Three days later, Lotus Village.

The sewing machine factory officially started operations!

The name of the factory is "Lotus Sewing Machine Factory".

The portable sewing machines produced were also officially renamed "Lotus Brand Sewing Machines".

Mai Laosan is the factory director, mainly responsible for external business expansion and major decisions in the factory.

Mai Xiangbei serves as deputy factory director, mainly responsible for production and other related matters.

Chen Jiushan worked as the factory director's secretary and followed Mai Laosan around everywhere.

Mai Juncai is the security director and is responsible for safety issues in the factory.

Mai Liangcai served as the financial director, responsible for managing money and accounts.

Song Hewei is the director of logistics, and she is in charge of all miscellaneous matters.

Although she is a director, it is just a nice title. Song Hewei has to do everything by herself.

For example, serving tea, cleaning, writing and drawing, and sometimes even moving goods.

In a word, Song Hewei, the logistics director, can be moved wherever she is needed.

The situation is similar for others, with one person doing the work of two people.

After all, the Lotus Factory is just a "small workshop" and, including Song Hewei, there are only six employees in total.

Therefore, except for Mai Lao San, everyone has to go to the workshop to engage in production!

Mai Xiangbei was responsible for teaching them how to do it, and he almost worked overtime until late at night every day!

Mai Lao San refused to work. In his own words, he said, "I am the factory director! How can a factory director do the work himself?"

Mai Laosan had thought about hiring some more workers, but the factory had just been built and he hadn't received any orders yet.

But the factory has already spent a lot on materials, water and electricity, and site rental.

Even though Mai Lao San is a spendthrift, it still hurts to watch him.

Therefore, we can only ask all the directors to hold on for a while, and wait until the factory receives new orders before we talk about recruiting.

Director Li of the supply and marketing cooperative originally thought that Mai Lao San would not be able to make it work, but he did not expect that he could do it quite well.

On the day of listing, Mai Laosan specially invited Li Changxun to visit, thinking of asking the supply and marketing cooperative to purchase another batch of sewing machines.

But didn’t the supply and marketing cooperative just collect 5,000 of them not long ago? So they are not needed for the time being.

Even if Li Changxun is willing to help personally, he is just a director and has superiors above him. He alone cannot have the final say in this matter.

So, Mai Laosan had to find a solution on his own.

Then he thought of Lao Ding.

Lao Ding is still doing business with Yan Feng in the black market.

The black market is the most informed and has the keenest perception of the market.

They had long realized that the government intended to open up the market, but didn't they see that the red-sleeved soldiers of the Revolutionary Committee didn't care.

Therefore, even though they had been caught by Qi Chuanqing once before, they still did not give up the black market after they were released.

The portable sewing machine business is so popular that Yan Feng has been eyeing it for a long time.

During the Chinese New Year, he and Lao Ding went to Lianhua Village to find Mai Laosan to seek cooperation.

However, the factory had not been built at that time, and Mai Laosan was worried about the risks of the black market, so he refused.

But now seeing that the factory is spending money like water every day, Mai Laosan feels that relying solely on the supply and marketing cooperative is not enough!

I have to find another way myself!

Of course, cooperating with Yan Feng is not in compliance with current policies.

Therefore, Mai Laosan was still a little hesitant and could not make up his mind.

If Mai Sui were here, he would have agreed to cooperate with Yan Feng without a second thought.

Because she is the biggest outlaw!

In Mai Sui's opinion, compliance or not is not that important.

As long as we can settle it after something happens, that's enough!

However, Mai Sui is not here, but Song Hewei is here.

When Song Hewei was cleaning the "factory director's office" for Mai Laosan, she saw a preliminary plan he had written on a piece of paper.

It was written very sloppily and the plan had many flaws, but the meaning was clear enough.

Song Hewei is a person who has lived a second life, and she knows that the government will announce reform and opening up next year.

Many policies have been relaxed now, and the risks of cooperating with Yan Feng are basically controllable.

The most important thing is that the actual controller behind the Lotus Sewing Machine Factory is Mai Sui!

With a big boss in charge, there’s nothing to be afraid of!

So, Song Hewei began to persuade Mai Laosan to go for it boldly!

In order to dispel Mai Lao San's doubts, Song Hewei tried every means to collect newspaper news and other things to brainwash Mai Lao San.

"Director, look, it's been published in the People's Daily. The government encourages us to increase production!"

"Encouraging production does not mean encouraging going to the black market. These two things should not mean the same thing, right?"

Mai Laosan looked at Song Hewei with a look that said, "I have little education, so don't bully me."

Song Hewei was not at all flustered and explained seriously:

"Of course not! We have produced so many sewing machines and are storing them in the factory. If we don't sell them, how can we continue production? If we don't continue production, how can we increase production?"

".....That seems to make sense."

"Of course! If you don't believe me, ask Mai Sui. She will definitely mean the same thing."

Mai Laosan actually went to ask Mai Sui.

As expected, Mai Sui didn't hesitate at all and immediately decided to venture into the black market!

Since Mai Sui said so, Mai Lao San no longer had any worries and immediately went into the city to find Yan Feng.

Yan Feng was overjoyed and immediately purchased 500 Lotus brand sewing machines at the purchase price of 48 yuan.

It’s fifty cents higher than the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative!

"Uncle Mai, I'm very happy that you came to see me. This fifty cents is my sincerity.

Don't worry, the shipment volume here is definitely not lower than that of the supply and marketing cooperative!

It’s just that I don’t have much cash on hand at the moment, so I’ll take 500 first, and when I’m done selling them, I’ll come to Lotus Village to find you.”

Five hundred of them were equivalent to twenty-four thousand yuan. Mai Laosan was very satisfied and did not think it was too little at all. He happily accepted it.

What Mai Laosan didn't know was that Yan Feng started selling the products for 68 yuan per piece.

The supply and marketing cooperative only sells it for 55 yuan per unit, but Yan Feng's place is 13 yuan more expensive than the supply and marketing cooperative!

However, Yan Feng works in the black market just to make money. Who would do it if it doesn’t make money?

If you think about it this way, he only makes 20 yuan per machine, which is not particularly unscrupulous.

Yan Feng also did what he promised. The shipment volume on his side was no less than that of the supply and marketing cooperative!

Most importantly, be fast!

Moreover, Yan Feng also has channels in other provinces, not just selling in Xiangxi County.

As a result, the Lotus brand sewing machine quickly spread across the country with Xiangxi County as the center.

..........

Zhang Chaojin, president of the Beijing Academy of Sciences, returned home one day and found his wife and daughter-in-law tinkering with something.

I was just taking a casual glance, but I was attracted by what my wife was holding.

"What is this?" Zhang Chaojin asked.

"You haven't seen it before?" Wen Wanqin, his wife, said proudly, "I just bought a sewing machine! It's only 98 yuan!

This is a hot commodity in Jiangnan, and even the supply and marketing cooperatives can’t sell it!"

"The supply and marketing cooperative doesn't sell it, so where did you buy it?" Zhang Chaojin immediately grasped the key words in his wife's words.

Wen Wanqin paused and said awkwardly: "I bought it on the black market."