1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 225: Resistance
As it turned out, even though Yang Mo and Miss Mu had reached some kind of tacit understanding, he had no intention of sitting still and waiting for death.

After taking inventory of all the accounts and raw material stocks of SF Food, Yang Mo immediately made a "suggestion" to Liu Xianfu to transfer all the remaining 20 large cold chain vehicles to the Momo Baizha project to ensure the stable supply of raw materials for more than 500 franchise stores in the three provinces of the Central Plains.

In other words, the future business of these cold chain vehicles will no longer involve "raw material procurement and transportation", but will only be responsible for "chicken fillet distribution"... Previously, there were more than 15 cold chain vehicles specifically responsible for transporting these chicken fillet raw materials to various cold chain storage centers in the three provinces of the Central Plains day and night. Once Yang Mo's "suggestion" came out, it undoubtedly further enriched the cold chain transportation capacity in these areas.

At first glance, Yang Mo's decision seemed like a stupid move due to his fear of the rope after being bitten once.

Although Mo Mo Bai Zha is his foundation, and his influence on franchisees outside Dezhou/Quancheng is not so absolute, in view of the fact that he just lost 7 large cold chain vehicles, in order to stabilize the morale of the troops, it is understandable to give priority to ensuring the sufficient supply rate of chicken fillet raw materials for franchisees from other places... At present, there are many areas marked as red in the three provinces of the Central Plains, and even more areas at the orange level. Even though Qingfeng Food, which has just experienced changes, has greatly strengthened the escort force of the fleet, it is still necessary to leave a certain amount of transport capacity redundancy to prevent the recurrence of emergencies.

But the problem is that Momo Baizha is already facing a severe shortage of raw material supply. If you send all the cold chain vehicles to supply chicken steak ingredients to those franchisees from other places, how will you purchase and transport the raw materials?
In this regard, Yang Mo, who was very aware that he was racing against time, had only one thing to say: Things are dead, but people are alive; without Zhang the butcher, would it be possible to not be able to eat hairy pigs?
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On September 9, the afternoon of the second day after the accident of the Qingfeng Food convoy, Liu Xianfu drove to the office building of the DZ City Post and Telecommunications Bureau without any appointment, and knocked on the wooden door of an office.

After nearly an hour of negotiations, the other party agreed to jointly carry out a "Corporate Material Distribution Pilot Project" with Qingfeng Food, and promised to deploy a fleet of more than 3 vehicles, including 20 insulated vehicles, to assist Qingfeng Food in transporting various raw materials on a paid basis.

Although there are only three insulated trucks, which can just guarantee the transportation capacity of raw materials such as Momobai braised chicken racks that must be preserved in a cold chain, Momobai fried chicken steaks need to be transported in another way. Moreover, the fleet of only 20 vehicles is really shabby.

But no matter what, being able to ensure that the existing project framework of Qingfeng Food does not fall apart to the minimum extent is already a matter worth praying for... Although Liu Xianfu knew that the matter went so smoothly because someone had done the communication work in advance, but given that Vice President Feng was watching closely, too much assistance from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau might do more harm than good. Therefore, although he did not think clearly about the ins and outs of the matter, the three insulated vehicles and a transport team of a total of 20 vehicles of various types were probably the optimal numbers calculated.

what?
You said that apart from the three insulated vehicles, the remaining 17 ordinary vehicles of various types are completely worthless, and Qingfeng Food can easily pull a transport fleet ten times the size of this from the market, so Liu Xianfu has no need to show such a grateful expression?
Please!

Although each car is the same, each fleet is different.

As a veteran who keeps paying attention to social news, Liu Xianfu certainly knows how bad the current domestic logistics and transportation environment is;

But the problem is that, at present, it is common for medium and long-distance transport fleets to have problems. It is also a numb sight to see a bus suddenly stop halfway while running. Even trains are not safe.

However, looking at all the incidents, very few vehicles from the postal and telecommunications system were affected (the postal service was only separated from the postal and telecommunications system in 1997).

This is certainly because the vehicles of the current postal and telecommunications system basically transport goods that are of little value; but from another perspective, isn’t it because deep down everyone doesn’t really want to do something that would “incur public outrage”?

You have to know that before telephones and computers became popular, the letters and parcels delivered by vans and tricycles of the post office and by postmen were the only way for most Chinese people, especially those in rural China, to contact their relatives and friends far away.

After all, most people still have the most basic human emotions. Over the past few decades, whether you are willing to admit it or not, people living in this era still have a bond with the green that they like or dislike, which is unspeakable but real.
Therefore, out of a subtle psychology, they may be able to ignore the power of heaven, or climb onto the trains that seem advanced and majestic to them; but they rarely have the impulse to ride on those postal vehicles that are painted green and yellow, look defenseless, and even a little shabby; they may be filled with thousands of thoughts from afar, or national aid materials.

Again, there are people in this world who are born bad, but not many.

and so……

This is the significance of the small logistics fleet including three insulated vehicles!
This inconspicuous fleet may not be able to completely change the predicament of insufficient cold chain transportation capacity of Qingfeng Food, but it can guarantee the survival line of raw material supply for MoMo Bai Fried and MoMo Bai Lu to the minimum extent.

As for how to use this transportation capacity, which is just enough to sustain a small or medium-sized project, to maneuver and eventually revitalize Momo Bai Zha and Momo Bai Lu, that is something that Yang Mo and a group of middle and senior managers of Qingfeng Food need to consider.

(For those who don’t know much about this kind of bond that is full of the mark of the times, I strongly recommend watching “That Man, That Mountain, That Dog” starring Liu Ye and Chen Hao, which tells the story of a postman in the 1980s. It is a rare, quiet and healing country movie; although it is not enough to explain all the problems, it can also give you a sense of it from the side.)
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To outsiders, Yang Mo has a very strong gambler's character. All his unconventional behaviors are based on this character. It's just that this guy really has some skills and good luck, so he has never failed.

As expected, after reaching a cooperation with the DZ City Post and Telecommunications System, Yang Mo did not treat this medium-sized fleet as a fire brigade to put out fires here and there; instead, he directly split it into two. The three insulated vehicles were all allocated to the Momo Bailu project to ensure the cold chain transportation of chicken racks, and the remaining 17 ordinary vehicles were all allocated to the Momo Baizha project to transport whole chicken raw materials.

After hearing this, many people may be confused.

Silently bombing?

Don't the raw materials for Momoba also need cold chain transportation? What's the point of allocating these 17 vehicles?
In fact, this was everyone’s first reaction after hearing this decision.

But soon, they knew why Yang Mo did this.

The next day, September 9, Qingfeng Food suddenly sent an official letter requiring the purchasing staff of the unit and Xialiu Distribution Agency to communicate with the raw material suppliers in a timely manner to change the procurement items and contract contents.

From now on, unless the supplier is willing to independently undertake the cold chain distribution business and realize factory delivery, the purchase of raw materials involved in Momo Baizha will be changed from the previous purchase of frozen chicken fillets and chilled whole chickens to the purchase of live whole chickens...For suppliers who have signed contracts and have begun to prepare for loading, Qingfeng Food is willing to bear the corresponding breach of contract compensation after fruitless communication, but if they want to continue the cooperation, they must change the subject of the goods.

Once this official letter was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar.

As we all know, purchasing live chickens is extremely uneconomical for non-poultry wholesalers like Momo Baizha.

First of all, the space utilization of the vehicle is not at an exponential level at all. A large van can transport 30 tons of chicken breasts or about 20 tons of chilled whole chickens at a time without considering freshness. But if it is used to transport live chickens, even if it is loaded in full cages in the form of a Rubik's Cube, it can only transport about 2000 chickens at a time... If converted into divided chicken fillets, it would be at most two or three tons.

Secondly, the loss of live chickens during transportation is very serious. Ventilation, temperature, bumps, shocks, and transportation time will directly affect the survival rate and meat loss of live chickens.

In this era when technology is not very mature, it is not uncommon for half of a truckload of live chickens to die on the road due to overheating or neglect of ventilation details.

But in fact, no matter how well you design all the details, as long as the transportation distance exceeds 300 kilometers, or the transportation time exceeds 12 hours, it will lead to irreversible and substantial loss of raw materials... You know, even in later generations, live chickens lose more than 10% of their meat after medium and long-distance transportation, let alone now?

Of course, things like losses have little to do with individual suppliers. The reality is here. If you, Yang, are willing to be the scapegoat, that's your business.

But the problem is that some suppliers, or to be more precise, some "distributors" in the 50-kilometer hazy zone, are not happy with this live chicken supply model!
You should know that according to the previous large-scale chilled chicken supply model, these raw materials will go through slaughtering, evisceration, preliminary cutting, low-temperature 24-hour storage and other links before being supplied to Qingfeng Food. These links will not only generate additional costs, but also intercept some raw materials that are not within the scope of the contract; the intermediate links can even use some Spring and Autumn knife techniques to generate "fire consumption" within the scope allowed by the contract;
Therefore, for those "distributors", supplying Qingfeng Food is a good business that benefits three parties, and they have made a lot of money in the past month. But now that they have switched to supplying live chickens, they have saved a lot of effort, but at the same time, they can get a lot less wool;

The key is……

Once the slaughtering, initial cutting and 24-hour low-temperature frozen storage are not on their side, in the current situation, their actual control over the farmers who actually provide chicken is reduced by half! (The reason for this cannot be explained in detail, and the rules and content involved are a bit broad, but everyone should understand.)
Isn't this a huge loss for yourself?
However, there is no way. Since the news was sent in the form of an official letter, it means that Qingfeng Food is determined to do so. Before finding the next sucker, cooperating with Qingfeng Food is still their best partner... After all, their involvement with Qingfeng Food, or more precisely, with Xialiu Supply and Marketing Cooperative, is not just about chicken supply.

However, despite the cooperation, their enthusiasm is obviously not as high as before; therefore, after the release of the official letter, the Xialiu Sales Agency, which has always been known for its execution and efficiency, actually reduced its purchasing volume per unit time by as much as 1/3 compared with before. This shows how deep the waters of the external supply chain are.

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On September 9, Qingfeng Food, which had to adopt an inefficient live chicken procurement model due to the lack of cold chain transportation capacity, allocated a budget of 25 yuan at one time and signed a two-month lump-sum cooperation agreement with five external transportation companies, totaling 50 conventional vehicles of various types.

Although Qingfeng Food signed this short-term contract in the name of "running-in", insiders can see at a glance that Qingfeng Food had intended to cooperate for only two months from the beginning.

What is a little confusing is that in addition to signing lump sum cooperation agreements with these five transportation companies, Qingfeng Foods also signed a cooperation agreement with a special fleet;
This fleet was not originally engaged in cargo transportation, but medium and long-distance passenger transportation; however, due to the special circumstances this year and the high risk of engaging in passenger transportation in the second half of the year, in addition to soliciting passengers, they also helped to transport some goods that were not related to "precious".

That’s right, this fleet of cars are actually the black taxis that had a period of cooperative relationship with Mo Mo Bai Zha; and the leaders of this incident are She Lao Da and She Shen, who have been in the spotlight this year.

Although this team of only thirty or so old cars could barely carry some live chickens, their carrying capacity was not as good as those of large trucks. Even ordinary Dongfeng trucks had a carrying capacity more than five times that of large trucks. Therefore, everyone couldn't understand why Yang Mo would ask them to help transport goods in addition to carrying passengers at a very generous price.

Of course, given Yang Mo's personality, this arrangement must have his own purpose, it's just that outsiders can't see it for the time being.

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After a series of expedited adjustments, the operations of Momo Baizha and Momo Bailu finally ran smoothly.

Due to the limited number of stores of Momo Bailu, the three insulated trucks are constantly transporting frozen chicken racks. In addition, Qingfeng Food takes advantage of the small cold chain storage network in Dezhou and Quancheng, which is much more abundant than in other areas. It takes advantage of the fact that frozen products will not melt even if they are exposed to the outdoors in autumn for 2 to 3 hours under the premise of large-scale stacking. After adopting the "short-distance jump" delivery method, although the supply chain of a number of braised products including chicken racks has declined, it has always been maintained at a normal level.

The reason why MoMoBai is so successful is that it has more than 260 vehicles of various types that continuously transport live chickens to Qingfeng Food and various slaughterhouses and cutting plants. This not only further guarantees the supply of raw materials for MoMoBai's marinades, but also ensures that there is always a sufficient supply of fried chicken fillets.

Of course, the price of all this is that the liquidity on Qingfeng Food’s books has been drained out at a rapid speed like a flood.

9月20号的时候，由于默默百卤很是回了一波血，庆丰食品的账面资金重新杀回了200万大关；但仅仅只是9月27日，庆丰食品的资金池里就只剩下120万了。

Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Qingfeng Food’s current operating costs are more than five times higher than before. This 120 million yuan could have covered expenses for about a month and a half a month ago.
But now...

It's incredible that I can last for half a month!
Although some people don't understand why Yang Mo insisted on resisting for so long,

But this incident also taught them a vivid lesson;
In the absence of sufficient risk plans, the destructive power caused by blockage in the core circulation links is obvious!
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While they were sighing, Yang Mo, who didn't even have time to take care of his own real birthday, was sitting in the living room looking at the photocopies of the financial statements brought back by his classmate Tugou, and rubbed his temples weakly.

"Has your sister Mu not given you confirmation yet?" Yang Mo threw the stack of weekly financial reports on the table and lit a cigarette in annoyance.

Tugou, who was concentrating on watching the silent subtitles on TV, responded heartlessly: "Sister Mu hasn't given me a definite answer yet... I guess things are not going so smoothly."

Although Yang Mo is facing a huge challenge at the moment, in Tugou's opinion, since it is not a dead end and he can just give in and continue to sleep soundly, there is no need to make himself so anxious.

To be honest, Tugou, who has witnessed the power of rules during this period, does not think that it is a good thing for Yang Mo to continue to jump like this... This guy is too arrogant. This arrogance has obviously exceeded the level that a small deputy section chief with no real power should have, and even exceeded the scope of most deputy-division-level powerful cadres.

If this continues, something will happen, and it will be a big disaster!

This is Tugou Tongxie's sixth sense based on women.

Therefore, although she worked very hard during the day, privately, she was actually very happy to see this bastard fall down.

Humph, you have only been in the company for less than a year and both Vice President Feng and President Wang look at you differently and are ready to take the position... How many capable people want to be noticed by the leaders but cannot;
Besides, the situation is stronger than us, so it is not shameful for us to give in.

I just don't know why you have to be so stubborn! ?

Wrinkling her nose slightly, Tugou secretly turned up the volume of the TV a little while fetching water... Yang Mo was checking the accounts before, and his expression was not very good, so she only dared to read the subtitles and turned off all the sound.

Now, Yang Mo has finished reading the account book. Although he is not in a very good mood, he can still try to let his voice out for a while, right?
Seeing this guy come back and sit on the sofa with a look of success, he stared at the TV rerun of "Huo Yuanjia" in a trance;
Yang Mo, who saw through the girl's thoughts, smiled bitterly.

That's right. Logically speaking, being in a central enterprise and being seen and valued by the company's top management is a great thing. Even people who are more capable and talented than you can't even ask for it.

But the problem is...

As a reborn person, he knew very well that it was a huge risk to give in and take sides before some things were completely clear and determined.

At worst... we'll have to hold on until the middle to late next month!
Thinking of this, Yang Mo, who was unwilling to choose the third way and completely gave up the Mo Mo Baizha project and became a salted fish, looked at Tu Gou's carefree face and was stunned...

(End of this chapter)