I want to be emperor

Chapter 940

The long-distance transportation and storage of fresh food has always been a very troublesome matter. Not to mention the Chu Empire in the 21th century. Even in the [-]st century, even though there are many technical means, the long-distance transportation and storage of fresh food is still the same. Requires relatively high cost.

In the contemporary Dachu Empire, there is also a huge demand for long-distance transportation and storage of fresh food.

Take fishery products for example. Before the advent of freezing technology, it was impossible to eat fresh seafood in inland areas, but it was also very troublesome and extremely expensive.

The usual approach is to make seafood into various types of dry goods or canned food, such as dried salted fish and canned fish, which are typical examples.

As for fresh seafood, they either spend a lot of money to transport them refrigerated with ice, or they simply raise the fish directly in seawater tanks, supplemented by ventilation and oxygenation and other technologies and transport them by rail... and this cost is even more expensive.

Therefore, in modern times, if you want to eat fresh seafood in inland areas, ordinary families, even middle-class families, cannot expect it. Those who cannot afford it... Only the truly wealthy families can spend a lot of money. Eat these fresh seafood that took a lot of effort to transport.

After refrigeration technology appeared and gradually matured, it was widely used by the Navy, and was adopted and promoted on a large scale by the Animal Husbandry Corporation. It also caused a relatively large response in the fishery.

The fishery industry, especially several large fishery enterprises mainly engaged in seafood, has paid close attention to refrigeration technology in recent times, and some pioneers have started practical actions.

Donghai Fishery Company is one of them!

Donghai Fishery Company was a government-run enterprise under the Finance Department of the Shandong Governor's Yamen in its early years. However, poor management later led to bankruptcy.

After the bankruptcy, many bondholders negotiated and strategic investors were introduced. Finally, this large but poorly managed fishing company with no conflict with capital was reorganized and transformed into a joint-stock company.

After the reorganization of Donghai Fishery Company in 35 years, Chengshun gave up many non-main businesses to withdraw funds, focusing on the two core businesses of fishing and seafood processing, and finally turned losses into profits.

Today it is mainly engaged in offshore and offshore fishing operations and seafood processing. Its products are mainly supplied to several northern coastal provinces.

However, Donghai Fishery Company has always wanted to sell fresh seafood to inland areas in order to earn more profits and open up more markets.

After all, the seafood market in coastal areas is very competitive, and seafood cannot be sold at a high price.

Similarly, competition in seafood processing is also quite high!

In the empire's thousands of miles of sea, almost every coastal place will develop fisheries to a greater or lesser extent. There are not many fishing boats of all kinds in these offshore waters. After so many seafood are caught, it also causes the price of seafood in coastal areas to always rise. No.

Therefore, many fishing companies want to open more markets in inland areas... A generally effective method before was to process seafood into canned fish and salted fish and sell these products inland.

But the sales of fresh seafood have still not been opened... There is no way. Long-distance transportation of fresh seafood is too difficult, transporting it with ice is too expensive, and direct transportation of live fish is even more expensive. Such expensive products are destined to be only a few. People's enjoyment cannot form a huge consumer market.

Today's Donghai Fishery Company just wants to get involved in the inland chilled seafood market with the refrigeration technology that has emerged in the past two years!
To this end, they first negotiated with the Animal Husbandry Corporation and the subordinate companies of the Railway Corporation, rented their refrigerated transport train cars, and tried to transport a batch of chilled seafood to the inland.

The result was a huge success!

This batch of chilled seafood is very novel to residents in inland areas, and although the price of railway cold chain transportation is also expensive, it is still much cheaper than traditional ice transportation or live fish transportation. .

Its price is also affordable for middle-income families!
Therefore, this batch of chilled seafood has been extremely popular in the inland market. It was sold out in a short time, and there are many people asking when the next batch of goods will arrive.

This inland chilled seafood market has great potential!

This incident directly stimulated the Donghai Fishery Company. They no longer hesitated and directly went to Songjiang Bell Company to order a large number of refrigeration equipment and began to build refrigerated warehouses at several of its major unloading docks and several major inland cities. .

At the same time, we plan to upgrade some of our own fishing boats, mainly large-tonnage ocean-going fishing boats, to install refrigeration equipment to store the caught seafood.

Then a cooperation agreement was reached with the Railway Corporation and a cooperation agreement on railway cold chain transportation was signed.

The Railway Corporation naturally welcomes the high-value-added freight business of railway cold chain transportation... A few years ago, they reached a cooperation agreement with the Animal Husbandry Corporation, and both parties jointly invested in and cooperated in railway cold chain transportation. But now that the Railway Corporation has seen the potential of this market, it has begun to mobilize funds on its own to build more cold chain transport carriages, and has also chosen to build refrigerated warehouses in railway stations in several major cities.

The Railway Corporation has begun large-scale deployment in railway cold chain transportation.

Donghai Fishery Company came to the door for strategic cooperation, and they naturally welcomed it.

Donghai Fishery Company began to expand into the inland chilled market, and at the same time refitted its ships, upgraded its offshore fishing vessels, and opened up a new era of offshore fishing for seafood.

Naturally, other fishing companies will not be left behind and have begun to place bets in this field.

As the main shipyard that builds refrigerated transport ships, Songjiang Naval Shipyard also complied with the market and officially launched a new generation of various types of fishing boat products with refrigerated storage equipment on the market. It also launched refrigeration upgrade and transformation services for old fishing boats, intending to Make big bucks in this market.

But they are just mid-stream and downstream manufacturers after all... No matter who among them wants to build refrigerated transport ships, refrigerated fishing boats, or even train refrigerated carriages, refrigerated warehouses, etc., they all ultimately depend on one company: Songjiang Bell Corporation.

This leading company in the refrigeration industry in the Dachu Empire is currently the only company that can provide mature and reliable various types of refrigeration equipment to the market. Its business has surged in the second half of the year, especially in the last two months... It can be said that it has received orders. Even though Bell Company had raised its product prices twice due to too many orders, it still couldn't stop the huge order volume.

Based on their current production capacity, it would conservatively estimate that it would take more than five years for them to produce the orders that have been signed... not to mention that there are still a lot of potential orders waiting outside, because Bell's production capacity is insufficient and the company's management In order to avoid risks, the company no longer accepts new orders.

The reason why they dared to accept the previous orders was based on the expected continued expansion of production capacity. They already have three large factories under construction and installing equipment, which will be put into production this year.

This has made all the bosses and management of Songjiang Bell Company anxious... There are many orders, but the production capacity is insufficient!
The previously planned expansion of production capacity of the three delivery rooms is far from meeting the huge market demand.

How to do?
What else can we do? Naturally, we should continue to increase our efforts to expand production... There are a lot of people outside waving checks just to buy a set of their refrigeration equipment. Many companies would rather wait for one or even two years for delivery. To place an order.

The management of Songjiang Bell Company was extremely busy during the 40-year winter in Chengshun. They began to look for factories to expand more production capacity, search for more parts suppliers, etc., and strive to achieve the expected production next year. The production capacity will be greatly improved.

In order to meet the huge market demand, Songjiang Bell Company did not take too long annual leave during the Chinese New Year, only three days. If they voluntarily worked overtime during these three days, their wages would be paid three times.

When orders are fully booked, a large amount of money is lost every day the production line is stopped. In order to maintain production, workers are paid three times their wages during the Chinese New Year.

Seeing Songjiang Bell Company's mouth watering, several other refrigeration equipment companies became even more envious and jealous.

There are several refrigeration equipment companies, and they actually have some products. However, the performance is too poor, the reliability is also poor, and the market does not accept it at all. They can only receive some orders that Bell Company does not want... because There are no orders that cannot make money, and at the same time, research and development must continue. This research and development funds are flowing out every day, so several other refrigeration equipment companies are also suffering now.

Guanhua Machinery Company, backed by the giant Li's Steel Corporation, really entered the field of refrigeration equipment by acquiring a small refrigeration equipment company, but it also suffered from headaches due to technology research and development.

Songjiang Bell Company was several years ahead of schedule in the field of refrigeration, but their efforts in the past few years have allowed them to build a very tight patent protection wall.

Many of the important core components in refrigeration equipment have public patents or have been used in other industries, but there are also some components that were specially developed by Songjiang Bell Company for the purpose of developing refrigerants.

The former is like a compressor.

The latter such as expansion valve and evaporator.

Other refrigeration companies want to come up with parts with similar functions without infringing on patents. To be honest, it is not easy, and the results are very poor even if they barely come up with them.

In the face of the obstacle of basic core patents, Guanhua Machinery Company, which is backed by a behemoth like Li's Steel, also feels a headache.

Want patent authorization?This is impossible. It would be better to just buy Bell Company at a sky-high price... In fact, they have tried it before, but they didn't sell it.

Now... Bell's market value has been soaring continuously. The market value is seriously inflated, and the price-to-earnings ratio is hundreds of times. It is so high that even the head office, Li's Steel, has to stay silent.

It’s not that I can’t afford it, but that no one wants to be taken advantage of!

Many people in the market know that institutional capital from Linjiang North Road is hyping the concept of the refrigeration industry, attracting small and medium-sized investors to join the market, hoping to make a big profit.

In the middle of the year, the imperial tax agency launched a relatively severe crackdown on tax evasion and tax evasion in the financial industry, and many investment institutions received sky-high tax fines.

These institutions have been punished too harshly, so they want to take advantage of the New Year to harvest a wave of small and medium-sized investors, otherwise how can they celebrate the New Year... If Lee Iron and Steel really acquires Bell at the current market value, it might as well just give money to As for those institutional investors on Linjiang North Road, they can still sell favors...

Patent licensing is not possible, nor is acquiring companies, so we can only develop it ourselves, but research and development is not easy.

Of course, there is another illegal way, which is to infringe Bell's patent. But once this is done, Bell does not need to sue itself. The patrol police responsible for patent cases in the patrol agency will come directly to the door, and then file a public prosecution. I'll give you a super fine.

In order to encourage technological innovation, the Dachu Empire not only established a patent system, but also had a complete set of patent laws to maintain the patent system. The patrol agency also set up patrol police to handle patent cases.

Ordinary people make small quarrels, and these patent patrols are too lazy to pay attention and ignore them. But when companies infringe patents... people come to them every minute to improve their performance.

Guanhua Machinery Company will naturally not take this illegal path, but spend money on research and development.

This is still backed by a big tree. At the same time, it also has businesses such as air compressors for blood transfusion. At the same time, it previously acquired a small refrigeration equipment company and accumulated some technologies and patents through the acquisition of Guanhua Machinery Company.

It is very difficult for a company like this to carve out a viable path in the refrigeration industry, and it is even harder for other companies.

But the difficult road ahead cannot stop their determination to invest!
After all, the great success of Songjiang Bell Company lies ahead, and more and more industries are beginning to realize the role of refrigeration equipment, and the market demand is also growing.

The application prospects of refrigeration equipment in transportation, storage and industrial production are very large. Previously, meat transportation and fishery transportation were only part of it.

Even many professional factories that have a need for low temperature and constant humidity are now inquiring about refrigeration equipment and want to upgrade their factories to improve product quality and production efficiency.

With such a huge market, they will naturally not give up easily.

In fact, today's entire refrigeration industry, including the production and application industries of refrigeration equipment, is somewhat similar to the sudden explosion of the new cotton cloth market in previous years.

It is all because the emergence of a new type of equipment brought innovation to the entire industry, and then gave birth to a number of new large-scale enterprises, which promoted the reshuffle and development of many industries, and also gave birth to many rich people who rose up in this wave. , high-income group.

Sun Xu is the direct beneficiary group after the outbreak of new cotton cloth.

It only took him a few years to go from being an ordinary mechanic with a monthly income of only a few thousand yuan to becoming the chief of the mechanical maintenance department of the second branch of Anhua Textile Company and becoming a core engineer with an annual income of nearly [-] yuan.

Because of the changes in the cotton spinning industry, Sun Xu's life trajectory has also undergone great changes, from a low-level skilled worker to a member of the pseudo-upper class.

He has a private carriage and lives in a mansion and villa in the suburbs. There are many servants and maids waiting on him at home.

Life is much better for his parents and younger brother at home. His younger brother has been admitted to the Engineering Application Department of the School of Science of Shaanxi-Gansu University. After graduation, he will have good conditions for joining the officialdom or doing business.

College students in the Great Chu Empire are still very valuable... After all, the higher education in the Great Chu Empire is truly an elite education.

There are two types of college students: either children from the rich and powerful class, or talented students from the ordinary class.

The former is responsible for paying, and the latter is responsible for learning!
Sun Xu is also very happy that his younger brother can be admitted to Shaanxi-Gansu University. Even if he has to pay a lot of tuition, his younger brother has already performed well enough to be admitted to Shaanxi-Gansu University. However, in terms of scholarships, he only received a half scholarship. , don’t expect a full scholarship, it’s not to that extent.

Under the half scholarship, an additional tuition fee of about 200 yuan is required every year.

An ordinary family cannot afford this...

The younger brother has a good future, and his parents are in good health. However, his parents are not willing to leave their hometown to live with him in Songjiang, and his father is not willing to give up his half-life shoemaking business... Grandfather is in his hometown. He is also a high-level shoemaker with a good reputation. The average income of seven or eight yuan a month in the local area is considered upper-class income. He is not an ordinary low-level shoemaker.

Sun's father is not very young, only in his forties, and he still wants to continue to make his shoemaking business bigger and stronger.

Sun Xu had no choice but to let them go. In order not to overwork his father, he also helped his father to expand the size of the shoe store, hired some apprentices, and expanded the store's staff to about ten people. scale.

He still makes customized leather shoes and other high-end leather goods as before, but with more employees, he doesn't have to work as hard as his father did by making shoes himself as usual, and he makes more money.

Overall, life for his parents and younger brother back home has gotten better, and life for his father-in-law has also become much better.

His father-in-law is not in business, but is a civilian manager in a company. He has no intention of resigning to enjoy his life. He continues to do this job, but Sun Xu has not forgotten his father-in-law's family, and will send some things during every year and festival. In the past, when something happened, I would send money directly.

It didn't actually cost him much to take care of the family... After all, Chu Yuan was still very valuable, and his annual income was close to three thousand Chu Yuan.

In the past few years, most of his income has been basically spent on investment in fixed assets.

First, he paid off the loan for the villa he lived in, and then successively purchased two suburban residences. However, the largest investment was the purchase of a four-story apartment building in the city center of Beicheng District.

The reason why they only bought a house was because Sun Xu and Sun Mengshi, the couple, actually didn’t know how to do business. They were afraid of being cheated by finding others to form a partnership, so after much deliberation, in addition to buying some national bonds, the railway In addition to these marketable bonds, the remaining money is used to purchase real estate.

Sun Xu is still very optimistic about Songjiang's future. The population in this urban area is increasing day by day. People from outside must have a house to live in. Buying real estate for rent is also a very stable income.

As for making money by rising real estate prices, it is not reliable for the time being. After all, Songjiang City has passed the era of crazy price increases in the early years. Most of the real estate prices in Songjiang City today tend to be stable, with some fluctuations, but not by much. ...In addition, the corresponding taxes after the property is sold are also very high, and the price increase is not enough to pay the tax.

When Sun Xu purchased these properties, he focused more on preserving the value of the assets and earning some rent to subsidize his living expenses... His biggest dream is that his future rent income can cover his living expenses, and he can be a happy rent collector!
It's just not easy to do this... Although he already holds a lot of real estate and has some rental income, it's not enough!

After all, not all the rent income he gets can be spent. These rent incomes must first pay taxes.

In theory, real estate in the Dachu Empire must pay annual taxes. However, there are special preferential policies in rural areas and they are basically exempt from paying taxes. However, real estate in cities does not have this benefit and has to pay every year. Real estate prices The more expensive you are, the more you pay.

Therefore, the rent income from these real estates must first be used to pay taxes on the rent income itself. In the Dachu Empire, you have to pay taxes when you make money. Rent income is no exception, but the proportion is relatively low and the amount is small.

The bulk of the tax payment is the real estate tax that must be paid every year, and the remaining part is the after-tax income that Sun Xu can control.

More importantly, although the rent income is increasing, Sun Xu's various expenses are also increasing.

As the ultra-high income has been maintained for several years, the living consumption level has gradually trended towards other high-income groups, and the daily expenses of Sun Xu and his wife have also increased...

In the past, a hundred Chu Yuan expenditures a year were enough, but now it is several hundred Chu Yuan, and this expenditure is actually continuing to rise!

For example, as the child gradually crawls and walks after birth, the existing two maids at home are not enough, and they are not decent enough. Sun Xu plans to hire another maid to take care of the child. However, this year, he will have to increase his number by nearly one hundred yuan. expenditure.

Then the carriage at home was not enough. In the past, when he went out in the carriage, his wife had no use when going out. She could only take a taxi, which was somewhat inferior in front of other ladies.

So I also thought about buying another private carriage, even a smaller one-horse two-wheeled carriage, so that when two people need to use the carriage separately, they can both use it. However, this will cost dozens more in a year. What about Chu Yuan’s expenses?

If he wants to fully cover his current living expenses, Sun Xu must continue to work hard and purchase more properties.

According to Sun Xu's idea, at least he would have to buy another seven or eight apartments in the city center, so that the future rent income could maintain the current living standard after tax deduction.

A long way to go!

But when that time comes, I am afraid that the living expenses of Sun Xu's family will rise again... After all, when the assets reach a certain level and the interpersonal communication reaches a certain level, the expenses will naturally increase to a certain level.

Not to mention too much, now Sun Xuguang is socializing with a group of neighbors in the community, and the expenses for these favors are indispensable.

Unless you really hide at home and live behind closed doors every day, a lot of expenses may seem unnecessary, but you can't save them, and the higher your social circle is, the higher the corresponding expenses will be, just like the current Sun Same as Asahi.

When they first moved into Dongqin Community, the couple actually didn't spend much on daily life, but now they spend more and more.

(End of this chapter)