The temporary office space at the Imperial Hotel is brightly lit, and the phone rings 24 hours a day.
After the news last night, calls came in from all over the country. A lot of companies seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and wanted to use the "Holy Light" channel to open up Lao Maozi's market.
Zhou Qingfeng smoothed over Lao Maozi's deputy minister and paved the way for cooperation.
The old comrades of the advisory group worked hard to contact their "former friends". They couldn't hold on even after drinking strength potions for a whole day, so they went to rest after dinner.
Director Ma found a group of backbones of ministries and commissions in their thirties and forties from nowhere and took over the liaison work. He was still busy looking for connections everywhere, thinking about going to Mao Xiong's house to visit more places and meet more people.
Lin Wan, Huang Li and other secretaries and legal staff were even busier. They were responsible for negotiating and formulating detailed contracts with Lao Maozi. They had no one to take over and had to work from morning to night.
Fortunately, Zhou Qingfeng has equipped his staff with the best and most advanced equipment at present. Computers, copiers, fax machines, and even wide-format projectors can save a lot of trouble.
The invisible link network plays a good coordination role, allowing employees to fully utilize their work efficiency. In just one day, we contacted more than 200 companies and had repeated discussions on the phone.
Some companies are impatient, and after asking for their address, they say they will come to the imperial capital overnight for an interview. Nowadays, doing business in China requires a lot of hard work, and the lazy approach is gradually no longer applicable.
Watanabe Yuo served as the vice president of "Holy Light" and bluntly told Zhou Qingfeng, "Domestic workers are too sloppy in their work, and their mental outlook and work attitude are far inferior to Japanese workers."
What he said really made Zhou Qingfeng uncomfortable, but he also knew what the current domestic production line workers were like. For the sake of face, he naturally trained his workers repeatedly to hone their abilities and qualities.
For example, a top student like Lin Wan, who was arrogant before joining the Holy Light, had paper knowledge but it was of no use. If she was asked to direct the workers to work, she would have to bite the bullet.
After being squeezed for half a year, Secretary Lin's ability has improved by leaps and bounds, his thinking is quick, and he is well-informed. He is one of the few people in the Holy Light whose work ability is recognized by Watanabe.
'Holy Light' has been in Tianyang for almost a year, and the talents it has gathered and trained can fully display their abilities at this moment. In terms of knowledge, decision-making, and deployment, the group elites who came to the imperial capital with the president are far beyond ordinary.
In comparison…
Cuikov stayed at the office for a long time, and the Soviet negotiators who accompanied him also went to rest. Zhou Qingfeng grabbed today's contract memorandum and really couldn't laugh or cry.
If we say that the current domestic workers are sloppy, Lao Maozi's business negotiators are extremely sloppy.
Zhou Qingfeng has always had a question - Nande Group has neither import rights nor export rights, nor the ability to purchase passenger aircraft. It is a leather goods company that does not even have foreign exchange.
How could Lao Maozi believe the evil deeds of the Nande Group and actually complete the delivery of four passenger planes within a few months, and then be delayed by Mou Zhong for a full five years?
After reading the contract memorandum negotiated today, Zhou Qingfeng finally understood - the other party had no modern business transaction concept at all. During the negotiation, he was very aggressive and offered tougher conditions than anyone else, but the implementation was full of loopholes.
As the legal director, Oriole negotiated with the other party. When he came back, he complained to Zhou Qingfeng, "Are these Soviet people stupid? At first, they were so stubborn and so powerful that it scared me, but they faded away without even using three axes."
The memorandum basically uses the transaction terms proposed by the Holy Light, with at most some slight changes in details. This is completely a fat sheep. If you don't slaughter it, you will be sorry to God.
"Although it is a barter trade, there are still accounts to be settled. Mao Zi has no idea about the value of the goods. They price it according to the ruble in their own market. But the ruble is plummeting."
Oriole shook his head and sighed as he spoke, "I can't bear to remind them that it's better to price in US dollars, otherwise they will suffer a loss."
What's the point? Third brother has done this kind of thing before. Why should I pinch my nose and admit it?
Of course, we can't work like this. We just need to make a little profit, and we'll be satisfied with two or three times the profit.
Zhou Qingfeng flipped through the memo and found that Lao Maozi was really too casual about the terms of the contract.
‘Harmony’’s business network has gradually covered several provinces around Tianyang, and it can purchase a large amount of agricultural products at ultra-low prices. Therefore, ‘Holy Light’s quotation on canned food is particularly low.
Lao Maozi's negotiators probably saw this, so they placed an order for 30,000 tons of canned fruits in one fell swoop, while retaining their intention to purchase 50,000 tons.
Based on the contract value, these canned fruits alone are enough to replace two Tu-154s.
"Inform Yulan and let her put away the cans. Remember not to pack them in small packages. Use the kind of biscuit barrel that weighs five kilograms per barrel."
In later generations, there were a large number of barreled canned fruits on Taobao, and stores were opened specifically for commercial use, and the prices could be very cheap.
The contract did not specify the packaging of the cans, so Zhou Qingfeng simply packaged them in large barrels. The market for fur bears is now particularly price-sensitive, and they would prefer it if it was cheaper.
Canned apples, peaches, pears, citrus, hawthorn, and other major varieties are all available.
It is conceivable that with this order, the canned goods in the entire Tianyang area will be delivered to the city. Canneries in surrounding provinces will also mobilize in groups and work hard to deliver goods to the Holy Light.
"By the way, where was the retired clerk who was familiar with the railway during the day?"
"Go home and rest, he will come again tomorrow."
"Ask him if he is willing to join the advisory group. We now need old comrades who are familiar with logistics. How to transport goods distributed across various places to designated ports will be a difficult problem."
In addition to cans, Lao Maozi also wanted a large amount of textiles, including ready-made fabrics, shoes, socks, gloves, hats, etc. The Nande Group originally found a lot of junk goods that were overstocked in the country.
Zhou Qingfeng unceremoniously removed this batch of junk goods from the trade list and replaced them with a batch of products from companies that were willing to undergo factory inspections.
The size of the factory is not important, quality requirements come first.
Lao Maozi's negotiators were very surprised by this, and even put in good words for Nan De, saying that they were more interested in low-priced products.
"Let Maozi send people to join our factory inspection team and let them see for themselves our stocking process."
Zhou Qingfeng felt very angry just thinking about it.
"You get what you pay for. How can you buy good things at low prices? When you find out that the quality is not good, you complain again, but you don't think about how much you paid because you were cheap."
Judging from the memo, what Lao Maozi wants are light industrial products. Even simple lamps, home appliances, clocks, etc. must be imported.
"The light industry is so bad, it would be strange if the country is not destroyed." Zhou Qingfeng turned over more than a dozen pages before feeling bored. The biggest difficulty in this business is to have connections, but the actual transaction is like bullying a child.
Xiao Jinlang called and said, "United Airlines has agreed to cooperate with us to open 'Holy Light Airlines'. They provide people, we provide planes, and a quarter of the flights are assigned to them."
The civil aviation side also agreed that we should locate our main operation base at Tianyang Airport. But we have to spend our own money to expand the airport, and they are not responsible."
"I just have to pay for everything myself. No problem, I'll pay for it myself." Zhou Qingfeng replied.
If there are many lice, there is no need to itch; if there are many debts, there is no need to worry.
'Holy Light' means to spend the money immediately while it is still valuable. Especially for soft sister coins, it is best to spend them without leaving a penny and exchange them all for various assets and goods.
In the eyes of others, Zhou Qingfeng looks like he is crazy. Little do they know that for every hundred yuan he spends now, he will earn back tenfold in a few years when the economic situation improves.
If you open an airline, you will open an airline. If you build an airport, you will build an airport.