Chapter 486 If you want to be rich, build roads first
The next day, Friday.
At around eight o'clock, Wang Yafang jogged all the way to Su's house. After seeing Su Mingzhe, she apologized out of breath:
"I'm sorry, Brother Su, I was chatting with my family too late last night. My mother didn't wake me up this morning, so I slept until almost eight o'clock."
"It's okay, I understand. You can help me see the house first, and I'll call a taxi."
Su Mingzhe can really understand Wang Yafang's situation.
After all, this is the first time for Wang Yafang to leave home and travel far away. She only comes once every six months. Her parents and family will definitely hold her and chat with her for a long time.
Su Mingzhe let Wang Yafang sit for a while, and then he went out to find a trolley.
Wang Yafang looked at the Su's house. From the outside, the Su's house looked unprepossessing. It was no different from the surrounding neighbors. They were all dilapidated old houses from decades ago.
However, when you open the door and go in, the household items inside are quite luxurious.
For example, a calendar poster hanging on the wall.
Normally, when dirt and debris begin to fall off the walls of other people's homes, they are usually covered with newspapers.
However, all the calendar posters hanging on the walls of the Su family are calendar posters.
(Calendar posters are all printed in color and cost about 10 cents each. Ordinary people would not be willing to buy any posters if they are not decorating a wedding house.)
Another example is the layer of oil stars floating in the swill bucket.
Ordinary people only have a few grain and oil stamps every month. If you stew cabbage in the winter and put a little oil on the bottom of the pot, it is considered a very good meal.
However, the Su family's swill bucket had a layer of oil stars floating on it (ordinary people would not waste it like this).
Just when Wang Yafang was looking at the Su family carefully, Su Mingzhe had already returned with the cart.
Su Mingzhe and the cart master moved the fur goods to the car, and then he and Wang Yafang slowly followed the cart toward the unified sales and purchase store.
Arriving at the door of the store, Su Mingzhe saw the tall man again.
The tall man was smoking with a friend next to him. When he saw Su Mingzhe looking at him, he raised the cigarette in his hand and shook it as a greeting.
"Binzi, do you know him?"
The man saw the tall man greeting Su Mingzhe, but Su Mingzhe entered the store with goods, and couldn't help but become curious:
"Why don't you accept his goods?"
"Lao Ba asked me before, and he said that his goods are all good, and the prices here are about the same as those in stores."
After Binzi said this, he laughed with his friend:
"Qiangzi, speaking of which, you should know this person. He is also a photographer. His name is Su Mingzhe."
"Su Mingzhe?"
The man named Qiangzi thought for a while and then recalled some information:
"There is such a person in the optical film, but I heard that he has good academic performance, is a high school graduate, and has gone out to join the queue. When did he come back?"
"Then should we find someone to check his base?"
Binzi was actually quite covetous of Su Mingzhe's leather goods. If he took them away and took them to other places for a little processing, it would be a huge profit.
"never mind."
Qiangzi shook his head: "Brother Shui said that we can't do anything openly with the public."
When Binzi heard Qiangzi mentioning 'Brother Shui', he didn't say much more.
In the past few years, thanks to Brother Shui's arrangements, everyone has been able to prosper.
Binzi is not the kind of person who doesn't understand current affairs, so as soon as he heard the instructions from 'Brother Shui', he immediately stopped his random thoughts.
On the other side, Su Mingzhe and Wang Yafang brought all the leather goods into the store.
There are a lot of leather goods this month, more than two hundred pieces.
Including seasonal reasons, the total sold was more than 2,000 yuan.
Wang Yafang's eyes widened as she watched Su Mingzhe counting a thick stack of banknotes.
She only knew from other people's mouth that Su Mingzhe could make thousands of dollars every month selling leather goods, but she was still very shocked when she actually saw Su Mingzhe making so much money.
When she came back to her senses, she looked at Su Mingzhe's eyes again, and there was already an inexplicable light shining in them.
"Fangfang, let's go shopping."
Su Mingzhe naturally noticed Wang Yafang's eyes, but he didn't take it seriously.
He is confident that his ability to make money is unparalleled, and he is also confident that he can lead his subordinates to prosper together.
However, if some of his subordinates have some thoughts that they shouldn't have, Su Mingzhe will also teach them how to behave.
Soon, Su Mingzhe brought Wang Yafang to the machinery factory.
There was a relationship between the purchase of two machines before. This time, after Su Mingzhe came to the machinery factory, he still looked for Director Bai.
Director Bai was also very enthusiastic after meeting Su Mingzhe.
Don't look at it, Su Mingzhe's last order was small, just over a thousand yuan.
But you must know that in this era, most factories and companies produce things under a unified sales and purchasing system. Everything must be sold and purchased within a plan.
Department directors like Director Bai who are responsible for sales have a lot of power, but they also have to bear a lot of responsibilities accordingly.
The departments that are really rich and popular but don't have much responsibility are usually the logistics department.
Director Bai has been in sales in a machinery factory for so many years, and he knows all the ins and outs very well.
When cooperating with other major manufacturers, he could only eat a few reception meals to fill his stomach.
If you want to make money, you'd better have more individual customers like Su Mingzhe, small customers.
After all, only these small customers and individual customers can he have the opportunity to deal with.
Director Bai took Su Mingzhe and Wang Yafang into the reception room and said with a smile:
"Comrade Su, what kind of machine do you want to buy when you come here this time?"
"Instead of buying machines this time, we want to buy a bulldozer and take it back to build roads."
Su Mingzhe kept in mind the mantra for getting rich from later generations: 'If you want to get rich, build roads first.'
Baiyashan Village is deep into the Xiaoxing'anling Mountains, with more than 60 miles of winding mountain roads from the county seat.
Although Su Mingzhe has now built a "mushroom cultivation experimental base" for Baiya Mountain, the remote geographical environment of the mountain village limits the future development scale of Baiya Mountain Village.
Therefore, in order to make Baiya Mountain Village a few steps ahead of other towns, Su Mingzhe decided to use his vision beyond generations to eliminate and smooth out some of the shortcomings and shortcomings of Baiya Mountain Village.
"You want to buy bulldozers to build roads?"
Director Bai was a little surprised when he heard this: "Then do you still want to buy a roller?"
"There is no need for road rollers. We are in a mountainous area, and bulldozers are actually not very useful."
Su Mingzhe explained a few words with a wry smile on his face.
When Director Bai heard this, he laughed and didn't give much advice.
In fact, saying "it's not necessary" is just an excuse.
If Su Mingzhe had a way to explain the origin of money, let alone bulldozers, road rollers, or even truck dump trucks, he would want to bring a fleet of them over.
Because there was no way to explain the origin of the money in his own space, Su Mingzhe could only buy supplies bit by bit.
Director Bai also saw Su Mingzhe's financial distress, so he did not continue to ask.
Soon, Director Bai took Su Mingzhe to see the bulldozer.
Su Mingzhe got on the car and operated it himself, then confirmed the order.
A second-hand bulldozer cost Su Mingzhe 18,000 yuan.
Su Mingzhe currently only has more than 8,000 yuan to explain the source of the money. Therefore, this time, he can only use 8,000 yuan as a deposit. The remaining payment will have to wait until after the Chinese New Year, when the machinery factory will help transport the bulldozer.
After entering Mulan County, proceed to checkout.
After the two parties signed the agreement, Su Mingzhe took Wang Yafang and left the machinery factory.
"We're done, let's go."
"Is this the end of the day?"
Wang Yafang was a little surprised. She felt that Su Mingzhe's shopping process was too simple.
"Don't you want to buy something else?"
"Why are you selling a bulldozer? All your savings have been spent on a bulldozer, so you can only pay a deposit, and you will be eating dirt for the next two months."
Of course, Su Mingzhe would not be a fool, but he would not let Wang Yafang know how much money he had without exposing his wealth.
When Wang Yafang heard Su Mingzhe say that she had no money, she didn't know what to do.
In the past six months, she has stayed in Baiya Mountain Village just as a teacher, receiving some grain, oil, rice and noodles every month, but other than that, she has no income.
Faced with Su Mingzhe's 'embarrassment', she couldn't help at all.
After the two left the machinery factory, Su Mingzhe went to Zheng's house to find Zheng Juan, and then separated from Wang Yafang.
However, before leaving, Su Mingzhe arranged another task for Wang Yafang:
"Fangfang, I'm going to invite the team members to dinner tonight. You first go to Chaoyang Hotel to book a table. Remember to find a waitress named Wu Qian and ask her to help. She is Wang Quan's girlfriend. Just tell her,
Just order the same thing on the table. These are money, food stamps, and meat stamps. Tell her that the more she pays, the less she pays."
"Don't worry, Brother Su, I promise to complete the task."
Wang Yafang got the task and immediately ran excitedly to Chaoyang Hotel to book a banquet.
Su Mingzhe walked towards Taiping Hutong.
Because of Su Mingzhe's help, the Zheng family no longer set up a stall to buy candied haws.
After all, you can't make much money selling candied haws, and you have to suffer so much.
More importantly, Zheng's mother and Zheng Juan are both afraid that the gangsters who harassed Zheng Juan before will continue to cause trouble.
Little did the mother and daughter know that those few gangsters had long since been poisoned by gas and had kicked off their legs and returned home.
Su Mingzhe walked all the way into Taiping Hutong and found that it was different from other places in Jichun City where people were celebrating the Spring Festival with joy.
The residents here walk around with a sly look on their faces, looking around randomly.
Su Mingzhe was dressed in crisp and clean clothes, and looked particularly eye-catching while walking on this road.
Fortunately, Su Mingzhe was tall and burly, so even if others looked at him twice, they would not dare to cause trouble to him.
Soon, Su Mingzhe arrived at Zheng's house and pushed the door open directly.
"Auntie, Juanzi, Guangming, I'm back."
"Mingzhe is back."
Mother Zheng and Zheng Juan were naturally very happy to see Su Mingzhe arriving.
Zheng Juan really misses Su Mingzhe.
What Zheng's mother was thinking about was the living expenses Su Mingzhe promised.
Su Mingzhe handed the medicine bag he was carrying to Zheng's mother, and at the same time thrust the envelope containing living expenses into Zheng's mother's hand.
Zheng's mother quickly collected the envelope and said with a smile that she would go to the vegetable market to buy some food and have a good gathering at noon.
Zheng Juan was busy pouring tea for Su Mingzhe and did not see Zheng's mother hiding the envelope.
"Guangming, how do you feel about your eyes now?"
Under Zheng Juan's service, Su Mingzhe took off his coat, shoes and socks, sat on the edge of the kang, then pulled his brother-in-law beside him and began to diagnose and treat him.
Zheng Guangming waited until Su Mingzhe finished giving him acupuncture, and then said excitedly:
"Brother, I can see things clearly now."
"Really? That means the toxins have almost been removed."
Su Mingzhe asked Zheng Guangming a few more questions, and then came to the conclusion that the second course of treatment could be declared over and the third course of treatment could be entered.
"Auntie, Guangming has sight in his eyes now. Take him to a place with a wide field of vision to look at it for a while every day. It doesn't need to be too long, just one or two hours. In two or three months, the flowers will bloom in spring.
At that time, I gave him a pair of far-sighted glasses and slowly adjusted them so that he could really see things clearly."
"That's good, that's good."
Zheng Guangming's vision problem is a matter of special concern to the entire Zheng family.
Su Mingzhe cured his brother-in-law's eyes, and Zheng's mother and Zheng Juan finally got rid of a piece of their heartache.
After lunch, Zheng's mother took her son out for a walk and found a place with a wide view to adjust his eyesight.
Su Mingzhe took Zheng Juan and played poker on the kang.
Zheng Juan's poker skills are really average. She lost more than she won all afternoon.
However, she was very stubborn and refused to beg for mercy even if she lost.
It was not until about four o'clock in the afternoon that Su Mingzhe remembered that he had to treat Gao Yaxuan and other driver masters to dinner, so he reluctantly ended the game.
Zheng Juan blushed, arranged the man's clothes, and picked up her hair from the man's shoulders:
"It's cold at night, don't go home too late."
"Don't worry, we are all old acquaintances, and they will disperse after having a good drink."
Su Mingzhe heard that the woman cared about him and couldn't help but reply:
"You should go to bed early at night. I will come early tomorrow to take you out to play."
"Um."
Zheng Juan's face turned red, she heard the meaning of the man's words.
Su Mingzhe left the Zheng family and rushed towards Chaoyang Hotel.
Because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the hotel business is good.
When Su Mingzhe arrived at the place, Wang Yafang and Wu Qian came over to greet him:
"Brother Su, the restaurant's business has been booming recently. All the big tables have been booked. Should we share the small tables and eat together?"
Su Mingzhe was stunned for a moment and looked at Wang Yafang, about to ask what was going on.
He had sent her over to reserve a table in the morning.
No matter how good the business of this restaurant is, it's impossible to book all the big tables in the morning, right?
At this time, the manager at the counter saw Su Mingzhe come in and Wu Qian took the initiative to greet him. He immediately remembered that Su Mingzhe was the big customer last time.
"Comrade Su, I'm really sorry. Someone from the agency called me today to have a meal. There are really no big tables in the lobby. If you don't want to use a small table on the first floor, how about going to the private room on the second floor?"
Seeing what the manager said, Wu Qian quickly explained:
“Although the second floor is not as warm as the first floor, the environment is very nice and quiet.”
Of course, Su Mingzhe didn't care whether it was warm or not, but when he thought that he was going to treat a guest, he still had to think about the guests:
"Manager, can you arrange a coal stove?"
"no problem."
The manager heard that Su Mingzhe asked for a coal stove and quickly arranged it.
Of course, this coal stove is not free to use. The usage fee including the briquettes is 50 cents, which is more expensive than a plate of scrambled eggs.
Su Mingzhe naturally looked down upon this small amount of money, so he waved his hand and asked the manager to quickly order the kitchen to prepare the dishes.
Soon, Wu Qian led Su Mingzhe and Wang Yafang to the private room on the second floor.
The temperature here is definitely higher than on the street, but it's much cooler than on the first floor.
Su Mingzhe did his best to sit down.
Wang Yafang helped Wu Qian make tea and water and set up tables, chairs and benches.
After a while, the manager came in with a coal stove. Wu Qian, with the help of Wang Yafang, placed the things and left with the manager.