Chapter 74 The First Business
A greasy wooden folding table and a plastic stool with missing arms and legs.
This is the standard configuration of a small dirty stall.
“Fried rice with sausage, here it comes!”
Zhao Jin holds a sauce-colored enamel bowl covered in a plastic bag, with steaming fried rice inside.
Put it down in front of him, you don't even have to get close, just lift your nose and smell it, the pot will be full of energy.
“The man in charge is very good at fire.”
There is a famous chef in Hong Kong, Dai Long, who is the one who cooked the Emperor’s fried rice in "God of Cookery". He is a famous chef in his own right. One of the prototypes of the film "The God of Cookery" is him.
Dai Long has a dish called God of Cookery fried rice, priced at 5,000, and there is an endless stream of diners.
But if you really want this guy to come to the dirty stall to fry a portion, he may not be able to do it smoothly.
Just like a five-star chef, if you ask him to run a banquet, he will be blinded.
The stall's emphasis on cooking is "quick, accurate and ruthless". A few times, a large spoon, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, soy sauce, pepper...the hands are as fast as those practiced in Baozhilin. , it will be ready in just a minute or two.
Zhang Yuan got up late, missed both breakfast and lunch, and finished the fried rice in front of him in a few big mouthfuls.
Comfortable!
Taking out five dollars and slapping it on the table, Zhao Jin quickly pushed it back.
"It's not necessary for you to come and eat. Besides, I can't ask for that much."
Hey, I haven't seen him for a few months and I'm a good person... Zhang Yuan happily took back the money and didn't see him outside.
After all, we have to talk about cooperation next, so it is more beneficial to show a familiar attitude.
"Are you filming nearby?"
"My role in "The Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sword" has just been completed, so I have nothing to do today to come here for a walk."
"You're going too far!" Zhao Jin raised his eyelids and made an estimate: "It's thirty or forty kilometers away."
"You also know." Zhang Yuan looked at it angrily. At a glance, he had grown, but not much.
“Of course I’m here to ask you something.”
“Do you still remember what I said to you on the set of “The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword”?”
“What did I say? ?”
Damn... Zhang Yuan suppressed his anger and said, forget it, he is just an ordinary person, don't be so demanding.
“You said you planned to work as an extra and open a food stall with your friends at the same time. I asked you to do it and make it big and strong, remember?”
“I am today. I came here for this reason.”
It was not lunch time in the afternoon, and the business was relatively light. When they had time, they sat down in front of Zhang Yuan.
“Is this the roommate you’re talking about who got into the crew in three days and got a supporting role in a month?”
The cook winked and asked Zhao Jin.
"It's even more amazing now. I have become a main supporting role. I heard that a movie costs hundreds of thousands."
Can you two whisper behind my back... …Zhang Yuan looked stiff.
Also, if one of my plays costs hundreds of thousands, did you two steal my bank card balance?
You can tell at a glance that neither of them is a smooth-talking, superficial person.
"Let me clarify first, I don't have that much money."
"Secondly, what I want to talk about today has nothing to do with filming...well, it does."
The two met He spoke and sat upright.
“Before, I was on the cast of “The Golden Family”, and at most there were more than 300 people including extras and leading actors.”
“The cast of “The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword” later had more than 500 people at most. ”
"These crews shoot for several months. To shoot a whole movie, it will cost hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands just for lunch."
"And how many crews are working in the Imperial Capital every day? Actors and extras need to eat. Even if you don’t know, you can probably imagine it.”
“Do you want to make money from it?”
Zhang Yuan painted the cake again. It was fragrant and sweet. After thinking about it for a while, the two felt that they had discovered a golden mountain!
“What do you mean?”
"Open a shop to make lunch boxes, just for the crew!"
"Well, can you do this job?" It was a beautiful thought, but when it came to practical matters, Zhao Jin immediately showed a timid look: "They are all related households. We can’t do it.”
How cowardly... Zhang Yuan complained in his heart.
However, cowardice has its advantages. Such people are easy to control and are unlikely to rebel.
"What you said is too big. The two of us can only run a small stall, and we don't need to rent water or electricity. Whatever we earn is ours."
The cooking guy also agreed, and at the same time he looked at Zhao Jin beside him, saying to himself that this friend of yours has a big heart and a big appetite. We are in a small business and we can't reach an agreement with him.
Zhang Yuan saw what the two were thinking, adjusted his emotions, and spoke again. "Well, let me ask you a question."
"How long do you think you can work at such a stall, one year, ten years, or a lifetime?"
"As long as we don't get sick and can work, we can keep working!" The words of the cooking man conveyed the simplicity and stubbornness of ordinary people.
"What about after you marry a daughter-in-law, let her set up a stall together?"
"If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, marry a dog, follow the dog. As long as the young couple has a skill and can eat." This person's answer was affirmative.
"Okay!" Zhang Yuan clapped his hands, and then his eyes gradually became sharp, staring at the two of them: "Then one day you will have children."
"I'll wait for you in 20 years When the children grow up, do you also want them to live in the open every day, covered in oil and sweat, and be chased around by the urban management like wild dogs? "
"I..." At this time, the cooking man fell silent.
Ordinary people are like this. No matter how hard and tired they are, they still hope that their children can do better than themselves.
Who doesn’t want their children to sit in the office and blow the air conditioner while working instead of hawking on the streets?
The reason why men working outside work so hard is not to send more money to their wives and children at home.
Why do those men who work all their lives and send money home become so crazy that they turn into murderous monsters when they find out that the child is not their biological child?
The simplest hope of the Chinese people is that each generation becomes stronger than the last.
Their weak spots were poked by Zhang Yuan, and they bowed their heads and remained silent.
“Do you want your children to work as hard as you do, or do you want your children to have money to buy a car or a house for them twenty years later, and never have to worry about money again.”
Obviously, what they want is the latter.
"It will cost a lot of money to open a store, rent, water, electricity, gas, etc. If we lose money..."
Most people are the kings of words. If you really want to do something, you start to make excuses for yourself to back down.
Zhang Yuan naturally wanted to be "forced to the extreme".
“It’s not just about renting stores, water, electricity and gas, but also taxation, fire protection, market supervision, urban management, and many people need to be taken care of.”
“Even sending lunch boxes to the set You also have to have a car, but you haven’t even considered these.”
“So…”
“So I will pay for all the upfront costs!” Zhang Yuan made a rough calculation and waited. After receiving the salary for "Eternal Dragon Sword", I can have a deposit of about 180,000.
It’s enough to open a store.
"When you make money, deduct this from the profits and then return it to me."
"Then, then...where does the business come from?" Seeing that his escape route was blocked, Zhao Jincao spoke again in a daze.
"In less than a year, I have not saved any gold or silver, but I have saved some popularity. I will find business."
"In other words, you two and It’s the same now, I just need to take care of the work, costs, management, and sales.”
"I will register the store as a company. I will take 60%, you two will take 20% each, and we will pay dividends every month."
At this point, he revealed his plan in full.
His current main job is acting, after all, this industry makes a lot of money.
That’s why he wants to make money from the spin-off industry of the film and television industry. As long as he is here, he will have connections and business.
The lunch box industry is almost the film and television industry with the lowest entry barrier. If you do it well, you can earn hundreds of thousands a year.
And if he wants to act, he can't do it himself, so he has to find a few honest ordinary people to cooperate and give him some benefits to help him work.
Zhao Jin keeps talking, but he is not a bad person.
It’s not okay to let him make up his mind, but he can still work.
"That's it, I'll find a shop tomorrow, I'll contact the fire department, market, urban management, and sanitation people, and have a meal together." A big check.”
The two of them were still confused about what they were hearing, but they had been clearly arranged by Zhang Yuan.
The next day, dinner.
Led by Zhang Yuan, the two came to a hotel private room.
Open the door and take a look.
Zhang Yuanzhen didn’t lie to them. There was a table full of people from relevant departments.
This is what he asked Zhao Decai to contact him.
His previous friend worked as a developer. People in this industry were familiar with the leaders on the ground, otherwise it would be difficult to move forward.
But he didn't find any big shots. The county magistrates are not as good as the current ones. The ones who came were department-level cadres, the kind of people he would meet often in the future.
The two of them were dumbfounded. They had never seen such a huge battle.
The man cooking the dishes, named Cao Jianjun, looked at Zhao Jin blankly.
"Who is this friend of yours?"
(End of this chapter)