1987: Sleepless Tonight

"Keep your eyes open. Don't be afraid of offending people. Although the decoration is only a temporary transitional stage of the business, the quality must be controlled." Lu Hao said.

In fact, according to his idea, to do a department store, why not build a five-six-story building with an area of ​​2000 square meters on the first floor, and the area of ​​the fifth-sixth floor should not be more than 1 square meters?

That's the style.

But it can’t be done at the moment. Money is only one aspect, and time is important. Such a large project takes a long time. It will take a year or two to complete it. By then, the day lily will be cold.

Fortunately, the area of ​​the vegetable market that we won is large enough, with 2000 square meters, even if it is not comparable to a state-owned unit like Jiangcheng Shopping Mall, it is not small in terms of the city's department store industry.

Moreover, as far as private units are concerned, the location and area, as well as the surrounding environment, are absolutely the best.

He is the first person in a private department store!

"Okay, Brother Hao, then I'm busy." Zhang Zhigang happily left the office to get ready.

Lu Hao was not idle either. He immediately went to the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Office to apply for relevant business certificates. Lin Jiacai greeted him, and everything went very smoothly.

It only took one morning to finish it, and I still came back for lunch at noon.

This kind of efficiency is unimaginable. There were many people in front of him, and he inserted one after another, and finally went out with the certificate under the helpless and even resentful eyes of others.

His decision at the beginning was right, he doesn't need to join the system, but he must get to know people in the system, and he doesn't need to know a very high position. Li Guangcai and Lin Jiacai are enough.

Those who can enter the system, their parents or relatives are very likely to have already been in it, the relationship is connected with each other, and the roots are intertwined. Although they may be small fish and small shrimps, their status is not high, but no one has a big seven. Auntie?

Even those who do speculative business, not just anyone can do it.

Ordinary people want to speculate, it is very rare, and they can only make some rice and cotton, which are more common, such as cigarettes, alcohol, or other industrial products, air conditioners, color TVs, which are not accessible to ordinary people, and only within the system Only those who have connections have this ability.

To do these businesses, you have to go to the factory to get the goods, and getting the goods requires an approval slip.

The power of approval is generally held in the hands of the bosses of related industries and regions, such as agricultural material companies run by supply and marketing cooperatives, and one of their businesses is chemical fertilizers.

At the moment, the grain output is not high, and many people are still struggling to live above and below the food and clothing line. Fertilizer is an important means of production, and private individuals are not allowed to buy or sell it. Only state-owned units have the right to buy, sell and distribute it.

Every region has quotas, use a little less, and the chemical fertilizers produced by each factory can only be obtained with the approval issued by the agricultural material company, and the approval needs to be signed by the boss of the agricultural material company, and then others use these approvals to get the fertilizer. Plants pull fertilizers.

The fertilizer factory only recognizes the approval slip, not the person!

There is room for manipulation here.

Chemical fertilizers are related to agricultural production, so the price has always been strictly controlled. If the ex-factory price of the product is higher than the cost price of the factory that produces chemical fertilizer, the state will subsidize it.

Each ton of chemical fertilizer is about 500 yuan, which is fixed, but at the moment the domestic production of chemical fertilizer is not very high, the demand is very large, there is a big gap, the supply is less than demand, do not follow the plan, follow the market , In private, a ton of fertilizer can be sold for 700 yuan.

There is a price difference of nearly 200 yuan. Such a high price difference has attracted speculators. Relying on the relationship between relatives and old friends, they get approval slips from agricultural materials companies, and then use the approval slips to go to chemical fertilizer factories to pull fertilizers. If you sell it, you can earn 200 per ton, and as long as you dump dozens of tons, you can sell it for tens of thousands!

This is still an ordinary chemical fertilizer. If it is imported, the price difference will be even greater!

This is true for cigarettes, agricultural products, and other light and heavy industrial products, and this phenomenon also exists.

Especially coal, iron and steel products, smoke, and chemical fertilizers are nothing compared to such materials.

Both types of things are pulled by trucks!

"Father, what is this? Is it your certificate?" At home, Nini asked curiously as she looked at the business certificates on the bed.

"That's a certificate for doing business." Lu Hao said.

"Cigarettes are going to be sold in the supermarket?" Su Min put the rice in front of Lu Hao.

She saw the words on the certificate.

"Yes, there is a huge demand for cigarettes, so I went to apply for a certificate, and I can sell cigarettes in supermarkets in the future." Lu Hao nodded, "Pour me a glass of water, I'm a little thirsty."

Su Min obediently poured him a cup of Wen Baikai.

I also took a sip and tried the temperature of the water.

Not hot.

"Father, do you want to sell cigarettes?" Nini looked at Lu Hao with envy, "Then you will smoke whenever you want in the future? You are so happy."

"You adults are good. If you want to smoke, you can sell cigarettes. The supermarkets sell vegetables and no snacks. When I grow up, I will open a supermarket. There are snacks in it, so I can go in and get them if I want to eat." , Grab a bag with your left hand, another bag with your right hand, and another bag in your mouth.”

The little girl was a little aggrieved and had very big opinions.

Lu Hao smiled, hugged her on his lap, pinched her face, "You don't have to wait until you grow up, you can realize this dream after a while, Dad's supermarket will have a lot of snacks, not just snacks , as well as toys and clothes, everything will be there.”

Nini's eyes lit up.

After eating and putting away his business documents, Lu Hao drove a Dongfeng truck to Hongyuan Beverage Factory without stopping, and went directly to the factory director's office.

Wang Guosheng, Liu Changping, father-in-law Su Xingmin, including Hong Erquan, were all in the office.

Several people were waiting for Lu Hao.

"Here we come." Seeing Lu Hao push the door open, Wang Guosheng walked around the desk, picked up the Double Happiness on the table, and handed one to Lu Hao.

This tobacco is produced in several places, including Jiangcheng and Shanghai.

In the past, it was Lu Hao who handed him cigarettes, but now he handed them to Lu Hao, and he handed them as soon as he entered the door. The treatment was obviously improved.

Liu Changping and Su Xingmin looked happy, but Hong Erquan's teeth were itchy. This young man who came out of nowhere and broke into the beverage factory would stab him every time, which made him feel pain.

Lu Hao took the cigarette and held it in his hand. Knowing that Wang Guosheng was in a hurry, he said without any nonsense, "Someone from the supply and marketing cooperative will come later, and they will order another 100 million bottles of soda, and they will drag it away today."

A few people were waiting in the office because Lu Hao called in advance to say that someone from the supply and marketing agency would come to order soda today, but because Lu Hao was busy, he didn't go into details. Now that Lu Hao said it in person, Wang Guosheng was very happy.

He looked at Lu Hao, "You still have the ability, how did you do it?"

Liu Changping, Su Xingmin, and Hong Erquan also looked at Lu Hao, wanting to know the answer.

Hongyuan’s sodas are extremely unsalable. The supply and marketing agency has hauled away 20 bottles of soda, which is already a big deal. The food industry association’s 30 bottles of soda are still in the warehouse and have not been hauled away. Now the supply and marketing agency wants to order another 100 million bottle.

How to do it?