But if the employees who come to the department store are all from various connections, and neither accept the management nor the training, and cannot be fired, then why don't we invite some uncles to come back and support them?
That's bullshit.
Therefore, Xu Erlong now draws the bottom line here.
If he can agree, then we will discuss it slowly later. If this request cannot be met, then he will not want this warehouse and look for a suitable site elsewhere.
"Okay, I'll go back and convey this." Li Yongnian said.
Why does his dignified second-in-command act like a microphone now?
He felt that it would be better to leave this task of spreading the message to Luo Chunmei.
As a lesbian, she can definitely do this kind of thing.
The next day, Luo Chunmei came over to send a message that the factory had agreed to the conditions, and Xu Erlong could go over and discuss the specific matters in detail with the factory.
If you go to talk to the factory leaders about something, of course you have to treat it seriously.
Xu Erlong put on a blue-grey Mao suit, his hair was meticulously styled, and he put two pens in the pockets of the Mao suit, trying hard to dress himself up as a mature and steady veteran cadre.
He is afraid that because he is young and others don't believe in his abilities, he will be in all kinds of trouble when the time comes.
Fortunately, he is not an unknown person now. His name is often reported in newspapers. He is a household name worth ten thousand yuan. In addition, the leather shoe shop is running smoothly and has a good reputation in the county. There is not much news from the factory.
Look down on him.
We had a detailed discussion on the ownership of the warehouse, rent, site management, personnel placement and other issues, and finally finalized the cooperation.
Xu Erlong rented an idle warehouse in the factory area for a rent of 800 yuan per year.
Eight hundred yuan a year is already a sky-high price for ordinary workers.
After all, everyone’s monthly salary is only thirty or forty yuan. If you don’t have food or drink for a year, you will only get about four hundred yuan.
This is equivalent to two years' salary.
With this money, you can almost buy a house.
Then, regarding the name of the department store, Xu Erlong also wanted to temporarily attach it to a chemical factory and use the chemical factory's signboard, calling it Chemical Warehousing Department Store.
He did it just to be on the safe side so as not to raise the tone too high.
Next, the thirty employment quotas are determined.
There must be rules for who to recruit and who not to recruit.
First, you must have a high school diploma.
He didn't want to recruit illiterate people.
At a time when nine-year compulsory education has not yet become universal, having a high school diploma proves your brain is bright.
Second, the scope of personnel recruitment is to select from the children of employees in the entire factory who have been in full attendance for three consecutive months.
In his opinion, parents who are able to work full-time for a long time prove that, as for parents, they are conscientious and responsible for their work, and the children from such families will be relatively good.
In addition, if the parents have any records of theft or the like, they will not be included in the selection.
At the chemical plant, although I feel that his conditions are a bit strange, they are within an acceptable range. They don't want illiteracy and want a clean family background, which is normal.
In the past few years, weren’t we as focused on being a hero and a good man, and three generations of poor peasants as they were prosperous?
"I would like you to help check this matter." Xu Erlong handed this matter over to Li Yongnian.
And he was going to start renovating the warehouse to make it fit the business model of a department store.
Time is tight and the task is heavy.
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Xu Erlong began to find people to renovate the warehouse.
The manpower he used to build the leather shoe store before was Sister Zheng's male relative named Lei Sheng. This time, of course, he was looking for him again.
Xu Erlong took Lei Sheng to the warehouse and told him in general how to transform it.
The factory side must be closed, and then the wall on the street side should be knocked down to connect it to the road outside.
After a series of gestures, Lei Sheng generally understood Xu Erlong's request.
Isn’t this just tearing down the east wall and mending the west wall?
"Well, I'll go find the bricklayers tomorrow and ask them to demolish the wall and repair it," Lei Sheng said.
Xu Erlong's mouth was dry as he spoke.
He thought to himself, fortunately, this is still a primary structure. If it were more refined, I'm afraid the other party wouldn't understand it yet, and he would have to waste a lot of time talking about it.
Alas, it is also my fault that real estate has not developed in these years, and the decoration industry, which is closely related to real estate, has naturally not developed either, and there are no professional talents in this field.
As he thought this, he thought of Wen Ye.
She is so smart and Lan Xinhuizhi should be able to understand his needs and help draw a sketch, right?
Xu Erlong touched his chin, thinking about this problem.
Xu Erlong hurried home.
Wen Ye was tired of reading and was now helping Zhang Jinfang do some manual work with the sewing machine and adjust it.
Seeing Xu Erlong come back, Wen Ye put down the cloth in his hand.
"Are you done negotiating today?" Wen Ye asked.
"The deal is settled." Xu Erlong said: "Come on, I have something to do. See if you can help me."
He rode a bicycle and pulled Wen Ye to the warehouse and asked Wen Ye to take a look around and gain an intuitive understanding of the location, orientation and space.
Then, he asked Wen Ye for a while to see if Wen Ye could help with a sketch.
"Like this?" Wen Ye picked up a small branch and drew a few strokes on the ground.
"It's more or less the same," Xu Erlong said.
Relying on some concepts in his memory, Xu Erlong explained to Wen Ye some details.
"This wall is solid. When you draw it on the drawing, you can use thick black lines. You can leave this window empty and mark it with diagonal hatching..."
The two of them saw the scene, ran home, burned the midnight oil and revised the drawings over and over again.
The drawing in Xu Erlong's mind was finally drawn.
The next day, Xu Erlong took the drawing and handed it to Lei Sheng: "See, open a window here, reserve an aisle here, and separate it here..."
There was such a drawing, and after such an explanation, Lei Sheng immediately understood: "I understand, follow this drawing, no problem."
Xu Erlong breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, with the drawings and construction according to the drawings, there are traces to follow.
Xu Erlong stayed there, watching the work of several bricklayers hired by Lei Sheng.
These people usually make a living by repairing people's houses, and they are quite efficient at doing their job.
Xu Erlong was relieved to leave this job to Lei Sheng, and he rushed home.
Surprisingly, the old woman whom he met and greeted before was actually at his house.
Xu Erlong has learned that the old woman's surname is Yang, and people in the whole street call her Granny Yang.
Seeing Xu Erlong coming back, Granny Yang stood up with a smile: "Oh, it's getting late. I kept playing for a long time and didn't know the time. I left and I'll come back to visit again."
Zhang Jinfang blushed and sent her to the door.
Seeing Zhang Jinfang's expression, Xu Erlong was a little puzzled.
Did Grandma Yang come here to chat with her mother about something that made Zhang Jinfang blush?
Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wen Ye waving to him gently in the room, gesturing for him to come over.