Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 253 Machine-made charcoal and flue-cured tobacco factory

Lu's father accidentally invested in real estate in the "Magic City". In just a few years, the appreciation of the real estate alone would exceed the wealth he had accumulated over decades of work.

And not only doubled or tripled, but dozens of times.

After Father Lu actually went through the retirement formalities, the fixed assets (mainly the building) in his hands had already skyrocketed in price many times over the past few years.

Besides, he was a first-line storefront building, and the house price had skyrocketed. Not only was he feeling sad, but he also had a lot of income from shop rent and house rent every month.

In just a few years, Lu's father raised the rent twice.But that still hasn't deterred tenants.

From this point alone, we can see that the real estate industry in the "Magic City" is developing rapidly.

It's a pity that the gratifying economic situation can't change the son's predicament in marriage.

It has been almost 17 years since my son came out to work. The 24-year-old Sanben graduated from a private university. At the beginning, he was a little arrogant, and he didn't want to work as a public worker when he started his own business.

Just because he has a father who is in charge of the industrial and commercial department, the son has also gained a lot from using this network resource.

When he was studying at a local university, he once helped a township primary school set up a "computer room" and successfully sold 60 second-hand computers.

The principal of that elementary school was acquainted with Lu's father, and he bought 60 computers in one go, and the principal also got a lot of "commissions".Second-hand computers look like new for a pretty cheap price.This makes the "profit" in it very considerable.

By making that one deal, Ma Yingjie also earned the first pot of gold in his life.

From then on, he considered himself a business genius.Have a strong interest in doing business.

Unfortunately, a business like this that relies solely on "networking" to find customers is actually very difficult to maintain in the long term.

After graduating from university at the age of 24, Ma Yingjie started his own business for eight years.

In the past eight years, he has changed several business projects.

For example, go to the "deep mountains and old forests" in your hometown to invest in "mechanism charcoal" projects.

The so-called "machine-made charcoal" is the kind of charcoal that is pressed by a machine and has a standard and uniform size.

This kind of "machine-made charcoal", compared with the charcoal burned in ordinary small farm workshops, "appearance" is its biggest advantage.

Secondly, when ordinary charcoal burns, it sometimes emits smoke, but "machine-made charcoal" is basically smoke-free.

Ordinary charcoal has smoke, that's because the farmers cut down the forest trees and directly refine them into charcoal, which is then sold.The trees that are cut down must have "knots", and it is impossible for farmers to remove the "knots" and then burn them into charcoal.How much labor would that take.But because of the existence of "tree knots", when these charcoals are used to ignite a fire, when they burn to the "tree knots", they will burn a lot of smoke.

However, the charcoal fired by ordinary farmers is relatively cheap, and it is not worried that it will not be sold.

As for "machine-made charcoal", it has a link of pressing and cutting with a machine, so it does not require too complete "processing" of wood.

Just use some scraps of wood at the corners, and they can be pressed into pieces of standard-sized wood blocks by large-scale mechanical equipment.Then these "wood blocks" are sent into a special earthen "charcoal kiln" to be fired into charcoal.

Because it is pressed by a machine, there is no need to worry about the pressed wood blocks coming loose.

Since everything is done by machinery and equipment, the amount of "machine-made charcoal" refined by the earthen "charcoal kiln" at one time is extremely impressive.The charcoal that comes out is "smokeless charcoal", and it is packed in cartons, and it looks quite high-grade.

The pricing of "machine-made charcoal" is naturally much higher than that of ordinary charcoal.

But that's okay. Ordinary charcoal is usually sold to ordinary families who are still "burning coal" and used as a "coal stove" to start fires.As for the "machine-made charcoal", it is specially supplied to self-employed individuals who set up "barbecue night markets".Sometimes young people from ordinary families want to eat "barbecue", and they will also buy these "machine-made charcoal".

Lu Haozi invested a lot in this kind of "machine-made charcoal" wholesale business.

First of all, a "mechanical equipment" that presses standard-sized wooden blocks needs to be 20 small.There is also the construction of "large earthen kilns" for burning charcoal. Several of them are built at once, and each one costs money.

There must be enough manpower.Labor costs are also a huge expense.

As for asking a "carton factory" to help print "carbon-filled" cartons, it is also considered a cost investment.

At the beginning, we did not develop enough customer sources, so we invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources.

The "workers" are all relatives and friends from their hometown. They need people, but they don't need skills. In the beginning, the firepower of the "charcoal kiln" was not properly controlled, either overheated or underfired.

I don't remember how many kiln "machine-made wood blocks" were wasted, and I gradually mastered the skills to burn qualified "machine-made charcoal".

However, the production of this "mechanical charcoal" is, to be honest, a relatively high-pollution industry.It is quite difficult to pass the environmental protection department.

If Ma Yingjie wanted to set up a factory, he could only choose to locate it in a "deep mountain and old forest", not to mention the urban area, even the town of Wei.

If so, it is impossible for the environmental protection department not to know about your big polluting factory.Why are they so well-informed?The main reason is that people in rural areas often commit "pink eye disease" and will report quietly.

However, since your Boss Lu has moved the factory to the deep mountains and old forests in a "fun" way, and there is an old man who is in charge of the industrial and commercial department in the district, and the local environmental protection department personnel, treat him as a "mechanism charcoal factory" , Of course, one eye is opened, one eye is closed.

Ma Yingjie can also be a human being.Every time someone from the environmental protection department "informed" him that someone in the village had reported your factory again... and other news, Boss Lu had to "tactfully" take money to "thank" his buddies in the environmental protection department.

This happens from time to time.Accumulated, the cost is not small.

Speaking of which, if Lu Haozi's "machine-made charcoal" sells well, all these expenses can be included in the "cost", and the huge profit can completely offset it.There are also substantial profits.

However, Ma Yingjie did not have any fixed sales channels.

This kind of "mechanical charcoal" is mostly used by "BBQ stalls" in night markets.

As for Lu's father's influence, basically no one sells "mechanical charcoal".This is tantamount to wasting the connections accumulated by my father's generation over decades.I can't use it.

Lu Haozi's "mechanism charcoal factory" has no advantage at all compared to his peers.

It is still vying for the market share that was basically fixed.

In the end, there were too many small factories producing "machine-made charcoal", and everyone had to fight a "price war" if they wanted to survive.This is tantamount to starting a bad precedent of a "vicious. sex. cycle".

The narrower the market, the lower the price. The lower the price, the more intense the market competition.

In the end, the selling price of "machine-made charcoal" was almost sold at "cost price".

During this process, Ma Ying-jeong hired dozens of workers, regardless of whether the business was good or bad, they had to pay their wages every month.After all, they are all relatives and friends, Ma Ying-jeou is shameless, how can he waste his hard-earned money? !
As a result, the "mechanical charcoal factory" finally became insolvent and had to sell the factory.

It is said that it is selling the factory, but in fact it is selling the only equipment for "pressing wood blocks" that is worth a few dollars at a low price.Selling this stuff actually didn't bring much money, and Ma Ying-jeou didn't try to recoup much of the "cost".He and dozens of workers have "arrears" of wages, which have not been fully settled.After selling the equipment and getting the money, the remaining labor wages owed are paid out, and there is almost nothing left.

After calculating the general ledger and hiding in the deep mountains to set up the factory, after a few years, Ma Ying-jeou's net loss was as high as 90.

Ma Yingjie owed this huge sum slowly.He can't afford that much money at once.

Over the past few years, he often owed money to the "carton factory", wood money to the furniture factory (the wood he used for pressing was purchased from various furniture factory scraps), and wood money to the "Quick-Growing Eucalyptus" forest farm. (This fast-growing eucalyptus is cheap, and can also be bought as a raw material for "machine-made charcoal").Even in the last one or two years, I was still in arrears with several months of wages...

Ma Ying-jeou himself is a third-rate university graduate who came out to start a business. What kind of "primitive accumulation" did he have? From the very beginning, he borrowed money from the bank (according to his father's relationship with the bank president in the district, he didn't use any collateral, so he only borrowed a few dollars. ([-] yuan to buy equipment to set up a factory), and then after several years of "operating", various debts accumulated.

Eventually it exceeded 90.

Ma Yingjie was also unable to repay the money owed.

In the end, it was his capable father who returned it for him.

Father Lu was very dissatisfied.

Even if Lu's father built such a tall 9-story building, the main cost was only more than 100 million, and his son actually lost so much money in a few years of doing business.

From then on, Lu's father decided that his son was not suitable for business.

Later, when he happened to be asked by his superiors to "retire to the second line" and make room for the superior's "first confidant", Lu's father simply raised conditions and got his son into the industrial and commercial system.

My son has no ability or ability. If we don't take the opportunity to help him, won't he be incompetent for the rest of his life? !

My son has been working in the industrial and commercial system for several years. He is idle all day long, only thinking about doing business, arriving late and leaving early, which is extremely unprofessional.

For such a lazy person, the new person in charge would be very proud of Lu's father if he didn't send Lu Haozi to a remote village or town.How could it be possible to promote Lu Haozi to be a small boss?

Until the day Lu's father retired from his work unit, Lu Haozi hadn't "progressed" at all in the business system.

Not to mention the little boss who is a deputy, he was not even mentioned the "level" without a position.

In the first few years after Lu's father retired, he was still very worried about his son.However, after a few years of retirement, Father Lu began to feel happier.

It wasn't that after he retired, Ma Yingjie lost his backer and slowly became sensible.

But after a few years, the real estate prices in the "Magic City" have skyrocketed to such a terrifying level.

Just the high-rise that Father Lu invested several million in those years, the current market price is close to 5000 million.

Lu and his son have never seen so much money in their life.

Even if Lu's father is good at managing money (in fact, he has been sitting in the position for decades, which makes him eligible to receive red envelopes), the savings in this life, if you calculate the general ledger, it will be several million at the top.

He saved several million to buy land, build a house and renovate, plus he often has to pay off the debts of his son who is keen on "losing business" (even the money for his son to buy a car, the money for "car maintenance" every year, if not enough I will ask my father for it), and Father Lu’s savings are almost exhausted.

The Lu family has always been rich, mainly thanks to the first-line pavement building, which has a steady stream of rental income.

In addition, Lu's father and his wife both retired from the industrial and commercial system, and the "retirement benefits" received by the two elders are also quite considerable.

The total of these three types of income can still cope with the high consumption of the "prodigal son".

But father of Lu's experience is doomed that he has never seen a huge sum of tens of millions.I have never seen 5000 million in my life.

Therefore, when the house price of the 9-story building in his family rose to a high of 5000 million, not to mention Lu Haozi, even Lu's father was moved.Had the idea of ​​selling cash.

Later events proved that Lu's father and son did not withstand the temptation. They seemed a little "can't wait", so they sold the 9th-floor Yixiantiandilou.

The price is 5000 million.

The 5000 million Tiandi Building sold by the Lu family was the buyer contacted by his son Lu Haozi.

It's not just because Father Lu's acquaintances are less connected, even if he still maintains close contacts, Father Lu doesn't want his acquaintances to know about his sale of the house.

Father Lu has retired for several years.The friendships I met during my official career faded the fastest as time went by.Friendship formed by interests is originally the most unreliable.

Let those snobbish old friends know that you are buying a building, or laugh behind your back that you can't even keep a building!If you want to be jealous, you can sell a building for tens of millions... In short, no one will sincerely bless you!

However, there is also a very bad thing about letting Ma Yingjie sell the 9-storey first-tier world building.

That is, Ma Yingqi asked the buyer to pay up to 5000 million yuan for the sale of a house to his designated account.The account designated by Ma Yingjie was opened under his name "Ma Yingjie".

This does not mean that it is impossible for a son to use his father's money.

There was only one boy like him in the family, so there was no need to make a distinction.And before the son spent Lu's father's money, he did not spend less.I didn't say it was a pity.

However, in recent years, Ma Yingjie has almost become "obsessed" when wanting to do business.All he wanted was to do a big business, and he became an enviable rich man.

But Ma Yingjie has always suffered from not having the capital to invest.

It's rare that the first-tier world building that his old man invested millions to win has now sold for a sky-high price of 5000 million.After Ma Yingjie's account reached tens of millions, it was considered as a "turnaround" by borrowing the money from his father.

With this huge sum of money, Lu Haozi directly invested in the "Emperor Capital Flue-cured Tobacco Factory" that he had been investigating for two or three years.

When Lu Haozi "invested" in the Flue-cured Tobacco Factory with a huge sum of money, the performance of the "Emperor Capital Flue-cured Tobacco Factory" had been declining year after year.

This is not difficult to understand.

At that time, social capital had been liberalized and private flue-cured tobacco factories were allowed to open.In the face of increasingly intensified market competition, the performance of long-established large-scale collective enterprises such as "Dididu Flue-cured Tobacco Factory" has declined to a "shocking" level.

But if it weren’t for the “distressing” losses of the “Didu Flue-cured Tobacco Factory”, as a once glorious large-scale collective enterprise, how could it be willing to sell its “shares” and introduce private capital in an attempt to fight hard and kill a bloody road? ! ! !

But Lu Haozi didn't know about all of this, he just felt that such a thundering large enterprise like "Emperor Capital Flue-cured Tobacco Factory" was willing to sell its equity to the outside world. This is really a great investment opportunity.

It can be said to be a rare occurrence in a century.

Lu Haozi hurriedly invested 5000 million yuan to become a shareholder of the "Emperor Capital Flue-cured Tobacco Factory".

(End of this chapter)