Zuo Chengsheng has been involved in the oil business for some time, and he knows the inside story that many people don't know. Let's not talk about kerosene, let's talk about this lubricant.
Although it has just emerged in the past two years and the current market size is not large, the potential is very good, and if it is done well, it will be a big business.
So he suggested Yang Shanfei to start this lubricant business.
However, all he can do is give him agency rights in a region, and then he may provide some financial support, but the specific affairs still have to be done by his uncle.
This lubricant business is still an emerging business. Although it has great potential, since it talks about potential, it means that the market is still very small and the market needs to be opened up.
As for how to open up the market, that is Yang Shanfei's business.
Yang Shanfei did not reply to Zuo Chengsheng immediately.
He knew that his nephew was helping him, but in the end he still had to rely on himself for this kind of thing. At least how to establish sales channels and how to open up the market was up to him.
After Yang Shanfei said goodbye to Zuo Chengsheng, he returned to the hotel and called some of the subordinates he had brought over to discuss things together.
These subordinates have been with him for many years, and apart from their poor abilities, there are no other problems.
Several of them went outside to inquire about the lubricating oil situation, and what they found made them full of hope.
At present, many companies in the Songjiang Prefecture area purchase lubricating oil refined from petroleum for use in mechanical equipment, but as Zuo Chengsheng said, the overall scale is not large.
But they have asked those companies that use lubricating oil, and they all reported better results, saying that lubricating oil refined from petroleum is cheap and easy to use.
After some research, Yang Shanfei felt that this lubricant business should be done well.
Three days later, he found Zuo Chengsheng and said, "I've done this lubricant business!"
Hearing his uncle's promise, Zuo Chengsheng also felt good. This lubricant business has a future. As long as it is done well, it will definitely be much better than the highly competitive textile business.
Zuo Chengsheng said, "In terms of funds, uncle, if you don't have enough, just ask. If you have more, don't dare to say. I can write a check now for less than 100,000, and I will give uncle a few more people, all of whom I have taken care of in the past two years."
The few talented people who have come out, ask them to help uncle put up the shelf!"
Zuo Chengsheng gave agency rights, funds, and talents willingly!
Zuo Chengsheng has always remembered the more than 3,000 yuan he spent a few years ago in his heart!
Yang Shanfei also smiled at this time and said: "Don't worry about funds. This time when I came to Shanghai, I not only sold the factory, but also sold several shops and large tracts of real estate, and collected almost more than 80,000 yuan in funds.
,enough!"
"It's a talent. Uncle, you're welcome. I really don't have very good talents under my command!"
If he had talented people under his command, he would not have toiled the textile factory to the point of selling it at a loss!
After this discussion, Yang Shanfei signed an agency contract with Xihai Petroleum Company that day and obtained the lubricant agency right in South Anhui Province.
Wannan Road is a good place. It has the largest heavy industry base in the Tang Empire, and it has always been a big consumer of lubricants.
After signing the agency agreement, Yang Shanfei rushed to Wannan Road non-stop to prepare for setting up transportation and sales channels.
Although he himself has never been in the lubricant business, nor have any of his subordinates, petroleum-based lubricants have just begun to appear these days, and are rarely seen on the market.
Everyone has never done it before, so we can’t talk about experience.
Moreover, several of the talents Zuo Chengsheng lent him were also good at sales, helping to recruit people and build channels.
Yang Shanfei switched to the lubricant trade and became a second-rate dealer. This can also be said to be one of the impacts of the welfare reform.
It's just that people who are as unlucky as Yang Shanfei and sell the factory directly are still good. After all, not everyone is like Yang Shanfei and can run a good textile factory to the point of losing money.
In the past thirty years, the textile industry has been a rapidly developing and very profitable industry. However, most of them make money, and a few lose money like Yang Shanfei.
In Songjiang Prefecture, where the textile industry is concentrated, the actual impact caused by the welfare reform was not as great as expected after the welfare reform was officially implemented.
Except for a few textile factories that were already in very bad conditions, most factories still maintained normal operations.
At the same time, due to the minimum wage, many factory owners began to gradually stop hiring child labor and instead hired female workers, while some positions tended to hire male workers.
During this process, the number of child workers decreased significantly, the number of female workers increased slightly, and the number of male workers began to increase significantly.
This means that the employment rate of adult male workers is higher. The employment rate of female workers is high and their wages are also higher. If the couple is working, they can also afford to raise children, so that the children do not have to continue to work in the factory.
Working as child labor.
This is a virtuous cycle!
The only ones whose interests have been harmed are those factory owners, so in recent times, the stock prices of textile-related companies on the stock market have fallen significantly.
However, the Tang government did not go too far. After suppressing one side, they quickly gave these factory owners a little sweetener, that is, providing some tax incentives or subsidies for labor-intensive industries that provide a large number of jobs.
To put it bluntly, it means reducing taxes and reducing the burden on enterprises!
This slap and a sweet date made the factory owners less resentful.
The business can still be done, and although the profit is a little less, the expected losses are not as big as estimated at the end of last year. Thinking about this, I feel much more balanced.
The textile industry is just a microcosm. In fact, similar situations have occurred in many industries.
Because state-owned enterprises and imperial-owned enterprises have taken the lead, although some industrial products on the market have also experienced price increases, the increase is only small and limited to a few industries. Commodity prices in most industries have remained stable.
But this is not the point. The point is that the Ministry of Commerce released a report, that is, in the first quarter of the 37th year of Xuanping, the GDP of the Tang Empire's manufacturing industry increased.
And the growth rate is quite high. The growth rate of some industries has even reached more than 10%. This is a single-quarter increase, not an annual increase.
Especially in the Songjiang Prefecture area, the statistics compiled by the local government are very shocking!
In this first quarter, compared with the first quarter of last year, Songjiang Prefecture's industrial and commercial output increased by at least 15 percentage points.
What’s even more strange is that many companies have not seen a decline in profits due to the implementation of welfare policies, but generally made more money than last year!