“Brother Bin, this doesn’t conflict with what we said before at all… I will still help you with sales, but we will cooperate as a company.”
"Weidong, is it necessary? I heard that opening a company involves paying taxes and keeping accounts, which is quite troublesome... Besides, if we're just growing mushrooms, there's absolutely no need to register a company, right?" Zhang Bin said, puzzled.
"Brother Bin, don't rush, let me explain slowly."
"Go ahead and tell me."
"The agricultural company I'm going to open won't just grow mushrooms, but also vegetables and other things. Anyway, we'll be selling one thing or two things."
"Vegetables? What's the point of growing radishes and cabbages?" Zhang Bin was increasingly puzzled.
In rural areas, most vegetables are produced for self-sufficiency.
Even in the city, a small vegetable garden is often set up under the residential compound.
But mushrooms are different; they have specific requirements for temperature and humidity... and only professionals can handle them.
So he couldn't understand why Li Weidong didn't grow mushrooms but instead chose to grow vegetables.
"Brother Bin, don't rush. Let me finish explaining, and you'll understand everything. The vegetables I'm going to grow aren't ordinary vegetables; they're greenhouse-grown vegetables, off-season vegetables."
"Out of season?" Shen Xiaoyan became interested.
She owns a restaurant.
People are very sensitive to vegetable prices.
"Yes, as you all know, cucumbers are only available in summer, right? If I could provide fresh and crisp cucumbers for the people in winter, the price of cucumbers would certainly not be cheap, would it?"
“I know that,” Shen Xiaoyan chimed in. “In winter, we do sell cucumbers here. They’re all transported from the south and they’re very expensive. Cabbage is only a few cents a pound, but cucumbers can sell for more than a dollar a pound when they’re expensive.”
"More than a dollar?" Zhang Bin was also taken aback: "Is it made of gold?"
"Brother Bin, now you know how big the profit is, right?"
“I know that, but can we really grow cucumbers in the dead of winter?” Zhang Bin said.
"Sure, you're a tech person, you should know that greenhouse technology can simulate the suitable temperature and humidity for cucumbers, right?"
"It's theoretically feasible, but we don't have the technology," Zhang Bin said with a worried expression.
"If we don't have the skills, we can hire someone. As long as the skills are good enough, I'm willing to spend any amount of money."
"Where do we get them?" Zhang Bin, despite being an agronomy major, was completely baffled.
"Let's go to Shouguang!"
Li Weidong vaguely remembered.
In the previous life, in 1989, the first generation of winter vegetable greenhouses had already been invented in the Shouguang area.
However, because the production volume was relatively low, it was only supplied to wealthy people in the Beijing area, and the general public was unaware of this.
It's already 1992, and they should have already invented the second generation of winter vegetable greenhouses, and the technology is much more mature.
“Okay, even if we can technically achieve that… but who would buy such expensive vegetables? I don’t think the people in the Yimeng area can afford them.”
In an era where even eating meat is a luxury, he couldn't believe that anyone would be willing to spend so much money for a single vegetable.
“You’re right. The purchasing power of our Yimeng region is indeed limited, so we can broaden our horizons and not limit ourselves to our Yimeng region.”
"Where will you sell it?"
“We can sell wherever there’s money, anywhere in the Yangtze River Delta, including Shanghai, Suzhou, and Nanjing.”
"Are you kidding me? How much would the shipping cost just to get it there?"
"Brother Bin, the shipping costs are high, but our goods are also valuable, so there's still a profit to be made. Besides, you have to look at things from a developmental perspective. Our country is poor now, but isn't our country going to reform and open up? I believe that before long, the living standards of the people will improve day by day..."
Then, what people will want to eat won't be that greasy pork anymore; maybe they'll just want a bite of refreshing green vegetables.
"Those are all guesses, not accurate. How do you know our country will definitely become rich?"
Li Weidong smiled.
Of course he knew.
Because he traveled back from that era of national prosperity and strength.
Li Weidong wanted to explain further, but at that moment, Shen Xiaoyan, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up.
"Weidong, I'm interested in the agricultural company you mentioned."
As she spoke, she took out a bankbook from her pocket and handed it to Li Weidong: "All the money I earned before is here. You can take it; consider it my investment."
Shen Xiaoyan's decisiveness surprised Li Weidong: "Sister Xiaoyan, won't you reconsider?"
"I'm not considering it."
Shen Xiaoyan did not believe in the world of national prosperity and strength described by Li Weidong.
But she believed in Li Weidong...
She was moved by Li Weidong's spirited and commanding manner.
"Are you really not going to consider it?" Li Weidong asked.
“I did something as unreliable as you hoarding Moutai liquor before, so this project of yours sounds more reliable,” Shen Xiaoyan said with a smile.
When Zhang Bin saw that Shen Xiaoyan had even taken out her bankbook, he immediately became anxious.
Actually, he was a little tempted.
However, the project that Li Weidong wanted to undertake was simply too massive, and he was a little scared.
"Weidong, it's not that I don't trust you, but you need to tell me exactly what you want to do."
"Look at my brain, I was so busy making empty promises to you that I forgot to get down to business... We don't have much money, so I'm thinking of testing it out with mushrooms first."
We are responsible for providing technical support, guiding farmers in planting, and signing purchase agreements with them. Once the standards are met, we are responsible for purchasing the produce and collectively transporting and selling it.
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