My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 56 You are a master
Let Weidong not say anything either.

After all, he didn't realize at this moment that being able to contact such a major newspaper reporter was actually what You Qili and others had always dreamed of.

Because what the big liars who brag about themselves need most is this kind of official evidence, such as their names appearing in the newspaper as a signboard.

Just like it is popular in Europe and the United States to use photos with the president and congressmen to do business.

He also dislikes taking precautions.

To put it simply, Yu Songhai didn't even know he was driving a big truck.

But according to this method, Weidong went back to show his work ID from Hongguang Factory and told the oil dealer that he was mainly collecting samples for Guozhou Chemical Plant. He would first transport two or three tons of samples. I also have to go to Jicheng to do some business. There are reporters from Sunshine Daily waiting there. Otherwise, they would come to find me.

If you don't trust me, you can send someone to follow me, to Jicheng or to Guozhou.

He pretended to be very busy, but more importantly, his identity as a reporter was intimidating enough. I originally wanted to pester him to ship hundreds of tons of oil to complete the agreement, so I had to pick out the best oil and put it into round iron barrels to accompany him.

It’s only two or three hundred kilometers to Jicheng, and this plain area can be reached in one day.

On the way, Weidong also heard that the oil merchants were indeed anxious. Once summer came and the weather got hot, the animal oil would go bad and stink, and they would definitely lose a lot of money.

It was You Qili who instigated them to boldly purchase so much oil.

Who would have thought that he was caught.

It is also worth mentioning that the transportation of such goods, which often weigh hundreds or thousands of tons, often requires the use of train cars, and the cost of transporting them by car is much higher.

The speaker didn't mean it, but Weidong understood.

Don't underestimate him because he is only 20 years old. He has carefully studied the transportation market and knows that railway cars are in such short supply now. So you can imagine how difficult it is to handle the business of transporting bulk materials between the north and the south.

You Qili is really just a guy who has wild ideas. He thinks that blowing up Mount Everest may turn the desert into an oasis, but he doesn't care how to place the explosives.

On the way, we passed the capital of Jibei Province and went to the press station pointed out by Yu Songhai to report and contact. Sure enough, there were reporters there and got on the car. When we arrived in Jicheng, the reporters from the headquarters who came from Pingjing also arrived one after another.

When have oil traders ever seen such a scene, with businessmen surrounded by several levels of big reporters?

He didn't dare to say a word and had to wrap himself in his military coat and squat in the car with Goudan and the others.

Since Weidong was already here, he decided to take a look. Now he was just using this incident to get the reporter to leave the oil merchant's territory.

More importantly, he planned to have a casual chat and then take his brothers to Pingjing for a stroll. He had never been to the capital.

But Jicheng, as the capital of the capital, has a different temperament.

The palm-sized city was actually filled with clusters of state-owned factories, which was simply an enlarged version of the Xishan Factory that Weidong had visited.

And they are all well-known, including the banknote paper factory, chemical fiber factory, thermal power plant, transformer factory, cotton spinning factory, battery factory, machinery factory and film factory.

There are two mailboxes with the same code name inside, not to mention that something like banknote paper can't be produced anywhere. It makes him want to come to this area to sell bacon.

As a result, the reporter from Sunshine Daily pushed him to the front!
When we met, he introduced himself as a young leader of economic reform who revitalized the third-line factories, military industrial enterprises, and optical instrument factories in the southwest region?

What the hell is this title?

Weidong had always wanted to make money quietly under You Qili's banner, but how did he become a leader of reform?

But this trick really works.

Weidong himself knew that even if he just went to the house, people wouldn't even look at him.

It was not as critical as the Hongguang Factory and Xishan Factory, where the entire factory was on the verge of starvation, so these boastful state-owned factories simply ignored him.

The previous domestic black-and-white film factory and the Guangyi Factory that still produces SLR cameras were all like this.

The photosensitive material factory in front of them, which was responsible for the production of national films, immediately took a different look at it after listening to the introduction by the reporter from the major newspaper. The factory leaders sat around and carefully inquired about the reform route.

It can be said that this was the first time since Weidong's rebirth that he came into contact with a company that he had actually heard of in later generations.

There is a strange feeling as if I have touched the thread of history. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, Triumph film was the preferred consumable for home cameras in prefecture-level cities like the Taxation Bureau.

No matter how poor a small place is, civil servants still have a decent purchasing power, and almost every household has a camera.

Not to mention the best primary school next door in the city. A lot of parents and children take photos, and there are even photography classes.

But compared to those imported brand coupons that cost nearly 30 yuan each, county and district consumers still prefer the triumph lottery coupons that cost around ten yuan.

So Wei Dong also knew: "This is my idea for the camera. Let's see if there is anything we can learn from the film side. As for SLR cameras, in another ten or twenty years, it is estimated that they will not catch up with the powerful countries in Europe, America and Japan. The Xiangjiang brand SLR cameras previously produced by the Jiangzhou optical instrument factories have won a lot of domestic awards, but not many people actually buy them. Now I hear that it will cost a huge amount of money to introduce foreign production lines. I personally don't agree. Foreigners are willing to transfer, isn't it just for money? And what they transfer is often their outdated products. It's just a good opportunity for them to buy the obsolete products at a high price, and they can invest in R&D and production of better products..."

In the 1980s, people were actually very outspoken. The reporters were busy writing, but someone at the film factory actually applauded.

If you say this in Shanghai, everyone will definitely scoff.

They believe in importing everything.

This time, most coastal photosensitive material factories have chosen to introduce overseas color film production lines.

It's just that Pingjing is always so arrogant. Why can't we do it ourselves?

In fact, each has its own advantages. If self-reliance and blind confidence are excessive, it will lead to complacency. If the steps of opening up and introducing new technologies are too big, it will become a comprador and stifle its own development.

Everything has to be properly balanced.

But Weidong's words in Jicheng were quite comforting. "So I did offend this factory, but the Xishan factory next door agrees with my thinking. Cameras aren't just for a handful of professionals. With the reform and opening up, people's needs have changed. Traveling, business trips, family gatherings, and taking photos are part of everyday life. For example, I mainly use this camera to take photos like this."

As he said this, he handed over his stack of photos.

In addition to putting the photos of Rang Weidong and her three daughters in her pocket and taking them back to school, Dong Xueqing secretly bought a photo album and carefully put all the messy photos of Rang Weidong in it.

If you have a car, you can put it on the driver's seat at any time. Now when you take it out, the leaders of the film factory and newspaper reporters who are passing it around can't help laughing.

The guys at Xishan Factory couldn't understand why anyone would take photos like that before. That was just their pure industrial straight-man thinking and lack of experience from their remote mountain village.

The people setting up stalls by the West Lake and the professional reporters give you a sense of life at first glance.

Even the film studio is responsible for dealing with news films, movie studios and the like. Those who appreciate it can say that your work has a high artistic value.

Weidong's art of understanding farts: "In short, this is what I want to express. Most people can afford a camera for twenty or thirty yuan. It's not a luxury item. Recording the little things in life is not about sitting down and taking photos. This will bring prosperity to the camera and film industries."

Now everyone applauded. These people really understood the essential difference between this kind of photos and those artistic photos taken in studios.

Everyone understands that this is a huge industry direction and market guide.

If there are one billion people and one hundred million of them each buy a camera to take pictures of their daily lives, the question is whether it is a big deal.

It is quite remarkable that a twenty-year-old can see this difference.

The reporter from the Sunshine Daily headquarters, who was in his forties and seemed to be a senior reporter or editor-in-chief, couldn't help but summarize: "Citigroup's development of the automotive industry was precisely due to Ford's popularization of the Model T, which made it affordable for ordinary people and truly laid the foundation for the automotive empire. Xiao Rang's term is very much like the people's camera. We also need people's film!"

The film factory nodded deeply: "Then how can we cooperate?"

Let Weidong explain the sales situation: "In just one location in East China, we sell hundreds of units every day. In fact, I have an idea for the future. If your color film sales are combined with our cameras, we can create gift packages. One camera, two rolls, and a beautiful box..."

As he said this, he took out the X camera in a colorful box from his bag, and everyone understood even more clearly.

Cameras at this time were still considered quite high-end products, so the packaging was quite complicated with a bunch of accessories, while the outside of the box was quite simple, even made of kraft paper.

Weidong, on the other hand, treated the cardboard box purely as a toy. It was very beautiful, but when he opened it, he found a camera inside, without even a neck strap or a lens cap. The instruction manual was just a page with illustrations printed on it.

The film company and the reporter happened to be camera experts. They picked it up and fiddled with it briefly. "A standard head-up viewfinder camera. Previously, the Xiangjiang brand was considered a high-end SLR-style product, costing over 400 yuan a set. The Seagull in Shanghai, the Great Wall in Beijing, the Oriental in Tianjin, and the Tiger Hill in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all of this style. Even without interchangeable lenses, they still cost around 150 yuan. Now that the price has been reduced to 20 or 30 yuan a unit, will other manufacturers be forced to sell out?"

Weidong seemed to hear the familiar word "involution": "Isn't the market economy about competition based on ability? You're making expensive, poor-quality film and can't sell it. Do you blame Triumph film for being too cheap and too high-quality?"

This made everyone in the factory laugh. "Consumers who buy cameras for twenty or thirty yuan won't buy cameras that cost over a hundred, or even four hundred yuan. Xiao Rang has completely opened up a new market. Over a hundred thousand units a year. If you can keep the film consumption constant, you'll need millions of rolls of film!"

The reporter quickly chimed in, "The color photography craze has quietly begun to take off in China. Demand is the market, and demand is opportunity. We can't let imported film completely dominate the domestic market. However, the high cost of cameras also restricts mass film consumption. Xiao Rang's approach is a perfect match for the future of Triumph Film. We're sure to capture the mass market. As for the less popular field of professional photography, that's the next target we'll target once we gain a firm foothold, right?"

In fact, this statement has been made very implicitly. At least reporters here never use domestically produced papers.

Not to mention the official scenes in Pingjing, all of which were recorded with super expensive imported high-end films. Otherwise, who would be responsible if there were any problems with the quality of equipment and consumables in these fleeting precious historical scenes?
We are targeting the cheap and popular consumer market, so don't pretend to be noble.

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