I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 80 Not Afraid of Offending Many People
Guan Changsheng didn't rush back to Jiangning. He spent two days in Shazhou City. First, Zhang Da'an wanted to introduce him to people, as Guan Changsheng didn't recognize all the people from "Zhang'an Education" and "Zhang'an Media". Second, Zhang Da'an planned to leverage his two existing factories to start expanding his vocational skills training business.

This idea was already in mind last year when Zhang Da'an sent Zhang Zhengdong to learn a foreign language.

He was just too busy back then. Uncle Zhang only used the foreign language he learned when he was bragging to foreign investors at the Foreign Trade Hotel. The rest of the time he was just playing by himself in the office.

"Boss, you mean to convert the factory's reserve land into a training ground, right?"

"Yes. I plan to start with training for engineering vehicles."

"Engineering vehicles?"

"Or special vehicles would also work. My idea is to first open a forklift training center, and buy second-hand training vehicles directly in Jiangning. Around the Lunar New Year, I will go to Northeast China to recruit a group of mechanics, and then use the area east of Xianlin to open a training school for the maintenance and repair of engineering vehicles and special vehicles."

Before his rebirth, Zhang Da'an made money in the later stages of his vocational skills training business. For example, if you wanted to get a forklift license, it was very easy. The five-day short training course cost 400 yuan, and everyone passed the unified exam.

However, due to industrial upgrading, especially in the Wudu area where industrial upgrading was being carried out, coupled with increasing emphasis on energy consumption, oil and gas-powered forklifts were gradually replaced by electric forklifts. At this point, it became difficult to continue cooperating with a particular company.

They are basically all-inclusive services from large companies.

For example, "Lin'an Forklift" once developed into a service center similar to a car dealership, connecting with vocational schools and colleges. Sixteen or seventeen-year-olds could practice their skills in school, and when they graduated at eighteen, they were all certified to work.

For ordinary job seekers, engineering vehicle training at this stage is not cost-effective and offers little competitive advantage.

The period of reaping the benefits is very short; it will be completely over in about five years.

When the civil engineering and real estate industries began to shrink, it became extremely difficult to find young people in these fields who had not received formal schooling.

In the past, situations like fellow villagers leading fellow villagers, elders leading younger generations, and masters leading apprentices were not unheard of, but they were very rare.

Typically, when a major industry experiences a downturn, its sub-sectors may have already completed their transformation by as much as ten years prior.

The number of workers entering society may be quite stable, but the process of training and forming qualified workers may have already undergone dramatic changes.

Zhang Da'an was taking a proactive approach. As long as he could "incubate" a formal vocational school within five years, he would be basically set. After five years, it would be considered a legitimate institution and would be able to reap the basic benefits after the initial boom period.

Before this, there is a lot of preparation work to be done, such as school qualifications, school size, coach level, teacher level, and so on. There is no way to save money on any of these aspects.

None are cheap.

Small schools simply can't function properly, so in many central and western provinces, there is often only one school in the entire province that guarantees teaching, learning, and passing.

It has a particularly large campus, a particularly strong faculty, and a particularly wide student enrollment range.

If Zhang Da'an could establish such a training school in Jiangkou Province, a school comparable to all similar schools in the central and western regions, the locational advantage would be undeniable. However, for so many years, no such school has emerged in Jiangkou Province. The reason is simple… the economic gap between the north and south of the province may be significant, but that's only a perception within the province. Looking at the national picture, this gap is considerable. In terms of the demand for vocational skills training, this means that trainees don't need to leave their own prefecture-level city or even county-level city.

The government-supported functional institutions are quite comprehensive, providing almost any service you could need. At most, the level of service might be slightly higher in economically developed cities, but that doesn't mean the skill level would be any higher. These days, there's not much of a technological gap in the equipment.

However, if Zhang Da'an were to actually "incubate" such a monster, he would offend many people. Almost all the active social groups at the county and district level in Jiangkou Province would dislike him.

These days, when it comes to competing for students, no matter the field, people will fight tooth and nail.

Intermediaries are an important social institution in this competitive process.

All the bad impressions people have of intermediaries stem from this most primitive form of market competition.

The saying goes, "Even innocent people like drivers, boatmen, shopkeepers, and peddlers should be killed." This is not just a casual remark; many stereotypes are based on big data.

However, Zhang Da'an had his own methods. He had already attracted a lot of hatred in the market for students retaking the college entrance examination, so there was no pressure for him to increase his efforts.

Having too many lice doesn't make you itch, having too much debt doesn't make you worry, and what's there to be afraid of offending people?
They've all been reborn to take revenge on society, so this is nothing.

After a slightly more in-depth conversation with Guan Changsheng, Guan Changsheng was still confused. He only knew that this was a business that could make money, but he didn't know that he would encounter a huge pitfall if he went further. Right now, he was thinking that after returning to Jiangning, he would first help the boss inquire about the price of used mobile phones.

In fact, there was no need for him to inquire, nor was it necessary. He could simply mention it casually when the Chengdong District of Jiangning City was eager to expand the production of "Zhang An Health".

There's a historical factor at play here: secondhand construction equipment, whether vehicles or machines, is always in high demand. Even an eighteen-year-old air compressor can still fetch several hundred dollars, let alone a highly functional piece of equipment like a forklift.

Individual buyers who go into wholesale are simply being slaughtered like pigs.

Only construction companies, warehousing companies, or local urban construction companies have the resources to wholesale used equipment, and the prices are negotiable.

Individual contractors can't handle large quantities of equipment; they can only buy one type of equipment at a time. For example, if you buy a used excavator, you have to get a used loader as well. Even the most well-connected contractors can only do this because once they have the equipment, they have to get a commission when they sell it to someone else.

However, with the involvement of Chengdong District of Jiangning City, things are different. At that time, one of the largest second-hand equipment trading centers in Jiangning City was located in Chengdong District, which could be coordinated and negotiated.

If this were done in Shazhou City, there would be no chance; it wouldn't be at that level. Therefore, Shazhou City can't provide assistance in this regard; the only thing they can do is help negotiate the price when buying brand new equipment. That's all Shazhou City can do.

They weren't worried that the Chengdong District of Jiangning City wouldn't take the bait. Jiangning City had experienced a slight upheaval, and the city center was trying to generate revenue and improve its performance. After all, when it came to GDP, it was not only inferior to Wudu, but also inferior to Taihu, and even inferior to Yangtai. Was that reasonable?
Suddenly, a "large-scale enterprise" appeared, and the Chengdong District had no interest at all. Zhang Da'an simply didn't believe it. Of course, the current pace was still a bit slow, and they had to urge them on. He informed Zhang Dangyang and asked him to spread some rumors on the provincial TV station, saying that Shazhou City was trying to persuade Zhang Da'an to put the second phase production line of "Zhang An Health" in the bonded zone of Shazhou City.

Be bigger and stronger and create greater glory!
Then, within a day, the Chengdong District of Jiangning City made a phone call to Zhang Da'an's office at the Mazhou Branch of Xindongwei Port Middle School.

(End of this chapter)