Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 57 Agents

For Duan Yun, getting the support of Secretary Zhao Dongsheng would be a huge help.

After all, Duan Yun has his own 'ambition'.

He has technology far beyond this era in his mind, but without financial connections, he will eventually achieve nothing.

Duan Yun has always dreamed of building a factory on his own, but in this day and age, it's just a dream.

The only feasible way now is to stay in this gear factory first, and try to use the secretary as a backer to transfer to a technical or leadership position. He is also a sales expert, which is very important for Duan Yun's future independent portal layout, and he even has the opportunity to develop relationships with some leaders of local departments. With these connections, Duan Yun will wait for the future when national policies begin to relax. Other 'big things' will be much easier.

It's just that these things still need to be done step by step, and you can't eat a fat man in one bite.

After some tossing in the factory and talking with the secretary in the office for a long time, it was already noon when Duan Yun rode his bike back to the rental house again.

It's just that Duan Yun just parked his car at the door of the rental house when he saw Cao Dong squatting at the door in a daze.

"Brother Duan!" After seeing Duan Yun, Cao Dong stood up and greeted him.

"What's the matter with your face?" Duan Yun realized that Cao Dong's left cheek seemed to be bruised, and he looked a little depressed.

"fine……"

"Speak!" Duan Yun immediately lowered his face.

"Brother, I... I'm sorry for you." Cao Dong held back his mouth and continued, "The antenna you gave me yesterday was broken..."

"Huh?" Duan Yun was stunned when he heard the words, and then asked again: "What's going on, tell me clearly!" |
"It's like this..." Cao Dong gritted his teeth and told Duan Yun what happened yesterday.

It turned out that after Duan Yun raised the matter of antenna sales in the morning, Cao Dong took a pair of antennas to the Mining Bureau by bus.

Cao Dong had never had any experience in selling products before, so he simply went to the newly built residential area, which looked like a wealthy household knocking on the door to sell it.

After asking the residents of the two buildings in a row, Cao Dong found nothing. Either there was no one at home, or there was no TV at home. Occasionally a few households had a TV, but when he heard the price of 65 yuan for a set of Cao Dong antenna, he politely declined. Now, don't give Cao Dong a chance to demonstrate the effect of the antenna!
In addition, the price of nearly 70 yuan is also ridiculously high, which is almost equivalent to one or two wages of most working families, so the difficulty of Cao Dong's active door-to-door sales can be imagined.

As for the scars on Cao Dong's face, it was because he was unlucky and knocked on the house of a man who had just finished night shift and was sleeping. It was fortunate that Cao Dong ran fast, but he was slapped heavily on the face, but the antenna set he brought with him was slightly deformed when it fell to the ground during the escape process.

"Or I'll take you to our factory hospital to have a look." Duan Yun didn't care about the damaged antenna, but focused his eyes on the bruises on Cao Dong's face again.

"Brother, I'm fine, I don't need to go to the hospital." Cao Dong shook his head like a rattle and said, "When I used to steal vegetables in the village, the old farmer beat me more than this, and I just lay in bed for a few days at most. I'll be fine, this little injury doesn't really matter at all... Just take the set of antennas you gave me, Brother Duan..."

"Bullshit! Can antennas be more important than human life?" Duan Yun glared at Cao Dong, but then said with some self-reproach: "Actually, it's my fault. At the beginning, I thought it was simple to sell antennas, and I didn't think it fully. ."

Duan Yun was used to door-to-door sales of this business model in his previous life, so he didn't feel anything wrong when he asked Cao Dong to do this before. Now that I think about it, there is indeed a big problem.

In fact, Daxing City has not yet come to sell this business model these days. After all, it is a planned economy and a seller's market. Many in-demand commodities are in limited supply. Cao Dong's door-to-door sales of antennas can easily give people the feeling of a liar. In the end, the promotion failed, which is also a reasonable thing.

But after Duan Yun thought about it for a while, he soon came up with an idea.

"Brother, I'm still not good enough in sales. I'll try a few more these days, maybe..."

"Maybe I'll be beaten up again?" Duan Yun gave Cao Dong a white look and said, "Actually, I thought of a way to sell it."

"What way?" Cao Dong's eyes lit up when he heard that.

Although he only worked with Duan Yun for a few days, now Cao Dong really admires Duan Yun.

In addition to the seemingly sophisticated electronic repair technology, Duan Yun's experience and brains also made him feel inferior.

Not to mention anything else, just being able to sell this antenna for 70 yuan is not something that Cao Dong can do, so he is a little worshipful to Duan Yun now, and he is obedient to what he says.

"It's actually very simple." Duan Yun smiled and asked Cao Dong, "When you went to the mining bureau, did you see anyone watching TV in the open air?"

"Yes!" Cao Dong raised his brows and said, "I went during the day yesterday, and I didn't see anyone putting on the TV, but last year I went to the Mining Bureau at night, and the lighted stadium in their factory was on Saturday night. When it was time to order, some people put the TV set outside, and many people waited early with their horses and benches, nibbling on melon seeds and fanning, all of them were very happy..."

These days, many industrial and mining factories in Daxing have TVs purchased at public expense. When the weather is good, they will organize public screenings. It is also a response to the corresponding national policy of enriching the daily entertainment life of employees. Some larger factories have more than one screening. TV places, especially in the hot summer, people come to watch open-air TV is even more numerous.

"Then let's just sell it at these public screening points." Duan Yun said.

"Isn't this okay?" Cao Dong frowned when he heard the words, and said, "The TVs are owned by the public. Unless the unit approves, who will give such expensive antennas to the public's TV?"

"I didn't tell you to sell the antenna to this TV unit, but to give them a set!" Duan Yun raised his brows and said.

"Give them a set!?" When Cao Dong heard this, he was stunned.

"I don't want the children to be trapped by wolves. I mean, give them a set for free, and then discuss it with the TV operator and ask him to help promote it. For example, a set of antennas can be sold for 70 yuan, and five yuan will be given to the TV operator. In addition to the capital you have to give me, you can still earn 15 yuan..." Duan Yun said seriously.

Duan Yun obviously wanted to repeat the old trick of the sales method he used in Li Yun's home. Duan Yun was still a supplier, while Cao Dong became an 'agent' like Li Yun's mother. There will be many more 'secondary agents' in other industrial and mining areas...

(End of this chapter)