1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 217 Foreshadowing
Yang Mo didn't really care how Wang Yinuo would react after hearing the answer that skipped the problem-solving process as relayed by Mu Liya.

His original intention was just to get the Mu father and daughter out of that huge pit. With Miss Mu's intelligence, after his reminder, she would surely discuss a relatively reliable stop-loss plan with her father.

and so……

His current focus is on dealing with the relentless pressure from Vice President Feng.

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"Hmm? Xintai Service Company, in the name of unified planning and management, requires Qingfeng Food to transfer the remaining 1950 million special support funds on the books to Momo Baitou?"

Yang Mo frowned and took the apple handed over by Tugou, with some surprise in his tone.

In the beginning, in addition to making a lot of money from the franchise fee, decoration fee, and basic material fee, Mo Mo Bai Zha also collected a special deposit of 500 million from the 3000 franchisees... It was precisely because of such a huge amount of funds as a backing that Yang Mo had the confidence to start a series of supply chain optimization and integration plans with the joint breeding of Yang Mo.
However, the 30 million is only a deposit after all, and according to the original agreement, the money will be used to invest in some basic projects, and dividends will be distributed to each franchisee every year at a rate slightly higher than the bank interest rate, and the principal will be returned after three years.

Therefore, the money has always been kept in a special account for safekeeping. Even though Mo Mo Bai Zha is currently facing a raw material procurement crisis, no one in Qingfeng Foods dares to touch the money.

What a joke! This money is used for supply chain project investment and upgrading. If the supply chain is not optimized, how can Momo Baizha control the raw material cost to the lowest?
How to achieve the grand goal of opening stores nationwide?

How can we rely on revenue to pay the dividends and principal of these special deposits?

This was 1989. Not only was 500 million an astronomical figure for an ordinary business, but a company with 500 employees was able to come up with such a large special deposit after paying various franchise fees. Do you really think those franchisees were easy to deal with?
However, Yang Mo really didn't expect that before he even had any idea about it, Vice President Feng had already started to set his sights on the money?

Big brother~!

It is true that the weakness of Momobaizha now is its cash flow.
As an opponent, it is not wrong for you to try every possible means to weaken the cash pool of Qingfeng Food.
But the problem is...

Are you looking in the wrong direction, old man?
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Picking up another apple and wiping it on her body, Lu Yingying took a big bite out of it angrily: "The reason over there is enough to piss you off to death!"

"What do you mean by Xintai Company is the brand owner of Momo Baizha, and Qingfeng Food is only the project manager of Momo Baizha, so Xintai Company has the responsibility to lead the construction of the broiler chicken supply chain?"

"What do you mean by 'given the failure of the previous joint breeding project, the company suggested that Qingfeng Foods hand over this special fund to Momo Baitou and Xinsheng Catering Management Company for joint management, and then they will coordinate and establish a new joint breeding project?'"

"The most outrageous thing is... they said that the company is studying whether to hand over all the non-operating idle funds of Class A tertiary industry projects to Momo Baizha for unified management and value-added!"

"Bah! It's obvious that the funds in Mo Mo Bai Investment's account have run out, and now they just want to suck blood from us!"

"And they're handing it over to Momo Baitou for management and appreciation? It's a bottomless pit. No matter how much money is sucked in, it's not enough for them to mess around!"

Seeing that this guy was getting angrier and angrier, even his cheeks were puffed up, Yang Mo rubbed her head with a bit of amusement: "Okay, don't be angry, isn't this just a so-called suggestion... Since it's a suggestion, it means there is no official document yet... Without a formal document, we can completely ignore them!"

Lu Yingying slapped Yang Mo's hand away with an unhappy look on her face, and then hurriedly straightened her hair: "We can stop bothering them now, but what about later? It seems that Vice President Feng will not give up until he achieves his goal... If we really wait until the official documents from the company come down, we will have to pay the money even if we don't want to!"

Yang Mo hesitated for a moment.

Although Vice President Feng, who is in charge of the relationship between workers and peasants, is also in charge of part of the company's tertiary industry projects and currently serves as the manager of Momo Baitou, strictly speaking, he does not have the position and authority to discuss and pass such a resolution at the company meeting.

But if this suggestion was made by Vice President Tang, then it’s hard to say.

As the company's executive vice president, all of the company's tertiary industry projects are nominally under the charge of Vice President Tang. Therefore, if Vice President Tang brings up the issue at the company meeting and Wang Yinuo refuses to speak out or has no suitable reason to object, then this matter is basically inevitable.

But there is something strange about this matter.

An old fox like Vice President Feng would never be stupid enough to use such a failed tactic that seems to take the initiative but actually alerts the enemy. The trick they are best at is to quietly build up strength and then lock the throat with a lightning-fast move.

It seems...

It is true that Momo Baitou's funds have reached the bottom and it is in urgent need of sucking blood from other places to replenish its ammunition.

But Xintai Company rushed to Qingfeng Food with a fierce attitude and threatened it, hoping to make it lose its mind. Before the official documents came down, they used some means that should not be shown to the public to divert these special funds for other purposes, right?

Huh~
After all, Yang Mo has worked in state-owned enterprises for quite some time. How could he not know the power of the four words "procedural justice"?

But, aren’t you looking down on me, Yang, a little too much?
Do you really think that I'm like the other people in Xintai Company, who will do anything when it comes to money?

Curling her lips with some disdain, Yang Mo handed the red banana and apple that she had eaten so much in her previous life that she wanted to vomit to classmate Tu Gou... No matter how angry this guy was, it did not affect her appetite at all. In less than a minute, there was only a core left in her hand.

After biting off the last bit of flesh from the clitoris, Lu Yingying licked the core again before throwing the core, with black seeds exposed, into the trash can.

After taking the apple handed over by Yang Mo and unceremoniously scratching two deep teeth marks on it, Lu Yingying said with a sad face: "Yang Shidan, what should we do now?"

Yang Mo couldn't bear to see this girl's sled-like way of eating fruit, so he hit her head lightly and then curled his lips: "What's so difficult about this? Aren't they going to hand over the idle and non-operating funds of various units to Mo Mo Bai Tou for unified management? How simple is it? Just change the 1950 million funds from idle status to [in use] status, right?"

As he spoke, Yang Mo smiled maliciously: "Besides, who told you that these special funds can only be invested in infrastructure that has no direct connection with the income? Is it difficult to mix these funds with operational attributes?"

"I want to see how Vice President Feng will use this nearly 20 million yuan when it becomes a sum of money that is neither idle nor unrelated to operating revenue generation!"

The separation of the brand and operating entity of Momo Baizha was mainly for risk prevention and control from the perspective of the drilling company, but this does not mean that the operating entity has no ability to fight back... In fact, if a series of strategic gains and losses including brand premium are not taken into account, the operating entity actually has far more initiative in the internal fighting than the brand owner.

Lu Yingying looked at him in surprise, and after thinking for a while, she suddenly reached out and touched Yang Mo's forehead.

Yang Mo's forehead darkened, and he knocked her hand away with his backhand: "What are you doing!"

Lu Yingying curled her lips: "See if you have a fever... Do you know that the scope of application of this money is locked, and Xintai Service Company also has the right to supervise this money. If you move it recklessly, they will find out once they check the accounts!"

Yang Mo rolled his eyes: "What do you mean by moving around randomly? Hey, hey, hey~ Do I look so unreliable?"

Lu Yingying snorted in disdain: "That's hard to say. When you were in junior high school, every time you stole corn from other people's fields and roasted it to eat, you relied on your long legs and ran fast, leaving me behind, and then ran to my house to complain first, causing me to be pulled by the ears and beaten with a stick, while you just watched the fun from the side. How many times have you dared to say the word reliable in front of me?"

Yang Mo was speechless: "That was something that happened when we were little. Now it's a serious matter... How could I possibly cheat you?"

Lu Yingying looked at him suspiciously and said, "Tell me, how are you going to misappropriate this money?"

Yang Mo chuckled, "How can we play the trick of misattributing others? Vice President Feng is an old fox. If we play tricks, he will be very happy... In fact, this money can really be invested in projects related to the broiler industry chain right now, and it can also generate benefits in the short term... Once the effectiveness and nature of these funds are confirmed, and a plan for the use of the funds is issued, Vice President Feng can forget about touching this money!"

Seeing that Yang Mo didn't seem to be lying to her, Lu Yingying suddenly became curious: "Oh? So magical? What bad idea have you come up with?"

Yang Mo pouted, "What do you mean by a bad idea? This is an open and aboveboard conspiracy... In fact, I had laid the groundwork when the joint breeding project started... Although it was just a backup plan to prevent the capital chain from breaking, but now that Vice President Feng has played such a trick on us, I have no choice but to use these means in advance."

Lu Yingying was stunned: "What was the foreshadowing that was buried at the beginning of the joint breeding project? Why didn't I see it?"

Yang Mo sneered mercilessly: "Your mind is full of all kinds of sweets, the half bottle of Lao Baigan hidden under your bed, or all kinds of TV dramas... It would be amazing if you could figure out the foreshadowing I laid!" Lu Yingying was immediately furious: "What do you mean I only think about those sweets and TV dramas all day long? You torture me for a whole hour every day and force me to learn those messy things... I wasn't so miserable when I was in school. What's wrong with squeezing out some time to eat snacks and watch TV dramas!?"

After saying that, Tugou thought for a moment, then fiercely stretched out his arm to clamp the guy's neck: "Asshole! Tell me the truth, how did you know that there was a half bottle of Laobaigan hidden under my bed... Did you enter my room!?"

Feeling the girl's body fragrance mixed with the scent of soap in his nose, Yang Mo, whose left cheek was hit hard by waves, looked a little embarrassed.

Silly girl, you are not a child now. Do you know that if a grown-up girl pinches a man's neck like this, it may cause death?
Damn it, are you trying to show me how narrow-minded you are, or are you trying to show me how amazingly elastic you are?

After suppressing the restlessness in his body, Yang Mo, who was having difficulty breathing, said in a low voice with a sad face: "Hey, hey, hey, silly girl, be gentle!... The buckle on your bra is hitting me... It hurts!"

Turning her head to take a look at the face under her armpit that looked conflicted, somewhat enjoying, and a little sad. Lu Yingying reacted and let go of her arm as if she had been electrocuted. Then she jumped away with a red face, glaring at Yang Mo angrily.

Yang Mo saw the frustrated look on this guy's face, which showed that he wanted to settle the score with him but couldn't find a reason. He wanted to laugh for some reason, but his face was full of grievance: "Sister, my house has only two bedrooms and a living room, and our rooms are next to each other. Did you drink a few sips of wine in the house? How could I not smell it?"

"Besides, how could I not know what kind of person you are? With your tiny brain of only one tablespoon, what other place could you think of to hide those shady things except under the bed?"

Hearing this guy laughing at him for being stupid, Tugou, who had finally found a reason to retaliate, immediately seized the opportunity and hit the guy's arm hard.

Seeing this guy's exaggerated reaction of rolling around and wailing on the hospital bed, although she knew that he was acting and that what he said just now was a deliberate excuse for revenge, Lu Yingying's mood suddenly improved... To be honest, since the two of them lived together, it was not the first time that she was unintentionally taken advantage of by this guy. She was almost used to it. Therefore, although what happened just now was a bit embarrassing, she was not actually that angry.

Seeing this guy acting so terribly on the bed for a full half minute, Lu Yingying, who had had enough of the drama, slapped him in annoyance: "Hey~! Stop pretending, talk about serious things... Tell me what your back-up plan is?"

Noticing that the girl's anger seemed to have subsided, Yang Yingdi Mo immediately turned over and sat up. The pain on his face disappeared without a trace. He chuckled twice: "Girl, do you still remember the chicken breeding center that we spent a lot of money to set up in the Fifth Farm, and the teachers we spent a lot of effort to invite from the Poultry Research Institute?"

Chicken breeding center?

Lu Yingying looked at Yang Mo in astonishment: "Of course I remember, it's the research institute that Professor Huang and Professor Li are in charge of... In fact, the tens of thousands of yuan of research funding they give every month is the only legal way for the special funds in Qingfeng Food's account to flow into expenditures."

As she spoke, Lv Yingying's face was full of confusion: "But this is just a small-to-medium-sized research institute. Although Teacher Huang and his team have achieved a lot of scientific research results since its establishment, and this breeding institute has been expanding, but if you want to digest the nearly 20 million funds in the name of scientific research funds... I guess it's impossible even for the Poultry Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences!"

This is the truth. Scientific research institutions in the 1970s and 1980s were notoriously "down and out". Even a certain computing institute with a Chinese name on it, which was working in the frontier field of high technology, had an annual budget of less than one million, let alone a research institute affiliated to a provincial academy of agricultural sciences?
No, it is not even a scientific research institution under the provincial academy of agricultural sciences. The Chicken Breeding Institute located in the Fifth Farm can only be regarded as a research group under the Poultry Research Institute.

To be honest, whether it is the initial investment of 20 yuan in sterile infrastructure or the research funding of more than 5 yuan per month for more than researchers, this chicken breeding institute is already seriously "over the standard" in this era... Not to mention the research institutes under the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, even higher-level agricultural research units may not have such a sufficient budget.

To be honest, this chicken breeding institute is a corporate cooperation, and the funding is all allocated by Qingfeng Food under the name of the drilling company. Otherwise, if it was a scientific research project in the conventional sense, the scientific research funds of more than 5 yuan per month alone would be enough to cause a lot of trouble.

However, no matter how willful one is, the budget for agricultural and livestock research projects of this level cannot be increased endlessly... Increasing the research budget to 10 or even 20 a month can still be barely understood, but if this nearly million special funds are all invested in such a small breeding institute, it will be investigated in minutes.

Seeing Lv Yingying's puzzled expression, Yang Mo chuckled: "Of course, we can't invest all of this small 20 million into the breeding institute, but we can use the scientific research results of Teacher Huang and Teacher Li as a basis to start market-oriented operations and expand a large-scale chicken breeding farm!"

"Hehe, as long as we raise the scale and level, and then use the reason of business needs, use the name of intangible asset purchase to transfer the research results of Mr. Huang and Mr. Li from the breeding institute, and then sign a five-year technology buyout agreement...Don't mention the mere 20 million funds, even if there is an extra zero at the end, it can be completely absorbed!"

After more than half a year of learning by example, although Lv Yingying still doesn't know much about this area, she has a general idea of ​​it. Naturally, she knows that with the current business laws and regulations and internal supervision regulations of state-owned enterprises, there is no way to deal with this kind of business practices that have some connotations of related transactions but are justified.

Although this method is feasible, their purpose is to ensure that the 20 million special funds can be successfully invested in the subsequent supply chain project construction, rather than for personal gain; therefore, changing the nature of the funds is important, but it is equally important to prevent the funds from being lost too much during the circulation process.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yingying said worriedly, "But the problem is... if we invest all this money in the chicken breeding center, it will all become fixed assets. We won't be able to convert it into funds when we need them in the future. Once the breeding center officially starts operating, even if it's just for show, it will be a considerable expense."

Understanding the girl's unspoken concerns, Yang Mo laughed: "Who said this breeding center is just for show? Who said this money will only become fixed assets?"

"Girl, didn't I tell you about Coca-Cola's operating model of only selling concentrated syrup and brands?"

“Let me tell you, although many details are different, for a project like the 817 broiler with a huge market and huge potential, breeding chicks will always be the most profitable, most stable and least risky project!”

"In other words, as long as the 817 broiler chickens are gradually recognized by the market, chick breeding will be a huge project with hundreds of millions or even billions of revenue every year. Even now, as long as the operation is done properly, at least tens of millions of funds will be recovered within two or three months...Are you afraid that you won't be able to convert the funds to make up for it by then? This is not a joke!"

Hearing that this thing was so scary, Lu Yingying was immediately scared to death.

After a lot of effort, Lu Yingying finally estimated the approximate value of the project. After shivering for a while, she looked at him suspiciously: "But as far as I know, chicken breeding is not a particularly technical project, and it doesn't take much time to simply build a chicken breeding center;"

"Not to mention that only we and a few large state-owned roast chicken companies are currently purchasing 817 broiler chickens, and they are not well-known in the market; this technology belongs to the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and has spread to Yucheng and Dezhou... Even if 817 broiler chickens really become popular, those regions can still follow suit and build 817 broiler chick breeding centers. If everyone comes to do this, can we still make so much money?"

Having worked as a quality control manager for more than half a year, Tugou has a deep understanding of the domestic market's tendency to follow the crowd… In just half a year, there are more than a hundred small shops in Dezhou alone that have followed Mo Mo Bai Zha's example to start the chicken steak project. If Yang Mo had not set a low-price strategy from the beginning, and relied on large-scale procurement and the advantages of the state-owned enterprise supply chain to reduce the gross profit margin to a level that would be outrageous to ordinary people, it is hard to say whether Mo Mo Bai Zha would have lost a large market share to numerous imitators.

However, Momo Baizha has cost advantages and has initially built an industry entry threshold, but this so-called chicken breeding center does not have such a cost advantage. Once everyone starts to build 817 breeding centers, the market will be disrupted. Not to mention making money, it is hard to say whether the million yuan of funds can be recovered.

Seeing this, Yang Mo smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. Some things are not as simple as you think."

Yang Mo sorted out his words and said, "Before, in addition to the daily work of brand management of Momo Baizha and Momo Baichao, you focused more on the breeding process, so it is normal that you don't know much about the breeding of chicks;"

"Let me put it this way. Although the hybridization technology of 817 broiler chickens is not difficult in theory, when it comes to commercialization, the competition depends on your technical strength and the scale of your parental purebred stock... This is the key among the keys."

"To put it simply, if your technology is not up to standard and the hybridization is not scientific, it will cause certain genetic diseases and defects. During the breeding process, 817 broilers often suffer from certain unexplained diseases and symptoms. Even if the parent chickens' immunization procedures are the same as those of laying hens, a series of problems will arise... Although hybridization is a combination of permutations, it is not a simple combination of permutations. The saying that a slight mistake can lead to a great error is very appropriate in this field."

"Similarly, if your parent generation purebred stock is not large enough, you will also face the problem of not being able to meet production capacity standards, or even slow variety iteration, and eventually being eliminated by the market...Whoever has enough purebred stock will be able to more accurately grasp the various hybrid traits of the next generation of broilers, and iteratively breed out 817 broiler breeds that better meet customer needs."

"In short, chicks are different from other things. Since broiler farming is already a risky business, the approach of only pursuing scale and competing on price is not applicable in this field."

At this point, Yang Mo smiled and said, "So, think about it. It is common for breeders and growers to follow the trend and rush in. But when have you ever heard of breeding institutes and nurseries rushing in to follow the trend when a new variety comes out?"

Lv Yingying suddenly realized: "Yes, the biggest advantage of our chicken breeding institute is that we have researchers from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences doing technical research inside, and they are spending a lot of money on this research when the research budget is sufficient. So I dare not mention anything else, but the number of purebred parent chickens and hybrid pedigrees we have developed for the 817 broiler chickens are definitely among the best in the province;"

"Ordinary farmers don't understand what this means, but unless they encounter a leader who doesn't know the business and won't listen to advice, the rest of the farm and livestock units definitely understand what this means and naturally won't be stupid enough to follow our lead right away... After all, they will have to wait until we launch one or two stable broiler breeds that are adaptable and benchmark, and obtain relevant technical data, before they can follow our lead."

"For a new breed like the 817 broiler, given the current economic environment, this process will be delayed to three to five years, or even five to six years later... By that time, we will have already passed the primary stage and can use our scale advantage to suppress our competitors at any time."

After finishing speaking, Lv Yingying, with a slightly flushed face, added: "In fact, even if those roast chicken companies and livestock companies that also have technical support from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences follow suit and open chicken breeding centers, we are not afraid;"

"Technology is always a step behind. They already have a relatively suitable broiler breed, but their investment in chicken seedling selection is less than one-third of ours. It is naturally unlikely that the scale of their accumulated purebred stock will exceed ours, not to mention the hybrid pedigree summarized from their research... Therefore, whether for the sake of face or substance, they will not open a large-scale 1 broiler breeding center at this stage!"

Yang Mo smiled and nodded: "That's basically it. In fact, the greatest achievement of Mr. Huang and Mr. Li during this period is to cultivate and breed a large number of purebred parent chickens with different traits... As long as this information is released in advance, I think those chicken companies and livestock companies are not fools."

After finishing speaking, Yang Mo thought for a moment and suddenly said, "In the business world, public opinion comes first before troops move. Now time is tight, and it's good to move a second earlier... After all, you have been the quality control manager for half a year, so you must have some relatively influential media resources. Are you still in touch with the Texas Evening News that spoke for us?"

Lu Yingying understood the meaning of the song and nodded immediately: "We have been in contact all the time. In fact, in the past few months, we have also advertised in their newspapers from time to time... Although I have never been able to thank the editor who wrote the article for us in person, at least the friendship is still there."

Yang Mo nodded: "That's good..."

(End of this chapter)