The old horse dealer waited until part of the snow had melted on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year before he came to pull out his furniture, thus giving Yang Liufang another invisible advertisement. He and Chief Shitou went out to discuss new projects, but before they came back, people from ten miles and eight villages who made furniture were already waiting in the small courtyard in an endless stream. Wang Shan didn't know the situation of the furniture, so he just poured water for the guests and waited for the village chief Shitou and Yang Liufang to come back before making a decision.
After it snowed and the sun shone, the loess road thawed. It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that they drove the donkey cart back on the muddy road. The head of Shitou Village communicated with everyone in a familiar manner, and only asked Yang Liufang to come forward when negotiating the price. In this way, the next six sets were completed, and the work was done for half a year.
Li Tongfu waited until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year before returning home. During this period, he spent a family-rich Spring Festival with the two elderly people at home, and also took the two elderly people to Wenzhou to visit Liu Xia's parents. When Yang Liugen heard that his apprentice was promising, he was even more happy. He kept mumbling that he didn't teach A Fang well during his apprenticeship and regretted not letting him start joinery earlier.
After putting the two elders on the long-distance bus back to Yang City, he stayed in Wenzhou and visited several tanneries. When they heard that he came back from the northwest to do leather business, everyone shook their heads. Through their introduction, Li Tongfu knew why they were shaking their heads. It turned out that at that time, a family-style tanning workshop in Wenzhou processed more than 300 pieces of leather a day. The largest leather factory in the northwest, "Tibet Leather Factory", only processes 4,000 pieces of leather a year. And due to poor transportation, leather from Qinghai, Tibet, must first be transported on sheepskin rafts along the Yellow River to Inner Mongolia, and then from Inner Mongolia via Zhangjiakou to some tanneries in Suning, Hebei and other places. Some of Wenzhou's leather comes from these places.
Raw hides from the origin cost 5 yuan, and with the transportation cost, the price reaches more than 20 yuan. The price advantage is long gone. Unless you open a local tannery, this can maximize your cost advantage. Li Tongfu returned to Xizhou with the results of his inspection, and bought a batch of small department stores at the wholesale market before returning to Zhaomacuan. Yang Liufang is already leading the workers to intensively make furniture.
After the Lantern Festival, all walks of life have entered formal working mode, and government departments are no exception. The newly transferred leader of Hanwangchuan Township made his first inspection stop at Hanwangchuan Middle School. When he saw the students When we were still using long desks, we gave instructions to the accompanying staff: "No matter how poor we are, we can't afford education, and no matter how hard it is, we can't make it difficult for our children. Coordinate with various departments as soon as possible to replace the children's desks and chairs."
The second week after the township leaders completed their instructions, the project of renovating desks and chairs was brought to the township chief's office meeting. This is a major practical matter that benefits the country and the people, and everyone rushed to offer suggestions. In the end, it was decided that the township government would subsidize part of the project, and villages with industries would provide part of it to make new desks and chairs for the students. At this time, some cadres who had attended Wangshan's wedding recommended that Zhao Machuan had a carpentry workshop that could be built. The township leader asked the person in charge of the carpentry workshop and the village chief of Zhao Machuan to convene a meeting to discuss the matter. Yang Liufang and Village Chief Shitou were busy making furniture, so they asked Li Tongfu to follow Village Chief Zhao to the meeting. When the two arrived at the meeting venue, Li Tongfu saw that the new township leader was none other than Director Lu of the station police station. The director was also surprised: "Are you the one selling shoes? Why are you opening a furniture factory now?"
"Yes, Leader Lu, I am still selling department stores, and the furniture factory is opened by my brother."
"Then can you issue an invoice?"
“We can’t do it yet because we haven’t registered yet.”
"Then you can't do this project. We need to settle accounts from business to business, so we have to issue invoices."
"Is it too late for us to register now?"
"Oh, let me ask for you." Leader Lu said, picking up the phone and communicating with the Industrial and Commercial Office. After some communication, they were asked to go back and prepare a lease agreement, legal person ID card, and a registered capital of more than 100,000 yuan.
"One hundred thousand, so much."
"The state has regulations that require an individual to register a company with a minimum registered capital of RMB 100,000, which must be deposited into a designated bank account and can be used within three months."
"Oh, Leader Lu, let's go back and discuss it."
Li Tongfu went back and briefly talked to Yang Liufang about the relevant circumstances of the meeting. Everything else was easy to handle. You could use Li Tongfu's ID card first, but the registered capital of 100,000 made it difficult for the two of them. The total money the two of them have together, including the recent collection of furniture payments, is just over 40,000. Also set aside workers’ wages and daily expenses. Calculated this way, even if you are on a tighter budget, you would still need 60,000 yuan to make up for it.
"No, let's borrow it. Anyway, it's only for three months."
"Who has such a large amount of spare funds?"
"Go to the city and try to find Boss Zhou and Boss Chen."
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Yang Liufang did not rest at noon, so he led the workers to drive a batch of mortise and tenon structures so that the workers would still have work to do after he left. In the afternoon, the two hired a tractor and rushed to Xizhou City.
"Brother Chen, happy New Year."
"Happy New Year, Xiao Yang, I heard that your carpentry workshop is doing well?"
"So-so. Brother Chen, I'm here to ask for your help." Then he described the project of making desks and chairs for students in the township.
"The registered capital is still short of 60,000 yuan, so we brothers are here to ask for your help."
"Hey, look at this matter, Xiao Yang, I can help, but my ability is limited on my own. If I find someone else, I will have to pay interest according to the rules of our hometown's 'Tihui'."
"Tiohui? Are there also here?" Yang Liufang knew the rules of zhuhui when he was in his hometown. This is a private loan method that originated in his hometown of Yueqing. That is, the club owner agrees with a new member that the member first pays a lump sum. The host will pay you a certain amount of yuan. Starting from the second month, within a few months, the club owner will pay a certain amount of money to the members every month, and the total amount earned by the members will be higher than the initial membership fee paid to the club owner. This method reached its climax when I first learned carpentry. Even my master Yang Liugen, an honest carpenter, joined the association with his hard-earned money.
"Yes, it's not easy to go out. You can't borrow money from banks, so we can only use private loans."
"Brother Chen, how do you calculate interest rates here?"
"Starting from the half-year term, the interest is 1 cent. If you borrow 60,000, the half-year term will be 66,000."
"It only takes me more than three months."
"That has to be calculated as half a year. Do you think you can accept it?"
Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu looked at each other, and he suddenly thought: "Brother Chen, I accept it. Then you don't have to worry about it."
"Okay, I'll tell a few of our fellow merchants in the market later and ask them to form a team and put it together for you. Don't let it expire, so it's easy to borrow and return."
"Well, don't worry. Brother Chen, besides, this money is the registered capital of the company. If it is deposited in a fixed account in the bank, I can't touch it. It can only be withdrawn after three months."
In about an hour or two, the 60,000 yuan in cash was collected one after another. With this huge sum of money, the two went to the bank to withdraw 40,000 yuan from their deposits. After collecting 100,000 yuan, the bank directly sent a car to take them back to Zhaomacuan. When the head of Shitou Village heard that he wanted to register a company to open a factory, he insisted on Yang Liufang opening the factory to their village and promised to provide two acres of land for free as a factory construction land.
"Brother Shitou, it's a good thing. I don't have money to build a factory now. Now I have to deposit the 100,000 in the bank and cannot move it for three months."
"Then just wait three months. That's what I think. You see, Zhaomacuan and Wangshawan have sand as their economic pillar industry, while Meng has nothing. But as the village chief, I also hope that the villagers can live a better life." Good times. You see, all your workers now are from Emeng Village. If you build the factory in Emeng Village, you don’t need to teach the workers. The workers can get started directly, which is convenient."
"Well, it's true, but Brother Shitou, the transportation there is really not convenient."
"Well, don't you still have three months? Three months is guaranteed to open a main road to the three-way intersection for you."
"Brother Shitou, don't force it."
"No, no, what could be better than making the villagers rich? Village Chief Zhao still has the villagers to run around."
Village Chief Shitou didn't know what method he used to persuade Village Chief Zhao, and he also asked for part of the road construction funds from the village leader Lu, but they had to pay for the labor part for free. According to the workers, the head of Shitou Village said on the village radio: "In the future, a furniture factory will be built in the village, and the villagers will no longer have to get up early to work in the furniture factory. In order to introduce this furniture factory, the whole village, young and old, will Everyone should participate in building a road from Shige Village to the main road of Sancha Road."
Men, women, old and young in Shige Village all went out with pots, pots and pulp to join an unprecedented campaign to build a road to wealth.
