At the end of the 1980s, Japan fell into a strange financial circle - more and more money in hand, but no idea how to spend it? They bought and bought everywhere, but ended up making a wedding dress for Eagle Sauce.
By the 1990s, Japan's development had reached its upper limit. In the following twenty or thirty years, its GDP rose and fell without much change.
After the financial crisis, Japan's money tightened, and it didn't know how to invest. At that time, the only bright spots for economic growth in the world were limited, one was South Korea, and the other was naturally flower growers.
South Korea's economy has been booming in the 1990s and can continue to advance for another thirty years. However, its domestic market is limited and it is actually competing with Japan.
For example, in the shipbuilding industry, Korean companies defeated Japanese companies and ended up fighting to the death with Chinese companies.
Mitsui took the initiative to contact "Shengguang" because "Shengguang" was the only commercial entity with the characteristics of a modern enterprise in China at that time. Zhou Qingfeng didn't understand business, so he let people who knew do it.
‘Holy Light’ does not exist, and Zhou Qingfeng doesn’t care whether he makes money or not. He has no burden on management. He can allow anyone to give him advice, even Japanese can serve as senior executives in the group.
Meritocracy, regardless of origin. Such an open attitude is rare in the world. So after going through some twists and turns, Mitsui still couldn't bear to lend money to the "Holy Light".
It's really hard to find a profit point these days, and it's even harder to establish an emerging market.
However, after Zhou Qingfeng had money in his hands, his appetite increased greatly. He desperately wanted to spend the money, even to the point of being desperate for it.
The order of 30 billion US dollars has reached the point where it is difficult for capitalists to resist the temptation. But compared with the hundreds of billions of US dollars in domestic chip imports in the future, this is nothing at all.
In order to meet the needs of "Holy Light", Mitsui launched its subsidiary Toshiba - even more than 20 years later, Toshiba's annual turnover is only 30 billion US dollars. This is just turnover.
Toshiba is also greedy.
As Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the second largest comprehensive electromechanical manufacturer, Toshiba's strength is unquestionable and ranked first in the world.
It's just that Uncle Zhou's money is not as easy to make as he imagined. He is willing to spend money but does not spend it randomly. Mitsui cannot make 30 billion US dollars without giving him some truly good things.
Similarly, there is no consensus within the Mitsui Consortium. There are many old devils who are unwilling to sell semiconductor technology to the country. Fujita, who is in his fifties, is one of them.
At the end of April, 'Shengguang' finalized the move of two nine-axis five-link machine tools from the Baltic Shipyard. In early May, the first machine tool was disassembled and airlifted to Shaanxi Daqin Machine Tool Factory for reassembly.
In order to obtain this machine tool, Daqin Machine Tool Factory, which had no foreign exchange and no money, had to transfer 51% of its shares to ‘Holy Light’.
This is what 'Da Qin' is begging 'Holy Light' to accept. Because it won't give it away, Shenyang, Dalian, Shanghai, Jinan, and several large domestic machine tool factories want to give away shares.
In the face of fierce competition, in order to obtain this machine tool, 'Da Qin' even agreed to 'Shengguang' to carry out drastic reforms on itself - according to the fate of Tianyang Machinery Factory, this means that at least several thousand people will be fired.
But ‘Da Qin’ is a test product launched by ministries and commissions for reform. Judging from Tianyang’s experience, all enterprises after reform are reborn.
Zhou Qingfeng was unceremonious when he got the controlling stake. He announced that all employees in the factory would be laid off, and all positions would be re-recruited across the country and around the world. Not only people from China came to apply, there were people from big and small and even from Japan.
The salary of ordinary workers is thousands, engineers are raised to more than 3,000, and senior technicians are tens of thousands. The reputation of "Holy Light" is big enough, and many people are desperate to join this group. The result is a fierce competition for recruitment.
The reorganization of 'Da Qin' was still in progress, but the MBP-110S shipped to 'Da Qin' could not be assembled. Engineer Maozi's own skills were not good, and after repeated debugging, he had to ask for the Japanese from the original factory to come.
This idea is really good. Zhou Qingfeng is negotiating with Mitsui. He wants Yu Watanabe to request that Toshiba, which belongs to Mitsui, send machine tool installers.
So Ryuji Fujita, the deputy director of Toshiba Machine Tool Division, came with two assistants. This old man in his fifties was very unhappy with this errand. According to his opinion, the four MBP-110S sold were the best.
All broken.
Shaanxi is too far away from Tianyang, so it was a complete accident that MBP-110S settled in Daqin. Shengguang didn’t have a machine tool factory at all, so if it got the nine-axis five-linkage machine, it would definitely have to find someone to take over it.
However, there are many machine tool manufacturers in the country, but not many are willing to hand over controlling shares. The big-name machine tool manufacturers had given Zhou Qingfeng a blow before, but this time they were unwilling to give him even 10% of the shares.
‘Da Qin’ couldn’t survive, and like Tianyang Machinery Factory, it had a lot of debt. After ‘Shengguang’ got the controlling stake, it had to repay hundreds of millions of corporate debts and make up for a few months of salary.
Zhou Qingfeng deeply hates this kind of rotten state-owned enterprises, and is merciless in layoffs. "Shengguang" bought out their seniority and gave them some severance pay, and they really sent thousands of employees away.
Many old workers feel that their skills are not bad and they should not be laid off. But what they often get is a cold sentence: "Knowledge is outdated and there is no room for advancement. It is recommended to be laid off."
Fujita and two assistants took the flight to Hanzhong, where Da Qin was located, and encountered hundreds of people blocking the door of the machine tool factory. The translator sent by the factory apologized profusely to them for letting "foreign friends" see such a situation.
I'm very embarrassed.
"What are they doing?" Fujita sat in the Santana car sent by the city and glanced out the window.
The translator got off the car and chased the people at the factory gate away with a very bad attitude. When he came back, he put on a smile and apologized again and said: "They are unemployed people. Our factory recently started a competition for jobs and laid off all the thousands of workers.
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Hearing the word "layoffs", Fujita had mixed feelings. It was his first time coming to mainland China and he felt that this country was basically the same as the media reports, and it was very backward.
Fujita came out of the airport and looked at the road conditions and urban construction. It was no different from when Watanabe Yu first arrived in Tianyang. He despised the people blocking the factory gate, but when he heard that they were unemployed, he felt a little sympathetic.
The translator was still embarrassed and tried to explain: "These workers have not kept up with the times, their abilities are not good, their habits are bad, and they have no sense of responsibility. Our factory was damaged by them. We can't do it without laying off employees."
But this explanation made Fujita even more contemptuous. In his opinion, the root cause of poor workers' ability was poor management and the managers themselves were incompetent. But he didn't say anything and just sneered.
The 'Daqin' factory area is quite large. It is a mess outside the factory gate, but when 'Santana' drives into the factory, the environment changes drastically. The ground is clean, there are new green plants planted on both sides of the road, and the factory building is being renovated.
"Hey, your place is better than expected." Fujita got out of the car and looked around with a critical eye. He found that it was hard to say anything else, but the hygiene in the factory was indeed very good.
The translator was very happy with this comment and quickly added: "I learned this from your country. The management of the factory were all transferred from Tianyang and received half a year of special business management training.
They are all students of Vice President Watanabe Yu, and they should have mastered some basic knowledge of your country's management, and I would like to ask Mr. Fujita for your advice."
Watanabe Yuu? The traitor of Japan. He was just a small section chief before, but he actually taught the essence of management to the enemy. It is really abominable.
Fujita's face sank and he cursed in his mind: "A few decades ago, I would have killed Yuten Watanabe."