My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 481 Lie down, I'll move.

Every ten days or so, Wei Dong would have a phone conversation with Yu Song Hai.

It can be said that he was the one who brought Wei Dong and Dong Xueying together.

However, he doesn't mention women at all now, so Wei Dong will always concisely convey to Brother Gaoyuan the situation he has experienced outside.

Economic situation, various reform explorations, and industrial changes.

Having been a journalist for many years, Yu Songhai naturally had his own views and perspectives, which not only allowed him to understand the situation in the central government even while he was on the frontier, but also gave Wei Dong a lot of advice.

Of course, the brothers' main focus was still on economic development.

The amount of freshly slaughtered yak meat shipped down from the plateau every week is also increasing.

Previously, the chefs felt that it was a waste to transport tens or hundreds of kilograms of pre-processed yak meat after it arrived, as the spices and seasoning methods were all wrong.

Therefore, vacuum packaging machines were later used for transporting fresh yak meat.

They then acquired four 50-centimeter-wide vacuum sealing machines from Tanaka in Japan and sent them to the plateau.

These large chunks of top-quality yak meat, including the best tenderloin, ribeye, chuck, shank, and brisket, are slaughtered, sealed, and shipped out.

We're already producing around ten tons per week!
Although for a county, it only involves the transport of two trucks.

But it has already brought about a revolutionary change.

Because it's expensive.

Beef in Jiangzhou is only 1.5 yuan per jin now, but Wei Dong and his men gave it to Gaoyuan County for 20 yuan!

Because now, apart from a very small amount being intercepted in Jiangzhou for use by Queen Restaurant, Jiangzhou Hotel, and their own restaurants.

The rest were never unpacked; they were immediately resold and transported by ship to Shanghai, and then shipped to Japan, where the landed price was fifty yuan!

Although the customs and quarantine procedures are troublesome, the profits for the Japanese are also very considerable.

Although the price of ordinary beef in Japan is 20 to 30 yuan per catty at this time, and Australian and American beef can even be less than 15 yuan, this is highland yak meat. Tanaka and his team are selling it as high-end Wagyu beef, which costs several hundred yuan!
Moreover, this amount of several tens of tons per month will not trigger Japan's import quota restrictions at all, nor will it cause local protectionism due to the low price of Australian or Citizen beef. It is quite well-received by Japan's high-end consumer market.

In addition, Wei Dong organized several chefs in Tanaka to focus on their specialty beef dishes.

The beef restaurant that advertises itself as a Chinese delicacy is doing incredibly well.

Tanaka made a fortune.

Wei Dong has to collect some profit from the transfer, pay for shipping, and bear so many packaging costs. He works very hard and only earns about two million a month with tears in his eyes, while also covering up other shipping costs.

For Gao Yuan, this monthly income of over one million yuan from aquaculture is an unprecedented windfall.

In 1985, when the average annual net income of farmers and herdsmen in the plateau region was only 455 yuan, Yu Songhai was deeply moved by this business model that allowed them to go directly from primitive pastures to the tables of developed countries in Europe and America.

For a border county with a population of just over 50,000, this single foreign trade deal doubled the average annual income of all farmers and herdsmen in the county.

Therefore, Yu Songhai is now firmly emphasizing economic development, which is in line with the higher authorities' requirement that the top priority for the plateau is to develop the economy and improve the material and cultural living standards as soon as possible.

Among neighboring regions that were at a loss or had various problems, they naturally stood out and were successively entrusted with important tasks.

Yu Songhai now spends half of each month working in the provincial capital.

There is indeed a demand for vehicles for long-distance travel.

Therefore, Wei Dong converted all the money he actually earned into aid, and not just the kind of poverty alleviation that involves giving money and goods, but genuine technical assistance.

Shangzhou Machinery Factory has already built cold storage facilities for food factories.

We are now providing support to one set of equipment in a border county and one set in the provincial capital, and sending people to transport the supplies and install them in place.

This ensures that the yaks can be frozen immediately after slaughter to prevent disruption to stable sales volume during peak and off-peak periods of yak sales.

Then, bundles and packages of cut denim fabric were transported upstairs.

Now, the jeans factory in the border county has more than 200 employees working in two shifts, producing thousands of jeans a day for sale to the provincial capital and border markets.

Merchants from all over the plateau region come to buy goods.

This generates hundreds of thousands of yuan in output value every month. The amount of money earned is not important; the significance of boosting employment and raising the income level of the entire county is very obvious.

This is actually somewhat similar to the strategy of Japanese automakers in the global market: to do the technical work as well as possible at the main factory, and to equip everything with the right patterns, materials, and accessories.

The processing plant only needs to follow the simplest steps to produce the product.

This not only boosted the industry and workers' income, but also made Yu Songhai's performance look very good.

With the full (quadruple) support of his wife's family.

Now, Yu Songhai has accumulated all the buffs and has the support of all parties. In the old plateau and the new plateau, which were originally incompatible, he has a very good reputation among different ethnic groups.

So when they set off, Wei Dong asked Hong Tiancheng for a box of shampoo samples and asked Chi Shiming to take them with him.

He instructed me that once the market launch was secured here, I should build a shampoo bottling plant in a border county.

We must do everything we can to solve the sanitation problems of the people living on the plateau. Damn, the girls on the plateau don't like to wash their hair or take baths.

The environment on the plateau is probably just like that, and there shouldn't be any major problems.

Jiangzhou's warm and humid climate is ideal for the growth of all kinds of bacteria and insects. Shen Cuiyue, who lives with the two of them, recently found fleas on Zhuoma's head!
Even though she had been down on her luck, the pampered young woman was terrified.

No wonder my head has been itchy lately.

Immediately, based on his own messy, common sense knowledge, he grabbed a few towels, soaked them in kerosene, and wrapped them around the heads of the three men to kill the insects.

That's bad enough, but she actually dragged two girlfriends to hide in the cramped bathroom to do this. She probably thought that if she suffocated the fleas in this area, they wouldn't get infected elsewhere.

As a result, the large amount of oily gas that evaporated in the enclosed space almost poisoned the three of them, causing them to fall unconscious.

Fortunately, Qin Yuye went to visit them and saved the three illiterate women.

When Wei Dong heard this, he almost died laughing.

Dong Xueqing quickly checked if her child had been affected, and it turned out that the child's thick hair was probably due to her family's inheritance, so the search was as easy as a monkey picking lice.

This made Wei Dong laugh uncontrollably.

In the end, he took advantage of the time outside to buy a pair of metal hair clippers and cut his child's hair short at home that evening.

Despite earning millions a month, he has not only not indulged in extravagance, but his daily life remains as simple as ever.

In the past, it was considered romantic to occasionally go to the only Western restaurant in the city with Dong Xueying. Now, it has completely evolved into playing basketball in the factory area in the afternoon, eating in the canteen at the food street, watching the news broadcast, and then going home.

In Bailou, just go to the food street and find a place to eat, then walk home.

No one would guess that this person is a spendthrift with millions in monthly income.

All the funds have been poured into construction sites across the country that are desperately in need of funding.

In fact, according to the Hong Kong engineers and experts that Qin Yuye brought to the site, if calculated based on the production capacity of the imported production line of the cosmetics factory, if it were to operate 24 hours a day in three shifts, the daily production capacity would be 50,000 to 80,000 bottles. Even after deducting the time for various maintenance and material upkeep, a monthly production of 2 million bottles would be considered a stable and normal level.

This translates to a monthly output value of six million, while the actual cost of this chemical ointment is only a small amount.

Hong Tiancheng submitted a production price of 1.2 yuan to the parent company, and the production price for the large bottle that costs 5 yuan in the future will only be 1.8 yuan.

The remaining item is "cost of sales".

As for the sales cost, that's up to Wei Dong to decide.

For example, Qin Zhiming, who had already returned to Hong Kong, contacted Chow Yun-fat as a film company boss and a music video industry mogul.

The timing was perfect. He rose to fame around 80 after filming "Shanghai Beach," but it had little to do with his recent popularity in mainland China. At that time, Hong Kong actors generally didn't care about the mainland market and were unlikely to receive any economic benefits. No mainland company ever invited Hong Kong or Taiwanese actors to film commercials.

Chow Yun-fat, on the other hand, is currently in a slump, having started strong but then declining. He has reportedly just finished filming a gunfight movie called "A Better Tomorrow," which is expected to be released during the Spring Festival.

The market as a whole is not optimistic about his ability to carry the box office, and he is in an awkward position of being a "movie poison".

Therefore, their advertising fees were far less sought-after than those of stars like Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung at the time. A single advertisement shoot cost HK$200,000, and if they signed an endorsement contract, HK$500,000 could buy them a year's worth of endorsements for the same product, which could include shooting five advertisements or attending endorsement events.

Now, Chow Yun-fat endorses mid-range consumer goods such as clothing, watches, and beverages, which doesn't really carry the high-end image.

Get Wei Dong to agree to sign immediately. Damn, half of Chow Yun-fat's fame comes from the memes that came with "A Better Tomorrow," right?

That awesome line, "I've waited three years, just for this one opportunity,"
I want to prove myself, not to show off how great I am.

I want to tell people that I will definitely get back what I've lost!

It will instantly become a sensation across mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, ushering in a new era for the entire Chinese-language film market.

Signing now is the perfect time to buy in at a low price.

However, because of the double-edged sword of the brand "Bai Nian Run Fa," which essentially binds the person to it, the contract was renewed for another 30 years with an additional HKD 100,000 per year. Of course, if negative news emerged, the amount would be deducted accordingly or the contract would be terminated, which had to be written into the agreement.

Qin Zhiming was extremely surprised: "Thirty years from now, that's an endorsement fee of 3.5 million per year. Right now, no star in Hong Kong can afford such a price!"

Wei Dong thought that a city like yours certainly couldn't afford this price, but for such a large country, after thirty years of development, can you believe that a single film can command a salary of 100 million yuan?

I won't explain what kind of earth-shattering changes will happen in the next thirty years: "Just sign it as I said, and I believe that the promotional expenses of three to five million won't be much by then."

But the effect of this was earth-shattering.

Even the idea king who dared to roam Southeast Asia in the 1960s has to admit that mainlanders are really bold and daring.

This is something that has been betting on Hong Kong actors for thirty years, something I've never heard of before.

Wei Dong certainly dared to bet on this evergreen tree.

As it turns out, Chow Yun-fat was not as arrogant and aloof as he portrayed in the film. After signing with Qin Zhiming, he was reportedly filming an advertisement with Qin's sister. He is also a mainland billionaire who is a partner of Heinz Group, Uncle De and other wealthy businessmen.

They immediately asked me to come, and I took the initiative to fly to the mainland to shoot the advertisement and cooperate with the scene arrangement.

That's pretty cool!

(End of this chapter)