After walking through a street corner, you will arrive at the leather shop opened by Fan Wei.

In the past, Fan Yang, like his brother, didn't have any knowledge, he was born in the countryside, and at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he didn't think too much.

Even though he knew that his brother was guarding a leather store, he had been here a few times, but he just looked at it and left.

Fan Wei wore a leather apron and a small horse, sitting at the door of the shop, fiddling with a pair of yellow rubber shoes in his hand, and was mending shoes there.

Seeing Fan Yang coming, he didn't have a good face, and he didn't even say hello.

Or the old leatherman from Yunnan in the shop, surnamed Wang, in his fifties, walked out with a pair of glasses: "Erwazi, why are you free?"

"It's nothing, I'll just take a look, there's a piece of bacon here. ”

"Okay, are you eating?" Uncle Wang took the bacon and welcomed the two into the shop.

Fan Wei still lowered his head and mended his rubber shoes there.

Hearing about eating, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "Not yet, Uncle Wang, what did you eat in the morning?"

Uncle Wang still knows each other, and these two children are all the way all day long, and they are also poor people, so they said: "The porridge I ate in the morning, and two steamed buns, you sit down, and I will give you heat." ”

"No, no, Uncle Wang, I'll come by myself. ”

The shop has two floors, and at that time, Pham Minh Lai was still earning money and was ready to run the shop well, so he rented the upstairs together, with people living on it, a kitchen, a toilet, and two beds.

Uncle Wang also has shares, Fan Mingli went in, he was reluctant to leave alone, and he had nowhere to go, it is said that there is no one in his family in Yunnan, and he is still not married, he is an old bachelor, but he is very good.

There is a lack of a door and a hand, but as long as it involves food, the hands and feet are very fast, and before the porridge is hot, it is hastily shoveled, and Fan Yang and Fan Yang killed two large bowls.

After eating, Fan Yang carefully observed the things on the shop, the shop is not big, about fifty or sixty square meters, there is a glass counter by the door, only the counter is still clean, and the inside of the cabinet, the two-layer commodity partition is crawling with ash.

There are also goods that Fan Minh Lai brought back from the beginning, a few bottles of hookah, a few hookah guns, and a few cakes of Pu'er tea in the lower compartment.

In a cabinet next to it, there are some ancient coins, military medals, chairman portrait medals, small pieces of jade, peace buckles, jade cicadas, and a few Guanyin avatars and so on.

Some were brought back by Pham Minh Li, and some were purchased from farmers in the shop.

On the left wall are stapled a few wooden planks, on which are placed two rows of leather shoes, and next to them are several bundles of belts, all of which are very old-fashioned.

Behind it is a large pile of leather raw materials rolled into rolls.

Most of the artificial leather that Pham Minh Lai brought back has not been sold.

At this time, although this leather shop was a little chaotic, Fan Yang nodded frequently.

Well, it should be stable.

The Time Traveling Authority seems to be pretty good for itself.

In 92, I had such a leather workshop, and I also made artificial leather, it seems that it is difficult not to make a fortune.

"How's the business in the shop lately?" Fan Yang asked.

"I can only say that it will be. ”

Uncle Wang was holding a black piece of rubber with a sole drawn on it, and was using a sharp file to process a sole.

Fan Yang put his hands behind his back and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"It's the sole of a shoe. ”

"Can't you buy this as a sole?"

Uncle Wang pushed down his glasses: "Can you still buy this?"

"Uh. ”

According to the understanding of Fan Yang in later generations, products like leather shoes have long had a processing factory specializing in soles.

But it's a relief to think about.

Due to the national three-line construction, until the 90s, most of the enterprises in Sichuan are still mineral heavy industry and the like, like this kind of light industrial products, can only be said to be self-sufficient, the economic benefits are not obvious, has always relied on the coastal area of export and domestic sales, so the industrial chain is not complete.

In the coastal area, the handicraft industry developed earlier, as early as the sixties and seventies, there were rubber products factories specializing in making shoe soles, using steam mold die-casting, high output, and cheap prices.

Ordinary handicraft workshop, to process a pair of leather shoes, it is very simple, according to the style of leather shoes, only need to draw the upper on the leather, after cutting, there is a wood mold inside, sewn according to the relevant specifications, and paste with the sole.

The advantage of this is that the threshold for starting a business is extremely low.

A few people, even at the farmers' market, can buy rubber soles, with clearly marked prices and complete styles.

By using the surplus labor of the family, it is possible to produce a variety of styles and exquisite leather shoes.

Then set someone else's brand, copy someone else's sample, or OEM for others, have a certain amount of funds, and you can also register your own trademark.

In later generations, there were many large leather shoe factories in Wenzhou, as well as several national well-known trademarks, most of which were developed slowly.

It is the same as the small commodity market in Yiwu, Zhejiang.

Someone does everything, just like leather shoes, belts, not only for soles, but also for professional processing of uppers, and then to a certain style of leather buckles, iron buckles, shoelaces, there are related people to produce, various styles of belt buckles, there are also different metal products factory production.

And you need to start a business, you need to build your own product, just two people, you can assemble it.

The upstream and downstream supporting facilities are very complete.

Unlike Sichuan, where there is no relevant industrial chain, then you need to do everything by yourself when you open a leather shoe factory.

The investment is large, like the production of a sole, not only to open the mold yourself, may not you also introduce a rubber die-casting production line?

So Uncle Wang and they made leather shoes, and they also used a very old method, using 5 mm clamping rubber, the yield is low, and the technology is also tested, and the cutting is not good.

But these can be put into the future to solve slowly, this leather workshop, a good management is definitely promising.

Fan Yang still remembers that from 2000 to 2010, Wenzhou's low-cost leather shoes can be said to be all over the country, everywhere.

Especially in the second-level counties and cities, a small shop often has countless fashionable leather shoes, 39, 59, 69 pairs.

Perfect for the taste of young people.

Young people don't care how good you are.

It looks good on your feet.

Even if you have to endure it.

But this has to be done with the right target group.

Thinking about Fan Yang, he asked, "Then are these leather shoes easy to sell?"

Uncle Wang shook his head: "It's not easy to sell, Xiangbatou, yellow rubber shoes are easy to sell." ”

After chatting for a few words, Fan Wei finished mending two pairs of shoes and walked into the shop while wiping his hands.

Seeing Fan Yang chatting with Uncle Wang there, his brows furrowed: "What are you doing here again? Why didn't you go to play cotton?"

"Bounce cotton?"

Fan Yang was a little crying and laughing.

The structure of the 92-year industry is still very simple, the iron rice bowl is not available, the children in the countryside drop out of school, and if they want to learn a skill, they are nothing more than masons, carpenters, and handicrafts in rural towns are pitiful.

In the whole town, they are involved in production, their leather shop is counted as one, the one that sells water surface and dried noodles is counted as one, and there are two tailors counted as one, one who strikes iron, and the grinding of flour and oil are only counted as processing with supplied materials, and then there is one that can be counted as a bean curd, and in addition to this, there is only cotton.

"Don't go. ”

When Fan Wei heard this, he scolded directly: "Don't go, don't go, don't go, you see what kind of interest you have, you can't learn anything, you are embarrassed to talk to me about what is the interest, you have the ability to earn two dollars to show me?"

"What do you say if I earn it?"

"If you earn it, I'll call you brother. ”