Chapter 32: Under One Roof
Along the way, Lao Qi was thirsty, and three cups of tea were drunk one after another. looked at it and didn't speak, and continued to make tea in an old-fashioned way.
Lao Qi raised a cup of tea, thought for a moment, looked at Lao Fang and said seriously: "Lao Fang, there are at least a few thousand acres of cherries in your mountain, and it will take four or five thousand tons to harvest them all, right? On the way down the mountain, I have carefully checked and tasted them, and the fruits of these cherries are good, and most of them will not ripen until ten days later." In this mountainous area of central Yunnan, tens of thousands of acres of cherries may be planted scattered in the mountains. Cherries are not uncommon in the countryside, and they are found in front of and behind their houses. The local urban population in central Yunnan is only a few hundred thousand, and the urban population is too small for the market to digest. The largest consumption of cherries in the vicinity depends on those foodies in Spring City, and there are not a few cherries planted around Spring City, and they can't digest much. Cherries are too seasonal, the consumption cycle is too concentrated and too short, and it is impossible to eat too many good things in a short period of time, right?
"I've tried it, and I've tried what Taobao and Tesco are popular now, but the effect is not ideal. The cost of preservation is too high, and the rate of bad fruit is high, so it is not as good as cherries. Ship it out and sell it, get close to the price that can't be sold, not enough transportation costs and toss into those labor money. There is a long delay on the road, and the freshness period has passed, and there is too much damage that no one wants, and whoever gets it will die. Those people who pour cherries only dare to pour around the production area within a day's drive, and often can't sell them on the same day and have to dump them themselves. Lao Fang's voice was very solemn.
"We have a lot of Caiyun mountains, and there are not a few cherries planted in various places, and it is not a matter of tossing in the province for a long time, and there is not much room for this tossing...... Otherwise, Lao Fang, you can organize a dozen or so of you in the Cherry Association who have a good game, a good reputation for the fruit, and a young and clever one. Cherries in the northern part of the province will not be gradually listed until May, more than a month later than our Caiyun side. Let's take advantage of the fact that the northern provinces have not yet produced fresh fruits, and get these cherries to the big cities of the northern provinces to find those foodies to sell. It will only take ten days to prepare, just when the central Yunnan region is ripe and indiscriminate, let's ......" Lao Qi's thoughts ran far, far away, and he talked about his ideas to himself.
"Hey, hey, old Qi, it's useless. I know you're well-intentioned, but you're not from our circle and don't know anything about Cherry at all. This cherry long-distance traffic is not easy to do, the most troublesome is the preservation of large quantities of long-distance transportation, the other links are ready-made, and it is good to coordinate. Lao Fang interrupted Lao Qi's incomprehensible words, with a helpless face.
"Lao Fang, I will solve the cherry preservation link, and it is no problem how long to keep the cherries fresh. Lao Qi had the space for the ring and the confidence to say this, so he couldn't hold it back, and impulsively watched Lao Fang say what he could keep fresh. As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Qi regretted that he wanted to give himself a few mouths, how old a person is, he still can't control his mouth.
"Really, it doesn't take a long shelf life, as long as it can be kept fresh for 10 days, there is no problem in long-distance trafficking. Just the amount of three or five thousand tons in our mountains is consumed by one or two big cities in the north, and those cities have a casual population of millions and so many foodies, and the average person does not get a few. ”
Lao Fang slapped his thigh and stood up, excitedly walking around the log coffee table. didn't be happy for a while, Lao Fang suddenly stood up and turned around, looked at Lao Qi, who was sitting there drinking tea and contemplation, with a suspicious face, hesitated for a moment, and still asked: "Lao Qi, I know that you are well-informed and know more than me." However, how do you solve this matter of preserving? Don't make the cost too high to outweigh the losses, you don't want to use a refrigerated truck to transport it over? It's useless, we've tried it a long time ago, and the cost can't stand it. ”
Lao Qi took a sip of tea, said the words, spilled the water, didn't care, secretly made up his mind, looked at Lao Fang and said solemnly: "Refrigerated trucks for long-distance trafficking of cherries? Hey, I really can't afford it, and I haven't paid attention to that model." My preservation technology is biotechnology technology, the fresh-treated cherries, do not damage the quality of the fruit, but also extend the natural preservation period to more than ten days, the real high-tech, said you this kind of mountain king does not understand. Believe me, you organize the supply of goods, to ensure quality and quantity in small boxes scattered storage, and then use standard boxes to avoid crushing. Just use the 5X8 40kg packaging specifications that you usually ship to Spring City for trafficking, and don't crush it yourself. ”
Lao Qi stood up and walked around the big coffee table and said, the more he talked, the more high-spirited he became, and he felt that this was a trick. Finally stopped, looked at the old party and asked, "By the way, how much can you prepare in two days?"
The old man looked at his orchard with his hands on his waist, estimating the progress and quantity of the harvest, "Thirty tons, no, I am inviting more people to harvest together, fifty tons is no problem."
"It's a ghost, it's hard to toss around with money and money, prepare at least a thousand tons of goods, and take it away at one time to get a head. Once a week, we select five big cities, and each city sends a group of sales staff to contact the wholesaler first, and then talk about the order. Lao Qi was angry, and after talking for a long time, the two of them had different starting points of thought.
"1,000 tons, according to the price of these few days bulk purchase, a ton to collect more than 10,000 yuan, labor costs, packaging and transportation costs can be slowed down, at least 145 million purchase money, as well as long-distance freight, storage costs...... At least 15 million start-up funds are required to advance the purchase funds. Alas, Lao Qi, I don't have the money to make it that big. Or...... Let's do less, try one or two hundred tons first?" Lao Fang looked at Lao Qi with a helpless and expectant expression.
"Whatever you want, you first let those people who toss cherries contact the big cities in the north through the Internet to see the wholesale market. By the way, when contacting, we should make a special statement that we are responsible for delivering them to the local area one by one to ensure the freshness and taste of the cherry fruit. Lao Qi was a little annoyed, and his voice was a little loud.
Lao Qi is now a poor ghost, and he has no money, so he is helpless. It's really like in that special era, the old man in the village who was cut off his tail because he took the capitalist road to sell eggs, and then he has been crazy and shouts when he meets people - capitalism, capitalism, with capital will he make up his mind?
"There is no need to contact, in those big cities in Shencheng, Beijing, the wholesale price of local cherries is at least thirty or forty yuan a kilogram before the market, and it is sold at seventy or eighty, and in some places more than 100 can be sold, and the market has been similar in recent years. "Lao Fang knows the market very well, but they can see it in the northern market, they can't eat it, and they are just anxious to see their cherries all over the mountains.
Hearing Lao Fang's words, Lao Qi's thoughts became clearer, he didn't work in vain in all those years in a large enterprise, besides, after living for half a life, he still accumulated a lot of lessons and lessons, and he didn't live in vain.