Chapter 182: Little Blackie Reveals His Chicken Feet [4200]

Lu Yang didn’t know.

He understood Du Lingling's thoughts. It was nothing more than the small commodity wholesale market and the Meisite Garment Factory. Who should be the main body of publicity in this newspaper opportunity?

In Du Lingling's eyes, the small commodity wholesale market is of course more important.

But it is the same here in Luyang. If one can make his own garment factory famous, then of course he would give priority to making his own garment factory famous. If the garment factory's brand cannot be made famous, then it will not be too late to make the small commodity wholesale market's brand famous.

According to this logic, no one is wrong.

The problem is, instead of letting people help promote himself or the garment factory with the red envelopes Lu Yang stuffed in, does he allow them to promote the county's small commodity wholesale market?
There is no such truth.

Soon, within a few days, the benefits of advertising in newspapers became apparent.

The factory's orders are increasing steadily.

Every afternoon, when Lao Liu came back from the market, he couldn't close his mouth. He held a thick stack of orders in his hand and walked up to Lu Yang to show off.

This kid has bubbles at the mouth.

But she was still enjoying it. "Cousin, you don't know, today we received a big customer from the provincial capital, who placed an order for 10 sets of clothes at one time. I have already received the deposit, and 50% of the payment is in advance. With this batch of orders, we can earn at least hundreds of thousands."

"Oh, right, he also said that he likes our cheap prices and large quantities. As long as this deal goes smoothly and we can deliver on time, he will definitely order more next time. My goodness, this time he already ordered 20 sets. Next time, won't he order sets or more? No, we have to continue recruiting workers. I have to ask Lao Qi to visit more surrounding towns and villages."

"Oh, right? There are also production issues in the factory. The quality of the clothes must be checked. We can't ignore the quality just because there are too many orders. Although our factory focuses on cheapness, cheapness does not mean manufacturing garbage. If there are too many unqualified clothes, it will affect our reputation and easily cause a collapse in sales. Cousin, you have to pay attention."

"Oh, and you need to get more cloth. Hurry up and revise the contract with the cotton textile factory. They can only deliver less than 1 pieces of cloth in a month. How can that be enough?"

"Right now, our inventory can't keep up with consumption. If we continue to recruit workers and expand the scale, I estimate that we will soon run out of raw materials. On the existing basis, doubling will not be enough. We have to at least quadruple it. Cousin, you have to hurry up and go to the city."

"Also, the cutter is too busy. I've seen my third brother and my sister-in-law working overtime every night, at least until 12 o'clock. This is not okay. Aren't they getting married?"

"Then I have to take a day off that day?"

"What should we do at the factory? We don't have any extra fabrics in stock. Should we ask the factory to hire five or six hundred new seamstresses to rest at home because we can't deliver the fabrics in time?"

"That won't do, cousin. You have to find a way."

I see that Lao Liu is so busy that he has no time to rest.

There were also bubbles of fire on his mouth.

She is so excited and full of energy, and seems to be more positive than her boss.

Lu Yang also nodded with satisfaction.

I thought to myself: This deputy general manager’s promotion was not in vain!

"Okay, go and do your work."

"Don't worry about the factory. I will go to the city in a few days. Also, there is no rush for your third brother to get married. Your sister-in-law has to wait another two months to turn 18. I will talk to your third brother and let them take advantage of these two months to train two or three apprentices to cut materials, and then prepare for the wedding."

"As for after we get married, your third brother won't have to worry about the materials. Let him take care of the factory's production safety and the quality of the clothes. This last step will be left to him. It doesn't require much technical skills, and the workload is not high. All it requires is a sense of responsibility and loyalty. It's fine to leave it to your third brother."

Lu Yang doesn't necessarily want to be nepotistic.

But at this stage, if you don’t give the management positions in the factory to your relatives and friends, you simply have no other choice.

Did he expect a few management geniuses to emerge from among the uneducated villagers of Shanghuai Village who had barely had enough to eat to help him manage the factory?
Even if he had it, he wouldn't dare use it.

In the era of wild growth, there is a way of doing business in the era of wild growth.

In this era, when doing business and looking for subordinates, the most important thing to consider is character, and the most important thing among them is loyalty, which is more important than anything else.

The downside of nepotism is that the factory can easily become stagnant, which suppresses employees' enthusiasm for upward mobility. There is no innovation, and many good development opportunities are easily missed.

There is only one advantage: you don’t have to worry about someone else taking over your position.

Looking into the future, there are endless news reports of so many large family-owned companies that, because they listened too much to the advice of experts, looked for professional managers to take over the companies, but were eventually usurped by professional managers and the founders were kicked out.

Is it because these bosses are stupid?
No.

Quite the opposite.

People who can build a career with their own hands, no matter how high their cultural level is, must be very smart at least.

They're just old.

When it comes to training future generations, they are not very capable, and finding a professional manager to take over the company was the last option they had to choose.

Lu Yang is still young and doesn't want to learn these old things.

Moreover, the business rules of the future market are already so sound, but professional managers can still exploit loopholes and take over. This is an era of wild growth, and all business regulations are not very sound. During this period, if Lu Yang dares to delegate power to a stranger, especially a stranger with great ability, it would be fine if the other party does not have bad intentions. If he does, the factory will have to change its name within a few months.

As for Lu Yang, he could only stare blankly, probably because he couldn't even understand what others were doing.

There’s nothing we can do, we’re just uneducated!

It’s not shameful to admit that you are not good at something.

On the contrary, the sales of the factory were handed over to the sixth brother, the production and quality control of the factory were handed over to the third brother Lu Youyi, and the transportation of the factory was handed over to Da Jun and the eldest cousin Lu Youren. These cousins ​​were not very smart, and only the sixth brother was a little smart. Lu Yang was confident that he could control them all.

That’s all I have.

"If you say so, cousin, then I will stand firm with both hands and feet raised. Third brother is a bit dull, but he is really loyal. If you let him check the quality of the clothes in the factory, there will be no problem. He is a very old-fashioned person. If he wants to determine the quality of someone's clothes, no matter who tries to find favor, it will be useless."

"I will go and inform Third Brother of the good news now."

How could Lu Youzhi not be happy when his third brother was going to be promoted?
Besides, the third brother is getting married soon, and after he gets married, it will be his turn.

Thinking about it makes me excited.

Wow, my sister-in-law is so beautiful and young. How could such a beautiful flower fall for that pile of cow dung of my third brother?

Bah, sorry, Third Brother, you are not cow dung, and neither am I.

Isn't scolding your own brother the same as scolding yourself?

Lu Youzhi reacted and cursed secretly: No, I have to find a wife who is prettier and younger than my little sister-in-law. I can't be outdone by my third brother.

Lu Yang looked at the boy, frowning as he walked and muttering a few words from time to time. He thought the boy was worrying about business matters.

He could not help but nod again. He said happily inwardly: This boy's promotion was not in vain, he almost regards this factory as his own home. If he continues to work so hard, the profit will double next month.

Forget it, just give him a bonus at the end of the year!

Time flies by so quickly.

Soon, another week passed. On this day, Lu Yang brought Yin Mingyue and Gong Pingan drove them back to Shanghuai Village from the city.

We had agreed that in addition to discussing the contract, we would also go out to relax and visit our mom and younger sister.

Unfortunately, because the factory is so busy and business is so good, even if Lu Yang wants to be a hands-off boss, he can't do it cleanly.

I stayed in the city for three days, negotiated a contract for a day, settled a balance of 30 yuan, and paid an additional deposit of 20 yuan, thus changing the million-yuan order into a 300 million-yuan order.

That is to say, starting from this month, the city's cotton textile factory must produce at least 3 pieces of high-quality cloth for Luyang's garment factory every month, and within the remaining seven months, the total value of the order must be no less than 300 million yuan, otherwise it will be in breach of contract.

This is undoubtedly great news for the city's cotton textile factory, and it is like giving it a shot in the arm.

It was on the verge of bankruptcy, but it came back to life in an instant.

I dare not say that I can recruit all 3000 female textile workers back to work.

Recruiting half, no, 1/3 is not a big problem. Together with the five or six hundred workers who have returned to work before, the number of workers who have directly returned to work exceeds half of the original peak period.

The leaders of the cotton textile mills were able to walk out with their heads held high.

These are all political achievements!!!

So this time when Lu Yang went there, he received a warm welcome. At the re-signing ceremony, not only the secretary of the cotton textile factory who had previously refused to show up, the very old-fashioned top leader also showed up this time, but also Deputy Mayor Xu, the elegant middle-aged man. Knowing that Lu Yang had come to the city and had indeed signed an additional contract with the cotton textile factory as promised, he also honored himself by attending the celebration banquet in the evening.

And chatted with Lu Yang for a while.

The hidden meaning is also to invite Lu Yang to move the Meisite Garment Factory from the countryside to the city, or to build another larger garment factory in the city...

Anyway, it's a bit like that.

Lu Yang didn't refuse explicitly.

It's hard to say about this kind of thing. Maybe he doesn't have such plans now. The Meisite Garment Factory can't leave Zhao County, let alone Shanghuai Village.

But does this conflict with whether he can come to the city to open a factory?

Do not conflict.

In other words, Lu Yang still wants to play it safe and lay a solid foundation, and does not want to expand recklessly. Otherwise, he would just agree to Vice Mayor Xu's proposal and open a new garment factory in the city. What's wrong with that?
Will you make no money or lose money?
Neither, it’s a question of how much you earn.

But Lu Yang wouldn't do that.

If he came here, he wanted to be a powerful person, not just to make a small fortune by taking advantage of the connections he had finally made.

I believe that Vice Mayor Xu thinks so too.

The other party needed him, and they also wanted him to come to the city to be Jiang Menglong. At least his influence could not be lower than that in Zhao County. The bigger the noise, the greater the investment, and the larger the scale...

Only in this way can you be helpful to the other party's career and become his ally. Otherwise, it would be a waste of favor and the other party would look down on you for no reason. Not only will the relationship between the two parties not be further developed, but it will become more distant.

Lu Yang just said: I will definitely consider it carefully.

This way, both sides still have room and a glimmer of hope.

Looking back, Lu Yang spent the remaining two days in the city staying at Uncle Meng's house, chatting with his mother and picking up his younger sister from school.

When I have free time, I go to play chess with Old Man Li and Old Man Xing, two retired cadres.

Bully the weak ones.

Yin Mingyue did not follow him, but took the initiative to stay at home, chatting with Lu Yang's mother and learning how to cook some home-cooked dishes.

最感兴趣的，就是从叶秋雨的嘴里，听一些陆阳小时候的糗事，比如小学的时候喜欢过某个同桌，经常揪某个同桌的辫子，还给人家写情书，被人家的女孩子家长从书包里面当场说出来，追着他揍，撵着他围着上槐村跑了好几圈，最后吐着舌头喘气，一边求饶，再也不敢了，下次又还干，这样的糗事。

Three days flew by.

The factory urged him to go back, but his younger sister Mengmeng was reluctant to leave, especially her beautiful sister-in-law. Finally, Lu Yang promised her that he would take her to Zhao County to live for a while during the summer vacation, so that she could play with her sister-in-law every day. Only then did the little girl burst into tears and agreed to let the couple leave.

But when he returned to Shanghuai Village, something unprecedented happened that caught Lu Yang off guard and made him laugh and cry.

Traffic jam.

This is the end of the 80s, not even the 90s yet.

There had never been a traffic jam in the entire Zhao County, but this first traffic jam actually happened in Shanghuai Village.

There are several reasons.

The most important reason is of course road construction.

Because Shanghuai Village has only one rough road leading to the outside world, even if the road is built, a lane must be reserved, which must be large enough to pass large trucks. Otherwise, neither Luyang's garment factory nor the cars on the tea mountain will be able to leave the village in a short period of time. Therefore, the simplest way is to widen the village road.

The village road was widened from the original 3.5-meter road to an eight-meter road, which is more than double the width. In this way, half of the road is left for repair, and the vehicles entering and leaving the village can always remain unobstructed.

But even so, there was still a traffic jam today.

The reason is very simple. It rained a little in the past few days, and a large truck came down from the tea mountain. It was loaded with something very heavy and got stuck in the mud. Then, one after another, three or four more large trucks came down from the tea mountain. Some of these trucks were also carrying heavy cargo, while some were perhaps empty trucks, prepared to be used as tractors to pull out the large trucks stuck in the mud.

This one is nothing.

But the village road is only this wide. Now half of it has to be repaired and the other half left. What should we do if the big trucks in Luyang Factory want to get out?
There is another key question.

The big truck coming down from the tea mountain wanted to act as a tractor, but it could not get in front of the big truck stuck in the mud, unless it pushed it from the back to get it out of the mud. However, this would not only make it easy for the truck to be damaged, but it would also make it easy for the truck itself to get stuck in the mud.

Here, a villager made a suggestion. It was not a good idea to continue blocking the road. Lu Yang's father-in-law's furniture factory was at the entrance of the village. His large truck could help act as a tractor to pull out the truck stuck in the mud.

But the people on the tea mountain don't want to.

Not only did they not allow kind-hearted villagers to help, they also prohibited them from approaching their large trucks.

That's quite tasteful.

(End of this chapter)