Chapter 758: Can this be a win-win situation?
As the convoy left the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Lu Yiming began selling goods.
Although many jarred chili peppers, dried chili peppers and chili powder can be preserved for a long time, there are still a considerable number of fresh chili peppers that cannot be transported for long periods of time and have to be sold locally.
Qiubei County's chili peppers are actually quite famous in the vicinity, but the cost of transporting them is too high due to its remote location, and ordinary people don't have access to them. This is how the India-Germany Association made money.
Now, Lu Yiming and his team brought out the peppers, and Lu Yiming had no intention of making money from this, so with a fair or even preferential price, a lot of these peppers were sold at once.
Afterwards, Lu Yiming and his team flew back to Zhonghai.
Fu Ri University.
The members of the literature club returned, and Wang Hongsheng, who received the news, waited at the door with the school leaders.
After getting off the bus, Lu Yiming smiled and said to Wang Hongsheng, "As many people as go out, as many people as come back. How about that? I said we'll ensure safety."
Seeing that all the people had returned, Wang Hongsheng felt relieved and asked with a smile, "How was it? What did you gain from this trip?"
Lu Yiming said: "The harvest is huge. But this is a business secret and cannot be disclosed to outsiders."
Wang Hongsheng laughed and scolded: "You kid, you are playing dumb with us."
After returning the students to the school, Lu Yiming asked the Minghua Entertainment team to edit the experiences of the past few days into a documentary of more than an hour.
The part where the Indians and Germans stopped the car was played directly from the original film without any cuts.
Everyone rushed to the mountains and the sea, and it looked like a road movie, allowing the people in the already wealthy coastal areas, especially Zhonghai, to see that there were still such poor places in the country without even a decent road. In comparison, Zhonghai was like heaven.
This may be the first poverty alleviation documentary shot by the public.
After the film was edited, Lu Yiming used the resources at his disposal to conduct all-round publicity and reporting of the documentary through television, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, etc., which aroused strong repercussions.
The unsalable local agricultural products and the difficult living conditions of farmers have concerned many people. When they learned that the peppers produced in Qiubei County can be bought on Taobao Mall and Luming Mall to help local farmers solve their difficulties, many people enthusiastically extended a helping hand.
Compared with donating money, this method of purchasing is easier for the donor to accept and makes the recipient feel more dignified.
Subsequently, these chili products were also listed on the poverty alleviation pages of Taobao and Luming Mall.
Baiyun City.
Sun Jiatong has been paying close attention to special reports about Wenshan Qiubei these days.
And as soon as the logistics channels were opened and the peppers were officially put on the shelves, she purchased a whole box with just a click of the mouse.
Three days later, the courier arrived at my door.
Zhu Hanwen had just returned home from a meeting in the teaching group when he was frightened by the red peppers. He is a native of Guangdong Province and likes to eat light or slightly sweet food. Spicy food is like torture to him.
Zhu Hanwen said fearfully: "Wife, if I did something wrong, you can let me kneel on the washboard, there is no need to buy so many peppers..."
For him, if he had to eat chili peppers for every meal, he might as well kneel on a washboard.
Looking at the jar of pickled chili peppers, a bottle of chili powder, and a bag of dried chili peppers on the coffee table, Zhu Hanwen felt that these things could be passed down for at least three generations.
"Why did you buy so many peppers? What do you think I should say to you? You just spend all day buying things online without caring whether you can use them or not..."
Sun Jiatong snorted in dissatisfaction: "Do you have any sympathy? The farmers in the mountains are so pitiful. They have finally grown some peppers and are still bullied by bullies..."
Zhu Hanwen curled his lips and muttered quietly: "I feel much more pitiful than them. They actually want me to eat chili peppers... How much are these chili peppers? Isn't it better for us to donate money directly?"
Sun Jiatong rolled her eyes at him and said, "Look at how timid you are. What's so scary about chili peppers? Don't worry, I won't force you to eat them. I'll keep some for myself, and the rest can be given as gifts. My mom and dad both like spicy food, so they will definitely like it. Besides, haven't you heard that it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish? It's better to buy their agricultural products and increase their enthusiasm for production than to donate money directly. This will also give them more dignity."
When Zhu Hanwen heard that these peppers could be given away as gifts, he felt a lot better.
He felt that as long as he was not allowed to eat it, it didn't matter how it was dealt with, even if it was thrown away.
Sun Jiatong is from southern Hunan and is a real chili girl who is very familiar with chili peppers. She said: "These chili peppers look good and the price is much cheaper than the market price. The key is that they are from the place of origin. I really made a profit this time."
Agricultural products on the two major e-commerce platforms, Taobao and Luming, are not marked up by channel dealers, so the prices are naturally very affordable.
In other words, transportation and logistics nowadays cannot be as developed as in later generations, so only chili powder and dried chili peppers are available on e-commerce channels. There is no way to even think about fresh agricultural products such as fresh chili peppers now, as that is a thing of the 4G network era, and no matter how awesome Lu Yiming is, he can't do it now.
Poverty alleviation is something the country has always been doing, but the country did not have money before, so it could only focus on the most important things and consolidate the international environment first. As for the domestic situation, the people could only suffer a little more.
Where would the dignity of the common people come from without the rise of great powers?
As for what to do after the rise of a great power, we will talk about it when the time comes.
Now that Lu Yiming has stepped forward and started working on poverty alleviation, the authorities have noticed it and immediately praised him highly. Various titles and honors have come pouring in, and heavyweight media have come to interview him, making Lu Yiming and Ni Cong both very popular.
The official also stated that Lu Yiming and Ni Cong would be awarded the honor of being one of the top ten outstanding young people in the country at the corporate level.
This title is still very valuable now. It cannot be obtained just by having money. One must make a certain degree of contribution to society.
Ni Cong was so happy that he went crazy. He never thought in his life that one day he would become an outstanding young entrepreneur.
After receiving the certificate, Ni Cong bought a glass frame to frame the certificate and placed it in the most conspicuous place in the Fan Zhenxiang headquarters.
Lu Yiming said with disdain: "Damn, do you have to be so cocky? I saw this thing when I walked in."
Ni Cong said proudly: "Am I showing off? I am showing off. Do you understand what I mean by showing off? This is the honor of the company, not just mine."
"Okay, then you can take your time and continue to develop new dishes, and strive to make them popular in counties like Jinshi beef noodles and Shaxian snacks. When the Internet is well developed, and you can order food on your mobile phone and have it delivered, then you will be the undisputed industry leader."
Ni Cong thought about the scene that Lu Yiming described for a moment, and suddenly he had an orgasm in his brain. He squinted his eyes slightly, raised his thumb, and said with a long tail tone: "Great~~~~"
Lu Yiming is very clear-headed about these reputations. At this stage, their only function may be to make it easier for Lu Yiming to do things, just like the imperial envoys in ancient times, who act according to orders and officials from all places have to cooperate.
After giving the order to build a chili processing plant and reorganize the pharmaceutical factory, Lu Yiming had a rare moment of free time, so he called Li Yiwen to discuss some new ideas.
When the call was connected, Li Yiwen joked, "Young man, it's not much. You have been honored again, an outstanding young entrepreneur. Wow, what a face."
Lu Yiming said calmly: "It's just a trick of getting something for nothing, not worth mentioning. Let's talk business. I plan to start a private equity fund project."
When Li Yiwen heard that there was a job, his tone suddenly became serious and he asked, "How big is the scale you plan to do?"
Lu Yiming said: "Let's start with 180 billion. If it's not enough, we can talk about it later."
"What the hell?"
Li Yiwen thought he had heard it wrong.
"How dare you ask, 180 billion? That's so much money that even the printing press can't print it all. Are you planning to buy rockets to colonize the moon?"
Lu Yiming explained: "That's not possible. I just want to make mobile phones. After I took down the previous cat phone, I found that I didn't have enough money. I want to achieve full localization of mobile phones. Is 180 billion a lot?"
"Make a mobile phone? Well, I'll think of a way to see if I can get it. This amount of money is really a bit scary."
Lu Yiming thought about it and said with a smile: "How about we try to trick people into getting on the bus?"
Li Yiwen frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean? Let me tell you, you are now an outstanding entrepreneur and the richest man in Asia, so stop thinking about crooked ways."
Lu Yiming said, "Do you think I'm that kind of person? I'm so great and upright. What I mean is, we can let them get on board with the project first, and after they invest the money, it will be too late for them to get off."
Li Yiwen complained: "It's true that all the pandas' bamboo shoots have been taken away... OK, I'll get them."
The next night, Guo Guangchang called Xu Tengyu and invited Lu Yiming to dinner.
After becoming the richest man in Asia, Lu Yiming gradually grew stronger. Through the people around him, he slowly weaved a huge network of personal connections, extending his tentacles to all walks of life, and his influence began to spread across the country.
Now, Lu Yiming can also say that he is the owner of the face fruit. Just relying on his face, many troubles can be solved with just one word.
Just like now, Lu Yiming just came back and before he could even sit down, Guo Guangchang came to "keep in touch" with him.
Guo Guangchang complimented Lu Yiming with envy, saying, "Junior brother, your e-commerce business has really taken off. If I had known earlier, I would have invested some money in it. You have a good vision."
Lu Yiming said modestly: "It's not good or bad, it's just average."
Guo Guangchang didn't beat around the bush and said impatiently, "I just heard from Mr. Li that you are planning to launch a private equity fund. Do you have any big and profitable business? Are you going to do stocks or futures?"
It is already known to the whole world that Lu Yiming, a stock trading genius, fleeces Wall Street by shorting the U.S. stock market.
Now that the Internet cold wave has passed, the U.S. stock market is about to pick up again, so Guo Guangchang was so excited when he heard the news that Lu Yiming was going to do private equity again. He wanted to see if Lu Yiming had another way to make money.
Lu Yiming said with a righteous look on his face: "It's true that I'm a private equity fund recently, but I plan to invest this money in real industry. Although finance makes money quickly, it's too empty and not beneficial to the country. As a person, you have to be down-to-earth and have some pursuits. You can't always get caught up in the money."
Xu Tengyu was very upset and yelled, "Hey, are you talking like a human being? You became the richest man by speculating in stocks, and now you're telling us to be down-to-earth?"
Guo Guangchang also agreed: "That's right, and it's slow to make money in the real economy, and the risks are high."
In China's foreign trade, even the slightest disturbance can lead to people falling into trouble.
Lu Yiming smiled and said: You guys are still too short-sighted. In fact, doing business is also very profitable.
Xu Tengyu asked doubtfully, "Are you sure?"
Lu Yiming said: "I'm going to say this now, believe it or not."
Xu Tengyu could only choose to believe it: "Okay, then you have to tell us what you are going to do, right?"
Lu Yiming took out a picture and said, "I plan to make a mobile phone."
“Oh my god!”
Xu Tengyu looked at Lu Yiming speechlessly: "I have not read much, so don't lie to me. This thing is not something that most people can play with, right?"
Small mobile phones, like big cars, are the epitome of the industry and represent the overall industrial strength of a country. From the production of each component to the final assembly on the assembly line, every link in the production system needs to cooperate perfectly before the finished product can be made and put on the market.
In short, don’t underestimate the size of a mobile phone. Just like a car, you can’t use it without some skills, no matter how rich you are!
When Lu Yiming said he wanted to invest in stocks, based on his past record, everyone would be eager to get involved and would force money into his hands, asking him to help invest.
But what he wants to get now is a mobile phone, which is definitely high-tech. In Xu Tengyu's opinion, it is simply messing with everyone's mentality.
Guo Guangchang was silent for a while, then said: "I will definitely invest this money, but I think many people will back out."
Obviously, Guo Guangchang himself didn't really believe that Lu Yiming could do it, but he was still willing to invest money. After all, they formed an alliance of interests and had such a close relationship. If they lost money on this wave of investment, it would be like paying for their passage. With Lu Yiming's means, wouldn't it be easy for him to make a fortune in the stock market later?
Lu Yiming said blatantly: "It's good to back off, that's what an artist does. Besides, I don't necessarily have to ask people to throw the bait, let's just go ahead and fish."
To see how profitable making mobile phones is, just look at Apple in later generations. The profits are so huge that even bank robbers would want to cry.
Scientific research is very expensive, especially when Lu Yiming wants to make a domestically produced smartphone. It is hard to say how much money it will cost. The semiconductor industry chain involved in mobile phone chips alone is not something he can handle alone.
It is precisely because of this that he needs to form cliques and unite as many people as possible.
Although everyone knows that engaging in industry is risky and that large investments have slow returns, after the news was released, Lu Family Garden still attracted many celebrities and wealthy people.
There is no way. This is Asia's richest man, Lu Yiming. Putting aside other things, even if Lu Yiming fails this time, if we can establish a good relationship with Lu Yiming, won't there be plenty of opportunities to make money in the future?
After several years of precipitation and development, Lu Yiming's network is no longer just a few big cats and small cats as in the early days. It basically gathers elites from all walks of life. The business scope of these people is varied, covering technology and people's livelihood fields such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
These people are either rich themselves or have wealthy families, and they all have some influence in their respective fields.
The Lu Family Garden, with its spacious lawn, is a place where great scholars chat and laugh, and where ordinary people come and go.
Huang Wencai, a second-generation rich man, said to Ding Zhu, also a second-generation rich man: "It's incredible that Mr. Lu is actually raising funds on such a large scale. I don't know what he wants to do. Isn't the Future Fund's money enough for him to burn?"
Ding Zhu said uncertainly: "I heard a rumor that Lu Yiming was planning to make a mobile phone."
Huang Wencai was very skeptical: "Making mobile phones? Mobile phones are high-tech, right? Can we make them?"
Ding Zhu smiled and said, "Who cares? The richest man is backing us up anyway. It's not bad to spend some money to build a good relationship with him. Who knows, we might get a chance to invest in the Yiming Plaza project later."
Although so many people came to the scene to participate in Lu Yiming's fundraising project, in fact, everyone came for the Yiming Plaza project in this public fundraising. As for the richest man's talk of making mobile phones, everyone just listened to it for fun. Now Nokia is in its heyday, far ahead of others, and there are only a few copycat phone manufacturers in China, which can't make a difference at all.
Huang Wencai asked: "How much do you plan to invest?"
Ding Zhu pretended to be modest but actually showed off: "Not much, not much, just 30 million to show my appreciation."
Huang Wencai asked in surprise: "Isn't this enough? What if I lose money?"
Ding Zhu chuckled, "It's better to lose money. Then the richest man will owe us a big favor. When the time comes, we will propose to buy shares in Jingyi Real Estate to make up for the loss. Do you think the richest man will refuse?"
Huang Wencai exclaimed: "Damn, this is even possible?"
Ding Zhu said proudly: "Of course, otherwise who would dare to come if the richest man wants to raise funds again in the future?"
Huang Wencai immediately made a decision: "I originally to come and watch the fun, but now that you mentioned it, it seems I have to invest as well."
Ding Zhu laughed and said, "Come on, there is strength in numbers. When the richest man wants to default on his debt, he will have to ask us if we agree. Hahahaha."
Everyone who comes here is a smart person. They won't come here just for the golden signboard of Mr. Lu, the richest man. In fact, they all have their own interests.
Of course, some people want to follow Lu Yiming's new project, some come for Yiming Plaza, and some come purely to lose money.
When Lu Yiming loses everyone's money, won't he have to use his profitable business to repay the favor?
By then, I will have made money and have a good relationship with Mr. Lu, the richest man in the country. It will be a win-win situation.
