Chapter 163 Tentacles

Chapter 163 Tentacles

Chapter 163 Tentacles (more updates)
5 month 19 day.

The typhoon landed on the Leizhou Peninsula, finally bringing rain to the Lingnan coast, which had been dry for almost three months.

However, there was only a light rain in the eastern Guangdong region, which was caused by artificial rainfall, with a total of only about ten millimeters.

In the drizzle.

My sister Jiang Xia came back from a business trip in the Pearl River Delta region.

The family gathered together again for dinner.

Jiang Miao poured her sister some vanilla coconut milk prepared by Shuya: "Sister, has the industrial layout of the Pearl River Delta been completed?"

My sister half-jokingly said, "It's done. I didn't save you any money. We bought 50 stores and 50 commercial houses in total, plus 3 large warehouses. The warehouses are already being renovated and will be ready for use by the end of the year. I'll send you the details on WeChat."

"I was in the lab just now and wasn't looking at my phone." Jiang Miao put down the glass pot, picked up his phone and looked through the records on WeChat.

I quickly found the file my sister sent me this afternoon.

After opening the file, there are detailed information of 50 shops, 50 commercial houses and 3 storage points, including location, area, decoration, purchase price, subsequent renovation costs, etc.

Among them, there are 11 stores in Guangzhou with a total area of ​​1474 square meters. The total transaction price is 2.5058 million yuan, with an average of about 17 yuan per square meter.

The nine stores in Pengcheng have a total area of ​​9 square meters and a total transaction price of 1098 million yuan, with an average price of about 1.3176 yuan per square meter.

In the remaining cities in the Pearl River Delta, 30 stores were purchased with a total area of ​​5580 square meters. The total transaction price was 1.2276 million yuan, with an average price of 2.2 yuan per square meter.

It can be seen from this that the core of the entire Pearl River Delta region is still Yangcheng and Shenzhen. The twenty stores in these two cities are three times more expensive than the thirty stores in other Pearl River Delta cities combined.

The total transaction price of those 50 commercial houses was only 1.0650 billion yuan.

There are three logistics and warehousing points, each covering an area of ​​3 to 60 acres, with a total value of approximately 80 million yuan.

The total funding amount Jiang Miao gave to his sister is 10 billion yuan. Currently, 8 million yuan has been used, leaving a balance of 2 million yuan.

The remaining balance will be used for the renovation of shops and commercial housing, as well as the construction of supporting facilities for storage points.

“Have you found all the companies that will be contracting the project?”

My sister took a sip of vanilla coconut milk and said, "We found a few professional contractors and subcontracted the work to these renovation contractors. The contract price for the rough renovation of 50 commercial houses was 2200 million yuan; the contract price for the fine renovation of 50 stores was 5800 million yuan; the contract price for the storage point was 1.2 million yuan, including supporting facilities."

"Haha, it seems like there is really not a penny left." Jiang Miao smiled and shook his head.

"The transformation of commercial housing into employee dormitories can be completed before the Mid-Autumn Festival; the shops will also be completed before the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Jiang Miao thought for a moment: "Sister, your physical business department needs to recruit more employees, especially reserve good employees, and the exclusive stores in the Pearl River Delta region should open during the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

"Yes, we have recruited more than a hundred people some time ago. All of them are in training and internship. They should be able to start work before the Mid-Autumn Festival." Jiang Xia broke open a garlic-flavored prawn and was about to eat the shrimp head paste.

Jiang Miao suddenly reacted: "Sister, don't eat shrimp paste. The cadmium content in that thing exceeds the standard. Eating it is bad for your health. Mom, who bought these shrimps?"

"Ah?" Jiang Xia quickly put down the prawns in her hand, feeling a little reluctant to eat them.

"This is from your sixth uncle. He came to our house today and gave us a bag of shrimps." Huang Qiuyue felt a little reluctant to part with the plate of prawns, but when she saw her daughter-in-law sitting across from her, she said, "Why don't we pour it out? Don't eat it and get sick."

"Just don't eat the shrimp head, everything else is normal. It's okay to eat a few occasionally." Jiang Miao picked up a big shrimp, broke off the shrimp head and shrimp paste, and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Zhang Xincheng also picked up a shrimp and broke off the shrimp head and shrimp paste: "Just don't eat this shrimp head in the future."

"Dahai, don't go to that Kuey Teow soup restaurant on Pier Street anymore." Huang Qiuyue suddenly realized and stared at Jiang Dahai, who was confused. "Their soup base is made with shrimp heads."

Jiang Dahai was speechless. He scratched his head and complained, "Forget it, let's eat in the company cafeteria from now on! I'm really worried about the food outside!"

"A Miao, is the situation of this shrimp head really so serious?" Shuya was also a little worried.

Jiang Miao shook his head helplessly: "There is no way. This is the physiological law of shrimps and crabs. Their chitinous shells will naturally accumulate heavy metals in the water mud during their growth. Especially the shrimp head, which is rich in internal organs, is the nest of heavy metal enrichment."

"It should be possible to reduce heavy metal accumulation by improving breeding methods, right?" Zhang Xincheng scooped up the winter melon and duck soup.

"It is indeed possible, but the investment cost is not small, especially the heavy metal filter in the water body, which is not something that ordinary farmers can afford. Generally speaking, the accumulation of heavy metals in shrimp can be reduced by increasing the frequency of water changes and reducing the breeding density."

"Haha, this is almost impossible." Zhang Xincheng smiled bitterly.

He grew up in a fishing village and knows the mentality of ordinary farmers very well.

Jiang Miao picked up a piece of grilled eel and said, "This is not just a problem with farmed shrimp. The problem with wild shrimp is equally serious, especially those wild shrimp that have been growing for a long time. The heavy metals in their bodies are even higher. In the future, eat less shrimp heads and shrimp brains, especially those from wild prawns."

The meat of ordinary farmed shrimps generally does not have excessive heavy metals because their growth cycle is too short and the heavy metals in the head and internal organs have not yet spread to various parts of the body.

Dad was a little worried: "Will this happen to crabs and lobsters as well?"

Jiang Miao nodded: "Of course, all shrimps and crabs have this common problem, but as long as you don't eat the internal organs, the daily intake of most people will not be a big problem."

Hearing this, Jiang Dahai felt relieved: "I'm old, it doesn't matter if I eat a few more. You young people should not eat too much, especially Shuya!"

"Dad, I know." Shuya has paid great attention to her daily diet. In addition to eating according to Jiang Miao's recipe, she occasionally eats one or two more fruits.

After dinner.

Jiang Miao was chatting about company matters with his brother-in-law and sister in the study.

My brother-in-law has been following up on those large-scale stepped farms recently. He briefly told Jiang Miao the situation: "A Miao, the foundation pit of the Jilongshan Farm in Magong Town has been excavated, and the concrete foundation and pool wall are being poured."

"What about Zhelang Peninsula?"

“Only half of the foundation pit has been excavated.”

“What does the engineering contractor say?”

My brother-in-law gave the expected time of the project: "They said that the Jilongshan farm in Magong can be put into use in September; the two farms in Zhelang Peninsula may not be completed until the end of October."

"Okay, brother-in-law, please continue to follow up on this matter, especially the basic engineering. Don't be careless."

"I know."

Jiang Miao wrote down the main points of the outcome of the incident in the memo, then turned to her sister and said, "Sister, the company's physical business division needs to continue to expand."

"Further expansion? Will this put pressure on the company's capital chain?" my sister reminded me.

My brother-in-law also thinks that the expansion is too fast: "That's right. After all, we just invested 1 billion yuan in real estate in the Pearl River Delta."

However, Jiang Miao was confident: "Sister, brother-in-law, don't worry. Starting from May, our company will increase its monthly revenue by 3.5 million yuan from the newly developed pandan strawberry powder industry; the honey industry will also increase its revenue by nearly 1 million yuan; and the morel industry will also increase its revenue by 2400 million yuan."

"Do these three industries bring in so much income?" My brother-in-law has been paying attention to the construction site of the breeding farm for the past few months and has not learned about the company's new industries.

"correct."

Jiang Xia thought for a while and felt that she could continue to expand the physical business department and extend physical stores to all parts of the country: "If so, I agree to continue to expand the scale, but, A Miao, where do you plan to start?"

Jiang Miao made a direct decision: "Don't worry about other areas for now, expand to the two core areas of Magic City and Beijing first."

After all, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are the regions with the strongest consumption power in China. Taking advantage of the domestic economic downturn in recent years, the price of land in these places will be relatively low.

Moreover, the types of products produced by Hailufeng Company also mean that it must currently focus on big cities rather than making small moves in small cities.

"There are 16 districts in Shanghai. Each district has a store, a set of employee dormitories, and a storage point. I will use the revenue from the pandan strawberry powder in May as the funds for investment in Shanghai real estate."

"The capital also has 3.5 districts, and the same arrangement applies. The million yuan invested in June was in the capital;"

"The funds invested in July and August were invested in the Yangtze River Delta region, and the funds in September and October were invested in various cities in the coastal areas, gradually establishing an independent logistics transportation line to ensure that the company's products can be quickly transported from north to south through the coastal areas."

While taking notes, Jiang Xia was shocked by her brother's generosity.

In fact, Hailufeng Company has always had its own logistics fleet, but it has not officially become a business unit.

Because the company previously sold live eel fry to farmers, it definitely needed large trucks that could transport live eels. Later, it added cold chain container trucks for delivering feed, white truffles, frozen fish balls, fish products, strawberries and pre-prepared dishes.

Currently, the company owns a total of 5 small live transport trucks, 15 medium-sized cold chain container trucks, and 30 large cold chain container trucks.

This scale is obviously not enough.

As for whether part of the business can be handed over to SF Express, except for small products purchased online, other wholesale products and special products are definitely not suitable for handing over to SF Express, because SF Express is not as responsible as imagined.

For example, SF Express does not have professional vehicles to transport live eel fry. If it relies on packaging, half of the eel fry will probably be dead by the time they are delivered to the farmers.

There are also special feeds, which require transporting dozens of tons at a time and require cold chain transportation throughout the entire process to extend the shelf life of the feed.

Other express delivery companies will not help Hailufeng to transport these things, and they are not confident in finding private transportation vehicles or professional logistics companies. Therefore, if Hailufeng wants to expand its industries and ensure that the products of various industries are delivered to customers unimpeded, it can only further expand its own logistics system.

This is also the only way for large agricultural groups.

For example, large agricultural groups such as ABCD, COFCO, COFCO Reserves Corporation, and Beidahuang Group, in addition to production, processing, and sales, their logistics and warehousing industries are also cornerstones that cannot be ignored.

Without a strong warehousing and logistics system, no matter how good the products are, they will not be able to reach customers. Back then, in old Lucia, because of the poor logistics management, many agricultural products had to rot in warehouses or on railways after production, while their city residents had money but could not buy supplies.

The construction of the domestic logistics system over the past twenty years has been quite good.

However, the wildly growing express delivery industry has become an overly inward-looking industry, and many regional contractors of the three links and one delivery service are not making any money at all.

Jiang Miao’s idea is to learn from JD.com and develop the entire chain from planting and breeding, deep processing, transportation to retail.

Although this will increase costs, it is the most controllable overall.

He made such an aggressive layout just in case a conflict broke out with a major Internet company, which might prohibit Hailufeng's online store from operating on their software or deliberately suppress traffic.

As long as the physical business department and the soon-to-be-established logistics business department can develop smoothly and extend their tentacles to major metropolitan areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, other shopping software will not be able to suppress Hailufeng Company at all.

After all, Hailufeng Company currently only produces 5 to 6 kilograms of strawberries per month, and the output of ginseng fruit is about the same, with tomatoes slightly more, at around 8 kilograms per month.

With such a small production volume, not to mention Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, even the Pearl River Delta region cannot fill it.

But why didn’t Hailufeng Company expand its production capacity before?

The reason is that Jiang Miao knows that it is easier to turn around if the boat is small. Strawberries, ginseng fruit and tomatoes are not monopoly products. They do not have fixed big customers like eel fry, white truffles, special feed, fish products and pandan strawberry powder.

Once it clashes with other e-commerce platforms.

The strawberry, ginseng fruit and tomato industries may see a significant drop in sales as a result.

Therefore, Jiang Miao's plan is to open physical stores first to provide a safety net. As long as the 50 Hailufeng specialty stores in the Pearl River Delta are opened, it may be difficult for each store to sell 1000 kilograms of strawberries per month, but selling several hundred kilograms is still possible.

In addition, it is combined with the online sales through the Hailufeng store’s APP and the company’s physical store which has been operating in Shanmei for nearly two years.

This basically ensures that these three fruits will not be unsalable.

Of course, Hailufeng Company’s layout of physical stores is definitely not just for the three fruits, but for other subsequent products, such as durian, bananas, mangoes, pineapples, lychees, longans, etc.

In terms of aquatic products, there are various fish products, live eels, live Egyptian catfish, various live salmon, and eel fry.

Plus tea seed oil, honey, beef, mutton, dairy products, white truffles, morels and other precious edible fungi.

It’s basically a small luxury produce supermarket.

The core customer group of the Hailufeng specialty store is the middle class in metropolitan areas.

By producing high-quality luxury agricultural products, we can, on the one hand, compete with domestic farmers in a staggered manner and avoid destroying related domestic industries.

On the other hand, this can also break the "noble" label of imported fruits.

After talking about the layout of physical stores and logistics, Jiang Miao continued, "Sister, your physical business department needs to be further integrated. The Pearl River Delta region can set up a Pearl River Delta property company to manage local physical stores. The same goes for Shanghai and Beijing."

"I will arrange it as soon as possible, but it requires the cooperation of the Human Resources Department." Jiang Xia certainly knew the necessity of establishing a regional subsidiary to manage local properties. After all, she needed to expand across the country and did not have the time and energy to connect with every franchise store.

"Well, I will ask the HR manager to cooperate with you." Jiang Miao thought of another thing, but this thing had no direct relationship with the business department.

He recorded his thoughts on a memo.

I plan to instruct the planting division tomorrow to ask them to arrange personnel to go to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan regions as soon as possible to set up two subsidiaries to plant strawberries, ginseng fruit and tomatoes locally for convenient nearby sales.

These three fruits are not tropical fruits and do not need to be specially grown in South China. Therefore, rationally opening up planting bases around core markets can effectively save transportation costs.

After chatting with my sister and brother-in-law for half an hour, they said goodbye and went back to the villa next door to rest.

Jiang Miao came out of the study.

I washed my face and returned to the bedroom.

"Are you done talking?" Shuya put down the parenting book in her hand.

"Well, I just told my sister and brother-in-law some things." Jiang Miao took off his coat, picked up a pillow, and sat on the mattress.

Shuya put the book on the bedside table, and then gently stroked her slightly bulging belly: "A Miao, how do you plan to arrange Xinlekang Pharmaceutical Company?"

"How does Yu Jiancun, the general manager of Xinlekang Pharmaceutical Company, manage the company?" Jiang Miao asked while closing his eyes to rest.

Shuya calmly replied: "The management ability is so-so, and the team sent by the Supervision Department did not find any major problems."

"Where is Youwei's work going?"

"Are you asking about the project for a specific drug for lupus erythematosus?"

"Ah."

"It can be used, but there are still many problems. Through her relationship with Union Hospital, she obtained blood samples from 100 lupus patients in China. After comparing the relevant genes, she found that the relevant targets of each patient have similarities and differences."

Jiang Miao was naturally aware of this: "After seeking common ground, is it difficult for her special medicine to achieve the expected effect?"

"That's it."

"Her plan was never going to work."

"Then why didn't you remind her?"

Jiang Miao shook his head: "She is too stubborn, let her hit the wall first."

Shuya reminded: "If this is the case, how will Xin Kangle Pharmaceutical arrange its products? We can't just keep producing masks and ibuprofen, right? These two products can't sustain the operating costs of the factory at all."

“How many people are currently employed in the drug development laboratory over there?”

“We recruited 20 people, including three PhDs in drug development and 3 masters in biochemical medicine.”

Jiang Miao opened his eyes: "Let's find something for them to do! Yangcheng is not suitable for researching new drugs. Let Yu Jiancun move the drug research and development center to Shanmei City and build a high-standard biological drug laboratory."

“This will require a lot of investment!”

“Just invest 3 million yuan!”

"So what do you plan to have those drug researchers study?"

Jiang Miao thought for a while and suddenly remembered a natural fungus he discovered in the desert in the south of the desert some time ago. That thing has good potential and can be developed into a new antibiotic.

But then he shook his head. It was extremely difficult to cultivate this fungus artificially. Unless he and Shuya took action, it would take forever to produce any results.

He is not free in the near future. Shuya needs to take care of her pregnancy, so she definitely cannot do fungal and drug research and development. He Youwei is a half-baked person.

After repeated consideration, Jiang Miao decided to start with chemical pharmaceuticals.

(End of this chapter)