It was just getting dark in the open-air food stalls and it wasn't very busy yet.
At a table, Li Weimin just drank and didn't say anything.
Yang Fan didn't ask any more questions, he knew at a glance that he was in trouble.
However, Yang Fan sent a message to Hu Xinlai and Hu Xinlai replied that Brother Min’s condition was indeed not right these past two days.
After drinking a bottle of beer, Li Weimin started to talk, chatting about irrelevant topics, as if nothing was wrong.
The two chatted about social conditions, international current affairs, and domestic conditions.
Li Weimin has the excellent quality of caring about the country and the people, and is somewhat worried about the current domestic situation.
He felt that this year was a very good opportunity for the motherland, but it was wasted by some domestic companies.
Yang Fan agreed with Li Weimin's idea.
Since the beginning of this year, raw material prices have been rising sharply all over the world. From oil to copper, from coal to iron ore, all commodities have been on a roller coaster.
Due to some international reasons, production lines in many countries have been destroyed. I remember that a year ago, the West was discussing how to move production lines out of the mainland and to some countries that were hostile to the mainland.
But this year, is anyone still talking about this
No!
Because everyone has discovered that those countries are more unreliable than each other and they are all lying flat.
Only the mainland can provide sufficient production capacity in the world.
As a result, huge foreign trade orders flooded into the mainland like a tide.
Just last month, mainland exports grew 25.6% year-on-year.
In the first eight months, exports increased by 33.7% year-on-year.
With such a strong export surge, the mainland looks really awesome.
The whole world can only be saved by mainland manufacturing. Without mainland manufacturing, how can other countries survive
But is the mainland really that powerful
not at all!
Because Western currencies are trying to reap the benefits of the mainland and even the world.
It’s a very simple truth: your exports have increased significantly, but has your unit price increased
For example, if you sell a toy to Westerners, it always costs 10 yuan.
But because of the loose monetary policy in the West, the raw materials you use to produce this toy have increased in price, whether it is screws, glass, or plastic, all have increased in price significantly.
So, should you also increase the price of your toy which originally costs ten yuan
Some people may say that my price has increased by the same amount as the raw materials, also by 30%, to 13 yuan.
It’s a nice idea, but similar companies will immediately jump out and say that I only increased the price by 2 yuan and sold it at 12 yuan.
Soon another competitor came out, but I didn’t raise the price and still sold it at 10 yuan.
In the past, the cost of producing this toy was 8 yuan, and you sold it for 10 yuan, making a profit of 2 yuan.
Today, after the raw materials have risen sharply, if you want to sell them for 13 yuan, you will still make 2 yuan.
But because mainland China is the only country in the world with production capacity, the number of orders that came in all at once was too large.
As a result, mainland enterprises began to fight against internal conflicts.
You sell it for 11 yuan and make 1 yuan.
I sold it for 10.5 yuan and made a profit of 0.5 yuan.
This is a very scary phenomenon!
It is obvious that mainland export companies can take advantage of the global production shortage and rising raw material prices to increase prices significantly.
But the reality is that in order to grab external orders, mainland foreign trade companies began to engage in internal competition and started to kill each other.
In the past, a toy could earn 2 yuan, but after the surge in raw material prices, the profit can only be 0.5 yuan.
What is this operation
It is clearly a seller's market. Other major manufacturing countries are paralyzed, and the mainland has the largest production capacity in the world.
The correct approach for mainland companies is to take advantage of this opportunity to significantly increase export prices. Since raw material prices have increased so much, it is only natural that the prices of our end products will increase.
However, mainland foreign trade companies did the opposite and rolled up on each other.
The country also has something called "export tax rebate".
The value-added tax on some export commodities in mainland China is 13%, and they can get a full refund. Isn't this actually equivalent to using the country's money and the people's money to subsidize foreigners
In order to prevent the prices of goods purchased by foreigners from rising, this group of foreign trade companies have gone to great lengths to subsidize them with export tax rebates.
Yang Fan and Li Weimin were drinking and chatting.
Li Weimin poured himself a bottle of beer. After he had finished five bottles, Yang Fan drank only one.
Although he drank five bottles, Li Weimin did not pass out. He just had to pee urgently, so he ran to the bathroom.
After coming back from the bathroom and drinking less than two glasses, he finally couldn't hold it in anymore and told her about his recent experience.
"Xiao Fan, I'm heartbroken again." At this moment, Li Weimin was more angry than sad, and his eyes were round.
Yang Fan had expected this and was not very surprised. He raised his glass and said, "It's normal. I've been heartbroken several times."
Li Weimin looked very aggrieved. He drank another glass of wine with great difficulty, then laughed at himself: "Not many people have suffered such a tragic breakup as I did, right?"
Yang Fan didn't ask because he knew Li Weimin would definitely tell it himself.
"Isn't National Day coming soon?" Li Weimin laughed, "I told my girlfriend... that woman that I wanted to bring her home to meet my parents."
Yang Fan lit a cigarette and listened to Li Weimin.
"I mentioned this last month." Li Weimin said darkly, "I'm getting older and under a lot of pressure. My parents are urging me to get married, and I'm a little anxious. I mentioned it again the day before yesterday, but that woman still didn't want to go home with me."
"Maybe you haven't been dating for very long, so it's a bit early for you to meet my parents." Yang Fan consoled her, "I've been dating my girlfriend for eight or nine months, and I only coaxed her to come to my house to meet my parents last month."
Li Weimin looked sad: "I also coaxed her. The night before yesterday, she said that she also wanted to go home with me to meet my parents, but her family disagreed."
"Who disagrees?" Yang Fan asked.
"Her husband." Li Weimin said.
Yang Fan stopped talking.
Li Weimin got angry again and said, "I told her to move out, and she left the way she came, but she still wanted to live with me!"
Yang Fan continued to remain silent.
Li Weimin said: "I said I was afraid that my family and friends would know that I was living with her, and she said that she was not afraid of her husband knowing, so what should I be afraid of?"
It seemed to make sense, so Yang Fan asked, "Do you still live together now?"
"Her husband went over to help her move the luggage today and left." Li Weimin said dejectedly.
Yang Fan patted Li Weimin on the shoulder but said nothing to comfort him.
This child's three views are probably ruined.
After a long while, Yang Fan said, "It's okay, it's over."
From an outsider's perspective, it seems that Li Weimin made a good deal and slept for nothing for so long.
But for Li Weimin, that may not be the case.
He has invested his feelings, so it is normal for him to feel depressed for a while.
After drinking for more than three hours, it was getting late, so Yang Fan sent Li Weimin home and returned to Tongtianyuan.
At home, Guoguo had just laid down and was not asleep yet.
"Baby, if you only have one day left in your life, where do you most want to go?" asked Yang Fan, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, planning to coax the little girl to sleep before taking a bath.
"Stay with my mother." After thinking for a while, Guoguo replied.
Aunt Thirteen, who was standing by, was very touched and wanted to kiss her daughter.
The little girl added: "It feels like a year when I stay with my mother."