My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 389 It was your decree!

Wei Dong also took the opportunity to visit Zhejiang Hangzhou Nonferrous Metals Plant, where they traded more than 50 tons of titanium ingots over a year and a half.

A transaction volume of over three million is considered a large customer transaction at this time.

Even though they didn't know that this guy from Southwest China had become a big shot, they still treated him with great hospitality and engaged in conversation.

He also casually mentioned that since the second half of last year, Lao Zhang, who was in charge of cargo ship handover in Shanghai, was very meticulous and reliable. Moreover, he strictly followed market conditions and raised the transaction price to 78,000 a few months ago, and then to 83,000.

With a daily production of 1.4 million packs of sanitary napkins and other products, the daily sales revenue is in the millions.

Wei Dong hadn't paid attention to the sales revenue of titanium ingots for a long time.

He never inquired about or paid attention to the financial situation of this line of business with his wife, for fear that his wife's sixth sense would discover something amiss.

I simply never mention it.

From the moment Dong Xueying arrived in Jiangzhou, she attended the scene where Lao Zhao from Hongguang Factory came to talk to her.

Later, I took over the revenue and expenditure and transportation, and I never mentioned any problems.

I'm a little confused. Did the Zhang family inflate their sales figures by taking a cut?

This kind of behavior, where a simple phone call could expose the deception at any moment, is just too foolish.

Therefore, upon arriving in Shanghai, I decided to maintain a serious attitude towards the company's audit, and anyone who engaged in such embezzlement would have to leave.

There were too many stops along the way. When I got out of the Shanghai Railway Station, it was already early June, and everywhere was decorated with banners and colorful flags celebrating Children's Day.

Wei Dong even joked that his own group was like a children's vanguard tour group.

My younger siblings all agree with whatever I say, because they can't keep up with everything they see.

Traveling along the river, this is truly a metropolis.

Even though in 1985, like the rest of the country, this place was full of dilapidated houses, and it was notorious for its cramped living conditions.

But it has a solid foundation.

At this time, Zhejiang was just a small, dilapidated urban area by West Lake. Jiangzhou was also a fragmented, dirty industrial city. Low-rise old streets were the main feature of Yuezhou. As for Pingjing, it goes without saying that only the model projects like the ten-mile-long street were worth looking at. The rest were mostly dilapidated alleys.

Only Shanghai is full of the cultural heritage left behind by the old Shanghai Bund.

The Bund boasts a prestigious bank building that serves as a showcase, but the rest of the area is filled with old villas and modern alleyways, demonstrating that the city's development is at the forefront of the country.

Li Erfeng instinctively squeezed to let Wei Dong pass, afraid that she would lose herself while looking around.

But then he held the hands of the plateau girls tightly, and together they looked up and felt dizzy.

Wei Dong had come several times, especially last May when he and Zhang Lanzhi did a lot of sales and promotion work at various universities in Shanghai and became familiar with each other.

Back then, cameras were our only flagship product. Now, sanitary napkins, cooked food, SOD honey, radios, jeans, and casual wear are sold as a group.

The Shanghai branch's performance is outstanding, and there is virtually no competition from the surrounding area.

Radio recorders are relatively difficult to enter the East China region, while the strongest manufacturers of electrical appliances are located here in the country.

Everything else was a complete sweep of enemies.

Despite such a favorable situation, they still resolutely decided to move overseas.

This puzzled Wei Dong greatly.

I went out and looked around, and this is all there is to it. What's so great about it?
Having lived forty years later, he naturally finds it difficult to understand the anguish and struggles of intellectuals at that time.

However, after passing through the Bund, where there are still many docks for boats, I finally found the office after turning into the alley.

The emotions that had just welled up in my heart were instantly dispelled by the bustling scene of traffic.

Many young people are pushing their bicycles here to pick up their goods!

In some places, there may be some risks involved in reselling sanitary napkins and jeans.

There has long been a tradition of scalpers reselling goods in Shanghai.

Selling sanitary napkins used to be a little embarrassing, but now selling jeans is a complete and utter annihilation!

The wholesale price of the pure blue cargo jeans is 9.9 yuan. They range from the one-size-fits-all oversized style to the slim-fit women's styles in small, medium, and large sizes, and retail for 12.9 yuan.

Buying ten or twenty of these from relatives, friends, and classmates is equivalent to a month's salary for an average worker.

This highlights the importance of the previous Hilal casual T-shirt and denim advertisements.

Anyone who gets their hands on the jeans and shows them the "Hilal" brand name printed or embossed on the back waistband will immediately distinguish them from slightly cheaper work pants – they're brand name!

That means it'll be sold out almost instantly.

Whether anyone takes advantage of the situation to raise prices is unknown, but the suggested retail price on the tag is 12.9 yuan. Whether the sales staff accept this suggestion or not is a matter for the sales channels. The products with poor quality are labeled "Aix" and sold for 9.9 yuan, while only the distressed and best-quality "Colorful" brand sells for 29 yuan.

It turns out to be a multi-brand strategy.

Other garment factories and state-owned clothing factories in the market are still undergoing restructuring and have no brand awareness, advertising image, or sales system.

Naturally, they were crushed without any chance of winning.

Wei Dong and his group watched from the doorway for at least several minutes, taking photos and making records. Only when Wu Shengyun peeked out and noticed did they quickly have Mr. and Mrs. Zhang come out instead.

They were all wearing the most standard Dacron short-sleeved shirts, gray trousers, and leather sandals of the day.

It's not high-end, but it's brand new and fashionable. At this time of year, if you put it in a big department store on Jinling Road in Shanghai, it would be considered as something a local would wear.

Compared to when he left Jiangzhou nearly a year ago and handed over that pistol to Rang Weidong, he looked much neater and more comfortable in his old military uniform.

Old Zhang, whose hair was a bit gray, nodded and greeted Shi Tou and Mao'er.

I've seen it before at the Xishan factory.

Wei Dong keenly noticed that the couple's entire demeanor had undergone a tremendous change.

He used to seem a bit dull and naive in the third-tier factory, but now he's shining: "Hello, Factory Director. We've booked a table at the restaurant next door for lunch. My wife and I will treat you and the others to a meal, paying for it ourselves, so we can have a chance to express our gratitude."

When Zhang Lanzhi stayed in Shanghai, she worked as a manager of an office or branch, earning a monthly salary of 200 yuan, plus commission based on sales performance.

He Yuemei calculated that she could earn over a thousand yuan!
There are only five or six such branch managers nationwide.

Therefore, there is absolutely no need to embezzle, take a cut, or conduct business secretly when making purchases in Shanghai.

Wei Dong glanced at the packed office where people were paying and picking up their goods, and nodded in agreement.

Then walk across, through three or five intersections.

With a mix of enthusiasm and shrewdness, Madam Zhang quickly communicated with Li Erfeng in Shanghainese, unaware that the four little ones were the most clever and sensible, subtly keeping their distance from her.

Make room for your older brother to talk to someone.

Even Shi Tou subconsciously wanted to go forward and eavesdrop, but Mao Er pulled him back and shook his head before he gave up.

They were clearly talking about that woman.

"This year has been more relaxed and happy than ever before for our family. We are not from Shanghai, but Lanzhi's mother and I both started working in the surrounding countryside. We met while studying in Shanghai and were then assigned to a third-line factory. We have dedicated our lives to the factory, and we have done it too."

Wei Dong actually understands this rise of individual consciousness. Reading and enlightenment not only broaden one's horizons but also open up one's understanding of everything around them.

Twenty or thirty years from now, high school and college students will be everywhere, and everyone will have a sense of self that they take for granted.

At this time, it was still relatively rare. People followed the propaganda of dedication from childhood to adulthood, regarding the collective as eternal and greater than the individual.

"Yes, Xishan Factory has merged with all the surrounding optical instrument factories to become Xishan General Factory. The sales company I am in charge of is privately owned. It is building the Xishan Building in Jiangnan District of Jiangzhou. It will bring together some of the technical personnel from other relocated third-line factories, so that after dedicating their lives, they can have a better self-worth... In other words, it will allow good technicians to earn more."

But whether intentionally or unintentionally, Wei Dong still concealed the fact that the core of the Xishan Building was a computer research institute, so he subconsciously had some precautions.

Old Zhang certainly couldn't understand, he just nodded repeatedly: "It's all because you created this new situation that Lanzhi was able to stay in Shanghai and then helped us return to Shanghai. I know that as technicians and military representatives, it's not easy for us to be transferred. Actually, it was you who took care of us, Lanzhi..."

Wei Dong interrupted, saying, "She has made contributions, so she should be rewarded accordingly. The expenses for going abroad are also hers. As for what you're planning to do next, it's fine if you continue to work at the sales branch. I told Lao Cheng that you're considered the sales company's supervisors."

Unexpectedly, Lao Zhang volunteered: "We will definitely support Lanzhi in going abroad to study and improve, and filling her vacancy to support the branch manager is no problem either. We have become very proficient with Lanzhi in the past six months... But since the foreign trade business suddenly started after the Spring Festival, we have been learning in a haphazard way. It involves a lot of foreign affairs work such as order tracking and quality inspection, customs declaration and inspection, logistics and shipping schedules, and payment collection. Lanzhi and we have been exploring and doing this part of the work by stumbling along. If this part of the foreign trade continues for a long time, Lanzhi's mother and I can take on this foreign trade work. We are relatively proficient in English, and we can also barely understand Japanese, Russian, and German. We can keep learning and make sure we can do this job well."

Perhaps this is what makes people different.

People who may have dreams and cultural support have never given up on their ability to learn.

At least the old security guards from the previous generation had been lying low ever since they started hiding in the guardhouse.

I never allowed myself to keep learning throughout my life.

So they were confined there.

Now I understand that this learning ability is the key.

He nodded with a hint of respect: "You have the ability to accumulate experience from scratch, so you are of course the best candidate to lead the foreign trade department. However, this position involves a lot of funds and foreign exchange operations. In the future, we will have millions of dollars in foreign exchange flow every month. If you embezzle these funds and do something funny, or make private investments during the payment period, then you will be making a mistake and cannot be trusted."

Old Zhang was a little surprised: "Lanzhi said you made her do it all."

Wei Dong was bewildered. Was she forging some imperial edict? "Me? What do you want me to do?"

Old Zhang took out a stack of documents from the small artificial leather bag he was carrying: "Buy stocks, buy houses."

So that's what Wei Dong did?

Do you own any stocks?
no?
(End of this chapter)