After thinking for a long time, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly realized that although there were many companies in his hands, the most suitable one to settle in Xiangjiang now was probably the Hongguang Transportation Company, which was related to trade.

The reason is that transportation companies can engage in international trade, and international trade is the broadest business in Hong Kong for the inland.

If it is a publishing house or other company, the censorship in Xiangjiang is often stricter, because you may be suspected of exporting ideology.

Don't laugh, people really had this kind of censorship in the 1980s.

Therefore, simply doing trade is the easiest project to do between China and Hong Kong.

But the problem is that Hongguang Transportation Company is actually just an internal name, and its external banner is still Hongguang Machinery Factory, so it cannot be regarded as a separate company.

In other words, the so-called Hongguang Transportation Company was formerly the Transportation Department and Security Department of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Later, in order to streamline finance, an internal reform was carried out.

The reform method is to separate the transportation department and the security department into a subsidiary company of Hongguang Machinery Factory, that is, Hongguang Transportation Company.

The advantage of this is that the subsidiary can be financially independent and does not need to be mixed with the finance of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

To put it bluntly, this kind of reform is to separate the money-making departments, establish a subsidiary company, and have Cao Zhiqiang undertake the contracting.

In this way, all the profitable businesses are contracted by Cao Zhiqiang, while the businesses that are not profitable, those that have been losing money, or those that cannot be divided will continue to stay in Hongguang Machinery Factory.

At that time, once the government wants to carry out forced rectification and mergers and acquisitions, then the main factory of Hongguang Machinery Factory can be merged and acquired, and those profitable subsidiaries can take the opportunity to become independent and separate from the main factory.

This approach, at best, is called reasonable asset optimization; at worst, it is legal misappropriation of state-owned assets.

Of course, no one is a fool, so to really achieve this, the key is to look at the upper-level transactions.

Coincidentally, although Director Li and Secretary Dong of Hongguang Machinery Factory are about to retire, they have extensive connections.

Therefore, they have already informed the relevant yamen that once the rectification is confirmed, those subsidiaries can be separated separately and transformed into enterprises with collective ownership.

In other words, those branches that were "temporarily" contracted out by Cao Zhiqiang are still nominally wholly-owned subsidiaries of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

But once the higher authorities want to rectify the main factory of Hongguang Machinery Factory and abolish Hongguang Machinery Factory, then the subsidiaries of Hongguang Machinery Factory, such as Hongguang Publishing House and Hongguang Transportation Company, will have to undergo collectivization reforms.

The specific method is that these companies issue internal shares internally, and all employees in different subsidiaries hold shares. All employees become shareholders, becoming a veritable collective enterprise.

Of course, although it is a collective system, the shareholding ratio will be divided according to factors such as position, investment ratio, and influence.

Like ordinary employees, of course they hold less shares, but like leaders, they naturally hold more shares.

Founders and investors like Cao Zhiqiang certainly have the largest shareholding ratio, which should theoretically exceed 40%, but cannot exceed 51%.

After all, it is a collective system. If you personally exceed 51%, you have crossed the line.

And people like Secretary Dong, Factory Manager Li, Chen Jiabang, and Security Section Chief Zeng, etc., will naturally be given free shares based on their contribution.

In this case, of course everyone is happy.

And in fact, after this internal differentiation reform, the overall financial situation of Hongguang Machinery Factory has indeed been greatly improved.

Even Hongguang Machinery Factory's original unprofitable and purely money-losing businesses, such as the publicity department and art troupe, can be added to different subsidiaries by transferring personnel.

Therefore, people at Hongguang Machinery Factory are now begging grandpa and grandma for help, hoping that they can be transferred from the main factory to a branch below.

After all, everyone knows that branch companies have a lot of profits and may be divided into shares in the future.

In addition to these, there are actually some branches that do not have clear names, but have actually begun branch operations.

For example, the Shiweitian restaurant sold by Cao Zhiqiang.

Shiweitian was originally a restaurant opened by Cao Zhiqiang, but it was not a simple restaurant, but more like a training class for chefs and waiters.

Most of the young people who used to work at Hongguang Machinery Factory liked to go to places like Hongguang Department Store and transportation companies. After all, they were well-informed and had high incomes.

But middle-aged people, who can no longer work hard, often prefer light jobs such as working as waiters in restaurants.

Later, Cao Zhiqiang sold Shiweitian, but for the time being, Shiweitian still stuck to the old ways and still hired the same people sent by Hongguang Machinery Factory.

In addition, the canteen within the Hongguang Machinery Factory has also undergone certain renovations, and began to use the canteen's own chefs to provide large-scale training for internal people who want to be cooks and waiters.

In other words, all these tasks are to prepare personnel for the upcoming Hongguang Catering Group, but no one understands how to operate it specifically. They still need to wait for Cao Zhiqiang to come back, so the Hongguang Catering Group has not been established for the time being.

Another similar one is the "experimental workshop" of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

In fact, today's Hongguang Machinery Factory has already decided to carry out overall rectification and acquire most of the factory to Shougang and the Beijing City Government. Therefore, the original main business, such as various mechanical parts processing, etc., has basically been eliminated.

Stopped.

It is precisely because most of the factories are shut down that internal rectification can be carried out so easily.

Without him, if everyone has work to do and is very busy, who will learn new knowledge or do on-the-job training?

However, as an old factory that mainly supplies military parts, Hongguang Machinery Factory still retains many good workers, especially those skilled workers.

Although the eighth-level fitters are gone, there are still a lot of fifth- and sixth-level fitters and blacksmiths.

The original way out for these people was to merge into Shougang, but obviously this method was not good.

After all, merging with Shougang is equivalent to moving to someone else's territory. Shougang also has its own skilled workers. If you are a foreign skilled worker, it doesn't mean that you will not be used, but you certainly cannot be reused.

Therefore, if they can avoid going to other factories, these old workers will not want to go.

As for Hongguang Machinery Factory, after some operations by Cao Zhiqiang, it has indeed opened up a lot of outlets, but most of the outlets before were mainly in the service industry.

Such as publishing houses, retail kiosks, transportation companies, etc.

It's not that the old workers can't go to these places, but if they go, it will be a pity for their craftsmanship.

As for Cao Zhiqiang in the early stage, there was nothing good he could do about this, after all, his abilities were limited.

But later, after the system was upgraded, more things were provided, and Cao Zhiqiang had more room to operate.

When Cao Zhiqiang provided a large amount of sensitive materials and technical information to the country through Uncle Lin, he also made a request, that is, give Hongguang Machinery Factory a share of the things Cao Zhiqiang provided.

Hongguang Machinery Factory can't handle big things, but if you want to conduct experiments on light weapons, that's still fine.

In the past, Hongguang Machinery Factory manufactured a large number of parts for various artillery pieces. Now it is not a big problem to produce small weapons, such as bullpup rifles.

Of course, Uncle Lin himself has no say in this matter, but he can ask his superiors for instructions.

After asking for instructions from his superiors, that is, Grandpa Deng, that lovely and amiable grandpa gave instructions decisively and agreed to Cao Zhiqiang's request, and was willing to let Hongguang Machinery Factory add the "VHS-2 wireless system" provided by Cao Zhiqiang.

The development plan of "Bulppable Rifle".

The reason why Hongguang Machinery Factory was only allowed to join the development plan of the "VHS-2 bullpup rifle" is because this rifle is not simple.

The principles of firearms are those that can be understood at a glance. The key is that the production process is too advanced.

Whether it is polymer technology, barrel processing technology, sight technology, or even surface spraying technology, there are many things that our country does not currently have.

This is also understandable. After all, the VHS-2 rifle is a product of the 21st century, and many production processes are certainly beyond the control of China today.

However, with detailed technical information, following the drawings and doing a little bit of research and development, there should be no problem.

In particular, it is okay if you put aside some things that are too advanced and make parts that are suitable for current technology first.

According to Uncle Lin, a group of leaders, including Grandpa Deng, liked the gun very much after seeing the pictures and data, especially after hearing that this gun had not appeared anywhere in the world.

Everyone hopes to produce a prototype as soon as possible, even if it is a simple prototype, let's see the quality first.

In other words, because many leaders like this gun, we need to get it out as soon as possible, at least a simplified version.

Among them, the design and simplification aspects cannot be done by Hongguang Machinery Factory.

The task undertaken by Hongguang Machinery Factory is to process and manufacture basic parts.

In other words, the basic components of this gun, such as the barrel, bolt, and spring, are all made by Hongguang Machinery Factory.

To this end, Hongguang Machinery Factory specially set aside a best workshop and mobilized the best workers to carry out comprehensive attacks.

Among them is Mr. Yi who was specially hired by Cao Zhiqiang.

Although Uncle Yi has retired for many years, he is still an eighth-level fitter. His hands may not be good, but his eyesight is still there.

Moreover, Uncle Yi’s organizational and management skills are also good. It will not be a big problem for him to lead the team to tackle the basic components of the bullpup rifle.

Up to now, a lot of time has passed, and Cao Zhiqiang still doesn't know how the experimental workshop is being run.

After all, it was a highly confidential mission, and it was impossible to casually tell Cao Zhiqiang, who was still far away in Tokyo.

But when Cao Zhiqiang returns to Beijing, we will probably know the specific progress.

Anyway, Cao Zhiqiang must be open to these so-called confidential things.

In short, at present, Hongguang Transportation Company should be the most suitable to open a branch in Xiangjiang first.

Although Hongguang Transportation Company is only a subsidiary company of Hongguang Machinery Factory and does not have the qualifications of an independent company for the time being. It is still covered by the name of Hongguang Machinery Factory, but this kind of thing is not difficult to handle.

All you need to do is establish a shell company in Xiangjiang through an overseas investment company, and then cooperate with Hongguang Transportation Company on a joint-stock basis to form a joint venture, and that's it.

At that time, Hongguang Transportation Company will only be the major shareholder of the newly established joint venture transportation company, and will naturally have the right to send people to work in Xiangjiang.

As for Hongguang Machinery Factory being abolished in the future, there will be issues of property rights.

You don’t have to worry about this, you just need to sign a contract protected by Hong Kong law when the joint venture is established.

As long as it is stated in the contract, the joint venture company only recognizes Hongguang Transportation Company as a shareholder of the company. As a shareholder, Hongguang Transportation Company needs to notify other shareholders in advance and obtain the consent of other shareholders if there is a change in legal person.

If Hongguang Transportation Company forcibly changes the legal person or the original shareholder composition without the consent of other shareholders, the shares of Hongguang Transportation Company will be forcibly transferred to other shareholders of the joint venture company.

Well, that's probably what it means. To be specific, just ask a local lawyer in Xiangjiang to draft the contract, and it's guaranteed to keep the mainland company in check.
To be continued...