Chapter 44: The Orchid Sugar Incident
"Beets? A thousand tons? Even if it's 80 yuan a kilogram, it can be sold for 80 million. Fang Weiming was already shocked, and he asked, "Xiaoyu, how much do you cost these orchid sugars, won't you lose money yourself." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have sugar beet, the cost, a kilogram is more than 20 yuan, and this also counts the wages of the workers." ”
Fang Weiming was surprised: "What is a sugar beet?" Fang Xiaoyu explained: "Sugarcane for sugar extraction can only be grown in a few counties in the south. Fang Weiming nodded, and Fang Xiaoyu continued: "My beet can also squeeze sugar, and it can be planted anywhere, and the amount of sugar produced is very large, it is estimated that three acres of sugar beets can produce a ton of orchid sugar." ”
"So high? How come I have never heard of this crop? Fang Weiming was surprised. Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "This is the little nephew's agricultural test these days. In fact, as early as the beginning of the manufacture of orchid sugar, he thought about the problem of producing raw materials by himself in the future.
The method of drenching sugar with yellow mud water does not have much scientific and technological content, and even if it is not stolen by the Cheng family, it is easy to be studied by others themselves. Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu felt that starting from the source, he would first manufacture cheap raw materials and rely on price advantages to defeat his opponents. Now Fang Xiaoyu is naturally the best at agriculture, he focused on the study of sugar beets before planting, and upgraded the sugar beets by several levels.
These high-grade sugar beet varieties have a very high sugar yield, and are very cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and resistant to pests and diseases, with very low soil requirements, and only need three months to harvest, and can be planted twice a year according to the climate near the capital. It just so happened that the Cheng family used Lan Fang Sugar to fight with him at this time, which was simply drilling into his pocket, Fang Xiaoyu decided that he must have a good time with them this time, so that the Cheng family would shed his skin even if he didn't die.
After Fang Weiming went back, he listened to Fang Xiaoyu's words and sold a large number of orchid butterflies at a low price, and at the same time opened a small money village in a low-key manner. Everyone knows that Lanting Villa is Fang Xiaoyu's industry, this time with Lanting Money, Fang Xiaoyu's reputation is really not built, and some people start to save money in Lanting Money Village out of trust in the other party's reputation Xiaoyu.
However, there are not many such people after all, and this matter was ridiculed by Cheng Yuhuan as inadequate. Seeing the low-priced orchid sugar sold by the Fang family in large quantities, the Cheng family was really fooled, they thought that the Fang family was losing money and making money, and wanted to rely on squeezing the Cheng family, but recently Cheng Yuhuan had begun to buy cane sugar in the south, and the Fang family's supply must not be much.
After thinking about it for a while, Cheng Yuhuan thought that the Fang family didn't have much inventory, and planned to swallow it all and become dominant in the capital, so the Cheng family mobilized all the funds that could be mobilized to buy the orchid candy sold by the Fang family.
"Wholesale sales of orchid sugar at a low price, 80,000 yuan per ton, and the minimum purchase quantity is 100 tons." Some good people gathered in front of the Fang family's various stores, looking curiously at the sales notices that had just been hung out. 80,000 yuan per ton, which is 80 yuan per kilogram, is already the floor price for the current orchid sugar, but the minimum purchase quantity of 100 tons is prohibitive for everyone.
Eight million Lanfang coins is not a small amount, even the relatively large merchants in the capital can't come up with so much, and the retail price is still 200 yuan a kilogram. Fang Weiming is also helpless to make such an advertisement, if you want to support the Cheng family, you need a lot of Lan Fangtang, and if even the retail price is reduced, it will inevitably cause everyone to rob, which will invisibly help the Cheng family.
Such a high wholesale requirement is clearly a set for the Cheng family, but after thinking about it, Cheng Yuhuan thought that the Fang family would not survive too much, and he should be able to eat it, so the Cheng family began to take action. "Get out of the way, get out of the way." A group of tigers and wolves drove away from the crowd and came to the Fang family's shop. "Where is your shopkeeper? We buy orchid sugar. A guy who looked like a man in charge stood in front of the shop with his waist crossed in vigour, as if he was afraid that others would not see him.
The shopkeeper in charge of this shop walked out with a smile: "Oh, this is not the senior management of the Cheng family, why do you have time to come to me today, are you planning to change the master's house." "The Fang family and the Cheng family have always been at odds with each other, and as soon as they met, they were prickly in their words.
The executives of the Cheng family obviously didn't take the Fang family in their eyes today, and he surprisingly did not sneer at each other, but said in a loud voice: "My master said that if you want to buy orchid candy today, you are not wholesale, we will buy two hundred tons." As soon as the executive's words came out, the crowd watching the excitement nearby was in an uproar, this Cheng family is rich, and the shot is more than 10 million Lanfang coins.
The shopkeeper was not surprised by the Cheng family's request, the eldest master had already passed down the word that if the Cheng family wanted to buy orchid candy, he would sell it to them as much as he wanted. The shopkeeper smiled and arched his hand and said: "Okay, there is no problem, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, as long as you pay the money, you can pick up the goods immediately." With a wave of his hand, the two family members each came over with a suitcase, and when they opened the box, two boxes full of banknotes appeared in front of everyone, causing a burst of admiration.
Seeing everyone's surprised expressions, the executive felt that his face was bright, and he waved his hand and said, "The money is here, let's pick up the goods." The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Of course, I can deliver the money as soon as my account office has counted the money." Under his instruction, Mr. Ledger deliberately counted the money slowly, and asked the executive's family to wait for the Cheng family's family to deliver the goods for three hours at the door, and the executive's legs were numb.
Xiang's situation is also playing out in several other big shops of the Fang family. The Fang family sold orchid candy at a low price on a large scale, and the Cheng family also bought it aggressively, and in a few days, the 1,000 tons of orchid candy sent by Fang Xiaoyu quickly bottomed out. Fang Xiaoyu transferred the two hundred tons of orchid sugar that had just been produced from the villa, which was already Fang Xiaoyu's last inventory.
Fang Xiaoyu didn't go back to the villa these days, in order to get the news as soon as possible, Fang Xiaoyu lived in his former room in the Fang family's old mansion nearby, and Fang Xiaoyu was sitting in the study that was used as a temporary command headquarters at this time.
This is Fang Weiming's study, at this time Fang Weiming was staring in the store, and there were only Fang Xiaoyu, Fang Dingguo, Fang Qiong and Zhao Quan in the study. Fang Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that his subordinates had reported that two hundred tons of orchid sugar had been transported to the Fang family's shops, and he laughed at himself: "I didn't expect that the Cheng family was so rich, and a thousand tons of orchid candy could be swallowed. Fang Xiaoyu was indeed very surprised, this was a thousand tons of orchid sugar, it was the inventory that Fang Xiaoyu had saved for more than half a month, and it was swallowed by the Cheng family.
The second grandfather Fang Qiong has asked for leave in the past few days, and he really can't sit still in the Ministry of Industry, but fortunately, there are not many things in the Ministry of Industry during this time, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't go for a few days. Fang Qiong asked Fang Xiaoyu, "Xiao Yu, does your method work?" Now Wei Ming has reduced the wholesale quantity to 50 tons. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Second grandfather, if you care about it, it's messy." That 1,000 tons of orchid sugar costs 80 million yuan, even if his Cheng family has money, I'm afraid it will be almost consumed, how much money can he have. ”
Fang Qiong said: "Don't forget that they also have a big money bank, and the Cheng family can definitely mobilize a lot of funds." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Second grandfather, the Cheng family's money bank is powerful in the East China Sea and the southwest, but it is not big in the capital, not to mention that the Cheng family's funds have been tight recently. ”
"Oh? How do you know about the Dao? Fang Qiong said with some surprise. Fang Xiaoyu glanced at Zhao Quan and said, "The Cheng family is too impatient this time, they want to monopolize all the Lanfang Empire's Lanfang sugar trade, so they not only buy cane sugar in the south, but also buy a large amount of land that can grow sugarcane, which has already drawn too much money." Fang Qiong sighed and said, "Cheng Yuhuan is really wrong this step, I think if he can be cautious, we can only share the market with them." ”
Fang Xiaoyu said: "According to common sense, Cheng Yu Huan is not wrong, he controls all the sources of cane sugar, as long as our inventory is emptied, they can monopolize the market, but unfortunately he doesn't know that there is also a thing called beet that can also be squeezed for sugar." Fang Xiaoyu thought to himself, if the funds of Huitong Qianzhuang bottomed out, it would be easy to do, although the Cheng family has increased its business, but most of those are real estate such as land, and the working capital should not exceed 100 million.
At this time, Cheng Yuhuan asked a middle-aged man: "Steward Liu, how much money can we use?" Steward Liu said: "Master, we don't have much money anymore, there are only 10 million liquidity available in the bank, if it is being withdrawn, it will be very troublesome for someone to withdraw money on a large scale." ”