Chapter 909 Is this called ‘compensating for death’? (8300)
After Xu Qingming returned to Quancheng, he immediately arranged for someone to come over to weigh and load the truck.
More than 3,000 cows is not a small number, and it took several days to complete the work.
During that time, the road was very dirty, but no one in Qingyun Village, Yelou Village, or the Zhujiazhuang and Caojiazhuang areas that passed by had any objections. Everyone silently cleaned the road in front of their own door.
More often than not, people would like to clean up like this every day so that they can never sell out of cattle.
But it was obvious that it was a lie.
But even so, after the 3,615 cows were weighed, the average weight of each cow reached 1,385.3 kilograms, and they were finally sold at a high price of 61.5796 million yuan.
As mentioned last year, this money was not distributed as dividends.
Last year, nearly 19 million yuan was spent on beef calves alone.
Subsequent improvements to the farm, investment in feed and pasture, as well as investment in cows and cow farms all require money.
But after paying dividends last year, there wasn't much money left.
It was Cao Shujie who went to the county rural commercial bank to seek a loan of 60 million yuan from Ma Changrong, and he was able to scrape up enough money to buy cows and build a modern cow breeding farm, otherwise he would have been blinded last year.
However, the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative only purchased 2,000 cows last year. Compared with the 12,000 cows raised by the first and second branches of the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative each year, the number of cows is still far behind.
Therefore, with the remaining profits this year, in addition to repaying the monthly installment loan of 2.65 million yuan, we will continue to purchase cows and build large-scale cow breeding farms to ensure that we can remain invincible in future competition.
"Uncle Long, please help summon the village secretaries of the other six villages and let's hold a meeting." Cao Shujie called Cao Jianlong.
When Cao Jianlong received this call, he felt as if he was on the phone with Liu Furong. Cao Shujie put great pressure on him when he spoke.
Because Cao Shujie's tone on the phone was unquestionable, which seemed to mean that you have to come if you come, and if you don't come, you don't come.
Cao Jianlong didn't hold back. After agreeing to Cao Shujie, he immediately notified Zhu Hongwei and the other six people, asking them to put down their work no matter what they were busy with and come to the Caojiazhuang Village Committee Office.
Cao Shujie himself came to the village committee office early to wait.
There haven't been any village committee meetings recently, so there's actually nothing major to do.
Another point is that Cao Jianlong took on most of the trivial matters in the village. Unless it was particularly important, he never let Cao Shujie worry about it.
Cao Jianlong understood that this time Cao Shujie convened a meeting with village directors from six other villages to discuss very important matters.
The latest one to arrive was Diao Shijun from Qiuxia Village. Among these seven villages, the closest ones to Caojiazhuang are Taodong Village and Zhujiazhuang, and the farthest ones are Qiuxia Village.
But even so, when 52-year-old Diao Shijun came in, he kept apologizing, saying that riding an electric bike was slow and that he would sell the electric bike later and buy a motorcycle.
"Uncle Diao, please take it easy, we are not in a hurry." Cao Shujie advised him.
"Oh, Director Cao, your matter is the most important thing, how can you not be in a hurry?" After Diao Shijun sat down, he saw that he was the last one, and said quickly: "I am late today, I must be punished, otherwise
How about this, how about I treat you all to dinner at noon today? You can order whatever you want."
He looked like he was accepting punishment.
When several other people heard what Diao Shijun said, they all called him shameless and shameless.
Gao Benwei, Ye Chenguang, and Qian Hua, who were also members of the second branch of the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative along with Diao Shijun, were wondering why they hadn't thought of this move just now.
It was not easy for them to get together with Cao Shujie, and they were willing to pay for a meal.
Cao Jianlong, Zhu Hongwei and Zhuang Xuejian saw that these four guys hadn't had a meeting yet, so they started discussing where to have dinner today and joined in.
"Ahem!"
Cao Shujie coughed twice, and all seven people stopped talking.
Everyone sat quietly in their seats, waiting for Cao Shujie to start the meeting.
If you don’t know them well, purely from a job standpoint, one village director holds a meeting for seven village party secretaries. No matter how you think about it, you may find this funny, but it just happened.
Cao Shujie took a sip of water and told them in a straightforward manner: "I asked Uncle Long to call everyone here today. One is that we haven't been together for a long time, and there is something I want to discuss with everyone.
"
As soon as he said this, he heard Zhu Hongwei rush to say: "Director Cao, if you have anything to do, you can make a decision. Just tell us later. We big guys don't understand. Anyway, we all listen to you."
Show loyalty!
Except for Cao Jianlong, the other five guys secretly scolded Zhu Hongwei for being shameless and only flattering.
But Zhu Hongwei was not moved at all. You can scold me as much as you like. I have to let Director Cao know what I think.
Cao Shujie smiled and said: "Everyone, the next thing is very important, everyone must treat it carefully."
When he said this, the others stopped joking and listened carefully.
Cao Shujie started by talking about the cattle sales at Branch 2 of the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative.
"This time Qingyun Village, Yelou Village, Qiuxia Village and Jinxiu Village sold a total of 3,614 cows, 2 of which died due to accidents. This time we still sold 3 cents higher than the market price, based on 12.3 yuan
Sold at the price.”
"But we have to see that the current market price of calves is still rising."
He said: "According to my understanding, the current price of beef calves weighing about 240 kilograms has reached 5,500 yuan per head, and the price of beef calves weighing about 280 kilograms has also risen to 6,000 yuan per head."
At this point, Cao Shujie paused for a moment and said: "If we go by the standards we used to buy beef calves last year, this year's price will be 6% to 10% higher than last year. This increase is very astonishing."
He was not joking. When Cao Jianlong and the other seven people heard this quotation, they all sighed.
Indeed, as Cao Shujie said, the market price of beef calves has skyrocketed again.
This is still the price of a beef calf weighing more than 200 to 300 kilograms. If the weight is a little heavier, the price will be more than 6,000 yuan. There is no way to say.
The cost of this area is rising too fast.
At their scale, if 12,000 beef cattle are raised every year, if the price of each head increases by 500 yuan, this will be a purchase cost of 6 million yuan.
"In addition, everyone has also seen that the slaughter price of beef cattle has been falling in the past two years. This year's price is more than 1 yuan lower than the price in the previous two years."
Cao Shujie also pointed one finger up and one finger down: "It rises and falls, and it is blocked at both ends. It is also a very fatal thing for us."
Cao Jianlong and the others all understood what Cao Shujie meant, and because of this, they felt very heavy.
Although Zhu Hongwei was very shameless, he was also the smartest among the seven village party secretaries at the critical moment. He said: "Director Cao, in my opinion, we have to build another cow breeding farm and continue to purchase cows.
.”
He said: "We only have 2,000 cows now, which is far from matching the current breeding scale of Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative. We still need to buy a large number of beef calves from outside. I think we can buy another 4,000 cows."
It’s not much.”
That being said, a cow costs more than 10,000 yuan, and 4,000 cows costs more than 40 million yuan.
Coupled with the modern breeding farms and daily breeding costs of cows, this amount is not a small amount.
Of the 60 million borrowed last year, except for 20 million used as a cash flow reserve for the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative’s beef calf feeding costs, the rest was invested in cow feeding.
Zhu Hongwei just finished speaking, and several other people also expressed their opinions that this method is good.
Even Diao Shijun also said: "Director Cao, we will not pay dividends this year. At worst, we will not pay dividends next year. Keep investing. In the past two years, everyone has tightened their belts and laid a good foundation first. As long as it can operate normally, what will happen later?"
It’s not a popular drink.”
At the critical moment, he made this decision.
Cao Shujie looked at these old guys and thought they were stupid even though they had never gone to school. In fact, it was quite the opposite.
To be able to secure their current position, they all have their own set of wisdom.
"Do you all agree?" Cao Shujie asked them.
He called these people together today because he actually wanted to discuss this issue with them.
He called Liu Jiping from Shunchi Animal Husbandry two days ago, and Liu Jiping told him that the price of beef calves this year would be at least 5,600 yuan.
Last year's price of 5,300 yuan was really unaffordable.
Even Liu Jiping said this, Cao Shujie understood how tight the price of beef calves was in the market.
Cao Shujie called Cui Jingguo, and Cui Jingguo quoted him 5,700 yuan.
Cui Jingguo himself is not that big. Faced with the large breeding scale of Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative, Cui Jingguo simply cannot produce so many calves. He needs to buy more than half of them from other places, which increases his channels.
cost.
He also wanted to give Cao Shujie a lower price to keep Cao Shujie as a customer, but he would lose money if he sold it cheaply.
The past two years are different from the previous years. Although the price of beef calves also increased at that time, their profits were still very generous. However, their current labor and feed breeding costs have increased, resulting in profits that are not as good as before.
That's why he called these people together for a meeting to discuss the next path forward for the Zhongcheng breeding cooperation.
Before he could take the initiative to increase the number of cows, Zhu Hongwei and others proposed it first.
This made Cao Shujie have a deep impression on Zhu Hongwei.
At the very least, it can be seen from this that he has a very flexible mind and a long-term vision.
"If you all agree, then let's do this." Cao Shujie said.
He said: "This year's dividends will continue to be invested, and next year's dividends will also continue to be invested."
Before he finished speaking, Cao Shujie thought for a while and then said: "Maybe some of next year's dividends can be retained and distributed to everyone."
"Director Cao, let's forget it and just go all in. Let's not let others dwell on it, otherwise we won't know what happened." Zhuang Xuejian, the oldest person present, said.
He is 57 years old this year. Apart from him, Qian Hua from Qingyun Village is the older one, also 56 years old.
Both of them are determined to work for one more term. After the next term, they will retire and leave the rest to young people.
Zhuang Xuejian used the wisdom accumulated at his age to reject Cao Shujie's statement. He knew that there should be no wavering answers at this time.
Moreover, all farmers who participate in the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative can accept no dividends for two years.
After all, we told them last year that there would be a high probability of no dividends in the next one to two years.
We talked about some random things later, and when we finished the meeting, we saw that it was almost noon.
Diao Shijun said again that he wanted to treat guests to dinner at noon. This time, several people agreed without hesitation.
None of them were polite. No matter what they said, the second branch of the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative still made money after selling 3,614 cows this time.
However, this year's profit is lower than in previous years. Calculated, the profit per cow is about 6,000 yuan.
If we do not take into account the factors that prevent normal dividends due to the purchase of cows, the 571 households participating in the second branch this time can still share 21.684 million yuan. On average, each household can receive dividends of about 39,000 yuan. This is a pure profit dividend.
At the dinner table, several people talked about the money. Diao Shijun also said: "There will be no dividends this year and no dividends next year, but I believe the dividends the year after next will be beyond everyone's expectations."
"Not necessarily, Lao Diao, don't expect too much." Cao Jianlong waved his hand.
He told Diao Shijun: "But in the future, the more cows we raise and the more calves we breed and raise by ourselves, the lower our breeding costs will be, and our future profits will definitely be higher than now."
Everyone knows this truth.
It is precisely because of this that they are okay with not paying dividends in the short term.
Sure enough, when the seven village party secretaries sent this matter to the groups in each village, the people who had already bought shares shouted to buy more cows. Don't be reluctant to buy them.
Another person took the lead and said that if the money is not enough, if he contributes more money, he can be given more shares. He does not mind not paying dividends this year.
At this time, the group of people who regretted the most were the hundreds of farmers from the Second Branch who had not yet invested in the Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative.
At first, because of the rising purchase and feeding costs of beef calves, and the declining price of slaughtered beef, there was great uncertainty in the future of cattle raising, so Qingyun Village, Yelou Village, Jinxiu Village
More than half of the people in the four villages, Qiuxia Village and Qiuxia Village, have not invested in the shares.
But after hearing that the village secretary told them about the situation of the cattle sale, they felt as if thousands of ants were eating their hearts out.
Only after seeing the data did I understand that the so-called no profit means that last year a cow could earn 6,200 yuan, but this year it could only earn 6,000 yuan. In comparison, the profit was lost by 200 yuan.
If you don’t make money, you lose money, right?
Which bastard said last year that he might not make any money in the future?
The remaining ordinary people who have not invested in the stock can think that when the scale of cows increases, the cost of beef calves will be lower, and the profit of one cow will be higher. Those who have already invested in the stock will make a lot of money.
Thinking about it this way, the mentality of these people who have not yet invested in the shares has become unbalanced. They rely on their connections and ask their grandfathers to sue their grandmothers. They go to their respective village party secretaries to discuss whether they can buy shares again.
But no one paid attention to them at this time.
Gao Benwei, Ye Chenguang, Diao Shijun, and Qian Hua all made it clear that Zhongcheng Breeding Cooperative has stopped attracting new shareholders and will no longer release shares.
Now, if anyone still wants to get in, the only option is to buy shares of other farmers.
But the question is, is anyone stupid enough to sell shares at this time? (End of Chapter)
