It's August.
Billy's team of foreign teachers has expanded to more than 20 people.
Jiayang Education's branches in Quancheng and Qingdao also officially opened classes.
The advertising bombardment that lasted for half a month in the early stage paved the way for Jiayang Education, and enrollment was extremely popular from the beginning.
Jiayang Education’s cultural shirts have also begun to appear on the streets of these two cities.
Immediately afterwards, Tuzki T-shirts also became popular in these two cities.
Li Xuan purchased a batch of new equipment worth millions for Guancheng Garments, which greatly improved Guancheng Garments' production capacity.
Coupled with the return of some old employees, Guancheng Garment's T-shirt production capacity has achieved a leap, with a daily production capacity of more than 8,000 pieces.
In just one week, the academic T-shirts have become popular in five cities. Children wearing academic T-shirts can be seen everywhere in the streets.
Xu Yiyang took some free time and drew two more sketches of Tuzki.
Just when Li Xuan came to deliver the goods, Xu Yiyang took out his sketch from the drawer, handed it to her and said: "Sister Xuan, take a look at these two pictures. If there are no problems, we will use them for the next two T-shirts."
Li Xuan took the sketch and looked at the first one. She was immediately attracted by the two Tuzki with yawning expressions on the picture.
On the screen, two Tuzkis were looking at each other, both holding a book in their hands. The Tuzki on the left said to the Tuzki on the right with a stern expression: "What a coincidence, you are also studying!"
This idea actually originated from those relatively dirty emoticons of later generations.
However, Xu Yiyang added books and revised the dialogue, which greatly changed the style and meaning of the painting.
Like the Xueba T-shirt, the core thing Xu Yiyang wants to highlight is "study hard."
Although Li Xuan studied painting and had a lot of exposure to comics and stick figures, she had never been exposed to extremely simple but extremely interesting comic images like Tuzki before.
Xu Yiyang's last picture of "I want to be a top student" Tuzki had already shocked her. Unexpectedly, the charm and taste of this picture was actually much better than the previous one.
Looking at the Tuzkis vividly on the paper, Li Xuan sincerely admired: "Mr. Xu, these two Tuzkis' paintings are so expressive! Have you really never learned to draw?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "That's the level of random drawing."
Li Xuan opened the second sheet and found that there was a drawing on the papyrus paper of Tuzki holding his waist with his left hand and raising an index finger on his right hand. Tuzki had stars in his eyes and a flashing light bulb painted on his finger.
The circle that Xu Yiyang drew in this picture is an expression on the Internet in later generations. A wretched cartoon character uses such a posture, with a narration: "The day of silver has begun!"
However, the text that Xu Yiyang assigned to it was: "You must also study hard today!"
In short, the theme of each picture is related to the theme of studying hard.
Xu Yiyang's idea is also very simple. Children's clothes should not only cater to the children's preferences, but also to cater to the preferences of parents and teachers.
If a piece of clothing is liked by children, parents, and teachers, then there is basically no need to worry about selling it.
Li Xuan intuitively felt that once these two designs were produced, they would definitely sell well, so she immediately asked Xu Yiyang: "Mr. Xu, should we produce the second and third models at the same time, or should we produce the second model first?"
Xu Yiyang said: "Let's produce at the same time, but the production capacity should be allocated reasonably. A small part of the production capacity will be used to produce the first and third models, and most of the production will be used to produce the second model. In this way, after the second model is sold out, the inventory accumulated for the third model will be There are more.”
Li Xuan nodded and said, "Then I will make arrangements when I get back."
Xu Yiyang asked Li Xuan: "The weather will get colder in a few months. If we switch to long-sleeved T-shirts and hoodies then, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?"
Li Xuan said: "There is no problem with these, but the production process of these styles is more complicated than short-sleeved T-shirts, and the production capacity may not be able to keep up by then."
Xu Yiyang asked: "What about continuing to invest more? Let's expand the scale of the factory a little more."
Li Xuan said: "It is not only a problem of expanding the scale, but also a problem of workers. There are not many skilled local garment workers in our country. It is easy to buy equipment, but it is difficult to recruit people."
After saying that, Li Xuan added: "Actually, I would rather send the order to a large foundry in the south and let them produce it. This can be much faster."
Xu Yiyang nodded and said: "If Tuzki can cover the whole province or even the country in the future, it will definitely have to transform and find OEMs. But in that case, wouldn't Guancheng Garments seem to be useless?"
Li Xuan said seriously: "The biggest problem with Guancheng Garments is that it is difficult to scale up. Compared with large factories in the south with thousands of people, there is really no advantage."
Xu Yiyang said: "From a purely operational perspective, the best option is actually to stop Guancheng Garments, or not make any plans to continue to expand, and give all subsequent demand to the foundry, but I still hope that Guancheng Garments Cheng Garment can continue to expand on the existing basis and, among other things, at least provide some jobs to Yingzhou."
Xu Yiyang remembers his mother's helplessness after being laid off by the garment factory. Now Guancheng Garment can solve the employment problem of dozens of people. If it can continue to expand, it has the potential to solve at least hundreds of jobs.
The migration of labor force to the south is mainly due to the lack of local jobs.
From the early 1990s to now, job vacancies in the north have become larger and larger. It is not that the labor force wants to work in the south, but that they cannot find jobs locally and have to go to the south to work.
Xu Yiyang has no ability to change the general trend, but at least he can play a small role in Yingzhou. He can create hundreds of jobs in Yingzhou and relieve the economic pressure of hundreds of families.
If Tuzki covers the whole country, it is naturally impossible for the production base to be located in Yingzhou, because then the scale of Guancheng Garments will at least be expanded nearly a hundred times, and the time and capital costs will be very high.
But if the demand in Qilu Province is handed over to Guancheng Garments, it is actually feasible.
Local labor is cheaper, and the cost of operating and building factories is not high. Producing and selling locally can also improve turnover efficiency and reduce intermediate costs. Overall, it is more cost-effective than full OEM production.
So, he briefly discussed his thoughts with Li Xuan. Li Xuan was naturally very supportive, but she still expressed her concerns: "Expanding the hardware is actually very easy and can be solved with money, but the most troublesome thing is It’s about recruiting workers. It’s difficult to recruit skilled workers in Yingzhou now, but it’s also difficult to recruit from other places, and the cost will increase a lot. I haven’t figured out how to solve it yet.”
Xu Yiyang asked her: "Do our local technical schools, vocational high schools, etc. have a clothing major?"
Li Xuan said: "There is a clothing major in the vocational high school, but there are very few people there. There seems to be one or two classes in total, and there are only dozens of people in it a year."
Xu Yiyang asked again: "What about training from the basics? We can set up a corresponding technician training class and recruit laid-off workers from our Yingzhou for free training. If they have no basic skills, we will train them intensively for two months and then send them to the factory. Start with a skilled worker and give it another two months to practice. After four months, you can at least be able to do some basic work, right?"
Li Xuan nodded: "Four months is definitely enough for basic work, and it will be faster to get started with the assembly line."
After saying that, Li Xuan asked again: "If the training is free, the cost should be relatively high, right?"
Xu Yiyang said: "It doesn't matter. I don't have much money, but I think it's a way to contribute to the re-employment of laid-off workers in the city. After learning a few basics, even if I don't work in Guancheng, it will be easier to go to the south to work."
After listening to this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh in her heart that Xu Yiyang is young but has a strong sense of social responsibility.
Spending your own money to hold training classes and training laid-off workers for free is something that no private enterprise has ever done in Yingzhou.
While admiring it, she also said with some concern: "Mr. Xu, I have never done professional technician training. If you really want to operate it, you have to start from scratch. It may take a while."
Xu Yiyang waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about this. I know people who do technician training."
At this time, what appeared in his mind was Chen Dazhong, who rented the Children's Palace venue to him.
Isn’t that buddy doing re-employment training? I don’t know if there is a clothing major.
If not, you can give him a sum of money and let him hold a clothing training class, which would also be a good thing for him.
Xu Yiyang said to Li Xuan: "I'll give him a call to see if we can cooperate and set up an exclusive training class for Guancheng Garments."
Immediately, Xu Yiyang called Chen Dazhong.
Chen Dazhong hadn't seen or contacted Xu Yiyang for a while. He was a little surprised when he received Xu Yiyang's call. He came up and asked: "Brother Xu, why did you think of me today?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "Brother Chen, I just want to ask how your re-employment training went?"
"Hey, just like that, half-dead, you can't compare with my brother, you have made a fortune!"
"I just make a living."
Xu Yiyang said modestly and asked: "By the way, do you have any clothing training over there? For example, tailoring, lathe work, etc."
Chen Dazhong said: "I don't have any clothing training here. Isn't there just one clothing factory in Yingzhou? I heard it was about to close some time ago. Where can I get a job with clothing training?"
Xu Yiyang said: "The clothing factory you mentioned was taken over by me. I plan to invest several million to expand the scale. There is a shortage of workers. Do you want to cooperate with me and set up a clothing training class?"
Chen Dazhong thought for a while and said, "I have to tell the re-employment office of the Labor Bureau about this, because the training here is mainly subsidized by the Labor Bureau."
Xu Yiyang asked: "How to calculate the subsidy?"
Chen Dazhong said: "Actually, it's just a formality, such as a crash course for chefs, to train a laid-off worker. After completing the course, the Labor Bureau will give me a subsidy of 200 yuan, but I have to pay all the costs myself."
"I understand." Xu Yiyang said: "You don't need to say hello to the Labor Bureau. We will cooperate on this matter. I will pay for the cost. I will hire the teachers for the training and I will be responsible for the training equipment. You will mainly be responsible for helping I find the venue and then help with the day-to-day management.”
"As for your training fees, if you train a person to take all the courses, I will give you two hundred yuan, but since the cost is all paid by me, the two hundred yuan you earn is much higher than other trainings."
Chen Dazhong asked excitedly: "Brother, is what you said true?"
(End of chapter)