in2ebook Chapter 276 Staying alive
Chapter 276 Staying alive
Yang Jiesheng flew over from China specifically to help them move. Wen Qing had no plans to sell the house in the small town of Davis. House prices in the United States were also rising, so she asked Xiao Mingyi to help her rent it out.
The furniture in the house remained in the house. With Yang Jiesheng around, Wen Qing found it difficult to put the car into the space so she sold it. However, the large combine harvester, grain processing equipment, oak barrels, gold, and some high-quality red wine she bought later, things that Yang Jiesheng was not very clear about, had already been put into the space.
In the past four years, she bought a lot of things and almost spent all the money from selling the jewelry.
Yang Jiesheng found a shipping company and packed up his belongings and shipped them back home. Shanshan was almost three years old. He had been attending nursery school since he was one year old. Now he was in kindergarten. He could speak English fluently and said goodbye to his friends in the kindergarten.
Wen Qing called Arthur to say goodbye and sent him Napa Valley's most famous wine, Opus One, as a gift. Then she flew directly from San Francisco to Pingjing, and the family of three returned to China.
In the past two years, Wen Qing has used the spring break to rush back to China. The spring break was in March, when the weather was warmer and it was not so tiring to bring Shanshan with her. She returned to China mainly to review the operating conditions of several companies. Although Liu Quan, Xu Shengli and Li Zhonghua would send her reports and call her regularly, Wen Qing would only feel at ease if she saw them in person.
One of her main jobs when she returns is dividends. The three companies are developing well and making money every year, so dividends must be paid out in a timely manner so that shareholders will be motivated.
Over the past two years, her accumulated dividends and rental income totaled more than 3000 million yuan. She has not used the money for the time being, so she put it all into time deposits. The current deposit interest rate is really high. Compared with the time deposit interest rate of less than 3% in her previous life, it is now as high as about 10%. With such a high return, why would she still want to invest in stocks?
However, she did not delay growing crops. There are now 3 tons of grain in the space, as well as 1500 tons of soybeans. All the apples were made into apple sparkling wine. She registered a Changxia Trading Company in Gangcheng, specializing in various types of wine, tea, grain, and fruit. The office is located in the Haigang District. It is all wholesale, so she only hired 7 or 8 people. The person in charge of the company was introduced by Yang Jiesheng, named Ye Yuhai, who is his cousin and a relative on his mother's side.
In the past two years, she has sold her tea and cider through this company. She also buys some red wine from the United States and sells it back. It only makes a profit of about 300 million Hong Kong dollars a year, so it is a very small trading company.
Since last year, the grapes in the space have grown and borne fruit. She only planted 140 acres of grapes and consciously controlled the frequency of picking, with the grapes ripening three times a year, producing about tons of wine. Wen Qing bought a lot of oak barrels in the United States. She stored all the wines in the oak barrels and did not sell them for the time being.
There are a total of 100 acres of Chinese medicinal materials planted in the space medicine garden. The main area is the land where they are planted after the chicken coops and rabbit houses were demolished. There are also medicinal fields on the hillside. She does not have a fixed picking cycle for medicinal materials. In the past four years, she has only harvested a batch of Ganoderma lucidum, Schisandra chinensis, Licorice, and Atractylodes macrocephala, which were stored in the space warehouse after drying. Wen Qing has never picked perennial medicinal materials such as ginseng, Panax notoginseng, Gastrodia elata, Polygonum multiflorum, and Polygonatum sibiricum.
After returning to the capital, Wen Qing had a lot of things to do.
She first went to the grain company and sold the grain in the space to the grain company. All of this grain was sold in the name of Gangcheng Changxia Trading, and she paid all the tariffs she was supposed to pay. Among them, 1 tons of sorghum and corn were put into the warehouse in Yulin Town, mainly for feed. She then went to Shenyang with Zou Jie and sent 1 tons of rice and wheat there for processing. The remaining 1 tons of grain were given to Changxia Winery.
After arriving in Shenyang, she went to inspect the operation of the grain processing plant. Two years ago, she bought a set of grain processing equipment for the grain processing plant. The original equipment had only been used for more than a year, but it continued to be used. They used this set of imported equipment to process rice and wheat of relatively good quality. The finished products are whiter, finer and taste better. The original set of equipment was used to process ordinary varieties. By adding processing links, the quality of the processed grain is better than the rice and flour from the grain station, at least with much less impurities.
Wen Qing looked through the account books of the grain processing plant in recent years. The annual grain processing capacity can reach more than 3 tons. In addition to processing grain purchased by Changxia Grain Company, it also helps the Agricultural Reclamation Company to process grain. The annual profit is about 100 million yuan. Wen Qing is still satisfied with this.
She opened the grain processing plant mainly to expand the grain company's business scope and increase its sales channels, so that it would not just revolve around the winery and feed factory. Now, the finished rice and flour they produce have entered Pingjing's non-staple food malls, schools, and factory canteens through the relationship between the winery and Gu Qicheng. Wen Qing requires that the processing plant's primary task is to do a good job of quality control, manage employees well, and avoid losses. The main profits from purchase and sales are mainly reflected in the grain company.
Wen Qing proposed to Zou Jie the idea of producing edible oil products in the grain processing plant. She also suggested buying a piece of land near the processing plant and building a grain silo and oil depot according to modern storage requirements. Zou Jie agreed.
Wen Qing went back to Pingjing first, and Zou Jie stayed to implement the request made by Wen Qing. He first called Li Zhonghua to ask about the possibility of purchasing large quantities of soybeans and peanuts for oil extraction. Li Zhonghua thought for a moment and felt that there was no big problem.
Zou Jie went to the local government and bought another 20 acres of land to expand the factory and build a warehouse. The local government was very welcoming to such a project that could increase employment. After buying the land, Zou Jie came back to Shen Lin for funds.
Among Wen Qing's three enterprises, Changxia Winery has the most stable development. This stability means that Wen Qing has no plans to expand or tinker with other ideas in the short term. She believes that the material foundation of Changxia Winery is now complete, and there are still 200 wine cellars that have not been put into use. The more than 900 wine cellars that have been put into production need to continuously improve quality and strive for excellence.
Now everyone has begun to judge the saying "Good wine needs no bush", thinking that this saying is outdated. Everyone advocates advertising, as if a good marketing team can solve all problems. But Wen Qing doesn't think so. Business still depends on products, and good products are the basis of marketing. Therefore, she is very satisfied with the winery's current annual output of 8000 tons, and has no plans to expand the scale for the time being.
Of course, in the long run, a winery with less than 1 tons will not have much advantage in future competition, but it can still survive. "Small but fine" is her goal.
As for the feed factory, Wen Qing asked Xu Shengli to think about how to develop it when she returned to China three years ago. After thinking about it, Xu Shengli discussed it with Zheng Xiaoqiang and his team and finally came up with a plan, which was to run a pig farm and then do meat processing. It happened that the meat processing factory in the district was suffering from serious losses and had stopped production, and was seeking transformation and development.