Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Chapter 1075 Open Source Chapter Flow

“In this case, we need to re-evaluate the prices of these devices.

You previously claimed that these were industrial mother machines, but now it seems that these devices can be produced even in our country.

Also, since you weren't honest before, this time we can only set a price after the other ship arrives and we inspect the equipment."

After hearing what Chief Engineer Gao said, the crew members and the captain were somewhat dissatisfied.

The crew members on board did not believe Chief Engineer Gao's words at all. Although these equipments were second-hand equipments that they had discarded, they were still very advanced equipments in the East.

But the current situation made it difficult for him to refute anything.

Once Chief Engineer Gao is angered, it will be necessary to find a new buyer for this batch of equipment. He dares to confront the Huo family head-on, but is a little afraid of the ferocious captain.

The captain was also somewhat dissatisfied at this time. In their line of work, they usually leave after unloading at the port.

As long as he reaches the high seas, he can rest assured. Seeing that he will not receive the payment for the goods for a while, he does not know how long he will have to stay here.

"Unload the goods, give me the money, and you can discuss the rest among yourselves.

I'm not just transporting your cargo this time. If I'm delayed in transporting the cargo later, you'll have to compensate me for all the losses."

The captain didn't dare to offend a local tyrant like the Huo family.

After all, no one knows when he will ship a batch of goods to Hong Kong Island.

They would try not to offend the local tyrants in every place if possible.

Anyway, they don't really care about people like the crew members.

Firstly, the transaction parties are companies, not crew members.

Secondly, it is normal for people to die on the ship.

"Okay, I'll go."

At this time, the accompanying staff member wished that the captain would leave quickly, and then looked at Chief Engineer Gao and said.

"Let's just unload the cargo. These goods will be yours sooner or later. Can you pay the captain first?"

Chief Engineer Gao thought it was no problem. This was the Huo family's territory. Once the goods were unloaded from the ship, it would be easier to control the other party when negotiating the price later.

Chief Engineer Gao then looked at Mr. Huo, who understood immediately and nodded to pay the freight to the captain.

As the unloading began, Chief Engineer Gao hurriedly sent a telegram to Chen Changan. The matter was getting bigger and bigger and seemed to be out of his control.

In the old city of Sijiu, Chen Changan was looking at a pile of complaint documents in his office.

There are many factories across the country that are poorly managed like the Central South Machinery Factory.

These factory leaders are limited in their vision, and once the factory is not doing well, they will immediately ask their superiors for help.

With the previous experience of the Central South Machinery Factory as a lesson, poorly managed factories also began to complain.

However, not many people directly ask for money from ministries and commissions. They are not stupid and know that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

Even if you get a sum of money, it will eventually be spent.

But if the superiors really provide equipment and technology, so that the factory can have work to do, it is not something that can be bought with money.

So no matter what the current situation of each factory is, they just let their superiors find a solution.

In this case, Chen Changan needs to figure out which factories really need help.

Those factories are just following the trend and want to transform into better industries.

For example, the document in Chen Changan's hand comes from the Changchun Tractor Factory in Northeast China.

The factory was once the largest wheeled tractor manufacturer in the country and the second largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the country.

During its heyday, the tractors produced were sold well throughout the country and were even exported abroad as foreign aid products.

Among the tens of thousands of employees in the factory, more than one-fifth are technical personnel who graduated from technical secondary schools.

This ratio is even more exaggerated than the car factory built by Chen Changan.

Just a few years ago, the small four-wheel tractors produced by Changchun Tractor Factory were best-selling products.

But this year, even though the cost of tractors has skyrocketed by 30 percent, the selling price remains unchanged.

Profits have been squeezed almost to nothing, but tractors are related to agricultural production.

On the one hand, there are more and more factories that can produce tractors.

It is no longer the case that you can sell as much as you produce.

On the other hand, tractors are related to agricultural production, and superiors also have strict requirements on prices.

Among the tens of thousands of employees at the Changchun Tractor Factory, more than one-fifth are technicians.

This is equivalent to four people working and one person standing by and watching.

With so many technicians, it would be great if you could continuously develop new products and new technologies. But in all these years, all you have produced is a small four-wheel tractor.

The Changchun Tractor Factory's profitability became poor, so it immediately sent a document to the ministry, hoping that the price of tractors could be raised to maintain the normal operation of the factory.

After learning about the situation at the Changchun Tractor Factory, Chen Changan frowned.

This is not a problem that can be solved by simply raising the price of tractors.

You are not the only tractor manufacturer on the market.

Others have the same price as you, but they make a profit, but you don't.

Instead of looking for the reasons within themselves, they complain about the market environment and the pricing of their superiors.

In which factory are technical workers accounting for more than one-fifth of the total workforce?

Relying on the factory's reputation and advantages, I don't know what means they used to attract so many technical personnel, but they don't have much technical advantages.

A few random tractor-producing factories can easily defeat a tractor factory with 10,000 employees.

Not only is the product structure single, but there are also no technical advantages. Isn't this just a bloated staff structure?

In the past, relying on exclusive business, the factory had no other choice but to buy your tractors, so it naturally lived a prosperous life.

Now that a competitor has appeared, we will be unable to survive immediately. We have no competitiveness at all.

In this situation, even if prices are liberalized and you are allowed to raise them, what will happen? Decline is inevitable.

As for the pricing issue, Chen Changan didn't even need to attend the Standing Committee meeting. He simply refused and wrote it directly on the document.

“The factory’s staff structure is bloated, and the first thing you need to solve is the staff structure problem.

Don't think about raising prices, think about reducing costs.

The issue of increasing revenue and reducing costs must be taken seriously. In a market economy, large factories with tens of thousands of employees must have their own technological advantages.

Blindly raising prices is useless.”

After writing down my opinions, I read them carefully again, hoping that Changchun Tractor Factory could understand what I meant.

At this moment, Xiao Yang hurried into Chen Changan's office with a telegram.

"Boss, Chief Engineer Gao called. There's something going on in Hong Kong Island.

The so-called industrial mother machines are just a group of fairly good production equipment.

However, according to the other party, another shipload of cargo will be shipped to Hong Kong Island.

This time it's a true industrial machine, but the other party wants both ships to be sold at the original price."