Rebirth of the Wild Age

It happened that Song Qizhi was developing sales channels in the Northeast. During the long-distance call, Song Weiyang asked his elder brother to go to Lu Province to explore the road.

Song Qizhi quickly sent back news that because "Chen sold out" was the first local leader to shout out the slogan of selling out state-owned enterprises, the whole country was shocked and the disturbance was too great. Now it is being investigated in detail by the central investigation team. Enterprises dare not sell, and it is difficult to sell to internal employees, let alone sell to private individuals. Moreover, the official reputation of "Chen Selling Guang" in the local area is mixed, and some ordinary workers hate it very much. Song Qizhi does not recommend investing in that place.

Even Song Qizhi complained on the phone that it was difficult to expand the sales channels of canned food in Lu Province.

The national canned food industry is in a period of recession, but Lu Province is frantically building new factories. Most of these new canneries are operated as family workshops, and the factories can even be built directly with a grass shed. In the event of a fire, they will definitely be burned to the ground, and the production safety is almost zero.

But the cans here are selling well because the production costs and shipping costs are super low. Small workshops wantonly produce counterfeit products, focusing on the rural market, and also appear in some big cities. All regular canneries are forced to die.

Song Qizhi also said that due to the good sales of Xifeng canned food, there are now fake Xifeng canned food everywhere in Lu Province. Distributors here are also unwilling to do business with authentic products, and they all sell counterfeit products, because the profits are extremely high, and authentic Xifeng canned food can only be sold in two or three big cities in Lu Province.

It is impossible to win a lawsuit. Counterfeit canned food has become a pillar industry in some counties, and local governments are helping to sell it, and even export it to Southeast Asia.

Song Qizhi suggested: "I think we should give up the market in Lu Province. It's too scary here. Not to mention our foreign brands, even Lu Province's own canning factory has been killed. There is a small town called Pingyi, The whole town is making canned food, with a total population of only tens of thousands. There are hundreds of large and small canning workshops. And we don’t want to advertise in Lu Province, it’s all for those counterfeit workshops. When we advertise, they sell Counterfeit, too bad!"

Speaking of Pingyi, Song Weiyang finally had the impression that it was the home of Zhonghai Food Company.

The famous Zhonghai Foods Company in the future is now a small workshop, and the fortune history of its founder is very interesting.

There is a story in the United States, San Francisco set off a gold rush. A certain person does not pan for gold when he comes here, but specializes in punting ferry business. Whether it is a person who comes to pan for gold, or a person who leaves after panning for gold, all have to take his ferry. So he gradually started a transportation company and became a millionaire as a result.

The boss of China Overseas Foods is also like this. Since there are canning workshops everywhere in the area, he finds another way, instead of making canned food, he borrows 9,000 yuan and buys a second-hand machine tool, specializing in the production of canned bottle caps. Until the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, more than 300 canning enterprises in the town died and only more than 60 remained. China Shipping took advantage of the trend to merge and integrate, stepping on the corpses of countless factories and growing rapidly.

Song Weiyang gets a headache when he thinks about it, Pingyi Town, the future No. 1 canned food town in China, the annual output of canned food in one town accounts for one-third of the national canned food output.

"Do you want to give up the canned food market in Lu Province?" Song Qizhi asked again.

"Give up," Song Weiyang suddenly had an idea, and asked with a smile, "Since a large number of regular canning factories in Lu Province have been forced to death, it is just right to merge a large factory, and it is the kind that has independent export rights."

Song Qizhi was surprised and said, "Should we export it now? We have no way out."

"It's not about exporting right away, but it can be used as a pavement for the future," Song Weiyang explained. "First take down the factory and use it exclusively for the production of iced black tea drinks."

The canning factory is very close to the beverage factory. Not only does it have a large number of skilled workers, but some of the machines can still be used. Wahaha, it only developed rapidly after the "Snake Tunxiang" ate the Linzhou Cannery. The transformation of the cannery into a beverage factory was very easy.

The well-known Huiyuan Group in the future was also a canning factory two years ago, and it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Zhu Xinli was the deputy director of the County Foreign Economic and Economic Commission at the time. He read the news of the great man's southern tour in the newspaper, and immediately applied for transfer to the worst enterprise in the county, so he was transferred to the canning factory as the factory director.

The factory has not paid wages for three years, and the workers make a living by working as loaders for a nearby cement factory. Zhu Xinli used his relationship with the Foreign Economic and Economic Commission to contact foreign companies for compensation trade, signed an order of more than 8 million US dollars in one go, and hired a German food engineer. The monthly salary of the German engineer is equivalent to the sum of the annual salary of all the workers in the factory.

With the help of German engineers, Zhu Xinli has achieved the international level of product quality. Immediately afterwards, the fruit juice was brought to Europe for exhibiting. The foreign businessman tested more than 50 indicators and was very satisfied with the product, so he got a stable export order.

It took only one and a half years before and after, and this broken cannery has grown rapidly.

This is an era of trendsetters, heroes come forth in large numbers, as long as they have vision and ability, they can show their strengths.

Hearing Song Weiyang's opinion, Song Qizhi didn't inquire carefully, but said, "That's okay, I'll investigate around Lu Province, if there is a suitable factory, I'll contact you first, and discuss with you while talking."

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20 days later, Song Qizhi sent a message that he had taken a fancy to Linzi Cannery.

The cannery was established nine years ago, so its qualifications are not old. But it used to be very popular, and it was a star enterprise in Lu Province, but it was squeezed out by various small canning workshops and went bankrupt last year. When it went bankrupt, it still owed more than 10 million yuan in foreign debts, and no one was willing to buy the land, factory buildings and machinery, so it had to be left there to grow grass after half a year.

Song Qizhi said: "This factory used to have the right to export independently, but now it has been taken back. But the local government promised that as long as we accept it, it will definitely help restore the right to export independently."

"What other conditions?" Song Weiyang asked.

"15 million, buy the whole factory, and use the money to repay the bank debts," Song Qizhi said with a smile, "and there are no remaining problems, because the factory went bankrupt last year."

Song Weiyang said: "Press the price to 10 million."

Song Qizhi asked: "Can it be suppressed? When the factory went bankrupt, the money owed to the bank alone was more than 10 million."

Song Weiyang said: "If we don't buy it, then the more than 10 million will be dead debts. The bank will definitely be happy to give 10 million."

"That's fine, I'll try my best to counter-offer him to 8 million first, and talk slowly." Song Qizhi laughed.

"Where are the original workers in the factory?" Song Weiyang asked again.

"Those who were related were resettled to other enterprises, and those who were not related were all laid off," Song Qizhi said. "Yesterday I also saw some workers making a fuss. It seems that the resettlement compensation for laid-off workers was not enough."

Song Weiyang said: "Okay, this is the one, and we will try to negotiate it in early April."

Song Qizhi said: "We will definitely be able to negotiate. The local government is already in a hurry, and the bank is even more anxious than the government."

There is a factory in the southwest, and a factory in Lu Province. After the iced black tea is sold well, a factory will be set up in Guangdong Province. These three factories can basically cover the whole country, and if the supply exceeds the demand, we can only find someone to do it.

In fact, it is time to open a branch factory in Guangdong Province.

In fact, the funds are enough, and if not enough, you can borrow money. The problem is that there are not enough talents, and there is a shortage of management talents at the headquarters. It is already the limit to take care of a branch factory in Shandong Province. Opening another branch will definitely lead to chaotic management.

One of the reasons why Rising Sun was finished was because of the indiscriminate opening of branch factories. Dozens of branch factories spread out quickly, and all of them were transferred from the headquarters to be the top leaders. The average educational level of the management of each factory has not yet reached junior high school, making countless ridiculous jokes, and even the dealers have to rely on the leaders of the branch factories relation. Those who have close relationships and send more money can get more goods, and sell expired drinks when the supply is insufficient. The nepotism inside each branch factory is even more chaotic.

A group of people who have not graduated from junior high school manage a large company with a market value of billions, which is simply a disaster.

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Just after hanging up the phone, Chen Tao knocked on the door suddenly and came in: "Chairman, there is news from the Institute of Light and Chemical Engineering. They have developed the first batch of formulas. I would like you to go over and check them out."

"So fast? It hasn't been a month since they came back from Hong Kong City." Song Weiyang was a little surprised.