Chapter 15: Business (2)
Fan Jianxin's business cards are printed on ordinary paper, unlike the business cards of later generations.
Business cards were a novelty at this time, and people began to use them in the open areas of the south, while it was rare for inland provinces like Mizhou, where it was located.
Of course, if the greetings used by the ancients are also counted as business cards, then the history of Chinese people using business cards is the earliest in the world.
"You, you're the director of the grain and oil store of the Yuejin Flour Mill?! ……”
Section Chief Lin said to Fan Jianxin that he had "seen" Brigade Commander Ye, and he didn't take it seriously, Brigade Chief Ye would also attend some activities in Weizhou City, and there were many people who had seen him. He was surprised that Fan Jianxin was a little kid, and he turned out to be the person in charge of the grain and oil store.
"Yes. You think I'm too young to look like? ……”
Erhezi stepped forward and patted his chest to assure that Fan Jianxin was indeed the director of their grain and oil store, and Hua Wei nodded on the side.
Moreover, Fan Jianxin and the others came out today and deliberately put on the work clothes of Yuejin Flour Mill. The overalls are printed on the left chest and back with the words "Leap into the Flour Mill".
"In the past, I used to deal with the sales department of your factory......
When Fan Jianxin heard this, he came to his senses, and then had a warm conversation with Section Chief Lin, asking him about some things he had done with the flour mill sales department before.
From the perspective of others, they thought they were old acquaintances.
In the end, Fan Jianxin told Section Chief Lin that he would definitely support his work, and it was every citizen's duty to support the army.
Let him rest assured that according to the ratio of soda ash to hydrated lime he gave, prepare a disinfectant against foot-and-mouth disease, if he can't grasp the concentration, he can call the grain and oil store at any time, and he will personally go to the pig farm in the military camp to teach the preparation of anti-epidemic medicine.
After hearing this, the two soldiers loaded two bags of soda ash powder into a tractor full of military jeeps and left.
Erhezi and Hua Wei were puzzled, why did Fan Jianxin be so enthusiastic about getting close to a logistics section chief of the army.
Fan Jianxin said something that made the two of them feel clueless.
"This is a big customer! ……”
Fan Jianxin remembers very well that a tank brigade was stationed in the south barracks, with more than 10,000 soldiers and logistics personnel; And the daughter of the brigade commander Ye Gang, but his classmate in high school......
Subsequently, Fan Jianxin began to talk enthusiastically with the owner of the store selling chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
The boss's surname is Zhu and he is a greasy uncle.
Fan Jianxin really didn't want to smoke, because he smoked too much in his previous life, he coughed early, and his blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar were high. But now I want to talk to people, hand people cigarettes, and smoke with people.
Boss Zhu saw that Fan Jianxin handed out a cigarette from the front door, his eyes were shining, and he was a little flattered to take the cigarette, knocked on the nail of his thumb, sniffed it at his nose, put it in his mouth, took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, first lit a cigarette for Fan Jianxin, and then lit his own cigarette.
Just now, this young man persuaded the two soldiers to leave in three sentences and solved a big problem for him. Otherwise, he was afraid that things would get into trouble, saying that he would treat the soldiers slowly, and it would be enough for him to drink a pot.
"Boss Zhu, you can also take back the two bags of soda ash powder just now......
"Alas, it's hard for me to do this business! If you finally sell the goods, how can you take them back?! And those two bags of alkali powder have been used by them, and it is not good to sell them again after taking them back! ”
"I'll teach you a way to increase your income and make your alkali powder sell well......"
"Oh? …… And such a good thing?! ”
"Of course. I walked around your market and found that there are soda blocks for sale, and the price is more expensive than your soda powder! ”
"It's always been like this! …… The locals use alkali blocks to make steamed buns, and they are not used to using alkali powder. ”
"That's a good thing for you!"
Fan Jianxin took a puff of cigarette and felt very choked, the smell of smoke was too strong! How can there be the faint and astringent burnt smell of cigarettes in later generations?!
Daqianmen cigarettes, which are already high-end cigarettes at this time, can be regarded as inferior cigarettes for future generations. The cigarettes of later generations are very finely processed, the ingredients are also exquisite, and they all have filters, and the taste of this smoke is much lighter than that of this kind of smoke.
He dropped most of the cigarette that was still left and didn't smoke, and said, "Boss Zhu, as long as you add water to the alkali powder in this proportion, it will become an alkali block......
Soda ash powder is combined with water to form solid crystals, which are commonly known as alkali blocks. Fan Jianxin remembers that each sodium carbonate molecule can bind up to ten water molecules, and as long as the alkali block is slightly smaller than the proportion of crystal water, it is easy to form an alkali block.
As he spoke, he asked Boss Zhu to take some alkali powder, containers, water, etc., and weigh and dissolve them on the spot......
Fan Jianxin took this time to talk to Boss Zhu.
This store is the only branch in the town contracted from the supply and marketing cooperative. Just contracted, business is very good. At the beginning, the supply and marketing cooperatives promised to let their store exclusively deal in chemical fertilizers, but this year, after the farmland was contracted to the households, the demand for chemical fertilizers was greatly increased, which made the business of this store boom, and the supply and marketing cooperatives resumed the sale of chemical fertilizers.
Moreover, he was not allowed to sell at a reduced price in this contracted store.
As a result, his store is no longer competitive, and the annual contract fee is high, making it difficult to operate.
Finally, a soldier bought two large bags of alkali powder, how can he return it!
As the two of them talked, they smoked half a pack of cigarettes. Later, Fan Jianxin only handed out cigarettes to Boss Zhu to smoke, and never lit his own cigarettes again......
Fan Jianxin took Erhezi and Hua Wei to the market to buy wheat and so on. A few hours later, Fan Jianxin returned here, and the prepared alkali powder solution had crystallized into an alkali block!
"Needless to weigh, the weight of this alkali block is heavier than alkali powder, and the selling price is higher than alkali powder, aren't you earning?!"
"I've also heard that alkali powder can be made into alkali blocks, but I didn't expect it to be so simple! It's incredible......"
Boss Zhu said a lot of words of praise and gratitude to Fan Jianxin, and then insisted on leaving Fan Jianxin and the others for lunch.
Fan Jianxin knew that his two brothers were too tender now, and they still needed to be sharpened to expect them to do things alone.
He has a lot of important things to do, in order to save time and reduce trouble, Fan Jianxin entrusted this store to collect wheat and so on.
When he received 5,000 catties of wheat, he asked someone to pull it. If the shopkeeper sends it directly to the grain and oil store, in addition to the handling fee collected, 1 cent will be added to each catty of wheat. In this way, the gross profit of 5,000 catties of wheat is 50 yuan more, and the owner of the store is of course happy. Fan Jianxin casually gave Boss Zhu a deposit of 100 yuan, and Boss Zhu, who was happy, smiled with a smile on his face.
Every other three or five days, Boss Zhu sent goods to Fan Jianxin's grain and oil store once, and delivered several trips to the Spring Festival, which is a later story.
With wheat and so on, the gap in food stamps has been completely solved. As long as the harvested wheat is exchanged for flour and sold, the hole in the food stamps is filled.
On the first day of going out, Fan Jianxin and their harvest were still full. Not only did he receive a lot of peanuts, sesame, soybeans, and wheat, but what made him happiest was that Fan Jianxin bought 12 bottles of Feitian Moutai from the fifties in the town's supply and marketing cooperative.
What a big leak!
He remembered that the auction price of Moutai in the 80s in the later generations exceeded 200,000 yuan, and the wine of the 50s was not speculated until the sky!
The vicissitudes of time make the wine look like an antique, which is very pleasant. The label on the bottle has neither the alcohol degree and the milliliter of the amount of wine, nor the recipe of the grain brewed, except for the name of the wine, only the words "state-owned Moutai Town Winery".
Of course, for these bottles of Moutai, he grinded with the manager of the supply and marketing cooperatives for a long time, smoked several cigarettes with him, and gave the manager 100 coupons from the grain and oil store before he bought them at a premium of 12 yuan per bottle.
At the beginning of this year, the local government began to comprehensively implement the policy of guaranteeing production to households, which aroused the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain. After the peasants have paid the prescribed public grain, every household has surplus grain.
Although prices were rising at the end of the year, the price of wheat purchased by the grain depot was not adjusted, and the output of wheat increased considerably, and the market price of wheat did not rise at this time.
When Fan Jianxin harvested wheat, he learned that it was still troublesome for farmers to exchange wheat for flour. It is necessary to rely on the board car to pull and shoulder to pick, and the wheat can be transported to the flour mill to be exchanged for flour, and then pick it back.
"Oh, why don't you pull it with a tractor?" Futakuko asked an old farmer selling wheat.
"I can't buy a tractor!"
At this time, farmers could not buy tractors even if they had money.
The three of them sat on a four-wheeled tractor loaded with wheat and other things, and chatted on the way back.
Perhaps it was Fan Jianxin's professional habit of being a teacher for 20 years in his previous life, and he asked the two brothers inspired: "You say, how to solve the problem of peasants exchanging flour?" ”
Of course, Ersunozi and Hua Wei can think of building more tractors.
"You say, how about we get some tractors to sell?"
"Sounds pretty good, but where can we get into the tractor?"
"Isn't there a Red Star tractor factory in Los Angeles?"
"We don't have to do business, how can we get into the tractor?!"
Fan Jianxin said as if he was talking to two students: "I think that as long as I go to the Red Star Tractor Factory, I will definitely be able to get a tractor." Okay, let's not talk about whether the tractor can be bought or not, so what else can be done to solve the problem of the difficulty of exchanging wheat for flour in the hands of farmers? ”
Erheizi and Hua Wei are both using their brains, Hua Wei said: "We can use a four-wheeled tractor to pull flour and go to the village or the market to exchange flour for ......."
"It's a good way, even if it's more expensive, but it works. What else? ……”
The two said several methods, but they were all denied by Fan Jianxin. Fan Jianxin saw that the two of them also said the same, and inspired: "Is it okay to let the farmers grind their own noodles?" ”
"No! Nowadays, few people keep donkeys, counting on the artificial grinding of dough to exhaust people to death. My fourth aunt has a small stone mill at home, and grinding a little soy milk can exhaust people......"
"I mean a small electric mill to grind ......"
Fan Jianxin pondered for a while and said: "For the Chinese New Year, we will make two preparations, one is to find a way to buy some tractors to sell in the store; The other is to buy some small electric mills to sell. These are all ways to solve the difficulty of farmers in exchanging flour......"
Hua Wei suddenly said: "Xinzai, if the farmers have an electric mill, who will come to the flour mill to change the flour?!" ”
"It's inevitable!" Fan Jianxin sighed lightly, "A state-owned unit like a flour mill won't have a long life......
In the process of collecting grain, Fan Jianxin and others were also interrogated by the market managers with red armbands. When he showed a letter of introduction from the grain and oil store of Yuejin Flour Mill to buy wheat and other things, it was quite effective, and the management did not interfere.
In this era, there are large state-owned factories covering, which saves a lot of trouble......