Traveling through the Eighth Five-Year Plan: Starting from selling fruit at a stall

"Do you make men's or women's clothing?"

"Mainly women's clothing, and occasionally men's clothing, but it depends on the market. We will process whatever clothes the market needs us to do."

"Which floor is your factory on?"

But whether it's a high imitation or a pirated version, since it's here, let's go and have a look first.

"The second and third floors are ours."

On the second floor, Ling Yue was immediately disappointed.

Here is a suite with three bedrooms and one living room.

There are six foot-operated sewing machines in the living room, and employees are rushing to catch up on each sewing machine. Another old man is sitting in the pile of clothes and cutting threads, and another is sewing buttons.

Ling Yue casually walked to a worker's seat, grabbed a piece of clothing and touched it, and found that it was made of polyester, which is the fashionable "Dacron".

Next to the old man who was cutting the thread, he picked up a piece of clothing to look at the style, and immediately shook his head: "The style of your clothes is outdated, so don't you have a newer style?"

"Yes, the third floor is also mine, you come with me."

Huang Mao took them to the third floor again, "Boss, although my processing factory is small, we can assure you that the quality of each of our clothes is quite excellent."

The structure of the third floor is exactly the same as that of the second floor. There are only four sewing machines in the living room, and there are four fake models under the windows.

The clothes worn by the models are different.

There are suspenders and shorts, a long-sleeved shirt and vertical stripe trousers, another is wearing a small women's suit, and the last one is wearing a khaki trench coat.

The windbreaker has a sense of age, with a big collar and a three-finger-wide belt around the waist. The style is simple and elegant.

The most attractive part of this trench coat is its buttons.

The button is a brown wedge-shaped horn button. In the era when everyone's clothes were mainly round buttons, this button can be said to be quite unique.

"The buttons on this dress are nice and distinctive."

Huang Mao said: "Boss, we have only made a sample of this windbreaker at present, mainly because the buttons are hard to find, and it is said that they are only sold in Hong Kong City."

Ling Yue knew that he was lying.

If, as he said, no wedge buckles were to be found, how could it be on the sample.

Seeing it through, Ling Yue went down the donkey: "It's pretty good, but of all your clothes, I only like this one, and I really don't like the others."

To be exact, she took a fancy to the buttons on the clothes, but Ling Yue really didn't like the materials used in the clothes.

Woolen coats and cashmere coats are popular in Qingpu City now.

A woolen coat costs at least 40 yuan, while cashmere coats generally cost 80 yuan, and some big-name cashmere coats can even sell for more than 100 yuan.

Huang Mao also heard what she meant.

He pretended not to understand, but tried his best to promote this coat: "Boss has a good vision, this coat will be our main product in the second half of the year. We will launch this coat after we have finished the work at hand." coat."

"At present, we have received orders for more than 300 pieces. If the boss also wants dozens of pieces, you can pay the deposit now, and we will sign the contract immediately."

Ling Yue looked at him like a fool.

If she is really a little girl who is not deeply involved in the world, maybe she will believe his words.

But she has stayed here for more than ten years, and she is very familiar with the routines here. If she can still be deceived by him, then she is a fool for nothing.

"How much did you pay for this dress?"

"Our ex-factory price is 23 yuan and [-] cents. If you want [-] pieces, you can get a discount of [-] yuan on top of this price."

"22 five dollars?"

"Yes, this is the lowest price."

"How much is the deposit?"

"Pay at least half first."

Ling Yue nodded: "Then how many coats can you complete every day?"

She just saw that the factory adopts an assembly line production model. Due to the small number of manpower, each worker is responsible for several processes.

Take the shirts they produced just now, for example, there are special collars and cuffs, there are also sleeves that are stitched together, and even the buttons are sewn by a special person.

Huang Mao said: "If it's this kind of windbreaker, we can finish at least twenty pieces a day."

Ling Yue shook her head, her eyes full of sarcasm.

He is lying!

Not to mention that the old-fashioned sewing machines that rely on feet are still used now. Even with the electric sewing machines of later generations, ten people may not be able to produce twenty windbreakers in a day.

She said lightly, "I am a person who likes to be steady and steady. After seeing your factory's production model, I don't think there is any possibility for us to cooperate."

Huang Mao became anxious: "Boss, we also made this decision for the sake of development. You can go to the market to inquire about it. The reputation of our Mochi Garment Factory is top-notch in the industry."

"And the clothes we make, no matter the workmanship or style, are deeply loved by consumers..."

"Sorry to interrupt."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Ling Yue turned around and went downstairs.

She really wasn't in the mood to listen to him draw big cakes.

It's not that Ling Yue looks down on a small factory with more than a dozen people, but that his demands are too much.

If she was a layman, she might have been fooled by him, but she has done this business before and knows the way of it.

Even in the era of electric sewing machines, a dozen workers can only produce a dozen windbreakers a day on average.

If the supervisor focuses on quality, if there is a line that is not straightened, rework is necessary. In this way, the output is only low but not high.

But he said that he can produce [-] trench coats a day with his feet on the sewing machine, which proves that he is either a liar or a liar.

Huang Mao was even more anxious.

He managed to invite people to his factory with great difficulty. He originally thought that he could collect their deposits and relieve his financial pressure temporarily, but they were not fooled at all!
He tried his best to persuade him to stay: "Boss, listen to me, we really have the strength, so, [-]%, you can pay [-]% deposit, right?"

Ling Yue turned around and looked at him: "Comrade, even if you pay a 700% deposit, it's more than [-] yuan. Do you think it's a matter of money?"

"You're wrong, it's not about money, but I can't see your factory has the ability to make clothes."

Anyone can say big things, but you must first have the strength.

With his scale, according to the words of later generations, it can only be regarded as a small family workshop at best.

It is no problem to support a family, but there is still a long way to go to become bigger and stronger.

"As far as I know, it takes at least 20 days for the first shipment of a piece of clothing from the beginning of proofing to the completion of clothing. After the sample is available, the construction period will be shortened to a certain extent, but it is absolutely impossible as you said, It only takes five days to make one hundred garments."

The yellow hair is like falling into an ice cellar.

He never expected that he would have such a good understanding of the production process of clothing by simply bringing someone over.

"Besides, your factory doesn't even have an overlock machine or a double needle machine." Ling Yue looked at him, "So, do you understand what I mean?"

Strictly speaking, in addition to the overlock machine, there is also a double-needle machine.

For example, shirt sleeves, collars, and buttonhole access control are generally completed with double needles for aesthetics.

If there is no double-needle machine, these places need to be driven twice.

And their factory doesn't even have a double-needle machine.