Chapter 32 Future Industrial Planning
This row of bungalows is usually managed by Old Deng. When he knew that the Huo father and son were going to stay, he quickly took out the key and opened the door.

Because the guests were arranged from the front to the back, Lao Deng went straight to the last room. This room had not been occupied by many people, so it was the best maintained. Unlike the previous rooms, the floor was thick.

The lock was a bit rusty and it took some effort to open it. When I pushed the door open, it was full of dust and a smell that made people want to sneeze. However, it was not as dirty as the previous few rooms. It was full of men who lived there. Not to mention cleaning every day, only a few of them washed their feet and hair every three to five days. The floor was littered with cigarette butts and beer bottles, and there was almost no place to step.

Yan Xu looked up and saw the straw on the roof, but at least there was electricity, lights and fans. The only problem was that there was not much space left after placing the six bunk beds.

"I'll find someone to move the four bunk beds away, and get two wardrobes and a table. From now on, this will be a separate dormitory for Master Huo and his son." Yan Xu was willing to give up a dormitory, so he specifically said to Lao Deng.

"Okay, Director. I'll arrange for people to move the things away and clean up the place. I'll make sure Master Huo lives in a clean and tidy house." Old Deng patted his chest and said.

Yan Xu nodded, asked the Huo father and son to put their things away first, and then took them to the workshop where Master Jiang was.

This is not a blacksmith shop, and it is impossible to build a furnace for them. In order to achieve higher efficiency and better quality, machines must be used. Therefore, the Huo father and son have to spend time familiarizing themselves with it. Master Jiang is in charge of this.

After dealing with these things, Yan Xu did not leave in a hurry. He came to the factory director's office and sat in the boss's chair. While boiling water and making tea, he was thinking about making money, because the expenses in the future would become larger and larger. If he didn't find a way to make money, he might not even be able to support his people.

Making money is not easy, at least not for Yan Xu, because he has never done business in his two lifetimes.

Fortunately, the family fortune left to him by his parents was quite solid. As long as he didn't mess around, the hardware factory might not be able to survive, but at least the supermarket could continue to operate.

The problem is that he will keep traveling through time and space, and will rely entirely on modern industrial transfusions. Sooner or later, the industry will collapse, so he must find a profit point and make a long-term plan.

He took out a piece of paper and a pen with a headache and started to make plans. He looked no different from a social animal who was forced to work overtime, but it was himself who forced him to do so.

There is only one world that you can travel through at present, which is Japan with an ancient background. However, the only resource that can be obtained stably from there is wood. Even fish are affected by the seasons because kappa hibernates, and there are not as many fish in the river as imagined.

As for wood, although wood furniture factories are promising, they will not be profitable in the short term. They also need to purchase a batch of equipment and hire professional masters and laborers, which is another considerable expense.

The simplest one is gold, but unfortunately it is too sensitive. Large volumes in the short term will attract attention, let alone in the long term. So Yan Xu turned his attention to silver.

Silver is also a precious metal, but its price is not as expensive as gold, nor is it as sensitive. At least it will not attract too much attention, and it can also pave the way for future gold sales.

After making a note of this, Yan Xu began to think about the issue of antiques, and discovered that the value of antiques might be even deeper than that of gold.

Are antiques valuable? They are very valuable. The starting price is five digits. Anything below five digits is not considered an antique.

The question is, is it really worth that much? And who sets the price for antiques?

After thinking about it carefully, and referring to the fact that diamonds were sold by gram despite huge reserves, Yan Xu understood.

To put it bluntly, it is a circle created by a group of people who jointly maintain the atmosphere and then trick wealthy people into auctioning their collections. They are responsible for giving background and meaning to the antiques to thereby prop up the prices.

With the addition of capital, it is equivalent to guaranteeing the antique, and it becomes really valuable.

Therefore, if someone suddenly appeared and could produce a large number of antiques, it would be difficult for him not to be noticed by people in the circle, after all, this would be considered as destroying the market. In addition, if Yan Xu really dared to interfere in this industry casually without reasonable proof of origin, he would easily get himself into trouble.

"You can give it as a gift, but you can't buy or sell it at will." Yan Xu sighed, lamenting that money is hard to make, and then made a mark behind the antique.

Finally, Yan Xu made key marks on wood, silver, and handicrafts.

However, in order to make these three items work, an initial investment must be made. For Yan Xu, the financial pressure is not small.

After thinking about it, the wood furniture factory should be put at the back because they need to stock up enough wood in advance.

Wood cannot be used immediately after it is cut down. It needs to be dried in the shade. Although drying is fast, it requires additional drying equipment, which is an extra expense. This problem can be solved by purchasing ready-made wood from the Japanese world.

However, even so, it will take some time to accumulate wood. After all, once the machine is started, stopping production means losing money. Enough wood must be accumulated to ensure that the factory does not stop.

But now we can prepare in advance, go through some formalities, prepare the factory and machinery, and the most important thing is to recruit designers who can design furniture styles and carpenters who can control the quality. All these will take two or three months, which is enough time to stockpile some wood.

It took me two pages of paper to finish this task.

Next is silver. Yan Xu does not plan to open a separate store, at least not now. He plans to add a counter in the supermarket to sell silver jewelry.

The main purpose of doing this is to facilitate accounting, as the origin of silver is unclear.

What Yan Xu is doing now is to make things inconspicuous and then pay taxes honestly.

As for handicrafts, they are mainly original items from Japan, such as fans, umbrellas, tatami mats, etc., which can be sold in supermarkets.

However, sales in the town may not be very good, and we need to open a store in the city to open up sales.

Putting down the pen and rubbing his brows, Yan Xu drank a sip of cold tea, then called his deputy factory director Ma Dejin, who happened to be at home.

"Who is it? Why did you call me again just after I got back?" Ma Dejin's wife Zhang Yali slammed the freshly cooked dishes on the table, sat down angrily, and kept complaining.

"It's the new factory director. He asked me to go to the factory for something." Ma Dejin ignored his wife's complaints and was thinking about something.

"Is it that intolerant little brat? If you ask me, you'd better quit your job and go to my dad's leather factory. It's better than being bullied there." Zhang Yali became even angrier when she heard this. After all, just because of that little brat who hadn't even grown all his hair, Ma Dejin had been running around outside for a long time and got tanned. Now he just came back and called to make trouble again.

"Woman, what do you know?" Ma Dejin ignored her, didn't even eat, picked up his bag and car keys and walked out.

Ma Dejin has been working with Yan's father since he was young. Although he is just an assistant, he has some abilities to be able to sit firmly in the position of deputy factory director. Maybe his abilities are not that high, but he is good at judging people. So he has remained calm when Yan Xu was promoted to a higher position and even asked him to go on business trips, because he knows that the factory cannot do without him, and the new factory director is not the kind of person who would act recklessly.

But according to his estimation, the new factory manager would not call him back for at least two or three months in order to win over the people's hearts. So what happened to make him change his mind?

(End of this chapter)