Twenty acres of land, sixty greenhouses, one greenhouse yields 1,500 kilograms of cauliflower per acre, so sixty greenhouses would yield ninety tons.
Buying the output of a greenhouse for three thousand yuan is equivalent to purchasing all the cauliflower in the entire greenhouse planting area at a price of five cents per kilogram.
Cauliflower is priced at 4.8 yuan per jin in supermarkets, 3-3.8 yuan per jin in farmers' markets, and 1.8 yuan per jin in wholesale markets.
In other words, if we disregard quantity and only look at the price, a purchase price of 50 cents per kilogram is a very, very affordable price.
While 90 tons is indeed a lot, and it really is a lot, especially considering it's cauliflower with a shelf life of only today and a maximum of five days, upon closer examination, it doesn't seem entirely without room for redemption.
The membership card program has been available for over a month, and many members have already accumulated over 200 points. Even when the store opposite Zijing Garden was still operating normally, many people asked what these points were for.
Now it seems perfect, these members with membership cards can use their points to redeem cauliflower, which can both consume some of the cauliflower inventory and give regular customers a benefit;
It seems like we could also do a "spend and get" promotion, for example, if you spend 20 yuan or more at a physical store, you can get a large cauliflower weighing more than three kilograms for just 1 yuan more.
Vacuum packaging of cauliflower can extend its shelf life by an extra week and allow for long-term transportation. This also allows online Taobao stores to launch promotions with gifts for orders over a certain amount, just like offline stores.
There's also the rural banquet. Since proposing this idea, Liu Tong and Liu Zhaowen spent a whole week traveling to all the towns and cities in Haishi, securing more than thirty cooperative orders. One of the unchanging dishes in Haishi's banquet menu is stir-fried cauliflower with cured pork.
Since cauliflower is going to be used anyway, it should be more attractive to the chefs at rural banquets to buy cauliflower at 1.5 or 1.2 yuan per kilogram compared to the cauliflower at the wholesale market that costs 1.8 yuan per kilogram!
As for Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, it's probably normal for them to use cauliflower in two dishes within five days!
After considering all this, Xu An suddenly felt that purchasing ninety tons of cauliflower with a very short shelf life at once didn't seem like much of a burden, and he could even use the cauliflower to strengthen relationships with his customers.
If that's the case, then what is there to hesitate about?
"Sure, add three thousand yuan, making it thirty-nine thousand yuan including the greenhouse and cauliflower. I'll take it all!"
As soon as Xu An said this, cheers erupted continuously in the greenhouse planting area.
Then, everyone moved chairs and tables as needed, and in no time, they had cobbled together a contract signing area.
While everyone was preparing, Xu An also called Lu Shengnan and asked her to prepare twenty acquisition contracts and send them over.
Lu Shengnan originally planned to deliver it herself, but after hearing that Xu An was in the greenhouse planting area near the southeast corner of the tidal flats, she gave up the idea.
Although she didn't initially propose the 'cauliflower planting' project, nor did she cancel it herself, as the only one among the three successive heads of Shengli Supermarket to personally visit the site and tell the growers that Shengli Supermarket would definitely buy the cauliflower they grew, she didn't even need to think too deeply to know that the growers must be full of resentment towards her.
Going there in person will not help the boss, but will have a negative impact, leading things in a bad direction.
If those farmers saw me appear, they might think it was a trap, a scheme set up by Xu's Catering to acquire their greenhouses.
Therefore, in the end, Lu Shengnan had her subordinates take the contract to Xu An, abandoning the idea of going in person.
When Lu Shengnan's men arrived at the greenhouse planting area, Xu An, Aunt Hong, and Xiao Gao, who volunteered to help, had already made preliminary information registrations of those who were interested in transferring the greenhouses.
The names, number and area of the greenhouses, location of the greenhouses, and quantity of crops planted in the greenhouses are all recorded.
After receiving the contract, the detailed contents were copied onto the contract one by one. After confirming that everything was correct, both parties officially signed their names and pressed their fingerprints. The contract was then signed, and the contract officially took effect three days later when the money was transferred to their account.
They worked from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. before finally signing contracts for 20 acres of land, 60 greenhouses, and 17 farmers.
A little incident occurred at dinner time: more than one farmer returned home and brought dinner for Xu An and his two companions, including chicken, duck, goose, fish, and shrimp, which was even more sumptuous than a banquet.
After eight o'clock, all those who wanted to transfer the greenhouse had completed the transfer contract signing. The excitement subsided, and people left one after another, leaving only Xu An and his two companions under the banyan tree.
"Gao Tian, it's getting late. The signing is complete, and there's not much left to do. You should head back now." Xu An smiled and extended his hand to Gao Tian, saying, "Thank you so much for your help today. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to finish so early."
"Haha, you're welcome!" Gao Tian quickly grasped Xu An's outstretched hands with both of them, shook them vigorously, and said sincerely, "I should be thanking Boss Xu. Not only did you buy the greenhouses, but you also took away these troublesome cauliflower plants."
After expressing his gratitude, Gao Tian did not leave. He quickly helped Xu An finish up before saying goodbye and departing.
He had only walked less than five meters when Gao Tian seemed to suddenly remember something. He turned around completely, scratched the back of his head, and asked embarrassedly, "Mr. Xu, may I ask what you plan to do with these greenhouses after you've acquired them?"
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