Chapter 143 The Black and White Layout
Chapter 143 The Black and White Layout
Wei Zetao nodded and said: "Yes, so we need to start preparing now, combine with many forces in Hong Kong, and form a relationship of interest, so as to ensure the attention aroused by the doubling of exports next year;
Next time, once the export data is revealed, the sensation will be even greater than this time.”
There are various "industrial tycoons" in Hong Kong, and one actually appears every one or two years. It is rare, but not uncommon either. After people learn about it, they just take it as it is and know that there is such a thing.
This time, the process of my boss's rags to riches is more attractive, and coupled with his youth, it has attracted more attention.
But even so, the heat had almost subsided in half a month.
But if the data of annual exports exceeding 100 million Hong Kong dollars comes out, it will be even more shocking. In this era, the only companies in Hong Kong that can be associated with the word "100 million" are the major British trading companies or banks.
Yang Wendong said: "Zhao Chengguang will introduce me to a senior official in the Hong Kong police force. We will go to meet him at that time. Remember, only legitimate and legal transactions can be conducted with him. Do not use those low-level means."
"I understand." Wei Zetao nodded and said, "Since we can establish a relationship with the police, what about the gang?"
Yang Wendong thought for a moment and said, “It’s the same. Through legal means, we can trade with them and feed the nearby gangs to a certain extent. They also have workers, so this is considered an integration of interests.
I won’t ask them to do anything illegal, but I want them to protect my interests, otherwise their interests will be gone.”
In the past life, there were many online rumors on the Internet saying that Hong Kong had a large number of gang members a long time ago, often numbering in the hundreds of thousands. But if you think about it, it is impossible. There is no group that can afford to support so many idle people.
Most of the so-called societies in Hong Kong are in the "nominal" model. They just put their names on the list, pay some fees, and then they can be protected. Alternatively, some gangs directly send a large number of members to their own factories or other people's factories to work and make money.
Everyone's purpose is actually to make money. Only when they really can't make money will they go astray. If there is someone who can help them make money in the right way or support so many members, then they are definitely a community of interests.
Wei Zetao said: "This method is feasible. Many factories also use this method to support some gang members, so that they can also be protected;
It’s just that the raw materials for our factory are paper and glue, and some other small things. Although the purchase amount is not small, it may not be enough to feed so many people.”
"Not now." Yang Wendong shrugged and said, "But in two or three months, it may be possible. Don't forget that we still have sticky hooks and rotary mops.
I've thought about it, and what you said before is very right. It's obviously impossible for me to produce all these things myself. We simply can't do it at the moment, so we can outsource them. This way, we can also control some factories and these gangs through indirect means."
Although his idea has always been to produce it by himself and hoard land at the same time, the fact is that a sticky note can consume all the energy of their senior management.
According to his speculation, once the sticky hook appears, it may be more popular than the post-it note. The spin mop may not be able to compare with it, but its size is large, and the number of people, management, factory area, etc. required for production are no less than those of the post-it note.
Although they will not be short of money as long as the sticky notes are produced, it is not just a matter of money. Expansion also takes time. Managing so many people is very strenuous, at least for the current management. If the expansion is too fast, it will even cause serious quality problems, which is not worth the loss.
Therefore, like many large companies in the past, reasonable outsourcing is the best solution to the current problem. After all, the production of plastic parts is the lowest-profit and most labor-intensive.
As for the purpose of hoarding land, when he has money next year, he can directly go to Central to buy land.
Wei Zetao smiled and said, "That's good. The glue behind the hook will be tested in about a month. Then we can prepare to launch it on the market for preliminary testing."
"Well, OK." Yang Wendong nodded and asked, "What about the spin mop?"
Wei Zetao replied: "Lao Hong and his team have already bought the bearings from Japan. Now they are in normal use and can successfully dehydrate the mop. Normal testing will be carried out later, which may take another two or three months."
"Well, OK." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "The purpose of the test is to ensure quality, so there is no rush."
Wei Zetao added: "Mr. Yang, don't worry. Changxing Industrial is developing too fast. Just one sticky note is bigger than most factories in Hong Kong.
Now that we have a lot of production capacity, the more important thing is to ensure that the sticky notes produced in the new factory do not have quality problems until all employees become proficient.
After this problem is solved, we will push the sticky hook and the spin mop to market one by one. This time arrangement is relatively safe. "
"Well, okay. Anyway, the relevant quality tests will take time." Yang Wendong agreed and said, "Except for the sticky notes that have been released, it doesn't matter if the others are released later."
Wei Zetao said with a smile: "Yes, the factory cannot expand so quickly. If it does, it is very likely to have major quality problems, which would be uneconomical."
"Yeah," Yang Wendong also agreed with this point of view, and then said: "Having said that, I just want to win more allies through these outsourcing. There is no rush in the short term, but we can arrange for people to find them first."
"Okay, I will arrange some engineers to visit the nearby plastic factories." Wei Zetao nodded and said.
"Okay, one more thing." Yang Wendong paused and continued, "The last time I attended the banquet of Liao Chongxing Bank, I chatted with Mr. Jin Yong. Originally, I wanted to invest in his Ming Pao, just to gain a certain voice in the media, which would also be helpful to us.
But Jin Yong refused. He also said frankly that even if I could invest, or someone else could invest, we would only get financial benefits at most, and it would not be able to affect Ming Pao’s operations, let alone its content.”
After listening to this, Wei Zetao understood what his boss meant and asked, "Mr. Yang, do you want to start a newspaper?"
"With this idea, the newspaper company can also increase our influence, or facilitate advertising resources, especially for newspapers with high sales." Yang Wendong frowned and said:
"It's just a bit difficult to know where to start. As for the funding, we have some on hand now. Once the sticky notes are successfully produced in a few months, we won't have to worry about this problem anymore.
My concern is how to run this newspaper, that is, how to compete with those old newspapers that have been in business for decades and have tens of thousands of stable readers. "
"This..." Wei Zetao thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Yang, I can't help you with this. I'm not a professional. Maybe you can find someone in the industry to discuss it with."
"That's right." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Then you will be in charge here for a while, ensuring the smooth installation and commissioning of the equipment, as well as the subsequent production of sticky notes. Once it succeeds, I will give all of you a big red envelope."
In the company, as the boss, he is now basically only responsible for matters at the strategic level, such as how to manage hundreds of equipment, thousands of people, and raw material inspection, process production, batch management, final inspection, warehouse management, delivery, etc. for hundreds of thousands of sticky notes a day. Even if he is asked to do these things, he does not have the ability to do them.
Therefore, they can only rely on the existing team. Since Wei Zetao came in, they have been recruiting people continuously to build the entire team. Now the company is more than ten times larger, and the production capacity will also be expanded by more than ten times, and they need to recruit enough people with management ability. As the company grows bigger and bigger, Yang Wendong has also increased the salary of each person according to their performance. In addition, if a large project is completed, there will definitely be a project bonus.
Wei Zetao smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yang."
A week later, all 136 devices from Changsheng were delivered, and debugging and initial trial production were being carried out simultaneously; although the sticky note equipment was relatively simple, having so many of them still kept everyone at Changxing Industrial busy.
Tens of thousands of post-it notes are produced from various devices, and people in the quality department are busy between the workshop, laboratory, and measuring room, constantly conducting various tests.
The warehouse department also acquired a huge area and began to plan to store various incoming materials and products according to different areas.
Yang Wendong also came to the warehouse and looked at the pallets in front of him. He asked, "Old Wei, Old Zhou, the weight of this paper is heavier than the equipment, right?"
Wei Zetao replied: "Yes, considering that the equipment will be placed in the upper floors of industrial office buildings, we have long required Changsheng to use aluminum for its equipment to reduce weight, and for this reason we increased the price of each unit by 120 yuan.
But for paper, there is no way. A solid pallet is heavier than iron equipment, and has greater pressure on the ground. "
Zhou Xianlong next to him also smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Yang, we took these issues into consideration when designing our floors. After the completion, we also found a professional Japanese construction company to inspect the project. This company specializes in finished building inspections and is very famous in Hong Kong."
"Okay, but we still need to pay attention to this in the future." Yang Wendong paused and said, "Arrange a professional company to re-inspect the floors every six months or a year. Safety is the most important thing."
Today, all my wealth is tied up in these buildings. Compared with the value they can generate for me, the investment in security is a drop in the bucket.
But if something goes wrong, it will be enough to ruin your current career, so this risk should be avoided as much as possible.
Wei Zetao nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Yang, don't worry. We live here too and we take safety very seriously."
"Yeah, okay." Yang Wendong didn't say anything else.
Afterwards, the three of them walked around the factory together, and Zhou Xianlong introduced the situation as they walked so that the boss could understand the current situation.
After listening carefully, Yang Wendong asked, "In other words, the biggest problem at the moment is batch management?"
"Yes, our products are very simple, but the quantity is very large, and the production equipment is also large." Zhou Xianlong replied: "Batch management is to divide the batches according to one piece of equipment in two shifts per day. At the end of the day, according to the equipment here, there are about 260 batches;
As more and more equipment is introduced in the future, it will be difficult to quickly track the location of all batches and even investigate the information after shipment. This requires a large number of people with a high level of cultural literacy to do this.”
"Well, then we should recruit people if necessary, and offer higher salaries. Even if we have to recruit dozens of college students, we must do this job well." Yang Wendong said, "Batch is a thing that will be fine when it is not used. If it is not available when it is used, it will be a mess."
When production capacity is expanded in the future, there may be hundreds of millions of sticky notes in a warehouse. What should we do if we find that there are problems with a few of them?
It is impossible to open all of them to check, right? Not to mention the cost, if you do this, the sticky notes will be destroyed in the process of "checking".
Even if the customer finds a problem, we still need to investigate which range of products may have similar problems, and then inform the customer to deal with it.
All of these require good batch management. In the past, there were ERP or MES systems, but even so, many companies were still in a mess, let alone in this era.
"Okay." Zhou Xianlong was naturally very happy when he got permission from his boss to recruit a large number of people.
Yang Wendong added: "If you have any questions, please tell me as soon as possible. As long as it is reasonable, I will agree."
"I understand, Mr. Yang." Zhou Xianlong said with a smile. Having a generous boss makes things much easier for senior workers.
Yang Wendong raised his left hand, looked at the time, and said to Wei Zetao: "Old Wei, it's almost time, we should go early."
"Okay." Wei Zetao nodded, and then said to Zhou Xianlong: "Old Zhou, the boss and I are going to go out for a while, so I'll leave this to you first."
"OK, no problem." Zhou Xianlong said with a smile.
Yang and Wei quickly set off and headed for a hotel in Central, Hong Kong Island.
After getting off the car, Wei Zetao said in surprise: "It's a bit shabby here?"
"It's very luxurious inside." Yang Wendong smiled and said, "Let's go. Sir Wu is probably the more cautious one. I asked him to stay at a big hotel, but he didn't agree and insisted on coming here."
Although the corruption of Hong Kong police is now open, no one would publicly say that I am corrupt.
Besides, there are factions within the police force, and even if the top brass want to make money, they won't do it directly and rudely; similarly, meetings with big businessmen will generally be low-key.
Wei Zetao nodded and said, "That's right."
The two of them entered, and sure enough, the decoration inside was extremely luxurious, not much worse than a big hotel, except that the area was a bit smaller. But that was normal, a place like this was obviously for a small number of people and didn't need to be that big.
Under the guidance of the waiter, Yang Wendong saw Zhao Chengguang and a man about 50 years old beside him. They had angry eyes and looked very imposing.
Zhao Chengguang said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, this is the Kowloon District Inspector Wu Sir. Mr. Wu, this is the most famous businessman in Hong Kong Island today: the sticky note king Yang Wendong, Mr. Yang."
"Hello, Sir Wu." Yang Wendong said with a polite handshake.
The reason he came here this time was naturally to meet the senior Hong Kong police officer in front of him.
Seeking monthly ticket
(End of this chapter)