Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

Speaking of Bac Ninh Meat Factory, everyone around Bac Ninh knows it.

In the 1970s and 1980s, this state-owned enterprise was very powerful.

Beining Meat Factory is affiliated to Beining No.2 Shang.

It is responsible for the meat supply of the entire Bac Ninh and surrounding areas.

The Meat Factory not only has a slaughtering plant, but also a meat processing plant. It is an old state-owned enterprise with nearly a thousand employees.

But as the times reached the mid-to-late 1980s, its life was not so easy.

During the reform and opening up process in Bac Ninh, many small meat processing workshops emerged at the historic moment, occupying a large part of the market.

The only ones that can make a profit now are slaughterhouses.

This is due to national policy.

According to the country's slaughter management regulations, all commercial pigs sold by farmers must be delivered to the slaughterhouse, and pork sales points directly operated by supply and marketing cooperatives and meat joint factories must be wholesaled from the slaughterhouse, otherwise it is illegal.

If the industry and commerce find out, they will be punished.

Under such protection, pigs raised by farmers around Bac Ninh must be sold to slaughterhouses unless they are eaten by themselves.

Other meat sales outlets must also wholesale pork here.

This ensures its profits.

But other processing plants, apart from processing sausages and kielbasa, don't have much to offer.

The state-owned enterprise has reached the point where it has borrowed money to pay wages.

Shen Yang took Lu Changhua to the Second Commercial Bureau of Beining City first.

The director of the Second Commercial Bureau was very familiar with Shen Yang. The two shook hands and exchanged greetings for a while, then introduced Lu Changhua, and then talked about the purpose of their visit.

"Oh? Meat factory. This is one of the most troublesome enterprises for us now."

Director Shang Guoqiang sighed, poured hot tea for the two of them, and then they started chatting.

"There are two branches below the meat factory, one is a slaughtering plant and the other is a processing plant."

"The slaughterhouse can barely pay wages, but the processing plant can't. Now they only work for half a year, and they have to borrow money to pay wages."

"So far, we have borrowed 800,000 from the bureau. If we don't change it, we won't be able to afford it."

"How about we go to the scene and have a look?"

Shen Yang suggested.

"Okay, I'll give them a call."

Shang Guoqiang made a call and asked the director and secretary of the meat factory to wait in the office.

The two jeeps headed towards the Bac Ninh Meat Factory.

The meat factory is far away from the city, to the east of Qinghua Tool Factory.

This is a down-and-out place, and the smell of the slaughterhouse will not be blown into the city by the wind.

A gravel road leads directly from the edge of Qinghua Tool Factory to the Meat Factory.

The meat factory occupies a very large area.

The processing plant not only has a processing workshop, but also a cold storage. The slaughtering plant is further east.

The jeep arrived directly at the gate of the meat factory.

When the guard saw it was two jeeps, he let them through.

As soon as you enter, you will see a big courtyard.

There is a circle of poplar trees planted around the courtyard, each of which is tall and lush, reaching a height of more than ten meters.

A bungalow more than fifty meters long is located on the north side of the yard.

The jeep drove directly here and stopped at the door.

There were two people standing at the door, one tall, one short, one thin and one fat.

Shang Guoqiang got out of the jeep in front, and the two of them walked a few steps closer to shake hands with Director Shang and exchange greetings.

As soon as Shen Yang and Lu Changhua got off the bus, Director Shang brought them over and introduced them.

"This is Director Shen from the Provincial General Office, and this is Lu Changhua, Xiao Lu, our young entrepreneurs from Beining."

"Oh, welcome, welcome."

The tall, thin, middle-aged man is Zhou Wei, the secretary of the meat factory, and the short, fat one is the factory director, Zheng Qiang.

Both of them were worried about the unexpected visit from the Bureau today.

The Second Commercial Bureau has long been clamoring to reform the meat factory. However, in the past two years, there have been too many units that need reform, and it is not their turn yet, so the two of them just muddle along.

In fact, the two of them had already discussed the future of the meat factory.

If it needs to be changed or moved, they will find a way to raise money and contract out the meat processing factory.

Before this happens, this meat factory will never be profitable.

This is what they calculated.

Processing factories that had little business to begin with, under their control, cut operations by half and borrowed money from the bureau to pay wages.

"Let's go to the workshop first."

"Okay, let's go to the workshop first."

Zhou Wei and Zheng Qiang led the way first, while Shang Guoqiang followed with Shen Yang and Lu Changhua.

There was no one in the processing workshop, and there were flies flying on several pieces of machinery and equipment.

Looking at these equipments, many are rusty.

There is a putrid smell in the workshop.

Shang Guoqiang's face looked ugly, and Shen Yang also frowned.

Zhou Wei and Zheng Qiang coughed awkwardly and pretended not to see it.

Lu Changhua walked around the workshop and found nothing to see.

The mechanical equipment is also very simple.

It's a grinder, a mixer, a sausage machine, etc.

As for the canning production equipment he wanted, there was no such equipment.

The workshop is quite large, covering six to seven hundred square meters.

It's just that the factory building is a bit old and it's not a sterile workshop.

The workshop is connected to a large refrigerated warehouse.

This cold storage is not turned on and there is a smell inside.

"How long has it been since we started working?"

Shen Yang asked.

"Well, it's been more than half a year."

Several people visited several workshops and the situation was basically similar.

They returned to the office.

Let Zheng Qiang introduce the details of the meat factory.

"Our meat joint factory has three processing workshops with an area of ​​2,000 square meters, six warehouses, three normal temperature warehouses and three cold storages."

"There are three food refrigeration trucks and 460 employees."

"How many administrative staff are there?"

Lu Changhua suddenly asked.

"Uh, let Secretary Zhou answer this."

"Ahem, there are quite a lot of administrative staff. There are eighty-three people. Mainly office, labor, logistics, and workshop management."

No one present spoke.

Everyone knows that there are too many non-production personnel.

"How many retirees are there?"

Shen Yang asked.

"There are 648 retirees in the entire meat processing plant."

"Where's the slaughterhouse?"

"This is the number of retirees in the entire factory."

Zhou Wei quickly explained.

"How many employees are there?"

"There are two hundred and eighty people in the slaughterhouse."

“What products do we have now?”

"There are sausages, but they are all discontinued."

After understanding the situation, Shang Guoqiang did not want to stay here and left with Shen Yang and the others.

Zhou Wei and Zheng Qiang both let out a sigh of relief and finally got over it.

This is the current situation of state-owned enterprises.

There is a large proportion of management personnel, few front-line personnel, many retired personnel, and few active personnel.

How can an enterprise develop with such a burden on the enterprise?!

Returning to the Second Commercial Bureau, Shang Guoqiang felt heavy.

"You have also seen that the meat factory is no longer able to operate normally."

"Comrade Xiao Lu, are you interested in contracting?"

"Haha, Director Shang, how can I contract with such a company's current situation?"

"Yes, I also know that this situation is indeed difficult, but we can sign a contract as long as these employees can pay their wages."

"Director Shang, the burden is too heavy, the pressure is too great, and the interpersonal relationships here are complicated. I really have no confidence."

Lu Changhua was originally interested in contracting or joint venture, but now it seems that it would be better to build a new factory.

Not to mention anything else, just these two secretaries and factory directors, as long as they don't leave, Lu Changhua will not be able to command people movingly!

Besides, as a self-employed person, I would never be able to make sense of being mixed up with such a state-owned unit.

I had no intention of taking advantage of the country, so why did I do this?!

"Xiao Lu, I think it's really not suitable for you to contract. Can you consider leasing?"

Shen Yang suggested.

"Lease? What's the leasing law?"

Director Shang asked.

"It means leasing the premises of the Meat Factory to Xiao Lu, and letting Xiao Lu use the workshop and so on, and he will pay the rent. As for the employees, if there are suitable ones, they can use them, and if they are not suitable, forget it."

"Xiao Lu doesn't have to bear so much pressure. Anyway, your workshops and warehouses are idle. If they are idle, they are idle. Wouldn't it be better to rent them to him?"

Hiss~

Director Shang took a deep breath.

He originally thought about asking Xiao Lu to come and revitalize the meat factory, but he didn't know that he was unwilling to do so.

He also understood Lu Changhua, and he wouldn't have paid to suffer.

"Xiao Lu, what do you think?"

Shen Yang looked at Lu Changhua.

"It depends on what Director Shang wants."

"I don't have any objections. As Director Shen said, it's empty anyway, and you'll still get some rent if you rent it out. As for the other things, we'll talk about it later."

Lu Changhua feels that it is cost-effective to rent a factory and workshop, and the limited funds can be used in other aspects, which is a good thing.

But the specifics will depend on the circumstances of the negotiations.

"Director Shang, I will go back and discuss it with my family. Your bureau also needs to have a charter. We will discuss it in detail in a few days. What do you think?"

"Okay, let's discuss it in detail next week."

Both parties left their phone numbers.

Lu Changhua invited Shang Guoqiang to have dinner at Boiling Fish Village.

The old businessman agreed with a smile and said he would be there in the evening.

Shen Yang and Lu Changhua stood up and said goodbye.

On the way, Shen Yang asked: "Xiao Lu, are you unwilling to rent?"

"Leaders are not unwilling, but they are afraid of resistance."

"Look at their current situation. The secretary and factory director have turned the company into this state. They are still going their own way without taking any measures to turn things around. This speaks volumes."

"What's the problem?"

Shen Yang asked with a smile.

"Either they have the intention to transfer Paipai Butt and leave, or they have other agendas."

"Well, that's what it means."

Shen Yang nodded.

"You said Lao Shang didn't see it?"

Lu Changhua asked curiously.

"Haha, it is their principle not to tell the truth when you see it. Who is the fool these days?!"

"Actually, their current advantages are factories and workshops, as well as skilled workers, and nothing else is good."

"If I had enough funds, I wouldn't want to mess with them at all."

"You, then just take advantage of him. This can be discussed!"

The two of them galloped towards Boiling Fish Village.