Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

  Chapter 15 Please Drink

  Li Weidong and Zhao Hu walked out of the electric gate of Red Star Rubber Factory, and neither of them spoke.

   "What should I do if people don't return the goods to us?" Zhao Hu broke the silence first.

"This is normal. How can a company like Red Star Factory return the goods so easily?" Li Weidong paused, and then said: "Go back to the guest house first. I remember there is a long-distance call in the guest house. "

   "You have to call Director Cui to report on the situation." Zhao Hu nodded.

  "Who said I was going to call Director Cui." Li Weidong looked at Dongfang, and then said, "This call is for Volkswagen."

   "Volkswagen? Is that the joint venture company with the Germans?" Zhao Hu asked in surprise.

  "Do you still know Volkswagen!" Li Weidong asked a little surprised.

   "Nonsense, I also read the newspaper every day." Zhao Hu gave Li Weidong a white look, and then asked: "What are you calling Volkswagen for?"

  Li Weidong smiled mysteriously: "You will know then. By the way, you have to come with me to make this long-distance call."

   "Why?" Zhao Hu asked puzzled.

   "Director Cui said, one person is private and the two are public. You have to prove to me that I am making this long-distance call for official business, and I will have to find Director Cui to reimburse the telephone bill at that time." Li Weidong said.

  ...

  Transportation company is doing business from north to south, so in the guest house of the transportation company, there must be a long-distance call line, but it was more expensive to make long-distance calls at that time, and extra charges were required.

  Through the post and telecommunications office, Li Weidong inquired about the telephone number of the production office of SAIC Santana.

  I saw Li Weidong using a very standard Mandarin, and said into the receiver: "Hello, hello, is it SAIC? Is it the Santana production office? This is the Red Star Rubber Factory in Pingzhou!"

   Next to him, Zhao Hu looked at Li Weidong with a surprised look. He didn't understand why Li Weidong would pretend to be the Red Star Factory.

  However, there was no caller ID in that era. Li Weidong said that he was a Red Star Factory, and the other party could not verify it.

  I heard Li Weidong continue to say: "I heard that German engineers tested the parts produced by our factory, and the test results were unqualified? I wonder if this happened?"

   "What? Really unqualified? There is such a thing! Even if it is unqualified, we must give our factory a written notice!"

   "The written notice has been sent? It has been sent for several days? Okay, thank you. I will check it with the post office."

   hung up, Li Weidong dialed the Pingzhou Post Office.

  "Hello, hello, I am from Red Star Rubber Factory. I want to check if there is a letter from our factory. It was sent by SAIC Motor. This letter is very important."

   "Yes, a postman has been sent to deliver the letter! Okay, thank you, then I will go to the reception room to have a look."

  Li Weidong put down the phone and let out a sigh, everything was just as he expected.

Zhao Hu next to    had a dumbfounded look. He asked, "Why do you pretend to be a member of the Red Star Factory?"

  "In order to find out some news." Li Weidong said with a relieved expression: "Tomorrow we will go to the Red Star Factory again."

   "What are you going to do?" Zhao Hu still looked puzzled.

   "Of course I went to return the goods." Li Weidong replied.

   Zhao Hu shook his head: "They will not return the goods today, but they will return it tomorrow?"

   "Don't worry, they will definitely return the goods tomorrow." Li Weidong changed his voice, and then asked, "How is your drinking capacity?"

  "Half a catty of liquor is fine." Zhao Hu replied honestly.

   "That's good, let Red Star Factory invite us to drink at noon tomorrow! You can drink more then." Li Weidong said.

  ...

In 1984, the Sino-German joint venture agreement to establish SAIC Volkswagen was signed, but SAIC Volkswagen was really established in early 1985. Before that, Santana was still produced by SAIC.

   Said to be production, in fact it is assembly. Parts imported from Germany, SAIC's masters put together a car with a hammer and wrench.

  At that time, the localization rate of Santana was only 2.7%. Among the tens of thousands of parts of the whole vehicle, only tires, radios, horns, antennas and small signs could be made domestically.

  In addition, there are some parts, after some process improvements, they can also meet the production requirements of Poussin. For example, some rubber parts, such as windshield wipers, car window sealing strips, etc., do not involve very advanced production processes. They can be produced at the level of China's technology.

As a result, Poussin’s production began to replace the road of localization. After all, at the time, the country’s foreign exchange was tight, and there was not so much foreign exchange to import auto parts. For every Poussin’s parts localized, the country could save a fortune. .

  Red Star Rubber Factory, as a national second-level enterprise, has completed military production tasks many times and undertook the Poussin localization project, naturally doing its part.

  For Red Star Rubber Factory, providing parts for Poussin's localization is not only an increase in business, but also a political task. For state-owned enterprises of this level, political tasks must be paid attention to 120%.

  Red Star Factory immediately produced several parts samples and sent them to SAIC for testing by German engineers. In the end, a few really barely met Poussin's production requirements. So the Red Star Factory immediately ran full power and produced a batch of parts, which were sent to SAIC for use in Poussin's production.

  For the leaders of the Red Star Factory, being able to provide parts and components for Poussin's localization is definitely a dazzling achievement, which is enough to brag about by the Ministry of Machinery Industry.

  However, what Red Star Factory did not expect was that their mass-produced parts were regarded as unqualified by German engineers!

  This incident was eventually reported as a negative example. At that time, the substandard parts produced by the Red Star Factory also included the batch of gaskets and aprons used by Qinghe Transportation Company.

  Li Weidong was deducted three months of bonus for this incident, so he has a deep memory of the ins and outs of this incident.

  Now through several phone calls, Li Weidong has confirmed that a written notice of unqualified parts has been sent to Red Star Rubber Factory.

  ...

  The next day, Li Weidong and Zhao Hu came to the Red Star Rubber Factory again.

  When passing by the guard, Li Weidong took the initiative to place a cigarette on the ground. The guard saw that it was the two boys who had been here yesterday, and did not ask much, so he let it go straight after he took the cigarette.

  Li Weidong and Zhao Hu came to the door of the sales office again and waited all morning.

  When it was about to get off work at noon, Li Weidong and Zhao Hu finally walked into the sales office.

  "Why are you two here again? Didn't we, Section Chief Liu, say that it is impossible to return the goods." The clerk in the sales office was very impressed by Li Weidong.

  Li Weidong hurriedly handed over the cigarette, and said: "Comrade, I would like to trouble you to find Chief Liu for me again. We have important issues to find him."

  The clerk hesitated. He wanted to reject Li Weidong, but he was afraid that Li Weidong and Section Chief Liu would only see an unseen deal, so he still called Liu Xueqin.

  After a while, Liu Xueqin pushed the door in, and saw Li Weidong and the other two impatiently repeating the words just now: "Why are you here again? Didn't I say it yesterday? Return is impossible!"

   "Chief Liu, I heard that Red Star Factory has also participated in the Santana localization project?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

  "Your news is very well-informed." Liu Xueqin nodded proudly: "Yes, the localization of Santana is a national key project. There are very few companies that can participate, and our factory is one of them."

   "I also heard that the quality of your factory's products was substandard and was returned by a German engineer from SAIC!" Li Weidong said with a smile like an old fox.

   Liu Xueqin's face changed suddenly: "How did you know?"

  As a middle-level cadre of Red Star Rubber Factory, Liu Xueqin also attended an emergency meeting when he was about to get off work yesterday afternoon, only to realize that the product quality was substandard. As for ordinary employees, I still don't know.

  However, the young man from other places in front of him knew that the products of Red Star Factory were returned by German engineers, which made Liu Xueqin very puzzled.

  Li Weidong replied calmly: "Our company is on the SAIC side, and we have some personal connections."

   "That's how it is!" Liu Xueqin nodded suddenly with a sudden realization.

  State-owned enterprises are in the era of droughts and floods to guarantee income. There is almost no pressure of competition, and personal connections have become extremely important resources. There are many things that cannot be done with money, and even if the higher-level leaders say something, the following will be violated. But finding a relationship through the back door can be done easily.

  Li Weidong’s sentence “relevant” can explain all of Liu Xueqin’s questions, and Liu Xueqin has not been able to ask in detail what the relationship is.

Next to   , Zhao Hu swallowed with some guilty conscience. He knew the basics of Li Weidong, and of course he understood that Li Weidong was completely slanderous.

  Li Weidong continued: “Actually, I know a little about why your products were judged as unqualified by SAIC.”

   "Really?" Liu Xueqin was surprised at first, and immediately asked: "Why are our products judged as substandard by SAIC?"

  Li Weidong just smiled without speaking.

  Liu Xueqin understood it instantly, and a smile appeared on his face: "The two comrades are here to return the goods, it’s a trivial matter. You just come to me and I will handle the return for you right away."

   "Thank you, Chief Liu." Li Weidong said, handing Zhao Hu a look, and Zhao Hu immediately took out the receipt of the purchase from his arms.

  Liu Xueqin personally checked the receipt, and then contacted the accounting office of the Red Star Factory to handle the return of the goods to Li Weidong.

Soon after the formalities were completed, Liu Xueqin asked again: "Comrade, when you pull the goods, you can go to the accounting office to collect the money after we have checked it. Can you tell me now why SAIC is there? What went wrong?"

  "SAIC is not to blame for this. It is indeed that your products have quality problems." Li Weidong paused, and then said: "As far as I know, the problem should be the raw materials."

   "There is a problem with the raw materials?" Liu Xueqin frowned, the answer was too broad.

Li Weidong deliberately looked at the wall clock on the wall, and then said: "It will be more complicated to say specifically. It is already noon, and it’s time for dinner. If Chief Liu doesn’t dislike it, I will invite you for lunch and we will eat. Talk."

  "How can you spend money! I'll invite this meal." Liu Xueqin immediately ordered: "Go and inform the company's guest house, saying that I want to entertain customers and let them prepare a table of good wine and food."

Next to   , Zhao Hu touched his stomach, and said in his heart that Red Star Factory really wants to drink!

  　 There are more than 6,000 words in two chapters today. The public period is so much more. It’s sincere enough to pass the test. Don’t be stingy if you have recommended votes. Thank you very much.

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