Chapter 94 Award Ceremony
[94] Award Ceremony
Yao Fan set up some wine and dishes to entertain Merrith in his house.
"James, now we are acquaintances. You have proved your reputation with your ability. I know you have earned 8,000 taels this time, but before you have enough capital, I am willing to give you additional credit to help you occupy the market faster. In addition, I will give you a greater discount on the price, from 50 taels per kilogram of dye to 45 taels of silver.
"Oh, my God, Frank, you are an angel! It's a saint! I have to say that you are the most amazing businessman I have seen since I came to China!"
"This time I will give you 20 barrels of dye, 10 barrels of 50 kg and 10 barrels of 30 kg, with a total price of 36,000 taels. Merrix, I have great hopes for you. I hope you can gain a foothold in Shanghai and sell dyes to all over Asia and even the world.
"Frank, I also hope to open the market as soon as possible, but the tariff barriers in Europe and the United States are too high, and the actual tariffs are more than 30%. At present, I pay more attention to the Asian and South American markets."
"James, you should be confident that with the expansion of the production capacity of my dye factory, the wholesale price will be cheaper in the future.
And the first thing you need to do is to defeat foreign dye wholesalers and local dye industries in various low-tariff colonial markets and monopolize the whole market. Once there is a lack of market, dye factories in Europe and the United States will not be able to compete with me.
"Frank, your plan is very smart, but I don't think your production will be available to the global colonial market in a few years."
"Oh, you really know me!" Yao Fan mocked.
Meilis smiled awkwardly.
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The next day, Merrith left Qingdao with dye, and Yao Fan sent him off attentively.
When he saw the Merrius cargo ship leave the dock, Yao Fan returned to Yuchun to check the account.
He held the account book handed over to celebrate Wannian, and he calculated silently in his heart:
"So far, the retail and wholesale of folding umbrellas have been sold 160,000 pieces. The supply price I gave to the merchant is 22 taels, a total of 3.52 taels of receivable.
After the pen was added with ink, a total of 12,000 pieces and more than 3,000 bottles were sold. According to the supply price, a pen was 5 taels of silver and a bottle of ink was 1 silver, a total of 60,300 taels of receivable.
Because the dye intends to be exclusively operated by Merrith, it is not counted as a trade name and will not be remembered for the time being.
1,500 bicycles were sold, and the price of 65 taels is 97500 taels of silver.
750 sewing machines were sold at a supply price of 65 taels, which was 48750 taels of silver.
510,000 iron shell thermos bottles were sold, and the supply price of 13 taels was 6.63 million taels.
A total of 1035 million should be withdrawn.
Yao Fan was surprised to find that his capital was large enough to open a bank. In 1872, the total assets of Fukang Qianzhuang in Hu Xueyan were only more than 20 million taels of silver. Of course, this did not include the Hu family's own 10,000 mu of fertile land and other private property, but only the assets of the bank.
He Wannian said tremblingly, "Brother Yao! Morning sail! My own brother! You saw it too! At present, we are making money too fast. I am busy during the day and scared to death when I look at the account book at night. I often have nightmares after going to bed! Also, at present, this fund occupies such a huge amount, I'm afraid you don't know how worried your family is! Hurry up and send the gold and pay back your family's purchase money.
"Why should I be surprised? In the foreign trade industry, transactions account for a huge amount of money. If my family doesn't have such a foundation, how dare I do sea trade? Britain's total export value in 1870 exceeded 200 million pounds a year, equivalent to more than 1 billion taels of silver. What's the cost of tens of millions of books?
"Brother Yao is indeed a member of the Haishang family. I can't do it if I have seen the world." He Wannian shook his head.
"Brother Yao, you know, I'm really scared by the chaos of soldiers and horses in the past few years. At the beginning of the twisting, the officers and soldiers directly came to the banks and shops with the white note opened by the generals above. * Three thousand taels is three thousand taels, and five thousand taels is five thousand taels! If you don't give it, you have to rob it! In short, you have to give them as much as you write. If it is known that there is a treasury of 108,000 yuan in the bank, at least 10 million yuan should be taken away as military pay! If we want to put this water in our account, I still have to hang it?"
"Brother Wannian, didn't you tell anyone else about the flow of the account?"
"Of course I dare not tell others! At present, the five accounts of the business are in charge of each other, and I dare not ask them to do this general ledger! I know you only need gold, so as long as I receive the payment for the goods during this period, I will take it to Hengli to exchange gold for you. Now Hengli has a batch of gold, and there is still the last batch left. Your treasury in Yaojiazhuang is full of 10 million taels of silver worth of gold!"
Yao Fan gratefully said, "Brother He, thank you for your hard work. You have made such a good profit recently. Next time we share dividends, how is Brother He going to deal with the dividend money?"
He Wannian shook his head and said, "I want to buy half of the land and half of it in the major banks. In short, I can't stay in the account."
When Yao Fan thinks of the future land policy, he feels obliged to advise him to celebrate Wannian.
"What do you do when you buy land? It's more appropriate for us to do business honestly.
"It's better to leave money for your children than to leave land. Brother Yao's family has been overseas for a long time, and you won't understand." Congratulations on ten thousand years.
Yao Fan didn't say much.
Before, Yao Fan's private account had 220,000 taels. After deducting all kinds of bribery expenses, Yaojiazhuang construction fees, workers' wages, and credit union loans, he still had more than 70,000 taels left. However, he could collect more than 10 million taels of silver in one fell swoop, so that he was also a little frightened by the face of the huge amount of money, not to mention celebrating ten thousand years.
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In the evening, the conference room in Yaojiazhuang.
said that it is a conference room, which is actually a large warehouse, but after installing 30 40-watt electric lights lit by diesel generators, the snow is as bright as day.
In the conference room, there are officials carefully promoted by Yao Fan. Except for a few guys like He Shicheng and Zhou Shi, who initially followed Yao Fan, they were all beggars and poor farmers! Moreover, even Zhou Fourth, He Shicheng and their earliest colleagues were born as farmers.
The composition of these cadres is the platoon leaders of the township bravery under Yao Fan, as well as the squad leaders of various working classes on the construction site, a total of 178. At this 500-square-meter dry building has been fully seated.
It is said that the cadres have praised them. In fact, they only have one-third of their literacy rate, and the remaining two-thirds have recognized hundreds of words after a period of literacy. In this way, they have basically reached the level of one-third of the literacy. There are many of them who are very smart and diligent. Among them, more than a dozen cadres have outstanding self-study ability. In addition to learning the words taught in the literacy class every night, they can also seize their spare time to learn by themselves. At present, they have read more than 2,000 words! This has reached the level of the second grade of primary school, and it is no exaggeration to say that this makes Yao Fan feel very gratified.
Yao Fan sat behind the rostrum covered with red cloth in front of the conference room, behind him was a simple blackboard. The rostrum is made by a carpentry class, which is simple and bulky, one meter wide and six meters long.
"During this period, I came back from Jinan and heard from Sister Su that a large number of learning models have emerged among our cadres. In addition to the prescribed number of words, they also taught themselves with textbooks after class. After learning pinyin, they have recognized more than 2,000 words. What's more valuable is that there is more than one such cadre. There are more than a dozen! I'm glad that we are here tonight to be proud of them and celebrate them together.
The cadres listened attentively. Now they are no stranger to the new word cadre. Yao Fan has called all the squad leaders this many times. This name does not cause any vigilance, because this imported word was historically accompanied by the emergence of modern parties in China.
Yao Fan said, "Now, the cadres with my name, please come forward and I will issue you a certificate.
"Zhou Niansheng."
"To!"
"Yang Weiyi."
"To!"
"Luo Qiren."
"To!"
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With Yao Fan's name call, the cadres came to the stage with excitement, looked at Yao Fan with worshipful eyes, and took over the red paper certificates sold in the 2011 cultural and educational supplies store one by one by one, on which Yao Fan wrote with a brush, "Learning master so-and-and-so, the first batch of breakthroughs 2000 in the literacy competition This award is hereby awarded as a reward.
Yao Fan saluted each of them with the modern PLA military salute, and each of them returned the salute in the same standard posture.
Yao Fan is quite satisfied with the training results during this period. These cadres, whether they are Xiang Yong or not, have at least carried out basic queue and military posture military ceremonial training, which is very good for his rapid expansion in the future.
"Next, the teacher Su Sanjie will present the prize, and everyone applauds to pay tribute to their excellent performance!" After saying that, Yao Fan immediately took the lead in clam, and the conference room immediately applauded. The cadres looked at these high-scale leaders with envy.
Yao Fan hopes to break the strange circle of intimacy between men and women these days, so he simply arranged for Su Sanjie, a literacy teacher, to participate in this award event.
The third sister wears a long-sleeved green cloth shirt and a black embroidered short vest. The skirt is a black pleated skirt. It is very inappropriate to wear a pair of green liberation shoes under her feet. In her own words, "It is very comfortable to wear rubber sole shoes, which is much more convenient than wearing embroidered cloth shoes." This made her have cadres and clerks staring at her feet wherever she went in Yaojiazhuang.
Sister Su, as usual tonight, combed a round bun in the back of her head and tied it with a wooden hairpin. She handed pen and a bottle of ink to these cadres with a red face and said "Congratulations" with a smile. These three simple words were taught by Yao Fan after she consulted Yao Fan.
Some of these honorable award-winning cadres smiled honestly, some nodded to the third sister with embarrassment, and some were so excited that their hands trembling. They saluted the third sister as respectfully as they respected Yao Fan.
"Now, Comrade Zhou Niansheng, the representative of the award-winning cadres, will speak a few words on behalf of everyone." Yao Fan continued according to the process arrangement.
The name of Comrade has also been called by Yao Fan, and it is required to call each other like this in the future. The bullying was that the officials of the Qing Dynasty had no idea of the modern meaning of the word comrade.
Zhou Niansheng wore blue overalls and green liberation shoes. He excitedly read Yao Fan's revision on the stage and recited the speech all afternoon.
"Today I will tell you a story that happened to me. This is a story of changing from a human to a ghost and from a ghost to an adult..." Zhou Niansheng said loudly in a deep voice.
"...At the beginning, my family borrowed ten taels of silver from the landlord's old wealth. At the end of the year, the profit rolled and became more than 25 taels...
... This land can no longer be planted, and this debt can't be paid off for a lifetime! Where does a tenant in my family go to make a living? When winter comes, my father starves to death, my mother starves to death, and I'm going to starve to death! ......
... But there is no way out. Just as I was starving to death, a thunderbolt opened on the sunny day, and the stars in the sky fell, which actually let me meet our owner! ......
...The local rich and evil gentry forced me nowhere to live, but the owner saved a miserable person like me...
... We poor have suffered and suffered for thousands of years, but today we can meet our owners. It's better than seeing the sun in the long night and driving away thousands of darkness...
...The local rich and evil gentry forced people into ghosts, and the owner turned ghosts into people..."
Zhou Niansheng choked as he read, tears flowed, and it was difficult for him to feel himself.
The reason why Yao Fan chose Zhou Niansheng to speak is also because his situation is very representative, which can be said to be a deep hatred. Yao Fan helped him revise the speech, hoping to resonate more with the cadres.