Chapter 226: Lao Xu, I beg you for a favor
A notable feature of agriculture and animal husbandry is that the most profitable link is not in the production part. Whether it is upstream breeding and feed, or downstream processing and sales, the profits are higher than planting and breeding, and they are easier to control.
The quail breeding industry is naturally no exception. The free-range link in the middle is controlled by feed and breeding companies, and is also affected by acquiring and processing companies. In other words, Xu Lingjun is kind. Otherwise, if the price of seedlings and feed is raised a little bit, as long as there is profit, there will still be a large number of people willing to raise them.
Manufacturing companies are big buyers and have stronger bargaining power than individual investors. Even if they lower the price when purchasing, ordinary people have no choice but to accept it because it is difficult for them to have other sales channels. Even if there are individual merchants purchasing, they will take this opportunity to lower the price.
Previously, Xu Lingjun only occupied the upstream and did not involve the downstream production and processing links. Now that the production team has accumulated enough capital and cultivated some talents with comprehensive qualities, he can finally try to occupy the downstream.
Building a factory is not an easy thing. The first thing is the issue of equipment. This is not the era where you can buy equipment with money. You also need to submit various applications and ask your superiors to coordinate with other agencies.
Xu Lingjun had to take care of this matter himself. He said goodbye to his newly born daughter, found the leader of the city's industrial department, and explained the situation. Fortunately, their production team is now well-known in the city and even the province, and has become a model for developing collective economy.
With such a reputation, it was much easier to get things done. In addition, he understood the working principles within the mechanism, so no matter whether it was an open application or a private termination of the relationship, people had nothing to say. Finally, after some effort, he got the canning production line.
This process really made Xu Lingjun physically and mentally exhausted, and it took three months alone. Fortunately, Xu Lingjun was well prepared and sent all the talents of the production team out to run the market, run sales, and coordinate transportation, so that all the quail eggs harvested during this period were sold, and the people who worked hard to raise quails did not suffer any loss.
Otherwise, if these people find that they can’t sell their quail eggs, they might destroy the quail farm.
Despite this, there have been some fluctuations in the local quail egg market. The middlemen who originally purchased quail eggs at a higher price have now lowered their prices to a level lower than that of the quail farms.
Influenced by this, many ordinary people who were originally eager to try have temporarily given up the idea of raising quails, fearing that the price of quail eggs will drop further in the future.
As soon as the production line was shipped back, these people rushed to the quail farm to ask for seedlings. They could finally rest assured. How many quail eggs could such a large canning factory consume every year? If they raised them now, they would definitely be able to sell the eggs.
Not only were they excited, but the people in the production team were also excited, because as long as the cannery was built, it meant that they would have the opportunity to work in the factory. Now being a worker is even more popular than being a cadre in the system, with high salaries and it is prestigious to talk about it.
If your own child gets in, you don't have to worry about getting married. As long as you say that you are a worker in the factory, blind dates will definitely not be a problem.
For this reason, many people called back their children who were studying in county high schools. They thought simply that their children might not be able to pass the college entrance examination in the future, and even if they did, they would be assigned back to their hometowns after graduation. Many units would be worse than factories for them.
In this case, it would be better to let them come to the cannery to work directly, where they can have a few more years of work experience. If they are lucky enough to stand out like Haisheng and Guo Lei, they will be very successful and will be envied wherever they go.
After hearing about it, Xu Lingjun severely criticized them and asked these children to go back to school as soon as possible. He also convened a meeting of the whole team to issue a serious warning. If anyone did such a thing in the future, their dividends would be deducted and their family would not be able to expect to get any good jobs.
Talent is the foundation for the future development of the production team. Giving up the children's future just for the sake of the immediate benefits is to cut off the hope for the future development of the production team. Even if the children cannot get into college in the future, if they study hard in high school for a few years and then come back to the factory, they will be very different. At least their learning ability and study habits will be trained, and with these they will be able to do other things more smoothly than others.
Isn't that the case with Guo Lei? He has now handed over his sales job and is working with Xu Lingjun on the preparations for the canning factory. As long as he does a good job and the canning factory is on track, Xu Lingjun will gradually hand over the work to him and help him become the director of the canning factory.
When negotiating the introduction of the production line, Xu Lingjun had already arranged for a group of young people to intern and study at the city's cannery. After the production line was delivered back, he invited a group of experienced old workers from outside to help. These people were not very old, but they gave up their jobs in order to let their children take over, and they had been idle at home in their early fifties.
Xu Lingjun paid for it and they came over immediately, teaching these young people step by step how to operate the production line, how to stew quail eggs, how to fill them, and how to seal them. Since the preliminary preparations were done very thoroughly, the production line passed the trial run not long after it came back and could officially produce canned quail eggs.
After the first batch of products came off the production line, Xu Lingjun did not rush to sell them. Instead, he asked Guo Lei to take samples to several nearby cities one by one, inviting department store managers, restaurant managers and other big customers to taste them for free.
They all tasted it and felt it was very good. This was the flavor that Xu Lingjun personally prepared, so how could it not be delicious? The portion was also very suitable. When you opened the can and poured it out, it was just the right amount for a plate. It was very convenient whether you were hosting a banquet in a restaurant or entertaining guests at home.
These people were keenly aware of the prospects of canned quail eggs and immediately placed orders with Guo Lei. The market for canned quail eggs was immediately opened up, and the first batch of products was sold out immediately after being launched on the market. Additional orders came in like snowflakes.
Xu Lingjun quickly recruited some temporary workers from outside and changed the cannery to three shifts to ensure delivery on time. Before he could catch his breath, new orders came in. There were even outsiders coming from Lanzhou and Xi'an with cash to pick up the goods. The cannery became popular overnight.
Seeing this scene, the people in Team 5 were happy, because the cannery was so popular that they would definitely receive dividends at the end of this year.
The people around were also happy because they would have no trouble selling their quail eggs. Many families had expanded their breeding scale and were waiting to bring their quail eggs to the cannery to exchange for money.
Only some people were very unhappy. After a difficult struggle, the captain of the first team, Zhang Zengxiang, found Xu Lingjun and said, "Old Xu, I want to ask you for a favor."
(End of this chapter)
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