King of Industry

Chapter 2 – Return The Goods

Chapter 2 Returns

As a former successful person, Zhao Guoyang knows that if a company wants to develop, in addition to possessing advanced technology, another important factor is that internal unity must be done well, and there must be no factions or fighting.

There is an old saying that goes well, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, where there are rivers and lakes, there are grievances, and where there are grievances, there are factions.

Hongda Machinery Factory is so big and involves all kinds of interests. Naturally, it is impossible to be monolithic and harmonious.

For Zhao Guoyang, if he wants to gain a firm foothold in Hongda Machinery Factory, he must first understand the interpersonal relationship in the factory. Only in this way can he make fewer low-level mistakes and detours in the initial stage.

While Zhao Guoyang was chatting and thinking wildly, Xu Dongfeng suddenly sighed heavily.

Zhao Guoyang couldn’t help looking at Xu Dongfeng with some doubts, and said, “Dongfeng, why are you sighing, do you have no money to buy cigarettes again?”

“No, no!” Xu Dongfeng waved his hands again and again.

“Hey, Guoyang, smoking is a small matter, the key is the cooperation project between our factory and Siyang Group, it seems to be yellow…”

“Yellow, what’s going on?” After hearing Xu Dongfeng’s lament, Zhao Guoyang couldn’t help asking immediately.

The cooperation agreement between the factory and the Siyang Group reached last month, he has some impressions in his mind.

Although Hongda Machinery Factory is a well-known enterprise in Ninghai City, it is only a drop in the ocean when looking at the whole country, and the Siyang Group in Nanyue Province is nothing short of remarkable.

This is a super large enterprise with Siyang brand motorcycle as its main product, integrating industry, science, trade and agriculture, and operating across regions, industries, ownerships and transnationals.

Its core enterprise, China Siyang Group Co., Ltd., is one of the earliest motorcycle manufacturers in China, with a history of more than ten years.

Its leading products now include Mulan, Siyang, White Shark and other four series of more than 20 varieties of motorcycles, which are deeply loved by consumers from all walks of life.

Especially the “Mulan” brand scooter produced by Siyang Group, because of its small and exquisite appearance, high quality and low price, it has become popular all over the country in recent years, leading the way.

To be able to cooperate with such a large enterprise, for Hongda Machinery Factory, it is definitely luck and climbing a high branch.

In fact, Zhao Guoyang also knew in his heart that the cooperation between the two companies was actually just wishful thinking by the leaders of Hongda Machinery Factory.

In the eyes of the Siyang Group, Hongda Machinery Factory can only be regarded as a candidate supporting factory at best, and it is still early before the actual contract is signed, and the horoscope has not yet been written.

This time, Ma Jian, the deputy director in charge of sales, went to Qizhou City, the capital of southern Guangdong Province, to fight for supporting products for Siyang Group this time. He persisted for a whole month. Requests are hard-won opportunities.

With the further acceleration of the current pace of reform and opening up, the life of Hongda Machinery Factory is not easy. The same type of private enterprises have emerged in neighboring counties and cities, and the market competition they are facing is becoming increasingly severe.

Under such circumstances, the factory naturally attaches great importance to the cooperation with Siyang Group this time.

Even Zhao Guoyang, a fledgling college graduate, was forced to go on the shelf and took on some technical tasks.

Now that I heard that something went wrong with the cooperation between the factory and the Siyang Group, Zhao Guoyang can’t sit still.

He immediately patted Xu Dongfeng on the shoulder and said, “Dongfeng, I’m fine. It’s a waste of time to stay in the hospital. Let’s go back to the factory and find out the details!”

“But?” Xu Dongfeng was a little slow to react, he opened his mouth wide and didn’t know what to say.

“What else is there! Let’s go back to the factory!” Zhao Guoyang waved his hand and made a decision directly.

…

In the welding workshop of Hongda Machinery Factory, a group of workers in gray overalls were arguing loudly around a group.

Standing in the middle of the crowd was the factory director Mu Aijun who had visited Zhao Guoyang before.

“Director, you have to let our technical department decide this matter!” A middle-aged man with short hair and a simple and honest appearance complained repeatedly.

“We and the sales department have spoken beforehand. When they proposed to supply motorcycle frames to Siyang Group, we were worried that our factory’s welding process might not meet other people’s standards. It turned out that our worries were not true. Wrong, now the first batch of frames sent out has really been returned.”

While talking, the middle-aged man turned his head to look at the man in the dark brown suit next to Mu Aijun, and said angrily: “Our technical department has raised the difficulty early on, and the sales department also said that as long as we try our best, we can solve the problem.” That’s fine. It’s good now, but something went wrong, and Deputy Factory Manager Ma forgot the previous promise in a blink of an eye…”

“Old Wang, what are you talking about? The comrades in the sales department and I have worked so hard and licked our faces to get such a big order. Now that there is a problem with the quality, is it wrong for us?” Ma Jian, who was blushing from the other party’s argument, had just subsided a little at this time, and raised his neck after listening to the other party’s words.

Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel again, the factory manager Mu Aijun could only stand up and be a peacemaker: “Okay, old Ma, Lao Wang, stop arguing, it’s useless even if you keep arguing until dawn, can you?” Solve the problem?”

Mu Aijun is usually very dignified in the factory, and what he said is full of words, even the two deputy factory directors dare not make more rebuttals.

Ma Jian was born in sales, and he is quite clever. After hearing what Mu Aijun said, he obediently stopped talking.

“Yes, factory director…but…” On the other side, although Wang Youchang, the deputy factory director in charge of technology, wanted to distinguish a few words, he didn’t know where to start, so he could only blushed and sulked aside.

Mu Aijun glanced at the welded frame surrounded by everyone, his brows tightened, he sighed deeply, and shook his head helplessly.

The first cooperation plan between Hongda Machinery Factory and Siyang Group is to supply the “Little Mulan” motorcycle frame for it.

Now the first batch of completed frames has been returned by the other party, which is not a small loss.

More importantly, this unqualified incident is likely to become a crack in the cooperation between the two companies. Whether Siyang Group will let Hongda Machinery Factory do supporting production in the future is a question mark.

After all, Hongda Group is not the only one that can produce “Little Mulan” frame supporting factories. They have as many as three or four supporting factories across the country.

The reason why the other party was willing to choose Hongda Machinery Factory as its supporting manufacturer was because the price offered by Hongda Machinery Factory was really low; There was really no other way, so I had to promise him to let them try it out.

But now, the cooperation has just begun, and they have encountered major problems.

The first batch of 100 frames produced by Hongda Machinery Factory was returned by Siyang Group on the grounds that the quality was not up to standard, and there were problems such as “incomplete penetration” and “air holes”.

The Siyang Group made it very clear, that is, if the Hongda Machinery Factory’s batch of frames cannot be reworked within their limited time and meet the specified requirements, the cooperation plan will be terminated.

Now that a crisis has emerged, everyone including Mu Aijun, Ma Jian, and Wang Youchang, the three factory leaders, are helpless and don’t know what to do.

(end of this chapter)