Chapter 17 Learning First
Chapter 17 Learning First (Please read again on Tuesday)
"It sounds amazing!" Lin Haoyu scratched his head. He was a little confused and asked, "Are they really willing to spend this money?"
Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "In a big company, everyone only does their own thing. You will understand when you have the opportunity to interact with them more. Big companies all want one person to do one professional thing.
And what is a lot of money for us is just a small amount for these big warehouses and companies.”
Before the Internet age, many people did not understand many things, because knowledge can only be learned through study or instruction from others, unlike later generations when we have Baidu or even short video searches and learning.
Take the characteristics of mice for example. If there were no Internet, it would be very difficult to find books on this subject, and even bookstores might not sell them.
It is only in later generations that people can find a large amount of information by searching on Baidu on their mobile phones, which makes people have the illusion that learning materials can be easily obtained.
Zhao Liming said with a smile: "Brother Dong also said that the harm caused by rats far outweighs the small cost."
Yang Wendong smiled and asked Lin Haoyu again: "Haoyu, if your meat was bitten by rats, what would you do?"
"What else can we do? Get rid of the rats?" Lin Haoyu replied, "Just wash the meat again. At most, we can do what you did last time, brother Dong, and dig out the places where the rats have bitten."
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Well, that's right, I will probably do the same.
But if they are rich, they may just throw the whole meat away, because their living conditions are much better than ours, and they do many things differently. "
Lin Haoyu said: "Well, it seems to be like this."
Yang Wendong added: “Speaking of the warehouse, rats cannot be allowed to exist here, because who would buy the meat if it is bitten by rats?
And for meat, you can use a knife to cut off some of it, but what about chicken, fish, vegetables and fruit?
And it’s not just food. If beds, sofas, and cabinets are bitten, they can’t be sold, and the cost is too high.”
Su Yiyi, who was walking beside him, said, "Brother Dong is right. I never thought rats could be so destructive."
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "So as long as we identify this path and do well in this direction, we can ensure that we can kill a large number of rats in the warehouse, then we may be able to live in such a house soon."
After saying that, he pointed his finger at a residential area on the roadside. It was a building with only three floors, but it was made of normal bricks and tiles.
Such an ordinary house is an unattainable dream for Yang Wendong and his friends, or for most Hong Kong Chinese.
Su Yiyi said: "I heard that the price of houses has started to rise. They are very expensive. One house is almost 10,000 yuan."
Yang Wendong asked: "Who told you that?"
Su Yiyi replied: “I was chatting with some other vendors when I was setting up the stall.
Among those vendors, there was one who had a good business and had been doing it for a long time. He even bought a house, but it seemed that he had a loan and owed the bank a large sum of money. "
"How big is the area?" Yang Wendong asked casually.
Su Yiyi said, "It seems to be about 600 to 700 square feet, but he hasn't moved in yet. It seems that he has only paid the money, but he will have to wait until next year to move in."
"Ah, you gave the money without giving the house?" Zhao Liming asked in confusion.
Su Yiyi said: "Yes, it seems that buying a house is like this now, it's called selling pre-sale properties."
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "In fact, it is to pay the deposit first, and then deliver the house, just like our business, the difference is that you have to pay all the money first, not just part of it. Even if it is not the full payment, you still have to repay the loan before the house is delivered."
It seems that in this era, the business model of pre-sale housing has already emerged.
When Yang Wendong bought a house in his previous life, he also hated this model. After all, you have to pay millions of dollars before you even see the house. Anyone would feel worried and uncomfortable.
But later, as he grew older and gained more social experience, coupled with the abundance of information on the Internet, he also realized that the existence of the pre-sale housing model itself is to drive the development of real estate.
This is an inevitable result of economic development, just like taking out a loan to buy a car, and any business model, like a kitchen knife, is good or bad regardless of its nature.
……
In the afternoon, Yang Wendong and his colleagues went to three other warehouses, assembled all the mousetraps that had been delivered, and placed them at the locations requested by Yang Wendong.
At the same time, Yang Wendong also wanted to discuss cooperation with the persons in charge of the three warehouses, but he didn't even have the chance to meet them.
Obviously, it was his luck that he was able to chat with Brian for a while, especially because of Elena's relationship.
Otherwise, in today's Hong Kong society, it is basically impossible for a lower-class Chinese to meet a British foreigner with some power.
However, this is how business is. There are thousands of possibilities for success. All you have to do is seize one opportunity, make good use of it, and do things well.
Learn from this process, get to know people with more power and ability, show yourself, try to build relationships, then accumulate your own abilities, wait for or actively look for the next opportunity.
……
It was almost dark when Yang Wendong and his companions finally finished all their work. However, it started to drizzle, and the four of them were forced to rush back to the dormitory in the rain.
Fortunately, the rain was not heavy, and the shabby dormitory did not leak much. After everyone rushed back, they could only wipe their bodies dry with cloth.
As for taking a hot bath, that's just a dream. It's difficult to boil hot water for a bath by yourself. It takes too much time and energy.
Even in the summer, it will be even more difficult to take a clean cold shower, because in the summer, there is normally a shortage of water. Due to the geological environment of Hong Kong, even though there is a lot of rain, the water cannot be retained.
Hong Kong in the 50s was a combination of modern and ancient times. The rich could live in elegant mansions and enjoy a life similar to that of decades later, while the poor were not much different from living in ancient times.
The next day, Su Yiyi seemed to be sick, also because of being caught in the rain yesterday. Yang Wendong went to a Watsons pharmacy in Tsim Sha Tsui and bought some Chinese patent medicine for 3 dollars.
If I hadn't made some money recently, I really wouldn't have been able to afford medicine based on my previous income. Most poor people just have to endure it.
Afterwards, Yang Wendong took Zhao Liming and the other two to the Jordan warehouse. From today on, they would be responsible for the rat extermination work in the entire warehouse. Naturally, they also needed to go there every day to dispose of the captured rats.
At the same time, it is also necessary to observe and study which places are easy to catch mice and which places are ineffective in the long run, so as to summarize experience.
Even with some experience in the later Internet, it cannot compare to actual experience.
In any era, continuous learning is the most important thing.
(End of this chapter)