After reporting on the formal work, the next step is to talk about some relaxed and pleasant personal matters.
Among them, the emotional issues between men and women cannot be brought up, and the only issues that can be brought up are the retention and reorganization of Hongguang Factory.
Although Uncle Lin is the leader of a secret front, his apparent identity is that of a senior official in foreign trade and economics, so he also knows a thing or two about many economic issues.
In addition, Cao Zhiqiang's situation is special, so if Cao Zhiqiang wants to retain the Hongguang Factory, he must first report to Uncle Lin, at least to find out Cao Zhiqiang's true intentions.
After listening to Uncle Lin's request, Cao Zhiqiang considered: "Fourth uncle, the burden of the Hongguang Factory is mainly due to the large number of excessive personnel in the tertiary industry, and secondly, the obsolete technical equipment and backward technology.
Too many non-production personnel, obsolete equipment and backward technology are the main problems of Hongguang Factory.
As for overstaffing and backward management systems, these are superficial phenomena and can be adjusted at any time, so the problems are not serious.
In addition to these problems, the advantage of Hongguang Factory is that it has a large number of technical backbones, especially excellent technicians. These excellent technicians are the most valuable assets.
In fact, this rectification and the joint venture project with the Japanese tape factory are a good opportunity to completely rectify the Hongguang Factory.
I thought so.
Hongguang Factory's urban factories and tertiary industry facilities, such as factory-run hospitals, factory-run schools and other departments and related personnel, can be handed over to the city government and converted from state-owned enterprises into public institutions.
The original equipment of the Hongguang Factory can also be given to Shougang and other brother units. Anyway, they are old equipment, so it doesn't matter if they are given away.
As for the factory and warehouse of Hongguang Factory in the eastern suburbs, they will continue to be retained as the main factory of Hongguang Factory.
Then, I want to keep the original cinema in Hongguang Factory and continue to use it as a factory-run cinema instead of handing it over to the city government.
The reason is very simple. I own a film studio, a publishing house, and an audio-visual production company. In the future, I want to do something in the cultural field.
So as for the cinema, I hope it can continue to exist, which will help my cultural career.
Anyway, as far as the city government is concerned, one more cinema is not a lot, but one less is a lot. There is no need to argue with me on this point.
If that cinema can be preserved and continue to be a factory-run cinema of Hongguang Factory, I will personally dig into my own pocket and use a sum of money to carry out a series of renovations and renovations on the cinema to build it into a more advanced comprehensive cinema.
In name, I am personally contracting the cinema in Hongguang Factory. In this case, I will pay for the decoration myself, so there will be no problem.
This approach can be regarded as a kind of transformation and experiment. If it succeeds, it can be shown to the relevant units to let them know that it may be more cost-effective to contract places like cinemas to individuals.
Of course, these are minor issues.
The real big problem is the retention of personnel.
I know that the city government also has a headache for those factory personnel. After all, it is not easy to arrange work now.
In fact, it’s not a big problem.
In addition to professionals such as schools and hospitals, most idle workers can change careers as restaurant waiters and chefs.
I originally opened a restaurant called "Shiweitian" in Beijing, which was actually the prototype of a chef training school.
Later, due to various reasons, I sold the restaurant, but for now, everything is still business as usual, and the original staff are still working there.
I will talk to the city government later and ask the government to help find a less obstructive factory building as a teaching center in the original building of our factory before the renovation work is completed, and set up a real training class for chefs and waiters there. Training class.
During this period, I will set up a special company to specialize in the catering industry.
I hope the government can help me rent a few commercial apartments at a cheaper price and allow me to carry out unified renovations.
At the beginning, I wanted to build a chain of ten catering companies in one go.
In this way, the job placement problem of at least one hundred people can be solved. "
"Wait a minute!" Uncle Lin said, "I understand catering companies, but what do you mean by this ten-store chain?"
Cao Zhiqiang said: "Oh, that's right, I opened ten restaurants at once. The names of the restaurants are all the same, the decorations and dishes are the same, and even the chefs and waiters are dressed the same.
This is just like McDonald's fast food restaurants abroad. It consists of many branches. All stores are under unified management, uniform dress, and uniform dishes.
In this way, the standard of the food can be controlled, and customers will enjoy the same service at any branch.
Under this model, both sanitary conditions and operational efficiency can be greatly improved.
It means that if I spend the same money and open ten small restaurants compared to opening one big hotel, the coverage will be wider, more people will be hired, and the advertising effect will be better.
Of course, this type of fast-food chain store cannot serve high-end dishes such as abalone, ginseng, and wing tripe. It can only serve items that are easy to learn and can carry out industrialized and standardized production.
For example, hot pot and Malatang, the standards of these food items are controllable. As long as the seasoning base is controlled well, and the ingredient standards are controlled, it can basically be fully rolled out.
A large hotel only employs twenty or thirty people at most.
But with the same cost, if I open ten small and medium-sized fast food restaurants, I can employ a hundred people and make more profits. "
"Oh, why is this?" Uncle Lin asked, "A large restaurant is more expensive to sell a dish and the profit is higher. A small restaurant only makes a small profit. How can the profit be higher?"
Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Hey, the Fourth Master still understands this?"
Uncle Lin chuckled: "When I was young, I worked as a waiter for a big restaurant, so I know a thing or two about these things."
Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's right, Fourth Master, it is true that individual dishes in big restaurants are more expensive and the profits are higher, but the table turnover rate, or turnover, is also slow.
For example, if you spend one million to open a large hotel, even if it is full, there will only be a hundred people dining at a time. If there are more, the dining experience will not be good, and it will not be considered high-end.
A hundred people spend one time, and each person earns ten yuan, and even if they die, they can earn a thousand yuan.
But if I spend one million to open ten small restaurants, it will be different.
The ten restaurants are all small restaurants, focusing on affordability, because the customers they face are from the middle and lower classes. Although they are not as rich as the rich, they have stronger spending power and more people.
Even if one restaurant only seats 50 people at a time, ten restaurants can seat 500 people at a time.
A meal for five hundred people, even if each person only earns him three yuan, is fifteen hundred yuan, which is more than a thousand yuan in a restaurant.
The actual situation may be more. After all, ordinary people eat quickly and the table turnover rate is high. During one lunch, there may be three or four waves of customers.
In short, big restaurants seem to have high profits for a single dish, but the number of people who can come to consume the food is small, and the overall profit is not high.
On the contrary, there are more small restaurants that cater to the masses. Although the profit of a single dish is small, small profits but quick turnover are actually higher profits.
In terms of basic consumption such as eating and drinking, in fact, the more you do business for ordinary people, the more money you make.
Because the poorer a person is, the higher his consumption desire is.
On the contrary, if a person is extremely rich, his desire to consume will not be high.
Think about it, even if you have the ability to eat abalone and ginseng wings and tripe every day, do you really eat abalone and ginseng wings and tripe every day? Aren’t you tired of it?
This is how I work in chain restaurants.
That is to say, we should abandon the big and fancy restaurants and replace them with many small restaurants that look like ordinary people, so as to achieve small profits but quick turnover.
Most of the ordinary small restaurants are family workshops. Although the cost is low, the quality of hygiene and the quality of the dishes are hard to describe.
It's different for me to do this kind of chain of small restaurants.
Although I also run a small restaurant, because the dishes are unified and managed, I have stronger control and supervision capabilities, and it is easier for customers to protect their rights if there is a problem while eating.
The most important thing is that this can solve a large number of employment problems and allow many idle workers in the factory to be re-employed and reused without increasing the burden on the government. "
Uncle Lin nodded: "This is a good idea, but why didn't you do this before?"
Cao Zhiqiang smiled bitterly: "I tried it before, but at that time, the Hongguang Factory was still there, and no one was willing to retrain and find employment.
Think about it, I was just fooling around in the factory and doing nothing, but I could get paid every month.
Then they are told to stop fooling around and relearn how to be chefs and waiters, and then work as chefs, waiters, and waiters. How many of them are willing to do that?
I think that apart from the young people who take less money and yearn for more income, the middle-aged people who have already started a family and started a business are not willing to change at all.
Only when the factory makes rectifications and their iron rice bowl is about to be destroyed, will they have to make changes and have to participate in the retraining and reemployment plan we have formulated.
Of course, if there are those who refuse to listen and refuse to participate in retraining and re-employment, then leave them to the government and let them fend for themselves. "
Uncle Lin sighed: "Your idea is good, but just a restaurant chain, how many employment problems can it solve? Don't forget, your Hongguang Factory has more than 8,000 people."
Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Don't worry, I'm not just running a catering business, but I also have more than ten catering chains. That's just a pilot project.
Once the pilot is passed and it is proved that this chain fast food format is completely feasible in our country, then it can be completely rolled out of the capital and fully rolled out in other cities.
By then, it won’t be a problem to open a hundred restaurants.
Of course, that's all for later.
In fact, in addition to catering, I also worked on a project that required a large number of people, and that was the convenience kiosk chain project.
You may have heard that our factory made a batch of tin houses, all painted red, and nicknamed Little Red Houses.
These small red houses are located in some downtown areas and specialize in selling newspapers, magazines, drinks and snacks, and also provide telephone services. They are actually small grocery stores. "
"Ah, I understand." Uncle Lin suddenly smiled, "This little red house of yours is actually just like the chain restaurant you mentioned. It is essentially a small grocery store, and then it is decorated and decorated in a unified way. Unify management and use small profits but quick turnover to make money, right?"
"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded, "Fourth Master, now there are some small shops everywhere that can make phone calls, sell newspapers and magazines, and sell snacks, but most of these shops are family units and are very scattered.
My plan to get involved in this industry is to build a chain of grocery stores myself. Their functions are similar to those of grocery stores in family units, but they are not family units, but a unified management model of the company.
In this way, we can make small profits but quick turnover, earn more profits, and solve the employment problem of a large number of people. As consumers, they don’t have to worry about being ripped off if something goes wrong, such as buying expired food. Quality issues will be easier to defend.
Because small family units have limited ability to bear losses, once they find that they need to bear huge responsibilities due to their own fault, they are likely to choose to default on the debt or run away.
But this is not the case if it is a large company operating a chain. Large companies cannot run away with their great business, and they also have to pay attention to their image, so it is easier to provide compensation.
In fact, there have been similar chain stores in Western society for a long time. For example, Japan and the United States have many such chain stores, and their names are convenience stores.
I am also learning from the advanced experience of the West, and then drawing on some of the advantages of our local factories.
For example, I have long established a subsidiary subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory called Hongguang Department Store.
This Hongguang Department Store is a joint venture between me and Hongguang Machinery Factory. I provide money and ideas, Hongguang Machinery Factory provides people and equipment, and Hongguang Machinery Factory holds the majority of the shares.
Therefore, once the Hongguang Factory is still around, a large number of people who are not willing to work as restaurant waiters and chefs, such as middle-aged women, can work as convenience kiosk salespersons, and a system of basic salary plus performance bonus will be implemented to ensure that they can earn more than before.
Convenience kiosks are just a few pilot projects now, and they seem to be running well. All the costs have been recovered, and they have all entered profit mode.
In this case, we can open another 100 convenience kiosks in the city based on the results of these pilot projects.
According to the model of two people at a convenience kiosk, at least two hundred people can be employed. "
"You only have three hundred people." Uncle Lin said, "You are still far from eight thousand people."
"Don't worry." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "What's going on here? These are just appetizers. The real big ones are construction and transportation."
"Construction and transportation?" Uncle Lin frowned, "What do you mean?"
Cao Zhiqiang said: "That's right, I asked Director Li of our factory to do statistics before. There are currently a total of 1,338 people in the factory with level 2 workers or above.
Except for these 1,338 people, all of them, to put it bluntly, are burdens, or are not suitable to be workers in the factory.
Of course, our system is different and we cannot learn from the West and just fire people and ignore them.
We have to find a way out for these people so that they can be re-employed and re-employed.
This requires creating new demands and creating new industries.
The chain restaurants and chain convenience kiosks I mentioned all follow this path.
However, the catering industry and canteens can only absorb limited manpower.
What really requires a large number of people and does not require many professional skills is the construction industry and transportation industry.
Therefore, I plan to establish two more subsidiaries in the name of Hongguang Factory, namely Hongguang Transportation Company and Hongguang Construction Company.
Hongguang Transportation Company, as its name suggests, is engaged in transportation.
I have been traveling between the north and the south these days, and I have found that our transportation capabilities are actually very poor, and there is a lack of communication between the north and the south in many places.
For example, we northerners like clothing, fruits and daily necessities produced in the south.
And our northern raw materials such as steel, wood, and coal are very popular among southerners.
However, our railway transportation capacity is limited and management is relatively rigid. Many small factories cannot obtain train skins and cannot use trains for transportation.
What should we do? We can only transport it by car.
But car transportation is also troublesome, not to mention the various car gangs and road bullies along the way, and the official tolls are also a headache.
Therefore, if there is a state-owned transportation company that can flexibly transport goods to various small and medium-sized enterprises, especially township and village enterprises, this should be able to generate a lot of profits.
Hongguang Machinery Factory itself has a transportation team. As long as the scale of the transportation team is expanded and more people and cars are added, a team can be formed quickly.
This transportation company can provide employment for at least a thousand people.
The remaining more than 5,000 men can all be packed up and hired into construction companies to engage in construction.
For example, the renovation of the old factory area of Hongguang Factory requires a lot of labor, which can be done by Hongguang Construction Company, which is familiar with the area.
As for middle-aged women, they can go into clothing factories to make clothes.
At that time, I will find a way to attract investment from Japan, introduce a batch of advanced clothing equipment, and then let those female workers make clothes.
Don’t make anything complicated at first, just make jeans.
Jeans are very popular now, but most of them are imported from the south. There are no big factories in the north that can really do this.
As long as I can invest in technology and equipment, train the original female workers in the factory, and let them return to work making clothes, it won't be a big problem.
In this way, we can use the government's rectification style to turn bad things into good things and solve all problems in one go.
At that time, skilled workers will continue to work as workers in the workshop. All I need is your agreement to let Hongguang Factory take a share of the equipment and projects I got from the mist. Just enough for them to eat.
For example, the previous machining project of the bullpup rifle can be handed over to Hongguang Machinery Factory to continue. Anyway, the problem is not big.
As for other people who are not suitable to be skilled workers, as I just said, they can either enter the catering industry, retail industry, transportation, construction, or directly become workers in garment factories.
In short, there are always more solutions than difficulties. The key depends on whether you want to solve the problem and change your life.
What I said is what we can do, but workers must also cooperate.
If they don't cooperate and want it, then we can only use the government's banner of rectification to let them go and do whatever they want. "
Uncle Lin chuckled: "Interesting, you are taking advantage of this corporate rectification trend to make the government look bad, while you are looking good."
Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Yes, that's what I mean, but is there anything wrong with doing this?"
Uncle Lin took a deep breath: "No, it's good. At least your plan sounds good."
Immediately afterwards, Uncle Lin nodded and said: "I passed it here. You will write a few detailed plans later. Someone will come to you. You can explain the plan and specific details to the other party, and then work with the person. , do what you said.
As long as we can really do what you said, retaining the Hongguang Factory will not be a problem. "
"Then thank you so much, Mr. Fourth." Cao Zhiqiang said cheerfully.
"No need to thank me." Uncle Lin smiled slightly, "You still work hard enough and the plan you propose is reliable.
In short, as long as your original intention is for everyone's benefit and the method you propose is effective, then I have no reason not to help you. "(End of chapter)
