Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

Lao Lu spent a few days wandering around Harbin and went to several famous dry vegetable wholesale markets.

After all, it is a provincial capital city, and every market has more than a hundred merchants, although most of them are state-owned sales points.

There are also some self-employed people here.

Wu Qiang is one of them.

His stall is at the very back of the market. Because it is so far away, most people will confirm their purchase intentions when they walk to the middle of the market, so the stalls in the middle and at the front are basically state-owned. It would be good for a self-employed person like him to have a seat. Still want a good stall? Are you dreaming?

His parents are getting older and there are many children in the family, but it is not his turn to take over.

His incident affected the whole family.

If the two younger brothers hadn't left their jobs early because their parents had left early, would they still want to work?

Although the two younger brothers have taken over, the matter of this girl has never been settled. The matchmaker asked several times and sent money. No one wanted their girl to marry into such a family.

After that, the matchmakers would always take a detour when meeting the Wu family, for fear of asking their own family to help introduce a partner.

There is one younger sister left in the family. She has just graduated from high school and is among the top three in her class in academic performance. However, because her eldest brother is a member of the labor force, she is not eligible to take the college entrance examination and cannot pass the political examination.

The head teacher sighed, what a pity!

Because of Wu Qiang, the family's work and life were affected.

Only when Wu Qiang returned home did he realize how much trouble he had caused! The fate of his whole family had been changed.

After coming back, I need to have a source of livelihood.

I had no choice but to find the street.

In line with the purpose of treating illnesses and saving lives, the street officials granted him a self-employed license and allowed him to set up a stall in the dry vegetable market.

It can be said that Wu Qiang is tall and thick, but he is attentive and has a flexible mind.

His stall is at the very back and cannot be reached by ordinary people.

At the moment, self-employed individuals have little strength, either in terms of supply channels or capital. At the moment, the world is dominated by state-owned units.

Self-employed individuals can only order batches of dried vegetables and sell them in piles at state-owned wholesale outlets.

Prices at state-owned sales points are fixed, there is no way to negotiate, and there is no flexibility.

Many self-employed people just use their brains on prices and leave when they see a profit as long as they don't lose money.

Wu Qiang also followed suit.

Because of his position, he is at the bottom among self-employed people.

Every month it comes down to just enough money.

He persisted like this for several months and found that he couldn't do it anymore.

You have to find a way yourself.

You must find your own purchase channels and unique sources of goods.

So he suddenly thought that there were few people in the Northeast who ate chili peppers, so few units regarded dried chili peppers as their flagship product.

What would happen if you specialized in dried chili peppers from the South?

Although there are fewer people who eat spicy food, there are still some.

Especially in the past two years, many southerners have come to Harbin, and they are big customers who eat spicy food.

Therefore, Wu Qiang went to Hunan last fall to investigate the pepper market.

Chili peppers are not worth much in these places.

In rural areas, every household has plants in front of and behind their houses. In autumn, they dry the endless peppers and save them for cooking in the winter.

Wu Qiang actually doesn’t know much about chili peppers, but one thing is that chili peppers must be hot. This is his most basic understanding.

He purchased more than a thousand kilograms of dried chili peppers at a price of five cents a kilogram.

The standards for product inspection are that they are dry, transparent, have no peculiar smell, and must be spicy when you take a bite.

The chili peppers at this moment are all spicy, so you don’t even need to bite them, you can tell by smelling them.

He checked these peppers back to Harbin from Changsha.

The shipping cost is much more expensive than chili peppers.

Thirteen hundred kilograms of Hunan peppers are piled on his stall, which is like a small mountain.

It looks very impressive.

But since the beginning of winter, there have been many people coming to see the fun, but only a handful of people buying.

Hunan chili is too spicy.

Northeasterners sneeze when they smell spicy food.

His parents kept complaining that he was not good at business.

In this attempt, the payment was only 65, but the shipping fee was only 50. Plus his own food, accommodation and round-trip transportation, he spent a small 200.

These costs are spread over 1,300 kilograms of peppers. Each kilogram of peppers costs 15 cents. Plus a little profit, they have to be sold for 20 cents.

But now the northern chili peppers sold by other stores in the market are only a fraction of the price, which is double the difference.

Wu Qiang was worried for several months.

On this day, a middle-aged man came to his stall. He was fair-skinned, tall and thin, and he spoke very politely.

"Master, this is chili pepper, Hunan chili pepper, there are no others."

"What? Hunan pepper? Really?"

The man was very surprised and said: "Bring one here, let me see."

Seeing the man's interest, Wu Qiang took one out of the chili bag and handed it to him.

The man looked at the appearance of the pepper, smelled it, then peeled it open, looked at the pepper seeds inside, touched it with his hand, put the tip of the pepper into his mouth, took a bite, and spit it on the ground.

"This chili is good, how can I sell it?"

"How much do you want?"

"Can I negotiate the price if I buy more?"

"Hey, if you want everything covered, I'll pay you the cost price."

"I'll wrap it up, how much will it cost?"

"Just, just eighteen cents."

"What if I buy it for zero?"

"It's only two cents if you buy it for free."

"oh."

The man began to ponder.

When Wu Qiang saw this, he felt a little scared.

After such a long time, a buyer finally came. If he ran away, I would regret it to my death.

He was afraid that people would misunderstand that he was selling randomly, so he quickly explained.

"Master, it's not that what I sell is expensive, but the cost is really high. I personally went to the rural areas of Hunan to collect these peppers. I have inspected the peppers from each house. You also know that from Hunan to us,

The freight is too high, plus the cost of my food, accommodation and transportation, I really don’t earn much from you, a pound is two or three cents, and there’s not much here in total.”

"How many are these?"

"About 1,300 pounds."

"Are you going to collect these after they are sold?"

"Oh, this is my first time to go to Hunan to collect peppers, and now I have lost all my money. I really don't dare to go there again."

"The peppers they dry are dried in the fall. You can harvest them in the winter. In fact, they are only available during this time of the year. There is no use in spring and summer."

"How about you make another trip and collect a few thousand more kilograms while they still have some inventory?"

"Ah? How many kilograms?"

Wu Qiang's eyes almost fell to the ground.

"Master, do you want so much?"

"I want it. In this case, let's give it up to 2 cents instead of 18 cents. I'll give you 22 cents per catty, and you can collect it. How about five thousand catties."

"Then, that's a good feeling!"

Wu Qiangle's mouth was twisted.

Lao Lu is now completely relieved.

He had been in Harbin for several days and visited several markets, but he still couldn't find the peppers he wanted.

This made him anxious.

You must know that my son has already spent 10,000 yuan on rent, and the subsequent renovation will cost more than 5,000 yuan.

All these costs have been thrown away. If there is no chili pepper, how can this fish house be opened?!

It’s so damn hard to starve to death!

Today he finally saw the chili peppers he needed at the very back of the dry goods market.

I suppressed my inner joy and started chatting with the stall owner.

Only then did I realize that this person was also a random person. If he hadn't met me, he might not have sold out all the peppers until next year.

Lao Lu saw that the stall owner was frightened by this adventure.

If I didn't order chili peppers from him, this guy would never go to collect chili peppers again.

If he doesn't accept it, what will he use for it?

He twirled the pepper seeds in his fingers. Although he wanted to try planting some in the garden in the spring, it was not safe after all.

I don’t know if the peppers I grow will work. If they are no longer spicy, or if there are other changes, the gain will outweigh the losses.

That's why he raised the price and asked this guy to continue collecting to ensure the materials he needed for his fish house.

"Master, thank you for your trust in me. Don't worry, as long as you give me a deposit, I will make another trip."

"Okay, we have to make a contract."

"That's right, I'm equivalent to your buyer."

"This is 1,300 kilograms of money, please count it."

Lao Lu counted out a stack of bills and handed them to Wu Qiang.

Wu Qiang took the banknote and felt happy.

I, Boss Wu, have finally made a fortune!

He trembled and finished counting the banknotes.

"Yes, 286 yuan, just right."

"5,000 kilograms of peppers, the payment is 1,100 yuan, I will pay you 300 yuan in advance, and you will call me when you get back."

"300?"

When Wu Qiang heard this, he felt happy.

Why? As long as this person comes to collect, he will make more than forty profits. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a huge profit!

"Okay. Let's sign the contract."

In order to gain Lao Lu's trust, he even took Lao Lu to his home.

When they learned that Lao Lu was a merchant from Beining, the Wu family also warmly received him.

We also had a meal at Wu’s house.

The two parties signed a supply contract.

I left the phone number of Director Huang’s office.

The chili peppers from the dry goods market stalls were consigned directly back to Bac Ninh.

Lu Changhua followed Director Wu to the industry and commerce department to go through the relevant procedures. It took two days for the license to be issued.

He only got a receipt.

Regarding the name of Yufu, the Lu family and his son had a serious discussion.

Finally, it was named "Boiling Fish Village".

There are not many registered hotels these days, so this name was quickly approved.

In order to thank Director Wu for his help, Lu Changhua invited him to have a meal at Hongbin Building.

Director Wu is very satisfied with Xiao Lu's attitude. He is a good comrade who understands everything and knows how to handle things.

Lu Changhua was really worried because he didn't have the license, so he waited at the Red Flag Hotel for two days.

As soon as he got his license back, his father came back.

Now the hotel is the meeting place for father and son.

Lao Lu arrived in Bac Ninh first, and the consigned goods would be about three days late.

"Changhua, we have to free up a warehouse. We are buying chili peppers."

"Ah, that's great."

"I'm going to find Director Huang."

Upon hearing this, Director Huang readily agreed and gave him a key.

"This is the key to warehouse No. 8. It was vacated yesterday."

"Thank you, director."

"Thank you, you're welcome."