sbdcsierra Chapter 1594 Decides to Sell at a Discount
Chapter 1594 Decides to Sell at a Discount
Chapter 1594 Decides to Sell at a Discount
When Ye Yaopeng returned from the sea, his father happily told him about Ah Hai.
Ye Yaopeng was also extremely happy that his eldest son was going to marry a woman from the provincial capital, and from a family of intellectuals, who was also a leader in the shipyard.
This is practically an incredible stroke of luck!
He was so happy that he immediately called home to ask about the situation.
Even Ye Chengjiang, who had never been enthusiastic about finding a partner, started to feel a little envious, and even felt a bit sour while eating.
"How come you all found partners so quickly? Without saying a word. Didn't you agree not to find partners? Now that you've all found partners, what am I supposed to do?"
Ye Chenghe said with some pride, "That's because I'm charming. What can you do if no one wants you? Become an old bachelor."
"Tch, I don't want to find one. What's so great about women? They're so annoying, always nagging and interfering."
"If you don't like people from Guangdong and Guangxi who are meddling in everything, then find people from Henan and Hebei?" Ye Chenghe joked with a smile.
"Hmph, once you get married, you'll hand over all your money and won't have a single penny left in your pocket. Don't ask me for a loan! I definitely won't lend you any!"
"Do you think I care?"
Ye Chenghe turned his gaze to Lin Guangming and Lin Guangwen.
The two brothers, holding their bowls, also shook their heads.
"I won't lend it to you, neither of us has a partner."
"What does your not having partners have to do with borrowing money?"
Ye Chengjiang stretched out his arm, blocking Ye Chenghe from getting close to Lin Guangming and Lin Guangwen.
"Because we're in a group of people who don't have partners, and you're in a group of people who're all alone, the three of us are no longer on your side! Let's go our separate ways, and don't even think about asking us for money!"
"You bastards, I know you're just jealous."
The three of them rolled their eyes, and after finishing their meal, they simply picked up their trays and left without waiting for Ye Chenghe.
Ye Chenghe stared wide-eyed as they patted their bottoms and left, then hurriedly stretched out his chopsticks and shouted.
"Hey? Wait for me, wait for me..."
He stood up, carrying the tray, and walked out while eating, following behind them.
"Wait for me! You guys are so disloyal! You finished eating and left without waiting for me..."
"I've already said, we're not on the same side..."
Ye Yaodong sat in the corner watching them play and laugh happily; they had all grown up.
Ye's father watched their retreating figures and said, "Only Ah Jiang is still unemployed."
"It's still early. You're not even 20 yet. You can start looking when you're 30."
Why don't you say 50? 30? That's so old!
“50 years old is fine too. Old Pei is only in his 50s, and he can still have children. If he works hard, it won’t be a problem for him to settle down here.”
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
Father Ye also picked up the plate and left.
If we keep going, wouldn't it be possible to say he's 60 years old?
As the weather got colder, the machines Ye Yaodong had ordered were gradually delivered, and the factory looked even bigger. In addition to recruiting veterans, they also recruited some female workers.
As the saying goes, men and women working together makes the work easier. Some jobs require female workers, and it won't work if it's all men.
By December, the factory had over 200 workers, and Ye Yaodong's thousand-ton fishing boat was almost ready for delivery. Now, all that was left was some finishing touches and testing, and it should be ready in less than a month.
He estimates that a quarter of the money he earned this year was spent on fishing boats.
He has been going to Shanghai intermittently to check things out and make up some payments. He only has 10 yuan left to pay the balance, and he is just waiting to pay it off when the ship is delivered. Meanwhile, another thousand-ton fishing boat and a large fresh seafood collection ship are also more than halfway through their progress.
He now has two 30-meter-long boats for collecting seafood and one 40-meter-long boat, which are not enough for his daily round trips.
The two additional ocean-going vessels and one fresh seafood collection vessel ordered are also nearing their delivery dates. If we were to acquire them, we could then be in line for the Ocean No. 7 and the medium-sized fresh seafood collection vessel No. 2.
Once he gets his hands on the thousand-ton fishing boat, needless to say, he plans to use it as a cargo ship for collecting fresh seafood.
Otherwise, if they don't get their hands on a large cargo ship and have to make a trip to the deep sea, they won't know what to do with the cargo.
This year, Chinese New Year falls on February 15th. He had finished getting the fishing boat ready before the New Year, but with one or two months left until then, he didn't want to waste the time.
He scribbled and drew on his newly bought calendar, flipping through the pages to check the time, preparing to make some plans.
He had already folded up the paper for the Lunar New Year.
The old calendar only has twenty or thirty pages left. Now he has a new hobby every day: tearing off pages from the calendar. Every time he tears off a page, he feels that time flies by. Once the calendar is finished, it will be almost another year.
Each calendar page was filled with his to-do list, densely packed in the blank space around the numbers in the middle.
At the same time, he also wrote a lot of words on the New Year's Day page of the newly bought calendar, and he even wrote the words "selling the ship at a discount" in big letters.
This means that he wants to sell the small boat that he previously rented out back to the boat owner.
He has about 17 ships, all less than 20 meters long. Now these ships are too useless to him; the cargo of just one ocean-going vessel is equivalent to all of them.
He's very busy right now and doesn't have time to manage these ships. He only lets Old You settle accounts with them on the day of reckoning.
No one was keeping an eye on the cargo on those small boats, and it wasn't him who was calculating it either. The boats had been rented to them for too long, so they basically got to decide how much to sell them for.
The money he received each month was decreasing, but he couldn't say anything. After all, it's normal for income to vary. He didn't keep a close eye on it either, at most asking Old You how much the rent income was this month.
It's tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away; better to do someone a favor.
It's time to redeem the boats from them. They've rented them for so long, they're basically their property now. They just hand over whatever amount they want each month.
It would be better to go with the flow and do them a favor by selling it directly to them, making it theirs. This would save them trouble, make them happy, and be a win-win situation.
Anyway, after all this time, he has already made back his initial investment many times over, and the price of the ship has even increased three or four times.
He certainly couldn't sell it at market price, but he did the math and even a 5% discount would still be roughly equivalent to more than double the price of his previous new boat...
He was a little embarrassed that even at a 5% discount, this old ship could still fetch more than twice the price of a new ship back then.
After thinking for a moment, he went out and asked someone to fetch his father.
Mr. Ye was cleaning the truck when Ye called out, and he immediately rushed over.
"Dongzi, what's up?"
"Dad, I plan to sell those 17 small boats at a discount to the boat owners who rent them out on New Year's Day."
"Sold it already?"
“I’ve been saying this for years, but you’ve kept stopping me. Now I really feel that keeping it is a bit of a burden, and the rent I get every month is decreasing. I guess those people are not willing to pay so much every month.”
That makes sense. A boat doesn't cost much, but with the current market conditions, most people can save up for about a year and buy a new one. Why let him take advantage of us?
I decided to set a condition that would require me to spend a year's income, but at least I wouldn't have to pay him money every month afterward.
Some people have already bought separate boats. While renting one, they also booked another boat for their brothers and nephews to operate, and then paid these brothers and nephews for their work, thus earning more money themselves.
He's basically in a situation where he has no choice but to sell.
If he doesn't sell, the rent will keep slipping by every month. If this drags on for too long, people will probably quit and won't remember his kindness; they'll just be cursing him behind his back.
They said he was just using empty promises to keep people hanging on, that he would sell the fishing boat to everyone at a discount, but after several years he still hadn't sold it and was still holding onto it, making money off it continuously.
Now that the Lunar New Year is approaching again, almost another year has passed, and we have to deal with this matter and fulfill his promise.
Ye Yaodong also shared his thoughts with his father.
Although Ye's father was somewhat reluctant, he knew that what he said was right.
We've been saying for a while that we'd sell the fishing boats to the charterers at a priority price. We've already collected so much rent for so long, it wouldn't make sense not to sell them at a discount, especially since the year is almost over.
"It's a pity. Although the money we collect is getting less and less, we still have a lot of boats, so we can still make about ten thousand yuan a month."
He wouldn't earn this much even if he worked for Dongzi for a whole year.
Dongzi could easily charge an extra month's rent, which would be more than he earned in a year.
Ye Yaodong said, "Don't try to make money from everything. We've already made enough. Back then, a new ship only cost around 2000 yuan, and a used one only cost around 1,000 yuan. Now it costs 8,000 or 9,000 yuan. The price increase is terrifying. We've made back dozens of times our initial investment in the past few years."
"That's true. Many people regret not buying back then, but now that prices are rising higher and higher, they're reluctant to spend money on it, especially since they've saved up so much money."
"Yes, wages have only doubled, but the prices of these production tools have already tripled, quadrupled, or even quintupled."
"So how do you plan to set the price? New ships cost eight or nine thousand now. Our ship has only been in service for seven years, and it was brand new when we leased it to them. You could say that they've been operating that ship since it was a new ship. It's been in their hands all along, so for them it's practically the same as a brand new ship they bought themselves."
“You’re right, but we can’t sell it as a new ship. After all, most people know how much a ship cost back then. And as I said, we’ll sell it at a discounted market price.”
"How much of a discount? What percentage? 5%? That would be around four thousand yuan."
Ye Yaodong poked around on the table with his pen, "I'm thinking of selling it for around 2600 yuan, based on the original purchase price."
"It was 2400 back then, right? Where did this 2600 come from? But selling it for 2000 now is too low, isn't it? New boats outside cost over 8000, and even with a 50% discount, it's still 4000... The boat is so new, and they've used it from new to old without letting anyone else use it..."
"I bought it for 2200, but my older brother and his friends went after me and it was 2400. Others went two months later and it was 2600. Since it was the same year, I'll sell it for 2600."
Mr. Ye nodded in agreement. “That’s good. We can get a few hundred yuan more in price difference. Anyway, everyone knows that the price was around two thousand yuan at the time. Some people did buy it for 2600 yuan. We can’t be wrong to say it was 2600 yuan.”
"No, 2600 is too low right now, isn't it? How about 4000? Anyway, the shipyard sells it for eight or nine thousand, and we'll have to wait a long time."
“You sold it to them for 4000, and they got a great deal. It’s already half price. Besides, the new boat has always been in their hands and hasn’t been driven by anyone else. To them, it’s a brand new boat.”
Mr. Ye was reluctant to buy it in the first place, but the price was so low that he felt bad. He wanted to buy it all at once.
"We've already made enough money. We don't need to make any more money for the boat. Adding four hundred dollars is fine as compensation for the rent they've pocketed."
"It's a huge difference. It's practically like giving it to them for free. At most, it's less than three months' rent, and they'll just buy out the boat."
"The people who rented the boats were all cousins or cousins-in-law, all relatives who could be connected with us. At the time, we were thinking of giving our own people a good deal, so we rented them all to our own family. Now we're not letting outsiders take advantage of this, so we're just helping our relatives out. Anyway, I haven't lost anything; I've made what I was supposed to make. Now I'm just making a little less."
He's already made a fortune elsewhere, so he doesn't care about this little bit of money. He can just sell it all at a discount to improve his reputation and save himself some trouble.
Fertilizer does not flow into outsiders' fields.
Everyone has helped him make money over the years, and he basically takes the lion's share. They still have to pay for his fuel and wages for the remaining half, so they only earn half of what he earns, taking only 1/4.
"Now that we're parting ways, let's be generous and part amicably."
Since that's what they've said, Mr. Ye has nothing more to say.
"Alright, you have a point. Anyway, you're not short of money, so let's decide on this."
"Yes, it's good to settle the accounts at the end of this month. They'll get the money on New Year's Day. It'll be 1991 on New Year's Day, a new year, a new beginning."
He was thinking of a fresh start in the new year, which is why he decided to break up on New Year's Day.
"Should we leak the news beforehand, so that some people won't gossip behind our backs?"
"No need, just say it directly when settling accounts. People with ulterior motives will feel ashamed."
"Alright, let's catch them off guard and make the person who's been scheming behind the scenes look foolish."
"Ah……"
Mr. Ye then inquired about his new ship, "When will your thousand-ton new ship return? Didn't you say it would be around New Year's Day, or at the latest before the new year?"
"It'll be ready soon. They said they'd do some testing. If everything's fine, it can be delivered by New Year's Day. If there are any problems, they'll fix it again, but they'll still try to deliver it before the New Year."
"You're just wasting your breath by saying that."
"That's how they replied to me. I'll have to take a look when I have time. I guess it will be a similar reply. They won't give me a definite answer unless the debugging is finished and there are no problems."
No one in this company dares to give an accurate answer, otherwise the customer will seize this opportunity to relentlessly urge them to hurry up.
"Then take some time to go and take a look. This is a big deal. There are millions of ships, and there are only a handful in the entire dock."
"Ah."
"What's the name? Has it been decided yet?"
"It's decided, we've thought it through, it'll be called Dongyuhao."
His name is inside, and it also means East China Sea, so the name is very fitting.
This was a new name he came up with after racking his brains using his limited ink supply.
After considering it for two days, he became more and more satisfied and then notified the shipyard to paint it on. He himself has not yet gone to see it and plans to take some time to go and take a look soon.
P.S.: This is to make up for last night's update. I'll write another chapter later depending on the situation.