Chapter 837: If you have a bad stomach, you can only eat soft food

Author: It rains on rainy days

Chapter 837: If you have a bad stomach, you can only eat soft food

In the conference room filled with smoke, everyone looked a little heavy.

After a while, Wang Liqing, who was sitting at the top, put down the documents in his hands and said, "The situation now is very bad!"

"Our gross profit has further decreased this month, and I'm afraid we will lose money next month!"

"The new cotton yarns on the market today are too competitive, and our cotton yarn market is getting smaller and smaller!"

"Today, the quality of our cotton yarn is much worse than that of new cotton yarn. In order to continue to win orders, we have to cut prices many times, which also leads to a further reduction in our gross profit. The factory is running all day long, and money is

But I didn’t make much money.”

"What's more important is that even so, orders are getting fewer and fewer."

"I had dinner with Mr. Li of Guangsheng Textile Company, who we have had a cooperative relationship with for more than ten years, and he has made it clear that their Guangsheng Company is undergoing transformation and will gradually put into production new types of cloth produced from new high-quality cotton yarns, and will gradually reduce the use of old

cloth production, which means that subsequent orders for cotton yarn will be less and less for us."

"If we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't even have any orders for a long time. Even if there are some orders, the more we do, the more we will lose. By then, how will the hundreds of people in our factory be able to support their families?"

"It is urgent to purchase new equipment, improve technology, and further improve the quality of our cotton yarn!"

"Old Tang, you are our financial manager. How about the funds to purchase additional equipment? Can you get it together?"

After the middle-aged man Wang Liqing at the top finished speaking, an old man at the bottom said: "General Manager Wang, the funding problem is difficult to solve. Our factory does not have much working capital to begin with, and we still need to set aside part of it to deal with payment of goods and wages.

, the monthly repayments from the bank, which can squeeze out the funds to purchase additional equipment, are probably only about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, and this is not enough."

"We are not optimistic about bank loans. The Xicheng Branch of Finance Bank has a very clear attitude. Our three previous mortgage loans have not been paid off, and most of our factories and equipment have also been mortgaged. In this case, even if we can get a loan,

I’m afraid it won’t be too big.”

“It’s not easy to get a loan to purchase equipment under such circumstances!”

Wang Liqing, the leader, said: "If the financial bank can't do it, what about other banks? After all, we still have a piece of land in Nantong that can be used as collateral!"

The finance manager down below, Old Tang, shook his head: "All the financial banks we have cooperated with for more than ten years have rejected it, not to mention other banks, let alone a partial loan, even if they don't give it at all!"

"Although everyone knows that we bought the land in Nantong with real money, we are caught in a debt dispute after all. The lawsuit has not been won. The bank will not recognize the real ownership of the land."

The right to pledge a piece of land.”

At this time, a middle-aged person next to him said: "Oh, if I had known earlier, I shouldn't have cooperated with others to build a branch factory in Nantong. As soon as the money was invested, something went wrong with the partner, and we were all implicated in it."

, the land was frozen by those creditors."

“It’s impossible to raise money to upgrade technical equipment now!”

Another person said: "What's the use of talking about it now? Who knows that the Song Family Trading Company, which we have cooperated with for many years, went bankrupt when it was said to be closed down, and was involved in debt disputes and the Nantong branch factory that we cooperated with."

"It's useless to say this now. The top priority now is to solve the problem of equipment funding. Since Hantian Machinery Company's new spinning machine was put into the market, the spinning market has been changing three times a day. This old equipment and old technology will no longer work."

"It's all my fault that Hantian Machinery Company has nothing to do with new spinning machines. In the past, even new spinning machines were only minor improvements. I didn't expect that this time they directly made a big upgrade, not to mention that the efficiency was doubled.

, and the quality of the spun yarn is much better!”

"That's right, they were pretty good in the past. They said every year that the new spinning machine would be upgraded, but in fact it was just like that. If you don't invest in building a new factory, then the old spinning machine can be repaired and used!"

"But this year, that damn Hantian Machinery Company actually launched a new type of spinning machine regardless of the lives of many spinning mills. According to me, many domestic spinning mills may not be able to survive this wave!"

"But no matter what, with what Hantian Machinery Company does, the spinning industry will definitely enter a new stage in the future. The original spinning machines will soon be reduced to mid- to low-end equipment. In a few years, they will all be replaced."

Completely eliminated!"

"Should we sell the old yarn machines we have on hand as soon as possible? After all, many people in remote places are relatively secluded in the news and don't know that new yarn machines have appeared."

"And even if they know that a new yarn machine has appeared, they don't all know the huge gap between the new yarn machine and the old yarn machine!"

"Maybe we can still get a good price for it."

“By transferring the old equipment, we can also get some money back to purchase new equipment!”

After hearing this, Wang Liqing, who was sitting on top, said: "This is a feasible way. Zhao will do it this way. You can contact us outside to find a market for the old equipment we have on hand!"

"Old Tang, continue to contact various banks. Although our Anhua Cotton Mill in Songjiang is not too big, it is still a time-honored brand for more than 20 years. Let's see if we can apply for an equipment loan and use the new equipment directly as collateral.

!”

"Financial bankers have great careers and now they don't like us, so don't go to them and go to other banks, especially Guangtong Bank. They are a foreign bank that has just entered the Songjiang market. When they officially need customers, tell them if

If they can agree to this loan, then we will enter into strategic cooperation with them!"

"Minister Li, your technical department immediately contacted Hantian Machinery Company. We still have a batch of funds on hand. We will use these funds to order a small amount of equipment first and bring it back to let the engineers become familiar with the equipment and start training workers.

They sign an intention order and queue up our order first!”

After all the affairs were arranged, Wang Liqing waved everyone to disperse, but he did not leave directly. Instead, he continued to sit in the conference room and lit another cigarette.

Smoke continued to fill the conference room, and after a long time, the middle-aged man could be heard sighing.

Wang Liqing, the founder and general manager of Anhua Cotton Mill, a time-honored cotton mill in Songjiang City... This may seem like a dog-like thing, but in fact, Wang Liqing knew that he was nothing more than a leg of mud, and he couldn't eat it every day.

Full meal.

He was not even from Songjiang...but from Xiangyang in northern Chu. His hometown suffered a disaster in his early years and he fled to Funiu Mountain.

Later, the emperor started an uprising in Funiu Mountain and established China to recruit troops. Wang Liqing also felt hungry at that time... so he followed the thieves regardless... Alas, from the dragon!

Wang Liqing, who served as the leader of the Dragon Queen, had good or bad luck.

I was lucky because during the several years of the Unification War, I was basically stationed in the rear. I never fought in a serious battlefield, and I was not killed or injured... I gradually reached the rank of sergeant major.

What bad luck... Naturally, it's because he is just a sergeant major... He is an old man who served as a dragon during the Funiu Mountain period!

Among the thousands of people who followed the dragon in Funiu Mountain, as long as they were not killed in the Unification War or retired due to injuries early... they stayed around until the end of the Unification War. Those who were lucky and capable became generals, and those who were just a few.

A colonel, or even a lieutenant who is a little worse...it is rare to still be a leading soldier at the end of the Unification War!

After all, during the Funiu Mountain period, there were a lot of Conglong people, generals, cabinet ministers, and frontier officials... There were even thousands of school officers and lieutenants!

Big-headed soldiers, that’s really not many!

Of course, although there aren’t many, there are still some!

Due to various coincidences, there are still hundreds of people who have been stationed in the rear for a long time without any chance of meritorious service, or due to various other reasons... Wang Liqing is such an unlucky guy!

Wang Liqing has been in the army for several years, and has been stationed in the rear with the third-line troops for a long time. He has never been on a formal battlefield. He has never even encountered things like suppressing bandits and suppressing armed tax resistance... In terms of military merit, he really can't get it.

Take action, it’s really hard to get promoted in the Chu army that values ​​military merit!

By the fifth year of Chengshun, the Chu Empire had established a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River. He was still a sergeant major in the second-line army, and that was all he had to do.

Later, when Luo Zhixue discovered that there was such a group of people, in order to reward the loyalty of these early warriors, he specially opened several issues for these veterans who were early warriors but failed to rise due to various reasons.

A special crash course for army officers... just to help them solve the issue of military rank and subsequent retirement benefits.

Well, people followed you when Luo Zhixue had only a few thousand people under his command. Now that you have conquered the world and are sitting on the throne of emperor, you can't treat your old ministers too badly, right?

Moreover, these people have not made any big mistakes, and Luo Zhixue cannot ignore them both emotionally and rationally.

It was against this background that Wang Liqing enrolled in the officer crash course... This was also the last large-scale crash course set up in the Chu Empire Army Officer School.

Going forward, the crash course, a typical wartime special officer training mechanism, will be cancelled. Subsequent soldiers who have made meritorious service will directly enter the formal classes of the Army Officer School. If their cultural level is not enough, they will first take one or two years of cultural courses.

During Wang Liqing's six-month crash course, he married the only daughter of a textile merchant in Songjiang based on his status as an army officer in the Chu Empire.

After serving as an officer for only two years, the army encountered a large-scale reorganization after the Eastern Spoiler War. His unit was stationed in the rear area of ​​​​Jiangxi Province for a long time, and was directly disbanded and merged... Although he could continue to serve at that time,

But the C-class division that was to be assigned to garrison in remote places in Yunnan and Guizhou... After discussing with his wife, he simply retired and changed his career.

At that time, in order to encourage military officers to take the initiative to retire and change careers, the retiring and career benefits provided were quite good.

If assigned at that time, he could choose to be the deputy station chief of a patrol station in a town in Jiangxi. This position was actually pretty good... equivalent to the deputy director of the police station in later generations.

Even if they are not big or small in the local area, they are considered to be members of a decent official family.

Or just get a large sum of money for retirement and settle things with the authorities from now on...

Wang Liqing was afraid of poverty in his life and was very tempted by the large retirement pay.

Moreover, for him, Jiangxi is just a place where he has been stationed for more than a year. He can't even understand the locals...

At the same time, his wife didn't want to live with him in a remote place...she persuaded him to move directly to Songjiang, saying that his father would help him arrange a career and start a spinning mill.

So he simply took a large amount of retirement pay, took his wife and children to Songjiang... and then founded Anhua Cotton Mill with the help of his father-in-law.

Under the guidance of his father-in-law, he started his business career!

A few years later, Wang Liqing's father-in-law became addicted to wine and sex, and finally died contentedly in the small green building... His father-in-law became jealous of the young lady, fought with others over wine, and drank himself to death.

The father-in-law's youngest son died young, the mother-in-law died early, and Wang Liqing's wife was the only daughter. The considerable assets left by the father-in-law naturally went into the hands of Wang Liqing's wife.

Relying on the financial support of his wife's private assets, Anhua Spinning Factory grew rapidly. In just a few years, it grew from a few dozen employees to more than 200 people, and continued to grow steadily along the way.

Up to now, the total number of employees in Anhua Spinning Mill and several affiliated small branches has reached more than 800 people.

Although this scale is not a large yarn factory, and it is not a large enterprise in Songjiang, it is still okay.

But after developing to this point, Anhua Spinning Mill encountered its first real crisis.
To be continued...