Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

No money, but raw materials?

After hearing this answer, Li Jiacheng felt like he wasn't even a processing factory. If that was the case, then wasn't he just a trafficker?

"Mr. Zeng, please forgive me for being so presumptuous!" Li Jiacheng said with an awkward smile, "Since Mr. Zeng has flowers, he should not be short of raw materials. I don't understand why you do this."

"The reason is very simple. I'll tell you!" Zeng Wangcai had naturally thought of the answer to this question, so he said very naturally, "My supplier is very stubborn. He only wants to give me the finished product, not the raw materials. And I need this urgently. But don't worry, I won't make anything else after I get the raw materials. I will just ship it away."

"Transport away? Transport to where?" Li Jiacheng was still on guard against this.

"Yangcheng Port!"

"Yangcheng...it turns out Mr. Zeng is from the mainland."

"Of course, Mr. Zeng is not from the mainland?"

"Uh......"

In fact, Zeng Wangcai is a little disgusted with the words "mainland" or "mainland". What he dislikes is not the reference of the two words themselves, but the attitude of people outside this place when using these two words.

How should I put it, there's a natural sense of superiority!

However, Li Jiacheng did not have this sense of superiority at this time, or it could be said that most people here had not yet developed this sense of superiority.

Li Jiacheng naturally wouldn't say anything about this, because Zeng Wangcai was right, his situation was the same as Zeng Wangcai's.

"Mr. Zeng is so courageous. He came here alone and built such a big business in such a short time. I really envy him..." Li Jiacheng exclaimed.

His envy was genuine, because he had suffered a lot since coming to Jiangdao, and had worked as a waiter in a restaurant. And because of this, he knew that it was not easy to rise here in a short period of time.

"From this point of view, we are fellow villagers, but let's not talk about this, let's talk about business first!" Zeng Wangcai poured tea for the few people again and said, "I am very sincere. I will provide Mr. Li with finished plastic flowers, and Mr. Li will be responsible for sales. I will not interfere with matters related to sales channels and sales prices.

"All I want is for Mr. Li to give me the same weight of raw materials and add a certain price difference. This condition is not difficult to imagine with Mr. Li's ability. I am very sincere."

When Li Jiacheng heard Zeng Wangcai's cooperation plan, his mouth opened slightly, and he was finally so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

To him, Zeng Wangcai's proposal did not show sincerity, but was simply... giving away money.

By exchanging the materials of the same weight, Li Jiacheng got a huge bargain. It would be no problem for him to pay a little more for the difference. How much cost did he save?

"I... don't understand. Even though we are fellow villagers, Mr. Zeng's care is too great. If Mr. Zeng can provide enough plastic flowers." Li Jiacheng was more cautious and worried that Zeng Wangcai might not provide enough, so he reminded him indirectly.

"Don't worry, I'll have as much as you can sell!" Zeng Wangcai said arrogantly, "However, for our first cooperation, I have only one requirement that cannot be changed. I need a whole shipload of raw materials. I hope Mr. Li can help me with that."

The first thing he did was to use boats as units, because Zeng Wangcai didn't want to shovel in pounds by pounds, it would be too tiring.

Li Jiacheng hesitated for a while after hearing this, and then made the decision: "Deal!"

"Great!" Zeng Wangcai laughed and stood up to shake hands with Li Jiacheng. "One last question. Mr. Li, you need to help me find a boat. To be honest, I don't have a way to transport my stuff back now."

This is the truth, mainly referring to the legal way.

Zeng Wangcai has a boat, but no one to drive it, so the materials will have to be transshipped at the port. Of course, if Li Jiacheng can find a ship that can transport them directly, the transshipment process can be saved, but Zeng Wangcai thinks this is basically impossible.

"This is not difficult. If you have money, everything is easy!" After reaching a cooperation intention, Li Jiacheng became cheerful. "Even if we don't find the shipping king, there are plenty of people in Jiangdao who can do this business. As long as Mr. Zeng has someone to take over there and pay enough money."

"The money is not a big problem. Please help me contact him, Mr. Li." Zeng Wangcai is confident now. Not to mention other businesses, even this store has a considerable daily turnover.

The biggest cost for other people to open a store is the cost of the goods themselves, but Zeng Wangcai doesn’t need that. He only needs to pay the salaries of Linghua’s employees.

Even the house is not considered a cost, and the money paid to the rubber fish every month is nothing at all.

After reaching a cooperation agreement, Li Jiacheng and the other two left.

Along the way, Li Jiacheng overturned one of his own judgments. He had previously judged that Zeng Wangcai's things were smuggled, and if they were smuggled, there must be a way and a boat. Now Zeng Wangcai asked him for a boat, which means that the possibility of smuggling is not high.

But this brought new troubles to Li Jiacheng. Where did Zeng Wangcai's goods come from?

......

The summer in Jiangdao is also hot, but the conditions in Tiandi Grocery Store are much better than other places.

At the entrance of the shop, two large, simple and crude large-blade fans blow out cool air for free. The ice water bucket hanging behind the fan lowers the air temperature and then blows it out through the fan blades.

Fans like this are found in every corner of the grocery store, which means that even though the store does not have air conditioning, it is much cooler than outside.

This resulted in high traffic at the grocery store. At the beginning of the month, although the grocery store had only been open for more than 20 days, less than a month, its reputation had soared just as Li Jiacheng had said.

At this time, not only people in Yau Ma Tei would shop at the grocery store, but even people from far away would take the minibus to come here, because the money saved by buying things at the grocery store was more than the bus fare.

There are many smart people in Jiangdao. After learning that there was a popular shop in Temple Street, they came here to learn from it and wanted to imitate and copy it.

But after research, they found that it could not be replicated.

First, there is no way to find so many goods, and even if I find them, I can't offer such a favorable price;

Secondly, with such a big business, it is not easy to deal with the people on the ground, and they have to get bribes from both the black and white worlds. They cannot do what Zeng Wangcai did, who dealt with the police station in Yau Ma Tei and the underground controller of Temple Street.

But some people are creative and have created small versions, such as fresh food supermarkets, but the result is that they are doomed to fail to expand.

Zeng Wangcai has two things to do today. The first is that he has to pay salaries to his employees. It was agreed that the previous month's salaries would be paid on the 5th of every month. The second is that Yau Tsim Mong District Inspector Zhuang Hui wants to bring someone to look at cars.

(Note: Change the setting. An old man reminded that there is no inspector system here at this time. The Chinese only have inspectors. Then Zhuang Hui is no longer an inspector. He is changed to district inspector. He is the follower of Chief Chinese Inspector Li Le. He listens to people's advice and eats his fill.)

At exactly five o'clock in the afternoon, Zeng Wangcai notified Dayang.

Before that, all the employees in the store were notifying customers that the store would open at 5 o'clock sharp.

The grocery store closed one door and left only the other door open. There were more than 30 employees at the door, and Linghua and all his younger brothers were outside.

Zeng Wangcai wanted to pay salaries in front of everyone to tell them that they could earn high salaries even if they didn't become gangsters.

But the most important purpose was that he wanted Xigoupan, who was secretly spying on him, to see how many people were under Linghua, who now controlled Temple Street, and to let Xigoupan's subordinates see that they would never be able to make it if they followed Xigoupan.

That’s right, many of Xigoupan’s people have recovered and have recently been making moves to regain control of Temple Street.

"Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet!" Xiao Bao shouted, "Listen to Brother Cai and pay your salary!"

The scene fell silent instantly!

"Everyone worked hard last month, and today is the day to pay salaries!" Zeng Wangcai patted the suitcase beside him, "The money is ready, everyone listen to me, you didn't work for a full month last month, but I decided to pay you the full salary based on a month..."