The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Lou Xiao'e continued: "The market on the east coast of the Taiwan Strait has also opened, and several items such as braised beef and pork bone soup are very popular."

"All six production lines of the joint-venture Uni-President Star Company are now operating at full capacity."

The original planned daily production capacity of Uni-President Xingchen was 50 pieces of noodles, and the extra production line was previously reserved by the Gangcheng Instant Noodle Factory.

Xingchen Company holds 70% of the shares of the joint venture. The higher the current output, the more profit it will make. It will be enough to supply the machines to the company in the port city later.

The uncle knocked on the door and came in. Li Ming also left a cup of milk tea for him.

The three continued to chat about the company's performance.

Lou Xiao'e said about her plan, "I plan to test the newly developed fried noodles in Hong Kong City first."

"Singapore and the east coast of the Taiwan Strait have just opened up the market, so there is no need to launch too many new products for the time being."

Li Ming agreed: "There is really no need to rush. There are no rivals in the market that we can beat. Our new technology does not need to be released at once."

"Slowly introduce new products, and give customers some surprises and freshness from time to time."

The uncle reminded: "The people in Hong Kong City are complicated. There are many kinds of fried noodles on the market, and the tastes are completely different. I think it will take more time to test the waters."

Some of the people who fled to Hong Kong City were from the north.

They can travel all the way from the north to Hong Kong City, they can afford the tolls on the journey, their net worth is not bad, and their spending power is relatively high.

The tastes of this large group of people are still somewhat different from those of the vernacular-speaking people from the surrounding areas, and have not yet integrated into Hong Kong-style tastes.

Lou Xiao'e has her own opinion, "I plan to make two types, one with Cantonese flavor and one with Northern flavor."

Li Ming thought there was no problem, "Okay. Where is the Cambrian Laboratory?"

It's not ideal. Lou Xiao'e frowned and said, "The laboratory has been communicating with those Japanese manufacturers like Miyota and Citizen according to the technical requirements you gave."

"They all believe that increasing the crystal oscillator frequency will increase power consumption, and power consumption is a big problem."

"With the current processing technology, it is very difficult to produce such a thin quartz crystal. The yield rate of the crystal oscillator may be relatively poor, and the price of the quartz movement produced in the early stage will be relatively high."

Li Ming said disapprovingly: "None of Citizen has experience in producing quartz crystals. The answer they received from crystal processing companies is that they actually want to raise prices."

"We can discuss with Miyota and the two parties can further cooperate in research."

"We can subsidize the research and development of quartz movements alone. Of course, we also have the right to share related technologies and patents."

Miyota Precision Co., Ltd. is a watch parts manufacturing factory. It has not yet begun manufacturing quartz crystal oscillators. It entered the industry in the 70s and later merged into Citizen Co., Ltd.

Lou Xiao'e asked: "If we cooperate, Citizen will be stronger. Can we research it faster?"

Li Ming explained with a smile: "Seiko's strength is even stronger. When discussing cooperation with a company that is too powerful, we are in a position with no bargaining chips and cannot negotiate favorable conditions."

"Those watch companies also spend a lot of energy on mechanical watches and electronic watches, and they are not as focused as small companies like Miyota."

Citizen was also an important watch manufacturer at this time. Like Seiko, Japanese watch manufacturers had always wanted to compete with Swiss manufacturers.

During this period, there was a 'diamond competition' in mechanical watches. It was generally believed that the higher the number of diamonds, the better the quality of the watch.

Oriental Double Lion has even launched a mechanical watch with 100 diamonds. Low-end watches from Seiko, Citizen, Oriental Double Lion and other manufacturers generally have 30 diamonds.

Li Ming doesn't care about Swiss manufacturers at all and only makes the simplest quartz watches or quartz electronic watches.

He does not engage in those fancy functions. Mainland Shanghi Watches is still mass-producing watches with 17 diamonds and no calendar function.

There is another secret that he has not yet told. He is also planning to take advantage of the plastics in Hong Kong City to produce cheaper plastic watches and plastic movements on a large scale, sweeping the mid-to-low-end watch market.

Lou Xiao'e agreed: "Then choose Miyota Company to cooperate. I hope they can reduce the manufacturing cost of quartz crystal oscillators."

Li Ming had various plans for a long time and said nonchalantly: "The cost is high but not much higher. Compared with a lot of mechanical parts, we can save more money."

"Quartz watches are promoted to the Magnesium market in the name of semiconductor high-tech products. Fashionable, high-tech, and accurate, they beat Laozhou instantly. This is what the Magnesians do."

The inferiority complex facing Lao Ouzhou among Chinese people has only been alleviated after World War II. They will be quite willing to try products that can surpass Lao Ouzhou.

Opening up the market of Magnesia is equivalent to opening up the entire market of Magnesia, and also opens up markets in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other regions.

After listening to some technical questions that I didn't understand for a while, my uncle was finally able to interject, "Xiao Ming, the country of Magnesia is a bit far from Hong Kong City."

"As we are unfamiliar with the place, shouldn't we arrange sales channels in advance? No matter how good the product is, it is useless without sales channels."

Li Ming took the initiative and asked: "I heard Xiao'e said that brother, do you want to open a watch store?"

The uncle put down the milk tea and responded with a smile: "I have such an idea."

"Use your food trading company and Cambrian Laboratory to jointly establish a watch trading company with HK$100 million."

Cambrian Laboratory and Xingchen Company are on the same level, and their equity belongs to the upper-level Xuanwu Company.

The eldest uncle was frightened by Li Ming's generosity, "A joint venture of 100 million! The trading company can't use so much money, right?"

李铭随口计算道：“100万港元换算后都还没有20万美元。那些高档手表，1000美元、2000美元一块。真要搞起来，估计200万港元都不一定够本钱。”

The uncle said carefully: "Why don't we do some cheap low-end watch business first?"

Li Ming said in detail: "Of course we also need to make cheap watches, and this one is still big."

"At least two stores should be opened in Hong Kong City, one on Hong Kong Island and one in Kowloon."

"Watches with purchasing prices of 100 or 200 Hong Kong dollars, there are many categories of watches, and there are only a few or more of each model in stock, so the funds in the backlog of inventory are increasing."

"We have to spend a lot of money on renting a store in a good location, decoration costs, various insurance facilities, and employee wages."

My uncle thought about the rent of a shop in a good location. It’s really not cheap. “That’s why my money is a little tight.”

"I'll pay the bulk, and I'll help you pay the rest first."

Opening a watch store is just a test of entering the trade market. It is impossible for Li Ming to fly to Magnesia on a business trip, and it is impossible for Lou Xiao'e to go. If he doesn't go, he won't be able to open up the market.

Recruiting managers, this kind of trading company with no threshold, watching the boss make a fortune, the managers will have a go-it-alone mentality.

This is the reason why most of the companies in Hong Kong City are small companies.

After working for the boss for two years, you can start your own company and work alone. You can get everything from customers. If there are orders that you are too busy to handle, you can also split them up and let other factories produce them together.

Li Ming didn't want to cause so much trouble. Instead of taking advantage of someone he didn't know, it would be better to take advantage of his uncle and make Lou Xiao'e happy at the same time.

The eldest uncle said solemnly: "I do. But I have to go home and ask my father's opinion before I can make a decision."

The nature of establishing a joint venture is different from that of supplying goods to Xingchen Company before. It was just following behind to pick up the money, but now we have to get involved, so my uncle is still very cautious in handling things.

Lou Xiao'e lowered her face and said unhappily: "I'm giving you money. If you don't want it, then I'll find my second brother."

The uncle hurriedly explained clearly, "Didn't I just say it! I really want to do it myself!" "Buying such a big joint venture is not like the current food business. I just have a hand and can do whatever I want." good."

"My energy will definitely not be in the plastic toy factory in the future. I make such an important decision in private. If I make dad angry, won't you blame me again?"

Li Ming chuckled and said, "Don't worry. It won't be too late to wait until the movement samples are developed."

My uncle didn’t want to wait that long, “I’ll give you an answer in the next few days.”

"Xiao'e, you have to help me play the side drum."

Lou Xiao'e rolled her eyes, "I know!"

Li Ming and Lou Xiao'e's career is booming.

Competitors are not doing so well.

Chen Kee Noodle Factory.

The original noodle workshop is now the instant noodle workshop.

Chen Zhanhao asked: "Brother, who called?"

Chen Zhandao walked up and whispered: "Brother, my fourth uncle just called to invite you for afternoon tea. I said you were busy with production in the workshop."

"Drink some shitty tea. The old guy must be trying to collect the debt."

"Brother, what should we do?"

"What else can we do? Reduce the price of the noodles in stock and pay back the debt."

"Can you get rid of it? The market will be closed starting today. I don't know when it will recover."

Chen Zhanhao said confidently: "Don't worry. The school will only have one day of classes on the 27th. The market will not be closed for many days."

Li Ming and Lou Xiao'e also said the same thing, it couldn't last too long.

It's not easy to do this kind of thing in a place with a weekly salary system.

People will spend money when they get it. Most people don’t have much food stored at home, and they won’t be able to withstand it for a long time.

It would be good if I could stop it for two or three days. If I could stop it for a week, it would be great. In fact, it was only July 7nd, so it would be considered a full 2 days.

Chen Zhandao said happily: "It won't take long."

"I didn't expect that overstocking would actually have this benefit. The more overstocked, the higher the price."

"If I had known we would not have stopped the production of dried noodles, we could have produced more."

Chen Zhanhao asked: "Where does the money come from to purchase goods?"

"If you borrow money, the increase may not be enough to pay the interest. And you have to be able to sell it."

"Sell some at a discount of 10 points from the current price, and pay off the debt first, otherwise other people will come to us and ask for money when they hear about our failure to pay the debt."

Chen Zhandao reminded with a grimace, "Is a 10-point reduction too much? If it is too much, others may think there is a problem with our capital chain."

Chen Zhanhao thought for a moment and said, "Let's lower the price by 6-7 points. If the price is not lowered enough, others will not be motivated enough to eat."

"This problem is not urgent yet. The biggest headache now is instant noodles."

"I don't know why, but the noodles we make are very different from those made by Xingchen Company."

"It obviously doesn't taste the same. We really feel a little bit different."

Chen Zhandao complained: "I've said it before, we can't buy those low-quality flour. If we use low-quality flour to make noodles, it won't taste right."

Chen Zhanhao also had a lot of reasons. Xingchen Company did not increase the price. If we supply the noodles at their price, others will not buy our noodles. "

"Only when the price is lower than that of Xingchen Company can we sell it. If we sell it this way, we have to find ways to reduce costs, otherwise we will sell it at a loss."

"To reduce costs, we can only focus on flour and palm oil. There is no way to reduce costs elsewhere."

What the elder brother said makes sense. Chen Zhandao couldn't say more, "We have just started production and it is not smooth yet. It is normal that the production cost will be higher."

Chen Zhanhao compromised and said: "So, I specially purchased the flour and palm oil from the supplier of Xingchen Company this time."

"It's a pity that we can't recruit anyone, otherwise even the production steps would be according to theirs."

“I admit it’s hard for the management to poach, even the workers in the workshop are hard to poach. It’s really weird.”

Chen Zhandao complained: "Xingchen Company is a bit unruly. It provides money to migrant workers to solve their children's education problems, and at the end of the year, they can also draw a lottery for a house."

"It makes our people's hearts unstable."

Chen Zhanhao also criticized him: "You just look like you don't want to make money! Women shouldn't be bosses. They always do outrageous things."

Monogamy has not yet been implemented in Hong Kong City. Not to mention female bosses and female executives are extremely rare, and there are still many prejudices.

The Chen brothers complained endlessly.

The noodle market has been eroded, and the instant noodles are not delicious, so we are in a dilemma.

Li Ming's main purpose of running Xingchen Company was not to make money. Making money was only his secondary purpose. He wanted to introduce technology to the mainland and find something for Lou Xiao'e to do to pass the time.

If he just wants to make money, there are plenty of businesses that can make money faster.

Director Li Buren returned to the capital and continued to be Section Chief Li.

The steel rolling mill held a meeting to study the "Regulations of the Beijing Municipal Committee on Saving Noise".

'1. All units and mass organizations should inspect their work, sum up experience, come up with ways and formulate measures to save the country a grain of rice, an inch of cloth, a piece of paper, a kilowatt hour of electricity, a penny, and a drop of oil. A model of saving trouble. '

'2. The waste of labor is the biggest waste. All units must attach great importance to labor economy, establish good order, adhere to the eight-hour work system, abide by labor discipline, and are not allowed to be absent from work without reason, and are not allowed to be late or leave early. Large-scale meetings should be held as few as possible, and generally should not be held during production and working hours. '

'3. All units must streamline their organization and reduce off-duty personnel. They are not allowed to purchase furniture, vehicles, cameras, radios, televisions, etc., they are not allowed to be ostentatious or ostentatious, they are not allowed to treat guests or give gifts, and they are not allowed to use public funds to watch plays or movies. or other performances, etc. '

'5. There should be a plan for printing promotional materials, strive to improve the quality, and pay attention to saving paper, pen and ink, and paste (try to use substitutes). '

'10. It is not allowed to issue subsidies and bonuses indiscriminately, it is not allowed to change the salary and welfare system without permission, and it is not allowed to change ownership without permission. '

The other items are minor details: it requires saving coal, steel and other materials, using less transportation vehicles such as cars, using idle materials and old items as much as possible, and trying to make and repair tools by yourself.

The key points are still two, three, five and ten, these four.

More holidays, more money, and more benefits have always been popular among the people.

For example, Director Li Huaide of the steel rolling mill removed Director Yang. If he wanted to win over people in the factory, he had to spread benefits. (End of chapter)