Chapter 426 Dealing With Them
Around noon, Chen Yang was the first to receive a call from Vice President Liu Bin.
Liu Bin spoke to Chen Yang on the phone, "Mr. Chen, I had my subordinates investigate, and it seems that someone has indeed been poaching people from the R&D center recently."
"I haven't figured out which company it is yet, but they are very generous. For R&D personnel with an annual salary of 200,000, they are directly offering one million, and they can even negotiate higher."
"The other party's methods are simply despicable, making a big move when our pharmaceutical company is changing shareholders. This is clearly showing they are tearing up the face with us and openly opposing us. It's so infuriating, such behavior is disgraceful."
"And on the battlefield, this is equivalent to the other side firing the first shot and officially starting a war."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yang asked Liu Bin, "Mr. Liu, you've been in the pharmaceutical industry for many years. How did you usually handle such situations in the past?"
Liu Bin immediately replied, "Mr. Chen, in fact, such situations are not common, because the law is very strictly regulated. If an employee changes jobs, unless they move to a foreign company and go abroad directly."
"As long as they are in our country, they will inevitably be subject to legal restrictions. We will directly sue them and have them arrested."
"In addition, we will create a series of news stories to criticize the other company, making it impossible for them to operate in the pharmaceutical industry. We will also sue them and restrict their product manufacturing. As for other methods, there are none."
"After all, all the secrets of the R&D center are in the minds of those researchers. As long as the other company has enough ability, they can indeed poach the researchers.
"So, the most important thing is the researcher's own professional ethics."
Chen Yang understood after listening and said, "In other words, preventing such things depends on the moral bottom line of the other pharmaceutical company, and the morality of one's own researchers, as well as legal regulations, right?"
Liu Bin said, "Yes, Mr. Chen, that's exactly right. Don't worry, I will quickly find out which employees are planning to jump ship."
"Once they actually jump ship, I will immediately use legal means to sanction them."
Chen Yang nodded and hung up his phone.
Not long after, Chen Yang received a very detailed investigation report about Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Company from Zhuque.
This was a report from the intelligence personnel of the Heavenly Doctor Hall after their investigation, and it was naturally very detailed and accurate.
Tiancheng Pharmaceutical had a total of 3,542 employees, excluding the lowest-level workers, with over 1,300 in the R&D department.
The report meticulously listed the detailed family addresses, social relationships, and recent whereabouts of these over 1,300 people over the past two days.
Upon seeing this report, Chen Yang's brows furrowed sharply. Of the more than 1,300 R&D personnel, over 1,100 had been contacted by the other company in the past two days.
Moreover, the report also detailed the poaching methods used by the other party. Besides regular methods like five times the annual salary and stock options, they even resorted to coercion and enticement for some leading figures and key personnel who were not motivated by money and couldn't be swayed by common incentives.
After reading the entire report, Chen Yang's eyes narrowed. As Liu Bin had said, such actions were no different from declaring war on his company.
This was clearly an attempt to cripple Tiancheng Pharmaceutical at its roots and destroy it completely.
If the other party had only poached ten or twenty people, then perhaps they were just seeking results and a shortcut, and it wouldn't have a significant impact on Tiancheng Pharmaceutical.
But now, they were trying to poach over 1,100 people, and even possibly all of their researchers. This behavior was clearly intended to deliberately bring down Tiancheng Pharmaceutical.
Chen Yang turned off his phone and couldn't help but laugh speechlessly. He muttered curses, "These bastards, why not do it sooner or later, but they choose to cause trouble precisely when I'm in charge of Tiancheng Pharmaceutical. They are truly asking for death."
At this moment, Chen Yang's phone rang. Zhuque called. Zhuque smiled and said to Chen Yang, "Celestial Venerable, did you see? This time the Yang family is making a move to completely hollow out Tiancheng Pharmaceutical."
Chen Yang chuckled and said, "So it's the Yang family. No wonder they are so lavish. It seems I've been too lenient with them. I should go to the intelligence center now and deal with the Yang family."
Chen Yang hung up the phone and drove directly to a dormitory building next to Lantian Building.
This entire dormitory building had been rented by Yangyangyang Company, and it was fully occupied by security guards.
Of course, Liu Ran and Su Ya thought that only ordinary security guards lived there, but now this entire building had been completely transformed into the intelligence center of the Heavenly Doctor Hall.
Chen Yang and Zhuque arrived at the intelligence center.
Chen Yang entered the lobby and issued an order, "Retrieve all enterprise and trade information of the Yang family. Make the Yang family go bankrupt within three days."
"Yes, Celestial Venerable." Soon, dozens of intelligence center personnel immediately issued commands on their consoles.
Shortly after, the Yang family's entire corporate structure and trade information appeared on the large screen in front.
Chen Yang glanced at the dense relationship map and felt a headache. He decided not to look further.
At this moment, a middle-aged man walked over and said to Chen Yang, "Reporting to Celestial Venerable, we have investigated all of the Yang family's current trade information."
"Their total assets are approximately 45 billion. Besides domestic trading companies in clothing, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and real estate, the Yang family also has a significant source of income, which is the trade of rare earth minerals with foreign companies."
"The Yang family seems to have leveraged some connections to obtain large quantities of rare earth minerals from some rare earth mining companies at cost price, and then they transport them to the United States for trade via sea."
"Rare earth minerals are strategic resources, and they are consumed with use. The country controls them relatively strictly. Although the Yang family's business is trade, it also has a hint of smuggling, but it does not violate the law."
"They currently have a batch of rare earth mineral cargo that has arrived at the port of Seattle and is preparing for trade, valued at approximately 1 billion US dollars."
"Upon completion of this transaction, they can earn a profit of at least 100 million US dollars."
Chen Yang's brows furrowed tightly upon hearing this, and he said, "I didn't expect the Yang family to be involved in so many businesses. But rare earth minerals are precious resources of our country, how can they be so casually sold to foreign countries."
"These materials are rare materials for manufacturing high-tech weapons. I didn't expect them to sell so much at once."
Chen Yang snorted coldly, then continued to ask, "What is the current cash flow of the Yang family?"
The middle-aged man replied, "Reporting to Celestial Venerable, the Yang family's cash flow is relatively secure. Although their cash reserves are low, their approach is more conservative, and their businesses are all within a safe range."
"However, if we intercept that batch of 1 billion US dollars worth of rare earth minerals, the Yang family will not only lose 1 billion US dollars but also have to compensate the US company."
"Because they cannot deliver on time, they will have to pay at least 200 million US dollars in late delivery compensation. Without these 800 million, the Yang family's other businesses will be completely thrown into chaos."
"If we can withdraw loans from banks, preventing them from having further capital inflow, and simultaneously in the real estate industry, ask upstream suppliers to delay payment by seventy-two hours, then the Yang family will surely go bankrupt within three days."
Chen Yang nodded and said, "Alright, let's do it this way. Inform our brothers at the Seattle branch to act immediately and secure that batch of rare earth minerals. Such precious strategic resources must not be allowed to flow overseas again."