Fisherwoman: After my divorce, I became rich by fishing at sea

Chapter 284 Buying a cannery?

"Comrade, that's not the case. Aren't these cans of food pretty good?"

"I've seen it at the supply and marketing cooperative before!"

Fu Liang was not good at speaking, so when he saw this comrade with a sad face, he wanted to say a few words of comfort.

He knew this can of food, and Fu Wan had also seen it. It was the five-star fruit can sold in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Fu Wan had bought this can of fruit before and everyone had eaten it. The flesh was crispy and sweet, very good.

How did it fall to the point of bankruptcy?

Wang Jianmin shook his head and sighed, "Well, everyone's life is getting better now. Although canned food is delicious, it can't be eaten as a meal.

The supply and marketing cooperative sells less and less canned food every month, and the quantity ordered from us is also getting smaller and smaller.

Rich people all go to the Friendship Store to buy imported goods, and ordinary people only buy canned goods during festivals. The leaders above tell me to innovate, but we have always been making canned fruit!

Having said this, Wang Jianmin scratched his hair again and instinctively wanted to take out his pipe, but seeing that Fu Wan was there, he withdrew his hand.

Fu Wan saw his action and sighed in her heart. In the mid-1980s, with the development of the times, the needs of the masses were also changing.

Many state-owned enterprises are facing restructuring and are striving to adjust their business strategies to adapt to market demand. Some of these enterprises will successfully undergo restructuring and maintain their stability in the new era. Others, like the current Five Star Cannery, face the risk of bankruptcy.

However, there are cases of individuals acquiring state-owned enterprises.

She did have the idea of acquiring the cannery because she had been thinking about how to make the money in her passbook work, and investment was a good way to do it.

However, investment also has its risks, and Fu Wan is not a sucker.

There was nothing to do at the moment, so they stood at the door, doing nothing anyway.

"Director Wang, I know this can of food. My kids like it, too. How about you take me in to have a look?"

Fu Wan put down the can she was looking at and asked Wang Jianmin with a smile.

Wang Jianmin was a little surprised. In fact, no customer who bought retail canned food would make such a request. Fu Wan was the first one.

However, he didn't sell a single can of canned food today. Thinking that the little girl might buy a couple more cans after the visit, he nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll take you there!"

After saying that, he moved the table with the cans on it and put it in a small room next to it.

"This used to be the workroom of our factory security guard, but now the factory is not doing well and the security guard has been laid off.

He was embarrassed to say that now as the factory director, he would stand at the door when he had nothing to do. In addition to being a security guard, he could also sell a few cans of food.

Fu Wan turned around and was about to follow Wang Jianmin in, but suddenly she remembered Boss Fu and the others, and turned back to instruct Fu Liang.

"Brother Liang, go talk to the shipyard security guard. If he sees my dad and the others, tell them we're going to the cannery."

"Okay! Then wait for me to go in together."

Fu Liang agreed and without waiting for Fu Wan's reply, he quickly ran to the shipyard guard to explain.

But he didn't say that for nothing. He hadn't smoked the cigarettes given to him by others yet, so he took the opportunity to give two to the security guard, Uncle Li.

Uncle Li certainly didn't mind that the cigarettes were loose, and took them with a smile.

"Don't worry, I'll tell them later."

These comrades who bought the boats were quite capable. In just half a day, he received a lot of cigarettes.

Enough for him to smoke for most of half a month.

After instructing the security guard, Fu Liang returned to Fu Wan as quickly as possible. At this time, Wang Jianmin had also put away the canning table and led the two of them into the factory area.

Fu Wan did not forget to look at the cannery as she walked. This place was definitely not as big as the shipyard next door. From the slogans on the gray and white walls, it can be seen that this cannery was once glorious.

Otherwise, why would it say, Strive to be the strongest cannery in the city!

Seeing that Fu Wan noticed the slogan on the wall, Wang Jianmin felt a little embarrassed.

"I wrote this slogan. At that time, canned goods were selling very well. Even many supply and marketing cooperatives in neighboring counties came to us to place orders for canned goods."

After saying this, he felt a little lost again. Thinking of his past glory and comparing it with the present, it was even more heartbreaking.

There were only about a dozen people in the cannery at that time. Among them, Fu Wan saw a few workers who were packing cans in the workshop with bitter faces.

Seeing Wang Jianmin come in, one of them took a stack of papers beside him.

"Director, this is the resignation letter left by other comrades."

Wang Jianmin took the stack of resignation letters and glanced at them. "Put it in the office. I'll talk to the accountant later."

The man was silent for a moment, then said, "Accountant Liu's resignation letter is also in there."

There is no other way. Since we haven’t received our salary for several months, we can only find other jobs.

Wang Jianmin was a little stunned. After two seconds of silence, he looked at Fu Wan embarrassedly.

"Comrade Fu, look at this..."

Fu Wan understood, waved her hand and said with a smile:

"Director Wang, please handle this first. I'll go shopping by myself."

"Okay, you guys go take a look around first, and I'll introduce you after I finish my business."

Fu Wan responded, and the brother and sister strolled to the workshop next door.

Originally, no outsiders were allowed to enter the workshop, but canned food was not being produced at the moment, and even the few workers were packing the cans on the table.

As soon as Fu Wan walked in, she heard someone inside say, "If you can't pay your wages, you can use some canned food to pay them. I'll go to the village and ask if anyone wants to buy it. I'll sell it cheap!"

Has it come down to using canned food as wages?

Fu Wan looked around the factory. It was clean, but lacked a lot of people.

She thought to herself that although canned fruit still existed in later generations, it did not have a large audience.

After all, no matter how delicious canned fruit is, you can’t eat it every day!

What's more, they only have tropical fruits here with limited varieties, so there has been nothing new in canned fruits for decades.

But what she was thinking about was buying this cannery, where she could have a small production line for canned fruit and the other main production line could be canned fish.

Thinking back to when she was in the supply and marketing cooperative before, she really hadn't seen canned fish. Apart from canned fruit, there were canned meat.

However, canned meat is very expensive these days, a small can costs two or three dollars.

Canned fish is different. First of all, they are fishermen themselves, and many fish, such as sardines, horse mackerel, and even the horse mackerel caught not long ago, are raw materials that can be used to make canned fish in the future.

However, the gap from canned fruit to canned fish is quite large, and it will take more attempts before we can produce it.

Fu Wan thought about this matter over and over in her mind. After Wang Jianmin dealt with the matter, he hurried to find them.

"Comrade Fu, I'm sorry to have neglected you."

Fu Wan smiled and shook her head, "It's okay. Has Director Wang's matter been dealt with?"

Wang Jianmin nodded. "I still have some savings. I can use them for emergencies."

They were all workers he had trained, and he felt embarrassed to use canned food to replace their wages.

However, he didn't expect that this action would make Fu Wan's opinion of him even higher.