Shopkeeper Zhao sighed in his heart, but his face still showed the kind and prosperous smile. After thanking him, he drank a sip of tea and thanked him again: "Thank you, General. I will arrive in Lao Nanchang next morning to talk to Chairman Zhou of the Chamber of Commerce and all old friends.
I rushed to the security headquarters in a short while, and unexpectedly I got the special pass in just a cup of tea, thank you so much!"
"Mr. Zhao is so polite. I really want to thank you. You have to thank the Security Command. My younger brother is no longer a general. He is an out-and-out businessman like Mr. Zhao. He is just temporarily renting this place from the army to work until the company building is built.
Well, you have to move out, please don't misunderstand Mr. Zhao." An Yi explained politely.
Shopkeeper Zhao was stunned and thought to himself, what you said is so beautiful. Who doesn’t know that the more than 6,000 elite troops in the Ganzhong Security Command are your soldiers, An Yi? At this time, there are probably no less than 3,000 new and veteran soldiers in the non-commissioned officer base.
, there is a radius of several kilometers from the dock warehouse to the heavily guarded woods in the south.
There are four of your barracks within the siege. If you don't have 15,000 troops, you have at least 12,000. Not counting the great warlord Zhu Peide who walks around with you every two days. He is already a warlord who has troops and respects himself.
He seems to have really become a law-abiding businessman by keeping everything clean in front of me.
Shopkeeper Zhao wanted to think back, but still had an amiable smile on his face. He laughed a few times and changed the topic: "Then I will call the general Mr. An! Mr. An, there is something that I don't quite understand. Why does your company do this this time?"
The quantity of camellia oil purchased suddenly tripled? But no grain, oil and food factory has processed the products?"
An Yi patiently explained: "Mr. Zhao may have misunderstood. The grain and oil factory is processing. The purchased camellia oil has been purified and removed from excess water through as many as five processes, and then all is sent to our agricultural machinery factory for use as cooling oil and lubricating oil.
To a certain extent, the mechanical lubrication and cooling effects of natural camellia oil are better than imported lubricants. After processing, the price difference between the two is not much, so we use it in large quantities in industry, and grain, oil and food factories use it instead.
Refined rapeseed oil at lower prices.”
Shopkeeper Zhao suddenly realized: "I didn't expect it to be like this. It seems that it is impossible to be uneducated! Zhao has been taught a lesson. He will work hard after returning and strive to meet the needs of your company."
An Yi thought for a while and smiled: "I forgot to mention something just now. This camellia oil has another effect. After simple filtering, it can be used as a replacement for gun oil. You may be able to use this information."
Shopkeeper Zhao was stunned again, then he smiled and said a few words before standing up to leave. An Yi politely walked to the door of the office. Lin Yaodong saw Shopkeeper Zhao walking away and whispered that this guy has a smiling face but very evil eyes. An Yi
Yi smiled slightly and said, which of Li Xiaolong's brothers is not a thief?
Lin Yaodong also laughed when he thought of this section. Xiao watched with interest as the backs of Shopkeeper Zhao and the two disappeared to the right of the camp gate, as if he wanted to memorize the physical characteristics of these two people.
After a simple lunch, there was a training summary meeting. After the meeting, An Yi gave two lessons to the 500 officers and soldiers of the teaching brigade. The afternoon passed so quickly.
The sun sets early in the winter. An Yi saw a group of brothers from the teaching team playing football shirtless and in underpants on the playground where the grass was withered. He felt itchy and went back to the office to put on a set of shorts and sneakers to prepare for sweating. Lin Yaodong just said
At this moment, he came in shaking his head and reported: "Shopkeeper Zhao is here again and said he would like to invite my eldest brother to have a drink."
An Yi had just taken off his pants, and when he heard shopkeeper Zhao came again, he had to put them on again. He muttered helplessly: "What kind of wine are you drinking? If I were an ordinary businessman, I really wouldn't want to mess with him... Oh, look at that look on his face."
You don't look like a clingy person, why are you so verbose? If you want to drink, why don't you go to the purchasing department? Why do you want to go to me?"
"I guess I thought of something while walking outside in the afternoon." Lin Yaodong said with a smile.
An Yi nodded: "I guess you were right, let's go, ask Chen Mian to have a drink with us, don't drive, it's cold, just walk."
Half an hour later, the five people arrived at the time-honored salted duck restaurant on Xianqian Street. The boss and his wife saw An Yi and his party and greeted them enthusiastically. An Yi also called Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen and greeted them easily.
Shopkeeper Zhao was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked jokingly if An Yi came here often. Aunt Chen, who was short and stocky, was outspoken and said loudly that General An never went out wherever he went. No one in the whole old Nanchang was polite to General An, and they all regarded him as
After saying this, he led An Yi and others to the quiet backyard. As he walked, he proudly said that he would buy a piece of land in the west of the city and build a three-story branch in the next six months. Otherwise, it would be a pity that there would be too many customers to greet him.
Shopkeeper Zhao is very familiar with the specialties of old Nanchang. He ordered five dishes and two soups in one breath with a small charcoal stove. They sat down next to each other. Shopkeeper Zhao then poured the wine diligently and pointed to the "Longevity Palace" on the exquisite Jingdezhen white porcelain wine bottle.
A few words said with emotion:
"I heard that this wine was brewed by a retired major under Mr. An. Now it's spread throughout Jiangxi. It's hard not to make a fortune!"
An Yi smiled slightly: "Many people don't know that this wine also comes in a blue and white porcelain bottle. It has been sold in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. It is also sold in major hotels in Nanjing. A bottle of it can still sell well for three oceans.
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"Ah? Three oceans? It's enough for a family of three to live comfortably in Gao'an for a month."
Shopkeeper Zhao was very surprised. He didn't know that Lao Hantou's winery, with the help of An Yi, had come up with various tricks and accidentally became Lao Nanchang's first famous brand to be promoted nationwide. With the sales of Jiangxi Guild Hall in major cities,
Through this channel, Old Hantou made a lot of money in just a few months. His father-in-law's century-old wine shop in Jinxian County now has to help his capable son-in-law do long-term work.
After three glasses of food and wine were served, An Yi asked with a leisurely smile: "Mr. Zhao, you're not specifically treating me to a meal, are you?"
Shopkeeper Zhao smiled, toasted An Yi again, and then said his true meaning: "Thanks to the help of several brothers from the Chamber of Commerce, I took you to visit the daily chemical factory this afternoon. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical factory and the grain and oil food factory have too many rules.
Couldn't get in.
I was very moved when I saw the daily chemical factory. I thought that if we sell peppermint oil or sandalwood oil in a bamboo tube to the daily chemical factory, it would cost eight oceans, but two pieces of high-end soap produced by the daily chemical factory would cost one ocean, and one bamboo tube would cost one ocean.
More than three thousand soaps can be made from peppermint oil and sandalwood oil, and there are people waiting at the factory gate every day to pick up the goods. It is unimaginable! How does this business work? "
An Yi finally understood what Shopkeeper Zhao was thinking, and immediately put down his chopsticks and said in a joking tone:
"How about Mr. Zhao also opening a daily chemical factory? It doesn't matter. The technology is very simple. Soda ash, rosin powder, oil and other additives for making soap are easy to get. Nowadays, they are basically sold in Old Nanchang. If you want to buy in large quantities, just go to Shanghai.
Well, we just need to build a set of vacuum distillation equipment first, then use steel plates and pressure reducing valves and other accessories to weld a simple wood-burning boiler. We buy copper pipes and take them to our agricultural machinery factory to thread them with a threaded locomotive. More than 300 pieces are custom-made.
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Screws, nuts and rubber sealing rings of various specifications, then build a hand-operated centrifugal filtering equipment, and then build a steel mixing barrel with a motor, experiment hundreds of times to master the best formula, and then use high temperature
It is melted and then cooled by injection molding. It is packaged in wax paper and stuffed into a three-color printed packaging box for takeout. If Mr. Zhao does it, the packaging box can be entrusted to our company's printing factory to print it, and Mr. Zhao is guaranteed to be given the lowest price."
Shopkeeper Zhao and his strong companions were dumbfounded when they heard this, and laughed awkwardly: "I heard that most of those machines were designed by Mr. An and manufactured by the agricultural machinery factory, right?"
An Yi realized that he had gone too far. He picked up the wine bottle and filled it up for Shopkeeper Zhao and the other two. He toasted them and made serious suggestions: "These devices are actually not difficult to make. The difficulty is that the materials are very expensive. Let's not talk about this issue for the time being.
Let’s just talk about the camellia oil that is abundant in western Jiangxi. I know.
Nowadays, the method of oil extraction in various villages and towns is to put the fried tea seeds into a solid wood mold, add a thick lid and solder a wooden wedge into it, beat and tamp it continuously, and squeeze out the oil bit by bit.
The oil rate is quite low, and not only does it require a lot of labor, but it also requires strong labor.
If we have an electric oil press from our grain, oil and food factory, it will be very easy to work. Two people can take care of a machine, and the output in half a day can be as much as a village of 300 strong laborers working day and night.
The output, Mr. Zhao, think about it, how much can be saved in processing fees?
The reason why I mentioned this is to tell Mr. Zhao that technology can liberate productivity, greatly reduce labor intensity, and reduce production costs as much as possible to earn more profits.
Next month Jiangnan Company will receive a batch of agricultural diesel engines produced in the United States. By burning diesel, the oil pressing machine can be driven through the transmission gear. If Mr. Zhao is interested, I can sell one to Mr. Zhao and put the small oil press together.
By selling it to Mr. Zhao, the production of camellia oil in western Ganxi can be increased by more than ten times.
This machine is not expensive, a complete set is about 1,200 yuan. The agricultural machinery factory can also train several operators for free for Mr. Zhao so that they can master basic maintenance techniques. You will probably make back this investment in a month.
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Shopkeeper Zhao nodded gratefully: "Thank you! Thank you! I have decided to buy it. Please let me know when the goods arrive."
After that, the atmosphere became much better. They talked and laughed with each other, and their emotions merged. At the end of the drink, Shopkeeper Zhao asked the pharmaceutical factory if the anti-inflammatory medicine had been produced and when it would be sold. An Yi shied away and didn’t know. Although Shopkeeper Zhao had regrets,
But they didn’t ask any more questions, and parted happily with each other.
At noon the next day, Shopkeeper Zhao, who returned to Gao'an by boat, was thinking about how to explain his trip to Old Nanchang to his superiors. He was very sad that he could not buy back the special medicine to save the wounded and sick brothers in the mountains. He was in a low mood and lowered his head to enter.
He sat down in his own shop and couldn't catch his breath. The clerk rushed over and told him: At nine o'clock in the morning, two big men picked up four wooden boxes, left a letter and left.
Shopkeeper Zhao took the cowhide envelope doubtfully, took out the unsigned letter and read it. He jumped up as if being burned and rushed into the back hall. He threw himself on the box and opened it quickly. He read box after box with deep eyes.
of gratitude:
The four boxes contained bottles of gunshot wound ointment, bottles of anti-inflammatory powder, and boxes of quinine injections. The last box contained two leather first aid boxes. There were five boxes of syringes and a box of hemostatic forceps in the box.
Three scalpels, four bottles of iodine tincture and medical suture needles, plus a few small printed medicine instructions...