Rebirth 80: Start by earning money to build a brick house

At the same time, the Mingxin clothing store located in Min'an County also opened smoothly under the collective management of the Bottle Village team.

As for sales, of course they are not as good as Jinchang Second Store.

However, county branches are strategic entities and cannot be judged solely on current sales.

Zhang Ziming doesn't care how the county branch will develop. This is not Zhang Ziming's current focus.

In the following time, Zhang Ziming has three important things to do.

First, it is necessary to purchase second-hand machines that have been retired from some state-owned garment factories, such as heat sealing machines, interlining machines, steam ironing machines and other equipment.

Mingxin Garment Factory needs to upgrade to shorten the production process and improve work efficiency by optimizing cutting, sewing, sewing, sewing, ironing, packaging and other aspects.

The current Mingxin Garment Factory can only be regarded as a larger workshop.

The road to mechanization and modernization must be taken step by step.

We have contacted two state-owned garment factories about this matter and are currently negotiating.

It's not that Zhang Ziming doesn't want to buy new ones, it's really impossible to buy new ones.

Clothing production line machines, unlike wood and cloth, have planned and unplanned indicators. Zhang Ziming can only choose old machines that have been eliminated by state-owned factories.

Just keep using it for a few years and get through this period.

In a few years, it will not be difficult to buy these machines.

Secondly, as for the trade fair that Director Li mentioned, this also requires preparation and a special event.

As for what to prepare, Zhang Ziming’s plans are in full bloom.

Since you are going to make an appearance, it should be bright and stunning.

The third thing is to deepen the local market of Jinchang and expand the overseas market.

Opening new stores, sinking channels, finding cooperative dealers, accepting processing of supplied materials, customizing clothing, etc. are all planned.

After sending Yu Xin back to school, Zhang Ziming went to Min'an County.

The Second Garment Factory in Min'an County upgraded its production line and eliminated a batch of old equipment. An acquaintance introduced it to Zhang Ziming.

"Dong dong dong."

"Hello, Director Li, I am Zhang Ziming from Mingxin Garment Factory. I was introduced by Editor Xu..."

After registering at the factory gate, Zhang Ziming came to the factory director's office and knocked on the wide open wooden door.

"Oh, this is Director Zhang, hello, hello, please take a seat."

Director Li, who seemed enthusiastic, didn't even leave his seat. He had a stiff smile and no emotion at all. He mechanically raised his hand to greet Zhang Ziming to sit down.

Arrogance is a common problem among state-owned factory directors, and Zhang Ziming is accustomed to it.

"Director Li, you smoke." Zhang Ziming opened a new pack of cigarettes, handed it to Director Li, and lit the match.

Zhang Ziming kept his posture very low and came with a learning attitude.

There is no way, there is a lack of equipment.

Regardless of whether the purchase can be successful or not, it is still possible to make friends.

Director Li sat in his seat and happily accepted Zhang Ziming's offer of cigarettes and lit them.

At first glance, it seems that he is used to being served.

Director Li leaned back, blew out a long smoke ring, crossed his legs and said:

"Brother Zhang, to be honest, although the equipment I replaced is second-hand, it is now in high demand."

This is true. Zhang Ziming has learned that there are currently two rural enterprises that are also interested in this set of equipment.

These two enterprises are township collective enterprises and are more famous than me, a self-employed businessman.

"That's right, our second garment factory is the best garment factory in the county, much better than the first and third factories." Zhang Ziming praised with a thumbs up.

Half truth, half hypocrisy.

Although the second garment factory is the largest among the three garment factories, the first and third factories are also catching up, and the gap is not very big.

Director Li naturally understood Zhang Ziming's compliment. Although it was true or false, he felt really comfortable hearing it in his heart.

"Brother Zhang, you still know how to chat." Director Li said with a smile, showing his big yellow teeth.

"No, no, our No. [-] Factory is well-deserved. These are all inseparable from the efforts of Director Li, and the people of the whole county can see it." Zhang Ziming further praised it.

"Haha, I'm still good at it." Director Li showed his satisfied back teeth, he was used to being complimented.

If someone complimented Zhang Ziming like this, Zhang Ziming would feel disgusted and unreal.

However, some people just like to enjoy being complimented.

For example, the directors of these state-owned factories.

"Director Li, what about the equipment..." Zhang Ziming asked while the iron was hot.

"Brother, we are not in a hurry about the equipment. Brother, I want to ask, can you eat it all at once?" Director Li was not completely carried away by the compliment, and waved his hand and asked.

Factory Director Li still doesn't believe in Zhang Ziming's strength, and he doesn't believe that a self-employed person can buy his equipment anyway.

He, Lao Li, doesn't do piecemeal business. If the old machines are disposed of, it is a one-time deal, and there is no piecemeal deal with it every three days.

In Director Li's mind, he believed very subjectively that Zhang Ziming only bought some of the machines.

"Director Li, if I didn't have the strength, I wouldn't come to the door, right?" Zhang Ziming unknowingly toughened up and responded.

To put it bluntly, even if Mingxin Garment Factory couldn't use so much equipment at one time, Zhang Ziming would buy them all back.

Just because the current scale cannot be used, it does not mean that the scale will not be expanded.

"Brother, what you said makes sense. You are really young and promising." Director Li himself looked down on the self-employed, but Zhang Ziming's ability to dare to speak up and accept everything made him not to be underestimated.

He really couldn't understand, where does a self-employed person get the strength and confidence?

In the past, it’s not like we haven’t disposed of old machines.

As soon as the old machines were disposed of, those township and village enterprises crowded in to join in, and even came with approval slips from their leaders.

But it seems that Zhang Ziming is the only one who enjoys it so much and doesn’t care about the price.

However, Director Li is also worried.

Of course it is not competition among peers. Competition among peers is not taken lightly because he has never seen Mingxin Clothing in the county.

Director Li's concern comes from county leaders.

The superior department of the Second Garment Factory is the Second Lighting Bureau, and the leader of the Second Lighting Bureau is the person in charge.

Top leaders have great prejudices against self-employed people.

Although the equipment can be sold to anyone, there is still a risk of trouble from superiors when selling to a self-employed person.

"Director Li, you're welcome." Zhang Ziming said tactfully.

Zhang Ziming finally figured out that Director Li had at least two problems.

First, they do not believe in the strength of self-employed individuals;

Second, there is ideological pressure on selling equipment to self-employed individuals.

"Director Li, how about we go to the warehouse to take a look at the equipment first?" Zhang Ziming still wanted to check the quality of the equipment on the spot.

Although it is second-hand, second-hand is also second-hand.

"Okay, let's take a look at the equipment." Director Li agreed thoughtfully.

The face of both sides cannot be refuted.

However, Factory Director Li did not take Zhang Ziming to see the equipment in person.