Chapter 52: Bewitchment (I)
When Zhao Si returned to Mincheng and entered the courtyard that had been renamed "Charity Trading Company", Hu Lin was very busy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, and he has seen how his family does business since he was a child, but after all, it is not true to see the mountains through the fog.
When I was studying in the capital, and later when I was with those young people who had some ambition and conscience, I only felt that there was a real ambition in my chest.
Talk about the past and the present, and think about the future...... Others who can always speak nod frequently, drink tea and light wine, and talk about the suffering of the world.
However, when he really put a businessman from scratch into his hands, he was suddenly a little anxious.
It's not that it can't be done well, but that many things from scratch are completely unimaginable before, and it's completely different from when you sit and talk about it.
Originally, Hu Lin felt that he was actually the leader of such an ideal country in the dream city he wrote, smart, elegant, temperamental, discerning, co-ordinated, and so on. But now he found that there were only a few dozen people, and the complexity of them completely exceeded his own imagination before.
The trading company was first established and gradually stabilized, but the income was not much, and there were still a lot of things to be busy every day, and there were also many internal relationships to adjust, and it was irritable.
After receiving Chen Jian's invitation, it took Hu Lin two days to arrange the things of the past few days before coming to Nan'an.
With a bunch of accounts and plans in his arms, he thought that Chen Jian was here to ask about these things, but he didn't expect Chen Jian to ask at all.
After greetings, Jian Chen directly asked someone to bring over a piece of glass and asked, "Brother Zhu, you are well-informed, what do you think of this glass?" ”
Hu Lin is knowledgeable, and when he was a child, he had glass lampshades and amalgam mirrors of square size in his home.
As early as when he arrived at the door of the workshop, he was already quite surprised by the glass, and at this time, Chen Jian asked, and couldn't help but praise: "Brother Chen, I can't imagine that your glass workshop can make such glass." Seriously, if it weren't for the glass factory sign hanging in front of your factory, I would have thought it was crystal. The best crystals in the hands of those mirror grinders may be better than this, but the inferior ones are about the same. ”
Chen Jian knew that what this evaluation said was true, and said with a smile: "Since a person like Brother Zhu Qian, whose father is extremely rich, says this, it can't be wrong. By the way, Brother Zhu, how is our charity trading company making profits these days? ”
Speaking of this, Hu Lin sighed slightly and said: "It's not too much, three thousand silver coins is a lot less, but it's not too much, I can only be cautious at the beginning, and now is the time to create grass, and I am very busy." ”
"Then Brother Zhu doesn't have any thoughts about this glass?"
"Huh?"
Hu Lin was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Jian Chen strangely, Jian Chen spread his hands and said: "The cost of this glass made in my workshop is actually cheaper than those large glasses on the market, and the quality is also good." I was thinking, since this thing is profitable, and Brother Zhu Qian sighs for the business of the trading company, is there anything more profitable than reselling these glasses? ”
"It is not far from Mincheng, and there is a shuttle of the Min River. There are many merchants in Mincheng, with a population of 20,000, and this kind of large piece of glass wants to be sold out. ”
Looking at the piece of glass, Hu Lin said with a smile: "Brother Chen is right, but I think Brother Chen's glass must be marketable, I really didn't think about giving the glass to our trading company, if that's the case, this year ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Chen Jian.
"Brother Zhu, you are wrong, how can it be for you? I mean whoever sells it is for sale, and you can buy the glass from me now and go to Mincheng to sell it. After all, I also cost money to produce these glasses, don't I? There is a way that the water flows for a long time, you don't want to fish with all your might! ”
Hu Lin understood, nodded and said, "I understand what Brother Chen meant." Although this trading company belongs to Brother Chen, and this glass workshop is also owned by Brother Chen, the trading company still has to spend money to buy glass from here and then go to Mincheng to resell it. ”
Jian Chen nodded, and said, "Actually, it's not just that, I've been thinking these days, three thousand silver coins is actually a lot. But there are only three thousand and three thousand out of thirty thousand, and the annual income is different, Brother Zhu Qian understands what I mean, right? ”
Hu Lin didn't understand what Chen Jian meant, three thousand silver coins were indeed a huge amount of money in the eyes of others, but the money earned by three thousand silver coins every year could not meet Hu Lin's requirements, these days he also understood that in fact, the more money there was, the easier it was to make money, three thousand silver coins earned more than ten three hundred, but it must be one out of ten thirty thousand earning less.
"What I mean, I will invest some more money, but Brother Zhu, this workshop is also going to continue to expand, I can't put all my money into charity, I hope Brother Zhu understands."
"Brother Chen doesn't need to say much, in fact, I can't thank you enough for these three thousand."
"Well, then I'll use these glasses as money, and then invest some of them, and if the business is good, I'll try to invest 30,000 silver coins within two years. When the time comes, I can promise to give one-fifteenth of the money to do something for the poor children. In this way, there is actually more money to do good deeds every year than there is now. This also requires Brother Zhu to help Zhang Luo, and please ask Brother Zhu not to shirk. ”
Hu Lin smiled: "How could I refuse? This is a good thing, even if I am not as smart as Brother Chen, I can't tell the size of the count, right? In fact, if Brother Chen really wants to make money, it is not easy to find a few shopkeepers who manage the trading company? Compared to the money for doing good deeds, it is much less, and in the end, Brother Chen still has a heart of compassion. ”
"I can't say that, I'm still selfish. Because of the glass thing, the people who can afford it must not be those who are not even qualified to vote, but those who are the ones before Brother Zhu Qian's door and leave home are the big heads. In addition, I also heard that Brother Zhu Qianqian studied in the capital, and he also has many close friends, and the huge wealth in the capital is not much more than that in Fujian, and it will be the place where the most glass is sold in the future. ”
Jian Chen sighed again and said, "If it's ugly, don't blame Brother Zhuqian." You've been begging for so long, but there's someone to help you? After all, if you want to do something, you have to have money in your own hands. ”
Hu Lin laughed and said: "I have understood this truth, since what Brother Chen said is true, then I will also say it bluntly." I support what you said, and I also like Brother Chen's way of speaking clearly. If you want to make money, I want to make money too, and what we do after making money may not be the same, but according to Brother Chen, we are walking together in the process of making money, which you can rest assured. It's just that it's not appropriate to be bigger now, first sell these glasses in the Mincheng area, and when the money is enough, our trading company will buy two boats, so that it can save a lot of money in the long run. ”
"And I can also send some of these glasses to the capital first, I do have a lot of friends there, and their families are rich and noble, and they will definitely like these things."
"There's only one thing, I'm thirty years old this year. Seven or eight years later, if the trading company had expanded and made a lot of money, I would only ask Brother Chen to lend me some money. I still want to buy a piece of land and give it a try...... Try out what I thought when I was younger. If you don't try, even if you die, there will always be unwillingness in your heart. ”
Chen Jian stood up and saluted: "Brother Zhu Qian's refusal to change his original intention makes me really admire." A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase, eight years! Eight years later, if Brother Zhu still doesn't change his original intention, I support you with 10,000 silver coins, nothing else. ”
Hu Lin thought that Chen Jian would hesitate, and even said that it was out of reach in the air, but he never expected Chen Jian to agree, and he suddenly became angry in his heart, and stretched out his hand to high-five Chen Jian in the air to swear.
However, Chen Jian thought to himself, after eight years, I am afraid that the whole world will change, and when the time comes, you are willing to try, find some people to go to sea to find a piece of no man's land, and try it slowly, so as to serve as a lesson and experience for future generations.
After the high-five, Jian Chen took out a pen and paper to discuss with Hu Lin the specific arrangements for the charity trading company in the future.
At first, Jian Chen had no money and no workshop, but he was in urgent need of fame at that time, so he took out 3,000 silver coins and said that the annual income would be shared.
This sounds great, but it also means that there is no possibility of expansion, and Jian Chen is only a stopgap measure and a way to whitewash himself from the beginning.
With Hu Lin's character, if he talks to him about setting aside most of the annual income to expand the trading company, he must understand and know, but he may not agree - Chen Jian is to turn money into commodities and then more money, Hu Lin is to invest money to do some compassion within his ability, he understands that he will be long-term but will not pursue long-term long-term, and even think that Chen Jian is perfunctory and deceive him.
Chen Jian simply proposed that if the income from these glasses was sufficient this year, the equity income of 2,000 silver coins should be allocated to the workhouse in Mincheng; If you don't make much money this year, you will still donate 600 silver coins.
In the future, if the assets are expanded, the income of 2,000 silver coins may or may not change, but Chen Jian guarantees that it will only be much more.
The trading company set up a special charity, and instead of putting the money directly into the workhouse, the people of the trading company managed the money exclusively, so that the money could really be used where it should be used, and it must be done with great fanfare: Chen Jian said that doing good deeds is to make a big show in order to encourage more people to do such things, and by the way, to expand the influence of the trading company.
In addition, it is necessary to recruit more people, and it is better to have people from within the trading company for sales, transshipment, and transportation, rather than handing them over to others.
Unlike Chen Jian's sweatshop, these people in the trading company, Chen Jian, believe that in addition to giving normal salaries, they can also give some dividend income to employees, which is called mutual benefit and win-win results.
The workshop is the inside, the trading company is the face, no matter how dark the inside is, no one will know if no one enters the factory to see, but the trading company is in Mincheng, which needs to expand its reputation.
In addition, Chen Jian urgently needs a group of hired workers who can stand with him and organize them to act as thugs, and such an organization must not exist in his own workshop.