Chapter 540 A few thousand taels of silver can open a bicycle factory?
"Yuting, the few years you spent outside the Great Wall have made you grow up a lot. Now you really look like an official. What an honor it is to have a county magistrate among our brothers?"
In Liu Dazhuang's room, Li Yuting and Dazhuang had four plates of simple snacks and a pot of strong wine placed in front of them. The two brothers drank wine, chatted, and recounted the past years.
"Brother Da Zhuang, I don't have an official position. I may still be an official in the county, but when I get to the capital, there are so many sixth- and seventh-grade officials that I'm not worth mentioning."
"What's that? There are so many other places, but you are the first among us brothers, so why are you not worth mentioning? In these years, my wife and I have been running schools, hoping that places like ours can
If more promising people come out, now that you are a role model, more kids will be able to make progress. Who said we kids from the common people can't become high-ranking officials?"
"Brother Zhuang, let's not talk about this topic anymore. Hey, I heard that you have made a name for yourself in the south of our city in the past few years. You are one of the few talents in the south of our city. The sister-in-law you married is also a famous actor in the Chinese Theater.
When people in front of me talk about it, they all drool with envy."
"Hehe! Your sister-in-law is a nice person, and she can like me, a stinky rickshaw puller. Without her support, how could I have been so lucky? By the way, Yuting, you will come back now, and you have to finalize the marriage. You
I don’t know, what worries you the most right now is your marriage. You are the only breadwinner in your family, so you have to pay your bills as soon as possible. Now that you are working as an official abroad, you rarely have time to return to Beijing, and you don’t have a family to take care of you.
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"Brother Zhuang, besides attending your wedding and visiting relatives this time, I have another job to do when I return to Beijing, which is to help the county attract investment. Do you know about bicycles? They seem to be selling very well in Beijing. In Brother Zhuang's opinion,
Do you think it is easy to open a factory that makes such cars?" Li Yuting saw that Liu Dazhuang had brought the topic to his marriage and quickly changed the subject. After returning to Beijing, almost everyone saw him and after chatting for three sentences, they all
Bringing this up made him feel a little annoyed.
"Opening a factory to make bicycles? It is said to be not difficult. Several key parts of bicycles are now sold in supply and marketing cooperatives. However, to build such a factory, it will cost a lot of money. It will definitely cost less than a few thousand taels of silver dollars.
No. In addition, the profit is too low. The prices set by the supply and marketing cooperatives for several key parts are not low. In addition to the cost of self-made parts, the cost of building a car is estimated to be almost the same as the complete vehicle sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives.
.I have saved a car by myself, but it turns out that the savings are not counted as wages, and the cost is higher than what other supply and marketing cooperatives sell, and it is not as useful as other people's. The palace's industry is indeed a conscientious product. In my opinion, they
Most of the goods are bought and sold at low prices, and they are all sold for takeout at prices that are within the reach of ordinary people."
"Brother Zhuang saved a bicycle by himself. Which bicycle can be used now?"
"It works, but it works. I occasionally ride it when I go shopping on the street! It's just that it doesn't work very well and it doesn't look good."
"Brother Zhuang, do you think you can open a car factory with a few thousand taels of silver? I'm afraid that's impossible."
"This matter depends on what kind of factory you want to open. If you have to make everything yourself, it will be difficult to open even a hundred thousand silver dollars, not to mention a few thousand taels of silver dollars. Some parts are only available in the palace factory.
If we can make it, no one else would even think about it. But the factory we open doesn’t make those parts, but buys them all from supply and marketing cooperatives, and there’s no room for profit, so it’s not easy to do it.”
After Liu Dazhuang finished speaking, Li Yuting did not answer immediately, but fell into deep thought. He originally thought that to come to a bicycle factory, he would need at least one hundred thousand taels of silver dollars. But Liu Dazhuang told him that he could handle the matter with a few thousand taels of silver dollars. According to this
In this way, there is no need to go through the uterine delivery system. Their county can find some ways to solve the problem. Bicycles are a promising industry, and there is also a market for this thing in Liaodong. In terms of selling price, it is thirty or forty taels of silver dollars.
The price is less than twice as expensive as the normal mules and horses for transportation. However, it does not need to eat fodder and does not require time to manage it every day, so people are still willing to buy it, especially in Liaodong, which is vast and sparsely populated.
There is a greater need for transportation tools that improve travel efficiency.
Li Yuting's original plan was to use his contacts while working in the supply and marketing cooperative system to run a project jointly organized by palace merchants after arriving in Beijing, and recruit a businessman for the county who could promote industrial development. To achieve this goal, and
It’s not easy. The palace property system is so huge. Even if Li Yuting had worked in the system, it would be difficult to say that he could get away with it. Besides, it is almost impossible to simply let the palace property invest in building a factory. The county must at least make arrangements for it.
Only by settling half of the investment funds can we attract their interest.
Xingcheng County is a county in Liaodong, and private businessmen do not have much funds in their hands. No matter how hard the county tries to find a way, it is difficult to mobilize tens of thousands of taels of silver dollars to participate in this matter. But it is difficult to do it according to the method Liu Dazhuang said.
It's not that big. No matter how poor the county is, it can still be done by raising a few thousand taels of silver. As for the low profit, Liu Dazhuang is talking about the market in Beijing, and Xingcheng has at least one bicycle.
It can buy 35 taels of silver dollars. If it is exported to Japan through the port, it is not difficult to buy 40 taels of silver dollars in North Korea. In addition, Li Yuting, who has been a factory manager, also knows that through large-scale production in factories, it is possible to reduce the price of single products.
The cost is high, otherwise why would the price of the palace’s bicycles be so low? Do you really think they don’t make money?
"Brother Zhuang, I have an unkind request. After you get married, can you accompany your brother to Liaodong and help our county open a bicycle factory? Think about it in the next few days and see who else the bicycle factory needs.
, I took my secretary to the capital to look for some craftsmen, and we will open the car factory as soon as possible." It is always easier to recruit people than to attract investment and run projects. After thinking about it, Li Yuting quickly changed his strategy.
"Yuting, do you really think that driving a car in your county can make a good living?"
"Brother Da Zhuang, don't worry about this. As long as the car can be built, the profit will definitely not be low. By the way, when I arrive in Xingcheng, I will fight for 20% of the shares for you. I will never treat you badly."
"As long as you think it's okay, my brother will accompany you to Liaodong. As for the stock business, I don't need it, and you don't need to embarrass the businessmen in your county who want to invest money." Liu Dazhuang has never made a lot of money in anything he does.
In his opinion, it is worth doing to help his brother get this done and make his official career smoother. Anyway, he doesn’t need to worry about the school affairs anymore. If he goes to Liaodong, he can go to Liaodong.
, he is very happy to accompany his younger brother in his career.