The leisurely life of the reborn daddy

At the Xinjiang Wuqi Office, Hu Yong had just returned from outside. He had been running to the Changji Apple Base for the past two days.

After September, around October is the time when apples are harvested.

This year, many large apple growers in Changji bought a large amount of nutrient solution and sprayed it, and the effect is obvious.

The apples ripened a little earlier than in previous years, and the growth condition of the apple trees was much better than in previous years, so the apple yield also increased.

This kind of apple is indeed the best raw material for producing preserved fruits, but everyone wants to raise the price. After all, they purchase a large amount of nutrient solution, and the current planting cost has increased a lot compared with previous years. This is the norm in the market and a very normal thing. It is not affected by anyone's will at all.

Moreover, in the past few years, the price of Xinjiang apples has fallen to the bottom, from a high of about 12 yuan per kilogram to about 5 yuan per kilogram. The losses from this drop are also borne by the fruit farmers.

So it is normal that Apple's prices have bottomed out and rebounded since last year.

Hu Yong started to learn how to negotiate with others for apple purchases from Lian Qijian last year, and he has also come to understand the operating rules of this market.

In addition, the company now has its own research and judgment team, and their price operation budget for Apple in the market is also similar.
If this were the case, there would be no problem for everyone to cooperate normally.

But these two days Hu Yong went to the Changji Apple Base and chatted with the major apple growers there. They told him one thing: in addition to him collecting apples, there are also other people who are purchasing apples in large quantities.

There are also other fruit vendors who are buying apples in large quantities. The price they are offering now is slightly higher than the price that these fruit farmers sell to the Xinjiang Wuqi Office of Xuemeng Food Factory, but not much higher.

This gave Hu Yong a very intuitive impression that someone was deliberately suppressing them in terms of price, and even disrupting their normal acquisition behavior.

This incident made Hu Yong very angry.

After thinking about it, Hu Yong called his superior, purchasing manager Lian Qijian, and told him about the anomaly.

After all, Hu Yong's intuition told him that the other party was too targeted and might have ill intentions. If this was true, the company should take precautions early.

After the call, Hu Yong realized that his intuition was correct and that someone might really have done this in secret.

Lian Qijian told Hu Yong on the phone that a foreign investor had come to their city and had acquired their local Hongda Agricultural Products Processing Factory. It was now recruiting employees and purchasing raw materials including apples.

Hu Yong was a little confused when he heard Lian Qijian say this. He did not get the information from the company at the first time, which caused an information gap problem. Fortunately, he received a kind reminder from the fruit farmers at the first time and keenly noticed the abnormality.

But then, what to do next?
Hu Yong is thinking about this issue.

Just now, Lian Qijian told Hu Yong on the phone to wait a moment, and Lian Qijian would report to his boss immediately.

According to Hu Yong's idea, he couldn't just wait for his boss's advice at this time, he also needed to consider how to work next.

If he relies on his boss this time and still relies on his boss next time, then he himself will not grow at all, which is also a terrible thing.

"Why don't I invite Adilijiang and the others to have a meal together, and we can sit down and have a chat to see what they think?" This was the first thing Hu Yong thought of.

Ultimately, at this special time, Hu Yong feels that he should listen to the ideas of these fruit farmers.

At the same time, he also wanted to explain the company's attitude to Adilijiang and others to test their psychological bottom line.

Will you continue to cooperate?
Or do they also follow the market economy, selling to people who buy at high prices and making a few extra cents.

But Hu Yong had a hunch that the company would not raise the purchase price because of this incident.

If the purchase price is really raised because of this kind of thing, then they will be very passive in the future, and this is very disadvantageous for the company.

Hu Yong felt that if even he had thought of the consequences, there would be so many talented people in the company who would not have failed to think of it.

Especially the boss, will he really compromise?
Hu Yong was also suspicious about another thing. According to what his manager Lian Qijian had just said on the phone, the products made by Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., which had just been acquired by foreign capital, were previously sold at very low-end prices in the market. They also took a mid-to-low-end route and were not sold at high prices.

At this time, it was suddenly acquired by the American Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. Does it mean that after changing its skin, the company's products have really become high-end products in the market?

They need Hongda Agricultural Trade's channels, but the channel prices of Hongda Agricultural Trade are fixed. If the prices are suddenly raised, even the channel parties and consumers may not pay for it.

If they pay, the company's products will be sold at a high price in the market, and even if their purchase price is a little higher, there will still be profits. In this case, they can develop for a long time.

But if the market doesn't buy it, their products are not recognized in the market and cannot be sold at a high price. At that time, the purchase price of their raw materials is so high, and there is no profit to support their sustainable development, then how long can they last?

This is a very critical question.

Hu Yong kept thinking.

He has been working at Xuemeng Food Factory for three years. He started out working with a construction team and then became a loader at Xuemeng Food Factory. Later, the company saw his efforts and began to consciously train him.

Let him become a manager, and through various on-site training or professional third-party external training, let him quickly get in touch with various content that he had never been exposed to before. Under this circumstance, Hu Yong's vision and knowledge also grew rapidly.

Moreover, Hu Yong knew that it was a rare opportunity for him to get this kind of opportunity. He was different from others, so when he was studying, no matter which stage of training he was in, Hu Yong was very serious and did not dare to be careless at all.

In addition, he later moved to other departments, especially learned sales and procurement business from Lian Qijian. These two areas directly raised Hu Yong's cognitive ceiling and made him jump from a layman who knew nothing to a leader.

When he thinks about a problem now, he will consider the overall situation instead of just one aspect. For Hu Yong, the benefits of this are obvious.

He can now think of so many follow-up issues based on one thing, but he would never think about it in this direction before, and he didn't even have this concept at all.

Therefore, Hu Yong was not completely unsure about what he was going to discuss with Adilijiang and others tomorrow. He was thinking that he must analyze this issue thoroughly when he met them tomorrow.

It also tells Adilijiang and others not to just focus on the small profits in front of them.

Just like Adilijiang and his team have always had such a smooth cooperation with Xuemeng Food Factory, they don't have to worry about anything. As long as the apples come down, Xuemeng Food Factory will take the apples away and then pay them.

When they sold apples before, it was never as satisfying as it is now.

If they cooperated with others and cut off contact with Xuemeng Food Factory because the price offered by the other party was a few cents higher, would they really be able to purchase such a large quantity of apples like Xuemeng Food Factory?
Hu Yong is not a person who knows nothing now. On the contrary, he understands the truth.

The reason why Xuemeng Food Factory dares to buy so many apples in large quantities is because their production capacity is there.

Last year’s sales reached over 80 billion, and this year’s sales are expected to exceed 100 billion.

As sales increase, their production is also increasing rapidly, which is a reflection of the strength of Xuemeng Food Factory.

The production capacity of the former Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. cannot be compared with that of Xuemeng Food Factory. To be frank, they cannot even compare with the production capacity of Xuemeng Food Factory No. 10 and No. combined, let alone the No. factory which has times the production capacity.

How could they possibly purchase such a large amount of fruit raw materials?
Now that they have given this high price and spread this price to the market, Hu Yong feels that this is most likely done on purpose, just to keep the high price there so that some fruit farmers who have no analytical ability would rather wait to sell at a high price than be willing to sell the apples to Xuemeng Food Factory.

In Hu Yong's opinion, this was a naked conspiracy and a strategy of the other party to disgust Xuemeng Food Factory.

……

In the evening, Cao Shujie was playing with his daughter and son in the bedroom on the second floor. Together they were researching and developing other functions of the Xiaomi smart speaker.

Mengmeng and Cao Yirui, a brother and sister, clapped excitedly when they saw that their father had developed a new function for the Xiaomi smart speaker.

In their eyes, Cao Shujie is an absolute hero.

Cheng Xiaolin was very envious of this, but it was useless as she didn't understand anything about it.

After her husband, daughter and son were not at home, Cheng Xiaolin secretly played with the Xiaomi smart speaker for a day, but she was sad to find that the upper limit of her development of the Xiaomi smart speaker was her narrow thinking.

She couldn't think of any new features, but Cheng Xiaolin would not admit that.

"How did Shujie know this?" Cheng Xiaolin was now eager to know this.

But Cao Shujie just smiled and said nothing more.

Later, when Cheng Xiaolin saw how devoted the three of them were to the game, she joined in.

When the family of four was having fun, Cao Shujie's cell phone rang.

"You guys play first, I'm going to take a call." Cao Shujie said to his daughter and son.

The two little guys were not happy, but they also knew that their dad must be busy with something.

With their mother playing with them, the two of them had a lot of fun.

Cao Shujie went to the small room outside and answered the phone.

Listening to Lian Qijian telling him what happened in Xinjiang Changji, Cao Shujie really didn't expect that someone had set his sights on that place.

He is not sure whether the other party is from Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. or other fruit wholesalers.

But no matter what, this matter still needs to be taken seriously.

Xinjiang Changji Apple Base has always been an important supplier of fruit raw materials for the company.

Their company purchases a very large amount of apples there every year.

Cao Shujie and Lian Qijian chatted for about 20 minutes before hanging up the phone.

When Cao Shujie came to the bedroom again, he saw his wife and his sister and brother were still developing new functions for the Xiaomi smart speaker. He thought to himself that his wife also had such an addiction.

"Okay, it's too late today. Let's play tomorrow." Cao Shujie said to the three of them.

Cheng Xiaolin came to her senses and saw that it was already past 10 o'clock. Both Mengmeng and Ruirui wanted to go to bed. She felt a little embarrassed. Some time ago, she said that Mengmeng was addicted. This time, even she was a little obsessed.

While waiting for Mengmeng to reluctantly put down the smart speaker and go to sleep in the next room, Cao Yirui watched unwillingly as his mother put away his smart speaker as well. Only then did he lie down on the bed and fell asleep soon after.

"Who called you? Why did you talk for so long? Is the matter serious?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her husband.

Cao Shujie told her what Lian Qijian had said on the phone.

After listening to this, Cheng Xiaolin also realized the seriousness of the matter.

She also asked Cao Shujie: "Do you want to go to Changji in person to meet with some of your friends there and have a chat?"

Cao Shujie shook his head. He felt that things had not yet reached that point.

Moreover, he had just conveyed his ideas to Lian Qijian on the phone, and he believed that Lian Qijian could convey them perfectly to Hu Yong. Now it depended on whether Hu Yong could execute them well.

……

After Lian Qijian hung up the phone with Cao Shujie, he immediately called Hu Yong. Lian Qijian was thinking about conveying his boss Cao Shujie's ideas to him, but Hu Yong first told him his plan for tomorrow.

At the same time, Hu Yong also explained his analysis and the pros and cons to Lian Qijian clearly.

Hu Yong didn't know that Lian Qijian was surprised when he expressed his thoughts.

Hu Yong's analysis and ideas coincided with what his boss Cao Shujie had just told him on the phone.

There are just slight differences in the details. From this perspective, Lian Qijian suddenly became more confident about Hu Yong's negotiation with Adilijiang and others tomorrow.

After Hu Yong finished speaking, Lian Qijian conveyed Cao Shujie's original idea to him. He also joked, "Director Hu, that's great. Your ideas are 80% consistent with the boss's. Work hard. In two years, the boss may transfer you back and use you for another important position."

Lian Qijian was not making this statement out of context. He felt that Hu Yong's insight just now showed that his level was already up to par. It was only a matter of time before he was transferred back and placed in a more important position.

Lian Qijian supports Hu Yong's decision to take on other jobs.

In a sense, the two of them are in the same group.

As for saying that there are no factions within the company, that is simply impossible.

If we look at Xuemeng Food Factory as a whole, Cao Shujie is the boss, Wang Zhifeng, Shi Jingxiu, and the previous purchasing manager Xiang Zhengyan are all old-school figures, then he is a new-school figure.

In fact, this invisible artificial division always exists no matter where it is.

Lian Qijian felt that he was alone and weak, and he also needed someone to support him. (End of this chapter)