Chapter 218 The Opportunity of the Times Stumbled at My Doorstep
Wang Luyang urgently contacted Jin Peng, and Jin Peng urgently contacted Li Ye.
"Xiao Ye, someone asked me to come over to discuss something, please go with me!"
"Why should I accompany you? You are the person in charge of Pengcheng Seventh Factory in Beijing."
"But I heard from Wang Luyang that several large units and institutions are interested in our products. Their levels are too high. I'm afraid they won't understand and will mess things up."
"Your rank is too high?" Li Ye asked curiously, "You don't steal or rob, you don't lie or cheat, you have a formal identity, you have a record of paying taxes in full, you trade fairly, if it's profitable then do it, if it's not profitable then forget it, what does your rank have to do with it?"
“You.”
Jin Peng was squeezed out by Li Ye, but two years ago, he was still a street boss who would turn around and run away when he saw the director of the X police station!
Facing a group of "officials" from the capital at this moment, it is already a great achievement for him to keep his face calm and not show any fear. Isn't it normal to feel timid in his heart?
Li Ye sensed Jin Peng's uneasiness, so he gently advised: "Brother Peng, you are no longer the unemployed vagrant you used to be. You have been dealing with hawkers since you started selling hemp candy.
Later, I worked in the clothing industry and dealt with various departments of the railway and shopping malls. Later, I participated in the development meeting of Xiushui Street. You are already a qualified business leader. Don’t underestimate yourself. "
“I don’t underestimate myself”
Jin Peng couldn't help but touch his scalp and said with a smile: "I'm just afraid that if I can't grasp such a good opportunity, it will be a pity. It's not easy for us to get to where we are today."
"If you can't grasp it, then you can't grasp it. Just treat it as paying tuition fees," Li Ye said decisively, "Brother Peng, this step is something you have to take on your own.
The people you will come into contact with will become higher and higher in rank, and you may even have to compete with big businessmen from overseas. It is better to pay the tuition fee now, otherwise you will be embarrassed if you get scared later!"
"I, Jin Peng, have never been a coward. I'm going! Don't blame me if you lose money!"
Jin Peng told a few jokes without hesitation, and the uneasy feeling in his heart miraculously disappeared.
In the past year or two, he has come into contact with all kinds of people, and his horizons have naturally broadened. He can be considered a person who has seen "big scenes".
This is also the reason why Li Ye wanted to establish Pengcheng Factory No. 7.
Back then, his team had just started out, with only seven or eight people, no official seal, a complete makeshift group.
When Jin Peng, the street tycoon, encounters trouble, he can only deal with it with 30% of his intelligence and 70% of his ruthlessness.
Hao Jian, the candy vendor, would shrink back whenever he saw someone in uniform.
With such a team, do you expect them to be able to expand their territory in the coming major changes?
By the next year, that is, in 1984, the state will allow the emergence of private enterprises and begin to implement a dual-track market system. Then, township and village collective enterprises will experience four consecutive years of high growth.
During these four years, countless talented people have emerged in the Flower Growing Family. Their starting points are much higher than Jin Peng and Hao Jian. How will they be compared then?
Decades later, only a few companies in each industry can survive comfortably. Li Ye has chosen them to work for him, so he must help them succeed.
That's why Li Ye built the Pengcheng Seventh Factory two years in advance and forced Jin Peng and Hao Jian to take charge so that they could quickly familiarize themselves with everything a business leader would need to deal with.
If it had always been a shell company, would Hao Jian and Jin Peng have the abilities they have now?
To put it more vividly, Li Ye, with a vision far ahead of his time, set up an experimental field for the two of them so that they could learn how to farm.
Just like the 500 million yuan start-up capital that Wang Wanda gave to Principal Wang, you are allowed to fail, but you must learn from the experience of failure.
So Li Ye has done this. If Jin Peng is afraid to talk business with the leader of a large company, then what's the point of running a manufacturing industry and being an entrepreneur?
Wouldn't it be good to just play stocks, speculate, and be a young model in the club, and enjoy every day?
. . . . . . .
It was three days later when Li Ye saw Jin Peng again.
Jin Peng's eyes were bloodshot, there was a blister at the corner of his mouth, and his whole body was filled with fatigue, but his spirit was very excited.
"Xiao Ye, I've seen a lot of things this time. Section chiefs are nothing. The highest ones are only two levels lower than your future boyfriend. I had a good chat with them. Here are some results for you to take a look at first."
Jin Peng handed Li Ye a stack of materials, including several contracts and letters of intent.
“First Airline liked our clothing, but they also made their own demands.”
"TV One also thought our uniforms were good, but they thought the price was too high, so I discussed with them that we could sponsor the uniforms in exchange for prime-time advertising rights. They didn't agree, but they seemed very interested."
"Some people also criticized us, saying that we were out of touch with the masses. I humbly listened to their advice."
While looking through the materials and listening to Jin Peng's narration, Li Ye finally understood the powerful influence of TV Station No. 1 in 1983.
It was just a shot in a promotional video that connected them to these seemingly unattainable units, something that people in later generations would not even dare to think about.
Even if the costumes designed by Li Ye and Fan Xiuling were novel enough, it would be completely impossible to miss this opportunity.
That's a promotional film, not an advertisement.
It can only be said that it was an opportunity of the times. He happened to walk past the door, then tripped and fell, which allowed Li Ye to pick him up.
Seeing Li Ye looking at the First Airlines materials without saying anything, Jin Peng said, "The airline has a lot of modification requirements. See if they are reasonable. If not, I will talk to them again."
Li Ye shook his head and said, "Don't worry about all the modification requirements. Send them directly to Fan Xiuling in Hong Kong Island and ask her to work overtime to make a variety of different samples, and then send them to the airline for selection."
Jin Peng said, "Fan Xiuling is a very arrogant woman. You have to let Old Pei tell her this. And didn't you say you would be neither humble nor arrogant? We can't indulge the airline company like this, can we?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "Fan Xiuling is a smart woman. She has a basic salary of more than 100,000 yuan a year, and sales dividends. If she doesn't meet the requirements of you as a marketing manager, then she should quit."
"As for the airline, Brother Peng, you have to remember that being neither humble nor overbearing is an attitude, and doing your best to meet their requirements is a job. You can ignore unreasonable requests, but real needs must be met."
Jin Peng said, "That's fine! Anyway, the trouble is Fan Xiuling's fault, I don't care. I just want to have a good sleep now. I've been worried these past few days."
Li Ye asked, "Can you handle it? If not, ask Hao Jian to come and help you for a few days?"
"No need, I just hired a secretary and I've given all the paperwork to him. Besides, Hao Jian may be busier than me now!"
"Secretary?" Li Ye looked at Jin Peng strangely and said, "Brother Peng, you took the initiative to assign a secretary?"
Jin Peng exchanged glances with Li Ye and immediately said, "Xiao Ye, don't get me wrong. I hired a male secretary, a male, a proper secretary. Don't talk nonsense! My wife is very capable."
“Heh~”
Li Ye smiled and lowered his voice, as if he didn't want Jin Peng to hear him: "Who would hire a male secretary if they are serious entrepreneurs?"
Jin Peng: “.”
. . . . . .
Hao Jian is indeed very busy.
After receiving the notice to participate in the Spring Canton Fair, he was full of energy.
After Li Ye asked him to increase the stocking and recruitment efforts, he became even more excited.
[Let the number of employees in the factory exceed 10,000 as soon as possible. 】
The factory director of a factory with tens of thousands of employees!
If this happened in Qingshui County, these people would dine at the same table with the boss.
Even if he were placed in Pengcheng, he could not be called an unknown person.
"Master Yang, when will this batch of workers be able to practice on the machines?"
"Director Hao, if you want to let them work on the machine now, it's fine, but we can't stop producing defective products. We can't be too hasty! When I was in a state-owned factory, the apprenticeship fee was 18.5 yuan a year, and it would take two years..."
"Okay, okay, Master Yang, let's not talk about this. I'll just tell you straight out. If you train me a qualified apprentice, I'll give you a thirty-dollar bonus, but if he fails, I'll deduct fifty from you."
"If that's what you're saying, give me another ten days!"
"Okay, we have a deal! Don't worry about not making any money. I have sent Manager Chen to the southwest to recruit new workers. The new workers will be here soon. As the head coach, you will have plenty of work to do."
"According to what you said, it would be worth it for me to die of exhaustion here for you in this life? Hahahaha~"
Hao Jian was busy dealing with the training of new workers. When he was about to get off work, the phone in the factory director's office rang.
A few minutes later, Hao Jian rushed back to the office.
"Hello? Brother Guo! It's been a while since we last met. Is there something wrong today that reminds you of me, your old brother?"
Hao Jian picked up the phone and started a warm greeting.
Because the person on the other end of the phone was Guo Donglun.
"Director Hao, we haven't seen each other for a long time. I'll wait for you at the same place tonight."
"Ah? Today, at this time, is there anything urgent, Brother Guo?"
"We'll talk when we meet!"
Guo Donglun hung up the phone directly, leaving Hao Jian stunned for a while.
Ever since he met Guo Donglun more than a year ago, Hao Jian has been unable to figure out the young man in the wheelchair.
But the other party was very sensible. He never made mistakes in what he was supposed to do and would not take a penny less. We all cooperated well.
They met and had dinner together occasionally, and everyone treated each other as brothers. Guo Donglun was no longer stern-faced and cold-spoken as he was at the beginning.
But why does his voice today sound so cold and indifferent?
"Are you going to pick peaches? No way!"
Hao Jian thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with a reason.
After all, even if Guo Donglun was replaced, he would not get better cooperation conditions than now.
But Hao Jian was not that scared, because Li Ye had already prepared an emergency plan for this situation.
Now we have passed the initial difficult development period, the factory's workers have increased rapidly, we have sales channels in the mainland, and we have the assistance of Hong Kong Island traders abroad. Most importantly, we have established good cooperative relations with more than 30 collective garment factories.
Even if the official seal of Pengcheng Factory No. 7 is handed over now, the production plan will not stop. The worst that can happen is that Hong Kong Island will give back some foreign exchange and it will be a shell company for a while!
When the new factory is built, all the skilled workers will have to follow Hao Jian.
When it comes to poaching, Hao Jian is a professional.
(End of this chapter)
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