Chen Xia began to change his strategy and announced to the public that he would no longer sell medicine. Instead, he would sell a kind of honey pill called "Sanliu Weitai", which was a nutritional supplement. In any case, he would never admit that it was a pill.
He doesn't care whether others believe it or not. He just hopes that no one believes it.
Ordinary people who buy medicine don’t care, as long as it works, it doesn’t matter what your name is, even if you are called Yi Li Shen.
But after a few days, something strange happened. The sales of "honey pills" plummeted, and only 15 pills could be produced a day.
Why? Because they ran out of raw materials and honey.
This gave Chen Xia a headache. The traditional honey-producing season in Yuezhou had not yet arrived. The family workshop would need a large amount of honey in the future. Where could he purchase it in bulk?
Standing in front of the national map, Chen Xia has been searching for which region has the most honey.
Generally speaking, the places with the most honey in China are either in the north or in the south.
For example, the four famous honeys, acacia, jujube flower, and vitex, are all produced in northern provinces, while the south mainly produces lychee honey, rapeseed honey, and loquat honey.
It is early spring in Yuezhou now, but the north is still freezing cold with temperatures dropping to dozens of degrees below zero. This is definitely not possible.
So the only destination left is the south. Dongguang Province is a nice place, but the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established not long ago, so there's not much to do there. I've already been to Guizhou once, but unfortunately I didn't get to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall.
My cousins in Guangxi should have honey. Besides honey, what else is there to eat and do? Guilin's landscape? Liuzhou snail noodles? No, China is still at war with the South Vietnamese monkeys. It's too dangerous.
After looking around, I think Nanyun Province is the best. It is the City of Spring, where it is spring all year round, with birds, fish and flowers. There are many varieties of honey with good quality. For example, rapeseed honey, Yebazi honey, sweet potato honey, and vitex honey are all quite famous.
The key is that Nanyun Province has another advantage, that is, it is close to Myanmar and has rich jade resources, which is another "financial product" that can preserve and increase value.
In 1981, neither antiques nor jade were hyped up.
Especially jadeite, which is not popular in Western countries at all. It is only popular in the Greater China cultural area such as Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
However, China, the largest consumer market decades later, was still a blank at that time. There were almost no rich people in the country at that time. Who had the money to buy this glass-like jade?
For Chen Xia, a reborn person, this is an opportunity to pick up a bargain. He knows that those top-grade jades will almost become extinct in a few decades.
Because it is rare, it is valuable. The price is skyrocketing. This is related to the fact that people in China have a lot of money, but it is also related to capital speculation.
Everything can be speculated, this is a principle of capital.
Then Chen Xia, this small shrimp, took advantage of his rebirth to make arrangements in advance so that he could make money in the future. After all, those who buy high-end jade are rich people, so he can be regarded as "killing the rich to help the poor".
Chen Xia went to greet several big bosses in the hospital and said that he was going out to purchase some raw materials, which would take at least one month and at most two months, so that he could return home before the start of work.
Chen Qiu and Chen Dong have ignored their eldest brother. They have become accustomed to his elusive appearances.
As a "shrewd speculator," Chen Xia decided to capitalize on his spatial advantage and prepare for a major purchase. These days, having money isn't always easy; without tickets, you can only watch helplessly.
Especially border areas like Ruili in Nanyun Province should have been extremely poor and seriously short of supplies during this period.
What do the poor need most? Clothes and food, so grain and cloth are the best commodities for exchange.
Then I'll ask: "Fellow countryman, do you want some pretty floral cloth? I'll trade it for jadeite. "Fellow countryman, do you want some white rice? I'll go home and look for some jadeite."
I don’t believe that my dear fellow Ruili people will not be tempted?
Even if ordinary people do not have jade at home, there will naturally be middlemen who will make quick transactions through barter and run away with the jade.
It’s still the same old saying: “If you have food in your hands, you won’t be worried.”
Buying cloth in Yuezhou is incredibly easy. Since ancient times, Yuezhou has been renowned throughout the country for its textile industry, which is also the backbone of the Yuezhou region's economy. Therefore, there are cloth factories everywhere, in every commune, and even in some large villages.
However, a large number of textile factories, especially state-owned factories or collective enterprises, did something that was extremely inconsistent with market laws. That is, the textile factories only focused on production and never thought about the issue of sales.
This is a contradiction. On the one hand, the textile factories produce a large amount of cloth that cannot be sold and is piled up in the warehouse to mold, while on the other hand, they are still working hard to produce according to the quantity specified by their superiors.
On the other hand, ordinary people had no cloth coupons and no money, so they could not afford to buy cloth.
This phenomenon, which is inconsistent with the laws of the market economy, was particularly prominent in the 1980s, and continued until the 1990s when a wave of bankruptcies of state-owned enterprises broke out, resulting in tens of millions of laid-off workers across the country. If it were not for our country's vast territory and advantage, we would not have been able to solve the problem of workers' employment in the end. In Europe and the United States, serious social unrest would have occurred long ago.
Chen Xia happened to meet the director of a textile factory while selling medicine. The old man was anxious every day because he couldn't sell his products. He was so anxious that he developed stomach problems. No medicine worked, but Chen Xia's stomach medicine worked. So the two became quite familiar with each other after a few interactions.
But despite his urgency, the old man never considered traveling around the country to do sales or promotion. These people were stubborn and just waited for their superiors to help them find sales.
But no matter how long we waited, there was no sign of anything happening. The cloth in the warehouse was increasing day by day. After being dyed in the dyeing factory, the cloth was piled up in the warehouse. Then everyone in the factory looked at the warehouse door and sighed, and continued to produce while sighing.
Until with a clang, Chen Xia, the savior, arrived.
In the director's office of Hukou Textile Factory.
"Section Chief Chen, are you really willing to help us sell the cloth?"
"Ahem, Director He, I also want to give it a try for you. I'm going on a business trip to Nanyun Province and I'm going to bring some cloth with me to see if there's any market for it there."
Director He looked embarrassed. "Chief Chen, I don't think your idea will work. You can't get through the transportation link. It's too far away. Railways are out of the question, and highways are too expensive. It's not something that ordinary people can do."
Chen Xia thought, I came to your factory just to solve the transportation and logistics problem.
"I'll figure out the transportation myself, but the price can't be too high. You know, my transportation costs are too high, otherwise there will be no profit."
After saying that, Chen Xia put a box on his desk and knocked on it.
Director He opened the box in confusion, and saw 20 Sanliu Weitai pills inside. His heartbeat immediately accelerated. He looked at the door guiltily, and then hid in the drawer as quickly as possible.
The movements are done in one go.
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