Chapter 74 Chapter 74 Open Bidding
Director Yan originally thought of taking the initiative to contact canneries in neighboring provinces, or canneries in some provinces and cities further south to ask. They have new production lines and can sell them at a discount, so they will definitely be able to sell them.
However, during the team discussion, Shen Wenshan pointed out that the country now encourages the development of a market economy, and the focus does not have to be limited to state-owned factories, but also to see if individual businesses and township enterprises have needs.
Moreover, as the old saying goes, those who rush forward are not businessmen. If they take the initiative to find buyers, the other party will definitely take the opportunity to lower the price. It would be better to spread the news within the factory first. If they can find buyers locally, it would be even better.
Another point is that the factory is not doing well now. If someone really has the courage to buy a production line and set up a cannery, it might be able to help the factory solve the livelihood problems of some employees.
Director Yan felt it was unlikely. Besides, their massive military factory couldn't even manage to run a cannery, so how could anyone buy a production line and start one? He didn't directly reject Shen Wenshan's proposal, though. The more difficult the factory's development, the more important it was to maintain team unity. Director Yan was very attentive to this aspect; he wasn't the type of leader who would have the final say.
It wouldn't be difficult to find a buyer first, either within the factory or in South City.
But there were six or seven people who signed up just from within the military factory. This result really surprised Director Yan, and that was why he wondered if he had not managed the factory well.
Shen Wenshan smiled and said, "Before, we were worried that the production line wouldn't sell. Now that so many people have signed up, we're sure it will sell. We should be happy."
Director Yan nodded, but sighed inwardly. He had spent so much effort to acquire the production line, but he could only sell it at a discount. What was there to be happy about? The only thing he could be thankful for was that he didn't buy all ten production lines at once, otherwise the loss would have been even greater.
Shen Wenshan came out of the factory director's office, looked at his watch, and went straight downstairs home.
The old man had already moved to a nursing home, so it was naturally impossible for the family to live in the military compound anymore, so they moved directly to the house allocated by the military factory.
Those at the factory director level all live in a row of two-story buildings in the southeast corner of the military industrial compound. Each household has an independent courtyard, and the housing conditions are quite good.
However, Shen Wenshan and his family had lived in the General's Building for so many years that they felt that the housing conditions here were really too poor in comparison.
The house is small and the decoration is old. Although it is surrounded by a wall, the neighbor next door actually raises chickens and grows vegetables in the yard. As the weather gets hotter, the smell becomes more and more obvious.
Shen Wenshan himself was relatively okay. After all, he was a soldier and could endure hardships when he needed to. Besides, strictly speaking, this could not be considered hardship at all. But Wu Shuhua and Shen Feifei were different. Both mother and daughter felt that they had experienced all the hardships that they had not experienced in the previous decades or even decades.
As soon as he entered the yard, Shen Wenshan heard lively laughter coming from the house. When he went in, he saw Jiang Yingxue sitting on the wooden sofa in the living room.
Seeing him come in, Jiang Yingxue hurriedly stood up and called out, "Uncle Shen."
Shen Wenshan nodded, washed his hands, and then sat on the sofa on the other side. "You're here to ask about the production line, right? There are seven people who have signed up now."
He glanced at Jiang Yingxue: "Besides the three you mentioned, there are four more."
Jiang Yingxue looked surprised: "Four more?"
In order to buy the production line smoothly, she not only found a trustworthy person to represent her, but also found two other people to "carry the sedan chair" for fear that the number of applicants would be too small and too conspicuous.
But after thinking about it carefully, Jiang Yingxue finally realized it.
There is no shortage of smart people in this world. Since she can think of making money by reselling production lines, how could others not think of it?
"What about then?" She looked at Shen Wenshan.
Shen Wenshan shook his head. "It doesn't matter how many people sign up. As for the other four, the Liu family is just an empty shell. The rest are just self-employed individuals who have made a little money. They definitely won't accept it if the price is too high. No one can compete with you."
Self-employed people make money, and some do become "ten thousand yuan households", but they are a minority after all. Otherwise, one "ten thousand yuan household" wouldn't be in the newspapers, which shows how rare they are.
Among the families that registered, the Jiang family runs a clothing store, and the other two run snack shops. I haven't heard that any of them are "ten thousand yuan households", so I guess they are just trying to take advantage of the opportunity to get some good deals.
Since the factory has decided to sell it publicly, naturally the highest bidder will win. When the price is high, those families will naturally give up.
As for Jiang Yingxue, no matter what price she offers, Shen Wenshan will naturally help her extend the payment time after the bidding is over, and let her pay the full amount after selling the production line.
According to Shen Wenshan's estimation, earning 5,000 yuan should be no problem after all this, which is almost like making money out of nothing.
In the past, Shen Wenshan would not have gotten involved in such matters. He wouldn't have cared about even 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, let alone 5,000 yuan. Living in the General's Building and eating the provided food, with the old man contributing to the family's daily expenses, he didn't spend much money at all.
But things are different now. After moving out, Shen Wenshan discovered that the accumulated miscellaneous and insignificant expenses at home actually amounted to a huge number, not to mention how much it would cost to maintain a similar standard of living as before.
Just for this house, the furniture and appliances actually took up most of the couple's savings.
If Feifei goes to college in the second half of the year, the expenses will be even greater. As for Weihong, the conditions in the northwest are difficult, and they have to send things and money over every now and then...the salary of the couple is not enough to spend.
In fact, Shen Wenshan has never understood why his mother Fang Meiyu likes Jiang Yingxue so much.
It would have been fine if his mother treated Jiang Yingxue as her granddaughter-in-law before, but Weihong went to the northwest, but Jiang Yingxue chose to stay in the south city. It was obvious that she was someone who could not share the joys and sorrows with Weihong, but his mother didn't seem to care at all. She called him one after another, asking him to help Jiang Yingxue.
If Shen Wenshan didn't know it was impossible, he would have suspected that Jiang Yingxue had given his mother some kind of love potion.
Jiang Yingxue did have some business acumen, though. I heard she'd been trying to acquire the defective fabric from the garment factory last year, but unfortunately, she was a step too late. The fabric went to the Jiang family's daughter, who, with that fabric, saved up enough money to open a clothing store. Although Jiang Yingxue didn't win the deal, it showed she had a pretty good eye.
Although she failed to make that deal, she later found opportunities to make a few more deals. This time, after hearing about the canning production line, she found a buyer early and made plans.
Shen Wenshan naturally would not profit from this. He has been working in military logistics for many years and would not take money that he should not take.
He was just giving a helping hand to the younger generation. Besides giving them some convenience within the rules, he also lent Jiang Yingxue some money to support her career. Of course, he charged a certain amount of interest.
The registration deadline was a few days later, and the factory office notified the applicants to participate in the open bidding on Friday.
On Thursday evening, Yu Guoliang rushed to Nancheng, exhausted. As soon as he entered the door, he carried a large plastic bucket to the kitchen.
The bucket was full of fish caught from the pond, mixed with shrimps of different sizes and a timid turtle.
Aunt Liu was delighted: "Oh my, the fish are really fat, and there are shrimps in the pond. Wow, and this, this is very nutritious. Okay, okay, leave it all to me. It's not easy to come all the way here. Go sit down and rest for a while."
Yu Guoliang smiled and said, "I also brought you a jar of radish strips."
Aunt Liu was even more overjoyed: "Oh my! I was just saying the jar was almost empty, and you brought it to me! Come on, come on, sit down. I'll make a few more dishes so you can have more tonight."
After Yu Guoliang put all his things in place, he took out his luggage bag, pulled out a stack of neatly folded documents and handed it to Liu Mianmian.
Liu Mianmian took it and took a look. Seeing that the information was so complete, she was happy: "We have nothing, but the township has already handled all these procedures?" She had originally expected that the township could come up with an implementation plan or something.
Yu Guoliang twitched his lips, thinking to himself, "So you also know it's unreliable to ask someone to handle the paperwork when we have nothing." However, thinking of the township's attitude, he still laughed: "Our Qianjin Township has no advantages in any aspect. In recent years, other towns have developed at a rapid pace, but our township is still the same. The township leaders are also anxious. They have finally got an opportunity to set up a factory, and they must seize it at all costs."
This was not something Yu Guoliang figured out himself, but was analyzed behind the scenes by someone who had a good relationship with him.
Of course, what the official didn't say was that the township could decide on these procedures itself. Even if the plan failed, all these procedures would be invalidated and the township would not lose anything. But if it succeeded, the township would have one more cannery.
Liu Mianmian smiled and said, "As long as the village leaders maintain this mentality, why worry about not being able to develop?"
At present, Qianjin Township may not have resource or location advantages, but who can say that a good business environment is not an advantage?
Liu Mianmian flipped through the information and said, "That's great. You and Jiang Hongmei can just go there together tomorrow."
Yu Guoliang was shocked: "What, you're not going?" He thought he was just here to help deliver some information and run errands.
Liu Mianmian looked innocent: "This cannery was approved in your name, and you will definitely be responsible for its management in the future. As for the matter of securing the production line, it is naturally your responsibility."
Yu Guoliang: “…”
Why did he feel like he was on a pirate ship?
Not to mention Yu Guoliang, when Jiang Hongmei found out the next day that Liu Mianmian didn't go to the military factory, she panicked: "No, seven people have signed up, and we don't know what the factory's rules are. If you don't go and something happens, we don't know how to deal with it!"
Liu Mianmian said nonchalantly, "We discussed the specifics last night. Don't worry, my brother knows how to handle it. Besides, you two have been traveling extensively and are about to open a garment factory, while the other has contracted fish ponds and mountainous land and opened an oil press. You're both very experienced bosses. Are you afraid you can't handle such a small matter?"
Jiang Hongmei completely disagreed: "How can this be considered a trivial matter?"
Liu Mianmian said confidently, "How is this not a small matter? Two production lines only cost about 10,000 or 20,000 yuan at most. Think about the sales of four clothing stores, and then think about the sales of wholesale stalls in the future. When you compare them, don't you think two production lines are actually nothing?"
Jiang Hongmei thought about it and found that it was true.
Perhaps it is due to the concept I have been taught since childhood, I always feel that factory production lines are very valuable things, and I naturally have a sense of awe.
But if converted into money, ten or twenty thousand yuan is an astronomical figure for most people of this era, but for Jiang Hongmei today, it is actually not a lot.
If they didn't want to run their own wholesale stalls or open their own clothing factories, Jiang Hongmei could have chipped in the money, not to mention Liu Mianmian, who earned much more money than them.
When I thought about it this way, I felt there was nothing to be nervous about.
It's true that the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is.
Jiang Hongmei waved her hand: "Alright, then Brother Guoliang and I will go. Brother Guoliang, have you discussed everything?"
Yu Guoliang: "...we have discussed it."
The open bidding was held in a conference room on the second floor of the military factory's administrative building.
Yu Guoliang followed behind Qian Aizhen and Jiang Hongmei. Everyone in the conference room immediately looked over at them. Some greeted Qian Aizhen, while others asked directly, "Hey, sister-in-law Aizhen, isn't this your son-in-law?"
Qian Aizhen was speechless: "I said, please open your eyes wide when you look at people. Comrade Yu and our Hongmei are more than ten years apart in age. This doesn't look right!"
She raised her chin and said proudly, "This is our family's partner. We are going to open a cannery together." The daughter said that she would invest some money in the cannery and give her a dividend every year as retirement money.
Regardless of how much the dividend is, just the fact that she can use the dividend as retirement money makes her the only one in the entire military industrial compound.
So she had to get the production line today no matter what.
It was a rare sight to hear Qian Aizhen use such a fashionable word as "partner." However, some people joked, "Sister-in-law, the production line isn't even in sight, and you're already looking for partners for the cannery. Isn't that too early?"
Qian Aizhen said confidently: "We have already chosen the factory location. We bought the production line today and started construction there. Which one is early? We have it just right."
Wow, this is a must-win!
Some people were dissatisfied: "Sister-in-law, this hasn't even started yet, and we don't know who will win!"
Qian Aizhen: "Then it must be us!"
A few people started to make a fuss, but Jiang Yingxue, who was sitting in the corner, glanced at Jiang Hongmei and frowned.
At this time, several leaders of the factory came in, and the people who were making a fuss immediately fell silent. Qian Aizhen also quickly sat down obediently, and Jiang Hongmei and Yu Guoliang sat down next to her.
Selling the factory's newly acquired equipment wasn't a particularly dignified undertaking, so the factory leaders didn't say much and simply let the sale begin. The rules were simple: the factory set a minimum price, and everyone raised their hands to bid, with the highest bidder winning.
After the factory director introduced the rules, he said, "Let's get started!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the director of the factory office saw a dark-skinned man at the back of the conference room suddenly stand up. The man seemed a little nervous, and his voice was trembling, but very loud:
"Before we start bidding, I hope the factory leaders can clarify one thing: how can you ensure that the production lines you purchase will be used for production in the future, rather than being resold to exploit loopholes and make money from the government?"
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