The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 240 Continue to expand
Late at night, Jiang Cheng went to the processing plant just like last time, released a lot of freshwater fish before returning to his residence.

This was basically the last time Jiang Cheng would "deliver" freshwater fish like this. It wasn't that there were no fish in the space, but that there were no well-sorted fish.

There are so many rivers in the country that, let alone the fish used to be processed into fish balls, there would be no problem even supplying the entire Hong Kong with freshwater fish.

But it is easy for Jiang Cheng to catch, but it is troublesome to classify. He often uses the space to catch, and fish, shrimps, crabs and all kinds of things will be caught into the space.

Jiang Cheng always finds an empty space to release the goods, and then sorts and puts them into the space. Even if there is space to cooperate, it is easy to sort hundreds of kilograms or thousands of kilograms. But now the replenishment of goods is in tons.

In addition, there are not many freshwater fish suitable for making fish balls at a low price. It is impossible to use sea bass and knife fish to make fish balls, and flat fish has too many bones. Asking workers to remove the bones from bream and other fish with many bones will increase labor costs a lot.

So after this, Jiang Cheng plans to rent another factory, or even buy land and build a factory himself.

At that time, he would hire some workers to classify the fish and shrimps he caught, and then slaughter those suitable for making fish balls on the spot and make them into raw materials.

In addition, the nearby fishing company that has signed a contract can also deliver the products directly to the new factory, at which time the raw material production and product processing will be separated.

The main reason for doing this is that the factory we rent now is too small. We need a place to store the fish, a place to kill the fish, and a processing workshop.

Jiang Cheng plans to sell his fish balls all over Hong Kong, but he has not yet completely conquered the market in the New Territories. The money he earns must be invested in expansion.

Moreover, fish balls, shrimp balls and the like are just one of the projects that Jiang Cheng wants to do. He doesn't want his own 'Jiangdonglai' brand to just be a store that sells meatballs.

At night, Jiang Cheng rode his bicycle to the new house he rented last time. Although the house was still old, it was at least independent.

Jiang Cheng walked to the door and opened it with the key in the space. There were two floors, the first floor had a bathroom, kitchen, living room, and utility room. But that was it. According to Hong Kong's unit of feet, this floor was about 400 feet.

But in fact, it is only about 40 square meters. No one lives downstairs, and the living room is not that big after deducting the kitchen, bathroom and utility room. And on the second floor, even if people live there, there is a staircase corridor and a small study. The remaining two rooms for people to live in are only about 10 square meters each.

Jiang Cheng simply washed himself on the first floor. Coming from China, there was no difference between sliding and swimming. After getting ashore, he just dried himself with a towel. In fact, his body still smelled a little bit of salty sea water.

Shen Li, who was sleeping in the bedroom on the second floor, woke up when she heard the noise downstairs, and guessed that it must be Jiang Cheng who came. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such an obvious noise.

But Shen Li did not choose to get up. Instead, a few minutes later, she threw all her underwear out of the quilt to the head of the bed, and then lay in the quilt waiting.

In fact, she was a little scared. When she rented this house last time, she felt that Jiang Cheng was planning to sleep in a separate bed. The house next door also had bedding such as quilts.

As for whether the person coming downstairs was not Jiang Cheng but a bad guy, there was no guarantee that there was no such possibility, but if that were the case, Shen Li felt that she was naked under the quilt, and there was not much difference between being naked and not being naked.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Cheng went upstairs and hesitated for a while at the doors of the two rooms. But men~~, he only hesitated for a few seconds.

Jiang Cheng opened the door of the master bedroom. Before it was clear that Shen Li could not sleep with him, she still slept in the master bedroom. Jiang Cheng did not turn on the light. There was no light installed in the house that could be controlled by the door and the bedside.

There is a window in the room, and the moonlight outside the window allows Jiang Cheng to walk to the bed easily.

He took off his coat beside the bed and got into the quilt. He could feel the warmth inside the quilt, which made Jiang Cheng feel that it would be nice to have a bed warmer in Hong Kong.

He habitually reached out under the quilt to hug Shen Li, but as soon as he hugged her, he felt something was wrong.

This was going to cost Jiang Cheng his life. Every time he came to Hong Kong, sleeping with Shen Li was the most exciting thing for him. He felt sick trying to restrain himself while not blocking this kind of stimulation.

The next morning, Jiang Cheng and Shen Li both woke up early, and didn't plan to have breakfast or anything. Both of them put their hands in places they shouldn't have, and just chatted in bed.

The Jiangdonglai store is not ready yet. After all, it is a two-story building. Although each floor is only more than ten square meters, the foundation can be simply built. But it is impossible to finish it in one month. It also needs to be painted, installed with water and electricity, etc. But it will be soon. The store will definitely be opened next month. When Jiang Cheng is not around, Shen Li will go there to check the progress whenever she is free. People are recruited by themselves. In some streets in Hong Kong, some people who can do technical work will be the same as in the mainland in the 1990s.

Many people would take a piece of cardboard and write down their job description, and then sit in certain places every day waiting for employers to recruit people.

There are already decoration companies in Hong Kong, but not many. Many people who build their own houses hire people to do the construction.

In addition, during the chat with Shen Li, Jiang Cheng also learned that prices in Hong Kong have increased a lot recently.

Jiang Cheng also thought that it was because of the Chinese New Year, because he had experienced a lot in later lives, and prices skyrocketed every Chinese New Year.

In the later Changcheng, many people like to eat fried and boiled food. A bunch of green vegetables costs only one yuan on ordinary days, but it can double during the Spring Festival. Bean sprouts that usually cost one or two yuan in the vegetable market can be sold for four or five yuan during the Spring Festival.

This price increase is good for Jiang Cheng. The rent, water, electricity and labor salary costs remain unchanged, but the profit can more than double.

The wholesale price of fish balls has increased from 2.4 yuan to more than 4 yuan in one month, but they are still selling well. That's because everyone thinks it's the Chinese New Year and they will happily accept the higher price.

At 2.4 yuan, if Jiang Cheng hadn't been supplying fish from the space, the profit would actually be very low. For example, he would only make 20 or 30 cents per pound.

This is sold for more than four yuan. From the price point of view, it has not doubled. But from the profit point of view, the profit per pound was 20-30 cents before, and now it is close to 2 yuan. That is not a doubling of the profit, but several times.

Of course, the factory had to keep operating during the Chinese New Year, and although the basic salary did not change, the bonuses had to be quite high. It cannot be said that there was no increase in costs at all.

As for the purchase cost, the contract signed with the fishery company. Because Jiang Cheng had rented a cold storage, he received a large batch of goods more than ten days before the Chinese New Year. This perfectly avoided the first wave of raw material price increases.

However, the contract signed is an adjustment contract, which stipulates ten days, half a month, or even a month. For example, if the contract is adjusted once a month, then within the contract, whether the market price of the product rises or falls in this month, it will be supplied at the same price.

If you want to adjust the price, it can only be done in the next month, and this price adjustment will still be a certain percentage lower than the market price.

Jiang Cheng's contract was to be adjusted once a month. He must be optimistic about the Hong Kong market. He even hoped to adjust it once a year, but the fishery company would not sign such a long contract.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng can earn a lot of extra wealth during the month during the New Year.

Jiang Cheng chatted with Shen Li until about eight o'clock. Jiang Cheng planned to get up, wash up, eat something, and go to the processing plant to take a look. He wanted to see how much money was in the account and prepare to continue expanding. Only by rolling money can wealth be accumulated quickly.

Push the "easy to push down" Shen Li away. This little girl is in adolescence and is curious about the opposite sex.

"Brother Cheng, can you help me again?"

"Let's talk about it tonight. I'll go to the factory to take a look. You go to the real estate agency in the morning to see if there are any places nearby that can open factories."

"Got it, Brother Cheng."

Jiang Cheng nodded. In fact, he was still satisfied with Shen Li's abilities.

In later generations, a spoiled girl might not even dare to rent a house, let alone go to the bridge alone, or to some places to recruit workers, or dare to go to the agency alone to negotiate the rent of a warehouse or factory.

After getting up, Jiang Cheng went out, still riding a bicycle. This time when he came to Hong Kong, Jiang Cheng also planned to buy a car, not only for himself, but also to buy a small truck for the factory. I just don't know how Ali is doing with the driving lessons he asked him to learn.

(End of this chapter)