Chapter 42 Disbandment
As Song Yuanchao expected, Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun did not come two days later. According to them, they had found jobs and were going to work. Of course, this was just a poor excuse.
Song Yuanchao didn't say anything about this, and he also greeted Li Daqi, Gu Jie and others. Everyone just pretended that they knew nothing and played dumb.
The departure of Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun still had an impact on the original small team. Everyone was not a fool, and what Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun did privately was no secret. The next day after they left, several more people found excuses to leave. In addition, the same type of hangers that they sold appeared in other places, and the price was two cents cheaper. Naturally, everyone understood what was going on.
At this time, Song Yuanchao announced that Gu Jie would take over the business, which made the remaining people worry about breaking up. However, Gu Jie did a good job after taking over. He told everyone that the business was already settled, and he generously increased the share ratio of everyone, which quickly stabilized people's hearts.
After Gu Jie took over, Song Yuanchao did not let go immediately. He personally took care of him for a few days until he saw that there was no problem with Gu Jie and then he was completely relieved.
Although Song Yuanchao took this opportunity to give up the business, this was his first business after all. Moreover, Gu Jie who took over and many of the people who stayed were Song Yuanchao's former partners. It was reasonable for Song Yuanchao to lend a hand and give them a ride.
After more than a month, Song Yuanchao counted his harvest and earned a total of 12,855 yuan, which was undoubtedly a huge sum of money in that era.
Based on the average monthly salary of about 40 yuan for a working-class family in Shanghai, this amount of money would be equivalent to the income of an ordinary worker for nearly 27 years without eating or drinking.
In other words, a young man would have to work in a factory until retirement to earn this much money, but Song Yuanchao achieved his goal in just over a month. If this were to be made public, I wonder how many people would be surprised.
It is difficult to display so much money. If it were in later generations, this amount of money would be nothing. But now the largest denomination of RMB is the ten-yuan Great Unity note, which is 12,855 yuan. To exchange it for the Great Unity note, you need 1,285 notes, which is nearly 13 thick stacks of banknotes.
Moreover, among the money Song Yuanchao had, only ten-yuan notes were in his hand. Most of it was five-yuan, two-yuan, even one-yuan and Mao Zedong's bills. Putting all this money together almost filled up the entire table, and if stuffed into a sack, it would take up nearly half the volume of the sack.
It is not safe to hide this money at home like this, and it is also not safe to deposit it in the bank.
In an era when the average annual income per capita in cities is only a few hundred yuan, depositing such a huge sum of money in a bank is a complete "surprise". You may just step into the bank when the police arrive after receiving a report and take you directly to the police station to ask you to explain the source of the money.
To this end, Song Yuanchao racked his brains and came up with a solution, which was to break the money into small pieces. He took a few days to visit several banks and exchange the money into anonymous fixed-term and flexible savings books. Such savings books were anonymous and could be used to withdraw cash directly at any time at the bank counters in various districts of the city. For safety reasons, Song Yuanchao would only exchange a maximum of 200 to 300 yuan at each bank each time.
In addition, Song Yuanchao also specially found someone to exchange money for some treasury bonds.
In this era, every unit and enterprise requires employees to purchase a certain amount of treasury bonds every year to complete the tasks assigned by their superiors. However, since people's economic conditions are mostly poor now, and the unit's task of purchasing treasury bonds is a mandatory political task, ordinary people have limited wages, and the treasury bonds bought from the unit with their wages cannot be spent as money. As a result, the treasury bonds in everyone's hands have become dead money.
Therefore, many people who purchased treasury bonds at work would directly sell them at a 10% or even 15% discount of the face value because they were in urgent need of money, in order to exchange the treasury bonds for working cash.
Song Yuanchao had experienced this situation in his previous life, so he understood the demand here very well. For others, treasury bonds that occupy funds are a headache, but Song Yuanchao doesn't think so, so he found someone to exchange a lot of them privately.
After a week of hard work, Song Yuanchao finally exchanged 6,000 yuan of fixed-term and flexible bonds and more than 3,000 yuan of treasury bonds, and still had nearly 3,000 yuan in cash.
However, Song Yuanchao was relieved at this time. Although 3,000 yuan was a lot, it was much less than the previous pile. The fixed-term and temporary banknotes and treasury bonds he exchanged were all large-denomination ones, which were easy to hide. Song Yuanchao found an iron box, put mothballs in it to prevent moths, put the fixed-term and temporary banknotes and treasury bonds in it, sealed it tightly, and hid it in the space under the floor under the bed. It could not be seen from the outside at all.
After Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun recruited a few people to work on their own, their business seemed to be pretty good because they sold their products at a lower price than previously set, and the ingredients used were exactly the same.
Due to the impact of Zhang Bin and his team's products on the market, Gu Jie was forced to lower his prices. He had to lower his prices to the same level as He Zhangbin and his team in order to maintain sales.
This has led to fierce competition in the market. On the surface, the sales of clothes hangers are still hot, but in fact the profit of a single clothes hanger has decreased.
Gu Jie's business acumen may not be as good as Li Daqi's, but there is one thing that Gu Jie has that no one else can compare to, and that is his down-to-earth character and execution ability.
Although Song Yuanchao had officially transferred the business to Gu Jie more than ten days ago, Gu Jie still came to see Song Yuanchao every few days as before, telling Song Yuanchao about the situation of the clothes hanger business and the dynamics of Zhang Bin and others, and asking Song Yuanchao for advice.
Song Yuanchao would naturally not refuse. Besides, people are different. Although Gu Jie's character is not very sharp and lacks the courage and aggressiveness to start a business, people like him can be a good executor.
Song Yuanchao has his own plans for Gu Jie's future arrangements, but that's a story for the future. Gu Jie will definitely be of great use in the future, and he is also happy to give him guidance at this time.
"People who used to work for Zhang Bin have also started to work on their own again. The prices in the market are getting lower and lower. I went out for a look today and found that some places were selling it for only three cents."
Gu Jie said this with a sad face, but when he mentioned selling it for three cents, he seemed to remember his nickname, and the corners of his mouth twitched subconsciously.
"What about you? Has anyone left in the past two days?" Song Yuanchao asked.
Gu Jie nodded and said helplessly, "Jin Chao Ani Tou, Mao Hu Zi, and Chang Jiao said they will not come tomorrow. Although they did not tell me the reason, I know they are planning to go out and work on their own. Brother Song, you also know that although I have increased their share, they still think they can make more money on their own. We are all friends, and I can't stop them from leaving. I have already settled the money for the three of them before I came."
At this point, Gu Jie lowered his head. He felt very guilty that Song Yuanchao transferred the business to him, but he was unable to keep the business for Song Yuanchao.
In just less than half a month, the original team of more than 20 people has become scattered. Now there are only five people left following Gu Jie, including Gu Jie himself. Perhaps it won't be long before these remaining people will completely disband.
Song Yuanchao nodded. The situation was more serious than he had imagined. Originally, Song Yuanchao thought that Gu Jie could hold out for a month , which was about the same time as when he had planned to end the deal. But who would have thought that the situation would turn out like this in the blink of an eye? Gu Jie was not to blame for this. After all, the technical content of the clothes hanger was too low, and Jiang Dongliang's unlimited supply of gloves naturally led to this result.
"How many sleeves do you have?" Song Yuanchao asked after thinking for a while.
"We just received a batch a few days ago, and now there are more than 600 rolls left," said Gu Jie.
Song Yuanchao thought about it and said, "How about this, don't buy more in the future, hurry up and make hangers out of the raw materials you have and sell them. It doesn't matter if you sell them at a lower price, you can decide the price yourself. After you sell them all, we'll call it a day. What do you think? Are you willing to do that?"
"I'm willing to do it. Brother Song, since you said so, just do it. Anyway, this business is given to me by you. Why should I be reluctant to let you end it?" Gu Jie agreed without thinking. Song Yuanchao nodded secretly. He did not choose the wrong person this time.
Although it is different now than at the beginning, with Zhang Bin and others working on their own, the competition and profits in the hanger business are no longer what they were at the beginning. But even so, Gu Jie's profit every day is hundreds of yuan. If he continues to do this, even if he lowers the price, he can still make enough profit. Song Yuanchao asked him to give up this money, and Gu Jie gave it up directly. Most people can't do it at all.
"Okay!" Song Yuanchao nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Disband the people after this is over. If the people who followed you want to work on their own, that's fine. The channels are ready-made and not a secret. Just let them contact each other . Clean up the air-raid shelter and don't leave any mess behind. As for the others, don't worry about them. I'll find something for you to do in a few days."
"Okay! I'll listen to you, Brother Song." Gu Jie smiled happily when he heard the last sentence and nodded repeatedly.
