Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 380 The Face of an Authentic Capitalist (Thank you for subscribing)

After the lecture, Uncle He planned to take time to have a meal with Li Weidong and find out how Li Weidong became so favored by the leader.

However, before Uncle He had time to make an appointment with Li Weidong, Li Weidong had already left the capital and returned to Qinghe.

Li Weidong must seize the time to arrange mass production of massage chairs.

The massage chair is a good product. Of course, Li Weidong can't just let Mr. He enjoy it alone, he has to let the general public enjoy it.

Another important reason is that now is the 1990s, the decade when health care products are the easiest to make money. Of course, Li Weidong wants to take advantage of this trend, make a lot of money, and also establish his own brand.

China's health care products began in 1985, when a professor of genetics developed a 851 nutritional solution, which kicked off the development of China's health care product marketing.

The late 1980s to the mid-1990s was the first period of rapid development of China's health care products industry. At this stage, due to the high profits and relatively low technical barriers of health care products, as well as loose policies, various

Various health products are proliferating across the country.

There are more than 3,000 companies in the country that produce oral liquids alone. There are also not a few who have become billionaires by selling sugar water.

Starting from the 851 nutrient solution, domestic health care products have experienced the heyday of the Sun God, the rapid expansion of the three empires, the sudden rise of the King of Hearts, the health crisis of the wife, the salty fish turnaround of Melatonin, and the overcoming of Amway and Nutrilite. Leek has been

Cut after wave after wave.

It was not until the country promulgated the "Measures for the Administration of Health Food" and began to vigorously rectify the health food industry that this wave of health food trends stopped slightly, and China's health food industry also entered a decade of low ebb.

After 2005, consumers have become increasingly rational and pay more attention to quality, brand and actual efficacy when choosing products. This is a situation where health care product manufacturers have also become polarized.

One is to really put effort into making products, and companies begin to adopt product and brand differentiation strategies, paying more attention to product efficacy and consumer demand.

The other is to continue to deceive consumers and collect IQ taxes from cutting leeks.

However, since it is becoming increasingly difficult to fool consumers, this kind of company targets specific groups of people, such as the elderly, and designs a series of routines, starting with listening to lectures and giving away eggs, and slowly deceives the elderly into buying several

Thousands or even hundreds of thousands of health care products.

Over the past thirty years, China's health care products industry has been constantly changing in terms of industrial structure, market demand, and competitive strategies. It can be said that you sing and I come on stage, full of ups and downs and ups and downs.

In contrast, health care equipment has always been prosperous and has not suffered a big blow.

In terms of collecting IQ tax, health care equipment is no less valuable than health care products, and since most health care equipment are valuable, the ability of health care equipment to cut leeks is even stronger than that of health food.

Moreover, many people who sell health care equipment use the guise of high technology. An unknown machine costs only a few dozen yuan, but they dare to sell it for tens of thousands, which is really a huge profit.

Li Weidong naturally disdains this kind of deceptive business. As the saying goes, a gentleman loves money in a proper way. Li Weidong has his own bottom line in making money. He may use some unconventional business methods, but he will never use false

products to deceive consumers.

Although the massage chair can be regarded as a health care device, it is not a deceptive product. It cannot cure diseases, but it does have health care functions.

For example, massage chairs are indeed very effective in relieving muscle fatigue. For diseases such as lumbar spine and cervical spine, lying on the massage chair for a while can make you feel more comfortable and reduce the pain.

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In the conference room of the electrical appliance factory, Li Weidong told the management about the mass production of massage chairs.

Wang Jing, the deputy director in charge of production, suddenly looked bitter and said: "Director, if we are to produce massage chairs, we may not have enough workers!"

"Didn't we just recruit more than 1,400 people a few days ago? The two new microwave oven production lines can operate at full capacity 24 hours a day with 1,200 people. The remaining 200 people can just go into production.

Massage chairs." Li Weidong was talking about the workers sent by the Poverty Alleviation Office.

Among those two thousand people, more than 1,400 finally passed the training period and successfully stayed in the electrical appliance factory. This number exceeded Li Weidong's expectations.

Wang Jing said, "These newcomers are still not skilled enough in technology, but they can barely use it. But when we trained them at that time, they were mainly taught how to assemble household appliances, such as putting on screws and other tasks.

They won't."

"Assembling a massage chair is similar to assembling home appliances. I think it's even simpler," Li Weidong said.

"Director, you forgot, apart from the motor and massage head inside, the massage chair also has a coat on the outside, and there are brackets and sponges inside. This is the work of a tailor!" Wang Jing reminded.

"I almost forgot about this!" Li Weidong suddenly felt that he was a little careless.

The massage chairs made before, including the one given to Mr. He, were all samples, such as sponge fillings and coat materials. A tailor at a roadside tailor shop can make them very detailed.

Nowadays, if we want to carry out large-scale industrial production, we can no longer rely on the skills of tailors in roadside shops. We need some workers who are proficient in tailoring skills.

"It seems we still need to recruit people! We also need to purchase a batch of professional equipment such as sewing machines."

Li Weidong sighed lightly, looked at his Finance Minister Wang Kaiping, and then said: "Purchasing is your job. Go back and research what kind of sewing machines you should purchase. As for recruiting people..."

"Director, I have a suggestion!" Wang Jing said suddenly.

Li Weidong immediately looked at Wang Jing in surprise. Based on Li Weidong's understanding of Wang Jing, this guy always does whatever you say. If he can't do it, he pretends to be stupid. Ask him to come up with an idea every time.

It’s a matter of asking three questions and not knowing.

Now Wang Jing actually took the initiative to offer a suggestion, and the sun really came out in the west!

Just listen to Wang Jing continue to say: "Director, I know a place where there are many people who are proficient in tailoring skills."

"Are you talking about the former transportation company's clothing factory?" Li Weidong had already guessed what Wang Jing was thinking.

Wang Jing nodded: "After the garment factory arrived, all the workers in the garment factory were unemployed. Many of them were still staying at home, waiting for the company to arrange jobs! We can recruit these workers who are idle at home.

, these are experienced tailors, and they can be used directly without training after arriving."

Li Weidong frowned slightly and began to weigh the pros and cons.

In the early 1990s, the so-called "unemployment in the factory" actually meant being laid off. At that time, there were many names for "layoff", such as "long vacation", "not looking for two jobs", etc., which all sounded respectable.

It was not until around 1994 that the word "laid-off" became really popular.

After the transportation company's clothing factory collapsed, even Wang Jing, the deputy director, was laid off, and other workers naturally lost their jobs as well.

At this time, it’s the stage when the Eight Immortals cross the sea and show their magical powers. Those with connections can find connections and go to other subsidiaries or tertiary industries to hang out, while those without the ability have to stay at home. Those who are less lucky are like Wang Jing who is still

The daughter-in-law kicked her out of the house.

But after all, they are employees of state-owned enterprises. Even if they are laid off, the transportation company still pays them basic living expenses. The money is not much, which means they will starve to death.

But in the past year or so, the transportation company has almost been unable to sustain itself. Just the thousands of laid-off workers from the tertiary industry who do not work and only receive money every month are enough to bring the transportation company to its knees.

As a result, the original basic living expenses began to be in arrears. At first, it was only a month or two, and now it is more than half a year.

When basic living allowances were paid before, many laid-off workers stayed at home, waiting for work to be arranged by their employers. Not many actually came out to support themselves.

After all, garment factories were among the first enterprises to close down relatively early. When these workers were laid off, the domestic wave of layoffs had not yet come, so they still had some illusions that workers in state-owned enterprises were an iron rice bowl. Even if they were laid off, the transportation company would not ignore them.

theirs.

However, when basic living expenses began to be owed, these laid-off workers really panicked. When some people began to try to find another way out, they found that there were not many ways out at all.

In the early 1990s, finding a job was not an easy task. The private economy, which provided a large number of jobs, had not yet emerged. In third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities, there were only a few small roadside restaurants, so it was difficult to digest too much.

of the employed population.

Public institutions or state-owned enterprises are considered internal institutions. You can imagine how difficult it is for ordinary people to sneak into the system, and it also cannot solve the problem of employment.

In addition, there are young people coming out of school every year who also need to work, and the pressure of employment is actually very high.

Especially for older laid-off workers, it is very difficult to find a job. Such people cannot learn new skills and their work is not as efficient as young people. Almost no unit is willing to hire an uncle or aunt who is about to retire.

Today, there are probably more than 150 laid-off workers from garment factories squatting at home. These are all skilled workers, and they can make clothes easily. They can even sew a cushion with ease!

Li Weidong once worked as the director of a transportation company's garment factory, so he knew that the garment factory was full of skilled workers without Wang Jing's introduction.

But it is precisely because Li Weidong is so familiar with garment factories that he is very hesitant about recruiting laid-off workers from garment factories.

Because Li Weidong knows that employees of these state-owned enterprises are not easy to take care of, and they may not be willing to work in private enterprises.

At that time, employees of state-owned enterprises still looked down upon the private economy.

In the minds of old state-owned enterprises, being self-employed is a very shameless thing, and is similar to being a second-rate person in mixed society. Therefore, many laid-off employees of state-owned enterprises would rather stay at home every day than start a small business.

More importantly, Li Weidong's electrical appliance factory has a military-style management, which is more stringent than that of 996 in later generations. The elder sisters in the clothing factory may not be able to adapt to the work rhythm here.

Seeing the hesitation on Li Weidong's face, Wang Jing persuaded: "Those unemployed workers in the garment factory are very pitiful. They have not had any work for several years. Last year, they had a basic living allowance, but now they don't even have a basic living allowance."

No more. Factory director, if you can help, please help them!"

Wang Jing said and gave Wang Kaiping a look.

Wang Kaiping also came from a garment factory. He understood what Wang Jing meant, so he also advised: "Director, some of the families of unemployed workers in these garment factories are very difficult. And they all have tailoring skills. Indeed,

This is what our factory needs now."

Li Weidong shook his head: "We are engaged in business, not running a charity. You can't just recruit people to work with us just because their families have difficulties, right? Besides, if you mention family difficulties, the Poverty Alleviation Office will send them to work."

Among the young people from impoverished mountainous areas, which one does not have a difficult family?"

When Li Weidong said this, he changed his voice and continued: "Of course, I used to be the director of the transportation company's clothing factory, and I am not the kind of heartless person. As for the unemployed workers in this clothing factory, we can recruit them, but absolutely

Not because their families are in difficulty, but because they can work in the factory!

They come to work to earn compensation for their own labor, rather than for our factory to feel pity for them and give them some charity. The money they earn is what they deserve, and the wages we give are also what we should give. This

There is no one who owes whom, we must make this clear first."

Everyone in the conference room was suddenly confused. They didn't understand why Li Weidong emphasized these seemingly nonsense things. Isn't it a natural thing that people will work for you and you will give them wages?

Li Weidong continued; "Now that this is clear, the unemployed workers in these garment factories who come here to work must abide by our rules, regulations and management. If they still cling to the pretensions of the previous state-owned enterprises, they are unwilling to do it, or they may not be able to do it.

If you do well, pack up your bags and leave immediately! This is so merciless."

Everyone immediately understood that Li Weidong was worried that workers from state-owned enterprises would be difficult to manage, so he made the employment relationship between the two parties clear in advance.

I paid you to work hard. If you don’t want to work hard, just get out. It’s that simple. No one owes you anything!

In the eyes of future generations, it is only natural that the boss is dissatisfied with you and fires you.

However, for the laid-off employees of state-owned enterprises in the early 1990s, it was something that had to be particularly emphasized, and it had to be made very clear.

Workers at that time generally felt that once you join a company as a worker, you can just go about your life, since the company will take care of you for the rest of your life. Even today's state-owned enterprises still have this idea.

Li Weidong didn't want these laid-off employees of state-owned enterprises to bring this kind of thinking to Puppy Electric, so he took a dose of vaccination in advance.

Then Li Weidong continued: "The unemployed workers in the garment factory are employees of the transportation company after all, and their human relations are with the transportation company. If you ask them to give up their identity as workers of the transportation company and come to work here as workers, they probably won't be willing.

So this time, we will not follow the procedure of recruiting regular workers, which means that everyone who comes to us will be temporary workers! There is no basic salary, only piece-rate wages. When you make a product, it counts as one piece! Except

Beyond that, we do not provide any guarantees."

"Director, in this case, those unemployed workers in the garment factory may not be willing to come, right?" Wang Jing asked in a low voice.

"I haven't finished speaking yet!" Li Weidong continued; "Since they are all temporary workers and receive piece-rate wages, I don't have any requirements on their working hours, that is, how long they want to work every day.

Just work for as long as you want. If you come today and don’t want to come tomorrow, you don’t have to come. Just let me know in advance.”

"Director, this is not easy to manage!" This time it was Wang Kaiping who spoke.

"Are we going to make the ladies in the garment factory, like other workers, subject to 24-hour, two-shift military management? Let's not talk about whether their bodies can bear it. Let's just say that these ladies all have families.

, have to take care of their elders, take care of their children, go home to cook, wash clothes and do housework, plus the time of commuting back and forth, they have so much time to work in the factory!"

Li Weidong paused and then said: "So this temporary labor system is a last resort. They cannot work like other workers, so they do not deserve the remuneration and treatment of formal workers."

Li Weidong is in the manufacturing industry, and what he pursues is of course maximizing production efficiency and minimizing production costs, so that he can maximize profits.

Military management can maximize production efficiency. For this reason, Li Weidong is willing to pay a little more cost, give workers considerable overtime pay, and provide workers with living allowances such as meals and accommodation.

Once there is no militarized management, production efficiency will inevitably decrease, and Li Weidong will not be willing to make additional efforts.

This time, we were meeting a group of older sisters with families, so the production efficiency would not be very high. Since he could not pursue efficiency, Li Weidong could only pursue the minimization of production costs and compress all costs as much as possible.

Simple piece-rate wages are obviously the best way to reduce costs. They don't even have basic wages. Workers get paid as much as they produce the goods, and the employer doesn't have to pay any extra costs.

However, Li Weidong also knows that if there is only a simple piece-rate wage, the elder sisters in the garment factory may really be unwilling to work as temporary workers. After all, they are all state-owned enterprise workers and have the appearance of state-owned enterprise workers. For a state-owned enterprise worker,

Would you rather work in a private company or be a temporary worker? How embarrassing would it be if word spread out?

Therefore, Li Weidong deliberately added some flexibility in working hours. There is no need to work nine to five. He can come and go when he wants, giving workers the greatest degree of freedom. It can be treated as a side job and part-time job, which at least makes it easier for the elder sisters psychologically.

Accept some.

In the end, Li Weidong found an excuse for this cost-cutting behavior, saying it was to make it easier for these elder sisters to go home and take care of their families.

When it comes to profits, Li Weidong's true capitalist face is clearly revealed.

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In the old family home of 175 retired employees, a pedal tricycle slowly stopped downstairs of Yan Junsen.

Yan Junsen immediately walked down and directed his son to move the big box from the car up.

The sharp-eyed person looked at the box and found that it was a 25-inch large color TV.

In 1993, the 25-inch color TV was already the largest model available on the market.

Neighbors who were doing good things in the family's yard couldn't help but start talking about it.

"Lao Yan's family just bought a 200-liter refrigerator last week, and today they bought a 25-inch color TV!"

"You forgot, they bought a washing machine the day before yesterday, and it was semi-automatic!"

"Is this Lao Yan getting rich? He bought so many things at once, which must cost several thousand yuan!"

"It's strange, Lao Yan's retirement salary is almost the same as mine! The two of them usually live frugally, so why are they willing to buy so many things at once?"

"When things go wrong, there must be a monster. Do you think Lao Yan took money that he shouldn't have taken?"

"I remember that Lao Yan used to study tanks, right? Could it be that he sold confidential data on military industry to enemy agents?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Lao Yan is also a proven old comrade. How could he do such a thing?"

"Yes, I also believe that Lao Yan will not leak state secrets!"

Although everyone said this, they were already wondering in their hearts whether they should report it to the relevant departments!

If nothing else, just because the big color TV and big refrigerator you bought makes me jealous, I have to report it!

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