Our Rise Era

Chapter 234 Why can’t we raise employees’ salaries?

"【Wheat 3】Workers' monthly income exceeds !"

"Holy shit, is it true or not?"

"real!"

"My mother is in the [Wheat] factory in Yuzhou. No, it should be the [Novia] factory. She is now accepting orders from [Wheat 3]. I heard that the piecework price has doubled... Last month's salary, plus part of the high temperature subsidy, was 10265 yuan!"

"Oh my god, it's so high!"

"Yes! What's even more outrageous is that I heard from my mom that she's not the only one with a high price. She's the worst among the people in their group. The highest one is 12000!"

"Fuck, screwing a screw can make you so rich?"

"Who says it's not..."

"Wait, look, not only the workers in the Sichuan and Chongqing factories have monthly incomes of over 3 yuan, but workers in other factories who have come into contact with the [Xiaomi ] mobile phone also have monthly incomes of over yuan!"

"Fuck! Is this true?"

"real!"

"Zhang Yang doesn't make money anymore?"

"Who knows!"

"..."

January.

The loud chirping of cicadas continues to echo in the streets and alleys.

After entering August, the behavior of the entire [Xiaomi 8] team, including Zhang Yang, seems to be getting crazier and crazier!

They are conquering cities and territories almost every day, and are extremely greedy!
Factories, technology, talents...

He seems to want everything!
Moreover, as production capacity exploded and delivery volume gradually stabilized, Zhang Yang not only did not reduce the wages of the piece-rate workers in the factory, but increased them by nearly double!
The workers who used to make mobile phones in the [Novia], [LG], and [Samsung] factories are now unable to contain their excitement after receiving the [Xiaomi 3] orders!
8 Month 2 Day!
After several netizens posted their parents' monthly wages in the factory on the Internet...

The entire Internet was boiling!
It is 2012 now, and the monthly income is over ! And it is not in a big city, but in a second- or third-tier city, an assembly line worker...

The impact this has on the Internet is really too strong!
……

Such crazy behavior naturally attracted everyone's attention.

Some people have conducted a special investigation on the cost of Zhang Yang's [Wheat 3]!
Then, they realized something surprising...

……

They found that although [Wheat 3] sold nearly 500 million units in just three months...

But the profit is not as good as [Xiaomi 2], even a mobile phone only makes about 200 yuan...

Moreover, this is based on the premise that there are no offline sales outlets and sales are only made on the Internet, thus reducing labor costs to the extreme.

Such cost...

Except Zhang Yang, no one else can do it!
Even when this group of people were investigating the offline physical stores and outlets of major brands, they were shocked to discover something.

That is, many brands' offline physical stores were directly or indirectly wiped out by Zhang Yang's move!
....................................

8 month 3 day.

Jin Zhenming rushed to Qiao Taike's office.

"This lunatic!"

"His profit is only one tenth of that of iPhone 4S, but the treatment he gives to factory workers is the same as that of iPhone 4S employees!"

"We can't let him keep messing around like this! Damn it, he's messed up the entire market!"

"If we follow his piece-rate standard for our next new model of mobile phone, our profit will be greatly reduced! But if we don't follow this standard, no one will help us make it!"

"I now propose to completely cut off Zhang Yang's supply!"

"..."

October!

When Zhang Yang knocked over the new Novia mobile phone in one fell swoop...

Although Jin Zhenming was extremely unhappy about the sales of [Wheat 3], he was also happy to watch the fun.

but……

Since I bought it in July, when [Wheat 7] completely established its victory and began to expand everywhere for production capacity delivery...

Jin Zhenming gradually began to realize that something was wrong!

Not only did he start poaching people from everywhere, he even raised the wages for those low-level workers!

Why did they look at China before and want to cooperate with Chinese factories?
It is because Chinese workers are cheap that they can use the basic manufacturing industry to make more profits from their products!
but……

Once the prices of the Huaxia factory go up, it will directly and indirectly affect the profits of their next newest products. This trend of price increases must not continue!
When Qiao Taike heard this, his brows furrowed.

In fact, these things are not a problem for him.

He is just promoting their [Android] system, and the better the Android system sells, the better it will be for him.

After symbolically comforting Jin Zhenming, he walked out with a grim look on Jin Zhenming's face.

Qiao Taike's expression remained calm, but his eyes were looking into the distance.

……

After leaving the office, Jin Zhenming returned to the Samsung headquarters in China.

Sitting in a chair...

He asked someone to continue calculating the cost of the new mobile phone that was about to be released.

The more he spoke, the gloomier he became.

Finally I picked up the phone and called Qualcomm.

"Mr. Smith, I am Jin Zhenming..."

"Hello, Mr. Jin..."

"I hope to block the supply of Zhang Yang S4 processor chips..."

"..."

The other end of the phone fell into silence. After a long time, the other party responded: "Mr. Jin, are you having a conflict again?"

"There is no contradiction. What I mean is that I hope you can suspend the supply of S4 chips..." "Suspend the supply of processors to you [Samsung]?" The other party said this.

"Yes, our new mobile phone will be available in September. You can give us..."

"Of course there is no problem. There is no problem with suspending the supply of [Wheat 3]. After all, [Wheat 3] did not sign a long-term cooperation agreement with us. It just signed a 700 million processor supply agreement under the leadership of Mr. Qiao Taike... When the agreement ends, we can terminate the cooperation."

"Well, please!"

"Wait... We can terminate the agreement with Zhang Yang, but can you [Samsung] purchase our processors at Zhang Yang's purchase price?"

"What? Purchase price? Us?"

"The price of the processor of [Wheat 3] is twice that of other partner brands. If you are willing to purchase it at this price, then there is no problem at all..."

"..."

When hearing this, Jin Zhenming was completely stunned!
Seeing his silence, the other party laughed and said, "Mr. Jin, I don't care about your internal disputes or how he performs in the market. I only care about making money. With the same processor, he can generate double the profit for me. Why should I stop supplying him? The last time I stopped supplying him two years ago was because your purchase price was at the same starting line as his. We had no problem selling to anyone, but now, I'm sorry... If you want to continue to ban him, you have to pay double the price!"

"..."

"Actually, to be honest, we are considering raising the prices of some processors because of the huge sales of [Wheat 3]..."

"..."

Jin Zhenming hung up the phone.

His eyes were fixed on the purchase price of [Wheat 3] on the table!
When he learned that Zhang Yang had signed a high price in order to get the S4 chip, he was satisfied deep down.

Only then did they agree to make concessions to [Wheat 3]...

However, no one could have imagined that the high purchase price of [Wheat 3] would actually backfire on him and indirectly become [Wheat 3]'s life-saving talisman!
And now...

The market is in chaos. Zhang Yang's ultimate price-performance ratio has turned the entire mobile phone market upside down.

The purchasing circle is also in chaos...

Zhang Yang can earn 200 yuan from a mobile phone to grab the market. If a big brand like Samsung can only earn 200 yuan...

The results will be ugly!

……

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"Mr. Zhang, I'm Chen Xude, who makes screen glass..."

"Hello, Mr. Chen..."

"Mr. Zhang, I hope you can understand one thing. That is, your price increase this time may cause an unprecedented impact on our entire industry!"

"how do I say this?"

"You can choose not to make money, you can go your own way and raise prices whenever you want, but what about us? Our research and development costs money, our sales costs money, our work team costs money... Apart from these, do you know what our advantage is now? It is cheap labor. We are a manufacturing industry, and we survive by relying on cheap labor!"

"..."

"If we don't have cheap labor, then we're finished. Our entire industry is finished!"

"..."

"You can increase wages moderately, but if you increase wages so much all at once, what are we going to do?"

"..."

8 month 5 day.

With the Internet.

As more and more news about low-level factory employees earning over 10,000 yuan a month spread on the Internet.

Zhang Yang receives a series of phone calls and insults almost every day.

Many bosses even threatened to terminate their cooperation with Zhang Yang on the spot!

even……

Chen Xude from Fulin Glass came to Zhang Yang's office in person just for this matter and slammed the table in front of Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang listened to Chen Xude slamming the table, but his expression was very calm: "The reason why the company can survive is due to its products, not blindly deducting wages... Instead of thinking about how to deduct wages from employees, it is better to let them eat better and make better products..."

"Mr. Zhang, you mean that even if you only make 200 yuan for each mobile phone, you will still do this? You are completely harming others and not benefiting yourself! You want to destroy the entire industry chain, will you be happy? My Mr. Zhang! We have cheap labor, so Western factories are willing to invest in us. If we raise our prices, they will transfer their industries to Thailand, Vietnam and other places! You are changing the rules of the entire industry. In the past, you would have been shot!"

"I just raised the piece-rate price once, and it ruined the entire industry?" Zhang Yang narrowed his eyes.

"Okay! If you insist on having your own way, we at [Fulin Glass] will no longer accept your mobile phone screen business!" When Chen Xude of [Fulin Glass] heard this, he took a deep breath, and then walked out of the office without saying anything more to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang looked at his back.

But she remained calm and watched him leave.

Head down...

Silently watching other screen partners.

His eyes gradually turned cold.

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Late May.

The sales volume of [Xiaomi 3] exceeded 600 million units, once again creating a historical record for [Xiaomi mobile phone].

However, the supply chain system of [Wheat 3] has experienced some fluctuations...

From the domestic mobile phone screens of [Xiaomi 3] to the shell molds of [Xiaomi 3], many factories terminated their cooperation with Zhang Yang overnight.

Production capacity came to a temporary standstill.

But Zhang Yang seemed to have been prepared. After a few days of chaos, some new domestic suppliers appeared on Zhang Yang's cooperation list...

……

At the beginning of September, partners of [Wheat 9] in various places resumed work.

While everyone was focusing on Zhangyang’s mobile phone and watching how much sales the “Xiaomi 3” would eventually achieve…

Some Chinese capital has set its eyes on a project, its eyes gradually turned red, and then it became extremely greedy!
That project is called [Takeaway]...

And at this moment...

This project is like a piece of fresh meat, which makes people greedy...

(End of this chapter)