The reason why the new factory was able to produce products as soon as it opened was that nearly half of the workers there had received training from Luan Feng. In addition, Luan Feng sent some old employees from the original factory, such as Jiang Min and Li Erman, to the new factory as leaders. Therefore, the new factory started producing products very quickly and reached full production in a very short time.
Wan Feng did not participate in any other work on the new factory except finding someone to build the boiler room. It was all done by Luan Feng alone.
Now it seems that this woman is doing a good job.
After two years of leading people in work, this woman has actually come up with her own way of employing people. She is really teachable!
"When we first planned our market, we were a bit timid. We should have gone straight to stalls instead of mobile homes."
Wan Feng stood in front of the window of the team headquarters, looking at the heavy rain outside and said to the people in the team headquarters.
On rainy days like this, if there were stalls with goods, the vendors would be in a panic.
In the past month or so, the number of merchants in the market has increased significantly, and even button merchants from Yongjia have come here to do business.
The speed of the market's development was a little beyond Wan Feng's expectations. Among the famous markets in the country, Wahou's development is now the fastest.
In 1982, the prototype of a market began to take shape in Yiwu, located in central Zhejiang, and at the same time, a spontaneous market also appeared in Xiliu.
Yiwu is a little-known county town located in the central Zhejiang Basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides. Like most county towns in the country at that time, it has narrow streets and low houses.
The county has a labor force of nearly 300,000, nearly half of whom are surplus laborers, and the average annual income per person is over 80 yuan.
The tradition here is to knock sugar for hair.
Yiwu produces brown sugar, and the locals have the habit of using chicken feathers to fertilize the fields, so the trade of exchanging brown sugar for chicken feathers came into being.
This story, which would surely make people laugh their pants off when they heard it, actually existed in Yiwu for nearly a hundred years.
These "sugar-knocking gangs" would carry some cosmetics, needlework, and rough toys for children in their cargo baskets while going from street to street to knock sugar for wool to increase their income.
This group has tens of thousands of people.
Sometimes these rural vendors would come to the county town at that time, put down their loads anywhere and set up a stall, which gradually became a small-scale market.
The government at the time didn't know how to deal with these people who went from street to street extorting sugar for chicken feathers, so they issued a "Temporary License for Small Department Stores to Extort Sugar for Chicken Feathers and Fertilizers."
As a result, more and more people joined this group. By the end of 1982, several thousand people had obtained permanent temporary licenses, and the commodities traded became more diverse.
At the end of 1982, the Yiwu County Party Committee officially announced the development of a small commodity trading market.
This required a lot of pressure at the time.
Also in 1982, the government of Xiliu Town, Yingkou, Beiliao Province, began to centrally manage the spontaneously formed markets selling trousers in Xiliu, thus forming the prototype of Xiliu Market.
However, due to the sudden emergence of Wahou Market in Hongya County, the development of Xiliu Market was greatly restricted. When Wahou Market had begun to flourish, Xiliu Market was still just a single market specializing in trousers.
It is for this reason that Wan Feng said the above sentence. Since Wahou has already made a good start, he should not be overtaken by others.
"What is a stall?" Zhang Hai didn't understand what a stall was.
There are now nearly 300 mobile rooms rented out in Wahou, which has brought Wahou more than 200,000 yuan in rental income so far, far exceeding the profits generated by the brick and tile factory.
This cannot but make Zhang Hai take it seriously.
"It's like a greenhouse, with brick or iron frames on both sides, and a plastic or iron roof to keep out the wind and rain. If conditions permit, the frames on both sides can be directly built into a two-story building, with a shed between the buildings, so that we can cope with winter."
Zhang Hai began to scratch his head: "Will this cost a lot of money?"
"This thing is something you can invest in once and enjoy dividends for more than ten years. You should consider it."
Zhang Hai pondered for a moment and then asked, "But there's already a mobile home at this end of the market. Should we tear it down and then build a stall?"
Wan Feng shook his head. "These prefabricated houses still have value for now. We can leave them as is, but we won't build any more. We can build stalls from the prefabricated house area inside. Once the stalls start to function, we can go back and modify these prefabricated houses. The investment in the stalls alone won't be much. I estimate a few tens of thousands of yuan."
"Then let's do it. It's just a stall, right? Where can we find someone to build a stall?"
This is not something Wan Feng should deal with. He is responsible for giving advice, but the specific implementation is none of his business. Zhang Haiai can go wherever he wants to find the person.
Wan Feng walked into the machinery factory holding a black oil-paper umbrella.
Because of the heavy rain, there were no trucks lined up outside the machinery factory today, but there were still two trucks loaded with tractors in the yard. I don’t know which agricultural machinery company they belonged to.
Every time Wan Feng went to the machinery factory, he saw Xiao Dexiang busying around. He never saw him having a moment of leisure.
"Uncle Xiao, how come you, as the factory director, seem even busier than the workers? Don't worry about things you shouldn't be involved in. It's not good for your health to worry so much. You must relax when it's time to relax."
"I wanted to, but once I got into the factory, I couldn't relax."
"Why should we relax now? I'm sure our factory won't need any upgrades or modifications to its current products for three years. All we have to do is focus on production."
"I know that, but we still have some research and development to do. How can we relax? We've spent a lot of money on this."
Xiao Dexiang was referring to the technicians who were hired from other places at high salaries. They were researching single-cylinder high-horsepower engines and four-cylinder diesel engines as well as manual transmissions and corresponding rear axle transmission equipment.
Except for the single-cylinder high-horsepower engine that may be used in the next two years, the rest of these projects are prepared for future low-speed vehicles.
“How are sales?”
"Sales are booming. We can sell as many vehicles as we want, especially three-wheelers. There's one thing I don't understand: fully enclosed three-wheelers sell better than semi-enclosed ones."
"Haha, this is normal. Look at the sky outside. If it's fully enclosed, you can run without any obstacles. If it's partially enclosed, you can only wear a raincoat."
Perhaps to prove that Wan Feng’s words made sense, the rain outside got even heavier.
"If it rains like this for a few days, our road leading to the outside will probably become a mess." Xiao Dexiang said worriedly.
Although this road is paved with a lot of sand, it cannot withstand the erosion of heavy rain. This dirt road leading to the outside country road really needs to be completely repaired.
Now that there is some savings in Wahou, it is time to consider paving this road.
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