Chapter 732 Vegetables in the Greenhouse Are Cut off
Lin Mai kept his word and went home after finishing his work. He passed by Chen Feng's house and went in to drink chicken soup.
Ke Ziqing asked the nanny to serve Lin Mai a large bowl of chicken soup, watched her drink it with eager eyes, and then let her go home.
Lin Mai returned home and smelled the aroma of chicken soup coming from the kitchen as soon as he entered the house.
When Grandma Fang saw her, she asked her to wash her hands so they could drink chicken soup together.
Chicken soup again!
It’s not the New Year yet.
Lin Mai washed his hands and sat at the dinner table drinking chicken soup with everyone.
Thinking that he had had two meals of chicken soup in a row, but Fang Zhuoran could only eat in the hospital cafeteria, Lin Mai felt particularly sorry for him.
Halfway through the chicken soup, Grandma Fang told Lin Mai that just an hour ago, Zhao Liang called her from the capital and said he had something important to report to her.
Because Lin Mai was not at home, Zhao Liang asked Grandma Fang who answered the phone to make sure Lin Mai took the time to call him.
Lin Mai was confused when he heard this: "Isn't Zhao Liang in Jiangcheng? Why did he call me from the capital?"
Grandma Fang shook her head: "I don't know anything, I'm just a messenger."
After drinking the chicken soup, Lin Mai went upstairs to his bedroom and dialed Zhao Liang's phone number.
The call was quickly connected.
She was about to ask why Zhao Liang was in the capital, but Zhao Liang's first sentence was to ask when Lin Mai would return to the capital.
Lin Mai asked back: "Are you in the capital?"
Zhao Liang hummed.
"When did you go to the capital?"
"Just two days ago."
Lin Mai's expression suddenly became serious: "Is something big happening in the capital?"
It's nothing serious, it's almost the Chinese New Year. Zhao Liang can't rush to the capital, let alone urge her to return to the capital.
Zhao Liang said: "That's right."
Then he hesitated and told Lin Mai that on the day she returned to Jiangcheng, someone was interfering with the greenhouse vegetables he was growing in the suburbs of Beijing to purchase those greenhouse vegetables.
Because the price is not low, the owner of those fields refuses to let his men harvest the greenhouse vegetables in the fields, and wants to sell them to the guy who interferes with them.
So he hurried back to the capital.
Lin Mai was so shocked: "Didn't you sign a contract with those farmers?
We rent their land and they work for us to grow vegetables in greenhouses.
Those farmers are just working for us.
The greenhouse vegetables in their fields have nothing to do with them.
Who gave them the courage to sell our greenhouse vegetables to others?"
Zhao Liang said helplessly and angrily: "Who else do they want to give them courage?
There are a dozen villages in total, and they have all joined forces to do this, what can you do?"
Lin Mai asked: "Didn't you send someone to forcibly harvest those greenhouse vegetables?"
"Why didn't I?" Zhao Liang rubbed his eyebrows on the other end of the phone.
"I personally took the troops there, and the elderly villagers picked vegetables in front of us and sold them to others.
Our people went to grab those vegetables, but those old men and women lay down on the ground, saying that our people pushed them, and asked us to pay for their medical expenses.
If we don't pay the medical expenses, villagers from more than a dozen villages surround us and refuse to let us go."
"Did you call the police?"
"If you report it, it will be useless even if the police come. Those old men and women in their seventies and eighties will lie down in front of the police, and the police will be afraid of being blackmailed.
It would be easy to deal with just one or two old people, but it would be impossible to deal with the old people from more than a dozen villages."
Lin Mai was speechless after hearing this.
This reminded her of the old people she saw online in her previous life who formed a group to steal fruits and vegetables.
These old people are acting rogue, and no one can do anything about them.
She still can't figure out why some old people become bad as they get older.
She asked: "Do you know who robbed our greenhouse of vegetables?"
"I know, it's the good work of the two newly opened Huimin markets in Beijing."
Lin Mai had heard about these two markets and they opened before New Year's Day this year.
Because the variety is not as complete as her Fuduoduo, business has never been as good as Fuduoduo.
Fortunately, the two Huimin markets are far away from Fuduoduo.
They all have their own consumer groups and have little impact on each other's business. Otherwise, the two Huimin markets might have closed down.
Lin Mai asked: "Why don't you go talk to the person in charge of Huimin Market? We are all colleagues, so don't look too ugly when you eat."
"When I found him, he was very arrogant and told me in front of me that as long as the farmers were willing to sell greenhouse vegetables to him, he would dare to buy them.
He gave me the ability to tell farmers not to sell greenhouse vegetables to him, so what’s the use of threatening him!”
Zhao Liang said, "I checked the managers of two Huimin markets.
They are ordinary people. They should not be able to open a vegetable market, and they should not dare to snatch vegetables from our greenhouses.
I guess those two managers are just puppets, and there is a boss behind them, and this boss must have a good background, otherwise he would not be so arrogant.
It’s just that I can’t find the real boss behind it no matter how hard I check.”
Lin Mai said: "If you can't find it, don't do it. Even if you find it, if you go to the boss behind the scenes, his attitude will probably be the same as that of his two managers.
People snatching our greenhouse vegetables must be trying to take advantage of our Fuduoduo."
Zhao Liang found it unbelievable: "Our Fuduoduo and Huimin Market are not in the same district, so how can they squeeze in?"
Lin Mai analyzed: "If it wasn't for this reason, then it must be that he wanted to use greenhouse vegetables to make his own market famous."
"Even so, it's too immoral!" Zhao Liang said angrily.
"We can't control other people's bad morals." Lin Mai pondered for a moment and said, "Since those greenhouse vegetables can't be harvested, then give up."
Zhao Liang was stunned.
He thought that there would be a way to solve the problem by asking Lin Mai, but he didn't expect that Lin Mai would give up.
He had put so much effort into those greenhouse vegetables that he was unwilling to give up just like that.
He asked bitterly: "Are we just going to take advantage of those old beasts?"
Lin Mai asked back: "What good idea do you have?"
Zhao Liang suddenly stuttered: "No...no..."
Mr. Lin, isn’t this asking questions knowingly?
If he had a better idea, he wouldn't call her.
Lin Mai said: "Although we have made big mistakes in these dozen or so villages, we can still take revenge on them.
First, the matter was reported wildly in the media, making the reputation of these dozen villages infamous.
As long as the reputation is bad, who will dare to invest in these villages in the future?
Then you go to the surrounding areas of these dozen villages to promote the cultivation of greenhouse vegetables for free."
"Free promotion. If the vegetables grown in greenhouses by those farmers are sold to Huimin in the future, wouldn't we spend money to make wedding dresses for Huimin?" Zhao Liang objected.
"I will launch a series of promotional measures to attract Huimin's customers to our market and drag Huimin to death.
As long as Huimin collapses, no one will buy the greenhouse vegetables in more than a dozen villages.
We won’t buy it then, let’s see who sells the greenhouse vegetables from those dozen villages!
Doesn't this achieve economic revenge on them? It also takes advantage of the situation to deal with Huimin."
Zhao Liang was silent for a moment and said: "We don't even sell greenhouse vegetables, how can we use promotion to destroy Huimin?
I’m also worried that Huimin will use greenhouse vegetables to destroy us.”
Lin Mai said confidently: "You don't have to worry about our vegetable market not having greenhouses to sell vegetables.
Currently, the supply of greenhouse vegetables in rural areas of Hu Province far exceeds demand.
Haven’t we been helping farmers sell greenhouse vegetables to sister cities?
Now we will no longer sell to our brother cities, but bring them all to the capital to sell them cheaply.
This wave of promotions alone will make Huimin scream in pain."
Growing vegetables in greenhouses in the suburbs of Beijing is very expensive because of the need for heating.
To grow vegetables in greenhouses in Jiangcheng, bamboo shavings and film are enough, followed by manpower and chemical fertilizers.
The cost is more than half lower than that of vegetables grown in greenhouses in the suburbs of Beijing.
I bought greenhouse vegetables in rural Jiangcheng and shipped them to the capital. No matter how low they were sold, they were still more expensive than selling them in Jiangcheng.
After all, the price gap between the two cities is still huge.
Linmai is still profitable, but not very profitable.
Plus the cost of growing vegetables in greenhouses in Beijing.
No matter how low the price of Linmai is, it cannot be lower than the cost of greenhouse vegetables in Beijing.
It can only be very low compared to the prices of greenhouse vegetables in Huimin Market. Doesn’t this give Huimin a heavy blow?
Zhao Liang suddenly beamed on the other end of the phone: "Mr. Lin still has a way. I will follow your instructions right away."
Lin Mai thought to herself that she was just a mortal, and she could only do this.
If she was really a capable person, she would not be able to watch those unscrupulous old men and women sell her vegetables to others. That would be a clear robbery!