Upon hearing this, Yuan Fangmin couldn't help but murmur inwardly, "Big Brother hasn't been bringing his girlfriend out much lately. Could there be some misunderstanding between them? To be honest, that Sister Ma is pretty good-looking, so I think Big Brother would be interested in her, too."
"Are you listening?" Seeing that there was no response from Yuan Fangmin, Yuan Fangguo couldn't help but ask again.
"I'm listening. I understand." Yuan Fangmin quickly came back to his senses.
"Get the good stuff, not the bad stuff."
"Yeah, I'll go right away."
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After hanging up the phone, Yuan Fangguo felt very complicated. He could feel more and more his girlfriend's indifference towards him. This kind of indifference really needed two people to sit face to face together to resolve, rather than being maintained by phone calls and text messages.
However, it is not easy for him to find his girlfriend to have a good chat face to face. A week ago, Lin Yumei was sent to the capital by her unit to study. It is estimated that she will study for about a month. He really wants to go to the capital, but there are too many things going on recently and he can't spare the time.
In desperation, he could only pick up his phone and send a text message to his girlfriend, "The temperature in the north is going to drop in the next two days, so you must take care of yourself."
His girlfriend didn't reply to him for the whole morning.
When lunch was almost around, Yuan Fangguo picked up the phone on the table and asked his secretary to come in.
The secretary was a man named Li Chengming, about thirty years old. He used to work for a foreign company on the coast. Later, because the people of Sichuan and Bashu have a natural tendency to stay in the basin, and his parents are also old, and his own major life events have not yet been settled, he resigned from his foreign trade job and returned to Chengdu.
Coincidentally, Yuan Fangguo took a liking to his seven years of work experience in foreign companies and made him his secretary.
"Mr. Yuan, what's the matter?"
"Notify all departments to hold a meeting this afternoon." Yuan Fangguo said.
"Okay, what about the time?" Li Chengming quickly took out a small notebook and recorded it.
"At 2:30 pm, in the conference room, the main topic is the establishment of the factory's transport fleet."
"I understand. I'll pass it on." After Li Chengming finished speaking, he asked him if he had any other instructions or requests.
Yuan Fangmin shook his head, looking somewhat listless. "No more. Go and get busy."
"OK."
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At 2:30 in the afternoon, no one dared to be late, and the meeting was held in the conference room on time. The topic of this meeting revolved around the establishment of a transportation fleet by the motorcycle factory.
At present, the transportation of motorcycles in their factory is mainly through rail or water transport. The railway side is loaded in Chengdu, but the water transport requires the fleet to travel at least 200 kilometers to the LZ port to load the goods. Every time they set out, there are hundreds of trucks. These trucks have signed agreements with several local transportation companies. The factory's finance department has also made careful calculations and found that the biggest cost in the transportation link comes from this.
Therefore, Yuan Fangguo also felt in his heart that it was really necessary to establish the factory's own transportation fleet.
At the beginning of the meeting, he asked the factory leaders to express their opinions.
Everyone expressed their opinions without hesitation and discussed the matter.
Li Chengming quickly recorded everyone's opinions and made a quick count. They seemed to be about the same.
The reason for those who agree is simple: it saves costs for the factory and no longer has to be subject to the influence of others.
The objectors' reason is very simple. If the motorcycles are transported from Chengdu to LZ Port, what about the return from LZ Port? They can't be empty.
If it is empty, the cost will be higher.
"Of course it's impossible to be empty-handed," said Yuan Fangguo.
"Then we need to have an industry of our own to implement it."
"Yes, that's true. Let's see if there are any industries we can develop that can adapt to local conditions."
"Actually, this industry is very simple. Instead of transporting the materials and equipment produced daily by our motorcycle factory by rail, we'll use the Yangtze River for water transport. We'll establish a logistics and warehousing base in Port LZ, which will act as a transit point. This way, we won't have any empty cargo."
"But our demand is not that great." The opponents once again put forward their opinions.
"We can consider ordering from cities along the Yangtze River. Compared to the inland areas, their costs are lower. We can place large orders and sell them in Chengdu. If we add some of our own materials and equipment, there shouldn't be any problems."
"What are you ordering?"
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Everyone discussed it quite heatedly until the end, when Yuan Fangguo made the final decision.
"We definitely need to establish a fleet, and a logistics and warehousing base in Port LZ. After listening to everyone's suggestions, I think we can build a large wholesale market in Chengdu. This will solve the problem of empty trucks."
"Mr. Yuan, your idea is very good, but if this happens, I'm afraid we'll need to connect more with the government."
"When doing business, you can't avoid dealing with the government. I'd like to give you eight words: 'Be close to the government, and stay away from politics.'" After Yuan Fangguo finished speaking, he looked around meaningfully.
Everyone was silent, thinking about what Yuan Fangguo had just said.
"The finance department will report the cash in the account."
Li Hui nodded. She had already made preparations. Thanks to the efforts of Tong Mingzhu and Ma Tingting in their respective regions, not only had sales increased, but the payment cycle in the North China region had also been reduced from three months to about one month. "The factory's public account now has 43 million in cash."
"What about the working capital for one month?"
"About 23 million."
"This means we currently only have 20 million in actual available cash, right?" Yuan Fangguo looked at Li Hui.
But Li Hui shook her head and said, "No, Mr. Yuan, not that much."
When Li Hui said this, Yuan Fangguo was shocked and asked quickly, "How come there aren't that many?"
"Our factory's monthly bank loan repayment is 5 million yuan, but the actual available funds are 15 million yuan."
When the subordinates heard that the factory currently had only about 15 million in available funds, they all became silent again.
Without money, nothing can be done.
"Okay, I got it. I'll find a way to solve the money problem." Yuan Fangguo waved his hand, signaling everyone to disperse.
Soon, everyone left, leaving him alone in the meeting room.
He kept thinking that the support was still from the Jiangliu District Government, but this time the amount was quite large. He didn't know what the district's attitude would be, and he was a little worried that he might take a big step and end up hurting himself.
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