Chapter 25: Crystal glass can also make money
Fan Wubing accompanied his father Fan Heng, as well as Yang Tianhe, secretary-general of the municipal government, and others to Panshi Glass Factory.
Due to the 1,000 yuan relief payment, the situation of the glass factory has been temporarily stabilized, but some people still plan to surround the municipal government because the money is only two or three months' salary. After this period of life, the matter still cannot be completely resolved.
Due to the inability to get new orders, the glass factory has now stopped working and all the equipment has been sealed. Some employees spontaneously formed a factory protection team. Looking at these equipment, they hope to restart one day.
"Where are the leaders of the factory?" Seeing the dilapidated and bleak scene, Fan Heng couldn't help but remember the scene when he and his son came to the glass factory to customize accessories for the humidifier.
Back then, the glass factory relied on making handicrafts to make unique butterfly cups, and life was very comfortable. In addition, a large number of glass parts were manufactured for the humidifier project, so the profits should be very generous. Why did it reach the point where it could not be done in just a few years? What were the leaders of the glass factory doing?!
Yang Tianhe replied in a low voice, "The factory director and several main responsible persons took out the money and ran away. Before leaving, he cheated money from the bank in the name of the glass factory, about two million yuan. Now it's because of this lawsuit."
Fan Heng was speechless, what's the matter!
"It has been more than half a year since this matter has been done. Has the previous government not handled it?" Fan Wubing was not polite and asked the key point directly.
Yang Tianhe looked at Fan Wubing, then looked at Fan Heng, and then said, "Because the county-level city is going to be upgraded to a prefecture-level city, the previous mayor hopes to continue to stay, but his qualifications are not enough, and there is no hope of upgrading, so he doesn't have much responsibility for the matter, which has caused this situation and has now retired."
"Grandma, what a bear!" Fan Wubing was furious after hearing this, "Is this a cadre?! Don't let me catch him, otherwise even if he retreats, he will be sentenced to several years! Is there anyone who does this job? This is a real dereliction of duty! This is a crime!"
Yang Tianhe did not expect that before Mayor Fan could speak, his son Fan Wubing shouted first. Although he was also very dissatisfied with the previous mayor, there seemed to be no so-called dereliction of duty in the domestic officialdom. As long as everyone has been retiring, all the foolish accounts in the past will be wiped out.
The reason for this situation is naturally related to the unspoken rules. Who wants to be caught out and beaten and killed when you lose power? So everyone basically agrees with this. As long as you leave office, there is no responsibility. Your next leader will deal with the future matters by yourself. Don’t blame the ex, otherwise you will be angry with the public.
But the one who shouted to beat and kill was Mayor Fan's son. He thought a little bit about this. Seeing that Fan Wubing looked passionate, Fan Heng kept silent. For a moment, he couldn't figure out what the father and son were doing. He was very depressed and thought that he had been an old cadre who had been working for decades in the government, and today he encountered a problem.
"Then is the staff dormitory of the glass factory?" Fan Heng asked, looking at the building group on the north side of the factory.
"Yes, there are more than a thousand employees in the glass factory now, plus retired employees and thousands of families, most of them live here." Yang Tianhe replied affirmatively.
But the next moment, Fan Heng was surrounded by the employees of the glass factory.
In fact, Fan Heng and others were seen by the people from the factory guard team as soon as they entered the factory. Because when they were making trouble by the railway a few days ago, Fan Heng came forward to solve the problem, so the employees of the glass factory were quite familiar with him. They immediately ran around and told everyone at home.
"Mayor Fan is here--" The employees' eyes of looking at Fan Heng were full of hope.
Fan Heng originally planned to come and see the current situation of the glass factory. No one expected that he would be surrounded by the employees. He had to say a few more words, so he stood up and said, "Don't worry, now the market has obtained some funds through the sale of land. The first thing he thought of is the problem of the glass factory, so today we will come and see the situation. The specific solution will be launched soon."
"Mayor Fan, the glass factory cannot be dispersed-" an old employee squeezed out of the crowd and said to Fan Heng.
Fan Heng glanced at the old employee and always felt that the man was familiar with him, so he asked, "This old comrade, have we met before?"
The old employee nodded and replied, "It was a few years ago. At that time, Mayor Fan was also the deputy director of Pingyuan Factory. You came to discuss business and did a lot of glass accessories. At that time, the office director accompanied him to visit."
Someone next to him introduced, "Mayor Fan, this is Mr. Li Deyi from our factory. He was there when the factory was built. After the factory was not good, many people from other units came over and wanted to ask him to go to other places with high salaries, but he turned them down. He just didn't want our factory to collapse completely!"
"Oh, it's Master Li, I remembered it." Fan Heng held Li Deyi's hand and nodded, "We met before. Among the employees of the glass factory, there are old comrades like you who are supporting him, so they will definitely not collapse."
Although Fan Heng said this, he was not sure in his heart. After all, the matter of the glass factory is still a bit complicated. The investment in the short term can definitely last for a period of time, but after a period of time, can the glass factory be guaranteed to be maintained?
If the main business of the glass factory never improves, wouldn’t it become a bottomless pit in Panshi City? It can’t be filled with much money!
The most thorough and simplest solution is naturally to make the glass factory bankrupt. Even if an employee compensates 20,000 yuan, he can solve the problem by only 20 million yuan, and there will be no future problems. However, if he wants to invest funds to continue operating, the cost will be difficult to estimate. If he wants to carry out production and transformation, the funds needed will definitely not be able to be stopped by 10 or 20 million yuan.
Fan Heng was having a headache, but Fan Wubing asked the master Li Deyi, "I remember that the handicrafts in the glass factory have been selling well. Why can't it be done if it doesn't work?"
Master Li replied with some pain, "There are borers in the factory, and you can't play any advantages."
Fan Wubing was not concerned about this. He asked again, "If the funds are in place and there are suitable new projects, how long will it take for the glass factory to form productivity?"
Master Li looked at the young man who looked familiar and looked a little similar to Mayor Fan, and immediately remembered that this person seemed to be Mayor Fan's son. He went to the glass factory with his father, so he thought for a while and replied, "If it is an old project, it can form productivity in one week. If it is a new project, it has to be treated in detail. However, as long as it is related to glass, I think it will take more than a month."
"If we produce crystal glass, can we achieve it technically?" Fan Wubing suddenly remembered something and asked.
Master Li immediately laughed, "Crystal glass is nothing more than adding lead oxide to ordinary glass, and it is not technically difficult. The reason why crystal glass products are expensive is because they have a high hardness and are more difficult to process. However, our factory has been making glass crafts for decades and has accumulated sufficient technology, so naturally there is no problem in this regard."
"Oh, so that's it." Fan Wubing's understanding of crystal glass was limited to many women's clothing, shoes, bags, etc., which were inlaid with various crystal glass accessories. He was not sure what was the difference between this thing and ordinary glass. This time, after listening to Master Li's explanation, he realized it.
Master Li said again, "But the manufacturing cost of crystal glass is much higher, and the sales market is not good, so outside of some special places, everyone does not have the habit of using crystal glass. If our factory wants to make such things, the market prospects are probably worrying."
Fan Wubing smiled and said nothing.
Things like the market are always changing. Today or not, they may be able to steal the head tomorrow. Besides, the decoration and handicraft market has just poked its head out at this time. What is the place that ordinary people can predict?
Seeing that his son smiled but did not answer, Fan Heng immediately realized that this kid must have had some idea again. He didn't ask anything at the moment. He just talked to the workers of the glass factory again, learned about the current situation of the factory, cared about the lives of the employees, and finally made some guarantees, and left with him.
As soon as he left the glass factory, Fan Heng immediately grabbed Fan Wubing and asked, "Do you have any idea?"
"I don't have any idea. The glass factory has come to this point. I think there is only one way to go to bankruptcy and disband." Fan Wubing replied with a smile.
After hearing this, Yang Tianhe curled his lips from the side and said to himself, "It would be so easy, it would have gone bankrupt long ago. Isn't it because so many workers cannot be resettled? If you smash someone's iron rice bowl, why should you compensate them? Thousands of workers make trouble, do you think they are just joking?"
Of course, Fan Wubing asked Fan Heng for a angrily scolding, and finally asked, "It's really unsaved? Didn't you ask someone about crystal glass just now? Is there a good project? Just tell me! You are not an outsider!"
Fan Wubing couldn't stand the soft and hard beating of his father Fan Heng, and finally said, "In fact, the prospects for crystal glass in the market are still good. If this thing is processed properly, there is no need to worry about sales, but if it cannot be done properly, it will be a pile of garbage. If the glass factory switches to this project, I still have many ways to revitalize the factory."
"Then do it?" Fan Hengxin said since he was sure, why not do it?
Fan Wubing looked at his father Fan Heng helplessly and said, "It is a good idea that you can't get up early without profit. I am doing business. Things that have no profit are absolutely not allowed to be done. This is also a code that people must follow in the mall."
Yang Tianhe was curious when he heard it, so he interrupted and asked, "Wujian is also doing business? Are you only in your teenage years old?"
Fan Wubing smiled with Fan Heng, and Fan Wubing said to Yang Tianhe, "It's popular to start a teenager, so I just try to play with it. Fortunately, my luck has always been good, but I finally lost my old capital."
Yang Tianhe thought to himself that this young man was speechless, but he had a bit of a cunning smell, which was incredible.
However, after Fan Wubing returned home, he started to think about it and kept lying in the house and was thinking about something. It was not until his mother Zhang Mei asked him to come out for dinner that he walked out slowly, and his face still looked very reluctant.
"You father and son are both sick!" Zhang Mei said unhappily, "I have to ask someone to urge you a hundred times every day when I eat, as if I have to beg you for a meal! Next time I will only make my own meal, and you will solve it yourself!"
"Oh, Xiaowei is not at home? Where have you been?" Fan Wubing then found that Ouyang Xiaowei was not there, so he asked his mother.
"You just realized it!" Zhang Mei said angrily, "There are legs and feet, so I can't go anywhere! Go, hurry up and call you out!"
"Dad - to eat--" Fan Wubing turned his head and shouted hard at his father Fan Heng's house.
"Come here, come here-" Fan Heng ran out quickly and said, "I've only read the documents halfway, and your mother's cooking speed is getting faster and faster. Has our family changed to fast food?"
"You two fathers and sons are the same!" Zhang Mei stated, "I should go to the Cultural and Education Bureau tomorrow. You can find a way to solve the problem when you have dinner. I won't serve you anymore!"
"This is a very serious problem." After hearing the bad news, the father and son whispered to each other.
"During the day, you didn't talk about that crystal glass, what are you thinking now?" Fan Heng pulled out a mouthful of rice and asked his son in a low voice.
Fan Wubing thought that his father was really concerned about work, but he was really considering this issue just now, so he honestly replied, "It's almost done! But what I said is the truth. I must not do anything without profit, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of those borers?"
"Then what are your conditions?" Fan Heng didn't say anything else, just asked Fan Wubing's plan.
"It's better to change the glass factory into a joint-stock system! I'll find someone to come here with a foreign capital, join the glass factory to form a joint-stock company, and then launch the crystal glass project, which is legitimate." Fan Wubing replied.
"Then who are you going to find?" Fan Heng also knew that this person must be a puppet for Fan Wubing to withdraw. If it weren't for being the mayor, Fan Wubing wouldn't have to spend so much trouble. After all, his son was just to help me. Of course, this could still generate profits.
"What do you think of finding a Japanese?" Fan Wubing thought for a while, and felt that Wu Zhi was about to come to the mainland, so he replied casually.
"I hate Japanese." Fan Heng said with a frown.
"Do you hate Japanese money?" Fan Wubing asked with a smile.
Chapter completed!