Chapter 103 Salesman

Xu Qiang is in urgent need of a large amount of cash now, because with the money, he will have the confidence and bargaining chips when negotiating with other villages to cooperate in setting up factories, and he can also circulate funds and invest more money in production.

In fact, up to now, Xu Qiang does not have much cash in his hands. The money he earned before has been used to buy pumps, generators, and tractors, as well as some homemade reactors and distiller. These two items were made by Wang Yongsheng using waste materials. They are not worth much money, but for Xu Qiang, they are very practical production tools.

Now, with these three thousand yuan, Xu Qiang can start to expand the production of daily chemical products. At the same time, he can also start to implement his other plan, which is to use peat to extract industrial dyes. This is a product with higher profits than fertilizers and soap shampoos. Moreover, this kind of thing does not require packaging. It can also be sold to clothing manufacturers across the country. Unlike fertilizers and soaps, the sales channels are limited to the town supply and marketing cooperatives and factory areas.

"By the way, Dasheng, since you like doing business so much, why don't you just quit your job at the factory and do business all over the country? You'll earn more than working in a factory anyway." Xu Qiang suddenly said again.

What Xu Qiang actually meant by this was that he wanted Wang Yongsheng to be a full-time businessman so that he could help him contact manufacturers and get business all over the country.

Although Wang Yongsheng is a formal worker, he actually has no future in the factory. He has no education and no skills. It will take him at least 30 years to retire. His salary is basically on the lower end among front-line workers, and it is far less profitable than doing business.

Moreover, if Wang Yongsheng can help Xu Qiang with business, the two can definitely achieve a win-win situation. Xu Qiang will have an extra right-hand man and only need to focus on product research and development and production. Wang Yongsheng will have a high-quality supply channel in the form of Wang Yongsheng that can produce various "black technology" products. With his ability, courage and eloquence, he can definitely make a lot of money.

"That won't do!" Hearing Xu Qiang say that, Wang Yongsheng immediately shook his head like a rattle, and said, "Business is business, and I absolutely cannot lose my job, otherwise my dad will beat me to death..."

"Forget it then." Xu Qiang said.

Xu Qiang also expected Wang Yongsheng's reaction.

You have to know that the sense of security and honor that formal employees of state-owned enterprises in those days had was unimaginable to many people in later generations. As long as you were a worker in a state-owned enterprise, the factory would be responsible for your birth, aging, sickness and death in this life. Once these workers left the factory, they would feel like a kite with a broken string. The urgency and pressure of survival would instantly make people breathless.

Even though Wang Yongsheng has made some money over the years, he still doesn't have the courage to leave the factory. Moreover, he has lived in this factory since he was a child and has been influenced too much by his parents. So in the eyes of these second-generation factory workers, their home is a small family and the factory is a big family. It takes a lot of courage to run away from home.

However, in Xu Qiang's opinion, it is not impossible to let Wang Yongsheng help him with business. As long as his products are good enough and he makes enough money in the future, Wang Yongsheng may eventually choose to cooperate with him.

Now that Xu Qiang wants to develop and produce industrial dyes, he first needs to understand the market demand, but this requires salesmen to run back and forth to manufacturers all over the country. Xu Qiang still needs to find such a person first.

Among the people at the peat field, Da Hei Niu is not good at talking and is basically a taciturn person. This kind of person is okay at work, but not suitable for doing business. Liu Jun is too honest. Only Erhu is smart and eloquent, and is a good candidate to be a salesman.

However, Xu Qiang only has three people under him, and the workload at the peat field is very heavy every day, so it is impossible to let one person go out to do business for a long time.

The only way is to recruit a few more workers to solve the labor problem and free Erhu from the peat field to do other things.

At noon, after Xu Qiang had eaten and drunk his fill, he took a nap in his office. In the afternoon, he went directly to the office building. Xu Qiang was a person who could not sit still. It was impossible for him to stay in the scrap warehouse for an entire afternoon without doing anything. Fortunately, the factory director gave him some privileges, so after taking a nap, he went directly to the database.

Xu Qiang wanted to divide his time into two parts. When he was at work during the day, he helped the factory with the research and development of military products, which was considered as fulfilling his responsibilities. After get off work, he produced civilian products to make money, so that he would not delay either.

In fact, Xu Qiang was not that interested in developing civilian products for the factory, because in his opinion, Shengli Machinery Factory was not suitable for large-scale production of civilian products. The main reason was that the factory was located in a remote mountain area and produced the same things as other manufacturers. Considering the transportation issues, the product cost would not be low, which meant a decline in product competitiveness.

But the production of military products is different. Shengli Machinery Factory is originally a military-industrial enterprise. As long as they do a good job in product research and development and achieve the top domestic level, there will definitely be a steady stream of orders. No matter how expensive it is, the country and the army will definitely pay for it.

Even if the product is more advanced, it is entirely possible to open up foreign arms markets. Although this is not an easy task, it is still possible.

If you want to help the factory develop military products, you must first understand the main products currently produced by the factory, and then develop new products suitable for the factory based on the actual situation of the factory.

"Why do you smell like alcohol?"

Huang Haitao, director of the Information Department, frowned and asked after seeing Xu Qiang.

In the morning, he had already received a notice from the factory director Liu Biao, informing him that Xu Qiang could be allowed in to check information in the future, but he could only see internal information.

Like other military-industrial enterprises, Shengli Machinery Factory also has its own confidentiality system. Information is divided into three levels according to the confidentiality level: confidential, secret, and internal. Only a few specific people in the factory can access confidential and secret information, and only relevant leaders can see secret information. As for internal information, it is for the entire information department, but it must also be kept confidential and cannot be leaked to the outside.

For Xu Qiang, it was enough to be able to access internal information. After all, all he needed now was to understand the situation of the factory's products.

"I drank a little at noon, Director Huang, please don't mind." Xu Qiang said with a smile, and then continued: "Besides, our factory doesn't have a rule that you can't check the information after drinking..."

"Who told you that you can go to the Information Department to check the information about drinking?"

Just when Xu Qiang was about to enter the information department, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

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(End of this chapter)