Shanghai No. 1 Industrial Zone, the original Shanghai Industrial Zone, was renamed No. 1 Industrial Zone after Shanghai established another large-scale industrial zone at the beginning of the year.
Compared with the Second Industrial Zone, which has just begun to be developed and is still in the early stages of leveling land and building roads, the First Industrial Zone is now a mature industrial zone.
According to statistics from the District Office of the First Industrial Zone, the land in the industrial zone has been fully developed. There are more than hundreds of large and small factories stationed in the densely packed factory buildings. These factories are large factories with thousands of employees.
, maybe a small factory with only ten or twenty people.
These factories have made the entire First Industrial Zone very lively. During commuting time, dense crowds of people will appear on the streets. Most of these people are employees of surrounding factories. They come from all over the country, mainly from rural areas in surrounding areas.
Mainly young people, but of course there are also people from other provinces.
The gathering of these people in Shanghai not only provides Shanghai with sufficient labor resources, but also brings a huge consumer market.
This is a big city with a permanent population of more than 300,000, which is more than the permanent population of Jinling City. These people need to eat, drink, wear, live and other daily consumption needs, which makes Shanghai become the whole city.
It is one of the largest large-scale consumer markets in the south of the Yangtze River and even in the whole country. Its consumption power even exceeds that of Jinling City, the political center of the empire.
And occupying the Shanghai market is also the focus of many domestic consumer industrial product manufacturers!
The reason why Yang Cheng's glass factory came to Shanghai to set up a profit sharing factory was because of the market potential in Shanghai.
Jiujiang Glass Company, their previous main business was focused on precision glass manufacturing, especially various types of glassware, which was their flagship product, occupying almost more than 90% of the domestic market.
Currently, most of the glassware used for teaching in various schools across the country is purchased from Jiujiang Glass Company.
This situation is caused by the fact that when Jiujiang Glass Company applied for glass patent authorization, it privately reached an agreement with four other companies authorized to manufacture glass. In order to avoid unnecessary competition, the scope of their patent authorization and glass products
There is also a tacit understanding of the sales scope.
According to the tacit understanding of the five glass companies, although Jiujiang Glass Company can also produce various glass products, mirrors, which are the largest glass products, have the largest sales volume, and are the most profitable, can only be sold in Jiangxi and South Anhui Province.
, and the sales of mirrors in other provinces belong to other companies.
Because they lost the sales market for mirrors, the most important glass product, as compensation, they also gained the exclusive production of precision glass manufacturing.
The cakes assigned to Jiujiang Glass Company are precision glass products, mainly experimental glassware used in production, teaching, scientific research, etc.
To put it simply, it’s all kinds of beakers and test tubes!
But at present, the fragile alliance of the five major glass companies is already on the verge of collapse. This is not because of any conflicts among themselves, competition for the market, etc., but because the Ministry of Commerce allocates the market to the five major glass companies on their own, resulting in a de facto monopoly.
The behavior of driving up the price of glass products is quite dissatisfying.
At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Commerce fined the five major glass companies in the name of driving up prices. Although the amount of fines was not large, it was actually a warning. If the five major glass companies continue to maintain such a tacit understanding and do not cooperate with each other,
If the market is opened to competition, the Ministry of Commerce will be ruthless.
Although there is no such law as anti-monopoly law in the Tang Dynasty, it does not mean that the Ministry of Commerce will tolerate this kind of thing. They will create various reasons to impose fines.
Moreover, there is also news from the Royal Institute of Technology that they are dissatisfied with the behavior of the five major companies that have delayed the development of the entire glass industry for the sake of profits. They may adjust the glass-related technology authorization in the near future. By then, there may be an increase
If you obtain more authorizations from several glass companies, it is also possible to withdraw the technical authorization from one or more of them.
The glass technology patent granted by Jiujiang Glass Company only lasts for ten years. Although it will take a long time to expire, we still have to prepare for a rainy day.
With everyone's tacit understanding, even if they don't want to, the five major glass companies will probably need to compete with each other by then to avoid de facto monopoly and being fined, or even terminate patent authorization.
But then again, Jiujiang Glass has actually been dissatisfied for a long time. They only have the allocation to sell mirrors in Jiangxi. They want more. This matter is actually a good thing for Jiujiang Glass Company.
Yang Cheng came to Shanghai to open a branch factory and was also affected by this incident!
Because Jiujiang Glass Company decided that the next expansion direction is mirrors!
At the same time, considering that Jiujiang Glass Company has previously focused on the manufacturing of precision glass, its production cost of cheap glass cannot be compared with the other four companies. Therefore, even if they are preparing to expand the field of mirrors, they are also preparing to go into high-end fields.
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Even though it is just a small mirror, for this era, the technical content of this thing is not low, especially if you want to produce a large-area mirror, it is more difficult.
Currently, most of the mirrors sold on the market are palm-sized or even smaller mirrors. Mirrors with larger areas, especially dressing mirrors, require higher production requirements, and the yield rate is currently relatively low.
The price is naturally extremely high.
However, this kind of high-end mirror with high technical requirements is more convenient for Jiujiang Glass Company, because they have previously followed the technical route of precision glass production, and some industrial glassware has relatively simple production process requirements.
The large-area full-length mirror is even taller.
Of course, high-end mirrors not only refer to size, but also have many requirements such as reflectivity.
The reflectivity of the mirrors produced by different technologies is completely different. If the mirror is of poor quality, it is difficult to see clearly in front of the mirror, but if the mirror is of good quality, it can be seen more clearly.
Although the Royal Institute of Technology has authorized the production process of glass and even mirrors, they don't care about how to realize production and how to reduce costs in the production process. It is up to the five major glass companies to figure out their own solutions.
Jiujiang Glass Company still has the technology, otherwise it would not want to open a branch factory in Shanghai, and then prepare to enter the high-end glass field. While producing high-end mirrors, it is also preparing to produce some technically difficult handicrafts.
Yang Cheng came with the important task of expanding the market. Unfortunately, he had just arrived in Shanghai and his capital was defrauded. Although he could tell his family and ask for the funds, it would definitely make people suspicious.
his abilities.
Yang Cheng is a persistent and cheeky person, but this does not mean that he is not arrogant!
If he was not persistent, he would not have persisted in studying for more than ten years even though he knew clearly that he was not good at studying. If he had not been thick-skinned enough, he would not have persisted in studying for more than ten years despite the ridicule of others.
But this does not mean that he is not arrogant!
Even if he was laughed at, even if he failed to study, he would try his best to find a way to success. If he failed to study, he would go into business. After doing business to the extreme, it would also be a road to success.
The capital was gone, and Yang Cheng thought hard for several days before he contacted the First Industrial Zone Branch of Royal Bank Shanghai Branch and took out his plan and related documents.
Although people in the bank were still confused about what he said and couldn't even make a decision, they finally alerted a vice president of the branch and finally made the decision: provide a loan!
The Royal Bank has repeatedly confirmed that Yang Cheng is indeed the second son of the Yang family in Jiujiang, and that he is indeed preparing to open a branch factory in Shanghai. At the same time, the most important thing is that this branch factory is actually a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jiujiang Glass Company. Well
, this is not Yang Cheng’s personal property.
Preparing for Jiujiang Glass Company means that this branch factory can produce and sell glass products.
And as long as you have this authorization, it is enough for Royal Bank to take risks and provide loans!
Of course, Royal Bank is not stupid, and is also afraid that Yang Cheng will take the money and run away. Therefore, this loan has more restrictions than ordinary loans. First of all, the account is monitored and can only be used for
Expenditures such as purchasing equipment and office supplies, and the equipment and other office supplies purchased will be pledged to the Royal Bank as collateral!
Royal Bank rarely did this kind of thing before, because even a fool could see that Yang Chengcheng wanted to use the Royal Bank's loan to buy machinery and equipment, and then use the machinery and equipment as collateral to
Royal Bank.
The people at Royal Bank are not stupid, and they naturally know what Yang Cheng is paying attention to. Under normal circumstances, Royal Bank will generally not accept this model. They are more inclined to use your original things for mortgage loans.
However, it has to be said that the authorization of glass technology and the identity of the second son of the Yang family have provided Yang Cheng with a huge bonus effect. If ordinary people came to play like this, they would have been kicked out long ago.
After obtaining the loan, in order to avoid being deceived again this time, he directly went to the Shanghai branch headquarters of Zhaoqing Machinery Company to purchase the machinery and equipment, instead of looking for a so-called sales agent like last time for a little advantage.
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At the same time, I learned to be smart and don’t give money without seeing the machine.
After getting the equipment back, Yang Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. This time, he said it was very simple and cliché, but it was not so easy to convince the Royal Bank to agree.
Before, he himself was not very sure. During the interview, he met five or six people from the Royal Bank and answered their doubts one by one, and finally finalized the loan!