The Eighties: From Rags to Riches 57: Initial Success
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In the year and more since his return to the south, Jiang Tao's career had truly entered the fast lane. His wholesale parts business with Boss Chen was exceptionally smooth. With quality far exceeding the market average and relatively reasonable prices, Jiang's Special Supply's high-hardness ball bearings, long-lasting capacitors, and optimized carbon brushes quickly gained a reputation in the repair industry across several southern provinces through Boss Chen's channels. Orders poured in like snowflakes, keeping Jiang Tao's "Precision Manufacturing Zone," hidden in a suburban workshop, running non-stop. Fortunately, he discovered that his Ability could slowly replenish energy by absorbing electrical power. After numerous extreme attempts, he significantly improved his control over energy and printing efficiency, barely keeping up with the growing order volume. The substantial profits and stable cash flow from the wholesale parts business gave him the confidence to plan his next steps. 0
 
Meanwhile, his collaboration with City Textile Factory's Chief Engineer Zhang on the old equipment technology renovation project was also a great success. The first batch of renovated Swiss Winding Machines performed stably and even exceeded the efficiency of some domestically produced new machines, allowing City Textile Factory to reap the benefits. Director Li and Chief Engineer Zhang vigorously promoted this collaboration experience at an industrial system conference in the city, elevating Jiang Ji Industrial's technical prowess to a new height. Soon, several factories in the city with similar outdated imported equipment approached him for technical renovation cooperation. Jiang Tao was busy but remained level-headed; he selectively accepted projects and insisted that clients provide venues and personnel support while he only supplied core technical solutions and key "repair/manufacturing" processes, ensuring profits while protecting his core secrets to the greatest extent. 0
 
With Old Master Liu overseeing the maintenance department and Wang Hao managing the renovation workshop and parts production scheduling, Jiang Tao was finally able to free himself from daily trivialities and take on more of a strategic decision-maker and resource integrator role. He also followed Lin Wei's advice to officially register "Jiang Hai Industrial Co., Ltd." Although it was still a makeshift operation consisting of a "husband-and-wife team plus an experienced master and several apprentices," it provided a more formal title that facilitated deeper collaborations with larger organizations and factories. To stabilize morale, he allocated part of the profits to give Old Liu and Wang Hao—his two right-hand men—unexpectedly large bonuses and promised them "founder shares" in the company's future development. 0
 
In contrast, the initially aggressive Southern Electric Store gradually fell silent. Although they attracted attention with trendy imported goods and an impressive storefront, they ultimately could not compete with Jiang Tao's depth of repair technology and service quality, which were bolstered by his Ability and engineering expertise. Especially in high-end repairs and complex issues, they repeatedly hit walls, even facing complaints for damaging customers' items during repairs. Coupled with their operating costs being much higher than Jiang Ji's and lacking a stable source of high-quality parts like Jiang Tao's, they eventually had to scale back operations, abandoning their repair services entirely to become a pure appliance sales store. The once formidable "strong dragon" from the south ultimately could not overpower Jiang Tao—a local powerhouse rooted in solid technology. 0
 
 
 
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