Chapter 279: What the hell, Bobai car? [Three consecutive increases, the bosses are mighty]
The next morning.
After breakfast, Li Zonghe carried his luggage and took the bus to Yuexiu South Bus Station.
Last year he took a bus home for the first time to celebrate the New Year. As he had no experience, he stopped a bus halfway. As a result, the bus was full and he had to stand all the way back to Wuzhou.
Although standing for a few hours is nothing for a young man like Li Zonghe, who would be willing to stand all the way if there are seats available? Not only is it uncomfortable, but he also has to endure the strange looks from others, as if he didn't pay for the ride.
After experiencing this once, Li Zonghe finally had experience this time, so he took the bus to the station to catch the bus, so that the situation like last year should not happen again.
Yuexiu South Bus Station was built in 1950. It is the oldest long-distance bus station in Guangzhou and also the earliest provincial bus station in Guangzhou. This is the first time for Li Zonghe to come to this station. Looking at this "majestic" station, he couldn't help but sigh that it is worthy of being a station in Guangzhou. It is so magnificent.
When Li Zonghe walked into the station, Chen Guohui and Chen Guomei also rushed over by bus.
There are also people from Bobai working in other factories in Guangzhou. As long as the factory is on holiday, they will take the bus to the station early to catch the bus.
As soon as Li Zonghe entered the station, he heard a familiar local accent shouting, "Bobai, Bobai, is there anyone who can transfer the name of Bobai to my brother and sister?"
Li Zonghe looked in the direction of the sound and saw a young man holding a billboard with the words "Bobai" written in large letters, and occasionally shouting in Hakka dialect.
When Li Zonghe saw the two extremely familiar characters "Bobai", he shuddered all over and his blood boiled instantly.
Guangzhou actually has a Bobai train!!! At this moment, Li Zonghe was extremely excited, as if he was a guerrilla fighter who had been wandering outside for many years and finally found his organization.
Li Zonghe was so excited that he walked over with his luggage at a brisk pace and asked in a trembling voice: "Cousin, when will Bobai take a bus to Guangzhou?"
The person in charge of holding the billboard to attract customers was Deng Changliang from Naye Village. Seeing the excited passenger speaking Hakka, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother, the line has been open for more than three months."
Li Zonghe said excitedly: "That's great, it's really great, finally we don't have to change trains halfway."
Deng Changliang has been following the bus since the company started operating. After more than three months, he has a good understanding of the current passenger transport situation. He naturally knows how difficult it would be for people traveling long distances without a direct bus. If they cannot connect to a transfer bus along the way, they may be delayed for another day.
"Yes, from now on, our brothers and sisters in Bobai will have direct trains to take, and no longer have to change trains halfway!"
Li Zonghe asked with a smile on his face: "Brother, what time does the bus leave?"
Deng Changliang said: "Normally we leave at 6pm, but now it's the Spring Festival travel season, so there's no fixed time. Basically we leave when the bus is full."
Li Zonghe said: "Then I will go buy the ticket first."
Deng Changliang nodded and said, "Well, go ahead. You can put your luggage here. I'll help you look after it."
Li Zonghe nodded, put down his luggage, and went to queue up to buy tickets. He was not afraid that the other party was a scammer. There was nothing valuable in the luggage anyway, just a quilt and some clean clothes. He kept the money in his inner pocket.
Besides, the other party spoke Bobai Hakka dialect, which was the main reason why he trusted him.
When people are in other provinces, they have a natural trust in fellow villagers from the same county who speak the same dialect.
After Li Zonghe went to queue up to buy the ticket, Deng Changliang shouted from time to time in Hakka. Although tickets to Bobai were available at the station, he was afraid that some fellow villagers would have preconceived ideas and think that there was no Bobai train at the station and would directly ask to buy tickets to Wuzhou. That would be funny.
Soon, two more girls came over quickly.
The two girls were none other than Chen Guohui and Chen Guomei. When they saw Deng Changliang holding up a billboard with the two big words "Bobai" written on it, they were extremely excited and asked similar questions to Li Zonghe.
"A cousin, when will our Bobai car be available in Guangzhou?"
Deng Changliang replied with a smile: "It has been opened for more than three months. From now on, our brothers and sisters in Bobai can take the bus directly home without having to change buses in the middle of the journey."
Chen Guohui and Chen Guomei looked at each other and saw the joy in each other's eyes. This was really a great joy for them. Not only did they no longer have to suffer so much, they could also shorten the time it took to get home and even save a lot of money.
After asking a few questions, the two women put down their luggage and hurriedly lined up to buy tickets.
Next, more and more people from Bobai came to the station to take the bus, and around 11 o'clock, the station was full of passengers.
With the bottom line set by Jiugong that no more passengers are allowed, this car stopped picking up passengers and drove away directly, leaving the other passengers for another car of the company.
Sitting in the brand new bus, most of the passengers on the bus were fellow Bobai people working in Guangzhou. We chatted in our hometown dialect along the way. This bus experience was completely different from the previous bus ride back to Wuzhou and then changing buses.
Moreover, the ticket price is not outrageous. It only costs 25 yuan to return to Bobai from Guangzhou during the Spring Festival travel season, which is cheaper than transferring to Wuzhou and then taking the bus back to Bobai. The most important thing is that they don’t have to wait for the bus in Wuzhou and can go directly back to Bobai. The money is well worth it.
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It's not just Guangzhou. Similar stories are happening in cities such as Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Huizhou and Jiangmen. Unless their families write to them specifically to inform them, these migrant workers don't know that there are Bobai cars in their cities.
When they returned home and prepared for the "Long March", they actually saw the Bobai train at the station. The surprise was beyond words.
Originally, of the company's first batch of ten buses, only two were allocated to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the other cities only had one. During the off-season, Guangzhou and Shenzhen each had one bus a day, while the other cities had one bus every other day.
Now that the Spring Festival travel rush has arrived, if we want to make more money without overloading, we can only adopt the strategy of parking lots without stopping.
Anyway, each car is assigned three drivers. In addition to the veteran driver hired from outside, the other two drivers trained by the clan are also capable of taking charge after more than three months of training. With three drivers responsible for one car, it is natural that the car can be parked without stopping.
Ten buses run day and night, and with the increase in ticket prices during the Spring Festival travel season, the company can make at least 10,000 yuan in net profit every day.
This is the case when the company's buses abide by the bottom line and are not overloaded. If they are overloaded with more than a dozen passengers like other buses, the company's income will be even more frightening. However, Deng Shirong does not make this kind of money, nor does he allow the company he founded to make it. Legitimate operations are already making a lot of money, so there is no need to engage in such crooked ways.
Seeing the company making huge profits day by day, General Manager Deng Changyu and other managers of the company were all very excited.
After all, their family also has shares in the company. The more the company earns now, the more money their family will get in the future, so they naturally hope that the company will do well.
Deng Shirong was also very satisfied after seeing it.
At this time, the New Year is approaching, and it is time to go home to celebrate the New Year.
Before the hotel closes, it is necessary to pay salaries and year-end bonuses to all the hotel employees.
Last year, except for Zhang Guangzong, a special employee who received an extra hundred yuan, other employees were given an extra month's salary as year-end bonus.
This year, the hotel's net profit has reached nearly 40,000 yuan. Deng Shirong waved his hand and asked his eldest son to give the employees two extra months' salary as year-end bonuses, and also gave Zhang Guangzong a red envelope of 188 yuan.
Originally, the employees thought that this year would be the same as last year, with an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus. However, they were pleasantly surprised to receive two months' salary.
Seeing the smiling faces of the employees, Deng Shirong added fuel to the fire: "Everyone has worked hard this year. Go home and spend the New Year happily with your family. When you come back to work next year, I will give you a raise."
As soon as these words came out, all the employees were so happy that they almost shouted "Long live the boss!" A salary increase is something worth celebrating, whether now or in the future.
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The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Deng Shirong and his family returned to Naye Village, while his mother-in-law took a bus home early to celebrate the New Year.
With the return of Deng Shirong's family, his niece and nephew-in-law will also go home to celebrate the New Year.
Deng Shirong took out three hundred yuan and stuffed it into his niece's pocket, smiling and saying, "One hundred is your salary for this month, and the other two hundred is your uncle's red envelope for you for the New Year."
He raised the salary of his niece and niece's husband after they sold watermelons this year.
"Thank you, uncle!"
Bu Dafang, who decided to follow his uncle, did not hesitate and happily accepted the money.
Then, Deng Shirong took out another sack of New Year goods, most of which were brought back from the county town, and said, "Take these back for the New Year. The bicycles are all in the house, so just ride one back home and spend more time with the children at home. Don't come to my place on the second day of the month. After the New Year, you can bring Da Hu back to study."
Bu Dafang smiled and nodded, "Okay, I understand, let's go back then!"
Jiang Dehu also greeted everyone one by one, and then rode his bicycle to take his wife home to celebrate the New Year.
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In the next two days, Deng Shirong was busy leading his sons, daughters and daughters-in-law to make glutinous rice dumplings. When celebrating the New Year in Bobai, you can be missing anything except gray water glutinous rice dumplings and sweet glutinous rice dumplings. These are essential items for the New Year. Without these two kinds of glutinous rice dumplings, the New Year will be incomplete.
During this period, naturally many clansmen came to inquire about the situation of the bus company. Deng Shirong did not say how much money he made, but only said that before he came back, the buses returning from Guangdong were all full.
This news quickly spread among the clan. Everyone knew that the passenger transport company was making money, but no one knew how much it would earn during this Spring Festival travel season.
Soon, it was the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Deng Shirong held this year's autumn scholarship meeting in the ancestral hall.
After everyone arrived, Deng Shirong went on stage and gave a speech: "During the summer vacation this year, the clan held a scholarship meeting, and many outstanding children in the clan received scholarships and grants. Now that the fall semester has ended and the children's final grades have come out, it's time to reward them.
Next, please bring your transcripts to Teacher Changhua to register. Once you are registered, we will issue you scholarships.”
Because they were notified in advance, after Deng Shirong finished his speech, the students from the clan school who had been prepared took their transcripts to find teacher Deng Changhua to register.
With the help of other tribesmen, everyone was registered in less than half an hour.
In the spring semester of this year, there were a total of 136 people in the family who ranked in the top ten of the class, including 22 who ranked second or third, and 9 who ranked first. A total of 1,447 yuan in scholarships were spent.
Now, in the fall semester, there are 148 people in the family who are in the top ten of the class, including 28 who are ranked second or third, and 10 who are ranked first. According to the financial aid standards set before, 1,600 yuan of scholarships need to be spent.
There is still 4,135 in scholarships donated by the tribesmen before, and after deducting 1,600, there is still a balance of 2,535.
After distributing all the scholarships, Deng Shirong took the stage again to see the smiles on the faces of the students who received the scholarships. He said, "This fall semester, compared to the spring semester, there are 12 more students who made it into the top ten of the class. I hope that next spring semester, you can keep up the good work and achieve even better results."
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Then, the old clan leader Deng Shian also went on stage and said a few words to encourage the students of the clan middle school.
At this point, the scholarship program has come to an end.
However, it was a rare occasion for the clansmen to get together, and after dealing with the affairs of the scholarship society, Deng Shirong went on stage and told the clansmen about the operation of the bus company. Although the bus company had only been in operation for three and a half months and it was still early for the company to distribute dividends, letting the clansmen know that the bus company was making a lot of money could also make them happier this year.
"During this period, I'm afraid that what all the brothers and nephews are most concerned about is the operation of the passenger transport company."
Deng Shirong looked at the people below and said, "In the past few days since I came back from the county town, my clansmen have come to ask me about the situation of the passenger transport company every day. I also told them that the buses coming back from Guangdong are full every day. But everyone only knows that the company is making money, and I guess they have no idea how much money it can make.
Now that everyone in the tribe is here, I will tell you the rough number we have calculated."
Deng Changbao, the second largest shareholder, was the one who was most concerned about the company's operations. Upon hearing this, he immediately asked, "Jiu Gong, after this Spring Festival travel rush, can the company make a profit of 100,000 or 80,000?"
The tribesmen who only knew how to farm were shocked when they heard this. They asked for 100,000 or 80,000 yuan. Is it so easy to make money? However, businessmen like Deng Yungui, Deng Yunfa, and Deng Changxiong were not surprised. They had also guessed this amount.
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "I think your guess can be a little bolder."
Deng Changbao's eyes lit up immediately, and he couldn't wait to ask, "Jiu Gong, tell us quickly, how much money can our passenger transport company make during this Spring Festival travel season?"
Deng Shirong did not keep the secret any longer and said directly: "According to our statistics and forecasts, if the passenger flow is full, our company will have a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan a day. After this Spring Festival travel season, we can conservatively estimate that we can make about 400,000 yuan."
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like pouring a bowl of water into a boiling oil pan, and the pan exploded instantly.
"Oh my god, can I earn 400,000 yuan during the Spring Festival travel rush?"
"It's so scary. Is it so easy to make money nowadays?"
"It's not that it's easy to make money now, it's that Jiu Gong is too powerful. He led the passenger transport company and invested so much money in it. It would be strange if it didn't make money!"
"What a loss! If I had known that passenger transport companies could make so much money, I would have sold everything I had just to get a share!"
"I would have sold everything I had, but I was still conservative. I should have gone to a credit union to get a loan."
"Yes, although I thought the passenger transport company had a future, I never thought it would be so profitable!"
"Who is good at math? Quickly calculate how much money each share can get if the company earns 400,000 yuan?"
"I'm pretty good at math, so let me do the math for you. When the passenger transport company was established, the clan raised a total of 2.63 million yuan. Each share is 1,000 yuan, and there are a total of 2,630 shares. Taking this 400,000 yuan divided by 2,630 shares, I can probably make more than 150 yuan per share!"
"Oh my god, that means if I bought four shares, I can make at least 600 yuan just during this Spring Festival travel season?"
"Yes!"
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The more the tribesmen talked about it, the more excited they became. The speed at which the company was making money was beyond their imagination.
Deng Changbao, the second largest shareholder of the company, smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed. He invested all the funds he could mobilize into this passenger transport company and acquired a total of 24 shares. Now he can earn 150 yuan per share, and 24 shares means 3,600 yuan.
Moreover, this is just the beginning. When the company grows bigger and has dozens or even hundreds of buses, the speed of making money will far surpass his brick factory. Then he can become rich without doing anything! In addition to Deng Changbao, Deng Yungui, Deng Changxiong, Deng Yunfa and other clansmen from various villages who invested "huge sums of money" in the company were so excited that they didn't know how to express their emotions. Most of them had their own businesses, and they were all very profitable. Otherwise, it would be impossible to become a millionaire in this era.
But the small business they run is completely not on the same level as a promising big business like a passenger transport company.
This big business was initiated by the clan leader, and they really admired the clan leader who led them to make money.
Deng Shirong and other clan members calmed down a little, and then said: "The company belongs to all of us. Since the company has made money, I have a suggestion. In the future, we will not ask for individual donations for financial aid. The company will be responsible for paying directly to reward outstanding students in the clan.
Also, when the company makes a lot of money in the future, our Deng family's ancestral worship, building ancestral halls, schools, roads, river embankments, etc., all of these will be paid for by the company. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Deng Shian, the brigade secretary, was the first to respond: "This is a good proposal. These are all important matters in the clan and are closely related to every member of the clan. It is most appropriate for the company to pay for these."
Deng Changbao also nodded and said, "This is what should be done. I agree."
Other clan members also spoke up. No one would have an objection to this matter. The head of the Ren clan was the major shareholder of the company. The company paid for these things, and the one who suffered the most was the head of the clan. If the head of the Ren clan, the major shareholder, had no objection, what objection could they, the small shareholders, have? After discussing this matter, the clan meeting came to an end.
After that, everyone chatted for a while and then went their separate ways.
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This year, the entire Naye Deng family was filled with laughter and joy.
Although the finances of most people in the tribe were still very tight, after all, all the money they had earned from selling watermelons and the little capital they had saved over the years had basically been spent on the bus company, and it was not time for the bus company to distribute dividends yet, so the tribe members naturally lived a very difficult life.
But everyone in the tribe knew that the passenger transport company could earn three or four hundred thousand yuan after the Spring Festival travel season, so as shareholders, they were naturally very happy.
On New Year’s Eve, while having the New Year’s Eve dinner, Deng Shirong made a summary and prospect, and the whole family was happy.
In the evening, more people came to Deng Shirong's house to watch the Spring Festival Gala than last year.
The main reason is that last year, after watching the Spring Festival Gala, everyone discussed the highlights of the Gala the next day, and those who didn’t watch it on TV regretted it so much that they slapped their thighs.
Having missed last year’s Spring Festival Gala, they certainly cannot miss this year’s.
Therefore, even before the Spring Festival Gala started, the wooden shed under Deng Shirong's house was crowded with people, and more people kept coming. Before seven o'clock in the evening, at least more than a thousand people had come to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
You have to know that at that time, the total population of the entire Naye Deng family was only more than 3,000 people, and now more than 1,000 people crowded into Deng Shirong's house to watch the Spring Festival Gala, which is equivalent to more than one-third of the entire family coming here. The scene can be said to be unprecedented and unparalleled.
The Spring Festival Gala starts on time at 8 o'clock in the evening.
After last year's Spring Festival Gala, this year's Spring Festival Gala was even better. The gala combined mainstream culture with popular culture, invited performing stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan to participate, and achieved cultural integration between the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The programs were indeed wonderful, which made Deng Shirong watch with great interest.
The New Year custom in Guangxi is to set off fireworks and firecrackers at exactly midnight.
Therefore, when it was close to midnight, some tribesmen, although reluctant to leave, had to go home to set off fireworks and firecrackers.
But there were also hundreds of people who did not go back and chose to stay and watch the Spring Festival Gala.
The last song sung was the Spring Festival Gala's theme song "Unforgettable Tonight". After this theme song came out tonight, it has been used until now.
After watching the Spring Festival Gala, the clan members all went back. Deng Shirong's family first prepared offerings to offer to their great-grandfather, and then came back to make some midnight snacks.
While eating supper, Deng Shirong said to his eldest son, "Yuntai, while you are managing the hotel this year, you must also pay attention to the manufacturers of various commodities, whether it is food, daily necessities, knitwear, tobacco, alcohol, electrical appliances or other hardware and department stores, etc. Anyway, you must find a way to get the contact information of these manufacturers."
As the chief architect toured the south, the situation of reform and opening up became better and better, and the plan for a chain supermarket could be put on the agenda.
After all, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Deng Shirong's plan was to let his eldest son start preparations after the Chinese New Year and then open the first supermarket around 1986.
(End of this chapter)