Chapter 88 Li Ansheng has finally grown up (13)

As the two machines were transported to Taiping Town.

After a day of simple debugging, Su Mingzhe announced that the food processing plant could officially start production.

Father Lin was also full of enthusiasm. With a wave of his hand, more than 20 relatives and friends who had signed employee contracts started working at full capacity.

Soon, the aroma of spicy chips and spicy strips began to waft over the Lin family's home.

The next day, Su Mingzhe, with the "student workers" recruited from a nearby university, began frantically promoting "spicy slices" and "spicy strips" in front of the gates of all the primary and secondary schools in the city.

Foods like 'spicy slices' and 'spicy strips' are really down-to-earth.

Without the middlemen to make a profit, the retail price in stores and supermarkets is only 20 cents a pack.

This is very conscientious.

With the strong push of student workers, the factories in Taiping Town showed a trend of supply exceeding demand in less than three days.

Father Lin didn't expect that the thing Su Mingzhe made would be so popular in the market.

In early December, seeing that business was booming, Su Mingzhe immediately asked Lin's father to expand the scale of production.

At the same time, Su Mingzhe also began to ask Lu Youguang to contact Lao Meng to customize twenty machines again.

The scale increased tenfold in an instant.

The Lin family’s yard can no longer accommodate it.

Fortunately, Su Mingzhe had already told Lin's father that the homesteads applied for by other employees could be leased to the company in exchange for collective shares.

As more than 20 employees reported the situation to the township leaders, the leaders of Taiping Town approved a ten-acre land for the construction of a processing plant in accordance with everyone's wishes.

The quick approval of this application document was also due to several guarantees from Su Mingzhe.

First of all, these ten acres of land are used as construction land for the processing plant, but they still belong to collective ownership.

Su Mingzhe took out 30% of the shares of the processing plant, not to buy land, but to lease land.

Township leaders do not have to worry about being held accountable and questioned by higher authorities over issues of land ownership.

Secondly, Su Mingzhe promised that the processing plant he founded would recruit no less than two hundred local workers.

The processing plant solved the problem of 200 surplus laborers at one go, which was a major achievement of the township leaders.

The new factory was built quickly and two hundred workers were trained intensively.

As Tianlong Food's business is booming, the newly recruited "student worker" salesmen have signed formal employee contracts with the company.

According to the company's reward mechanism, student workers receive a commission of one cent for each bag sold, but there is no basic salary.

After signing the employee contract, although the commission remained unchanged, an additional basic salary of 80 yuan was added each month.

In the era when college students were still guaranteed jobs, these student workers originally just wanted to do odd jobs to earn their living expenses.

It was also after seeing the very promising prospects of spicy chips and spicy strips that these college students finally made up their minds to follow Su Mingzhe and continue to do it.

Thanks to the promotion efforts of these student workers, the popularity of Suzhou City is quickly spreading to surrounding cities.

The sales plan formulated by Su Mingzhe and Lu Youguang was to build a name for the company around the school and ignite the national market through the student group.

In order to protect the market from being copied.

Su Mingzhe also registered various trademarks in one go, including "spicy slices", "spicy strips" and "spicy shreds".

The recipes of various spicy strips and slices have all been patented.

In a blink of an eye, December passed by in a busy manner.

The Tianlong Food Processing Factory in Taiping Town has expanded to more than 200 workers, but the market demand is still in short supply.

In 96, New Year’s Day had just passed.

Su Mingzhe did some statistics and found that the company's current production scale is 300,000 bags per day, which is the limit for more than 200 workers working in two shifts.

The sales team receives orders every day, which requires a daily supply of more than 500,000 packs.

In order to suppress the emergence of copycat competitors, Su Mingzhe set the profit of each pack of spicy strips very low. After deducting the visible operating costs such as material costs, transportation costs, labor costs, etc., the gross profit was only five cents.

According to the financial statement data, the production of 300,000 packs of spicy strips every day can earn a gross profit of more than 10,000 yuan.

Workers' wages, salespersons' commissions, etc. must also be deducted from this.

The actual net profit is probably only about one or two thousand yuan.

Apart from the Finance Department, only the big boss Su Mingzhe knows these financial details.

To outsiders, Tianlong Food is like a brand new money-eating beast, attracting countless people's attention.

Countless people began to turn their attention to the Tianlong Processing Plant in Taiping Town.

Only Su Mingzhe understands that Tianlong Food is actually playing with fire and getting burned.

The labor cost is too high.

So, after New Year's Day, Su Mingzhe contacted Lao Meng and asked him to contact the master of the machinery factory to help customize a more efficient assembly line production machine.

According to Su Mingzhe's estimation, these new assembly line machines can increase production efficiency tenfold or even a hundredfold.

In late January, the machinery factory provided a new price list for assembly line production machines.

According to the current scale of workers in the processing plant, the assembly line machinery and equipment newly developed by the machinery factory only needs six sets, and the production efficiency of eight hours can match the current production efficiency of twenty-two sets of machines working in two shifts.

The number of devices is reduced to one-quarter and the time is reduced to one-third.

If we work in three shifts based on the current number of workers, customize six new sets of assembly line equipment, and have more than 200 production workers, we can triple production efficiency.

"Sure enough, technology is the primary productive force."

Su Mingzhe did not hesitate and directly placed a contract for six sets of equipment.

After receiving the order, Lao Meng urged the machine factory to produce quickly. By February, the factory had completed the replacement of the assembly line equipment, and the production efficiency increased threefold.

However, workers' working hours have been reduced by one third.

The Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and this treatment is good news.

It was February of 96.

Before the winter vacation, Su Mingzhe returned to school to study for a few days and took the final exams.

“Thanks to this era, news reporting is still very delayed.”

Su Mingzhe founded Tianlong Food Company. Because he always hid in the background, he was not the one who made the decisions in the establishment of the company or the factory.

So, although Tianlong Food was in great turmoil, when he returned to school, few people knew about his glorious deeds.

The classmates at school are still very curious about where Su Mingzhe went and what he did during the more than two months he was away.

Su Mingzhe just dealt with it casually.

These students are all energetic young people.

The final exams are coming soon, and I still have the mood to pay attention to how Su Mingzhe has been doing over the past two months.

I don’t know if these guys will continue to be in such a good mood after the final exams.

Soon, the final exam was over.

Su Mingzhe felt that it was impossible to get full marks in all subjects, but he could guarantee full marks in five or six subjects.

When it comes to exams, some are happy while others are sad.

Su Mingzhe doesn't care about his own grades, but he pays special attention to his girlfriend Li Ansheng's studies.

Before the holiday, Su Mingzhe used his connections to get Li Ansheng's results in advance.

I did quite well in the exam. I scored over 700 points out of 900 in eight subjects.

(There was no biology class in the first year of high school at that time, only eight subjects: Chinese, mathematics, English, history, geography, politics, chemistry, and physics)
This result is considered to be at the upper level.

During the winter vacation, Su Mingzhe was still busy with work during the day and did not go to Li Ansheng's house at night.

After all, the Spring Festival is coming soon, and it’s a bit inappropriate to continue living in my girlfriend’s house.

I spent a lively and happy Spring Festival with my family.

After the Spring Festival, it is March.

As the taste of spicy strips and slices of various flavors spread, they have gradually become a new snack around Suzhou City.

At this time, Lu Youguang personally took action and started negotiations with several large supermarkets, hoping to be able to sell spicy chips in their supermarkets.

At this time, the production scale of the production workshop has rapidly increased from the original 300,000 or 400,000 bags to more than 2 million bags.

This is the case when the production scale has not been fully liberalized.

The scale of production has expanded.

The sales team has to work overtime again.

Simply having the sales team radiate to the cities surrounding Suzhou is no longer enough to meet the company's expansion pace.

However, if the sales team wants to continue to expand, it seems that Su Mingzhe, the big boss, has to continue to hide in the back and give orders, but he is unable to do so.

The business is too big, with production department, sales team, transportation team, finance and accounting, the total number of employees exceeds 500.

In the entire company, the only people who have a say are Su Mingzhe, Lu Youguang, and Lin Qiyue's father Lin Tao.

(Lin Qiyue’s father now has a name.)
Late March.

When Chen Xiaofang got home from get off work, she saw her daughter lying in Su Mingzhe's arms watching TV, and she couldn't help but cough lightly.

"Auntie is back."

Su Mingzhe pushed Li Ansheng awkwardly. This girl didn't even know to say hello when she saw her biological mother coming home.

Li Ansheng felt that her intimacy with her boyfriend was interrupted, so naturally she would not give her mother a good look.

However, even though Su Mingzhe had already signaled, Li Ansheng still rolled his eyes and said hello.

"Mom, you're back."

"Well, don't you have class today?"

Chen Xiaofang looked at her watch. It was only 4:30 in the afternoon and today was not the weekend. Why did her daughter skip classes again?
"Auntie, Ansheng has a stomachache, so I asked her to take a day off to rest."

Su Mingzhe was too embarrassed to say that the little girl Li Ansheng had finally grown up.

They are all in their prime years, young girls, and then they become girls in their blooming years.

This development is indeed a bit late.

Chen Xiaofang didn't react for a moment. When she heard that her daughter was not feeling well, she hurried over, reached out to touch her daughter's forehead, and asked nervously: "Do you have a stomachache? Do you have a fever? Have you been to the hospital?"

"Ahem, mom, I'm fine, it's just that my period has come."

Li Ansheng is still a carefree person. Anyway, all her sanitary pads were bought for her by her boyfriend.

My biological mother is not an outsider, so I can just say some things directly.

When Chen Xiaofang heard this, she smiled awkwardly.

It turns out that my daughter has grown up.

Chen Xiaofang felt that there were some things she needed to talk to her daughter about, so she pulled her daughter to the bedroom upstairs, leaving Su Mingzhe alone to continue watching TV.

(End of this chapter)