Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 218 The Big Stick of Sanctions (Two in One Chapter)

Li Weidong is not in a hurry to purchase parts in large quantities.

In 1988, commodity prices surged, causing prices of various commodities to skyrocket across the country. The country also realized this and began to rectify the overall economic order.

By 1989, the state had adopted more resolute control measures, tightening both fiscal and credit expenditures, controlling currency issuance, controlling the scale of credit, reducing infrastructure investment, adjusting the economic structure, controlling the growth of residents' income, and suppressing the

Excessive consumer demand.

After this series of measures were taken, they did successfully curb the rise in prices and helped China survive the relatively difficult years of its economy.

Therefore, in the next two years, prices will be relatively stable, and there will be no rush in purchasing parts and components.

The next price increase will not occur until 1993, which is still four years away.

Li Weidong's next plan is to expand the electric furnace factory.

Doing labor-intensive industries requires a certain scale. The expansion of production scale can also reduce production costs. Of course, this is based on effective management.

The electric stove factory currently has more than 250 workers. Li Weidong does not think that with this number of people, he can complete the order of 400,000 toasters, so the expansion of the electric stove factory is imperative.

Li Weidong plans to build several more factories and recruit 250 more workers, bringing the size of the electric furnace factory to 500.

In the manufacturing industry, companies with more than 300 employees are considered medium-sized companies.

In order to expand the electric furnace factory, Li Weidong went to the town again and acquired several acres of land around the electric furnace factory.

The town is also very happy to see the expansion of the electric furnace factory. Firstly, the expanded electric furnace factory can generate more tax revenue; secondly, the expanded electric furnace factory will recruit more workers and solve the employment problem for the town.

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Recruiting 250 more workers means that 250 families can escape poverty and move towards wealth. Poverty alleviation is still a very important matter for the township-level government, and the town is willing to pay a lot for this.

acres of land.

…

At the same time, in the high-temperature component factory, Guo Yunyuan was talking on the phone with his colleagues.

"Hey, Lao Zhang, do you have any news about what I asked you last time? Yes, it's about an order? Oh, your factory didn't receive a big order for heating rods! Okay, I understand, thank you! Come back

Come to Qinghe, let’s have a good drink.”

Guo Yunyuan put down the phone and let out a sigh of relief.

"This Li Weidong didn't go to other manufacturers to purchase heating rods! He is really calm." Guo Yunyuan said to himself.

400,000 toasters require at least 2.4 million heating rods, which is a huge order for any manufacturer that produces high-temperature components.

As for any manufacturer that receives such a huge order, there is no way to hide it. Guo Yunyuan only needs to make a few calls to know who has received the large order for heating rods.

Nowadays, various high-temperature component manufacturers have not received orders for heating rods, which means that Li Weidong did not go to other manufacturers to buy heating rods.

This is both good and bad for Guo Yunyuan. The good news is that the order for 2.4 million heating rods is still there.

The bad news is that Li Weidong can really keep his composure and has no intention of compromising until now.

"This young man, why is he so stubborn? You have already won hundreds of millions of orders, so what if you give me more than two million in profits?" Guo Yunyuan said to himself.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door and his men walked in.

"Mr. Guo, the person I sent to Xiangyang Town Electric Furnace Factory to inquire about information is back." His subordinate said.

"What's the situation at the electric furnace factory? Without our heating rods, they shouldn't be able to continue production, right?" Guo Yunyuan asked.

The subordinate nodded: "The electric furnace factory is not producing, and looking at the situation, they won't be able to produce it within this month."

"Posture? What posture?" Guo Yunyuan asked.

"The electric furnace factory is building a factory, and more than 200 strong laborers have left several villages in Xiangyang Town. Adding the original workers in their factory, there will be almost four to five hundred people working there. I estimate that five

I won’t be able to finish the work in a month.” His subordinates said.

"With an order for 400,000 toasters in hand, instead of producing them, we are building a factory. What kind of trick is this?" Guo Yunyuan suddenly became confused.

…

When building houses in rural areas, you don’t need to hire a professional construction team. You can directly recruit a large group of farmers to build a house.

At that time, farmers in the countryside knew some construction work, such as cement and cement, bricklaying, tile laying, carpentry, etc. Although they were not very proficient in these construction site tasks, they still knew a little bit about them.

The workers in the electric furnace factory are all farmers, and working on construction sites is not a problem for them. Since there are no production tasks in the factory, everyone is happy to go to the construction site to move bricks and earn an extra salary.

The earliest generation of migrant workers in China had quite simple values. As long as they had a job, many of them were fine. They could work in a factory or move bricks on a construction site. They were all selling their labor anyway. As long as they could make money, they didn't care about the job at all.

In future generations, it would be impossible to arrange workers on the assembly line to move bricks, even if they were paid!

Those young men who came to work in factories in later generations were asked three questions in a quiz on the front line of the factory: Do you have night shifts in your factory? How many female workers are there in your factory? Do you have WIFI in your dormitory? What? There is no WIFI in the dormitory? Who do you want to find?

Who are you looking for? I won’t serve you anymore! Leave!

…

Ma Zhongyi was supervising the work on the construction site, but was called into the office by Li Weidong.

When he arrived at the door of the office, Ma Zhongyi did not enter the door. Instead, he patted the dust off his body with a towel and at the same time asked inside: "Weidong, what do you want from me?"

"Brother Ma, come in quickly and sign." Li Weidong pointed to a document in front of him.

Ma Zhongyi walked into the room, picked up the pen, and was about to sign when he saw the words "Equity Transfer Agreement" written in the title of the document.

Ma Zhongyi looked at the content again, his expression suddenly changed, and he asked: "Weidong, what do you mean?"

"Brother Ma, you built this electric furnace factory bit by bit, and the daily production depends entirely on you. Just accept these 3% shares!" Li Weidong said.

"No, I can't take this share! You paid for this electric furnace factory to be built, you produced the products, and you found the sales. After all, I haven't done anything, so how can I take your shares?

"

Ma Zhongyi shook his head and continued: "And you also paid me a salary, a salary of several hundred dollars a month, and a bonus for completing a batch of orders. It is more than what our mayor earns! I also bought it

I have a motorcycle, and my home is equipped with a color TV, refrigerator, and washing machine. I am quite satisfied."

"Brother Ma, you are indeed not very involved in the management of the company, but the production of the company is all maintained by you. For this alone, you have to take shares!" Li Weidong advised.

"Isn't this what I should do! Besides, I, Ma Zhongyi, don't have much ability, so I can only manage production. With the little work I do, it's not worth you giving me shares." Ma Zhongyi continued to refuse.

"Brother Ma, look at Wang Kaiping, didn't he also take 3% of the shares? Your contribution to the factory is no less than that of Wang Kaiping, so it is natural for you to take 3% of the shares."

Li Weidong paused and then said: "Wang Kaiping is my father's apprentice. I regard him as a brother, and he also regards me as a brother. I gave him the lonely grave in the factory, which can be regarded as sharing the blessings and sufferings."

Brother Ma, have we been together for two years, right? Li Weidong treats you as a brother. If you treat me, Li Weidong, as a brother, you will take these 3% shares!"

When the words came to this, Ma Zhongyi felt his heart heat up. Ma Zhongyi was originally a person who valued emotions and loyalty. Since Li Weidong regarded him as his brother, what else could he say?

So Ma Zhongyi picked up the pen and signed his name on the "Equity Transfer Agreement."

…

Although Ma Zhongyi is a farmer, he is definitely the number one capable person in Xiangyang Town. After a period of observation, Li Weidong found that Ma Zhongyi is a responsible person, fair in dealing with things, and loyal. The workers are very convinced of Ma Zhongyi

.And Ma Zhongyi also managed the electric furnace factory in an orderly manner, and there was no problem with his ability.

With a personality like Ma Zhongyi's, he cannot become an excellent entrepreneur, but he is definitely a good factory manager. Li Weidong lacks such a talent.

As far as factory management is concerned, the United States, Europe and Japan all have scientific management models. In the 1980s and 1990s, Japanese business management was highly respected. Many management-related courses used the management model of Japanese companies as the basis.

Cases and research objects.

However, scientific management is aimed at workers with a certain level of literacy. If the workers are illiterate or nearly illiterate, the so-called advanced management methods in developed countries are basically useless.

To manage a group of farmers with low levels of education, they have to rely on managers from rural areas like Ma Zhongyi. At this stage, it is impossible for Li Weidong to find a more senior manager.

Based on China's national conditions at that time, Li Weidong would need to rely on these workers with low educational levels for a long time in the future, and he would also need to rely on people like Ma Zhongyi for management.

Therefore, for the future development of the company, Li Weidong must also take Ma Zhongyi under his command. The best way to win over talents is naturally to give away shares. This method has been used for hundreds of years since the establishment of firms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and

Tried and true.

Looking at Ma Zhongyi signing his name on the "Equity Transfer Agreement", Li Weidong smiled slightly and said, "Brother Ma, from now on, you are also the boss of our factory, and this electric furnace factory will become ours."

It’s my own business!”

"Weidong, when you say this, you treat me as an outsider, don't you?" Ma Zhongyi said jokingly.

Li Weidong then said: "Brother Ma, since this is our own business, I have a few heartfelt words, and I will say them here."

Ma Zhongyi knew that Li Weidong was going to say something important, so he immediately put on a serious face.

Li Weidong continued: "Brother Ma, after the new factory is built, our factory will still need to recruit workers. I have promised the town that this time we will only recruit people from the villages in Xiangyang Town, and not from other towns. What do you think about each of them?"

Everyone in the village knows better that you are responsible for the recruitment of workers.

When the time comes, try to pick some honest people. It doesn't matter if they are less educated. As long as they are willing to obey and work hard, we don't want those who are sneaky and sneaky. Also, I guess someone will definitely come to you and use the back door. When the time comes, you

We have to keep a close eye on them. If they are really capable of working, we will keep them. If they want to mess around, we will kick them out as soon as possible!"

Ma Zhongyi nodded seriously: "Weidong, don't worry about this. I'm very familiar with people from all over the country. In which village, who is a lazy man and who is a bastard, I will know everything if you ask.

When the time comes, we will never let people who are just pretending to be fake come into our factory!"

Li Weidong then ordered: "One more thing. In the future, the scale of our factory will become larger. I'm afraid you won't be able to take care of all aspects. Look at the old employees to see if there are any who are smarter and can convince others. Pick a few.

Give them a promotion and let them start working for you. It's time for us to start building a management team."

"Okay, I do have a few suitable candidates there. I will take a closer look later and select a few people." Ma Zhongyi replied.

…

In the blink of an eye, it’s early June, and it’s time to grow pawns.

Guo Yunyuan has been waiting for an order from the electric furnace factory. However, after waiting for a month, Li Weidong showed no sign of compromise.

Throughout May, the electric furnace factory has been busy building a new factory building, and production has been completely put aside.

Guo Yunyuan wondered if Li Weidong had forgotten the 400,000-unit toaster order. Guo Yunyuan even wanted to call personally to remind Li Weidong that not one of your 400,000-unit toaster was produced yet!

Finally, Guo Yunyuan couldn't hold back his anger. After all, this was an order for 2.4 million heating rods. If he won this order, it would be enough for the high-temperature component factory to be popular for a while.

So Guo Yunyuan came to Xiangyang Town Electric Furnace Factory in person.

However, the door of the electric furnace factory was closed tightly, there was no sound inside, and it seemed extremely quiet.

"Didn't you say that a new factory is being built? Why is there no movement?" Guo Yunyuan got out of the car, walked to the door, and looked inside through the crack in the door.

"Woof woof woof woof..." A sound of dog barking came. When Gray Tou and Tulian heard someone outside, they barked wildly at the gate.

Although the two rice dogs didn't eat enough, they were still unambiguous when guarding the door.

Hearing the barking of the dog, the caretaker walked out of the concierge carrying a pipe and a pot.

"Who are you looking for?" the gatekeeper said to Guo Yunyuan outside the crack of the door.

The pungent smell of dry smoke immediately gave Guo Yunyuan a feeling of suffocation. It was so overwhelming!

Guo Yunyuan took a step back and then said, "I'm from a high-temperature component factory and I'm here to see you, Director Li!"

"Director Li is not here." The gatekeeper shook his head.

"You can also ask the director of the horse factory." Guo Yunyuan continued.

"Director Ma is not here either," the gatekeeper replied.

"What about Accountant Wang?" Guo Yunyuan continued to ask.

"Accountant Wang is not here either!" the gatekeeper replied.

Guo Yunyuan was a little discouraged, so he had to ask: "Who are the managers in your factory?"

"No more!" the gatekeeper continued; "Besides me, only people from the security department are on duty."

"Where is that person?" Guo Yunyuan paused, then asked: "Is your factory closed down?"

"Your factory has just closed down!" the gatekeeper angrily said, "Everyone in the factory has gone back to the village to harvest wheat during the holidays, and they won't be back until next week at the earliest!"

Guo Yunyuan looked confused again!

"What's the situation? Go back to the village to harvest wheat? Don't you want to engage in production? That's an order of more than 20 million US dollars! Don't you plan to take it? How much wheat can you buy with more than 20 million US dollars? You have to pay 2,000 dollars just to harvest wheat.

Even if you don’t care about tens of thousands of dollars, you can’t tell what is more important or less important?

We don’t arrange production at this time and let the workers go home to harvest wheat during the holidays. Is this Li Weidong a fool? How did such a fool go to the Canton Fair? How did he get a foreign trade order worth 20 million US dollars? It’s so easy for foreigners these days

Is it a lie?

Even if Li Weidong is a fool, isn't Ma Zhongyi also a fool? And that accountant Wang, a person who settles accounts is not a fool, right? Why don't they give some advice! Oh my god, what on earth is this?

What kind of factory!”

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The first weekend after the Dragon Boat Festival.

Li Weidong got up from the bed, washed up and came to the dining table. He picked up a rice dumpling and looked at the knot on it. He put it back with some disgust. Then he picked up the second rice dumpling and looked at the rope as well.

Knot and put it back again.

"Mom, why are these rice dumplings made of bean paste and no candied dates?" Li Weidong shouted.

"There were two candied dates, and they must have been eaten by your brother." Zhou Yunxiu's voice sounded.

"Hey, the red bean paste is not as sweet as the candied dates." Li Weidong picked up the red bean paste and meat rice dumplings in disgust and reluctantly peeled off the leaves.

Zhou Yunxiu came over with a small plate of sugar and said, "If it's not sweet, just dip it in sugar and eat it."

Li Weidong suddenly smiled when he saw a plate of white sugar. The sticky glutinous rice dipped in white sugar is still very delicious, no worse than candied date rice dumplings.

Li Weidong was eating rice dumplings when his phone suddenly rang.

A big boss like Li Weidong must install a telephone in his home. At that time, installing a telephone cost 3,000 yuan, which was equivalent to two years' salary of an ordinary worker. Most families could not afford to install a telephone.

Li Weidong wiped his hands, walked to the phone and answered it.

"Hello, is this Director Li?" the other party asked.

"It's Ma Chu!" Li Weidong continued: "Didn't you have any rest during this big weekend? They all came to my house. What are your instructions?"

"I don't have time to rest now! Something big has happened!" Ma Dexing said.

"What was supposed to come has indeed come!" Li Weidong thought to himself, but he asked knowingly: "Director Ma, what happened?"

"The West, led by the United States, wants to sanction us!" Ma Dexing said.

"Another sanctions? The imperialists are determined to destroy us! We must resolutely fight imperialism to the end!" Li Weidong said sonorously and forcefully.

"Why do I hear you gloating about your misfortune?" Ma Dexing said.

"How dare I!" Li Weidong chuckled and continued, "I am just a common man, and I have never been a soldier. I am not even a reserve. Even if there is a war, it will not be my turn to go first! Of course, if the country needs it,

If I go to the battlefield, I will definitely fight the invaders to the end without any hesitation!"

"Director Li, don't think that this sanction has nothing to do with you! Do you know that this Western sanction is all-round, not just political, but also economic, technological, agricultural and other fields. In terms of international trade

We must also suspend it! The news I have received now is that the products shipped from our country to the United States can no longer pass the customs there!" Ma Dexing said.

"It's so serious! Wouldn't the trade between the two countries be interrupted?" Li Weidong continued to ask knowingly.

"Not only that, the U.S. customs won't let our products in, which means all the orders we signed with Americans are invalidated. Many U.S. traders have already started to return goods!"

Ma Dexing continued anxiously: "If I remember correctly, you signed an order of 22 million US dollars at the Canton Fair, right? 16 million of which was for toasters and 6 million for air fryers!

I just want to ask you, are you panicking now?"

"Have Wal-Mart and Costo also come to return goods?" Li Weidong asked immediately.

"Not really, but it should be soon. Both Walmart and Costo are American companies and will definitely comply with U.S. sanctions," Ma Dexing said.

"This is really bad news. The business worth more than 22 million US dollars seems to be ruined!" Li Weidong said calmly.

"Isn't it going to be bad? I'm so anxious! I'm so anxious that I have two blisters on my lips!" Ma Dexing changed his voice and continued: "That's not right. From your tone, it seems that you are not anxious at all!

"

"I'm anxious too." Li Weidong's tone remained calm.

"I didn't hear why you were anxious!" Ma Dexing replied.

"It's like this. I just finished eating the rice dumplings. There is a saying here that if you just finished eating the rice dumplings, you can't be anxious or angry, otherwise your intestines will stick together." Li Weidong replied.

"Director Li, I think you are really not in a hurry at all! At this time, you are still thinking about whether to eat rice dumplings and worry about sticking your intestines? How big a family fortune do you have? Two thousand

An order worth two million U.S. dollars was converted into more than 100 million yuan and is about to be gone!" Ma Dexing said angrily.

"The sanctions imposed by the West are like when it rains and my mother wants...well...right, this kind of thing is not something I can decide. Is there any use in hurrying?"

Li Weidong originally wanted to say, "My mother is going to get married," but the old man Li Dengke was walking out of the bathroom. Li Weidong thought to himself, if he said that his mother was going to get married in front of his father, would the old man slap him twice, so he quickly stopped.

Stop talking.

On the phone, Ma Dexing became more and more anxious. He said: "You are really big-hearted. With a loss of more than 100 million, is it useful to just say 'worry'? This loss is not your money! You drank too much.

Or I’ve read too much of Li Bai’s “Journey into the Wine”, and I really thought I’d come back after all the money I spent!”

"Look what you said, what did I drink this early in the morning?" Li Weidong smiled and then said: "Director Ma, you can think about it from another angle. If a foreign businessman does not want the goods, it is a breach of contract. A breach of contract.

If so, the deposit paid by the foreign businessman will be ours! This is money earned in vain!"

"Deposit? How much can it be? Can it be worth an order of more than 20 million?" Ma Dexing said disdainfully.

"Director Ma, the contract I signed between Wal-Mart and Costo has a 50% deposit. In other words, the business of 22 million yuan has earned 11 million yuan in vain. I think this is quite a lot. Hey, Ma

Director, are you listening?" Li Weidong said.

On the other side of the phone, Ma Dexing fell into a long silence.

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