July 1, 1997 is the day when Hong Kong officially returns. Various posters and slogans to celebrate the return of Hong Kong were posted everywhere on the streets of Jiangzhou City, Xijiang Province, across the river from Xinmei.
"Why is it so hot here in this spooky weather!" Wu Xueming got off the long-distance bus, and the heat wave was oncoming him.
"Jiangzhou's weather forecast today reported the highest temperature of 39 degrees. Of course it is hot." Chen Jin wiped his forehead and sweated quickly.
Wu Xueming is the eldest son of Wu Haiyun, just in his early thirties. He was originally an accountant in Wujia Village. After the establishment of the vegetable company, he served as the deputy manager to assist Chen Jin in his work.
That day, after Chen Jin and his uncle Wu Haiyun reached an verbal agreement that day, the next day the market opened, they sold 20,000 shares of Shen Jinxing through telephone commission, and arbitrage 100,000 yuan in cash. Although the recent market is not good, it has actually risen by nearly 10% in more than a month since Chen Jin bought it. Not only did he not lose money but he also made a small profit.
At that time, financial services were still very dull. It took a day for stock accounts to be transferred to personal bank accounts, and money in personal accounts could not be transferred directly to public accounts. Moreover, there was only one branch of Agricultural Bank in Liuping Township. Chen Jin had to go back to Xinmei specially once, and took out all the more than 160,000 cash from his own construction bank card, and then applied for an Agricultural Bank of China Jinsui card, so that he would have to rush back to the county if he had to spend money. Come to fetch.
Wu Haiyun, who has been the party secretary in Wujiacun for more than 20 years and the head of the Wu family, can be said to have a lot of words in Wujiacun. Under his order, it took only half a month to be on the original deserted hills. Nearly one thousand acres of land were opened.
The main reason for Chen Jin’s rush to start work is the Yangtze River Basin where Chu Province is located. The summer is hot. The monthly average temperature is often above 28 degrees and the highest is above 35 degrees. There are many vegetables and vegetables that love temperature but not heat. The cold autumn and winter vegetables cannot grow normally in July and August, resulting in insufficient supply in the vegetable market from July to October, and there is a low season with fewer varieties of flowers and high prices.
However, Liuping Township is located in a mountainous area with an altitude of five to six hundred meters. The elevations of several hills in Wujia Village are close to thousands of meters, which is very suitable for planting high mountain off-season vegetables. The best planting time for alpine off-season vegetables is from early April to late May, and the harvest time is correspondingly from July to September, just in time for the off-season.
Since the fake seeds of previous lives have been heard a lot in the news, Chen Jin also went to the provincial capital specially to buy cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and other off-season vegetables that are most suitable for alpine planting at the seed station under the Provincial Agriculture Bureau. seed.
Due to the large temperature difference between day and night in mountainous areas, there is sufficient sunshine during the day and far less hot than plains, and it is cool at night. The growth of all kinds of vegetables grown in pieces of nearly 1,000 acres is gratifying, even faster than the growth cycle in the normal season. Wu Chujiu, who was originally dubious about Chen Jin, also actively went to the county agricultural technology station to ask agricultural technology experts to give guidance. According to the judgment of these agricultural technology experts, the first batch of vegetables planted in Wujia Village at the end of May can be picked and marketed as soon as mid-July.
Although Liuping Township is the most remote township in Xinmei, it is nearly 100 kilometers away from the county seat, 180 kilometers away from Shicheng, and more than 400 kilometers away from the provincial capital Chuzhou, but it is not far from Jiangzhou City in Xijiang Province. Sixty kilometers. From the very beginning, Chen Jin set his sales target in Jiangzhou City.
Today, Chen Jin and Wu Xueming came to Jiangzhou to discuss the sale of "Wujiacun" brand high mountain organic vegetables with a Kafu supermarket introduced by the chairman of Changhua Construction Group Liang Changhua. Chen Jin also heard about this supermarket called Cafu in his previous life. Although this private supermarket could not be compared with foreign brands such as Wal-Mart, Carrefour, RT-Mart, etc. everywhere in big cities, it is still in the provinces of Xijiang and Chu. A certain scale effect has been formed.
It’s also a coincidence that after Chen Jin was assigned, Liang Changhua strongly invited Chen Jin to join his Changhua Construction Group. In addition to Chen Jin’s professional counterpart in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Science and Technology, more importantly, he passed the last event Later, he admired Chen Jin very much. Of course, Chen Jin declined the invitation of Liang Changhua to join.
Before long, Liang Changhua heard from Cai Huaqiang that Chen Jin had started some alpine vegetables in Liuping Township. When I was curious, Liang Changhua made a special call to Chen Jin. He was very depressed when he heard Chen Jinxing describe his plan of selling vegetables enthusiastically on the phone. He didn't expect that for Chen Jin, the vegetable selling business was even more attractive than the position of Vice President of Changhua Construction Group, with an annual salary of 200,000 yuan.
However, when he heard that Chen Jin planned to promote his vegetable selling business to Jiangzhou City, Liang Changhua, who was from Jiangzhou, enthusiastically recommended Cafu Supermarket to Chen Jin. Coincidentally, the owner of this Cafu supermarket, Ma Tianjie, Liang Changhua, and Du Hanjie are also classmates.
After getting off the bus, Chen Jin first contacted Ma Tianjie, and after an appointment, he met in his office.
"Xiao Jin, take a taxi. It will take ten minutes at most. Where are we going?" Wu Xueming, who was sweating aside, asked puzzledly because he knew that Cafu Supermarket was not far from the coach station before he came.
"Before talking, I want to go to the supermarket first to check their business conditions and calculate the future distribution volume."
Prior to this, Chen Jin had not only rented a stall at Jiangzhou Vegetable Wholesale Market, but had also negotiated a few well-known supermarkets in Jiangzhou. Kafu Supermarket has not been open for a long time, its reputation is not obvious, and it is just one store, which is far from forming the chain of scale effect afterwards.
"Oh, Xiao Jin, you still want to be careful." Wu Xueming nodded and said with admiration. These days he followed Chen Jin and ran around, witnessing Chen Jin’s unmatched demeanor when he was negotiating with the supermarket. The final result is always the best for his side, plus the status of assistant to the mayor of Chen Jin. Wu Xueming now casts his ground on the five bodies that this little cousin admires.
The main reason why Chen Jin took the initiative to ask Wu Xueming's cousin to follow him was mainly to train him. Chen Jin now wants to build Wujiacun into his ideal modern farm. Selling vegetables is just a starting point, a capital accumulation. When it reaches a certain level, he must get out of it. He is the only one he has seen. Big cousin is the most suitable candidate.
Get out of the Xiali taxi with the windows open on all sides, straighten out his messy hair, and walk into the Cafu Supermarket.
"Oh, comfortable." Wu Xueming couldn't help but applaud as soon as he walked into the supermarket, a refreshing rush of coolness came to his face. But Chen Jin frowned slightly.
The supermarkets are empty and “swaying”. There are not many customers. There are too many elderly people. It is not that you can see a few children playing and having fun. At first glance, you know that you are not here to buy things, but to borrow. A family who stays away from the heat with the central air-conditioning in the supermarket.
"Xiao Jin, the business in this supermarket is not good. You can see that these dishes are not fresh anymore. The bar code on them was obviously printed later." When he came to the fresh fruits and vegetables section, Wu Xueming picked up a box to keep them fresh. Said the cabbage wrapped in film.
Chen Jin took it over and looked at it. There are obviously problems with the freshness of the cabbage and the production date on the barcode. If you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that there are two barcodes under the barcode on the plastic wrap, which are obviously the original ones. After the expiry date, I typed a new one. This is the habit of supermarkets in this era.
The whole fresh fruit and vegetable area occupies a large part of the supermarket, but all the way, everything is not too fresh, and there are still several shelves empty.
Chen Jin secretly shook his head. The current Cafu Supermarket is obviously in a state of evil "sexual" cycle. Looking ahead, thinking about the successful Cafu supermarkets in Chu and Xijiang provinces in the previous life, Chen Jin sighed: I don't know how the owner of Cafu supermarket Ma Tianjie got through the current difficulties.