Chapter 429: Air Freight (Part 1)
"We received a lot of calls from children, as well as statistics from various electrical appliances and car stores, asking us to release cartoons in advance."
"In addition, there are film companies on the Hollywood side, which also convey such requirements." London, on the distributor's side, reports to the head of the film department.
"But we're not ready, and a large part of the toys are still at sea." The dealer said.
"I personally think that there will be more orders for toys, and I believe that once the toys are on the market, they will be extremely popular." It was proposed.
"Millions of pounds of toys are nothing, but it takes a lot of time to transport and distribute them."
"The main thing is piracy, I believe that once it is popular, there will be a lot of pirated toys."
"This is inevitable, and the only way to do this is to intensify the crackdown."
"Personally, I don't recommend early release of movies because a lot of kids are still trying to earn money for movie tickets."
"Haha!" Everyone laughs, in fact, everyone also knows that children earn pocket money is deliberately done by adults, and it is necessary for children to know that it is not easy to earn money and there is a concept of financial management.
If you really want to watch a movie, I believe most people are still willing to listen to their children's suggestions.
"I think the most important thing is the second season, and let's not let go of the summer file." Someone is thinking about a second season again.
"I can't talk about this for the time being, and I haven't seen the results of the first season yet." Someone shook their heads and refused.
"Then go according to plan." The screening here is scheduled to be released a week before Christmas, and this is mainly to avoid other films, after all, no one expects the box office until it is released.
"But we can add another two million orders." In the end, everyone unanimously decided.
In other words, there are 6 million pounds of toys, which are not very many in the world.
It was already mid-December when Liu Hai heard the news, and Sun Aiguo continued to report on the heavy transport truck, and the test was qualified, just these few words, Liu Hai was relieved.
As for the torpedo boats, this test completely exceeded expectations.
"The engine of the torpedo boat is 600 units next year, and the number of MTC6000 marine diesel engines will also be 50 units, and dealers have placed a lot of ship orders." Sun Aiguo sat in the maintenance department and took a sip of tea after speaking.
"That's good, I'm afraid of some accidents." Liu Hai was relieved when he heard that the two projects should not be managed by himself, and if something happened to him, he would delay his plan again.
"In addition, there are toys, the dealer has added two times in less than half a month, and the goods that I used to ask for were 2 million pounds, and this half a month has increased the goods by 4 million pounds, fortunately, I listened to your suggestions, molds, and materials are very complete."
When Bangs heard this, he felt that the toy might be a big hit, after all, a classic is a classic, and that boy can refuse Transformers? It's like a girl can't say no to a Barbie doll.
"In this case, I suggest being bold, it is a lot to say millions of pounds, but how many people are in Europe and the United States, and European and American countries are developed and rich." Liu Hai still put forward his own opinion.
"Forget it, if you don't ask our opinion, we won't talk much."
"The leaders of the ministry praised in private: Comrade Xiao Liu is a good comrade, we have proposed that the leader change the coat many times, but there is no recruitment, Xiao Liu came out, and the leader changed into a new fur coat." Sun Aiguo said in the tone of the leader of the ministry again.
"Hit by mistake." Bangs smiled, the coat is not warm for too long, and it is colder here in Kyoto, so a fur coat is much better than a patch cotton coat.
"You, you're just a good person, last time the secretary of the superior leader came, I just reacted to the excitement, but our life is much better than before, and the superior leader should be changed." Sun Aiguo didn't understand at first.
"The cotton jacket is not warm after wearing it for a long time, and I change it once every few years, not to mention that the leader is older than me." Bangs shook his head and said.
"I have an idea here that I want a part of the university quota to support the night school workers in our factory to go to college, what do you think?" Sun Aiguo asked again.
When Liu Hai heard this, he muttered a little in his heart, he seemed to remember that the factory could recommend him to college?
"Didn't our factory recommend college before?" Bangs asked.
"That's a recommendation, I mean to run a high school to take the college entrance examination directly, no need to recommend, our factories are from the countryside, some young people are very hardworking, I think this part of the workers should not be limited to our factory, Ling is a simple example, our factory has a genius like you is enough."
"Of course they are willing to come back after graduating from college, and we welcome them." Sun Aiguo spoke again.
"Of course it's a good idea." Liu Hai nodded, this is of course a good idea, I still have to learn enough cultural knowledge in the future, and I can't remember the factory after this part of the factory goes out.
"Why don't we just cooperate to run a university, for example, what do some universities need to study, we can provide convenience, students need internships, we can also provide venues?" Bangs suggested again.
"This idea is good, but there are some cross-departmental things, and the wind tunnel laboratory we cooperate with Chang'an University of Technology is handled by the collapse department."
"This is the cooperation between the school and the enterprise, it is the mutual aid behavior of the brother unit, and the summer and winter vacations can also provide students with the opportunity to work and earn money for internships, what do you say?" Bangs came from the afterlife and knew that some things didn't have to be that big.
"That's a good idea, this idea is good." Sun Aiguo's eyes lit up, Xiao Liu's statement is good, and brother units help each other.
As for secrecy or something, there is no need for Liu Hai to remind him, this factory director understands better than Liu Hai himself.
"In addition, I also got you a batch of medical equipment, which is convenient for you to study, after all, getting it in the car is not as good as being in the hospital." Sun Aiguo spoke again.
"Thank you, Director." Bangs nodded, it would be better to have a batch of equipment.
"Don't be so polite, we're either outsiders, or we're working hard for you." Sun Aiguo shook his head.
Liu Hai nodded and didn't say anything, Sun Aiguo said again: "Now every Christmas, our leaders here are more anxious than those abroad. ”
"Several major ports in Shandong are already operating at full capacity, and next year as long as the port can be repaired." Sun Aiguo spoke again.
"After the Spring Festival, we will recruit 5,000 new workers, train for three months, carry out diversion, and train those with good talent for another three months, and those with average talent will be on the job for three months, and then prepare for the production of dog carts next year." Sun Aiguo said again.
"Factory director, your approach is simply ...... to the masses in the northwest and southwest." Bangs didn't know what to say.
Over the years, the motorcycle factory has recruited nearly 100,000 people from the southwest, northwest, and poor areas of the Central Plains.
A student means a family, at this time a family has more than a formal worker is the concept, even if it is an apprentice, a month is close to 20 yuan, not to mention these educated, as long as the training is qualified, it is an apprentice, the internship period is a first-class worker, sent to other factories, immediately belongs to the old workers, second-level workers go, some will be technical and technical positions.
A family's income of more than 200 yuan a year, although they use part of it, but even if they can support the family with five yuan a month?
"I am also a farmer, I know the hardships of farmers, and the children of farmers can endure hardships, but not in the city, which is why I want to run a high school, so that these children who want to continue their studies can provide an opportunity." Sun Aiguo said.
Liu Hai nodded, if the high school is established in the first half of this year, then the first batch of students will be the batch of students who will go to the factory in a few years, and it should be that the factory director will think like this when he looks at many people with good academic performance.
"In a few years, let's run a university ourselves." Bangs said with a smile.
"I'm afraid it's a little difficult." Sun Aiguo shook his head slightly.
Liu Hai smiled slightly, and when his helicopter and fighter engine came out, he didn't believe that he couldn't run a university, and in the future, the university would build its own aircraft carrier, and take the name: MTC 001!
Sun Aiguo left with suspicion, and finally felt that the bangs were smiling a little bit?
Liu Hai calculated in his heart, Red Fox Motors, Pioneer Motors, and then next year's Dog Cars, Shandong will produce at least two or three million cars a year, and how many supporting steel plants and other factories will be, and the Bohai Economic Belt will develop at this time.
The main reason is that the Bohai Sea region is safe now, and the southeast coast has to wait for the bald head to be safe.
In this era, there are three industrial circles, one is the Zhuhai River Basin, after the dredging of the Pearl River, motorcycles and small household appliances are mainly there.
In the southwest, factories for motorcycles, vans, excavators, assault trucks, loaders, cables, hydraulic equipment, etc., have been built, and there are large steel enterprises there.
The largest is the Bohai Economic Circle around Shandong, the small aircraft industrial zone in Caofeidian, and the Dalyan shipyard that will take off immediately.
In general, heavy industries are located in the Bohai Economic Circle and the southwest, and on the Pearl River side are small household appliances and motorcycle-related industries.
"Forget it, you shouldn't worry about it." Liu Hai knew why he wanted to build a large number of ports in Shandong.
The high school for the children of the motorcycle factory was quickly passed, and Sun Aiguo asked a group of young people in the factory who had the best results in the night school examination to go to and from work on time, study every night, and prepare for the college entrance examination in 71 years.
The motorcycle factory here are students recruited in remote mountainous areas, it is not a problem to go to college, there is no money during college, you can also go back to the motorcycle factory to work and study during the winter and summer vacations, and even be willing to come back to work on Sundays.
On Sunday, December 20, 1970, today is the premiere of the animated film Transformers, and many children urge their parents to buy tickets together.
The film company did not invite any film critics, nor did it invite reporters, and the film company did not publicize it, but the major movie theaters still gave a lot of films, after all, in the dealer's territory, who dared not give some face, believe it or not, power outage maintenance, gas maintenance, and water pipe maintenance.
Therefore, many film critics complained in the newspaper, and the president of the film company made it clear in an interview that this is a movie for children and should not be evaluated by adults.
According to the survey, 30% of people said they would like to accompany their children to see it, while 20% said they would wait to see it, 20% were unsure, and the rest said they had never heard of it.
"Today's tickets are sold out." At ten o'clock in the morning, the Phoenix Cinema sold out all five shows today, which made many children who came very disappointed.
"Then we'll buy tomorrow night's." Many parents didn't expect it to be gone so soon, so they asked.
"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about this." The conductor was crazy busy at work, and completed today's work in less than two hours, someone asked tomorrow, and the conductor didn't spit on him, and then hung up a ticket that had not been used for a long time to sell out the sign, ready to rest.
So many parents looked at their children's disappointed eyes, looked at the posters, and hurried to other places, but unfortunately, they were already sold out.
Many children start to clear snow, shovel snow, or walk their dogs to earn money during the winter vacation, just to see the Autobots today.
Of course, this news also alarmed the distributors, and the president of the film company was also incredulous, this is not yet noon, and all the tickets are sold out?
By the time the dealers gathered, the first session in the morning had been finished, and the second session began, and now it was time for word of mouth.
Quite a few newspapers are also in front of the cinema, waiting for the first production of this small film company.
"Hey, excuse me, what do you think of the movie?" A reporter saw that someone from the movie theater was coming out, and hurriedly came up and asked.
A teenager looked at the reporter and said, "I don't break the rules, but try to misinterpret them?" ”
"What?" The reporter has a question mark in his head.
"Sorry, that's a line from the movie." The child's father explained.
"And what do you think of this animated movie?"
"It's an amazing idea, a car becomes an Autobot, a motorcycle, an airplane, and that's the most focused thing I've ever seen him do." The man patted his son on the shoulder and said.
"Daddy, I'm going to watch it a second time."
"But you're out of money."
"I can help you walk the dog."
"Five weeks?"
"Two weeks."
"No, four weeks."
"Three weeks."
"Deal." Then the father and son went to the place where the movie tickets were sold and looked at each other.
"Let's be early tomorrow." The child spoke.
"No, I'm going to work tomorrow."
"I'm cleaning the inside of the house."
"A week."
"No, you're exploiting."
Then the two fathers and sons left, and the reporter saw that many children asked to watch the second show, but unfortunately there were no tickets.
The reporter asked a lot of children, and they all got positive answers, but some said they didn't like it, thinking that it was an advertisement for a certain company, because it was all a certain company's cars.
That's not all, today is also the day when toys are released at the same time, and many children come to the place where they often watch samples, and they see toys, Transformers toys.
Before today's movie is over, the 500,000 pounds of toys put on the London side are gone, all of them are gone, and dealers are calling this side one after another.
It has prepared six million pounds of goods in itself, and less than half of the goods in the world have arrived at home, some are at sea, and some are still in the factory.
The dealers were waiting for the box office, but they didn't expect to wait for the news.
"None? Half a million pounds of toys are gone? The dealers were chatting over tea together when they were stunned by the sudden news.
"Yes, no, dealers are calling to ask for it, and some of the children who didn't buy toys are still crying in the store." The toy side is responsible for small household appliances.
These adults can't imagine that the good friend of the next-door neighbor is holding a bumblebee transformer in his hand, and proudly announces that I am Bumblebee, what kind of mentality.
"Hurry up and book."
"How much?"
"Production, as much as you want, and then stock cargo planes from Hong Kong Island by air, fast. Be sure to have Transformers in the London store tomorrow morning, no matter how many. Hearing this, the dealer took a deep puff on his cigar and said.
"Agreed."
"Agreed." The others nodded.
The call went directly to Hong Kong Island, and Hong Kong Island urgently called the mainland, knowing that it was early in the morning at this time in the mainland.
Fortunately, there are people on duty in all departments, after all, it is at the most critical time.
"Not in a few hours?" The person in charge of the domestic side was also dumbfounded, and hurriedly called the factory below, production, equipment was opened, and took turns to work overtime to ask for molds.
Less than an hour after the call, Hong Kong Island called again, and the minimum was prepared according to the goods of 50 million pounds.
Because there were two million pounds of toys in the whole of Europe, and they were gone before it got dark, and this was because they were on sale with London, that is, at 12 p.m. in London, and at 1 p.m. in Germany.
The first show of the movie starts at nine o'clock London time, in Germany at ten o'clock, the dealers don't get the news until five o'clock in the afternoon, and at this time it is one o'clock in the morning in China.
Fifty million pounds, so many toys?
It is also the middle of the night on Hong Kong Island, and the toys are packed overnight and sent to the plane, and they must be delivered to London tomorrow morning, no matter how much the goods are, every dealer must have them, if not, it will give customers a bad idea.
The next morning, Liu Hai came to the maintenance department from his hometown, and when he entered the door, he found that the factory director was waiting here: "Factory director? ”
"The toys were selling well, the dealers asked for at least 50 million pounds of goods, and they were all busy, and I was called to the factory in the middle of the night, and the mold workshop worked overtime to produce toy molds." Sun Aiguo said with a yawn.
"That's a lot." Liu Hai didn't expect that the dealer needed so many goods.
"It is said that yesterday all the toys were sold out in three hours, and there were still children crying in the store." Sun Aiguo almost understood, just like his own children seeing what good things other people's children have, they also want it.
"And all the inventory on Hong Kong Island will be sent to London by air today, and all the follow-up will be transported by air." Sun Aiguo continued.
"And this movie has a good reputation, and the box office should be quite a lot." The more Sun Aiguo looks at Liu Hai, the more he feels like a genius, what to do to make money, if this is in the West, it will be the next Einstein.
The second watch is noon
(End of chapter)