In a blink of an eye, more than a year has passed since Lao Cheng took over the Linshui vacuum pump factory.

After this year of training, Lao Cheng spent all day in the factory and understood a lot of things.

He knew how to repair cars and had been exposed to machinery. Vacuum pumps are much simpler than car engines, and it is not difficult for him to learn.

After taking over, due to the significant reduction in production costs, the price of products dropped and more and more orders were added.

These orders cannot be produced by one-tenth of the factory. They are all small enterprises in the surrounding areas that provide them with various accessories and ship them back for assembly.

Moreover, most of the assembly workers used in the assembly workshops in the factory are recruiting generals from the unemployed brigade. The idle workers selected have poor professionalism and poor assembly technology. In addition, the quality of accessories produced by small enterprises does not meet the requirements, and the products sold are full of problems.

Nowadays, the customer service and maintenance team in the factory has expanded to more than 200 people, but they are still too busy. The number of customer complaints has increased explosively. How can this continue?

Faced with this situation, Zhao Shihao's solution is to try his best to push the problem to the agency sales outlets. If he really can't fool him, he will send a maintenance customer service to him. If he can't fool him, he will replace him with a new one for free. As long as he fools the warranty period, even if the task is completed and the customer has any trouble, he will ignore it.

Lao Cheng knew that this was not a long-term solution. If this continues, the company's reputation will become worse and worse. How can it be done?

Therefore, Lao Cheng decided to invest all the profits and reserves in his hands after the Chinese New Year, enter the equipment, expand reproduction, and try to produce accessories themselves, especially key accessories, to improve the quality.

Zhao Shihao did not object to Lao Cheng's decision. Now, he would coax Lao Cheng more than Zhou Dalin. As long as Lao Cheng trusts him and uses him to manage the factory, he has absolute power, which is enough for him.

What he is waiting for now is Simon's company coming to find him.

He believed that he could use a trick to get the original vacuum pump factory around. There must be a team in Simon's company that understands the domestic situation. Now that they have lost the opportunity to build a production base, they will never be willing to give in and retreat. Therefore, they will definitely see the key to the problem and will come to him sooner or later.

On February 6, 2005, the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Shihao arranged for the factory holiday. He worked too much and couldn't do it.

At the meeting of the heads of the factory units, he talked about the requirements for holidays during the Spring Festival.

In principle, managers are not allowed to have holidays, and there are three salaries during the Spring Festival. Workers can have holidays, but the factory will not stop them if they are willing to work. During the Spring Festival, workpieces are priced at three times.

In other words, you only need to come to work during the Chinese New Year, and the money you earn at this time is three times that of normal.

In this case, most workers are reluctant to give up this good opportunity to make money, and would rather not be able to do this Spring Festival.

From his arrangement, it can also be seen that he is much smoother than before.

I didn't say that I didn't take a holiday, I'm on holiday. Workers voluntarily go to work during holidays, and I gave three salaries according to the Labor Law.

In his current state, if he had it when he was running a gravel yard, the gravel yard would not have been like that.

But if Zhao Shihao succeeds one day and becomes an enemy with Zhou Dalin, he will definitely be a strong enemy that he is difficult to deal with.

That night, before getting off work, he received a call from an unfamiliar number on his cell phone.

"Mr. Zhao, I am the assistant to the general manager of Simon Company. I want to talk to you about some small things. I wonder if you have time?"

There was a male voice on the phone, and it sounded like he was not very old.

Zhao Shihao thought for a while and asked him, "What do you want to talk to me? Can you tell me in advance and let me be prepared?"

After all, the two sides are each other's competitors, so it's natural to be cautious, but Zhao Shihao is not saying things to death, but rather to leave a chance for each other.

The other party replied to him: "I am mainly entrusted by our General Manager Simon III to talk to Mr. Zhao about the cooperation between the two parties. Competitive losses are mutually beneficial, and cooperation is a win-win situation."

This is really interesting. The general manager of Simon's company is actually called Simon III, which is like the emperor's succession. It seems that Simon's consortium should be a family business.

Zhao Shihao smiled and said, "I have not suffered any losses here, nor have I ever wanted to compete with you. If you don't have any trouble, there is no competition."

His words made the other party blocked him for a long time.

What he meant is that you don’t even have the production capacity and are not qualified to be our competitors.

Finally, the other party replied to him: "Mr. Zhao, you have to know that the Simon Consortium is a world-wide consortium with assets of over 100 billion yuan, and its strength is not comparable to that of a small factory. If we compete with you regardless of the losses, you will not be able to bear it."

Zhao Shihao smiled faintly and said, "That's your freedom. However, I believe that if Simon's company can really do so without any consequences, it will not be what it is today."

The other party calmed down and said, "Mr. Zhao is really smart. So, we have to talk to Mr. Zhao first."

Zhao Shihao replied to him: "I am not the legal representative of Linshui Vacuum Pump Factory, but just a manager and have no power to decide the fate of the factory. If you talk to me, I'm afraid you have found the wrong partner, right?"

The other party paused and said, "Mr. Zhao won't understand what I mean, right? They are all Chinese, and they always go around and circle, and there is nothing to do. I'll talk to the real master, that's not a matter of being a flirt with the tiger."

"Haha, are you Chinese?" Zhao Shihao was happy.

"Of course," said the other party, "but I have to consider the interests of Simon."

"Okay." Zhao Shihao stopped teasing him, "You make an appointment and meet, but it may not be possible to reach an agreement. I hope we all have to be mentally prepared for this."

The other party can understand the meaning of his words. He has high requirements and cannot accept them, so of course he cannot reach an agreement. He refuses to sell the interests of the vacuum pump factory, and he cannot reach an agreement.

In doing so, the initiative is in his hands and he has more room to move.

The assistant booked a standard room in a nearby hotel and told Zhao Shihao the room number. The two of them made an appointment to talk there after getting off work in the afternoon.

As soon as the two met in the standard room, the other party praised Zhao Shihao for being young and promising and having a great future, which made Zhao Shihao laugh.

"I'm thirty," he said to the other party, "Look at you, you're not thirty yet?"

"I'm twenty-six. I just graduated from the Berlin Institute of Technology last year." The other party said, "I just run errands for others, and I can't compare with you."

"Your surname is yours?" Zhao Shihao's tone became cold. He had realized that there was nothing to talk to with the person in front of him, and the other party had no right to make any decisions.

"Xiao's surname Zhang." The other party also knew that the humble and cautious family tradition of the Zanghua family had not completely forgotten his roots.

"Assistant Zhang, go back and tell your general manager that I want 10% of the shares of Simon's subsidiary. He will get the registered trademark and factory of the Linshui Vacuum brand to build your product base. As for how much he spends, it depends on his ability, it has nothing to do with me."

After saying that, he went out and left the other party in the room and was stunned. It would be useless to talk about such a role who passes the microphone.

After the Spring Festival in 2005, Zhou Dalin took Cheng Xiao and his daughter Tongtong back to Linshui. This time, they wanted to live here for a while. Because Zhou Dalin said that after the first month of the year, he would go to the beautiful country to negotiate a business. This business is a bit troublesome, and the delay may be a bit long.

In fact, he went to Hollywood, Los Angeles, to buy a house for Yu Xiaoxuan, and to settle her there to go to school.

Tongtong is already one and a half years old. She can say a few simple words, such as dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, aunt, uncle, and brother, but grandma doesn't know how to say it, and always says it as "bite", and grandpa won't know it.

It seems that she has practiced what she often calls for when she is by her side all day long. Grandma and grandpa are not around, she won’t scream.

Cheng Xiao wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of staying here for a longer time and teach Tongtong to call her grandma and grandpa.

Tongtong looks very similar to Cheng Xiao when she was a child. Her big eyes are very vivid and her nose is upright. Whoever meets her likes her.

Lao Cheng also likes this granddaughter. He is so precious that he wants the stars not to give them to the moon. He holds Tongtong when he has time and is reluctant to let go. But Lao Cheng is too busy and has no time to spend time with his granddaughter at home. He only comes back at night to have time to play with Tongtong.

Although the factory has made a profit, there are too many hidden dangers that make him feel at ease. He must find a way to solve these problems.

It just so happened that Zhou Dalin came back, so he wanted to ask him to give him an idea.

He stayed in the factory until his fifties in his previous life, and Zhou Dalin had no interest in running a factory in this life, so he was so tired of it.

And in his opinion, doing business is to make profits and make money. But some things are not simpler than building a factory? This kind of machinery industry with low added technology is worried about the burden and the profit is not high. With this free time, he has higher profits than this stock trading.

Lao Cheng has different ideas from him.

When the leader talked to him, he told him that Linshui is an industrial city, and more than half of the people have to live by work. In the past, Linshui created glory through these industries. It was the largest prefecture-level city in the province except for the provincial capital, and its total industrial output value was ranked among the country.

After the reform and opening up, Linshui's industry declined, and many factories on which many ordinary people depended for their lives went bankrupt, which directly led to Linshui's ranking in the province falling behind year by year.

From a small perspective, the people's living well-being needs to revitalize these industries in the past so that everyone can have a job and a good income.

From a broad perspective, the revitalization of Linshui City also requires the first revitalization of these traditional industries and restore their vitality. Only in this way can the city accumulate strength, carry out greater construction, make it more modern and more beautiful, and the lives of the people will be happier.

From a larger perspective, a country's prosperity and strength cannot be separated from industry and manufacturing. Since its founding, the hardships and efforts of its predecessors to develop this country from a pure agricultural country to a country where workers and peasants are equally important, Lao Cheng's generation has seen it.
Chapter completed!