Chapter 156: High and High (Medium Cup)
The end of March flew by.
Spring has begun to bloom all over Lingnan, especially as the Qingming Festival approaches, the suburbs of Shanmei become more and more lively, with locals going up to the mountains to visit tombs and pay homage to their ancestors in groups.
However, Magong Town, Hongcao Town, Pinghe Town and other places are facing a formidable enemy. They have deployed two or three times more manpower than in previous years to station at various intersections. They also dispatched a large number of drones to patrol the mountainous areas.
The reason why we are so nervous is mainly because Hailufeng Company’s more than 50,000 acres of durian plantation is in a critical season. If the kapok used as rootstock is burned, it will affect the subsequent grafting and growth.
The farm workers of Hailufeng Company also erected barbed wire fences at the boundaries of each farm, opened up fire-proof isolation belts, and used previously excavated and blasted rocks to pave a 15-meter-wide pure stone isolation belt.
A fire sprinkler pipe was also installed on the barbed wire fence of these isolation zones.
Coupled with the reservoirs excavated and constructed in each terrace, even if a fire spreads to the vicinity, the fire can be suppressed to a small area.
The reason why Hailufeng Company attaches so much importance to fire prevention is mainly because of the environmental protection in the past decade, and natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and electricity have replaced the traditional firewood in rural areas and become the main fuel in rural areas. This has caused the vegetation in the wild to become more and more dense. It is lush, and more and more dead branches and leaves are accumulated.
When Jiang Miao was a child, the mountains near Xinxiang contained only sparse masson pines, as well as tenacious weeds and ferns.
Nowadays, many mountains are covered with large-leaved acacia and eucalyptus trees, and there is a thick accumulation of dead branches and leaves on the ground. When the weather is dry, a spark can cause a mountain fire.
The weather in Lingnan this year is a bit abnormal.
In previous years, it rained heavily during the Qingming Festival.
This year, however, there has not been a drop of rain since early February. A typhoon was supposed to form near the Luzon Sea at the end of March, but it ended up in Japan.
This has caused the mountainous areas in the Shanmei region to become drier, making forest fires more likely to occur.
It also coincides with the Tomb Sweeping Day, and many people go up to the mountains to sweep tombs and pay homage to their ancestors.
In fact, not only the headquarters attaches great importance to forest fire prevention, but the Gannan Branch also attaches great importance to it. After all, as an inland area, they are drier than the coast. In addition, the Camellia oleifera plantation area managed by the Gannan Branch reaches more than 200,000 acres. , you may be affected by the surrounding wildfires if you are not careful.
Fortunately, the company's employees are more cooperative. After all, if the farm is burned down, their performance this year will definitely be ruined.
Jiang Miao is worshiping his ancestors in a cemetery not far from Magong Town.
This cemetery area is located at the junction of Yandun Mountain and Magong Mountain, opposite the Yan Town Breeding Farm. The cemetery was just completed at the end of last year, and it was also a project funded by Hailufeng Company to finance the town government.
Of course, this is also for Hailufeng itself.
After all, Yandun Mountain, Zhuzi Mountain, Magong Mountain, and Jilong Mountain in Magong Town have all been contracted or expropriated by Hailufeng Company, which will definitely involve the ancestral graves of local villagers.
Therefore, these ancestral graves must be relocated and then placed together.
For this reason, Hailufeng Company must provide the money.
The cemetery in Magongshan is not small, covering an area of 200 acres, and there is also an ashes tower under construction.
Although Jiang Miao doesn't believe in gods and ghosts, it doesn't stop him from showing off.
Except for the ancestral graves of his own family.
His father, Jiang Dahai, brought roasted pig, roasted whole lamb, roasted whole cow and a large number of ingot candles to the west of the small square of the cemetery where the ownerless remains were temporarily placed. There were more than a hundred clay pots of various sizes stacked here.
Inside these pottery jars are ownerless skeletons.
When Hailufeng Company was developing the surrounding mountains and factories, as well as widening the Shantou-Ma Road, many remains were discovered during soil work.
Some were dug out of ownerless graves, and some had no graves at all. As the superstitious and traditional Hailufeng people, they certainly could not dispose of these remains casually and had to relocate them properly.
Jiang Dahai handled this matter on behalf of the Jiang family, including asking a Feng Shui master to tell the date, asking someone to collect the remains, building a tower to house the ashes and offering annual worship services, etc. Jiang Dahai took care of it all by himself.
Perhaps because he was worried that this matter would be bad for Jiang Miao, Lin Shuya and others, Jiang Dahai did not allow him to worship these anonymous people.
Standing on the hillside of the cemetery.
Cousin Jiang Yao cut a large piece of roast pig for him: "Amiao, this is your share."
"Thank you." Jiang Miao took the bag.
Not far away, my uncle Jiang Dahe came over with his two cousins.
"Amiao, when I came back last month, I originally wanted to find you, but I didn't expect you to go to the north."
"Brother Miao." The two cousins shouted awkwardly.
"Brother-in-law!" Jiang Miao smiled and nodded, then turned to look at his two tall cousins with slightly green faces: "It's A Feng and A Hua! We haven't seen each other for several years, and I almost don't recognize them. Out.”
When he went to Xiangjiang the year before last, brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua did not meet each other because they were studying in school and Jiang Miao was in a hurry.
Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua are twins. They are about nineteen years old this year. Since they were born and raised in Xiangjiang, in Jiang Miao's impression, they seem to have only come back three or four times since they were young. Therefore, they, Jiang Miao, Jiang Yao and others Not familiar.
Of course, this also has something to do with my aunt's words and deeds. My aunt is not interested in poor relatives from mainland China, and even rejects and despises them.
The uncle asked in a low voice: "Amiao, my tea restaurant wants to buy some goods from you."
"Uncle, you can just go to the dealer in Xiangjiang." Jiang Miao had already heard his uncle's thoughts in his heart.
The uncle shook his head: "The dealer's price is too expensive."
Jiang Miao shook his head and persuaded: "Uncle, I will ship the goods separately to your tea restaurant. The price will not be much cheaper. After all, the transportation, warehousing and procedures of small batches will increase the cost. Even if I give you the ex-factory price, It won’t be much cheaper if you take it to Xiangjiang.”
"Hey! It would be nice if it could be cheaper." The uncle still wanted to get the goods from the source.
Jiang Miao frowned slightly, and then said helplessly: "Okay, I will ask the sales department to send you a separate batch of goods at the ex-factory price. You can arrange transportation and customs clearance by yourself!"
"Thank you, Amiao. Come to Xiangjiang later and I'll treat you to dinner." The uncle was overjoyed.
Jiang Miao knew very well what the other party wanted to do. He just wanted to use this relationship to become a second-rate dealer.
However, Hailufeng Company does not limit dealers in various regions, so if my uncle wants to do it, he will not object. Anyway, the ex-factory price and wholesale price are actually the same thing.
In fact, Jiang Miao is not optimistic about his uncle's approach. After all, the dealers in Xiangjiang have their own channels and regular customers. It will be quite difficult for him to grab market share from them, unless he intervenes, or My brother-in-law can develop new customers, otherwise he can make a small amount of money, but forget about making a big amount of money.
Jiang Miao would naturally not step forward to interfere with a dealer in a small area. This kind of thing is not worth doing. After all, the price is too low.
At this moment, the aunt with heavy makeup appeared from behind the two sons.
"Amiao! Long time no see, why don't you see your wife?"
"Auntie." Jiang Miao replied calmly: "Shuya is pregnant and it is inconvenient to go up the mountain."
Auntie's eyes rolled slightly: "Oh? Congratulations on becoming a father. Auntie, I have been here before. Pregnant women cannot eat casually. My dad has a secret recipe that can guarantee the birth of a boy..."
"Ahem." The uncle pulled the aunt: "Seimei, why don't you go burn the paper."
"What's the rush?" The aunt glared at him, then continued with a smile: "Amiao, I..."
"I accept Auntie's wishes, but Shuya is pregnant with a girl." Jiang Miao shook her head lightly.
"This..." The aunt didn't know how to continue the topic for a while.
Jiang Miao didn't intend to continue talking nonsense with the other party.
Li Zixuan, who was not far away, also saw Jiang Miao's expression. As he had been with Jiang Miao for almost two years, he naturally saw that the boss was a little impatient, so he trotted over to rescue him.
"Boss, there are some things in the company that you need to go back and deal with."
"Oh? I'll go back right away." Jiang Miao turned around and said with a smile: "Uncle and aunt, Ah Feng and Ah Hua, my company has urgent matters to deal with, so I'll excuse you now."
Looking at Jiang Miao's leaving figure.
The aunt murmured in a low voice: "What's the air? Even worshiping the grandfather is half-hearted."
The uncle was a little angry and reprimanded in a suppressed voice: "Seimei, stop saying a few words."
"Hmph."
And came to the roadside at the foot of the mountain.
Jiang Miao got into the pickup truck and headed directly to the company headquarters.
In fact, he had already seen part of his aunt's thoughts. After all, her brain waves fluctuated so intensely that they looked like an open flame under the identification panel.
After all, being courteous for nothing is either a traitor or a thief. The fact that my uncle wanted to purchase products from Hailufeng Company was most likely instigated by her.
Since the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she has been returning to the mainland frequently, and she has contacted sister Jiang Miao and her mother every now and then. You can guess what the purpose is.
It's nothing more than profit.
Judging from the awkward expressions on Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua's brothers today, there is a high probability that she wants to arrange for her two sons to work at Hailufeng Company. After all, Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua are nineteen years old this year and will graduate from college next year.
Naturally, Jiang Miao would not allow this to happen. After all, judging from her aunt's situation, grassroots employees would definitely look down on her, and she would start at the middle level.
Hailufeng Company is not just a start-up. At that time, fresh graduates were promoted to department heads in a hurry. Now, in the company's personnel arrangement, fresh graduates must start from the grassroots level.
Unless they really have a better foundation, such as a doctorate degree and very good scientific research capabilities and achievements, these fresh graduates can start from the middle level.
As far as he knew, both brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua were undergraduate students at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, majoring in business administration.
I know everything about business administration majors in private universities.
Moreover, the Mandarin and Xue Lao dialects of the two brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua are half-baked. To communicate smoothly, they can only use Cantonese and English. Hai Lufeng Company is really not blessed with such talents.
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Fortunately, here at the headquarters, except for the locals in Magong Town who speak Cantonese, the others mostly use Xueluo dialect and Hakka, but they can understand Mandarin and a small part of Cantonese.
If it is a branch office, none of the three branches use Cantonese and English as daily language.
What's more, if Jiang Miao arranges for the two brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua to become middle-level people like her aunt, who is extremely controlling and thoughtful, the other party will most likely ask her two sons to find a way to kill her seventh aunt. The eighth aunt also pulled in.
Jiang Miao knows this very well.
Because of my uncle's tea restaurant and barbecue shop, my aunt arranged for many relatives from her natal family.
If my uncle hadn't grabbed the purchasing power himself, the tea restaurant and barbecue shop might have been ruined by this bitch.
Jiang Miao has always kept a distance from such strange relatives. After all, these people's idea is not to help you manage the company, but to get rich. I think it would be better to be the boss of the company, but I am afraid that they will enrich themselves and take advantage of others. At the same time, he also likes to use moral kidnapping, saying that it is for your own good, but outsiders cannot believe it.
Of course Jiang Miao knew that outsiders could not be trusted, but not many relatives could be trusted either.
Moreover, outsiders are easy to deal with and can be directly intimidated or even sent in to drink tea, but relatives are not easy to deal with. Instead, many people will rely on their status as relatives to indulge in bribes and take kickbacks even more unscrupulously.
At present, among the management of Hailufeng Company, there are only two relatives, my brother-in-law and my sister. None of the other relatives are in the middle or upper levels of the company. Only a small number of distant relatives in Xinxiang work at the grassroots level of the company, such as security guards, farm workers, drivers, etc. They are all insignificant positions.
Unconsciously, the pickup truck returned to the temporary headquarters in the Nanhu Experimental Zone.
Due to the Qingming Festival in the past few days, the company has been taking holidays in batches, so the experimental area seems a bit deserted.
As soon as Jiang Miao got out of the car, he saw Ye Meijing coming down from the second floor.
"Boss! I also want to report to you at noon."
"I came back temporarily for something. Are you free now? If you have time, come to my office and tell me about your financial situation last month."
"Available."
In the chairman's office on the third floor.
Li Zixuan made tea for the two of them.
"Boss, our expenses this month are a bit high."
Jiang Miao is looking through the financial reports.
Ye Meijing read the small memo from time to time and continued: "The company's revenue in March was 2.1 billion yuan. In addition to the old business with relatively fixed revenue, the new additions were mainly reflected in feed and fish products, as well as patent fees. ”
Jiang Miao, who was looking at the financial report, was looking at the March revenue of each major business.
Eel fry: 432 million yuan.
White truffle: 342 million yuan.
Fish and meat products: 634 million yuan.
Fish oil: 3.17 million yuan.
Fruit: 8.25 million yuan.
Physical store: 14.08 million yuan.
Dairy products: 36.71 million yuan.
Patent fees: 384 million yuan for Egyptian pond lice fish meal patent (paid by Haid Group in the first quarter), 148 million yuan for Egyptian pond lice patented fish meat without earthy smell (paid by Cathay Food Factory in March).
Total monthly revenue was 2.00261 billion yuan.
"In terms of expenditure, in addition to the company's fixed cost expenditure of 470 million yuan, there were additional procurement expenditures of 430 million yuan, investment expenditures of 280 million yuan, and engineering expenditures of 170 million yuan in March. The total expenditure was 1.35 billion yuan."
The exact figure of total expenditure is 1.35763 billion yuan.
In other words, even though Hailufeng Company has invested heavily in the past few months, the company still made a profit of 640 million yuan in March.
Of course, the core reason why it can generate so much gross profit is the 530 million patent fee.
As the Egyptian pond lice fish meal industry of other domestic feed manufacturers enters the production period, it is estimated that related patent fees will hit a new high in the second quarter.
However, the patent fees from Cathay Food Factory have almost reached their limit, because the production line of Cathay Food Factory is already full, and together with the fish products of Hailufeng Company, the two companies produce 80,000 to 100,000 tons of fish every month. The domestic market for eggs, fish fillets, fish cakes, fish sausages, and canned fish is approaching saturation.
Fortunately, the expenditures in March are not normal fixed expenditures. For example, the purchase of agricultural machinery, engineering equipment, engineering construction, etc. are all one-time investments. Expenditures in this area will drop significantly next month.
Of course, this is just a decrease and does not mean that investment expenditure will be reduced too much.
For example, Jiang Miao was looking at the financial budget report at this time.
Hero Dairy applied to its parent company to purchase 100,000 first-time milk cows before the end of this year, and the estimated purchase cost was 1 billion yuan.
At the same time, Hero Dairy applied for another 1 billion yuan to invest in the construction of modern farms, dairy processing plants and other supporting facilities.
The total requested budget is 2 billion. Even if it is allocated to each month, it is still about 230 million. This is a large amount of expenditure.
Another department applying for a larger budget is the Gannan Branch. They are applying to purchase small camellia oleifera fruit harvesting machines that have been developed. They want to purchase a total of 500 units at 28,000 yuan each, for a total of 14 million yuan.
Including other agricultural machinery and supporting equipment needed by the Gannan Branch, a total of 57 million yuan is needed.
Jiang Miao asked Li Zixuan to bring the detailed documents for funding applications from these departments and browsed them carefully for more than two hours before preliminary review and completion of these budget applications.
Although the expenditure is huge, for Hailufeng Company, these expenditures are necessary.
The financial pressure is not too great. After all, Hailufeng Company's several core businesses are very profitable, and together with the patent fees, they can support various investments.
Even though Jiang Miao spends money like water, the company still has a surplus of nearly 1.9 billion yuan on its books.
Moreover, after Jiang Miao paid personal income tax last year, he transferred as much as 1.2 billion yuan into his personal account. Currently, his personal account has 1.57 billion yuan in deposits.
This does not include the overseas bearer accounts he secretly controls, which also have nearly 86 million US dollars in funds.
So with a stroke of his pen, he approved the budget requests of various departments, subsidiaries, and branches.
Anyway, it doesn’t cost money. The company still needs to pay taxes on these profits. Although Hailufeng Company has received nationwide tax exemptions, this does not mean that it does not have to pay taxes at all. Some taxes must be paid.
At present, Hailufeng Company has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise in a specific industry. Starting this year, it will enjoy a 50% reduction in all taxes nationwide, and local governments can also provide secondary reductions and exemptions according to local policies.
Taking Hailufeng Company in Shanmei as an example, after various cumulative reductions and exemptions, this year's tax is approximately 11.3% of gross profits.
In southern Gansu, the gross profit was 8.9%; in Qiongzhou and Monan, it was 17.8%.
Although the reductions and exemptions are very strong, Jiang Miao still decided to spend more money to expand investment in various projects.
After all, Hailufeng Company's profits will soon usher in a second explosive growth.
Whether it is the initial production of pandan strawberry powder, the soaring patent fees, or the Monan soybean harvest in October, the company's various incomes will continue to increase.
When your finances are so good, if you don't spend money desperately, how can you keep so much money to lay eggs?
(End of chapter)