Chapter 17: Tangled Choices

After more than ten hours of traveling by plane and car, Li Jiaming, who had been studying for half a year, finally returned to his hometown.

I haven't seen each other for half a year, but my little sister and Wanwan have changed a lot. In the past, it was the little sister who protected and spoiled Wanwan, but now she is pulling her to memorize words, practice speaking, and let her sweep the floor clumsily, even if the three brothers and sisters live in Grandma's house, they still strictly discipline her.

Hehe, it's a bit like the way I used to be. It seems that the power of role models is endless, the little sister who used to hide behind herself, has finally become a strong little girl, not only is she strong, but she also requires Wanwan to be strong.

"Brother, is my sister a bad person?"

"Well, she's the worst!"

Wanwan was proud of the success of the small report, but when the little sister divided her half of the sugar gourd, this little sister's mouth was as sweet as smeared with honey, and she was the second full sister who was alive.

The full sister who used to be coaxed by cowhide has also changed, except for normal play every day, the rest of the time is into the pile of books, and it begins to be a bit of the third sister's previous style. This is also normal, I used to be in elementary school, it was everyone playing, and the four sisters worked hard. Now that I am in junior high school, my parents and teachers are strict, and the talented and intelligent child quickly stands out, how can she still be the same as before, because she is the first in the class and the top three in the whole grade at every turn?

However, Jin Mei and Gui Mei are still the same as before, learning when they should learn and play when they should play. These two little girls don't have the usual and volatile ambitions of other children, one wants to be a teacher and the other wants to be a doctor, I can't say anything, I just like it.

is different from before, there is also a thin dog, this bastard's brain has finally opened up, not only won the title of national second-level athlete, but also passed Gui Mei in this final exam, and entered the top 20 in the whole grade. The top 20 in the first year of high school in the county, plus the 20 points in sports, means that there is a great hope to take the famous brand. Such a happy event, so that the Meng Uncle was ecstatic, happy Aunt Hongying also made a grand wish in the Kuzhutan Guanyin Nunnery, if the fine dog can be named in the gold list three years later, she will build the steel cable bridge in Youyuan into a stone arch bridge.

Mao Tong is also good, relying on those high-level review materials sent back, each exam is stable in the top ten of the two liberal arts classes, plus he has passed the national second-level athlete assessment, and the college entrance examination can also add 20 points, and it is very promising to be admitted to a famous university.

Everything is fine, even Grandma's health is very good, people are in good spirits on happy occasions, my cousin-in-law's second child gave birth to a big fat boy, and her old man laughs from ear to ear every day.

In comparison, the family's business is not so good. Under huge financial pressure, all kinds of shops and factories in the county are strictly taxed, and even have to pay personal income tax, which is not fully levied in the whole country. According to the current tax burden, after the merchants are strictly taxed, and the personal income tax is added, what money can they make?

Half a year later, the streets of the county town are still lively, but people's business is much more difficult, and even the printing shop opened by the fourth aunt has begun to be in arrears. Fortunately, at least there was no arrears of workers' wages, and even the wages of workers on the road and bridge construction sites were paid on time, and the whole county was looking forward to the early completion of the road, and there were no complaints about the government.

However, there is one well-run enterprise that enjoys special treatment, and that is Li Jiaming's 'Mountain People's Family' agricultural trading company.

The company's production and sales are separated, and the profit of production is extremely low. At the beginning, the county agreed to tax exemption, and it involved the employment of thousands of farmers, and the Li family had three Peking University students and two sons and nephews who worked in the prefectural party committee, and the company was selectively forgotten by the county's financial and taxation leaders.

It is precisely because of the special care that the 'mountain family' and the 'Yuanshan' company controlled by Zeng Chun have obtained the opportunity for unconventional development. Within half a year, around the two small hydropower stations, the two companies built six production bases, producing 8,500 tons of cottonseed husk and white fungus.

However, it is only an unconventional development, and the company did not get rich overnight, because the technology of cottonseed husk shiitake mushrooms is not a new technology at all, but it has not spread due to the current poor information dissemination and local protection. Zeng Chun didn't lie, he did develop this technology by himself, but no one including himself knew that this technology was actually successfully developed by the people of Gutian in Fujian Province more than ten years ago.

In the past, the price of white fungus was maintained at a high price, and that was because the people in that place were united, the wholesalers did not fight price wars, and the growers kept their skills secret. After Li Jiaming's miscellaneous wood and white fungus went on the market, the big wholesalers in Gutian did not pay attention to it, but after buying and comparing it, they knew that they were produced with miscellaneous wood, and it was impossible to do a great deal due to the supply of raw materials, so they did not rashly launch a price war to drive the latecomers out of the market.

But human nature has always been the most complicated. Under the heavy profits, Deng Hao, Chen Dong and the people of Gutian can have a tacit understanding and will not easily fight a price war, but they never expected that Deng Hao and Chen Dong's subordinates would privately fight a price war to drag those large wholesalers in Gutian into the battlefield for the sake of sales performance and commission. The price war has always been a double-edged sword, once it starts, it is impossible to stop, and this fight will also make the price a mess.

How much profit does the company make?

In the past six months, the total profit of the two companies of 'Shanliren' and 'Yuanshan' is less than 20 million, and their sales company has only made more than 30 million net profits after paying taxes. This windfall was given to Zeng Chun more than 6 million, Liu Xin, Shuai Yong, and Wang Xiancheng were more than 4 million, Li Jiaming and his brother-in-law could only get more than 20 million, and he also scored 2/3 of his two sisters.

It's not bad, with the extra three or four million, the company's financing can be more leisurely, so as not to make those vampires cheaper. As for the sisters' money, it was the aunt's management, and Li Jiaming didn't want the aunt to think nonsense.

The money was earned, and it was a windfall, but the company's momentum came to an end. Due to the price war, the retail price of white fungus fell to 43 yuan per catty, and it is still slowly falling. Perhaps this is also an important reason why the leaders of the county, which is short of money, selectively forget about them, want them to keep the jobs of more than 1,000 peasant households, and make the government's year-end summary report more dazzling.

This is nothing, as long as there is no problem with the sales of mixed mushrooms, the company can continue to operate normally, which is nothing more than giving up the profits of cottonseed husk mushrooms and white fungus, and fighting a price war with peers. As long as you occupy the market share, you can still have a reasonable profit when the industry is shuffled. Li Jiaming, who can read the company's statements, is very puzzled, especially when he looks at the sales company's statements, he is very puzzled, the company's profits should have fallen rapidly due to the decline in product prices. What is strange is that the statements of the two companies clearly show that although the profits of the two companies have fallen sharply, they have rebounded rapidly in the past month or so.

Li Jiaming, who was puzzled, asked, the real reason is very simple, Zeng Chun, who earned more than 6 million yuan from cottonseed husk white fungus this year, actually developed a new technology white fungus bleaching technology. Whether it is wild or planted white fungus, the natural color is pale yellow, and the lighter the yellow, the better the quality. But this bastard somewhere heard that the sulfur soap for scabies would fade clothes, and he actually pondered using sulfur to whiten the pale yellow white fungus.

Without pondering everything, Zeng Chun pondered and pondered, and finally figured out the decolorization technology of white fungus. At first, it was only smoked with sulfur, and later it was invented with fading agents, setting agents, and brighteners, and the white fungus produced can be said to be as white as snow and as jade, which is as beautiful as a work of art. Looking at the crystal clear white fungus on the table, Li Jiaming kept his face silent for a long time, this thing is beautiful, but this has to be eaten in his mouth!

Zeng Chun was still afraid of Li Jiaming as before, and seeing that his face was gloomy, he hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Jiaming, there is no problem, at the beginning I smoked it with sulfur, and it did have a pungent smell, but later I changed it to a food fading agent." It's even better if you use pectin for styling, and the kind of jelly that children eat is made of pectin!"

It is better to say it than to sing it, even if it is pectin for shaping, but the brightener can be harmless? Greed is insufficient! Is the company not enough to make money? The foreign trade mushrooms alone earn 20 or 30 million a year, and nearly one million are distributed to each of them!

Li Jiaming is wrong, no matter how profitable the foreign trade mushrooms are, it has nothing to do with Zeng Chun, all his interests are in the cottonseed husk white fungus. People die for money, such a big fortune can make Zeng Chun insist: "Jiaming, that's not what I said. These are technologies that others will use even if we don't use them. It's up to us to use it, we don't use sulfur, others dare to do anything, as long as we can make money. ”

Yes, now everyone in the sales company has a share, cottonseed husk shiitake mushrooms are no money to make, it doesn't matter if you don't do it, the company's new snow fungus is selling very well. The white fungus in Gutian, Fujian Province can only be wholesaled at 24 yuan/jin, and its own company's 28 yuan/jin is still in short supply!

"Get out of here, let me think. ”

"Oh".

Zeng Chun left, but Wang Xiancheng, who deliberately followed into Chongxiang, did not leave, but closed the door of the study and whispered: "Jiaming, you can't stop it." You delegated your voting rights to Deng Hao, and he agreed. Besides, the brands of Snow Ear are all in Zeng Chun's hands, and the production base is also built in the name of his company, so it is reasonable that we cannot interfere with him. ”

Yes, I miscalculated at the beginning. Zeng Chun's kid holds 60% of the shares of the 'Yuanshan' company, and the sales company is controlled by his brother-in-law. If it was in his previous life, Li Jiaming would be ecstatic about Zeng Chun's new invention, but after experiencing the matter of returning to his teens, he always felt that he couldn't be too mercenary, otherwise people would be angry.

Will the brother-in-law support himself?

Perhaps, that is a strong man, who started and made a fortune on his own, he will be on his side, but only on his side. He will continue to hold the shares of Yuanshan Company, at most he will not participate in the sale.

Brother-in-law supports himself, is it useful?

It's useless, my brother-in-law doesn't participate in sales, and Chen Dong can't wait to bypass the sales company and directly cooperate with Zeng Chun to underwrite all the processed white fungus. In this way, Yuanshan Company can quickly do large-scale by relying on Chen Dong's sales channels, and in turn squeeze the development space of its own company.

Then I can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and let Zeng Chun toss it as if it was not like this.

"Xiancheng, Zeng Chun's affairs, he will do it himself, and we must not mess around. The brand that was created with great difficulty must not be down!"

"I know!"