Chapter 244 Profit and Loss
"Well, don't worry about this matter. You might be secretly dating each other in college." Yang Zhenyu waved his hand and said.

"I think it's more practical to find a job. Once the job is confirmed, it will be much easier to find someone to act as a matchmaker." Qin Huairu still shook her head.

"Okay." Yang Zhenyu nodded and said.

Since the mother has said so, what else can Yang Zhenyu say?

This kind of thing is common in rural areas. Many rural parents are unwilling to let their children go to school after junior high school, or even after elementary school.

Because going to school is very expensive.

Even though the tuition and miscellaneous fees are only a few dollars a year, if there are three or four children or even seven or eight children in a family, the pressure on each of them is not small.

After all, these days, in rural areas, there are only a few dozen yuan a year, and it is impossible to use all the money to send children to school.

"For now, the best our factory can do is to maintain the existing workforce and not streamline it. It's hard to say what will happen in the future. I'm afraid it won't be easy to get a job in the factory," Yang Zhenyu said, shaking his head.

"That's indeed the case. Factories in this city are streamlining everywhere. Except for taking up replacement jobs, other times are difficult," He Yuzhu also said.

"Alas, it's not easy to come back after being away for so many years." Qin Huairu said with a wry smile and shook her head.

"There's nothing we can do about it. The situation in our factory is already relatively good. Almost all factories are having a hard time now." Yang Zhenyu shook his head.

"If you ask me, Sister Qin, you should listen to Zhenyu and let Banggeng try first. He doesn't have a job now anyway, so why not sign up first? In case he passes the exam, he will have money to earn and it won't affect his finding a wife." He Yuzhu said.

"Mom, I want to try it." Bang Geng looked up at Qin Huairu and said.

"Okay, let's try it." Qin Huairu said gritting her teeth.

"Brother, you have to work hard. We are not good at studying, so you have to study for us. If we get into university, we will also benefit from it." Xiaodang said.

"That's right, brother, I'm optimistic about you." Huaihua also said.

"Just try it."

In fact, there is no other way. It is not that easy to work right after returning.

Even if it is a job introduction letter issued by the street, it is impossible to arrange the job immediately. The most important thing is to get the person back first.

It is wishful thinking to want to arrange a job immediately. Besides, it is not easy to get a good job.

Of course, it is easy to find jobs for college students, but most of the educated youth who returned to the city only had junior high school or high school education.

"Take a look, our superiors have given us new tasks." Yang Zhizhou said, pointing to the red-headed document on the table.

The others took the red-headed document and started reading it, while Yang Zhizhou sat there slowly drinking tea, waiting for everyone to finish reading the document.

"Are our superiors asking us to work on our own?" Xiang Xuemin said in confusion after putting down the documents.

"It's not working alone, but it's almost the same, we are responsible for our own profits and losses." Yang Zhizhou said with a wry smile. When he went to the department for a meeting, the leader said: Your Red Star Factory is good, you can get orders independently and earn foreign exchange, you can definitely do a pilot project and set an example for other brother factories.

"If it were any other factory, it would be easy to say, but the situation in our factory is different. Other small factories don't have branches and don't have so many people, but our factory is different. With so many people, how do we arrange them?" Wang Xijun said with a bitter face.

"Yes, given the current situation of our factory, if we really have to be self-sufficient, it will be difficult to sustain," Li Xinmin also said.

"This matter is indeed difficult to handle. If we are not careful, our factory will be finished. By then, it won't be a problem of just a few of us, but of the 20,000 or so workers in the factory." Yang Zhizhou was full of helplessness when he said this.

"We still have a few relatively reliable customers now, but in the future, whether it's agricultural machinery or drilling machines, they are not consumables. They are not things that you buy this year and break down next year. I'm afraid the market will soon be saturated, and then our factory will not have so many orders." Li Xinmin said.

"Yes, it can be seen from the orders placed by our cooperating manufacturers this year that the quantity is obviously decreasing, and I don't know when it stopped later." Wang Xijun said.

"If we want to solve this problem, the easiest way is to open up the market again or develop new products, but both of these take time and are impossible to accomplish," said Yang Zhenyu.

"That's true. Moreover, even now, if we want to research new projects, we need approval from our superiors and spend a lot of energy on research and development. This takes a long time, and it's really too late for our factory." Xiang Xuemin nodded.

"So, what we can do now is to use the existing products to get more orders. Only in this way can we stabilize the factory." Yang Zhizhou said.

"There's not much time left until the Canton Fair. This time we'll still participate in the exhibition under the name of the steel rolling mill. When the time comes, I'll have to trouble you, Engineer Yang, to make a trip over here." Yang Zhizhou looked at Yang Zhenyu and said.

"I have no problem." Yang Zhenyu nodded.

In the past two years, Yang Zhenyu personally led the team to participate in the exhibitions. Through several trade fairs, Yang Zhenyu got to know many foreigners.

Of course, there are also many Hong Kong businessmen who are very concerned about the domestic situation and look forward to the opportunity to come back to Dice to do business.

In addition to getting orders, Yang Zhenyu's main goal is to expand his circle of friends.

We are just waiting for the day when the lump sum contract system will be implemented. Then we can start preparing, and it will be a good time to go out and chase the waves.

Of course, the main focus at this time was on the wave of products, such as the advent of personal computers, which had become popular in certain circles.

Moreover, the development of integrated circuits has been extremely rapid in recent years, and Yang Zhenyu also has his own channels to get these things.

Being self-sufficient is only the first step. There will be many more changes later, but no one is sure about it now.

After all, even being responsible for one's own profits and losses in the first step is already very scary in the eyes of many people.

The factory, which has relied on planning for so many years, has become accustomed to planning. When it comes to being responsible for its own profits and losses, many people suddenly don’t know what to do.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of smart people. These people are already waiting and watching, and may jump into the sea at any time.

The same situation is happening at the steel rolling mill. Even though Yang Zhenyu continues to participate in trade fairs, sales are still declining.

After all, all the products of the steel mill are not fast-moving consumer goods. After they are sold out, there will always be a day when they are saturated.

(End of this chapter)