Chen Keji thought that any wise entrepreneur would not be able to resist the temptation of following a business genius like Li Wenjun.
Han Weijun said: "This factory director is quite good. He even took the initiative to tell us that other factories are also developing motorcycles."
Chen Keji said: "No, maybe you want to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with us."
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When Chen Keji and Han Weijun returned to the mine, the first thing they did was to report to Li Wenjun.
Li Wenjun praised the two of them for negotiating the tire price this time and saving the factory a lot of money.
Chen Keji told how the factory director took the initiative to tell him that there were several motorcycle manufacturers.
Li Wenjun smiled: "This tire factory director is quite cunning. I don't know who commissioned him to spy on you."
Chen Keji and Han Weijun secretly broke into a cold sweat upon hearing this.
Well, now that I think about it, the factory director sounded like he was revealing information, but he was actually asking for advice.
If the two of them couldn't hold back their answers at that time, they would have played into that person's hands.
Li Wenjun looked at the two of them with a nervous smile and comforted him: "It doesn't matter if we say it. This is not a secret in the first place. They can't take away our achievements anyway."
In the future, any best-selling product will be made by hundreds of factories across the country. If you don’t have confidence in your own product, it won’t work.
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Another reason why Li Wenjun asked Chen Keji to be the deputy director of the automobile factory was that when Chen Keji was the deputy director of the mine, his scope of responsibility was cost control.
This is his old profession.
Sure enough, with his help, Han Weijun finally became much smoother.
Due to various cuts and modifications, the cost of the car has dropped again and again, and it is now close to 50,000 yuan.
Then they hit a bottleneck again, and there was nothing left to transform or reduce.
During dinner that day, they came to ask Li Wenjun again.
Li Wenjun replied calmly: "No, there is a very important thing that you haven't reduced yet."
Chen Keji and Han Weijun were both a little confused and asked in unison: "What?"
Four wheels instead of three? Or no doors?
Li Wenjun smiled and picked up a piece of tofu from the dinner plate, placed it on the table, and then used a spoon to cut off a piece of the four sides.
The shape of the tofu remains unchanged, but it is much smaller than before.
Chen Keji and Han Weijun suddenly realized: "Be small."
"Yes, make it smaller, use less steel plates, and reduce various materials."
"Can the engine also be scaled down?"
"Wouldn't that be enough motivation..."
"Logically speaking, it's okay, because the car as a whole has become lighter. It's a small horse-drawn car."
"You can try it."
"What about changing two rows of seats to one row of seats? We don't even need the trunk."
"That one is too small."
"Give it a try, maybe someone will like it."
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After two or three months of repeated experiments, Chen Keji and Han Weijun finally made a reduced version of the car, and they also made two versions. The cost of two rows of seats is about 40,000, and the cost of one row of seats is about 30,000.
Although the configuration has been reduced a lot, it is enough for basic home use.
Neither of them knew how to drive. Liu Dongsheng, the idiot, could only think about motorcycles. They didn't dare to ask him to drive the car, so they had to ask someone from the logistics company to test the car.
The drivers of the logistics company picked up a ball of paper and selected one.
Before the guy went up, he even said a few last words, which made Li Wenjun and Tao Guangming who were watching the excitement upstairs laugh out loud.
Apart from being too light and making the car feel a little floaty, everything else is smooth.
Tao Guangming was the happiest: "Great, I have another car to sell."
Li Wenjun said upstairs: "Uh-huh, these guys really did it. Not bad."
Tao Guangming looked at him: "So you're not sure, you just said it casually, right?"
Li Wenjun said: "There is nothing you can't think of, and nothing you can't do. If you don't set a goal for them, how will they know how big their potential is."
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The automobile factory immediately built assembly lines for these two cars and began mass production. All kinds of publicity was also launched.
The advertising slogan written by Li Wenjun is: "Let everyone realize their car dream."
Then they gave these two kinds of cars two interesting names. The two-row car was called "Dangkang" and the one with one row of seats was called "Beetle". The prices were respectively 50,000 and 40,000.
Tao Guangming also immediately launched these two new cars in various sales stores.
Some self-employed small business owners who were scared by the price before can now happily buy one for transportation.
No matter how small it is, it is still a car.
I have a car at home, how proud I am to tell you about it!
Li Wenjun's move made several established automobile manufacturers very angry: Isn't this just disrupting the market?
Even if they make such a beautiful car in the future, they won't be able to sell it at a high price.
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After all, the county did not have enough experience in building dams, so it thought about the matter too simply and misestimated the construction time.
It's already the end of May, and the dam still doesn't seem to be taking shape at all.
Based on this timeframe, it will take at least the end of August or early September to complete the practice.
Not to mention the county, even Tao Guangming became nervous.
When the rainy season comes, flash floods pour down, and the amount of water is terrible. It may destroy the dam that has been repaired.
Not to mention that the 700,000 yuan invested by Li Wenjun was wasted. When the dam rushes downstream, it will be like a moving hill and will destroy the bridge.
The county kept calling to ask Li Wenjun what to do. After all, Li Wenjun had written such a professional report, so he should have considered these issues.
Li Wenjun always said the same thing: "Don't worry about it, just keep practicing."
The county is very worried, but there is nothing we can do if we don't continue the repairs now because we can't stop.
By the end of July, the dam finally had some shape, but the rainy season was coming soon.
People from the water conservancy department couldn't sleep well all day and asked the Meteorological Bureau when it would rain.
The Meteorological Bureau said: "It's hard to say. According to previous years, it will only happen within a week or two."
Then in early August, it started to rain.
Although it was not big, it made everyone despair.
Because the rain here is like this. It comes without warning and can rain for several days at a time, as if the sky has been pierced.
The county started calling Li Wenjun again, asking what to do.
Li Wenjun said: "Don't worry, continue repairing. It won't rain heavily."
Everyone in the county wanted to throw down their phones: Could it be that this rain is listening to you, Li Wenjun? If you say it won’t rain hard, it won’t rain hard?
Tao Guangming listened and only scolded Li Wenjun: "Don't talk nonsense, such false comfort is useless. When the time comes, an accident will happen, and there will still be an accident."
Li Wenjun said: "Why are you panicking? It's not your responsibility."
Tao Guangming was there, then laughed angrily and nodded: "Yes, yes, it's not my responsibility. If you are caught, I will definitely come and see you."
