Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

After reporting on the official work, the next step is to talk about some relaxing and pleasant personal matters.

Among them, the issue of the relationship between men and women cannot be mentioned, and what can be mentioned can only be the issue of the retention and reorganization of the Hongguang Factory.

Although Uncle Lin is the person in charge of a secret front, his ostensible identity is a high-level foreign economic and trade leader, so he knows a thing or two about many economic issues.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang's situation is special, so if Cao Zhiqiang wants to keep the Hongguang Factory, he must first report to Uncle Lin, at least find out Cao Zhiqiang's true intentions.

After listening to Uncle Lin's request, Cao Zhiqiang said carefully: "Fourth Master, the burden of Hongguang Factory is mainly due to the large number of tertiary production personnel, and the second is the obsolete technical equipment and backward technology.

Too many non-production personnel, outdated equipment, and backward technology, these three stubborn diseases are the main problems of Hongguang Factory.

As for overstaffing and backward management systems, these are superficial phenomena and can be adjusted at any time, so the problem is not a big one.

In addition to these problems, the advantage of Hongguang Factory is that it has a large number of technical backbones, especially excellent technicians. These excellent technicians are the most valuable assets.

In fact, this rectification, as well as the joint venture project with the Japanese tape factory, is a good opportunity to completely rectify the Hongguang factory.

I thought so.

The factory buildings and tertiary production facilities of Hongguang Factory in the urban area, such as factory-run hospitals, factory-run schools and other departments and related personnel, can be handed over to the municipal government and transformed from a state-owned enterprise into a business.

The original equipment of Hongguang Factory can also be given to brother units such as Shougang. Anyway, they are all old equipment, so it doesn’t matter if they are given out.

As for the factory buildings and warehouses of Hongguang Factory in the eastern suburbs, they will continue to be kept as the main factory of Hongguang Factory.

Then, I want to keep the original movie theater of Hongguang Factory and continue to use it as a factory-run movie theater instead of handing it over to the city government.

The reason is simple. I have a film studio, a publishing house, and an audiovisual production company. In the future, I want to do something in the cultural field.

So the cinema, I hope to keep it, it will help my cultural career.

Anyway, as far as the municipal government is concerned, one more cinema is not much, and one less is a lot, so there is no need to argue with me about this.

If that movie theater can be preserved and continue to be a factory-run movie theater of Hongguang Factory, I will pay for it myself and take out a sum of money to carry out a series of renovations on the movie theater and build it into a more advanced comprehensive movie theater.

Nominally, I personally contracted the movie theater of Hongguang Factory. In this way, I will pay for the decoration myself, so there will be no problem.

This approach can also be regarded as a transformation and attempt. If it succeeds, you can show it to the relevant units and let them know that, in fact, it may be more cost-effective to contract a place like a movie theater to an individual.

Of course, these are minor issues.

The real big problem is the retention of personnel.

I know that the city government is also a headache for those factory workers. After all, it is not easy to arrange work now.

In fact, the problem is not big.

Except for professionals in schools and hospitals, most of the idlers can change careers as restaurant waiters and chefs.

I originally opened a restaurant called "Food is the Sky" in Beijing, which was actually the prototype of a chef training school.

Later, due to various reasons, I sold this restaurant, but at present, it is still business as usual, and the original staff are still working there.

Later, I will talk to the city government, and ask the government to help find a non-obtrusive factory building in our original factory building as a teaching center before the renovation work is completed, and hold a real chef training class and waiters in it. Training sessions.

During this period, I will set up a special company to specialize in the catering business.

I hope the government can help, let me rent a few commercial door houses at a cheaper price, and allow me to carry out a unified form of renovation.

At the beginning, I want to build a chain of ten catering companies in one go.

In this way, the job placement problem of at least one hundred personnel can be solved. "

"Wait a minute!" Uncle Lin said, "I understand catering companies, but what do you mean by ten chains?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "Oh, that's right, if I open ten restaurants in one go, they all have the same name, the decoration and dishes are the same, and even the dresses of the chefs and waiters are the same.

This is the same as McDonald's fast food restaurants in foreign countries. It consists of many branches. All stores are under unified management, uniform dress, and uniform dishes.

In this way, the standard of meals is controllable, and customers can enjoy the same service at any branch.

In this mode, both sanitary conditions and operating efficiency can be greatly improved.

That is to say, if I spend the same amount of money, compared with opening one big restaurant, if I open ten small restaurants, the coverage area will be wider, more people will be employed, and the advertising effect will be better.

Of course, it is impossible for fast food chain stores of this model to serve tall dishes such as abalone, ginseng, and belly. They can only serve items that are easy to learn and can be produced in an industrialized and standardized manner.

For example, hot pot and Malatang, the standards of these dietary items are controllable. As long as the seasoning base is well controlled, and then the standard of ingredients is well controlled, it can basically be spread in an all-round way.

A large hotel employs at most 30 to [-] people.

But at the same cost, if I open ten small and medium-sized door-to-door fast food restaurants, I can hire 100 people and earn more profits. "

"Oh, why is that?" Uncle Lin asked, "Big restaurants are more expensive to sell a dish, and the profits are higher, while small restaurants are small, so how can the profits be higher?"

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Hey, Fourth Master still understands this?"

Uncle Lin chuckled: "When I was young, I worked as a waiter for a big restaurant, so I know a thing or two about these things."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's right, Fourth Master, it is true that large restaurants are more expensive per dish and have higher profits, but the turnover rate, or the turnover rate, is also slow.

For example, if you spend 100 million to open a big restaurant, even if it is full, there will be at most 100 people for a meal.

For one consumption by one hundred people, each person earns ten yuan, and even if he dies, he can earn 1000 yuan.

But also if I spend 100 million to open ten small restaurants, it will be different.

The ten restaurants are all small restaurants, focusing on affordable prices, because the customers they are facing are middle and low class. Although they are not as rich as the rich, they have stronger spending power and more people.

Even if a restaurant only seats 500 people at a time, ten restaurants can seat [-] people at a time.

If 500 people eat a meal, even if each person only earns three yuan, that is 500 yuan, which is more than 1000 yuan for a restaurant.

The actual situation may be more. After all, ordinary people eat fast and have a high turnover rate. For a lunch, there may be three or four waves of guests.

In short, big restaurants seem to have high profits for individual dishes, but the overall number of people who can come to consume them is small, and the overall profits are not high.

On the contrary, there are more small restaurants serving the public. Regardless of the low profit of a single dish, but small profits but quick turnover, the profits are actually higher.

In terms of basic consumption such as eating and drinking, in fact, the more you do business for ordinary people, the more money you will make.

Because the poorer people are, the higher their desire to consume.

On the contrary, if a person is particularly rich, his consumption desire will not be high.

Think about it, even if you have the ability to eat abalone wing belly every day, don’t you really eat abalone wing belly every day?
This is the reason why I do chain catering.

That is to say, to abandon the big restaurants in high places and change them into many small restaurants that cater to the general public, with small profits but quick turnover.

Ordinary small restaurants are mostly family workshops. Although the cost is low, in fact, the quality of hygiene and the level of dishes are hard to describe.

It's different for me to do this kind of small chain restaurant.

Although I also run a small restaurant, because of the unified management of the dishes, the control ability is stronger, the supervision ability is stronger, and if the customer has a problem while eating, it is easier to defend the rights.

The most important thing is that by doing so, a large number of employment problems can be solved, and many idle workers in the factory can be reemployed and reused without increasing the burden on the government. "

Uncle Lin nodded: "This is a good way, but why didn't you do it before?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled wryly: "I tried it before, but at that time, the Hongguang Factory was still there, and no one was willing to retrain and re-employ.

Think about it, you used to hang out in the factory and do nothing, but you can get paid every month.

Then let them stop fooling around, and have to re-learn how to be a chef, how to be a waiter, and then go to cook, waiter, and serve people in the future. How many of them are willing?

I see that apart from those young people who earn less and desire more income, those middle-aged people who have already married and started a business are not willing to change at all.

Only when the factory has made rectification and the iron rice bowl is about to be smashed will they have to make changes and have to come out to participate in the retraining and reemployment plan we formulated.

Of course, if there are those who refuse to listen to them, and refuse to participate in retraining and re-employment, then throw them to the government and let them fend for themselves. "

Uncle Lin sighed: "Your idea is good, but just a restaurant chain, how many employment problems can it solve? Don't forget, your Hongguang factory has more than 8000 people."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Don't worry, I'm not only doing one restaurant, but also not only ten restaurant chains, it's just a pilot.

Once the pilot program is qualified, it proves that this form of chain fast food is completely feasible in our country, and then it can go out of the capital and spread it in other cities.

By then, opening a hundred restaurants will not be a problem.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

In fact, in addition to catering, I also started a project that requires a lot of people, that is, the chain convenience kiosk project.

You may have heard that our factory has made a batch of iron houses, which are uniformly painted in red, and are nicknamed Little Red Houses.

These small red houses are set up in some downtown areas, specializing in the sale of newspapers, magazines, beverages and snacks, and also provide telephone service. They are actually small grocery stores. "

"Ah, I understand." Uncle Lin suddenly smiled, "This little red house of yours is actually the same as the chain restaurant you mentioned. It is essentially a small grocery store one by one, and then they are uniformly decorated and have unified signboards. Unified management, making money with small profits but quick sales, right?"

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile, "Fourth Master, there are some small shops that can make phone calls, sell newspapers, magazines, and snacks everywhere, but most of these shops are family units and are very scattered.

I plan to get involved in this industry, which is to create a chain of grocery stores by myself, whose functions are similar to those of family units, but not family units, but a unified management model of the company.

In this way, we can make small profits but sell more, earn more profits, and solve the employment problem of a large number of people. As consumers, they don’t have to worry about being ripped off. Once there is a problem with shopping, such as buying expired food, etc. Quality issues make it easier to defend rights.

Because of the small family unit, the ability to bear losses is limited. Once they find that they need to bear huge responsibilities due to their own faults, they are likely to choose to renege on their debts or run away.

But if it is a large company with a chain operation, it will not work. A large company cannot run a big business, and it must pay attention to its image, so it is easier to give compensation.

In fact, there have been similar chain stores in Western society for a long time. For example, in Japan and the United States, there are many such chain stores, which are called convenience stores.

I also learned from the advanced experience of the West, and then borrowed some advantages of the local factory.

For example, I have long established a subsidiary company of Hongguang Machinery Factory, called Hongguang Department Store.

This Hongguang Department Store is a joint venture between me and Hongguang Machinery Factory. I contribute money for ideas, Hongguang Machinery Factory supplies people and equipment, and Hongguang Machinery Factory holds the majority of the shares.

So once the Hongguang factory is still there, a large number of people who are not willing to be waiters and chefs in restaurants, such as those middle-aged women, can work as salespersons in convenience kiosks. The system of basic salary plus performance bonus will be implemented to ensure that they can earn more than before.

Convenience kiosks are just a few pilot projects now, and they seem to be running well so far, and all costs have been earned back, and all of them have entered a profit model.

In this case, we can open another [-] convenience kiosks in the city based on the situation of these pilot projects.

According to the model of two people in a convenience kiosk, at least 200 people can be employed. "

"You only have 300 people here." Uncle Lin said, "It's still far from 8000 people."

"Don't worry." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Where is this? It's just an appetizer. It's for people to see. The real big ones are construction and transportation."

"Construction and transportation?" Uncle Lin frowned, "What do you mean?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "That's right. I asked Director Li of our factory to do statistics. There are currently 330 people in the factory who are above the second-level worker.

Except for these 330 people, those who are not welcome are all burdens, or they are not suitable to be workers in the factory.

Of course, our system is different, we cannot learn from the West, and let people be dismissed.

We have to arrange a way out for these people so that they can find employment again.

This requires creating new demands and creating new industries.

The chain restaurants and convenience kiosks I mentioned all follow this path.

However, things like the catering industry and canteens have limited manpower that can be absorbed.

Those that really need a large number of people and do not require too many professional skills are actually the construction industry and the transportation industry.

Therefore, I plan to set up two more subsidiaries in the name of Hongguang Factory, namely Hongguang Transportation Company and Hongguang Construction Company.

Hongguang Transportation Company, as the name suggests, is engaged in transportation.

I have been traveling from south to north these days, and found that our transportation capacity is actually very poor, and there is a lack of communication in many places between the north and the south.

For example, clothing, fruits and daily necessities produced in the south, we northerners like very much.

And the raw materials such as steel, wood and coal in the north are very popular with southerners.

But our railway transportation capacity is limited, and the management is relatively rigid. Many small factories can't get train skins at all, so they can't be transported by train.

So what to do, it can only be transported by car.

But car transportation is also troublesome, not to mention all kinds of car bandits and road tyrants on the way, and the official tolls are also a headache.

Therefore, if there is a state-owned transportation company that can flexibly deliver goods to various small and medium-sized enterprises, especially township enterprises, it should be able to generate a lot of profits.

Hongguang Machinery Factory itself has a transport team. As long as the scale of the transport team is expanded, manpower and vehicles are added, a team can be pulled up in no time.

This transportation company can solve the employment of at least 1000 people.

For the remaining more than 5000 people, the men can all pack them into construction companies for construction.

For example, the reconstruction of the old factory area of ​​Hongguang Factory requires a lot of labor, which can be handed over to Hongguang Construction Company who is familiar with the place.

As for those middle-aged women, they can go to a clothing factory to make clothes.

At that time, I will find a way to attract an investment from Japan, and then introduce a batch of advanced clothing equipment, and then let those female workers make clothes.

Don't make complicated ones at first, just make jeans.

Jeans are very popular now, but most of them are imported from the south, and there is no big factory in the north that can really do this.

As long as I can attract investment in technology and equipment, train the former female workers in the factory, and let them go back to work to make clothes, it will not be a big problem.

In this way, we can use the government's rectification style to turn bad things into good things and solve all problems in one go.

At that time, skilled workers will continue to work as workers in the workshop. All you need is that you agree to let Hongguang Factory take a share of the pie, and give Hongguang Factory a little broth from the equipment and projects I got from the mist. Just enough for them to eat.

For example, the machining project of the bullpup rifle before can be handed over to Hongguang Machinery Factory to continue. Anyway, the problem is not big.

As for other people who are not suitable to be skilled workers, as I said just now, they either enter the catering industry, or enter the retail industry, or engage in transportation, construction, or directly enter the garment factory as workers.

In short, there are always more solutions than difficulties. The key depends on whether you want to solve the problem and change your life.

What I said is something we can do, but the workers must cooperate.

If they don't cooperate, if they want to, then they can only use the banner of government rectification to let them go and do what they like. "

Uncle Lin chuckled: "Interesting, you are taking advantage of this corporate rectification to make the government show bad faces and you guys play red faces."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Yes, that's what I meant, but is there anything wrong with doing this?"

Uncle Lin took a deep breath: "No, it's pretty good, at least your plan sounds good."

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Lin nodded and said: "I have passed here, and you will write a few detailed plans later, and someone will come to you at that time, and you will explain the plan and specific details to the other party in detail, and then cooperate with the person coming , Do what you said.

As long as you can really do what you said, it is not a problem to keep Hongguang Factory. "

"Then I would like to thank the fourth master." Cao Zhiqiang said cheerfully.

"You don't need to thank me." Uncle Lin smiled slightly, "It's because you worked hard enough and the plan you proposed is reliable.

In short, as long as your original intention is for everyone's benefit, and the method proposed is effective, then I have no reason not to help you. "(end of this chapter)