Chapter 34 Rectification of the Fish Market
Shi Jiang's subordinates are big fish sellers within a radius of dozens of miles, because there are only seven or eight markets within a radius of dozens of miles, and there are not many fish sellers, so it took Shi Jiang a few years to bring together all the fish sellers in these dozens of miles. The reason why I took over this fish business was nothing more than to sell it at a good price. But Shi Jiang and the others are not considered to be big evils, and the price is not outrageous. Because the price is too high, the common people don't buy it. Most of the people that Shijiang bullied were the owners of fish farming, because fish farming is a very special livelihood. Unlike other trades, if you can't sell it, you can save it and sell it again. Selling fish is like that, you have to sell it out in a few days, otherwise the fish will die, and the fish will be worthless when it dies.
Shi Jiang controls the fish market for dozens of miles, and although the sales volume within a radius of dozens of miles is not small, in fact, Shi Jiang and others can't make a fortune. Shi Jiang and the others had long heard that Longjiawan had opened up a fish farm, which was a large fish farm within a radius of dozens of miles, and they had long planned to take the opportunity to monopolize it, but they had no chance.
Long Dan sold fish more than a dozen times in the market, and Shi Jiang and the others had been observing it for a long time. Seeing that Long Dan sells fish, it is very ordinary, so I guess that he is a person with no background. So he sent two of his men to take the opportunity to scare and scare Long Dan. As a result, the two people who went to scare Long Dan were beaten by Long Dan instead. Seeing this, Shi Jiang guessed that Long Dan was not a good stubble, so he set up a table of wine and food, and invited seven or eight of his subordinates to come and make two preparations. On the one hand, he persuaded each other with good words, and if it worked, he would take the opportunity to monopolize the fishing grounds of Longdan. If it doesn't work, they will fight each other with their fists, give Long Dan a dismount first, and force Long Dan to sell them the live fish from the fish farm at a low price.
I once thought that these two tricks didn't work, I drank and drank and fell down, and I also fell down in fights, and I was really not Long Dan's opponent. Long Dan beat them up, didn't hold grudges, and invited them to eat. Shi Jiang and the others also had to admire Long Dan's personality, not to mention anything else, just with Long Dan's amount of alcohol, eight or nine of them combined were not opponents. Therefore, Shi Jiang and the others only had a year of convincing, and they no longer dared to do anything to Long Dan.
Long Dan had already told them last time, not letting them bully the market, they didn't dare to disobey Long Dan's words, and they didn't want to lose this lucrative business. In any case, the fish business is still faster than growing crops. Therefore, after a few people discussed, they still went to discuss with Long Dan and discussed how to continue the business of selling fish. Several people waited for the scars on their faces to disappear, and then got together again, prepared gifts, took good cigarettes and wine, and followed Shi Jiang to Longdan's manor.
Long Dan saw Shi Jiang and the others coming to his house with gifts, knowing that they were afraid that he would have to clean them up at any time, so this time he really came to apologize. Long Dan took out a few cabinets and asked everyone to sit down. Long Dan asked Shi Jiang, "What are you doing here?" You're still holding something, haven't you had enough of it with me? Shi Jiang hurriedly said: "Brother Long's alcohol is bottomless, we are opponents there, I came to Brother Long today, first, to apologize, and secondly, there is something to trouble Brother Long", Shi Jiang spoke today, but he was really cautious, for fear that Long Dan would be angry again and give them a beating, and he really had nowhere to reason.
Long Dan saw that Shi Jiang was so careful, so he stopped teasing, and said: "Apologize, there is no need, it's not me who is injured anyway, hehe" and then said with a smile: "What else is there to do with Lao Shi?" Shi Jiang paused and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Long, we used to count on the fish market to live, it was a bit of a bully to dominate the market, and what we did was not authentic, we will definitely not dare in the future, as long as Brother Long is here, we will definitely listen to Brother Long." It's just, it's just ......," Shi Jiang said with a slurrel. "It's just what, if you have something, you can say it quickly, it's so unpleasant, it's like a girl" Long Dan saw that Shi Jiang said half and half left, so he said to Shi Jiang a little sternly.
"That's the case, Brother Long, although we used to be a bit of a bully and dominate the market, but the business of selling fish is really not good, if you don't expect to lower the price for the fish farmers, you really can't make money, the profit from selling fish is not small, but there are too many dead fish, once you die, you will lose money, finally down, you still can't make much money, if you don't lower the price for the fish farmers in the future, this business is really not possible." Brother Long, we will listen to you in the future, but you also have to think of an idea for the brothers. After all, everyone has a family, and they all have to eat together." When Long Dan heard it, it was also a problem. Moaned for a long time and said, "That's it, I'll give you an idea" Long Dan thought for a while and said, "Each of you has a lot of ponds in the village, right?" A middle-aged man said: "Brother Long, what you said is true, there are not a few ponds in that village now" "It's good to have them" Long Dan said: "That's it, after you go back, you all follow my example, go to the village to contract a pond to raise fish, and those who have money will find a way to contract it first, and if you don't have money, I can lend it to you, everyone is no stranger to fish farming." Each of us keeps a pond of fish by ourselves, so that we can make more money, and we can sell our own fish when we can't wholesale live fish, so that there will be fish to sell. When Shi Jiang heard this, he felt that it was feasible, so he said: "This method is good, I can try it" and the other seven or eight people also thought it was feasible, and they all said that they would try it when they went back.
Long Dan continued: "You go back and try to see first, I have set aside a mouth of my fish pond in the past few days, and I will send someone to the field to transfer some fish to put in it, you can come and wholesale live fish at any time, I don't make your money, I just want to save the capital." What do you think? Shi Jiang said: "Look at what Brother Long said, how can you not make money?" It's just a little cheaper for you, and we can't afford to lose money if the tide rises anyway."
Long Dan said: "We raise fish together, and there is another advantage, we can have a good relationship with the provincial fish seed farm, and we want a large amount of fish fingerlings together, and it will be much cheaper." In addition, we want more fish species, and the fish breeding farm can also send people to give us technical guidance, and the fish we raise will not have problems." Long Dan paused, saw that everyone agreed with his idea, and said: "Actually, we can set up a fish farming association, and organize all the fish farmers who are willing to join in to help each other. In this way, we have the support of the fish farmers, and the business of selling fish will be easier", Shi Jiang heard this, and said to Long Dan: "This idea is good, I also know the fish farmers in the vicinity of dozens of miles, I am afraid that they are unwilling", Long Dan said: "You used to bully the market and squeeze those fish farmers, of course they are unwilling, you now tell them, all fair trade, according to the market price, fish farmers are still eager to beg you." When it comes time for fish farmers to catch fish, it is very difficult to sell all of them at once, so you buy all the fish at the market price, save the live fish, and then sell them slowly, and you will make money."
Shi Jiang said: "I'm afraid this matter will have to be done by Brother Long, our prestige is not enough" Long Dan saw this and said: "This is no problem, anyway, I am idle and idle, so I will help you to handle this matter, there is no fish pond for the time being, but you can store it in my fish pond first, and come to pick it up at any time, how about it?" Shi Jiang and the others hurriedly said yes, and the matter was decided.
Next, Long Dan helped eight or nine people to contract the fish pond in the village and raise fish fry. He took Shijiang to hundreds of villages, signed agreements with those retail fish farmers to sell fish, and a regular fish market within a radius of dozens of miles was built.
The next year, the fishmongers who contracted the fish pond had a lot of gains, and their own fish ponds made money, and the agreements signed by Long Dan and the fish farmers were also very effective. As long as the fish farmer wants to sell his live fish, everyone will help, and the price is fair, and the fish sellers will have a steady supply of live fish, and there will be fish to sell all year round, and naturally they will make a lot more money than in previous years.
Long Dan was idle, wandering around among those fish farmers all day long, Long Dan treated people sincerely, and soon became the backbone of fish farmers and fishmongers. There are some disputes that cannot be resolved, and they are all dealt with by Long Dan, and Long Dan has become the head of the fish farming gang and the fish selling gang. Long Dan also enjoyed this, running around happily all day long, drinking and having fun with fish farmers and fishmongers, and living a leisurely life.