Chapter 260 Identify Business Opportunities

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In the spring, I took two drafts of the school newspaper to the mimeograph department opened by Liang Chao, a teacher at Hushan Middle School, and heard the rhythmic "click" sound of the offset press working in the spring.

Liang Chao, a native of Yanggezhuang, Hushan Town, found a job as a private teacher in Hushan Middle School after graduating from high school in 1984, and has been teaching biology in the first year of junior high school.

In the spring of 1985, when he was in the first year of junior high school at Hushan Middle School, Liang Chao once taught Spring, and he was also Spring's teacher.

In July 1993, after several years of hard work, Liang Chao was finally admitted to the Huxian Normal Civilian Teacher Class, which can be regarded as fulfilling his dream of becoming a public teacher.

When he was assigned to Hushan Middle School in the spring of 1993, it was also the period when Liang Chao went to Huxian Normal School to study part-time, so Spring and Liang Chao have not met in recent years.

In August 1996, Liang Chao, who had completed his normal studies in Huxian County, was assigned back to Hushan Town.

Liang Chao, who returned to Hushan Town, found Zhao Zhiqiang with gifts as soon as possible and asked to return to Hushan Middle School to continue teaching. Because Zhao Zhiqiang and Liang Chao had worked together for a year before, they had a good impression of Liang Chao, although Zhao Zhiqiang knew that Liang Chao and Wang Yichuan were brothers who "worshipped the boss", but still left Liang Chao in Hushan Middle School.

Liang Chao is a person who knows the times, and he also knows the inside story of the bad relationship between Zhao Zhiqiang and Wang Yichuan, and now he sees that Wang Yichuan is gone, and Liang Chao, who returned to Hushan Middle School again, judged the situation and did not show excessive closeness to the former "brother" Wang Yichuan, but welcomed Zhao Zhiqiang very much. Liang Chao's approach deeply stimulated Wang Yichuan, and Wang Yichuan hated Liang Chao's approach as a villain, and the brotherhood between the two had existed in name only.

Liang Chao's wife, like Wang Yichuan's wife, is an authentic farmer, with no skills, and no serious work to do, so she can only stay at home and work on a few thin plots, husband and children. But Liang Chao is a person who does not want to be satisfied with the status quo, and has been actively trying to find a low-cost job for his wife, so that his wife can get rid of the difficult days of facing the loess and facing the sky as soon as possible and live a life with her eyebrows raised.

It is said that "opportunities are for those who are prepared", which is not false at all, Liang Chao, who drills the way of research and development every day, suddenly found business opportunities from the students' test papers, and carefully calculated an account in his heart. A test paper is a dime, there are more than 1,400 students in Hushan Middle School, and each student must send at least 100 review questions per semester, so that the gross income of Hushan Middle School students' test papers can reach more than 30,000 yuan a year, that is, the cost is removed, and the net profit must be more than 20,000 yuan. This is compared to Liang Chao's dead salary of only more than 200 yuan per month, which is beyond his means, this amount of money is simply astronomical. This is only the profit of the Toyama Middle School, if you add other elementary schools in Toyama Town, or the primary and secondary schools in the neighboring townships, it is really a shocking number. As a result, Liang Chao's restless heart became even more restless.

As a result, Liang Chao had to run out almost every weekend, riding a bicycle in the nearest place and taking a bus in the far place. Liang Chao's purpose is to investigate the market and market for printing test papers, and second, to try to buy a set of equipment for printing test papers.

However, after running down for a period of time, Liang Chao's heart was going to be cold.

The test paper printing industry has just started in Huxian County, and the social demand and market conditions are very good, so the reason why Liang Chao is cold is that the printing test paper equipment is expensive, which has greatly exceeded the scope that Liang Chao can afford. In the market of printing equipment in Dongzhou City, Liang Chao has seen that the price of a new eight-open monochrome test roll rubber roller printing machine is more than 27,000 yuan, and a flexographic plate making machine worth more than 12,000 yuan will be added. A rubber roller printing machine and a plate-making machine, these two machines add up to 40,000 yuan, and with Liang Chao's current salary situation, he has to accumulate for 20 years without eating or drinking. What's more, Liang Chao has officially received the salary of a public teacher for less than half a year, and he used to receive a private teacher's salary of dozens of yuan per month, and he didn't have a penny of savings in his family.

But Liang Chao is a person who does not give up until he reaches his goal, and still persevers to go to the county seat or Dongzhou City every weekend to try his luck to see if he can meet the second-hand printing equipment that others have eliminated and are cheap.

The opportunity is really coming, a few years ago, Liang Chao really met a customer who was eager to sell a second-hand eight-color monochrome rubber roller printing machine in the thrift market in Dongzhou City, although the equipment is a little old, but it can still be used, and the price is not expensive, as long as 7,000 yuan. Liang was overjoyed, but on the surface, he was silent, chatting with other customers. With Liang Chao's three-inch tongue, he skillfully raised the price of the offset press to 6,000 yuan, and also asked people to guarantee one year of after-sales maintenance. Because the Chinese New Year was about to begin, the customer was also very generous, so he reached a sales agreement with Liang Chao at a price of 6,000 yuan. Liang Chao left a deposit of 500 yuan, and then hurried back to Hushan Town to raise money.

As the New Year approaches, many teachers are preparing to return to their hometowns for the New Year, and there are not many residents left in the compound of Hushan Middle School. Liang Chaoran to the east and west, borrowed almost all over the compound of Hushan Middle School, and it took two days to finally get together 6,000 yuan in cash.

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After going to Dongzhou City to pull the offset printing machine back to Hushan Town, Liang Chaoxin's troubles came again.

The first trouble Liang Chao faced was the choice of the printing location, the family had an empty house, but the printing location could not be placed in the remote small place of Yanggezhuang, right? The best place to choose was Hushan Middle School, which has convenient transportation and is located in the center of the town, which can well radiate the village-level primary schools other than Hushan Middle School.

So, Liang Chao took two bottles of good wine and some local products, took the opportunity of the New Year's greetings to Zhao Zhiqiang's house, and proposed to Zhao Zhiqiang the idea of renting two school buildings for printing, and Zhao Zhiqiang readily agreed. There are so many houses in the school compound that it's good to rent them out and make some money. Zhao Zhiqiang called Song Xiuwen to inform him, and the three of them agreed together that the annual rent of the two houses was 400 yuan, and the water and electricity bills were calculated separately, and an agreement was initialed.

The second trouble faced by Liang Chao is that the cost of buying a plate-making machine has not yet been settled, and without a plate-making machine, the offset press he bought back is a pile of scrap iron. So, Liang Chao had to be cheeky again and go door-to-door in the compound of Hushan Middle School to ask for help, fortunately, Liang Chao can usually speak well, and his popularity among the teachers is not bad, although the teachers are not rich in their hands, but it is still this family of five hundred, and that family of one thousand land once again made up part of the money for Liang Chao. Even Liang Chao's "brother" Wang Yichuan looked at Liang Chao's pitiful appearance, and lent Liang Chao 1,000 yuan regardless of his previous suspicions. However, even this is far from the amount of money that will be paid for the platemaking machine. In desperation, Liang Chao set his sights on the single teacher again. Liang Chao borrowed a motorcycle and started a campaign of dusty soldiers, walking through all the single teachers who he thought he could borrow money, two bottles of wine per family, a good word, and a circle, and the money was made up. The rest of Liang Chao wants to find his relatives to borrow it, and it is estimated that it can be solved. In the spring, because he has been tutoring students in the school, he saved Liang Chao's errands and expenses, and in the spring, he gave Liang Chao two thousand yuan, and Liang Chao was very grateful.

3.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Liang Chao went to Dongzhou City to buy a brand-new flexographic plate making machine, spent 12,000 yuan, and spent another 3,000 yuan to buy ink, paper and other necessary items for printing.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Liang Chao set off a firecracker, which means that his printing studio has officially opened.

Liang Chao completed the installation and commissioning of the printing equipment, and printed the first real rubber roller prints in Hushan Town under the guidance of the second-hand mimeograph customers sold to Liang Chao, thus ending the history of wax paper engraving and screen printing in Hushan Middle School.