If Su Wei still doesn't understand this, she's really wasting her life. In this day and age, "car transport company" was still a relatively obscure term for people.
In those days, large cities had state-owned automobile transportation companies, but counties and cities didn't have any. The main reason was that automobile transportation companies required too much investment; a single vehicle cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, which was simply unaffordable for the average person.
Let alone counties and cities, it's hard to say whether there are any car transport companies in prefecture-level cities these days, and even if there is one, there are only a few cars.
Dong Qing asked, "Su Wei, let me test you. Do you know the main reason why Mei's cars aren't selling well?"
After listening, Su Wei remained silent for a long time before saying, "In my opinion, it's very simple. The main reason is that most people don't have money. In those days, most of the transport vehicles on the road were tractors and tricycles, mainly because they didn't have the money to buy cars."
Furthermore, if the cars produced aren't from well-known brands, it's difficult to establish a market presence. After all, cars are big-ticket items, and nobody wants to buy a car from an unknown brand.
Having been in the business world for so many years, it's normal for him to be able to analyze things in such detail.
Dong Qing said, "You're absolutely right. No matter what product people buy, they'll always choose a well-known brand first. Right now, the automotive industry is a niche market. Before a product can achieve sales success, it's impossible to mass-produce it. It's even harder to establish your own brand. That's the main reason I decided to temporarily stop producing cars."
Li Yuqiu said, "I'll listen to my brother-in-law this time. I'll start the mortgage loan tomorrow morning. I trust such a big company; I'll have no problem getting a 5 million yuan mortgage."
Both are from the same company, but the loans taken out by Li Yuqiu and the woman surnamed Mei are different in nature. The woman surnamed Mei owes the bank a huge loan, while Li Yuqiu does not.
Dong Qing said, "Work hard, and I will do my best to help you."
Li Yuqiu smiled and said, "Thank you, brother-in-law. Luckily, I stole the household registration book for you and my sister back then. To be honest, I was really afraid of losing such a wonderful brother-in-law as you."
Dong Qing was once grateful to have such a sister-in-law. Without her help, he didn't know when he and Li Yuzhu would have been able to remarry.
The next morning, with Dong Ermei's help, Li Yuqiu used the company he had just acquired the day before to secure a loan of 5 million yuan.
Li Yuqiu has established his own company, registered under the name Yuqiu Company, and will receive the business license in at least half a month.
The next day, Yuqiu Company was officially established, with the original team remaining for the time being. Li Yuqiu was appointed as the company's general manager, and Mei Lu, the former company secretary, was appointed as the company's deputy general manager. Li Yuqiu asked Fang Lin to be his acting secretary.
It is against the rules for a company secretary to act as an agent for another company's secretary. Li Yuqiu is Dong Qing's sister-in-law, and she reluctantly agreed to let Fang Lin act as her temporary agent secretary.
Most importantly, Dong Qing trusts Fang Lin and will not disclose any company information to another company.
Moreover, Fang Lin would not steal Yusheng Company's trade secrets and give them to Li Yuqiu, and Li Yuqiu would not do that either. This is the main reason why Dong Qing was able to agree.
Next, we compiled statistics on the products and equipment acquired from each factory, which took three full days.
The company and its subsidiaries cannot retrieve their newly issued business licenses for the time being, so they will temporarily use the old company's business licenses to begin production.
Li Yuqiu signed a joint venture contract for tricycles with Yusheng Company, and from then on, her tricycle factory became a joint venture under Yusheng Company.
A week later, Yuqiu Company and Transportation Company were established, and they could start operating once the business licenses were obtained.
The next day, Li Yuqiu went to the car manufacturing plant. The factory name would not be changed until the business license was obtained.
The three of them entered the workshop, where the foreman was assembling cars using existing auto parts.
The workshop foreman walked towards them, and Li Yuqiu asked, "Director Zhou, how many cars can the workshop's spare parts assemble?"
Director Zhou said, "We can produce about sixty cars, but some parts are insufficient, and the chassis also needs to be welded."
After hearing this, Li Yuzhu looked at her brother-in-law, as if to say, "Do you think we should buy spare parts to continue welding the frame?"
Dong Qing said, "Spare parts absolutely cannot be stored in warehouses. Automotive spare parts become obsolete very quickly. If we don't assemble them into cars and put them into use now, these finished spare parts will become waste. If we manufacture all the spare parts into cars, we'll have to buy more if we don't have enough, and if we don't have enough frames, we'll have to buy steel to weld them together."
What Dong Qing said was indeed the truth. He had lived a lifetime and knew how fast the automotive industry had developed in the later stages. The current auto parts are made using production technology from the 1970s and 1980s.
If we were to manufacture cars again in ten years, none of the current parts would be needed; they would be completely obsolete by then.
Just as he said, today's auto parts will become a pile of scrap metal in the future, and at that time they can only be sold to foundries for recycling.
Therefore, we must now manufacture all the parts into cars, and we also need to establish a car transportation company. We can't have too few vehicles.
When the company was acquired, there were 68 finished cars in the warehouse. With the addition of 60 cars assembled and produced, there were 128 cars in total. This number of cars was enough to establish a large automobile transportation company.
Dong Qing said, "Director Zhou, install sheds on two-thirds of the trucks to facilitate transporting goods to customers in the wholesale market. The remaining one-third of the trucks don't need sheds; they can be used to transport coal and building materials. Immediately purchase truck dump truck parts and manufacture all these trucks as dump trucks."
There are still many cars that haven't been assembled yet. The technical department can easily modify the blueprints and manufacture dump trucks.
Director Li said, "I immediately notified the purchasing department and the technical department, instructing the technical department to design and manufacture the blueprints for the autonomous dump truck, and instructing the purchasing department to purchase spare parts for the dump truck."
Dump trucks require a set of production technologies and plans, which will take time to gradually resolve.
Li Yuqiu asked, "Brother-in-law, are there that many businesses transporting coal and building materials in our city?"
Dong Qing said, "Our city doesn't have a single transportation company yet. It's the 1990s now, many real estate developers are starting up, and the coal market is clearly booming. They'll need to transport their materials by truck, right? Trust me, go for it!"
Li Yuqiu said, "If I don't listen to you, who else can I listen to? I trust you, and I will do whatever you tell me to do."
Li Yuqiu mainly believed that Dong Qing would not harm her, his sister-in-law, but would only help her.
When the car manufacturing plant was being built, the previous owner bought a lot of land here, half of which is now vacant. Dongqing said, "Yuqiu, your car transportation company will be established here."
Car transport companies don't need to build so many buildings; company offices and employee dormitories are enough.
"By paving the entire compound with cement, the transportation company really won't need a factory building. A large parking lot will suffice in the future. Building a transportation company doesn't cost much; the main investment cost for a car transport company is in purchasing vehicles."
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