Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 804 is here.

Chen Hui said, "Okay, one per county, how many?"

Xiao Wei asked, "How much?"

Chen Hui said, "Not counting cities and districts, there are more than 160 counties and county-level cities alone, and about ten autonomous counties as well."

Liu Hongliang was stunned for a moment, then said, "Damn, right, you guys have specific ones, like this?"

Chen Hui said, "I used to work in an office, doing statistics on this stuff all day long. We were really precise down to the village level. I said, why don't you go to the city? Set up a point in each city, be responsible for promotion and restocking, and outsource everything else to agents."

You should find people in each district and county, teach them how to do it, and just supervise them occasionally. The people there just need to make money and be easy to manage. Let me tell you, even if you wanted to organize people to go to the villages to paint walls and spread propaganda, it wouldn't be realistic. Every county has at least a hundred or two hundred villages, some even two or three hundred. Are you going to do it one by one?

Liu Hong lit a cigarette, leaned back in his car seat, and stared blankly. He said, "Damn, you're overthinking it. So tell me, how did you even get that hope? They've already gone down to the villages."

Xiao Wei said, "I didn't expect there to be so many. Thinking about it, it really isn't realistic. It's impossible to hire so many people."

Chen Hui said, "Hey, boss, I told you you only need to find one partner per county, or if someone is willing to do it, they can handle several counties at once, as long as they can manage it. Just assign the work to them, and you only need to be responsible for inspection, supervision, and management. Collect money and deliver goods. That way, you'll have about thirty or forty people under your command, maybe fifty or sixty at most."

Liu Hongliang said, "Then how can you be sure he did it according to our plan?"

Chen Hui said, "Just pay them. There's a rule for each village's 'GGs' – a certain number of walls, a certain amount of money, and they can get reimbursed by bringing photos and a village certificate. See if they can handle it? Let me tell you, the speed will shock you. In a few days, I guarantee your 'GGs' will be everywhere, absolutely. A few dozen yuan is nothing here, but it's a fortune there, understand?"

Xiao Wei said, "That's true. In my family, we only make a few hundred yuan a year. A few dozen yuan is definitely not a small amount."

Liu Hongliang said, "I need to rethink this. I misunderstood. Awesome, Xiaohui, you can do it."

Chen Hui said, "We still need to be on TV, at least on the provincial stations. Right now we only sell to three provinces, so we don't need to be on CCTV. But once production really picks up and we can expand, CCTV will have to be on us, and there are also newspapers. People believe in these things now; seeing a picture on TV is more effective than telling them a thousand times."

Xiao Wei said, "We have TV. Hongliang and I discussed it, and we'll have to go to several stalls."

Chen Hui said, "Actually, there are plenty of ways to attract farmers. To put it bluntly, farmers have it too hard. Even the slightest benefit is a big deal for them."

Let me give you an example. For instance, you could offer a discount of one or several dollars for using the original packaging bag when you buy another item. You see, that would definitely attract a large number of customers. If your price is the same as others, they'll buy from you. Even if others offer delivery, you can't persuade them to buy. They don't lack the effort or time; they lack the money.

Liu Hongliang slapped his thigh: "That's a great idea, absolutely a great idea. We'll pay 50 cents for a damaged bag and a dollar for a good one. We can reuse the stuff or have it recycled."

Xiao Wei asked, "How much did we pay for that bag?"

Liu Hongliang said, "It's worthless. You can't calculate it like that. It's not about how much the bag is worth."

Xiao Wei asked, "Are you selling fertilizer or animal feed? Both?"

Liu Hongliang said, "Of course we'll do it together. The production processes for those products are pretty much the same, so we'll release them together. We'll adjust the prices based on sales volume."

Xiao Wei laughed and said, "Just thinking about how pigs all grow up eating pig manure makes me feel so uneasy!"

Chen Hui said, "You're just being wishful. Do you think pigs don't eat? What don't they eat? They can eat a toad in a few bites, maggots, what don't they eat? The more they eat, the healthier they are. What we humans consider dirty is a delicacy to them, healthy and refreshing. It's not like I'm asking you to eat with them."

Xiao Wei said to Liu Hongliang, "We need to be careful about parasites."

Liu Hongliang said, "I know, we add something to our feed specifically to combat parasites. Do you think this agricultural university professor is joking?"

We talked and walked along the way, and by the time we got back to the courtyard it was almost five o'clock. As we turned the corner, we saw several cars parked inside and outside the courtyard.

Several large trucks blocked the road, preventing them from driving in. The three men parked their car on the side of the road and stood there looking around, not quite understanding what was going on. As they walked further in, Chen Hui said, "Isn't this Old Xia's family coming over? This car has a Longcheng license plate."

Xiao Wei said, "Brother Long went moving today too? Could it be school equipment being moved over?"

Liu Hongliang said, "This, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven vehicles. What equipment do you have that allows you to use seven vehicles? No, those three vehicles inside are 05, and 05 is Beixi, right?"

Xiao Wei turned to look and said, "Yeah, 05 is Beixi. Could it be my grandpa's here?" Just as he was about to go over to take a look, Xia Maosheng came down from the third floor and asked, "What are you guys standing there looking at?"

Xiao Wei said, "So many cars coming down at once, I'm totally confused. What's going on here?"

Xia Maosheng said, "My family, my sister's family, your uncle's family, and Gazi and Liu Liu, all six families arrived at the same time."

Xiao Wei asked, "Brother Long hasn't come back yet?"

Xia Maosheng said, "Brother Long only went today, he won't be back until tomorrow at the earliest. Are you flying?" He walked over to the three people.

Chen Hui tugged at Xia Maosheng: "Hey, Xiaowei, has Auntie Hou arrived yet? And Xiaofu too."

Xia Maosheng glanced at the car and said, "Auntie is here, but I didn't see Xiaofu. She probably didn't come. Oh, your fourth uncle is here too, carrying mountain produce. I had the car driven into the yard and piled it up in the basement of the annex building first."

Chen Hui said, "Holy crap, isn't that our wine cellar?"

Xia Maosheng laughed and said, "It doesn't matter where we put the wine, it's empty anyway. Where should we put the mountain produce? We haven't started selling it yet."

Xiao Wei said, "Yes, the building will be finished soon. Once we've sorted things out at the company, we'll start working on it. We'll open a specialty store, and we should start shipping things back from Mongolia. Xiao Hui, when you have time, go talk to the chef at the restaurant and see if we can add a few special dishes, like wild mountain vegetables and Mongolian flavors."

Chen Hui said, "Yes, I told you before. You'd never be able to handle this kind of junk. Just take the stuff over there."

Liu Hongliang asked, "Aren't we going to help move it? Are we just going to stand here and watch?"

Xia Maosheng said, "Someone's already moving it. My sister, my parents, and I haven't helped. I just went up to check if we need any more people."

Chen Hui said, "We asked the military to help those trainees who were supposed to be here in the last few days to get their military driver's licenses, and then we can just go and exchange them. Where should we put them? In the hospital?"

Xiao Wei said, "There are five or six people. We can set up two apartments upstairs as dormitories. You can make the arrangements. One person per room. For now, they will all be drivers."

I've been busy these past few days, and also planning my new book, so updates have been a bit late. It's so painful not having any drafts. I'll be fine once the 70s story is finished.

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