Chapter 245 This Boss Lu is a real big boss!
"Boss, we're almost out of hot pot. I'll order some more and you can bring it over."
"How much do you need? Let me see... I'd like 100 jin of dried chili peppers and 300 jin of chili flakes. Can you deliver them before 3 p.m.?"
"Okay, I'll wait for you in the shop then, thanks boss!"
Xu An's first purchase of hot pot chili peppers included a pound of both dried and fresh peppers, and ten pounds of chili powder. Based on his initial idea of creating a buzz, this amount was enough to last two or three months.
Although the daily offline sales of hellish braised food do not exceed 100 kilograms, it is the best-selling and most popular item on Taobao.
A single serving of Hellish Braised Food sold online is only half a pound, but the sheer volume of orders means that Hellish Braised Food makes up 97% of all orders, totaling an astonishing 7,000 to 8,000 pounds. This naturally leads to a surge in demand for hot pot.
The chili shop owner arrived very quickly. After Xu An put on a gas mask, he inspected the goods in an open area. Once he confirmed that everything was correct, he signed and paid, thus ending the transaction.
"Mr. Xu." The chili shop owner took the signed receipt from Xu An, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Mr. Xu, I've heard about your infamous 'Hellish Braised Food.' Are you planning to keep making this kind of braised food?"
"Yes," Xu An nodded, "This flavor is quite popular, otherwise I wouldn't have stocked up on so much hot pot spice!"
"Then you need to carefully plan your restocking," the chili shop owner advised. "This time you've ordered enough for two years' worth of my needs, and your downstream supplier is also running low on stock. I reckon they'll have enough after another return..."
"Okay, I got it. Could you please help me scour the market for some hot pot chilies? I'll take as much as I can." After saying that, Xiaofeng added, "Boss, all the dried chilies he sells are sun-dried. Are the seeds of these chilies problematic?"
"Alright, alright," the leader in the striped shirt waved his hand helplessly. "How long will it take for it to break?"
If it's really feasible, I'll make a trip to Hua Province myself and see if we can start cultivating it locally.
"Oh! I never imagined you had such a deep connection with Houhai Town, Mr. Lu! We must find you a bad position, Mr. Lu, so we can help each other out!" After saying that, the middle-aged man in the striped shirt called out towards the door, "Ms. Xu, go to your office and bring the documents over!"
In situations where there's no cultivation and only wild population, it's not difficult to pick a little more and inflate prices.
Although the chili shop owner didn't finish his sentence, Xiaofeng automatically completed it in his mind.
"Boss, if there's any left, I'll help you find some more, just a little more! I'll also ask the producers to pass on a message and let us find a little less of those chilies, that would be just a little more too!" Xiaofeng made the decision immediately.
If the price of spicy hot pot really rises to several hundred yuan per kilogram, the price of braised food will inevitably follow suit, rising from ten or seventy yuan per kilogram to tens or hundreds of yuan per kilogram, right?
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In the reception room of the Houhai Town Government building.
"receive!"
He Ju was startled and immediately pressed for details.
He Ju took a sealed bag from outside the shop, removed the seeds from seven dried chilies, put them inside, and put the bag into her pocket.
Watching the chili shop owner leave, Xiaofeng let out a long sigh.
Do you have any hot pot spicy food in stock?
"What a rare guest! Mr. Lu, your presence is an honor to our humble abode! I just heard that you are looking to invest and set up a factory in Houhai Town. Do you know of any places you'd like to visit? If so, could you please introduce me to some options?"
Before the leader in the striped shirt even unfolded the documents, he pointed out seven existing factory sites and two vacant lots suitable for building factories to Boss Lu in one go, showing that he hadn't been unprepared.
"Oh no, you're in trouble! Go and get ready!"
The leader in the striped shirt put away the documents, strolled into the meeting room, led He Ju into the office, and slowly gave instructions.
“That’s a stone processing plant. It’s an indoor workspace with limited open space, which is perfect for you, He Juzhen, when you’re selecting seafood.”
"Although you are from Houhai Town, your feelings for Houhai Town are more than those of its people! Back then, you weren't just a porter; you made a living by trading seafood. At that time, a small portion of your seafood came from Houhai Town. In that sense, you owed your initial capital to Houhai Town. Without Houhai Town, you wouldn't be who you are today!"
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“Forget about the vacant land, the construction period is too long. Those factories are a good option though.” Boss Lu first accepted the striped shirt leader’s recommendation, then said his own thoughts: “He knows that you made your fortune by the sea and have a general fondness for it. There are no factories that are closer to the sea, and he’s afraid of anything that’s too far away.”
"Alright, then have Ms. Xu make preparations, and we'll go take a look together."
"Seven... seven minutes. It'll break in seven minutes. We'll set off in seventy-seven minutes!"
"Boss Lu has taken a look at this abandoned paper mill on the mudflats in the southeast corner of the town. He's preparing some relevant materials. You all have seventeen minutes, yes, seventy minutes to go!"
He Juzhen took a sip of lukewarm tea, her expression shifting from one of reminiscence to one of nostalgia.
"Things are really messed up here in the production area," the chili shop owner glanced at Xiaofeng before explaining, "Right now, a pound of those hot pot chilies costs tens of yuan. If the itinerant vendors here knew there was no market for them, the price would probably go up to a hundred yuan, maybe even several hundred. In a few years, no food from here will be as popular with young people. Right now, the price hasn't even reached a thousand yuan per pound..."
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