Chapter 422: The Daily Life of a Small Employee (Part I)
"Boss Cai, I'm really sorry this time, I'm not in charge of the sales of picture tubes in the company! And our sales department does not accept small orders, and the smallest contract is at least tens of thousands of picture tubes!
However, I think that since Boss Cai, since you are in the trade business, it is better to sell picture tubes directly! The line I set up for you this time is Manager Li of the sales department of Lu's Electronics Company!
Lu's company has a number of large-scale factories in the deep sea special zone and Guangdong City, producing more than 1 million TVs every year, and the most important thing is that Lu's company has a share of domestic sales! You also save yourself the trouble of needing to find a relationship to get import approvals, as long as you get the bill of lading, you can go directly to the factory to pick up the goods!
I have already told Manager Li that he is willing to give out 500 14-inch color TVs! Later, Manager Li will come over, and you will personally discuss the details of the contract with him! But there is one thing I want to explain to you in advance, according to the unwritten practice in Hong Kong, you had better give Manager Li some rebates after the business is negotiated!" Liu Chang said to a man sitting opposite him.
"I understand this rule, if you have money, everyone can earn it together!" the man surnamed Cai smiled and nodded.
"Manager Li is here!" Liu Chang raised his hand and said. Then he nodded to Boss Cai, then stood up and walked towards a middle-aged man in a cyan suit in front of the cash register not far away.
"Manager Li, I'm Liu Chang, please make a special trip!" Liu Chang shook hands with the other party warmly.
"Liu Sheng, you are so polite! You are a friend of our President Shi, and we have specially instructed me to do your business well with quality and quantity!" Manager Li said very politely.
The Shi in his mouth is always Lu's company and the state-owned 803 factory. Deputy General Manager of the Hong Kong side of the joint venture TV factory. This joint venture is planning to expand in the near future and wants to use the channel of Oriental Trading. Introduced a new production line with an annual output of 200,000 TVs. And this matter is Liu Chang is responsible for following up, so he is familiar with several senior personnel of the joint venture factory.
As for the other Boss Cai in Liu Chang's mouth. is the cousin of Director Wei of the Household Registration Management Office of the Shenhai City Public Security Bureau. Director Liu Chang transferred his parents' household registration and the county seat of his hometown to the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, and owed the other party a big favor.
As a result, this time, Director Wei's cousin used the banner of his cousin to hope that Liu Chang could help him get a batch of CRTs from the Oriental Company. The Oriental Group is definitely the most famous company in the entire Deep Sea Special Economic Zone, but unlike the citizens of Hong Kong, the first thing that comes to mind when the bosses of the Special Administrative Region mention the Oriental Group is not its computers and game consoles, but televisions.
It is rumored that the Oriental Group produces 10 million televisions a year and sells them all over the world, and its own company produces and sells more televisions than the total sales of televisions in China. Most ordinary citizens are concerned about this outrageous figure. Some will be skeptical, but the cadres in the system have channels to learn more, but they are even more convinced!
In the eyes of many people, a casual deduction of oil and water from the hands of the Eastern Bloc can make people eat until they are overwhelmed. It's just that ordinary people rarely have this opportunity, and the Eastern Group is an enterprise that can reach the sky in the deep-sea special zone, and any problem can be solved at any time by the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor at the first time.
In the past, it was not that there were no people who had the audacity to stumble on the Dongfang Company, but the fate of those people was very bleak! Anyone who dared to influence the overall development of the SEZs would be resolutely dealt with by the city party committee and government without mercy.
This Director Wei also owes him a favor because of Liu Chang. I just want to try to see if there is a chance to catch the line of the Eastern Bloc. Outsiders only know the name of the Eastern Group, but they can't figure out how complicated the internal structure of such a huge multinational company is!
RCA Asia CRT Factory, which is responsible for the production of picture tubes, is a subsidiary of RCA Corporation in the United States. And the unit where Li Xuan works. It is a branch of Oriental Commercial Co., Ltd. located in the Deep Sea Special Zone. Although both companies are subsidiaries of the Eastern Group, they do not actually have a direct affiliation.
The millions of CRTs produced by RCA's Asia CRT factory are indeed distributed by Oriental Merchants. Some of them are quotas that can be sold in the mainland. It was indeed handed over to the deep-sea branch to be responsible for distribution.
It's just that even the manager of the sales department of the branch has no right to ask about these quotas. It has already been sent by Ke Lilun to the municipal party committee and the municipal government as a favor. Color picture tubes are one of the most sought-after items on the market in the Special Administrative Region, but the Eastern Bloc does not care about this profit.
The municipal party committee and government of the Special Administrative Region have always been very supportive of the investment of the Oriental Group in the Special Economic Zone. Chrillan would also like to express his gratitude for being reasonable. Stuffing money directly into the leaders is too low. It is better to simply hand over the distribution rights of hundreds of thousands of picture tubes to the special zone for distribution.
This will not leave any handle on the bright side, after all, the Eastern Bloc is not given away for nothing, this is a normal business transaction. Whether these CRTs were allocated to state-owned factories or digested privately had nothing to do with the Eastern Bloc! And there is no law of any country that regulates this!
In recent years, many small enterprises in eastern Guangdong Province have emerged, and they are unable to directly allocate raw materials for production from upstream enterprises according to the planned targets like state-owned factories, and can only purchase them from various channels at high prices.
And as long as there are complete sets of parts, assembling a TV set is not a difficult thing. In the 80s, there were many cattle people who saved their own TVs and bicycles. Among all the parts of the TV, the picture tube is the most critical and sought-after part.
The technical content of the CRT production process is relatively high, and only the Xian-Yang color tube factory in China has the ability to produce high-quality color CRT, and the rest must be solved by imports. Most of the domestic import channels are through Hong Kong, and in recent years, countless foreign trade companies have sprung up in the deep-sea special zone, some of which are reselling picture tubes.
"Manager Li, my big brother Cai hasn't been doing trade for a long time, if there is anything you don't understand the rules, don't be angry, just call me! My big brother Cai is definitely a warm-hearted person!" Liu Chang is like a long-sleeved broker who is good at dancing, introducing the two sides to each other.
Wait for the two to warm up a bit. He quickly offered to leave: "Brother Li, Brother Cai." You two talk slowly, I've made an appointment with two friends to have dinner together, and we're going to go first!"
Liu Chang wasn't lying, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a young couple outside the transparent glass wall of the café, who were Liu Wei and his girlfriend Fang Qianqian.
"Ah Chang, how did you get out of the café, are you dating a beautiful girl in it? Confess leniently!" As soon as Liu Chang walked out of the café, the sharp-eyed Fang Qianqian found him and couldn't help but say playfully.
The meeting place was in the Fei Hung Building. But Liu Chang didn't take the elevator to get down from the company on the thirtieth floor, but walked out of the café on the ground floor, which made Fang Qianqian a little curious.
Fei Hong Building is not only the best office area in the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, but also the most famous amusement and shopping landmark in the Shenhai Special Economic Zone. The two basement floors of the building are home to one of the largest supermarket chains in the SAR, while the first to fourth floors are occupied by a dining area, an entertainment city and a high-end department store.
On the ground floor, there is a café, a bakery, a western restaurant, a Cantonese seafood restaurant, and a Turkish kebab restaurant. This is the preferred place for many petty bourgeoisie and local tyrants in Shenhai City to entertain and gather.
"Alas, how can I have such a good fate as Liu Wei, there are beautiful women who are willing to chase after me! Or next time you come here, just bring your girlfriends with you! Maybe I and your best friend Wang Ba will see mung beans. It's on the eyes!" Liu Chang made a bitter bachelor's appearance.
"Phew, you are so good at talking, you know that you are not a good man at a glance! I won't bring my best friend to you as a scourge!" Fang Qianqian grimaced at him!
"Well, that's a bit hurtful, even if you like stuffy gourds. It doesn't mean that your best friend must have the same taste as you!" Liu Wei deliberately glared at Fang Qianqian viciously.
"Our Liu Wei is called introverted, such a boy has the most sense of security!" Fang Qianqian said and took Liu Wei's arm and looked at each other gently.
Fang Qianqian was at the time of induction training last year. The girl who suffered heat stroke halfway while the team was cross-country and was carried by Liu Wei to complete the journey. Everyone thought that the two would be inseparable. After all, one is in the mainland and the other is in Hong Kong. Unexpectedly, Fang Qianqian took the initiative to chase after the Deep Sea Special Zone. easily took down Liu Wei!
"Pay attention in public, you show your affection so naked, have you ever considered my feelings as a bachelor!" Liu Chang pretended to be sad, "Liu Wei, what are we going to do next? It's too early to go to dinner now!"
"Why don't you go to the cinema on the second floor to watch a movie?" Fang Qianqian proposed.
"Are you reminding me not to be a light bulb!" Liu Chang felt that his wound was bleeding again.
"Let's go upstairs to the Golden Sun Cabaret to listen to nursery rhymes, the afternoon session shouldn't be over yet!" Liu Wei finally said the first sentence.
"Did you hear it, your stuffy gourd seems to be very familiar with these entertainment venues, so safe!" Liu Chang immediately smiled and sowed discord.
"Don't talk nonsense, I've been here once, and it's very formal!" Liu Wei immediately explained.
"What about the irregular? It's a pity that I haven't been there, so I can't compare! Haha!" In terms of kung fu, Liu Wei is definitely not as good as Liu Chang.
"If you fall into his trap, it will only get darker and darker, do you know!" Fang Qianqian has been dating her boyfriend for almost a year, and she knows very well that the other party will not mess around behind her back.
"Who did you meet in the café just now?" Liu Wei just didn't talk much, but he wasn't stupid. He quickly changed the topic and pointed the finger back at Liu Chang.
"I was a broker just now, and I was a matchmaker for the two bosses!"
The three of them chatted while walking, and Liu Chang introduced the matter just now to the two friends in detail.
"That is to say, this Boss Cai, just by selling those 500 color TVs, he can earn more than 100,000 yuan? This capitalless business is too easy to earn! Have you paid dividends in it, is this considered a use of power for personal gain?" Fang Qianqian asked with a smile.
"Let's run errands, how can you have any power in your hands! You are embarrassed to accuse me, your man is responsible for at least half of the favors I owe!" Liu Chang said angrily.
As the saying goes, one sheep is also driven, and two sheep are also herded! When Liu Chang asked Director Wei to transfer his parents' household registration to the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, he also helped Liu Wei's sister's household registration to move over.
Liu Chang's hometown is a small county town in the mainland, and his parents were originally non-agricultural households. However, Liu Wei's hometown is in the mountains in the west, and it is difficult to convert her sister's agricultural household registration into a non-agricultural household registration and then move to the deep-sea special zone.
In the end, Liu Wei went to his supervisor, and his boss came forward to help his sister arrange a quality inspector position in the RCA Asia picture tube factory. After putting on the tiger skin of the Oriental Group's recruitment, Director Wei had an excuse to get Liu Wei's sister's household registration.
"Ah Chang, I want to remind you now that the group's punishment for accepting bribes to employees is very severe, you must not destroy your future!" Fang Qianqian said solemnly. After she joined the company, she was assigned to the group headquarters as a clerk, and she was naturally very clear about the company's rules and regulations.
"Don't worry, I'm not a fool, I won't do stupid things! We Chinese talk about a human relationship, but I can still tell where this degree is! Let's just say that the president of Lu's company, why does he look up to me, it's not because I'm an employee of the Oriental Group!
I am now in charge of the introduction of the production line of their joint venture factory, as a good employee who serves customers wholeheartedly, my various points have not only saved more than half a month of time in the steps of preparing materials in the factory, but also saved a lot of energy!
If I put these 500 color TVs in my pocket, I might have to worry about the accountability of the company's ethics committee, but there will be no problems when I use them for favors!" Liu Chang explained seriously.
He is very clear-headed, and he will never do anything that is too close to what he has done. For example, this time, one of his phone calls made Cousin Cai earn more than 100,000 yuan, but Liu Chang was not blushing. Although his current monthly salary is only 1,000 yuan, his future future and status will never be worse than that of Cousin Cai, who is making money every day.
He and Liu Wei are both among the first batch of college students recruited by Oriental Group in China's famous universities, and almost all of them stayed in the Shenhai Special Economic Zone after participating in the induction training last year. Among them, engineering students like Liu Wei will either enter the R&D center of the Oriental Research Institute in the Deep Sea Special Zone as R&D engineers, or be assigned to several major factories invested by the group in the Special Economic Zone as technical engineers.
Liberal arts students like Liu Chang have either been assigned to the branches and offices of Oriental Trading, Jiahua Bank, Oriental Venture Capital and other companies in the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, or they have also been assigned to work as managers in several major factories invested by the group in the Special Economic Zone.
Li Xuan's consistent strategy has been to promote people from China to take charge of domestic projects, and he likes to draw people from Hong Kong to the mainland on a large scale. Hong Kong people's thinking is very different from the habits of China, and in many cases there is often unnecessary estrangement.
Liu Wei and Liu Chang are the first batch of high-quality employees recruited by Oriental Group in the mainland, and they are also the targets of the company's key training. Liu Chang believes that many of the 50 people in the same batch as him are likely to shoulder the heavy responsibility of being in charge of the domestic business of the Oriental Group in the future! (To be continued......