I'm incredibly ambitious after being reborn.

Chapter 56 said it's as simple as having hands.
Splash, splash...

Watching the peanuts being continuously transported out for secondary cleaning in the washing tank, Shen Guangen was completely bewildered in the north factory area of ​​"Shizipo". He had always thought this was the warehouse.

When was the production line modified?
"Mr. Zhang, what... what is this?"

"A drum washing machine, you can use it to wash fresh vegetables by changing the number of teeth. Oh, it's semi-automatic, not fully automatic."

Zhang Daxiang offered a brief explanation for Shen Guangen's question, arguing that it was reasonable for someone who studied finance not to understand mechanical design and automation.

"No, no... I mean, where did you buy it from? I know an equipment supplier who charges 190,000 for a cleaning machine."

"It will be cheaper in the future. The basic infrastructure is not developed enough yet, so the cost cannot be reduced across the board. In eight or ten years, the price will probably be only half, and in another eight or ten years, you can buy it for 20,000 or 30,000. The material cost and labor cost are not high when added together."

Before its rebirth, Earth, apart from a very few high-end equipment manufacturing industries, had everything else priced at one-tenth of its cost.

Basically, anything that can be manufactured domestically will eventually reach a point where profits are close to the cost line, for various reasons.

First, the industrialized population increased; second, technology spread extensively, most notably in the steel and metallurgy industry, which was originally a high-value-added industry, and apart from crude steel and pig iron, it was quite profitable.

The end result was that after adding hundreds of millions of industrialized people, steel prices became as cheap as cabbage, directly causing a global market crash.

The same applies to civilian mechanical equipment with low technological density. At this time, the price of a drum-type peanut washing machine imported from the United States is about 40,000 US dollars. The price of a domestic agent who finds a fake is about 190,000 or 200,000 US dollars.

In reality, the material cost is over 20,000 yuan, and the labor cost is a bit higher. If we calculate it at 100 US dollars per hour, it can be done in 50 working hours.

With mass production, the price can be even lower.

Of course, this is on the premise that there are conditions for batch processing.

“Mr. Zhang, you haven’t answered my question yet. Where did you buy it? The equipment around Jiyang City is currently in the hands of two turtles at Dafeng Shopping Center. It’s really not easy to find out where to buy the relevant equipment.”

"Didn't I say on the phone? I did it myself."

"..."

"Director Shen, don't you believe me?"

"Ah, no, no, Mr. Zhang, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just... I really want to broaden my horizons..."

Adjusting his glasses, Shen Guangen genuinely wanted to broaden his horizons.

This is unbelievable!
Someone who's eighteen and hasn't even gone to university, and they still know how to do this stuff?!

Before the widespread rise of e-commerce, the equipment manufacturing industry relied heavily on sales to sell its products; if sales were weak, they had to rely on various large and small machinery expos or industrial equipment trade fairs.

Because this is usually a B2B business. Even if it is sold to large-scale farmers, it is not B2C. Large-scale farmers are corporate clients, not individual consumer clients.

With the rise of e-commerce, individual consumers can easily find "ATone automatic cesarean section machine" by searching on shopping websites.

You can find all sorts of power heads, motors, drive shafts, control panels, and so on that individual business owners and small business owners didn't know where to buy before. From raw materials to electrical equipment and programmable equipment, you can find them all.

It saves 99 percent of the effort for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the past, these things were often held by a logistics or sales person, which greatly restricted the business owner.

The internet will amplify the potential energy of industry, provided that there is industry and potential energy.

There was nothing there, so all they could do was stare blankly. Zhang Daxiang didn't know who Shen Guangen was referring to when he said "two turtles at Dafeng Shopping Center," but it didn't matter anyway. For these people, purchasing equipment required connections and guidance. Otherwise, how would someone who had no experience know which factory produced which equipment in which location?

Even if you find out the price, do you know how much it will cost?

However, no matter how much he planned, even Shen Guangen himself did not expect that this trouble was not even a problem. For Zhang Daxiang, it was just a piece of cake.

"Director Shen, look, the walnut shell crusher I mentioned to you on the phone before has a pretty good rate of intact kernels. I've already tested several batches, and now we're manually sorting out those with over 90% intact kernels and those with over 50% intact kernels. The remaining crushed walnut kernels won't be commercialized."

"W-how did you make this? You really know how to manufacture equipment yourself?"

Watching the pecan shell crusher work continuously, a large amount of pecan pulp falls into the material box through the discharge port, and then is distributed to various workstations on the conveyor belt.

At each workstation, there was a female worker wearing a mask and a head covering, manually sorting the fruit pulp. Because of the hot weather, there were air vents above, directly pointing at the work area.

Wow, they installed air conditioning in the workshop. They're really rich and powerful.

Shen Guangen's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. No wonder he said it felt cool when he came in; it turned out there was air conditioning.

However, upon closer inspection, it seems that no industrial air conditioners were observed.

Seeing Shen Guangen examining the air vents, Zhang Daxiang explained, "Water-cooled air conditioners only cool down the air slightly; they still require exhaust fans and ventilation fans."

Pointing to the exhaust fans in the work area, Shen Guangen then noticed that a large number of fans were still in operation.

"Mr. Zhang is not only rich and powerful... I mean, he is incredibly resourceful."

"It's just so-so."

"You're too modest, Mr. Zhang. You made all this equipment by yourself. It's truly astonishing."

"This is nothing, anyone with hands can do it."

"..."

“The factory workers used to know a lot. I watched them for a while and learned a little bit of the basics.”

"..."

Shen Guangen didn't want to speak, he was extremely shocked. After a while, he revealed an extremely perverted smile, "Boss Zhang!!"

Shen Guangen raised his voice, his eyes practically gleaming, "There's a big business opportunity right now. If you handle it well, I guarantee you'll make fifteen million!"

"real or fake?"

“It’s true, there’s still a shortage of 5,000 tons of Chaoyangtou sunflower seeds in Jiyang City’s New Year’s market this year. My old classmate can buy out more than 2,000 tons, maybe 3,000 tons. If we can get another 3,000 tons, we can fill the gap in Jiyang City’s New Year’s market this year. And that’s just sunflower seeds. Actually, there’s a shortage of 15,000 tons of dried fruit for the New Year, and the wholesale market is under a lot of pressure.”

"Jiang Lane?"

"Yes, mainly the Jiangxiangli Agricultural Wholesale Market. We'll come together to source goods in October, November, and December, and the contracts will be signed directly with the city government. Don't worry about the initial capital; you can use your land, factory buildings, equipment... all sorts of things as collateral. Making 30 million might be risky, but making a few million is no problem at all!"

Shen Guangen didn't understand the market, but he was quite well-informed about the difficulties within the government.

If this goes well, Zhang Daxiang will definitely have hundreds of millions in cash flow, with revenue estimated at 30 to 50 million. Whether the profit will be explosive depends on how much he gathers information after visiting the city.

(End of this chapter)