During the two and a half days Yang Chen stayed in Shazhou City, the number of employees at Jinzhou Tongtai Industrial Co., Ltd. directly surpassed sixty, forming a preliminary company structure that, though small, was complete in all its functions.
Zhang Xinjian undoubtedly took on the role of General Manager of Tongtai Industrial Co., Ltd. In less than two days, he received a large amount of feedback from various enterprises and organizations, and for this, he specifically established a sales team of forty-five people!
Indeed, that's right... Tongtai Industrial Co., Ltd. had a total of sixty-four employees: one General Manager, four Deputy General Managers, five Department Managers, nine Deputy Department Managers, and forty-five Sales Department staff, with other departments still vacant...
The company was newly established, and even the boss hadn't been seen yet. Zhang Xinjian, the newly appointed General Manager, was already extremely busy. With a wave of his hand, he spent 96 million yuan to acquire a municipal enterprise, "Nanhuzhou Jinzhou Meikangda Household Appliances Co., Ltd.," located in the Lingfeng Street of Wending District, Jinzhou City, which had been "on the brink of bankruptcy" for nearly thirteen years.
The sign was changed, and the old equipment was sold to scrap yards at a discount. Nearly a hundred temporary workers worked day and night for two days and two nights, and before the procedures were even completed, Meikangda Household Appliances Co., Ltd. was transformed into Jinzhou Tongtai Industrial Co., Ltd.
Looking at the empty production workshop, Dai Weicheng, the Deputy General Manager in charge of production, storage, and logistics, couldn't help but turn his head and ask with a bitter smile, "What the hell is this? There's nothing in the production workshop, and the Sales Department has already brought in over forty key business personnel from various places. I've been in enterprise management all my life, and I've never seen anything like this!"
Hearing this, Zhang Xinjian smiled and patted Dai Weicheng on the shoulder, saying, "What, do you feel like you're being underutilized? You just arrived yesterday and don't know the company's situation yet. You'll understand in a bit."
Just as he was speaking, the roar of car engines suddenly came from not far away.
Zhang Xinjian turned around and pointed to the several box trucks driving in from outside, saying to Dai Weicheng, "Look, you have work to do now. Let's go and check it out!"
"What's on those trucks?" Dai Weicheng was completely puzzled.
Zhang Xinjian laughed even more, "What else? Of course, it's production materials! Over seventy tons, enough to keep our company running for half a year..."
Dai Weicheng was even more confused but was pulled by Zhang Xinjian to a large warehouse at the back of the factory.
The original Meikangda Household Appliances Co., Ltd. was a municipal enterprise directly under the Jinzhou Municipal Government. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it mainly produced small household appliances like washing machines and electric fans, and it was quite popular for several years.
The factory area expanded continuously, and by 1996, at its peak, it had over 3,600 employees and a total area of nearly 130 acres, making it one of the brightest stars in Jinzhou City at the time.
However, after 1998, Meikangda Household Appliances Co., Ltd. fell into an unprecedented low. Its market share shrank, production capacity declined, and it went from profit to loss in less than three months!
Since then, Meikangda began large-scale layoffs and gradually faded from the public eye in Jinzhou City.
After Zhang Xinjian and his team spent half a day inspecting several enterprises that the Jinzhou Municipal Government intended to sell, they immediately chose Meikangda Household Appliances Co., Ltd., which, although old, was still complete and had a large enough area.
The Farbang Group's projects in Jinzhou were already well-known, and the establishment of another company, Tongtai Industrial Co., Ltd., which claimed to produce a nanoceramic base, was met with enthusiastic approval from the Jinzhou Municipal Government leaders.
Thus, a company with a residual value of at least 1.6 to 1.7 billion yuan was acquired for just 96 million yuan.
The factory was large, with four warehouses alone.
By the time Zhang Xinjian pulled Dai Weicheng from Workshop No. 1 to Warehouse No. 4, the several large trucks were already parked at the warehouse entrance, lined up in a rather intimidating manner.
Over seventy tons of production materials were being unloaded with the help of several forklifts.
When Dai Weicheng, full of curiosity, watched the workers open the truck doors and reveal the so-called production materials inside, he almost choked on his own saliva!
Ceramic fragments! The three box trucks were filled to the brim with all kinds of ceramic fragments!!
"What the hell is this?!" Dai Weicheng felt his brain was about to hyperventilate! He pointed at the ceramic fragments exposed in the truck, showing his white teeth, "This is the production material you were talking about?!!"
Are you trying to take advantage of my lack of education?! Dai Weicheng, although he hadn't worked in nanoceramic production, had followed the development in this field to some extent!
Nanoceramics are not made by first producing ordinary ceramics and then grinding them into nanoscale ceramic powders! Instead, nanoscale ceramic powders must be prepared first, and then nanoceramic products can be produced!
Currently, there are various methods for preparing nanoceramic powders internationally, including thermal chemical vapor reactions, laser vaporization, plasma vapor synthesis, chemical precipitation, high-pressure hydrothermal methods, and sol-gel processes.
No one had ever heard of a company preparing nanoceramic powders by purchasing ordinary ceramic fragments... It was like suddenly being told that the chicken came before the egg when you've always believed the opposite. It felt like your entire worldview was being overturned, and your cognitive world was about to collapse!
Faced with Dai Weicheng's almost crazy expression, Zhang Xinjian, who seemed to have anticipated this reaction, chuckled and, with one hand on his waist, pointed to the trucks being unloaded, saying, "What? You look down on these fragments?"
"I..." Dai Weicheng opened his mouth but took a long time to finally say with a bitter smile, "Old Zhang, you don't need to keep things from me. Tell me, what's really going on?"
"The general situation is that our new boss has mastered a new technology for preparing nanoceramic powders. The raw materials for this new technology are these defective products from the pottery factory..." Zhang Xinjian said with a smile, "These three trucks of over seventy tons of ceramic fragments cost the company over 20,000 yuan, much higher than the budget..."
"..." Dai Weicheng simply closed his mouth and said nothing.
The over seventy tons of ceramic fragments, tied with straw ropes, were unloaded into the warehouse in less than half an hour with the help of several forklifts.
Dai Weicheng was still in a daze, but Zhang Xinjian, full of enthusiasm, pulled him into the warehouse for a tour.
An hour later, a large truck covered with a military green tarp slowly drove into the factory.
Hou Xunnan was sitting in the passenger seat, talking on the phone with Yang Chen...
"Right, right, right, they've been brought to the factory. Yes, we can start assembly this afternoon... It didn't cost much. The shell has no technical content, so we found an electrical welding factory, and they made it in just over ten hours..."
Hou Xunnan was smiling, but the bloodshot eyes showed that the task was not as easy as he made it sound... But this was the first task Yang Chen had given him, and Hou Xunnan was determined to do his best.
Yang Chen, driving back to Jinzhou City, said to him with a smile, "You've worked hard... There's no rush with the assembly. After unloading the machine parts in the workshop, find a hotel to rest. I'll come over tonight to help you engrave the particle equations."
"Okay." Hou Xunnan didn't insist; he was indeed exhausted.
...
One thing after another kept coming up, and Yang Chen felt a bit overwhelmed.
On his way back to Jinzhou City, he received a call from Yu Qing at Wufeng Temple, saying that they had received an invitation from the Nanhuzhou Metaphysics Promotion Association to attend an exchange conference in Loushan City at the end of the month.
But Yu Qing said that the real intention of this exchange conference might be to target Wufeng Temple... After all, Wufeng Temple had been too prominent recently, and everyone in the Nanhuzhou metaphysics community was watching. Whether they were genuinely inviting Wufeng Temple to the conference or trying to test the waters, Yang Chen had no reason to refuse the invitation.
The schedule for the next period was packed.
Just as he was about to exit the highway, another incident occurred...
A red Ferrari with a Shazhou City license plate, as Yang Chen's BMW X6 was about to enter the tollgate, darted in front of him like a red lightning bolt and screeched to a sudden stop!
If Yang Chen hadn't reacted quickly and hit the brakes in time, the two cars would have collided.
His brows furrowed, Yang Chen unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the car door, and jumped out without a word, delivering a solid kick to the driver's side door of the Ferrari...
"Bang~!"
The kick caused the door to dent inward.
The drivers waiting in line behind, to the left, and to the right, as well as the toll collector in front, were all stunned.
As the saying goes, those who watch the show don't fear the chaos. A young man driving a silver-gray Changan minivan was so shocked that he dropped the cigarette from his mouth but gave Yang Chen a thumbs up, "Bro, that kick was great, really satisfying! Just because you have a fancy car, you think you're so cool... I hate people who cut in line the most; they have no sense of public morality!"