Liu Shengan is a farmer himself, so the grain and oil processing path should be more suitable for him. Unfortunately, the grain and oil market was not opened until 1992, so it is not possible to take this path now.

Although it will take another two years for grain to be opened up, there will be no problem in opening an oil mill.

Since 1984, countless individual cold-rolling oil mills have appeared, not to mention that it is already 1989.

"You can open a small oil mill, specializing in selling barreled oil, register a trademark, and do this exclusively for the rest of your life."

Rural people still continue the tradition of using soybeans harvested from their own fields to exchange for oil in oil mills.

The oil mill produces 13 kilograms of soybean oil and 80 kilograms of bean cakes for 100 kilograms of soybean oil.

The oil mill nominally makes money from processing fees, which range from a few cents to about one dime per pound of beans.

In fact, there are many ways to make money in oil mills.

A hot-rolled oil mill can produce sixteen kilograms of oil from one hundred kilograms of beans, and it can only produce fourteen kilograms of oil at most, so the oil mill can make a profit of about two kilograms on the oil.

You can also make a few pounds of profit from bean cakes. Although bean cakes are not valuable, the amount can be considerable if accumulated over time.

However, if urban residents did not have enough oil to eat, they could only buy oil on the black market or buy oil from relatives in rural areas. This was not until the end of 1991 when food coupons were abolished and the food market was completely liberalized.

At that time, if you wanted to buy soybean oil, you had to bring your own container, which was mostly a square plastic bottle.

Round oil drums have not yet appeared.

The earliest bottled oil in mainland China was the Golden Arowana that appeared in stores in 1991.

There are thousands of families specializing in business in Wahou Market. Many of these families come from other places. Although they cannot say that they have no houses, they can guarantee that they have no land.

They have to buy all the oil they eat.

As long as Liu Shengan fills this gap and sells part of the products to the towns and takes them out from the factories in the Wei Industrial Zone, he can easily make 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a year.

“What is barrel oil?”

"It's oil in small plastic buckets, with five or four kilograms in each bucket."

"It's just a plastic pot?"

Wan Feng shook his head: "This plastic bucket is round and transparent."

Plastic pots are opaque, so they are naturally not of high quality.

"It's just selling soybean oil. How can that work? I don't see anyone making money selling soybean oil."

"That depends on your goal. If you want to make 100,000 or 200,000 yuan a year from this, you definitely can't achieve that now. But if your goal is to make 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a year, then there's no problem. I can tell you that you can make that much money without using any weapons."

There are hundreds of factories of all sizes in the area of ​​Nandawan and Jiangwei, and each factory has its own small canteen.

Even if we calculate the most economical usage, a factory canteen would need at least three or four hundred kilograms of soybean oil, and that's if they are extremely frugal.

Under normal circumstances, a small factory with 180 workers can produce 1,800 kilograms of soybean oil a year.

There are more than 200 factories of all sizes in Jiangwei.

There are more than 200 factories in the Dongshan Industrial Park alone, which is located between Nan Da Wan and Da Shu Tun, which was put into use only last year.

These factories have to produce more than 100,000 kilograms of products every year.

Last year's crazy prices are still having an impact. When pork has risen to 2.6 yuan per pound, soybean oil is also close to 1.5 yuan.

Even if Liu Shengan only makes 1 cent per pound of soybean oil, the Jiangwei factory can bring him an income of 20,000 yuan a year.

Considering the business families in Daji who have lived in Jiangwei all year round, Wan Feng’s estimate is still very reliable.

Wan Feng just needs to say hello, so who needs these soybean oils?

If a brand is established, future income will continue to increase, and it will not be a problem to earn hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan a year.

For Liu Shengan, it would be a surprise to earn 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a year. Now he only earns about 2,000 yuan a year by riding a bicycle to get to the market.

"real?"

Wan Feng began to settle the score with Liu Shengan.

After Wan Feng finished settling the accounts, Liu Shengan felt relieved.

It is so easy to make money with the help of noble people.

"How much does it cost to invest in a hot oil mill?"

Of course, if you want to open an oil mill, you have to run a hot-rolled oil mill. The oil output of a cold-rolled oil mill is too low.

While driving, Wan Feng and Liu Shengan calculated the investment for an oil mill that could grind hundreds of thousands of kilograms of beans annually.

From the cost of the factory building to the equipment, to the cost of harvesting beans, as well as electricity and labor, the investment must be at least 100,000 yuan.

Of the 100,000 yuan investment, the cost of harvesting beans is the largest. Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of beans will cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Excluding the cost of harvesting beans, the investment in factory equipment is not much, only 30,000 or 40,000 is enough.

Liu Shengan was dumbfounded. One hundred thousand! Where could he get that?

Money and equipment are not a problem. Qian Wanfeng can borrow from Liu Shengan or go to a rural credit cooperative.

The Nanwan factory can make the equipment for you. Isn’t it just two large bolts on the top and bottom that squeeze the oil out of the soybeans?

Those old equipment still rely on manpower to move levers back and forth to apply pressure. The Nanwan factory can directly design it into an electric one through gear speed change, which can also save a lot of labor.

Harvesting beans is not a big problem. It should not be difficult to harvest hundreds of thousands of kilograms of beans from several nearby towns and villages.

If there are not enough beans, Liu Shengan can go to other oil mills to buy oil. When purchasing in large quantities, there will naturally be a preferential price difference. He can just come back and put his own brand on it.

At that time, there were no harmful things like genetically modified foods, and all soybean oils were the same, except for the adulterated ones.

"Do you have the courage to do it?"

"I need to think about this." Liu Shengan was a little undecided.

Such a large investment must of course be carefully considered. It is not something that can be decided casually.

Wan Feng understood very well.

People who do business for the first time all want to win and are afraid of losing, and they are hesitant and cautious. You will get used to it in the future.

The car arrived at the door of Liu Shengan's home in Zhoujia Team, and Liu Shengan helped his wife get out of the car.

"Would you like to come home and sit for a while?"

"No, it's getting dark, and I have to go back to pick up my wife, so I won't go in."

"I'll think about the oil mill for two days and give you an answer."

"No rush! I'm going out in the next couple of days, and it will probably take two months for me to come back. If I come back, it might be around May Day. You have two months to think about it."

After waving goodbye to Liu Shengan, Wan Feng went back home to pick up Luan Feng and Zhang Xuan at the garment factory.

"Under normal circumstances, Zhang Xuan's equipment should arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I have a feeling someone might come to pick me and Chen Dao up tomorrow, so he might not be at home. I've already prepared a place for the equipment. If he arrives, just say hello to my uncle and have him arrange for someone to temporarily unload the equipment into the warehouse and install it after the factory building is completed. I'll probably be back by then, you two fools, remember this?"

Luan Feng reached out to poke Zhang Xuan's armpit: "Stupid bastard, do you remember this?"

"Who is the fool?" Zhang Xuan resisted Luan Feng's invasion in order to defend the territorial integrity.