1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Making money in this age without the Internet is not as easy as it was in the previous life.

Just a "ding" sound.

 The money has arrived.

Ordinary people commonly use letter transfer or wire transfer. Li Duoyu also sent money to Li Xiaorong, who was studying abroad.

Xinhui is relatively cheaper. After you give the money to the savings bank, the other party will give you a remittance slip.

Send the remittance slip in an envelope and ask the other party to pick it up with the remittance slip.

 But in this era, remittances take a long time, and it often takes more than a week or two to get the money.

　In addition, the procedures are troublesome and the handling fees are extremely expensive. Many people like to secretly stuff money into envelopes and send them directly.

As for wire transfer, after you deposit the money, the staff will send the remittance information by telegram. This method of summary is faster, but the handling fee is also more expensive.

However, for a large order like Li Duoyu's, and because the Rongcheng aquatic product processing plant is state-owned, it would be even more troublesome to first transfer the money to his Minlong Food company account. Only a regulated agreement will do.

 Next,

 Li Duoyu signed a [Clove Fish Purchase Agreement] with factory director Liu Zhengyuan.

  Immediately afterwards,

 The people at the aquatic product processing factory have to go to the savings bank to handle the remittance and give the remittance receipt to Li Duoyu.

 But even if he got the remittance receipt, Li Duoyu couldn't get the money immediately because the remittance took a long time.

 Especially for such a large amount of money, it must undergo strict scrutiny.

 In short, in this age without the Internet, bank transfers and the like are really not as useful as cash.

 After both parties sign the agreement.

Factory director Liu Zhengyuan stretched out his hand and said: "It's a pleasure to cooperate. I will ask the finance department to remit the money immediately. It may take more than a week to arrive."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "It seems that this time, I have to let the villagers give me a cushion first."

“That shouldn’t be the case. Those of us who have export operations still know how much money you made from the batch of eels you exported.”

Li Duoyu grinned: "Director Liu, I really have no money. The little money I earned was all invested."

Liu Zhengyuan gave him a look of disdain: "We are all one of our own, so you don't need to complain about poverty with me or do business with me. You can rest assured that I will not miss you a penny of the money that should be given to you."

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "With your words, I feel relieved. This small business of mine cannot withstand big winds and waves."

 While Li Duoyu and Factory Director Liu were signing the supplementary agreement, more than two hundred baskets of cloves had been unloaded from the ship.

 Li Duoyu looked at his watch.

 At about nine o'clock in the morning, the tide had already receded by half, and the pier of Dandan Island was not well drafted. At this time, it was impossible to go back and transport the remaining two hundred baskets of cloves.

 It would have to wait at least seven hours before the tugboats of the uncle and the third uncle could dock.

The uncle, third uncle, and Liu Yun all decided to wait here, which seemed like a waste of time.

Just learned that Director Liu will continue to purchase cloves, and they don’t want to waste time. After all, the season is about to go out, and this kind of money-making opportunity only comes across once in several years.

“There are many fish, let’s go to Ding Bay to catch two nets of cloves, and when the tide comes in, we will bring you the remaining cloves. What do you think?”

“Okay, I’m sorry to bother you. I’ll settle the shipping costs with you later.”

"We are all our own people. We all rely on you to make money now, so there is no need to calculate the freight."

Li Duoyu said seriously: "That won't work. One stroke after another. The more one is one of our own, the more clearly we have to figure it out."

 Seeing Li Duoyu’s resolute attitude.

The third uncle nodded and said: "Okay, let's go first. Around five o'clock in the afternoon, we will send the remaining cloves to Qingkou Wharf."

Liu Yun also waved his hand and said: "Brother Yu, let's go first."

 On the shrimp fishing boat, Liu Yun said with emotion:

“Brother, your cousin is really powerful. I didn’t expect that even Director Liu would be so polite to him.”

Li Shuguang sighed. If he knew that Li Duoyu had a good relationship with many leaders in Rongcheng, he would probably be frightened out of his wits.

But Li Shuguang always felt a little inconsistent and uncomfortable. Duoyu has changed too much in the past two years.

“Two years ago, Duoyu was just as bad as you were before.”

"Really?"

Liu Yun said excitedly: "So, Brother Yu and I are really similar. Maybe I will be as successful as him in the future."

Li Shuguang rolled his eyes at him: "Dream on you."

“Brother, I have decided that when I make more money, I will move to Dandan Island.”

“It’s better not to come here and stay in Nanri Town.”

 “Why don’t you let me come?”

“You talk too much, and it’s annoying you to death. Besides, you had your sentence reduced by reporting Xiao Weidong, so you’re not afraid that he will fight you tooth and nail after he comes out.”

Liu Yun snorted: "I'm afraid of his hammer. This guy still owes me a lot of money. If it weren't for him, how would I dare to steal Brother Yu's oysters."

“You are talking about Brother Yu now, as if you are very familiar with him.”

Liu Yun scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "I'm not very familiar with it now. As long as I move to Dandan Island, I will be familiar with it."

 “You really have to come over.”

“Well, actually it was my parents who asked me to come here. They said your island has a better atmosphere and asked me to come here and learn to behave.”

Li Shuguang was stunned for a moment. After he said this, it seemed that it was true.

Ever since Li Duoyu became the village director, no one in the village has gambled. Everyone seems to be busy making money.

“If you really want to come over, you can stay at my house first, but if you plan to stay for a long time, you have to buy a place and build a house.”

“I think it’s okay. It just so happens that Lilac Fish made a lot of money this time, so I can buy a place and build a house.”

Li Shuguang sighed. To be honest, he was a little jealous. This time, his cousin really made a lot of money.

His shrimp fishing boat is the most suitable for catching cloves, even his father and third uncle’s trawler can’t catch him.

"However, I heard from Duoyu that our island seems to be building a new pier. Maybe you can build your house next to the new pier."

 “Really, then I won’t be in a hurry.”

Liu Yun chuckled and said, "By the way, brother, if I want to come to your island, can you introduce me to someone first?"

Li Qingguang, who had not spoken much on the boat, suddenly said with envy: "You should go back to Nanri Town. There are many bachelors on our island, so don't come here to join in the fun."

Liu Yun frowned and looked at Li Qingguang, then grinned and said, "Qingguang, if you are so nervous, you must have someone you like."

 Li Qingguang blushed: "No."

“No, why are you nervous? Tell me which one it is, and I promise not to compete with you.”

 “People don’t like people like you.”

 “Still saying no?”

After the cloves were unloaded at the dock, workers at the processing plant moved the cloves to the warehouse. Their staff wanted to select the cloves again.

  What they didn’t expect was.

The quality of each basket of cloves is super good. It can be said that each clove is clean and complete, fully meeting the export standards required by the factory.

 It took more than an hour. After the inspection, a quality inspector reported to Liu Zhengyuanhui:

"Director Liu, this batch of clove fish is very good and fully meets the export standards. We don't need to continue to select." After hearing this, Liu Zhengyuan couldn't believe it. He checked it in person. He thought Li Duoyu showed it to him. , probably the best baskets.

What he didn’t expect was that the two hundred or so baskets unloaded were all of the same quality.

In all the years he has been purchasing seafood, this is the first time he has seen someone able to control quality to an export level.

Liu Zhengyuan suddenly fell into deep thought. Previously, he thought that Li Duoyu was just lucky and got to know the leader by accident, which was why the journey was so smooth.

Now he has completely changed his mind. People who can be valued by big leaders are indeed not ordinary people.

 “It’s really awesome!”

Liu Zhengyuan has long been prepared to suffer losses in the foreign trade of cloves. Five yuan is not only his base price, but also the purchase price of the island country.

In other words, even if this order is completed, the processing factory will not make any money, and may have to pay a lot of money.

 Due to normal circumstances, after Li Duoyu’s batch of cloves arrived, he had to re-select them according to export standards.

According to past export experience, the selection loss is at least one-quarter, and it may be even higher.

He had already calculated it before. Even if he did not calculate the labor force, he would lose one yuan for every pound of cloves he bought. The more he bought, the greater the loss would be. It was a profit at a loss.

 But the superiors also put a lot of pressure on him. He had to earn foreign exchange orders even if he lost money.

 It sounds easy to say it, but if you really lose money, the organization will not protect you, and in the end it will still be the factory's profits that will be lost.

To be honest, he has been having a lot of headaches recently with these foreign trade orders. No one would believe him if he told me that he was losing money on almost every order.

 Fortunately, he met a conscientious supplier like Li Duoyu, which allowed him to reduce losses.

Factory Director Liu looked around and asked the quality inspector, "Director Li, where are you?"

 “It seems like you are visiting our factory.”

Liu Zhengyuan didn't take a few steps before he found Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao who were visiting the factory.

“Director Li, our quality inspector has been praising your clove fish, saying that it directly meets the export standards.”

Li Duoyu replied: "That's right. Director Liu gave us such a good price. If I try to fool him again, it would be a bit unjustifiable."

Liu Zhengyuan said with emotion: "If every businessman was as sensible as Director Li, business would be easy to do."

 Li Duoyu smiled and didn’t say much. Everyone makes money in different ways.

 He is not a very smart person, nor is he good at communication. If he wants to get along in this circle, the only thing he can do well is honesty and reliability.

“Director Liu, your processing plant seems to have expanded a lot compared to the one when it was just built, with several new assembly lines added.”

Liu Zhengyuan sighed: "There are a few new lines of worry."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. Seeing Director Liu's expression, it seemed that there was something to the story.

“Director Li, if you want to visit, let me introduce it to you.”

“The production line in front of us is dedicated to making rat fish, mainly spicy flavor. This product sells very well in the mainland.”

“This one is for canned sardines, mainly exported to Southeast Asia, as well as dace with black bean sauce and clam meat.”

But what makes Li Duoyu even more curious is that the current processing plants are quite standardized. Employees not only wear hats and masks, but also gloves.

 This is quite rare for this era. Generally, only island countries have such strict requirements.

“Director Liu, have you gone out to study recently? Why are everyone wearing masks and hats?”

When Li Duoyu asked, Liu Zhengyuan didn't bother to put on leadership airs. He directly regarded Li Duoyu as a friend and started to complain.

“Oh, I’m not afraid to tell you, it’s not okay if it’s not standardized.”

"Previously, our factory made a foreign trade order for export to an island country. I don't know what happened. One employee's fingernail fell into a can. When the supplier from the island country found out, he returned the entire batch of goods. return."

“It’s just a fingernail. Is it such an exaggeration?” Li Duoyu looked surprised.

In fact, he thinks it is normal for a whole batch to be returned. For the island country in the 1980s, let alone a fingernail in a can, even if there is even a hair, the entire batch may be returned to you.

Director Liu sighed with emotion: "Isn't it? I thought it was easy to do business with them, but it turned out that it is really difficult. If there is anything unqualified, I will call you back directly. This is why I have to check Lilac again." The reason for the fish.”

"It's understandable." Li Duoyu smiled. If his fingernail fell into the can, it might be just a small thing in China.

 In this day and age, you may not even be compensated and you will have to consider yourself unlucky.

 But in the island country, if fingernails appear in cans, it is a big deal for a food company.

 If things go wrong, the company may fall into a public relations crisis, and in the worst case, it may be forced to go bankrupt.

When he was working illegally, because a hair accidentally fell into a rice ball, the store manager pulled him out and apologized repeatedly. In the end, he simply shaved his head.

At this time, Liu Zhengyuan greeted a young man in work clothes from the factory.

 “Xiao Qi, come over here.”

 A young man came to Liu Zhengyuan: "Director, do you want me to do anything?"

Liu Zhengyuan said: "Aren't you shouting all day long that you want to see the village director of Xiasha Village? He is right in front of you now."

The young man looked at Li Duoyu in front of him in surprise, and extended his hands enthusiastically: "Teacher Li, I have admired your name for a long time, and I finally meet you in person."

 “Hello.” Li Duoyu was frightened by the enthusiasm of the man in front of him. Why did he call him teacher?

Maybe he is from Ludao. I know he taught at the Fisheries Science and Technology School.

Liu Zhengyuan said: "Director Li, let me introduce to you, Liu Xiaoqi, a talent our factory has just recruited who has returned from studying abroad. He is mainly responsible for foreign trade work. He seems to have always admired you."

 Worship me?

  ? ? ?

Li Duoyu is very puzzled. In this era, the talents who have returned from studying abroad are completely at the top of the pyramid.

Even graduates from Tsinghua and Peking University are not enough in front of them. Such people actually worship themselves.

What Li Duoyu didn’t expect was that Liu Xiaoqi in front of him took out a black folding wallet.

He took out a photo from it, and this photo was very familiar to Li Duoyu. It was a photo of him and President Kojima Kawao taking a photo with a tuna weighing more than 600 kilograms.

“Teacher Li, I cut this photo out of a magazine. I heard your story when I was in Nagasaki. It’s really amazing. You can catch such a big tuna.”

Li Duoyu's brain is a little buzzing. This Liu Xiaoqi is indeed very handsome and handsome. He should be the kind that girls like very much.

Even when talking to him, many female workers secretly looked this way.

 But such a handsome turtle actually has a photo of himself in his wallet.

I don’t know why, but it always feels a bit awkward, although in this day and age, everyone does put some photos of their favorite celebrities in their wallets.

 But he is not a star.

 Why are you showing his picture? Besides, I don’t know him well at all.

Liu Xiaoqi continued: "Teacher Li, actually we met when we were in Nagasaki."

Li Duoyu couldn't remember this person at all.

“When you went to Nagasaki for inspection, I was a student at Nagasaki Fisheries School. At that time, you discussed oyster farming with my teacher.”

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment, and thought about it carefully several times, and finally remembered that when he went to Nagasaki Fisheries School, there was indeed a good-looking male classmate who kept giggling at him and waving to him.

 At that time, Li Duoyu thought he was that kind and didn't want to talk to him at all. He didn't expect that he turned out to be an international student in China.

"It is you."

Liu Xiaoqi said excitedly: "Teacher Li, you finally remembered me."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I was too busy at that time, so I didn't say hello to you."

 “It’s okay, I understand.” (End of chapter)