In Yongning County, the temperature began to gradually rise.
Compared with Kuncheng's spring-like climate all year round, Yongning County, which is approaching May, is already like a small stove.
As the temperature rises, nightclub business is booming at night.
Whether it's a late-night food stall or a dance hall, there are always a few bottles of cold beer on everyone's table.
Xingyao Winery began to work overtime to focus on production. On the other hand, Chu Tianyao transferred Zhou Yi to the sales department and took out Huang Sanshui.
Huang Sanshui was not dissatisfied with this.
He has never been interested in working in the sales department.
As beer sales get better and better, bottle recycling is also an important task.
Chu Tianyao asked Huang Sanshui to lead someone to take charge of this matter. For this reason, he even gave this guy a pager to facilitate major merchants to contact him.
The recycling method is different from that of ordinary breweries.
Chu Tianyao adopts door-to-door collection. As long as it is a business in Yongning County, Huang Sanshui can bring people there with just a phone call.
In addition, Chu Tianyao also provided Huang Sanshui's recycling team with several second-hand three-wheel trucks.
The factory has a large shipment volume, which is mainly concentrated in urban areas. It is very troublesome not to have trucks, so Huang Sanshui's team has to be responsible for delivery.
Now, Luo Jin is in charge of the factory's production, while Huang Sanshui is responsible for shipping and purchasing raw materials. As for the sales department, Chu Tianyao has delegated it to Zhou Yi.
Unlike Luo Jin and Huang Sanshui, Zhou Yi took charge of the sales department as soon as he arrived, but Luo Jin and Huang Sanshui were not dissatisfied.
On the one hand, I believe in Chu Tianyao’s judgment.
Another convenience is that this guy Zhou Yi is also in trouble. After get off work, he often visits these two people's homes when he has nothing to do. He often brings good wine and cigarettes to them.
As the saying goes, they are not easy to get along with, and they have established a good relationship with Zhou Yi, an old man in the world.
Of course, Chu Tianyao saw all this, but did not interfere.
What he focused on was Zhou Yi's ability. As long as Zhou Yi was competent enough, Chu Tianyao would not be stingy even if he let this kid be a sales director in the future.
After all, it is Chu Tianyao's consistent rule that you don't need to hire people who are suspicious.
Star Winery.
On this day, several uniformed workers came, carrying a large bundle of telephone wires.
Many employees gathered around to take a look curiously.
"Oh my god, how long has the factory been open for? It even has a telephone installed?"
Many workers were a little surprised.
After all, in the early 1990s, there were still very few people who could afford to install a telephone.
Especially in a small place like Yongning County, if you install a landline phone, you have to make a report through the back door.
As the business grew, there were naturally more things to do. There were many things that could be explained clearly on the phone. Naturally, Chu Tianyao was too lazy to make another trip, so he asked Huang Sanshui to ask his mother for help.
Huang Sanshui's mother happens to be from the telephone exchange, so it's not difficult to help secure a spot.
It's just that the initial installation fee of 4,000 yuan is really not cheap.
Now that the phones have been assigned, Chu Tianyao is not stingy and has assigned a pager to himself, Luo Jin, and Zhou Yi to facilitate contact.
Although the current pagers are not cheap, with the emergence of mobile phones, the price of pagers has also dropped.
But nowadays, a pager costs thousands of dollars.
As for Big Brother, Chu Tianyao has no idea yet. Not to mention the brick-like size, the price of 20,000 yuan alone makes Chu Tianyao feel a little unnecessary.
There are public phones everywhere on the streets now, and as long as you bring a pager, it's not a hassle to contact them.
These days, if you can wear a pager around your waist, you are no longer an ordinary person.
In the winery office.
Looking at the installed telephone, Luo Jin and Huang Sanshui both looked a little curious.
Huang Sanshui couldn't help but call his father's work. He originally wanted to show off, but was scolded by his father.
In the office, Chu Tianyao was chatting with the two of them when there was a knock on the door.
Immediately, Zhou Yi walked in.
"What? Are you in trouble?"
Chu Tianyao looked at Zhou Yi's face with a solemn expression and couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Yi walked up to Chu Tianyao and nodded, "It's a little trouble. Brother Yao must have heard of Lechang Glass Factory, right?"
"Lechang Glass Factory?"
Chu Tianyao pondered for a moment, then nodded.
He had heard of this factory before. It was one of the three glass factories in Yongning County. He heard that it was invested and built by a foreign owner. The business was not small. In short, it was much better than Li Funing's glass factory.
Seeing Chu Tianyao nodding, Zhou Yize added: "I took people to do sales today, and I didn't expect that several restaurants no longer planned to buy our factory's goods. After investigation, I found that these restaurants
A batch of goods called Lechang Beer came in."
"Lechang Beer?" Chu Tianyao frowned when he heard this. Just hearing the name, he knew it must be related to the Lechang Glass Factory, "What is their selling price?"
Chu Tianyao asked Zhou Yi.
He knew that if the other party could enter the market so quickly, it would definitely not be that simple.
"I checked, and the retail price of Lechang Beer is only one yuan and a half, which is enough to show that the purchase price of these restaurants is much lower than our Jade Bird Beer." After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he then looked at Chu Tianyao and said, "I asked about it.
Take a look, these wines all come from Lechang Winery, and the person who built this winery is indeed Zheng Lechang, the owner of Lechang Glass Factory."
As soon as Zhou Yi said these words, Chu Tianyao, who was sitting behind his desk, also frowned.
He still underestimated the businessmen of this era.
Businessmen have the most sensitive sense of smell. I am afraid that Zheng Lechang thought of building a factory to sell beer because he saw the popularity of Jade Bird Beer.
Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why it was such a coincidence that Lechang Beer appeared at this juncture.
"Isn't it just a business for a few small restaurants? If you don't want to do it, just don't do it. It won't affect us anyway."
On the side, Huang Sanshui heard the conversation between the two and said somewhat nonchalantly.
Chu Tianyao raised his hand and gave this guy a slap, then turned to look at Zhou Yi in front of him.
"You can stay put for the next few days and do whatever you need to do. Also, by the way, investigate this Zheng Lechang for me. I need to know his strength."
After hearing Chu Tianyao's instructions, Zhou Yi nodded, then turned and left.
In his opinion, Chu Tianyao's caution was not making a fuss out of a molehill.
They didn't know the strength of Zheng Lechang, but he owned a glass factory and now planned to get involved in the beer business in Yongning County, which made people wary.
With its own glass factory, Zheng Lechang's Lechang Beer can significantly reduce production costs and even achieve a shipping price that is far lower than that of Jade Bird Beer.
With its price advantage, even if Lechang Beer cannot compete with Jade Bird Beer, it may still occupy a considerable market share.