Zhou Qingfeng's peanut selling business was destined to have some twists and turns. He asked Old Man He to not only retail peanuts, but also exchange a small amount for some cheap industrial products that were left over by urban workers.
Towels, soaps, cloths, kettles, cups, pots and pans, and even low-end industrial products such as second-hand bicycles. The exchanged items are all kinds of things. After receiving these items, they are sold to surrounding rural areas including Mawang Village.
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As for what Old Man He said about insufficient manpower, that's really not a problem.
The biggest trouble in rural areas now is overpopulation, especially in the inland provinces and cities in the south where Tianyang City is located. There is no field to cultivate in the mountainous terrain, and mechanized farming is even impossible. Going to the coast to work has not yet emerged, and there are too many idle manpower.
The He family can recruit a few relatives to build a sales team of more than ten people. The real trouble is that the He family has shown its face in the village. It is inevitable that some people will wonder how their family got rich?
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Zhou Qingfeng is eager to earn 5,000 yuan for farming as soon as possible to ensure that his mission is completed. He can no longer bear to stay in Mawang Village. It’s not that his sister-in-law is not having fun.
But life in the countryside is too hard.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the He family, Zhou Qingfeng refused to pay any money for reselling industrial products. This immediately excited the whole family of the old man He - because the profits were so huge that even if you have a good conscience, you can make twice as much money.
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Zhou Qingfeng can earn nearly 10,000 yuan from selling peanuts, and the He family has no problem making a few thousand by reselling them. As for the lack of cash in rural areas and low consumption power - it doesn't matter, you can use vegetables and poultry to offset the price. Anyway, the He family wants to make money.
The goods go to the market.
Urban workers received high-quality agricultural products, rural farmers received cheap industrial products, and the He family's business network made money. Zhou Qingfeng provided starting capital and products, making a fortune while completing the task at the same time - the best of all four worlds.
On the first day of the resale transaction, Old Man He transported five bags of peanuts to the market and brought back a bunch of miscellaneous things.
"The people at the machinery factory said that they couldn't get paid for the things they sold, and they had a lot of triangular debts, so they could only take back these crappy things to pay off their debts. There was so much to offset their debts that everyone had a lot of them.
Messy stuff.
For example, these soaps came from the daily chemical factory in the city. I don’t know who gave them to whom. Anyway, they ended up in the warehouse of the machinery factory and could never be redeemed. The machinery factory used the soaps to offset part of their wages every month and paid them to employees. The factory
The employees here have long been tired of this stuff.
By the way, now workers in the city even have tasks, and each one has to help the factory sell a certain amount of goods. I heard from the accountant who facilitated the work that sales tasks are delegated to everyone, even front-line workers. Everyone has a home.
There is a lot of rubbish, and everyone is worried to death."
He Laohan's ship brought back piles of goods at very cheap prices. The workers in the city couldn't pay their wages and would rather lose money than clear them out, otherwise they would not be able to survive.
"Like this enamel bowl, a pound of peanuts can be exchanged for five." Old man He grabbed a number of bowls with peeling paint from a packing box and said with a smile: "This thing costs 1.51 at the township supply and marketing cooperative."
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Zhou Qingfeng took the enamel bowl and found that the quality was extremely low. The enamel on the bowl fell off a lot and it was full of pits. No wonder it couldn't be sold.
"What are you afraid of? It just doesn't look good. As long as it works, why do country people care about this? It's mainly because it's cheap. A bowl costs less than 20 cents.
I'll exchange this bowl for 50 cents of eggplant. Someone will definitely want it. Eggplants in the countryside are not valuable. If you transport them to the city and sell them, you can make double the profit."
Old Man He laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth with joy. He specially brought some bowls to his daughter's house just to show off to Zhou Qingfeng how he made money.
"I have negotiated with a few relatives, and I will sell the goods to them on credit, and then I can exchange various vegetables for them and give them to me. They are all happy to make the money. In addition to these bowls, I also brought back a lot of things that are usually from each household.
Everything you can use is cheap.”
Zhou Qingfeng held the broken bowl in his hand and couldn't help but think of "Bing Xixi" more than 20 years later. Residents in the city laughed at cheap e-commerce companies for selling inferior products at low prices, but they didn't know that there were always a large number of people in rural areas who had no right to speak.
Consumer demand.
Whoever can meet this demand can make money. Because China has too many people, anyone can make a fortune as long as they control a small market share.
Zhou Qingfeng did not need to intervene in the next situation. Several villages in Nantou Township soon knew that the He family had connections in Tianyang City and could obtain quite cheap industrial products. The price was equivalent to the selling price of similar products in the supply and marketing cooperative.
Discount and then fracture.
They were all from the countryside, and the news spread extremely quickly. At first, it was just the relatives of the He family who were helping with the sales. Later, more people knew about it, and the farmers did not want the relatives of the He family to earn the middle price, so they took the initiative to exchange their own products for purchases.
Old Man He was both happy and anxious. His house had turned into a small market, and there was a lot of people in front of his house every day. His relatives didn't have to take the initiative to sell, they could just stay at his house and work as salesmen.
The low-quality towels produced by textile factories in the city lose color and lint after just two washes, but only cost 30 cents a piece. Farmers in each village do not have to go all the way to the countryside, they can just pick the vegetables at any house and exchange them - sold by the rural supply and marketing cooperative.
It's also this kind of inferior product, and it's exorbitantly expensive.
The vegetable supply capacity of several villages was greater than that of Zhou Qingfeng's dragon dung field. The two boats rented by Old Man He soon ran out of supplies. He had to continue to rent more boats, hire several people to sail the boats and transport goods, and even
You need to rent a warehouse at the vegetable pier for storage.
Within a few days, news of the prosperity of the Old He family spread all over the sky. Everyone felt that Old He must have found some way to become an official in the city, otherwise why would he suddenly become so powerful?
It was a miracle for the machinery factory in the city. The employees suddenly found that the obnoxious junk goods in their warehouse were slowly being emptied. In the past, no one wanted these things, but now they can actually return a lot of them to their daily lives.
Living supplies.
The party committee in the factory attached great importance to this matter and held a meeting all night to study and decide - quickly sell all the junk goods in the warehouse. Losing money is secondary, and survival is the most important thing.
In order to please Old Man He, a heavyweight 'customer', the machinery factory had to treat him like an uncle - the factory covered all of Zhou Qingfeng's more than six tons of peanuts, as well as the next two months of production. Get it.
Peanut, they were so happy that they died.
After all, peanuts can be eaten and sold, and even if they are not enough, they can be squeezed for oil. These are popular daily necessities. You cannot chew the soap in the warehouse, and even rats will not eat it.
The machinery factory couldn't sell its own products, so it simply asked its employees to help Old Man He sell vegetables. Now, the number of ships Old Man He transports has changed from one to two, and from two to four. They are transporting around the clock.
Tianyang urban area has a population of several hundred thousand, so there is no problem at all in digesting the agricultural products of several villages. The government has begun to carry out a "vegetable basket project" because the number of urban residents is increasing rapidly and the output of agricultural products cannot keep up.
Chapter completed!