Chapter 128 Covering One Year

What Tang Yuan is eyeing is not the current Hong Kong OEM factories, but the huge amount of low-cost labor after the reform and opening up of the mainland. However, before that, she needs to build a suitable transportation channel.

With Mona's help, she quickly got in touch with the transportation-related personnel in Country M.

The freight companies, cargo ships and transportation procedures were all smoothly resolved. As long as Tang Yuan transported the goods to the port in Hong Kong, the goods could be shipped by ship and transported according to formal procedures.

"When the time comes, can we just call a taxi and send it directly to your warehouse?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan nodded, "The warehouse is relatively close to the port, so it is very convenient to transport it here. I will discuss the follow-up matters with Mona."

Formal shipping does not require too much "entertainment". Tang Yuan asked Mona for help just to let her make some connections and let her know that the goods she brought in were all from formal channels, so that she could sell the things with peace of mind.

Of course, clothing is not a niche product and is not prohibited from transportation. There is no need to worry about damage during transportation, so the transportation difficulty is very low.

It takes more than a month to ship goods from Hong Kong to Country M. After the transportation channels here were confirmed, Tang Yuan quickly contacted the company's people in Hong Kong to confirm the transportation quantity and departure time, and took Zheng Man with him to look for goods in Hong Kong.

The Spring Festival has just passed and the climate here in Country M is gradually getting warmer. The new batch of clothes is mainly spring clothes, supplemented by summer clothes. The next time I send clothes, it will mainly be summer clothes.

Five days later, this batch of clothes worth 300,000 Hong Kong dollars was loaded onto a cargo ship and traveled a long distance to Country M.

It is sent to Country M one month later, which is also the peak season for picking tea leaves.

Tang Yuan and Zheng Man returned to the warehouse: "This is the last batch of small wallets. There will be no more after that. You should still focus on selling small hair bands this month. You will have to sell tea again next month."

"The tea should still be charged by weight, just as if I were selling it wholesale from you," Zheng Man said, "while selling tea, I still want to sell small wallets and some clothes."

"Do you know how to sell clothes now?" Tang Yuan looked at her.

"Well, and I've learned a lot about the workshops in the past few months, and I know how to get good quality and cheap clothes," Zheng Man said with a smile, "Thank you for that, otherwise I definitely wouldn't be able to get so many goods."

"That's good. You have another choice." Tang Yuan looked at the warehouse. "Then the tea leaves will still be the same as last year. I will have someone bring them to the warehouse and put them there. You can come and get them. As for the money, you can wait until you sell all the tea leaves and then give me the wholesale price."

The quantity of tea leaves is so large that it would be slow and time-consuming for her to sell it by herself. Now that she has Zheng Man to help her, she can have plenty of time left to do other things.

"No problem, trust me, I will definitely do this for you," Zheng Man agreed with a smile, "There is one more thing, we still need that food, please help me."

"Well, I'll have someone bring it over."

As she spoke, Tang Yuan glanced at the warehouse. Originally, she only planned to use this warehouse during the tea season, but in fact, the things in this warehouse have never been empty in the past year.

The grain business is not big, but from the end of last year's tea season until now, she has sold tens of thousands of kilograms of grain. The wholesale price of the grain she sells in Hong Kong is 1.2 yuan. After deducting the cost, she has received tens of thousands of yuan, enough to cover the warehouse rent for a year.

She plans to expand her clothing business in the future, and the warehouse will be used even more frequently. So, she will just have to rent the warehouse.

After all, the grain was just a bonus. When she was doing grain business in the mainland, she just sent some of the grain here. She didn't have to put in much effort in the subsequent sales.

Zheng Man went out to do business again. Tang Yuan moved the bags of plastic in the warehouse onto the truck and drove to his residence.

There is also an underground warehouse here, where she usually stores some things she needs to move. She stays here quite often, and it will be more convenient to move things if she keeps them here.

Although there is plenty of space in other places, she doesn't like to put all her things in one place.

Passing through the game space, she returned to the Northeast, picked up a bag of plastic bags, opened the lock hanging on the door, and went to the next door.

"Xiaofang is here."

"Auntie Wei?" Tang Yuan looked at her and raised his head to check the sky. "The weather is good today, but it's still quite cold. Why don't you stay indoors?"

There are several coal stoves in the room, which are used specifically for heating. Although the effect is not as good as a kang, it can at least provide some warmth. Besides, if a group of people stay in the room, the indoor temperature can also be raised.

"There is a detailed pattern here, which is hard to see in the room. It will be finished soon. Go in now," Aunt Wei showed Tang Yuan the clothes in her hand, "There are only a few stitches left. You go in first."

"Then you should finish embroidering quickly and go in. It's still cold outside." Tang Yuan said to Aunt Wei and went into the house carrying the bag.

There are now four sewing machines and fourteen people in this house, including eight parents-in-law, the landlady, Aunt Wei and her daughter-in-law, and three new employees hired in the past two months.

Two of the three people are old ladies who were hired by the landlady. Now they are sitting in a corner with her, sewing hair bands, one stitch at a time. Their efficiency is not high, but they can earn a few cents every day, which is enough for them.

Tang Yuan just took a glance and then looked away, looking at the long row of clothes hanging on the other side.

These clothes are all specially made, each one is different. Some are made according to the design drawings brought by Tang Yuan, while others are made with reference to the fashion magazines she brought.

Those who can appear here are all people that Tang Yuan trusts, so they will not ask where these special-style clothes will be sent, nor will they ask whether they can be sold. They just make them carefully according to the requirements.

Aunt Wei and her daughter-in-law came here to do embroidery. Since it was a custom-made item, it had to have some designs on it. Now that the small wallets were no longer for sale, Aunt Wei and her daughter-in-law had nothing else to do, so Tang Yuan pulled them over to have embroidery done on their clothes.

After making sure that the clothes were in good condition, the in-laws put them into the cardboard box one by one.

On the other side, next to the currently empty sewing machine, someone was sewing a hairband.

Because this batch of clothes has high quality requirements, they use the best fabrics. The hairbands are also made from this batch of fabrics, and the quality is much better than ordinary ones.

Most of these goods were delivered to Tang Yuan's studio. When customers wanted to buy clothes, these hair ties would be delivered to the customers' homes along with the clothes for the customers to choose from. In fact, quite a few hair ties were sold through this channel.

Today's hair ties are not just ordinary hair ties. They are also specially made based on existing materials. Occasionally, they are inlaid with pearls and have other patterns to make them look more unique and high-end.

So this place is more like another studio than a small workshop. However, compared to the studios in Hong Kong, the wages here are much lower.

When everything was almost packed, Aunt Wei brought the embroidered clothes into the house and placed them on the operating table, finishing them carefully.

After finishing the tail, she carefully checked it and confirmed that there was no problem. She looked at the clothes in her hand with satisfaction, and then took it to one of the sewing machines: "The remaining work is to sew the lining, and it will be done."

Tang Yuan turned around, glanced at the embroidery on the clothes, smiled and gave Aunt Wei a thumbs up: "Aunt Wei is amazing, this embroidery really looks vivid and lively, and has a lot of charm."

"It would be great if it could be accomplished. I'm just afraid that I won't embroider it well." Aunt Wei said embarrassedly.

"How can it be bad? Aunt Wei is so good at embroidery. No one can compare to you," Tang Yuan said seriously. "But everyone has different abilities. For example, Aunt Weng is particularly good at making clothes."

"Oh, don't flatter me. I'm also afraid that I can't do it well," Auntie Weng immediately replied, "Your Aunt Wei is really good. Embroidery is too difficult. I don't understand it at all."

"You're amazing because you can make clothes. I can only make the simplest clothes." Aunt Wei complimented back without hesitation.

"You two are both amazing," Tang Yuan continued, remembering what he had said before. "Everyone is here today, so let's talk about the monthly salary. Because the production process of different clothes is different, we can't calculate the salary based on the number of pieces produced. So, as we said before, let's set a new salary standard."

After she finished speaking, everyone looked at her nervously, waiting for her to speak.

Fortunately, Tang Yuan did not intend to be a bad capitalist, and the final salary level was not much different from what everyone was earning now.

People with strong abilities like Aunt Weng-gu earn 45 yuan a month. Those who come in with her earn a little less, 42 yuan. Aunt Wei is in the same category as Aunt Weng-gu, both earn 45 yuan. The rest of the people earn between 25 and 35 yuan, with slight differences depending on their abilities.

As for the three landlords, their wages are still calculated based on the number of hair bands they sew every day.

Once the wages were confirmed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and several even showed joy on their faces. Even the lowest wage of twenty-five yuan was higher than many other workers in the factory.

After everyone was happy, Tang Yuan raised his voice slightly to suppress their excitement: "You can be happy, but the old saying still applies. If outsiders ask, just say you went to make clothes for others. Don't talk about what happened here. Although the situation outside is changing day by day, we still have to be careful before there is a definite answer, otherwise..."

"If we let it out, we won't make any money."

"No, I can't live without money. I finally have some money in my hands and can have a say at home. If I lose my money again and have to beg others for a living, I don't want that."

"I don't want to do that either, so let me make it clear in advance that if anyone leaks what's going on here and I lose this job, I will definitely knock on your door. I have no money to earn, so you have to support me for the rest of my life!"

"There are only a few of us here. Once the news gets out, it will be easy to find out who it is."

"Yes, no one can tell anyone."

Talking about the possibility of the secret being leaked, which could result in the loss of their lucrative jobs, everyone was filled with indignation, and even the three elderly people on the landlady's side stood up to express their opinions.

Tang Yuan confirmed everyone's attitude and said nothing more.

They were given a sweet treat, and from today onwards they had to calculate the accounts for next month and settle all the previous accounts. The actual cash was put in everyone's hands, which made them happy but also made them more determined not to tell anyone.

Tang Yuan then left with two boxes of packed clothes. After passing the middle door, he locked the hanging padlock to prevent anyone from breaking in.