Chapter 48: Change
General Manager Fan, who had completely become a hands-off boss, finally knew the many conveniences brought by having a professional manager.
The authorizations from Xinghai with many battery industry enterprises, after handing these matters over to Jin Qiaoying, proceeded extremely quickly.
After completing this matter, Jin Qiaoying even personally went one by one to take over the ten factories that Deli Electric Power used for compensating Xinghai’s losses.
These factories were transferred to Xingyun Manufacturing under the form of Xinghai’s capital injection, and Yun Yin still held her position as General Manager of Xingyun.
It’s just that her shares had been diluted to a pitiful 2%, but she had no dissatisfaction at all; from another perspective, the value of her shares had risen considerably compared to the initial 5%.
She even knew that if Xinghai’s shares in Xingyun Manufacturing were separately stripped out, the asset scale of Xingyun Manufacturing had already far exceeded that of Xinghai Technology.
Moreover, Fan Ren and the newly appointed General Manager Jin Qiaoying had no objections at all to her position.
This was enough to keep her from having any disloyal thoughts.
At this moment, Fan Ren sat in front of her, listening to her plan for the upcoming renovation of the next ten factories, and was already getting a bit impatient.
“General Manager Fan, General Manager Fan, are you listening?”
Fan Ren looked up, withdrew his gaze from a semiconductor book on the desk, turned it to Yun Yin, and awkwardly touched his head.
“General Manager Fan, you’re spacing out again. The upgrade and renovation plan for the factories newly taken over by Xingyun Manufacturing is urgent; regarding funds, I still hope Xinghai can prioritize us at Xingyun and do it in the form of capital injection. I’ve done the calculations, and from a long-term perspective, after upgrading and renovating the existing old factories, production capacity will increase by 50%, and production costs will also decrease greatly.”
Fan Ren knew she was right, but he thought these matters had all been handed over to Jin Qiaoying, so why had they come to him again.
“Um, General Manager Yun, what did General Manager Jin say?”
Hearing this, Yun Yin’s gaze was full of resentment as she looked at him, making Fan Ren feel completely uncomfortable all over.
“General Manager Jin said the funds have to prioritize your side first; the company needs a huge expense for constructing a laboratory next, and told me to wait a while.”
Fan Ren awkwardly touched his nose; this matter was indeed something he had greeted Jin Qiaoying about in advance.
After thinking for a bit, Fan Ren stood up and said: “Come on, go with me to General Manager Jin’s office; I have an idea that I need to see if she can agree to it.”
He then took the lead and walked out.
Although Yun Yin was puzzled about the idea Fan Ren mentioned, she still stood up and followed him out of the office.
Jin Qiaoying’s office was not far from Fan Ren’s side; even at Fan Ren’s request, her office decoration and size were much better than his.
Inside the office was laid high-end carpet, with simple yet elegant decoration that made one feel relaxed both physically and mentally upon entering.
The current Jin Qiaoying was quite strange; her entire style had changed dramatically; previously, she always wore black outfits.
But now she had suddenly switched to white uniform attire.
Although the reason was unknown, it had to be said that the pure white women’s suit on her made her skin appear even fairer and more translucent.
Fan Ren withdrew his gaze from the gold-rimmed glasses she was wearing, his heart pounding.
As if sensing his gaze, a hint of smile flashed at the corner of Jin Qiaoying’s mouth, then she turned her gaze to Yun Yin.
“General Manager Yun, it’s really not that I’m withholding Xinghai’s funds and unwilling to release them; General Manager Fan is right here, ask him what he says.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren quickly nodded, not refuting these words.
Yun Yin’s gaze moved back and forth between the two; she always felt like these two were about to play good cop, bad cop.
“General Manager Jin is like this; I have an idea, listen to how feasible it is.”
Jin Qiaoying nodded, indicating for Fan Ren to speak.
Fan Ren’s idea was to take this opportunity to spin off the battery department and assign it to Xingyun Manufacturing. And have Xinghai authorize it with the production patent for solid-state batteries, completely handing the battery business over to Xingyun Manufacturing to produce and sell themselves.
The patent fee could be appropriately discounted.
This way, Xingyun’s revenue methods wouldn’t have to rely solely on manufacturing orders from Xinghai, while Xinghai as the parent company would only handle revenue from pure technology patents.
It’s just that in this case, Xinghai’s cash cow money-making ability in hand would decrease quite a bit.
But if not done this way, Xingyun Manufacturing’s development would be limited by Xinghai Technology for a long time.
The revenue obtained solely from manufacturing orders would also limit its development speed after all.
Yun Yin’s eyes lit up.
Now she wasn’t too concerned about her own shares anymore; if Fan Ren’s suggestion could be realized, then Xingyun Manufacturing would no longer be a pure manufacturing processing plant.
Instead, it would be a production manufacturing company backed by Xinghai Technology for technical support and having its own qualifications for battery manufacturing and sales.
But just handing this piece of fat meat from Xinghai over to her like this, she felt it was a bit unrealistic.
Fan Ren truly didn’t care about these things.
This way, only the High-Voltage Radio Department would remain within the company, and Xinghai could more easily focus its energy on technology research and development.
As for large revenues going to Xingyun Manufacturing, that was irrelevant; after all, Xingyun Manufacturing was controlled by Xinghai Technology—it was just money moving from left pocket to right pocket.
Moreover, with Xinghai holding the technology patent revenue, for every 1 kWh of solid-state battery that appeared on the market, Xinghai would get 300 yuan in revenue.
The proposal to give Xingyun Manufacturing independence would absolutely allow its development to be less constrained.
Jin Qiaoying fell into thought; Fan Ren’s suggestion was a bit sudden, but it didn’t conflict too much with his previous proposal to spin off independent battery and High-Voltage Radio companies.
It was just reducing the previously decided three independent subsidiaries to two by assigning battery manufacturing to Xingyun Manufacturing.
This way, she could relax quite a bit too; afterward, she only needed to work on spinning off the High-Voltage Radio Department.
“General Manager Yun, what do you think?”
She tossed the question to Yun Yin; after all, Yun Yin was the person involved, and honestly, whether Yun Yin could seize the opportunity and use the solid-state battery this money-making weapon to rapidly develop Xingyun Manufacturing—that was the core issue.
Fan Ren also turned his gaze to her; facing the gazes from these two, Yun Yin had no hesitation at all.
“General Manager Fan, don’t forget, I also have shares in Xingyun, worth several hundred million; although the shareholding is getting smaller, the money is increasing.”
As Yun Yin spoke, she couldn’t help but laugh, then her expression turned serious.
“General Managers Fan and Jin, you two can rest assured; this way I won’t have to come to Xinghai to bother you every few days; I guarantee to use the fastest speed with battery revenue to complete the upgrade and renovation of this batch of factories.”
Pausing for a moment, she added a bit embarrassedly: “It’s just that for the upgrade and renovation project, we’ll still need technical support from Xinghai’s side.”
This was perfectly reasonable; helping Xingyun Manufacturing was helping Xinghai itself.
Jin Qiaoying nodded and looked at Fan Ren: “Then shall we do it this way?”
“Arrange it this way, and I’ll give you Tang Lifai; he’s a team leader in our Research and Development Department, and the team he leads focuses on battery research and development and production process.”
Jin Qiaoying shook her head, not minding these things; if the battery department was really assigned to Xingyun Manufacturing, she could relax quite a bit too.
In the future, with Xinghai Technology holding nearly 100% shares in Xingyun Manufacturing, they could just sit back and collect money.
Right then, she left Fan Ren aside and discussed details with Yun Yin, whose face was blooming with smiles.
Fan Ren quietly slipped out of the office, closed the door for them, then thought for a moment and didn’t return to his office.
He went straight to the Technical Department, knocked on Tang Lifai’s office door.
