Counterattack 1988

Chapter 102 Wang Lin sells pants

The cause of the fire in the Huating Clothing Market was found out. It was because a nearby resident illegally used an electric stove, which caused the fire and harmed more than a dozen residents and merchants.

Unfortunately, the warehouse that Li Wenxiu rented was in it.

The direct economic loss caused by the fire was as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan.

What makes people hate and feel sad and helpless is that the person who used the electric stove in violation of the regulations was a lonely old man who lived alone. He had no children, no relatives, and no reason. Unfortunately, he was burned to death in this fire. He was also the only casualty in this fire. .

The merchants who suffered from the fire, after discussion, initiated a compensation complaint to the market management.

The market management side thinks that it is not at fault, and there are no loopholes in management, because the house where the widowed elderly live is located on the other side of the street, which is not within the scope of market management.

This lawsuit is finally over.

Li Wenxiu had no hope for compensation.

She just wants to open the clothing workshop as soon as possible, and devote herself to the new money-making life.

When Li Wenxiu came back from the market management office, when he talked to Wang Lin about the old man who was burned to death, he felt sorry for him, and said, "I heard that the old man was burned to black charcoal, it's terrible!"

Wang Lin sighed and sighed: "When people are old, everything is difficult!"

Li Wenxiu said: "So, people have to have children, and the family has to be large and popular!"

Wang Lin said with a faint smile, "Do you want to have a baby?"

Li Wenxiu made a big fuss, changed the subject, and said, "I have already asked the factory for a week's leave, and I want to open the clothing workshop as soon as possible."

Wang Lindao: "If you only open a workshop, it won't cost much. The clothing industry is one of the industries with the lowest entry barriers, and there are no high requirements for technology, capital, and management experience. Because of this, the competition in this industry, It's also the most intense."

Li Wenxiu said: "I just want to develop a sideline business and make some money. No matter how fierce the competition is, I will be fine if I have a bite to eat. The large number of people entering the industry also shows that there is money to be made in this industry."

Wang Lin nodded.

Li Wenxiu said: "There are many unemployed female workers in Xiaodie's hometown, and there is no good way to find a job. I want to go to her hometown and recruit some female workers. It is best to know how to sew, be diligent, and be honest. Kind of."

Wang Lindao: "The little girls in the countryside are required to know how to sew? Don't get your hopes up too much. Now there are not many people in the countryside with sewing machines."

Li Wenxiu said: "The workers in the city are expensive, and the girls in the countryside are cheap. Fifty yuan a month can hire someone. I can hire six more people. The monthly salary is only 300 yuan. , If you are proficient, one person can make four pieces of clothes or seven pairs of trousers a day! If you work overtime, you can produce more."

Wang Lin pondered: "Wenxiu, I have an idea. Let's only make trousers, and only women's trousers. The style of trousers is relatively simple, and there are not many changes. Some trousers are fashionable and good-looking. One shape, the next few decades It will not be out of date every year, and we don’t need to make too many styles, but only a few classic women’s styles, so that there are not many overstocks, quick production, and easy sales.”

Li Wenxiu said: "Don't make clothes? Don't make skirts?"

Wang Lindao: "According to my experience, trousers are easier to make than clothes, and they are also easier to sell. Considering the limitations and convenience of small workshops, it is the most cost-effective to only sell women's trousers. You don't need to import too much material, and you don't need complicated processes. .Our purpose is to sell goods to make money, not to produce good-looking clothes. In summer, we can produce cropped pants or cropped pants, and we can make money."

Li Wenxiu said: "Will that be too monotonous?"

Wang Lindao: "Business is endless. What we are running is not a big factory, but a small workshop. You want to do everything, but you may not be able to do anything in the end. When you see which styles are popular, which style do you follow? In the end, all you have left is a pile of unsellable inventory and a pile of useless fabrics! After a year of busy work, you can calculate the general ledger, but you don’t make any money, and you work for the fabric factory in vain.”

Li Wenxiu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "You are the head of the family, I will obey you."

Wang Lin chuckled.

Li Wenxiu said: "We have been allocated a new house, so does this old house have to be returned to the housing management office?"

Wang Lindao: "Of course we have to retire, do you still want to use this place as a workshop?"

Li Wenxiu said: "I do have this idea."

Wang Lindao: "It's not good here. Although we run a small workshop, we still need to look like a small factory. Let's rent a private house near Huating Road and use it as a workshop! It's already commercialized, and many private houses are Take it out for rent!"

The two have discussed and decided to go out together to find a house.

Li Wenxiu was sitting on the back seat of the car.

When the two of them traveled, she was already used to sitting on the back seat of Wang Lin's bicycle, smelling the faint smell of tobacco on his body, she felt so steadfast and safe.

Wang Lin remodeled the back seat and made a cloth cushion so that his buttocks don't cluck when he sits on it.

The weather was hot and the sun was scorching. Wang Lin pedaled his bike, and soon his back was soaked.

The two came to Huating Road and searched for rented houses nearby.

On the electric poles by the roadside, there are many advertisements pasted in a disorderly manner. There are tourists who treat diseases, veteran military doctors who help the world, some who repair electrical appliances, and some who rent houses, and most of them are handwritten advertisements.

Wang Lin found several advertisements for renting houses, and went to look at them one by one.

They finally settled on a two-story private house. The family went to work in other places and rented out the whole house for only ten yuan a month.

Wang Lin took a look and felt that the area was just right. The first floor could be used as a workshop, and the second floor could be used as a residence for workers.As for cooking, in this day and age, there are very few households with a separate kitchen. Most households can use it for cooking as long as they can support a pot, either under the eaves or by the back door.

After negotiating, Wang Lin paid half a year's rent and signed a rental contract.

With the venue, the next step is to recruit people and buy machines.

Wang Lin is familiar with machines, but he wants to take Li Wenxiu with him to let her know where to buy and repair each machine, so that she can stand alone in the future.

When dealing with machines, Wang Lin would rather spend money on expensive ones than buy cheap ones with poor quality.Because of the time and cost of repairing the car in the later stage, it can be annoying to death!

Interlock sewing machine, flat car, and four-thread machine, these are the three most basic models, and they are also the most important garment production machines.

With these three kinds of cars, a simpler workshop can be started.

Pattern making and sample making are all done by hand. Anyway, there are not many styles, so Li Wenxiu can handle it by himself.

Both Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu know fabrics and fabrics, and Shencheng's light textile industry is very developed. Most of the fabrics can be found in this city, and you don't even need to go to other factories, you can buy them in Shencheng Textile Factory.

As for other equipment such as ironing equipment and clamping machine, it can be added according to future needs.

Once the machines are bought back, there will be a shortage of workers.

What Wang Lin meant was to recruit workers in the city first. It would be best if skilled workers could be recruited. If there were no suitable ones, it would not be too late to find someone in the countryside.

In the late 70s and early 80s, millions of educated youths returned to the cities, many of whom were not assigned jobs, resulting in a large number of unemployed youths, some of whom became self-employed, and many more were unemployed.

Therefore, recruiting jobs in the city was not as difficult as imagined. As soon as Wang Lin and the others posted their recruitment notice, they received a phone call.

Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu interviewed a group of job applicants, and selected a few young women who had sewing experience.

Another advantage for female workers in the city is that they have a home in the city and can go home to rest.

Their requirement is higher wages.

In the end, Wang Lin hired six female workers with a monthly salary of 70 yuan. They all have homes and can go home to sleep instead of occupying the second floor of the workshop. In addition, they can go home to eat, but they need to subsidize them by [-] cents a day. money for canteen subsidies.

Calculated in this way, each female worker costs 85 yuan a month.

Li Wenxiu felt that the wages were too expensive, and felt a little heartbroken.

Wang Lin said that the female workers in the city have at least attended junior high school or even high school. Save the trouble of cooking, why not do it?
Li Wenxiu was persuaded by Wang Lin.

Together with six female workers, Li Wenjuan and Sun Xiaodie, she officially started working in the workshop. She left early and returned late every day. When she returned home, she was also making patterns and making samples. She only slept for six hours and worked the rest of the time.

Li Wenxiu made patterns, and then taught others how to use the machine and how to sew.

There is a process of learning and growing up in everything. The women in the city are ingenious and hard-working. They do learn skills very quickly. After a week of training and grinding, they can quickly make pants.

Production of garments, the most important thing is pattern making!

The quality of the version determines the beauty and comfort of a style.

A lot of clothes and pants that look similar in appearance and fabrics, only to find that they look completely different after wearing them!

This is because of the different shapes.

Clothing pattern-making is to make a model of clothing creative design drawings. Clothing pattern-making is also called clothing pattern, also known as clothing model or clothing template. The correct name should be clothing structure design.

This is a profound knowledge, and it is also the soul and key of clothing!
Why do big brand clothes look good?
It is because of the good shape that it is crisp, decent, elegant and beautiful to wear.

Wang Lin only needs to grasp this key point, so that the clothing workshop can produce distinctive clothing.

The first batch of pants produced by the clothing workshop can finally be sold!
This day is another Sunday, Wang Lin came back from running treasury bonds in other places yesterday, and happened to be resting at home. Early in the morning, together with Li Wenxiu, he first went to the clothing workshop, took the hundred pairs of trousers produced, and then took them to the Huating clothing market sell.

Li Wenjuan and Sun Xiaodie have already opened and cleaned the booth, and put the pants on as soon as they arrived.

Booths are also about aesthetics.

The same stalls are also selling clothes. Some stalls are neatly arranged and have a special aesthetic feeling, while some stalls are as messy as a doghouse.

Wang Lin's stall mainly sells trousers, and they don't sell many styles, so he bought a wire grid and put it on the hanger at the back of the stall. Clips secure the top of the wire mesh.

The trousers can be placed in a running appearance, or in a "W" shape, and so on.

Wang Lin also fiddled with the trousers on the booth, putting them into various neat and beautiful shapes.

"Huh!" Li Wenxiu's eyes lit up, and she praised, "Wang Lin, you are amazing! It's also the pants, you look like an art gallery!"

Wang Lin said with a smile: "This is called display! It's very technical and aesthetic! You should learn more, I don't teach ordinary people."

Li Wenxiu smiled sweetly: "So, I'm not an ordinary person?"

Wang Lindao: "You are my lover, of course you are not an ordinary person!"

The new pants are on the market, the booth has reopened, and the styling has been done, just waiting for customers to come to your door!

Two fashionable girls with wavy hair came over, and they were attracted by Wang Lin's booth at first glance: "What beautiful pants, take a look."

The two held hands and came to the booth.

"Hey, how do you sell these pants?" The tall girl with long plastic earrings asked while touching a pair of pants.

Wang Lin happened to be standing beside him, and said with a smile, "Beauty, let's sell these pants as you wish!"

"Selling as you please? How funny, you, there are pants like this?" The tall girl giggled happily.

Wang Lindao: "Let me tell you this, many people like this pair of pants, but no one can resist them. Only you with a good figure can wear them with their ultimate beauty. These pants are the same as yours. , It’s really like a custom-made one. I guess the shirts are gone.”

"Pfft!" The tall girl smiled sweetly after receiving the compliment, "Really? Can I try it on?"

"On the street, you are such an elegant and beautiful beauty, you can't change your pants in public, right? How rude? You just buy it. If you can't wear it after you buy it, or if it doesn't look good, you can take it back and exchange it!"

"How much is a piece?"

"It's very cheap, only 30 yuan a piece!"

"30 yuan is so expensive?"

"Beauty, how can I say that you are a person who knows the goods and a person who is destined? Our pants are purely handmade, limited production, the shape is from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the fabric is imported from the United States. Wearing it on the body shows class, and it can highlight your appearance." Your beautiful S-shaped figure."

"Okay, I'll buy one and try it!"

"Okay, beauty, your waist is so thin, size 26 should be enough, right?"

"Hey, you have a good eye. I just wear size 26 pants."

"This one is a size 26. When you get home, don't go into the water, don't tear up the tag, try it first, if the size is too big, or if you don't like it, you can come to me to change the size or style."

"Okay, thank you!"

"Thank you for patronizing my business, please introduce more friends and relatives over here."

"Definitely! You have such a sweet mouth, you are too good at business."

"I am a person who can only tell the truth. Who would tell a beautiful woman to be beautiful and slender!"

"Hehe!" The beauty was a little reluctant to leave, and wanted to chat with Wang Lin a little more and listen to a few more compliments!
The flow of people gradually increased, and women who came to see the pants crowded the booth.

The beauty who bought the pants saw that Wang Lin was really busy, so she left.

Li Wenxiu bit her lip and said, "It's just selling a pair of pants. Are you talking about a relationship with him?"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Don't be jealous! Praise others, this is the best sales technique for selling clothes, it will never work! If you don't believe me, I will stand here for a day today, and I will guarantee that the sales will double! The three of you combined , not as much as I sell!"

Li Wenxiu said: "I really don't believe in this evil!"

Wang Lindao: "Well, let's make a bet, if I sell more than you, what will happen to you?"

Li Wenxiu smiled and said: "If you are really that powerful, then I will give you a gift! A gift that you have never expected, but you have always wanted!"

(End of this chapter)