1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer Chapter 603

Li Duoyu said aloud: "This car was temporarily lent to me by a boss."

Chen Dongqing couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. The words coming out of this guy's mouth were really unbelievable.

When Brother Ou saw the car, his eyes shone, and when he approached the window, he felt the cool air inside the car.

"Your car also has an air conditioner."

"What's the point? Brother Ou, you also know that there is such a thing as car air conditioning. I just learned about it today."

Ou Wusheng looked envious: "When I was hauling goods before, I saw a large imported truck. I rode on it once before I knew there was such a thing."

"This car air conditioner is really good. It's not like my agricultural vehicle, which can burn your **** until you develop hemorrhoids in a summer like this."

Seeing that Brother Ou was very interested in this car, Li Duoyu said, "Would you like to come up and drive a few times?"

Ou Wusheng was really excited, but after thinking about it, there was still a big difference between this small car and his agricultural vehicles.

Even if he is an experienced driver for many years, he may not be able to drive it: "Forget it, just take a look. I really can't drive this car. If it breaks down, I can't afford to pay for it."

"All right."

After Li Duoyu parked the car, he followed Brother Ou to his bamboo mat factory. The entire configuration was relatively simple, and it looked like a small workshop at first glance.

The factory building is the same as the eel factory built by Li Duoyu two years ago. It is made of bamboo.

Ouge's bamboo mat factory occupies a small area, only 300 square meters, but the total number of employees in the factory is quite a lot, about twenty.

Li Duoyu glanced briefly and already knew that the bamboo mat factory Ouge produced was the mahjong mat he mentioned earlier.

There are very few machinery and equipment in the factory. The larger one looks like a second-hand hexagonal grinding and deburring machine.

Just put the cut bamboo slices and pebbles in it, and then add some water to it, and you can perform a simple water grinding.

There is also a drilling machine, which is responsible for drilling holes in bamboo slices, and a bamboo sawing machine.

Except for these, the rest of the steps are all done by workers. Brother Ou introduced: "These are two masters who are specially here to split bamboo, and this is the master who is responsible for drilling holes."

Brother Ou pointed to the large tables not far away and said: "In the end, it was they who strung these bamboo pieces together."

In this era, things produced were generally hand-knitted. This was normal. Many of the fishing nets on their island were also hand-knitted.

But Li Duoyu could clearly feel that the efficiency of his bamboo mat factory was very low. Looking at the slow workers, Li Duoyu couldn't help but ask: "How long does it take you to produce a mat?"

"It'll be like this for about a week."

When he heard this, Li Duoyu's brows knit together instantly, that is to say, according to the production speed of this factory.

It takes a month to make only 80 mahjong mats, but there are more than 20 workers, so you can't make much money at all.

To put it bluntly, Brother Ou is working for these workers. To be honest, the craft of wearing mahjong mats is definitely not as difficult as weaving fishing nets.

I don't know whether it's because the wages are not paid, or for other reasons. These workers are so perfunctory that they don't even pay attention to some small details.

The mat produced by this product must be of good quality. Li Duoyu couldn't help but asked: "Is there any that has been produced before? Let me take a look."

Brother Ou scratched his head and smiled. He was a little at a loss, but he still took out a mahjong mat produced by the manufacturer.

After spreading out the mahjong mat, Li Duoyu's face turned serious. At first glance, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it.

But if you look carefully, you can't really see the details. The holes in many small bamboo pieces are crooked, and the stitches used to thread the bamboo pieces are also poor, and the hemming is even worse.

There are even some bamboo pieces of different sizes. Li Duoyu doesn't know whether others will buy them, but he will definitely not like them anyway.

From this mahjong bamboo mat alone, Li Duoyu can see a lot of things, because the production of mahjong bamboo mats is not a one-person affair and requires the cooperation of a group of people.

The first is the person who saws the bamboo into slices. If they don't control the size well at the beginning, it will affect every subsequent link.

Drilling holes is a delicate job, and this task cannot be ambiguous. If the holes are not drilled well, the entire mahjong mat will inevitably be crooked when strung together.

Finally, the female workers used long needles and nylon threads to string the bamboo pieces together.

In fact, Ouge is missing a link here, which is carbonized bamboo slices and soaking them in mugwort water for coloring.

And if any link is lost, it will inevitably affect the final quality of the mahjong mat.

As for the batch of bamboo products that I showed Norio Oda earlier, the quality was so good that they were probably all made individually, so they could be controlled.

But if you enter assembly line production, Ouge, who has no management experience, will have disadvantages.

To be honest, if the two of them hadn't had a good relationship, after seeing the quality of this mahjong mat, Li Duoyu might have canceled the foreign trade order for bamboo products and chosen not to cooperate with Ou Ge.

After all, there are only a few old masters in the village, but thousands of orders require them to deliver the goods within half a year.

Even if there are seventy-two hours a day, if these masters are busy working non-stop, they will not be able to produce.

Nowadays, if we want to have economic benefits, mechanization and factory assembly lines are inevitable. Otherwise, it will be no problem to make a little money, and there is no need to think about this kind of foreign trade orders.

After a brief communication with Brother Ou, Li Duoyu learned that after Brother Ou opened the bamboo mat factory, he did not make any money, but instead lost a lot of money.

There was an order before, but it was returned by the supply and marketing cooperative because of poor quality. As a result, it had to be taken to the town and sold at a low price.

And Brother Ou has to be a salesperson and manage the factory, so he can't take care of both, and he has a lot of things to do.

In short, he was quite frustrated as a boss. He treated the boss as his little brother and had to beg the workers to work well.

When Li Duoyu first visited, he had already discovered that the most skilled piercer in the factory was the piercing master, but he was smoking and working carelessly.

When Ou Ge, the boss, brings guests here, he shows no respect at all and still acts condescending.

The female employees who used long needles to pierce the bamboo sheets also cursed while working.

"The hole is so crooked, how can I wear it?"

The drill master replied: "I'm already very accurate. I have to drill so many holes every day. How can it be possible that every one of them is so straight? If you guys are so good at talking, then it will be you who drill the holes."

Several female workers were not to be outdone.

As a result, the two sides quarreled.

Seeing that they were bickering again, Ou Wusheng quickly took Li Duoyu and Chen Dongqing away from the factory.

"Duoyu, I'm so sorry for making you laugh. I don't have much experience in starting a factory for the first time, so it's very chaotic."

"It's okay, this is normal."

In fact, many small bosses do come this way.

Things are hard to do and people are hard to manage.

When Li Duoyu was working illegally in a Japanese restaurant, he knew very well that many local chefs always felt that they were so awesome that even their bosses didn't take notice of them.

Later, the boss couldn't bear it anymore and fired the chef. Only then did he realize that these illegal workers were much better than the so-called chef, and the business was actually better.

Then

Their store was reported, and the police started chasing them, who were working illegally.

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In a situation like the Ouge Bamboo Mat Factory, there is currently only one way to deal with it, and that is to cut the knot quickly. We would rather lose money and replace the uncooperative person than let him set the pace in the factory, because the atmosphere is contagious. of.

When you see one person fishing, it means there are more people fishing, but you just don't see it.

In short

Being a boss and managing is not a simple matter. If the situation like Ou Ge continues to work without changing, he will inevitably lose money.

Li Duoyu drove his car and took Ou Ge to their house, only to find that the old house where he and Xiao Chao lived had now become a small one-story house.

And the car just stopped.

In the yard, a little girl in a dress rushed out. She had long hair and was quite cute. His big round eyes looked at the car in front of him, his face full of curiosity when he saw Ou Wusheng get out of the car.

His little face was full of smiles: "Dad, why did you come back so early today?"

When Ou Wusheng saw the little girl, he immediately picked her up and said quickly, "Miaomiao, do you still remember Uncle Li?"

The little girl looked at the uncle in front of her with her **** eyes and grinned.

"I seem to have forgotten."

"Uncle Li from Dandan Island, why have you forgotten that when you were a child, you lived on the island for a while, and your name was given to you by Uncle Li."

The little girl pouted her mouth and her whole face was round. She looked so cute that people couldn't help but want to pinch her.

"You and my mother have always told me that when I was a child, I lived on Dandan Island for a while, but I really can't remember it."

Seeing this cute little girl, Li Duoyu couldn't help but smile. He remembered that at that time, she was still drinking milk and had to be held by someone when she went out. How could she remember these things.

In addition, she had been coughing during that time, and her mother-in-law Chen Huiying refused to let her have contact with little Tutu.

During that time, Mrs. Ou almost never came to their home. She always lived in seclusion and didn't want people to know that they came to the island to recuperate.

Later, Miaomiao's condition stabilized and her cough became less severe. They simply said hello and went back to Dazhu Village.

After all, in this era, everyone is afraid of coughs, and many people have died because of tuberculosis.

Li Duoyu looked at the little girl in front of him. When he first saw her, she was almost one year old and very weak. She didn't expect that she was now a head taller than Xiao Tutu.

It seems that the original root of the disease must have been cut off, otherwise Miaomiao would not have grown so round if the cough had persisted.

Ou Wusheng said slightly angrily: "Do you know how to be polite? Hurry up and say hello to Uncle Li and Uncle Chen."

The little girl quickly said:

"Hello Uncle Li and Uncle Chen."

Li Duoyu smiled and replied: "Miaomiao, how about you? Do you want to come to our island to play when you have time?"

Ou Miaomiao jumped up with excitement: "Okay, I like the sea the most. I want to go to the beach to catch fish."

At this time, Mrs. Ou, who heard the voice, also came out. When she saw it was Li Duoyu, she was also surprised.

He said disgustedly to Ou Wusheng: "Hurry up and invite others to the hall to make tea. Why are you still standing there basking in the sun?"

"Yeah."

Sister-in-law Ou said: "You guys talk first, I'll prepare dinner. Duoyu, you can eat it at my place tonight."

Li Duoyu nodded, and then handed the two packages of dried shrimps he brought to Mrs. Ou.

"Sister-in-law, the dried shrimp produced by our factory tastes pretty good. You can try it."

Looking at the fist-sized dried shrimp in the packaging bag, Mrs. Ou was a little afraid to reach out and pick it up: "This dried shrimp must be very expensive, how can I have the nerve to accept it?"

"I still have a lot of them in the factory. If you feel embarrassed, you can trade some dried bamboo shoots with me later."

"Okay then, I'll get you some of the best dried bamboo shoots in our village later."

Originally, if things went well, Li Duoyu only needed to give the drawings to Brother Ou and let him go into production, but now he sees this is the situation in the bamboo mat factory.

Li Duoyu really didn't have the confidence. When he handed such a foreign trade order into Brother Ou's hands, he felt that the probability of **** it up was relatively high.

Ou Wusheng put Miaomiao down and said, "You go and play by yourself first. Uncle Li and I have something to discuss."

After the three people sat down in the hall.

Ou Wusheng sighed while making tea.

"After I heard you talk about mahjong mats last time, I went to a bamboo mat factory in the next city to learn the technology. I thought it would be very simple, but I didn't expect that the factory would be so difficult to manage.

I have talked about them and scolded them before, but this group of people had such a bad temper that they just gave up and stopped working. Instead, they delayed the construction period and cost me a lot of money. "

Li Duoyu asked: "Brother Ou, how much wages do you give these workers?"

"The female workers who thread the thread work on a piece-rate basis. Each set of bamboo mats costs four yuan, while the ones responsible for sawing the bamboo cost more than thirty, and the one who drills the bamboo costs more than forty."

Li Duoyu feels that this wage is not high for a place like Dazhu Village, but it is not low either: "But I feel that these workers in the factory are not very obedient."

Brother Ou said helplessly: "Actually, many people here are relatives of my family. Seven aunts and eight aunts are all here. It's useless to scold them. Instead, they often quarrel there."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu finally understood that Brother Ou had violated all the taboos that small workshops should not violate.

There are generally only two extreme situations for this kind of small factory where all relatives are involved. If the leader is the most prestigious in the family, then he will definitely work with one heart and get twice the result with half the effort. Like the clans in southern Fujian Province, most of them are It's a family business.

Therefore, the competitiveness of their small workshops is very scary.

But there is another situation.

Even for people like Ou Ge, whose status among relatives is not the highest, they not only have to listen to the elders, but also take care of their face.

It would be very bad when this happens. It is estimated that the person who drilled the hole is also Ou Ge's elder.

And Li Duoyu also saw that Ou Ge's personality is not very tough. To put it bluntly, he is just not strong enough and thinks too much.

Brother Ou probably still doesn't understand that if you want to make money, don't think too much, because when you really make big money, no matter what you do, others will think you are right.

Just like Li Duoyu now, even if he casually points to a star in the sky and says, that is: Macabaka Star, a lot of people will probably believe it.

Li Duoyu suddenly said seriously:

"Brother Ou, we are doing business, not charity. It's not okay to be like you."

Brother Ou nodded and humbly accepted Li Duoyu's criticism: "I also know that this won't work, but now, I seem to have no choice. They have blocked me and I have invested all my money. If I don't continue to do it, It feels like it's all wasted.”

Li Duoyu naturally knows that this is the sunk cost that small bosses are most likely to encounter, but sometimes, some costs are meant to be sunk.

Referred to as paying tuition.

There are many things that you can't learn and grow if you don't pay tuition. Li Duoyu's own tuition was the most expensive, and it took him a whole life.

After Li Duoyu took a sip of tea, he said coldly: "But do you think your factory can make money if it continues like this?"

Ou Wusheng was silent. He naturally knew the answer. In fact, he still dared not tell his wife that he had lost nearly 10,000 yuan in the past two months.

Ou Wusheng gritted his teeth and shook his head: "I definitely won't make any money."

Li Duoyu said seriously: "It's not that you won't make any money, but you will lose more money. With the quality of the mats, there is no need to keep this factory open. It is better to close it directly and save less money."

After Li Duoyu said this.

Brother Ou was doused with cold water in an instant. Naturally, he knew very well: "Duoyu, is there really no other way but to shut down the factory?"

Li Duoyu affirmed: "No."

Brother Ou sighed, his whole body was like a deflated rubber ball.

Chen Dongqing on the side also frowned. Although he had never been in management, Ouge's bamboo mat factory would not be closed down as long as management was strengthened.

Why are Duoyu so serious? If this is closed, all the early investment will be wasted.

But in this aspect of management, Li Duoyu was much better than him, so Chen Dongqing stopped talking. After all, this **** always liked to say half of what he said.

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Li Duoyu continued: "You can't be the boss like this. Some things should be cut through quickly, and you should not suffer the consequences."

"Now this bamboo mat factory is closed, and then a brand new one will be opened."

After hearing this, Ou Wusheng's eyes lit up: "Duoyu, what do you mean?" (End of Chapter)

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