Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 603

This afternoon, Chen Yang did not go home after leaving school, but drove to a hotel in JA District.

Zhou Yugang invited Chen Yang to dinner here.

In the box, Zhou Yugang was already waiting for Chen Yang.

Although they were both in Shanghai, they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they didn't greet each other after they sat down. They drank a bottle of beer each.

"Xiao Chen, how are you doing?"

"I'm still the same, studying hard and making progress every day. First get a master's degree, and then get a doctorate degree."

Zhou Yugang sighed, "I'm envious, I'm jealous."

"Hey, stop it." Chen Yang said with a smile: "Paging me more than a dozen times, just to express envy and jealousy? Lao Zhou, are you fucking full?"

Zhou Yugang also smiled, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have something to discuss with you."

Chen Yang became alert, "Eating, drinking, bragging, anything is fine, but you can't talk about partnership, and you can't borrow money from me."

"Haha, that's the virtue you're obsessed with."

Chen Yang also chuckled, "I will definitely not do business in partnership. If you want to borrow money from me, then your friend won't do it either."

Zhou Yugang nodded again and again, "I know. You two, even if I go to the Bund to be a beggar, I won't break through."

"Hey, what's the matter?"

Zhou Yugang smiled wryly, "You guessed it right. The four of us, me, Ma Zhenguo, Li Xianhua and Li Xianming, we are going to break up."

Chen Yang smiled faintly, "It's normal. The four of you are all human spirits, and none of you will be willing to be inferior to others. If the four of you can unite as one, it will be called abnormal."

Zhou Yugang asked, "Xiao Chen, how did you find out?"

"Human nature, human nature."

"Be specific."

"It's human nature to be selfish and greedy."

Zhou Yugang was startled, "Am I the same?"

"Aren't you like that?"

"how about you?"

"So do I. All businessmen in the world are like this, otherwise you can't be a businessman."

Zhou Yugang said: "But some people make money in business and use it for charity. This shows that human nature has good times."

Chen Yang sneered, "Hmph, that's a discovery of conscience, what we're talking about is nature, not the same thing."

Zhou Yugang waved his hand, "Let's get down to business. The four of us divided into four families. Even Ma Zhenguo and I parted ways."

Chen Yang snorted, "You and Lao Ma are also separated? Li Xianhua and Li Xianming are brothers, and they are also separated?"

Zhou Yugang nodded, "Yes, Lao Ma and I withdrew from the construction company. The two brothers got the support of a state-owned enterprise and had sufficient funds. They compensated Lao Ma and me, and the compensation was reasonable. The old horse accepted it."

"Oh, and then the two brothers separated?"

"Yeah, what used to be one construction company has now become two."

Chen Yang smiled, "Shanghai's construction market is big enough, and the prospects are promising. It would not be too many to add another hundred construction companies."

Zhou Yugang said: "After we separated from the Li brothers, Lao Ma and I faced the same problem, whether to continue to cooperate or to work separately."

Chen Yang glanced at Zhou Yugang, "At this moment, your two wives played a role, prompting you two to make up your mind to separate and go it alone."

Zhou Yugang laughed, "Damn it, you guessed it right again."

"Hehe, keep talking."

"Lao Ma and I didn't want to break up at the beginning. But his wife wants to split up, and my wife wants to split up too. The two girls, with the same mind, want my brother to get involved."

Chen Yang nodded, "It's understandable, the fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields."

"Xiao Chen, you know. Neither of us has the courage to engage in the construction industry alone. That is, the steel business, we can do it well. But in recent years, I have found that the business is not easy to do. And the biggest one The problem is that you can’t get back what you paid on credit.”

Chen Yang hummed, "You owe me, I owe him, triangular debts bloom everywhere. Old Zhou, there is no way."

Zhou Yugang said: "So, Ma decided to continue the steel business, but I haven't made up my mind yet. I don't want to live too tiredly. Xiao Chen, I'm looking for you for this purpose. It's relatively easy to help me think about what business to do."

"Old Zhou, you said that well, I don't want to live too tired."

Zhou Yugang poured a glass of beer for Chen Yang, "Tell me, you are smart and knowledgeable, help me figure out a new way out."

Chen Yang drank first, then lit a cigarette, "Old Zhou, you can distinguish between debts and non-debts. Businesses in the world can only be divided into two types, one can be owed debts, and the other can't owe debts."

Zhou Yugang nodded while pouring wine for Chen Yang.

"Generally speaking, any wholesale business can be in arrears. As long as it starts, the trend of arrears will become more and more intense. Once it starts, it will be difficult to not be in arrears."

Zhou Yugang smiled wryly and said: "Our steel business is like this. We owe our suppliers seventy thousand plus 10,000, but those customers also owe us more than 90. It's like a fucking snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and the tail can't fall."

Chen Yang said: "But in the retail business, there is almost no debt. Why is this? This is because the customers that the retail business faces are a large number of individual consumers. It is like going to the station to buy a train ticket. You must pay in cash personally, but others Units can owe their debts, which is the difference between retail and wholesale."

Zhou Yugang said, "According to your opinion, I should be in retail business."

Chen Yang nodded and said: "Yes, just do retail business. If you are a retailer, consumers can't owe their debts, but when you go to wholesale, you can owe your debts. So in retail business, as long as you don't overstock , there will be no shortage of funds.”

Zhou Yugang asked: "Then what kind of retail business should we do?"

After thinking about it, Chen Yang asked, "Old Zhou, when you were on a business trip to the south, did you ever see a shopping mall called a supermarket?"

Zhou Yugang nodded, "I've seen it."

"Let's just be a supermarket. Try to open one first, and if it succeeds, then open a second and a third."

"Xiao Chen, are you sure?"

Chen Yang nodded, "Small shops in the countryside are all retail businesses that make a steady profit without losing money. The main secret is that there is no debt. Even if the daily turnover is only a hundred or ten yuan, the net profit is still 20 yuan. Yuan. A supermarket in a city is an enlarged version of a small grocery store.”

Zhou Yugang thought for a while.

"Listen to you, Xiao Chen, I will be a supermarket."

"Old Zhou, I wish you success."

Chen Yang buried himself in drinking and eating, and stopped talking.

But Zhou Yugang hesitated to speak, and still had something to say.

Chen Yang felt it, but he didn't raise his head.

"Xiao Chen, I have one more thing to do."

"Oh, you can talk and I can listen, but I can't guarantee that I can help you."

Zhou Yugang said: "It's like this. After I quit, my account with Lao Ma hasn't been settled yet, so I want you to come forward."

(End of this chapter)