I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 84 Changshan Customers Who Proactively Raise Prices

Having just finished giving a pep talk to the key personnel of "Zhang An Education," Zhang Da'an immediately turned around and paid the toll for the Jiyang Yangtze River Bridge, because the "Little Champion" series was currently experiencing a boom.

Unlike "Zhang An Health," which needs to exercise restraint, "Zhang An Food" is expanding its production capacity across the board, backed by strong support from Shazhou City. This favorable opportunity must be seized as soon as possible.

In ten or twenty years, the advantages of being a local village will not be completely gone, but they will be negligible.

The reason is simple: the business environment is improving rapidly, which translates into a sense of fairness in industrial and commercial competition.

Fairness means diminishing the advantages of locals.

Zhang Da'an definitely needs to seize the opportunity and make the most of this advantage as soon as possible.

"Boss, the Changshan City Tobacco and Wine Company in Hebei Province wants 100 truckloads of goods, and the price will increase by 3 cents."

"Three points more? Trying to cut in line?"

"The advertisements have already reached the rural areas, and 'Little Champion QQ Candy' is selling exceptionally well. Changshan City Tobacco and Wine Company even wanted to become a provincial distributor, but they didn't dare to come directly. They first asked if our Beijing-based food company had contacted us."

"Fuck..."

I know that officials in Changshan City will cower in the presence of "Lord Jing," but to be this cowardly... is that really necessary?

It's just business.

Besides, Changshan City is the provincial capital, so isn't it reasonable for it to be a provincial representative?

Even if it wasn't the Changshan City Sugar, Tobacco and Wine Company, it could have been some other "powerful figure" in Changshan City.

Is it really necessary to make such a fuss?

Yuchi De, from his hometown in Hedong Province, was unsurprised and said with a sneer, "Just like in Jinyang, you have to be mindful of others when selling coal."

"You can only say this to me. I can say it outside, but you can't. Don't be foolish."

No wonder he can only be an associate professor. He has no awareness at all, and he's always complaining and barking like a dog. Does he look like an excellent and qualified scientific researcher?

Two thousand yuan a month used to be too much; they would just take a zero off and be more honest.

Now earning a million yuan a year, Yuchi De is quite proud. He occasionally visits Taihu University of Light Industry and no longer holds back, saying whatever comes to mind.

When people reach middle age, they have many things they want to vent about.

He didn't have the opportunity before, but now it's different. Yuchi De felt that he was no ordinary person. Working for the boss, he could speak loudly and stand tall!
"Don't worry, boss, I'll be more careful in the future."

"I was just kidding, and you actually took it seriously? What's wrong with me saying it? Are you afraid they'll bite me?"

"..."

Zhang Da'an wasn't worried at all. He had already offended people from Beijing TV, so what was one or two more powerful companies he was going to lose?
Something that doesn't exist.

"A hundred truckloads of goods, delivered in batches."

"Huh? Isn't that too much? That's about one-thirtieth of the production."

"Old Yu has almost finished the blueprints for the new production line. The parts are all readily available and can be directly salvaged from Zhongwu City. The main body is a candy production line that Zhongwu City imported from Spain a few years ago. It's not difficult for us to convert it into an automated gummy candy production line. With a little more time, we can install it in one month, debug and test production in one month, and start ramping up production capacity in the third month."

"Then we still need to hire people?"

"We hired extra people to begin with. The current job rotation training is just to boost sales during the Spring Festival. We don't need our financial statements to look good, so senior technicians like you can confidently optimize the production line."

Even now, Zhang'an Food Factory struggles to reach a production capacity of 3,000 tons, but even so, it is still one of the top three single gummy candy manufacturers in China. Furthermore, its revenue reaches an astonishing 150 million yuan.

The wages for frontline workers reached 1,800 yuan, but the labor costs at "Zhang An Food Factory" were very low. The added value mainly came from the fact that Zhang Da'an himself appeared in the advertisements for "Little Champion".

It's not a terrible thing for an old man in the village to spend 50 cents to buy a bag of "smart candy" for his grandchildren. Exchanging three beer bottles for a bag of candy is acceptable.

Moreover, it's auspicious to have a top scorer in the college entrance examination who excels in both arts and sciences; it's good to benefit from the "literary aura" of such a student.

If Zhang Da'an hadn't produced an incredible three-time top scorer in the college entrance examination, he would have been hailed as an "exam god" by many elderly people.

Wild and unorthodox rituals often produce such bizarre occurrences.

After the "Little Champion Series" became a huge hit, countless organizations and individuals wanted to negotiate with provincial agents. Within Jiangkou Province, Zhang Da'an had no shortage of channels, but outside the province, he would definitely need to cooperate with "powerful people".

The Changshan City Sugar, Tobacco and Wine Company mentioned by Yuchi De can also be considered a "powerful figure," just not as powerful as "Master Jing."

Of course, this peculiar situation only exists in Hebei Province; it does not exist in other provinces and cities.

Changshan City Sugar, Tobacco and Wine Company has a vice president who is in charge of cooking wine. He used to have four suppliers for cooking wine: one is an old winery in Jinyang City, Hebei Province; one is an old winery in Shandong Province; one is in Zhejiang Province; and the last one is in Jiangkou Province.

The supplier in Jiangkou Province happens to be the Shaoxing Rice Wine Factory in Shazhou City, which has a dedicated cooking wine workshop for them.

The current approach is to communicate in advance through this vice president. Of course, the Shazhou City Rice Wine Factory has no influence with Zhang Da'an, so it has to go through two intermediaries.

It's all about connections and praying to gods and Buddhas.

What does it mean to have a relationship?
A connection is the means by which you can get your resources into someone else's hands.

Changshan City Sugar, Tobacco and Wine Company just wants to give Zhang Da'an three cents more so that everyone can sit down and have a barbecue together.

Of course, during the Chinese New Year, it's not unreasonable to send a couple of boxes of "donkey meat stew" as a small token of appreciation.

Zhang Da'an originally thought it was no big deal. It didn't matter who it was given to. Changshan City Sugar, Tobacco and Wine Company was willing to pay an extra three cents, so what was there to hesitate about?
However, at this moment, Qiu Jianmin, the general manager of the municipal education investment company, said to Mr. Zhang, "You should think twice."

After making the phone call, Zhang Da'an also wanted to know what Qiu Jianmin meant.

Qiu Jianmin, who had already "stepped down to the second line," reminded Zhang Da'an: "Have you forgotten? Aren't we still going to do vocational training projects next year?"

"What does that have to do with the Changshan City Tobacco and Wine Company?"

"Soon, many organizations will be implementing computerized office systems, and you even gave me some kind of 'crash course in office software' project. Are you just going to live off the small plot of land in Shazhou City? What is Changshan City? It's the provincial capital of Hebei Province! We might not have many other places, but how could we possibly lack government agencies?"

"..."

Reminded by Qiu Jianmin, Zhang Da'an was suddenly taken aback.

That's right. This tobacco and alcohol company has an incredibly wide network of connections. Whether it's a lot or a little, they can get some government business from Changshan City.

Putting everything else aside, just the phrase "open Word and get to work" makes the entire crash course a piece of cake.

For some organizations, it doesn't matter who they outsource their training to.

There shouldn't be any major problem giving it to "Wenquxing" (a legendary Chinese scholar), right?

With this thought, Zhang Da'an suddenly understood.

(End of this chapter)