The leisurely life of a reborn dad

Hu Yong just came back from outside at Xinjiang Wuqi Office. He has been running to Changji Apple Base these two days.

After September, October is the right time for apples to be harvested.

This year, many apple growers in Changji have bought a lot of nutrient solution and sprayed it, and the effect is obvious.

The apples matured a little earlier than in previous years, and the growth of apple trees is much better than in previous years, so the yield of apples has also increased.

This kind of apple is indeed the best raw material for producing preserved fruits, but everyone wants to increase the price. After all, they buy a lot of nutrient solution, and the current planting cost has increased a lot compared with previous years. This is the norm in the market and a very normal thing. It is not subject to the will of a certain person.

In addition, the price of Xinjiang apples fell all the way to the bottom in the past few years, from the highest of about 12 yuan per kilogram to about 5 yuan per kilogram. The loss of this decline is also borne by fruit farmers.

So it is normal for the price of apples to rebound since last year.

Hu Yong has been learning how to negotiate with others to buy apples from Lian Qijian since last year, and he has already understood the operating rules of this market.

In addition, the company now has its own research and judgment team, and their price operation budget for apples in the market is similar.

Originally, there would be no problem in normal cooperation.

But these two days, Hu Yong went to the Changji Apple Base and chatted with the big apple growers there. They told him that in addition to him buying apples, there are other people who are buying apples in large quantities.

There are also other fruit vendors who are buying apples in large quantities. The price they are offering is a little higher than the price these fruit farmers sell to the Xinjiang Wuqi Office of Xuemeng Food Factory, but not much higher.

This gave Hu Yong a very intuitive impression that someone deliberately suppressed them in terms of price, and even disrupted their normal purchasing behavior.

This incident made Hu Yong very annoyed.

After thinking about it, Hu Yong still called his superior purchasing manager Lian Qijian and told Lian Qijian about this abnormality.

After all, Hu Yong's intuition told him that the other party was too targeted and might not be kind. If this was the case, the company should take precautions early.

After the call, Hu Yong realized that his intuition was right, and someone might do this secretly.

Lian Qijian told Hu Yong on the phone that a foreign investor had come to their city and acquired their local Hongda Agricultural Products Processing Factory. Now they are recruiting employees and acquiring raw materials including apples.

Hearing Lian Qijian say this, Hu Yong was a little confused. He did not get the information from the company at the first time, which caused an information gap problem. Fortunately, he received a kind reminder from the fruit farmers at the first time and was keenly aware of the abnormality.

But in this case, what should I do next?

Hu Yong is thinking about this problem.

Just now, Lian Qijian also told Hu Yong on the phone to let him wait, and Lian Qijian immediately reported to the boss.

According to Hu Yong's idea, he can't just wait for the boss's advice at this time, he also needs to consider the next way of working.

If he relies on the boss this time and the next time, then he himself has no growth, which is also a terrible thing.

"Why don't I invite Adilijiang and others to have a meal together, sit down and talk, and see what they think?" This is the first point that Hu Yong thought of.

In the final analysis, at this special time, Hu Yong thinks that he still needs to listen to the ideas of these fruit farmers.

At the same time, he also wants to tell Adilijiang and others about the attitude of the company to test their psychological bottom line.

Will everyone continue to cooperate?

Or will they also follow the market economy and sell to those who buy at a high price, and then make a few more cents.

But Hu Yong has a hunch that the company will not increase the purchase price because of this incident.

If the purchase price is really raised because of this kind of thing, then they will be very passive in the future, and this is a very disadvantageous behavior for the company.

Hu Yong thinks that even he has thought of this consequence, so many talents in the company will not fail to think of it.

Especially the boss, will he really compromise?

Moreover, Hu Yong was still doubting another thing. According to what his manager Lian Qijian said on the phone just now, the products made by Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., which had just been acquired by foreign capital, were sold at a very low price in the market. They also took the low-end route and sold at a low price.

At this time, it was suddenly acquired by the American Hemielda Food Co., Ltd., does it mean that after changing its skin, the products of this company have really become high-end products in the market?

They need the channels of Hongda Agricultural Products, but the channel prices of Hongda Agricultural Products are fixed. If the prices are suddenly raised, even the channels and consumers may not pay for it.

If they pay for it, the selling price of this company's products in the market is high. Even if their purchase price is a little higher, there is still profit. In this case, they can develop for a long time.

But if the market does not buy it, their products will not be recognized in the market and cannot be sold at a high price. At that time, their raw material purchase prices will be so high, and there will be no profit to support their sustainable development. How long can it last?

This is a very critical question.

Hu Yong has been thinking about it.

He has been working at Xuemeng Food Factory for three years. He started out working with the construction team and then became a loader at Xuemeng Food Factory. Later, the company saw his efforts and began to consciously train him.

Let him become a manager, and through various on-site training or professional third-party external training, he quickly came into contact with various contents that he had not been exposed to before. In this case, Hu Yong's vision and knowledge also grew rapidly.

Moreover, Hu Yong knew that it was very rare for him to get such an opportunity. He was different from others, so when learning, no matter which link of the training, Hu Yong was very serious and did not dare to be careless.

In addition, he later moved to other departments, especially learning sales and procurement business with Lian Qijian. These two areas directly raised Hu Yong's cognitive ceiling, and also made him jump from a layman who knew nothing before to a leader among them.

When he thinks about problems now, he will also consider the overall situation, not just one aspect. For Hu Yong, the benefits of this are also obvious.

He can now think of so many follow-up issues based on one thing, but he would never think about it in the past, or even have no such concept at all.

So Hu Yong is not completely unsure about what he will discuss with Adilijiang and others tomorrow. He is thinking that he must analyze this thoroughly when he sees them tomorrow.

Also let Adilijiang and others not only care about the little profits in front of them.

Just like Adilijiang and others have always cooperated so smoothly with Xuemeng Food Factory, Adilijiang and others don’t have to worry at all. As long as the apples come down, Xuemeng Food Factory will take the apples away and then pay them.

They used to sell apples, but there was no such smooth thing as now.

If they cooperate with others because the price offered by the other party is a few cents higher, and cut off contact with Xuemeng Food Factory, can they really buy such a large number of apples like Xuemeng Food Factory?

Hu Yong is not a person who knows nothing now. On the contrary, he understands the truth.

The reason why Xuemeng Food Factory dares to buy so many apples in large quantities is because their production capacity is there.

Last year, the sales volume reached more than 8 billion, and this year's sales volume can reach more than 10 billion.

As sales volume increases, their production volume is also increasing rapidly, which is the embodiment of the strength of Xuemeng Food Factory.

The production capacity of the former Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. is not comparable to that of Xuemeng Food Factory.

To be frank, they can't even compare with the production volume of the first and third factories of Xuemeng Food Factory, let alone the second factory with 10 times the production capacity.

How could they possibly purchase such a large amount of fruit raw materials?

Now giving this high price and spreading this price to the market, Hu Yong thinks that this is very likely to be done intentionally by them, that is, to hang the high price there, so that some fruit farmers who have no analytical ability would rather wait for the high price to sell, rather than sell apples to Xuemeng Food Factory.

In Hu Yong's view, this is a naked conspiracy, a strategy of the other party to disgust Xuemeng Food Factory.

...

In the evening, Cao Shujie was playing with his daughter and son in the bedroom on the second floor. They were researching and developing other functions of Xiaomi smart speakers together.

Mengmeng and Cao Yirui, the siblings, saw that their father had developed a new function for the Xiaomi smart speaker, and they both clapped their hands excitedly.

Cao Shujie was an absolute hero in their eyes.

Cheng Xiaolin envied this, but it was useless because she didn't know anything about this thing.

After her husband, daughter and son were not at home, Cheng Xiaolin secretly played with the Xiaomi smart speaker for a day, but she was still very sad to find that the upper limit of her development of the Xiaomi smart speaker was her narrow thinking.

She couldn't think of any new functions at all, but Cheng Xiaolin would not admit this.

"How did Shujie know?" Cheng Xiaolin was eager to know this now.

But Cao Shujie smiled and didn't say much.

Later, Cheng Xiaolin saw that the three of them were so devoted to playing, so she joined in.

When the family of four was playing fascinated, Cao Shujie's mobile phone rang.

"You guys play first, I'll take a call." Cao Shujie said to his daughter and son.

The two little guys were not happy, but they also knew that their father must be busy.

Plus their mother played with them, the two of them also had a lot of fun.

Cao Shujie went to the small room outside to answer the phone.

Listening to Lian Qijian telling him what happened in Xinjiang Changji, Cao Shujie really didn't expect that someone would set their sights on that place.

He is not sure whether the other party is from Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. or other fruit wholesalers.

But no matter what, this matter should be taken seriously.

Xinjiang Changji Apple Base has always been an important base for the company's fruit raw materials.

Their company purchases a large amount of apples there every year.

Cao Shujie and Lian Qijian chatted for 20 minutes before hanging up the phone.

Cao Shujie came to the bedroom again and saw that his wife and siblings were still developing new features for the Xiaomi smart speaker. He thought that his wife actually had such a big addiction.

"Okay, it's too late today, play tomorrow." Cao Shujie said to the three of them.

Cheng Xiaolin came back to her senses and saw that it was past 10 o'clock. Both Mengmeng and Ruirui had to go to bed. She was a little embarrassed. Some time ago, she said that Mengmeng was addicted. This time, even she was a little obsessed.

Waiting for Mengmeng to reluctantly put down the smart speaker and go to sleep in the next room, Cao Yirui watched unwillingly as his mother put away his smart speaker. He then lay down on the bed and fell asleep soon after. .

"Who called you? Why did we chat for so long? Is the matter serious?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her husband.

Cao Shujie told her what Lian Qijian said on the phone.

After hearing this, Cheng Xiaolin also realized the seriousness of it.

She also asked Cao Shujie: "Would you like to go to Changji in person to meet and chat with some of your friends there?"

Cao Shujie shook his head. He felt that the matter had not reached that point yet.

Moreover, he had already conveyed his idea to Lian Qijian on the phone just now. He also believed that Lian Qijian could convey it to Hu Yong perfectly. Now it was up to him to see whether Hu Yong could execute it well.

…

Let's say that after Lian Qijian hung up Cao Shujie's call, he immediately called Hu Yong. Lian Qijian was thinking of passing on his boss Cao Shujie's thoughts, but Hu Yong first told him his plan for tomorrow.

At the same time, Hu Yong also clearly explained his analysis and the pros and cons to Lian Qijian.

Hu Yong didn't know that Lian Qijian was surprised when he expressed his thoughts.

Hu Yong's analysis and thinking coincided with what his boss Cao Shujie just told him on the phone.

There are only slight differences in the details. Looking at it this way, Lian Qijian suddenly feels more confident that Hu Yong will negotiate with Adilijiang and the others tomorrow.

After Hu Yong finished speaking, Lian Qijian conveyed Cao Shujie's original thoughts. He also joked: "Director Hu, it's okay. Your ideas are 80% consistent with the boss's. Work hard and wait two years." The boss might want to transfer you back and put you in a new position."

Lian Qijian was not lying on this point. He felt that Hu Yong had the insight just now, which meant that his level was already in place. It was only a matter of time before he was transferred back and placed in a more important position.

Lian Qijian is supportive of Hu Yong's ability to find other jobs.

In a sense, the two of them are on the same team.

As for saying there are no factions within the company, that is simply impossible.

If we look at Xuemeng Food Factory as a whole, Cao Shujie is the boss, Wang Zhifeng, Shi Jingxiu, and the previous purchasing manager Xiang Zhengyan are all old-school figures, then he is a new-school figure.

In fact, no matter where we are, this kind of invisible artificial division has always existed.

Lian Qijian felt that he was alone and weak, and he also needed someone to support him. (End of chapter)