"Two...two million dollars?"
In the office, Director Li looked at the telegram in his hand with an expression of disbelief on his face, and finally let out a cry. The next second, he took the telegram twenty centimeters closer and read it again word for word!
Seeing Director Li's expression, the excitement on the secretary's face was beyond words, and he lowered his voice and said:
"You're right. I looked over it several times on the way here."
"That's right, two million dollars!"
Hearing his secretary's voice, Director Li suddenly raised his head and looked at him. The expression on his face gradually changed from stiffness to ecstasy. He suppressed his voice and almost growled:
"It's done! It's really done now!"
"With this order, we can meet our two-year foreign exchange earning task!"
Then there was a burst of laughter like a night owl in the office. After all, Yuntai City used to earn only a few million US dollars in foreign exchange for a whole year. Who would have thought that one order now requires two years of hard work?
After laughing for a few seconds and coughing, Director Li thought of something and asked his secretary:
"By the way, where did this telegram come from?"
"How come it's in your hands?"
Under normal circumstances, after such an international telegram arrives at the Municipal Post and Telecommunications Bureau, it will be sent directly to the Red Star Machinery Factory, or someone from the machinery factory will be notified to pick it up. There is no reason why it would appear in the hands of the Industrial Bureau first?
The secretary explained without thinking:
"That's right, director. This telegram was forwarded directly from the Yanjing Postal Department. It was sent directly to the municipal party committee without going through the postal and telecommunications system. The municipal party committee then forwarded it to our Industrial Bureau."
Director Li suddenly realized something. After thinking for a few seconds with a frown, a smile appeared on his face again and he said:
"It seems that one thing is certain from the source of this telegram."
"I'm afraid the higher-ups knew about Wang Ye's matter, but they maintained a tacit attitude. Therefore, the telegram was sent directly to our municipal party committee without going through the postal and telecommunications system."
"To a certain extent, we are receiving the most attention from above!"
"Hey! Anyway, we paid for it! Quick! Arrange a car for me!"
"I want to go directly to the Red Star Machinery Factory!"
Then Director Li said excitedly, and the secretary nodded and left, quickly going to prepare the car.
at the same time.
Wang Ye and others were still sitting on the bumpy 212 jeep.
"Okay! Drive well! Pay attention to safety!"
Hearing Wang Ye's voice, the "brother-in-law farce" in the carriage was finally over, and then Wang Ye said:
"In this case, I'll give you a task."
"When we go back later, we will select fifty beautiful and well-spoken girls from all the employees in our machinery factory, ranging in age from fifteen to thirty."
"Of course, if you can't collect fifty, then the standard can be lowered a little, and those with good features and good looks will count."
"I'm going to use them as sales assistants. They're better than you and those aunties!"
"I'll have an interview in the evening and then do some simple training!"
Hearing what Wang Ye said, the young people in the car nodded, while Li Baojun asked curiously:
"Brother Ye, what is an interview?"
Wang Ye was stunned for a moment. It seems that the word interview has not yet spread in this era. He coughed lightly and explained:
"It's just a face-to-face test! See if the other person can do it and whether he can be a salesperson."
"When the time comes, we will select twenty qualified ones out of the fifty!"
Just when several young people made a sound of sudden realization, Wang Ye seemed to have thought of something, coughed slightly and said with an extremely serious face:
"In addition, I would like to highlight an issue for you."
"Although this power is not big, if you dare to mess with me."
"Why don't you let the girl come over to work as a salesperson if she doesn't date you? If I find out in the end, I won't get over it with a scolding. I'm sure you will regret it for the rest of your life!"
"Because this is hooligan behavior! Do you know that you will be sent to the police?"
"Do you understand everything?"
Under normal circumstances, Wang Ye always smiles, but if Wang Ye gets angry, it will definitely be a big deal. In an instant, all these laughing young people fell silent and shouted:
"yes!"
At the same time, several people in the car also instantly understood the joints involved.
Wang Ye just said that although the minimum daily salary for a salesperson is only 50 cents, if you sell an electric fan or washing machine, you will get a commission of 1 yuan directly. In other words, if you sell 20 or 30 units a day, that day's The salary may even be equal to one month’s salary of an adult in the machine factory before the factory director came!
So this is undoubtedly a fat difference!
Afterwards, Wang Ye thought for a while and continued:
"Of course, if employees in our manufacturing plant work as salespersons, they won't have a 50-yuan salary guarantee, because we have a monthly salary guarantee of 15 yuan."
"But the commission is still the same, one yuan per unit!"
"And you must tell them clearly and clearly. If you are willing to show your face, you are welcome. If you are not willing, you cannot force or threaten."
"The key is to find someone who is sharp-tongued and has a cheerful personality."
"do you understand?"
Not to mention this era, even in the open future, not everyone can do sales, and those who are afraid of society really have no choice.
"understand!"
"If we dare to say something harsh, Brother Ye, you can slap us in the mouth without any hesitation!"
"Yes, yes! We must be nice to talk to!"
The young people in the car all agreed, and some even raised their hands and began to swear to the sky.
Four p.m.
Wang Ye finally returned to the machinery factory in the 212 Jeep.
Everyone returned to Wang Ye's office together. The young men muttered a list, and then left in a hurry, as if they were visiting their target.
After a while, Wang Ye was the only one left in the office.
Now at the manufacturing plant, two of the four initially planned projects, namely the electric fan and the washing machine, have been successfully put into production and will be tested by the market tomorrow.
The remaining two are televisions and refrigerators, which are currently more difficult.
TVs are picture tubes, and refrigerators are compressors. In Wang Ye’s memory, in the next five years, countless state-owned factories and military factories in China launched these projects. These two core components were imported until around 1987. Domestic products will not be released until around 1988.
For Wang Ye, the design drawings of these two things are ready-made in his mind. If not hundreds, there must be at least dozens. But the problem is that the manufacturing process of today's machinery factories is not up to standard!
"This money must be earned, and we cannot be deterred by problems!"
"And we can't just focus on products, we have to focus on production lines. In the long run, we need to be a production line supplier, not a product supplier. This will be a big business in the future."
“But it’s not easy to conquer the manufacturing process!
"Either purchase more basic related mechanical processing equipment from China and then upgrade the level. Although this method is slow, it is the best in the long run. The improvement of the overall mechanical processing technology can also be applied to other fields."
"Either we can find ways to purchase relevant equipment from abroad, build our own production lines, and only produce products, not production lines."
"After all, don't think about more basic machining equipment now. It's too difficult to bypass the embargo. Even purchasing related equipment has many problems. The lack of foreign exchange and the bottleneck of foreign companies are the first ones to face. In short, foreign exchange We can think of ways to do some self-retention, but if we are stuck, we can only find ways to piece it together, how about going around? We can do this in the future, and even more so now."
"Or a combination of the two methods? But the problem is, there is a lack of money! I don't know if Kikwit has received the telegram?"
"In the military industry, equipment also needs to be iterated and improved. It's still a matter of money..."
Finally, Wang Ye sighed, looked at his watch and found that more than an hour had passed. He got up and walked towards the workshop of the manufacturing plant, where the interview was scheduled.
