After coming out of the street printing factory, Guo Tao went home directly, and the next morning he left home with his luggage, and got on the train at noon, and the train started slowly, taking Guo Tao to the south.

In the early morning of the third day, Guo Tao's train arrived at Yangcheng Station, and after getting off the bus, Guo Tao took a bus for more than an hour to an urban village in Yangcheng, which is called Shibei Village, located in Tianhe District of Yangcheng.

Due to the good geographical location, it is quite lively here, and in recent years, with the gradual increase in the number of people working in the south, the foreign population of Shibei Village has also been rising.

When he arrived at Shibei Village, Guo Tao found a bungalow familiarly, and was just about to knock on the door, when a young man in his twenties walked out of it, and when he saw Guo Tao, he was immediately surprised: "Master! ”

"What? Ready to get out? ”

"Well, I made an appointment with a female college student in Yangcheng, and I'm about to meet it."

"Is it in charge of translating?" Guo Tao asked.

"Yes!" Zhang nodded.

"Then you wait, I'll go with you." Guo Tao said to Xiao Zhang, then carried the luggage into the house first, and then the two went out and locked the door. Xiao Zhang rode a bicycle and Guo Tao sat in the back seat of the car, and the two crossed the river through Shibei Village, and soon came to a teahouse near Normal University.

This is not far from the trade fair venue, this tea room is just a very ordinary tea room, after arriving at the place, Guo Tao saw a girl in a white dress waiting at the door of the tea room, look at her like this should be the female college student they are going to see today.

I went up and asked, and sure enough, it was. Xiao Zhang introduced to both parties, this female college student is a third-year student of the Department of Foreign Languages of Normal University named Tan Li, because she was introduced by an acquaintance, Guo Tao led a team to participate in the trade fair in the old factory last year, and at that time, under the guidance of Song Yuanchao, he found a college student as a translator and helped him a lot.

However, this year, the college student has graduated, and after he introduced Tan Li, although it was the first time for everyone to meet, because there were people they all knew and they had called for preliminary communication before, they were not strangers.

Tan Li's appearance is very ordinary, her figure is not tall, she looks like she is about 1.58 meters, and she is a little thin, although she is wearing a white dress, but Guo Tao can see at a glance that this dress should not be hers, because the size is obviously a size larger, and the style is also a tall shirt from a few years ago, which looks empty on her thin body.

Judging from these details, Tan Li's family background should be very ordinary, but this is normal, if it weren't for the average family background, Tan Li would not have considered making money now.

After ordering three servings of sugar water and sitting down to chat, Guo Tao first looked at Tan Li's student ID, and then asked Tan Li some questions. Tan Li was obviously nervous at first, but quickly adjusted her mood and introduced herself to Guo Tao and answered his questions.

Half an hour later, Guo Tao was still satisfied with Tan Li's performance, and immediately asked Tan Li to be their translator for the trade fair.

"Thank you Mr. Guo and Manager Zhang, don't worry, I will do this job well." Tan Li was very happy, her little face turned a little red with excitement, and then she was a little embarrassed to ask about the cost of translation.

When she learned that there was a cost of 25 yuan a day, Tan Li's face was obviously happy, you must know that the time of the entire translation work is only half a month, and according to the cost of 25 yuan a day, there will be a small income of 400 yuan in half a month.

This income is not low, and now the living expenses of ordinary college students for a year are only this amount, Tan Li is usually very economical, and this money is enough for her living expenses for a year and a half. Being able to earn so much living expenses in such a short period of time by her own ability is a surprise for Tan Li, who is not in a good family.

Guo Tao looked at Tan Li, thought for a while and said to Xiao Zhang: "You take Xiao Tan to Shahe Garment City for a trip and buy two better clothes for Xiao Tan, by the way!" There are also shoes, clothes remember to buy according to the style of professional attire, this is money. ”

Saying that, Guo Tao took out the money from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang immediately nodded in agreement, at this time Tan Li was a little nervous about what to say, but before she could say anything, Guo Tao said to Tan Li: "Xiao Tan, don't get me wrong." This clothing fee will not be included in your translation fee, it is a special clothing fee arranged by our company for you. You also know what your job will be, as a translator in our company, you are responsible for communicating with foreign merchants, which is a very important thing. So in this regard, what you wear represents the image of the company, and it is normal for the company to make arrangements for you in this regard. ”

Tan Li's face was slightly red, she looked down at the pair of rustic and more frayed leather shoes on her feet, as well as this dress that looked a little bigger, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Guo Tao guessed correctly, Tan Li's family background is indeed not good, she is a girl from a small place, her parents are farmers, and there are several brothers and sisters in the family, and she was finally admitted to university with her own efforts, which is not easy for a girl from the countryside.

Today, in order to meet Guo Tao and them, Tan Li specially borrowed a dress from her classmates, and the pair of leather shoes on her feet that are about to wear out are already her best pair of shoes. Tan Li was still thinking about it, where to borrow some money next and buy herself a dress that was acceptable, after all, she was about to work as a translator for Guo Tao's company, so she couldn't continue to wear her classmate's dress, right?

Unexpectedly, Guo Tao had already taken this into account, and asked Xiao Zhang to take her to buy clothes and shoes, and all these expenses were borne by the company. Tan Li is not stupid, of course she understands that this is Guo Tao's kindness, and she took care of her thoughts in this way, and her heart suddenly swelled with gratitude to Guo Tao.

Let Xiao Zhang take Tan Li first, Guo Tao continued to sit and eat sugar water, thinking about the upcoming autumn fair.

Guo Tao has great expectations for this trade fair, as early as half a year ago, Guo Tao began to prepare for this trade fair, and the room in Shibei Village was specially rented by Guo Tao some time ago.

Because of the trade fair, the accommodation in Yangcheng is very tight at this time of year, and domestic and foreign manufacturers and merchants flock to it, making it difficult to find a room in hotels and guesthouses in Yangcheng. Because of the shortage of accommodation, which led to the rise in housing prices, Guo Tao went to save money on the one hand, and on the other hand, to have a suitable place to put samples and other things, so he rented this suite in Shibei Village first.

The next day, Guo Tao took Xiao Zhang and Tan Li to the venue, the venue has not yet entered, and now he can only temporarily familiarize himself with the venue or something. After coming out of the venue, they went to the train station to pick up the samples and materials sent over, and then found a tricycle to pull the things to Shibei Village.

In the next few days, Guo Tao and the others continued to be busy, and after the venue could be entered, they began to arrange the venue.

Compared with other manufacturers, Guo Tao is only a small factory, the strength is not strong, and the money is not much, it is very good to be able to have a place to participate in the exhibition, as for the decoration of the booth, there is naturally no way to let a professional advertising company do it, and it can only be solved by local methods.

After several days of tossing back and forth, the booth was finally completed. Looking at the booth that still looked a little, Guo Tao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few days, thanks to Xiao Zhang, speaking of Xiao Zhang is Guo Tao's apprentice, this is a very clever young man, after learning that Guo Tao was going to open his own factory, Xiao Zhang found Guo Tao by himself and said that he would follow him.

Guo Tao persuaded Xiao Zhang and told him that it was risky to open a factory, and if the factory did not do well, there would be no way out. Xiao Zhang works in a state-owned enterprise and holds an iron rice bowl, so there is no need to follow him to fight. If he really wanted to come, he would come back when he had gained a firm foothold on his side, and Guo Tao raised his hands to welcome him.

But who would have thought that Xiao Zhang insisted on coming, and said that the master is in trouble now, how can he stand by as an apprentice? How can there be a master in this world who works hard and eats ready-made things as an apprentice? Even Guo Tao is not worried that his factory will not be able to work, so what is his apprentice worried about?

What's more, when I was young, it was when I was learning from the master, even if I failed? Now it's not the same as before, even if you can't be a worker in a state-owned enterprise, you can support yourself by being a self-employed person with your own intelligence.

In this way, after Guo Tao resigned to set up a factory, Xiao Zhang came over with him and became Guo Tao's right and left hand.

This autumn fair, Guo Tao deliberately sent Xiao Zhang over in advance, and at the same time prepared to exercise and train him, if there is no problem, he wants Xiao Zhang to be responsible for sales in the future, this kid is smart, clever and reliable, and is the most suitable candidate.

Guo Tao's factory is making hardware products, he was originally from the hardware factory, and he is very familiar with this industry.

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After deciding to open his own factory, Guo Tao first thought of his own business, whether to be familiar or not to be raw, if he changed industries, Guo Tao was not so sure.

Because he is still in the old business, Guo Tao's factory has good product quality and novel design, and has won a lot of orders through the original channels, thus surviving the initial difficulties.

But Guo Tao also knows that if the original products are continued, whether they are hardware tools or other similar products, they are far inferior to some foreign brand-name products.

Because of the problem of material and technology, their products can only be low-grade products, and most of the sales customers are customers from third world countries, although the amount of orders seems to be a lot, but the actual product profits are very meager, and there are many domestic competitors.

Considering this, Guo Tao began the product transformation last year, and after he went through the market and product comparison, he finally determined that the furniture hardware was the main series of products.

Furniture hardware, this product is not without in China, but there are not many professional furniture hardware factories, most of the furniture hardware products are just derivatives of many factories, or auxiliary product series.

Guo Tao's Haitao Furniture Factory is currently focusing on furniture hardware, mainly hinges, handles, slide rails, foot yards, fasteners, decorative parts, etc., and will develop to products such as elastic yellow and lifters in the future.