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Chapter 538 Every Drop of Urine is a Productivity

The night is tearing apart.

Before we knew it, the sky in the east was turning pale.

The iron-gray sky gradually turned crab-shell green, and the roar of the assembly line had broken through the morning mist.

On this morning with spring breeze, the large DVD player production base of Aiwa Electronics covering hundreds of acres in Ziyun Town, Jiangchuan, was like a steel behemoth lying dormant in a veil, slowly waking up with a roar.

Seen from a distance, twelve large standardized factory buildings are lined up along the central axis of the base. The silver-gray corrugated steel plate exterior walls gleam coldly in the morning light. Rows of cedars are lined up on both sides of the brand new asphalt road, rustling in the spring breeze.

All of this is magnificent and prosperous.

Yang Jin accompanied Zhang Yunqi through this magnificent production base. Her high heels tapped on the epoxy floor, and the sound was instantly drowned out by the roar of the stamping machines.

In the testing workshop, two people could see through the open door that hundreds of prototypes to be tested were all playing the test disc of "Titanic" in a loop. The scene where Jack drew a nude picture of Rose had been worn out with rainbow patterns by twenty machines.

Jingle Bell……

At this moment, the bell for handover suddenly rang.

Crowds of people poured out from the rolling doors and instantly formed an underground river.

Although it was still dark, the workers had been working for 12 hours straight, their steps were heavy and their faces were full of fatigue. Ordinary workers in twos and threes walked out of Canteen No. , which caught Zhang Yunqi's attention. The aluminum lunch boxes in their hands had already been blackened by the steam, and the work numbers were written crookedly in red paint on the lids. When they opened the boxes, the smell of wilted fried cabbage and salted duck egg crumbs floated in the air.

As the actual controller of the largest private enterprise in Jiangchuan, these scenes are unfamiliar to Zhang Yun. He realizes that he is like an isolated island in the torrent of data, far away from reality. Sitting in the office in the provincial capital, he grasps the resource input and output result data in the reports, and then recognizes the company's operating conditions through the data, and naturally seeks to maximize benefits.

At this moment, compared with the brand-new and imposing factory buildings and advanced facilities, what impressed him as a boss more might be the calluses on the fingertips of the assembly line workers, the smell of burnt polycarbonate in the injection molding workshop, a breastfeeding female worker who ran to the toilet to express her milk, the smelly food residues in the night shift booth, and the bright slogan on the bulletin board:
"Every drop of urine is lost energy!"

Below the slogan, there is a story about an outstanding employee of Aiwa Electronics: a female worker did not apply for leave to use the toilet for 4 consecutive months and was awarded an honorary medal!

These concrete wrinkles of the bottom-level survival under the rotation of the giant wheel of industrial machinery seemed so real and so reasonable in the 90s and even in later generations. Yang Jin, who was standing next to her, was still immersed in the brand-new and magnificent scene of the base. She couldn't help but smiled and said to Zhang Yunqi: "Boss, our base is really changing with each passing day. Now our product sales are also rising. A large number of supporting factories around are working at full capacity to start construction. I can't imagine what it will be like next time we come."

Zhang Yunqi lit a cigarette and said, "Let's not talk about next time. Since you are in Jiangchuan this time, you should stay here for a month or so, get a good feel for the situation here, start from the grassroots employee management level, and then write a detailed report to me later."

Yang Jin was stunned and glanced at Zhang Yunqi, and found that he was looking at the ordinary workers coming and going on the asphalt road, with no expression on his face.

She had been with Zhang Yunqi for so long, and spent more time with him every day than Ji Ling and Chu Jian. She knew Zhang Yunqi very well, so naturally she understood the meaning of Zhang Yunqi's words at once. Her expression became a little hesitant, but in the end she just nodded and said yes.

Zhang Yunqi dusted off his cigarette ash and said, "You seem to have something to say to me."

Yang Jin retracted his gaze and said, "I just suddenly remembered a story that Qiulan always told me."

"what story?"

"Qiulan always said that when the boss first started the business, he was very poor and took her to sell handheld games. One time, she was blackmailed by a merchant, and you took her to your house to seek justice. She saw that you were too tough on the merchant, and she felt a little sorry for it. She wanted to persuade you, but you scolded her harshly. She said that she would never forget the words you scolded her. I was also very impressed after hearing it at that time."

Yang Jin looked sideways at Zhang Yunqi, hesitated for a moment, and finally mustered up the courage to say, "Don't feel sorry for yourself, and don't feel sorry for others. We don't have the qualifications to do so."

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

He turned his head to look at the girl next to him. She was tall and pretty, wearing a black business suit with her hair tied up. She already had some of the intelligence and maturity of a senior career woman, but she was not very old, and her fair face still had a little childishness. At this moment, facing Zhang Yunqi's direct gaze, there was a hint of panic in her eyes.

This girl has been with Zhang Yunqi for such a long time, and actually she has done very well in every aspect and is very considerate. She also handles his affairs in an orderly manner. However, it is precisely because she has been by his side that her invisible power in the entire group has become very great, and a bunch of senior vice presidents of the group have to put on a smile in front of her.

Zhang Yunqi said, "You have been with me for a long time. You have worked very hard and have grown a lot. But I still want you to stay here for a month to experience the factory's human resources management issues from the perspective of an ordinary employee."

"Mr. Zhang...can I ask why?"

"I hope you can look at the issue of the double-helix growth of enterprises and employees from the perspective of sustainable development, rather than simply looking at enterprise management from the perspective of emotional confrontation and monetary cost." Zhang Yunqi threw the cigarette butt into the trash can: "I don't pity my workers, I respect them. Because if I pity them, it means I am pitying myself!"

Yang Jin was stunned.

When she came to her senses, she saw Zhang Yunqi had walked into the employee cafeteria on the left. He took a plate and showed his ID to the fat chef, then reached out to get a bowl of food in the fearful eyes of the chef and the surrounding employees. When she walked in, the smell of fried cabbage withered yellow and salted duck egg chopped into her nose.

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The red sun rises from the east.

The sky gradually brightened.

At this time last year, the Aiwa Electronics production base was still a wasteland, but now it is like spring grass in the spring breeze, full of vitality in the sunshine.

Around nine o'clock, Zhang Yunqi and his team arrived at the gate of the Aiwa Electronics Production Base. They saw that at the finished product warehouse not far away, a long queue of convoys carrying goods from dealers from all over the country had formed, with the sounds of engines rising and falling one after another.

Under the sunlight, the roofs of dozens of supporting factories are reflected outside the factory. They are carton packaging factories, hardware factories, mold factories, logistics companies and other supporting enterprises that are under construction. The entire industrial chain is growing wildly with Aihua Electronics Production Base as the axis.

Zhang Yunqi and his group waited for a while, and two cars drove over from the newly built asphalt road. Leading the way was an Audi A6. After it stopped at the factory gate, Liu Jinshi, dressed in a suit and tie, walked over accompanied by Liu Dongsheng, followed by two young men, probably employees of Philips.

Zhang Yunqi had a smile on his face, as if the incident in the early morning had never happened. In fact, he had not talked to the factory executives. He walked directly to Liu Jinshi and said with a smile: "Boss Liu, long time no see, you are still as brilliant as ever."

Liu Jinshi took off his sunglasses, and the lenses were filled with the unique tide of Jiangnan: "Please don't laugh at me, Mr. Zhang. It's really not a glorious thing to talk about glory in front of a young man like you."

At this point, he glanced at the outer wall of the factory building, and then said: "I came here once when the Aihua production base was laid last year. At that time, the surrounding area was still a muddy land. In such a short time, this place has been turned into a lively place. This is truly brilliant!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled. Last year, when the VCD player market was still in its infancy, Philips' customers were mostly small VCD player manufacturers in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. A few dozen people could set up a production line. Hu Zhibiao in his previous life was one of them. Later, Hu Zhibiao made Aido Electronics bigger. The chairman of Philips even invited him to visit the Philips headquarters in the Netherlands and rolled out a red carpet to personally welcome this big moneybag.

Liu Jinshi witnessed with his own eyes how Aiwa Electronics grew to such a large scale in less than a year from its inception, so it is normal for him to feel a little emotional.

This is also the effect Zhang Yunqi wants.

He said, "Thank you for the compliment. I didn't get back to Jiangchuan until midnight last night, so I didn't have time to welcome Mr. Liu. Please forgive me if the company's hospitality was not thoughtful enough."

Liu Jinshi smiled and said, "Boss Zhang is too polite. Boss Liu Ming and Director Liu treated me very warmly yesterday. Jiangchuan's good wine and food were also very delicious. But now that I think about it, the dish that impressed me the most last night was the 'Farewell My Concubine'."

Zhang Yun became interested: "What do you mean?"

Liu Jinshi pointed to the densely packed factory buildings. The early spring sunshine gilded this steel jungle: "The turtle carapace and the chick skeleton are intertwined in the thick soup, just like the industrial chess game in front of us. It can be foreseen that the Aihua Electronics Production Base will gradually develop in the direction of an overall electronic industrial park, upgrading from a single point breakthrough to an ecological layout. Once the industry cluster of this electronic industrial park is formed, its own economies of scale will be superimposed on the economies of scale of the industry as a whole, and the synergistic advantages will produce a multiplier effect. The logistics cost will drop exponentially, and the flow of innovative factors will accelerate, thus forming a huge comprehensive advantage in technology, cost and scale, which will be invincible in market competition!"

As a professional manager like Liu Jinshi who served as a senior executive in a large foreign company, he must have conducted in-depth research on economies of scale in the electronics industry. In the 90s, his views were indeed insightful and contagious, which made Liu Ming and Liu Dongsheng feel a little excited and felt that Aiwa Electronics had a bright future.

Liu Jinshi turned to look at Zhang Yunqi and said, "Mr. Zhang, in less than a year, you have grown a start-up to this level, and initially formed a clustering effect, linked the upstream and downstream industrial chains, and supported so many people. I believe that the people of Jiangchuan will thank you. In fact, the dish last night was more like Xiang Yu's desperate achievement of Julu Wushuang!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

Liu Jinshi's words sound a bit like flattery.

But he loved listening.

But he wouldn't be turned into a fool by these few words.

Why is Liu Jinshi here today?
Business negotiations.

To put it more bluntly, Liu Jinshi wanted to take at least 300 million RMB from his pocket!

From his perspective, he hopes that Liu Jinshi will have full faith in the strong background and broad prospects of Aiwa Electronics, so that his offer will be difficult for Liu Jinshi to refuse!
Zhang Yunqi said: "The agglomeration effect of Aihua Electronics' industrial cluster is indeed not easy to achieve in the early stage of industrial cultivation, because it is difficult to attract upstream and downstream enterprises to gather around if the scale is not large enough in the early stage. Of course, this is not my credit, but mainly due to the strong support from the province. The municipal government is also very visionary and courageous. In order to develop and support this labor-intensive industry, the leaders of the city have gone against all odds, tightened their belts, and even cut the recurrent expenditures of the municipal finance. They have poured a lot of resources into this project, given great financial and financial support, and introduced a series of important investment promotion policies. Of course, in addition to the full support for Aihua Electronics, the supporting production enterprises here will enjoy the same preferential policies as the development zone in terms of land transfer fees, bank loans and taxes, and the extra fees will be returned to the enterprises in the form of enterprise development funds."

Liu Jinshi smiled and said, "It can be seen from this that Aiwa Electronics is very strong. I have experienced it many times."

Zhang Yunqi said: "However, the VCD player electronics industry is large in scale and has a long supply chain, and most of our supporting enterprises currently lack core technical capabilities. At present, many upstream core links are still dominated by foreign friendly companies such as Philips. Only when we can truly develop the scale economy of the industry can we attract you, the core component suppliers, to enter the supply chain with confidence, so we still need Mr. Liu's support."

Liu Jinshi replied meaningfully, "Of course. Apart from Aiwa Electronics, there is no other DVD player manufacturer in the entire Greater China region that would allow me to visit them in person four times."

Zhang Yunqi extended his hand toward the rusty red door: "Please."

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(End of this chapter)