break out of the ice

Chapter 27
Entering December amid the busyness, the first snow fell in the Central Plains with four distinct seasons.

Although the snow more than ten centimeters thick will not have a big impact, the sales of Lengdie refrigerators have shown a downward trend for the first time.

A lot of customers called and wanted a refrigerator, but when they heard that they were going to come to the Mincheng factory, they all gave up and wanted to wait until the Spring Festival to have a look.

The sales of Lengdie refrigerators have been soaring all the way, and the sudden limit has made the leaders of the factory unable to sit still.

Although it is winter, Yan Weidong still likes to hold the meeting at night.

There was no stove in the meeting room. Although everyone had a hot dinner and wore thick cotton jackets, they were still stamping their feet with the cold.

Liu Qinqin boiled two large pots of boiling water, and put a cup full of enamel jars of hot water in front of everyone to warm their hands.

Everyone put their arms around the enamel jar and talked.

Yan Weidong held the jar with one hand and smoked with the other. The white air he exhaled was mixed with the smoke, which made people feel that his voice was far away and near.

"Our sales have dropped in the past two days. Everyone is talking about what to do?"

Shi Xinhua's retirement application had already been submitted, but now it was cold and snowing, so he did not attend the meeting.

Li Guangming looked at the vacant seat opposite him, and was still not used to it. He thought for a while and said, "It's not that the sales volume is actually declining. We still receive a lot of consultation calls."

Due to too many calls, the factory recruited two more young girls to help Liu Qinqin and set up a special telephone class. One of the two girls answered the phone and the other made calls.

Hearing what Li Guangming said, Liu Qinqin opened a small notebook seriously, read the statistics of the past few years, and said: "It is true that there are a lot of calls, and the number is increasing every day, but the number of sales is less."

"This proves that our product quality and word-of-mouth are good." Gao Tuan said: "It's because it's cold and the roads are not easy to walk. They braved the heavy snow and asked someone to find a car to pull a refrigerator. Difficulties."

"Do you think this will work?" Shi Jingqi thought for a while, and said, "Can we also open a store? Let people who want to buy our refrigerators go to the store to buy it. There are two tricycles in the store, and those who are close can do it." Use the tricycle in the store to pull it home."

Huang Dezhi still sent Shi Jingqi the books he wanted to read every month, and Shi Jingqi would send them back after reading them. Sometimes there were newspapers and magazines about economic reform, and Huang Dezhi would send them along.

The idea of ​​opening a sales department came to mind from reading those magazines, and it had been in Shi Jingqi's mind for two days.

"Open the sales department?" Yan Weidong thought.

Now there are factories in Mincheng that open sales offices, but most of them are food factories, fertilizer factories, etc. Refrigerator factories open sales offices?Only sell refrigerators?

As the leader of Lengdie Refrigerator Factory, Yan Weidong couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a store manager who only sells refrigerators.

Gao Tuanjie clapped his hands and said: "Director Shi's idea is good. I support the opening of a store. We haven't opened it in Mincheng yet. If we want to open it, we will open it in Zhengzhou. There are many people and sales volume there. Let Lengdie make Zhongyuan refrigerators." The first factory."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Yan Weidong and Li Guangming: "Leaders, what do you think?"

Li Guangming also thinks this is a good idea. Anyway, Lengdie Refrigerator has made money in the past few months, and the factory has nearly 100 million in its account.

In the past few months, Yan Weidong has watched the growth of several young people with his own eyes.

Although Shi Jingqi was still a little immature, he considered things more comprehensively, knowing to start from the perspective of the whole factory.

Liu Guodong is no longer that ordinary young man. He has a higher vision and is more prudent in his work. Even Liu Qinqin is more considerate in his work.

Gao Tuan, who has always been stable and smooth, is not like Gao Tuan at this age, but he is more lively, with the vigor of a young man.

These are the changes that Yan Weidong is happy to see. Since the young people support it, he can't object to it.

After taking a sip of tea, imitating the rich and powerful appearance in the movie, he waved his hand and said, "Then open a sales office."

He patted Li Guangming's arm again: "Here we go to Zhengzhou to open the store. There are a lot of twists and turns inside. They are not good for children, so we have to go there."

"Okay, let's go tomorrow morning." Li Guangming said.

After the meeting, it was already 08:30 in the evening, and the refrigeration workshop was still brightly lit. Although the sales volume had dropped, the output still could not keep up with the sales volume.

After discussing with Liu Guodong, Shi Jingqi simply reported it to the factory, divided the refrigeration workshop into three shifts, paid subsidies for the night shift, and kept people shutting down the machines.

The working mechanism of three shifts has lasted for more than half a month, and everyone can accept it because of the high salary for the night shift.

The second shift is working now. Lu Fuxing, the monitor of the second shift, just looked around and saw that the fire in the stove was not too hot, so he took a pair of tongs to poke the fire.

The efficiency of the factory is good. As soon as winter comes, the workshop is equipped with three large-fired stoves, which can be fired with coal.

I'm afraid that someone's hands will be frozen and it will be inconvenient to do fine work.

Lu Fuxing took care of the stove, and then went to work at his own station.

Shi Jingqi and Liu Guodong came in, walked around to see that everyone was working hard, asked Lu Fuxing about the situation, Liu Guodong continued to stay in the workshop, and Shi Jingqi left the workshop door to the product warehouse.

The lights in the product warehouse are also on, and Wen Xuefeng is still taking inventory. There are so many freezers in and out every day, and losing one is his salary for several months, so Wen Xuefeng counts several times every day before he dares to lock the door and go back.

In order to keep the product warehouse clean, there is no stove, and a room full of cold refrigerators makes people feel colder.

As soon as Shi Jingqi entered, he couldn't help shrinking his neck.

Wen Xuefeng was wearing a thick military overcoat, seeing his appearance, he hurriedly handed him another military overcoat hanging by the door.

Shi Jingqi took it and put it on, and said to Wen Xuefeng: "Let them send a stove here tomorrow, this room is too cold."

Wen Xuefeng said: "It's not too cold today. Sometimes when I work, it's still hot in my current clothes. It's better not to light the stove. People who buy our refrigerators are very particular about people. They care about people's love of cleanliness. Come back and buy them later." The refrigerator looks like we have soot here, it’s not good.”

Shi Jingqi casually said: "That's fine too. If you insist on this for a few more days, today's meeting said that you will open a store in Zhengzhou, and you will go to the store to pull the refrigerator later. Your pressure will be much less."

Wen Xuefeng grinned: "That's a good relationship."

Shi Jingqi glanced out of the window, remembered something, and asked, "Brother Xuefeng, it's such a cold day, sister-in-law and the child are in the countryside, how are you doing?"

"It's okay, there are a lot of firewood in the countryside, and I can warm up, but I can't freeze it. Now I get a higher monthly salary than before, plus bonuses and subsidies, and I ask someone to bring them back every month, which is enough for the two of them. "

(End of this chapter)