In the smoke-filled conference room, everyone looked a little heavy.
After a while, Wang Liqing, who was sitting at the top, put down the documents in his hands and said, "The situation now is very bad!"
"Our gross profit has further decreased this month, and I'm afraid we will lose money next month!"
"The new cotton yarns on the market today are too competitive, and our cotton yarn market is getting smaller and smaller!"
"Today, the quality of our cotton yarn is much worse than that of new cotton yarn. In order to continue to win orders, we have to cut prices many times, which also leads to a further reduction in our gross profit. The factory is running all day long, and money is But I didn’t make much money.”
"What's more important is that even so, orders are getting fewer and fewer."
"I had dinner with Mr. Li of Guangsheng Textile Company, who we have had a cooperative relationship with for more than ten years, and he has made it clear that their Guangsheng Company is undergoing transformation and will gradually put into production new types of cloth produced from new high-quality cotton yarns, and will gradually reduce the use of old cloth production, which means that subsequent orders for cotton yarn will be less and less for us.”
"If we continue like this, we may not even have any orders for a long time. Even if there are some orders, the more we do, the more we will lose. By then, how will the hundreds of people in our factory be able to support their families?"
“It is urgent to purchase new equipment, improve technology, and further improve the quality of our cotton yarn!”
"Old Tang, you are our financial manager. How about the funds to purchase additional equipment? Can you get it together?"
After the middle-aged man Wang Liqing at the top finished speaking, an old man at the bottom said: "General Manager Wang, the funding problem is difficult to solve. Our factory does not have much working capital to begin with, and we still need to set aside part of it to deal with the payment of goods and wages. , the monthly repayment from the bank, which can squeeze out the funds to purchase additional equipment, is probably only about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, and this is not enough."
"We are not optimistic about bank loans. The Xicheng Branch of Finance Bank has a very clear attitude. Our three previous mortgage loans have not been paid off, and most of our factories and equipment have also been mortgaged. Even if we can get a loan under such circumstances, I’m afraid it won’t be too big.”
“It’s not easy to get a loan to purchase equipment under such circumstances!”
Wang Liqing, who was in charge, said: "If the financial bank can't do it, what about other banks? After all, we still have a piece of land in Nantong that can be used as collateral!"
The finance manager down below, Old Tang, shook his head: "All the finance banks we have cooperated with for more than ten years have rejected it, let alone other banks. Let alone a partial loan, even if they don't give it at all!"
"Although everyone knows that we bought the land in Nantong with real money, we are caught in a debt dispute after all. The lawsuit has not been won. The bank will not recognize the real ownership of the land." The right to pledge a piece of land.”
At this time, a middle-aged man next to him said: "Oh, if I had known earlier, I shouldn't have cooperated with others to build a branch factory in Nantong. As soon as the money was invested, something went wrong with the partners behind us, and we were all implicated in it." , the land was frozen by those creditors."
“Nowadays, it’s impossible to raise money to upgrade technical equipment!”
Another person said: "What's the use of talking about it now? Who knows that the Song Family Trading Company, which we have cooperated with for many years, went bankrupt when it was said to be closed down, and was involved in debt disputes, and was involved in the Nantong branch factory that we cooperated with."
"It's useless to say this now. The top priority now is to solve the problem of equipment funding. Since Hantian Machinery Company's new spinning machine was put into the market, the spinning market has been changing three times a day. This old equipment and old technology will no longer work."
"It's all my fault that Hantian Machinery Company has nothing to do with new yarn machines. In the past, even new yarn machines were only minor improvements. I didn't expect that this time they directly made a big upgrade, not to mention that the efficiency was doubled. , and the quality of the spun yarn is much better!”
"That's right, they used to be pretty good. They said every year that the new spinning machine would be upgraded, but in fact it was just like that. If you don't invest in building a new factory, then the old spinning machine can be repaired and used!"
"But this year, that damn Hantian Machinery Company actually launched a new type of spinning machine regardless of the lives of many spinning mills. According to me, many domestic spinning mills may not be able to survive this wave!"
"But no matter what, with what Hantian Machinery Company does, the spinning industry will definitely enter a new stage in the future. The original spinning machines will soon be reduced to mid- to low-end equipment. In a few years, they may all be replaced." Completely eliminated!"
"Should we sell the old yarn machines we have on hand as soon as possible? After all, many people in remote places are relatively secluded from information and don't know that new yarn machines have appeared."
"And even if they know that a new yarn machine has appeared, not all of them will know the huge gap between the new yarn machine and the old yarn machine!"
"Maybe we can still get a good price for it."
“By transferring the old equipment, we can also get some money back to purchase new equipment!”
After hearing this, Wang Liqing, who was sitting on top, said: "This is a feasible way. Zhao will do it this way. You can contact us outside to find a market for the old equipment we have on hand!"
"Old Tang, continue to contact various banks. Although our Anhua Cotton Mill in Songjiang is not too big, it is still a time-honored brand for more than 20 years. Let's see if we can apply for an equipment loan and use the new equipment directly as collateral. !”
"Financial bankers have great careers and now they don't like us, so don't go to them and go to other banks, especially Guangtong Bank. They are a foreign bank that has just entered the Songjiang market. When they officially need customers, tell them if If they can agree to this loan, then we will enter into strategic cooperation with them!"
"Minister Li, your technical department immediately contacted Hantian Machinery Company. We still have a batch of funds on hand. We will use these funds to order a small amount of equipment first, and bring it back to let the engineers get familiar with the equipment and start training workers. They sign an intention order and queue up our order first!”
After all the affairs were arranged, Wang Liqing waved everyone to disperse, but he did not leave directly. Instead, he continued to sit in the conference room and lit another cigarette.
Smoke continued to fill the conference room, and after a long time, the middle-aged man could be heard sighing.
Wang Liqing, the founder and general manager of Anhua Cotton Mill, a time-honored cotton mill in Songjiang City... This may seem like a bitch, but in fact, Wang Liqing knew that he was nothing more than a muddy leg, and he couldn't eat it every day. Full meal.
He is not even from Songjiang...but from Xiangyang in northern Chu. He suffered a disaster in his hometown in his early years and fled to Funiu Mountain.
Later, the emperor started an uprising in Funiu Mountain and established China to recruit troops. Wang Liqing also felt hungry at that time... so he followed the thieves without hesitation... Alas, from the dragon!
Wang Liqing, who served as the leader of the Dragon Queen, had good or bad luck.
I was lucky because during the several years of the Unification War, I was basically stationed in the rear. I never fought in a serious battlefield, and I was not killed or injured... I gradually reached the rank of sergeant major.
What bad luck... Naturally, it's because he is just a sergeant major... He is an old man who served as a dragon during the Funiu Mountain period!
Among the thousands of people who followed the dragon in Funiu Mountain, as long as they were not killed in the Unification War or retired early due to injury... they stayed around until the end of the Unification War. It is rare for someone who is lucky and capable to become a general, someone who is just a little bit like a colonel, and even a bit less like a lieutenant... and even by the end of the Unification War, he is still a leading soldier!
After all, during the Funiu Mountain period, there were a lot of Conglong people, including generals, cabinet ministers, and feudal officials... There were even thousands of school officers and lieutenants!
Big soldiers, that's really not many!
Of course, even though it’s not much, there are still some!
Due to various coincidences, there are still hundreds of people who have been stationed in the rear for a long time and have no chance to make meritorious deeds, or due to various other reasons... Wang Liqing is such an unlucky guy!
Wang Liqing has been in the army for several years and has been stationed in the rear with the third-line troops for a long time. He has never been on a formal battlefield. He has never even encountered things like suppressing bandits and suppressing armed tax resistance... In terms of military merit, he really can't get it. Take action, it's really hard to get promoted in the Chu army that values military merit!
By the fifth year of Chengshun, the Chu Empire had established a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River. He was still a sergeant major in the second-line army, and that was all he had to do.
Later, when Luo Zhixue discovered that there was such a group of people, in order to reward the loyalty of these early warriors, he specially opened several issues for these veterans who were early warriors but failed to rise due to various reasons. A special crash course for army officers... just to help them solve the issue of military rank and subsequent retirement benefits.
Well, people followed you when Luo Zhixue had only a few thousand people under his command. Now that you have conquered the world and are sitting on the throne of emperor, you can't treat your old ministers too badly.
Moreover, these people have not made any big mistakes, and Luo Zhixue cannot ignore them both emotionally and rationally.
It was against this background that Wang Liqing enrolled in the officer crash course... This was also the last large-scale crash course set up in the Chu Empire Army Officer School.
Going forward, the crash course, a typical wartime special officer training mechanism, will be cancelled. Subsequent soldiers who have made meritorious service will directly enter the formal classes of the Army Officer School. If their cultural level is not enough, they will first take one or two years of cultural classes.
While Wang Liqing was studying in the crash course for half a year, he married the only daughter of a textile merchant in Songjiang based on his status as an army officer in the Chu Empire.
After serving as an officer for only two years, the army encountered a large-scale reorganization after the Eastern Spoiler War. His unit was stationed in the rear area of Jiangxi for a long time, and was directly disbanded and merged... Although he could continue to serve at that time, But the C-class division that was assigned to be stationed in remote areas of Yunnan and Guizhou... After discussing with his wife, he simply retired and changed his career.
At that time, in order to encourage officers to take the initiative to retire and change careers, the retiring and career benefits provided were very good.
If assigned at that time, he could choose to be the deputy station chief of a patrol station in a town in Jiangxi. This position was actually pretty good... equivalent to the deputy director of the police station in later generations.
Even if they are not big or small in the local area, they can be regarded as members of a decent official family.
Or just get a large sum of money in retirement benefits and settle things with the authorities from now on...
Wang Liqing was afraid of poverty in his life and was very tempted by the large retirement pay.
Moreover, for him, the Jiangxi side was just a place where he had been stationed for more than a year. He couldn't even understand what the locals were saying...
At the same time, his wife didn't want to live with him in a remote place...she persuaded him to move directly to Songjiang, saying that his father would help him arrange a career and start a spinning mill.
So he simply took a large amount of retirement pay, took his wife and children to Songjiang... and then founded Anhua Cotton Mill with the help of his father-in-law.
Under the guidance and guidance of his father-in-law, he started his business career!
A few years later, Wang Liqing's father-in-law became addicted to wine and sex, and finally died contentedly in the small green building... His father-in-law became jealous of the young lady, fought with others over wine, and drank himself to death.
The father-in-law's youngest son died young, the mother-in-law died young, and there was only an only daughter like Wang Liqing's wife. The considerable assets left by the father-in-law naturally fell into the hands of Wang Liqing's wife.
Relying on the funding from his wife's private assets, Anhua Spinning Factory grew rapidly. In just a few years, it grew from a few dozen employees to more than 200 people, and continued to grow steadily along the way.
Up to now, the total number of employees in Anhua Spinning Mill and several affiliated small branches has reached more than 800 people.
Although this scale is not a large yarn factory, and it is not a large enterprise in Songjiang, it is still OK.
Only after developing to this point, Anhua Spinning Mill encountered its first real crisis.
Wang Liqing is very clear about the crisis brought about by the innovation of spinning technology. If this wave can be improved in time, it may be possible to reach a higher level and truly become the first echelon spinning mill in Songjiang City.
But if you fail to follow up in time, you will become one of the countless victims of technological innovation!
Therefore, no matter what, he must follow up on the spinning technology innovation brought by Hantian Machinery Company in a timely manner!
The only problem is insufficient funds. It is very difficult to get a bank loan, especially without any guarantee.
After much deliberation, I am afraid I have to ask my wife for help for financial problems...
His wife did not know how to do business, and she was not a strong woman. In the early years, she invested part of the inheritance from her father-in-law into a cotton mill to support her husband.
For the sake of safety, she basically used the rest to purchase various real estates such as land, houses, shops, etc...
In the early years, real estate in Songjiang was very cheap, especially in Xicheng District, which was still a rural area. The land was very cheap... Even the places along the Huangpu River were not that expensive... His wife took the money back then , was deceived into buying a shabby house along the Huangpu River on the north bank of Suzhou River, along with the shabby land along the river.
Forget it, Wang Liqing's wife continued to be deceived, sold other assets, sold a lot of jewelry, scraped together money to demolish the original old house, and built three four-story cement brick buildings with other land. ...you can definitely make a lot of money after repairing it and renting it out.
Wang Liqing also said back then: Don't be afraid, even if these three buildings are in ruins, I can still support you in the future...
But who would have thought that before the house was repaired, the government began to develop the north bank of the Suzhou River... and also built a bridge over the Suzhou River that could pass carriages.
Unfortunately, the three new buildings built by his wife were at the other end of the Suzhou River Bridge... As a result, these three unfinished buildings instantly became fragrant buns!
In one of the buildings, Wang Liqing's wife hired the manager herself and opened a high-end hotel integrating accommodation and catering. This hotel is also considered a famous hotel in Songjiang City: Suzhou River Hotel
One building was rented to Songjiang Branch of Finance Bank for its headquarters.
Another building was rented to the Lee Iron and Steel Company as the headquarters of the Songjiang branch.
To this day, these three buildings together with the Suzhou River Hotel are much more valuable than the Anhua Spinning Factory!
In other words, Wang Liqing's wife is richer than him, whether in terms of total assets or liquid cash!
Wang Liqing couldn't help but frown when he thought about the scene of asking his wife to get money after returning home.
Although he knew very well that his wife would be very supportive of him and would not be sarcastic towards him... But, he really couldn't save face!
It was agreed that you will be responsible for your beauty, and I will make money to support the family...
But over the years, it seems the opposite has happened...
Could it be that Wang Liqing really has a bad stomach? Can you only eat soft rice?
(End of chapter)
