32: Caojiagou Hardware Factory
As time goes by October late in autumn, Xiao Lei's electrical appliance factory finally has temporarily stopped. The reason is that the new styles and accessories have not been delivered yet. As early as the end of October, Xiao Lei's family will work overtime again to prepare for next year.
The two electric fans of Jinzhou No. 1 Department Store were also removed on October 1st.
From March 1 to October 1, it took a full seven months, 5,040 hours, and it was uninterrupted. Finally, on October 1, they completed their mission!
In this scene, Lei Dongbao also invited many media reporters to take countless precious photos. The next day, more than a dozen newspapers and magazines published this news. It was the 1980s that the Thunder brand electric fan left the last little memory for the people of Jinzhou.
These two electric fans have also become heroes of the Xiao Lei family. They were dismantled by Gao Shengnan and will be preserved after inspection. In the future, the Xiao Lei family will set up an exhibition room, and these two electric fans are the number one heroes of the Xiao Lei family!
For the Xiao Lei family in 1980s, it was like taking a roller coaster. It was so exciting and exciting. Lei Dongbao had experienced too many things from being ridiculed to being honored!
By October 1st, Xiaolei Home Appliance Factory has produced 39,400 electric fans together. Currently, 38,500 units have been shipped, and there are still a few hundred units left in the warehouse. If possible, the goal of shipment of 40,000 units this year may be possible!
With 40,000 electric fans, sales of more than 4 million yuan, and profits of more than one million yuan, in addition to bank loans, the Xiao Lei family can also leave more than 700,000 yuan. Today in the 1980s, this amount is enough to make many people jealous.
Even in the county and town, there are many departments paying attention to this fund. Lei Dongbao is strictly guarding the situation. This fund must not be moved randomly. This is a bullet from the Xiao Lei family next year. Lei Dongbao will not agree, and more than 800 people from the Xiao Lei family will not agree!
In addition to the 700,000 yuan, Lei Dongbao is also preparing to borrow one million yuan from the county bank again to prepare for next year. Lao Xu is already actively dealing with this matter and striving to obtain more preferential interest rates for the Xiao Lei family.
With the hit Xiao Lei family this year, Lao Xu has successfully settled his position and won a game temporarily. With the support of Lao Xu, no one has the idea of playing Xiao Lei family yet!
October was originally the month for the Xiao Lei family to have a celebration banquet, but Lei Dongbao was still running around.
From the end of August, after the inspection team returned, Lei Dongbao did not stop. He ran back and forth three times from Guangdong Province to Anyun Province!
This inspection tour made Lei Dongbao deeply realize the shortcomings of the Xiao Lei family. If the Xiao Lei family wants to have a place in the electric fan market next year or even in the next few years, they must have their own advantages!
Now the biggest shortcoming of Xiao Lei’s family is the shortage of accessories factories. He must take advantage of the war next year to integrate an accessories supply chain belonging to Xiao Lei’s family!
In the past two months, Lei Dongbao has traveled to hundreds of parts factories in the entire Anyun Province. He doesn’t care about the scale, he only cares whether this parts factory is suitable for Xiao Lei’s family. He wants to select a group of parts factories that are most suitable for Xiao Lei’s family, and use orders as a temptation to tie these parts factories to Xiao Lei’s family as much as possible.
He now needs time and funds. In addition to the accessories factory in Anyun Province, Lei Dongbao has also visited Guangdong Province three times. He saw a new type of electric fan in a foreign magazine, which gave him infinite inspiration.
This electric fan is a new type of plastic page fan, which is the famous Hongyun fan in later generations.
In 1983, the owner of a township electric fan factory in Shunde saw this all-plastic electric fan on a foreign TV advertisement. He had an idea. After buying two of them from Gangcheng, he began to imitate them. Finally, the imitation was successful and quickly put them on the market.
In just two years, this township electric fan factory successfully achieved an annual output value of over 100 million yuan in 1985, making it the highest value township enterprise in Guangdong Province.
Lei Dongbao can fully know why this plastic electric fan can be successful. Apart from the motor, more than 95% of the other parts are made of plastic. Using an injection molding machine can produce accessories almost like assembly lines.
Not only does it not require so many accessories factories, but the cost price can be almost reduced to more than ten yuan or even lower. Once this type of electric fan appears in the market, it is not an exaggeration to become a national artifact in this era when the average salary is only 30 or 40 yuan.
Lei Dongbao has been inquiring about the market for this injection molding machine in the past few months. Now the Xiao Lei family is not in sufficient funds. The Hongyun Fan project is planned to start it again after making enough bullets next year. Hongyun Fan will be available in the market as early as 82 years.
Thinking of the future, he was excited to build Xiao Lei’s family into a township enterprise with an annual output value of over 100 million!
On that day, Lei Dongbao appeared in the suburbs of Jinzhou with a briefcase. Although it still belongs to the territory of Jinzhou, it is already considered a rural area. However, in Lei Dongbao's view, the conditions and location of this village are obviously much better than that of the Xiao Lei family, and it is only five kilometers away from the downtown area of Jinzhou.
Lei Dongbao rode his motorcycle into the village. The village was called Caojiagou Brigade. The sound of the motorcycle's tower stopped at the village brigade headquarters. Lei Dongbao came this time to find someone, Cao Chengwang, the director of the hardware factory who impressed him.
The reason why Lei Dongbao came to Caojiagou was that he was invited by Cao Chengwang. He just returned from the inspection last month, and Cao Chengwang found him and said that the hardware factory in Caojiagou had already undergone an upgrade of equipment and invited Lei Dongbao to visit.
Lei Dongbao has been traveling to the parts factory for more than a month. After almost running, he remembered the Caojiagou Hardware Factory, so he decided to take a look today.
As soon as Lei Dongbao entered the Caojiagou Brigade headquarters, a person rushed in outside the door. The person who came was Cao Chengwang. His face was covered in oil. Seeing Lei Dongbao, he quickly smiled and wanted to reach out to shake hands, but when he saw the oil on his hands, he said embarrassedly.
"Secretary Lei, I'm looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally I've come to you. Let's go first and chat first. I'll show you the new equipment in our hardware factory!"
Lei Dongbao was a little surprised, smiled helplessly, and signaled the other party to lead the way.
Cao Chengwang was obviously very excited and kept talking all the way. From the recent policies, talking about the changes brought about by Pengcheng's reform and opening up, and finally talking about the electric fan market, Cao Chengwang is still confident that in the next few years, electric fans will enter thousands of households, and his own Caojiagou hardware factory will also follow the times and keep up with the pace of the times.
If it weren't for the oily appearance of Lao Cao and the low dirt house around him, Lei Dongbao would have almost thought that he and the other party were sitting on the leather sofa and talking about projects worth hundreds of millions.
Cao Chengwang is indeed a talent, but unfortunately, the small stage of Caojiagou has no way to implement his talents!
The two walked all the way to the village until they arrived at a dilapidated auditorium where there was a sign written in a brush hanging in front of the auditorium.
"Caojiagou Hardware Factory, several vigorous and powerful fonts look very ancient at first glance. Seeing Lei Dongbao standing at the door, looking at the sign in a daze, Cao Chengwang smiled and pointed.
"This sign was written by the old principal of our village primary school. The handwriting is pretty good. The old principal also won the third prize in the Jinzhou City Brush Competition back then, so he is still a bit of real skill!"
Lei Dongbao nodded and followed Cao Chengwang into the inside. Before he could enter, he heard a rumbling sound from the machine. After entering, the sound became louder. Cao Chengwang excitedly led Lei Dongbao to walk inside.
Lei Dongbao carefully looked at the environment of Caojiagou Hardware Factory in front of him until he went inside and saw several rumbling machines. There were countless young people around him covered in dirty bodies, and they were busy.
Lei Dongbao looked at the machine tool and frowned. Those machine tools looked at least older than him, and felt a little different. The sound made by the machine was obviously a little wrong. Driven by electricity, he raised the huge iron mold with difficulty, making a violent knock. A few seconds later, a fan blade was knocked into shape.
However, this is just a semi-finished product. The young man on the side took off the semi-finished product, started to knock and hit it, and put it under the machine tool again. After a minute, a piece of iron blade like a fan was finally formed.
Until the fan blades were formed, Cao Chengwang picked up the finished product, walked to Lei Dongbao, and said with a smile.
"Secretary Lei, look, how about it?"
Lei Dongbao did not make any noise. He took the iron blades, looked carefully, and touched the burrs around him. Lei Dongbao shook his head helplessly and said.
“To be honest, the quality is average!”
Cao Chengwang clearly saw that Lei Dongbao was not satisfied with the quality of the leaf, and he suddenly looked a little embarrassed. The noise in this place was too loud, Cao Chengwang replied to Lei Dongbao's ear.
"Secretary Lei, to be honest, I am not very satisfied with this quality, but we are a small factory, and it has made great progress to produce this kind of blade at present!"
Lei Dongbao nodded, looked up at the entire hardware factory environment, and signaled the two of them to go outside to talk.
Cao Chengwang nodded and then took Lei Dongbao to the brigade headquarters. He didn't care about the oil on his body, so he quickly poured Lei Dongbao a cup of tea!
Lei Dongbao took the tea and took a sip. Cao Chengwang opposite him didn't sit down, and said anxiously.
"Secretary Lei, it's true that for the kind of blade you just saw, our hardware factory has received an order of 2,000 pairs!"
When Lei Dongbao heard Cao Chengwang's words, he immediately raised his head and asked unexpectedly.
"All of them are the newly established electric fan factories in Jinzhou?"
Cao Chengwang nodded, and he said awkwardly, too.
"Secretary Lei, this machine tool is actually a second-hand product. It was eliminated by Jinzhou Machinery Factory. It was all old products from the Liberation Period. I begged my grandfather and grandma to buy it. This year, you Thunder brand electric fans are killing all over the world in Jinzhou. I don't know how many people I envy, so in May I found out that there were several eliminated small machine tools in Jinzhou Machinery Factory, and decided to buy it without hesitation!"
Lei Dongbao nodded and continued to take a sip of tea. Caojiagou has talents like Cao Chengwang with a long-term vision, and it is indeed possible to lead Caojiagou to achieve something in the future.
Since Lei Dongbao looked down on a broken machine like Caojiagou, there was nothing he could do. Lei Dongbao was ready to say goodbye after drinking tea. He stood up and said goodbye to Cao Chengwang. The two of them left the brigade headquarters one by one!
When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Lei Dongbao waved his hand and asked Cao Chengwang to go back. Lei Dongbao started the motorcycle and was about to leave, but suddenly he looked at Cao Chengwang's sincere eyes again. He couldn't help but sigh again. It was a pity in this era. Then he thought about it and Lei Dongbao raised his head and said to Cao Chengwang.
"Old Cao, if you can't continue working in this factory in the future, you can go to Xiaolei's house in Jinling County to find me. I'm willing to give you a stage to show yourself!"
Cao Chengwang thought Lei Dongbao was teasing him, and his face looked a little embarrassed.
Lei Dongbao smiled and activated the accelerator, then said seriously.
"Old Cao, everything I said is the truth. If you really want to do something big, come and follow me in the future. That's it, I'll leave!"
Chapter completed!