My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 478 Now, I'm Conquering the World with a Sword

That's normal. This production line is one of the results of the country's massive import of various production lines since around 81, which consumed a lot of foreign exchange.

High-end French goods.

Just like Jin Zhuoqun's chemical plant in Guozhou, hundreds of kilometers away, also uses French products.

During this honeymoon period with European countries, many import routes originate from there.

It also includes a complete laboratory, and has all the technicians and production line operators recruited from universities in previous years!
With this production line, which is considered advanced in China, the cosmetics factory with more than 100 employees has even been ranked among the five golden flowers of Jiangzhou's industry.

But like the countless production lines introduced in recent years, only one in ten can be used effectively.

Because they couldn't figure out what to produce, let alone how to sell it.

What good is having a production line?

Hong Tiancheng was appointed to the position in a time of crisis, which must be because the company had exhausted all its resources in the past two years of restructuring and operations.

Therefore, at this critical juncture after the reform and opening up, the reformers who were able to defy fate and change their destiny were indeed those who relied on their personal abilities to ride the wave of the times.

However, failing to reap substantial rewards later on can easily lead to an imbalance in one's mindset.

When Wei Dong and his team arrived, everyone present, having been notified in advance by their superiors, crowded around the gate to welcome them.

With just a glance, Wei Dong said during the handshake, "I've long admired the cosmetics factory, and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to cooperate with them thanks to the city's recommendation!"

Hong Tiancheng pretended it was their first meeting: "Thank you for the care and support from the city and bureau leaders. Our cosmetics factory will definitely seize this opportunity to deepen reforms and win the battle to turn things around!"

This further confirms that he was still a cadre appointed by the organization.

Who would have thought that it was precisely this identity that would later become the key factor limiting his great wealth and status?

Only when Wei Dong saw through this did he smile as Hong Tiancheng focused intently on introducing the equipment capacity of the entire factory.

As expected of industrial equipment from a fashion powerhouse.

As long as there are enough raw materials, it is possible to produce 20,000 to 30,000 bottles per day!

But now annual sales are less than that, which is quite embarrassing, so the former leader who strongly advocated for his appointment was dismissed, and the relevant authorities are under great pressure.

Now, seeing Wei Dong is like seeing a god of wealth; she can't wait to get married.

Wei Dong observed that Hong Tiancheng had already established a fairly good atmosphere throughout the factory.

There were also several managers who ran around following orders, and even before they had achieved any results or made any money, they were able to control the situation in this way.

Great peace of mind.

After the tour, he sat down in the conference room. The corridor and the windows were crowded with employees, which made him feel as if he had been back in the days when he was surrounded by onlookers at the Xishan factory.

Old Cheng went to Pingjing.

He was no longer that newbie, and of course, he glanced around and saw no sign of his secretary in the corner.

"We produce tens of thousands of bottles a day... We hope that our O'Nia series products can reach full production capacity so that all workers can receive generous compensation."

Sure enough, when they heard him say that he would maximize the production capacity of tens of thousands of bottles per day, the sparsely working cosmetics employees couldn't help but cheer.

The city's secretary and bureau leaders also looked very pleased.

Listen to Wei Dong's fabricated story: "Ouniya is a well-established brand registered in Hong Kong. We can add shampoo to the Jiangzhou cosmetics factory's product line, providing technical information and formulas. We will also establish Ouniya Daily Chemical Products Co., Ltd. in Jiangzhou, entrusting the Jiangzhou cosmetics factory with the heavy responsibility of exporting and selling our products nationwide and worldwide. After achieving our initial production goals, we will expand our scale and add various cream and lotion product lines such as face cream and repair cream. We aim to increase the cosmetics factory's output value to over 100 million yuan within three years, allowing Ouniya products to be sold nationwide, break out of Asia, and go global!"

Apart from Hung Tin-shing, probably no one else present could have discerned the key point.

They only heard that the output value was over 100 million, that it was a Hong Kong brand, and that it was marketed in all directions, so they assumed that it was all related to them.

The crowd was in high spirits, clapping their hands until they were red.

After the secretary spoke on behalf of the city, the bureau leaders affirmed this cooperative approach.

Wei Dong and Hong Tiancheng signed a preliminary agreement.

Jiangzhou Cosmetics Factory will become the sole designated production supplier for Ouniya Cosmetics in mainland China, with a cooperation agreement between the two parties for twenty years…

ONYA Cosmetics has appointed Mr. Hong Tiancheng as the General Manager of its mainland company, and Ms. Qin Yuye, a Hong Kong businesswoman, as the Chairperson and Brand Ambassador.

There's nothing wrong with that, right? The vice president of Cherokee is also the plant manager of Pingqi.

Outside, some people even lit several strings of firecrackers to celebrate.

Even the college graduates who came with Wei Dong applauded enthusiastically, all wanting to join this cosmetics and shampoo company.

Wei Dong handed the bottle of powder to Hong Tiancheng: "Superoxide dismutase, or SOD for short, has its molecular formula written on the label. Here are some simple usage instructions: as a sensitive enzyme, its activity is easily affected by external factors such as light and temperature. It also has problems such as unstable activity, inability to withstand high temperatures, easy inactivation, and poor cell permeability. Try adding it to shampoo. Once your process is complete, Ms. Qin will bring back the product packaging and design confirmation from Hong Kong, and we can start production and sales immediately!" Then he left a check for one million in start-up capital and went to another business.

This willingness to let go and build the business is based on trust in Hung Tin-shing.

However, in the eyes of all parties, they are incredibly wealthy and powerful.

At that time, one million in cash was roughly equivalent to the purchasing power of ten million or even hundreds of millions later.

They finalized the deal in just a few words over a cup of tea.

Courage!

Even the city's secretary asked if we had any other needs, saying there were plenty of factories in the city we could collaborate with!

The factory workers were overjoyed and almost wanted to kowtow to the capitalists.

Rang Weidong simply invited Hong Tiancheng to lead the factory's management personnel to the new factory in the Economic Development Zone for study and visit as soon as possible, and to participate in the financial and sales work meeting at the White Building in the city center. He also promised that Hong Tiancheng would be a regular participant in the future, attending every week.

Hong Tiancheng certainly hadn't expected things to move so quickly. He suppressed his excitement and thanked the client, saying he would definitely do a good job as a supplier.

If he used to have to rely on this factory and its equipment to advance his ambitious shampoo business, now Weidong has given him a new option.

By avoiding potential future property rights disputes to the greatest extent possible, this is the best way to save this domestic shampoo brand.

However, to get Wei Dong to agree, he needed to provide some veteran employees who had worked in the auto parts factory to guide them.

We invited the city's secretaries and leaders from the Industry Bureau to visit the Jiangzhou Bus Factory, which is right next door, and Jiang'an Automobile, which, like the Xishan Factory, belongs to the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry.

They're all in this area.

To explore and develop ideas for the development of the auto parts industry in Jiangzhou.

Jiang'an Automobile launched its joint venture minivan less than a year ago. It also has the problem of being purely imported and assembled. However, since they are close neighbors, they can buy on credit and accept RMB to invest in the mainland.

In comparison, German manufacturers are not as powerful as their American counterparts, so the conflict between Santana and the US is not as prominent.

The atmosphere created by the Pingjing factory itself also bears some responsibility.

Jiang'an felt a sense of relief upon hearing this.

Wei Dong casually joked, "Maybe Xiaozhai is the one with a long-term plan, deliberately boiling us like a frog in lukewarm water so that we never have the motivation to develop our own parts and components. We'll just keep using their parts and components, and even if we earn less, we can still make a steady profit."

The entire audience was shocked and began to inquire whether it was really that dangerous.

Right? Forty years later, the car wars have reached a fever pitch. Most Japanese car manufacturers have withdrawn from the domestic market, but they still hold the top spot by relying on the global market.

There are so many videos and news articles like this online.

Wei Dong could only make up an excuse about going to Japan for research: "The Japanese emphasize their craftsmanship, but in my observation, that's a bit of an exaggeration. They are just very good at scrutinizing details. For the same part, they can produce it at the lowest possible price while ensuring quality and quantity. It's not impossible for them to even make a fake part to save money. Then there is a huge network of auto parts across the country. A factory in a certain county or town may have been producing only a certain bearing part for generations. Of course, they are extremely meticulous. In the end, they open factories all over the world to assemble parts. They like you to use the original parts to assemble parts. They can eat their local energy continuously and forever."

The leaders of Jiang'an Automobile, the city's secretaries, and the leaders of the Industry Bureau present must have been deeply shocked.

Whether they viewed the Japanese investors as temporary partners or were deeply impressed by their politeness and dedication during long-term cooperation, it doesn't matter what their daily lives looked like.

No one expected Wei Dong to see things so "clearly".

The key logic is correct.

If this model continues to operate, it will be like capillaries attaching to the whole world, silently nourishing the local area.

It nourished that resource-poor island nation, allowing it to live a life of complacency for decades.

The city's secretaries quickly recorded these remarks.

One can only admire that even though overseas inspections are extremely valuable now, it is truly rare to find someone like Wei Dong who has reaped such a bountiful harvest.

I had previously received Jiang An, who sent Wei Dong to visit. After all, they were "colleagues" from the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry, so I treated this younger brother, who was becoming increasingly famous in the industry, differently.

“Wei Dong, you’ve taken on the task of localizing the parts for Cherokee and Santana, but they’re so far from Jiangzhou.”

Wei Dong was used to it: "Then will our Jiang'an cars also be transported to all parts of the country? This is a large-scale national cooperative project. Jiangzhou's advantages are steel mills, petrochemicals, water transport, and a large base of heavy industry and military industry, including a large number of third-line factories with a mechanical production base. If we can produce parts at low prices and high quality, and transport them along the Yangtze River to Shanghai, we might still be able to maintain our advantage. As for Beijing... I don't think the local area has that capability."

That's the capital city!
When people talk about Pyeongkol, it's as dazzling as the sun over the Golden Mountain.

Only people thirty or forty years later have gotten used to having an administrative identity. Across the country, everything is flourishing, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, without those filters.

In short, at this moment, everyone truly witnessed the young man's proud and arrogant demeanor as he wielded his sword.

Then give it a try?

(End of this chapter)