As May Day approached, the Central People's Radio and the People's Daily were promoting this festival that belonged to workers all over the world, but the workers in the Liufang woodworking factory did not care, and everyone was immersed in work, as if this festival that was won by workers all over the world had nothing to do with them.

Yang Liufang looked at the progress of the desks and chairs, and estimated that it could be basically completed before the delivery date agreed in the contract, so he planned a one-day holiday for the whole factory according to the requirements of the state. When Yang Liufang told everyone the news of the May Day holiday, it was not a celebration, but a disappointment and questioning.

"Boss Yang, if we have a day off, won't we be able to earn money for this day?"

"Theoretically, that's true, because we calculate wages on a daily basis."

"Then it's better not to take a holiday."

"Yes, we don't have a holiday."

"We're going to work and earn money."

Yang Liufang didn't expect everyone's response to be so strong, and he couldn't give a better explanation, so he could only let everyone work first. When the village chief and Li Tongfu returned to the factory from the countryside to sell goods, he called the two into the dormitory and told them about the announcement of the May Day holiday and the reaction of the workers.

"Since everyone doesn't want to let it go, don't let it go."

"Well, I agree with Brother Shi, but I can prepare holiday gifts for everyone."

"Hey, when you use money everywhere, I heard that you have joined the meeting, paid interest to people, and prepared gifts. What a waste of that money. ”

"Brother Shi, I think Brother Afu has a point, the workers work hard for us, we should be kind to everyone, so let's prepare some gifts. For example, we will distribute work clothes to everyone, and then go to Yantan to buy some meat and vegetables, and everyone will have dinner after work in the evening. ”

"It's okay to match work clothes, this is our own business, or we have to formalize and develop, so that the workers in the factory can go out and wear clothes proudly."

"What about the rotating workers?"

"Oh, that's a problem."

"What if work clothes were only distributed to permanent workers?"

"This can easily lead to contradictions and discourage the rotation of workers."

"No, then it's just a meal. Anyway, everyone has a hard day, and they have to eat at night. ”

"Brother Shi, you are the village leader, we are the enterprise under your rule, or you should announce it."

"Okay."

Approaching the end of work, the head of Stone Village announced to everyone: "After discussing with Boss Yang, May Day is no longer a holiday, and everyone will have dinner in the factory after work in the evening." ”

The workers instantly cheered and applauded for the village chief and Boss Yang.

"What do you want to eat?"

"Meat."

"Noodles."

"Noodles."

Everyone was yelling and shouting. "Stop, I heard it, there are more Buddha (said) noodles, Boss Yang, tomorrow we will let everyone eat a meal of noodles, open up to eat."

Early in the morning of May Day, Li Tongfu was dragged by the head of the stone village to Yantan after eating. Since Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu found each other, Li Tongfu has been helping Yang Liufang do business, and is also responsible for managing the logistics and procurement of the factory. As a brother, Li Tongfu himself is hard-working, no complaints, but Yang Liufang is a thoughtful person, he remembered the leather business that Brother had mentioned to him, and he went back after the Spring Festival inspection, he has been busy, busy applying for a business license, busy running a factory, and before he had time to ask Brother about the inspection, he decided to communicate with Brother after dinner in the evening.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the two came back and brought back 50 catties of pork, a woven bag of carrots, a piece of tofu, and more than 20 catties of machine noodles. The canteen, which usually has no food at night, has an attractive aroma at four o'clock in the afternoon, and when the noodles are finished and the noodles are ready, it is not yet time for the workers to get off work. When the master came over to ask when the meal would be served, Yang Liufang didn't think about it: "At any time, master." After all, it is a statutory holiday, and everyone has worked hard all day, and they don't care about the hour and a half. ”

"Okay, ready, let's get started."

The dinner was still presided over by the head of the stone village, and everyone picked up their own lunch boxes and waited in line for the chef to scoop up the long noodles and pour the dumplings. After a while, the cafeteria was filled with the sound of "snoring" and eating noodles. It's a pity that the garlic was not bought, and there was not enough left in the cafeteria for one head per person.

At night, when the workers dispersed, Yang Liufang pulled Li Tongfu to boil water for a bath, and filled the four thermos and a teapot that he usually uses to drink water. Taking out the large basin that had been specially bought for bathing, the brothers talked frankly about the leather.

"Brother, we have been busy this period, and I haven't asked you about the progress of the leather business, how do you feel after you go back to investigate?"

"Brother, I went back to my hometown on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to visit several familiar leather shoe factories and clothing factories, according to their descriptions, if the profits are distributed to all links, it is indeed not profitable."

"What's in it?"

"It's mainly transportation, do you know how to transport those Tibet, Qinghai and other places we see on the road who come to Xizhou to sell skins here?"

"Didn't you just drive the carriage back?"

"No, no, they just drove the carriage to the Yellow River ferry in Xizhou, and then transported it to Inner Mongolia by water on a sheepskin raft at the ferry, and then gathered with the skins of Inner Mongolia and transported them to Zhangjiakou, Suning and other leather processing places."

"Oh, I see, no wonder the amount is so large, it is the raw hides of several provinces gathered together. So how do you get to us? ”

"Part of our leather in Wenzhou comes from overseas, transported by ocean freighters, and part of it is roughly ripened leather transported from these leather processing bases in Suning. These are going to be reprocessed when they arrive at us. So if you remove these links, if you buy hides and skins directly from here and sell them to us, there will be no money to be made. ”

"Brother, do you want to heat the water?" Yang Liufang felt that the water was cold, and added a semi-warm bottle to himself, and the hot water scalded his skin very comfortably.

"I'll add some too." As he spoke, he took the thermos in Yang Liufang's hand and poured the remaining half thermos into his basin.

"Brother, that means that this business is not profitable."

"It can't be said that there is no profit, depending on which links to start with. For example, if we buy hides here, directly build a small processing factory like our hometown to cook the hides, and then directly make leather shoes, belts and leather clothing for sale, there will be no intermediate raw hides and skins transportation costs, and the profits will be great. ”

"How much does it cost to build such a small processing plant? How much does it cost to ask a master to cook the skin? And those leather shoes and belts and leather clothes, do you still have to find samples to get them? ”

"If you only build a small factory, it won't cost much, a factory, two or three workshops, two cooked skin pools, and it will cost more than 20,000 yuan. With the addition of clothing and shoe-making equipment, a maximum of 35,000 can be done. ”

"Then we can do it, we can't afford to pay 30,000 or 40,000."

"Don't worry, listen to me, this is just the money of the factory, the master of cooked leather costs 3,000 yuan a month, and the samples of shoe samples, belts and leather clothes can be obtained from my hometown, and I have asked for some from the factory where I used to ship. If you add the sales of finished products, it is estimated that 100,000 yuan is about the same. ”

"Ah, 100,000. Brother, how much money do we have in our accounts now? ”

"If you don't count the registration fee of the wood factory, the two batches of goods after the year, plus the money from the countryside in the near future, there are more than 13,000."

"Doesn't the Township Education Committee in the factory still have half of the payment? It was withdrawn at the end of the month, so add it first. ”

"That's only 25,500. It's still far from demand. ”

"What time can the registration fee be raised in June?"

"June 7th, 8th."

"I proposed to return the 66,000 and 34,000 to Boss Chen first. Then we have 60,000, brother, I don't know about leather, but I believe in you, do you have confidence? ”

"I have been doing it since I entered the industry, and I must have confidence."

"No, we'll entrust Boss Chen to have a meeting."

"The interest rate is too high, isn't it?"

"Half a year, why did our products come out, if we ran away from sales, it would be good, at least like the current wood factory, the factory is its own."

"Well, too." Li Tongfu replied confidently and affirmatively.

"We'll have a month to come, and we'll think about it more. Brother, when you go to the countryside, ask more. Think twice before you act, it's good and harmless! ”

After the two took a bath, they lay down comfortably on the bed and soon fell asleep.