Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0650: Doubts
"There is nothing we can do about being passive. Merchants in this land are already in a passive position. If it weren't for the word foreign investment, we wouldn't even have the current status."
"I don't think so. We haven't been treated unfairly. No matter what we do, it goes smoothly." Yang Kaiyan said disapprovingly.
"Foreign investment, joint ventures, and the Yang family. All your success is inseparable from these three factors. Your friend Wang Quan has more say in whether the business is good or not. You are a special case and it is not universal."
Yang Kaiyan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe."
"Anything else? If not, I'll be leaving first. I'll be going abroad soon and have a lot of things to arrange before I leave. If you want to see me, wait a week."
"I originally had some details to discuss with you. Since you have something else to do, let's make an appointment next time. Please give me at least three hours next time."
"Sure, not to mention three hours, three days is no problem." Nan Yi took out money from his pocket and clamped it between his fingers, then waved to the waiter not far away.
"It doesn't take three days, as long as you can be on time and don't miss the appointment."
"Haha, no, definitely not."
After saying goodbye to Yang Kaiyan, Nan Yi went to the Jiu Pharmaceutical Factory immediately.
Leng Yan had already left for Bagui yesterday, and now there is no one from Nan Yi at the Jiu Pharmaceutical Factory.
When he arrived at the Jiuyao Factory, Nan Yi still did not go to the factory director's office, but went directly to the Finance Department. He still wanted to borrow a desk from the Finance Department.
As soon as he walked into the Finance Department, Nan Yi's eyes swept across everyone's face. He just glanced at other people, but when he came to Jiang Ziqi, Nan Yi's gaze stayed on it for several seconds.
"Her face is full of spring light, her eyebrows are relaxed, her skin is whiter and more tender than the day before yesterday, and she looks very happy. If I am not mistaken, she should have been moisturized. Shen Qinglian's incident has not yet passed. Has Jiang Ziqi found a new buyer, or has she been selling flowers to multiple stores?"
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said to Jiang Ziqi, "Accountant Jiang, please go and call Director Qiao."
"Okay, Director Nan."
As soon as Jiang Ziqi stepped out of the door of the Finance Department, Nan Yi started counting down silently in his heart.
About forty-seven seconds later, Jiang Ziqi appeared in the Finance Department's office, followed by Qiao Weiping.
"Director Nan, are you looking for me?" Qiao Weiping walked up to Nan Yi and asked cautiously.
"Yes, Director Qiao, July 1st is coming soon. I see that the content on the blackboard newspaper in the factory is still welcoming the New Year. This won't do. We need to change it to something more appropriate as soon as possible.
We must not only stick to the theme of July 1st, but also combine it with the history and glorious tradition of our factory and promote the hard-working spirit of our predecessors. They started from a small pharmacy behind enemy lines in the Taihang Mountains and slowly walked to the capital, step by step, to create the great situation of the Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory here. It was not easy. As the younger generations, we must remember them.
You should take charge of this matter."
"I understand, I understand, Director Nan, I will do it immediately." As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, Qiao Weiping nodded hurriedly in response.
"Okay." Nan Yi nodded and said, "Go ahead."
After sending Qiao Weiping away, Nan Yi asked Jiang Ziqi to call Xiao Haoren, the chief of the Labor Department, who was still counting down in his mind.
Xiao Haoren arrived even faster than Qiao Weiping, and arrived in less than thirty seconds.
"Chief Xiao, the day before yesterday I mentioned to Shi Hongqi from the Security Department about strengthening the security force of the Security Department. He proposed to increase the number of staff, and I have agreed to this. You should discuss with Shi Hongqi and come up with a recruitment plan as soon as possible. I want to take a look and calculate the salary expenditure that the factory will have to increase."
"Okay, I'll go find Chief Shi now." Xiao Haoren nodded.
"Um."
As soon as Xiao Haoren left, Nan Yi said to Jiang Ziqi again: "Accountant Jiang, could you please go and call Deputy Director Gao? He should be here today, right?"
"Yes, I saw him just now." Jiang Ziqi replied calmly.
"Okay, then you call me."
Gao Changning's office was closest to the Finance Department, but when Jiang Ziqi and he appeared in the Finance Department, about two minutes and seventeen seconds had passed.
"Director Nan, you're looking for me?"
Gao Changning's face was smooth and fair, revealing a cool and handsome look with clear-cut edges. His eyes were dark and deep, his eyebrows were thick, and his nose was high. At first glance, he exuded a sense of righteousness.
But Nan Yi had already questioned Gao Changning, so the righteousness on his face made Nan Yi look a little awkward.
"Yes, Director Gao, I have something to talk to you about. Let's go to your office and bring Accountant Jiang with me. What I want to talk about involves some accounts. I am not good at arithmetic, so I will have to trouble Accountant Jiang to help me calculate it." Nan Yi stood up and said lightly.
"Okay, Director Nan, you go first."
"You're welcome. Director Gao, please go ahead."
Nan Yi gestured to Gao Changning to walk in front. He grabbed the military bag hanging on the back of the chair and followed behind him. After a while, the three of them arrived at Gao Changning's office.
After a round of greetings, courtesies and excuses, the three of them sat down one by one on the sofa in the reception room.
"Director Gao, if we want to produce Isatis root, do we need to add equipment to our workshop?"
"No, just add a few accessories and modify the equipment."
“How much does it cost? Do we need to import it?”
"The accessories can be purchased in the country, and the cost is about 20,000 yuan."
"Well, Accountant Jiang, please take note of this."
"OK."
When Jiang Ziqi heard Nan Yi's words, without asking Gao Changning, he stood up and took the letter paper from the Jiuyao Factory from the desk, and took a pencil from the pen holder. His movements were smooth and there was no pause or searching when he took the paper.
"Director Gao, if we want to produce both Isatis root and cold medicine in our factory at the same time, can we do it without adding more production workshops and personnel? However, space, time, machines, and personnel can be divided. By the way, the cold medicine I'm talking about is not tablets, but soft capsules."
"Should we produce the soft capsules ourselves or purchase them from outside?" Gao Changning asked.
"It will be all right."
"If the soft capsules are purchased from outside, our factory can produce two different shapes of drugs at the same time. There is no need to divide the time. We can produce them at the same time, but it requires major modifications to the machines and the purchase of additional machines."
“How much budget do you need?”
Gao Changning thought for a moment and said, "I don't know the prices of some of the machines. I can't come up with a more accurate number, so I can only make a rough estimate."
"It's okay. You don't need to be too precise. Just try to calculate as high as possible."
Gao Changning took a pen from the pen holder, and asked Jiang Ziqi for a piece of letter paper. He wrote and drew on the paper for a long time before saying, "Director Nan, it will probably cost 700,000 to 800,000 yuan."
“No need for imports?”
"No, you can buy it in China." Gao Changning shook his head.
"If we purchase similar products from abroad, will our production capacity be significantly improved? If so, is it worthwhile compared to the purchase expenditure?"
"Director Nan, I can't answer your question right now. I'm not too sure about the price and performance of similar foreign products, and our factory didn't have any demand in this area before."
"I didn't have it before, but I do now. My knowledge of medicine is superficial. I only know that I need to take medicine when I'm sick. I don't know how it's produced or what kind of machines are needed. But I've been abroad for many years and have a certain network of contacts.
Director Gao, you can come up with a few plans, one for each of purely domestically produced products and one for products with some imports. Please work hard and come up with the plans as soon as possible. Now the workers in the factory are resting and have nothing to do. Over time, the people's hearts, which have finally been settled, will become chaotic again.
If you want to contact a foreign company but can't, you can tell me and I will do my best to assist you."
"Director Nan, I will definitely come up with a plan as soon as possible." Gao Changning said firmly: "Our factory's production has been suspended for several months. We can't stop it any longer. We must resume production as soon as possible. Seeing the workers at a loss, I feel heartbroken and blame myself."
Nan Yi smiled faintly and said, "Director Gao, you don't have to blame yourself too much. It's not your fault that our factory has come to this point. We don't have to dwell on the past. We should look forward to the future. From now on, we should do everything well and restore the glory of the Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory."
Nan Yi suddenly rubbed his stomach and said, "Sorry, I feel a little uncomfortable. I'm going to the toilet first. Please wait for me for a while."
"Director Nan, do you know where the toilet is? Do you want me to take you there?" Gao Changning asked.
"No, I know."
Nan Yi waved his hand, fumbled in his military bag for a while, pressed two buttons at the same time, took out a stack of toilet paper from it, glanced at the military bag, and then ran quickly to the door.
After walking out of Gao Changning's office, he did not forget to close the door.
He ran to the toilet, lingered in a toilet stall for about ten minutes, threw half of the toilet paper into the stall, washed his hands, and then Nan Yi returned to Gao Changning's office.
Sitting back on the sofa, Nan Yi first put the remaining toilet paper into his military bag. By the way, he fumbled around a bit, gently pressing the button he had just pressed with two fingers, and pressing another button with the other finger.
"Director Gao, I forgot to tell you just now that when you are making a plan, remember to calculate the estimated production capacity as well."
"That's what I should do, and I will definitely do it."
"Okay, let's put it this way first. I have to go out and find some money today. I can't do anything without money."
"Director Nan, you have worked so hard for the Jiuyao Factory." Gao Changning complimented.
"It's nothing. It's all what I should do. Since I took over the Jiuyao Factory, I must run it well and give an explanation to the workers." Nan Yi said, and waved to Jiang Ziqi, "Accountant Jiang, come with me. I will tell you about the new financial system."
Nan Yi brought Jiang Ziqi to the door of the factory office and explained to Jiang Ziqi in detail the financial system he implemented in Yaqing Company.
After finishing speaking, Nan Yi sent Jiang Ziqi back and got into the car himself.
"Tiger cub, listen, rewind 11 minutes."
As soon as the school beauty drove the car out of the Jiuyao Factory, Nan Yi took out the Walkman from his military bag and handed it to Hu cub.
The tiger cub took the Walkman, plugged in the earphones, and pressed the rewind button.
Nan Yi closed his eyes and recalled and compared the key fold details of the military bag that he had carefully memorized before and after he went to the toilet. It took him a long time to make sure that the military bag had not been opened.
Then, he recalled Gao Changning and Jiang Ziqi's outfits, especially the details of Jiang Ziqi's hairstyle.
"There is a bunch of hair running from the front of the ear to the back of the ear. It should be a natural hair lift. It doesn't mean anything." Nan Yi said silently in his heart.
"Tiger cub, anything of value?"
