Xia is inland and a land of abundance.
Lu Yi, a parts manufacturer, took a taxi home with the smell of wine.
His wife and children had already gone to bed and didn''t bother them. Lu Yi simply scrubbed them and poured himself a cup of hot tea. Without sleepiness, he stayed in his study.
"Business is getting harder and harder!"
In recent years, with the intensification of international conflicts, the European and American countries that concluded globalization after World War II also began to re-examine their strategies.
When they found that the globalization dominated by themselves in the past did not only facilitate their continued economic colonization of other countries in the new era, but also facilitate the development of some countries, the new cold war consciousness began to recover.
The selfish and arrogant Anglo Saxons, from great navigation to modern times, through a series of colonial expansion and plunder, successfully jumped from an insignificant barbarian nation to the most powerful race in the world.
They hold power and wealth, stand at the moral commanding height and enjoy the priority of mating. Naturally, they don''t want the world privilege established by their ancestors for hundreds of years to be taken away.
Therefore, these voices that used to advocate globalization have now become the biggest destroyers and grave diggers of globalization.
While planning all kinds of disputes and wars, they stood at the moral commanding height and directed his domestic politics. With protectionism and trade barriers as weapons, they wantonly attacked and destroyed globalization.
Affected by this, the international environment has become worse and worse in recent years.
Xia, the world factory, is one of the biggest beneficiaries in the era of economic globalization. At the same time, it is also another world aristocrat before the rise of Anglo Saxons. Naturally, it has become the main target of the regime established by Anglo Saxons.
Businessmen with small wealth like Lu Yi are the most sensitive to the economic barometer.
At the age of 36, he is a rich second generation.
When his father waved his hand in the 1980s, he worked as a workshop worker in an automobile company after graduating from college.
By the end of last century, Lu Yi''s father had established his own business by using the technology and contacts he had mastered in the automobile company for more than ten years.
In a flash, more than ten years later, when Lu Yi took over two years ago, his father who died of gastric cancer left him a parts company with a total assets of about one billion, four factories and more than 3000 workers, which can produce more than 170 different kinds of auto parts.
Although his father left suddenly, Lu Yi also went home after graduating from college and was taken by his father for more than ten years.
After his death, Lu Yi took over the company''s management and past contacts smoothly.
However, this still can not save the company''s decline in the past two years, because with the frequent occurrence of local protectionism in international trade in the past two years, many companies in Xiaguo have imposed varying high tariffs on their products exported to Europe and the United States.
Automobile related industries can be said to be a relatively complete industrial system in Europe and America, especially in old Europe, which spared no effort to crack down on the automobile industry in other countries.
Lu Yi''s company focuses on the production of auto parts. Although it is not the largest in Xia country, it is definitely one of the most quality-oriented manufacturers.
In the past, their products were basically not sold in China, because hundreds of domestic peers needed to compete. Competing with them, they could only find ways to cut costs, and the profits were extremely meager.
Lu Yi''s father used to despise the meager profits at home, but now with the export of their products overseas, they need to pay higher and higher tariffs, leaving Lu Yi few choices.
Tonight, he invited the manager of a car enterprise in the province to visit a factory and entertain him on the way.
However, Lu Yi was annoyed by the other party''s attitude. The quality of parts produced by their company is high, so the price of finished products is much higher than that of domestic peers.
Because of the different production costs in various countries, when Lu Yi''s products were sold overseas, they could make a good profit because of the higher cost in the region where the cooperative European car enterprises are located. Naturally, they only need to ensure the quality.
Now, high tariffs have led European car companies to replace other parts manufacturers. If Lu Yi wants to compete with domestic peers for orders from Xiaguo car companies, he has to find ways to reduce the cost.
In the past, both Lu Yi''s father and he have made efforts. Now their company has reduced the cost to the limit that can be reached under the current quality.
If you want to go down again, you can only think about quality and materials like some unscrupulous enterprises.
However, Lu Yi is obviously unwilling to take this step. His mother died in a car accident when she was very young. Does the investigation result show that there is something wrong with the car''s braking system.
Because of this experience, both his father and Lu Yi have always adhered to the final bottom line, that is, product quality, while seeking profits.
After taking a sip of hot tea, Lu Yi felt that the wine seemed to have dissipated.
After a while, he thought about the current situation of the company and sighed.
"... the domestic auto parts market has almost become a red sea without profit. It seems that I have to find a way to export... Before that, I have to find a way to get some more money..."
In the past two years, although the production of Lu Yi''s company is insufficient, the wages of employees have to continue to be paid, and the maintenance of factories and equipment also need money.
Manufacturing enterprises belong to heavy asset companies, and their cash flow is far less abundant than that of service industries and other light asset companies.
In the past six months, if Lu Yi had not accidentally joined a special chat room, the company would have been unable to maintain.
"By the way, I haven''t entered the chat room for some time recently. Maybe I can receive some production tasks!"
Thinking of this, Lu Yi quickly opened the computer in his study, directly clicked on a chat software called magic house on the desktop, and skillfully double clicked [Xiaguo science and technology exchange room 1] in dozens of chat rooms.
A password input box pops up in the chat room. You need to enter an invitation code to enter the chat room.
Lu Yi, who was still drunk, recalled the new invitation code he had just received a few days ago, then hit the input box and click OK.
At the next moment, the chat room interface pops up.
It''s late at night in winter, but the chat room is hot at this time.
"Hahaha, thank the administrator for the benefits he won for us. There are a lot of materials purchased this time. You can make a lot of money..."
"I have received two tasks. The deposit of 46 million has been paid to the company''s account. Your efficiency is still so high, ha ha..."
"Five tasks, this time I want to make a lot of money!"
"Administrator: Please note that the procurement task of this batch is the welfare granted to all members of Xia Guo by the ''Federation of progressive Chinese Americans'', which can be received by all members. However, the administrator will review the membership and pay a 50% deposit in advance. Those who are not qualified to blindly accept tasks or provide inferior products will be warned once and kicked out of the chat room for the second time."