After dinner, Luan Feng led her female soldiers to the team headquarters to study.
Wan Feng once said that even as a worker, one must persist in learning, because only learning can enable one to make continuous progress.
Luan Feng listened to Wan Feng's words and took his men to the team headquarters every night to read and study.
In fact, she knew in her heart that Wan Feng was talking nonsense. He had already dropped out of school, and yet he asked others to study. No one would believe that.
However, the books in the team headquarters and the books in the classroom are completely different. If the books in the library were all about mathematics, Chinese, geography and history, she would not bother to come.
Luan Feng's main subjects of study are books like "Little Smart Wandering in the Future". She likes books with as many pictures as possible and as few words as possible.
Of course, picture books are the best choice, but when Wan Feng went to buy books, he didn't buy picture books, which made Luan Feng very dissatisfied.
I really want to bite him hard twice, bad guy!
The library and entertainment room in Wahou is not closed to the public, and young people from Shanhou, Wahou, Xiaoshutun and Wohutun often come here.
But once you come here, you must abide by the rules here, which means no smoking, no drinking, and no fighting or swearing.
If you violate this rule, you will be denied membership next time.
Wan Feng did not go to the team headquarters with them, but went home alone. He wanted to have a good sleep.
I've been very tired these past two days since I went out.
The next morning, Zhang Hai transferred a dozen strong young men from the brick and tile factory and the machinery factory to install the new machines.
The east wing of the old team headquarters can be used to install the next set of equipment, while the other set of equipment will be placed in an empty workshop in the machinery factory.
When the old team headquarters was renovated, a very spacious door was left behind. Yesterday, we hired a truck crane from the Second Transport Department to help move the equipment.
With this thing, moving equipment is not a big deal. The equipment at the old team headquarters was installed in just one morning.
While installing the equipment inside, Wan Feng solved a problem outside the shoe factory.
At around eight o'clock in the morning, a dozen shoe vendors from the market gathered in front of the shoe factory, intending to talk to the factory's leaders.
When Zhang Hai and Wan Feng were not at home, Luan Changyuan had never met these vendors. The decision was not made by him, so he could not solve the problem.
Now that Wan Feng and Zhang Hai are back, Wan Feng was pushed out.
Wan Feng met with these dozen vendors in the small conference room on the first floor of the team headquarters.
There were some people here that he knew and some that he didn't.
The vendors made two demands: first, the shoe factory should stop selling shoes, and second, if it cannot stop selling, the price must remain the same as at the market.
It's very simple and reasonable.
"Your demands are very reasonable and not unreasonable at all. This is your legitimate right, but it is unrealistic to ask the shoe factory to stop selling shoes because you simply cannot sell all the shoes the factory produces."
"What if we join forces to underwrite the shoe factory's products?" a vendor asked.
"Can you underwrite all of this? We've brought in two more sets of equipment and are installing them now. They're imported machines. Together, they can produce over 2,000 pairs of shoes a day. Add to that the 300 pairs a day our old equipment can produce. Can you underwrite all of that?"
The vendor fell silent.
"The people who come to the shoe factory to buy shoes are all from the surrounding village. It's only natural that the shoe factory sells them a little cheaper, just like when you sell shoes to your relatives at the market, don't you get a discount?"
"But now the impact of the shoe factory selling cheap shoes is no longer limited to Jiangwei and the few brigades near Jiangwei. It has spread from Black Lagoon in the east to Blue Mountain in the south to Daying in the west and Qingshan in the north. They have almost monopolized the markets we are trying to enter. Our sales have dropped significantly."
"What you said is true, but since the shoe factory has already established a reputation, changing it would also damage its reputation."
Prices at that time were not changed at will, at least that was the case before 1985.
From the 1950s and 1960s to 1985, the country's commodity prices have not changed for more than 20 years. Commodities can be cheaper, but it is not easy to raise prices.
Wan Feng's words were very clear. The price set by the shoe factory would not be changed unless they changed it at the market.
But this way they will earn 20 cents less for each pair of shoes, which means they will lose several dollars in income a day.
"I want to know how many of you here go to the Qingshan Market?"
Among these people, only a few went to Qingshan Market. After all, Qingshan Market was forty miles away from Gushan. Not everyone could ride a bicycle with shoes on their backs to travel that far. Those who went to Qingshan Market were from Gushan or Shaling Commune, which was closer to Qingshan.
"So what are you doing on Qingshan Market Day?"
The Qingshan Market is held on the 0th and 5th of the lunar calendar. If there is no 30th in a short month, it will be held on the 29th.
If you don't go to the Qingshan market on this day, there will be no other market nearby, and even if there is one, it will be sixty or seventy miles away.
"Doing some housework at home." Several people answered.
Wan Feng nodded. "In that case, let me make a suggestion. If you want the shoe factory to stop selling shoes, that's fine, but I have one condition. It's not difficult. Every Qingshan Market Day, you can set up a stall in front of the Wahou Shoe Factory and sell shoes. Of course, the price you sell them at is the current factory price."
The shoe vendors looked at each other.
"You mean we can come here and sell shoes on Fridays and Octobers, paying the factory's current price?"
"Yes, and we don't charge any management fees. You can see that although there are not as many people buying shoes here as at the market, it's still a small scale. You can put the shoes on the open space outside the shoe factory. You can see that there are hundreds of people coming to the shoe factory from all directions every day to buy shoes. I estimate that it is not difficult for each of you to sell ten or twenty pairs a day. Anyway, you are at home with nothing to do on the fifth and tenth days."
In just a few days, there were hundreds or even hundreds of people coming from all directions to the shoe factory to buy shoes, and the flow of people was almost endless.
Even now, Wan Feng has seen from the window that there are at least a dozen people riding bicycles to the sales department of the shoe factory.
"So, apart from these two days, the shoe factory won't sell shoes on other days?"
"That's right! As long as you come to sell shoes on the 5th and 10th, I promise that the shoe factory will never sell a single pair of shoes on other days. You can make the money. But if you think that selling shoes here is just as good as selling them at the market, you can come to sell them every day. How about we discuss this solution?"
Wan Feng forced these shoe vendors to set up stalls here.
There are people selling shoes here. Wan Feng has his own clothing factory, and if there are a few more people selling clothes, the prototype of a market will be formed.
As long as there are vendors here, people will come. When people come, others selling melons, dates, fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs will slowly follow and join in the fun.
With a few people coming together, the market will be formed, and maybe it can even become an all-weather market.
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