Zhou Qingfeng's sale of peanuts is destined to have some twists and turns. He asked Mr. He to not only retail peanuts, but also exchange a small amount for some cheap industrial products that the city workers surplus.
Low-end industrial products such as towels, soaps, fabrics, kettles and cups, pots and pans, and even second-hand bicycles. There are all kinds of things in exchange, everything. These items were sold to surrounding villages including Mawang Village.
As for the lack of manpower that Old Man He said, that's really not a problem.
The biggest problem in rural areas is overpopulation, especially in the southern inland provinces and cities where Tianyang City is located. There is no land to grow in the mountainous terrain, and mechanized farming is even more difficult. There has not been a rise in working in the coastal areas, and there is too much free manpower.
He's family can pull out a dozen or so sales team by looking for a few relatives. The real trouble is that the He family showed up in the village. It is inevitable that some people will wonder how their family got rich
But this is no alternative. Zhou Qingfeng is eager to earn five thousand yuan of farming money as soon as possible to ensure that his task is completed. He can't bear to stay in Mawang Village. It's not that his sister-in-law is not fun, but that life in the country is really hard.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the He family, Zhou Qingfeng refused to pay for the resale of industrial products. This moment immediately made the old man and his family excited-because the profit in this is so huge, even the point of conscience can make twice the money.
Zhou Qingfeng can make nearly 10,000 peanuts, and He’s earning a few thousand through reselling is not a problem at all. As for the lack of cash in the countryside and low spending power-it doesn't matter, you can use vegetables and poultry to trade in. Anyway, the He family wants to ship the goods to the city.
Urban workers get high-quality agricultural products, and rural farmers get cheap industrial products. He's business network makes money. Zhou Qingfeng provided initial capital and products, made a fortune and completed the task by the way-the best of all four worlds.
On the first day of the resale transaction, Old Man He transported five packs of peanuts to the city and pulled back a bunch of miscellaneous things.
"The people in the machinery factory said that they couldn't get the money when they sold their things, and the triangle debts were stacked on top of each other. They could only pull back these ruined things to pay. A mess.
For example, these soaps belonged to the daily chemical factory in the city, and I don't know who got it. Anyway, it ended up in the warehouse of the machinery factory and couldn't get out. The machinery factory uses soap to pay part of the salary to the employees every month. The workers in the factory have long been bored with this stuff.
By the way, the workers in the city now even have a task, each of whom has to help the factory sell how much goods. I heard from the accountant in the line that the sales task is delegated to everyone, even the frontline workers. Everyone has a pile of rags in their homes, and everyone is very worried. "
Old man Ho's ship brought back piles of goods at very cheap prices. Workers in the city can't get their wages, so they would rather empty them if they lose money, or else they won't be able to make ends meet.
"Like this enamel bowl, one pound of peanuts was exchanged for five peanuts." Old man He grabbed a lot of lacquered bowls from a packing box, and said with a cheerful smile: "This thing is sold at the township supply and marketing cooperative for one piece and five. ."
When Zhou Qingfeng took the enamel bowl, he found that the quality of the thing was extremely low. The enamel on the bowl has fallen off a lot, and it's pitted, no wonder it can't be sold.
"What are you afraid of? Isn't it a bad appearance? Just use it. Where does the country folk care about this? It's mainly cheap. This bowl is less than two cents.
I'm going to exchange this bowl for 50 cents of eggplant. Someone must ask for it. Eggplants from the countryside are worthless, and once they are shipped to the market, they can double the profit. "
The old man laughed hahaha, and Le couldn't close his mouth. He deliberately brought some bowls to his daughter's house, just to show off his way of making money to Zhou Qingfeng.
"I have talked with a few relatives, sell the goods on credit to them, and then convert all kinds of dishes to me. They are all willing to make this money. In addition to these bowls, I also brought back a lot of things, which are usually from various households. The price is cheap if you need it."
Holding the broken bowl in his hand, Zhou Qingfeng couldn't help but think of "Bei Xixi" more than 20 years later. Residents in cities laughed at cheap e-commerce for selling low-quality products at low prices, but they did not know that there was always a large amount of consumer demand in rural areas where there was no right to speak.
Who can meet this demand, who can make money. Because China's population is so large, as long as you have a small market share in it, you can make a fortune.
There is no need for Zhou Qingfeng to intervene in the next situation. Several villages in Nantou Township soon learned that He’s family was related to Tianyang City and could obtain relatively cheap industrial products. The price is equivalent to the discounted price of similar products of the supply and marketing agency and then fractured.
They were all from the folks in the village, and the news spread extremely quickly. In the beginning, only relatives of the He family were helping with the sales. Later, more people knew about it. The farmers didn't want the relatives of the He family to earn the median price, and took the initiative to buy their own products in exchange for them.
Old man He was both happy and anxious. His home was turned into a small bazaar. Every day, the door of his house was bustling with hustle and bustle. His relatives don't have to take the initiative to promote sales, just stay at his house as a salesperson.
Inferior towels produced by textile factories in the city fade and lose hair after two washes, but only three hairs per piece. Farmers in various villages don't have to travel far to the township, they can just pick the vegetables from wherever they are. The township supply and marketing cooperatives also sell such inferior products, which are too expensive to die for.
The vegetable supply capacity of several villages was larger than that of Zhou Qingfeng's dragon dung fields, and the two boats that Old Man He rented soon became insufficient. He had to continue to rent more ships, hire a few people to ship the cargo, and even rent a warehouse on the side of the market wharf for storage.
Within a few days, news of the development of the old He's family was all over the sky. Everyone felt that Old Man He must have walked through some of the ways to become an official in the city, otherwise why would he suddenly be so powerful
For the machinery factory in the city, it was a miracle. The workers in the factory suddenly discovered that the disgusting and junk goods in their warehouse were slowly being emptied. In the past, no one wanted these things at all, but now they can return a lot of daily necessities.
The factory’s party committee attached great importance to this matter, and had a meeting overnight to study and decide-hurry up and sell all the rotten goods in the warehouse. Losing money is second, survival is the most important.
In order to please Old Man He, a heavyweight'customer', the machinery factory must treat him as an uncle-the factory packaged Zhou Qingfeng's six tons of peanuts, and the production for the next two months was also packaged. They were so happy to die when they got peanuts.
After all, peanuts can be eaten and sold, but they can be squeezed from oil. This is a best-selling necessities of life. The soap in the warehouse can't be chewed, and the mice won't eat it.
The machinery factory’s own products can’t be sold, so it’s okay to ask the employees to help Old Man He sell vegetables—now that Old Man He’s ships have changed from one to two, and two to four. Run for 24 hours non-stop transportation.
The population of Tianyang City is hundreds of thousands at any rate, so there is no problem in digesting the agricultural products of several villages. The government has already started the "vegetable basket project" because the number of residents in the city has increased rapidly, and the output of agricultural products has not kept up.
Many years later, the old employees of a machinery factory in Tianyang City laughed and said that the factory was going to close down that year. The way to save their own family was not technological innovation at all, nor was it system reform. It was the whole factory going up and down to sell vegetables.