Chapter 26 If You Dare to Use Me, I Will Spend

"You can only make 10 or 20 pounds a day by selling retail goods, and you can only make 7 or 8 yuan at most, and you have to deal with thugs.

Wholesale orders start from 100 kilograms, and if you find the right person, you can settle the payment and goods in five minutes."

Li Ye explained business tips to Hao Jian on the spot. Within a few minutes, Hao Jian's eyes were shining brightly.

The various wholesale markets that sprang up in China in the late 1980s gave rise to countless "rich families", a typical example of which is the place where the story of "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" takes place.

These wholesale markets remained very vibrant even many years later, so it turns out that wholesale is a relatively easy way to make money.

The provincial capital is only 40 kilometers away from Qingshui County. It has a large population and sufficient middle- and high-income groups. It is a potential treasure land waiting to be developed.

Although hemp candy is an inconspicuous snack, it meets all the requirements for opening up market channels and initial accumulation of funds. That's why Li Ye chose Hao Jian and asked him to test the waters for him.

Hao Jian was already moved, but he did not blindly agree to Li Ye. Instead, he told Li Ye about his difficulties.

"Brother, I'll be honest with you. My family is in great need of money. I'd like to go to the provincial capital to try my luck, but I don't have the capital!"

On weekdays, Hao Jian only deals in a pot of sesame candy, and twenty kilograms is the maximum. The capital is five or six yuan, and the turnover is more than ten yuan. If he wants to do wholesale business of hundreds of kilograms, he can't afford so much money.

Li Ye thought for a moment and asked, "How much capital do you need?"

Hao Jian gritted his teeth and said, "At least fifty dollars is needed, and a bicycle is also required."

After stating these two requests, Hao Jian felt uneasy. He was afraid that Li Ye would leave in anger.

After all, if you calculate the cost of more than 100 kilograms of sesame candy, you will know that Hao Jian's two requests basically mean that he is not willing to spend a penny.

But Li Ye said, "Then hurry up and go to the provincial capital! If you think it's feasible, come to the County No. 2 Middle School to find me."

Hao Jian watched Li Ye leave after saying just one word, and he was stunned for a long time.

[He agreed? ]

Hao Jian still didn't quite believe it.

If an hour ago, Hao Jian still regarded Li Ye as an easy-to-please "child", now he has no intention of looking down on him at all.

Li Ye first took Hao Jian back to get the candy, then explained to him the concept of "wholesale", and then gave Hao Jian five yuan of "activity funds".

This series of decisions were crisp, decisive and neat, making Hao Jian feel that he was not facing an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy, but the village chief whose word was law.

After being stunned for a long time, Hao Jian came to his senses and walked towards the county hospital in the cold wind.

He had to get medicine for his child at home first. Since he had money already, he might as well buy a few more bottles and spend a dollar or two.

Hao Jian has never been a pedantic person. Although he still doesn't understand why Li Ye trusts him so much, he also has some vague guesses that he must have something that Li Ye needs and is valuable enough for Li Ye to use.

If you dare to use me, I will dare to spend.

Too many lice won't bite, too many debts won't worry me, so what can you do to bite me to death?

Anyway, I don’t lose anything.

. . . .

Hao Jian felt that he had made no loss, and Li Ye also felt satisfied.

Hao Jian only calculated the financial cost and felt that Li Ye was at a disadvantage in this cooperation.

But Li Ye calculated the human cost and, more importantly, the risk cost more comprehensively.

It is still risky to run a business on your own these days. He plans to train Hao Jian as an agent and hide himself behind the scenes. In case anything goes wrong, there will be room for maneuver and mediation.

Li Ye knew that Hao Jian was a "swindler", but their "entrepreneurial" business did not need honest and loyal scalpers, but rather ambitious and courageous warriors.

Nowadays, we are not afraid of you having ambition, but we are afraid of you not daring to do it. As long as you "do it", you have taken the most important first step.

As for whether Hao Jian can be controlled by Li Ye in the future, that is a matter for later. If you want to make your first pot of gold, you have to take a step and try, right?

After returning to the No. 2 Middle School of the county, Li Ye went straight to his dormitory.

After arriving at the dormitory, he took out a stack of banknotes from the cotton wool inside the pillow and counted them, totaling one hundred and five yuan.

This is all the funds Li Ye can use now, most of which are what he saved in the past few months.

After all, there was a Lu Jingyao in the past who could not keep much money in his pocket.

Now his family gives him 30 to 40 yuan a month. A meal with two dishes only costs a dozen yuan a month, and a pack of Daqianmen for two days only costs six or seven yuan a month.

There are no pay-to-win games now, so you can never spend all your money.

But if I really start the plan to go to the provincial capital to make money with Hao Jian, this "huge sum of money" of more than 100 yuan will not be enough.

The capital should be enough for small-scale operations in the early stage. If you want to diversify and do something else in the later stage, or even assign Hao Jian to go south to catch the trend and make a fortune, you can't do it without tens of thousands of funds.

[Let's do this for now, it's not bad to earn some pocket money. ]

Li Ye thought about it and decided not to get too anxious. His basic requirement was to earn enough money to live comfortably before being admitted to university next year.

With a fortune of one hundred thousand taels, he rode a crane to Yangzhou. He had experienced enough of the difference between a rich college life and a poor college life in his previous life.

. .

In the afternoon, as soon as Li Ye entered the classroom, he saw a circle of people surrounding Xia Yue, many of whom were from other classes. They were all excited and envious, and looked very abnormal.

Li Ye glanced at them a few times without paying any attention, but after he walked to his seat and sat down, Xia Yue started saying strange things with a hint of meaning.

"As educated youth in the new era, we must use our knowledge to create a better life. Ten years of hard study have condensed our fighting spirit and given us the strength to be proud of."

"We must not be like parasites, relying on our parents and families, enjoying superior material conditions and still not being satisfied, and spiritually superior to our classmates."

Li Ye raised his eyelids coldly, just in time to meet Xia Yue's provocative gaze. He immediately understood that she was making a veiled accusation.

But maybe it was because Li Ye's eyes were too sharp, or maybe Xia Yue was scared of Li Ye recently, she only had eye contact with Li Ye for a few tenths of a second before turning her head and looking away.

It's like a little Teddy bear with a rope around its neck, barking happily, suddenly sees an "honest" Chinese native dog and feels suppressed instantly.

But Xia Yue's words resonated with many people around her, and they all echoed her, which made Li Ye feel a little ridiculous.

Ten years of hard study is indeed worthy of recognition, but family conditions should not be despised.

Countless students from poor families have become rich through their own efforts. So shouldn’t their next generation feel comfortable spending their father’s money?

Only by looking at problems rationally and constantly making up for your own shortcomings can you surpass those pioneers and beat the previous waves to death on the beach.

A poor man may have great ambition; the key lies in his ambition, not in poverty.

Li Ye was in no mood to argue with them. Xia Yue and the others didn't mention anyone by name, so why bother stepping on that shit?

But he still wanted to know what happened, so he asked his deskmate Wen Leyu what was going on.

Wen Leyu curled her lips and said, "Lu Jingyao wrote a letter to Xia Yue, showing off that she had published a poem and earned five yuan and fifty cents in royalties. She spent a lot of your money in the past, and she feels free and noble after earning this money."

"Royalty?" Li Ye felt suddenly enlightened.

"Well, only five dollars and fifty cents?" Wen Leyu said in a low voice, sounding quite comforting.

But Li Ye's mood was different.

Yes, I can earn royalties from writing!

Is this plagiarist's tactic vulgar?

Vulgar, so vulgar.

Is this model of earning royalties a bad one?

It’s bad. Really bad.

But it is undeniable that earning royalties is the most direct, simple, effective and risk-free way to make money in this era.

No need to run errands, no need to go out, no need to fawn and nod to customers, all you need is a piece of paper and a story in your mind to make money.

Li Ye felt it was reliable, especially now that Guo Jia had just clarified the standard for royalties.

In fact, if we really want to discuss it seriously, the royalties in China have been declining.

Not to mention the people who became celebrities by relying on royalties in Lu Xun's era, even after 1977, the authors who made a living from royalties also experienced a very prosperous spring.

In 1978, the State Press and Publication Administration issued the "Notice on the Trial Implementation of News and Publishing Remuneration and Subsidy Measures", which stipulated that the author's remuneration should be 2-7 yuan per thousand words.

In 1980, Group D of the National Press and Publication Administration formulated a new standard for royalties, raising it to RMB 3-10 per thousand words. Over the next decade, authors' royalties were based on "basic royalties + royalties for additional print runs".

In 1984, the standard was raised again to 6-20 yuan per thousand words.

In this era when pork costs less than one dollar per pound and rice costs more than 20 cents per pound, this standard of remuneration is extremely high.

Think about it! A worker's monthly salary is only 30 or 40 yuan, which is only equivalent to the author's payment for a few thousand words.

How rare were people with a monthly income of 10,000 yuan in the 1980s? Compared to later generations, they were at least considered middle class, right?

But many authors can meet this standard with just two books.

However, in later generations, "author" was almost directly equated with "poverty", which shows how big the gap is.

Of course, there were not many publications in this era, and there were few book numbers from publishing houses, so it was still difficult for authors to publish articles or novels.

But for Li Ye, this difficulty is only "a little bit" difficult at most.

In his previous life, Li Ye wrote online articles and earned royalties in his spare time. His writing skills and reading experience were more than enough for him.

In this age when second-rate martial arts novels from Hong Kong and Taiwan can thrive, aren't those high-quality online novels with novel tropes in later generations just about killing people indiscriminately?

Don't look down on online literature. Online literature and martial arts novels are both popular literature. Online literature is developed on the basis of martial arts novels.

Those excellent online writers may not be as good as Gu Liangjin, but they can definitely be compared with other martial arts writers.

Moreover, when The Legend of the Condor Heroes was published, martial arts was not recognized by mainstream literature? But wasn't it still popular all over the country?

[Well, how many words does "Battle Through the Heavens" have? Is it a bit ahead of its time? "A Step into the Past"? Still ahead of its time? ]

[What about "Insidious"? Is it suitable for the background of the times? 】

Li Ye pulled out a stack of letter papers and began to list and analyze the works that best fit this era.

(End of this chapter)