Chapter XVIII The Situation
When he left Heidler's estate, Dührin had three hundred dollars in cash in his pocket, and seven hundred dollars were to be given to him in three installments over the next two months.
Of course, there will be a prerequisite for all this, that is, after the three hundred Dulin is taken away, you can see the rapid development of the Fellow Townspeople's Association, for example, having a certain number of Fellow Townspeople Association, and being able to twist into a fist and unite together. As long as this is done, Du Lin can get the first batch of two hundred yuan, which will be used for the development of the hometown association.
In the process of this negotiation, Du Lin took the initiative to put forward the matter of making accounts for the townspeople's association, when each money was spent, where it was used, whether it had the desired effect when making the budget, and some deepening problems would be recorded. Heideler agreed without much thought, and Heideler knew very well that Duhring, as the initiator of the Fellow Townspeople's Association, could not gain greater authority than Doolin no matter how hard he tried now.
So instead of sending someone to compete with Durin for the position of president, it is better to use money to capture the Fellow Townspeople's Association, and gradually turn Durin into a puppet and a knife in his own hands. It was precisely because he understood the power of money and capital that he agreed when Dührin offered to build an account book.
But he didn't know that Du Lin's original purpose in founding the Fellow Townspeople Association was just to recruit people for his trading company, and he didn't want to become the leader of any gang organization!
But in any case, with the windfall of three hundred dollars, Durin's plan could be implemented more quickly, and there was no need to continue raising funds.
From the beginning, he planned to use the name of his own trading company to buy a batch of low-alcohol liquor from domestic and foreign distilleries, which would be used as a cover for distillation and purification, and at the same time, Doolin would not give up the profits of low-alcohol liquor, even if it was not high.
Graff had already contacted several suppliers, and Durin planned to wait for at least a hundred dollars to come and talk to them, but Heidler's appearance made up for the lack of time and completely solved the problem of Dühring's start-up capital.
At noon, Dührin had Graff meet with a merchant from the Free Confederation, and the price of the Moon Low Almond Wine was among the lowest in the entire market, but it was an octave of degrees, making it ideal for purification.
The Free Federation, to the southeast of the Shining Star Empire, is a country of twenty-two provinces. A republic has been adopted in the country, which is governed by fifty members of the Bundestag and five presidents of the House of Lords. It is held every four years, up to two consecutive terms, but if the international situation is tense during the general election, war is already certain.
Or if the general election happens to be in a state of war, then even if the members and the speaker have been re-elected for two consecutive terms, the House of Commons can introduce the "Special Re-election Bill for Special Election in Extraordinary Situations" to determine whether each member of the House of Lords and the speaker can be re-elected for a third term. If more than half of the members of the House of Lords or three Speakers are confirmed to be re-elected, then the House of Commons will set up a "Special Powers Supervision Department" to monitor corruption, abuse of power, and other job-related crimes that may occur in the third term of office because of excessive power.
The Free Federation is a country that is different from the Shining Star Empire in a period of change, in the war that has just ended, the Shining Star Empire has won a crushing victory, but the Free Federation has won a big victory.
In fact, this question is not complicated, for the Shining Star Empire, the empire has firmly held on to its territory, and has not allowed the invaders to dominate their land and enslave their people, so they have won the Great Patriotic War. But for the Free Federation, although they did not have access to land and cheap labor, they did not have access to land and cheap labor, but they made unprecedented breakthroughs economically, especially in terms of tariffs and some of the things recorded in the war memorandum of understanding that the Shining Star Empire had not made public until now.
It is precisely because of such a disastrous victory in a war that the entire empire from top to bottom began to reflect on why the once extremely powerful empire was now reduced to being bullied by a federation that did not even have an emperor or a pope. In the midst of all the distractions and political struggles, all voices gradually unified.
That is, His Majesty the Emperor pointed fingers in the war, and the class struggle was rampant, seriously destroying the originally good situation. Soon after the war, there was an argument that the imperial system could no longer keep up with the progress of the times, and that only a constitutional monarchy could save the Shining Star Empire, which was already on the edge of a precipice.
The aristocratic class, which has lost the protection of the imperial system, the new reformers who want to become the leading class of the country, the big capitalists who want to interfere in politics through capital, the rebels who are full of ideals and anger and who want to change the world .......
A group of characters with clear flags staged a shocking political drama on the highest and most shining stage of the Shining Star Empire.
In such a situation, social problems will naturally be thrown aside by the bigwigs.
The empire, which has lost part of its tariff power, has become a huge piece of fat in the eyes of the capitalists of the Free Federation, and all kinds of things have been pouring into the empire through the border.
And what Durin wants to meet this time is a wine merchant from the Federation.
"You look very young, I take the liberty of asking, are you an adult?", the agent in his forties, with blonde hair and a brown beard, almost glared out of his eyes, Durin really didn't look big, too young. He didn't mind doing business with people of any race or age, but he was still scared.
Durin shrugged his shoulders and lit a cigarette for himself, which would make him look a little more mature, but it could also be counterproductive. He skillfully flicked the ashes of his cigarette and said casually, "I'm seventeen, Mr. Richard." ”
Richard nodded noncommittally, and said with a hint of emotion: "I was still working for the boss in a factory when I was seventeen years old, and you, at the age of seventeen, already had your own trading company......", he was about to shake his head and smile, "Okay, let's get down to business." I heard you want to get a batch of low-alcohol liquor from me to sell, right?"
Without waiting for Dührin to answer, he continued: "Moon brand fruit wine has a completely different character from the common low-alcohol wines on the market, our wine has a slight bitter taste of almonds, unlike those wines that are like fruit juice, sweet and greasy. Even if one drinks three or five bottles in one go, it won't spoil the taste by being too sweet. When I first came into contact with many partners, I would tell them that they could only drink two or three bottles of fruit wine, but they could drink five or six bottles of our Moon brand almond wine. ”
"What's more important is that our price positioning is very accurate, and we have a focus on the mid-range market from the beginning, so everyone can afford it, and we can also give you enough profit margins. ”
Durin nodded, he already knew all these things, he was still concerned about the price, "Can you tell us about the specific price?" Mr. Richard, our target is not just one Turner City, but the entire province, or even the entire empire. Once we confirm that you and Moon Trading's products are as good as you say, the prospects for our cooperation will be limitless!"
Richard thought about it for a moment and gave a price of eighty-five cents a bottle. This price, as he himself said, stands in the middle of the market for low-alcohol drinks. Further down there were bottles of fifty-five and sixty cents, and there were more than a piece of low-alcohol wine above, and the price of eighty-five cents was indeed accurate, but it was not a price that Dührin could accept.
Whether it's simply selling this brand of liquor, or using this low-alcohol liquor as a purification material, the price is obviously too high and too embarrassing. If you want to ensure profits, you need to sell them for a dollar and a bottle to ensure your profits. When the bar puts the wine on the counter, it must make at least 30% of the profit on a bottle of wine before it can be sold.
When the guests arrived, the price of a cup was about 30 cents.
A mid-grade price positioning actually only brings a very embarrassing situation, which may be the reason why the Moon brand has not opened up sales in the empire until now. If you choose a bad wine, you can drink two glasses, and for alcoholics, they don't care about the quality of the wine, they only care about how to buy the most wine with the least amount of money. And what about the middle-class guests? They would rather add 10 or 20 points and drink a little more upscale.
They can afford to drink 30 a glass of wine, and they don't care about paying for 10 more when they pay, they want face.
The price of not up or down makes Moon brand an unpopular in bars, and it is difficult to increase sales.
If it is purified, it is even less cost-effective. It takes three bottles of 85 Moon brand almond wine to purify a bottle of high-strength wine, which is about the cost price of two yuan and a half. Combined with the juice to be redeemed, the cost of labor, various wear and tear costs, and a small number of additional costs that have to be borne due to the damage of the transported wine bottle, the cost will be as high as five or six yuan. Sold to a bar, the profit was only more than four dollars, one of which was more than one of Graff, and Durin was only able to get more than two!
Going to jail for breaking the law and going to jail to do a business with only more than 40% profits, crazy?