Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 228 New Delivery Point

The firewood used in Luo Cheng's home is bought from the lumber factory. It costs 50 cents for a large truck, and one truck can burn for several months. If the weather is cold, you may use it more, taking a bath or drinking hot water. Basically, they only earn the cost of pulling a pallet truck. Even the first time they pulled the truck, the sacks were given by them from the lumber factory.

There are not many employees at the lumber factory, so it is easier to get rid of them. Luo Cheng went there mainly because he wanted to inquire about the timber. He wants to follow the suggestions of netizens in the future era and build a lumber factory in the future era. I don’t know if it will happen.

In the afternoon, Luo Cheng took Zhang Hongxiu to the lumber factory. The lumber factory has a large site and few employees. The space where lumber is stacked is very large, and cars must be able to drive in. The lumber factory's main partners are the housing construction company, and then furniture factories and individuals.

Timber is also controlled in China, but the control is not strict. Individuals can also buy wood by registering. Generally, if someone wants to build a wooden house as a kitchen, they can register to buy it, or they can build a house by themselves. However, there are very few people who build their own houses these days, and they are all waiting for allocation.

At the lumber factory, they didn't have peanuts to entertain Luo Cheng and the others. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they didn't. Most of the time, no one comes to the lumber mill all year round. There is normal supply and demand on the housing and construction side. As long as orders come in, the factory must cooperate.

It can be regarded as a typical unit with benefits but no benefits. It's a bit better when the weather is cold. The factory also makes charcoal, which can be exchanged with other units as a benefit when the weather is cold.

Generally, units will buy charcoal when the weather is cold. There are charcoal basins in the offices of directors and factory directors. It is also a pleasure to receive guests in cold weather and burn charcoal in a basin to keep warm.

There are also some leaders of various units who basically use charcoal for heating at home. Moreover, leading cadres are basically responsible for logistics and arrange the purchasing department to find ways to purchase charcoal.

But it's still spring, and although there is plenty of work at the lumber mill, there are no benefits. However, there are only a few employees in the lumber factory, only a hundred or dozens of people. They can get whatever benefits they want, and everyone can share some of it.

Regarding the matter of opening a wood processing factory in the future, Luo Cheng plans to give up. Sometimes, it is not the materials that are controlled, but the people. In this era, it is really difficult to form a personal team.

There has been a nationwide drought in the past few years, but the impact in the Jiangxi area is small, but it has some impact. The water levels of many rivers have dropped, and there is really a lot of sand and gravel on the river sides.

To operate in this way, wood is actually not the key, but reliable people are needed. There are still many mountains and forests that cannot be protected these days. Those who can be cared for are those close to the village.

Then, they sell sand and gravel as a "concurrent seller". Luo Cheng also checked a little bit. If they specialize in selling sand and gravel, first of all, they will be in large quantities. This requires applying for a certificate. Those who sell sand and gravel basically collect it themselves, and they also need to apply for a mineral collection certificate. You can’t just open a sand and gravel factory if you want.

Timber factories do not need to register and can directly handle wood chips and scraps. Of course, there is also some internal wear and tear that can be dealt with by yourself. Many units have wear and tear, but it must be controlled within the range.

The person in charge of the lumber factory told Luo Cheng that the lumber in their factory was collected from below by the forestry unit and sent here. This raw material is a whole piece of wood, no matter how many pieces of wood are sent from the Forestry Bureau. The factory must register how much it consumes, and anyone who sells it privately can sell it with a certificate.

In the future, Luo Cheng has never thought about setting up a sand and gravel factory directly. It's not that he doesn't want to start one, but when he checked the information, he knew how deep the water was in this industry. Many places are run by some former gangsters.

These days, we are very particular about friendship and so on. As the saying goes, helping managers does not help relatives. But when it comes to critical matters in this era, it’s really about helping relatives rather than taking care of them. If Luo Cheng made a mistake and his relatives reported it, it would sound like he would kill his relatives out of justice. But in the eyes of your neighbors, they won't think that way. If you even betray your relatives, they will only think you are inhumane.

But Luo Cheng can sell 'some' at the same time. Every place selling cement will have 'yellow sand, gravel, cement, waterproof' and other diversified products. When people see you place a pile of sand and gravel in your venue, their first impression is that it is for diversification and for sale.

In terms of wood, there is not enough manpower to deal with it. Moreover, Luo Chengxin has not met many people so far, so he plans to give up decisively. But there is one thing that can be done, and it is very suitable for Luo Cheng to do in the past few years.

Luo Cheng came here mainly to ask about the source of the wood, and whether there would be any restrictions on private purchases.

At the lumber factory, Luo Cheng had no way to directly obtain raw materials or processed wood. If Luo Cheng wants wood, he can organize some people to go directly to the mountains to cut it, and then use the ability to carry things through time to transport the wood away.

And this certificate is a means of excluding those who have nothing to do with it. In this industry, it doesn’t matter, you can’t get this certificate, and you can’t do this even if you have money to invest.

The only people Luo Cheng could use were his two buddies and his family. Even if I am a little prejudiced against my family members, I feel that they have been partial since childhood. But when it comes to people, the most reliable thing is your parents, brothers and sisters.

As for personal home decoration, as long as there is some scattered sand and cement, I basically go to such a store to buy it. It is impossible to buy some sand and go to a place where sand and gravel are salvaged to buy it.

After coming out of the lumber factory, Luo Cheng could be considered as selling something to the lumber factory. Add some vegetables to a basket of eggs. A basket of eggs is very rich for a lumber factory, because they don't have many employees, so on average they can get more than a garment factory. I haven't exchanged anything with the lumber factory now, but when the weather gets cold and I send someone to ask for charcoal or something, they will naturally take care of it.

According to Luo Cheng's temperament, even if he sells sand and gravel, he will not sell it to some construction sites. He doesn't like to owe debts. As long as the construction site can owe money, it will try to owe it as much as possible. This is a business where it is difficult to get money and it is easy to offend people. So Luo Cheng had already thought about it. If he wanted to buy sand and gravel, he would open a cement store and go to the cement factory to buy cement and sell it.

For example, when some communities are undergoing renovations, transportation from outside may not be possible and can only be done by a certain group of people. If you ask outside, you will be kicked away. And those who provide sand, gravel and soil for construction sites are also a group of people like this.

In this way, the cost of Luo Cheng's store may only be the rent plus some pretentious products. For example, the cement that is mainly sold is just for show. If you can sell it, you can make some money. If you can't sell it, it doesn't matter. The real focus is sand and gravel. Agreeing to use price tactics, Luo Cheng felt that it would not be difficult to open up the market.

Luo Cheng didn't expect to build a large sand and gravel factory in the future. In the future, there was a cement seller near where he lived, and they only sold some sand, stones and bricks.

There are many mountains and forests that are not close to each other. It is enough to arrange some people to cut them down. After summarizing them, Luo Cheng can go and harvest them again. But in this era, many people have nothing to do and cannot find a job, but they want to find someone to do private work, unless it is a reliable person. Unreliable, Luo Cheng went to cut down trees secretly, and if he was discovered, there would be problems.

There are no brands of sand and gravel. For this unbranded product, the price strategy is very effective. Of course, sand also comes in different thicknesses, and prices vary slightly. But for sand and gravel of the same quality, Luo Cheng started a price war. No one could beat him in this business without capital.

After coming out of the lumber factory in the afternoon, Luo Cheng took Zhang Hongxiu for a walk in a river in the suburbs. I have already decided in my heart to build a shop selling cement in the future era. The sand and gravel are cheap, but as long as there is enough space, it is easy to bring dozens or hundreds of tons at a time.

And it doesn’t matter if the location is a little off, as long as the venue is suitable. Recruit a salesperson and go to small decoration companies to sell them. The price is cheap. The only thing is that they don't take credit. In fact, most decoration companies are similar to intermediaries, and it is difficult not to take credit, but the price concessions will make some powerful companies compromise. Moreover, sand and gravel generally only account for a small part of home decoration. In a decoration worth hundreds of thousands, the price of sand and gravel used is only a few thousand. It doesn't matter if you don't pay on credit.

Luo Cheng came here to see something along the river, but he actually had another purpose. He couldn't just go to the commune in his town to pick up everything he had in the future. After all, there are only so many nearby counties and township communes. It's okay for Luo Cheng to occasionally pull one or two varieties of vegetables, but in the future it would be too strange to ask the driver to pick up everything there.

If you ask someone to pull eggs or something, it’s normal to keep going there, because there are many communes over there that raise chickens. But you can't pick up tomatoes and eggplants there this month. A few days later, you'll have to call the factory truck to pick up peppers.

After pulling the chili peppers, some red xihong will also appear over there when the weather is hot.

Multi-point supply is something Luo Cheng has been considering. In the future, he even saw netizens talking about getting overseas goods. Luo Cheng also plans to try, but he does not want to try to actually get overseas goods to the future era, but to get the goods to other cities in the future and then transport them to Changcheng.

For long-distance delivery, it was even more difficult in Luo Cheng's era to verify the source of goods.

While looking at the river, Luo Cheng also explored a point close to the road. When Luo Cheng goes to the township commune next time and gets a wild boar and pepper, he plans to change the delivery point to this side of the river.

But Luo Cheng planned to do everything for the show. Even if the location changed, he still needed a few people to come over. Call Er Gouzi and someone over here and have people guard the peppers, and Luo Cheng will bring people over to load the goods. Luo Cheng can't be left alone guarding a pile of chili peppers.

"Hongxiu, go back. First, take care of the things required by the garment factory and lumber factory tomorrow. I will take you to other factories next time."

"Second brother, the road here is so shaky."

"We're already out of the city. Can you stop shaking? Just sit back and hold on tight."

"Oh, I see."

Zhang Hongxiu responded with a blush, but she followed Luo Cheng with her head lowered, and Luo Cheng couldn't see her face.

When they came to the river, Zhang Hongxiu lost control of her body several times and accidentally touched Luo Cheng's back with her head several times. It was all caused by the uneven road and the shaking. As she was going back, she had agreed in advance that the road was shaking so that she wouldn't be so embarrassed if she accidentally bumped into Luo Cheng's back.

The two rode back to the entrance of the West Hutong, and Zhang Hongxiu hurriedly asked to get off. The public toilet here is on the roadside before entering the alley. Some parts of her body were a little numb due to the shock. Then she rode her bicycle into the city. The roads were much better. As soon as the numbness subsided, she started to hold back her urine. When she got here, Hongxiu couldn't help but need to go to the toilet.

Even when going to the toilet, she didn't know why she felt shy and embarrassed.

Luo Cheng drove the car into the yard and saw at a glance that the person standing in front of his house was no longer a child playing with a monkey. Instead, there was a woman standing at the door of the room where he lived, chatting with Zhao Qian who was sitting in front of a sewing machine inside.

Luo Cheng asked Hongxiu to go to the garment factory to learn some sewing skills and teach everyone, but this is a new sewing machine. How could it stop on the first day?

Some people used torn clothes for Zhao Qian to experiment on. They took a small piece of cloth and tried patching it with a sewing machine. If you use this sewing machine skillfully, you can mend it beautifully even in circles. But the problem is that Zhao Qian is not skilled. She is happy to have free shabby clothes for her to practice on, and others are also happy. The thread for mending clothes is all from Luo Cheng's family. Although the thread is not worth much, it saves a little bit.

When the women standing in front of Luo Cheng's house saw Luo Cheng coming back, they all greeted him warmly and then left on their own initiative. But tonight, these women must continue to talk about how good the sewing machine is at home.

"Brother, where is Hong Xiu."

"She went to the toilet to urinate urgently and should be back soon."

"Well, brother, when will you return to town this time? Have you already talked about introducing me to the factory?"

"Don't worry, I will ask tomorrow. In a year or two, I will go to the factory to find a partner for you. Your future life will at least be better than that of eldest sister."

"Brother, I'm going to the kitchen to cook."

"You're still shy. If you're your age and don't get married this year in the village, you'll be called an old girl. In the city, you can still be a year or two later, but if you find someone suitable, you can get married for a year first and wait. Go get married directly when you are eighteen."

When it came to finding a partner for Yanzi, he even ran to the kitchen in embarrassment. But Luo Cheng could also see that Yanzi himself was not opposed to finding a partner. There was no such thing as bullshit love in this era. Women are reserved, but men and women are the same. If they are eager and curious about things, they will be easily attracted to the opposite sex.

Hongxiu soon entered the yard and went directly to the kitchen to help prepare dinner together. After the normal dinner, everyone just chatted for a while. When it got dark outside, it was time to go back to the room to rest.

The night gradually became darker. Luo Cheng and Zhao Qian lay on the bed after washing up. Luo Cheng will stay up until twelve o'clock tonight to bring things from the future era. So I kept looking at my watch. When I knew the time, it was difficult, but I had a goal.

Zhao Qian thought that Luo Cheng couldn't sleep because he was thinking about that. She was pregnant for such a long time, and Luo Cheng couldn't help it for a lot of time, and she knew how to do it. He stretched out his hand towards Luo Cheng.

How could Luo Cheng ask Zhao Qian to help him relax today? He had to endure his sleepiness until twelve o'clock. If his energy leaked out, he would definitely be tired. He might not be able to take the pork head to Dai Tiande's house tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)