Li Yuzhu's worries were not unfounded. In those days, the economy was scarce, and it was not easy to earn even a single yuan. If you bought a tractor for several thousand yuan and it didn't make any money, what would you do if it just sat at home as a pile of scrap metal? Nobody would want to sell it to you. Several thousand yuan was an astronomical figure for a family.
Dongqing said, "I'll do whatever you say. Tomorrow is Sunday, and my eldest sister and brother-in-law aren't working. Let's go back to our hometown with them and ask around. If it's feasible, we'll drive the tractor back and use it for a few days. If business is good, we'll buy the tractor."
Li Yuzhu asked, "Nobody wants these plates and bowls in my hometown. Can we take them out? It's not easy to sell such a big load. Think it over carefully. If it really doesn't work, then forget it. I really don't want you to take such a big risk. We're in a situation where we can make money but can't afford to lose it."
Dong Qing said, "The reason no one wants them is that we can't get them out of the market. Think about it carefully. We produce plates and bowls locally, but we can't sell them to other places. How much can we sell locally? Each family kitchen only uses that many."
These things aren't produced elsewhere, but every family kitchen needs plates and bowls anyway, so the demand there is huge.
Actually, you don't need to worry about it not selling well. We don't need to do retail at all. As long as we have transportation, we can transport the goods to other places and wholesale them directly to wholesalers. It saves both time and effort. You might not believe what I'm saying, but I'm conservatively saying that we can earn several hundred thousand a month without any problem.
"Yusheng's dad, you're not asleep, are you? You're not talking in your sleep, are you?"
Li Yuzhu looked at her husband with a puzzled expression. After hearing his words, she was truly astonished and could hardly believe that these words came from her husband's mouth.
In the early 1980s, not long after the reform and opening up, there were very few households with 10,000 yuan, even fewer than giant pandas. It was considered good if a dual-income family could save a thousand yuan. Dongqing's figure was indeed unacceptable to his wife. Wasn't earning hundreds of thousands of yuan a month just a pipe dream?
Dong Qing found it hard to believe. She wasn't that greedy; she would be content with an income of a few hundred yuan a month.
It was 1984, after all, and money was hard to earn. Rural people still wore patched-up clothes and ate cornmeal and sweet potato flour, barely enough to fill their stomachs. Li Yuzhu never dared to dream of earning hundreds of thousands of yuan a month.
"Believe me, I can definitely do it. I'm talking about a conservative figure; the income might be even higher. Before the reform and opening up, this kind of business was called speculation. Although the reform and opening up has been implemented, people's thinking is still stuck in the pre-reform and opening up era, and they haven't completely freed themselves from it."
To put it simply, people aren't really awake yet; they're still asleep. Even if we transport our goods to other places, the profit won't be much higher, only expected to be two to three times higher. Our main focus is on volume; only with large volumes can we make money. You understand that, right?
Li Yuzhu said, "I don't trust who you can trust. You are my support for life. I don't care how much money I make, as long as it can help us get out of our current predicament."
Dong Qing is someone who came from the 1980s in his previous life, and he is very knowledgeable about the business of selling porcelain to other places.
In the late 1980s, selling plates and bowls to other places was very popular, but it was all done on a small scale. In the 1980s, transport vehicles were extremely rare, and it was just a pipe dream for farmers to use vehicles to sell porcelain goods to other places.
A farmer can earn more than 200 yuan per trip by driving a donkey cart. He can make four trips a month, which adds up to about 1,000 yuan a month. Moreover, they don't travel particularly far. Driving a donkey cart too far is unrealistic. If they could drive further, they could earn more.
Even so, one month's income is more than two years' income for a worker. By using vehicles to transport porcelain to other places, Dong Qing has pushed the timeline forward by a full six years compared to his previous life. No wonder he became rich.
After listening to her husband's words, Li Yuzhu was glad that Yi Xiaofan had stolen her bicycle two years ago. Otherwise, marrying that kind of man would have been the misfortune of her life. If that had happened, what did it matter compared to the harm that she and her husband had suffered at Yi Xiaofan's hands over the past year?
Dong Qing is the man he can rely on for life. Her relationship with Yi Xiaofan is at most a growth experience in life, which can only make the couple stronger.
The next morning, Dongqing woke up naturally and saw that his wife was already up, standing at the table combing her hair. Hearing the noise, she turned around and looked at her husband. She said, "You're awake. I wanted you to sleep a little longer, so I didn't wake you. Get up quickly, I've made breakfast."
Dongqing looked at his son beside him, who was lying on the bed with his little eyes open, neither crying nor making a fuss. He said, "Okay."
Dong Qing got up, dressed, and got out of bed. Li Yuzhu dressed her son.
After breakfast, Dongqing pushed his old bicycle into the yard. This bicycle was the most valuable means of transportation in the family.
Dongqing locked the door, his wife and child sat on the back of the bicycle, and he drove his wife towards the city.
Arriving at my sister's residential area, I got off my bicycle in front of the building entrance, parked it at the door, took my son from my wife, and we went upstairs together.
Reaching the front door, Dongqing raised his hand to knock. The door opened instantly, and his niece said, "Uncle and Aunt are here."
Dong Qing responded, and Dong Da Mei, hearing this, came out of the bedroom, stepped forward, took the child, and said, "Come here, let your aunt hold you."
They walked to the sofa and sat down. The older brother-in-law asked, "Have you eaten?"
Dong Qing said, "I've already eaten."
Dongqing then told his brother-in-law about buying a tractor to sell porcelain, and then said, "Brother-in-law, I want to buy a tractor to haul goods. Isn't there a tractor in your village? Uncle is the village secretary, so he has influence in the village. Could you help me buy that tractor?"
Dong Damei and her husband were equally surprised to hear this. Dong Damei said, "I don't object to you doing business, but please don't act impulsively. Doing business has certain risks. Even if you lose money on a small business, it's only 10 or 20 yuan. But what if you lose money on such a big business? The key question is, can you afford to lose it?"
Li Yuzhu said, "Here's what I'm thinking: I'll have my dad go to the porcelain factory and get a truckload of porcelain on credit. We can try it out. If we can't sell it, we can just return it and we won't lose much money. I can ask my uncle to talk to the villagers and lend us the truck to try it out. If it works, we'll buy the truck; if not, we'll return it. It'll only take three to five days. We can afford to lose just the cost of gas."
My brother-in-law said, "What you're saying isn't impossible. My dad is the village party secretary now, so lending you the car for a few days shouldn't be a problem. The key question is, can you even drive?"
This is the important question. After listening, Li Yuzhu looked at her husband and said, "We're only thinking about buying a car, but what will we do if you can't drive?"
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