"How much wine did you make in a month?" Du Lin pointed to the outside of the factory and walked out first. He now smelled of alcohol, and there was alcohol in the air. He could already feel some alcohol on his cheeks. Fever. He's not particularly good at drinking, so he's not very interested in drinking, and he doesn't like things where he can't control his behavior.
Rhodes drank the puree in the cup in one gulp and placed the cup on the wooden barrels nearby. These barrels were made of dragon blood wood, and the puree would be poured into these barrels after it came out. Depending on the degree required, it can be bottled after being taken out in installments. Barrels made of dragon blood wood can absorb impurities and moisture. Generally, fruit wine will be filled for about three days, and for longer ones, it will take a week. The effect will be extremely limited after more than a week, so the brewing method of high-strength wine is to turn dragon blood wood into wood slag and put it into a container with the raw materials for fermentation, directly absorbing impurities and moisture in the process.
He followed Du Lin a few steps closer and whispered: "At that time, we could produce up to 20,000 bottles per month, and we supplied about 70 to 80 percent of local demand. "
So Ilian alone consumes almost a thousand bottles of wine every day, but what about the entire empire? Of course, other places cannot have as many tourists as here in Ilian, but one hundred bottles can always be sold every day. The entire empire has a total of sixteen states and regions and more than two hundred cities. If calculated based on this data, the empire consumes at least 20,000 bottles of wine every day.
But this number is far lower than the real number. In some prosperous cities, more alcoholic beverages may be consumed every day than in Ilian. Excluding those relatively backward and economically underdeveloped areas, the four major cities that occupy the market share One percent, which requires about 10,000 to 20,000 bottles of wine every day, which is a very low and conservative number. The specific number will not be known until the next batch of orders comes, but Dulin knows very well that this number is very low.
"Continue to expand the factory and strive to produce half a million bottles of wine every month." Du Lin took out a cigarette and handed it to Rhodes. Rhodes even forgot to take the cigarette from Du Lin's hand!
Half a million bottles of wine a month? They used to make hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine a year, but now the volume per month is three to four times the previous year's production. Rhodes has a doubt, can they really sell all these wines every month? You must know that brewing is different from other businesses. Once the specific number is determined, the purchase will be made at a fixed point in the market. This requires signing a contract.
Once there may be a backlog of wine for a month, it means that there will soon be a backlog of funds. Because there is a contract, those suppliers will continuously deliver the raw materials for the production of 500,000 bottles of wine on time and in quantity. Food is very difficult to preserve, and Ilian is still at the seaside, and the air is humid, making it impossible to store it for a long time. This means that even if their wine cannot be sold, they have to continue producing wine, unless they are compensated for breach of contract.
When his eyes moved, he realized that Du Lin had handed him a cigarette. He immediately bent down and said thank you, put the cigarette in his mouth, took out a box of matches and lit it for Du Lin first, and then lit it for himself. superior. After shaking his arm, extinguishing the match, he threw it to the ground and stepped on it. Then he asked cautiously, "Mr. Dulin, is this amount... too much?"
He went on to say: "And if we want to expand the factory, we will need more land, at least four times more than now. We need warehouses to stack raw materials and various things, and it will not work if the space is small. Furthermore, when it comes to expanding production, We need to recruit more people..."
Dulin understood what Rhodes meant. First, he was afraid that he would not be able to sell the wine and enter a vicious cycle. Second, to put it bluntly, he needed money.
Looking back at the little land around the winery, Dulin frowned. Whether it is the first district, the fifth district, or the districts in between, vacant land is already very scarce. As the eighth district of Ilian begins construction, and more and more people who are optimistic about this city join here, many vacant lands have been built with houses, and it is basically impossible to buy a large piece of connected vacant land. .
It would be possible to build factories in several places separately, but that would cause a lot of trouble. Dulin thought about it and asked Rhodes to go back and make preparations first. He would go to the city hall to see if there was a more suitable one. place.
He didn't say hello when he went to the city hall. Scott wasn't here, and that guy was staring at District 8 every day now. One is to supervise the construction progress, and the other is to coordinate some conflicts. With so many projects starting at the same time in the 8th District, there will definitely be some contradictions or conflicts. For example, if your garbage is dumped on my side, his project blocks that person's sewage pipe. In short, there are many things he needs to do.
These things may seem like small things, but if not handled well, they can easily turn into big troubles. In addition, people from the workers' union are wandering around the construction site, so there must be someone who is responsible and has certain strength to sit on the construction site to coordinate everything. It was impossible for the mayor to go, so only his confidant Scott went.
When he arrived at the city hall, Du Lin informed him of his name, and the mayor immediately received him. Just as he thought about it, Dulin has now quietly become the largest financial backer of Ilian City Hall.
Whether it is his jewelry store, a project worth 20 million under construction, or his winery, they can provide Ilian area managers with a large amount of funds to support their own governance concepts. At the same time, Dulin It can also provide tens of thousands of jobs and make outstanding contributions to the security and stability of the Ilian region.
Mayors in many places are unknown, not because they are incapable or unwilling to do something, but because they have no money. Let's take road building as an example. Road building seems very simple to say. A phrase can be written on paper with just a dozen letters. However, to actually implement it requires a lot of money.
Rich cities like Ilian build roads if the mayor wants to, and parks if they want to build parks. But what about those poor, economically underdeveloped cities
Big eyes and small eyes!
So when I heard that Du Lin had come in person, the mayor also personally welcomed him out. Du Lin was not treated so well last time. As his industrial layout increased, his status was also rapidly improving.
"I know you are busy, so I will keep the story short." Du Lin directly stated the purpose of his trip without further greetings, "I want to buy some land to expand the winery."
The mayor asked with some confusion: "Didn't I hear that you bought a large area of land?" Du Lin shook his head and said it was not enough. The mayor was even more surprised, "How many bottles do you plan to produce every month?" Wine and barrel wine?”
Du Lin stretched out a hand. He did not let the mayor guess. That was a move that only a fool would do. "Five million bottles of wine. There are no plans for barrels of wine yet."
The mayor raised his eyebrows, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face. Five hundred thousand bottles of wine. According to the special tax payment principle currently implemented in the Ilian region, he can decide to reduce the tax by 50%. If he earns ten yuan from a bottle of wine, Dulin must pay Five bucks tax. Five hundred thousand bottles is two and a half million a month. Dulin's monthly tax payment alone has exceeded 50% of the total tax revenue in the Ilian region. How could he be unhappy
He immediately stood up, walked to the sofa set for guests, and opened a curtain on the wall, revealing the planning map of the entire Ilian region. He pointed to the map on the wall to Du Lin and said with a smile: "Here, you can draw whichever area you want."
Du Lin was not polite, stood up and walked over. He looked at the plan carefully. There was no open space in the first area, and there was a little in the second area, but they were all scattered. The situation in the third district is the same as that in the second district. It seems that there is still a lot of idle land, but it is one piece in the east and the other in the west, which cannot be effectively connected and utilized at all. There was some land in District 4, and there were three vacant lots in District 5 that looked like they could meet his requirements.
Just when Dulin was about to point to the fifth area, he suddenly saw an unexpected open space in the lower half of the map. He asked curiously: "Is this also the jurisdiction of the Ilian area?"
The mayor confidently affirmed Du Lin's question. Du Lin immediately changed his mind, pointed to the empty space and said, "I want this!"
The mayor immediately asked someone from the Land Use Rights Management Office to come, sign an agreement with Du Lin, stamp it, and then taught Du Lin the document, "From today on, this land is It’s your private property. To be honest, I didn’t think you would choose this place. What can you say?” He asked the people from the Land Rights Management Office with a smile and asked this question curiously.
Because Dulin did not choose any piece of land on the Ilian continent, but a small island about three kilometers away from the Ilian coastline. The area of the island is too small for the development of tourism or other projects. At the same time, it is a little far from the coastline of Ilian. In addition, there is no landscape on the island. It is just an ordinary island covered with vegetation, so It has not been included in the agenda of tourism development in Ilian.
If Du Lin hadn't discovered this place, the mayor would have almost forgotten that he still had a small island in his hands.
Regarding the mayor's curiosity, Du Lin laughed and said, "Because it's on the sea!"
"Every month I have a large amount of wine to be shipped out. Shipping it from the city to the port is not only troublesome, but also requires renting a port warehouse. It's better to solve it once and for all. The ship can come at any time and load the goods and leave at any time, and it doesn't matter. I don’t have to worry about thieves, which solves a lot of trouble for me.”
(End of chapter)