As May Day approaches, the Central People's Broadcasting Station and People's Daily are promoting this holiday that belongs to workers all over the world. However, the workers in Liufang Woodware Processing Factory don't care at all. Everyone is immersed in work, as if This holiday, which was won through the hard work of workers all over the world, has nothing to do with me.
Yang Liufang looked at the progress of the desks and chairs and estimated that they could basically be completed before the delivery date stipulated in the contract, so he planned a day off for the entire factory in accordance with national requirements. When Yang Liufang told everyone about the May Day holiday, instead of celebrating, they were greeted with disappointment and doubts.
"Boss Yang, if we have a day off, won't we be able to earn the day's money?"
“In theory, that’s true because we’re paid on a daily basis.”
"It's better not to have a holiday."
"Yes, we don't take holidays."
"We have to work and make money."
Yang Liufang didn't expect everyone's response to be so strong, and he couldn't give a better explanation, so he could only let everyone work first. When Village Chief Shitou and Li Tongfu returned to the factory from selling goods in the countryside, he called them into the dormitory and told them about the announcement of the May Day holiday and the workers' reaction.
"If no one wants to let it go, then don't let it go."
"Well, I agree with Brother Shitou, but I can prepare holiday gifts for everyone."
"Oh, when money is used everywhere, I heard that you joined some clubs, paid interest to others, and prepared gifts. Why waste that money?"
"Brother Shitou, I think Brother Afu is right. The workers work hard for us, so we should treat everyone better, so we should prepare some gifts. For example, give everyone work clothes, and then go to Yantan to buy some meat and vegetables. Everyone has dinner after get off work in the evening or something like that.”
"It's okay to provide work clothes. This is our own business. We should develop it in a formal way so that the workers in the factory can go out and wear their clothes with pride."
“What about the rotating workers?”
"Oh, that's a hard question."
“What if work uniforms are only issued to permanent workers?”
"This can easily lead to conflicts and discourage the rotation of workers."
"If not, then we can just eat. After all, everyone has a hard day and needs to eat at night."
"Brother Shitou, you are the village leader, and we are an enterprise under your rule. It's up to you to make the announcement."
"OK."
Before getting off work, the head of Shitou Village announced to everyone: "After discussing with Boss Yang, the May Day holiday will no longer be a holiday. We will have dinner in the factory after get off work in the evening."
The workers cheered instantly and applauded Village Chief Shitou and Boss Yang.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Meat."
"saozi noodles."
"noodle."
Everyone was shouting. "Hang on, uh (I) heard it. Everyone (said) has more noodles. Boss Yang, let's let everyone have a meal of sauerkraut noodles tomorrow, open to the public."
On the morning of May Day, Li Tongfu was pulled by the head of Shitou Village to drive to Yantan after dinner. Since Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu found each other, Li Tongfu has been helping Yang Liufang do business and is also responsible for managing the logistics and procurement matters of the factory. As a brother, Li Tongfu himself worked hard without complaining, but Yang Liufang was a thoughtful person. He remembered the leather business that his brother had mentioned to him. When he came back from the inspection during the Spring Festival, he had been busy applying for a business license. , was busy running the factory, and before he had time to ask his elder brother about the inspection situation, he decided to have a good communication with his elder brother after dinner in the evening.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the two returned with fifty kilograms of pork, a woven bag of carrots, a piece of tofu, and more than twenty kilograms of machine-grown noodles. There is usually no food in the canteen, but at four o'clock in the afternoon, the alluring aroma comes out. By the time the noodles are cooked and the noodles are ready, it is not yet time for the workers to get off work. When the master chef came to ask for instructions on when to start dinner, Yang Liufang didn't even think about it: "Any time, master. After all, it is a legal holiday. Everyone has worked hard all day, and we don't care about this hour and a half."
"Okay, ready, let's start now."
The dinner was still hosted by Village Chief Shitou. Everyone picked up their own lunch boxes and lined up to wait for the chef to make long noodles and pour the sauce on them. Soon the whole dining hall was filled with the sound of "snoring" eating noodles. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy any garlic, and there wasn’t enough left in the canteen for everyone.
When the workers dispersed in the evening, Yang Liufang took Li Tongfu to boil water for a bath, and filled four thermos bottles and a teapot that he usually used for drinking water. Taking out the large basin specially bought for bathing, the two brothers talked frankly about leather.
"Brother, we have been busy these days and have not asked you about the progress of the leather business. How do you feel after you go back to inspect it?"
"Brother, when I returned to my hometown on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, I visited several leather shoe and clothing factories that I knew well. According to their descriptions, it would indeed be unprofitable to spread the profits to various links."
"What are the links?"
"It's mainly about transportation. Do you know how those people we saw on the road from places like Tibet and Qinghai who come to Xizhou to sell their leathers are transported?"
"Isn't it just that he was driven back by a carriage?"
"No, no, they drove carriages to the Yellow River ferry in Xizhou, and then used sheepskin rafts to transport it to Inner Mongolia by water at the ferry. Then they gathered it with the leather from Inner Mongolia and transported it to Zhangjiakou, Suning and other leather processing places."
"Oh, I see. No wonder the quantity is so large. The hides from several provinces are gathered together. How are they shipped to us?"
"Part of our leather in Wenzhou comes from overseas, transported by ocean-going freighters, and part of it is roughly cooked leather transported from leather processing bases such as Suning. These need to be secondary processed when they arrive at us. So after excluding these links, if we start from here There would be no money to be made by directly purchasing raw hides and selling them to us.”
"Brother, do you want to heat the water?" Yang Liufang felt that the water was cold, so he added half a thermos bottle to himself. The hot water was very comfortable to burn his skin.
"I'll add some too." As he said this, he took the thermos bottle from Yang Liufang's hand and poured the remaining half of the thermos bottle into his own basin.
"Brother, that means this business is unprofitable."
"It can't be said that there is no profit. It depends on where to start. For example, if we purchase raw hides here and directly set up a small processing factory to cook the hides like we did in our hometown, and then directly make leather shoes, belts and leather clothing for sale, there will be no If the cost of raw hide transportation is eliminated, the profit will be huge."
"How much does it cost to build a small processing factory like this? How much does it cost to hire a leather master? And do you still need to find samples for leather shoes, belts and leather jackets?"
"If you just build a small factory, it won't cost much. One factory building, two or three workshops, and two pools for cooking leather will only cost more than 20,000 yuan. Including the equipment for making clothes and shoes, it will cost at most Thirty-five thousand can be done.”
"Then we can do it. We can't afford to pay 30,000 to 40,000 yuan."
"Don't worry, listen to me. This is just the money for the factory. The master who cooks leather costs 3,000 yuan a month. Samples of shoes, belts and leather jackets can be obtained from my hometown, the factory where I used to purchase goods. Some. If you add in the sales of finished products, one hundred thousand yuan is probably about the same."
"Hey, one hundred thousand. Brother, how much money do we have in our account now?"
"If you don't count the registration fee for the woodware factory, the two batches of goods after the year, plus the money for recent trips to the countryside, there will still be more than 13,000."
"Don't the township education committee in the factory still have half of the payment? It will be recovered at the end of the month, so I will add it first."
"That's only 25,500. It's still far from the demand."
"On what date in June can the registration deposit be withdrawn?"
"June 7th, maybe the 8th."
"I proposed to pay back the 66,000 that Boss Chen and the others gave me first, and there is still 34,000. Then we have 60,000. Brother, I don't know about leather, but I believe in you. Do you have confidence?"
“You’ve been doing it since you entered the industry, and you must have confidence.”
"If that doesn't work, we'll entrust Boss Chen to hold a meeting."
"Is the interest rate too high?"
"In half a year, our products have been released. It would be great if we could not sell them. At least like the current woodware factory, we own the factory."
"Yes, that's right." Li Tongfu replied confidently and affirmatively.
"There is still a month to come, let's think about it more. Brother, you should ask more questions when you go to the countryside. Think twice before you act, it is beneficial and harmless!"
After the two took a shower, they lay comfortably on the bed and soon fell asleep.
