Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

This second uncle is not Li Weidong's second uncle, but Li Weidong's brother-in-law's second uncle, and Li Weidong also called him "second uncle".

Li Weidong's eldest brother-in-law was from a rural area. He joined the army when he was young. He once served as an instructor for a certain company in the northeast garrison. After retiring from the army, he was assigned to work in the city. The other relatives of the eldest brother-in-law still have rural hukou and stay in the countryside.

In the 1980s, there were still fundamental differences between urban and rural hukou, and urban hukou was obviously higher than that of rural hukou. In the countryside, if any family has relatives who are "city people", then this family is also a superior existence in the village.

The eldest brother-in-law's second uncle, Shen Zheng, is the brigade secretary of Shen Futun, and also serves as the village head. He is considered a capable person in the countryside.

The relatives of such relatives, one lives in the city and the other in the countryside, have not been able to see each other for more than ten years.

Li Weidong and Shen Zheng have only met four or five times. The last time Li Weidong met Shen Zheng, it was the second daughter of the eldest sister's family who invited the full moon wine.

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In the tavern, Li Weidong asked for a few dishes and a bottle of wine.

After a few glasses of wine, Shen Zheng also opened the chat box.

A few years ago, Shen Futun finally solved the problem of food and clothing for the villagers by contracting the work to the household. In the past two years, Shen Futun has relied on planting peanuts, allowing the villagers to make a little money. After the villagers became rich, they raised funds to start a village-run enterprise, mainly producing laundry cream.

Today's post-00s young people may not have seen such things as laundry cream. Laundry cream is a kind of paste, which is very alkaline and soluble in water. People in the 1980s used laundry cream for laundry. After the 1990s, washing powder gradually became popular, and laundry cream gradually withdrew from the market.

This village-run enterprise in Shen Futun is not much bigger than a workshop, and the laundry cream produced is also a three-no product. This three-no product must not be able to enter department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives, so on weekdays, whenever there is a fair, Shen Futun The people who carried a few buckets of laundry cream went to various markets and sold them by weight.

The customers of the laundry cream factory are also farmers or residents of the urban-rural fringe. These people have low incomes and are reluctant to buy soap from regular manufacturers. This kind of three-dimensional product is the most suitable for these low-income groups.

Products sold cheaply often mean low profits. Shenfutun's laundry cream production capacity is also relatively limited, and there are no normal sales channels. So Shen Zheng, the brigade secretary, planned to develop some new products and make more money.

Recently, Shen Zheng heard that the second chemical plant was going to eliminate several sets of saponification equipment from the 1960s, so he made a special trip to buy this equipment. As a result, the guard of the second chemical plant saw that Shen was a rural person, so he directly Shen Zheng stopped at the door, not letting Shen Zheng enter at all.

After listening to Shen Zheng's story about what happened, Li Weidong smiled and raised the wine glass, toasted Shen Zheng with a glass of wine, and then said: "Second Uncle, if you want to create new products, you don't have to make soap, you can make other things. !"

"I've also thought about it, but we won't be able to make products that are a little more difficult! Soap is simple to make, not much more complicated than laundry detergent." Shen Zheng said.

"Then have you ever thought about introducing new technology?" Li Weidong asked.

"Let's not say that we don't have so much money to introduce technology. Let's say that our small factory is all farmers, and if you graduate from elementary school, you have a high degree of education. Even if you spend money to buy technology, you can't understand it!" Shen Zhengyao said with his head up.

Li Weidong put down the wine glass and asked, "Second uncle, I have a product here. The process is not complicated. Just add things in order, control the temperature, and stir it. Are you interested?"

"Isn't that similar to our production of laundry detergent?" Shen Zheng asked hurriedly, "What is it?"

Li Weidong took out the piece of sheep shearling material from his arms, handed it to Shen Zheng, and said, "Second uncle, look, how is this piece of leather?"

Shen Zheng took the sheep shearling, touched it in his hand, and couldn't help but said, "This leather is so soft!"

"How is it better than ordinary sheepskin?" Li Weidong asked.

"That's too soft and too much!" Shen Zheng gently stroked the sheep shearling leather, and then said, "What kind of leather is this, why is it so soft?"

"This is sheepskin." Li Weidong replied.

"Impossible! We will slaughter sheep during the festivals. Have I ever seen this sheepskin? It must be harder than this, and the fur is much harder than this! How can this skin be so smooth." Shen Is talking.

"Second uncle, this sheepskin of mine has been specially treated. There is a chemical product called softener. Ordinary sheepskin can become so soft after soaking in softener. And not only sheepskin, such as Cotton, towels, and blankets can be softened by soaking them in softener." Li Weidong finally introduced the softener.

Shen Zheng nodded suddenly, and asked, "Wei Dong, the product you just mentioned is this softener, right?"

"Yes, it's the softener." Li Weidong paused and said his purpose: "I can teach you the production process of the softener, and I can also inject capital into you, but I want to take a share."

"You still injected capital for us?" Shen Zheng seemed to only hear the capital injection, but not the shareholding.

"To produce new products, you have to buy raw materials, right? How many raw materials can you buy with the funds of your factory?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

"That's right, making laundry detergent is a small business, and we really don't have much money in our factory." Shen Zheng nodded.

Li Weidong picked up the wine bottle, poured wine for Shen Zhengman, and then said: "Second uncle, let's see it this way, after we finish dinner, I will take you back to Shenfutun on a motorcycle, and by the way, let's take a look at your factory, and then we will discuss it carefully. !"

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The small factory in Shenfutun has only two workshops, plus a boiler room. Fortunately, there is more than one mu of yard, and all kinds of equipment are also complete.

Li Weidong checked the equipment of the small factory. Although it is a little crude, it can still be used to produce softener.

"Second uncle, I can invest 100,000 yuan for you, plus the formula of softener, but you have to give me 50% of the shares." Li Weidong put forward his own requirements.

"Wei Dong, you are making fun of your second uncle!" Shen Zheng shook his head: "It's not worth 100,000 yuan just for us rubbish iron! 100,000 yuan is enough to buy two small children like this. Factory! How can I ask you for so much money."

"Second uncle, after all, this is the factory of your village collective, I can't let you suffer." Li Weidong pointed to the surroundings, and then said: "Besides, besides the equipment, there is no land and factory buildings!"

Shen Zheng replied, "How much is the two mu of land worth? As for the factory building, we have labor in our village. As long as you manage the food, one person can build a house with a pack of cigarettes."

"Second uncle, after all, this is a collective enterprise in your village. If I buy it directly, it will definitely not be suitable. This is not a question of money. The key is that the policy may not allow it! So, let's make a joint-stock cooperative system, and I will Participate in shares and get dividends." Li Weidong said.

"Then you don't have to pay 100,000 yuan. Our factory is really not worth so much money. If I charge you 100,000 yuan, I will only give you 50% of the shares. I'm not cheating on you! Your brother-in-law will find out later. , I have to say that I even cheat on my relatives! We Shen Futun can't do such a thing." Shen Zheng said.

"Second uncle, you are overthinking it. I don't give you the 100,000 yuan for nothing." Li Weidong continued: "That's what I think, I put this money in, part of it is for raw materials, and part of it can be used To do equipment upgrades, and part of it, let's buy a small truck, and it is convenient to return to delivery.

In addition, this is a village collective enterprise. If I take half of the shares at once, I have to give your villagers something to say, right? So I plan to take part of the 100,000 yuan as a dividend to the villagers, and each household will give 100 to 200 yuan, so that the villagers will also have opinions on me. "

"Well, that's fine. If you have a small truck, it will be more convenient to go back to the village to pull food. As for the dividends to the villagers, 100 yuan per household is a lot." Shen Zheng agreed.

After all, Shen Zheng was the brigade secretary of the village. Of course, he had to consider the interests of the village. Being able to buy a small truck for the village and giving each household another 100 yuan in dividends was a real benefit, and Shen Zheng would definitely not refuse.

As for Li Weidong, he doesn't care about paying more than tens of thousands of dollars.

This kind of village collective enterprise is a local snake, originally from a wild road, and there are many kinds of salacious operations. Dealing with such village collective enterprises or township enterprises is different from that of state-owned enterprises.

The employees of state-owned enterprises are organized, and they are also disciplined and disciplined. In state-owned enterprises, leading cadres are authoritative, and when the leader speaks, everyone below will listen. This is a pyramid-shaped top-down management system.

In village collective enterprises or township enterprises, the employees are basically farmers, and they do not have such good organization and discipline, nor do they have a top-down management system.

The management mode of village collective enterprises is more like the previous production brigade, with one or two brigade leaders leading everyone to work together. The reason why the leaders of the village collective enterprises issue orders is not administrative orders, but prestige in the village.

Take Shen Zheng, for example, the reason why he can become Shen Futun's brigade secretary is not because he has that paper appointment, but because his prestige in the village can convince the public.

In some villages, the villagers are still relatives. When they walk into the workshop of the village collective enterprise, they will first call the second uncle, third uncle, fourth cousin, etc. This kind of clan-type enterprise cannot be adopted. Top-down management model.

Under the clan-type enterprise model, it is not so simple for a person from outside the village to intervene in the collective enterprise of the village.

It is very common in rural areas for people in the same village to group together and xenophobia.

Although Li Weidong and Shen Zheng are also relatives, they are outsiders after all. If you want to gain a firm foothold in Shenfu Tun, it is not enough to rely on the identity of city people.

The best way is to spread a wave of money first, so that each villager can get the benefits, and the villagers will get dividends, so naturally they will no longer reject Li Weidong, so that Li Weidong can get involved in the management of the laundry cream factory.

With Li Weidong's financial resources, he can directly buy the entire laundry cream factory and engage in a joint-stock cooperative system, which sounds more like a thankless loss-making behavior.

But Li Weidong was unable to do so, mainly because in 1987, there was no policy to recognize the legitimacy of private enterprises.

China only clarified the legal status of private enterprises when the constitution was amended in 1988, so theoretically, before 1988, there were no private enterprises in China.

In that era, you could apply for a self-employed business license and become self-employed. But if you want to apply for a business license for a private enterprise, sorry, there is no such thing!

So if someone said that it was nonsense to start a private enterprise before 1988, it was illegal at all!

At that time, there were many workshops in the south that employed hundreds of people, and they were still self-employed by legal definition, not private enterprises, because there was no business license for private enterprises.

If an enterprise does not even have a business license, its business activities will inevitably be subject to many restrictions.

At that time, there were two main ways for self-employed individuals to become enterprises. One was to affiliate, for example, to affiliate the enterprise with a township, so that the enterprise became a township enterprise in name.

The second way is to find a few shareholders and turn the enterprise into a joint-stock cooperative system, which can also be regarded as a collective enterprise.

Li Weidong, of course, is very familiar with these policies, so he did not buy the entire laundry paste factory directly, but chose to hold 50% of the shares, thus maintaining the nature of the laundry paste factory's shareholding cooperative system and not violating the policy. .

The reason for holding 50% of the shares is to avoid policy risks. Before private companies are legal, if private holdings exceed public holdings, it may lead to serious evil.

Although Li Weidong knows that the policies of private enterprises will become more and more open, he cannot use his tens of millions of net worth to test the bottom line of the policy.

In case if the horse stumbles and is really caught as a capitalist, it will be wronged!