I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

The previous general manager's ideas, if implemented step by step, might have actually worked. But time was not on his side; the subprime mortgage crisis hit, exports plummeted, and all the smart rice cookers he produced became worthless. Now, with the global financial crisis, they're even harder to sell.

They want to sell in the domestic market, but they haven't been to the US market, so they lack any brand recognition or hype. They simply can't compete with the two giants, Midea and SUPOR, and they can't even survive in the cracks.

After Zhou Man took over, she discussed the matter and, given the current economic climate, decided to abandon further investment to save the company. Instead, she decided to liquidate non-performing assets to save money and focus on Shengyuan Group's main businesses in Qianlin Province.

However, that small business is neither big nor small. The factory, production line, workers, and unsold rice cookers... all these things combined have already cost more than ten million, nearly twenty million.

Something of this size can't be cleared up in a short time, especially given the current economic situation. There are even fewer people willing to take over such a large amount of assets, which is why Zhou Man has been so busy lately.

"There are 26857 unsold rice cookers, nearly 27,000 units... Designers?... Quality inspectors?... "

Shen Kang carefully examined the documents, one by one.

After reading everything, he opened Anjia's website, entered the employee system, logged into his highest-level account, and began to view the information in the database.

Currently, the total number of registered Anjia accounts is 6751. Of these, 1728 people have used Anjia's services once and have never purchased again, while 5023 people have made two or more repeat purchases.

In addition, Shen Kang can also see a piece of data here: the basic information of several home appliances in the customer's home.

For example, this household: Unit 201, Building 6, Zhongbang City Community, High-tech Zone, Username "Xie Changming", Items include: TV (Yes, Quantity 1, 32-inch LCD TV), Electric toothbrush (No), Rice cooker (Yes, Quantity 1, Traditional Rice Cooker)...

This information was collected starting in mid-August, as requested by Shen Kang. Almost as soon as Li Su and his team completed the function and tested it without any problems, he had the company staff start collecting this information.

Of course, Anjia users cannot see this data, nor can most of Anjia's employees. Currently, only Shen Kang and Kang Zhengyang's accounts can see this data.

The specific process for collecting this information is as follows:

Our cleaning service will come to your home and observe the condition of several designated appliances. After the cleaning is completed, an inspector will come to check the cleanliness, again observing the condition of the same designated appliances.

Back at the company, the cleaning staff and the inspector each reported the household's appliance situation to the same customer service representative. After the customer service representative confirmed that the data reported by both parties was consistent, the information was uploaded to the company's website backend.

For each successful confirmation of the appliance status of a customer's home, both the cleaning staff and the inspector will receive a data collection fee of 2 yuan.

Currently, the database contains detailed information on several types of designated small home appliances in the homes of 4286 customers, and this number continues to rise as the number of users of Anjia expands.

This database is also a project that Shen Kang attaches great importance to.

"Of the 4286 households, 1572 have smart rice cookers, while the remaining 2716 are still using traditional rice cookers. This sample suggests that 63% of households have the potential to upgrade their rice cookers..."

After reviewing the data, Shen Kang logged out, closed his eyes, thought carefully for a while, then took out his phone and, instead of going out to make the call, directly called Zhou Man from there.

"Hello, what's up?" Zhou Man's voice came from the other end, sounding slightly tired, but overall she seemed alright.

"Nothing much, I just heard that you're dealing with some non-performing assets, Mr. Zhou. I'm quite interested in some of them. If the quality is good and the price is right, I'm open to taking them on," Shen Kang said casually, leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed.

Wang Pan picked up his phone again. "Hello, Mr. Zheng, I'd like to discuss that shipment with you in more detail..."

Feng Moquan got excited too, not wanting to be outdone, and picked up his phone, "Hello, President Qin, it's me, you can't even recognize my voice..."

Jin Chao quietly picked up his phone and read a novel, searching for inspiration for "Taoist Masters on Campus," ignoring the three lunatics.

Zhou Man's voice came from the other end of the receiver: "Did you hear that from Ding Ling?"

"I even had her send me a copy of the information directly. But don't worry, I asked her to send it on behalf of a potential buyer; it's not some kind of illegal operation."

Zhou Man rubbed her forehead and leaned back in her chair. "You work in housekeeping, what do you need these things for...?"

She stopped speaking before she could finish.

Then, lifting his back from the chair, he said, "You're going to sell those rice cookers to your customers?"

Shen Kang didn't give a definite answer immediately. "Not necessarily. It depends on the quality of your product. My customers are like family to me. They trust us a lot, and I have to be responsible to them."

There was no response from Zhou Man; she seemed to be thinking.

After a while, Zhou Man's voice came from the other end: "It's been more than half a month since you started school. How are your studies going? Oh, I almost forgot, there's also military training. Have you finished your military training?"

Shen Kang was a little annoyed. They were talking business, why were they suddenly concerned about his studies?

Then he said casually, "Military training just ended. If you ask others how their studies are going, it's pointless, they haven't even started classes yet. But it's different for me. While others have just finished military training, I was selected by the school to represent the school in the first National College Student Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity Competition because of my hard work and excellent grades. This shows that my studies have been officially recognized by the school."

That's how confident top students are.

Zhou Man was taken aback for a moment, then chuckled, "Really?"

"Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, you can call Qian Ming'en, the vice dean of our School of Economics and Management. Professor Xiao has his number." Shen Kang had a clear conscience and spoke frankly.

At the same time, the voices of Wang Pan and Feng Moquan could still be heard echoing in the dormitory.

"Mr. Zheng, that's not how business is conducted. The quality of your batch of goods is indeed subpar..."

"Mr. Qin, we've been doing business together for so many years, don't you trust me anymore?...

Shen Kang's cheap old phone didn't have any background noise blocking function, so it picked up all the noise, which made Zhou Man want to laugh when she heard it on the other end.

"Judging from the voice, is that your roommate? Your dorm is really full of talented people, with all sorts of managers and executives."

Shen Kang chuckled, "There's no way around it, birds of a feather flock together, that's how it is in high-end dormitories."

After chatting with him for a bit, Zhou Man finally replied, "Military training just ended, and classes are about to start. Don't bother coming, I'll go in a couple of days."

Shen Kang could see one person on one trip, but she could see two people on one trip.