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11月22日 最新消息Shenyang was mobbed today with furious ex-ant farmers, former employees of Yilishen, a media darling and one of China's most well-known brands in the health supplement market, as the company has just closed, taking the huge amounts its peasant-class employees had invested with it. The city's ant farming industry is no stranger to controversy, and neither is the company. Blog posts on the subject were quickly deleted, including most of the ones below, but a larger mass action remains scheduled for November 21. NetEase blogger ‘Heartbreak leaves no scars' relates to the incident through a November 18 post recounting a phone call with a friend that lost nearly all of her savings, ‘hurt is a kind of unspeakable pain':
One of my sisters gave me a call today, and her voice was really weak and gloomy. She said to me, ‘lil' sis, Yilishen is done in for, your sis' hopes have been smashed! I gripped the receiver with my hand and held back a sigh. I couldn't find anything pleasant to say to comfort sis. Faced with the reality of sis' two or three hundred thousand going down the drain just like that, my few flowery, superficial words of consolation, could they have sounded too limp, too weak? Because you know, for a normal person just getting by on a monthly wage, every little bit put away is like a tooth being pulled out. That was ten years of my sis' pain and effort! When you place all your money on one bet, how broad-minded would you need to be, when it all went down the drain, to just laugh and say you didn't care? I can feel what sis is feeling right now, but then I have nothing to compare it to. Until now, the only thing I can think of to say to her is: Sis, pull through! No matter what sort of ending you wind up left faced with, whether those several hundred thousand of your hard-earned yuan never come back, or if your losses will mostly be minimized, none of that is important now. Look at what you have now, at least your children have already grown up, you don't need to worry about them; at least your pension combined with your husband's will be four thousand yuan a month; at least the two of you are already over sixty, and still going strong!……..sis, look around you at all the happiness within your reach, and do those worldly possessions still seem important?
Baidu blogger dayongcom also shares a conversation with a friend in an earlier post dated Nov. 16, ‘Risk, risk…':
Today I had a chat with one friend who's an ant farmer for Yilishen, and he was an even worse mood than I was; you could say he was about to go nuts! Listening to him speak, he's obviously extremely agitated. He really is someone who truly has nothing; he lost his mother when he was still young, and his father was sick year-round, while his father was still alive the government even gave his family 'special difficulty' status, but then three years ago he lost his father too. Then the old house he lived in was relocated, I think the government gave him eighty thousand yuan, not enough to buy a new house. From there he started dating a divorced woman, and was living with her all over the place in different rented flats. She was a sales assistant, and women have an easier time finding work; for all the jobs that required higher education, there were always jobs that just went for looks; for a guy who didn't have the looks, he didn't get by so well. And he had a criminal record from somewhere, so the only thing he could find were little two-day gigs here and there. From the money he got for the relocation, except for the bit he used on living expenses, this May he put it all into Yilishen, and made do with what little he got back….then in October this year he suddenly stopped getting any back! They kept giving him the runaround, right up until November 21…..now with it not being clear where Yilishen Co. is headed, for him, is pure torture! Some people might not see that bit of money as much, it's all he has, and it's his hope for the future… if anything goes wrong with it, how's he gonna live from now on? I don't even dare imagine! Except for consoling him with a few words, there's nothing else I can do, just wish him good luck. How could there be so many brazen fraudsters in today's society?? It's just plain-out playing people, and the government just keeps one eye closed and with the other, lets these things go on…Now it's not clear where Yilishen is headed. If it gets stuck again with illegal financing, the whole country will start calling Liaoning a province of swindlers! So many pitfalls in this society…some people can fall flat a few times and still be okay. But there are others who, when they fall, face serious consequences!
‘How many ants, how much worry?' asks NetEase blogger Begging in Paradise in a Nov. 20 post:
“Ant Power” has lost its power, and [Yilishen CEO] Wang Fengyou has lost his groove. Tianxi Group Tower is about to fall. And for the past few days, the ant farmers have been paying attention to nothing but this. What tens of thousands of black ant farmers most feared has now finally happened.
… At this point in time, sympathy is of absolutely no use to me, I can only look deep inside myself….those black ant farmers have been met with a most cruel truth. How many ants? How much worry! I fully sympathize, and there's no need to keep silent. This is a hard, tormenting moment to endure. … Recently the word has been that Wang Fengyou's “Tianxi Group” has been running on dangerously low funds, and the conclusion of people's speculation and calm analysis has led them to fear daily that Wang Fengyou is in the hole, and actually getting by with the utmost difficulty, more exhausted than anyone! Anyone who only gets by by tearing the bricks off the east wall just to build the west wall, simply must have a cold and terrible life. … We can only wait and see what happens, and calmly watch how the situation develops. Not gently, judging from the photos NetEase blogger Diadora posted on the evening of Nov. 20:
Yilishen ant farmers surround the municipal and provincial Party committee building, showing their might! There were over ten thousand gathered, from Benxi, Liaoyang, Dalian, Anshan and other places. The provincial Party committee had already sent out large numbers of riot police, and the surrounding police forces have already moved in!!!
Calmly is not how most people seem to have reacted. From an anonymous and unsympathetic poster with an alleged semi-insider's view, writing on the ChinaByte forum:
Yilishen finally f*****g closed down: farmers don't get any of their hard-earned money back!
How many peasants got trapped into this…..?
Two years ago my family was farming, and so were all the neighbors and relatives around us…. Zhao Benshan is still filming his popular sitcom Liu Laogen and using it to do ads for Yilishen…
It was inevitable that Yilishen would end up here today. I worked as a manager for Yilishen for a bit more than a year, and at the time I could just not figure out why the products sold so poorly; every branch office was in debt, but yet Yilishen seemed like everything was fine, boasting around of its strong earnings. Later on I realized, it was all to keep the people in Liaoning's urban and rural areas at ease about Yilishen, to keep them digging up money to farm more ants. But this kind of spending on high-interest loan has to be paid back sooner or later, and Yilishen even had plans to list on the Hong Kong market, but then the “Viagra” incident came along and ruined that. If they'd succeeded at listing on the market in 2004, Yilishen would've been granted a 1.4 billion RMB loan and been able to leave the problem of funding ant farming behind. Only, man cannot outwit fate, and by that time Yilishen was already unable to back out, could only continue expanding its numbers of farmers, using later buyer-ins' money to pay back original farmers. Normally something like this wouldn't work in the long-term, but with the Yilishen Co.'s efforts, the government's acquiescence, the media keeping the ball rolling, and ignorant people thinking a pie'd just fallen from the sky, Yilishen ended up where it is today.
Many people are spiteful and complaining, but actually in your ignorance you did all of this to yourselves. Of course the government and media have responsibility as well, but what are you going to do to them? Only raising your awareness will lessen your chances of or stop you from getting duped at all. Yilishen knew that it wanted to keep the feelings of the people stable; just as long as the people felt that nothing was wrong at Yilishen, and they could keep going like this on the long-term. But they mustn't have studied math very well, the reality was that they would have needed exponential growth to keep on going, and this was an unattainable target. Today it finally came to a halt. I pray for those who've just gotten in!
Both alarming and inspiring is the wiki that someone has set up just to keep track of how the larger protest proceeds; an excerpt:
If Yilishen goes bankrupt, then the government will have been an accomplice! For a company that's been in operation for eight years, so much honor, so many blessings! Clearly the company's survival is directly connected to whether several million people live or die, so why doesn't the government help Yilishen pull through?! It's evident how many families stand to be split with everything lost, but the government pays no attention to whether we live or die! The government never intended to support Yilishen! By allowing it to perish on its own, the government is drinking our blood! Now they want our lives too!!!!!! The cop that hit someone today, I got his badge number down, 115951. Dudes, bring your baijiu tomorrow to fight off the cold. When we get to the provincial Party committee building, we can sit and make plans. If we drink too much then we'll fucking rip, we're all in a corner anyhow. Whoever has time tomorrow, come down, don't just sit at home and wait, this is your problem too. There is no other option. Whoever sees what I'm saying here, do everything you can to get to Shenyang, coming to Shenyang is the only road we have left. If you're saying you just want to wait at home, don't bother thinking that you'll get your money back…I think everyone pretty much knows what the situation is now, that we're not afraid of making this too big…we're afraid of making it too small. Now the government has killed all the news…
Forty days! I believe everyone has spent them in an extremely nervous state; we've been anxious for so many days already, and now they're still dragging us farmers along. We absolutely must not compromise; Yilishen never gives money back. From the beginning the government was involved (because the media and internet have all been blocking news about Yilishen, and it's only when the government is involved that this kind of situation can occur). The government wants us farmers to take the losses, this is out of the question. All of us must work together to get our hard-earned money back. Everyone has to come out tomorrow; if we don't make this big enough, if we don't draw enough attention from different parts of society, we don't get anything! We can't let the government not make Yilishen deal with us farmers; the information is in the [QQ?] group (everyone gather more). Everyone needs to let more outside media, news commentary, foreign websites and some news media in the south know about this, especially those big internet forums with heavy traffic (Mop, Sohu, Sina, ChinaNet, CYD, etc.). We all have cameras, video cameras, so bring them and record the government's ugly side. Everybody must work together, don't just sit on the fence and watch or we'll lose our money, and we'll have no way to go on! So what are you afraid of? If they don't give us back our hard-earned money, they better not even think of holding the Olympics!!!!!!!!!!! 引用通告此日志的引用通告 URL 是： http://yilishen8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A48E7807F4AD9AB!166.trak 引用此项的网络日志
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