industrial overlord

Chapter 168
The buildings located at the back of Hanhua Company's factory area are Lin Zhenhua's private land prepared for himself.

Although Hanhua Company belongs to the shareholding cooperative system in terms of property rights, and Lin Zhenhua actually owns more than 50% of the entire company's equity through his own direct shareholding and indirect shareholding through Chu Hongyang, Peng Shaozhe and others, which has reached the proportion of controlling shares .However, in name, and in the impression of the leaders of the Light Chemical Department and Hanhua Machinery Factory, Hanhua Company is still a large collective enterprise, and it must obey the orders of the Light Chemical Department and Hanhua Factory.

Lin Zhenhua was unable to fight against this stubborn force. In the atmosphere of the early 80s, if you had to discuss controlling rights with the Qinghua Department, talk about clear property rights, etc., I am afraid the result would be very tragic.

In fact, the development of Hanhua Company like today is also inseparable from the support of the Ministry of Light and Chemical Industry and other departments.First of all, if you are not a collective enterprise, it is impossible for the Light Chemical Department to apply for raw material supply for you.No matter how advanced the fan you design, if the raw materials are not available, then everything is empty.This status as a collective enterprise gives Hanhua Company an innate advantage when competing with those township enterprises, which Lin Zhenhua cannot deny.

Secondly, Hanhua's five-leaf fan can enter the Canton Fair, and Hanhua's ability to annex Xunzi Factory is related to its collective identity.Based on these considerations, Lin Zhenhua can't cut off his own way.

The identity of a large collective enterprise is both an advantage and a hidden danger.It is hard for Lin Zhenhua to imagine that if the company expands further in the future, whether the Light Chemical Department will directly extend its hand.There are various ways for the Qinghua Department to reach out. First, it can balance the capital and technology of Hanhua Company, and second, it can send new leaders to squeeze Lin Zhenhua out.Examples like this were not uncommon back then.

Out of such worries, Lin Zhenhua decided to start a new business and develop a new business of his own besides Hanhua Company.The development of Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory in the past year has given him an opportunity. Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory is a township enterprise, and it has reached an agreement with the commune to buy out the property rights. For Lin Zhenhua, this is a very good start-up platform.

Hanhua Company created more than 4000 million yuan in profits last year. After coordination between Lin Zhenhua and Hanhua Factory, they decided to take out 200 million yuan as dividends, and all the rest will be reinvested to expand the existing production scale.Hanhua Company merged Xunzi Factory, which cost more than 300 million yuan, and then, land acquisition, construction of staff dormitories, construction of workshops, purchase of equipment, etc., only a fraction of the 4000 million yuan was left.

The property rights of these workshops and the equipment in the workshops that Lin Zhenhua took the Cen brothers to see belonged to Hanhua Company, but Lin Zhenhua made his own decisions and leased them to Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory.His idea is called borrowing chickens to lay eggs. Wait until the business of the agricultural machinery factory has developed to a certain level and has enough profits, and then buy these buildings and equipment in the form of redemption. In this way, legally speaking, there is no problem.

Hanhua Company is now the sky high and the emperor far away, and all decisions in the company are made by Lin Zhenhua alone.In terms of the management system, Chu Hongyang, Peng Shaozhe, Zhao Yongqun and others are also members of the company's decision-making layer, but they are all Lin Zhenhua's younger brothers, and they still have some blind personality worship for Lin Zhenhua. Who would interfere with Lin Zhenhua's decision-making? Woolen cloth?
The employees of the Hanhua factory have been dazzled by the rapid growth of the company, and no one knows what new ideas their managers are implementing.Lin Zhenhua built such a private land for himself, and the employees just guessed it, and no one questioned its rationality.

The relationship between Lin Zhenhua and Hanhua Company is a bit muddled.The five-blade fan is a patented technology, and Lin Zhenhua is the owner of the patent. Logically speaking, he should extract a part of the patent royalty from the sale of each fan.If he extracts 10 yuan for each fan, he should pay him 50 million patent fees for the 500 fans exported last year.The money is enough to buy the equipment in the workshop.

However, Lin Zhenhua has no way to get the money. If he proposes to collect patent fees, waiting for him is estimated to be an investigation by the public security organ.This is an era when the relationship between property rights is extremely unclear. Individuals, let alone withdrawing 500 million, even 5 yuan from the operation of collective enterprises, will face countless criticisms.

Since it is impossible to legally get the patent fee that it deserves, it should not be unreasonable to turn this money into equipment and then use it to develop its own industry in the form of lease, right?Lin Zhenhua found an explanation for his behavior.

Scholars of later generations are always entangled in a question, that is, whether the capitalists who rose during the reform and opening up had the so-called original sin.If it is to be explained by today's laws and market rules, then these people are undoubtedly guilty of the original sin.However, if we can restore the scene of the year, we will find that they themselves are also victims of imperfect market rules.

Lin Zhenhua was eager to start anew because he wanted to get rid of this embarrassing situation.If there is a company that truly belongs to itself, and the money it earns can belong to itself openly, then there will be no obstacles to its subsequent development.Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory happened to be such an enterprise. This was a pawn he had laid unintentionally, and now it was time to use it.

After seeing Lin Zhenhua's workshop, the Cen brothers already understood their status.When they started their business, they relied on the funds lent to them by Lin Zhenhua and the technology provided free of charge. Even the agricultural machinery factory that has shown some signs of prosperity is insignificant compared to the large enterprise that Lin Zhenhua is creating.In this case, the proportion of equity they own should naturally be greatly reduced.

After a lot of negotiation with each other, the three finally reached an agreement. Lin Zhenhua owns 85% of the shares of Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory, and the Cen brothers own 15% of the shares.Among the 15%, Cen Youjun insisted on sharing half with Cen Youxin. He believed that Cen Youxin’s contribution to the company was already much greater than that of him as the factory director. If the shareholding ratio was too low, it would not be appropriate.

Although the shareholding has dropped from 50% to 15%, the Cen brothers still know that they have gained a huge advantage. What they contributed was only the brand of an agricultural machinery factory, but what they got was a large enterprise that was on the rise. % of equity.Both the Cen brothers believe that with such a good foundation, it is entirely possible for this company to grow to tens of millions of assets in the next few years. By then, the 15% equity in their hands will correspond to several million.

Lin Zhenhua is not a greedy person. His philosophy of life is to apply a slogan of later generations, which is called "everyone is really good when everyone is good".He needs a controlling stake in the business, because only in this way can he let go to implement his ideas.But when it comes to the proportion of equity, he doesn't care, so why not let his friends share more fruits of entrepreneurship?

In addition to the equity relationship, there are still some things that need to be resolved. Lin Zhenhua brought the Cen brothers back to his office, and then arranged other matters.

An important issue is the resettlement of the 20 or so workers from the original Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory.Cen Youjun knows that the technical level of his more than 20 employees is not good enough, and most of them are already relatively old and have insufficient development potential.It is a waste to let them operate these modern equipment.

After discussion, everyone decided to maintain the status quo at Yonghe Commune. The old worker Chen Jinfu led the 20 people to undertake some relatively simple businesses, so that everyone could support themselves.

Next, it involves the source of workers in the Xunyang factory.Of course, Lin Zhenhua can recruit some skilled workers from Xunzi to work in the machine tool workshop, but the result of doing so is that it is easy to make the machine tool workshop overlap with other businesses of Hanhua Company.And once this kind of intersection is formed, it will be very difficult to extract it clearly in the future, which is why Lin Zhenhua asked Cen Youjun to be the production supervisor.

"What our township enterprises do is to hire retired workers from state-owned enterprises. Xiao Lin, I don't think that's your plan," Cen Youjun said.

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "That's exactly what I think. I have done a secret investigation. There are many workers who have retired from state-owned enterprises in Xunyang and Nandu. These workers are very skilled. He is still in good health and can fully undertake normal work. My idea is to invite these people here with generous treatment to form the technical core of our machine tool accessories company."

"I'll take care of this." Cen Youjun volunteered.

Lin Zhenhua laughed and said, "The platoon leader is going to recruit troops again."

Cen Youjun said: "Xiaolin, leave your identity here. If you go out to recruit people, people will say that Hanhua Company is recruiting people, which is not good for you. But if I go to recruit people, it will be fine. He is the director of Yonghe Agricultural Machinery Factory, and it is only natural to recruit some retired workers."

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's exactly what I think. Platoon leader, let's do this. You are fully responsible for recruiting people. You decide how to hire people. My only request is not to treat them too badly. These people It is the treasure of our country, and it is also the core competitiveness of our machine tool accessories company, no matter how high the treatment you give, I have no objection."

Cen Youxin interjected: "Manager Lin, don't go too far with this matter. You'd rather lower the remuneration first, and increase it slowly later, so that everyone will feel that you treat them very well. If you negotiate the remuneration at the beginning It’s too high, and there’s no room for it in the future.”

Lin Zhenhua nodded again and again: "Old Cen is right. The platoon leader and I are the kind of people who don't know how to bargain with others. Lao Cen usually reminds us more."

"In terms of apprenticeship, we should also consider it as soon as possible." Cen Youjun said, "Retired workers can only use it for a few years, and their skills must be followed by young people."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Yes, we must form an echelon. However, I have already prepared for this issue. I have built a technical school in Fenghua, and there are nearly 200 students. Several trainees will be transferred here, enriched into the workshop, and apprenticed with the master craftsmen. After the business here gradually stabilizes, I plan to build another technical school in Xunyang to provide backup skilled workers for our company."

"By the way, how is Wen Yong doing now?" Cen Youjun asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Wen Yong performed very well. He studied milling with a master named Peng Gang in the Hanhua factory for a year, and now he has transferred to the CNC machine tool. This kid, he memorized it in one year. With 5000 English words, I can now read the English instruction manual, but my listening and speaking skills are in a mess, and the spoken English is always Yonghe dialect no matter what I hear.”

"That's pretty good too. This kid never learned English before." Cen Youjun said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "I have already informed him that he will come to Xunyang in two days, and I will arrange for him to be the squad leader of the youth worker in the machine tool company. I hope he can use his spirit to influence other young people."

"Great, that's the deal for us. I'll start working tomorrow." Cen Youjun said impatiently.

Lin Zhenhua said: "No hurry, platoon leader, you should spend a few days to settle the house first. I have already asked Wang Junxian to help with the matter of Mao Zai's transfer. You can take him to the primary school to register in two days. .”

Cen Youjun said gratefully: "Xiao Lin, you are really thoughtful in thinking about the problem. Originally, my idea was to let their mother and son stay at Yonghe's side, and I can come here alone."

Lin Zhenhua said: "The ancients said it well. If you don't bring your family, you must be a false surrender. The conditions in the countryside are still too bad. Since I have the conditions here, let my sister-in-law, Mao Zai, and Xiao Zai become city residents in advance. Xun The education level here in Yang is better than your Yonghe Commune. My sister-in-law is cured now. I mean, let her do something in the company in the future. She integrated into the life of the city as soon as possible."

Cen Youjun said: "Then I will thank Xiao Lin on their behalf."

"Old Cen, why didn't you bring your sister-in-law and child here? Didn't I explain it in the letter?" Lin Zhenhua said to Cen Youxin.

Cen Youxin waved his hand: "My wife is reluctant to part with the several acres of responsible land at home. But this is also good, I run outside all day long, and I don't have time to take care of them. Let them stay in the country, I feel relieved."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Forget it, let's take them out after this side becomes more stable."

Speaking of this, Secretary Wang Junxian knocked on the door and came in. He said to Lin Zhenhua: "Manager Lin, the small cafeteria is ready. Manager Peng and Manager Lang are here. When are you going?"

"We'll go right away." Lin Zhenhua replied, and then he turned his head and said to the Cen family brothers: "Platoon leader, Lao Cen, I asked the office to prepare a table in the small cafeteria and invited some main leaders in the company. Let's meet together. In the future, although you two belong to two different companies, you will see each other with your head down all day long, so you need to get to know each other."

Cen Youjun stood up and said briskly, "It's just right, I also plan to learn from the leaders of state-owned factories."

(End of this chapter)