After discussing the business, the dinner ended hastily. Father Xu asked Ma Jun to drive back to the courtyard. He also needed to listen to the opinions of his family, especially his youngest son.
Xu Dong was holding Xiaobao in his arms. When he saw his father coming back, he quickly stepped forward and asked:
"Dad, how did things go?"
Father Xu teased Xiaobao and said casually: "Let's go to the house and talk. Don't let the child get sunburned."
After entering the house, Xu Dong handed his youngest son to his wife and made a cup of tea for his father.
Father Xu took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then detailed what happened at the dinner.
"A plant factory..." Xu Dong touched his chin and thought.
Plant factories are a key project among national priorities, and their future prospects are definitely extremely broad. After all, there are more than one billion people in the country, and no matter how many plant factories are built, it will not be enough.
"What do you think, should I sign this contract?" Father Xu asked.
"You can sign it, but Dad, can you guarantee that the cost will be kept down?
If you can't make any money, you might as well maintain the status quo. At least you can make a million a year, which is not a small amount." Xu Dong replied thoughtfully.
Dad Xu sighed and said: "How can the cost be so easy to control? Labor wages are the largest part. How can we reduce this? If we reduce it again, all the people will run away."
"Can you use machines to replace labor? It's worth spending a little more money in the early stage." Xu Dong suggested.
Father Xu said angrily: "What are you thinking about? We are doing second-hand maintenance and we rely on technicians. You still want to drive everyone away?"
“Then can the recycling price be lowered?”
"This is even more impossible. The market price is there. Let's lower the recycling price. Isn't it true that the seller has no legs and won't change to another one?"
Xu Dong was completely at his wits end now and spread his hands: "Dad, what do you think?"
"I want to take a gamble. At worst, I will work for three years in vain. Anyway, my family is not short of this money.
If it succeeds, I, as a grandfather, can also leave a legacy for Dabao and the others." Father Xu couldn't hide his excitement.
"Have you made up your mind?"
Father Xu nodded: "I discussed it with Ma Jun on the way back. We plan to change the company's sales department into a marketing department and expand the staff ten times.
Next, we will send all these market specialists to various small counties below to run business.
Information in small counties is relatively closed, and even if shipping costs are included, recycling costs are lower than here in the capital."
The reason why Dad Xu had this idea was mainly stimulated by the previous meat selling incident. The reason why he suffered a big loss in the first place was because of poor information.
"Isn't it too risky to play such a big game?"
Xu Dong admitted that his father's plan was feasible, but the risks were not small either. After all, the salary pressure was too great.
Father Xu waved his hand and explained:
"Not counting risks, if only one-fifth of a team of more than 200 people can succeed, all losses can be recovered.
Besides, with the unemployment rate so high now, I think everyone will work hard and no one wants to struggle with money."
Xu Dong was speechless. His experience in doing business was far inferior to that of Xu's father, so he couldn't convince him at all.
"Dad, since you have decided, go ahead and do it. But if you lose money, you must stop in time."
"You don't need to remind me, I won't joke about our family's future." Father Xu looked quite confident.
…
The next day, as soon as Xu Dong arrived at the company, he received a photo of the on-site contract signing from his father. Xu's father smiled very happily and looked very confident.
The next half month.
Xu's father's work became even busier, and he often worked overtime every three days. Xu Dong almost became his father's special driver, and was often ordered to pick up people from the company in the middle of the night.
Through occasional chats, he vaguely knew that his father's plan seemed to be a great success, and the company's revenue this month had almost increased tenfold.
The only regret is that the profits did not increase much, and most of the profits were taken away by the employees and Qixing Xia Chuang.
On the first weekend of November, Dad Xu came home from get off work on time for the rare occasion.
Xu Dong was killing a chicken in the yard. He got this chicken from Panjiayuan with great difficulty and used two boxes of yogurt that were about to expire.
"Dad, why did you come back so early today?"
Father Xu couldn't hide the smile on his face.
"Lao San, let me tell you good news. From today on, the fourteenth and fifteenth floors of Jin Chang'an Building belong to our company."
"Is your company hiring again?" Xu Dong asked in surprise.
Father Xu nodded: "We hired two hundred new employees today. The original office area must not be able to accommodate them. It happened that the landlord had a discount, so we simply rented two floors."
"Is the rent still paid once a year?"
"Now the payment has been changed to three months. After all, the two floors add up to more than 3,000 square meters, so the rent pressure is not small." Father Xu replied.
"Why did you recruit so many people at once?"
"The marketing department is working too hard, and the maintenance department can't keep up. In order not to affect the progress, we can only recruit a group of new people and reserve them."
Xu Dong asked curiously: "Dad, how many people are there in our company now?"
"Including me, the total is 575 people."
Dad Xu has reason to be proud. A few months ago, he and Ma Jun were the only two people in the company, but now it has more than 500 employees. All of this is inseparable from his hard work.
"Is there any problem with the order from Qixing Xiachuang?" Xu Dong asked with concern.
The rapid expansion of our company is entirely based on the other party. As long as there is some trouble on Qixing Xiachuang's side, Xu's father's capital chain will be broken immediately.
Unless Xu Dong is willing to take action, the only way to go is bankruptcy.
"Well, Director Yuan has called me several times. I hope we will continue to work hard and strive to double the supply." Father Xu said with confidence.
Xu Dong nodded secretly. In the current environment, everything in the country is centered on production, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with Qixing Xia Chuang.
dinner.
Xu's father was in high spirits during happy events and took Xu Dong to drink a few glasses of wine. Xu's mother did not stop him this time. It was probably the first time he saw his wife so happy.
"Lao San, we are moving away from the old store, what are you going to do?"
Xu Dong thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I have to go to work here, and I don't have time to open other stores. There is no need for it at all. Why not use it as an employee dormitory for your company?"
The old store is not far from Jin Changan Building, and it only takes half an hour by bus.
"Okay, okay, but it's a bit too wasteful." Father Xu said regretfully.
Xu Dong smiled bitterly and said: "There's nothing we can do about it. The contract has been signed and it won't expire until July next year!"
"What a waste of money!" Xu Ma said angrily.
"The cake is... sweet!"
Dabao learned what his grandma said.
Xu's mother turned her anger into joy: "Haha, my eldest son is still the most sensible. He has been with grandma since he was a child, and he has much less worries than your father and grandpa."