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Chapter 2194 Rabbit Fur Storm

However, Zhao Shucheng could not directly tell the villagers about his guess. Instead, he had to do it calmly to avoid causing too big a chain reaction.

If we were to say who was the first to sense this change, it would have to be Lao Hou. After all, as the person in charge of the rabbit fur purchasing station in the village, he was the first person to come into contact with the price of rabbit fur.

Previously, the wool spinning mill had to pay a large sum of money every month to purchase rabbit hair, and it could even be said that the daily turnover was a large sum of money. However, as the price of rabbit hair soared, the wool spinning mill did not pay more money to the purchasing station, and even required it to purchase at the previous price.

This naturally could not satisfy the breeders. After all, the price difference was very large, and they even made a scene at the rabbit fur purchasing station.

The old monkey did find Zhao Shucheng for this reason, but facing the tough Zhao Shucheng, he had no way to deal with him.

However, the old monkey started to think about it. Xiao Lei’s woolen mill may not want rabbit hair, but the woolen mill in Magic City should not have this problem.

He simply sold everything he had, including his savings and the dividends from Xiao Lei's family over the years, and bought the rabbit fur at a high price, intending to resell it to Shanghai.

Song Yunping and the person in charge of the wool spinning mill went directly to Zhao Shucheng when they learned that Zhao Shucheng had asked people to lower the purchase price of rabbit hair from the wool spinning mill, and even that Lao Houhou was preparing to go it alone.

"Dongbao, are you just going to watch the old monkey do whatever he wants? Our purchasing station is a village enterprise, not his own."

"Yes, Dongbao, isn't the purchase price of rabbit fur a bit low? The breeding farm and the breeders in the village are beginning to have complaints."

Zhao Shucheng looked at Song Yunping and said, "You don't know the specific situation, so you are crying out for justice here. Zhengming, you should know that the export price of rabbit hair has fluctuated since the beginning of the year, and even those customers have recently asked for a price reduction, right?"

"Yes, they want to lower the price and make more money for themselves. We don't have to follow their requirements."

Zhao Shucheng couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Zhengming, if you think like this, I think you are unqualified as the director of the wool spinning mill. At least you don't understand the market and have no sense of crisis."

"If it is a request from a certain customer, we can regard it as the other party being greedy, but if it is all customers, then it is not the other party's problem, but our products are starting to have problems. Even if there is no problem with our quality, at least it shows one thing, that is, our pricing is starting to have problems. The other party asked for a price reduction, and it was done at the same time, which can only mean that the price of rabbit hair in the international market has fluctuated, which has caused the price of wool spinning mills to fluctuate as well."

"Why do I want to lower the price of the purchasing station, or even restore it to the previous price, is to calm the villagers down, so that we don't have to follow other purchasing stations and put our own funds on it, which will eventually become irreversible."

Song Yunping asked worriedly, "But at this price, not to mention outsiders, even the villagers are not willing to sell rabbit hair to the wool spinning factory. What about our production?"

"It's not a big problem. I remember there's still a lot of rabbit hair in the wool spinning mill's warehouse. It should be enough to last for a while, right?"

Lei Zhengming nodded and said, "Yes, Secretary. According to your previous arrangement, our wool spinning mill warehouse must keep enough production materials for half a year to avoid affecting the wool spinning mill's production due to other reasons."

Zhao Shucheng looked at the crowd outside and said, "Then we will continue production as usual, but the purchase price will still be the same as two years ago, 40 yuan per kilogram."

"Dongbao, is the price too low?"

"No, actually, starting from July 15, the foreign trade department has adjusted the purchase price of domestic rabbit fur. Special grade is only 72 yuan, grade 1 is 60 yuan, grade 2 is 48 yuan, grade 3 is 36 yuan, and other grades are 18 yuan. We are just following the market. If the villagers don't understand, they can sell it to other purchasing stations."

Zhao Shucheng knew very well that the rise in rabbit hair prices was only temporary. By next year, the price would plummet and even return to its previous price, and this price would continue for a long time.

Seeing Zhao Shucheng's determination, Song Yunping and Lei Zhengming could only sigh and leave.

At first, Lao Hou was worried that Song Yunping would have objections to the wool spinning factory, but when he saw that Zhao Shucheng did not try to stop him, he immediately started to buy rabbit hair. In the end, he even did not have enough capital, so he could only write IOUs and prepare to settle the bill after the rabbit hair was sold.

When the local Angora rabbit farmers in Xiaolei's family saw that Lao Houhuan had started to write IOUs, they immediately began to have doubts. After all, Zhao Shucheng had always insisted on cash payment and spot goods over the years, and never defaulted on payments. Now Lao Houhuan was writing IOUs, and although Lao Houhuan said that there was no problem, they were still unreliable.

In the end, Xiao Lei's family chose to sell the rabbit hair directly to the wool spinning mill. Although the price was lower, it was at least safer.

But people from other villages thought differently. They thought that the old monkey represented the purchase by Xiao Lei's family. They thought that Xiao Lei's family was rich and there would be no problem, so they took the IOU and left the rabbit fur.

When Zhao Shucheng found out, the old monkey had already rushed to the Magic City with the rabbit fur, ready to make a fortune.

However, what the old monkey didn't expect was that when he arrived in Shanghai, he found out that the purchase price of rabbit fur here was almost the same as his own purchase price. Not only did he not make any money on this trip, but after taking into account the freight, his original capital would be lost.

He was somewhat unwilling to accept the fact, thinking that the prices here were abnormal, so he walked around to see if there was a woolen mill that offered higher prices.

Unfortunately, the old monkey was disappointed. These woolen mills seemed to have discussed it beforehand and offered similar prices. Moreover, they did not settle in cash, but paid part in cash and the rest in a while. In fact, these companies are the ones who are most sensitive to the market, so the price of purchasing raw materials naturally follows the market.

However, buyers like Lao Hou who are not very well-informed naturally don’t know about changes in the external market and still dream of making a fortune. As a result, they are naturally stuck with goods.

The old monkey was now at a loss. He had to hurry back to Xiao Lei's house. After all, he had been outside all the time. If the rabbit fur got wet in the car on a rainy day, it would be bad.

Finally, the old monkey gritted his teeth and agreed to sell the rabbit hair at the price given by the wool spinning mill, and returned to Xiao Lei's house somewhat dejected. Other people in the village saw that the old monkey looked a little strange, and asked the driver for information. When they learned that the price of rabbit hair in the Magic City was just like that, they were glad that they sold the rabbit hair directly to the wool spinning mill, otherwise they didn't know when they could get the money.

The news of the old monkey's return quickly spread from Xiao Lei's family, and immediately those who had previously held IOUs began to come to the door and demand payment.

But the old monkey simply couldn't come up with so much money, so naturally he couldn't cash it all out. Later on, those people even wanted to rob the old monkey's house.

Zhao Shucheng knew that this would not work, so he asked Lei Shigen to call the old monkey and all the creditors to the village committee and come up with a solution for them.

One way is for Lao Hou to write an IOU now, and then pay them back one by one after the wool spinning mill in Magic City pays the money. Or Xiao Lei's team can help Lao Hou to pay back the money, and the money will be deducted from Lao Hou's dividends. When all the deductions are completed, the dividends will continue to be paid.

The old monkey actually wanted to delay, but Zhao Shucheng and his creditors did not give him time to delay and directly decided that the village would help him pay off the debt and deduct it from his dividends.

Of course, Zhao Shucheng also announced on the spot that Lao Houhou would be dismissed from his position as the director of the rabbit fur purchasing station and asked to work as the director of the village orchard. As for the purchasing station, it was handed over to Sibao, and the price would be based on the purchase price of the village wool spinning mill.

In order to avoid the recurrence of the situation like Lao Hou, Zhao Shucheng directly announced that the purchasing station would only purchase at the wool spinning mill's purchase price in the future. No one could use the village purchasing station to seek personal gain. Once discovered, they would be dismissed and even their dividends from Xiao Lei's family would be cancelled.

Of course, Zhao Shucheng did not reject the villagers' own fortune, so they could open their own purchasing stations, but they could not use the name of the Xiaolei family, and the Xiaolei family would not bear any responsibility for their losses. If they owed foreign debts, they could only repay them themselves, and they could not even use the village's dividends to repay the debts.

Many people think that Zhao Shucheng is somewhat unkind, but there are also people who support Zhao Shucheng and believe that others should not be allowed to take advantage of Xiao Lei's family.

For once, the old monkey felt a little depressed and didn't even understand why things had developed to this point.

The old branch secretary also came to ask Zhao Shucheng what had happened.

When Zhao Shucheng told the old branch secretary the information he had learned, the other party immediately laughed and went to find the old monkey to make fun of him.

The old monkey didn't know at first, but after the old branch secretary explained the situation, he immediately slapped his thigh in regret. This time he had spent all his money, but in the end he got nothing, and even lost the dividends of the village for several years. He could only live on the salary of the orchard director.

Zhao Shucheng didn't care about the old monkey's idea. Since he knew that the price of rabbit hair was going to drop significantly, he naturally couldn't just sit there and watch. Although he couldn't buy all the rabbit hair, and even his wool spinning factory's products had to be reduced in price, Zhao Shucheng was unwilling to accept this.

So he began to study the equipment of the wool spinning mill, preparing to expand the wool spinning products of Xiaoleijia Woolen Mill on the original basis. Now there are only blankets, carpets, wool yarn and fabrics. But Zhao Shucheng hopes to develop double-faced wool, shirts, suits and other clothing and other products to enhance the product value and, by the way, enhance the brand value again.

After all, rabbit fur is soft and friendly to human skin, suitable for making thin underwear, and even has the function of skin care. Because of its good dyeing effect, it can be made into various gorgeous, luxurious and elegant clothing.

Of course, Zhao Shucheng has other plans. If the current products cannot be exported, he will try to export them domestically. After all, Xiao Lei's products have been very popular in China before. It's just that because Xiao Lei has always been engaged in foreign trade, the country is flooded with products pretending to be Xiao Lei's brand. It would be better to let Xiao Lei make them themselves.

The failure of Lao Hou's investment was actually a good thing for Xiao Lei's family. The angora rabbit farmers in the village were relieved when they learned that the price of rabbit hair outside was similar to the price offered by the wool spinning factory.

The purchase price of rabbit hair in the entire Jinling County basically follows that of the wool spinning mill. Seeing that the old monkey returned with failure, other buyers naturally would not be so stubborn as to think that they were different and they all lowered their prices.

Of course, it is not so friendly for those who are planning to raise Angora rabbits this year. They just invested a large amount of money and were ready to make a fortune, but they did not expect the price to plummet. Some farmers even wanted to sell their rabbits, but found that the price of Angora rabbits also began to drop, and they felt a little bit frustrated.

However, because the wool spinning mill has been purchasing rabbit wool all year round, those people did not release the angora rabbits directly. They could only continue breeding with the hope of making a profit.

When Chen Pingyuan learned that Xiao Lei's wool spinning factory had lowered the purchase price of rabbit hair, he specifically found Zhao Shucheng, hoping to raise the purchase price so that breeders across the county could earn more money and achieve more political achievements.

  Zhao Shucheng did not agree, and even almost quarreled with the other party. It was impossible for Zhao Shucheng to let the wool spinning factory do a loss-making business to satisfy the other party's personal interests. Moreover, even if he could help him this year, would he continue to make a loss to gain publicity next year?

Seeing Zhao Shucheng was so disrespectful, Chen Pingyuan said unhappily, "Dongbao, you can't let the Lei family eat meat and let others drink soup, right? The purchase price of rabbit hair from other places is more than 100 per kilogram, and you only pay more than 40, which is more than double the price."

"Director Chen, you can't say that. We have no choice. After all, the purchase price of rabbit fur is not decided by us. If they think the price is not suitable, they can sell it to other buyers. We don't mind at all."

Chen Pingyuan was speechless when he heard this. After all, if he could really sell it to other people, he would not have come to Zhao Shucheng.

In fact, the decline in the price of rabbit hair in Jinling County is not only due to the fact that there are buyers from other places coming to Jinling County to purchase rabbit hair, but also because some local breeders sell it to other places themselves.

But there is a problem here, that is, those purchasing stations do not have enough funds, so most of them issue IOUs, which makes people in the county afraid to take risks.

After all, the lesson from the old monkey had spread throughout the county, and only merchants from other places were still unaware of it. The old monkey cashed in the IOU because of the help from the Lei family, but the farmers didn't think that the purchasing stations from other places would also cash in, and they might even lose all their money after the price collapsed.

Seeing that Zhao Shucheng was determined not to agree, Chen Pingyuan had no choice but to return the same way. However, he also formed an opinion about Zhao Shucheng and Xiao Lei's family. He felt that he could not rely on Xiao Lei's family in the future and needed to look for new partners.

Zhao Shucheng naturally didn't know what Chen Pingyuan was thinking, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. The Xiaolei family couldn't change their development path because of one person, but instead gradually got rid of their reliance on others and embarked on the path of independent development.