Chapter 106 The Difference
Chapter 106 The Difference (Medium Cup! More Updates)
Before we knew it, summer had slipped away.
But the autumn in the Lingnan region is actually no different from the summer. The temperature is still over 30 degrees during the day, but it is a little cooler at night.
Since this year's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival coincide with each other, the company has already arranged holidays in batches in advance.
At the end of September, Jiang Miao showed up at the headquarters office on time and met Jiang Haibo, who had just returned from southern Jiangxi the night before. He had been on a business trip to southern Jiangxi for more than a month.
"Thank you for your hard work, Haibo."
"This is what I should do." Jiang Haibo was tanned several degrees. It was obvious that he had been hiking and wading in the wild for more than a month.
"How are things going at the Gannan branch? Are there any difficulties?" Jiang Miao had previously contacted the company through WeChat to learn about the situation at the Gannan branch, so now that Jiang Haibo had returned, he needed to ask about it in person.
Jiang Haibo had anticipated that his boss would ask about the branch company, so he was prepared. He took out a folder from his briefcase, which contained a thick stack of documents:
"Boss, this is a briefing on the various tasks of the Gannan Branch over the past month."
Jiang Miao took the folder and flipped through it while asking calmly, "How did Sun Keji, the head of the Gannan branch, perform?"
Jiang Haibo organized his words in his mind before replying, "How should I put it? He works very hard, but he is not very flexible and does things in a very old-fashioned way. Other things are okay."
"Are you trying to say that he is not suitable to be the head of a branch?" Jiang Miao asked with a smile.
After spending nearly a year with Jiang Miao, Jiang Haibo knew a little about his style, so he nodded bluntly: "I really think he is not suitable. Sun Keji is more suitable to be the industry manager of the head office."
"I know, but there is no one in the company now! And in the early stages of preparing for a branch, you should know that there are too many things that can be done. A rigid supervisor is sometimes more suitable for the initial management of a branch than a flexible supervisor." Jiang Miao also wanted to find a suitable candidate.
However, people who are flexible in their dealings with others are often also flexible in their bottom lines.
Using such a person to manage a newly established branch is like letting a mouse watch a rice warehouse; it is inevitable that he will embezzle the money.
This is also the reason why Jiang Miao eliminated the three smooth-talking candidates among the five applicants for the management position and chose the taciturn Sun Keji, because he was honest enough.
"That's true." Jiang Haibo nodded helplessly.
Faced with this situation, we can only choose the lesser of two evils.
Jiang Miao finished reading the first document, which was a briefing on purchasing a self-built building to be used as a branch office building and employee dormitory.
The office of Gannan Branch is located in Fenghuang Town, Luling City. This is consistent with the strategy of Hailufeng Company as always, which is not to choose urban areas with high land prices, but to choose small towns around the city.
The establishment of the branch in Luling City was not a random choice. Instead, it was taken into consideration that the branch's business is to develop the oil tea industry. Luling City, located in the heart of southern Jiangxi, is very suitable, from which it can radiate to various cities in southern Jiangxi.
The second document was a brief report on the purchase of an oil tea plantation around Luling.
The core purchasing area is Suichuan County, which is known as the hometown of oil tea. Currently, the Gannan Branch has purchased 8700 acres of semi-abandoned oil tea plantations in the county, and they are connected together.
Several other counties in Luling also purchased about 1.94 acres, involving 28 tea oil plantations.
After mergers and integrations, these 2.81 acres of oil tea gardens have formed seven large oil tea plantations.
The third document was the employee recruitment briefing for the Gannan branch. Although 31 people were brought over from the headquarters, they were all management, and grassroots employees must be recruited from locals.
In order to manage these more than 300 acres of oil tea, a total of nearly ordinary employees have been recruited. This is the largest recruitment in the company's history.
The content of the fourth document is that Jiang Haibo went to Yuzhang City in northern Jiangxi Province and found a professional agricultural machinery company to cooperate with.
"Haibo, what is the strength of this Ganfa Machinery?"
Jiang Haibo recalled for a moment before explaining some of the company's circumstances: "Ganfa Machinery Manufacturing Company was established in 2000 and has more than years of experience in agricultural R&D and production. The factory is located in the Xiaolan Economic Development Zone in Yuzhang City, Jiangxi Province. It is the leading enterprise in the province specializing in the manufacture of agricultural machinery."
He paused for a few seconds and continued, "This company currently has more than 151 employees, dozens of agricultural machinery engineers, and hundreds of various production equipment. Their products include the "Ganjiang" brand series of agricultural transport vehicles and the "Ganfa Ganjiang" Dongfeng series of hand tractors. These products have won the National Silver Award and the National Top Ten Hand Tractor Golden Bull Award."
"It seems that their company is quite strong." Jiang Miao nodded.
After all, if the company is too weak, it will be unable to develop professional tea oil harvesting equipment.
Hailufeng Company invested 1000 million yuan and commissioned Ganfa Machinery Company to develop oil tea harvesting equipment that can be used in mountainous areas, requiring the other party to come up with a mature solution within two years.
After all, this kind of investment is essential.
If we wait until oil tea is produced on a large scale before developing professional harvesting equipment, it will definitely be too late.
Although there are machines on the market that can harvest tea oil, Jiang Miao was not satisfied with these devices after consulting relevant information.
The main reasons are that the oil tea industry is too small and labor-intensive, and that oil tea plantations are generally located in mountainous areas, which is not conducive to the promotion of mechanization.
Without market demand, naturally no agricultural machinery company would be willing to invest money in research.
Once the new varieties of tea oil are promoted on a large scale, only the use of professional harvesting equipment can further reduce costs. Otherwise, the labor cost of tea oil harvesting will be too high, which will indirectly increase the total production cost.
This is the path that most crops that can be produced on a large scale must take.
Harvesting solely by manual labor is not only inefficient but also difficult to scale up.
Jiang Miao also has to consider another problem, that is, young people nowadays are less and less interested in traditional farming methods. In addition, the rural population is aging, and young and middle-aged laborers are flocking to big cities.
By the time the oil tea industry develops, it will still rely on the old manual picking method. There are not so many young people in rural areas, and the elderly can't do it anymore, which will be a problem.
Moreover, companies dare not recruit elderly people on a large scale, even as temporary workers, and they must try to reduce the number of people over 55 years old.
After all, the older you get, the worse your health becomes. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are common. If something happens to you during work, it will definitely be a trouble for the company.
Jiang Miao had been reading the document for nearly an hour before he stood up, stretched his body, and then ordered:
"I have a general understanding of the Gannan branch. Tell Keji to strengthen the construction of infrastructure. Also, the tea seed oil processing plant that we acquired needs to add deep processing equipment to make use of the tea seed cakes after oil extraction. We can use the tens of thousands of acres of native tea oil plants for testing."
Jiang Miao then added, "There is one more thing. After a while, around the end of the year, the company will send a batch of alfalfa seeds to him. He will sow them in the open space under the tea plantation in the spring of next year."
"Alfalfa? Is it forage grass?" Jiang Haibo asked curiously.
Jiang Miao nodded: "It is a new variety. The gene patent registration was just completed a few days ago. This is a drought-resistant variety. Under the forest in the mountains, it can reach a yield of about 5000 kilograms per mu, and it can be harvested about twice a year."
"I'll tell him." Although Jiang Haibo was not clear about the alfalfa that his boss was talking about, he knew very well that the new varieties launched by the company were very excellent. Since it was worth registering a genetic patent specifically, it was even more telling.
"By the way, let Keji build a small grass powder processing plant. After all, the production capacity of tens of thousands of acres of mountain alfalfa will produce hundreds of thousands of tons of fresh grass every year. It is difficult to preserve it without processing."
Jiang Haibo took the folder handed over by Jiang Miao and said, "No problem. I will ask Keji to implement it."
"By the way, during the National Day holiday, the company plans to hold a trade fair in Tsz Wan Shan Park in the city. Please give instructions and communicate with the local street office."
"No problem. I think the local streets are willing to cooperate with us." Jiang Haibo didn't think there would be any difficulties in this matter.
After Jiang Haibo left with the folder.
Ye Meijing, the manager of the Finance Department, knocked on the door quickly and came in. She subconsciously wanted to close the door.
"boss…"
"Don't close the door."
Ye Meijing reacted instantly and quickly reopened the office door. Her face was a little hot as she apologized: "Boss, I'm very sorry. I will pay more attention next time."
"Well, just be careful." Jiang Miao poured her a cup of tea.
"Boss, this is the financial statement for September." Jiang Miao took it and flipped through it.
Ye Meijing sat upright and gave him a brief financial report: "The company's normal income in September was 3 million yuan, and it also obtained a loan quota of 1736 billion yuan from the Rural Commercial Bank. However, the expenditure increased a lot. The Gannan branch spent 50 million yuan in September, and the Qiongzhou branch also spent 8257 million yuan. Together with the expenditure of the head office, the total expenditure was 2718 million yuan."
It looks like the company is spending more than it earns.
In fact, Hailufeng's finances are very good.
For a 50 billion loan with a five-year term and an annual interest rate of 5%, the monthly repayment of principal plus interest is only more than 3.4 million.
Now the company's revenue is still rising steadily, so there is no need to worry at all. Moreover, this large loan has once again accelerated the rapid development of Hailufeng Company.
At the same time, many projects were started, including the first phase of the Xinxiang Dongtian employee community project, the Xinxiang Xiaonanshan office building project, the Zhuzaishan comprehensive development project, and the Hailufeng Company solar power generation project.
There are also the Yandunshan Egyptian catfish indoor breeding farm, the Yandunshan fish ball factory renovation project, and the Yandunshan Feed Factory No. 2 renovation project.
Urban durian plantation renovation project, Gongping Town durian plantation renovation project.
The simultaneous start of these projects consumed a large amount of funds of Hailufeng Company, so it became inevitable to seek bank financing.
However, the local people are also happy to see the large loan from Hailufeng Company.
The main reason is that Hailufeng Company controls the market for eel fry and does not need to worry about being unable to repay the loan.
But there were also some people who were very surprised and jealous of Hailufeng Company's crazy expansion.
For example, Gu Haijing’s youngest son Gu Yiming, after being kicked out of the company by Gu Haijing, has been starting a business in the urban area. He currently runs a hotel and a KTV.
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With the arrival of National Day.
As a semi-tourist city, Shanmei naturally welcomes crowds of people returning from the Pearl River Delta, as well as a small number of genuine out-of-town tourists.
The room of Dihao KTV was suddenly full, in the top floor box.
"Mr. Gu, I heard that Haijing Company and Hailufeng Company are cooperating. Do you know Jiang Miao?" A young man with a Pikachu tattoo on his hand leaned on a soft leather sofa, gently shaking a red wine glass.
Gu Yiming took a sip of wine, then said with a depressed look: "Tsk, we've met twice, you don't want to take advantage of him, do you?"
"Haha, I know my own worth. It's okay for me to invest in KTV and hotels, but I dare not touch the Hailufeng Company, otherwise my father will be in trouble." The young man pretended to be scared.
"That's good to know. He has a very close relationship with Li Jianming and others. Now it is almost developing into a leading local enterprise. Even my old man dare not offend him." Gu Yiming took another sip of red wine:
"But Hailufeng's expansion over the past six months has been really rapid. It raised 50 billion yuan in financing all at once. Isn't he worried about not being able to pay back the money?"
Although he was kicked out of the company's management by Gu Haijing, Gu Yiming still had many friends in the urban area. He knew some inside information about the crazy expansion of Hailufeng Company.
"I heard from my uncle that Hailufeng Company paid the first half of the year's taxes in advance in August, paying 1.8 million yuan."
"Holy shit, so many?"
"It is estimated that there will be more in the second half of the year, but this is also related to the fact that Hailufeng Company does not avoid taxes to the extreme." The young man put down his wine glass and suddenly remembered something: "Oh, Hailufeng Company is holding a trade fair in Tsz Wan Shan Park today. Do you want to go and take a look?"
When Gu Yiming heard about the Hailufeng Company, he blurted out, "What's so good about it? In addition to eel fry, their company also produces canned food and strawberries."
"You really don't want to go?"
"No, I'm happier counting money here." Gu Yiming waved his hand.
"Then I'll go by myself."
The young man walked to the billiard hall on the next floor and found another friend.
Having drunk two sips of wine, he had no choice but to give up his Lamborghini and took a Didi to Tsz Wan Shan Park.
Shanmei in October is still hot.
"Haoyu, you're not the type who likes to join in the fun, so why did you go to Tsz Wan Shan Park? Do you want to curry favor with them?"
Chen Haoyu, who had a Pikachu tattoo on the back of his hand, yawned and replied with a smile: "I just went to take a look. Yiming is a bit stupid. I haven't offended him before, so why does he look so stressed every time he hears about him?"
"Haha, I guess it's because of what his father said that that he developed this rebellious mentality."
"You are so old, in your twenties, but still as childish as those junior high school students." Chen Haoyu complained helplessly.
"Don't play dumb, kid. Tell me what you really think."
"I really can't hide it from you, Brother Liang."
Peng Jialiang rolled his eyes. "Your little thoughts are written all over your face since you were little. Do you still need to guess? Tell me, what do you think?"
"I'm going to see if there's any opportunity to make money."
"What? When did you become short of money?" Peng Jialiang asked as if he was meeting the other person for the first time.
Upon hearing this, Chen Haoyu immediately started to complain: "Bullshit, I only have tens of thousands of yuan in pocket money a month. The car was bought for me by my mother. How can I have money? The company will also be inherited by my eldest brother in the future, so I will just take some dry stock dividends."
"So you also want to follow Yiming's example and start your own business?" Peng Jialiang teased.
"Why? Is it not possible? Anyway, I have no share in my family's company, so I might as well start some businesses while my father is still around."
Peng Jialiang agrees with this point: "There is progress. I know how to think about the future."
"Brother Liang, would you like to support me? It doesn't have to be too much, just invest a few million in me."
"Get lost! My entire net worth is only over 10 million, and they are all fixed assets. How can I invest millions in you?" Peng Jialiang refused bluntly.
"I knew that the brotherhood after so many years turned out to be so plastic..." Chen Haoyu cried fakely, with a trace of grief in his eyes.
Peng Jialiang raised his lips and sneered, "Haha, can you show me another fan-shaped look that is three parts cold, three parts sad, three parts powerless, and one part angry?"
"You really don't love me..."
"Get lost, I'm straight."
While the two were joking, the car had already arrived at Tsz Wan Shan Park.
Tsz Wan Shan Park is right next to Shantou-Meizhou Avenue, opposite which is the Miramar Hotel which has been abandoned for more than a decade and the office building of China Mobile's Shantou-Meizhou branch.
In the northwest of the park on the Shantou-Mei Avenue side is a large square, while in the north of the park is the Tsz Wan Shan Library with sailboat elements.
As soon as they got off the car, they saw the Little Arena on the top of Tsz Wan Shan.
At this time, there was a huge inflatable arch bridge and some huge inflatable cartoon animals in the park square.
"Let's go!" Chen Haoyu patted Peng Jialiang on the shoulder, and the two walked side by side towards the booth inside.
I don’t know if it’s because of the National Day Golden Week, but there are quite a lot of people here. In addition to local people with their families, there are also many backpackers and fashionable young people visiting the various exhibition areas.
As soon as he walked in, Peng Jialiang was confused: "This is weird, isn't there more than one company coming? Why are there so many exhibition areas?"
"Jade? Hailufeng Company is also engaged in jade business?" Chen Haoyu was also surprised. Although he knew some things about Hailufeng Company, they were all second-hand gossip he heard from others. He really didn't know how many industries Hailufeng Company had.
(End of this chapter)