"Lao Wang, I asked you to buy some vegetables, where is the electric fan?
What's wrong? You look like you want to eat someone. Who has offended you?"
At noon, in a dilapidated staff building in a city in southwestern Hunan Province, a man holding an electric fan pushed open the door and saw that his son's room had its doors and windows closed as usual. He was immediately furious.
He was usually calm and composed, but the more he thought about what had just happened, the angrier he got. He pounded on the door and cursed:
"It's already so late and you're still not getting up. You must have done something sinful in your previous life, so you gave birth to a debt collector like me in this life!"
The wife heard the noise in the kitchen and came out, very confused. It would be fine if she just bought some vegetables and an extra electric fan, but why was she scolding her son?
"Don't bother him. He studied until one or two in the morning last night."
"Study? You're not studying! You're just playing games."
When Lao Wang heard this, he became even angrier. "This computer is a nuisance. What did I say at the beginning? Going online is harmful to people."
After beating for a long time and seeing no movement from inside, Lao Wang returned to the small living room angrily and sat on the sofa, "Just indulge him and see what will happen in the future!
From now on, when he goes out to beg for rice, you can follow him and beat the gong and carry the basin."
The wife was also a hot-tempered person, and she refused to give in. "Oh, you must be crazy today, what the hell are you doing?
How have we, mother and I, ever offended you? We have provided you with delicious food and drink over the years.
You've fed them all to the dogs, right?
And this broken electric fan. My son has told me several times that the weather is hot and asked me to buy an air conditioner, but you are just using this to get by?"
“It also has air conditioning!”
Old Wang was contradicted and his temper became more and more irritable. "It's my ancestors' bad luck that I have an electric fan blowing on this little beast."
He was also very angry and was mumbling and cursing.
Seeing his ferocious eyes, as if he wanted to eat someone, his wife, who was usually very good at verbal attacks, didn't dare to say anything.
With resentment, he took apart the newly bought electric fan, plugged it in to test it, and thought about sending it to his son's room after he got up.
I just hope my son doesn't lose his temper.
You say you want to buy an air conditioner, but where will the money come from?
The family was not well-off to begin with, and the business had not been doing well in recent years. The couple only received a little over 2,000 yuan in salary each month, and sometimes they were in arrears...
Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard a noise in the corridor. She curiously went to the window and took a look, and was stunned. Isn’t this Master Liu’s house across the street?
"Old Wang, go and give us a hand. Old San Liu's family bought two large appliances and they are unloading them from the truck and preparing to load them up."
This family housing estate is all collective housing from the same company, built in the late 1980s. Everyone is neighbors and colleagues, so it is normal for them to help each other when there is something going on.
But what surprised her was that her husband, who was usually known for his righteousness and enthusiasm, did not move at all this time.
When I turned around, I saw him lying on the sofa, with one foot drooping weakly on the ground, as if he was dead.
This abnormal scene frightened her so much that she quickly ran over. Fortunately, her eyes were open.
She was panicking, her lips trembling, "What's wrong with you?"
Since I got married and moved here more than 20 years ago, I have never seen my man look so decadent.
Oh, it seems there was one time, that was the year before last, when my son was taking the college entrance examination.
With a score of over 300, the husband, who was very concerned about his reputation, took more than a week off from home.
"It's so embarrassing. I might as well just die."
Lao Wang covered his face with his hands and groaned weakly, "It's so embarrassing. What's the point of living?"
The wife was almost crying, "Don't scare me, what happened?
say something!"
"Sister-in-law, my brother Wang is not at home, right?"
Unfortunately, Lao Wang just didn't say anything. Just as he was silent, a low voice suddenly came from the door. Because of the angle, he couldn't see the sofa.
Lao Wang's wife turned around and asked subconsciously, "It's Liu's sister-in-law, has your family become rich?
I bought so many home appliances at once, including a color TV and a refrigerator."
The daughter-in-law of Master Liu next door, Ms. Luo, the wife of Lao Wang, was very curious. She looked at her husband and saw that he was just humming softly and not saying anything. She didn't care about him for the time being.
He walked to the door and responded in a panic, "Old Wang, he hasn't come back yet."
"That's good. When he comes home later, you must try to persuade him, but don't irritate him. Also, help me say sorry. I really didn't mean to anger him just now."
The more Wang's wife listened, the more confused she became. "What's going on?"
Sister-in-law Liu sighed and told the whole story...
What else can they do? The two neighbors have lived here for more than 20 years and have always had a good relationship. Master Liu is a skilled worker in the factory, and Lao Wang has become a team leader in the workshop.
It's true that the job is the same. In recent years, the factory's performance has been getting worse and worse, but they don't have any other skills. They just do the job as long as they can survive and have something to eat.
However, in the college entrance examination two years ago, the Liu family's daughter was admitted to a key university in Shanghai, while the Wang family's son scored only 330 points. They still had to scrape together money to send him to Star City to study at a foreign affairs college.
With tuition fees of tens of thousands a year, and their son's lavish spending, the couple lived frugally and even went to relatives to borrow money, hoping to support their son so that he could have a diploma and skills to make a living in the future.
During the college entrance examination, Lao Wang had already lost all hope.
But I never thought that a bigger blow was coming...
"So, such an expensive TV and refrigerator were earned by Tongtong working part-time at school?"
After hearing everything, Lao Wang's wife swallowed hard and looked back at the sofa. She finally understood why her husband was so angry.
Sister-in-law Liu nodded and said with a wry smile, "We don't know the situation either. Didn't you say a few days ago that you wanted to buy an air conditioner for your son?
Today, the big company where Tongtong works part-time is doing a subsidy promotion for home appliances in rural areas. If there is an insider introduction, they can give a 1.5 point rebate.
Counting various discounts, I can save several hundred yuan. They are all big brands. I am thinking of asking Brother Wang to buy them together. Who knows...
Oh, look at what happened..."
Lao Wang was lying on the sofa with his eyes empty and lifeless.
This wasn't asking him to buy an air conditioner at all; it was clearly a slap in the face in front of the entire company and the entire community!
When he graduated from a technical secondary school, he was a promising young man in the area and had a stable income. But now he can't even afford an air conditioner!
The lively scene at the sales venue was the biggest irony in his eyes, mocking his lack of money.
Look at Mr. Liu next door. He has a wonderful daughter who is studying at a key university. During school, she also took the initiative to work part-time to help share the pressure at home.
It's only been more than three months, and he has earned five or six thousand yuan. He bought such a large LCD TV just by asking him to buy it, and he also said that there are discounts for internal employees and extra commissions.
Damn it!
He endured all the praise and compliments from his neighbors.
But what is unacceptable is that there are still people who make fun of Tongtong and the useless good-for-nothing in their family. Is it ok for those two kids to joke about their child bride when they are playing together?
He just said a few more words, but was actually urged to buy an air conditioner, saying that it would be used as his son's wedding house in the future!
It was Tongtong who was mature and sensible. She saw his embarrassment and took the initiative to help him out. In the end, he gritted his teeth and chose an electric fan. His face was burning and he didn't know how he got home.
He really wanted to bid three thousand yuan on the spot. Isn't it just an air conditioner?
buy!
But I’m short of money. Before my son went to college, he smoked cigarettes that cost 8 yuan a pack, and occasionally he would try the 25 yuan ones. What about now?
The 4 yuan cigarette had to be smoked over two days, and I would just ask my co-workers to help me get one.
Men have a hard life. With money, they are real men. Without money, they are difficult men.
Only when people reach middle age and resign themselves to their fate, do they realize the pain and self-blame of not being able to pay when their family is in need.
That feeling hurts more than slapping him in the face!
He didn't know how much time had passed before the conversation at the door stopped. As the iron door closed, he finally recovered.
"Let's cook."
But no one responded. He stood up and looked around in confusion. Where was the person?
Just as I was wondering, I heard the sound of the key turning in the door lock and my wife came in from outside with something in her hand.
"What have you been doing?"
"Take this."
The wife raised a thick stack of documents in her hand and said, "Let me tell you, hidden inside are the tuition and miscellaneous fees for our son in the second half of the year..."
"Wait, what do you mean? Asking me to sell home appliances part-time?"
When Lao Wang heard the whole story from his wife, he was stunned for a moment.
"How can I not do it? With the little income we have, it's hard to cover my son's tuition fees. If I hadn't worked hard to sell printing materials, calendars, tutoring materials, etc.
Let's drink the northwest wind together?"
The wife sat down and spread out the information, talking as she read it. The frightened Lao Wang quickly hushed, "Are you crazy? How can you speak loudly about the products in the factory?" A printing factory must have its own characteristics. The cut A4 paper is not valuable, but it can be used to print some textbooks or pirated books.
That's a lot of money.
The printing factory has not been profitable in recent years, and the yield rate of the finished product workshop has plummeted. Everyone has turned a blind eye to it, and as long as it is not done openly, there is no big problem.
His wife couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, "What are you afraid of? It's not just one family doing this.
Forget it. Considering your character, it’s pointless to say anything.
Come over and study it quickly. I'll do the math. This 1.5 points is quite a lot of profit. Selling one LCD TV will give you a commission of more than yuan.
Tongtong also came back just now. This child is really sensible. It’s a pity that ours, alas…”
As she spoke, she sighed and said, as a parent, isn't our life all about our children?
"Can this really be done?"
Under pressure from reality, Lao Wang had to compromise and walked to the table to look at the information and brochures. "1.5 points of commission is not a small amount, but where can we find people to buy it?"
"Who else? Go find your cousin!"
The wife's eyes rolled and she immediately came up with an idea, "Didn't his family buy a piece of land in Jiangbei and build two 16-story buildings, which has more than houses.
The top floor is where they live, and it is said that they spent several million on the renovation. The lower floors are for the workers of the contracted machinery factory to live in. If he can come forward, he might be able to make millions.”
"Just dreaming!"
When Lao Wang heard this, he shook his head decisively and said, "You forgot that if it wasn't for your uncle, I wouldn't have lent you 20,000 yuan when I went to borrow money during the Chinese New Year last year.
Are you still looking for him now? No."
"If you don't go, I will!"
The wife's hot temper flared up again, "You think it's shameful to make money, but I don't. Anyway, more than 200 houses have been bought, so start decorating them right away.
Even if a family only spends 1.5 yuan to buy home appliances, it would amount to two or three million yuan, and a point commission would be to yuan!
Mr. Wang, I've told you that I'm sure to make the money. If you think it's embarrassing, it's not shameful to go out and borrow money!
It’s no shame that you can’t afford an air conditioner just now!
Woohoo, I am so unlucky to marry a loser like you. You have the money but instead of making it, you have to beg others to borrow money.
What a sin..."
"Mom, what are you doing so early in the morning?
Dad, you too, you made Mom angry again."
There was a lot of noise outside, and the people in the house were woken up. A man with a messy hair glanced at the clock on the wall. Hmm, it was only 11 o'clock, so it was still early.
As he was talking, he looked at the electric fan on the ground and was stunned, "Ah? Didn't you say you were going to buy an air conditioner? How can you deal with this thing? Am I still your biological son?"
Lao Wang felt guilty and for the first time he didn't scold him.
Instead, his wife wiped away her non-existent tears and quickly put on a smile, "Son, wake up. There are steamed buns and fried dough sticks in the refrigerator. Mom will go and heat them up for you."
When he stood up, he did not forget to remind Lao Wang: "You can handle it yourself. Tongtong said that this is their company's new policy. Many people know about it. What if someone else gets there first?
Let's see how you spend the New Year. I won't continue to suffer with you. If you continue like that, I will take my son back to my parents' home to celebrate the New Year, and you can just leave it to yourself with your face."
Lao Wang was helpless and looked down at the information again.
Xiao Wang took the opportunity to take a look, and the conspicuous title at the top of the document caught his eye: "Pinxixi E-Commerce (Group) Co., Ltd., Several Opinions on Recruiting Part-time Sales from the Society!"
……
Have you eaten hummingbirds? How many people are there?
Even Gu Shijie couldn’t figure it out. He only knew that new people came in every day and that all seven major regions in the country had sent on-site recruitment teams.
Now with the addition of Pinxixi, the bottomless pit, it is simply starving and crying out for food. No matter how many people there are, they are not enough to fill the pit.
Naturally, all the college students who used to work part-time were mobilized.
Want to relax when you go home for the holidays?
Impossible!
Is there anyone who can gain the trust of the local people more easily than them?
For those who come out to work part-time, just because their families are poor doesn’t mean that the people around them are poor. In addition, there are sensible girls like Tongtong who can promote Pinxixi’s new policy in minutes.
Buying home appliances for yourself is purely an expense, but what about your relatives and friends?
Do they want to buy it?
Home appliances are brought to the countryside, and old appliances can be exchanged for new ones with a 1.5% commission. Just open your mouth, go to the website, register and get an exclusive code, and then fill it in when your relatives and friends buy from you.
You can get hundreds of dollars in minutes.
For this small fifth-tier city where the average monthly salary is just over 1,000 yuan, selling ten home appliances can double the monthly income.
I forgot to mention, I don’t know which unlucky kid opened a construction machinery sales store on the website. The retail price of one unit is over one million. If the negotiation is successful, he can make 10,000 or 20,000 yuan without doing anything.
I just wonder if there is anyone stupid enough to buy an excavator on Pinxixi!!!
Anyway, when Li Zehua saw the registered store address in Pengcheng, he was stunned for a while.
"Who reviewed this? Have their qualifications been confirmed? Don't let XCMG sue you for infringement later."
The boss asked, no matter how busy we were, we had to check. Not long after, Guo Xinyi came back and said, "It was opened by a temporary employee of Pinxixi in Pengcheng. The family is engaged in heavy machinery, and the qualifications and certificates are complete."
Finally, he added, "No one would buy this online, right?"
"As long as the documents are complete, it's fine. Logically, no one should come to buy it."
Li Zehua thought about it and didn't care.
But how could they know that with so many people in this world, apart from seeing ghosts, there are all kinds of cases that can be found on the Internet.
There are some stubborn people who buy excavators online. Who can they complain to?
While the sales data from various places were being counted, Sun Tongyu returned smoothly from the press conference. Before he could say a few words, a deafening noise broke out in the backend service hall of Pinxixi.
"what happened?"
"Boss, we succeeded. The Pinxixi website was officially launched at 7am, and by 11.30:5000am, within four and a half hours, we had successfully generated million in sales!!!
If we continue like this, it’s very likely that we’ll make over 100 million on the first day!”
"Is this true? Wasn't it only 3000 million just now?"
Li Zehua was stunned for a moment and felt it was a little unreal.
Sun Tongyu walked up quickly, snatched the statistical report from the staff member, quickly glanced through it, and kept asking questions.
The vice president of Pinxixi who came to report excitedly said: "The data has been confirmed, it is true and reliable, there is absolutely no water..."
As he explained, things became clearer...
Just like a team in Vancouver, the Pinxixi sales team has initially established brand awareness during the rural promotion process in the previous month.
China is a large country with a huge population, and even in rural areas that are generally poor, there are many people who have become wealthy first.
Their spending power is not much worse than that of urban residents, but they do not have many channels for consumption.
Now, as home appliances are brought to the countryside and subsidies for replacing old appliances with new ones are introduced, factory direct sales channels are directly brought to the village entrances, stimulated by wave after wave of preferential policies.
Those who had some spare money in their pockets finally couldn't help but start spending, with well-known big brands leading the way and selling some small household appliances.
The effect is exceptionally good.
For people like Jiang Xiaoyi, we send cars to pick up and drop off potential big customers. As long as the expected purchase amount is more than 5000 yuan, we will pick them up by special car.
Just as a gift to the company on the day Pinxixi was founded!
How big is a town?
The number can be as high as hundreds of thousands or as low as tens of thousands. Even if it is one in ten thousand, it will result in sales of tens of thousands of home appliances.
With the help of Chimei, Fengniao, and a part-time team, Pinxixi launched promotional activities simultaneously in more than 800 counties and 1000 towns in more than ten provinces across the country.
One region generates tens of thousands of pieces, which adds up to an astonishing number.
In fact, the actual sales volume is far more than this, but the on-site staff entering documents and registering new customer accounts are far behind the actual sales speed.
This is the best reward for the entire Qingyun system, which has accumulated a lot of strength over time. If it doesn’t make a splash, it will be a big success!
Sun Tongyu was so shocked that his face changed. "I knew the potential of the sinking market was huge, but I never thought that there would be a hope of breaking 100 million on the first day!"
Including Li Zehua, almost no one knows how effective the home appliance subsidy program was in the past.
Just an ordinary prefecture-level city in the east has annual sales of more than 30 billion yuan. Yes, an average of million yuan per day.
And what about Pinxixi?
The sales network covers the whole country!!! (End of this chapter)