industrial overlord

Chapter 565

"Bird Road Qianxun Pan Junling, Luofeng is sandwiched between Xiongguan...Mayor Yu, how far are we ahead?"

Lin Zhenhua stood on the edge of a steep cliff, looking at a pair of couplets engraved on the opposite mountain, and asked Yu Ping, the deputy mayor of Jingxi City who was with him.

"The straight-line distance does not exceed 30 kilometers. As for the distance, there are still more than 100 kilometers." Yu Ping replied.

"So, you should be able to reach the city before it gets dark today?"

"It is necessary, otherwise there is no way to live in the mountains. It is dangerous to stay in the mountains after dark."

"Then let's go...the scenery here is really good." Lin Zhenhua looked at the great rivers and mountains in front of him with nostalgia, and said with emotion.

Behind them, there were more than a dozen off-road vehicles parked. Some were driven by Lin Zhenhua himself, and some were sent down the mountain by the Jingxi City Government to meet them.From the grade of the car, it is not difficult to see that the poverty in Jingxi City is not just talking about it.Lin Zhenhua and the others drove imported cars of Mitsubishi, Toyota and other brands, and the value of each car was 50 million.The Jingxi city government drove domestic brands such as Great Wall, but the car cost more than [-] yuan.Among them, Lin Zhenhua even saw three old jeeps with canvas tops that he hadn't seen for a long time. You know, this kind of car has basically been eliminated in developed areas.

After Lin Zhenhua and Yue Jianhua met in Jinling, they brought Yue Jianhua's request to the group office meeting as soon as they returned to Xunyang.He originally thought that the executives of the group would be resistant to investing in Jingxi, but after reading the composition of those children, everyone's eyes were red, and instead they turned around to persuade Lin Zhenhua, suggesting to invest in Jingxi. Nishiichi lends a helping hand.

It was only then that Lin Zhenhua discovered that his management team used to be full of sentimental homeboys. Needless to say, cadres like Cen Youjun who were born in the mountains, even returnees like Xiang Zhe and Hu Gui were quite compassionate. temperament.Of course, feelings belong to feelings. As group executives, they still have a minimum of rationality. Everyone believes that Hanhua is obliged to help Jingxi City develop its own industry, but this kind of help cannot be a completely one-way gift. It should try to let Hanhua get some rewards from it.

"Jingxi City has inconvenient transportation and extremely poor industrial location conditions. Although it is rich in special agricultural products, coal, iron and non-ferrous metal deposits, these raw materials have little to do with the development of our company, especially mineral resources. It is difficult to transport it out of the mountains, so the economic value is not great. If we invest in Jingxi to build a factory, it will be difficult to get a corresponding return." Hu Gui pointed to the Jingxi map at the group office meeting and introduced it to everyone.

Lin Zhenhua said: "When I communicated with the leaders of Jingxi, they mentioned that their labor costs are extremely low, and that this may be a relatively favorable condition. What do you think?"

"How low is it?" Xiang Zhe asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "According to them, the wages of the staff in their organization are only more than 300 yuan. Including various benefits, if they can get more than 400 yuan, it is considered good. The only few In the factory, the average salary of workers is about 200 yuan, if you are more ruthless, you can hire people with 100 yuan a month."

"100 yuan?" Everyone was stunned. You must know that the average monthly salary of employees in the country was around 800 yuan at that time. For a company with good benefits and high wages like Hanhua, the average salary had already reached more than 2000 yuan. Not counting various non-monetary benefits.There are some companies in Xunyang that recruit apprentices, and the salary of 500 yuan is considered a very deceptive level, but Jingxi still has a salary standard of 100 yuan a month.

"If we are going to Jingxi to build a factory, it is certainly not for the local people to get a salary of 100 yuan a month, right? If it is such a low standard, they must have to go to the coast to work. In fact, Hanhua has people from Migrant workers in Jingxi, they just ran out to earn a little more money." Xiang Zhe said.

"100 yuan is a bit low, but if we give 300 or 400, it should be considered a high salary, right? I heard that the living standard in Jingxi is relatively low, and the prices of vegetables and meat are not high. More than 300 yuan Already able to live very well." Lin Zhenhua said, "Even with a salary of 300 yuan, the entire labor cost is much lower than in Xunyang."

"However, if such a product with low labor cost is shipped out of the mountains, the freight alone will be enough to offset the cost advantage." Peng Shaozhe, general manager of the home furnishing company, reminded.His home furnishing company produces labor-intensive products. With the help of labor costs that are much lower than those in Europe and the United States, and the very low water transportation costs due to relying on the Yangtze River, the home furnishing company has become competitive.Such labor-intensive products are simply not competitive if shipping costs rise.

Hu Wei nodded and said: "Shao Zhe is right. The current traffic situation in Jingxi determines that the industries developed there must be high-profit, have a large demand for labor, and have little demand for transportation. It is possible to develop, otherwise, even if we lose money to transfuse them, when we stop subsidizing them, these companies will collapse."

With each other, everyone has gradually perfected the idea of ​​investing in Jingxi. As for the industries that can be developed in the end, you still need to go to Jingxi for field inspections. In addition, you need to fully discuss with the local government of Jingxi. Communication will do.After the meeting, Lin Zhenhua set off for Jingxi with Hu Wei. The purpose of taking Hu Wei was that he was an industrial engineering expert and an absolute authority in project evaluation.

Before arriving in Jingxi, Lin Zhenhua had imagined the harsh terrain conditions here, but after seeing the scene, he realized that his imagination was too poor. than he expected.

Jingxi City is known as "eight mountains, half water and half fields". There are four large mountains in the territory, and thousands of streams rush among them, and there are as many as dozens of rivers with only names.These rivers sometimes drill into caves and sometimes rush out of canyons. The water flow is turbulent and the drop is huge, forcing the only winding mountain roads to meander through.Between two seemingly very close mountain tops, the road circles sometimes for dozens of kilometers.

Hearing that Lin Zhenhua came to Jingxi with a delegation, Yue Jianhua was very excited.He originally planned to go out of the mountain to meet him in person, but he was busy with official duties, so he had to arrange for the deputy mayor Yu Ping to lead a team to meet them, sending out almost all the cars that the city government could take out.What surprised Lin Zhenhua the most was that in the welcome team sent by Jingxi City, in addition to officials and clerks from various government committees and bureaus, there were also seven or eight spare drivers. At that time, these drivers walked up to Lin Zhenhua's own car and asked to replace the driver that Hanhua brought.

"Mayor Yu, what does this mean?" Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to ask Yu Ping.

Yu Pingdao: "Mr. Lin, don't get me wrong. This is mainly for your safety. The mountain roads here are too dangerous. Your driver is used to driving on plain roads, so I'm afraid he won't be able to adapt to our roads."

When Yu Ping said this, Lin Zhenhua naturally had no objection, but Hanhua's drivers couldn't hold back their faces.Everyone is playing with the steering wheel. People say that the road is too dangerous, you people can't drive, and we have to come. Isn't this a slap in the face of the Hanhua driver?Some more mature drivers are self-aware and hand over the steering wheel directly.Some younger drivers quit, threatening that they could drive for a while, and if they couldn't drive, it would not be too late to ask colleagues in Jingxi for guidance.

Yu Ping chuckled and led the convoy on the road without forcing it.As soon as they entered the mountain, the drivers of Hanhua were caught blind. There were various steep and sharp turns one after another. slope speed.After driving 180 kilometers, Hanhua's drivers were soaked in hot sweat and had to hand over the car to Jingxilai's driver halfway.

Yu Ping was sitting in Lin Zhenhua's large Toyota off-road vehicle, driven by the city government's best driver, walking in the middle of the convoy.Seeing that Hanhua's drivers were replaced one by one, he laughed and said: "Mr. Lin, let me tell you, our drivers in plain areas can't drive our mountain roads in Jingxi. Even if they have good skills, they can drive Twenty to thirty kilometers is not a big problem, and we can’t bear it if we drive it for a long time. Only our own driver in Jingxi has been driving this kind of road for many years and is used to it.”

"But, it's impossible for everyone to bring a driver from Jingxi to the mountains, right?" Lin Zhenhua said.

"Isn't it?" Yu Ping said, "Mr. Lin, let me tell you a story. Two years ago, China Merchants managed to persuade a boss from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come to our city to invest in building a factory. The boss brought a driver. , drove a big car into the mountain, didn't go far, encountered a sharp bend and couldn't stop the car, so he slammed into the cliff. Fortunately, no one was killed. Later, we sent the big boss to the provincial capital for treatment , he told us: You Jingxi people are really good friends, but unfortunately this road is too difficult to walk. When you repair the road, I will definitely come here and invest 1 million.”

"Yes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. That's right." Lin Zhenhua said, looking at the cliffs and deep ravines on both sides.

"Our people in Jingxi haven't stopped building roads for a day." Yu Ping said, "We made a statistic on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. We have a total population of 220 million in Jingxi. The number of laborers who built bridges and roads reached 50 billion a day, and as many as 10 migrant workers died for road construction. It is their blood and sweat that allows us to have this passage into the mountains.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "After listening to Mayor Yu, I really feel that the responsibility is heavy. Mayor Yu, don't worry, we are here to invest with sincerity, and we will definitely not give up halfway."

"Then I will thank Mr. Lin on behalf of the 220 million people in Jingxi." Yu Ping said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)