Fang Jingfu took over the pen and started writing without politeness.
Since he already owns so many properties, he probably doesn't lack the rent, so they feed off each other's needs. He needs space for his workshop, and Ye Yaodong needs someone to look after his house.
"I'm not polite to you anymore, so I'm just going to give you free rent?"
"Just write, just write, I'll treat it like asking you to look after my house."
"Okay, I'll give you some lighters later and let you take them back."
Ye Yaodong was happy. He asked for a lighter instead of asking for the rent. Talking about money seemed too philistine. It would be better to give each other objects as gifts and reciprocate the courtesy.
"Okay...hey...do you have a lot of goods on hand? Otherwise, you don't have to give them to me. You can sell them to me cheaper. Anyway, I have a store. You can give me a few boxes, calculate the wholesale price, and I will take them back and trade around.
This rent will be earned back."
"Okay, it's easy to say. You are indeed a businessman, and the fishermen are just a cover, right?" Fang Jingfu looked like he knew it, "Smuggling is so rampant now, and they all rely on fishing boats..."
"Shh, don't talk nonsense. I am a serious person. Whether it is smuggling or speculation, I will be arrested. The Eight Kings incident in your local area has not passed yet, and there are still people who have not been caught. This cannot be done casually.
You're talking nonsense, walls have ears."
He took a selfie and said, "My bad mouth made a mistake. This lighter is made in my own workshop. It is a specialty product and is given to each other as a gift among friends."
"right."
"Our workshop has only been established for a month or two, and the order volume has increased significantly recently. We are assembling it 24 hours a day every day, and materials are shipped back and forth. That's why my parents don't like the noise, so I can move some of it to you first.
See how much you want. Anyway, when I move to your place, let my eldest brother increase production. Anyway, the open space here is bigger than mine."
Ye Yaodong thought for a while, "Do you produce plastic casings?"
"Plastic? How do you hold gasoline in a plastic one?"
"Then it's just iron?"
"It's originally made of iron, just like the one I gave you some time ago. At most, it's a different color."
"That's quite simple. How much does such a wholesale cost?"
Fang Jingfu looked at the workers beside him and said, "I'm telling you, since you want to wholesale, then you must calculate the wholesale price."
Ye Yaodong also looked at the workers beside him and felt that his question was stupid. How could he reveal the wholesale price so carelessly that he would take it back and sell it?
"Then how much can the lighter you gave me be sold for? It's the market price."
"6 to 8 yuan. You still have to ship this to your local area. Selling 8 yuan each is not too much. Our new batch of patterned ones can sell for 15 yuan or 20 yuan at the market price."
"That's still cheaper than the Friendship Store. The foreign one costs two to three hundred yuan, and I don't even know what brand it is when I look at it in English."
"Some foreign products are priced at this price. What brand is that? The consumption abroad is already high. Anyway, we ordinary people can't afford it. With that kind of money, we might as well buy a TV and radio. At that time, my brother also got one and then dismantled it.
He was also very fond of research, so he kept looking for alternative materials to make them cheaper."
"If you want to study well, you have to make it cheap and affordable for the public, so that sales will skyrocket. Our country has such a large population. If we really need one per person, we have to sell more than one billion, and it is impossible for everyone to just
If you buy one, it won’t last a lifetime.”
"Yes, yes, you have to make something that everyone can afford." Fang Jingfu seemed to have met a close friend, and his eyes sparkled when he looked at him.
"So you can consider plastic. The cost of plastic is lower."
He frowned and said, "Plastic?"
"I don't understand this. You can research in this direction. Anyway, try to reduce the cost as much as possible. When the cost comes down, won't the price come down and everyone can afford it? Now 8 yuan a piece is worth 8 yuan to ordinary people.
, and it’s quite stressful.”
"Tell my brother later. He has just come up with this research, so he must take his time. I find that you know a lot and can always come up with incredible things."
"No? I was just talking casually."
"Yes, I think you are knowledgeable."
"Maybe, I probably see more when I travel around."
"Understood!" Fang Jingfu understood instantly and had an "I understand" expression on his face again.
"What do you understand again?" Ye Yaodong looked a little speechless when he saw his expression. Did he really think that he was involved in smuggling? So he had seen a lot and knew everything?
"It goes without saying, it goes without saying. I understand. The current environment is like this. If you don't do this, you won't be able to make a lot of money. You can only make money quickly like this. I understand. I have seen many of them."
"I'm so innocent."
"Yeah, I understand. You can tell me how many you want later, and I'll take stock of them when I get home and move them over to you."
Being labeled a smuggler for no reason, Ye Yaodong reached out helplessly and knocked on the table, "Write yours first, and finish writing the signature quickly."
"Okay, okay."
Fang Jingfu immediately lowered his head and started writing again.
Ye Yaodong also thought about the appropriate quantity for him. Each one sold for 6-8 yuan, and the cost could never be higher than two or three yuan. After all, this might take several hands, from wholesalers to middlemen and then to retails, probably with labor and materials.
It only costs about one or two yuan to get up.
Of course, people have to make money to produce them. For 1,000 of them, it only costs about two to three thousand yuan.
There was no need to ask for too much. He just took it back and resold it. He didn't make money by reselling it, so he just took a little bit with him.
Moreover, he just remitted 10,000 yuan back a few days ago, and now he only has four to five thousand yuan accumulated from selling goods in the past few days, and the workers also have to pay thousands of yuan for their wages.
"It's written. Take a look at it. If you have no problem, sign your name."
Ye Yaodong was pulled back from his thoughts. He picked up the paper and looked at it. If there was no problem, he signed his name.
Fang Jingfu also wrote his name, "You can make another copy, one for each person."
"Go ahead and copy it. Don't bother me with anything. You've already written one, so just write another one."
"Okay, then how much do you want? I'll go back and prepare it. Also, can someone come over tomorrow to put up a roof for the yard."
"Okay, no problem. Anyway, we go to sea every day and come back to sleep at night. The housekeepers leave two or three people to cook. You can have someone come over to set up the shed first and move in the assembly materials in advance.
.”
"Okay, why not, I've made a decision to be your friend. Fortunately, I'm going to hand in the photos today, which saves me the trouble of running around on a hot day. I had a heat stroke after searching all day yesterday, and I lay at home all day yesterday. Who doesn't have a shortage of housing these days?
, how can there be so many empty houses.”
"You take a copy first. It's almost noon. You can stay with me for dinner later and chat while eating."
"good."
He lowered his head to brush and copy again, and then the two of them signed their names, one for each person on the two pieces of paper.
He attached the piece by Ye Yaodong to the notebook without tearing it off, so as not to tear off a piece of paper and throw it around, he tore off the piece by Fang Jingfu and gave it to him.
"Let's go, we haven't started dinner yet, let's go to the room and have a few words."
Fang Jingfu immediately stood up and followed him, and then whispered: "Do you have any other good products there? I'll buy some from you too..."
Ye Yaodong's head was full of black lines, "Do you really think I'm a smuggler?"
"Otherwise, you have more than a dozen boats, several shops, and several workshops. How can you make so much money? If you were here, you would have been invited to tea and interrogated every now and then.
.”
"You also said that I have so many things. If I didn't have any legitimate reason, I would have been invited to tea for questioning. How can I still stand here?"
"Ah, you really didn't do that?"
"No, I'm a serious person."
Fang Jingfu was doubtful, "Forget it, after all, we have met by chance and haven't met many times. It's normal if you don't believe it. Let's talk about it later. After we have been together for a long time, you will know what I am like."
"Don't make it sound like you're dating. It's disgusting or not. To be honest, you still don't believe it. Forget it, you'll know it later anyway. Please tell me first, how much does the wholesale price of your lighter cost to me?
I’ll calculate the quantity again.”
"Originally, the wholesale price was 2 yuan. Since you gave me your house for free, I can give you 1 yuan and 5 yuan. After all, the metal casing, metal parts, springs and electrodes are all customized by other workshops. The gas dyes
It’s also expensive, and you have to hire someone to assemble it.”
Ye Yaodong felt bad. Sure enough, the price could be reduced by 50 cents. Counting his wholesale price of 1.5 yuan, they still have to make money at this price. The cost is definitely less than 1 yuan. Selling it for 8 yuan is simply expensive.
ten times.
Even if you deduct the cost of intermediate transportation and labor, the profit is still huge.
Tsk tsk tsk, as expected, all walks of life are very easy to do now, and all are profitable.
In an era of scarce resources, everything is easy to sell and everyone is short of everything.
"Don't tell anyone about this price. Our current wholesale price for takeout is two yuan, and then wholesalers or dealers sell it to various places. Then it may take a while for them to be available to local hawkers and shops.
, it costs 6 yuan more to sell it outside.”
"Sure enough, it was all exploited one by one by middlemen. When it comes to the hands of ordinary people, I don't know how many processes have gone through and how much money has been added."
"There's nothing we can do about it. We can't sell them one by one. People wholesale and sell in large quantities, so we can make a profit. If we sell them one by one, we have to sell them until the end of the Year of the Monkey, and we can't sell to hundreds of millions of people.
hands."
"Well, I'll just say it casually. Sure enough, we still have to find the source factory. As you become bigger and stronger, don't forget about your brothers. Brothers are also brothers."
"Haha, you haven't even written the horoscope yet, but you keep talking."
"Oh, it will happen sooner or later."
Fang Jingfu waved his hand, "It's easy to say, I'll just let you generously rent the venue to me for free today, and you will be my brother from now on."
"Okay, stay rich and honorable, and don't forget each other."
"Hahaha, it's so funny. Before anything else, I feel like I'm going to become a billionaire."
"Oh, it's all a matter of time."
"You're really good at talking. Just tell me how much you want, and I'll save it for you in advance, while everyone else's will be put back."
Ye Yaodong happily stretched out his hands and gestured, "I want 2,000."
"So many!" Fang Jingfu looked him up and down, "And he said you weren't doing that."
"Please, brother, I have a shop. Do you know where my shop is? In the aquatic product wholesale market, the largest aquatic product wholesale market in our city, you don't know how many people flow there every day. 2,000 people may be there in less than a month.
It’s sold out.”
"Really or not?"
"Of course, but if it sells well by then, I may have to ask you for it."
"Easy to say!"
He can be considered a cross-industry...
Originally, he was thinking of a wholesale price of two or three yuan. He wanted 1,000 pieces, but now it was calculated to be 1.5 yuan. So 2,000 pieces was not too much, so he just took it back to test the waters. It happened to be something they didn’t have.
.
If the response is good, we can get another batch from Fang Jingfu, which will help him expand, and he can also make money, a win-win situation.
If one earns 5 yuan, 2,000...10,000...
Damn it... isn't this too sinister?
What about the foreign ones that sell for dozens or hundreds of dollars? That’s a decent amount of capital.
I have long heard that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wenzhou's lighter industry rose and began to slowly occupy the national market. By the turn of the millennium, Wenzhou's lighters will account for 80% of global production.
Unexpectedly, he would meet him and witness the rise of lighters with his own eyes.
Thinking about it, he felt a burning sensation in his heart. No wonder so many people went to work for him. It was so damn profitable. No wonder the Eight Kings were targeted.
"Then I'll prepare 2,000 for you when I get back. There have been too many people coming to me to place orders recently. Think about it, I need to find a few more people to assemble them."
"Let's hire more people. There will definitely be more in the future. It's best to arrange for a one-stop service and even produce the accessories ourselves."
"The investment is a bit big, so take your time and make money first, and then you can do more after you earn it."
Ye Yaodong didn't say anything. This was not an industry he was familiar with anyway. They planned it themselves.
He just happened to meet it, so he would make a fool of himself and make no profit. Anyway, just taking people back is a trip, and dragging goods back is also a trip. It's better to take more things back and resell them.
Finally he understood: West-to-East gas transmission, South-to-North water diversion, transportation between two places, and exchange of special products.
Lin Jishang must have made a lot of money!
Fang Jingfu and the others must have made a lot of money. If they wholesale for two yuan, they will earn at least one yuan. If they can just produce a thousand pieces a day, that is a net profit of 1,000 yuan, which is 30,000 yuan a month! That’s more than 300,000 yuan left in a year!
If we expand production a little bit, it will be 100,000 a month and a million a year!
Ye Yaodong's eyes bulged out as he calculated in his mind. Sure enough, he was the slowest in making money, and he had to rely on technology.
"Let's go out to eat. Remember to prepare the goods early and bring them to me. I will probably go back when the temperature cools down."
Fang Jingfu stretched out his hand and counted on his fingers, "Today is the 5th. It will take about half a month to wait until the temperature drops. It's early. Anyway, I will prepare it for you before you go back."
"Okay. Tell me, you are already in business and making lighters, is it appropriate to still be the vice president of the Fisheries Association?"
"What's inappropriate? My dad studies the ocean, but my eldest brother got sidetracked and accidentally researched lighters. What's wrong with me? Anyway, I can move wherever I need, and I also have several younger siblings.
, wait until they graduate and then throw them to my dad. You still have a name for yourself, and you have the nerve to talk to me."
"That's different. At least I'm really floating on the sea."
"Is it fun?"
"Who said it's fun? You risk your life to make money, you risk your life to fight for it. Who told you it's fun? If you have a choice, who is willing to go to the sea to ride the wind and waves? In other words, you have to rely on the sea to eat, otherwise you can only wait to starve to death.
"
Fang Jingfu touched his nose and felt a little embarrassed to ask such a question.
"If you choose a good name, you will be blessed and enjoy peace of mind. You will know that your destiny is good as soon as you hear it."
"Oh shit! How did you know that my nickname is Xiangqingfu!"
Ye Yaodong was dumbfounded. He just said the homophonic word smoothly.
"This is accurate to me, and it shows that this is your fate."
Fang Jingfu's face was full of joy, "I think so too, you are destined to enjoy happiness. What's your nickname? We all have nicknames, right?"
"I don't have a nickname!"
"How is it possible? Is there anyone who is not called by a nickname?" Fang Jingfu looked at the other people at the dinner table who were looking at them with smiles.
"What's your boss's nickname?"
"Ship Wangdong, my nickname is Ship Wangdong. My ship is much older, so my family members all call me that."
"Ah? Real or fake?"
He looked at the other three old guys who were snickering with some suspicion.
"Of course it's true. Didn't I tell you before that I have more than a dozen ships? If not called by this nickname, what kind of nickname should I call it? But when I go back, I may change it to another one. Everyone has to call me President Ye.
!”
"Hahahaha, that's hilarious. You really put a lot of money on your face."
"When you go out, you have given your identity to yourself. When you go back to your hometown, of course you have to brag about your reputation. If you don't show off such a good identity, it's not like... wearing nice clothes and going out at night."
"That's called Jinyi Night Walk."
"Ah, yes."
"What grade did you go to? Did you graduate from junior high school?"
"Graduation from literacy class."
Fang Jingfu almost couldn't help but spit out the soup. Fortunately, he turned his head in time, but because he covered his mouth with his hand, the soup all over his face.
"Ah, why are you so excited? Graduating from the literacy class is also a graduation, and you are now an educated person."
He couldn't help but give Ye Yaodong a thumbs up, "Gao, when you go out, you really gave your identity to yourself. I understand. I finally understand what you said. You are really good at it. You have seen it."
"What's the point? Just learn how to read."
Other boatmen also hurriedly agreed, "Yes, being able to read is already very impressive. What's more, A Dong is well-known in our hometown. What's the importance of whether he can read or not?"
Ye Yaodong did not agree with this statement.
"That's still important. Don't talk nonsense about this. Writing is still very important."
"Okay, I don't know if you are bragging like this, which one is true and which one is false."
"What's the point of lying? It's true that I brag about President Ye when I go home. How can I call it bragging if I tell the truth to my fellow villagers?"
When he said this, Fang Jingfu didn't think he was lying.
"That's true. It's indeed a real name. It's not bragging."
"Let's eat. I'll tell you later, you're going to squirt again."
After Fang Jingfu had had enough wine and food, he sat down and chatted with them for a while, asking about their hometown. He was still a little curious about Ye Yaodong.
He had such a big boat at such a young age, and even bought a house locally. He said that he had more than a dozen boats at home, and had shops, land, and workshops. He boasted to them as if he was famous.
, but it doesn’t look fake.
Ye Yaodong was bored and sat with him for a while, and then sent him away after chatting enough.
The boatmen asked questions, but he didn't say much and went straight back to the house, intending to count the money and take a nap by the way.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, they continued fishing for several days. Now he had enough on hand to collect more than 5,000 yuan. If he fished for another 20 days, he would probably be able to collect another 10,000 yuan.
Hmm... If you think about it, spending 3,000 yuan to buy a lighter is not too much, right?
But for the first time, I’d better be cautious and take less. Anyway, when it’s sold out, I’ll ship a batch depending on the situation.
When Ye's father came back in the evening, he also told his father that the house matter was settled and that when the weather got colder, they could leave without any worries.
"Can you sell thousands of lighters? So much money..."
"How could it not be sold? Friendship stores cost hundreds of dollars each, but this one only costs a few dollars. I guess everyone will rush to get it."
"Okay, I just want to say that we buy fish and fish, and suddenly we bought so many lighters..."
"What's the matter? When you go to a place, you have to bring some specialties and just put them in the store for consignment."
"Okay, you can see for yourself."
Ye Yaodong patted his father on the shoulder, "Well, that's right, you will live a long life."
Father Ye looked at him doubtfully, "What are you talking about? I don't think it's a good thing to say."
"With a broad mind and a fat body, if you don't care about anything, you can live a long life with ease."
Father Ye still didn't understand, "It's so confusing."
Fang Jingfu was very fast. He went back the same day and asked someone to come over and put up an awning the next day.
However, Ye Yaodong went to sea and was not at home. When he came back in the evening, everything had been set up.
From a distance, we could see the military green awning on top of the door of our house was particularly conspicuous. Everyone stood at the door and looked up at it for a long time.
The entrance to the courtyard was wide open, but when I stood at the door and looked inside, it was pitch black. This was a great shield from the sun and rain. It wasn't dark yet, so I had to turn on the lights in the house.
"I have to talk to him tomorrow and ask him to pay the electricity bill himself."
Father Ye quickly agreed, "Yes, I don't want him to pay the rent, but he has to pay the electricity bill, and we can't let us pay. Otherwise, once this shed is built, the lights will be turned on even in the clear sky. How much will the electricity bill cost?"
"Not to mention, it's quite efficient. We put up the awning today, the parts and accessories will be shipped tomorrow, and the workers will start assembling it here the day after tomorrow."
Father Ye didn't care about other people's workshops. He cared about the vegetables in the yard. As soon as he came back, he would look at the vegetables he grew at the foot of the wall.
"The sun can't shine in now, so I have to eat all these vegetables in these two days, or dig them out by the back door and plant them."
There is also a small area in the back, but it is only about a dozen square meters and there is a well and a few clothes racks on the side for drying clothes.
"Just eat it in the next two days and you'll be fine."
"Well, just make sure that our house is rented to others for free and won't be occupied by others."
"No, our house has been registered, and there is a lease contract written yesterday. What's more, Fang Jingfu is not a scoundrel. After several contacts, I can still believe it."
"Didn't you see that he was walking on the road that day and would just give you a lighter when he met you?"
"This is the same thing. This lighter workshop is making a lot of money every day. How much does our house cost? Do we still need to occupy it? It can only last a year and a half at most. Then they have to buy land and build a big factory.
Already."
"Are you so sure?"
"Of course."
In this era, all those who can do it are powerful people, and he knew that the trend of lighters was a money-making business from hearing about it in his previous life.
Father Ye shook his head and stopped talking about him.
Anyway, no one is renting the house, so leaving it like this gives them a headache, and they are also worried that it will be occupied by neighbors or other people. Since he believes it, then he should believe it.
The next day, when they got up early to go out to sea, they didn't expect it to be cloudy and windy. However, it didn't rain, so they thought of continuing to go out to sea.
Fang Jingfu also moved very quickly. When they returned early in the afternoon when it rained, he was already in full swing and had piled up spare parts around the corner. Boxes and bags were everywhere.
He also set up four long tables in the open space in the middle of the yard, with piles of stools on both sides. These were probably the workstations where workers assembled lighters, and they looked quite simple.
The three boatmen were sitting on the steps of the main room, watching the busy work of people coming in and out.
When they ran back in the rain, the benches were also filled with people who Fang Jingfu had called to carry them.
Fang Jingfu was the first to greet him, "It seems a typhoon is coming."
"Yeah, it's already October, the weather is going to get colder soon, and there's going to be another typhoon. Have you moved all your stuff here?"
"It's almost the same. We can call people over tomorrow to assemble and start work."
"How many workers are there?"
"Originally, there were only a few. I moved here and planned to order a few more to make up 20. Now I am planning to order a few more, otherwise it will be too late to complete the order."
"It's amazing. If we change the venue, the production quantity will be doubled."
"But it's also worrying. The number of orders has increased. They only give us a 30% deposit, but we have to pay for the raw materials ourselves. The more orders there are, the more money we have to pay in advance. We have just started working here.
, I’m sorry, I’ve borrowed it for so long.”
"Isn't it enough to collect a large deposit first to pay for one or two orders, and then use the balance to continue buying materials for subsequent orders after completing the order?"
"If it's not enough, we have to prepare goods and order materials in advance. Once we receive a wave of deposits, we have to order materials. Otherwise, if it's late, we won't be able to keep up with the materials."
Ye Yaodong didn't know much about this. He was a little greedy, but he was not familiar with this industry. This was considered a family business and he didn't dare to mess with it.
"I'll borrow it from my brothers and sisters later."
"Well, since there are orders anyway, it will be a matter of time before you make money."
"You have more confidence than me."
"Don't worry, getting rich will happen sooner or later."
"Do you want to invest in our workshop?"
Ye Yaodong was a little hesitant. He didn't understand this thing, and he was very calculated. They had not known each other for more than a month, and he was leaving soon.
It's a little late, but I forced myself to spend 10,000 yuan a day today
Chapter completed!