It was during the company's monthly inventory that Yang Liufang saw the book showing that store rents had increased by more than 1 million on July 28. Only after asking Yanhua did he know how crazy the store auctions were at that time. According to the prior agreement, everyone who participated in the store auction had to pay a deposit of 20,000 yuan. According to Boss Chen, there was no time to count the money at that time, so he had to ask Lao Zhou to use a ruler to measure it. To be on the safe side, he also weighed it with a scale, and the difference was one and a half. Forget it.
After the registration, the shop auction started. A group company held a meeting and originally decided to rent 6 high-quality shops at 2 yuan per square meter, 6,000 per month for one shop, and 72,000 per year; but as soon as the bidding started, the price was raised to 80,000, and they started paying back one or two thousand. The price was increased, and later the bidding price was increased by 5,000, and the transaction was finally completed at 100,000. The rent for a medium-sized shop is 1 yuan per square meter, and a shop costs 3,000 per month. When the group held a meeting, it was decided that the shop in the corner would be of lower quality. Taking into account the interests of the group and the fact that the supply and marketing cooperative itself had some original shares, Lao Chen directly removed the lower-class shops and calculated the price of the middle-class shop. In this way, the competition among the seven medium-sized shops was particularly fierce. After six consecutive rounds of bidding, the deal was settled at 65,000. Compared with the 200 square meters of the shop that Lao Zhou first rented, the annual rent of 100,000 has doubled. Compared with the 100 square meters that Lao Chen got at a 40% discount and the 200 square meters at the original price, it was nothing. You can make a net profit of more than 100,000 just by changing hands.
It has been stipulated in advance that all rent must be paid in one lump sum. The deposit paid to participate in the auction will be deducted if necessary and refunded if necessary. When Lao Chen asked Lao Zhou to drive his Santana, and the two of them packed the rent in two snakeskin bags and sent it to the finance room of the supply and marketing cooperative, Yanhua was stunned. She knew that there were hundreds of millions of funds in the group company's accounts, but she only knew the numbers. She had seen hundreds of thousands of cash before, but this was the first time for her to put so much cash in a snakeskin bag like waste paper. See. At the same time, it also changed her impression of these Wenzhou guys that she and even all local people in Xizhou had in mind: shoe shiners, needle thread sellers, people roasting potatoes on the roadside to satisfy their hunger, and Wenzhou guys walking around the streets. I had no idea they were hoarding so much money and making so much money in what they thought were menial jobs.
"In addition to the two reserved by the group, there are six owned by me and Lao Zhou, a total of 13 shops, with an annual rent of 1,055,000. Mr. Wang, please take the time to click." Yanhua came back to her senses when she heard Lao Chen speak. Duowan charged more than 370,000 yuan in rent more than the 684,000 yuan agreed upon at the meeting. I thought, how can I be alone? It's better to report to Li Tongfu first to see how to deal with it.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Chen has rented out all the shops. Because there are too few shops, they conducted an internal auction and earned 1,055,000 in rent."
"So much, thank you for the hard work, Mr. Chen." Li Tongfu didn't seem particularly surprised, because he knew the strength of his Wenzhou fellows and the earning power of Wenzhou people. Even though they were just inconspicuous vendors in the wholesale market, when he and Yang Liufang encountered difficulties, they went to meet with Mr. Chen. Within an hour or two, they could raise tens to hundreds of thousands by visiting several shops. , this is all unsecured. In fact, for the Wenzhou Association, tens, millions or even tens of millions, as long as the president is enough to convince everyone, it is only half a day's work.
"Since this money is in cash, just keep it. It's not convenient to deposit it in a bank and withdraw so much cash at once. Put half a million in the safe over there, and send the rest to Xinye, the tannery."
"There are so many, how can I count them? Ask Xinye to help me." Lao Chen wanted to weigh it with a scale or measure it with a ruler, but he didn't dare to say it. After all, this is a regular company, unlike them, it doesn't matter if you use a scale or a ruler, it doesn't matter if there are two more or two less.
So, she waited in the office for Xinye to count the money and check it together. Faced with the cash that was put into the safe in these two woven bags, Yanhua didn't dare to go out, and Qin Jiajun kept an eye on her even when she went to the toilet. When Xin Ye arrived, the Qin family army sent someone to guard the door. She and Xin Ye counted the money for two days and counted it twice with the money counter to confirm that it was correct before entering the account. According to Li Tongfu's request, the supply and marketing cooperative deposited 500,000 yuan in the safe, and Qin Jiajun and a comrade driver took the rest back to the tannery with Xinye.
When Yang Liufang learned about this situation, he was surprised. He realized that leasing a shop was a good business with no risks and guaranteed profits. It was many times easier than running and selling goods by himself. So Li Tongfu was asked to take time to communicate with Lao Chen to see how much he knew about market management. If possible, it can be reused, and even his son will check it out.
Under the management of Shi Fang and Li Wei, the production order of the two factories was stable, product quality was guaranteed, and the sales market that Wang Shan was responsible for also achieved success again and again. Because there are jobs in the factory, good dormitories to live in, and subsidized canteens where you can eat, these new-age workers who have just abandoned their hoes and turned from farmers have long forgotten their shabby cave dwellings. July and August are also rainy weather on the Loess Plateau. Cave dwellings are prone to collapse due to water leakage or seepage that cannot be repaired in time. Some workers, one person working in the factory, simply took the whole family to live there, and the living area was suddenly overcrowded. Despite raising rents, there is still not enough housing.
Wang Shan knew first. According to his father, who was a secretary in Wangshawan, and his father-in-law, who was a secretary in Zhaomagou, all the young people in the village had gone to work in the factories, and most of the old people had been picked up by their sons and daughters working in the factories. After the rain, the cave dwellings were washed away, collapsed, and the road surface was washed away... No one could be found to repair them. He met Yang Liufang at the industrial and trading company and came back for a meeting, so he reported the situation and suggested that since the company had money in its accounts and there was a construction and decoration company within the group, it would be better to build two buildings in the living area and rent them to these workers. Save them from worries. Yang Liufang thought so. Rather than being in such a mess, it would be better to spend some money to build two buildings and rent them out. In addition, Lao Chen made huge profits from renting shops to him some time ago, so he took action quickly.
So he asked someone to find a design institute to design the drawings of the factory's living area. The design institute is a Qingshui yamen. Seeing that Yang Liufang's remuneration is generous, and it is additional income besides salary, at least the bonus is paid, so he organizes capable forces to complete the design quickly. When Yang Liufang thanked the leaders and designers of the design institute, the leader suggested that since it was the construction land granted to you by the government and the reserved living area, you might as well build the building and sell it. At that time, you will set up a logistics company to be responsible for the sanitation, water and electricity management in the living area. In this way, you can still collect money like rent, and you can also apply for civil water and electricity. If you use it as a dormitory, you can only pay for industrial electricity and water. . After hearing this, Yang Liufang was of course willing. Civilian water and electricity are more than half cheaper than industrial water and electricity. Now he has to pay RMB 70,000 to RMB 80,000 to the power supply bureau every month for water and electricity. If he can save one third every month, it will be more than RMB 200,000 a year.
On a weekend in late August, Yang Liufang made an appointment with the leaders of the construction committee to come to the Wolongshan Hotel through an intermediary. He wanted to consult about the construction of the living area. After checking the get off work units at the end of the day, he came out of his suite and waited for the leaders of the construction committee in the lobby. Inadvertently, Yang Liufang saw Mr. Wang, the general manager of the hotel, accompanying several leaders to check in. He had some impression of one of them. When he was supplying office furniture to the steel plant, he gave a report to this person. He was the director of the steel plant. There were leaders from all over the hotel coming and going all day long, but Yang Liufang didn't pay much attention. He turned to the hotel door and waited for the leaders of the construction committee.
When the leaders of the construction committee walked in, Yang Liufang took the initiative to shake hands, and the two greeted each other and walked into the VIP room. Now Yang Liufang is already familiar with the place, and the waiters in the hotel are all familiar with this upstart from Xizhou. The leaders of the construction committee looked at the waiters and even some provincial leaders, and they were very friendly when they saw Yang Liufang. Everyone greeted him familiarly, and they were impressed by the young man's courage and charm.
During the meal, the leader of the construction committee took the initiative to help with advice, saying that their current land was already approved by the development zone for construction of the living area, so they did not need permission from the Land Bureau and the construction committee. When the time came, they would make a copy of the land use right certificate and hand it over to the construction committee. Filing. Just let the worker who buys the house bring the house purchase contract and directly apply for the real estate certificate. Yang Liufang didn't understand these procedures, so he simply paid a consulting fee to the relevant departments of the Design Institute and the Construction Committee to handle it on his behalf.
When the leaders of the Construction Committee were seeing off, Mr. Wang also came out at the right time to see the leaders of the Construction Committee off, and then the two of them returned to the hotel together. In the hotel lobby, Yang Liufang asked Mr. Wang: "Why does the director of the steel plant live here?"
"He is no longer the director of the steel plant. He has become the deputy mayor in charge of industry in Xizhou. He was just appointed today."
"Oh." Yang Liufang didn't care about the matter and didn't bother to worry about it.
"Oh what, why don't you want to know?"
"No, don't worry about that. I'd better think about the group company's affairs when I have time."
"Okay, but in the future, you have to be more careful about factory matters and don't provoke him."
"Huh? Why?" Yang Liufang became interested.
So Mr. Wang told him about the origin and position of the new deputy mayor. It turns out that Xizhou Iron and Steel is a very large state-owned enterprise under the dual management of the Ministry of Metallurgy and the Ministry of Industry. An enterprise like this has more than 40,000 employees. The director of the factory is at the level of senior deputy minister. Generally speaking, if nothing goes wrong after a few years of training in this position, It is easy to transfer to a local position, at least to be the top leader of a provincial government agency. Those with outstanding achievements can also be transferred to some major economic or industrial provinces to be the top leader.
The factory leader was not so lucky. An explosion highlighted the chaos and corruption in the management of the steel plant, and also blocked his promotion path. Originally, he was moving up and down, but there were also leaders who wanted to reduce big issues to small ones, but they were reduced to small ones. However, during the Xizhou Fair, Yang Liufang and his supply and marketing cooperatives used the media and leaflets to make a fuss. The matter became serious. In addition, the investigation team set up by the central government for the matter had not yet left Xizhou. After seeking approval from the relevant departments, they The factory director was demoted. The leader of a state-owned enterprise at the deputy ministerial level was demoted to the deputy mayor of a provincial capital city at the department level, but his area of responsibility was still the industrial field he was familiar with.
