At the beginning of the new week, Lin Zhichao convened the management of Changjiang Real Estate and began to arrange work.

"Next, we are going to start the 'Old Gas Plant Site' project on Ferry Street in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, where the 20 tenement buildings (5 floors) of this project will be subcontracted to two judges, and the engineering department of Cheung Kong Property will manage and dispatch them in a unified manner. Manager Huang, do you have any problems with your engineering department? ”

The engineering department of Cheung Kong Real Estate is the department with the largest number of employees and a department with strong professional skills, with a total of six employees; At the same time, Lin Zhichao is also a member of this department, and he usually likes the work of this department.

Huang Changhong said confidently: "No problem! The projects of Shanlin Road, Modu Street, and Happy Valley are all on the right track, and our department can ensure that the four projects will start at the same time, even the construction of Boss Tang's factory, which will not be affected. ”

It is a normal thing, after all, although there are many projects, in fact, the judge is still supervising and organizing the construction, and the engineering department of Changjiang Real Estate is more of a supervisor and assistant.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "I may also build a factory here, you have no problem, right?" ”

Huang Changhong said: "No problem, there are many judges who want to cooperate with us, and there are enough people. ”

Although Lin Zhichao intends to support Sun Jian's judge, he will not hand over all the projects to him, and Changjiang Real Estate must keep multiple judgements available under his hands.

Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "Okay, it is estimated that it will be a matter of the past two months." ”

Next, we discussed the arrangement of the 'Ferry Street Gas Works Project', which is also a private housing estate, consisting of a total of 20 tenement buildings (5 storeys high), with a total of 100 storeys.

The preliminary work has been completed, and it was originally planned to start in December, but it has been waiting for the funds to be very sufficient, so it is expected that the construction will start in early February and be completed in the first half of 1949.

As for sales, they must have been placed in the second half of this year (1948), when the purchasing power of the market will be a little more sufficient. At that time, there were many descendants of wealthy people and warlords who came to Hong Kong, and they were all high-quality customers.

Therefore, for this project, Lin Zhichao feels that there is no problem in earning 1 million Hong Kong dollars, and there is no need to share it with others.

In this way, the net asset value of the entire Changjiang Real Estate will reach 280~3 million in the second half of this year. Lin Zhichao only invested 760,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the value of the company quadrupled in two years, which can be described as a huge profit; It is impossible to do this without the right time, place and people.

Of course, Lin Zhichao will definitely take the money to invest, it is impossible to be idle in the account, he has too many investment directions.

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Lin Zhichao came to the production plant of Cheung Kong Industrial, he observed the production area very carefully, and stopped from time to time to think, how to improve the machine? What is the direction of improvement?

Although he is not a professional mechanical engineer, in fact, many machines are instructed by the production boss to improve according to the actual situation. After all, mechanical engineers only know about mechanical production and R&D, but they don't necessarily know the direction of improvement.

"Boss, this Mr. Smith took our name card and said that he would inspect our factory!" Wang Liang, the manager of the production department, walked in with a tall foreigner and said.

Lin Zhichao greeted him with a smile and said in English: "Hello, Mr. Smith, I am the boss here, you can call me 'Lin'." ”

It is impossible for a foreigner to inspect the factory for no reason, let alone hold his company's name card, it is very likely that it is a zipper merchant that Li Gaofu met in RB last time.

Smith looked at the small Changjiang Industrial factory and said, "Boss Lin, your factory seems to be a little small. ”

Lin Zhichao was not in a hurry, and said: "The new factory is still under construction, and there will be dozens of sizes here." ”

Smith didn't follow up on the topic, but said, "Mind if I visit?" ”

"Of course! I'll take you! ”

Smith's impression quickly changed, and he said, "I was impressed by the small size of the factory, but it was very well organized and clean. ”

Lin Zhichao confidently introduced: "Our factory implements 4S management, Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, and Seiketsu. ”

Smithton was intrigued to visit in more detail.

"What about your procedures for making sliders? Is it outsourcing? ”

"Of course not! Since the place is too small, we have rented another factory nearby, and I can show you around. ”

He was sure that this foreigner might bring some changes to the company, so he introduced it very enthusiastically.

An hour later, Mr. Lin took Mr. Smith back to his office.

"Mr. Smith, you have a zipper need, don't you?"

Smith said with a smile: "More than a month ago, a gentleman named 'Lee' in your company happened to be selling your zippers, and I ran into him. I saw that your zipper is produced by an automatic zipper machine, so I became interested, so I left my contact information. ”

Lin Zhichao pretended to suddenly realize and said: "I heard Manager Li talk about you, I didn't expect you to really come to our company, it's really happy!" ”

Smith took out a zipper from his bag, which was really produced by Changjiang Industrial.

He tried it a few times before he said, "I asked the staff to pull this zipper thousands of times, and I made sure that it was of the same quality as the zipper produced in the United States, so I was relieved to come to your factory to inspect it." And I am also very satisfied with the inspection just now, I think Mr. Lin, you are a boss who is good at management, so there must be nothing wrong with the products produced. ”

"Thank you"

Lin Zhichao was also a little surprised, this American zipper dealer actually let his subordinates zip for more than a month before coming to investigate.

Of course, his heart quickly became excited, which showed that Smith would hand over a large order to Cheung Kong.

Smith continued: "I visited the RB zipper factory last year and was disappointed to find that they were all handmade, with high prices and poor quality. Unexpectedly, soon, you Hong Kong will use automatic zipper machines, and the products meet my requirements. Mr. Lin, you are very smart and know that once you take the automatic zipper machine, you will soon occupy the Asian market. ”

Lin Zhichao replied: "I also learned from a magazine that automatic zipper machines have been used in the production of zippers in Europe and the United States. So I just thought that the products produced by the machine must be cheaper and the quality will be better. ”

The two chatted vigorously, and when they learned that Lin Zhichao intended to improve the automatic zipper machine, and even developed the 'slider automatic stamping machine', Smith admired Lin Zhichao's ambition.

Finally, Smith finally got back to the point: "I need 12,000 meters of copper zippers, at what price are you going to wholesale it to me?" ”

Lin Zhichao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and quickly calculated it in his mind.

1 meter zipper is considered 5 trouser chains, and copper zippers are basically used in the army, jeans, luggage, aluminum alloy zippers are commonly used in trouser chains, of course, not absolutely.

The cost of 1 meter of copper zipper is about 3.2 Hong Kong dollars, which is already the cost after reduction, and at the same time, the cost of 1 meter of aluminum alloy zipper has been reduced to less than 2.5, that is, less than 5 cents.

The cost can be reduced a lot, but Changjiang Industry can't do it at the moment.

"US$1.1 per metre (HK$4.4)"

Smith was naturally ecstatic in his heart, and the price was 25% cheaper than what he imported from the United States.

However, he continued to bargain.

Lin Zhichao did not let go, he was sure that Smith had taken a big advantage.

At the same time, Cheung Kong is not short of orders at present, and last month (1947.12) it completed 180,000 orders (36,000 meters).

"Okay, first cooperate with this price, I need you to deliver in 20 days, do you have enough raw materials."

"Yes, we purchase raw materials in large quantities, so they are more sufficient."

Smith nodded, he also saw that Cheung Kong was busy with orders, so he didn't continue to bargain. He understood that the young man had found a way to make a fortune.

Seeing that this order has been negotiated, Lin Zhichao hopes to continue to cooperate in the future, so he said: "At present, we are building a new factory, and we will definitely be able to reduce the cost price in the later stage, and then we will reduce the price of selling to you while ensuring better quality." ”

Smith smiled and said, "OK, don't worry, we will cooperate for a long time." ”

In this way, Cheung Kong gained a big customer.

Although Smith did not say the purpose of this batch of zippers, Lin Zhichao guessed that it should be an order from the US military stationed in Japan, otherwise copper zippers would not be used.

As for the long-term cooperation, Lin Zhichao feels a bit suspenseful, because once RB local zipper manufacturers change to automatic zipper machine production, then the R government will support its own enterprises.

At that time, it will be good for Cheung Kong to get a share of the RB civilian pie; If it's not good, the RB market is difficult. You must know that the wages of RB workers in this era are not high, and the local RB after World War II is even more dilapidated than Hong Kong.

So, when you can earn it, hurry up and earn it. There is no RB market, as well as European, American, and Southeast Asian markets, and if you can't do YKK, you must at least open up the low-end market.

In short, there is no problem in making money.