1987: Sleepless Tonight

"This man got a lot of benefits by relying on his identity and background, and he wholesaled clothes from Guangdong Province to Jiangcheng. One trip was a carload of clothes, and one car must contain hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothes. Even if You only earn a few cents for one piece, but it can cost tens of thousands of yuan per trip, and there are several families with tens of thousands of yuan."

In fact, before the reform and opening up, the level of the textile industry in Hubei Province was not bad. In 1978, Hubei Province established the Textile Industry Bureau to strengthen the leadership of various units and companies in the textile industry. By the end of the year, the province's textile industry general The output value reached 25 billion yuan, while the total output value of Guangdong Province's textile industry this year was only 13 billion yuan, twice as low as that of Hubei Province.

However, the textile industry includes many categories, such as chemical fiber industry, non-woven industry, knitting industry, wool textile industry, linen textile industry, silk, clothing and other industries.

What most businessmen have access to and are interested in is actually the garment industry, and in this regard, coastal provinces and cities actually have an advantage.

Before the reform and opening up, Guangdong Province was the main province for domestic clothing production and export. Because of its very superior geographical location and close proximity to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, it enjoyed great convenience in clothing trade and other aspects.

Moreover, from 1978 to the present, the policy of reform and opening up has become more and more obvious and stronger. Coupled with the geographical advantages of Guangdong Province, it has always been a city for brand creation and fashionable clothing in the clothing industry, and the export clothing trade has always occupied a leading position. Holding the position of the domestic leader.

If it can be exported, the style and quality of the clothing will definitely be good. When sold to other provinces in the country, especially inland provinces, the competitive advantage of its clothing will be very obvious.

However, not everyone can do this type of business.

"With this relationship, why are you still thinking about Wanjia Department Store? Wouldn't it be more profitable to continue selling clothes?" Li Xuewu shook his head, "I don't know how much easier it is to make money than ordinary people. Ordinary people just want to sell clothes, so they go Not that far away, unfamiliar with the place.”

"First of all, it's so far away and there may be no travel expenses. Secondly, you can't find a clothing factory that can wholesale clothing. It doesn't matter. If you don't have connections, a good clothing factory will not pay attention to you at all. Moreover, you are wholesalers. If you want goods of dozens or hundreds of pieces, it’s too small. These garment factories must find it troublesome and can’t see anyone. Only wholesale orders of thousands or tens of thousands of pieces can see people.”

Li Xuewu used to work in sales at Liji Shopping Mall, so he knows a lot about this aspect.

At this time, there are many self-employed people in the streets and alleys, many of whom are selling clothes, but most of these clothes are produced by Jiangcheng Garment Factory, and they are all produced by small factories.

Competitiveness is actually very poor.

Most of these self-employed traders and small traders who sell clothes are citizens of Jiangcheng, including residents of surrounding suburbs. They do not have the guts to go to other provinces to wholesale clothes. They only dare to wholesale clothes at the nearest clothing factory, and because they are worried about not being able to sell, You will lose money, and your own funds are not that sufficient, so the number of clothes wholesaled each time is actually very limited.

Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to obtain clothing from well-known clothing factories and sell very good clothing factories, let alone wholesale clothing from other places for sale in Jiangcheng.

This is simply not something that a small stall hawker can do. If any small stall hawker can do this, he will definitely make a lot of money.

Meng Shichao used his identity and background to wholesale a large amount of clothing from other places and returned to Jiangcheng. He didn't have to worry about selling it at all. Many large shopping malls and department stores would be very happy to buy from him, and some second-hand clothing vendors, or fairs, would be happy to buy from him. , will be very happy to purchase from him.

There is a long distance between the development of inland provinces and the development of coastal urban provinces. As far as clothing is concerned, there is a big gap in terms of style, fabric, and price.

"It is true that you can make money by doing the clothing business, and Guangdong Province's clothing is also very advantageous. With its policy advantages and geographical advantages, Guangdong Province has formed a national and collective network through the cooperation method of 'three to one supplement' and spontaneous production and management. , private sector, joint ventures and other economic sectors coexist, and cities, towns, and rural areas have a multi-faceted development system." Lu Haodao.

"As long as Guangdong Province's clothing products can be made introspective, you can make money. Meng Shichao has indeed made money, but although Meng Shichao is like other people, he will also get old, sick and die, and he also needs three meals a day, but he But his thoughts are different from ordinary people. If ordinary people can get a salary of 100 yuan a month, they will be very satisfied. They will wake up laughing when they go to bed. They have to support the leader of the unit as their father. But how could Meng Shichao be satisfied? ? Let alone 100 yuan a month, it is impossible for him to be satisfied even with tens of thousands of yuan."

Three-to-one supplement refers to processing with supplied materials, assembly with supplied parts, processing with supplied samples, and compensation trade. This is a domestic policy-based form of enterprise trade.

In his previous life, Lu Hao also sold wholesale clothing from Guangdong Province and made some money.

Other provinces follow the path of imitation when developing clothing, but Guangdong Province, in addition to its policy and geographical advantages, is also inseparable from clothing entrepreneurs and designers.

In the history of the development of the garment industry in Guangdong Province, there have been many outstanding fashion designers, such as Liu Yang, Zhang Zhaoda, Ma Ke, etc. The first two have also won the highest honor for domestic fashion designers, the Golden Summit Award. .

"Everyone is ambitious. For a person like Meng Shichao, who has status, background, and arrogance, his ambition is even greater. When he sees a more profitable business, he will only think about how to get involved in this business and make more money. Money, make more money in an easier way." Lu Hao said.

People are different, including body and mind.

There are two main influencing factors, one is genes, and the other is acquired behavioral habits and experience.

For the body, genes should account for a large part of the factors, while for the mind, acquired knowledge and the surrounding environment are the dominant factors.

Some people are satisfied with three meals a day and some meat occasionally, while others are thinking about how to make more money.

"Brother Hao, you are right. For people like Meng Shichao, ordinary business can no longer meet his needs, and he must want more." Li Xuewu nodded, "But the Wanjia Department Store reconstruction and expansion project in the city is very Pay attention and you will definitely not allow others to mess around.”

"Brother Hao, you said it's useless to invite you to dinner and sit down to talk. Then do you have to say hello to the city leaders and ask them to give him a try to prevent him from causing trouble for us?"