Chapter 58

The next day, Song Shu and the other two went downstairs after breakfast. A-Po had already driven over and was waiting for them downstairs. Seeing Song Shu coming downstairs with Hao Ge, he curiously asked, "Is the second sister-in-law going to the factory with us?"

"Okay, let's go together." Chen Zonghao nodded and opened the car door for Song Shu and the others.

After hearing this, Apo scratched his head and wanted to say that the factory was in the suburbs and it was desolate and there was nothing interesting there, but seeing that Brother Hao and Second Sister-in-law didn't mind, he didn't say anything.

In the car, Apo enthusiastically introduced the factory to Song Shu, "The factory was bought by Brother Hao from another boss. It's about one or two hundred acres. Brother Hao had people renovate it, and now the factory employs several thousand people..." His words were full of praise for Chen Zonghao.

Song Shu also listened carefully. She had also learned a little about this factory from Chen Zonghao's words. After listening to A-Po's words, she glanced at Chen Zonghao who was sitting in the passenger seat and smiled, "So amazing."

Chen Zonghao turned his head to look at her, and the two of them looked at each other.

A-Po continued in the driver's seat, "Brother Hao is very capable. This factory was built by Brother Hao. Moreover, the Ministry of Foreign Trade in Shenzhen welcomed Brother Hao's opening of an electronics factory and offered him various preferential treatments for setting up the factory."

After hearing this, Song Shu realized that electronic technology in mainland China had just begun to develop slowly during this era, and most factories usually produced daily necessities, so the support for this type of high-tech industry was still very strong.

The two talked as they walked from the hotel to the factory, which took more than an hour. The further they walked, the more desolate it looked. At that time, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange did not have the high-rise buildings and various factories that it would have in later generations.

As we walked along, we occasionally came across a few factories. When we reached our destination, there were only a few factories built around here.

Chen Zonghao's factory covers an area of ​​more than one hundred or two hundred acres, which is quite large, but the land has not been fully utilized. Song Shu got off the car and saw only two large one-story workshops. Several buildings next to each other looked like places for workers to live. Next to it was a two-story building that seemed to be where Chen Zonghao and his colleagues worked, and there was another building under construction a few hundred meters away.

Song Shu looked at the building and found that its design had a modern minimalist style, which made it look different from the buildings next to it.

Chen Zonghao saw her eyes on the building and said, "I plan to use that building for scientific research. Technical workers and scientific researchers will work there."

Song Shu nodded after listening to him, and found that he had considered it very carefully. The building was some distance away from the factory, so the environment here would not disturb the people working in the building.

It was working hours and all the workers were working in the workshop, so there were no people around.

Chen Zonghao stood beside Song Shu and asked, "Do you want to go to the workshop to take a look?"

Song Shu shook her head and said, "No need." She didn't want to disturb others at work. "Let's go directly to your office."

"Okay." Chen Zonghao took her and Jiahui to the two-story building and said to A-Po, "You go and do your work first. You don't need to accompany us here."

Apo nodded, "Okay." The first batch of DVDs is about to be produced and shipped, and his work has become busier.

Song Shu walked all the way to Chen Zonghao's office at the end of the second floor. She met many employees and greeted Chen Zonghao, "Hello, boss."

Entering his office, Song Shu took a look around. It was smaller than the one in Hong Kong, but the style was as simple as always.

Song Shu took Jia Hui to sit on the sofa. Chen Zonghao poured them two glasses of water. Song Shu took a sip and asked, "Has the first batch of your DVD players been produced?"

Chen Zonghao sat in front of another sofa, "Well, the first batch is almost finished."

Song Shu nodded. With the current prosperous development of the film and television industry and the improvement of people's cultural needs, his DVD player will have no problem selling. However, early publicity is still very important. The first step is to open up the market. She couldn't help but ask, "How do you plan to promote it in the early stage?"

Chen Zonghao leaned back on the sofa and said, "Mr. Xu in Hong Kong is planning to cooperate with a film and television company. They will sell film and television DVDs and then put an advertisement on TV."

Chen Zonghao didn't need to worry about the promotion in Hong Kong, after all, that was Xu Changlong's base camp. As for the mainland, Chen Zonghao continued, "We hired a group of salesmen to promote in audio-visual stores. After all, these audio-visual stores usually have the most customers buying movies. When DVDs appeared, the first to be greatly affected were these audio-visual stores. After all, the accompanying DVD discs can store more images than previous video discs, with larger capacity and higher quality. The only other thing is to have live video playback at the entrances of major shopping malls."

Song Shu nodded after listening to this. His publicity strategy was very well thought out.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Chen Zonghao responded, "Come in."

Song Shu saw a man walking in with a document in his hand. The man was not very tall, only about 1.65 meters, and had dark skin.

Standing in front of Chen Zonghao, he respectfully called out to him, "Boss." Then he turned to Song Shu and called out, "Boss Lady."

Song Shu thought that it must be Apo who greeted those employees, so they all knew her, and nodded and smiled at the man.

After saying hello, the man reported his recent work to Chen Zonghao, "80% of the audio-visual stores in Shenzhen have agreed to purchase and sell our DVDs. The agreed profit share is 5% for each DVD sold... We plan to expand into several large cities such as Guangzhou and Haishi..."

Chen Zonghao took the report and nodded as he read it. After finishing reading it, he looked up at him and said, "Very good. You will continue to arrange Liu Tiezhu's sales work."

Liu Tiezhu was so excited after hearing this that he admired Chen Zonghao. He nodded sincerely, "Boss, I will definitely complete the task well."

When Liu Tiezhu walked out of the office again, the employees passing by would greet him politely, "Hello, Director Liu."

Liu Tiezhu nodded and walked towards his office.

He didn't know that behind him, other employees were talking in groups of two or three: "Is this the sales legend who climbed to the position of sales director in just one month?"

An employee nodded, looked around, and whispered, "He's amazing. Although he's not well educated, he's really good at talking. Forty percent of the sales of this video store in Shenzhen were negotiated by him alone."

Others listened and said, "He's so amazing, who else should be the sales director if not him?"

Others added: "I heard that he was rejected at first, but our boss saw the talent and signed him."

"Is there such a thing? Tell us about it."

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Liu Tiezhu returned to his office and leaned back in his chair. He never dreamed that he, a farmer from the countryside who could barely read, would one day sit in an office in a glamorous manner.

And this opportunity was given by their boss Chen. Tiezhu will never forget his kindness in promoting him. Thinking of this, Tiezhu was full of confidence and took the thick Xinhua Dictionary next to him and started to read it.

He had already read a quarter of the dictionary, and he would hold the dictionary and read it when he was not working. He knew his shortcomings and did not want to be eliminated, so he had to memorize by rote. Fortunately, he had a good memory and had attended primary school for a few years, so he still remembered most of the pinyin.

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Liu Tiezhu came to Shenzhen from a rural area in Yunnan Province to work. He had seen a big brother from his village making a lot of money working in Shenzhen. He said that with the reform and opening up there, there were opportunities to make money everywhere, even if you just lay down.

Liu Tiezhu was moved. He said goodbye to his parents, left with a hundred yuan in his pocket, and took a train for several days and nights before arriving in Shenzhen.

Liu Tiezhu, who had never traveled far and had only been to the county town, was deeply shocked by the prosperous Shenzhen. There was no comparison between his small county town in the mountains and Shenzhen.

When he first came to Shenzhen, Tiezhu hung out with a big brother in the village for a few days. The big brother worked in cement, and Liu Tiezhu worked for him for only a few days before he became so tired that his back and waist ached. One day, he almost fainted on the construction site, and the contractor was so scared that he said he would not let him work no matter what.

Liu Tiezhu's mother gave birth to him prematurely, and there was no such thing as careful child-rearing in the countryside at that time. Therefore, Tiezhu was weaker than his brothers and sisters since childhood, and he was not as good as his sisters in doing housework and farm work. People in the village mocked him for living off the rich.

Liu Tiezhu also knows that people like him who have not studied for a few days and have no energy to do farm work cannot survive without finding a job. Although he has brothers to help him now, he cannot always rely on his brothers.

So when he heard the big brother in the village say that there were many job opportunities in Shenzhen, Tiezhu gritted his teeth and came over.

After being fired from the construction site this time, Liu Tiezhu could not just stay and had to look for other jobs. Although there were many job opportunities at that time, many of them required a degree, and Tiezhu could not read or write, so some people did not even look at him. In addition, he was weak and could not do heavy labor, and he had no skills, let alone the capital to do small business. Therefore, Liu Tiezhu could not find a job all of a sudden.

Finally, when Liu Tiezhu was thinking about becoming a dishwasher, he saw a job advertisement on the street one day. The job seekers were all dressed brightly. Tiezhu originally wanted to take a look and leave, after all, this job advertisement didn't seem to have anything to do with him.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the staff say, "Recruiting salespersons, requiring good eloquence..."

Liu Tiezhu stood aside and listened for a while, then he stopped walking when something moved in his mind. This salesman Tiezhu sounded like the salesman in the supply and marketing cooperative before, but this salesman didn't just wait for others to come to buy things. This salesman sounded like he was going to sell things door to door himself.

The more I listened to Liu Tiezhu, the more I was attracted to him. He had no other advantages except that he had a good memory and was eloquent. He could argue with the gossipers in the village for three days and three nights without stopping. Those who had talked about him before were finally scolded by him so hard that they no longer dared to mock him in front of him.

Thinking of this, Liu Tiezhu took a deep breath and walked over, then asked with a firm look, "Excuse me, how do we recruit this salesperson?"

The recruiter asked a few questions, and seeing that Liu Tiezhu didn't know a few words, he told him regretfully that he had failed.

Liu Tiezhu could only nod in frustration. When he was about to leave, the man who had been sitting in the corner and had never spoken spoke up, "Did you write down what they just said?"

Liu Tiezhu looked up at the man when he heard his words. The man was tall and handsome, but his Mandarin sounded a little unstandard. Tiezhu recognized this accent, it seemed to be from Hong Kong, because there was a small boss at his construction site who also came from Hong Kong and spoke in this tone. However, even though this man spoke with an accent, his voice sounded unusually deep and his pronunciation was clear.

Tie Zhu observed that after the man started talking, the other employees stopped talking and looked at him respectfully. It was obvious that this man should be their boss. Tie Zhu exhaled and nodded vigorously, "I've memorized it all."

The man looked at him and asked, "If I were your customer, how would you convince me to buy this product?"

After hearing this, Tiezhu's mind worked quickly. He thought for only a minute or two before he spoke: "I can..." Although he spoke haltingly at the beginning, he spoke more and more fluently as time went on.

The employees who were originally recruiting nearby looked at him in surprise. The man who had been timid and dull just now now had an indescribable look on his face, and his eloquent talk made them all want to spend money to buy the product. They didn't expect this man to be so different before and after. No wonder they were so blind just now.

Thinking about the employees secretly taking a look at the man next to them, they thought that the boss had good vision and a keen eye for talent.

Tiezhu spoke out his thoughts in one breath, then his face became a little timid again. He looked at the man nervously. He didn't know if he performed well or not, but he found the confidence he had when he cursed at the villagers before, and he couldn't stop talking.

The man just looked at him and nodded, "Very good, you are hired." Then he asked the employee next to him to write down his information.

Tiezhu was still a little confused until he got the employment notice. He didn't understand what it said about the 2% sales commission. He only knew that the basic salary was 500 yuan. 500 yuan, his family of eight working in the fields for a month did not even make 500 yuan. This was a huge sum of money for him.

Therefore, Liu Tiezhu decided to work hard, even if it was only 500 yuan a month, it was a huge sum of money for him.