Siheyuan: Taking over the steel mill

I thought I would only see a skeleton-like empty shipyard and that most of the equipment and labor might no longer be usable; but I found that the current situation was better than expected, and the existing equipment could actually meet Suchen's demand for ship production. However, he remained calm and did not reveal any emotional ups and downs. In the lively working scene, the employees did not realize that the visitor in front of them was in control of their future direction.

After visiting the large fishing boats, Su Chen continued to move forward along the production line and finally came to the research room of the factory. However, this once busy place is almost deserted. Although the environment is still clean, it is obvious that it has not been put into operation for a long time. Obviously, the current difficult situation of the shipyard makes this place look extremely desolate. Su Chen was not surprised by this. After thoroughly visiting the entire shipyard and returning to the workshop where he first visited, he still saw those workers fully devoted to the ship processing process and did not pay too much attention or speculate about what happened.

These workers came here to work voluntarily and enthusiastically. Their purpose was not for the salary, but for the belief in their hearts - to build fishing boats. The management of the shipyard watched Suchen walking back and forth in the shipyard, and their hearts were filled with tension and expectation.

They accompanied Suchen and the heads of the industrial department to visit the entire site, and kept silent to avoid disturbing Suchen's thinking. Obviously, Suchen had formed some opinions of his own, so the management could only follow him silently.

They also know that Su Chen is their only hope at this moment. If they do not get Su Chen's recognition and support for the future of the shipyard, the only thing waiting for them is bankruptcy liquidation, which will directly affect the lives of all employees.

The management was eager for Su Chen to quickly take over the shipyard and lead them to a comeback like the Changhong Tractor Factory. But now, they could only wait patiently for Su Chen's direction. What the managers who were waiting anxiously on the side didn't know was that Su Chen had sorted out and retrieved many valuable experience memories in his mind during this period of time.

In his memory, in the future, the country will develop and adopt modular shipbuilding technology, and gradually occupy more than half of the market share of the global shipbuilding industry, especially in ultra-large 10,000-ton ocean-going ships, where technological achievements will be even greater than those of aircraft carriers.

Therefore, Su Chen has no worries about the future of the shipyard. Even if there are some losses at present, it is only a short-term phenomenon.

From Su Chen's perspective, the existing level of shipbuilding technology still needs to be improved, especially when the overall modular construction technology has not yet been popularized. Major shipyards still use the traditional shipbuilding model, and ships are built slowly one by one.

This inefficient method results in high shipbuilding costs, so in order to sell the ships one must find customers who can pay.

But this situation will be reversed in the future.

Although he was confident, he did not reveal the plan to anyone. After all, the shipyard could not be completely sure that they were on the same path as him. Even though the tractor factory had been assigned some tasks by Su Chen, it did not mean that Su Chen trusted everyone there.

Unlike the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, the employees here are more or less selfish. Therefore, more considerations are needed to screen trustworthy people.

However, as long as Su Chen thought about the future development blueprint of the shipyard, he was sure to keep the factory firmly in his hands.

After all, the bright prospect of owning nearly half of the global market share made him extremely excited. If he could immediately start the layout, his business empire would leave an indelible impact on the future shipping market.

Since he had made up his mind to take full control of the shipyard, Su Chen immediately contacted Assistant Zhang: "Assistant Zhang, please go to the Baifan Shipyard and bring along the legal team that I had previously asked you to hire."

Assistant Zhang is busy arranging production tasks for the next period of time at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Even though their product line has been fixed, the specific output for each quarter and month still needs to be adjusted and optimized.

While he was dealing with these matters, he suddenly received a call from Su Chen. He immediately put down his work and entrusted the next production arrangement to the workshop director and other staff.

Then, Assistant Zhang quickly took a team of lawyers to the Baifan Shipyard. As he didn't know the purpose of Su Chen's visit to the shipyard, Assistant Zhang felt a little uneasy.

As time went by, Su Chen's business grew bigger and bigger, and it was no longer a small-scale operation. Therefore, Su Chen had already prepared a professional team of lawyers to be responsible for the preliminary review of the contract signing to reduce his own burden and ensure the quality and security of the contract.

Based on the principle of "let professionals do professional things", even if Su Chen reviewed the contract himself, he was worried that he might miss some hidden issues.

Even though there have been no problems with contracts signed in the past, this does not mean that you can unconditionally trust the goodwill of others in the future.

So to be on the safe side, Su Chen invited this team of lawyers to carefully review every clause in the contract, so that any content that is unfavorable to his side can be exposed as soon as possible.

Soon, Assistant Zhang arrived at the shipyard with his legal team. When he learned that Suchen planned to sign a contract to take over the shipyard, Assistant Zhang was quite surprised because he did not expect that Suchen would add another factory so soon.

However, this was Su Chen's own decision, and he had no objection, and the lawyer team quickly got down to work. Since the leader had sent them over to assist, they would devote themselves to every detail of the work.

The contract provided by Baifan Shipyard was submitted to the legal team, and each lawyer reviewed every clause one by one to ensure there were no problems.

At the same time, Su Chen and the head of the Ministry of Industry went to the reception hall to sit down and rest, and enjoyed a cup of tea to relieve the fatigue of walking all the way.

The shipyard management seemed somewhat at a loss in the face of this situation. After all, facing questioning from a team of lawyers was a novel and stressful situation for them.

As for how to draft the terms of these contracts, it is not within their expertise - all of this is mainly controlled by the Ministry of Industry ** - they only care about whether their workforce can remain stable and whether the number of jobs can be reduced as little as possible.

After repeated reviews to determine that there were no hidden dangers, the lawyer team submitted the contract to Su Chen. Due to his trust in the lawyers, Su Chen did not delve further into the specific contents of the contract. He just glanced at it and signed his name and stamped it.

After completing his own process, Suchen handed the contract to the relevant management personnel of the shipyard.

As Suchen's business grew, similar signing ceremonies became more rigorous and formalized - gone were the days of hastily signed contracts.

Immediately afterwards, the shipyard management representative also solemnly accepted the contract and added his signature and company seal.

After the two parties signed the contract, the shipyard officially belonged to Suchen. After getting the shipyard, Suchen immediately planned to start reforms.

Su Chen said: "From now on, the shipyard will not build any more fishing boats for the time being, and all existing unfinished fishing boats will be converted into other types of vessels." Hearing this, the shipyard's management couldn't help but be surprised.

Nowadays, everyone is busy building fishing boats. If they stop building fishing boats, what will they build? Could it be that Su Chen wants to stop the shipyard from operating, just fulfill the contract period, pay wages during this period but not produce, and eventually transform it into another type of factory?

The management looked at each other in confusion. Although Su Chen was well-known in the capital and had an outstanding record of political achievements, the idea he proposed at this time still made them confused and uneasy.

A supervisor finally broke the silence and asked, "If we don't build fishing boats, what type of boats should the shipyard produce?"

Suchen responded: "These unfinished fishing boats will be modified accordingly - that is, they will be converted into luxury cruise ships and small fishing boats into small yachts."

Such a plan further confused the management. They could not understand why such a plan was proposed when there was almost no demand for luxury yachts in the market. Except for some extremely wealthy families who might be slightly interested in it, there was not much market. Therefore, more domestic shipbuilding industries were still focused on manufacturing fishing-related vessels and warships. However, Suchen's decision obviously deviated from the traditional route. They were puzzled by this and wondered if Suchen's arrangement had a deeper strategic intention. Considering that he had helped save Changhong Tractor Factory and Red Star Steel Factory, everyone chose to trust his judgment.

Seeing the worried expressions of the supervisors, Su Chen explained: "As for sales issues, don't worry. I will take care of it."

The management confirmed that Suchen's proposal was serious. Recalling how Suchen promoted the products of Changhong Tractor Factory and Red Star Steel Factory to the international market, everyone gradually felt relieved. They imagined that one day the shipyard would be as prosperous as Changhong Tractor Factory, and they were very excited.

Even though they didn't expect to get rich overnight, they felt that as long as the factory could be revived, they would be extremely lucky. So everyone was very excited and inspired by Su Chen's determination to save the shipyard.

"Director, we will immediately deploy and convert all these fishing boats into other types of vessels."

One director said enthusiastically.

The other supervisors also nodded in agreement, believing that as long as there was a way to keep the shipyard alive, it was a direction worth trying.

Immediately, the management quickly assigned relevant modification tasks.

At present, there are still several unfinished fishing boats parked in the workshop, but with the hard work of the workers, they will soon be transformed into new looks.

Therefore, they hurried to inform the workers that if they delayed for a while, the fishing boats in the factory would be completed, and it would be more difficult to transform them at that time. Su Chen looked at the backs of the management who hurriedly left, but he didn't agree with it.