When will I have a long tassel?

Baonan is a province with relatively poor arable land resources and has a history of industrial and business tradition. Since the reform and opening up, the local economy of Baonan Province has developed rapidly. Industrial parks have been established in many places, and prosperity has been achieved through industries such as machinery, home appliances, and textiles.

Fengpu Town is a mountainous town in central Baonan. Its industrial location is not as good as that of the eastern coastal areas, and it suffers somewhat in terms of industrial development. I don’t know since when, the people in Fengpu clicked on another technology tree and began to look for various sideways methods to realize their dreams of getting rich, and they did achieve a lot of results.

The earliest industry in Fengpu Town was industrial products that copied well-known domestic and foreign brands, such as clothing, shoes and hats, and small household appliances. A pair of famous brand travel shoes on the market for 100 yuan, but the wholesale price in Fengpu Town is less than 10 yuan, and the appearance and packaging are exactly the same as the authentic brands. However, these shoes can only be worn once, and it must be worn on a sunny day, because if they are exposed to a little rain, they will turn into a pile of pulp.

Thanks to this, Fengpu Town has become a well-known and wealthy town in the local area. Many four-story Western-style buildings have been built in the town, and the cars parked on the street are all famous brands. The locals have a tradition of advocating gold. When they have money, everyone starts to buy gold jewelry. When the sun comes out, you can't go out on the street without wearing sunglasses, because the streets are full of gold necklaces, gold earrings, gold bracelets, etc. Shake people out of gold blindness.

Later, the state intensified its crackdown on counterfeit and inferior products. The central government sent inspection teams to Baonan several times, urging Baonan to save its efforts to crack down on Fengpu, a counterfeiting den. Under the heavy blow from the state, more than half of Fengpu's counterfeiting enterprises collapsed. Many small bosses fled and did not dare to go home for several years. Fengpu's economy also took a sharp turn, and there was a depression for several years.

It was at that time that Wang Bingsen was sent to Fengpu Town as the mayor. At the beginning of taking office, he proposed to revitalize Fengpu's manufacturing industry, and asked people to send messages to the small bosses who had run away, asking them to return to Fengpu to invest, and promised to forget the past.

Since the limelight has passed, the public with only six seconds of memory has long forgotten what happened in the past. Baonan Province has also shifted its focus to other places. No one pays attention to the fraud scandal that year, so those small bosses will One by one they came back very quietly.

People are back, but it’s not easy to go back to their old jobs. The country has gone through the era of shortages. Even rural residents have learned to buy a variety of cheap and good-quality consumer goods online. Products with too low quality have no room for survival.

In addition, the country's legal system has also made great progress, and products of counterfeit big brands will be severely investigated by the counterfeit manufacturers. After all, Wang Bingsen is an official with a higher education, and he feels that he has a bright future. Naturally, he will not condone copycat brands for the sake of political performance.

Without engaging in such crooked ways, Fengpu Town would not have many advantages based on fair competition alone. Wang Bingsen met with the small business owners who had returned to his hometown to discuss ideas. Everyone said that if they did not engage in some "innovation" and just purely produced products, it would definitely not be possible to make money by setting up a factory in Fengpu Town. The biggest advantage of Fengpu Town is that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so you don't have to worry about being discovered if you do some "innovation".

Of course, everyone knows that if you don’t want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself. There is really nothing in the world that will not be discovered by others. The idea of ​​​​the small bosses is that if someone finds out, they will run away again and come back in a few years, and they will still be rich. Fengpu Town is a very secretive place, and the probability of being discovered when engaging in "innovation" is much lower than outside the mountains. This is the fundamental reason why everyone is willing to come back.

Wang Bingsen knows what everyone means by "innovation". He cannot accept the "innovation" methods of the past, but he also knows that he cannot achieve political achievements without "innovation". After several sleepless nights, Wang Bingsen finally discovered an ingenious "innovative" method, which is to play with homophones and "learn" from some well-known brands without breaking the law. After all, there are some gaps in the country's laws in this regard, and this gap period is enough for Wang Bingsen to create an economic miracle in Fengpu Town.

By the way, during those sleepless nights, Wang Bingsen was studying Wang Zijie's works. Many of his inspirations were obtained from Wang Zijie's works.

Unfortunately, Wang Zijie refused to admit it.

There are no traditional industrial projects in Fengpu Town. The small bosses in Fengpu all follow the principle of doing whatever they want to make money. Today they open a shoe factory, but tomorrow they can switch to producing microwave ovens and go out to buy a household appliance outside the mountains. The eliminated production lines can be used to produce products by hiring a few engineers and technicians who were fired from large factories.

What, you mean technical know-how and quality control?

Is there such a word in the dictionary published by Fengpu Town?

Producing machine tools is an accidental thing. A small boss of Fengpu met a broker who had returned from Africa when he was having fun outside the mountains. He heard from the other person that Chinese machine tools are now selling well in Africa, especially the long-tassel machine tools produced by Linji Group, which are almost universal in Africa. Opportunities are hard to come by.

"Can you get the long tassel machine tools? I want as many as I want. If I sell them to Africa, I will at least double the profit." The broker said.

If customers have needs, they must find ways to satisfy them. This is the belief of Fengpu people.

What the customer needs is a long-tassel machine tool, which he cannot produce himself, but it is always possible to provide a long-tassel machine tool, right? There are three tassels on your tassel, and I have two more tassels than you, which is a bonus. Also, your ears are rolled clockwise and mine are rolled counterclockwise. African brothers shouldn’t care about this, right?

Thanks to the modular design concept of machine tools proposed by Professor Xiao Wenjun of Tsinghua University, the difficulty of manufacturing a machine tool is now much lower than in the past. The core components of the machine tool can be purchased in the market. You can then make a bed yourself and assemble them together to become a machine tool.

The small boss of Fengpu made a verbal agreement with the broker, and in less than a month, he actually provided the other party with 10 guaranteed-replacement imitation long-tassel machine tools. Not only were the Chinese brands completely different, but the English brands were also completely different.

As for the huge letters "Changying" on the fuselage, they are just the pinyin translation of the Chinese brand, not the English brand, and do not involve brand infringement. The manufacturer has such a hobby, can you control it?

Wang Bingsen knew about this. He repeatedly checked with the small boss to confirm that these machine tools would not be put into the domestic market, so he was relieved.

In Wang Bingsen's view, machine tools are sold to Africa. Even if there are some "flaws" in the brand, the people who are harmed are not Chinese, so what does it matter? Think about it, in the past, adventurers from Western countries could exchange a few glass beads for large tracts of land in Africa. What Fengpu's company sells to others are real machine tools, and the prices are not expensive. What's wrong?

This incident seems to have done no harm to Linji Group. Brokers have said that Changying machine tools are sold out in Africa. Many African companies are waiting for machine tools with money. They are just eating up the demand that they cannot meet when the opportunity comes, and it has no impact on the opportunity.

This is like melons on the roadside. The melon farmers have no time to pick them, and they are about to rot. A passerby who was on the verge of dying of thirst ate the melon, which quenched his thirst without causing any loss to the melon farmer. By the way, he also helped the melon realize its value as a melon. Isn’t this a win-win choice?

By the way, Professor Wang talks about the concept of "multi-win" in one of his books. I need to look it up and review it again.

The first batch of machine tools was sold, and soon after, orders for the second batch of machine tools came. When other small business owners saw this business opportunity, why not follow up quickly? In just six months, more than 30 machine tool companies have appeared in Fengpu Town, becoming a well-known "machine tool ditch".

All machine tools in Fengpu Town are exported, and so far no customer complaints have been received about the exported machine tools. The destination of the machine tool export is the Belt and Road region advocated by the country. According to the materials reported to superiors by Fengpu Town, it contributes to the construction of the Belt and Road. For this reason, Wang Bingsen also received praise from several relevant departments in Denggang City. .

It’s not that no one has questioned the weird brands of Fengpu Machine Tool. After all, Changying Machine Tool is famous enough that many people know about it, so everyone can see what the machine tool brands in Fengpu Town are doing. However, if other manufacturers don’t pursue this kind of thing, why should local officials be meddlesome?

Wang Bingsen is not a brainless person. He knows very well the nature of the things done in Fengpu Town. So when Wang Zijie told him that among his fellow travelers was Tang Zifeng, the general manager of Linji Group, he knew that the other party was here to investigate. The appearance of Wang Zijie and Zhang Yu showed that this matter was no longer just a matter for the Linji Group, but had alarmed the state machinery.

"Mr. Tang, I admit that we have some narrow ideas of local protectionism in this matter. When some companies first imitated your company's Changying brand, we did not pay attention to it. Later, these machine tools achieved good sales results in Africa. , has become the pillar industry of our town, and we are a little bit cautious about it.

“If you have any requests from Linji Group regarding this matter, please feel free to put them forward, and we will take measures to the maximum extent within our scope of authority to safeguard the interests of Linji Group.

"However, now our government also requires administration in accordance with the law. If we want those companies to abandon brands similar to Changying, we also need to have a legal basis. Otherwise, it can only be coordination, not forced orders. On this point, please ask Mr. Tang , and Professor Wang and Director Zhang understand.”

Wang Bingsen has the word sincerity written all over his face, and his tone of voice is also very humble, showing the attitude of a grassroots official when facing his superiors.

However, there was another hidden edge in his words, which was to imply to several guests that these things done by Fengpu Town were on the edge of the law, so the town government had no right to intervene. In this way, he can clear away his own responsibility. At best, it is an issue of insufficient sensitivity, which is really not a big mistake.

As for whether the state will take action against illegal companies, Wang Bingsen is not worried. Those small bosses have long said that if it doesn't work, just run away...