150. Identify business opportunities
"As a human being, you must know when enough is enough."
Zhou Dalin told Cheng Xiao.
Seeing that she didn't understand, he explained: "Let's just imagine what it will be like if I continue to do it.
Making money is certain. However, according to the contract signed with me, those manufacturers must sell to me at the low price stipulated in the contract, no matter how high the outside price is. Can you imagine how they feel in their hearts? It’s hard work
I worked so hard to produce a product, but I took all the money away. Will they hate me? Will they unite and find ways to deal with me?
You don’t know how dark the business world is. People who hate me will always keep an eye on me, looking for flaws in me, destroying my business, and even spreading rumors to slander me and my family’s reputation, including you and your parents.
.When the time comes, we will be involved in disputes and it will be difficult for us not to become famous! Even if we want to live quietly and without fighting with the world, we may not be able to do it.
Do you think it's worth it to make so many enemies and put yourself in a dangerous situation just to make money?
Doing business is all about being harmonious and making money. At critical moments, I take the initiative to terminate the contract and give them a chance to make a fortune, and they will be grateful to me. Therefore, when I ask them for liquidated damages, they will happily give it to me, and they are not harmonious at all.
I negotiate the price.
Even though I earned their money, instead of becoming enemies, I became good friends with them.
The sky is brighter when you take a step back. When doing business, you need to make friends from all over the world and cooperate extensively with friends. Only then can you have more opportunities and do bigger business.
You have to know the trade-offs. You can’t earn money that you shouldn’t earn, no matter how much you earn.
When I say this, do you understand?"
After hearing this, Cheng Xiao nodded silently and said, "I think you are at a higher level than Uncle Zhao and have a bigger picture."
Zhou Dalin smiled and said: "By the way, when doing business, you need to have a state of mind and a structure. Our Xiaoxiao has gradually matured and can be a good assistant to me in the future."
After saying that, he went over, put his arm around her shoulders, and tried to hold her in his arms.
This time, Cheng Xiao did not resist and fell obediently into his arms.
Zhou Dalin said these words to Cheng Xiao, but did not say them to Zhao Shihao.
Sitting on the sofa with Cheng Xiao in his arms, Zhou Dalin suddenly thought that Cheng Xiao had just been guarding her father and said she liked dogs.
Twenty years later, Cheng Xiao also had a dog, a brown corgi, which Zhou Dalin bought for her.
At that time, Cheng Xiao sat in the office all day and lacked exercise. Before she met Zhou Dalin, she was in a bad mood and relied on eating to vent her depression. She was a little too fat.
Zhou Dalin passed by the dog market one day and saw the corgi. It was like a little rabbit, jumping up and down on the dog selling counter. It was so cute, so he bought it.
If you keep a dog, you have to walk it. If you give it to Cheng Xiao, you can force her to walk the dog. In this way, you can exercise properly. Even if you can't achieve the goal of losing weight, at least you can stop gaining weight.
When Cheng Xiao saw the dog, he was so happy that he stayed with it when he came back from get off work. Sometimes he couldn't help but come back at noon to play with the dog for a while before going to work.
In the days that followed, Cheng Xiao bought many unnecessary things for the dog.
I bought a doggy toilet, but it turns out that my dog refuses to urinate in the toilet. No matter how I train it, it doesn’t work. If I can urinate near the toilet, it only gives her face.
Then I bought a dog house, but the dog refused to sleep in the house. I was afraid that the dog would not be able to drink clean water, so I bought a dog drinking fountain, but I couldn’t teach the dog how to use it. There is also a heating system.
The dog's mattress, diapers, and a lot of mess made Zhou Dalin dumbfounded.
"A dog is not a human being. It is born with the living habits of a dog. If you raise it as a human being, it will suffer, and so will you."
Zhou Dalin kept trying to persuade her, but Cheng Xiao always refused to listen.
I remember that the last thing I bought was shoes for dogs. It turned out that the dogs couldn’t walk in them and could only jump around, so they had to be thrown away.
Now thinking about the stupid things Cheng Xiao did, Zhou Dalin still couldn't help but smile. Her silly look was the cutest in his heart.
At that time, she loved her Corgi so much that she posted updates about the dog on QQ space every day. She took it with Zhou Dalin and took it home with her. Lao Cheng saw her getting a dog to follow her all day long. At that time
What I said about her and what I said about her today basically mean the same thing.
People who are caring and full of fantasy about life love small animals. Cheng Xiao, who is forty years old, is still full of love. After meeting Zhou Dalin, he is full of fantasy about life again.
When he thought of these, Zhou Dalin's heart was filled with tenderness.
He hugged Cheng Xiao and asked her: "Xiaoxiao, you like dogs, don't you?"
"Yeah." Cheng Xiao answered him briefly and said nothing more.
"How about I buy you a dog?" he asked again.
"No," Cheng Xiao said in his arms, "If my dad sees it, he will scold me for who knows how many days."
"Keep it here with us," he said, "Don't let your dad see it."
"No." Cheng Xiao said, "If my dad comes over and sees it, he will still scold me."
"Just say I raised you." He said.
Cheng Xiao raised his head, looked at him and smiled.
"You think my dad is a fool?"
He also smiled.
"We can buy it after we settle down in the provincial capital." Cheng Xiao said, "I don't know why, but I just like puppies."
"What kind of dog do you like?" Zhou Dalin asked her, "Corgi?"
When he said the last dog's name, Cheng Xiao also said the same name.
This time, he was so frightened that he almost jumped up from the sofa.
"Why do you like Corgi?" His voice trembled as he asked.
"Queen Elizabeth likes it," Cheng Xiao said. "I saw it on TV. She led Corgi out. It was so cute."
Cheng Xiao also said this to him twenty years later.
"We Xiaoxiao also want to be the queen?"
"No. I just think that Corgi is so cute, like a big rabbit."
When Zhou Dalin hugged Cheng Xiao and talked about dogs, Zhao Shihao was at home, studying the news tirelessly.
He thought he had learned Zhou Dalin's business skills and began to browse the news newspapers desperately.
Hard work paid off, and from the massive amount of news, he finally saw a piece of useful information.
The news said that construction of the expressway from the capital to the provincial capital is about to begin. This expressway passes through Linshui. In order to cooperate with the construction of the expressway, Linshui will also build several roads leading to the expressway and widen it at the same time.
There are several main traffic roads in the city.
After all, Linshui is a third-tier city. Due to the sluggish manufacturing industry in recent years, urban construction has obviously lagged far behind. For this reason, the city government has made great determination to increase infrastructure and road construction to make Linshui worthy of its name and become a
The economic center city of the region.
Road construction and infrastructure construction are all big projects that require all kinds of building materials.
Zhao Shihao thought.
When he followed Zhou Dalin into the mountains, he saw many quarries in the mountains, which were very dusty. If he could build a quarry here, he would definitely make money by selling the stones in the future.
An idea came to his mind and he immediately became excited.
"Dad, dad!" he shouted excitedly in his room.
Lao Zhao was watching TV in the outer room, so he was startled. He quickly got up from the sofa, ran into his room, stared at him and asked: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"
"Dad, come here and take a look," he was still excited. He asked his dad to sit in front of the computer and pointed to the news page on it. "The expressway from the capital to the provincial capital passes through our Linshui. In addition, our Linshui
Linshui will also start construction of four highways leading to the expressway... You see, Linshui City Government calls this year Linshui's infrastructure year."
Lao Zhao knows all these things.
He looked at his son in confusion and asked, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
"What else," Zhao Shihao said excitedly, "With so many infrastructure projects, he must need a lot of construction materials, right? Especially stones, we have quarries in the mountains. If we build a quarry and crush the stones
You can definitely make money by selling takeout, and you can make a lot of money!"
Old Zhao's face became solemn, and he pondered for a long time before saying: "Oh, I know this quarry is property of the township and is contracted by others, so we can't get it. As for the sand, this is all controlled by some shady people.
We can't afford to offend you here. Cement is a material allocated by the state. We can't produce it ourselves. It's unrealistic to expect to make money from it."
"I know this." Zhao Shihao said, "When we went into the mountains with Zhou Dalin, we stayed in a quarry for a long time. He asked others about this matter. I guess he also saw it at that time.
This business opportunity was only given up at that time when he felt that there was no way to make money by pouring caustic soda.”
When Lao Zhao heard this, he was moved in his heart and asked him, "What did he ask others about?"
"It's about stone crushing." Zhao Shihao said, "The village is open to the mountains, and they only sell stones. They don't have so much manpower and material resources for secondary processing. Those who crush stones are all outsiders who come here and buy jaw crushers.
Come to crush the rocks. They buy the rocks mined in the village, crush them, put them in the field, and then contact various places to sell them out.
Think about it, these infrastructure projects have not started yet, and the demand for stones is not that big yet. It must be cheaper to buy stones from the quarry. Let’s buy a crusher, hire people to crush the stones into stones, and just put them in the field.
.When those infrastructure projects are started, the price of stones will go up. Then we sell them, isn't this the same as Zhou Dalin selling caustic soda? At that time, Zhou Dalin went to the quarry, and I thought, it was the same
Such an idea, but he was getting caustic soda and didn't have time to do it."
Listen to Lao Zhao, that's pretty much what happened.
Just listen to Zhao Shihao continue to say: "This stone, let's follow Zhou Dalin's example, let's keep it on credit first, and then settle the settlement with the village after we sell the stone. You work in the middle level of the city's Industrial and Commercial Bureau, why don't you know a few useful people?"
People? When the time comes, we’ll contact those in charge of infrastructure and let’s sell the stones. It shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
Lao Zhao thought about it and said, this is really something he can do.
He asked: "You mean, we are now crushing the stones on credit and hoarding them, waiting for the price of the stones to increase?"
Chapter completed!