Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu took the car brought by Qin Jiajun to the market to deliver the Hongtu Village supply contract and returned to Xizhou Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative. It happened that Yanhua and Zhang Feng had just returned. Yang Liufang handed the money raised from the meeting, together with the bag containing the money, to Yanhua, asked her to borrow money into the account, and then invited her and Li Tongfu to sit around an Eight Immortals table in the furniture hall for a meeting. Yanhua first reported the situation at the bank. The four major state-owned banks, China Banking, Industry, Agriculture, and Construction, all declined their loan applications. Only a manager in charge of loans from the Agricultural Bank of China suggested that the loan could be provided if the supply and marketing cooperative came forward. But as a rental unit, it is impossible for the supply and marketing cooperative to provide guarantee for them.
"Forget it, originally I didn't have much hope for the bank. Now it is not popular in the market to say that state-owned enterprises are the biological sons, collective enterprises are the sons of common people, and our private enterprises are the wild sons of the grandma who does not care for the uncle and does not love them." Yang Liufang said angrily. explain. Indeed, in the late 1980s, most private enterprises in my country were in the awkward position of seeking survival in the cracks.
"Boss, please give me your instructions on how to use this money."
"Brother, please go to Hongtu Village in the afternoon, sign the land contract, and build the factory building according to the standards of your tannery factory, but after it is built, it will be used by the furniture factory first. As for the dormitories and canteens I mentioned, they can be simpler. For the time being, we will let Shi Yong and Shi Fang use it first. We will also let Da Ga and Xiao Ga work in the spray paint room first. We need to make some of the existing furniture and put it on the market as soon as possible. By the way, Yanhua, what are you doing? What’s going on at the Bian Supply and Marketing Cooperative site?”
"Not yet. I'll ask President Li this afternoon."
"Okay. That's all I have to say. Brother, Yanhua, do you think you have any other questions?"
"Gone."
"I'm fine too."
"Okay, let me make a call. What are the names of Brother Qin and the girl who will study with you this afternoon? Come out with me, and we will go to Xizhou Aluminum Factory." Yang Liufang said to Yanhua.
"Her name is Wang Xinye." Zhang Feng suddenly appeared beside them and blurted out.
"Okay, Xiao Wang. Oh, no, Brother Feng, I don't even know, how come you know so well?"
"Oh, boss, you are far away, there are two of us, eh..." Yanhua joked.
"Oh, I understand, congratulations! Don't delay love, and don't delay work. Let her go to the aluminum factory with us this afternoon to take meeting minutes." Yang Liufang said seriously.
After they finished the meeting, Yang Liufang called Shi Yong and asked him to find Secretary Shitou to take him to the three-way intersection, and then take a ride to Xizhou in the afternoon so that they could go to Xizhou Aluminum Factory to measure the project together. While waiting for Shi Yong to come to the supply and marketing cooperative from the factory, Yang Liufang, who was bored, looked around in the sales department. He discovered that in the hardware store, in addition to his four stalls, there were two other stalls selling curtains and plastic steel doors and windows. Because they have building materials and furniture to attract customers, their business is quite good. Yang Liufang thought it would be great if he could take over one of them and use it as a sales hall for sanitary ware.
Before he and Wang Shan could express their thoughts, President Li came back from a meeting at the General Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He heard someone in the office say that Yang Liufang was in the sales department, so he asked someone in the office to come over and call him and Yanhua to his office.
This was the first time Yang Liufang came into President Li's office. An old-fashioned desk from the 1980s was placed under the window sill. The chair was still a wooden back chair, but it was covered with a spring seat cover sold by Yang Liufang and the others. There are two single sofas on the wall behind the door, occupying almost one-third of the room, making the whole room look a bit cramped.
"Xiao Yang, Yanhua, come on, please take a seat." Seeing Yang Liufang and Yanhua at the door of the office, President Li hurriedly greeted them. "Xiao Wang, go make them tea."
"Xiao Yang, you did a good job in the reception this time. The leader is very satisfied. President Gong asked you if there is anything you need his help to solve? He wants to use his remaining energy before retiring." President Li said as soon as he sat down.
"Oh, how dare you bother the old leader?"
"Well, I know you are in trouble, and the land cooperative cannot help you. After all, it is a big plan for the whole province. We can still coordinate the internal affairs of the supply and marketing cooperative. Especially here, before I go to the head office to take up my post, you Let’s see if there’s anything else I need to coordinate?”
"Ah, leader, you have been promoted, congratulations!"
"Acting, temporarily acting president of the headquarters." President Li said modestly.
"President, I have an idea, see if it can add glory to you? I just looked at the sales department and found that besides us, there is also a store selling curtains and a store selling plastic steel doors and windows, although they are somewhat different from ours. Related, but after all, it is inconvenient to arrange. We want to take down the entire hall and plan it in a unified manner according to the way of building materials and decoration cities in the south. Can you see if it is feasible? If it cannot add luster to you, even if it is feasible, forget it. "
"Oh, tell me carefully." President Li lit a cigarette and listened to Yang Liufang's report.
"The president is like this. Now whether it is home decoration or office decoration, the basic decoration building materials, hardware materials, and light switches are all the same. We can buy them all in one stop. And under your leadership, we have reasonable prices. We are neither cheating nor cheating, and people trust us very much, which is why we are currently developing well. However, we lack sanitary ware. Although we currently sell it in the hardware hall, the hardware hall only sells small items. For safety reasons, customers can only You cannot feel these sanitary ware when looking outside the counter. If we have the opportunity to remove a piece of curtains or plastic steel doors and windows, we can create a separate sanitary ware exhibition hall. In this way, a one-stop service for the home can be formed."
"What else? Where's the other piece?"
"The other piece is office furniture. During this inspection, the president and provincial leaders have seen that we are preparing to launch an office furniture production line, which is very advanced modern office furniture. In the morning, Xizhou Aluminum Factory called, not only We have ordered a whole building of office furniture, and we will also cooperate with us in other aspects. I don’t know what it is specifically, but for a private enterprise like us to be valued by a large state-owned enterprise like Xizhou Aluminum Factory, I think they must We see a broader market.”
President Li listened to Yang Liufang's introduction, sometimes smoking and thinking, sometimes nodding. After seeing the introduction, he said to Yang Liufang:
"Well, you go back and come up with a plan for me as soon as possible. Before I take office, I will try to implement your one-stop building materials city project. You should work hard and strive to establish a solid foundation during the transformation of our supply and marketing system. Set an example, set a benchmark, and form a banner as a vanguard of reform.”
Leaders look at problems from a different perspective. They know the subtleties and make suggestions from a high position. Yang Liufang was very pleased that his plan was approved by the leader, and his hands holding the water glass trembled with excitement.
Coming out of President Li's office, Yanhua excitedly told Yang Liufang: "If this plan is completed and implemented, the entire hardware store will be ours."
"Yes, everything comes to mind. It is very worthy of celebration. Yanhua, can you write this plan?"
"Okay, I'll try my best."
"Okay, then I'll go to Xizhou Aluminum Factory to discuss cooperation."
Due to meetings and communicating with President Li's office at noon, Yang Liufang was too busy to take a bite of food. Fortunately, after Yanhua came out of the office, she went to buy bread and milk for him. Yang Liufang got into Qin Jiajun's car with Wang Xinye, a small accountant, and Shi Yong, who came from the factory. Yang Liufang gnawed on the bread and headed towards the aluminum factory with everyone else.
After arriving at the aluminum factory, I informed the guard, who then called the factory office. After a while, the aluminum plant's executive deputy director, business deputy director and office director came to greet them at the gate. After everyone exchanged greetings, the factory door opened and Qin Jiajun drove the truck directly to the parking lot in front of the office building. Yang Liufang and accompanying Wang Xinye walked in the aluminum factory with the three leaders and listened to the office director's introduction to the aluminum factory.
Through the introduction of the office director, Yang Liufang learned that the Xizhou Aluminum Factory, located in Hangu District, Xizhou, has a glorious history. It was founded in 1980. If we go back further, it was the first electrolytic aluminum plant built in the northwest of the motherland during the "Second Five-Year Plan" period after the founding of New China in 1958. It has contributed to the development of the country's aluminum alloy industry. made important contributions. However, after the reform and opening up, like all old state-owned enterprises, they faced backward equipment, a large employee base, and heavy burdens. Aluminum alloy products produced in large industrial systems abroad had no competitive advantage in the market, so they were in urgent need of transformation.
The new secretary of the aluminum factory is determined to make progress. After taking office, he participated in this year's National Two Sessions and went with the delegation to the furniture factory in Yangliufang for inspection and research. Seeing their modern office furniture, the entire frame is made of aluminum alloy, and felt that this was the key product for the transformation of the factory, so as soon as they returned to the factory, they immediately held an office meeting and vigorously informed Yang Liufang to discuss cooperation. But not without reason. It happened that an office building for foreign experts was completed in the factory and they needed to order furniture. They made a collective decision at the office meeting and handed over the furniture layout of the office building to Yangliu Fang and his factory. This led to Yang Liufang's trip to the aluminum factory.
After visiting the aluminum plant, the five people returned to the conference room, where the secretary and director of the aluminum plant were already waiting. According to the name tag, the secretary sat with his back against the wall at one end of the conference table, while the factory director led the two deputy factory directors and Wang Xinye and Qin Jiajun brought by Yang Liufang to sit on both sides of the long conference table. The office director took Shi Yong to the new office building to measure furniture.
"Xiao Yang, after you finish reading our factory, I'll get right to the point. We are a state-owned enterprise, which has both disadvantages and advantages. I invited you here because I want to work with you to produce profiles for your new type of office furniture."
"The secretary has set the tone, Xiao Yang, what do you think?" Yang Liufang was a little surprised, but also very relieved to hear such an important meeting without official accent and straight to the point. This shows that the secretary and the factory director are very They are straightforward leaders who do practical things.
"Boss, of course that's good. This way we don't have to go to Wenzhou to purchase goods. The travel expenses will be saved. But the key is whether we can produce that kind of profile."
"Don't worry about this. We have foreign experts and experts in materials science from Xizhou University. The quality will only be better than your current profiles."
