Same.

On this day, Bai Zhan was not in the factory.

He went to a place.

Sinar Mas Garment Factory in Nancheng.

In 1994, the Sinar Mas Garment Factory completed its privatization – the factory, formerly a military industrial enterprise, produced mainly military uniforms and quilts.

In peacetime, the demand for such factories was not large, so Sinar Mas Garment Factory naturally turned into a private enterprise.

Of course, the main order of this garment factory is military uniforms for each season.

After Bai Zhan greeted the security guard, he walked into the courtyard of the factory.

This factory is much smaller than the state-owned garment factory in Bingcheng, where Bai Zhan is located.

There are a total of eight workshops, each of which is smaller than the size of the state-owned garment factory - the old workshop exterior wall, the wall skin is mottled and peeling, and the area on the wall is long with creepers, and the new creeper and the old creeper vines of the previous year are twisted together. Behind the vines, the slogan of the white paint brush is faintly visible.

"Civil-military co-construction...... Safe...... Exemplary ......"

There are two rows of tall locust trees planted on both sides of the factory road, and the huge canopy shades a beautiful boulevard.

Bai Zhan walked on the factory road, and he had to walk all the way to the fifth workshop on this road.

Although this factory is a little behind, this factory road is still quite beautiful......

Bai Zhan muttered in his heart.

After walking along the road for a short while, he arrived at the fifth workshop.

"I'm looking for a team leader in your workshop, named Hu Tao." Bai Zhan said to a worker.

The worker looked at him a few times, "Oh, wait a minute." ”

Turned around and went in.

After a while, a young man of medium height, but very dark complexion, ran out.

"Bai Zhan?" The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he was happy, "Why are you here?" ”

"Didn't I call you?" Bai Zhan smiled, "I'm going to outsource a batch of tailoring business to your factory." ”

This young man is Hu Tao, Bai Zhan's old classmate, also a clothing major, and now he is a team leader in the fifth workshop of Sinar Mas Garment Factory.

"Tailoring...... You're calling me, but I'm not taking it seriously, am I? Hu Tao scratched his head, "Your factory is so big, you still have to outsource the business to our factory...... Who will believe this? ”

"Actually, it's really going to be outsourced to you......" Bai Zhan shook his head and sighed a little helplessly, "For various reasons, the production plan of our factory is ...... It wasn't my turn. ”

"Huh?" Hu Tao paused for a moment, "The relationship between your family and the factory, you can't schedule the production plan?" ”

Bai Zhan shrugged.

"I see...... It's time to eat, let's eat first, I'll take you to meet the factory leaders in the afternoon, our factory now has a lot of spare capacity, the factory leaders know your business, they will definitely be very welcome! ”

The two then went to the gate of the factory and found a clean restaurant.

Order a few side dishes and open two beers.

"So, Bai Zhan, why doesn't your factory give you a plan?" Hu Tao opened two bottles of wine and clinked glasses with Bai Zhan, "It stands to reason that with your family's relationship in the factory, it should be very convenient for you to do something in your factory." ”

"It makes sense, but it's not like that...... Did you know that there is a clothing company in Xiangjiang called Su's Clothing? ”

Hu Tao's brows furrowed suddenly: "Su's clothing? How did you end up bumping into him? ”

"It's this company that has robbed all the production capacity plans of our factory, so that I can only outsource the cutting to you now." Bai Zhan raised his eyebrows, "What do you seem to know?" ”

"If it's Su's clothing, then it's not surprising." Hu Tao took a sip of wine, slammed the wine glass on the table with some force, and made a "pig" sound.

Wine spilled some on the table.

"After the privatization a few years ago, we have always wanted to enter the private garment field, and we don't want to just be a garment factory that receives orders...... You know this. Hu Tao looked at Bai Zhan and said in a deep voice.

Bai Zhan nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Then do you know why, we have been until now, still order-oriented?" Hu Tao said again.

Bai Zhan pondered the original owner's memories of this incident in his mind, and said in a thoughtful tone: "I seem to have heard some ...... from my classmates Saying that your factory seems to have failed and lost, so it has returned again? ”

"Well, the rumors from my classmates aren't entirely accurate." Hu Tao nodded, "The real situation at that time was that in the year when our factory was privatized, it happened that jeans began to become fashionable in the country, and our factory made a flared pants style jeans. ”

Hu Tao grabbed a few peanuts and threw them into his mouth: "Our factory director thought at that time that the goods should not be sold at the door of the house, so he took his pants and went to other provinces to sell them...... So I went to Dongguang Province, because the garment industry there is more developed and radiates to the whole country. ”

"Then you met the Su clan, who didn't have a plan to enter the country at that time?" Bai Zhan looked at Hu Tao.

"Yes." Hu Tao frowned, "These guys are doing a great job...... Although we are a mainland garment factory, the style of the pants is really good, and it is very popular as soon as it is pushed to the market. The director of the factory was very happy and called the factory to ask for an increase in production. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Tao frowned tightly and was silent for more than ten seconds.

"But we just increased production, and after a few days of busyness, the dealers in the Dongguang market suddenly no one wanted our goods."

"When we went to ask, we learned that a pair of pants with the trademark Su's clothing suddenly appeared on the market, and the style was almost exactly the same as ours! Moreover, all dealers believe that Su is the main owner of this pants, and it is impossible for us northerners to make such good pants! ”

"At that time, our factory had already made a lot of pants, and the warehouse was piled up, and the dealers didn't want the goods, and our small factory, which had just been privatized, immediately became tight on funds."

"Moreover, the factory from which our army came from is relatively straight, and I was so angry that I fell ill all of a sudden."

Hu Tao sighed: "When we went to Dongguang, in addition to the leaders, there were seven or eight people, all of whom were unfamiliar with the place, their eyes were black, and there were so many backlogs. ”

"Later, it was the deputy director who remitted some money to us from Bingcheng, so we had the money to go back."

"When we returned to the factory, it took us a long time to digest those inventories, and after that, the leaders of the factory only took outsourcing orders, and no longer had the idea of making and selling their own goods."

After Hu Tao said these words, he glanced at Bai Zhan a few times with a little concern.

"Bai Zhan, let's be an old classmate, I have to tell you something......"

"These Xiangjiang guys are people who eat people and don't spit out bones, you have to be careful when you meet them!"

Bai Zhan squinted and smiled: "I understand your kindness, but it's ......"

"I like a chewy opponent."