Chapter 152 The treasure of the town factory (seeking the moon)
After hearing Zhang Junping's request, Director Li was ecstatic.
Previously, Zhang Junping bought 300,000 yuan worth of ancient furniture and remnants of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the woodwork factory paid back a few months' wages so that everyone could have a good New Year.
Now, Zhang Junping wants to buy old wood again. Not only can he have a good year, but he can also have a good year. He can also consider the year-end bonus.
When a woodware factory begins to rely on selling raw materials to survive, bankruptcy is not far away.
"No problem, let's go. I'll take Factory Director Zhang to take a look at it and see if it suits you."
Factory Director Li led Zhang Junping out of the office and headed to the goods yard.
"Is this the workshop of our factory?" Zhang Junping asked casually while passing by a factory building.
"Yes, this is the production workshop of our woodware factory."
Zhang Junping's heart moved and he asked with a smile: "Can I go in and study?"
"Yes, yes, Director Zhang is welcome to visit and give guidance."
At this time, Director Li was completely obedient to Zhang Junping's request.
Follow Factory Manager Li into the production workshop.
Zhang Junping was a little surprised. He originally thought that the woodwork factory was not profitable, so the workshop should be overstaffed and the workers were lazy and working hard.
But the reality is not like this. All carpenters and apprentices are very serious and busy with the work at hand.
In later generations, Zhang Junping once read some reports, saying that the reason why companies went bankrupt was because workers were lazy and did not work seriously, the failure rate was too high, resulting in increased costs, and they stole things from the factory... He also listed many examples.
Zhang Junping just wanted to say, screw it.
The bankruptcy of any factory is not caused by the workers. Although some of them have the problems mentioned above, most of them are good.
Factories like the Beijing Woodware Factory can no longer pay wages, and the products they produce cannot be sold, but these workers are still working hard, hoping to save the factory through their own efforts.
There is also his own furniture factory. Originally, he was worried that recruiting so many apprentices at once would be difficult to manage, lazy and slippery, or other bad things would happen.
But what about the result?
None of the things he worried about happened. Everyone cherished the current job opportunity and worked overtime to learn skills. Except for one who made trouble, everyone else was very obedient.
Only those whose consciences have been eaten by dogs will think that the workers are responsible for the bankruptcy of the factory.
"What we produce here is abacus, and the abacus from our woodwork factory is a best-seller across the country.
The furniture produced here is all for export, and the furniture from our woodware factory is still very popular internationally." Director Li proudly introduced to Zhang Junping.
"Haha, it's amazing. You can earn foreign exchange through exports. Director Li, you are contributing to the realization of the four modernizations." Zhang Junping said with a meaningful smile.
It's popular, but it doesn't mean it's profitable, otherwise you wouldn't be so poor that you'd have to sell off your furniture and old wood.
Zhang Junping did not expose them, there was no need.
"Oh, I originally wanted to trouble Director Li with something else, but when I saw how busy our woodwork factory was, I couldn't open my mouth."
Director Li blinked, savoring the meaning of Zhang Junping's words, but said habitually: "It's okay, Director Zhang, please tell me what's going on first. Although I'm busy here, I can't spare the time."
Come."
"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that our factory's orders have been scheduled until the end of next year, so I thought, if possible, we could ask our woodwork factory to help process a batch of furniture parts. The price is negotiable." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
After listening to Zhang Junping's words, Director Li felt as if a pie from the sky had happened to hit him on the head, which made him a little confused.
In the era of planned economy, carpentry factories were very comfortable. They didn't have to worry about anything and could just sit and wait for the tasks assigned by their superiors.
However, with the reform and opening up, the country is transforming from a planned economy to a market economy, and the production tasks assigned to woodware factories by superiors have suddenly decreased.
As a result, life at the woodware factory became difficult.
After a long while, Director Li asked in disbelief: "Director Zhang, you said you plan to transfer the order to us?"
"I'm not transferring the order to you, but entrusting our woodwork factory to process some furniture parts on your behalf." Zhang Junping corrected.
"Just some furniture parts?" Director Li was a little disappointed.
"Yes, it's not much. The order is only a few hundred thousand yuan a month at most. If Director Li can help..."
"Yes, no problem! Our woodware factory can definitely take on this order." Before Zhang Junping could finish speaking, Director Li rushed to agree.
Orders of more than 100,000 yuan a month are not a small amount for a woodware factory.
"Okay, let's take a look at the old redwood first, and then slowly discuss the price." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
Just seeing the workshop of the woodware factory, Zhang Junping suddenly thought that he was overwhelmed with orders now, so why not give some of the orders to the woodware factory.
Not only the Beijing Woodware Factory, but also several other woodware factories can also prepare the medicine according to the prescription and entrust them to process it on their behalf.
As for whether they can imitate the furniture styles I designed and then produce them myself to compete with them for business.
Zhang Junping had already taken precautions against this. What he handed over to the woodwork factory were only furniture parts.
For example, for a large wardrobe, he only handed over half of the parts to the woodworking factory for processing, and the drawings he gave to the woodworking factory were only size drawings of each component.
No matter how good the craftsman in the woodwork factory is, he cannot guess the style of furniture from half of the furniture parts.
Another thing is, if people really want to imitate, they don’t need to place an order to imitate it. They can just buy a set of furniture, and those master carpenters can imitate it. Even a powerful master can imitate Zhang Junping by buying a wall calendar.
The designed furniture is restored.
"Okay, okay, Director Zhang, please come over here!" Director Li was even more enthusiastic towards Zhang Junping.
Although Director Li was a bit selfish, he also had true feelings for the woodware factory. Zhang Junping's order undoubtedly saved the woodware factory.
Otherwise, the woodwork factory will really be shut down next year at best. All kinds of furniture for export will be piled up in the warehouse, and there will be no room for reproduction.
"Director Zhang, look, this one is old redwood, which is the treasure of our woodwork factory.
When the Qing Dynasty had not yet perished, the woodwork factory was still called Long Shuncheng. The palace ordered a batch of furniture, but as soon as the wood was shipped back, suddenly overnight, the Qing Dynasty disappeared.
Later when Yuan Shikai came to the throne, he also wanted to use this wood to make a set of furniture, but before we could start production, Yuan Shikai died." Director Li pointed to an old mahogany log that was two meters thick and told Zhang Junping
said.
Zhang Junping didn't know whether what Director Li said was true, but the old redwood logs with a diameter of more than two meters were indeed qualified to be called the treasure of the factory.