Chapter 10

Zhou Meiren was very familiar with the company's operational model. In the internet age, everything was convenient, and the company operated entirely online. Whether it was office work or transactions, everything was recorded online.

Every day, the managers of the company's various stores would summarize the sales data before leaving work, detailing how many items were sold, what they were, their quality, and their price.

With this statistical data, the headquarters would make reasonable arrangements. For goods in high demand, the headquarters would expedite processing and distribution to the various stores to avoid any delays in sales.

This tight schedule improved sales performance. The market dictated what the headquarters processed, and everything was guided by market trends. This strategy was established ten years ago when Zhou Meiren became the chairman of the group company.

During the reform, she encountered many problems. In the jewelry industry, companies processed and sold what they had, and customers could only buy what the company had.

However, Zhou Meiren changed this sales model. She wanted customers to decide what to buy. If customers wanted something, the company would produce it. This approach better satisfied customers, although it was very troublesome. Despite this, Zhou Meiren solved all the problems and successfully implemented the new model.

The warehouse also gave her peace of mind. Every day, the warehouse would prepare the materials needed by the stores and hand them over to the processing department. Within three days at the latest, the goods would be delivered to the stores. This speed directly led to a surge in the company's sales, which had previously been lukewarm.

Because of this, Zhou Meiren received the support of everyone in the group company and solidified her position.

To break the original company's planned sales and promote market-driven sales in the jewelry industry, she tried every possible method. Finally, the breakthrough came from the warehouse, allowing her to truly achieve her goal.

Therefore, the stone selection and processing in the warehouse were extremely important. As long as the warehouse could quickly gather the jade materials needed by the stores, the plan could be smoothly implemented.

At that time, Zhou Meiren personally praised the warehouse manager, so she remembered it very clearly. She never thought that problems would arise in this least likely area.

This issue was a major one. If the stores needed medium-priced jade and red or yellow jade was selling quickly, the warehouse had to provide the appropriate materials based on market trends. This operational method could not afford any mistakes in terms of price, quality, or color.

Selecting and processing stones was a highly specialized job. Without the necessary expertise and familiarity with raw jade, it was impossible to do this job.

Even if the Zhou family had mountains of raw jade, if it couldn't be processed in time, it would be useless. Therefore, the company always placed great importance on this aspect.

Every day, the store managers would submit a sales report to provide information to the warehouse, allowing them to prepare the raw materials in advance for the processing department to quickly produce the finished goods.

"Cousin, you are wronging me. I just took over the warehouse and naturally wanted to achieve something. Look at the jade I processed on Saturday and Sunday; it's all top-quality. Only you can say this to me. If it were anyone else, I would spit in their face. Come, everyone, show the young lady our achievements from the past two days." Zhou Chengyun finally had a chance to show off and immediately became energetic.

Soon, a variety of high-quality jade appeared: glassy imperial green, glassy lavender, glassy willow green, icy imperial green, top-quality chicken oil yellow, and even glassy black jade and glassy three-color jade. These were all top-quality jade.

Seeing that everyone around him was holding their breath, as if a slight breath could blow away the top-quality jade, Zhou Chengyun felt as if he had entered a refrigerator on a hot summer day, feeling extremely refreshed.

"Did you process all these? Your contribution is significant?" Zhou Meiren's eyes twitched slightly.

Zhou Chengyun said proudly, "Of course, without my guidance, who could process so much top-quality jade?"

"Did you touch the No. 1 warehouse?" Zhou Meiren's brows were now tightly furrowed.

"No, I only processed the No. 1 raw jade from other warehouses." As he spoke, Zhou Chengyun's voice became softer, realizing he had made a mistake.

"Is that all you can do? Do you know who you are? Who do you plan to sell these to? Who can afford them? Are you going to wholesale them? You, get out of here now." Zhou Meiren's face finally changed. How long had it been since she showed anger?

"Cousin?" Zhou Chengyun said, disbelieving.

"Old Mr. Yang, how is the warehouse?" Zhou Meiren ignored Zhou Chengyun to avoid getting angry herself.

He had reached a level of stupidity that normal people couldn't communicate with him. He was a complete mess, unable to distinguish right from wrong.

"It's a mess. I can't quickly find the raw jade from the Mulangan mine. We need to find another way. Xiao Li, have you notified Mr. Zhu?" Old Mr. Yang was already disappointed with Zhou Chengyun and directly contacted the former warehouse manager.

"I have, he should be here soon. Look, he's here." Xiao Li was almost in tears, feeling relieved for the first time today.

Zhu Jincang quickly walked into the stone processing area. He was a middle-aged man in his fifties who had been the warehouse manager for three years without any mistakes or significant achievements. Due to his age, he was transferred to the advisory board.

After briefly understanding the situation, Zhu Jincang was stunned. "I can't do it. Usually, the raw jade is organized by Xiao Han with the help of the gemstone experts' appraisal data. Xiao Han has never made a mistake, so..."

"That's not what I want to know. Right now, our priority is to find a top-quality blood jade. We can discuss the rest later. Mr. Zhu, do you have any suggestions?" Zhou Meiren asked.

Zhu Jincang, much more professional than Zhou Chengyun, immediately said, "I remember that the raw jade from the Mulangan mine has a good chance of producing red jade. Although we don't know if it will be top-quality, we should cut those first."

Yang Tianfu smiled bitterly. "The entire warehouse is in chaos. I've already sent people to gather all the gemstone experts from the company. Otherwise, we can't even select the raw jade from the Mulangan mine, let alone find the red jade."

Zhu Jincang was speechless. After a moment, he said, "I remember that Xiao Han's computer has detailed records. Let's print out pictures of all the raw jade from the Mulangan mine that could produce red jade, and combine the size, weight, and external characteristics. We should be able to select some of them. All the stone selectors, cutters, and handlers should work together to quickly select some. We can start cutting these, and when the gemstone experts arrive, we can thoroughly inspect the warehouse. Even if we don't find top-quality blood jade from the Mulangan mine, we have other options."

"Mr. Zhu, you really are something. Our company may have money, but do we need to give a mere handler a computer? Do you think we have too much money to spend?" Zhou Chengyun immediately became angry when Zhu Jincang mentioned Xiao Han.

Xiao Han was like a thorn in his side. Anything related to him was bad news, so he immediately became angry.

"What's wrong? Xiao Han's computer was a company write-off that he repaired himself. It's a treasure. All the raw jade data in the company's warehouse for the past ten years is recorded on it. I often use his computer to study. This has nothing to do with whether he's a handler."

Zhu Jincang looked down on this uneducated young man but knew he was royalty, so he couldn't say much about him taking over as manager. However, he was now in trouble, and Zhou Jincang was being asked to clean up his mess, which was too much.

"Where is the computer?" Zhou Meiren didn't want to deal with Zhou Chengyun but had to because he was being so noisy.

"It was sold as scrap." Zhou Chengyun was straightforward.

"I already told you to get out. Wait until this is over, and I'll deal with you." Zhou Meiren was also very angry.

"Wait, let his secretary contact Xiao Han first." Yang Tianfu said.

"I'll contact him right away." As the secretary of the warehouse manager, he had all the employees' phone numbers.

"Xiao Han? This is Xiao Cheng, the secretary of Manager Zhou. Yes, yes, where are you now? Can you come to the company? What's the matter? The company needs you to find the red jade from the Mulangan mine. What? You're busy? Ah..."

Seeing Xiao Cheng holding the phone in a daze, Yang Tianfu's face became even more serious. He knew Xiao Han well. He had worked diligently for the company for years and was easy to talk to. Now, he refused to help the company and hung up without hesitation. This must be because Zhou Chengyun had offended him deeply.

Seeing this, Zhou Meiren signaled her two bodyguards, who immediately grabbed Zhou Chengyun and threw him into the elevator. They also notified the guards upstairs to throw him out of the company.

Inside the company, Zhou Chengyun was still shouting, "Young lady, don't listen to these people. What does a mere handler know? They are sowing discord. We are family. If we don't have our own people watching the warehouse, who knows if the treasures will still belong to the Zhou family."

Hearing this, Zhou Meiren's face turned ashen. She couldn't understand how her father could appoint such a person as the warehouse manager.

Zhu Jincang said, "I'll go find Xiao Han. Only he can quickly find the raw jade we need. Chairman, don't look down on him just because he's a handler. Although he's not a stone selector or a cutter, he has worked for the company for ten years and knows every warehouse well. Almost all the raw jade has passed through his hands, so no one knows the situation of the raw jade in our warehouse better than him."