Chapter 89 Introduced Sorrow
Just after Duan Haicheng left in anger, Du Jingnan stepped forward to discuss a specific response plan with Duan Yitian: "Brother, how should we deal with this matter?"
"What else can I do? The factories are running more and more. Who doesn't like the white silver dollars? This kind of thing can't be stopped. The members of the chamber of commerce have put pressure on me. If I can't squeeze out other people's share, I will probably be unable to sit firmly as the president." Fang Zheng's big face twisted together, revealing the haggardness and uneasiness in Duan Yitian's heart.
Du Jingnan naturally knew about the open and secret struggles of the Chamber of Commerce, but he had to remind Duan Yitian: "If the confrontation is carried out, I am afraid that the problem will be very troublesome. In the past, we did not understand technology and were controlled by foreigners. Now we still do not understand technology and will inevitably be controlled by Chen Ze. If we turn against each other rashly, we have no chance of winning at all."
"What's going on? Didn't we also raise a group of technicians?" Du Jingnan was responsible for the specific operation details and personnel management of the factory. Duan Yitian was busy dealing with the internal affairs of the Chamber of Commerce and the formulation of business strategies. He was not clear about technical issues, so he had this question.
Du Jingnan: "I don't know anything else, just take machine failures as an example. If there are small problems, our technicians can also eliminate them by themselves, but once they encounter a major problem, they must invite technicians from Tianyu Technology. We have a headache just for daily maintenance, not to mention improving production technology. The technicians we hired are all made by Tianyu Technology, which is simply useless."
Duan Yitian: "Will you not spend money to dig a few people to Chen Ze?"
Du Jingnan could only smile bitterly when asked about this question: "Brother, all we can invite are miscellaneous fish, and we can't invite real high-level technical talents at all. Those technical talents were trained by the school run by Chen Ze himself, and they all have high salaries and high benefits, so we can't afford that kind of treatment."
"How high is it?" Duan Yitian really doesn't believe this. In his eyes, how good can he give the people below? A skilled worker with some skills will give him more than 5 to 6 silver dollars a month, that's the best!
"Thirty percent of the red flowers." With a sad face, Du Jingnan could only tell the truth to Duan Yitian.
After learning the truth, Duan Yitian didn't say anything more. As one of the top Chinese businessmen in this era, he and Du Jingnan have never lacked wisdom. Other national capitalists are still the same, smart and smart, with great power and wealth, but they lack technology. The most fatal thing is that they do not have an effective independent technology research and development system. For factories, what they like most is to introduce technology, which can be introduced, but in the end they are still in vain.
It has not been widely used to pay 30% of the shares to technicians in this era. Due to the factors of business inertia, capitalists are still not very enthusiastic about technology research and development. Compared to increasing the wages of technicians to improve productivity, capitalists prefer to reduce costs, because the former is illusory, while the latter is real profit. The economic crisis has not yet truly profoundly affected the industrial system of the entire world, and the urgent need for technology research and development has not yet begun.
In the years of business ups and downs, Duan Yitian and Du Jingnan have faced such a difficult situation for the first time. With Tianyu Technology's current strength, even if it joins hands with the Huo family, the richest Chinese family, it is impossible for the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce to squeeze out the huge profits brought by the factory. But the problem is that the pure agricultural product trade can no longer satisfy their appetites after trying out the huge profits.
Think about it, opening a factory is much easier than selling raw materials by traveling to merchants, especially in this era of warlords. The checkpoints and bandits in various places are everywhere, and they must be managed inside and outside, otherwise the channels will not be smooth. Moreover, the market prices are often controlled by the chaebols of the great powers, with severe fluctuations and unreliable sources of profits.
How can I compare to opening a factory?
On this acre of three-point land in Guangzhou, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is really not afraid of anyone coming to make things difficult for the situation. As long as you sit there safely and wait for the machines to keep running, silver dollars float into their pockets like snowflakes. What a pleasant thing! Because of this, national capitalists like Duan Yitian and others are so keen on opening factories, everything is due to interests.
The nature of businessmen is to pursue profits, and they keep wanting more! Don’t underestimate their wisdom and overall situation. Even if there are no more business war theories in later generations, in this era, they have naturally understood the concept of market capacity.
In order to make more profits, they kept opening new factories, but due to the limitation of the total economic volume, their products became unsalable. In order to solve the problem of product squeezing, they tried to explore overseas markets, but due to the lack of an independent marine logistics system, the overseas sales profit of products is too low, which is completely unequal to the risk of being too high.
Therefore, their hostile eyes were staring at the original vassal enterprise "Tianyu Technology". Even if Zhong Yang did not choose to start a war, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce would use them sooner or later. Both sides opened many the same production factories and adopted the same technology. When the market gradually saturated, the fierce collision began. What merchants could not bear the most was not the decrease in profits, but the inability to increase profits!
The other members of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce were not as real as Du Jingnan saw. They naively thought that Chen Ze could submit with just a little force. They never thought that the other party had grown up long ago and was a force that could be on par with them. Even Du Jingnan had already felt that an invisible big hand was slowly closing, tightening the neck of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce. The feeling of being technically clamped was almost suffocating.
Duan Yitian and Duan Jingnan had known about Chen Ze and his team of contacts with the law team and the Hong Kong accounting audit firm, so they analyzed the other party's intentions, which made them feel a headache. Not only Chen Ze's pressing step by step, but also oppression from other aspects. At least Chen Jiongming and Sun Yat-sen are supporting Tianyu Technology and Xinghua Chamber of Commerce. The upper class of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce has already felt the fact that they are isolated.
Although in this era, the living environment where the lower class people have no human rights, in the upper class, the law still works. At least when the strength levels of both sides are similar, in order to avoid losing both sides, law is usually used as the main means to solve the problem. This is actually the same in any era. Only the strong and the strong can reason with harmony.
Duan Yitian had never thought of using violent means to solve this problem, but as one of the local local snakes, he had a very good news. Someone had reported to him secretly that Chen Ze and Chen Jiongming had opened an arms manufacturing plant together. Although they only produced some rifles, submachine guns and small-caliber infantry cannons, that was also arms!
Because of his strength, he is proud, but it does not mean that Duan Yitian is stupid. He is very clear about the importance of what kind of goods arms are. Although the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce also has its own business group armed forces, those weapons and equipment were finally bought at a high price, so how can they be compared with independent production! For Chen Jiongming and the Guangdong Army, Chen Ze and Tianyu Technology are indispensable, and the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is just a small problem that is difficult to deal with. Compared with the smooth progress of arms production, it is not impossible to solve the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce.
Duan Yitian has not talked to Chen Ze about cooperation in producing arms, but the other party rejected it in the name of the military government.
The Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is a domineering force in Guangzhou, and no one dares to provoke easily. It does not mean that no one can provoke them. If the military government does not dislike the trouble, it will not be difficult to remove a certain business group. If it were not for fear of destroying the stability of the regional economy and the harmony of social and people's livelihood, the private armed forces would have been eliminated long ago. It is because Chen Jiongming did not want to be a violent ruler and could endure these things. After all, his ideal is to develop Guangdong and realize national autonomy, rather than plundering localities and excluding dissidents.
But if someone dares to flirt with tiger beards and interfere in the arms production business, then he will be impatient. Chen Ze can cooperate with Chen Jiongming's Guangdong army with excellent weapons production technology, but what can the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce provide for the Guangdong army? Money can buy officers, but the supply of weapons can control the entire army. Although there has not been any public statement yet, several real bigwigs in Guangzhou already know that Tianyu Technology Company has been designated as the main arms supplier of the Guangdong army. This means that both Chen Jiongming and the entire Guangdong army plan to support Chen Ze.
Just as the news came, Duan Yitian and Du Jingnan both understood that their situation was gone. The Guangdong Chamber of Commerce had no other way to go except to bow its head and admit defeat. Instead of being covered in dust at that time, it would be better to admit defeat now.
The spring night wind blew in Duan's mansion, the room was filled with fragrance and warmth everywhere. But Duan, who was sitting in the living room, did not realize that business matters made them feel a little discouraged than the pleasant weather. The foundation that had been built for decades of hard work had to bow to several juniors. How could the two people who had been in the business world have a good mood?
But no matter how unwilling or angry they are, for the benefit of the Chamber of Commerce, they have to lower their proud heads in exchange for the opportunity to continue to cooperate.
After thinking about this knot, Duan Yitian smiled bitterly and felt relieved: "Jingnan, just bow to Chen Ze. He chased geese all day long, but he didn't want to be blinded by geese today. Do you think we are old and are fooled by a group of young people without knowing it."
Seeing Duan Yitian's expression was bleak and seemed to retreat, Du Jingnan had to hurriedly persuade: "Brother, don't have this idea. If you think about it carefully, we just lost to the word "introduction"!"
"Oh, Jingnan, do you have any ideas? Tell me quickly!" His words were urgent and sincere. Duan Yitian was brave and courageous, and he was generous and majestic to others. Therefore, he was able to go from the shopkeeper to the president of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce. But if anyone in the association had the most vision and wisdom, it was Du Jingnan!
Du Jingnan sorted out his thoughts and then slowly expressed some of his thoughts: "Brother, we have always been focused on money, only knowing how to make profits and expand production. In the end, we have nothing but money. Technology is introduced, production management is introduced, and even the internal operation of the company is introduced from Chen Ze. Apart from the collection of raw materials and the sales of products, there is nothing we can do ourselves!"
After hearing this, Duan Yitian came to his senses. As Du Jingnan said, without his own technology, blindly relying on introduction is not a long-term solution. Cultivating his own technical talents and developing his own R&D system will cost a lot of money, but that is a down-to-earth development.
"You mean, how do we do it, how do we do it?" I understand, but Duan Yitian still had some questions after all, after all, there was no precedent in this kind of thing before.
"I have carefully investigated the internal structure of Tianyu Technology Company. It is nothing more than cooperating with the school and cultivating technical talents with high salaries. With the strength of the Chamber of Commerce, we can do this. Although technology research and development costs a lot of money, the profit is also very generous. Brother, look at Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang, who came to Guangzhou empty-handedly, and have also earned a family business. Now they are on par with us and are a hero."
"Okay, just do it according to your ideas, but don't worry about this matter, you can only take it slowly. The most urgent thing is to contact Chen Ze and see what conditions he has. Reconciliation is a must, and the interests of the Chamber of Commerce cannot be lost because of such a thing."
After making these decisions, Duan Yitian completely relaxed his body and mind, and his original fatigue was revealed on his face. Looking at Duan Yitian's tired expression, Du Jingnan could only sigh. It would be much better to show his fatigue than to hold everything in his heart. Besides, this incident was not all bad, at least it made them understand the importance of technology. As businessmen of this era, they found that there was a broader future waiting for them not far ahead!
Another Chinese national capitalist has chosen to keep up with the world.
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