After the breakup, I joined the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection

Buying a BB machine at a high price in front of an electronics factory is definitely a very shocking feat.

The first ones to be shocked were the guards at the message room who had been so arrogant and mocking just now. They rushed out of the message room almost immediately and rushed towards Lu An and Deng Weichen aggressively.

They shouted and asked, "What are you doing? This is the main entrance of Honghua Electronics, not a place for you to mess around. Get out of here right now, or don't blame us for being rude to you!"

Although these security guards look ferocious, they are actually quite panicked.

Are you kidding? If the factory leaders knew that they had stopped customers from coming to the factory, what good would happen to them?

So they decided to go all out and, before the news reached the ears of the factory leaders, they drove Lu An and his group away and pretended nothing had happened.

How could Lu An not see that these guards were timid at the moment? He smiled and said, "I can give you a chance. Just apologize to us for what happened just now and help us contact the factory leaders immediately."

The leading guard laughed loudly, pointed at Lu An and cursed: "Who the hell are you? You are pretending to be a big shot here, and you still give me a chance. Now I give you the chance, stand up and get out of here immediately, or I will beat you up right now!"

"Don't try to scare me with factory leaders. I'm not afraid to tell you that I'm a formal employee of the factory, unlike those temporary workers in the workshop. No one can drive me away!"

Lu An shook his head helplessly. He wanted to laugh after hearing these words. These guys must have worked in state-owned enterprises for too long and had no idea about the situation in private enterprises. They thought that having a regular job was everything.

All I can say is that if there is a road to heaven but you don’t take it, then you will break into hell without a door.

Lu An sighed.

"It seems that Director Xia is very powerful and has absolute power in the factory!"

An angry voice was heard, and the security guard who had been arrogant just now suddenly panicked.

This is Tao Honghua, the new director of Honghua Electronics Factory.

The guard immediately turned around and explained: "The factory director and his gang are bad guys who came to the factory to cause trouble. I was just exercising my security duty to chase them away!"

Tao Honghua went up and kicked him hard: "Fuck, are you deaf or do you think I'm deaf? They are shouting over here with a loudspeaker that they are buying BB radios at a high price, do you think I can't hear them?"

If possible, Tao Honghua really wanted to cut these idiots into pieces.

Everyone knows that Honghua Electronics Factory is not doing well now, but they still push customers away. Isn't this harmful?

The security guards then realized the seriousness of the problem and finally understood why Lu An had prepared a loud speaker.

"Get out of here, you are all fired from now on!" Tao Honghua made the decision.

Several security guards collapsed at that time. They cried and begged Tao Honghua to let them go. They had stayed with great difficulty and they could not lose their jobs.

It seemed that it was not until this moment that they remembered that Honghua Company had been privately contracted and was no longer the iron rice bowl it used to be.

Tao Honghua was very determined and remained unmoved, insisting that they leave immediately.

Only after the matter was handled did Tao Honghua smile and step forward to ask Lu An and others whether they were satisfied with his handling of the matter.

"I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself. Honghua Company lacks management over its security guards. But please rest assured, the quality of the BB machines we produce must be fine. We have the best technology!" Tao Honghua said, patting his chest.

Lu An didn't say anything directly, but introduced Deng Weichen behind him: "Director Tao, do you still remember Deng Weichen? He is now the manager of my Hongxun Company."

Tao Honghua understood immediately, and he first congratulated Deng Weichen on joining the new unit.

Then she apologized to Deng Weichen on behalf of Honghua Company: "Manager Deng, I'm really sorry. You are a veteran worker of Guangming Yidian. You should have received a generous compensation for buying out your years of service. But you know the situation of Honghua Company. The company really can't afford the money!"

Lu An looked at Deng Weichen and put the choice in his hands.

Deng Weichen did not disappoint Lu An. He said that he is now the manager of Hongxun Company, and today he is here on behalf of Hongxun Company to discuss with Honghua Electronics Factory about the large-volume purchase of pagers.

Tao Honghua was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly, indicating that he was also very willing to establish cooperation with Hongxun Company.

Tao Honghua said: "I know that the pagers on the market are all 800 yuan each. As a manufacturer, we can give you a discount of 10 yuan for each one..."

Before he could finish, Deng Weichen immediately stopped him and mocked him for not having been out for a long time and not even knowing the current price of a pager.

"The 800-yuan pager is old news from half a year ago. You can't even sell a pager at this price now!"

Deng Weichen continued, "If you want to say that, Director Tao, you have no sincerity at all. You seem to have forgotten that I was once an engineer at Guangming Yidian. I know very well that the cost of producing a BB machine at Guangming Yidian is only 13 yuan."

Tao Honghua denied it repeatedly: "That's not true! Manager Deng, please don't spread rumors. Have you forgotten that all our backplane chips and signal receivers need to be purchased from abroad? The price is very high, at least 600 yuan. I am only doing this because you are an acquaintance of mine..."

Deng Weichen directly suggested that Lu An give up Honghua Company because Tao Honghua was talking nonsense and didn't want to cooperate at all.

Tao Honghua became anxious, and he immediately asked Deng Weichen what price he thought was appropriate.

Deng Weichen continued what he had just said: "The cost of the BB machine is only 13 yuan, but considering the aging of the machine and the personnel training company and other reasons, we can offer 50 yuan."

Tao Honghua has lost his temper now. He dare not refute anything and can only beg Deng Weichen to raise the price a little bit. They really cannot accept the current price.

"I really didn't lie to you, Manager Deng, you know that if we were to leave the state-owned system, we would have to find ways to import many parts ourselves, and the price would go up immediately. If it really was 50 yuan, we would be selling at a loss!" said Tao Honghua.

"What's the highest price Honghua can accept?"

Deng Weichen emphasized: "I want a fair price. If Director Tao tells me a high price of 700 or 800 yuan again, then Honghua Company will continue to go bankrupt."

This sentence made Tao Honghua extremely nervous, because he originally wanted to continue bargaining, but now that Deng Weichen had said this, he could only compromise.

After weighing various considerations, Tao Honghua finally quoted a price of "73 yuan".

Deng Weichen first communicated with Lu An and told him that even if the price of 73 was not the lowest price, it was not far off.

Indeed, if a factory is separated from the state-owned sequence, it will not only lose government subsidies, but also its import channels, etc., which will invisibly increase costs considerably.

Lu An was not surprised by this. He knew very well that in the era of BB machines, domestic products had never had even the slightest advantage. People would rather buy smuggled goods than domestic BB machines.

On the one hand, this is because foreign electronic products in this era are indeed more technologically advanced and better, but more importantly, foreign electronic products are cheaper.

It’s a pity that if Lu An wants to make the paging station bigger and stronger, he can’t rely on illegal parallel imports, even if they are counterfeit goods.

So Lu An nodded and told Deng Weichen that he could accept the price of 73 yuan.

Deng Weichen understood and turned around, and quoted Tao Honghua a price of "69 yuan".

Tao Honghua was shocked at first, but then he could only hang his head dejectedly and said that he accepted the price of 69 yuan.

The price of the BB machine was slashed to 69 yuan, but Lu An did not get carried away. He immediately asked Tao Honghua to produce a few samples as he needed to determine the technical problems of Honghua Factory.

Tao Honghua seemed very happy. He enthusiastically took Lu An, Deng Weichen and his party into the factory and handed over several pagers that had just come off the production line to Lu An. Lu An happily inserted the card and called the paging station to send a message. The signal was fast and good, and Lu An tried it several times without any problems.

It seems that what Deng Weichen said was indeed correct. All the people working in Honghua Electronics Factory were former employees of Guangming Yidian, and their craftsmanship is certainly impeccable.

After confirming the product quality, Lu An signed the contract with Tao Honghua on the spot in order to avoid any further complications.

Lu An reminded Tao Honghua that the current cooperation model requires Honghua Factory to produce first, and Lu An can also pay a deposit first to show his sincerity.

Tao Honghua was certainly unwilling at first, but he really needed the Honghua factory to open, so after bargaining with Lu An, he finally agreed to settle the accounts between them every half a month.

After signing the contract and paying the deposit, Lu An and his team took more than 500 BB machines from the Honghua factory.

Lu An knew that Tao Honghua seemed to want to make a fortune by taking advantage of the popularity of pager machines during this period. However, he did not expect that the price of pager machines had plummeted since the beginning of the year. In addition, Tao Honghua and other former state-owned enterprise cadres did not have the ability to run channels, so there was a backlog of pager machines.

But this also suited Lu An's wishes. After all, according to Lu An's marketing strategy of "free mobile phones upon joining the network", their activities could not be stopped, and they could not stop making money or spending money.

Lu An was really worried that it would take Tao Honghua and his team half a month or a month to complete production. If someone cracked his way of playing, he would be in tears.

After leaving Honghuachang, Deng Weichen could no longer hold back and thank Lu An.

"Thank you very much, Boss Lu. It was Boss Lu who helped me regain my dignity. I promise you, Boss Lu, that I will work hard in the future and be loyal to the company and the paging station!"

Lu An smiled and said that it was enough for Deng Weichen to have this intention, and working hard in the future would be better than anything else.

Lu An also joked: "Moreover, Manager Deng has helped the company a lot today, allowing us to get cheap and high-quality BB machines stably. You are still a great contributor!"