Reborn Industrial Tycoon

At the Xiangyang Town Electric Furnace Factory, Li Weidong moved a large box from the car, and then took out a box from the box. The box was full of various household appliances.

"Weidong, what are you doing? You went to the south and brought us gifts!" Wang Kaiping said with a smile.

"These are all samples, you want to buy them yourself!" Li Weidong pointed outside, and then said: "There are two more boxes in the car, let's get to work!"

After a while, Wang Kaiping and Ma Zhongyi walked in, each carrying a box, while Li Weidong had already unpacked all the packaging boxes of small household appliances.

"A hair dryer, an electric iron, an electric shaver, an electric oven, a vacuum cleaner, and a microwave oven. These are rare items and are not easily available in China," Wang Kaiping said.

"Weidong, what is this?" Ma Zhongyi pointed to a home appliance.

"This is called a shaved ice machine, specially used for making shaved ice." Li Weidong pointed to other home appliances, and then introduced: "This is a yogurt machine, this is a bread machine, and this is a coffee machine. These home appliances should be the most popular in China.

It’s invisible.”

"Why are you selling so many of these things? Are you interested in some girl and planning to marry her?" Wang Kaiping asked with a smile.

Entering the 1990s, when urbanites want to get a wife, the three major appliances, TV, refrigerator and washing machine, are standard equipment. The more other small appliances, the better. Things like hair dryers and electric irons.

, as much as possible.

Li Weidong pointed to the trademark on the packaging box and continued: "See clearly, these are Xizhi Electric products."

"Xizhi Electric? Aren't our egg steamers produced for Xizhi Electric?" Wang Kaiping frowned slightly, and then asked in a low voice: "It seems that you are planning to produce something else?"

"Brother Wang, you still understand me. I'm thinking that since we can produce egg steamers for Xizhi Electric, we can also be OEMs for Xizhi's other household appliances!

So when I went to the south this time, when I was on Hong Kong Island, I bought all kinds of household appliances from Xizhi Electric. After a while, we all took them apart to see what else we could do with our abilities.

I plan to find an opportunity to go to Japan in the near future to contact Xizhi Electric and ask them to hand over some simple household appliance orders to us.

Of course, what I bought are small household appliances, which are easier to produce, such as televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. We can’t make them even if we want to, because we don’t have the technology.” Li Weidong explained.

Li Weidong's electric furnace factory really can't make large appliances. Not only is the equipment not up to standard, but the skills of the workers are also not up to standard. Large appliances have very strict quality control requirements for products, and it is precisely because of this that Haier went big in those years.

Hammer the refrigerator.

A few people did as they were told, brought screwdrivers and began to disassemble various small household appliances.

"This hair dryer has a very simple structure, just a heating wire and a fan. We should be able to make it," Ma Zhongyi said, pointing to a freshly disassembled hair dryer.

Li Weidong walked over and took a look and said: "The heating wire and fan are trivial. The key is the motor. Brother Ma, look, this one uses a click made in Japan. It has high kinetic energy and low noise. We can't make this kind of thing in China yet."

Good thing, so if you want to OEM the hair dryer, you have to ask Xizhi Electric to provide the motor. As for other parts, you can send them to domestic manufacturers."

"We should be able to make this electric iron. The core is the heating element, but this Japanese electric iron is so light!" Wang Kaiping said from the sidelines.

Li Weidong took the electric iron over, glanced at it, and said: "The base plate of Japanese electric irons is made of aluminum alloy, which is of course light in weight. Our country's electric irons still use cast iron, not even stainless steel. In addition, this

Japanese electric irons already use thermistors to control temperature, but this thermistor still needs to be provided by Nishiki Electric."

Li Weidong sighed helplessly as he spoke. This kind of thermistor was already dominated by Chinese products in later generations. A thermistor only cost two or three cents, but in 1990, China could only rely on imports.

"Weidong, look at this electric shaver, can we do it?" Ma Zhongyi said, pointing to a double-head shaver.

"Don't underestimate the razor. It looks simple but is difficult to make. If we were to manufacture razors, the motors and cutting heads would be imported. The domestic motors would be too noisy and vibrate violently. Domestic ones

The cutter head is not durable enough. We really just make a shell for this thing." Li Weidong explained.

"Weidong, we should be able to make this shaved ice machine, right? The structure is similar to a mixer." Wang Kaiping said.

"The key to the shaved ice machine is not the structure, but the knife set, which uses special steel. Even if our country's steel-making companies can process such steel, they probably supply it to military industrial companies. So if you want to OEM the shaved ice machine

, we have to import the knife set from abroad." Li Weidong said.

After some picking and choosing, everyone suddenly discovered that none of these seemingly simple small household appliances could be independently produced by the electric stove factory. If they were to be OEMs for Xizhi, key components would have to be imported.

"We've been making trouble for a long time, but we can't produce anyone!" Ma Zhongyi said a little discouraged.

Li Weidong smiled indifferently, and then said: "We are an OEM, and we originally earn processing fees. If we can produce parts ourselves, it will of course be the icing on the cake. If we can't produce them ourselves, we can only spend money."

Money bought it.

What's more, the product supply chain originally flows with the place of production. Once we build a large enough production system, the entire supply chain will come by itself."

"Weidong, when do you plan to go to Japan?" Wang Kaiping asked.

"The sooner the better. I plan to go to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade this week and tell Ma Dexing about this matter. The procedures for going abroad are difficult to handle. If I go through it myself, it will take several months. If I go through the Department of Foreign Trade

It's much faster. If there happens to be a trade group, that would be the best. I can join the group by the way and it will save trouble to apply for a visa!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

…

Two days later, Li Weidong came to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade, found Ma Dexing, and told Ma Dexing that he planned to do OEM work for Xizhi Electric.

Ma Dexing is interested in anything that can earn foreign exchange.

Just listen to Ma Dexing say: "Although this year's foreign trade situation is much better than last year, the basis is very serious, and the international situation this year has changed a lot, which has also added a lot of variables to our foreign trade work. If we can pass the proxy

If you use the working model to earn foreign exchange, the office will definitely support it.”

"Making money is one thing. I hope to slowly train workers and improve my own skills by doing OEM work for Xizhi Electric. If I can get a big order from Xizhi Electric this time, I will have to expand the scale and make more products when I go back."

A professional foundry." Li Weidong said.

"Xizhi Electric is a large international company. How sure are you of winning their OEM order?" Ma Dexing asked.

"I'm still sure. If it were Panasonic, Sony or Hitachi, I wouldn't dare to say that, but Xizhi is different. In recent years, Xizhi has been transforming towards a higher-end industrial chain and continuing to maintain the production of small home appliances is no longer in line with Xizhi Electric.

With our corporate strategy in mind, I am confident that I can convince Xizhi Electric to hand over the production of small electrical appliances to me," Li Weidong said.

Ma Dexing nodded: "Okay, I'll ask the secretary to send you some forms this afternoon. You fill them out and prepare a few one-inch bareheaded photos to hand in. I'll apply for a visa for you here."

"So fast?" Li Weidong was slightly startled. He didn't expect Ma Dexing's efficiency to be so high.

Ma Dexing said, "You're lucky. There happens to be a foreign trade delegation from our province going to Japan. I'll just grant you a quota."

"You really get what you want!" Li Weidong thought to himself, and at the same time asked: "What kind of foreign trade group is it? Professional or comprehensive?"

"Professional." Ma Dexing then replied: "This time we are helping Huanghai Petrochemical purchase a batch of equipment, so the staff are mainly from Huanghai Petrochemical. There are five people in our office, mainly a few older comrades, um

…”

Ma Dexing showed a "you know" expression.

Li Weidong instantly understood that these five places were actually for taking the opportunity to travel.

In this type of trade mission, the official is usually responsible for the procedures, while the company is responsible for paying.

For example, contacting the Japanese side, handling visa procedures, etc. It will definitely be much smoother for the foreign trade department to handle such matters than the company itself. At the very least, a foreign trade delegation can be formed in the name of the foreign trade department so that the visa will not be stuck.

.

Enterprises have received the convenience of going abroad, so they naturally have to pay for it, such as providing several quotas for the department to go abroad, the round-trip travel expenses for these quotas, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation during the period abroad. These are all paid for by the enterprise.

The "five people who left the hall" mentioned by Ma Dexing were the five places given by Huanghai Petrochemical to go abroad.

Li Weidong was a little embarrassed when he learned that he had occupied a quota for studying abroad. He said, "Director Ma, this quota originally belongs to the office. If I take it away, will the comrades in the office have any objections?"

"If you have any opinions, you have to hold them back. You are doing serious things, not traveling around!" Ma Dexing said.

Obviously, in Ma Dexing's eyes, Li Weidong went abroad to earn foreign exchange, which was much more important than those old guys taking the opportunity to travel.

Ma Dexing is as practical as ever. As long as he can earn foreign exchange, he is a living Buddha in Ma Dexing's eyes and must be carefully worshiped. If he cannot earn foreign exchange, even the old comrades in his unit will kick him away.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said, "Director Ma, after all, the money for going abroad this time came from Huanghai Petrochemical. I used Huanghai Petrochemical's money to do things for myself, which is unreasonable. Otherwise, the money spent abroad will not be used."

I’d better pay for it myself!”

"I know that you, Director Li, are wealthy and don't need this little money. But if you pay for it yourself, it will be equivalent to adding an extra quota. Many matters of the foreign trade group will have to be rearranged. This is much more troublesome than giving you a quota directly.

"Ma Dexing explained.

"I understand." Li Weidong nodded: "Then I owe Huanghai Petrochemical a favor this time!"

Ma Dexing smiled slightly and said with a face full of ridicule: "Huanghai Petrochemical is a tens of billions project. Four hundred thousand tons of large ethylene can create tens of millions of output value for the country in one day. Do they still need your favor?"

"That's not necessarily the case!" Li Weidong shook his head and continued: "Don't forget, I can speak Japanese after all. Maybe I can help them during the negotiation! By the way, this time Huanghai Petrochemical purchased

What kind of equipment is it? Can you tell me more about it?"

"It's okay to tell you, it's plastic processing equipment." Ma Dexing continued; "Huanghai Petrochemical plans to build its own plastic product production base."

"Then this is equivalent to self-produced and self-sold, right?" Li Weidong then asked: "What equipment does Huanghai Petrochemical need to buy specifically? Injection molding machine? Extruder? Or blow molding machine?"

"Both. Huanghai Petrochemical plans to build several complete sets of plastic processing production lines. The equipment you mentioned must be purchased at least a dozen units." Ma Dexing said.

"That's a big deal." Li Weidong then asked, "Which company do you plan to purchase from?"

"This hasn't been determined yet, but we have initially identified a machinery manufacturer called Sakura Co., Ltd." Ma Dexing frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "No, it's not Sakura. What is it called Sakura?"

Li Weidong thought for a moment, and then asked in a low voice: "Could it be Sakurada Co., Ltd.?"

"Yes, Sakurada, it's Sakurada!" Ma Dexing nodded.

Li Weidong smiled slightly: "If it is really Sakurada Co., Ltd., maybe I can really help!"

…

The foreign trade department handled it personally, so the procedures for going abroad went smoothly.

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If Li Weidong went through it himself, the entire procedure might take two or three months, and he would have to go to the embassy for a visa interview.

But if it was handled by the foreign trade department, all these processes would be omitted. Within a week, Li Weidong had received his business visa for Japan.

This week, Li Weidong has not been idle. The purpose of his trip is to obtain OEM orders from Xizhi Electric, so his suitcase is full of information and samples produced by the electric furnace factory.

As for luggage such as clothes, Li Weidong only brought underwear in addition to a suit. If necessary, he could go directly to Uniqlo in Japan to buy it, which saves time, worry and effort.

On the day of departure, Li Weidong had to gather with four other people from the Foreign Trade Department, and then go to the airport to meet up with people from Huanghai Petrochemical. After both parties formed a group, they boarded the plane to Japan together.

So Li Weidong came to the Foreign Trade Department early in the morning to wait.

After a while, two men in their fifties walked over side by side carrying suitcases.

"Oh, Director Li has arrived early!" one of them shouted from a distance.

Li Weidong took a closer look and found that these two people knew each other personally. One was surnamed Tang and the other was Jiang. They were both cadres of the Department of Foreign Trade. They were the kind of middle-level leaders who were about to retire after working for a lifetime and had not been promoted.

"Director Tang, Director Jiang, you two are also going on a business trip?" Li Weidong immediately greeted them and helped them carry their luggage.

"It seems that Factory Director Li doesn't know yet. This time we are going to Japan, and there are two of us!" Director Tang smiled cheerfully, looking harmless.

"I didn't dare to ask more about the arrangements in the office, so I don't know which leaders will go to Japan this time." Li Weidong answered.

Director Jiang next to him said: "Director Li, you are so humble! We two old guys just went to Japan to see the world before retiring, unlike you, Director Li, who went to discuss business seriously."

"I'm also going to see the world, and see if I can negotiate a business deal. It's like having a date or not." Li Weidong smiled, and then asked: "Two leaders, who of you is the leader of this trade group?"

Leader?"

Director Tang shook his head: "At our level, we are not qualified to be the leader. The leader is Director Xie."

"It turns out it's him!" Li Weidong nodded.

The name of the person Director Tang mentioned was Xie Hui, a cadre at the deputy department level of the Foreign Trade Department. He was relatively old and did not have a high presence in the Foreign Trade Department. Li Weidong had also met him once before.

"I remember, didn't Mr. Xie step back to the second line last year?" Li Weidong asked in a low voice.

Director Tang replied in a low voice: "You remember correctly, he has been relegated to the second line and is now a deputy inspector. This time when I went to Japan, Huanghai Petrochemical was led by their executive deputy director. This executive deputy director

The leader is also the deputy leader of the foreign trade delegation.

After all, Huanghai Petrochemical is an enterprise at the department level. In terms of administrative level, their executive deputy director is also at the deputy department level, so we must at least send a leader of the same level as the team leader.

Several leaders in the office were quite busy, and the leader of the foreign trade group was also on an idle job, so the office simply sent Director Xie out, firstly because his level was just enough, and secondly, to take care of him.

Old comrade!"

Li Weidong nodded with sudden realization: "I understand."

While the two were talking, they saw Xie Hui walking over from a distance, and the driver beside him was helping him carry his suitcase.

After all, he is a leader. Although he has taken a back seat, he has not officially retired yet, and he still has the benefits he deserves.

Li Weidong and the other three hurriedly came forward to greet Xie Hui. Xie Hui had no airs. After all, for a leader who has retreated to the second line, no one may be willing to listen to him if he puts on airs. It is better to appear approachable and approachable, which can gain the respect of others.

"Three leaders, although I have never been to Japan, I know some Japanese. When we arrive in Japan, wherever you want to go, you three can come directly to me and I will take you there. Even if you can't find the place, you will never find it.

Lost!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

Xie Hui waved his hand: "Director Li, you are here to discuss business this time, and we don't dare to waste your time. Although we three old men don't know Japanese, some of us can!"

"Is it possible that the three leaders have already found a translator?" Li Weidong asked.

"You guessed it right. In addition to the four of us, the five people going this time also have an interpreter." Xie Hui said, looking into the distance, and then said: "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here, little

Why are you here!"

Li Weidong turned his head and looked, and a beautiful silhouette appeared in his sight.

At this moment, Li Weidong seemed to see a young version of the king of the daughter country!