My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 486 The Great Golden Body Embodyes the Lord

New Year's Day, 1986.

Many of the companies that later became renowned brands through reform are still struggling in the process of restructuring, waiting for their true leader to lead them out of the predicament of the "iron rice bowl" system.

Just like Hong Tiancheng, who has been leading the Jiangzhou Cosmetics Factory for less than a year, is still figuring out product positioning and accumulating advertising and sales techniques. He has to carefully try and invest in promotion costs little by little, and it should take at least three to five years to see results.

With its strong nationwide sales capabilities and ample financial resources, Weidong was able to accelerate its rapid expansion.

According to He Yuemei and Han Guobin's calculations, it's common for managers to earn tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan a year through various sales commissions.

Even if each branch office only skims off a small portion of the goods, the quantity is still plentiful and enough to satisfy everyone.

Therefore, various regions have raised 16 million yuan to place orders, and the main sources of these orders are their respective bonuses and profits.

Of course, this also gave the provincial branches a sense of confidence that they could do something on their own.

Some families may even have connections or elders who have passed down knowledge and skills.

He even wanted to imitate Wei Dong's methods and start his own business.

After all, Wei Dong's methods were not secretive; he had his eye on the restructuring of a certain enterprise.

It's not necessarily necessary to acquire or fight for the intellectual property rights that are now easily criticized; it's just about helping certain companies sell their products.

Just by acquiring the sales rights and leveraging the overall scale to sell nationwide, the newly launched branch office is making a fortune like a tap.

This is the core of the talks that came from various places.

But even Wei Dong's core principles are impossible for others to learn.

Wei Dong nodded in agreement: "In principle, I agree with this model. Dong Sheng Trading is essentially a sales platform with strong 'logistics' capabilities."

Those of you who are familiar with university culture, if you listen attentively, you will surely understand this advantage.

This private sales network, which has already taken the lead nationwide, is Weidong's biggest asset.

With his hands behind his back, he attracted everyone's attention: "It may seem that we don't have our own shopping mall, but we are the bridge from all manufacturers to small shops, department stores, and even consumers. Whoever can get a stable supply of goods and pass the approval can sell like this. If the products are particularly good and the production capacity is sufficient, we can even apply for national advertising support. If it is a cheap and good quality daily necessity, we can even apply to join the supply and marketing system."

This has bypassed the original model where the head office could only develop products and ship them to various regions for sale.

Complete upgrade.

The audience erupted in excitement, clapping enthusiastically, before immediately falling silent to listen to what followed.

Wei Dong, being a seasoned internet user with experience in online shopping platforms, racked his brains to position Dongsheng Trading as a physical version of Taobao and Pinduoduo: "We already have 23 provincial branches across the country, directly covering sales companies in 427 counties and cities. After this sales conference, we will transform from local sales companies into trading companies with the ability to develop and explore local products, a behemoth capable of two-way trade. As long as our branches and sales companies across the country work closely together, we can create one sales miracle after another!"

Currently, we only have a few main products. Although we are busy delivering sales to various parts of the province, surrounding universities, and various sales channels, the product range is always relatively limited.

Once this expansion begins, the situation will indeed become increasingly diverse.

Wei Dong then began to inspire everyone: "At this point, I am certain that provincial branches with more developed manufacturing plants in places like Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, eastern Guangdong, eastern Shandong, and northern Hubei are better able to seize the opportunity to develop new products. Even just one product can generate tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in annual output value, and the branch can generate millions or tens of millions in profits. Even if some provinces cannot find their own manufacturing plants, they can focus on sales. Thus, populous provinces have an advantage in this regard. When our own product categories are relatively complete and the policies become clear, could some regions try to open their own stores and shopping malls?"

Sales managers and key personnel from various regions were still filled with enthusiasm as they listened.

Several local businesses are doing very well and want to go it alone. In fact, based on observations in the past few days, some companies that had been eyeing the real estate market are now turning their attention back to it.

Because this is a nationwide sales network, every link in the chain can make money from the overall sales across the country.

The same system can continuously add more and more products, and almost every category can quickly achieve a dominant position in the national market.

Wouldn't that make a fortune?
So that's what Wei Dong was saying: "That's why I made the ten-year agreement. At this point, as long as you follow me and work with everyone, making money legally and legitimately isn't a big problem. The difficulty lies in whether you can control your own heart. If you try to find ways to evade taxes and make hundreds of thousands or millions more, or become wealthy, and you don't think about how I want to change my hometown and how everyone has a responsibility to improve it, then your level of cultivation will definitely decline, and you won't be able to keep up with the rest of us in our cultivation..."

By 1986, some martial arts novels had already begun to circulate, and people couldn't help but yearn for them.

Is making money a form of spiritual practice?
Yes, Wei Dong felt the same way: "When it comes to making money, I should be the undisputed number one right now, there's no doubt about that, but when have you ever seen any trace of extravagance on me? Well, even though it's true that you can't buy much high-end consumption in the mainland right now, at least there are luxury cars sent over by Hong Kong businessmen next door. Have I taken them for myself and flaunted them in public? Because we have to consider that the bigger the tree, the more the wind will blow against it, and the debate over whether it's capitalist or socialist is still going on fiercely. Although economic liberalization is an irreversible direction, are you willing to become the negative target of capitalists?" Just two years ago, they were still shouting to get rid of the capitalist tail.

Taking too big a step will tear your balls, and they'll really be deadly.

In fact, the level of conservatism and openness of thought encountered by different departments in different provinces, cities, and regions varies.

They still have a lot of local mindset like the old leaders of Shangzhou.

However, the successive policies and demonstrations have led various regions to adopt a wait-and-see approach, without taking any action to nip these new things in the bud.

Various recurring risks still exist.

So everyone shook their heads in unison.

Therefore, Wei Dong's final emphasis was: "Then let's have provinces supervise each other, and cities and counties supervise each other, remind each other, and warn each other. If anyone is found to be crossing the red line, evading taxes, engaging in fraud, defaulting on wages and payments, or getting involved in vices such as gambling, prostitution, and drugs, they will be kicked out of the entire trade system and replaced by someone else."

This tactic was rather ruthless. It allowed Wei Dong to draw on his observations from his inspections of various regions, revealing that the situation was quite serious due to the order of arrival. Some who acted early seized advantageous areas but failed to perform well, or simply slumped into their advantageous positions, while others who came later and were more capable had to go elsewhere.

Now, the competition between different regions has basically been turned into a competition.

It also has a bit of that "wolf culture" that became popular sometime later.

The sales staff, who were basically blank slates at the time, were all full of ambition.

I originally wanted to take advantage of the national sales conference to coordinate with each other, otherwise any individual schemes we had in different regions would have been quickly extinguished.

This gives Wei Dong the impression that a skilled warrior doesn't achieve great feats; his ability to suppress any potential threats in the overall situation is the best way to ensure his prestige remains unaffected at this stage.

The fact that a lion king has been challenged will inevitably inspire others to try it as well.

Everyone now understands very clearly that he is irreplaceable.

Don't even think about replacing it.

As Wei Dong recounted, Han Guobin, as the eldest of the earliest members of the Pingjing Seven, told his story of how he went to support the first independent branch company and faced a life-threatening situation in Chengdu.

Han Guobin, who now owns all the shares of the Rongdu branch, is completely devoted: "When I went through life and death, and Wei Dong traveled thousands of miles to the plateau to seek justice for me and punish the criminals, I decided to dedicate my life to Dongsheng and to this economic reform..."

Then, pointing to Wei Dong, he said, "Most of you here have had dealings with Wei Dong in various places, and your understanding of him varies. But I think Wei Dong fits the description on the title page of the book 'Shaping the Mind' published by Shanghai People's Publishing House this year: A true strong person is not someone who can overcome all difficulties, but someone who does not yield to any difficulties. Let us encourage each other. Thank you all!"

Old Geng then laid out his own life-or-death situation: "Our 4,000-person infrastructure team in the remote mountainous old revolutionary base area was required to be demobilized on the spot and responsible for their own profits and losses. You all worked hard to build it from scratch, but we, a huge team, suddenly lost our direction. So at this moment when we were almost desperate to the point of having to let everyone disband and find their own jobs, it was Comrade Weidong who led us on a new journey of urban construction!"

His commanding presence, built over a decade of leadership, was incredibly intimidating to rookie-level leaders in various departments.

This is basically the administrative role of a university president: "Since the Spring Festival last year, we have participated in the construction of more than 100,000 square meters of building sites. In the future, we will take the lead in the cause of Dongsheng Enterprise as pioneers of commercial housing, fulfill our responsibilities for the housing reform of the people, and make the greatest efforts for social and commercial prosperity and economic stability. Here, I would also like to tell you a case that we met with Comrade Wei Dong on the train..."

It has to be the kind of thrilling and exciting drama where a vicious criminal gang is brought to justice that's captivating.

Thousands of people gasped in shock, exclaiming, "Is it really that ruthless?!"
Most salespeople who had just graduated from academia and had never encountered such a brutal reality turned pale.

It seems that I have also brushed past danger countless times?

In short, Lao Geng's statement further "mythologized" Wei Dong's social experience and his keen and quick mind.

Everyone looked at the leader with admiration and respect, as if he were incredibly awesome.

In the end, he was still no match for Wu Shengyun.

It feels like these generals are shaping the glorious image of their lord.

(End of this chapter)