Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu took the car that Qin Jiajun came to the market to deliver the supply contract of Hongtuzhuang, and returned to the Xizhou Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative, just as Yanhua and Zhang Feng had just returned. Yang Liufang handed over the money raised by the meeting, along with the bag containing the money, to Yanhua, and asked her to enter the account with the loan, and then invited her and Li Tongfu to sit around a table of eight immortals in the furniture hall for a meeting. Yanhua first reported on the situation of running to the bank, and the four major state-owned banks, industry, agriculture, and construction all politely rejected their loan applications, and only a manager in charge of loans at the Agricultural Bank of China suggested that if the supply and marketing cooperatives came forward, they could lend money. But as a rental unit, it is impossible for the supply and marketing cooperatives to guarantee their appearance.

"Forget it, I didn't have any hope for the bank, but now it's not popular in the market to say that state-owned enterprises are pro-sons, collective enterprises are concubines, and our private enterprises are wild sons who don't love grandma and uncle." Yang Liufang said indignantly. Indeed, in the late 80s, most of China's private enterprises were in an embarrassing situation of seeking survival in the cracks.

"Two bosses, please instruct how to use this money."

"Brother, it's hard for you to go to Hongtuzhuang in the afternoon, sign the land contract, and build a factory according to the standards of your tannery, but after it is built, it will be used by the furniture factory first. As for the dormitory and canteen I said can be simpler, for the time being, let Shi Yong and Shi Fang use them first, and let Da Ga and Xiao Ga work in the paint booth first, and we must first make a part of the existing furniture and bring it to the market as soon as possible. By the way, Yanhua, what is the progress of the supply and marketing cooperatives on your side? ”

"Not yet, I'll ask President Li in the afternoon."

"Okay. That's all I have to say. Brother, Yanhua, do you think you still have any questions? ”

"It's gone."

"I'm fine, too."

"Okay, I'll make a call. What is the name of Brother Qin and the girl who studied with you in the afternoon? Come out with me, let's go to the Xizhou Aluminum Plant. Yang Liufang said to Yanhua.

"Her name is Wang Xinye." Zhang Feng didn't know when he appeared beside them and blurted out.

"Okay, Xiao Wang. Hey, no, Brother Feng, I don't know, how do you know so well? ”

"Oh, boss, you're far away, two people, ......," Yanhua quipped.

"Oh, I see, congratulations! Love doesn't delay, and don't delay work. Ask her to go with us to the aluminium plant this afternoon to take minutes. Yang Liu Fang said matter-of-factly.

When they broke up, Yang Liufang called Shi Yong and asked him to find Secretary Shi to send him to the three-way intersection, and then take a bus to Xizhou in the afternoon, so that they could go to the Xizhou Aluminum Plant Project together. While waiting for Shi Yong to come to the supply and marketing cooperatives from the factory, Yang Liufang, who was bored, looked east and west in the store department. He found that now in the hardware store, in addition to their four stalls, there are two other houses, selling curtains and plastic steel doors and windows. Because of the building materials and furniture to attract customers, their business is quite good. Yang Liufang thought that it would be good if he could take down one of the sales halls as sanitary ware.

Before he and Wang Shan could express their thoughts, President Li came back from a meeting of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He heard from the people in the office that Yang Liufang was in the store department, so he asked the people in the office to come and call him and Yanhua to his office.

President Li's office Yang Liufang came in for the first time, an old-fashioned desk from the 80s of the last century was placed under the windowsill, and the chair was still the kind of wood-backed chair, but it was covered with the spring seat cover that Yang Liufang and they sold. Two single sofas occupy almost a third of the room on the wall behind the door, making the whole room look a little cramped.

"Xiao Yang, Yanhua, come on, please take a seat." Seeing Yang Liufang and Yanhua at the door of the office, President Li hurriedly greeted them. "Xiao Wang, go make them tea."

"Xiao Yang, you did a good job in this reception, the leader is very satisfied, President Gong asked you if there is anything you need his help to solve? He wants to make the most of his spare energy before he retires. As soon as he sat down, President Li said.

"Oh, how dare you work hard for the old leader."

"Alas, knowing that you are embarrassed, the land community can't help you, after all, it is a provincial plan. We can still coordinate the internal affairs of the supply and marketing cooperatives. Especially here, before I go to the head office, do you want to see if there is anything else that I need to coordinate? ”

"Ah, leader, you have been promoted, congratulations!"

"Acting president, temporarily acting president." President Li said modestly.

"Then I have an idea, president, to see if I can add glory to you? Just now I looked at the store department, and found that our store department in addition to us also has a shop that sells curtains, a shop that sells plastic steel doors and windows, although it has something to do with us, but after all, it is inconvenient to arrange, we want to take down the whole hall, according to the way of building materials decoration city in the south to unify the planning, do you see if it is feasible? If it doesn't add to you, even if it does, forget it. ”

"Oh, tell me about it." President Li lit a cigarette and listened to Yang Liufang's report.

"The president is like this, now whether it is home decoration or office decoration, the basic decoration building materials, hardware materials, lamp switches are similar, and we can buy them all in one stop. And under your leadership, the price is fair, not cheating, and the people are very trusting, which is also the reason why we are currently developing better. However, we lack the sanitary ware, although it is currently sold in the hardware hall, but the hardware hall is a small piece, for the sake of safety, customers can only look outside the counter, can not feel these sanitary ware. If we have the opportunity to take down one of the curtains or plastic steel doors and windows, make a separate sanitary ware showroom. In this way, the one-stop service of home furnishing can be formed. ”

"What else? What about the other piece? ”

"The other piece is office furniture, the president of the palace and the provincial leaders have seen that we are preparing to go on a production line of office furniture, which are very advanced modern office furniture. In the morning, Xizhou Aluminum Factory called, not only to order office furniture for the whole building, but also to cooperate with us in other aspects. I don't know exactly what it is, but if a private enterprise can be valued by a large state-owned enterprise like Xizhou Aluminum Plant, I think they must have seen a broader market. ”

President Li listened to Yang Liufang's introduction, sometimes smoking and pondering, sometimes nodding. After seeing the introduction, he said to Yang Liufang:

"In this way, you go back and get me a plan quickly, and before I take office, I will strive to implement your one-stop building materials city project." You should work hard and strive to set an example, make a benchmark, and form a banner of reform vanguard in the process of transformation of our supply and marketing system. ”

The angle from which the leaders look at the problem is really different. Yang Liufang was very pleased that his plan was affirmed by the leader, and his hands trembling with excitement holding the water cup.

Coming out of President Li's office, Yanhua excitedly said to Yang Liufang: "If such a plan is implemented, the entire hardware store department will be ours." ”

"Yes, it's really worth celebrating. Yanhua, can you write this plan? ”

"Yes, I'll do my best."

"Okay, then I'll go to Xizhou Aluminum Plant to discuss cooperation."

At noon, due to the meeting and communication with President Li's office, Yang Liufang was too busy to eat. Fortunately, after Yanhua came out of the office, she went to buy him bread and milk. Yang Liufang, the little accountant Wang Xinye, and Shi Yong, who came from the factory, got into Qin Jiajun's car together. Yang Liufang nibbled on bread while marching towards the aluminum factory with everyone.

When I arrived at the aluminum factory, after reporting to the doorman, the doorman made a phone call to the factory office. After a while, the executive deputy director of the aluminum plant, the deputy director of the business and the director of the office came to the gate to greet them, and after everyone greeted them, the gate of the factory was opened, and Qin Jiajun drove the truck directly to the parking lot in front of the office building. Yang Liufang and Wang Xinye, who came with him, walked with the three leaders in the aluminum plant and listened to the director of the office to introduce the aluminum plant.

Through the introduction of the office director, Yang Liufang learned that this Xizhou aluminum plant, located in Hangu District, Xizhou, has its glorious history. It was founded in 1980, if you go back further, it is the first electrolytic aluminum plant built in the northwest of the motherland during the "Second Five-Year Plan" period after the founding of New China in 1958, and it has made important contributions to the development of the country's aluminum alloy industry. However, after the reform and opening up, like all the old state-owned enterprises, they are faced with backward equipment, huge employee groups, too heavy burdens, and aluminum alloy products from foreign large industrial systems have no competitive advantage in the market, so they urgently need to be transformed.

The new secretary of the aluminum factory was determined to forge ahead, participated in this year's National Two Sessions after taking office, and went to Yangliufang's furniture factory with the delegation for investigation and research. Seeing their modern office furniture, the overall frame is made of aluminum alloy, and I feel that this is the key product of the transformation of the factory, so as soon as I returned to the factory, I immediately held an office meeting and notified Yang Liufang to talk about cooperation. But not for no reason. It just so happened that an office building for foreign experts in the factory was completed, and it was necessary to order furniture, make a collective decision at the office meeting, and hand over the furniture layout of the office building to Yang Liufang and their factory. This is why Yang Liufang's trip to the aluminum factory this time.

After visiting the aluminum plant, the five returned to the conference room, where the secretary and director of the aluminum plant were already waiting. According to the name plate, the secretary sat down at one end of the conference table with his back against the wall, while the factory director led the two deputy factory directors and Wang Xinye and Qin Jiajun brought by Yang Liufang to sit on both sides of the long conference table. The office director took Shi Yong to the new office building to measure the furniture.

"Xiao Yang, after you finish reading our factory, I'll get straight to the point. We are a state-owned enterprise, there are disadvantages and advantages, please come to work with you to produce your new type of office furniture profiles. ”

"The secretary has set the tone, Xiao Yang, what do you think here?" Yang Liufang was a little surprised and relieved to hear the words that were not official and went straight to the point at such an important meeting, which showed that the secretary and the factory director were very straightforward and practical leaders.

"Leader, of course it's good, so that we don't have to go to Wenzhou to buy goods. Travel expenses are saved. But the key is whether we can produce that kind of profile. ”

"You can rest assured that we have foreign experts, experts in materials science from Xizhou University, and the quality will only be better than your current profile."