Chapter 118: Dinner
On the night of May 26th, the "White Swan Hotel" was lively.
All of Hong Yanwu's friends in Huacheng gathered here.
Shui Qing not only saw Hong Yanwu's subordinates such as "Dabao", "Qiang Wu", "Li Ben'er", "Lao Gen'er", "Liangzi" and "Dezi".
I also met "Ah Hua", who had helped Hong Yanwu a lot, and met "Ah Chang", the partner of "Li Bener".
Whether it is a Beijing person or a local, the attitude towards Shui Qing and the children is very warm and kind.
Especially "Ah Hua" and "Ah Chang", because they just learned that Hong Yanwu and Shui Qing were newly married.
Not only did they say many auspicious words, but they also offered gifts.
Speaking of "Ah Hua", it is not what it used to be.
As early as half a year ago, she was not the "quality assurance" hired by Hong Yanwu.
Under the washing of the economic wave, her brain gradually became active.
Finally, he learned from others to "retire from illness", and then used his savings over the years to open a small workshop for making suitcases and bags near "Gaodi Street".
At present, the business is quite prosperous, and now there are five or six workers, which can be regarded as a small boss.
Therefore, Hong Yanwu couldn't refuse, so he could only let Shui Qing accept these two "hearts".
That's the kind of customer in the mall.
If you don't accept it, you don't give people face and don't seem to be close to people.
In the face of thick red envelopes, Shui Qing can also be calm.
No, I've seen tens of thousands of gifts, and a few hundred yuan is nothing.
However, there were other circumstances that surprised her.
First, everyone's attitude towards Hong Yanwu is completely based on his own actions.
So much so that no one dared to call Shui Qing "brother and sister".
Several people in the capital, completely ignoring the real age gap, called her "sister-in-law" in turn.
"Ah Hua" and "Ah Chang", also called her "Mrs. Hong".
It's like the dialogue in the movie, how funny.
This all shows that Hong Yanwu's status is very important in everyone's minds.
But Hong Yanwu seems to take it for granted.
His carelessness and calmness faintly reveal the temperament of a superior, which forms a strong contrast with the caution of others.
This side of him has never been felt by Shui Qing.
Second, the dining atmosphere is not quite the same as Shui Qing's imagination.
She had thought that the dinner should be made in laughter.
When everyone sees each other in different places, they should have endless words to say to each other, and the atmosphere is quite relaxed.
It's really waiting until the cold dishes are put on the table, and everyone is seated.
She was surprised to find that the atmosphere in the private room was dull and serious.
Then, when everyone spoke one by one, they discussed the reasons for the regional discrimination that Beijing people would encounter in "Gaodi Street" and how to deal with it.
Only then did she understand that she still had to talk about business at this meal.
"Dabao" didn't touch the chopsticks at all, and was the first to open his mouth.
He complained indignantly, saying that the people of "Gaudy Street" were too greedy and became more and more dissatisfied.
Not only did the price rise higher and higher, but also changed the method to mix inferior and inferior goods with him.
Fortunately, he listened to Hong Yanwu's words, and inspected them one by one every time he bought them, otherwise he wouldn't know how many times he would have been pitted.
However, the gang was even more dissatisfied because they couldn't take advantage of him.
The situation now is that the merchants of "Gaudi Street" have united to resist them.
Each company is only willing to supply them in limited quantities, and the price is also negotiated, and no one is willing to lower the price.
Therefore, it is difficult to supply goods in the capital without problems.
He was anxious that he had to find a new market to buy goods in a hurry.
It's a pity that the "Thirteen Lines" are monotonous, and the new "night market" is only a retail sale, and it really can't replace here.
If it really doesn't work, you can only pay a commission to find a merchant from another city to help you buy it, which is more cost-effective than buying directly from "Gaodi Street".
"Libener" echoed in, saying that now that the merchants of "Gaodi Street" are prosperous in trading, they don't take them very seriously.
It's too hard to talk to them about business, this is recognizing money and not people, and not thinking about friendship at all.
Because of this, when he met "Ah Chang", who had just resigned from the township garment factory, he thought of setting up his own factory so that he could directly control the source of goods.
But unlike the two of them, "Ah Hua" is considered from the perspective of the merchants of "Gao Di Street".
She tactfully persuaded each other, saying that in fact, these businesses also have their difficulties.
Now that taxes are stricter, management fees are higher, rents are expensive, and even smuggling is not as easy as before.
But "Dabao" and "Libener" are in a hurry, and they still admit to death and make the price too dead.
She tried to help mediate a few times, but the villagers blamed her for favoring the people of the capital, and she couldn't care anymore.
As a result, it is precisely because this fundamental contradiction of interests is so difficult to resolve that the situation has become worse and worse, and it has become like this.
If you want to look at her, if you want to solve this problem, I'm afraid everyone has to give way.
Harmony can make money, if Hong Yanwu, the big boss, is willing to come forward for an interview, she is willing to give up face again.
In this way, several people roughly pieced together the whole thing through different angles.
Then they all looked at Hong Yanwu and waited for him to make a decision.
But seriously, Hong Yanwu felt a little funny in his heart.
Because although this matter has nothing to do with him on the surface, in fact he is the initiator.
It was the butterfly effect he brought about that changed the original historical development trajectory that caused such trouble.
Why?
Don't forget, the first time he brought people to Huacheng was at the end of 1981.
At that time, not long after the opening of "Gaodi Street", the market was not well-known, and the merchants who came and went were people from the surrounding area.
The largest transaction made by merchants in a single transaction is only hundreds of pieces of goods and thousands of yuan.
Where is there a big businessman like them who comes in a group, often tens of thousands of yuan in transactions, and uses trains to transport goods to the capital?
Moreover, they purchase goods and sell them through the "clothing night market" for the entire capital.
So let's be honest, such a buyer with strong capital strength and continuous and stable demand did not match the business environment at that time.
Like a prehistoric monster in a fishpond, it is an economic monster that should not have appeared in this era at all.
Like at the beginning, their monthly demand can account for almost half of the monthly sales of the entire "Gaodi Street".
As long as their deal is negotiated, any merchant can sell out of goods and eat enough at once, so can these people not be red-eyed?
These people from the capital have naturally become the biggest customers of all the merchants in "Gaodi Street", and there is no one.
Due to the lack of business experience of the early merchants, there are no tricks to win over customers.
In addition to eating and drinking, it is a race to bargain.
So Hong Yanwu and his gang took advantage of the cheapness.
Almost all the people in "Gaudi Street" are busy around them, and the purchase cost is easily pushed to the minimum, and some even take the initiative to deliver goods to the door.
(End of chapter)