Mixed in 1980

Chapter 469 Xiao Wu's Plan

"We just met as relatives, so let's give them some space."

Chen Yanche touched his nose and shook his head slightly: "We've met again after more than 20 years. There's so much to say. My presence here is just an eyesore."

"Honestly, that's not thoughtful at all."

Xu Jinqiu frowned and said with disdain, "They're chatting, and you're not there to serve them tea and water? If they start crying, you're only responsible for handing them tissues. It's a waste that Jing Shu has taken care of you for over twenty years."

Chen Yanche rolled his eyes: "I did want to, but guess what? I couldn't get involved at all. I'll go over after they've finished talking."

As he spoke, he reached out to hug the little girl.

There are plenty of girls in this generation, but this one is the most adorable. With her big, bright eyes and cute, silly look, no one can resist her.

As soon as he reached out, Xu Jinqiu slapped his hand away: "Get out of the way, I haven't hugged them enough yet. Tell me, what's their family situation like?"

"It wasn't easy." Chen Yanche gave a brief account of the situation.

The mother lost two children in succession and went insane for three years before recovering; the father endured hardships and traveled all over the country, searching for them for more than 20 years.

His younger brother, Yang Nian, was also affected.

Yang Nian's birth undoubtedly brought new hope to the broken family, but having lost a child, his parents were extremely strict with him, and he was under great pressure from a young age.

Another issue is the lack of paternal love.

Yang Fusheng spends half the year away from home and the other half at home. Even when he's at home, he leaves early and returns late every day, working himself to the bone to earn money. The time spent with others is extremely limited.

"One human trafficker can cause tragedy for an entire family, for several people." Xu Jinqiu sighed softly after hearing this.

Her gaze finally fell on her youngest son: "Now that the person has been found, the tragedy is over. From now on, this responsibility will fall on you. It's not in vain that Jing Shu has taken care of you since you were little."

"Second Aunt, don't worry."

Chen Yanche sat forward, pinched his niece's cheek, and only let go when she widened her eyes, pouted and shouted "Uncle, you bad guy!"

After playing with the little guy for a while, Chen Yanche checked the time and realized it was almost time. He then went to Yu'er Hutong and saw Yang Nian sitting in the courtyard, so he went over to her.

He took out a cigarette and offered one to me: "Want one?"

Yang Nian took it, lit it, took a puff and coughed. Chen Yanche laughed and said, "If you didn't smoke, you didn't smoke. I'm not forcing you to smoke."

"I'd like to give it a try," Yang Nian said with an awkward smile.

Actually, I was just too reserved. Suddenly arriving at such a luxurious courtyard, I couldn't relax at all, afraid that if I refused, the host family would have a problem with it.

"Silly boy!"

Chen Yanche smiled and took the initiative to start a conversation: "You're twenty this year, right? Are you still in school?"

Yang Nian replied, "I'm a sophomore at a junior college."

"You'll be a junior next semester, right? You'll need to do an internship, right? Will the school arrange the internship, or will you have to find one yourself?" Chen Yanche asked.

"You have to find it yourself," Yang Nian said cautiously.

"What major will you study, and what do you plan to do?"

"Students majoring in new energy mainly focus on battery technology, but vocational colleges rarely focus on research and development; their studies are mostly application-oriented."

When it came to her profession, Yang Nian relaxed considerably.

Chen Yanche then asked, "Have you heard of the Eastern Era?"

Yang Nian nodded immediately: "Of course I've heard of them. They're a giant in the new energy battery field, extending into multiple areas, including mobile phone batteries, car batteries, and so on."

"I'll arrange for you to get in later."

"Huh?" Yang Nian was stunned.

“I know someone,” Chen Yanche explained.

Dongfang Times Battery was originally one of the products of Feixing Mobile's investment in the entire industry chain. It originally only made mobile phone batteries, but began to enter the field of new energy batteries after 2010.

There are many such companies with complete industry chains, and their shareholding structures are quite complex. Companies like Spark Investment, Feixing Mobile, and Hang Seng Bank all hold shares in them.

In addition, the four major domestic banks and some state-owned enterprises also hold shares.

The Chen family does not hold a controlling stake, but their shareholding is extremely high.

"Can we really get in?" Yang Nian was intrigued.

"Don't worry, you'll definitely succeed. Once you're in, work hard, figure out the ropes, and you'll definitely have room to grow in the future." Chen Yanche flicked his cigarette ash.

I stood up and walked inside. A group of people were still chatting in the living room. Their emotions had calmed down, unlike before when they would burst into tears after saying just a few words.

"Sis, it's time for dinner."

Chen Yanche coughed lightly and said, "Uncle, Aunt, I've already booked a restaurant. It's in the next alley. Let's go eat first."

Guan Xiaoyu slapped his forehead: "Look at my brain, I lose track of time once we start talking. Let's go eat first, and we can talk while we eat."

……

In the blink of an eye, a few days have passed.

The Yang family was going back to Leshan, and Zhou Jingshu was right around the time of her graduation, so she had to wait two months to go back and complete her thesis and defense.

There are other relatives in my hometown.

My maternal grandparents, uncle, and aunt are all still alive. After we recognized each other, we had video chats and agreed to go back to see them in July.

After seeing his biological parents off at the airport, life returned to its previous trajectory, except that the worry between his brows was gone. "Xiao Wu, go talk to your uncle about the plan."

“Then let’s go. If the old man agrees, we can start looking for a place. Even if Second Brother is unwilling, he can only watch helplessly,” Chen Yanche joked.

Zhou Jingshu slapped him: "Stop talking nonsense. Second brother is only doing this for your own good. Without second brother's support, you can forget about carrying out your plan."

Chen Yanche curled his lip: "Look at how capable he is."

"You're just being stubborn," Zhou Jingshu said with a smile.

In front of his second brother, Xiao Wu was always a bit rebellious, but thinking about it, it seemed normal. He had been tricked to death since he was a child, so you could only say that Xiao Wu had a rebellious spirit.

Taking his laptop to the east courtyard, Chen Fan first looked at the PPT, and then asked Xiao Wu to call all his brothers and sisters over so that everyone could listen together.

Xu Jinqiu came over, glanced at it a few times, and then walked away. She didn't know much about business matters and couldn't tell whether the plan was good or bad.

Zeng Ali and Zhao Yuanyuan also came over.

Having been in business for decades, he was very astute in business matters, but after only a short while, he frowned and felt that it was very unreliable.

It's pointless!
To put it bluntly, it's very difficult to make money. For them, the same amount of resources could be used to create several luxury brands.

Put these brands on the market to reap the profits, then repackage them and list them on the stock market to reap the profits again. You'll definitely make more money than this.

It's also much easier.

"What do you think?" Zeng Ali asked.

Chen Fan shook his head, then raised the corners of his mouth: "It's not easy, but the idea is quite interesting. Let's hear what Xiao Wu has to say later."

"I think he deserves a beating," Zeng Ali snorted.

Chen Fan pinched the tip of her nose: "Don't rush to scold me, it's really interesting. Most people couldn't come up with a solution like this."

Zeng Ali chuckled and said disdainfully, "No one would think of such a plan. Who can provide the funds and resources required for it?"

"This shows that Xiao Wu is good at resource integration."

Chen Fan took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep drag: "That's a great advantage. Our family has a lot of resources, and he can connect them. That's a skill."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "It's better than those who have a lot of resources but are too stupid to use them. They know how to use resources and they're capable."

"That makes sense, but it's still unreliable. It's too difficult to implement, and there are several points that could easily go wrong." Zeng Ali waved her hand to disperse the smell of smoke.

Then, he took another breath: "Forget it, let's not discuss it for now, let's hear what he has to say."

Soon, everyone had arrived.

Chen Yanche also brought out a projector and screen and began to explain his business plan: a plan to combine agricultural enterprises with the development of healthy food.

The plan is not complicated and can be summarized as follows: enterprises go to rural areas, cooperate directly with farmers, provide technical and financial support, and produce healthy food.

They are then sold through the company's channels.

It is indeed very simple, but it is very difficult to implement the plan. Many aspects are, in the eyes of a normal businessman, thankless and arduous.

After listening, Chen Lao Er retorted directly: "Agricultural enterprise integration? Do you understand rural areas? Do you know how complicated the situation in rural areas is?"

"Don't think that once a contract is signed, everything is settled. Once a conflict of interest arises, it can turn into a mass incident, and no matter how much money or connections we have, we can't handle it."

Potato snatching, peanut snatching, fishpond snatching... what hasn't happened before? These kinds of things can't be explained by reason.

A strong dragon will not overwhelm a local snake.

Once something happens, the Chen family will be helpless.

To put it bluntly, there are not only Brahmins in county towns, but also in rural areas. Going to the countryside to do business, especially for outsiders, poses too many hidden dangers.

"Second brother, didn't we go to the countryside often when we were kids? You spent all three of our high school summer vacations in the countryside, so you must know a thing or two about it."

Chen Yanche coughed lightly and unconsciously took out a cigarette and lit it: "The countryside is indeed very complicated, but as long as everyone's interests are aligned, we can bind everyone together with those interests."

"There is no single model of cooperation. I have designed a variety of cooperation methods, and we can always find a feasible path."

"Naive!" Old Chen chuckled and lit a cigarette.

He took a deep breath and said with disdain, "The local customs, traditions, and sentiments are different in every place, so the cooperation model can't possibly be the same."

"If you want to expand significantly, the models are complex and inconsistent. Just the cooperation models alone require a huge amount of effort and can also lead to various conflicts."

"A typical case of doing a lot of work for little reward."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yanche did not deny it, but instead nodded: "Second brother, you are right, but practice is the sole criterion for testing truth."

"In the early stages, I plan to cooperate with several villages, using multiple models in parallel, and spend a year as an experiment to find the optimal cooperation model."

"Wishful thinking!" Chen Lao Er scoffed.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Okay, let's put the cooperation model issue aside for now. How do we solve the consumer side problem?"

"With your model, you can only produce high-end green ingredients. Only in this way can you maintain a certain profit. If you produce ordinary ingredients, you will lose money."

"Unfortunately, the food market is the most complex."

"To put it bluntly, with a bunch of unscrupulous merchants around, consumers have extremely low trust in food safety. Why do you think consumers will buy into it?"

"Don't try to teach consumers."

"Educating consumers is extremely costly, like rowing against the current. If you can't gain their trust, your plan is just empty talk."

(End of this chapter)