Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 111 A sudden storm
It didn't rain that night after all.

It is conceivable that tomorrow will continue to be so hot and humid.

When he woke up in the morning, Cao Yukun was holding a little cutie in his arms. He leaned over and thrust into her. After a few thrusts, she woke up in a daze, acting coquettishly and dodging, "Husband, no more..."

Cao Yukun smiled and let her turn over and continue sleeping, then he got out of bed.

Go out for a run, do some boxing.

Since traveling through time, regardless of how rich he has become, his physical fitness has always been maintained quite well - of course, Cao Yukun feels that this is probably not related to the fact that he pays a lot of attention to exercise, but mainly because he is young.

Able to eat and sleep, immune to all diseases.

While eating breakfast, Zhou Aimin was still worried, and cautiously asked again about what happened last night in a chatty tone, mostly all the same old questions.

Of course, her main concern was not Li Qingxia, but the other two beauties.

Perhaps in her opinion, Li Qingxia was too old and her husband would not be interested in her.

"Why do you care about me? You want to marry into a rich family, right? I'm definitely not rich!"

"But my husband is so handsome!"

"Tsk, a wealthy family, do you know what a wealthy family is? They drive luxury cars, have servants everywhere, live in a big villa, and are the boss of a listed company... What about me? I rent a house and take a taxi to go and back!"

"Hahaha! My dear husband, you really love to make fun of yourself!"

Well, it seems that I am relieved - in fact, I understand her concerns.

Cao Yukun has not been in Hongkong for long and does not know much about the Hongkong entertainment circle. In fact, in his previous life, he only listened to songs and watched old Hong Kong movies. He does not know much about what is going on inside their entertainment circle. However, even so, he has heard about how intimidating Guan and Li are to the wealthy circles and ladies' circles in Hongkong today. Guan debuted earlier and Li has only been in the industry for less than two years, but the two of them have long been known as super invincible vixens that the wives of the wealthy families in Hongkong hate and are extremely wary of!

Both of them are not very interested in young handsome guys, they only like rich people and want to marry into a wealthy family!
Just talking about appearance...they are indeed qualified.

It's just that Cao Yukun had never paid attention to their gossip in his previous life, so he didn't know whether they got what they wanted later - it must not have been easy. Their attitude of being willing to date anyone with money seemed too cheap. Although the wealthy family of Hongkong had limited background and were just businessmen who had made some money in the past thirty to fifty years, it was highly unlikely that they would be so tasteless as to marry such a person.

But there are definitely a lot of people who want them to be their concubines.

"I'm leaving! I'll call you at noon! Love you! Mmmmm, Mmmmm, I'm leaving!"

"Bye-Bye!"

After seeing her off and closing the door, Cao Yukun slowly changed his clothes and went out.

…………

In early July, an interesting thing happened in Hongkong.

In a variety talk show on wireless TV, the guests somehow turned the topic to a beverage that has become popular in Hong Kong recently, that is, Qinyuan brand plum juice, which is now popular among Hong Kong people for a long time.

As a result, one of the guests accidentally let slip that the reason why the drink tastes so good is actually not related to their recipe. He said that the recipe is actually very common and maybe they stole it from someone selling sour plum juice on the street. It's possible! The real reason why the drink tastes so good is actually the special water - it is said that the water used to produce the drink is glacial meltwater specially taken from Tianshan Mountain and the First Plateau. It is a very special oxygen-rich water and rich in various trace elements.

Of course it tastes good!

Drinks are almost all water! Tasty water is the basis of good drinking!

After the show was aired, it did not receive much response.

But only two days later, the producer of Qinyuan brand plum juice, Hongkong Yiren Kangyin Co., Ltd., filed a lawsuit against this well-known guest in Hongkong!
They said he spread rumors and slandered Qinyuan brand plum juice, claiming that the recipe of the plum juice was of irregular origin, which constituted defamation. They demanded that the other party make a public apology and compensate for the loss of reputation by HK$1!

The guest was furious and accused Yiren Kangyin of making false accusations during an interview with the media. He said he was just discussing it casually and did not say for sure that the recipe of sour plum juice was definitely stolen.

Mr. Fang Zhihao, Deputy General Manager of Yiren Kangyin, then angrily refuted this statement in front of the media. He solemnly pointed out that a public figure must be responsible for every word he says in public, especially in the media, and cannot use words such as "maybe", "perhaps", "perhaps" to slander facts and then deny them afterwards. This is a betrayal of public trust and irresponsible behavior!

In short, the two sides started a verbal battle all of a sudden!
Immediately, many media outlets followed up with the report. Within just a day or two, the matter suddenly became a hot topic among the common people in Hongkong and became the focus of everyone's discussion.

The wireless station even struck while the iron was hot and launched a temporary program, inviting professional doctors and several experts in nutrition, water quality testing, etc. - who knows if they are experts, anyway, they said they are - everyone sat down together to discuss what oxygen-rich water is, what is glacier melt water, what is special about them, why water rich in various trace elements tastes good, what benefits does drinking it have on the human body, and so on.

The show was very successful and had high ratings.

The result is that the sales of "Sour and Sweet Plum" has been rising steadily.

On one hand, Yiren Kangyin wants to sue, and has already sued, and on the other hand, the guest who let the secret slip refused to admit his mistake and would fight to the end! On the other hand, the wireless station, the two print media, and more print media in the future, just wanted to watch the fun and followed suit, reporting and discussing from various angles.

Anyway... it was so lively and bustling that before we knew it, it had been going on for more than ten days.

While this matter continued to ferment and everyone in the red sky from top to bottom was discussing it, on the one hand, although the supply speed of Qinyuan brand plum juice was accelerating, on the other hand, this drink was almost out of stock on the market several times - so by mid-July, there were even media reports saying that some people stockpiled a lot of this drink at home, because there were rumors that once summer came, the glacier melt water would accelerate, causing the water quality to be less rich in trace elements than the melt water in spring and autumn.

The beverages on the market now are all made with water from spring, and the next ones to be on the market will be summer water.

This was a serious matter. Huagang Trading had a record-breaking one-day distribution of nearly 900 tons, but that same evening it received many offline calls urging for delivery.

Even many popular stars have been involved. For example, when participating in the promotion of the movie "Swordsman: The East is Unbeaten", Li Qingxia was asked if she had sour plum juice at home. She smiled and told the reporter that she did have it because she loved to drink it.

In short, it felt like a storm was brewing for a while.

As a last resort, Mr. Fang Zhihao, Deputy General Manager of Yiren Kangyin, had to come out again to refute the rumors, saying that everyone should rest assured that the water we use must undergo extremely strict screening and processing to ensure consistent quality, and that the quality of production water will not change due to seasonal changes.

In this way, the buying spree that had just started was barely calmed down.

It's just that at this time, the concept that the water used to make the sour and sweet plums is special water, good water, and water rich in various minerals that is beneficial to health has long been deeply rooted in people's minds.

As for the fact that the recipe of sour plum juice was initially discredited on the show, but it is so common that it is hard to say whether it was stolen from some street vendor, no one paid attention to it gradually.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be hidden from those who are interested.

However, even if someone is interested, he would not dare to completely disbelieve what gourmets and scientists say - at this time, when you drink their Qinyuan brand plum juice again, it seems to be really delicious. Compared with other beverages, it has an indescribable sweetness.

Scientists have said that the human body does need to supplement a variety of trace elements on a daily basis, and water enriched with trace elements is indeed more likely to have a relatively sweet taste - with scientific reasons backed by experts and a real taste, how else can you refute this?

So, in this situation, although the arrival of goods at the port was getting faster and faster and in larger quantities, the sour plum juice in the entire Hongkong market was in danger of being out of stock almost every moment.

On June 6, the first batch of 30 tons of the second foreign trade export order arrived.

The second batch of 7 tons arrived on July 4th.

然后，7月8日，7月11日，7月14日，7月17日……

Unconsciously, things had already deviated from the tone set by Cao Yukun when he returned to the factory for a meeting in early June. The production plan of the entire beverage factory had already rapidly increased from 3000 tons per month to 6000 tons per month, and then adjusted to 8000 tons per month. By mid-July, the factory had already implemented a monthly output of 12000 tons.

In fact, this is not an easy task.

It is certainly easy to adjust the production plan, but it is not easy to actually implement it. The supply and reserve of raw materials, the re-training of dismissed workers, the training of newly recruited workers, the contact and reservation of fleet transportation, etc. are very complicated, but each point is extremely important.

Fortunately, firstly, there was no problem with the machines, and secondly, a large number of workstations on the production line were purely physical work that did not require advanced technical skills. Therefore, despite the rush, the factory was able to successfully start up all four assembly lines.

According to a phone call from Huang Jiaying, the factory is now bustling with activity every day!
The number of workers suddenly increased to nearly 400, and then increased to more than 600.

Almost every day a batch of trucks carrying goods drive into the factory. Now the number of workers in the factory responsible for loading and unloading alone has increased to more than 30 people, and they are extremely busy.

Back in Shanghai, Tao Mingqi and his two assistants were not enough to handle daily tasks such as handling formalities, organizing the arrival of goods into the warehouse, loading ships, and daily document processing. Therefore, Cao Yukun approved him to rent a small office building facing the street and hired seven or eight people.

In short, the product has a market and can make money, and the entire process of the beverage shipping route opened up by Cao Yukun quickly came to life.

It is never difficult to do profitable business.

On July 7, the third payment from Huagang Trading arrived.

This time, the payment for 400 tons of goods worth HK$312 million was deducted from the actual discount of HK$1000 for the "another bottle" part of the first batch of 97.5 tons of goods. In fact, Yiren Kangyin was able to receive HK$214.5 million.

But on July 7, another payment from China-Hong Kong Trading, this time involving 9 tons of goods, arrived in the account - after deducting the actual discount for "another bottle", the amount was still as high as 1000 million!
July 7, July 11…

By mid-July, Yiren Kangyin had finally achieved positive cash flow.

In other words, the payment for each batch of goods it needs to import can always be paid to the exporter in time without any arrears. And because of the hot sales, there will be no more delays or delays in the repayments from retail stores to distributors, and from distributors to Yiren Kangyin. In this way, as the profits from the price difference gradually accumulate, Yiren Kangyin finally begins to have a large amount of cash in its account.

It was a bit risky. In fact, the 120 million rice knives that Cao Yukun initially exchanged almost didn't last until he saw positive cash flow - mainly because as the advertisement was broadcast, early sales began to explode. In order to ensure a continuous supply in the market, Cao Yukun was forced to sign a second import contract with Jin Zhiqiang in advance.

But fortunately, I finally made it through.

As I said: a business where everyone makes money is indeed not difficult to do.

"Everyone, be quiet, be quiet! Now, we would like to invite Mr. Cao to speak for everyone!"

On July 7, a Saturday night, Yiren Kangyin held its first celebration banquet less than a month after it started recruiting. Hongkong now has this tradition of celebrating when a big order is made!
"Thank you everyone!"

Cao Yukun laughed and stood up with his glass in hand. "Ah Hao asked me to speak, but I don't have much to say. Anyway, if we all work together, the company will prosper! As the boss, no matter how much I say, it's not as good as giving money. Well, this month I'll give everyone a 30% bonus, okay?"

At the table, everyone burst into cheers.

In fact, even if a few more people were recruited at the beginning of the month, this company, which is mainly engaged in trading business, now has only thirteen people in total, including Cao Yukun.

However, business is good, the boss is generous, and now it seems that the overall morale of the company is quite good.

Moreover, the boss Cao Yukun is young and does not deliberately display his authority, so the relationship between him and the company's employees is quite harmonious and relaxed.

After a sumptuous meal, the boss promised a bonus, so everyone was naturally happy.

(End of this chapter)