He Yulan was still confused about Zhou Qingfeng's decision to build an information network. But she still understood Zhou Qingfeng's intention to spread more news and find more companies to compete.
In order to achieve Zhou Qingfeng's goal, Yulan transferred more than 20 people from the Secretariat, Liaison Department, Business Department, Propaganda Department, and Purchasing Department and decided to give it a try.
First create a crude information publishing platform.
"List in detail the latest cargo needs, transportation, talent recruitment, etc. between us and our suppliers."
"Contact major newspapers in major provinces in the country and buy their advertising space for a week. Don't be afraid to spend money and buy generously."
"With the news published in newspapers, any company can send us a fax to provide supply and demand information. If we cannot solve the problem, we will also find ways to pass the information to other companies that may solve the problem."
any......?
In the conference room of the headquarters, the group employees who were summoned were stunned by the words of the acting secretary-general. Someone asked: "Mr. He, can any company send a fax to us?"
This step is a bit too big.
He Yulan was stunned, and quickly waved her hands and said: "Ignore the last one, just do the first two. Just distribute our own supply and demand to the whole country."
Someone else whispered: "Is it too exaggerated to distribute it nationwide? Should we try to distribute it in the province first? After all, the cost is not small, I'm afraid it will cost millions at a time."
He Yulan was stunned again. She also felt that Zhou Qingfeng's plan to build an information network covering the whole country was exaggerated. But when she heard that one million could send information all over the country, she strengthened her idea.
"Just spread it across the country, don't be afraid of spending money. Although the tree is big and attracts the wind, there is no harm in making it more famous."
Everyone in the conference room looked at each other, and they all felt that if the advertisement were to spread all over the country, the sensational effect would not be less than that of Holy Light buying four large passenger planes.
But it is precisely because the group has just purchased a large passenger aircraft that it has enough credibility to attract domestic manufacturers to do business with it. Otherwise, how could an unknown company in a small place like Tianyang gain recognition from others?
The effect of this advertising is definitely ‘one plus one is greater than two’.
Thinking that their group's reputation has spread all over the world and has reached a new level, the twenty or so people who were summoned were quite excited.
Everyone worked overtime all night to summarize the needs and supplies of the group itself, its suppliers, and even Mao Zedong. It was impossible to fit in one page.
‘Holy Light’ has unknowingly become a giant company. Its little demand is already considered a huge order by others.
This is true for the ten canning production lines, this is true for the one-time nationwide advertisement, and the same is true for the "Holy Light" steel plant that Watanabe talked about.
When He Yulan was having a headache about cans, Professor Zheng, who was in charge of engineering machinery, was having a headache about just tinplate in the steel plant.
In the "Fourth Five-Year Plan" of the 1970s, in order to improve the local economy and utilize regional resources, a large number of "Five Small Enterprises" were launched in the country.
The "Five Smalls" are not just five, including small steel, small coal, small glass, small oil refining, small cement, small machinery, small fertilizers, and small thermal power. These are all counted.
Low technical threshold is the characteristic of the "Five Small Enterprises". When the industry was generally backward at that time, the "Five Small Enterprises" solved the demand for primary industrial products in various regions.
But in the 1990s, the "Five Small Enterprises" were wasting resources, causing serious pollution and poor quality. In fact, the industries in Tianyang City are all considered "Five Small Enterprises", and none of them is large-scale.
In the new century, the "Five Small Enterprises" were gradually closed due to various problems, allowing large enterprises with sufficient scale and technology to survive.
The Tianyang City Steel Plant is an out-and-out "small steel". It relies on a few electric furnaces to make short-stroke steel using scrap iron to meet local demand for steel.
This factory was originally very profitable, but the city government still sold it to the Holy Light for foreign exchange.
Zhou Qingfeng has a recycling yard that processes 50,000 tons of domestic waste every month. It produces a large amount of scrap iron, scrap aluminum and scrap metal every day, which is sent to the steel plant for processing.
Because there are enough scrap metals as raw materials, the efficiency of the restructured 'Shengguang' Steel Plant has increased by more than ten times. The workers in the factory are happy.
but......
The technology of this broken factory is too backward.
Several electric furnaces have high energy consumption, low production capacity, and lack of profile processing capabilities. The only thing the factory can produce is crude steel ingots, and it cannot even produce rebar for construction.
Before, Nantou Township Mechanical Repair Factory made axes for Zhou Qingfeng by purchasing steel ingots from the city's steel plant and forging them again.
As for other plates, pipes, and wires, they are all gone. Because they are all "high-tech" and small factories don't even have those equipments.
We can’t produce high-end steel, so let’s supply low-end ones – ‘Holy Light’ now needs to buy cans in large quantities. Whether it’s caps for glass bottles or iron cans in large barrels, they all need tinplate.
But this broken factory can't even produce tinplate.
‘Tinplate’ is the common name for electroplated tin-plated thin steel plate.
Sorry, this is also 'high technology'.
Although it is inconspicuous, the steel plate must be rolled into a uniform thickness of 0.15 to 0.8 mm and tinned on both sides. This is not something that can be done casually. There is a series of production processes.
Anyway, the ‘small steel’ factory in Tianyang really can’t handle it.
Zhou Qingfeng once thought about purchasing equipment to upgrade the "Shengguang" Steel Plant, but found that this was a daydream.
Tianyang does not produce coal, so steelmaking relies entirely on electricity.
There are quite a few small hydropower stations in Tianyang, but they cannot support a large steel plant.
The most important thing is - how many dishes are there? Drink like this. Should it be served with cephalosporin?
Do you know what kind of steel coils are used on heavy trucks that can pull more than 100 tons in future generations? Do you know what equipment is needed to roll steel coils? Do you know how much investment a steel plant that can produce steel coils requires and how long it takes to build?
Anyway, Zhou Qingfeng didn't know, and he immediately gave up the idea after he found out. The 'Shengguang' Steel Factory should just produce some crude steel and aluminum ingots, and don't think about anything else.
But now, because the Holy Light has purchased cans in large quantities, the glass bottles and bottle caps for the cans are actually out of stock.
Zhou Qingfeng wanted to use large barrels, but the tinplate that could make square iron barrels was gone.
The president who was far away in the imperial capital was dumbfounded. This scene seemed familiar - whatever he bought was out of stock. Whatever he wanted, the price went up.
Isn’t it clear that you are trying to trick me to death?
Because of the tinplate issue, Professor Zheng, who serves as the director, had to go to the steel factory in person to supervise production. All the crude steel in the factory was loaded on trains and transported to the provincial capital, and was replaced with tin-plated steel sheets from large steel plants.
Because steel is in short supply across the country, planned and unplanned production and sales are delayed until several months or even a year later. If you don't exchange crude steel for it, they won't sell it to you at all, even if you add money.
But even so, 'Holy Light' still lacks tin-plated steel sheets. Many canneries have said - Want to buy cans? Yes. We have run out of cans, please help us buy some.
There is no need to rush, all we can do is wait.
Now this information has been arranged to be reported - Tianyang's 'Holy Light' Group is in urgent need of purchasing hundreds of goods, and it is also selling hundreds of goods to the outside world at the same time.