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by UntamedSThe second uncle of the Shen family mentioned by the steel plant manager in H province was the one who took advantage of his father’s serious illness and tried to seize power during Shen Lianqiu’s university years, intending to embezzle his family’s assets.
Back then, Shen Lianqiu was forced to give up her ideals, inherit the family business, and take on the main role. He faced them head-on and went through countless trials and tribulations before becoming the CEO of the Shen Group, who was now feared in the business world, and no one dared to comment on the Shen Group CEO, Shen Lianqiu.
After the failure of the power struggle, all the people related to the Shen family on his second uncle’s side were quickly cut off by Shen Lianqiu and cleaned up from the group in one fell swoop.
But since the elders in the family were still there, he left them some basic retirement money. After all, although Shen Group was founded by his parents from scratch, it still carried the reputation of a family business in the end.
If they were really thrown onto the street without a penny left and left to fend for themselves, the elders in the family wouldn’t cause trouble without reason, which wouldn’t help his parents adjust and recuperate.
After so many years passed, his second uncle had also opened several companies outside, but due to their small scale, Shen Lianqiu had made a move on them.
And since he was able to find out that Shen’s ice skates cooperated with H Province in terms of materials, it proved that there were still people in Shen’s family who colluded with him both internally and externally.
This person should be able to participate in high-level meetings but couldn’t touch the real core data; otherwise, his uncle wouldn’t have had to send people around like headless flies when everyone arrived in H province, to the extent that even Shen Lianqiu was alarmed.
As expected by Shen Lianqiu, the next morning at the group meeting, his uncle’s son suddenly started to criticize Shen’s involvement in the ice skating industry.
At one point, it was said that the investment was too high, and at another point, it was said that if they followed Shen Lianqiu’s plan, the operation cycle would be too long, causing a bunch of relatives to make trouble without reason and even moving out the elders in the family.
In the conference room, those senior executives who were not related to the Shen family were all shocked and amazed. They couldn’t help but be stunned that these people dared to do such a thing to Shen Lianqiu. They really thought that he would be like Mr. Shen, who had been kind and gentle.
He was someone who could tolerate upsetting his elders.
The entire conference room, except the Shen family members who were incited by the eldest uncle’s side, the other people all quietly bowed their heads, wishing to be able to turn into an ostrich and bury their heads into sand.
In the past, Shen Lianqiu’s father and mother established the Shen Group enterprise together. In order to avoid the influence of gossip from outsiders and the repeated flattery and instructions from relatives and elders, they arranged more or less idle work for each family member after achieving success.
It gave the entire Shen family the name of a family business but also limited the development of the group.
Since taking over the Shen family, Shen Lianqiu had had the desire to “clean up the door” and remove the name of this family business.
However, he had always been hindered by the lack of a reason to put it on the table.
Now, he didn’t need to worry about it anymore. These people rushed to their door, both inside and outside, just in time to tidy them up together this time.
“As stupid as a pig.”
After the meeting was over, Shen Lianqiu sat in his office, looking at the way they walked out of the company’s gate with their heads held high as if they had gained much of a victory after making a scene; he opened the file in his hand, looked at his watch, and lightly read out a sentence.
And after that, he simply took care of the matter in hand and went back to the national team to dive into the research and development of the new material that he had once envisioned to be used in the ice skates.
And a week later, he took an extra afternoon off for Lin Lang to shoot the latest GG for the new product of Shen’s ice skates.
Thanks to Lin Lang’s connections, Shen’s ice skates were now unparalleled in the domestic ice skate industry, and with the most basic popularity, the first batch of profits were created along with it.
Because Shen Lianqiu saw the right time at first and signed an agreement with the steel mills in Province H to reach a win-win situation, so this figure was already surprisingly considerable at the moment.
If, in the future, Shen’s ice skates really occupied the entire ice skate market in the country, then could those profits still be obtained?
The relatives of the Shen family originally ridiculed and sneered at Shen Lianqiu’s decision to return to China to make ice skates.
But now that they had truly seen the potential and development of this industry, they felt jealous and fantasized about being able to ki-ll Shen Lianqiu and take over on their own.
Even if they couldn’t replace him, they would still make a big fuss and force their family to give up more profits.
The eldest uncle was stirring up people’s hearts in the Shen family and joined forces with other shareholders. While the second uncle contacted several small factories in China that had been struggling with quality issues, poor management, and the inability to sell goods and were on the verge of bankruptcy.
By accurately targeting the current consumer group of Shen’s ice skates by using foreign brands and a layer of gold plating, they’d also start a marketing campaign, and then it could be openly sold as imported goods exported from those ice skating countries.
It could only make quick money for a while and also give Shen’s ice skates, which were just starting out, a head-on blow.
Even if it didn’t ki-ll his business, it could still peel off a layer of skin from Shen Lianqiu.
In this regard, these relatives of the Shen family had been complacent, boasting of comprehensive planning and clever means.
But they forgot that now the position of power held by the Shen family was occupied by Shen Lianqiu. Compared to his father, his methods were much more ruthless.
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“Good, head to the left side again, good, very good…”
Lin Lang, dressed in the same costume he wore at the Full Championships, wearing Shen’s latest new ice skates, stood on the ice rink and took pictures.
With a graceful figure, perfect face, suitable lighting, and the splashing of ice under the ice skates, ever since Lin Lang changed his ice skates and stepped onto the ice rink, his every move almost made the photographer drunk.
Constantly pressing the shutter, he was almost trapped in the camera, in the works composed by Lin Lang.
The division of labor on the Shen family’s side was clear, moving incredibly fast, and in the last while, it was like a dog’s hide, sticking to Shen’s ice skates and marketing frantically.
Even Lin Lang, a layman who only knew how to skate, could feel that they had increased their investment in this batch of new products targeting Shen’s ice skates.
Not to mention, for this reason, they even went a long way to invite the only person in China who could compare to Lin Lang in terms of popularity, Yao Qing, to be the spokesperson.
Yao Qing originally didn’t put the endorsement of such a small ice skate brand in his eyes; no matter how high the price was, he wouldn’t take it.
But he didn’t expect that the Shen family, who had also run an ice skating factory and worked in related industries in B city back then, would recognize Yao Qing at a glance after he changed his name and face.
Not only did they know that he wasn’t what he was rumored to be on the internet, but they even knew that he and Lin Lang had had a lot of trouble in the past.
So they directly told him that Lin Lang was the spokesperson for the Shen group and lured him into signing the contract with them because of Lin Lang.
Shen’s new product would be launched just before the finals of the Grand Prix.
So in this way, the competition between the two sides this time was also closely related to the performance of the two of them on the field this time.
On Yao Qing’s side, because of the one-year ban, there was quite enough time for preparation, whether it was costume or the program’s song selection and choreography; all of this had already been done early.
Now all that was left to do, apart from trying to maintain the state of the competition, was what kind of expression to use to welcome the cheers and applause of the audience.
On the other hand, on Lin Lang’s side, the situation wasn’t so optimistic.
The youth group’s Grand Prix was originally scheduled even earlier than the adult group, and because Lin Lang insisted on performing a new program this time around, by this point he had only finalized the 4Fs and a short program that Lin Lang had performed in his previous life.
But before that, it was still unknown whether Lin Lang could practice 4F and what he needed to perform and wear in freestyle skating.
The difficulty of the 4F jump was high, and in order to do it, the height of the jump must first be met. After all, in order to make a quadruple jump, one must rotate 1440 degrees during the hovering period, and the minimum jumping height must reach 50 centimeters.
Whether the propulsion force after jumping was sufficient, whether the axis of the body during jumping was correct, and even a slight tension in the body muscles could all lead to the failure of the entire jump and even cause injuries to the athlete.
Not to mention the possibility of deducted points due to incorrect jumps and using the wrong blades.
Dislocated shoulders, ankle contusions, and torn ligaments were all injuries that could be fatal to skaters, and they had been known to occur throughout the history of the 4F jump.
Not to mention the already difficult F jump.
So as for Lin Lang’s earlier comment about jumping 4F or something, most of the team kept it at a hear-say level, even thinking that they’d be satisfied if he could just make a 3A jump.
After all, he was competing against the youth group this time, and solid points could be gotten by making a 3A jump. There hadn’t been a skater who made a 4F jump.
So much so that nowadays, apart from coach Ji Cangshu, no one in the team dared to be sure whether Lin Lang could make the jump before the Grand Prix or not.
After all, not to mention the 4F jump, Lin Lang hadn’t even found inspiration for the theme of the long program.
Even if he did perform the 4F jump, no one knew at what section the jump would be performed. Even Ji Cangshu couldn’t help but whisper in Lin Lang’s ear every day.
But Lin Lang felt that no matter what theme he came up with, it all seemed to fall short.
Not long after that, their school organized a traditional culture learning session and invited a famous performing artist to perform a Peking Opera at their school.
It was only then that he finally realized what he had been searching for so long.
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