The leisurely life of rebirth

Chapter 526 Everyone Wants a Bite

Zhou Guoqin has been having a headache recently.

People say that with great ability comes great responsibility.

I used to think it was a joke, but now I understand.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

For someone like me who seems to be a pseudo-capable person and is easy to bully, the responsibilities forced upon me by others become greater and greater.

Several waves of people have come to me, asking me to expand reproduction, expand the industrial chain, and continuously promote employment and GDP in the county.

The impact of the economic crisis has gradually become apparent. Although the farms are small in scale and their turnover is average, their profit levels are high.

It is already considered a leading enterprise in this small county. What is even more rare is that it never evades taxes and always pays taxes in full and on time. Gradually, it has become a star enterprise in the county.

Zhou Guoqin is already a provincial representative.

The entire village has a new look, especially the new rural construction that is being built, which is completely a spontaneous initiative of the villagers.

"Your market is already saturated, so you still need to expand the industrial chain. The county will strongly support you then!" The person in charge of the county seemed to live in the village, giving advice every day.

Those who know him are the leader, and those who don’t know him would think he is Zhou Guoqin’s deputy.

Zhou Guoqin was very helpless. If you have the ability, go find Zhou You. Why do you come to me? Can I decide? Can I develop well if I have the ability?

Everyone is very satisfied with life nowadays, and that is enough. No matter how greedy you are, you should think about whether you have the ability to do so.

"Leader, I'm a farmer and used to be a worker. I don't have any skills. It's not easy for me to maintain this situation. If I take too big a step, I'm afraid of being overwhelmed." Zhou Guoqin said half-jokingly.

"As for you, it's different now. Your identity is different too. You're a provincial representative, and what you do is visited and publicized every day. You've become the highlight of our county. But the county is under a lot of pressure right now, and fiscal revenue and expenditure are very difficult." The person in charge praised and flattered him while constantly complaining.

I was cursing in my heart. I had to do the job assigned by the top leader, and no one else was qualified.

The county does have a distinctive economy and distinctive fruits, but no one is willing to pay attention to them. No one spends energy to research, integrate, or take the initiative to go out.

This thankless job has been avoided by successive leaders, resulting in the county's pear industry being lukewarm and showing a downward trend.

Fruit brands in other places are constantly being created and their varieties are being updated.

We only have our own county, so we can only sell in the surrounding areas. No one will recognize products that are a little further away.

Everyone is thinking about achieving results quickly and then moving up the ladder. What they are doing is all about innovation, highlights, and the hope of promoting it nationwide.

"Puh." They are all just show-offs. They serve one party and cause trouble for the whole place. They get promoted and leave, leaving only a mess for the local people.

"Brother, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. We are both locals. It makes me sad to see the county become like this. There is such a good brand, but no one is doing it and building it. In a few years, I am afraid it will be completely gone!" He started to play the sympathy card.

Zhou Guoqin is no longer a newbie. Having worked in the village for so many years, he has gained more experience than he did in working outside for more than ten years.

Saying one thing and doing another are the most basic operations.

Whoever believes it is stupid!

The speeches at the meetings were all written by secretaries, and most of the time I just read them, and they weren’t fluent!
I have gotten rid of the fascination a long time ago. I used to be quite afraid of my boss, but now it really is. It's just a job, and my salary is not paid by my superiors. If it weren't for my family's business, who would do this?

"Leaders, that's your responsibility. You hold great power in the county. If you don't do something, how can you blame us ordinary people?"

"With great power comes great responsibility. As a leader, you can't be willful and do whatever you want."

"Let me just say this: our leaders asked us to grow specialty fruits, no problem. But I want to ask: who should we sell to? How should we sell? Who should we buy from? Who are our competitors? What are our advantages? How much investment do we need? Where can we hire experts? How many years do we expect to get our investment back? What if we lose money?"

Just a few words made Su Changyi blush.

Yes, the county just said one thing and asked people to do it, but they didn’t say anything else. When the time comes, if there are achievements, they are their own, and if there are losses, it will not be related to the county.

Yes, it’s a market behavior and the government can’t do anything about it.

There's nothing you can do. Don't sit here and stare at them every day. When they first started breeding, they didn't come to you.

As for using force?

It is not impossible to force the Zhou family to submit, but that would be an act of breaking off relations.

If it were an ordinary breeder, he might really use coercion or inducement, and the factory can't get away. To be honest, it won't have much impact on the county.

No one wants to do something that has no benefit.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand a policy, just think about who may benefit from it.

"Okay, I'm just complaining, don't take it personally, but business is not something you can do on a whim. If the boss says today, I have to do it tomorrow, but I don't have the ability to do that."

"I will talk to my brother and ask him to see if it is possible. Our farm is big enough. We started to raise livestock under the forest and we can eat more fruits than we can eat."

Su Changyi has been guarding here for so many days and finally gave in. Why doesn’t he go directly to find Zhou You?

Can't this be found?
I have been there, but the people there were not there. They were out playing all year round, and the excuse they gave to others was that it was an investment.

Others don’t know, but they have found a lot of information that the general public doesn’t know. The general public doesn’t know it, but they can still find it if they want to.

However, only a few leaders in the county know about this. If this matter gets out and people are forced to leave, who will take the responsibility?

Besides, he is not a soft persimmon that can be easily bullied. That industry and that layout are enough to scare anyone who sees it. No one expected that such a powerful person could emerge from a small county town.

Zhou Guoqin is not the focus, Zhou You is.

As long as he nods, there will be no problem selling the products. Even good wine will not sell if it is not well known, but what he controls is the traffic.

"Hey, thanks, brother. Even though we are big names in the county and have a glorious life, no one cares about us except for this little piece of land." Su Changyi complained.

Zhou Guoqin smiled and said, "There's an old saying that goes, 'If an official doesn't serve the people, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes, haha.'"

One sentence made the other person blush.

"I also know what the county is thinking, but to be honest, the reason why my brother Zhou You supports this farm is mainly to keep his parents from being bored at home. Otherwise, we can do anything."

Zhou Guoqin still had to say it out loud, meaning that at worst they could just go their separate ways.

Don't take it too far.

Know when to stop.

Zhou You actually knew about it, and they mentioned it to him later.

But I really didn't take it to heart.

To be honest, you don't make much money, and you have to deal with a lot of things out of nowhere. It will be very troublesome if any problems arise.

Fruit products are a long-standing problem. In the past, it was a problem of transportation and sales volume, and later it became a problem of product backlogs and people not being able to sell them.

There are too many products of the same type, so customers have more choices and become more and more picky.

As for those on their own site, most of them are used as welfare for employees and villagers and cannot be sold for much money.

Li Baoyin and Zhou Guoqin came to Luzhou together.

"Oh, Teacher Zhou, your place is becoming more and more prosperous." Li Baoyin praised as soon as they met.

Zhou You smiled and said, "I haven't changed in the past few years. How can you tell that I'm popular?"

"I see that the spirit and spirit of the employees are different." Li Baoyin was not embarrassed. He indeed found that there was a difference. They were becoming more and more confident, and a sense of ownership was emerging as a whole.

"I feel that it is a bit like the mental outlook of old employees of state-owned enterprises."

People become better with age.

It's absolutely true.

Young people today don’t have this feeling, but the elderly or people who travelled a lot all had this feeling.

The appearances of private enterprises, foreign enterprises and state-owned enterprises are different, and current state-owned enterprises are also different from those in the past.

The worker big brother is not just a slogan, it is the embodiment of the whole spirit. Let’s put it this way: the security guards inside are neither humble nor arrogant to others, and are even a little overconfident.

"Professor Li is indeed knowledgeable and his speaking skills are getting better and better." Zhou You had to admit that the old saying was very insightful.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhou Guoqin began to talk: "The county has approached me many times, but I refused. Later, they just lived in our village. What should we do now?"

Speaking of business, Li Baoyin also became serious. He came here today for this matter.

There was no other way. Their school was in a related industry, and since he became famous in the school, many teachers asked him to see if there was a suitable opportunity to do something together.

However, there are not many such opportunities, or even very few.

"What do you think, Professor Li?" Zhou You asked.

Li Baoyin shook his head: "I know a little about breeding, but I don't know anything about the fruit industry. We are mainly engaged in fruit cultivation and research and development, but what people want now is the market, which cannot be created out of thin air."

"However, I can introduce a few experts and we can discuss it together."

Zhou Guoqin was also confused, but it was better than when he first started breeding. At least he was no longer panicked.

"How about this, Professor Li goes to find the experts first, and big brother goes with him to listen. Then we can invite more experts and professors to conduct field investigations, and call everyone in the county to join the investigation." Zhou You thought.

"We still have to have the necessary attitude, but after all, it is an investment. We need to understand the situation of the entire county, where the difficulties are, where the solutions are, where the pain points are, and what the highlights and features are."

"We have nothing now. We are completely in the dark and have no way to start."

Zhou Guoqin nodded: "That's what I said at the beginning. Now let's go back and sort out all the data and then take a look at it in person."

"Well, I have a general idea, but it's not clear yet. However, forget about replanting. We can only focus on deep processing and making high-quality products. The market competition is already very fierce, and there is no point in expanding the scale of planting." Zhou You said.

The same will be true in the future, at least in the general environment.

People are not short of good fruit, they are just short of people who will buy them.

Later, didn’t a citrus fruit stand out? It was all because of publicity. But gradually, it became just like any other product.

Li Baoyin became interested and asked curiously, "Teacher Zhou, do you have a good solution?"

Zhou You shook his head: "No, the current contradiction is very clear. It is not a problem of production, but a problem of selling. Commodities are already seriously saturated. This is the case in all walks of life. In the future, whoever can sell the goods will make money."

"Yes, when our school was in the past, many teachers were outside providing technical guidance and integrating production, education and research. In recent years, they have mostly been doing experiments and have rarely gone out to provide guidance. This is a generally mature industry and we can no longer carry out barbaric production." Li Baoyin sighed.

It is now much easier to develop a new variety than before, but there is no market for it.

No one dares to take the huge risk to develop a new variety or a new battlefield. Everyone is fighting fiercely on the existing track, and this does not include imported foreign fruits.

Then, a few people talked about the farm.

Now that it has matured, we are fortunate to be able to maintain the current situation and build up the brand.

With information so developed, we have not noticed that listed breeding companies are struggling to survive. All the money earned in the past few years may be lost if they are not careful.

The idea of ​​becoming bigger, stronger and creating greater glory has long been gone. After experiencing the sudden outbreak of avian influenza, what everyone wants now is stability.

It's good to be content with a small fortune.

Sales are good now and there is no backlog, which saves the need for subsequent deep processing. Otherwise, if more deep processing equipment is added, the investment will only increase.

With tens of thousands of dollars a year, everyone is very content.

Net profit.

Meng Yuliang has already prepared everything. After so much trouble, they could have started work right away.

But Zhou You was not in a hurry and insisted that all the supporting facilities be in place before he agreed to start construction.

If the boss wasn't so wealthy, everyone would almost suspect that the company would go bankrupt.

In fact, Zhou You is really not in a hurry and does not expect to make money. He just wants to use it as a cover. There is really not much difference between opening early and opening late.

That is to say, the initial investment was relatively large and the business was conducted in a more formal manner.

With all the qualifications including environmental protection, fire protection, sanitation, etc., it can be said to be a model of standard factory management.

And the requirements for travel are relatively high. Medical masks require higher qualifications, including medical surgical masks, medical protective masks, and disposable ordinary medical masks, which also have many styles.

The same is true for medical disinfection.

Meng Yuliang was really scared. The request was too high, and he didn't know who to sell it to.

He really couldn't understand the boss's thinking. It didn't seem like a serious job at all. However, he had invested so much and the raw materials were piled up.

The same is true for the storage room, which is very well built.

For such a simple product line, this configuration is luxurious.

There are also occupational disease protection, dust protection, and dangerous goods protection, all of which are in place, and every new employee undergoes a special occupational disease physical examination.

I always feel like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

How much does it have to sell for to make a profit?
(End of this chapter)