Chapter 16 Contracting for Rat Extermination
Chapter 16 Contracting for Rat Extermination
Of course, this does not mean that Yang Wendong is very professional now. Although he comes from the Internet era of later generations, he still has too little practical experience.
But every profession has its own specialization, which not only refers to technology, but also to attitude.
Employees in warehouses or other companies all have their own things to do. Who would be willing to spend more time and energy doing other irrelevant things?
Unless designated by the leader, no one would be willing to cause trouble.
Another thing is that internal employees do lack experience in things like rat extermination.
Brian thought for a moment and then said, “Elena told me that you have never been to school?”
"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "But during this period of time, I have been learning to read."
This is also true. Knowing how to read is a basic requirement for integrating into the grassroots society of any place. In the future, if the mainland could develop into a global factory and the second largest GDP in the world, a large number of literate people was the most basic requirement.
For other illiterate people, learning to recognize characters is very difficult, but for Yang Wendong, he already knows simplified Chinese characters, so for him, he just needs to memorize traditional Chinese characters a little more.
It has been half a month since he traveled through time. Now, he can understand most newspapers. Even if he doesn't recognize some words, it does not affect his reading and understanding of the meaning of a sentence.
Writing traditional Chinese characters was still a big problem, so he focused on practicing his own name, date and other characters, as he might need them in the future when doing business.
Brian asked again: "Then how do you know the characteristics of so many mice? Did your family do this before?"
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "I also summarized the knowledge about rat extermination myself. In addition, I also consulted many elderly people who have rich experience."
He uses this reason not only to deal with outsiders, but also to people around him. He has really changed a lot during this period of time. I can only say that I have been paying attention to him before.
Brian was a little surprised and said, "Yes, the old people always have rich experience. But I guess not many young people would ask you this."
"Thank you for the compliment." Yang Wendong said with a smile.
Brian added, "Mr. Yang, let's get back to business. I don't expect rats to be completely extinct, but as long as you can significantly reduce their number, that's enough."
"Okay, I'm very willing to try it." Yang Wendong agreed.
If he really wanted to completely eradicate the rats, it would be really difficult for him and basically unrealistic, but if he could kill most of them, he would be confident of doing so.
In essence, this little thing called a mousetrap can at most help you escape from extreme poverty. It is impossible to make more money with it.
When the time is almost right, you have to find other ways, and imitating the rat extermination companies of later generations is a good new business.
Brian thought about it again and asked, "How do we decide on the price?"
"This..." Yang Wendong hesitated for a moment. He didn't know how to set the price. Then he said, "How about calculating it based on one person's salary?"
Brian nodded and said, "Okay, our warehouse workers make about 3 dollars a day, so we can settle on a weekly basis, 20 dollars a week, how about that?"
"Okay." Yang Wendong nodded. The salary in such a large warehouse was indeed high, 3 dollars a day, which was almost the average salary in Hong Kong.
However, he also knew that it was not easy for a normal person to get in. They needed to be physically strong and know basic Chinese and English, which would eliminate most of the people.
……
The two chatted for a while afterwards. Brian obviously had a lot to do and would not stay here forever, so he left after a while.
After a while, Zhao Liming, Su Yiyi and the other two finished their work and came back. Yang Wendong also told them about his promise to Brian.
Zhao Liming smiled and said, "Brother Dong, are you planning to do this business in the future?"
Yang Wendong said, "How long do you think our mousetrap business can last?"
"We should be able to do this forever, right?" Zhao Liming thought for a moment and said, "Although there are other people making the same mousetrap as us, their...
Well, as you said last time, Brother Dong, they just don’t have the courage to set up a stall.”
As they walked back, Yang Wendong said, "Those who make mousetraps may not have the ability to do this, but over time, someone will definitely sell it.
For example, wouldn't it be the same if those street shops or even ordinary vegetable stalls added a few more mouse traps to sell?"
"That's right!" Zhao Liming also felt that it made some sense.
Su Yiyi asked: "Brother Dong, you said before that everyone can sell together. Aren't those who sell rice and vegetables the same?"
Yang Wendong said: "It is possible, but the good days before are gone. If I set up a stall again in the future, I may be able to continue to make a little money, but it will only be enough to barely support my life.
For example, Elena found these mousetraps everywhere before. Do you think she would choose us?"
Su Yiyi nodded and said, "So we need to continue to get more orders from Elena to avoid competing with other people setting up stalls in the East Vegetable Market?"
Yang Wendong said: “Yes, the analysis is okay, but it’s impossible for Elena to take care of us all the time.
We can’t all rely on others. If we want to rely on ourselves, we have to take action on our own, think of other ways, and take other paths.”
Su Yiyi thought about it and said, "That's right, Brother Dong, you always think of these problems in advance."
"Otherwise, how can I help you get rich?" Yang Wendong smiled and continued, "In fact, there is no absolutely best way to catch mice. Our mousetrap may not be as effective as a mouse cage. Its biggest advantage is that it is cheap.
But today we sent you 1000 mousetraps, didn't you notice the flaws?"
Su Yiyi thought for a moment and replied, "It takes up too much space? We still need to assemble it."
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Yes, the biggest disadvantage of our mousetrap is that it is not in a normal shape, and the finished rope is elastic. These are problems when transporting in large quantities, so it is destined to not be large enough.
I can only say that it's okay to sell it as a hawker, but it's almost impossible to sell it to faraway places like mouse cages and mouse traps.
If iron in Hong Kong wasn’t too expensive, we wouldn’t even have the chance to set up a stall to sell it.”
"So are we going to give up the mousetrap?" Zhao Liming asked.
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Not really, but we don't need to spend time making it ourselves. We can just hand it over to other people in the dormitory. They produce it and we can just buy it.
Our focus in the future will be on long-term rodent control in warehouses, office buildings, and residential buildings.”
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