Qin Luo was eager to know the specific situation of the farm. In the afternoon, the three of them drove to two farms in the northern suburbs with simple luggage.
The two farms are not too far apart, and Qin Luo plans to go to the bigger one first. Because there is also a slaughterhouse and cold storage built on that farm, I heard that the adjacent smaller farms will pull the livestock there for unified slaughtering. If he was lucky, he could buy some raw meat and store it in the space for later use.
Qin Ke was like a bird out of a cage, chirping and asking questions along the way. Mo sees everything fresh, but he doesn't have too many problems. What surprised Qin Luo was that Mo seemed to know many things, but his novel eyes seemed to be seeing the real thing for the first time. This made Qin Luo very puzzled, but he didn't ask.
Because we set off very early, we arrived at the farm before noon. Under the clear sky, Qin Luo and Mo couldn't help staring at the verdant grass and the cattle and sheep walking on the grass.
The person in charge of the farm is Zate, who had already received a call and knew that the new owner was coming, so as soon as Qin Luo's car came into view of the farm, a worker notified Zate.
Zat is a local, tall and strong, and speaks in a low voice. But he is kind and kind, and speaks truthfully. His only concern is what the new owner intends to do with the farm. After all, if there are major changes to the farm, he and the workers he hires may lose their jobs. As a person who has lived on this farm for nearly twenty years, this is the last thing he wants and cannot accept.
Seeing their nervousness, Qin Luo first appeased Zate and the workers, revealing that he had no plans to sell the farm or fire them. Zat took a reassurance and sent the people who gathered together to do what to do, while he led Qin Luo and the others to inspect the entire farm.
The farm is much bigger than Qin Luo thought, and the slaughtering workshop alone is not the small workshop he imagined before. This means that a lot of meat may be collected here, which made Qin Luo very happy and talked relatively more.
At first, Zate thought that Qin Luo, the new owner, was just a boy from a foreign country, and he must have no experience in farm management, and he didn't intend to tell him too much about the difficulties he encountered recently. Anyway, the original owner was also a hands-off shopkeeper, and Zat had to find a way to solve everything.
But after some contact, Zat's view of Qin Luo has changed a lot. Seeing that he was well-versed in conversation, he carefully introduced some of the recent difficulties on the farm to Qin Luo. He didn't expect Qin Luo to come up with any solution, but more or less hoped that he could introduce some contacts and give himself a flexible mind. After all, the Donaldson family is still very influential in the UK. Since the new owner can inherit the farm, they are not too distant relatives, and their connections should not be a problem.
It turns out that most of these farms raise meat-eating livestock and poultry, because there is a medium-sized canning factory nearby. The two parties signed a contract and have cooperated for many years. The processing factory has always been responsible for purchasing livestock and poultry from nearby farms, and the farm slaughtering workshop that has just belonged to Qin Luo is now responsible for providing the canning factory with slaughtered livestock and poultry.
The canning factory is an old-fashioned enterprise. The reputation accumulated over the years makes them dare not relax in quality and processing. Compared with the cans produced by some small factories, the price is slightly higher. However, the taste and quality are well received by the people, so the price is not a problem at all. But half a year ago, several old customers in the south of the cannery suffered heavy losses due to the flood, and their orders were immediately reduced. Later, due to several consecutive natural disasters, a large number of dead livestock were mixed into the processing enterprises. Not only did the citizens start to boycott the canned meat products, but also those small processing factories continued to lower the purchase price because they could buy cheap dead livestock. This old brand processing company was finally overwhelmed and had to consider layoffs. Due to improper internal handling, the workers went on strike and lost a batch of orders, which made the situation worse.
Right now, the processing plant is facing the threat of closing down. The many cans hoarded have no market, and the slaughterhouse managed by Zate is also suffering from poor business. There are still piles of raw meat in the cold storage with no place to deal with it.
Half a month ago, several farmers approached Zate, hoping that he would lead them to find another way out. It is because of the cannery that everyone has a good life today. The person in charge of the cannery, Old John, takes good care of everyone on weekdays. Although various people insisted that the old man buy the livestock at the original price, otherwise he would be taken to court; but most people did not want to embarrass an old man who had nowhere to go. The slaughtered livestock and poultry can't just keep consuming pastures and fodder to lose money, so they approached Zate and wanted him to give him an idea.
Qin Luo heard Zate frowning and talking about the current predicament, and couldn't help but smile on his face. He really wanted to do whatever he wanted, he was thinking about how to tell Zat about buying raw meat, Zat offered this big gift with both hands.
Zat looked at the new owner with a smile on his face, and felt that the young man might really have some solution. He rubbed his hands and looked at Qin Luo expectantly, waiting for him to come up with some practical solutions.
Qin Luo didn't let him down, he pretended to go aside and made a call for a while, and when he came back, he not only promised to contact immediately to buy all the meat hoarded in the cold storage, but also asked him to notify the surrounding farms that he could help them contact Go to the buyer and try to buy all the livestock and poultry on the order at a reasonable price.
Zate couldn't believe his ears, he was stunned for ten seconds before he came back to his senses, and burst out laughing immediately. Immediately send someone to notify the surrounding farms, and patted their chests to assure that the quality of the meat from the surrounding pastures is definitely reputable.
Qin Luo was thinking about the stock in the cannery, so he asked Zate a little more. Zat knew that Qin Luo had connections, and if he could buy canned food at a low price, he would avoid the crisis of closing down the cannery, so he took a few people to find Old John, the person in charge of the cannery.
When Old John learned that someone was coming to see the stock, his excited hands trembled a little. You must know that if you continue to pile up and pass the expiration date, let alone sell it at a loss, no one will want it even if it is reversed. Therefore, before Qin Luo opened his mouth, he took the initiative to lower the price below the cost line, which was 10% lower.
Qin Luo looked at this old man who was doing business with due diligence, and looked at himself with hope, and couldn't bear to lower the price. Although he was very sure, even if he lowered the price by a third, Old John still had to obediently sell the item to himself. But as a human being, you always have to leave room. I have already picked up a big bargain at this price, and I don't want to do too much right now. After hesitating for a while, he pretended to go to the side to make a phone call, 'help contact the buyer'.
Old John originally thought that Qin Luo would still bargain and plan to lose most of it, but he didn't expect that the young man just made a phone call and told himself when he came back that the other party agreed to buy all the inventory at such a price. He couldn't believe his ears, he checked it again, and thanked Qin Luo very excitedly.
Qin Ke looked at the piles of cans, big and small, and thought it was very interesting, so he ran around in the warehouse. Mo was obviously also interested in these large and small jars, but he still followed Qin Luo obediently. Old John was very confident in his own products. Seeing the two of them staring at the cans with curiosity on their faces, he opened more than a dozen cans of different flavors for them to taste. Qin Ke and Mo had a great time eating, and Zat also enjoyed the blessing.
Old John introduced which were their old products and which were new flavors that were gradually developed later; while chatting with Qin Luo. He saw that Qin Luo didn't intend to order for a long time, and he didn't take the initiative to discuss other order matters. Right now, if we can help solve the backlog of inventory, and help several farms find a market for the livestock and poultry that have been slaughtered, it will already give the canneries that are on the verge of bankruptcy a respite. Otherwise, I'm afraid that he, the person in charge, will not only lose his money, but also be sued by the farmers.
Qin Luo tasted seven or eight kinds of canned food, and found that the taste was quite good. I can't help but feel a little lucky that I can still find so many delicacies in this trip to the UK. It is a very luxurious thing to want to eat canned meat in the last days. And if I store all these in the space right now, it will be enough for their family to eat for several lifetimes. Thinking of all kinds of compressed beams that are difficult to swallow in the last days, Qin Luo felt emotional again, and couldn't help but praise the deliciousness of canned food several times.
Old John's praise of Qin Luo was very useful, and coupled with his gratitude to Qin Luo, he talked more. He took the initiative to mention that the cannery also has a large warehouse near the road. During normal production, they always transport the goods to this warehouse and then distribute them to other places.
However, the management has been poor recently, the warehouse has been locked for half a year, and all the managers of the warehouse have been fired. If Qin Luo needs to transport the goods abroad, he can temporarily hire some manpower to transport the goods to the warehouse for storage, so as to facilitate the outward transportation. But these temporarily hired people are not suitable to help guard the warehouse. Old John suggested to Qin Luo that it is best to call some manpower from his own farm to prevent the goods stored in the warehouse from being stolen and causing unnecessary losses.
Qin Luo was thinking about how to avoid the eyes of everyone, and put the canned food into the space without anyone noticing, the person in charge provided such a "easy to commit crimes" place, and nodded happily. After pretending to fiddle with the phone for a while, he said that the friend he contacted is not far away. As long as the cannery agrees to deliver the goods to the warehouse, the other party will send a car to pick up the goods overnight on the same day. Moreover, he has negotiated with that friend that after the goods arrive at the warehouse, he can pay all the money in one lump sum. As for the contract and related payments, Qin Luo will lead him to sign and pay.
Old John has opened a factory here for many years and has contacted many suppliers and buyers. To be able to finalize such a large deal in just one phone call without even frowning is not something ordinary people can do. It is precisely because of this that he has nowhere to ask for help, and he is also ready for the other party to default on the payment and even return some products. After all, most of the products that the other party wants to take away are approaching the expiration date. If they cannot be sold out within the expiration date, he must accept the return. But the current cannery is in urgent need of money to turn around production. Old John has calculated that if the money arrives in time, he has every chance to bring the cannery back to life. And now that Qin Luo gave him this opportunity, how could he not be excited.
He immediately stated that if the goods could not be sold within the warranty period this time, he was willing to exchange all the remaining expired products after three months.
Qin Luo shook his head and said no, but due to Old John's insistence, he had no choice but to include this item in the contract. Not to mention that after returning to China, he still has to prepare a lot of things to deal with the end times, even if he wants to exchange, there are thousands of miles away. Besides, Qin Luo's space now has the effect of keeping things in their original state and never spoiling; and as the space is strengthened, it will also have the function of purification, so that the food and waste items put into the space will slowly return to their original state. So even if these cans are expired and rotten, he can make them delicious again in the future.
The warehouse is really a good thing for deceiving people, Qin Luo offered to rent it from Old John for a month. Old Yue laughed loudly, saying that the lease is unnecessary. Qin Luo has already helped him a lot, the warehouse is currently just idle, let alone a month, even a few months, he will not charge a penny (cent).