized before being shipped in, they still don't treat the fruit fans of Longguo as human beings.
Many old users of Fruit no longer support Fruit this time, and have switched to Sanxing or domestic mobile phones.
The Fruit Technology Department was busy all night but failed to solve the problem of false 5G standards through system upgrades, so don’t blame the market for voting with its feet.
When the Bald Eagle stock market opened, Fruit's stock price fell 5 points.
You must know that the market value of fruit is 4 trillion eagle coins, and 5 points means that 200 billion eagle coins are gone. This loss can be said to be very heavy.
Kurt looked at the handicap in a daze, no longer as arrogant and confident as before.
However, this is just the beginning.
You must know that this is not the first time that Asan’s domestically produced fruit phones have been supplied to Europe, but Europe has refused to accept fruit phones at this time. There is obviously a lot to do with this.
No, new news from the EU has come out one after another.
The European Union will fine Fruit Group about 1.8 billion euros for allegedly failing to inform users that there are cheaper alternative music streaming applications outside the App Store, violating EU antitrust regulations.
Along with fruit companies, Google was also investigated by the European Union for antitrust, and the company was fined 2.4 billion euros.
Google and Fruit are star technology companies that the Bald Eagle family focuses on building. The impact of these two companies being investigated by the European Union at the same time will not only cause the stock prices of these two companies to fall, but also drive the overall decline of the technology sector of the Bald Eagle stock market, and then It will drive the entire Bald Eagle stock market down, and the decline in the entire stock market will crush the mentality of institutions and retail investors, which will then lead them to sell off fruit stocks, further accelerating the decline in fruit stock prices, forming a vicious cycle.
This is not over yet.
The European Union requires Apple to provide third-party app stores to developers without charging App Store fees. Since the fruit company did not agree to do so, the EU decided to fine the fruit company 1 billion euros.
Many people don’t know that there is a “fruit tax” on Fruit Phones. For example, when recharging Douyin, Android users get 10 Douyin coins for 1 yuan, while Fruit users only get 7 Douyin coins for 1 yuan, and the difference is 3 Douyin coins. It was collected by the fruit company.
Obviously this is not reasonable at all, and the EU wants to crack down on the fruit regulations.
The annual net profit of fruit mobile phones from the "fruit tax" is about 22.34 billion US dollars, equivalent to 160.8 billion yuan in dragon coins, while the dragon country market contributes about 40 billion dragon coins, accounting for a quarter of the total expenses.
For the same hotel, air tickets, etc., buying an Android phone is much cheaper, while buying a fruit phone is half as expensive.
Therefore, it is said that the fruit fans of the Dragon Kingdom are all wronged, and it is no wonder that so many people ridicule them.
The EU's actions were not over yet, and news came out not long after.
The European Union has ordered Dublin to recover up to 13 billion euros in back taxes from fruit companies on the grounds that they received "illegal" tax benefits from Ireland over the past two decades.
If this series of fines and tax recoveries are fully implemented, Fruit Group's performance this year will be very ugly.
Anyone who trades in stocks knows that stock trading is about speculation. Once the market expects that a company's performance will be poor, investors will sell the stock without hesitation.
No, the stock price of Fruit has dropped by 15%, and 600 billion eagle coins are gone.
Kurk pounded the table angrily and shouted: "Is there something wrong with the brains of those idiots in the EU? Didn't they agree not to target us? Why are they announcing this at this critical moment?"
The secretary hurriedly said: "I have sent a notification letter to the EU, asking them to immediately withdraw these punishment announcements. After this period of time, we will sit down and have a good talk. But I haven't received a reply from them yet. I don't know. Will they agree? I suggest you contact the European Commission in person and they will definitely give you face.”
Kurk nodded and accepted the secretary's suggestion, and immediately called Rodden, the head of the European Commission.
"Mr. Rodden, what's going on? Didn't we agree not to mess with us? Why are you making such an announcement at this juncture? Are you being bribed by Yang Chen?" Kurt asked straight to the point.
Roden smiled and replied: "Mr. Kurk, don't get me wrong. We have no contact with Yang Chen. I even only know his name, but I don't know him as a person. We are carrying out the investigation of the Fruit Group out of consideration for our responsibility to the European people." The penalties are all legal and compliant. If you don’t agree with our penalties, you can file a lawsuit with the EU’s Supreme Court within 6 months, and we will definitely respond.”
"Yang Chen is shorting the Fruit Group. Aren't you just making this announcement because of him? Can you cancel the announcement? After I defeat Yang Chen, let's sit down and talk slowly, okay?" Kurk asked .
Rodden immediately replied: "No! If the announcement with our official seal can be revoked, then what has become of our European Union? People all over the world say that we in Europe are your bald eagle's little brother. If this announcement is revoked again, we will sit down It’s your younger brother’s opinion. How can we explain this to the European people? There is no room for negotiation on this matter. You must either pay a fine or go to court.”
After speaking, Rodern hung up the phone without giving Kurker a chance to continue speaking, fully expressing the EU's firm attitude.
Kurk had a slight breach of defense. He quickly contacted the Bald Eagle Commerce Department Revington and asked her to come forward to communicate with the EU and must persuade the EU to withdraw the penalty announcement.
Fruit Group is the star technology company of the Bald Eagle family. The drop in its stock price is not just a simple loss of wealth for shareholders, but more importantly, it will damage the basic national policy of the Bald Eagle family's financial establishment. The stock price of Fruit Group must be preserved no matter what.
Although the market value of Fruit Group has dropped by 600 billion eagle coins, there are still 3.4 trillion eagle coins left. With such a huge market value, it is not realistic at all to increase the stock price by increasing holdings. Anything less will not be effective, and more will not be that much. Money, the only feasible way is to rely on performance and policies to forcibly reverse the decline in fruit's stock price.
Rewington immediately contacted the EU to seek negotiations, and even resorted to threats to force the EU to compromise.
However, the European Union is also determined to use the Fruit Group as its flag and will not accept peace talks. It will either pay money, sue, or leave the European market.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Dragon Kingdom capital time, Yang Chen came to the company and saw relevant news reports.
Chen Xi made a cup of tea for Yang Chen and brought it over, and said with a smile: "The EU is quite cooperative with us, so sensible."
"Haha...Fruit Group makes a net profit of more than 20 billion eagle coins every year from fruit taxes. Europe is one of the main markets for fruit phones. Europeans must have been unable to bear fruit taxes for a long time. Last year, I saw the news that the EU was preparing to impose restrictions on fruit Let's start, I estimate that the results will come out in February and March this year, so I have extended the period of shorting Fruit Group to now. I am waiting for the EU's penalty announcement. "Yang Chen. He said with a smile and took a sip of tea happily. Yang Chen called Wang Wenkang and said: "Mayor Wang, please communicate with the relevant departments again and seal all the 5G version mobile phones in the fruit store. You don't have to do anything to them, just seal them in place."< br>
Wang Wenkang smiled and said: "No problem. However, if you move faster, you can't really have too much impact. After all, we still have many workers who make a living by assembling fruit mobile phones. Do you understand what I mean?"
Yang Chen replied: "Understood! I'm trying to scare investors in the stock market, and I don't really want to kill the fruit. Let's scare them like this so that they know that we are giving them food to eat. No more We begged them to come to us to give birth.”
Wang Wenkang said in agreement: "It makes sense, it makes sense. When the Sihai Industrial Park is built, we will have more confidence when negotiating with foreign investors, and we don't have to compromise in order to solve the work problems of the people at the bottom. That's fine, that's it." , I will contact various departments now.”
Longguo Market acted very quickly. Relevant departments immediately issued an announcement to punish fruit mobile phones, requiring fruit mobile phone stores across the country, including online platforms such as Jingdong, to seal up all fruit mobile phones and not allow them to be sold or transshipped. .
After Yang Chen saw the relevant news, he called Brother Penguin with a smile.
"Director Yang, you are awesome. You are the only one who dares to do this with Sanxing and Fruit. Others would not have the courage." Xiao Ma said with a smile.
Yang Chen laughed loudly and said: "I'm under a lot of pressure, so I'm here to seek support from Mr. Ma."
Brother Ma immediately said: "If Director Yang needs anything, just ask me, I am absolutely obligated!"
"You see, the European Union has issued a penalty announcement for fruit taxes, and requires fruits to reduce fruit taxes, and allows third-party applications to enter the app store for free. We here must also follow up. After all, we Longguo people are no less than Europeans. What do you want?" Yang Chen said.
Brother Ma asked again: "Well, Director Yang is right, what do you want me to do?"
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Yang Chen ordered: "Isn't there a 30% fruit tax on WeChat on the fruit phone? You require the fruit company to cancel the fruit tax on WeChat, otherwise WeChat will not be able to be installed on the fruit phone."
To be honest, Xiao Ma was quite scared.
According to estimates of market share in the mobile phone industry, there are approximately 200 million people in Long Country using fruit phones. Among them, one person has multiple fruit phones, and another person has multiple brands of phone. Considering these two situations, there are at least more than 100 million people use mobile phones.
If it messes up, WeChat will lose a market of more than 100 million people.
Brother Ma didn't answer immediately, and Yang Chen knew that he was timid.
Yang Chen smiled and comforted: "Boss Ma, you must have confidence in your own products. We have more than 1.2 billion people using WeChat. Why are you afraid of the more than 100 million people? Now work, study, parent groups, etc. are all inseparable from WeChat. , WeChat Pay and Alipay almost share the payment market equally. If WeChat and Guoguo really break up, many people will abandon their mobile phones. This is an unbearable burden for Guoguo, and it will definitely be Guoguo's side."
Nowadays, many bosses and executives basically no longer use fruit phones. The only way for subordinates and employees to adapt is to adapt to the boss. It is impossible for the boss to accommodate employees who use fruit phones, right?
Therefore, those migrant workers who use fruit phones must give up fruit, let alone buy another mobile phone with Android system, because they are all migrant workers. If it is not necessary for work, how many of them are willing to have two mobile phones? Yes?
As long as WeChat's attitude is firm, the fruit side will definitely compromise. Even if the fruit tax is not abolished, the tax rate will definitely be reduced to a level similar to that of the EU.
Brother Ma hesitated for a while and then said: "It's not impossible, but I still need Director Yang to do one thing before I dare to fight against Guo Guo boldly."
"What's the matter? Mr. Ma, please tell me." Yang Chen asked.
Brother Xiao Ma immediately replied: "You can find a way to get some government departments and institutions to issue an announcement recommending that staff should not use fruit mobile phones. This sentence is enough, and it will be easy for me to operate."
Yang Chen laughed loudly and said: "What did I think it was? It's a small matter, I agreed."
Brother Xiao Ma immediately said: "Okay! This is what we have agreed upon. When I saw the announcement, I immediately issued an announcement asking Fruit to cancel the fruit tax, otherwise WeChat will refuse to install it on Fruit's phone."
Yang Chen hung up the phone and was about to call Wang Wenkang when Chen Xi ran in excitedly.
"Director Yang, look, a notice has been issued. Government agencies have banned mobile phones of foreign brands such as Fruit. The reason is that Fruit mobile phones can transmit the personal privacy of hundreds of millions of people in the Longguo market back to the Bald Eagle headquarters. This announcement is really timely. ." Chen Xi said excitedly.
Yang Chen quickly searched the Internet and found such an announcement.
"Haha... Brother Ma asked me to think of a way just now. There is no need to think of a way at all." Yang Chen said happily.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Ma's phone call came in.
"Hey, Director Yang, you are so fast! As soon as I hung up the phone, the announcement came out." Xiao Ma said with a smile.
Yang Chen laughed loudly and said: "Don't make trouble, the announcement has already come out before I take action. Now you know our attitude, right? Just do it boldly."
Brother Ma also laughed and said: "No problem, we will unswervingly follow the national policy."
"Haha..."
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Ma immediately ordered the WeChat Business Department to issue an announcement refusing to pay the fruit tax. Either the Fruit Group would cancel the fruit tax on WeChat, or WeChat would no longer provide services to Fruit Mobile customers.
After the announcement was issued, the WeChat Business Department also sent a notification letter to the Fruit Group headquarters, asking the other party to send people to negotiate within a week. If the other party does not send people to negotiate, WeChat will assume that the Fruit Group is unwilling to cancel the fruit tax, and WeChat will not Then provide services for fruit mobile phones.
The topic "WeChat refuses to pay fruit tax" quickly hit the hot search lists on Weibo, Douyin and other platforms, and netizens rushed over to watch the excitement.
"Penguins really keep up with the pace. We just banned government agencies from using fruit phones, and they just imposed a fruit tax."
"Let me tell you, are you trying to smash the fruit to death? The European side just swung the big stick, and our Dragon Country side also followed up with a combination of punches."
"This fruit will be seriously injured even if it doesn't die. The stock price will definitely plummet. Boss Yang wins again."
"I want to write a big "faith" to Boss Yang. Damn it, how did he predict these things? Didn't many so-called digital bloggers and financial bloggers analyze that Boss Yang will definitely fail this time? ? No matter how strong the fruit group is, how good its performance is, and it is a star company of the Bald Eagle family, no one can succeed? ”
"To be honest, I have always looked down on Penguin, who makes games and harms minors. The key is that they can only imitate and plagiarize, and have no originality at all. But! This time I stand unswervingly on Penguin's side, so I should Say no to fruits! Mad, why do you charge us 30% fruit tax? How would I feel when I learned that an Android phone costs 10 coins for 1 yuan, a fruit phone costs 7 coins for 1 yuan, and the same takeaway fruit phone is half as expensive as an Android phone? This phone is quite expensive. It feels so bad to throw it away. I really want to throw it away.”
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There is one thing to say, no matter what the purpose of Penguin’s wave of aggressive fruit groups is, as long as they can succeed, the profit will be the users of fruit phones. Even if the fruit tax cannot be completely abolished, and the tax rate is reduced to the same level as the EU, it will also be the users of fruit phones. They make a profit.
It was already late at night at the Bald Eagle side, but the fruit company headquarters was brightly lit, and vehicles kept coming.
President Kurke looked gloomily as he stared at the news scrolling on the big screen from the Longguo Market about the ban on fruit phones, the sealing of fruit phones, and WeChat's request to cancel the fruit tax.
No one in the entire conference room dared to speak, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
(End of chapter)