Chapter 326 Characters
Song Yuanchao experienced the changes during this period and witnessed with his own eyes how some once prosperous and promising enterprises declined due to forced mergers and eventually disappeared in the long river of history.
From this point of view, Song Yuanchao agreed with commercial mergers, but opposed such compulsory administrative mergers. In his view, no matter what the nature of the enterprise is, the key is the good operation and competitiveness of the enterprise, rather than implementing it because of political achievements or simply adding one plus one.
Song Yuanchao had specifically written these things down in the things he had given to Lin Daoyuan. Although he knew that these were somewhat inappropriate, he still wrote them down just to remind Lin Daoyuan, hoping that they would be of some use in the future.
Now the merger has become the focus. In this era, both administrative and commercial mergers are new things, and are not approved by most people. Moreover, the proposal for the merger was not proposed by the superiors, but by Lin Yuhang. From this point of view, the merger from a commercial perspective is fundamentally different from the administrative forced merger.
Thinking of this, Song Yuanchao has already understood the consequences of the incident. This matter was probably related to Lin Daoyuan from the very beginning. Lin Daoyuan not only wanted to use this incident to try out the business merger model of the state-owned enterprise industry and make a beginning for subsequent corporate mergers, but also intended to use this incident to test Lin Yuhang and let him get training and growth through this incident.
This makes perfect sense, and we can understand why the leader let Lin Yuhang take the lead even though he clearly had the idea of a merger, and remained neutral during the merger process, allowing other leaders to raise objections but not expressing a final attitude.
All of this was communicated in advance between Lin Daoyuan and the leader. Perhaps no one else was aware of this communication except them, even Lin Yuhang, who was a pawn and the person involved.
This is Song Yuanchao's guess. Although he cannot prove whether his guess is correct for the time being, he feels that the probability of this guess being true is very high.
"I heard that several leaders proposed to cancel the merger and let Factory Eight assume the debts transferred from Factory Three?" Song Yuanchao asked a key question.
"You said you heard it." Lin Yuhang shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Of course this is false. Although someone mentioned it, it was directly rejected by the top leader at the meeting. Isn't this approach equivalent to killing the rich to help the poor? What would other factories think if this happened? Would they handle it the same way if something like this happened again? Would everyone be in danger in the end? If such an administrative order really came down, as the director and secretary of Factory 8, I would definitely refuse it directly. Even if I was dismissed and transferred from Factory 8, I would never agree!"
Lin Yuhang's decisive words made Song Yuanchao give him a thumbs up in his heart, and Lin Yuhang's answer also gave Song Yuanchao more confidence.
"What is the current situation of the third factory?"
"Not good, very bad." Lin Yuhang said, "The inventory of the third factory is too much, and the initial investment was too large. What's more troublesome is that we will officially fulfill a large number of purchase contracts next. The initial expenditure for raw materials for the purchase contracts alone will be more than 2 million, and the problem is that after purchasing these raw materials, it is impossible to continue to produce the previous products."
"Excluding the raw materials and previous losses, the packaging of the warm cups at the third factory accounted for a large part. The cost of these warm cups and returned goods was worth about 3 million yuan, so the initial estimate of the 5 million yuan shortfall was not an underestimation, and it may even be more."
"A few days ago, I remitted 300,000 yuan to Factory 3 on behalf of Factory 8. This money was an emergency. If other factors are excluded, this money can only cover Factory 3's current return shipping costs, employee wages and factory maintenance costs. Once this money is used up, Factory 3 will definitely not be able to survive."
"So are the superiors putting pressure on Factory 8 now?" Song Yuanchao asked again.
Lin Yuhang thought for a moment and said, "Our superiors are quite understanding of us. After all, it was the people from Factory 3 who started the incident. We from Factory 8, including myself, have fulfilled our obligations. However, since the impact has already occurred, the merger has been temporarily suspended. I haven't received any notification on what to do next."
"How is the current operation of the Eighth Factory? How much profit can it achieve per month now?" Song Yuanchao continued to ask.
At this point, Lin Yuhang's face lit up. He smiled and told Song Yuanchao that the current business of the Eighth Factory was very good. Song Yuanchao had seen it when he came. There was an endless queue of people queuing outside the factory to order goods. Moreover, the factory was now operating in three shifts 24 hours a day, and the sales of the ginseng royal jelly product could not be better.
As for the profit, there is no need to mention it. The profit of ginseng royal jelly is even higher than the profit of warm cup packaging. If it were not for the current large-scale purchase of raw materials and the need for growth, the profit of Factory 8 would be even higher.
Even so, Factory Eight is not short of money now. According to estimates, if the current situation continues, the profit earned by Factory Eight will exceed a huge number in two months. By then, let alone the 5 million from Factory Three, Factory Eight will be able to take out more.
Feeling completely confident, Song Yuanchao completely relaxed.
"Yuan Chao, this is the situation now. I'm under a lot of pressure until this matter is over, and there are many employees in the Eighth Factory who are dissatisfied with me. If it weren't for the improved performance of the Eighth Factory, maybe our factory would have started a riot first."
"Haha, there's no rush." Song Yuanchao lit up a cigarette and took a puff. He said to Lin Yuhang, "Second brother, I wonder if you've heard this before?"
"What?"
"A business that is rushed is not a business!"
"Of course I know this, but what ?" Lin Yuhang asked in confusion.
Song Yuanchao reached out and tapped the coffee table, then asked with a smile, "Why is it okay? It was you who suggested the merger, right?"
"Yes...you mean..." Lin Yuhang thought for a moment.
Song Yuanchao nodded and said, "That's right. Since you have made a suggestion, but the other party doesn't appreciate it, then why are you so anxious? The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is? Isn't this a rush to buy a deal?"
"Now that the Third Factory has gone to make trouble, the higher-ups have called a halt. Isn't that just right? Anyway, your suggestion has been put forward. What does it have to do with you whether it succeeds or not? Wouldn't it be better if it doesn't work? Isn't it nice to just live a happy life behind closed doors?"
"Besides, your superiors aren't putting too much pressure on you right now, and they haven't issued any administrative orders. You're just thinking too much and putting all the responsibility on yourself. It would be strange if you don't worry."
"I suggest you just pretend that this never happened and do whatever you want, continue production, continue sales, and be the director of your Eighth Factory in peace. By the way, the production capacity of the Eighth Factory is insufficient now, right? You can report to your superiors and request that the Eighth Factory be allocated land to build a new factory to expand production capacity or something like that."
Lin Yuhang thought about it and hesitated: "Is this...appropriate?"
"What's inappropriate?" Song Yuanchao asked back.
"Yes, what's inappropriate?" Lin Yuhang asked himself. He had considered the production capacity of Factory 8 before. If it weren't for the situation of Factory 3, Factory 8 would have submitted this report long ago.
At present, the production capacity of the Eighth Factory has reached a bottleneck and the production has reached its peak. It is impossible to continue to expand production under the current situation of the Eighth Factory. However, the vast market and the products in short supply are there. If the Eighth Factory does not advance, it will retreat. Once other manufacturers from other places follow suit, the world that the Eighth Factory has conquered may be snatched away by others.
From this point of view, the most important thing for the Eighth Factory is to expand production as quickly as possible, and the best way to expand production besides mergers is to build branch factories.
The land is worthless now, but Factory Eight is not without money. It asked its superiors for a piece of land, and then paid for the construction of a new factory. At the same time, it purchased equipment and installed assembly lines. In this way, the new factory can be put into production as early as the beginning of next year. After the new factory is put into production, the production scale of Factory Eight will increase several times on the existing basis.
But wouldn't this be equivalent to telling everyone that the merger of the three factories was a failure? Thinking of this, Lin Yuhang suddenly understood what Song Yuanchao had just said, and a light bulb went off in his head, and he completely woke up.
"That's right. There's nothing inappropriate about this. Yuan Chao, you're right. A deal that's made to rush is not a deal. I'm the director of the Eighth Factory. No matter what I do, I must first consider the Eighth Factory itself. Now the most important thing for the Eighth Factory is to expand production and occupy the market. Since the three factories are unwilling to merge, the Eighth Factory will not force it. We will do our own thing step by step!"
"That's right!" Song Yuanchao laughed and clapped his hands. It's not that Lin Yuhang is not smart. How could he be an officer at the level of battalion commander if he was a soldier who only knew how to work hard? It's just that Lin Yuhang has never worked in a company. He doesn't understand some things as well as Song Yuanchao does, and he doesn't have the ability of Song Yuanchao to see through the essence at a glance.
But as time goes by, Lin Yuhang is also making continuous progress. This is how people are. Experience grows through life and work.
Song Yuanchao's suggestion directly opened Lin Yuhang's eyes and helped him to jump out of the difficult problem.
In this way, Lin Yuhang changed from a chess piece to a chess player, and from a person involved to a bystander.
Looking at the time, it was almost noon, so Song Yuanchao stood up and said goodbye.
Of course Lin Yuhang wouldn't let him go. It was almost noon and it would be inappropriate for him to leave like this. After all, he had to eat lunch before leaving, right?
But Song Yuanchao still rejected Lin Yuhang's kindness. He had just returned and had too many things to do. Moreover, the most important thing for Lin Yuhang right now was to submit this report as soon as possible. Lin Yuhang had a lot of things to do next, and Song Yuanchao didn't want his interruption to delay his work.
"I have to run some errands. By the way, I came back in a hurry this time, and the gifts I brought for you are still on the way. In a few days, please help me find a truck to go to the train station and bring the things back."
"What gifts did you bring ? Do you need a truck to transport them?" Lin Yuhang asked curiously.
"Hahaha, you'll know when you see it. It's a good thing, you'll definitely like it." Song Yuanchao stood up and said so with a smile, then asked Lin Yuhang to stay, and he left his office directly and left Factory 8 in a good mood.
