To solve the current problem of tight funds, King Kong made a suggestion to Vice Chairman Yang: Could he give King Kong the dividends from the chemical plant in advance, as he wanted to resign as the manager of the chemical plant and take charge of his own factory?
After some discussion, the consortium agreed to give King Kong 35,000 first and then 55,000 next year, which would be his dividend for five years. And appoint King Kong as the senior technical advisor of the consortium, without having to work every day, with a monthly salary of 200 yuan. This is also the idea of giving a dividend of only 90,000, which is a little less, and making up for it.
So when the annual meeting of the AIG consortium officially began, King Kong had become the senior technical advisor of the consortium.
During the year, it was the textile factories that were struggling, but it was the thermos flask factories that suffered the biggest losses. Especially since the fourth quarter, Japanese thermos flasks have been sold at a low price of one dollar, knocking down the American Asia thermos flasks.
At that time, the shells of thermos flasks were either enameled (also called enamel) or aluminium (called steel), and aluminium was a little more expensive. Amei's thermos shells are enameled and are produced by the enamel factory of this consortium. A shell costs 50 cents, and the enamel factory says it's already cost price. If they produce washbasins and tea cups, the profit could be much higher. And the glass liner costs more than 40 cents, because the yield is low, only 30 percent; In addition, the cost of equipment depreciation is high, and imported equipment is expensive.
To compete with Japanese goods, you have to sell at a lower price. How to cut costs? The heads of enamel and thermos factories are fighting.
King Kong had no intention of getting involved in the business group, but when he heard it was for Japanese goods, he wondered why bamboo shell thermos flasks were not used to cut costs? So he came forward and said he would look into the situation to see if it could be resolved.
He didn't use a bamboo shell because since the invention of the dewar flask (the inner liner of a hot water bottle) in Europe, the product was made with an enamel shell. Could it be the Europeans' habit of not using bamboo? Or was the market positioned for the high-income class at the time and never thought of using bamboo for the shell? As a result, Asia just passed it on.
These people do not use value engineering to analyze: the main use value of this thermos flask is the liner, and the shell should be cheaper than the liner.
It's not difficult to make a bamboo shell. When King Kong came back, he showed a thermos shell to his bamboo worker and told him roughly what he was going to make. King Kong had seen bamboo shell thermos flasks when he was a child. The bamboo craftsman cut the bamboo strips and began to weave them. The next day, a dozen or so samples were made. King Kong chose one and made requirements for the fixation of the bottom, and the product was set.
The work of improving the yield rate of bottle linings is a bit more troublesome. King Kong went to the thermos flask factory and inspected for two days. The equipment was the most advanced of the time, an automatic production line. It was found that the main problem was the control of the glass processing temperature on the production line. The heat source for production is a gas flame, but the size of the flame is adjusted by the workers' experience. If the fire is too big or too small, the production will be a waste.
The gas is supplied by the Shanghai Gas Factory.
King Kong knew that people in Shanghai call matches "self-fire". But the pipeline gas plant in this time and space might have taken the name of the water plant and called it the Zailai Fire Plant.
The pressure of the pipeline gas is always fluctuating, so the flame on the production line is also unstable.
King Kong installed gas flow meters on the gas pipelines of each machine and asked the workers to adjust the flame by looking at the flow meters, and the quality stabilized. The production rate of the cylinder liner has increased to 80 to 90 percent.
The painted bamboo shell is priced at 15 cents and still has enough profit margin. Amazon's thermos flasks have been discounted to 60 cents, and sales have soared.
In addition to setting up a bamboo workshop, King Kong later brought the rubber gaskets in the thermos flask to his own rubber factory for production, which was a bit of "abuse of power for personal gain".
And the Mei Ya Consortium valued Mr. CAI Mi even more, and thus saved a factory. The two hundred yuan a month was worth it.
One day in mid-February, King Kong, along with Fu Baotian and Sanlong, came to the Jiangxi Road area to inquire about the loan matters from the bank.
The Fu brothers, who already knew how to drive a car, became King Kong's bodyguard drivers. Big Dragon and two Long have already learned to drive, and it's the turn of Three Long to learn to drive.
After parking the car, he went to several banks. The bank staff were quite polite, but now the political situation is unstable and the economy is sluggish, and loans to industries are tight. So some banks politely declined, while others said they would have to do some side research on King Kong's Koyi Company before making a final decision.
King Kong left one bank and wanted to visit several more banks to see if there were any that could make a decision faster and offered more favorable interest rates. They were walking on a small road perpendicular to Jiangxi Road when suddenly there was a fight ahead.
It was a Japanese ronin and a great Chinese man, with the Japanese ronin using an Oriental knife and the Great Chinese man using a machete. Seven Japanese were standing beside a black rickshaw, with their backs to King Kong, watching the battle. Three Chinese, standing on the other side of the battle circle, were also watching the battle and passing the formation, Shouting and cheering, in Shandong dialect.
As King Kong, Fu Baotian and Sanlong approached the fighting crowd, the Japanese also looked back at them twice. Noticing that they looked like businessmen, he didn't pay much attention.
At first, the Japanese seemed very confident, but soon the Japanese rogue was at a disadvantage. The Shandong man, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, was more than a head taller than his opponent. The Japanese rogue had practiced swordsmanship, but this Shandong man was better at martial arts, and with every move, he defeated the Japanese.
Seeing that the situation was not good, four more Japanese came forward with their swords drawn. At that moment, the Shandong man kicked the Japanese ronin in the calf and knocked him to the ground. The four Japanese men rushed up together, and the Shandong men who were watching the battle also went up, and there was a scuwl between them.
Five against four, and King Kong found that among the four people from Shandong, two were half-aged children of sixteen or seventeen.
And so the Japanese did not get the upper hand, the two middle-aged Shandong men were very powerful, but the Japanese began to get hurt! One Japanese man had a knife cut in his arm.
Great China team, come on!
The three Japanese who were still watching the game were all dressed in suits and looked like businessmen. The fatter Japanese in the middle shouted a few times in Japanese, and the two Japanese standing on either side of him suddenly pulled out their pistols from their waists and fired at the Shandong man in the circle.
Although King Kong had prepared himself and loaded his gun, he was still a bit slow. The Japanese fired first, but each of them only had time to do so. For King Kong also pulled out his gun and shot each of the two Japanese who were using it. At a distance of just four or five meters, both shots hit the back of the head. The fat Japanese in the middle turned towards King Kong and reached his hand to his waist, also trying to pull the gun? But King Kong shot him first to make a hole in his forehead.
The Japanese fired two shots, one in the abdomen of a middle-aged man from Shandong and the other in the left shoulder of another young man from China. The man who was injured in the abdomen moved a little slower and was slashed in the leg, then fell to the ground in an instant.
At that moment, Fu Baotian's gun went off. He was carrying a southern Japanese military pistol. Because the box gun was too big to carry and there were too few bullets. He and King Kong "named" the Japanese, and with the four Shandong men who used the knife, in less than half a minute, the other five Japanese also fell to the ground.
King Kong told the three Dragons to search for the Japanese pistols and bullets, and he himself went to rescue the wounded Chinese. The man with the shoulder injury was a young man of seventeen or eighteen, and the injury was not very serious. But another middle-aged man, in his thirties or sixties, was seriously injured. The gunshot wound on his abdomen was still unknown, and blood was gushing out from the knife wound on his calf. King Kong went up, tore a piece of cloth from a Japanese man's clothes, used it as a tourniquet, and fastened it tightly to the wound on his leg to stop the bleeding.
Two young men gathered around and cried out, "Daddy, how are you?" The middle-aged man was rather tough, pale and sweating all over his head and face, and said to his two sons, "It's nothing. I killed this little Japanese and took my revenge. It's worth my death." Then he said to the King Kong who was bandaging his abdomen, "I, Ye Zhanxiong, thank you all for your help!" A Shandong accent.
At that moment, a police whistle sounded not far away. A red-headed third heard the gunshot and came over to look. Seeing them from a distance, he didn't dare to come over and just blew the whistle.
The seriously wounded man said, "You go quickly. Don't worry about me." With that, he passed out. Another big man, a man in his thirties, came over and shouted, "Brother, hold on!"
King Kong asked the man for help to lift his brother onto the rickshaw, and Fu Baotian pulled the rickshaw towards where they had parked.
Sanlong had already rummaged through the pockets of several Japanese men, and this gesture was so fast, as if he had practiced it. All the copied stuff was packed in a Japanese briefcase. King Kong told everyone to go fast with him. The three men, after slashing the body of the Japanese vagabond who had started fighting with them a few more times with their knives, followed them. At that moment, King saw the words "Great East Asia Co., LTD." written on the rickshaw and a briefcase placed on the pedal of the rickshaw.
The car couldn't hold so many people, so King asked Sanryu to take the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy and find another way to go home, and to pull the rickshaw a little further away and throw it away.
This time killing the Japanese, King Kong was a little nervous in the car. But not as nervous as the first time he killed the Japanese, he began to feel a bit like training in the military camp back then.