Chapter 17

Zhang Xiaocheng fell into trouble again, but unlike before, when he begged his grandfather and grandmother to give him some orders, now Zhang Xiaocheng's trouble was that the speed of satellite dish production couldn't keep up with the speed of sales!

The four hundred and thirty satellite dishes produced on the first day after increasing production capacity were all sold out in less than a morning. Then there was a group of people coming to the door to ask for goods, forcing Zhang Xiaocheng to go directly into the factory building, put the bonus in the production factory building, and let the people in the production workshop increase production capacity.

On the second day, the daily production capacity of the satellite dishes increased to seven hundred units. Although a lot of materials were scrapped and the defect rate increased a lot, compared to the revenue of the satellite dishes, it was not worth mentioning at all. This loss could be fully afforded.

Now selling a satellite dish at an ex-factory price of three hundred yuan, excluding material costs, labor costs, sales costs, production loss costs, transportation costs, etc., the profit was still over one hundred and twenty yuan per unit. In this case, they could only increase production capacity regardless of cost, because the more they sold, the more they earned!

But the production capacity of seven hundred units still couldn't meet the demand at all. It was also sold out in less than a morning. The clerks in the supply and marketing cooperatives and TV station business halls who sold satellite dishes were completely crazy. Selling one unit a day was equivalent to their monthly salary. Without anyone whipping them, they began to desperately sell satellite dishes.

When the daily production capacity of the satellite dishes of the Component Factory was increased to one thousand units, the production capacity entered a bottleneck. If they wanted to increase production capacity significantly again, the factory building wouldn't be enough!

And the satellite dishes were quietly becoming popular among nearly 900,000 TV users in the two districts and ten counties of Pingyang City. Most of the first people to buy satellite dishes were employees of units in Pingyang, because their wages were high. Then it spread to towns and villages. Installing satellite dishes had already become a craze. Whether they truly felt that the satellite dishes were easy to use or it was a mentality of keeping up with the Joneses, Guanxing satellite dishes had already begun to be accepted among TV users in Pingyang!

"The sales volume of satellite dishes has broken five thousand units!"

When it was the eighth day of sales, Guanxing's sales volume officially broke five thousand units, and the sales amount exceeded 1.5 million. In seven days, it exceeded the revenue of the Shangguan Town Component Factory for nearly two years!

At this time, the agreement reached between Li Dongling and Zhang Xiaocheng also officially took effect. When the satellite dishes were launched, Li Dongling requested that when the sales volume of the satellite dish project exceeded three thousand units, 20% of the revenue should be given to Li Dongling. And now, in less than eight days, the sales volume had already exceeded five thousand units.

For the share given to Li Dongling, Zhang Xiaocheng certainly wouldn't regret anything. On the contrary, he was somewhat fortunate. If it weren't for Li Dongling, the Shangguan Town Component Factory would have gone bankrupt long ago. He would have also lost the rice bowls of hundreds of employees of the Component Factory and suffered the biggest defeat since he was demobilized from the army. In the future, he might have been transferred to some department to sit on the bench. This matter became something he felt guilty about for the rest of his life. And now, Li Dongling had saved Zhang Xiaocheng's career and also opened his heart knot.

After the sales volume broke five thousand units, the satellite dish product also began to be noticed by more and more people. Facing the extremely popular satellite dishes, more distributors took the initiative to come to the door, begging Zhang Xiaocheng to work.

"Factory Manager Zhang, I am Ma Yingxian from Shangzhong City. The largest TV sales company in Shangzhong is our company. I hope to be able to act as an agent for Guanxing satellite dishes in Shangzhong.

I am willing to pay before taking the goods. For the first batch, I want five thousand units. I can pay first!"

The gate of the Shangguan Town Component Factory wasn't small, but now it was blocked tightly. Large trucks constantly delivering materials and trucks waiting to haul goods were coming in and out, already occupying more than half of the gate. There was also a group of local electrical appliance distributors in Pingyang who smelled the fishy smell and came over, and electrical appliance agents and distributors from neighboring cities also rushed over.

Seeing Zhang Xiaocheng come out, I don't know who shouted, and they all gathered around. Electrical appliance distributors from other places like Ma Yingxian even waved checks directly and stuffed them into Zhang Xiaocheng's hands.

This posture was truly too crazy. In the past, Zhang Xiaocheng had only seen it in newspapers, saying that companies like Jianlibao had products that were too popular, and there were distributors queuing up every day wanting to get goods from the Jianlibao company. They even needed to pay first and then take the slips opened by Jianlibao, and it would take a month or even longer to get the goods.

Before, Zhang Xiaocheng didn't quite believe the scenes reported in the newspapers, but now this scene was happening right before his eyes. A group of people were waving checks just to let Zhang Xiaocheng accept their money. Even if they didn't get the goods immediately, it was fine as long as they accepted their orders!

"I'm really sorry, Guanxing satellite dishes are temporarily out of stock. Our orders have already been queued up to ten days later. If you want to order goods, you also need to wait until ten days later to be queued up for goods..."

These orders were all tallied by the supply and marketing cooperatives, TV business halls, and Zhang Ao's sales department. Some even collected deposits, meaning that the Component Factory here needed to produce at least ten thousand more satellite dishes to complete these orders. At this time, it wasn't a matter of money. Even if they gave more money, Zhang Xiaocheng couldn't take out the goods.

But it would have been better if Zhang Xiaocheng hadn't said this. Once he said it, the electrical appliance distributors and agents at the door were even more excited. The checks were to be stuffed into Zhang Xiaocheng's hands on the spot, and there were even those who expressed willingness to increase the price. One satellite dish was increased to three hundred and seventy yuan, just to get the order!

As long as Zhang Xiaocheng was willing to accept the money, he was willing to buy more than eight thousand satellite dishes at an ex-factory price of three hundred and seventy yuan. The transaction amount of this order was close to three million!

Of course, this distributor couldn't take out so much money at once, but had to pay in several installments, but this price was also truly frightening. Zhang Xiaocheng was somewhat tempted. If this order was concluded, he could almost earn a net profit of 1.52 million. How could Zhang Xiaocheng not be tempted?

Zhang Xiaocheng had already experienced what it felt like to be fought over to stuff money into his hands. As long as he was willing to open his mouth, he could get orders for more than twenty or thirty thousand satellite dishes on the spot, and the transaction amount could reach six or seven million!

"This... everyone please come in first. Our factory needs to discuss it and will reply to everyone as soon as possible!"

Zhang Xiaocheng didn't dare to accept the order rashly. If he accepted the order and problems arose, he wouldn't be able to pay for it. The key was that collecting money without delivering goods was coming too fast, and it was collecting so much money. Zhang Xiaocheng also had no bottom in his heart. He had to discuss it with Li Dongling.

Ma Yingxian and the others entered the Component Factory. The busy scene inside was seen by all the foreign agents. The reason why he came over today was because satellite dishes had been sold to Shangzhong City. He saw satellite dishes in some units in Shangzhong City. After seeing the functions of the satellite dishes, Ma Yingxian sensitively sensed that this thing was very likely to become a hit.

After finding out where the satellite dishes came from, Ma Yingxian immediately rushed to Pingyang City. He personally went down to the districts, counties, towns, and villages of Pingyang City to see. He saw the acceptance of satellite dishes in these places, especially in towns and villages.

Ma Yingxian, who was in the electrical appliance business, immediately thought that satellite dishes were very likely to become a necessity in a family, just like TVs, air conditioners, and washing machines!

Think about how many TV users there were in the country now, especially in the vast towns and villages. How many families needed satellite dishes to provide TV programs? How big would this market be? And it was still a huge market that hadn't been developed. Who would eat the first bite of this market, and how much meat could they eat?!

Thinking of these, Ma Yingxian felt his scalp go numb, and then he rushed home to the Shangguan Town Component Factory without stopping. He thought he had come early enough, but when he arrived at the factory gate, Ma Yingxian hadn't expected that there were so many people gathered here wanting to get goods!

"Dongling, what do you think? Should we accept these orders?!"

Ma Yingxian and the others were invited into the canteen used by the employees of the Component Factory. The Component Factory didn't have an auditorium before, and the small conference room could only accommodate a few people and couldn't hold so many people at all, so they could only be invited into the canteen.

"Why not accept?!"

Li Dongling looked at Zhang Xiaocheng. "The only one who can supply satellite dishes now is the Component Factory. Except here, they can't buy goods anywhere else, at least for the next month or two!"

"Accept the orders from distributors in other cities first. Pingyang local ones should still be left to the supply and marketing cooperatives and TV business halls. Next, let Zhang Ao and the others mainly expand the markets outside the city, and even outside the province!"

"However..."

Li Dongling added a final sentence. "When signing agreements with these foreign distributors, they must be required to cooperate with local TV stations to sell. Otherwise, I'd rather not accept the order!"

Whether it was in Pingyang City, in neighboring cities, or even in other provinces, Li Dongling hoped that users who bought Guanxing could use it openly and honestly, instead of sneaking around, being afraid and worried when watching TV, afraid that someone would break in and smash the satellite dish, and also have to fine them money, or even arrest them, etc. Money could be earned, but Li Dongling hoped even more to earn it with a clear conscience.

"Our Component Factory can accept everyone's orders, but due to production capacity, the delivery of orders may be delayed for a period of time. But we can guarantee that in one city, we will only cooperate with the distributors who sign contracts with us and pay the payment, and will not cooperate with other distributors in this city.

Of course, we also have a prerequisite: the distributors who cooperate with us must cooperate with local TV stations so that users can use our satellite dishes with peace of mind!"

When Ma Yingxian and the others heard that they had to share part of the profit with local TV stations, they were somewhat dissatisfied, feeling that the Component Factory was managing too broadly. But when they heard that they could cooperate exclusively with them, they couldn't help but be somewhat happy, and that bit of unhappiness was immediately thrown behind their heads.

"A total of 24,000 satellite dish orders were received, of which more than 10,000 orders were paid in full, and the remaining orders also paid a deposit, and the payment will be completed within a week!"

Returning to the office, Zhang Xiaocheng excitedly said to Li Dongling. With 24,000 satellite dish orders, plus the five thousand satellite dishes sold before, the total revenue of the satellite dishes had already exceeded 8.7 million!

This revenue, excluding the taxes paid, still left about 5.8 million, and the revenue Li Dongling could get was close to 1.16 million. A millionaire was in hand!