Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

"This is the 90,000 yuan I owe you!" Yang Peng pushed the money in front of Li Weidong with a reluctant expression.

90,000 yuan, a total of 18 stacks, it doesn't look like much, just a small school bag can be packed away.

Li Weidong didn't count each one, and directly put the 90,000 yuan in his carry-on bag.

"Don't you count? Aren't you afraid that I will give less?" Yang Peng asked with squinting eyes.

"What did Director Yang say, I still can't believe you!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

Li Weidong didn't really trust Yang Peng, but because the 90,000 yuan was just brought in by Wang Kaiping in front of Li Weidong. If there was a problem with the money, Wang Kaiping would have informed Li Weidong long ago.

I saw Li Weidong took out another arrears receipt from his arms, handed it to Yang Peng, and then returned the 120,000 white note to Yang Peng, and then said: "Director Yang, our The account between the two is cleared!"

"Then over at the Shenfutun Chemical Plant..." Yang Peng asked hurriedly.

"Shen Futun, don't worry, they won't be embarrassing you. Three thousand yuan per ton of softener is as much as you want! I, Li Weidong, count what I say, and I will never make a white paper." Li Weidong replied.

Yang Peng breathed a sigh of relief. With Li Weidong's promise, the softener problem was finally solved.

Next, the garment factory can produce qualified wool car seat cushions, and then take them to the Canton Fair to earn $5 million in foreign exchange!

Thinking of this, Yang Peng only felt so happy in his heart, and the depressed feeling of being trapped by Li Weidong also dissipated a lot.

Li Weidong asked, "Director Yang, you want to buy softener, are you planning to produce wool car seat cushions?"

"You are clearly asking!" Yang Peng pouted and continued, "You were still the factory manager here two days ago, do you know what products the garment factory has!"

"I think with Director Yang's ingenuity, maybe there will be some new products!" Li Weidong mocked.

"Hold on, try your best, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years!" Yang Peng snorted coldly, ignoring Li Weidong's ridicule.

Li Weidong went on to ask: "The price of this wool car seat is still quite high. We Chinese people can't afford it, and the market is all in developed countries. This year's Canton Fair is about to start again. Director Yang is this Are you planning to go to the Canton Fair again?"

"Of course!" Yang Peng raised his head proudly, and then said, "This Canton Fair, my goal is to earn 5 million foreign exchange from exports!"

"Director Yang really has the ambition to set such a high goal!" Li Weidong said with a smile, almost applauding Yang Peng.

"How much? I don't think it's much at all. At the Canton Fair last April, the garment factory earned 4 million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange from exports, and at that time there was only one product of linen car seats. Now I have two kinds of products, which earn 5 million foreign exchange from exports. Dollars, what's so difficult!" Yang Peng said confidently.

"Then I wish Director Yang success." Li Weidong said, stood up, and continued, "I won't delay Director Yang's grand plans, so I'll say goodbye!"

Li Weidong walked out of Yang Peng's office and saw Wang Kaiping already waiting there.

"Have you got all the money?" Wang Kaiping asked.

Li Weidong nodded, handed the bag of money to Wang Kaiping, and said, "Go back and help me deposit it in the bank."

"Okay, I'll go to the bank in a while." Wang Kaiping nodded.

Li Weidong asked again, "Have you written the report on layoffs without pay?"

"It's written, do you want to hand it in today?" Wang Kaiping asked.

"Then hand it in. The electric furnace factory is almost built. You happened to be familiar with the environment." Li Weidong continued: "By the way, help me watch the electric furnace factory. I have to go to Jicheng."

"What are you doing in Jicheng?" Wang Kaiping asked.

"Go to the Office of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to find Ma Dexing and sign up for this year's Canton Fair!" Li Weidong replied.

...

Provincial Foreign Trade Department, Li Weidong met Ma Dexing again.

"Director Li, what wind brought you here!" Ma Dexing showed a very welcoming look.

"Director Ma, this year's Canton Fair is coming soon, and I came to you to sign up." Li Weidong replied with a smile.

While beckoning Li Weidong to sit down, Ma Dexing motioned for his men to pour tea for Li Weidong, and said at the same time, "Don't make fun of me, you must have other things!"

"I dare not lie to you, I really came to you to sign up." Li Weidong replied.

Ma Dexing smiled slightly and said, "You Qinghe Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, you have already registered your factory's name and reported to the province, so why don't you need to make a trip in person!"

"Director Ma, what was reported by the Qinghe Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau was the garment factory of the transportation company, right?" Li Weidong asked.

"Isn't that right? You, the factory manager, don't even know the name of your own factory." Ma Dexing said, and his men had already handed over the tea.

"Try this tea. The newly picked Mingqian tea this year is also going to be exhibited at the Canton Fair. I finally got two boxes." Ma Dexing pointed at the teacup.

Li Weidong took a sip of the tea, and it really smelled like Si Yi, sweet and delicious, a unique taste of new tea.

After putting down the teacup, Li Weidong explained, "I am no longer the director of the transportation company's garment factory!"

"What's the matter?" Ma Dexing was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Brother Li has risen?"

"Where's Gaosheng? It's because the transportation company has changed the underwriting conditions. The contract base is too high. I think I can't do it, so I don't continue to contract the garment factory." Li Weidong replied.

"Who is in charge of the garment factory now?" Ma Dexing asked immediately.

What Ma Dexing really cares about is not who is responsible for the garment factory, but whether the garment factory can continue to earn foreign exchange by exporting.

Li Weidong replied: "The company has already sent a special person to manage the garment factory, so you can rest assured. There are thousands of people in Qinghe Transportation Company, but can't find a garment factory director! When I came, the garment factory Everything is going well, and if we can get foreign trade orders, we will never delay production."

"Then I'm relieved!" Ma Dexing let out a long sigh of relief before continuing to ask; "Then what are you doing now? Are you going back to the transportation company?"

Li Weidong shook his head: "I took a leave of absence without pay."

"Staff without pay? Are you going to go to sea?" Ma Dexing's eyes widened in surprise.

In that year, there were only two cases for state-owned enterprise employees to apply for leave without pay. One was that they made some mistakes.

Such as enriching their own pockets, intentionally or unintentionally causing losses to the company, and engaging in improper relationships between men and women. Generally, in such a situation, they will be suspended without pay, which is not only a punishment, but also to avoid the limelight.

The second is to go to sea, but this situation was rare before 1992, but those who dare to go to sea are bold people.

Ma Dexing felt that Li Weidong was obviously the kind of daring person who dared to pretend to be a taxi driver at the Canton Fair and sell products to foreigners. Li Weidong dared to do so in dozens of Canton Fairs.

Li Weidong nodded: "Ma Disui, your guess is accurate, I am indeed going to sea. Now I have a small business, privately owned, but it is affiliated with a township, so it is still a township enterprise in name!"

"You're so bold!" Ma Dexing took a deep breath. In his opinion, it is true that a good state-owned enterprise cadre is not right to go into the sea to run a private enterprise.

Then Ma Dexing asked: "You said just now that you want to sign up for the Canton Fair, shouldn't it be your private enterprise?"

"Yes, it's my company." Li Weidong nodded.

"No!" Ma Dexing refused without thinking, and then explained, "How can private companies participate in events like the Canton Fair? This is against the rules!"

State cadres in 1988 still have a strong contempt for private enterprises, they look down on private enterprises, and they will not allow private enterprises to participate in the Canton Fair.

And Ma Dexing's "irregularity" is not really a rule prohibiting private companies from participating in the Canton Fair, but because of prejudice against private companies!

Li Weidong had no choice but to explain: "Director Ma, rules are dead, and people are alive. Besides, my company is affiliated with a township, and it is a township collective enterprise in name."

"Neither is a collective enterprise." Ma Dexing shook his head, then changed his voice, and continued: "It's not impossible, but you are a township collective enterprise. Let a township enterprise participate in the Canton Fair. This is too much, eh , it's not suitable anyway!"

"Too weak? Too low-level? Or too low-level?" Li Weidong smiled indifferently, and then continued: "Director Ma, I know that those who can participate in the Canton Fair are all large enterprises, and the lowest are provincial-level enterprises, but Last year, when my garment factory went to the Canton Fair, wasn't it just a tertiary industry? Wouldn't it be possible to export to earn foreign exchange?

When foreign businessmen come to buy things, it is not about the size of your company, nor whether your company is state-run or collective, but what kind of products the company can produce.

If the product is good and meets their needs, they will buy it. If the product is not good and does not meet their needs, even if it is produced by a national key enterprise, it will not be sold!

Although my field needs to have no scale, no rank, no reputation, but if I can produce products that foreign businessmen like, I can export and earn foreign exchange at the Canton Fair! Isn't the purpose of the state holding the Canton Fair just to earn foreign exchange through exports? "

"Although the truth is true, yours is a township collective enterprise after all. It would be ridiculous to let you participate in the Canton Fair. The foreign trade teams in other provinces will know and laugh at us!" Ma Dexing shook his head and said.

"Last year, when I made four million dollars by selling linen car seat cushions, which provincial foreign trade team laughed at me? It's too late for them to envy them all! As long as they can bring in foreign exchange, let alone a township collective enterprise, even a township collective enterprise. No one dares to laugh at a beggar who is begging for food!" Li Weidong said rather stubbornly.

"Okay then!" Ma Dexing sighed helplessly, and then said, "I'll report to the leader to see if we can handle special cases!"

Li Weidong smiled slightly. He knew that the so-called "reporting to the leader" was nothing more than an excuse for Ma Dexing to shirk. In the final analysis, Ma Dexing was still unwilling to let a township collective enterprise participate in the Canton Fair.

"You can't be soft, you can only be hard!" Thinking of this, Li Weidong said, "That's ok, I'll trouble Director Ma to report to the leaders, I won't bother Director Ma, I just have to rush to a Come to the capital and visit Sun Xinmin, who is appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation."

"It's Deputy Director Sun now. Although it has not been officially appointed, it has been announced." Ma Dexing corrected him.

"It turns out that Sun Xinmin has already been promoted!" Li Weidong showed a surprised expression, and then said: "That's right, I'll go and congratulate him, and by the way, I will ask for Gordon's contact information."

"Gordon? Is that the Wal-Mart buyer?" Ma Dexing asked.

"Yes, it's him! I'm thinking, if I can't go to the Canton Fair, I'll contact Gordon directly to sell our factory's products. As long as Gordon takes a fancy to my products and places an order, I will earn foreign exchange. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation will be there. It's definitely a green light all the way."

Li Weidong smiled slightly, and said: "Director Ma, please stay, I will leave first."

"Wait a minute!" Ma Dexing stopped Li Weidong without hesitation.

"Director Ma, is there anything else?" Li Weidong asked.

Ma Dexing's face instantly filled with a smile, and he said, "We can discuss the matter of participating in the Canton Fair!"

Li Weidong smiled slightly: "This Ma Dexing really still eats hard and not soft!"