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Chapter 1550: Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce Enters the Transportation Industry (Part )

Chapter 1550: Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce Enters the Transportation Industry (Part )

Although the Zhao family gang has only a few members, the internal competition is very fierce.

Li Ruhai made great contributions during this business trip to Hebei, and Zhang Yuanmin has been holding back his efforts, hoping to make another outstanding contribution to surpass Li Ruhai.

At this time, Zhang Yuanmin saw the disdain in Li Ruhai's eyes, but Zhang Yuanmin didn't care. He just turned to Zhao Jun and said, "Brother, if we charter a train, we can save 200,000 yuan a year, right?"

After saying that, Zhang Yuanmin glanced at Li Ruhai again.

Helping Zhao Weipeng save money has nothing to do with the Chamber of Commerce, and Little Zhuge doesn't even want the credit. But if the Chamber of Commerce also charters the train, then it will be relevant.

You, Li Ruhai, have increased revenue for the Chamber of Commerce by 200,000 yuan, and I, Zhang Yuanmin, can save 200,000 yuan with just one train car. Isn't that a break-even?

"A train car..." Zhao Jun heard this and said thoughtfully: "Little Redwood is too far away from here. Dawn has 4,200 cubic meters..."

At this point, Zhao Jun looked at Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Lin Xiangshun and others and asked, "How much of a leap forward can there be?"

The Yuejin mentioned by Zhao Jun is also a forest farm. It is located in the north of Yong'an Forest District. It is of medium size, neither big nor small.

"Less than 10,000 cubic meters. I don't know the exact number." Li Dayong said, and suddenly changed the subject, "It must be 9,000."

"Xiao Yun." After hearing what Li Dayong said, Zhao Jun called Li Tongyun and said, "Yuejin Forest Farm has 9,000 cubic meters, and Shuguang Forest Farm has 4,000 cubic meters. Just calculate how much we can earn in the last two years if we spend 200,000 yuan to book two train cars for these two forest farms?"

Following Zhao Jun's instructions, Li Tongyun quickly took out a pen and paper to do the calculations.

Soon, Li Tongyun came to a conclusion. She heard the girl's voice tremble slightly and said, "Brother Jun, you can earn 641,700 in two years."

As soon as Li Tongyun said this, everyone in the room fell silent.

The people of Yong'an Village have lived on this land since childhood. People of Zhao Jun's generation have been watching the construction of the forest area since they were old enough to understand.

As a child of the forest area, no one would have thought that one day the forest area would stop logging.

Therefore, in the eyes of most people at this time, this stable income can be passed on to children and grandchildren.

Just before everyone started to discuss, Zhao Weipeng waved his fat hand and said to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, open your eyes. I heard that the total production task of your Forestry Bureau for winter transportation in the past year increased by 100,000 cubic meters compared with the previous year.

"After the increase in production, the total volume of your thirty-six forest farms can reach 600,000 cubic meters, right? Do the math, if we take over all of these 600,000 cubic meters, how much money can we make?"

After hearing what Zhao Weipeng said, the people in the room fell silent. Guarding two forest areas with a combined output of only 13,000 yuan, he could earn 300,000 yuan a year.

So if, as Zhao Weipeng said, you handle 600,000 cubic meters of timber, how much money would you make in a year?

They didn’t dare to think or calculate, and just stared at each other.

But in the end, everyone's attention was focused on Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan.

"Uncle, what do you think?" Zhao Jun asked Zhao Weipeng this question, asking him how he wanted to cooperate. Zhao Weipeng would definitely invest more money, but if the two gangs shared the work, it would not be called cooperation, it would be each making their own money.

Sure enough, when asked by Zhao Jun, Zhao Weipeng said: "I have other businesses. Apart from some emergency funds, I can still take out 100,000 yuan now."

Zhao Jun understood what Zhao Weipeng said. Zhao Weipeng wanted to make more money from the 100,000 yuan, but it was not enough to buy a train car, so he needed the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce to invest.

Zhao Jun looked at Wang Meilan without saying anything or even showing any expression, but Wang Meilan instantly understood what her son meant.

"Brother, don't worry." Wang Meilan said to Zhao Weipeng, "I can't let you keep the 100,000 yuan. Look at how much you are short of..."

At this point, Wang Meilan raised her hand, waved it out, and said, "Our Chamber of Commerce will make up for it!"

After saying that, Wang Meilan put down her hand and continued, "Brother, we have no say over GD. You will have to figure out how to rent from them when the time comes."

"That's no problem, sister-in-law." After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhao Weipeng immediately said, "That's easy to say. I'll take care of it."

"Hey, Brother Zhao." At this time, Li Dazhi said to Zhao Weipeng, "Your two train cars can handle 35,000 cubic meters of work in our forest farm. That is to say, that train car can easily carry 17,000 to 18,000 cubic meters. Why do we have to carry 13,000 cubic meters? Why don't we move to a larger forest area?"

"Sure!" Zhao Weipeng said with a smile: "Brother Dazhi, let me tell you the truth. I had my eyes on two places at the time, one was our Yong'an, and the other was Yunsong Forest Farm."

"Brother Zhao, how much can the forest farm produce?" Li Dazhi asked. Zhao Weipeng said, "Old Chu said it's 20,000."

"Twenty thousand..." Li Dazhi blinked his eyes and said, "Three thousand cubic meters more, can we finish it by the time it snows?"

"Of course!" Li Dazhi just finished speaking when Zhao Jun smiled and said, "These 20,000 plus the 13,000 from Shuguang and Yuejin, this 33,000...isn't it just enough for two train cars?"

"Hmm?" Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard Zhao Jun's words.

After doing business before and after the New Year, these people have broadened their horizons and become bolder. At this time, everyone realized that with such a good business, who said that they could only book one train car?

Of course, this question needs to be asked to Zhao Weipeng.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun asked Zhao Weipeng, "Can we add two more columns based on your two columns?"

"Okay." Zhao Weipeng said, "As long as we pay the money, everything will be easy."

"Okay." Zhao Jun smiled, his eyes drifting towards Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, and Jie Chen. The four of them had the most shares in the Chamber of Commerce, and even Zhang Yuanmin and Jie Chen received dividends from the Golden Bear Gall. With the financial resources of the four of them, chartering a train car would not be a problem.

But at the moment, Zhao Jun couldn't talk to the three of them, so he decided to book two train cars first.

"Oh!" Seeing Zhao Jun looking at him, Zhang Yuanmin smiled and said, "If we can charter two train cars, I can help our Chamber of Commerce save 400,000 yuan."

After hearing what Zhang Yuanmin said, everyone smiled faintly, except Li Ruhai who had a stern face and said nothing.

"By the way, brother?" Suddenly, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Weipeng, "You mean the 100,000 yuan for arranging the train line dispatch? Do we need to pay another one?"

"No need, sister-in-law." Zhao Weipeng shook his head and said, "When doing this, we will do it in my name. The same goes for the four train cars. I have arranged it, and they can't hold us back. This is equivalent to spending money once and getting things done for you. If we deal with each other next time, just bring two bottles of wine and talk."

"Well, brother." After listening to Zhao Weipeng's words, Wang Meilan said, "We can't let you pay for all this. Well... well... four train cars count as four shares. You take two and a half shares, and we take one and a half shares. If you want to spend 100,000 yuan, we will give you another 37,000 or 38,000 yuan."

If it was just Zhao Jun's family and Zhao Weipeng's family doing business, with Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan's carefree personalities, and Zhao Weipeng's connections, it would be no problem for Zhao Jun's family to bear half of the 100,000 yuan.

But in fact, the Chamber of Commerce belongs to seven families, and Wang Meilan has to be responsible for her shareholders.

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Weipeng said, "Okay, sister-in-law, that's easy to talk about."

"Okay, let's do it this way..." Wang Meilan was about to make the decision when she heard Zhao Youcai say, "It seems that we can't earn that much money."

After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, everyone looked at him. Zhao Youcai said, "You guys have underestimated a lot of things. For example, you hired workers to carry wood. You have to provide them with food and lodging, right? Isn't that all money? There are also some small things that come and go, don't take it lightly."

In front of outsiders, Wang Meilan was not happy to punish Zhao Youcai. But at this time, Wang Meilan couldn't help asking Zhao Youcai: "You said this, is my 50,000 yuan enough?"

When Wang Meilan asked this question, Zhao Youcai was instantly speechless.

Seeing that Zhao Youcai remained silent, Wang Meilan turned to the crowd and announced with a smile: "If everyone agrees, then it's settled!"

"Sure!" The first to respond was Jie Sun, and then everyone applauded.

"That's all right!" Seeing that several families were so supportive, Wang Meilan smiled and raised her right hand, then pushed it out and said, "Then let's adjourn the meeting and cook and fry Yuanxiao."

Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and we will have a midnight snack after dinner.

This midnight snack is the Lantern Festival!

The Yuanxiao dumplings of the Zhao family were all shaken by Wang Meilan and her team. After shaking, they were all frozen outside.

Following Wang Meilan's order, Lin Xiangshun stood up and pressed the recorder. As the music started, the delegates left the venue one after another.

But at this moment, there was a loud noise. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Zhao Weipeng sitting on the ground.

Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, and Zhang Yuanmin hurried to help him. Zhang Yuanmin said apologetically, "Uncle Zhao, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!"

They were sitting on the same bench. When Zhang Yuanmin came up, the bench was overturned by Zhao Weipeng.

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhao Weipeng rubbed his elbow and grimaced. It really hurt, but fortunately it wasn't broken.

Wang Meilan took Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling to the warehouse to get the Yuanxiao. After taking it out, Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling went directly to the Li family next door. They would cook the Yuanxiao there and then bring it to Zhao's house.

Frying Yuanxiao is Wang Meilan’s job, and she does it herself at home.

While frying and cooking the Yuanxiao, the men put on their cotton-padded jackets and went out to set off firecrackers and fireworks.

It was then that Zhao Jun discovered that in addition to firecrackers, his home also had sky rockets and small barrels of fireworks.

"Uncle, where did you get these?" Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang. Wang Qiang said, "I bought them at Wang Fu's store. This is called a sky rocket, and that is a flower."

When we talk about fireworks here, we use the word "flowers" instead.

"You bought a lot." Zhao Jun said so, and Lin Xiangshun laughed beside him and said, "He was afraid of losing money, so he didn't buy much, so I and my uncle took care of it all."

These two items are different from small foreign whips and double-kick firecrackers. Small foreign whips are usually used for household chores, while double-kick firecrackers are used by mountain hikers for self-defense when they go up the mountain.

As for rockets and fireworks, Wang Fu was afraid that he would have too much inventory if he couldn't sell them, so he didn't buy many.

No wonder Zhao Jun was not in the village and heard the “whoosh” sound of the flying monkey.

Before dinner, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen drove a car and took several families up the mountain to deliver lanterns.

After delivering the lanterns, he came back and scattered lanterns outside again.

Corn pith, sawdust, rice husks and diesel are mixed together, placed in a small pile on the ground seven or eight steps outside the door or tent, and then lit with fire. This is called the "scattering lantern".

So, tonight the village was ablaze with fire, and the roads were all ablaze. Looking far away, balls of flames were tilting and jumping in the wind.

When the whole village, every house and every road are decorated with lanterns, it looks particularly spectacular.

By this time, the fire was out, but the big red lanterns at the Zhao family's door were still lit, and Zhao Jun and others used the light to light fireworks and sky rockets.

The sky rockets were making a "whoosh" sound as they flew out, and the ten barrels of fireworks that Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun bought were all the same.

This firework is called Lotus. When it is lit, it first sparks. Then a ball of red light rises into the sky, spreads out in the air, and turns into a large lotus.

The lotus flowers rose up, which was very beautiful. Zhao Jun couldn't help asking Wang Qiang, "Uncle, how much did you spend on this?"

"Two cents."

These days, two cents is not a lot, but it is not a little either. Although the fireworks are beautiful, two cents are gone in the blink of an eye.

As the fireworks were over, when they were about to go back to the house, they saw Zhao Youcai bringing the broken barrel of fireworks to the front of the tent.

"Hey?" Zhao Youcai pointed at the firework tube and said to everyone, "I think this thing is pretty good at starting fires."

"Yeah!" Zhang Yuanmin was the first to agree, saying, "This thing can burn easily."

"Brother, just forget it." Zhao Jun heard this and said hurriedly, "The gunpowder in this thing can't be completely burned out, and your kang will collapse when the time comes."

"Forget it then." Zhang Yuanmin was easy to persuade.

When the men returned to the house, they heard the women in the house praising the fireworks. The women had leaned against the windows to watch the fireworks, and they praised the lotus fireworks.

"Son!" Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun, "When you have time to go to the city, buy some of this. On your wedding day, I will make it very festive for you."

"Okay, Mom, that's fine." Zhao Jun responded first, and then said to Wang Meilan: "That's it, Mom, don't light the torch."

At the beginning, Li Ruhai gave Wang Meilan an idea and suggested that on the day of Zhao Jun's wedding, they should imitate Zuoshandiao's birthday celebration and light some pine torches in the village.

Wang Meilan likes pomp and circumstance, and she was actually moved after hearing it at that time. But now, Wang Meilan feels that this fireworks is better!

Although pine torches are free in the mountains, fireworks do cost money, but does the Zhao family need money?

Wang Meilan, who was promoted from the richest person in Yongan to the richest person in Shanhe today, is now very confident!

The Yuanxiao are served out of the pot, some are boiled in a large pot with the soup, and some are fried and placed on a large enamel plate.

These days, glutinous rice is not found in Yong'an, and Yuanxiao is made with glutinous rice flour.

The common fillings are sesame, peanuts, and green and red silk. There is no black sesame, just the normal kind.

The Zhao family makes their own Yuanxiao. Wang Meilan and her team use five kinds of dried fruits and fillings, including walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, melon seeds, and sesame seeds. The dumplings are so delicious.

Zhao Weipeng and Zhao Jinhui ate a lot until Zhao Jun released a big satellite and said, "I'm ready to set up a gang. From now on, every July and August, I will go into the mountains to carry red hammers for a few days."

(End of this chapter)