Chapter 3 The Value of a Pair of Candles
At the beginning of the new year in 2001, Zuo Jianshe was busy with two things. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The first thing is to find a way to let his baby daughter Zuo go to BJ No. 4 Middle School to study in junior high school, and there is no clue about this matter at present.
But Zuo Jianshe is a bit stubborn, just like the indelible complex carved in his heart by the pair of dragon and phoenix candles when he got married, he also has a special complex for BJ. So, even though it was more difficult, he still went to BJ's good middle school first.
After inquiring and inquiring, he found out that BJ No. 4 Middle School was the best, and there was also a junior high school. So he wanted to get his daughter to go to BJ No. 4 Middle School for the first year of junior high school.
In normal people, it is definitely impossible for children in their early tens to go to study in other places by themselves, and they are all accompanied by their parents or one party, but it is not the same in the left. She was taught by her parents' money education method to be extremely independent and self-disciplined.
Zuo Jianshe and Zuo said that they wanted to send her to BJ or SH to go to junior high school, Zuo Zai disagreed at first, but her mother said that if she was willing to go to a big city to study, she would give her 10,000 yuan per semester. In 2001, 10,000 yuan was definitely a huge amount of money for an eleven-year-old child, and it was 10,000 yuan a semester. After listening to it, Zuo thought for two seconds and agreed.
Although the money Zuo Zai earned was basically spent by Zuo Yi, her heart of love for making money as a child did not change until she was 11 years old.
Although Zuo Jianshe had a little money at that time, in 2000, he made a net profit of more than 2 million yuan from the "New Year Candle" alone, and by 2001, his savings were almost 10 million.
This money was enough for him to buy a nice house for her baby daughter in BJ at the time. The house was bought, but BJ's hukou is not so easy to solve, and even if you have a BJ hukou, it is not easy to enter the fourth middle school.
The Zuo family is rich, but after all, he started by selling candles, and he doesn't know any dignitaries and people who can solve these problems.
The second piece is to find ways to increase the output of a warm candle company's "New Year's Candle", after 2000's hot sales, in 2001, a warm candle company's "New Year's Candle" has been famous, Zuo Jianshe is really doing business, and there is no price increase for New Year's candles.
To say, this year's candle fire, it doesn't seem to be high-tech, in 2000 someone has already imitated it, but also invited someone to write the Great Compassion Mantra, that is, it is not a monk who invited, it is a person who writes well. Each one sold for four or five hundred yuan cheaper than a warm candle company's New Year's candle.
Until the end of 2000, Zuo Construction did not receive an explosive New Year's candle order.
But just after New Year's Day in 2001, orders came in like snowflakes. At the beginning, Zuo Jianshe thought that it was the end of the month and the New Year, so the orders increased, but more and more orders made Zuo Jianshe feel that things might not be so simple.
This time, Zuo Jianjian's intuition was right.
Because those temples who bought imitation New Year's candles found that the candles they bought were extinguished one after another around New Year's Day, and they couldn't last the New Year at all, let alone say that they were as accurate to the second as the legendary New Year's candles.
People who go to the Buddha hall to invite the New Year's candle during the New Year, let alone 10,000 please, people don't care about money, but for the auspiciousness of the coming year, buy a peace in their hearts, those Buddha halls are not deliberately to pit believers, but I really don't know that there is a patent here.
Now that most of them know, who is going to buy candles from other houses? As a result, Zuo Jianshe was almost stunned by these orders that flew in one after another.
The two renovated and expanded factories of a warm candle company have been started 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and all workers work in three or four shifts.
Zuo Jianshe was forced to be helpless, so he wanted to say that people didn't like to buy him if he raised the price. He told the buyers, you should buy it again next year, otherwise I will increase the price of one by 1,000. As a result, the buyers were even crazier, unanimously saying that as long as you can ship it to me before Chinese New Year's Eve, it will rise by two thousand.
Therefore, just after New Year's Day in 2001, Zuo Jianjian was busy with this second thing, which was really enough for him to be anxious. If this order goes on like this, even if Zuo Jianshe does it, his transportation village can't digest it and can't transport it, and not everyone in the transportation village is willing to run this trip during the New Year.
On January 10, 2001, Zuo Jianshe made a decision not to accept orders before Chinese New Year's Eve this year.
If the person who comes to place the order is really unwilling to go back like this, then you can book the 02 New Year's candle, and the person who prescribes it will send a pair of New Year's candles to Zuo Jianjian. In addition, all orders that have been received will be sold at the original price without price increase.
Zuo Jianshe is a real businessman in the end, and he has no intention of sitting on the ground at all.
Zuo Jianjian's decision not to increase the price surprised those who had already placed an order and thought that they needed to increase the price to get the goods, and those who did not place an order and thought that they could get the goods with additional money.
In fact, Zuo Jianshe didn't think that he couldn't increase the price of selling things, he just felt that the New Year's candle was a business of faith, and he didn't want to sell it too expensive, and felt that it was a blasphemy of faith.
Although Zuo Jianjian's decision cannot be said to be a happy one, at least everyone did not return empty-handed.
It is said that the transportation village has no capacity, how did these people who placed the order in 2002 bring back the pair of New Year's candles that were sent?
The answer is simple, it's by train.
In this way, Zuo Zai and her father are too stupid, and in 1998, the first pair of New Year's candles between the two of them found two trucks to transport them out.
Here we want to talk about the history of this small city of Wenzhou.
The traffic in Wenzhou is extremely closed, 90 years ago, there was a railway, there was no railway, there was no airport, and there was no airport (yes, that is, 1990 was not 1890 when Zuo Zai was born).
Before the reform and opening up, Wenzhou was a poor jingle place. Wenzhou people can do business, and they are all afraid of the poor.
In the 80s, those people in Wenzhou who went out to make some money in the spring breeze of reform and opening up and came back very much wanted to improve the transportation in their hometown.
Wenzhou is surrounded by mountains, and the railway cannot be built for a while, so Wenzhou people want an airport.
However, in those days, when the state built an airport, it had to be a provincial capital or something, and it was impossible for the state to build a small city like Wenzhou.
What if the state doesn't give money? Then build it at your own expense. In the 80s, without spending a penny of the country, Wenzhou people built an airport for themselves at their own expense, and in July 1990, Wenzhou Airport was officially opened.
In July 1997, Wenzhou was opened to trains.
Therefore, there are historical reasons why Wenzhou can produce a famous transportation village.
Therefore, at the beginning of 1998, it is not difficult to understand that the train that had just opened had no capacity, not to mention that there was no spare wagon.
This situation has changed in a few years.
Although there are still many people in Zhutu Village who are running transportation, but it is no longer the grand occasion before 1997, many of the earliest people who did transportation have made enough money, and then changed careers and moved to live in the city, and Zuo Jianjian's brother-in-law is among them.
By 2001, most of Zuo Jianjian's goods had been transported by rail, and he still needed a lot of trucks. It is because buyers have to concentrate on getting the New Year's candle before the New Year.
In 2001, there was no Chinese New Year's Eve, and the 29th year of the year was celebrated, so the order was placed on New Year's Day and delivered before January 23, and it could not be done by train alone.
Because the "New Year's candle" is a sought-after commodity, all the buyers have paid the payment early, and they are afraid that they will not be able to get the goods, and even the people who booked the 2002 New Year's candle are busy paying the deposit.
Those who have already bought the 2001 New Year candles are not far behind, because after paying the 2002 money, they can now bring a pair of New Year candles back, which is a "sample" that can be shown to everyone.
The buyer was so active in paying the money, it really scared Zuo Jianjian, it turned out that people asked him to buy candles, they all took the goods first, and they only checked out when they were sold out and then they wanted to find him.
In 2000, Zuo Jianjian earned 2 million from selling annual candles alone, and his annual candles were not widely known at that time, so what was the situation in 2001?
The order volume of this year is not the same as that of 2000, but most of the orders are concentrated after New Year's Day, and Zuo Jianshe has not thought of it before.
No matter how many orders were made, the production was limited, and before January 2001 he made about the same amount of money as the previous year, and in January he was running at full power for a month, and all other candles were discontinued, producing the previous year's volume.
It stands to reason that the income from selling New Year's candles in 2001 should be several times that of 2002, but Zuo Construction does not increase its price, and it does not produce either.
However, Zuo Jianjian is already very satisfied. Moreover, the situation in 2002 is completely different from this year, he got so many orders a year in advance, even if he does not drive at full speed, the 2002 New Year's candle, it is definitely no problem to earn 10 million steadily.
Zuo Jianjian, who was busy with his feet not touching the ground, was thinking about how all this came about when it was time to eat.
He didn't want to be okay, and when he thought about it, he came up with something again.
Zuo Jianshe felt that he had all this, and it was all thanks to the great monk of Putuo Mountain. Thinking of this, he wanted to thank the great monk from the bottom of his heart.
How to thank it?
Of course, it is to add sesame oil money to Putuo Temple.
But how much is appropriate? Zuo Jianshe felt that the value of the pair of New Year's candles that the great monk had blessed should be added. So what is the value of the New Year's candle?
It stands to reason that this kind of thing is priceless, but Zuo Jianshe is not stubborn, he has to come up with a reason.
In the end, he made a decision that made his wife Xiang so sensitive that he was speechless, he wanted to sell the pair of New Year's candles that they were reluctant to light at all, and all the money obtained was used to add sesame oil.
In this way, it is accurate to add the value of the New Year's candle to the temple.
In fact, Zuo Jianshe also felt that something was wrong with this matter in his heart, and he also called the great monk to ask whether his approach was appropriate. Unexpectedly, the great monk did not object, and said that it was a good thing that he had a heart for goodness.
In this way, the pair of lay disciples who saved the great monk in 98 were the same, and the New Year's candle with the great monk's handwritten Great Compassion Mantra was sold.
Selling the candle may sound like something wrong, but if you think of it as a charity auction, it's different.
This pair of New Year's candles was photographed by Cheng Fengchun in the United States.
Guess what the deal price is? Million! It's still dollars!
Zuo Jianjian, I really haven't seen so much money at once. It stands to reason that with so much money, most people should be moved when they see it. But Zuo Jianshe didn't think about it, and donated it all to Putuo Temple.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zuo Jianjian, with his wife and children, transported back the pair of great monks who had been transported to Wenzhou for the New Year's candles. He really couldn't do it a day earlier, and he hated to have to eat or sleep to catch up with orders.
When Zuo Zai's family brought the New Year's candles to the house, Cheng Fengchun, a lay disciple of the great monk, was also there. This was the first time he had seen Zuo Jianjian. Cheng Fengchun was also worried about whether Zuo Construction would not fulfill his promise if he took the money. I heard that Zuo Jianshe didn't stay for a day and donated all the money to Putuo Temple, Cheng Fengchun also looked up to this small businessman in Wenzhou.
But Cheng Fengchun saw Zuo Jianjian, who rushed to deliver New Year's candles to himself on Chinese New Year's Eve, and really didn't know what to say.
When Cheng Fengchun took the photo, he was still in the United States, and he didn't tell Zuo Jianshe when he wanted it or where to order. Zuo Jianshe took it for granted that Cheng Fengchun was still going to light the New Year's candle at Putuo Temple on Chinese New Year's Eve as before.
But Cheng Fengchun didn't mean that. The reason why he didn't say the time and place was because he was going to transport the pair of New Year's candles to the solemn temple in New York and light them again in 02.
Cheng Fengchun was not in a hurry at all, he was waiting for when he needed to charter a plane to transport precious spices from China to the United States, and by the way, he would transport the pair of New Year's candles over.
This oolong is neat, and the Zuo Zai family has not had a good year.
Rare and precious spices, such as ambergris or something, the procurement process is extremely complicated, and Cheng Fengchun doesn't know when he will be able to buy all the candles he wants, so he doesn't know when he will ship this pair of New Year's candles.
In this way, Zuo Jianshe did a useless job for the New Year, and Cheng Fengchun had to trouble Zuo Jianshe to transport it back and keep it for the time being.
After coming and going, Cheng Fengchun and Zuo Jianshe had time to chat for a while. Cheng Fengchun heard that Zuo Yi did not go to college, so he said that he could be responsible for guaranteeing that Zuo Yi would go to the United States to study at university.
In the end, Cheng Fengchun and Zuo Jianshe left contact information for each other.
Zuo Zai's family kept the New Year in Putuo Temple, because Cheng Fengchun said that he could guarantee that Zuo Yi would go to the United States to study at university, and Zuo Jianshe felt that his son's delayed studies could have a turnaround.
Zuo Jianshe was very moved, so he discussed with Zuo Yi.
Zuo Yicai listened to a beginning and stopped doing it. Not to mention that his grades were not good, and his English was barely passing, even if his high school English was not bad, he has graduated for three years now, and he doesn't know words if he knows him.
In addition, Zuo Yi did not have Zuo Zai's language talent, and the pronunciation of English was a sharp pain in his heart. Occasionally, when the teacher asked him to answer a question, the whole class burst into laughter. He didn't get into college, and English is definitely a "hero".
Zuo Yi hates English, and he hates mathematics even more, and if he wants to say what he hates the most, it is two words - studying. So as soon as he graduated from high school, he was not admitted to a decent university, and he resolutely did not go to a private university to study, and then he went to a warm candle company to help.
Zuo Yidu has escaped from the cage of studying for three years, and Zuo Jianshe wants him to go to the place where he speaks "bird language" to study, but Zuo Yiwan is unwilling. Moreover, at this time, even if Zuo Yi is a bird language expert, it is impossible for him to go, because Zuo fell in love with Zuo Zai's future sister-in-law Zeng Mengyao at the beginning.
This relationship hasn't been talked about for long, and I went to the United States, so will there be a future? Zuo Zai's future sister-in-law is Zuo Yi's junior high school tablemate, Zuo Yi's junior high school has taken a fancy to others, this has been working hard for almost ten years, and finally the future sister-in-law came back from college, Zuo Yi also changed from a short and fat boy in junior high school to a handsome guy in Yushu Linfeng today, so he barely chased people down.
Such an arduous journey of the sister, can you go now? Absolutely not!