My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 561 The Era's Wild Horses Run Free

What a joke! Putting aside her reputation as a queen of the night, Qin Zhiming's sister's Hong Kong identity alone brings a lot of convenience.

Hong Kong's unique advantages—foreign investment, overseas sales, and technical support—were extremely important to Wei Dong at this stage.

What can you, a girl from the plateau, offer?
Is it the beautiful scenery of the plateau or the injection of funds?

Moreover, Wei Dong had already skipped the initial accumulation stage. The sanitary napkin business had established a basic sales network, so he didn't need to make much money; he just needed to support the daily logistics with the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives.

The cameras provided basic commissions for sales staff in various regions.

Radio recorders and snacks are more like attempts to explore different categories and solve employment problems.

Computers are used entirely to continuously improve scientific research levels.

Shampoo, cosmetics, and clothing are the main products that truly meet the needs of this stage: low cost, high production volume, and affordable for the general public.

The company quietly accumulated capital through low profit margins and high sales volume, which was then used to fund fixed assets.

They are unwilling to even engage in commercial real estate, where the profits are the fastest to come.

He wouldn't care about this or that anymore; even when it comes to unity work, Yu Songhai has already devoted himself to it.

Thinking about Lao Yu's married life made Wei Dong's scalp tingle.

I haven't even done anything wrong yet, and I already think women are such a hassle.

Hahaha encouraged Dawa to go to Pingjing and then to Shanghai to see the different construction progress of the five-star hotels in the two places. After the construction is completed, there will be huge costs for decoration and staff training. The cost of all aspects on the plateau is estimated to double. So if you don't do as I say, then you have to consider the cost investment yourself.

Dawa, who had been insisting that he would do whatever Wei Dong arranged, finally calmed down a bit and decided to go and take a look.

Because the construction of this four-star hotel in Jiangzhou is nearing completion, it only requires a few million yuan. No, in the past year, the entire market has been experiencing currency devaluation, wage increases, and soaring prices.

Other construction companies would need around 15 million to complete the project. However, because Lao Geng internalized the infrastructure construction model, the urban construction company essentially created a third track system separate from the market economy, on top of the dual-track system of domestic and international economies.

Cement and river sand are produced and used by the company itself, while steel bars can be supplied by the urban construction company, a state-owned enterprise, through Jiangzhou Steel Company at a stable price.

State-owned construction companies don't have the same business volume as urban construction companies, and private contractors don't have the same brand power or scale.

We can still keep the cost of the 20-plus-story high-rise building that Wei Dong requested within 10 million yuan.

Based on this alone, Jiangzhou Urban Construction, as the most successful infrastructure team in the country in terms of restructuring, can already sweep the construction market.

Dawa really wanted to build a hotel, but couldn't find a better partner.

Moreover, Wei Dong truly possesses the qualities of a lord.

The yacht arrived in Jiangzhou in the early morning. The cement plants along the river were all working through the night, so they woke up the sleepy Qin Yuye and Lamu and left.

The captain, who was arranging for the sailors to hoist the yacht back into the track shed, volunteered to let Wei Dong lead the tourist fleet in the future.

Just the 30-kilometer stretch between Kuizhou and Xiakou counties, the 20-plus-kilometer stretch from the small canyon to the ancient town, and then the 100-plus-kilometer stretch to Shangzhou, these small fleets of a dozen or so various yachts and cruise ships, operating amidst the green mountains and clear waters, seem like a business that's both profitable and carefree.

This is similar to a leader's driver, who has access to a lot of exclusive information and can personally hear the contents of various meetings.

The sailors didn't have the courage or the resolve to take responsibility.

With endorsements from the prefecture-level city to the county level, this job is incredibly enjoyable.

Having already surpassed this level, Wei Dong smiled and said, "You should first report to General Manager Wu of the shipping company, and let him decide who will be in charge. This is a project that will become more and more popular over the next few decades."

He nodded, got in his car, and drove away.

Now that we've reached a certain scale, we should establish a hierarchical responsibility structure from the grassroots level down to the departments, and from the institutes to the bureaus, which will be conducive to development.

Even though the country is not yet fully developed.

This allowed Wei Dong to still have this deeply ingrained concept of the system.

Knowing he would be back in two or three days, and that his car was parked at the small dock, he went home, only to find Dong Xueqing sleeping next door.

Ram tiptoed out to find out and came back saying that they must have been watching the video too late.

Qin Yuye had woken up from his drowsiness, picked up the camera, and jokingly said he would edit the videotape himself.

From the summit of Qutang Gorge to the quiet and ancient town, and then to the stunning and beautiful canyon, I took many photos.

She asked Wei Dong to tell her that she could make some for her brother, and also send a copy to Sister Su in Pingjing, to see if it was necessary to hire a professional photography team to shoot some promotional videos as a reserve.

The infrastructure is still under construction and improvement process, so this is a way to record the original landscape in its original form.

With cable cars and hotels, and especially after the partial property exchange in the ancient town is settled, advertising and promotion can be carried out to maximize the promotional effect.

Qin Yuye nodded thoughtfully and left.

When Wei Dong got home, he didn't turn on the central air conditioning that connected the whole floor. Instead, he used the ventilation from all sides and gently rocked the baby to sleep with a palm-leaf fan. It was almost dawn when he felt a warm body snuggle into his arms. He opened his eyes and saw Feng Chu pouting, "Turn off the TV. I knew you guys were back."

Then hold on tighter and take a nap.

Even if I don't do anything, I feel much more at ease.

All I could think about was the overall production and sales situation.

Sure enough, I ran into Hong Tiancheng while I was eating breakfast early in the morning, and I was eager to ask him if the price of the shampoo, which costs three yuan a bottle, should be increased since the price of chemical raw materials is rising.

This reminded Wei Dong of Coca-Cola, which remained at three yuan for over ten or twenty years: "In fact, the large and extra-large bottles have changed from the planned five or eight yuan to eight or twelve yuan when they were launched, following the price changes. Even if the large bottles are used to subsidize the small ones, what we need to do is to become the only shampoo brand in the country at this stage. If the volume is large, we will make more money."

Hong Tiancheng actually doesn't handle sales; all his work is focused on production and promotion.

Now he slowly nodded: "That means expanding the production scale even further."

Rang Weidong said, "This time I brought two chief engineers from Shangzhou Machinery Factory. They specialize in researching corn bioengineering production lines. I want them to get involved in your French shampoo production line as well. We also have a computer research institute. We must ask everyone to work together to build our own production line to expand our scale and cope with the rising raw material prices."

At this point, Wei Dong even suggested: "At this point, you should deliberately fill all the shampoo and cosmetic bottles to the brim, to the point of sealing them, and then add a line to the advertising slogan: 'More for the same price,' like saying, 'Make beauty with cosmetics without paying extra!'"

Hong Tiancheng understood: "They're deliberately taking advantage of this environment where everything is getting more expensive to highlight our good reputation for not raising prices?"

Rang Weidong said, “Reputation is the most important thing. Right now, everyone is talking about price increases. But if you think about it, how much will the increased cost per bottle be if we spread the increased cost of our chemical raw materials? Instead of ruining our brand, we should squeeze our suppliers. Why should we pay for their price increases? I don’t believe we can’t find alternatives. We are the best.”

Hong Tiancheng felt confident and readily agreed.

Sure enough, when denim and garment factories compiled their reports, the prices of fabrics and accessories also rose.

Qin Yuye and the Hong Kong business representatives were more composed than Hong Tiancheng: "It's all about scale. First, we need to seize market share, then we need to control our own costs, and finally, we need to raise prices, which is a last resort."

In a small place like Hong Kong, various clothing brands appear and disappear every day, so we've gotten used to this fierce competition.

I was a little surprised that I hadn't found any opponents at all.

We will resolutely not give our opponents the opportunity to grow stronger.

Needless to say, sanitary napkins and cameras are also essential items. The former is a basic necessity that Weidong is determined to protect, while the latter is a product of a third-tier factory in a mountainous area that is self-sufficient and not easily affected by inflation.

So, after entering June, amidst the very obvious soaring prices, Weidong's products, from advertising to sales, including the sales pitches of sales personnel across the country, seemed like a breath of fresh air.

In fact, most of the brand companies that have just entered the commodity society have never experienced the struggles of the free market.

It's purely a matter of following the old habits of the planned economy: if the purchase price goes up, I raise my price too, and everyone else follows suit.

In reality, fluctuations in the market economy are a normal reaction, determined by the imbalance between supply and demand.

Consumers who had just had their supplies released also had never seen anything like this before.

They say wages have increased a bit, but everything is getting more expensive. It's a little better than before when everything had to be rationed; now you can buy things by paying more money.

So they rushed to buy them.

The more people rush to buy it, the higher the price will be.

Once business owners discover that prices have risen slightly and no one is doing anything about it, their instinct to make unethical profits is triggered, and market-based economic regulations such as those from the price bureau haven't even been implemented yet.

Naturally, the price skyrocketed like a runaway horse.

The panic buying of salt, isatis root, and masks in later generations actually originated from this period.

Because the production capacity is so limited, if you don't rush to buy, there really won't be any left.

In this kind of panic buying, as soon as someone starts hoarding, there will be widespread shortages.

With all sorts of daily necessities out of stock, how are we supposed to get by?

Only Bai Nian Runfa shampoo, Ouniya cosmetics, Fei Yan sanitary napkins, X camera, radio cassette recorder, Xililai clothing, and Dong Xiangxiang snacks all maintained their original prices.

In particular, shampoos, sanitary napkins, cosmetics, and clothing have been repeatedly advertised, emphasizing that they offer more product at the same price and that beauty doesn't come at a higher cost.

It was just like a ship anchor, firmly fixed there.

It stands out as a very eye-catching advertisement on TVB, which only broadcasts about 20 or 30 ads a day.

In reality, the factory was instantly gripped by a frenzy, with sales companies and salespeople from all over the country demanding increased supply.

Even if it means buying a few bottles of shampoo in advance to stock up, it's to avoid price increases.

People at this time don't realize that prices are rising across society, and the fact that everyone is scrambling to buy things is actually putting enormous pressure on the national economy.

This allowed Wei Dong and his products to be presented to everyone in a fresh and unique way.

(End of this chapter)