In 1985, although other places did not know about it, township enterprises in Zhijiang Province had already sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
This is a place that shines with a little sunshine.
These township enterprises are really trying to survive in the cracks, and the products they produce are sold nationwide in an almost primitive way, carried on their shoulders and carried on their backs.
There was no way around it. The main transportation and sales channels were controlled by state-owned factories at that time, and township enterprises had no way to get involved.
Just like the counters of Yuezhou Department Store, almost all the goods on there are produced by state-owned factories. If township enterprises want to enter the market, they will be ignored.
So what to do? You can only go door to door recommending it, such as going to the market, or trading chicken feathers for sugar. This process is too painful.
It may be hard, but the motivation is high. The money you earn is yours, so isn't it normal to suffer a little?
So, using this method of millet and rifles, township enterprises first destroyed those collective enterprises run by communes or villages.
As mentioned earlier, the Hukou Textile Factory collapsed in this way.
The same situation is now happening at the Kezhen Yellow Wine Factory.
"Kezhen Yellow Wine Factory" was a collective enterprise founded by Kezhen District. It was also glorious in its time. The factory had a total of more than 400 employees, and its yellow wine production ranked third in Yuezhou area.
The top two rice wine factories are Xifeng Winery and Longshan Winery.
These two wineries are local state-owned factories with completely different treatment. They also have the convenience of exporting and generating income, so they live a very comfortable life.
But the Kezhen Yellow Wine Factory was not so lucky. As a collective factory, how could it compare with the state-owned factories?
The problem was that the immediate superior had to take care of the staff of Kezhen District, which was officially abolished at the end of 1984.
Yes, in 1984 the commune was abolished and changed back to townships, and the "district" between the "county" and "township" was also officially abolished, and the county directly managed the townships.
Now, even the "district government" is gone, and the district-owned collective enterprise, Kezhen Winery, is like a motherless child, homeless.
This is the first winery that Chen Xia targeted and wanted to acquire.
One reason is that since Kezhen Winery ranks third in Yuezhou, a traditional rice wine producing area, it shows that the winery has good strength and foundation. As long as there are sales channels, resuming production is a matter of words.
Another reason is that the Kezhen Winery is located in Dongjiang Village where Gujian Lake is located. It is not far from Qingfeng Village, only 2 kilometers away. At that time, both the pharmaceutical factory in Qingfeng Village and the winery in Dongjiang Village can be easily managed.
Ye Shirong, general manager of Xiangjiang Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company, wanted to visit the Kezhen Winery and had the intention to acquire it. This news was revealed to Deputy County Mayor Qin Weimin through Chen Xia.
Qin Weimin has transformed himself into the deputy county magistrate, in charge of the economy.
As the former district head of Kezhen District, he knew the Kezhen Winery very well. This difficult winery had cost him a lot of brain cells in the past. Now that he has become the deputy county head, the winery problem still gives him a headache.
When Qin Weimin heard that Xiangjiang Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company was interested in acquiring the winery, he was extremely excited. This was a good opportunity to get rid of a burden.
Yes, for him, this is getting rid of a burden, just like Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory was a burden to the Pharmaceutical Corporation. For some leaders, the best way to get rid of a burden is to sell it off.
Moreover, Qin Weimin also knew Chen Xia's background. The Xiangjiang Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Factory was opened by his grandfather in Xiangjiang. As the prince, he could be half of the family.
So the two sides hit it off.
Qin Weimin brought cadres from both the county and town levels and personally accompanied Hong Kong businessman Ye Shirong to the Kezhen Winery. Chen Xia, cough cough, came along to have some fun.
The Kezhen Winery covers a large area of almost 300 acres. Because brewing rice wine requires many process workshops and a place to store wine vats, the larger the space, the better.
Land is not valuable these days, and you can just enclose a piece of land without paying any land transfer fee.
The director of the Kezhen Winery is Zhang Xinglong, a bespectacled and gentle-looking intellectual.
Chen Xia had asked his fourth grandfather to inquire about this a long time ago. He knew that this factory director was not greedy at all and never took advantage of female employees. He had a good reputation in the winery and was an honest man.
Honest people have many advantages, such as strict technical skills and absolutely no problems with their business capabilities.
But honest people also have many shortcomings. The most important shortcoming is that they do not know how to grasp the market and do not know how to promote their own products. They just wait for orders from higher authorities on how much rice wine to produce, and they are completely clueless about sales.
Now, the regular Longshan Winery and Xifeng Winery have seized the international market and the domestic mid-to-high-end market.
There are guerrillas below, and various family-owned workshop-style wineries have seized the vast rural market and low-end market.
Who will sell the wine produced by the mediocre Kezhen Winery? Isn't the factory bankrupt?
When everyone arrived at the winery, the entire factory was quiet. Although the workers had no work to do, they did not leave the winery. They gathered in groups of three or four chatting and smoking.
Anyway, they don't work, but they still get their basic salary. This is a life-threatening burden for the financially troubled Kezhen Town Government.
Zhang Xinglong was sweating profusely and looked embarrassed when he introduced the current situation of the winery.
Ye Shirong did not make things difficult for the factory manager and just treated it as a visit after work.
In fact, Comrade Lao Ye's visit to the winery was just a formality. After Chen Shuqin returned to Hong Kong to acquire Margaret Hospital, the actual decision-maker in Yuezhou was Chen Xia, who was hanging around behind the team.
Zhang Xinglong took everyone to visit each workshop, and from time to time introduced some rice wine production techniques to the Hong Kong guests.
"Manager Ye, look, this is our wine pressing and frying workshop. After fermentation, the semi-finished product with lees is separated from the liquid and lees, and then..."
Ye Shirong didn't like rice wine. People who studied abroad like beer and red wine the most, so he just let it go in one ear and out the other.
Chen Xia, standing at the back, suddenly asked, "Director Zhang, if our winery finds a market, how long will it take to resume production?"
Of course, Zhang Xinglong knew about the famous "Five Bowls of Meat" in Ke Town. The prodigal behavior of this young cadre was well-known in the local area, and almost everyone knew about it.
"Chief Chen, as long as there is a need, we can resume production immediately. We have always prepared the raw materials for production."
Chen Xia nodded. The raw materials for production had been prepared in advance and the workers had not been disbanded, which meant that this was a "living factory."
If it is a "dead factory", you will have to recruit people, buy machines, and miss the winter brewing season, which will be a headache.
When Ye Shirong looked at him with an inquiring look, Chen Xia nodded slightly, indicating that the winery could be bought.
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