In full swing
As the new year passed, without the constraints of the phrase "it's the New Year," the factory became even more chaotic. However, after one announcement after another was posted on the blackboard, those who regretted selling their shares gradually quieted down.
Those who went too far were all fired without mercy by Wang Shuitao.
In today's environment where unemployment is a constant possibility, no one wants to leave a factory that, to the naked eye, seems to have a bright future and is sure to survive for many more years.
With fewer workers available, Wang Shuitao decided to hold a recruitment drive.
They also announced the establishment of two new factories. Of course, the workers will be recruited locally, as few people here are willing to leave their hometowns. Having more local workers will also bring more convenience.
However, part of the leadership team will be taken from here.
Meng Songying did not resign from the research institute. In fact, someone had reported him because he was officially promoted to director of the New New Research Center when the new factory was established.
However, because there are too many people doing side jobs in the research institute now, and many of the people who previously supported sugar factories in underdeveloped areas, even those who returned later still keep in touch with those areas, and they get paid to answer questions there!
Who would complain about having too much money?
However, this time the consulting fee will not go through the research institute.
This is the most common side hustle, and some people with truly outstanding skills have even been recruited to become lecturers at universities.
Meng Songying was also invited, but she simply couldn't make the time and had to decline. Even so, the universities didn't give up. They were eager to recruit talent, and they said that if she didn't have time to teach, she could write a textbook instead.
Meng Songying agreed. He had been grateful to his teachers in the past, and many of their handwritten teaching materials were kept in his possession. Now that most of his teachers were gone, at least their knowledge and ideas could be preserved for eternity.
Then, he packed his bags and carried several heavy books that could kill someone if they hit him, and went abroad to purchase new production lines.
If we don't improve the production line and increase output, we won't be able to satisfy Taozi's whimsical ideas.
During the Lunar New Year, Wang Shuitao launched a candy gift pack. This kind of New Year's gift will be popular until at least 2010. If she can't get a share of the pie, she will never forgive herself for missing such a good opportunity to make a name for herself, even if she is buried in her grave.
After gaining recognition, just as Wang Shuitao had predicted, the sales of the most basic raw materials, white sugar and brown sugar, also began to increase significantly.
Of course, this was a publicity tactic that aimed to make something popular outside the wall but not inside.
Since September of last year, newspapers have been reporting extensively on foreign candy-making campaigns.
Although only the capital city and Shanghai participated in this event, it still shows that China is in line with international standards.
At the beginning of the new year, I learned that the raw materials for those sugars all came from China, but only a small portion of them actually came from sugar factories in China, and even then, only a small portion came from factories in China, since production capacity couldn't keep up with demand.
Even this globally popular idea originated from Chinese people; that's for sure.
This immediately caused a huge uproar.
What followed was business competition.
Following local customs, Wang Shuitao consulted a feng shui master before opening the branch factory in Guangzhou. The layout of the factory was also calculated by the feng shui master, and several money trees were placed there, along with a statue of the God of Wealth.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. The branch factory in Heilongjiang Province hired a shaman.
These people had been suppressed for a long time, and everyone thought they had disappeared. But after the opening up, they sprang up like mushrooms after rain in just a few years.
Most of them are scammers.
In fact, Wang Shuitao felt that the two people she invited were also like that, but they were quite nice to talk to, and since the other people had already been invited, she invited them too in order to reassure the workers.
Of course, it's also a kind of awe, after all, I've traveled here from another time.
When she invited the two masters, she thought she could find people with real skills. Unfortunately, apart from their pleasant words, their rhetoric was all too familiar and could be found in future anti-fraud manuals.
Nothing has happened in Heilongjiang Province for the time being, except that a few dens of foxes and weasels have suddenly appeared. When Wang Shuitao heard the report from there, she even wanted to laugh a little.
Surprisingly, there were no snakes. It seems that snakes are more frightening.
As for fear, she wasn't even afraid of those who used the names of fox spirits or weasels to harm people, so how could she possibly have such feelings?
They even fenced off an area to feed these small animals, taking advantage of the fact that animal protection regulations were not as complicated as they would be in later years.
Perfect timing! The workers in Heilongjiang Province are working overtime until they're practically exhausted. Let these little animals take on the role of comforting the cats and dogs in the office from now on.
In Guangzhou, it really happened that hot water was poured on the money tree. The next day, the workers who came to work found that the Bagua mirror posted at the factory entrance had been hung upside down.
It was later discovered that the gatekeeper had taken money from someone to do it.
The old man was naturally fired.
Wang Shuitao never expected that the business war would actually turn out to be such a farce. She didn't believe that these opponents were really that stupid. Even if they were truly superstitious, the fact that Taomeng Sugar Factory was still thriving should have made them realize that their methods were no longer effective.
Sure enough, follow-up actions were quickly taken.
Tao Meng is an outsider in both Heilongjiang Province and Guangdong Province. They settled here for the convenience of transporting raw materials.
The factories banded together and cut off the supply of raw materials. Machines that were running like smoke last month don't need to be moved at all this month.
The workers also began to feel panicked.
As for those previous dubious methods, it was just that those people saw Wang Shuitao consult a master before building the factory, so they assumed she believed in such things.
They just wanted to use those methods to disturb her mind.
The biggest impact is the lack of stock.
While searching for raw materials in Southeast Asia, Wang Shuitao also sought help from the government. However, the production was still insufficient. So, Wang Shuitao naturally resorted to scarcity marketing, a legendary and enduring tactic that even modern people familiar with such tricks often fall for. This was even more true for the people of the 1980s, who were still unfamiliar with marketing methods.
The lower the yield, the better the effect.
As for why the output was low, Wang Shuitao started advertising.
On the television, every sugarcane and every beet was meticulously washed again and again, and the operating machine looked extremely high-end and classy.
In short, the production volume was delayed because of the lack of quality control.
Like oil being poured over a raging fire, Tao Meng's reputation spread throughout the country, and everyone was proud to buy Tao Meng brand candies, as it was a sign of status and wealth.
Just as her counterattack was successful, Wang Shuitao received news that Meng Songying was trapped abroad.
The other shoe has finally dropped. These days, she has been vaguely aware of the presence of foreign businessmen.
With such a huge market in China, it seems someone wants to get a piece of the pie.
What Wang Shuitao didn't know was that some of the people who came were indeed interested in the market and wanted to suppress Taomeng, a local industry, while others couldn't stand her global success and that's why they came.
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