sinovels Chapter 1338 The Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce is holding a meeting!
Chapter 1338 The Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce is holding a meeting!
Chapter 1338 The Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce is holding a meeting!
When Zhao Youcai heard Li Wencai say that Jie Chen and his mother were coming, he knew that the mother and daughter were going back to their hometown in Lingnan to show off. Zhao Youcai, who was worried about not being able to go to Lingnan, had the idea of hittingchhiking with Jie Chen.
As for what reasons to use to convince Jie Chen, Zhao Youcai has his own ideas.
"Jie Chen and Old Sister Sun are here?" Li Laowu heard the news and quickly tied his horse to the elm tree outside the tent. He said to Zhao Youcai, "Second brother, my family has arranged it tonight. Can we have them all come to my house for dinner?"
Li Laowu's words were exactly what Zhao Youcai wanted. Tomorrow Li Wencai was going to kill a pig for a banquet. Zhao Youcai didn't care about the food, but he couldn't ignore Li Wencai's intention.
So even if Zhao Youcai wanted to leave, he had to eat the pig-killing meal tomorrow before leaving. In this case, the Xie family mother and son would have to stay overnight in Yongxing Brigade.
Li Laowu's family's dinner party can be used as a good excuse.
When the three men entered the room, Xie Sun was scolding Xie Chen.
Hearing the door opening, Xie Chen looked out of the room and saw Zhao Youcai coming in. Xie Chen stood up and called out, "Uncle."
"Hey." Zhao Youcai responded, and Xie Chen greeted Li Laowu who was following behind.
Zhao Youcai entered the room and exchanged pleasantries with Sun: "Sister Sun, you arrived a few days ago. Are you cold?"
"Oh, mom, don't mention it, brother-in-law." Xie Sun waved her hand, pointed out the window, and said, "The old car broke down again halfway, otherwise we would have arrived earlier."
"Why is the car broken?" Li Laowu asked, and then Jie Chen replied: "There is something wrong with the engine."
"Then it has to be repaired!" Li Laowu said so, but Xie Chen said: "Ask my brother Li, he said that it needs to be overhauled and replaced. Aren't we waiting for the news from their fleet?"
"Then how long do you have to wait?" Li Laowu tapped Jie Chen's arm with the back of his hand and said, "The day before yesterday, our team collectively repaired a car and a tractor. They have everything. Why don't you ask Xiaofei?"
The Xiao Fei mentioned by Li Laowu is Tao Fei. Xie Chen said, "I just went there, and he was not at home."
After saying this, Xie Chen added: "Second Uncle Tao hasn't left home either."
"They went to Dongji to deliver something today." Li Laowu said, "You can wait until the evening and they will be back."
"Ah?" Xie Chen was startled and said, "That won't work, Uncle Wu, we have to leave right away."
"Why are you leaving?" Li Laowu said, "I'm having a dinner party at my house tonight. If you can catch up, just eat here."
"That's right." Li Wencai retracted his gaze from Xie Sunshi and said to Xie Chen, "Stay overnight. It would be better to leave after eating the pig-killing meal tomorrow."
"This..." Xie Chen looked at Xie Sunshi. Xie Sunshi was different now than before. A mere pig-killing dish could not keep her.
But before Xie Sun said she wanted to leave, Zhao Youcai said, "Minister, listen to your master Li and the others. You and your daughter will stay for one night before you leave. After that, let Xiaofei urge your car. Otherwise, if you break down again on the way, what will you do when you are in the middle of nowhere?"
After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Xie Chen looked at Xie Sunshi and asked, "Mom, how about we leave tomorrow?"
Xie Sun was also afraid that the car would break down halfway. If it weren't for the broken car, they would have reached Yongxing long ago.
Sun nodded his head, and everyone was happy.
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Yong'an Village Zhaojia.
Zhao Jun and others gathered in the east room, where Wang Meilan presided over the preparatory meeting for the first general shareholders' meeting of Zhaojia Commercial Bank.
The meeting was attended by women from various families, as well as uncle and nephew Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang, and Xing San who was specially invited by Wang Meilan to attend.
Finally, Yang Yufeng hurried over with the little bell.
Yang Yufeng was still at Zhao's house in the morning, but she was worried about Zhang Yuanmin being home alone, so she didn't even have lunch at Zhao's house.
As soon as the mother and daughter arrived, almost all the participants were present. Wang Meilan picked up a small plastic-covered notebook and a pen and handed them to Xiao Lingling.
Xiao Lingling looked serious and solemnly took the pen and notebook handed to her by Wang Meilan with both hands.
Due to the shortage of talent, Wang Meilan specially hired Zhang Lingling as the accountant of Zhaojia Trading Company.
The accountant didn't need to be so professional, nor did he use the debit and credit accounting method, because not only did Xiao Lingdang not know how to do that, but these people also couldn't understand it.
Wang Meilan's treatment of Xiao Lingdang was very simple. She just needed to calculate how much she spent and how much she earned so that the money matched.
Xiao Lingling sat obediently on the small stool with her notebook spread on her knees.
Not only does she serve as an accountant, she also has to take minutes of meetings.
There's nothing I can do about it, since she is the best at writing among the seven families.
As an excellent student in Yong'an Primary School, Xiao Lingdang can write blackboard newspapers and has also learned the standard format of letters and meeting minutes.
With a rustling sound, the pen ink left neat words on the paper.
In the preparatory meeting for the first shareholders' meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, the date of the meeting is January 1988, 1.
Further down is the conference venue. In order to show the wealth of Zhao’s company, Xiao Lingdang wrote it as: East Gate on the first floor of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
Then come the people attending the meeting. Just look at the people in the room and write them down one by one.
As for those who were absent from the meeting, Xiao Lingdang wrote down the names of Xie Sun, Xie Chen, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, and Li Ruhai.
There was no need to ask the meeting host, it must be Wang Meilan.
Wang Meilan did not convene this conference out of boredom.
After the meeting started, Wang Meilan directly took out the two fox skins collected by Zhao Jun and announced that the Zhao Chamber of Commerce would officially start the fur purchasing business from today.
Skins like fox, badger, weasel, sable, and lynx are all within the purchasing range of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce.
In order to better develop this business, Wang Meilan proposed that Xing San and Li Ruhai be responsible for external liaison work.
Xing San was mainly responsible for contacting the old mountain dogs he knew, and asking them to sell the furs they hunted in winter to the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce.
To make things convenient for those old mountain dogs, Wang Meilan also promised to go into the mountains and buy the furs they hunted.
Xing San was stunned when he was suddenly assigned a task. The old man clicked his eyes, put out the burnt Shilin cigarette butt in a simple ashtray made of a can, then opened the lid of the teacup, picked up the teacup and took a sip of Maojian tea.
Seeing that Xing San didn't say anything, Wang Meilan just thought he agreed. Even Xing San was recruited, not to mention Li Ruhai.
As the saying goes: A family of a thousand people is led by one person.
Nowadays, in rural areas and forest areas, there is a saying about who is the head of the family. Whoever is the head of the family has the final say, and everyone else in the family must listen to the head of the family.
On the surface, Li Dayong is the head of the Li family, but in reality... Jin Xiaomei stated on the spot that Li Ruhai of his family would definitely work hard and conscientiously to do his job well.
Hearing what Jin Xiaomei said, Xing San put down his teacup and pursed his lips, thinking that he had to express his opinion, and immediately said to Wang Meilan: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will go to talk to them when I go up the mountain tomorrow.
We can’t get anything from the old mountain dogs, but we can get a lot of big bark and yellow leaves. You need to prepare more money. At the beginning, people can’t sell us things on credit.”
Most old mountain dogs don’t have guns. Even if they did, due to their age, their skills and eyesight are no longer able to keep up with their prey.
Therefore, the old mountain dog usually sets traps, which are yellow leaves or large barks.
The yellow leaves are okay, but the big skins are expensive. They cost one thousand eight hundred yuan each, and you can't buy many even with ten thousand yuan.
But this did not bother Wang Meilan. She said to Xing San, "Yes, brother, I know this. Don't worry, we can collect it freely and it will be fine."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Jin Xiaomei expressed her opinion again: "Sister-in-law, my Ruhai will have a holiday tomorrow, so I will let him go... No."
“Hahaha…” Jin Xiaomei’s slip of the tongue made everyone laugh. There are many mountain rats and yellow foxes in the forest area, and the chickens, ducks and geese at home will be penned in the shed at night, and then released out to find food the next morning. The process of releasing the penned chickens, ducks and geese is called scattering.
"I let him out..." Jin Xiaomei's change of words was not right, so she hurriedly said, "I let him out to find Wei Tie and Aunt Sun."
"Okay, Xiaomei." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Brother Xing will be in charge of those people in the mountains, Ruhai will be in charge of the family area, and there are also those who live in the mountains in the surrounding villages."
"Second Aunt, what should we do then?" Xu Chunyan asked.
"Yes, sister." Zhao Ling also asked, and Yang Yufeng next to her nodded.
"Everyone has work to do, and no one can escape." Wang Meilan saw how enthusiastic everyone was, smiled and pointed out the window, saying, "Tomorrow we will clean up the sheds for my family and Xiaomei's family, and then we will build a few shelves to store things."
The original plan was to build a dozen wooden sheds near the new house, but it was winter and construction could not begin. Besides, no one lived in the new house, so Wang Meilan wanted to clean up her current shed.
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she saw Yang Yufeng raising her hand high.
This is someone who understands the rules and knows how to abide by the order of the venue.
"Feng'er, you go ahead." Wang Meilan called her name, and Yang Yufeng stood up and said, "Aunt, my daughter Lingling's father said that if the leather is not in a hurry to sell, the unripened ones must be ripened with ash, and the ripe ones must also be smeared with a layer of ash inside."
"Well said!" Wang Meilan praised Yang Yufeng, raised her hand to signal Yang Yufeng to sit down, and then said: "We will collect the big bark, yellow leaf, grey dog bark, etc. If they are not ripe, we will use ash to ripen them. It is not a big deal if they ripen slowly. If they are ripe, we don't need to bother with them. Anyway, in the spring of next year, when Uncle Zhao transports timber, we will follow the truck to sell them all.
If that's the case... the skins we have stored must be kept as Feng'er said. Even if they are cooked, we have to apply a layer of dust on them, otherwise they will be infested with bugs in the dog days of summer."
The dog days are hot and humid, and leftover rice and vegetables may become sour after being left out for half a day. Some dried goods will grow mold, mildew, and even be infested with insects if not properly stored during the dog days.
If the leather is not properly stored during the dog days of summer, one piece may be infested with insects, and all the hundreds of pieces will suffer.
But the Zhang family has a secret technique for tanning leather, which is to use wood ash. Wood ash is very powerful, it can be used to treat wounds, and it can also prevent moisture and insects.
In some places in Northeast China, people start drying vegetables after the beginning of autumn. Some people like to dry cucumbers by cutting the whole cucumber into dices, rolling them in wood ash and drying them in the sun.
The main purpose of rolling in wood ash is to prevent insects. And the cucumbers rolled in wood ash and dried will turn into their original emerald green color after washing with clean water.
Everyone responded, and Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun, "Son, let's take some time out these two days to go down the mountain and sell all the bear galls to the warehouse. Give the shares to whoever deserves them, and they will have to buy shares after that."
At the end, Wang Meilan herself was amused.
For this deal, except for the old lady, the other six families all contributed money, and then the shares were divided in proportion.
"Mom, you have to prepare some money in the next two days." Zhao Jun said to Wang Meilan, "I bought those two fox skins today and gave that guy 60 yuan. The eyes of this guy and the villagers are red. I estimate that there will be a lot of fox skins tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Well done, son!" Wang Meilan praised Zhao Jun and said, "There will always be a man who will show his ability when there is a big reward!"
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded with a smile. The mother and daughter thought that what they said was correct, and the people around them didn't notice it.
Only the little bell who was recording suddenly felt something was wrong when she wrote the word "common man".
If it was Li Ruhai, he would have shouted out loud on the spot. Little Bell knew what was good for her and knew she couldn't expose the matter in public. Moreover, the child really wrote "There must be a man under a big reward" on it.
"Son!" At this time, Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun: "What are you going to do with those old air guns? When are you going to sell them? They cost a lot of money."
"Mom, we'll sell it right away!" Zhao Jun smiled and said, "When the guys in Xishan have beaten the fox enough, they'll have money in their hands. Let's ask who's willing. If he agrees, he can deposit 70 yuan here, and then we'll give him an air gun, which we'll rent to him.
He is holding an air gun and is about to shoot the gray leather. We will take the leather. After ten days or half a month, we will ask them to take the air gun back to us and give them the 70 yuan deposit.
But if they want to continue using our gun, then the 70 dollars will be considered as the purchase price of the gun, and we will give it to them."
"Seventy?" Hearing this, Xing San stretched out his hand and tugged at Zhao Jun's arm, saying, "I heard from the old boss of Dong Er Chazi that his nephew bought a high-pressure air gun for eighty yuan a few days ago."
Hearing what Xing San said, everyone laughed. Wang Qiang nudged Xing San and whispered, "Brother, we asked someone to order it from the confidential factory. We bought a lot of them, so we'll give you 34 for each."
"Ah?" Xing was shocked. He bought it for thirty-four pieces and sold it for seventy-one pieces, making more than half the profit.
But Xing San knew that as long as those hooligans in Xishan were in a gray suit, they would definitely buy guns.
Gray skin is getting more expensive every year. This year, the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative has risen to thirty-seven or thirty-eight. Two pieces of gray skin can be exchanged for an air gun.
What's more, Zhao Jun's air guns are cheaper than those sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives, ten yuan cheaper each. Anyone who wants to buy an air gun will buy Zhao Jun's.
"Boy, you are really smart!" Xing San praised Zhao Jun. Although Zhao Jun earned a lot, Xing San did not think that Zhao Jun was bad.
Because this money was earned by Zhao Jun by maintaining relationships. And there was no forced buying or selling. If those hooligans didn't want to buy, they could just return their deposit.
Zhao Jun chuckled and said that if he kept these air guns, their price would increase to one hundred or one hundred and twenty.
But Zhao Jun couldn't wait that long. Just as Wang Meilan said, this was too much of a burden.
Zhao Jun figured it out. One air gun was only worth fifty yuan at most. Five hundred would be twenty-five thousand. But it would take three years. In those three years, he would have made it back.
It's a little late. My family came to see me this morning. I had to entertain them, so I killed a chicken. After dinner, they all left. I'll update as usual in the evening.
(End of this chapter)