"Boss, let's sell the farm and go to flip the house!" After Lin Zhichao and the others left, Wu Bing immediately said to Yu Chengwan.

She had had enough of this poor country, and now that someone finally came to relieve her, how could she not seize the opportunity! A beautiful woman, who wants to stay in the countryside, why can the main room stay in the downtown area?

Yu Chengwan's expression was a little hesitant, and he said worriedly: "Lin Sheng and I only have two sides, and this kind of thing must be very risky, so I'm a little worried!" ”

Because some people don't believe that a big businessman like Lin Zhichao would be willing to be friends with him, he still has doubts in his heart.

Wu Bing immediately said: "You have said it, others are big businessmen, can they still look at you as a farm!" I think it was he who appreciated you and your experience of fighting for your country, so he promoted you. As the saying goes, opportunities are rare, don't you always want to develop in business, and now you can't grasp the way that others send to your door, that is really after this village, there is no such store! ”

She is also a rich lady, and she can see very clearly that Lin Zhichao can't go to pit the two of them at all.

In fact, Lin Zhichao really planned to take Yu Chengwan to make a fortune, and he just had no purpose, just to make friends. In Lin Zhichao's life, he is willing to bring people to make a fortune and never disappoints his friends.

Yu Chengwan was suddenly moved, if he really squeezed into the circle of Lin Zhichao and Li Gaofu, then he would really be developed.

"It's just this farm, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in a short time!"

"Your cousin, he lives here, and he's always been keen on this business! The farm could earn more than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars a year, and together with the house and land, it was sold to him for 60,000 Hong Kong dollars. ”

Yu Chengwan also figured it out at this time, and said decisively: "No problem!" I've recently gone to Kowloon to find you a house and pick you up. ”

Wu Bing immediately said: "Then move quickly!" I have to register an estate agency company, I didn't hear Mr. Lin say that to buy their 5-unit residence, you only need to pay 20% of the money temporarily, that is, about 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the house will rise sharply; At that time, if you earn 10,000 yuan for a house, you will be able to earn 50,000 yuan. ”

When others say this, she will still doubt it, but when Lin Zhichao says this, she has no doubt at all, because the identities of both parties are there!

In fact, this is just a low-level guidance, if Lin Zhichao appreciates a person, he will not only do it.

Yu Chengwan nodded excitedly and said, "I know!" ”

At this time, he also longed for the desire to make a lot of money with Lin Zhichao and Li Gaofu.

Lin Zhichao attended the symposium of the Hong Kong Wig Association, and there were as many as 52 members attending the meeting. At present, there should be hundreds of wig factories in Hong Kong, and not all of them are qualified to enter the chamber of commerce.

At present, the requirements for admission to the Chamber of Commerce are to have worked in the industry for at least two years and have more than 50 hired workers. In fact, the expansion has been temporarily stopped, but there are still many applications.

Hong Kong's wig industry has become a world-class absolute hegemon, and the French and American wig industries are all over the place. However, this is a small industry, and there is no need to worry about being set up by Western countries to set up a trade fortress, including plastic flowers.

It is a big industry for Hong Kong, but it can only be a small industry for the global economy.

At the beginning of the meeting, Lin Zhichao delivered a speech as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the draft was actually written by Chen Linyuan, but he was completely off-script speech: "At present, Hong Kong employs about 4,500 workers engaged in wig production, and Hong Kong wigs occupy 90% of the world's share, and the development is very good Even I didn't expect that it has developed to such a point in two years, which is gratifying." ”

The crowd applauded thunderously, and this was undoubtedly exciting news.

Solving 4,500 jobs, what a great achievement.

At present, there are only 500 workers in the Yangtze River wig, and more energy is to put the business on the agency, almost 25~30% of the wig products in Hong Kong. However, in order to consider its own interests, Changjiang Wig signed a monthly supply contract with everyone, that is, the agent can be stopped at any time, so as not to press the goods in their own hands.

In terms of wig raw materials, it still monopolizes 60% of Hong Kong's raw material market.

Secretary-General Chan Lun-yuen then added: "Hong Kong's wig factories are saturated, but this is not too bad a result, because I went to Europe and the United States to find that the global demand for wigs is increasing day by day, especially in the United States, the 'cross generation' atmosphere is becoming more and more influential, and I am optimistic about the development of wigs in the next five years." However, everyone should not blindly expand production, so as not to bring losses to themselves. At the same time, we should not maliciously reduce prices on the ex-factory price, once vicious competition is formed, a good market will also be smashed. ”

At present, the factory price of a wig in Hong Kong is still 460~500 Hong Kong dollars, and individual special wigs can reach thousands of yuan.

Chen Linyuan, as Lin Zhichao's spokesperson, is also the most proficient talent in the entire industry, and naturally has great decision-making power. On this point, everyone is very recognized.

Of course, there are 25 Shunde businessmen among the 52 wig chamber members, and these 25 Shunde businessmen occupy about 60% of the market share, which can be described as the core. The Hong Kong Wig Chamber of Commerce is almost not called the 'Shunde Overseas Chinese Wig Chamber of Commerce'.

Liu Qingshan echoed: "Indeed! Blind expansion not only damages long-term interests, but also makes it easier to fall into a state of loss. At present, the wig industry is quite healthy, and everyone who can join the Chamber of Commerce is basically not short of orders. I hope that everyone will maintain the healthy development of Hong Kong's wig industry and control the quality, otherwise the Chamber of Commerce will consider removing wig production units that have had multiple quality failures. ”

The meeting went well, but there was also a discordant episode.

A wig merchant proposed: "President Lin, now the cost of producing a wig has risen, and you have high requirements for quality, I just don't know if the agent price can go up a little more!" ”

Everyone was happy in their hearts, and some secretly scolded him for not knowing what to do.

However, Lin Zhichao said very calmly: "It can't go up!" I have three reasons: first, we gave up the opportunity to expand in order to represent everyone's products; Second, we encourage everyone to find their own sales channels, especially to open up new ones; Third, the cost of wigs has not risen much, and you have earned more than us in the cost of raw materials. ”

The cost of a wig is around 150 Hong Kong dollars (excluding the cost of machinery and plants), and the agent price is around 350 Hong Kong dollars, but it is currently sold to European and American buyers at a low price of 460.

It seems that the Yangtze River Wig Factory can earn more than 30% by receiving orders, but in fact, it is energy and money to deal with wholesalers, technical guidance to cooperative companies, etc.

As soon as three reasons come out, everyone has nothing to say, and the most fundamental one is that others encourage you to seek your own sales.

But having said that, although everyone is encouraged to find their own sales, large wholesalers in Europe and the United States are more likely to recognize the reputation of the Yangtze River Wig Factory and will not easily cooperate with others.

Next, Lin Zhichao also took the opportunity to suggest: "In view of the high-quality development of the wig industry, I propose to give industry workers a salary standard, which is conducive to the quality of industry workers and the development of the industry." You can raise your hand to vote, whether you think the Hong Kong Wig Association needs a guide level of industry wages, once passed, I hope you will abide by the Chamber of Commerce's system! ”

The expressions of the crowd are different, but the overall seems to be more supportive!

The wig industry does make money, and the important thing is that the influence of the Yangtze River Plastic Factory is too great. At least half of those sitting in the conference room have inspected the Yangtze River Wig Factory.

Chen Linyuan immediately added: "The quality of workers in the wig industry is very important, and there have been many times when the company's wig products are unqualified, causing certain losses, and I believe that everyone does not want that kind of thing to happen again." Moreover, European and American wholesalers are very concerned about the situation of workers when importing products, and once there is an adverse impact, it may affect the entire Hong Kong wig industry. ”

This is true, because Europeans and Americans have money, they always look at things with the mentality of superiors, and they also like to fight for all kinds of welfare for workers. If it is called a sweatshop, it will be boycotted in Europe and the United States.

"Okay, raise your hand! Raise your hand in agreement! ”

Having said this, how can everyone not raise their hands, some people are a little hesitant, their eyes have been observing, but in the end they can only be forced to raise their hands.

Lin Zhichao sneered in his heart, he just wanted to be 'hypocritical'. He is not a capitalist without conscience, and has always considered the workers and the development of Hong Kong.

Of course, all this must be based on the fact that he can make a lot of money.

52 people unanimously passed, this is the real and effective!

Afterwards, everyone had a lively discussion about the average salary. Since most of them are female workers, the salary of the wig industry is not high in the whole industry, and 2~2.5 yuan a day is more common.

Before 1967, wages in Hong Kong were very low and rose very slowly, and then after the trouble, the Hong Kong government also began to pay great attention to the wages of workers, and then they rose very quickly. In the mid-sixties (1966), the salary of skilled workers in the textile industry was only 9 Hong Kong dollars a day, and ordinary workers were only 4~5 Hong Kong dollars a day.

Some factories only recruit people in Kowloon Walled City and Tiu Keng Ling during the peak production season, and then dismiss them when they run out, and the money given is only enough for food.

By the mid-70s, the average salary had risen to HK$1,300 a month, an increase of more than 300% in ten years.

So, there are pros and cons to everything!

Sure enough, the owners of major wig companies are very 'stingy' about employee wages, and they are fighting for the standard of guiding wages.

But after a serious discussion, we finally decided to take 2.5 Hong Kong dollars a day as the minimum standard, except for a probationary period of one month, and give a living allowance of 0.2 Hong Kong dollars per day, and overtime pay for more than ten hours per day, and overtime pay per hour is 1.5 times the normal;

In this way, a female worker's monthly salary can reach 80 Hong Kong dollars.

This salary level is still a little worse than that of the Yangtze River Wig Factory - the salary of female workers in the Yangtze River Wig is 80 Hong Kong dollars per month, double pay at the end of the year, holiday benefits, ten-hour work system, one day off per week, 0.4 Hong Kong dollars per hour of overtime, and 0.2 Hong Kong dollars per day for subsidized meals.

After a one-and-a-half-hour meeting, the 52 member units felt for the first time that the 'Hong Kong Wig Association' really exists, with benefits and constraints.

Needless to say, many non-member factories often stop working!

Naturally, there are many constraints, including product quality, worker welfare, etc.

After the meeting, Chen Linyuan, as secretary general, will record and supervise the spirit of today's meeting, and will even publish it in newspapers to publicize it.

Following.

The news of the first general meeting of the "Hong Kong Wig Association" was published in the "Sing Tao Daily".

For a while, the impact was very huge, and it also caused heated discussions in the city.

"Awful! In just two years of development, there are already more than 4,500 wig workers, accounting for 90% of the global market share. ”

"52 member factories have signed the industry salary guidance level, and the daily wage of regular workers is not less than 2.5 Hong Kong dollars per day, the living supplement is 0.2 Hong Kong dollars per day, and the overtime pay is not less than 1.5 times. Amazing, this salary level is higher than that of textiles and ready-to-wear! ”

At the same time, for the first time, the businessmen also felt the unity of a small 'Hong Kong Wig Association', and actually passed these 'detrimental' agreements of business owners, and I have to say that the leadership of President Lin Zhichao has to be said.

At the Central headquarters of the Hong Kong Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, a group of Chaoshan businessmen are gathering, and it is Chen Weinan who is presiding over the meeting, but the parties are basically some plastic businessmen.

It turned out that the rapid progress of Shunde people in the field of plastics made the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce unable to sit still, and everyone decided to join forces to compete with Shunde businessmen in the plastic industry.

This is Chaoshan people - unity, as long as they can make a product, there will soon be a second or third Chaoshan people to make this product, and they will have money together.

The headquarters of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce is a two-storey tenement building in Central, with a floor area of nearly 2,000 square feet.

At this time, everyone sat together, and the discussion was very intense, including Li Jiacheng, although he was only a small business owner.

In terms of leadership, in addition to Chen Weinan, the president, there are also representatives of the bank, Chen Bichen, Liao Baoshan, etc. Although Chen opened a bank in Thailand, he also set up a branch in Hong Kong last year, becoming another bank in Hong Kong for Chao merchants.

Chen Weinan said: "We tide businessmen have been in the field of wigs, lagging behind, I have studied the wig industry, found that this industry has been controlled by the Yangtze River wigs from the beginning, raw materials, sales channels, so even if our chamber of commerce encourages everyone to enter, it is difficult to achieve success." But now the plastic flower industry is different, its sales channels are wider, and the Yangtze River Plastic Factory cannot control the raw materials and sales channels. Therefore, some of you plastic businessmen proposed to convene this meeting, so we are just discussing today, how we tide businessmen should do more in the plastic flower industry, we first have invited members engaged in plastic to speak! ”

Liao Baoshan was disdainful, he recently heard that Lin Zhichao was preparing to build a high-rise building, so his mind was on real estate, and he planned to see how Lin Zhichao played, so he could use it as a reference. As for today's kind of meeting, as a bank representative, he naturally can't run away, but when he opens a bank, he doesn't expect to make money with loans, he prefers to lend to himself.

Li Jiacheng also spoke later: "The prospect of plastic flowers is ambitious, and the current market is still in the embryonic stage, but the Yangtze River Plastic Factory is huge and has sufficient funds, so we can compete." At the same time, if the Yangtze River Plastic Factory receives orders in Europe and the United States, it will also be distributed to those factories opened by Shunde people for processing. Therefore, only when we unite can we compete, carry out regular technical exchanges, and share sales channels."

He is the most active because his plastic factory is small and he wants to take advantage of the convenience the most. In May, Cheung Wo Plastic Factory officially produced plastic flowers, and entered the original sales channels (Southeast Asia and Hong Kong) at a cheap price, although cheap, but more profitable than the previous daily necessities.

However, Li Jiacheng does not want to enter the European and American markets all the time, but the reality is very cruel, in the face of the competitiveness of the Yangtze River Plastic Factory, few European and American customers are willing to purchase plastic flowers from small factories.

Chen Weinan looked at this little brother and said with great appreciation: "What the bonus says is very reasonable!" We Chaoshang have always been united, and we should achieve resource exchange this time. ”

This time, the Hong Kong Wig Chamber of Commerce showed his talents, so that he, the president of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, couldn't sit still, you must know that Lin Zhichao is also the honorary president of the three Shunde Chamber of Commerce. He had to do something, otherwise he would be the president of the Chamber of Commerce who didn't do anything.

Subsequently, a kind of Chaoshan plastic businessmen have started exchanges and decided to unite and compete.

Lin Zhichao came to the Yangtze River Plastic Factory, at this time, the plastic flower production workshop is already a two-story production area, and there are more than 800 workers; You know, plastic flowers have not been developed for a year!

"General Manager Tao, how is the progress of arranging the external processing of the family workshop?" Lin Zhichao asked with concern.

The Yangtze River Plastic Factory is designated to support the Shunde villagers living in Tsuen Wan, and all the selected family units, as long as there are the elderly, women, and children in the family, and they are fellow villagers in Shunde, they can take some threading work from the Yangtze River Plastic Factory.

In this way, people who would have been doing nothing would have been able to earn an income. And the Yangtze River Plastic Factory can also outsource a process of plastic flowers.

The good thing to kill three birds with one stone:

First, it can save some costs by omitting a stringing link;

second, took care of the overseas Chinese in Shunde, not to mention that Lin Zhichao is also a non-official Justice of the Peace and a member of the Development Committee in Tsuen Wan;

Thirdly, some foreign wholesalers visiting Hong Kong can illustrate this situation and bring them to visit family workshops, which is easier to get orders.

"So far, 50 family units have received orders from us, and they come every morning to pick up the goods and deliver them in the evening, and everyone is very happy," Tao said. At the same time, by eliminating this step, we are much more efficient. In the future, we will increase the outsourcing of this process according to the actual situation. ”

Lin Zhichao nodded with satisfaction, although it was outsourced, there was absolutely no problem with the quality, because the plastic flowers had actually been formed, and the family workshop only needed to combine them. The important thing is that, of course, there is also a responsibility system, plus people in this era are more honest and responsible.

Later, he asked, "What about the order for plastic flowers?" ”

In addition to his relatively high participation at the beginning, the follow-up was handed over to the management team led by the general managers of these subsidiaries, and of course, the group management was also supervising and guiding.

Tao Derong said: "It's often too late, but I will hand it over to the Shunde businessman factory for processing, and strict requirements for quality." When the order was too late to a certain extent, our factory expanded a few points. ”

Steadily expand the factory, rather than blindly expand the factory, there is no problem in distributing a little order to everyone.

Lin Zhichao said: "You did the right thing! The factory needs to be expanded, but step by step, it can produce seventy or eighty percent of the total order, which is not bad. In addition, the Plastic Flower Chamber of Commerce will be officially established next year, when you have to play well, be familiar with the development planning, prospects, and processes of the global plastic flower industry, be the top talents in the industry, and provide your own contribution to the development of Hong Kong's plastic flower industry. ”

Tao Derong was immediately very excited, what a glorious thing it was!

He also occasionally worked with his boss to organize an industry exchange for plastic flower business owners, but he did not expect to develop the Hong Kong Plastic Flower Association next year. With the boss's energy, he will definitely not have much time to play, so he, the general manager of the Yangtze River Plastic Factory, has to replace the boss and lead the development of the industry.

"Okay!"

Lin Zhichao nodded, and added: "The plastic flower industry is much bigger than the wig industry, maybe in a year or two, we can have a plastic flower factory with 3,000 workers." And the plastic flowers in Hong Kong can feed more than 10,000 people, such a huge industry, leaders must have a super vision! ”

"Well, I'll study and analyze it well!" Tao Derong said seriously.

In fact, Lin Zhichao is still a little conservative, with the strength of the Yangtze River Plastic Flower, it is estimated that in the late fifties, it will develop into a factory of four or five thousand workers. After all, in his previous life, Li Jiacheng's plastic flower factory had grown to nearly 3,000 people, which was that scale at its peak.

However, when the Yangtze River Plastic Flower really develops a scale of 3,000 people, there may be a lot of outgoing orders, and it is also possible to entrust Shunde counterparts to process it in the future.

After all, Lin Zhichao's ideas have always been very generous. If it can really develop to the scale of 5,000 people's production, the productivity of 2,000 people will be handed over to the Shunde villagers.

After all, he understands how the dinosaurs became extinct!

Therefore, the scale of 4,500 people in the wig industry, he only has the production scale of 500 people, and it is more of an agent product, killing two birds with one stone - not taking risks and taking care of the industry. (End of chapter)