First 20 Million

Actually, Zhang Yi had already started working on the production line issue. Xiao Hua, Xiao Xia, and Xiao Liu have not only been responsible for the factory's production issues during this time, but Zhang Yi also assigned them the task of developing the Aerodynamic Bicycle production line.

However, since it has only been about ten days so far, it is not enough time to build a production line. In fact, they haven't even drawn the blueprints yet.

After these 1000 Aerodynamic Bicycles were completed, Zhang Yi immediately sent them to Huang Jie. However, just after Zhang Yi sent these Aerodynamic Bicycles, Huang Xiru immediately placed another order for five thousand units. It can be said that Huang Xiru's orders are getting bigger and bigger.

Because Huang Xiru hasn't been idle during this time either, she has not only finished dealing with all the electric bikes in her original store, but has also completed the renovation of the storefront, and even secured several distributors.

Is she going to place an order for ten thousand units next time? Zhang Yi thought to himself.

This time, Huang Jie's order was the same as the last one; she transferred the payment for these five thousand Aerodynamic Bicycles to Zhang Yi first.

In addition, due to Huang Jie's promotion of this Aerodynamic Bicycle, it has started to become popular in Hang City. Not only are Huang Xiru's physical stores selling very well, but it is said that in Huang Jie's store, hundreds of units have already been pre-ordered before the goods even arrive. One can imagine how popular this Aerodynamic Bicycle is in Hang City.

At the same time, this bicycle has also gradually become popular online, which has indirectly boosted Zhang Yi and their online sales. On the same day Zhang Yi shipped the goods to Huang Xiru, the online orders for Zhang Yi's factory exceeded ten units.

One must know that this was unimaginable before. Since Zhang Yi's factory's online store opened until now, not a single unit had been sold. Of course, this is also related to Zhang Yi and their insufficient production capacity, but it is undeniable that online sales have indeed improved.

Fortunately, when producing Huang Jie's orders, Zhang Yi produced over a hundred extra units, otherwise, they would have had to wait a few more days before shipping. However, as more and more people learn about this bicycle, Zhang Yi is certain that the remaining few dozen Aerodynamic Bicycles will not last for many days either.

After receiving the 20 million payment from Huang Jie, Zhang Yi was very excited. One must know that this is 20 million yuan! With these 20 million, his factory can expand again.

So, the first thing he did after getting this money was to order raw materials for seven thousand Aerodynamic Bicycles from the raw material manufacturers. This means that the raw materials alone cost Zhang Yi 7 million yuan. 20 million just arrived, and a little less than half is already gone, and this is just the cost of raw materials. Next, Zhang Yi's priority is to purchase machine tools, and this time, since he has enough money, Zhang Yi is going to buy machine tools from major brands, whose prices are incomparable to the machine tools Zhang Yi bought before.

These higher-performance machine tools, even domestically produced ones, cost millions of yuan per unit. If they are foreign high-performance machine tools, the price will be even higher, at least several million yuan per unit.

However, for now, Zhang Yi does not plan to buy those high-performance advanced CNC Machines from abroad. Buying domestic products is sufficient for now. After all, no matter what, he is only producing bicycles, not high-end products like cars or airplanes.

Since the price of the machine tools purchased this time is much higher, Zhang Yi only ordered six CNC Machines of different models this time. The average price of each machine is around 900,000 yuan, which is the result of the discount he received for ordering six machines at once. When ordering the machine tools, Zhang Yi specifically brought Zhang Yang with him. As an experienced Lathe Operator, he is more familiar with this aspect.

At the same time, after the machine tools and raw materials arrived, Zhang Yi rushed to the Talent Market in Zhou Tai City again to recruit relevant personnel. After all, having machine tools without operators is useless.

However, just like last time, Zhang Yi did not recruit many employees at the Talent Center this time, only less than ten people. He even only managed to recruit one or two skilled Lathe Operators, while the rest were fresh graduates from technical schools.

Since recruiting employees was too difficult, after returning to Xian County, Zhang Yi immediately went to the Talent Market in Xian County, hoping to try his luck there and see if he could recruit the talent he desired. However, the result still disappointed him; he did not recruit the talent he wanted.

In a fit of anger, Zhang Yi directly recruited nearly twenty to thirty Apprentice workers at the Talent Center. Zhang Yi even offered these Apprentice workers a higher salary than Apprentice workers in other factories. Zhang Yi promised these Apprentice workers a basic salary of at least three thousand during their apprenticeship, and their salary would increase as their skills improved.

One must know that the monthly salary in other factories in Xian County is only around three thousand, such as in Arts and Crafts Factories, and this is only achievable for skilled workers.

However, Zhang Yi offered such a high salary to these people during their apprenticeship, which is very generous. However, Zhang Yi also placed some restrictions on these people, which is that they must sign a contract with Zhang Yi for at least three years. He does not want these people to learn skills in his factory and then benefit others.

After Zhang Yi brought these people back to the Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory, he immediately arranged for masters to guide them. Of course, most of these people followed Xiao Hua and the others. It can be said that after these people arrived, basically every Lathe Operator in the entire factory was guiding one to two Apprentice workers, especially skilled workers like Zhang Yang.

Back in the office, Zhang Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had been running around for the past few days and was exhausted, but no matter what, he finally found enough operators for these machine tools. Although most of them were Apprentice workers, they were still operators, weren't they?

At this time, Zhang Yi only had over six million yuan left. Fortunately, since the factory had only been operating for ten days, Zhang Yi did not have to worry about employee salaries and utility bills for the time being. However, this does not mean that this money can stay in Zhang Yi's hands, as there are too few skilled workers in the factory now, and the Product Research and Development Department needs to develop the production line for this bicycle.

Therefore, Zhang Yi had to enter the Scholar Hiring System again to hire scholars from within. And this time, Zhang Yi is not only planning to hire scholars in the mechanical industry, but also plans to hire scholars in the Electrical Industry and Industrial Software Technology.

Of course, if conditions permit, Zhang Yi would also like to hire more types of scholars, but this is obviously impossible. He cannot use all the money to hire scholars; the factory must have a certain amount of working capital for emergencies.

In reality, talents in Industrial Software Technology can still be recruited in reality if Zhang Yi offers a high enough salary. There are already many talents in the computer field in society now. However, for the sake of trust and skills, Zhang Yi is still more willing to hire scholars from the system.

After all, he knows that he does not have to worry about the scholars hired from the system betraying him. Even if the scholars from the system are unhappy living here and want to resign or terminate the employment relationship, Zhang Yi does not worry that they will leak company secrets. They can only return to their own universe and will not cause any trouble for the employer.

Moreover, the scholars in the system, in their respective fields of expertise, even a beginner scholar has already surpassed the vast majority of talents in the same industry. This is something that people recruited in reality cannot compare to.