Chapter 44 Chapter 43 Can I buy this factory?

My younger brother has already moved to live with Xiaoyu, so I live alone in his former rented house. After get off work, I would either go to my younger brother and Xiaoyu's for dinner, or ask Maomei to drink and play cards together.A little bit boring, but also a little bit happy. This afternoon, Zhao Jun called me and asked me to have dinner. In recent months, through our efforts, we have helped Zhao Jun sell some bridges and accumulated many clients, most of whom are construction companies.These companies will likely be my long-term customers in the future, so I always ask Zhao Jun to strengthen quality management.I'm afraid of losing customers because of quality problems.

But Zhao Jun's business is not very good.As the price of steel has been skyrocketing, but the unit price of the bridge frame has not risen, Zhao Jun's factory has not made much money. He asked me if I would be interested in contracting his factory.Give him 20,000 yuan every month, and the rest will be my profit.The contract period is three years, and the factory will belong to me after three years. To put it bluntly, it is to sell the factory to me in installments. I am a little moved. I know the equipment in Zhao Jun's factory, they are all old equipment bought in the second-hand market.A bending machine, a shearing machine, a punching machine, and then small equipment such as welding machines.

The price of all the equipment is worth at most 300,000 yuan, plus the steel products he has in stock for more than 200,000 yuan, and the entire factory is worth more than 500,000 yuan at most.But he sold it to me by installment payment, but it cost 720,000 yuan. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are shrewd in doing business. I asked Zhao Jun: "What if I make a loss and can't pay you the money on time? I don't have any assets. Even if you win me in the lawsuit, I won't be able to pay you." Zhao Jun said: "If you fail to pay me the money on time for three consecutive months, I will immediately take back the factory. At the same time, you have to pay me the money that should be paid."

I joked, "If I sold the factory equipment and ran away with the money, who would you turn to?" Zhao Jun smiled and said: "I still have confidence in you in this regard. You may not be able to pay after you make a loss, but you will definitely not run away." I also laughed and said: "Zhao Jun, you give me a week to think about it, but you are not allowed to sell it to others within this week." Zhao Jun said: "It's a deal, I'll wait for your news." In the past few days, I have been thinking over and over again about the bridge factory. First of all, I have to think about the chances of losing money after I take it.

Because of the price increase of steel, Zhao Jun's factory has basically no profit now.If I take over and the number of customers does not change, then I will have a net loss of at least 20,000 yuan per month.Because I have to give Zhao Jun the 20,000 yuan he collects every month. In other words, I will definitely lose money if I take over.If you want not to lose money, you must meet two conditions: one is that the price of steel products has fallen; the other is to expand new customers. I am not sure about the price trend of steel products, but I am still a little confident in the expansion of new customers, but this cannot be done in three or two days.

Therefore, although I am very tempted by the bridge factory sold by Zhao Jun, from the perspective of profit, I have to give up. However, I really want to take over Zhao Jun's factory.According to the agreement between Zhao Jun and I, I only need to invest tens of thousands of yuan in working capital in the early stage to own a factory worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is quite tempting for me. I want to gamble.One is to bet that steel prices will fall in the short term.The price of steel is more than double what it was two months ago, which is not normal.If the price of steel can be reduced by 1/3, according to the current number of customers Zhao Jun has, there should be a monthly surplus of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.The second is to bet that I can expand the sales of bridges within half a year.I think even if the price of steel does not drop, as long as the sales increase, there will still be profits.Because sales have increased, but the factory's management costs have not increased much, so profits have come out.

If I can't bet on these two things, I'm basically dead. The former depends on luck, and the latter depends on oneself.Regardless of luck, the only thing I can control is myself. It's a big deal, I'm not sure, so yesterday I wanted to call Maomei and ask her opinion. Maomei's phone call came first, saying she wanted to treat me to dinner. I said, "Get rich? So generous." Mao Mei said, "When have I ever been mean to you? I almost regard you as my ancestor." This sounded good, but it also made me think a lot. Recently, Maomei has always said things that I can't understand, both openly and secretly, as if hinting at something.

What does it imply?Implying that she has a crush on me? Every time I think about it, I feel like I'm being selfish.Mao Mei is not worthy of ordinary people. At the appointed place, Maomei had already ordered food and ordered a bottle of red wine. I said, "Anything good to celebrate?" Mao Mei pursed her lips and smiled, motioning for me to sit down. Maomei clinked glasses with me, took a sip of the wine, and looked out the window, seeming a little restless. Originally, I wanted to discuss with her about my taking over the Zhao Jun Bridge Factory, but seeing that she was not in good condition, I restrained myself from saying anything.

Maomei suddenly asked me: "Are you really stupid or fake stupid?" I froze for a moment, but didn't come back to my senses. I asked, "Which area are you referring to?" Mao Mei shook her head and asked me, "Will you divorce Zhou Yuan?" I said, "She wants to leave, but I don't want to. I'm trying to win her clemency." Mao Mei said, "Is that why you hate her so much?" I said, "What do you mean? Didn't you say that Zhou Yuan is a good woman, and you want me to cherish it?" Maomei said, "That was before, but now I have changed my mind."

I said, "I've changed my mind too. I really didn't want to cherish it before, but now I do." Mao Mei choked for a moment, paused, and suddenly said, "You get a divorce, I'll tell you." I almost choked to death on a sip of wine. I pretended to be relaxed and said, "Maomai, let me tell you seriously, you are a third party intervening and destroying other people's family happiness, do you know that?" Mao Mei taunted me: "Are you happy? If you are happy, why are you homeless and sitting here drinking with me?" I said, "Isn't this the darkness before the dawn? Before a happy life comes, there is always a little labor pain."

Mao Mei suddenly roared: "Don't you fucking pretend to be mean to me! I have thought clearly during this time, we are the most suitable, no matter where we put it." I looked at her steadily, sure she was not joking. I poured a little wine into the glass, picked it up and took a sip.The mellow wine starts from the tip of the tongue and slowly slides to the throat. In all fairness, Maomei is wise, sees things thoroughly, and does things neatly. Moreover, I met Maomei when I was in the most difficult time. She did not dislike me and was still willing to associate with me.If I can live with such a woman, it will be of great help to my business and life. As a man, it is an honor to have a woman like Maomei favored.However, I really do not have any mental preparations to bear such a sudden happiness, I have to calm down. Mao Mei is excellent, but Zhou Yuan and I have not yet divorced.Besides, I don't want a divorce either. I want a complete home, but also an original home.My wife is my original spouse, and my son is my wife's own. This is the home I want. Once, I didn't cherish my married life with Zhou Yuan very much.I always feel that Zhou Yuan lacks dedication to our married life and only has eyes for herself.But since I received Zhou Yuan's text message that time, I found that I was wrong, and Zhou Yuan was also silently enduring my difficulties.She didn't expose me when she knew that I was fooling around all day, she still saved my face, and she was still willing to live with me.This spirit is great.How can I abandon such a woman?What right do I have to abandon such a woman? For a full ten minutes, we didn't speak, we were all waiting for the other party to speak. Finally, I said with difficulty: "Maomai, listen to me, you know, I'm actually not good enough for you, I'm very stressed." Mao Mei said, "I knew you would say that. I just want you to say something, are you willing or not?" I felt an invisible pressure hit me.I definitely can't say no. As a woman, Maomei can take the initiative to confess her concerns to me. If I say no, it will definitely hurt her self-esteem.But I can't say yes, after all, Zhou Yuan and I haven't divorced yet.Even if I divorced Zhou Yuan, would I really want to be with Maomei?I really never thought about this question. I said, "Maomai, can you give me a little time? This, I think, is a little sudden." Maomei smiled wryly and said, "It seems that I was being abrupt." I said, "No, it's me. I have to solve my problem, right? Well, or give me a little time." I can't remember how I broke up with Maomei, I just feel a little dizzy, more depressed. I went back to the rented room, lying on the bed unable to sleep, the shadows of Zhou Yuan and Mao Mei appeared alternately in my mind.In the end, Zhou Yuan's shadow completely overwhelmed Mao Mei and was fixed in my mind. I put on my clothes and got up, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a letter to Zhou Yuan. This is the first time I write to Zhou Yuan, I want to ask for her understanding, I don't want to lose her. In the letter, I recalled all the details of our previous relationship, confessed my past mistakes, and deeply analyzed my inner confusion and depression.I told her that the world was changing, and so was I, but my loyalty to her remained the same. I sent this letter by express mail this morning. I don't know what kind of results Zhou Yuan will bring to me after receiving this letter, but at least, I conveyed my attitude to her. I had to put aside my emotional affairs and turn my energy to the matter with Zhao Jun, because it was related to my plan to develop quickly. After a few days of thinking, I decided to take a gamble and buy Zhao Jun's bridge factory in the form of installment payment. When I told my younger brother the result of my consideration, I was strongly opposed by him.His reason is very simple: "The business of the store is still good now, as long as we don't bother and take good care of our customers, it is not a problem to earn hundreds of thousands a year. If the bridge factory loses money, we have to go back to the past .” I said to my brother: "Business cannot be maintained. We are on the defensive, but others are developing and expanding customers. If this is the case, our business will face the danger of being eroded sooner or later. So we have to find a way and implement several measures. If it succeeds, our ability to resist risks will be enhanced.” My younger brother refused to do it. He even said that if I insisted on going my own way and set up some kind of bridge factory, he would separate the family from me. I patiently worked for my younger brother, hoping to get his support.But the younger brother has one opinion anyway: don’t do it. I turned to work for Xiaoyu, but Xiaoyu was silent. Seeing that my younger brother didn't support it, I also committed a barbaric act and said, "I've made a decision, and we must do it. If you want to separate the family, then divide it!" Seeing my firm attitude, my younger brother had no choice but to compromise, but proposed that he wanted to buy a house first.One is for him to marry Xiaoyu, and it also means leaving a way out.I was afraid that I would lose the money, and I would have a house left in the end. I said, "That's no problem. We have to buy a house sooner or later. It doesn't matter if we buy it while we have some money in our account." My younger brother had already taken a fancy to a two-bedroom second-hand house. Seeing that I agreed with him to buy the house, he took out the money and paid the house payment today.In this way, there are only about one hundred thousand yuan in the account.Store turnover requires hundreds of thousands of funds, and there are some receivables outside.In fact, my younger brother only gave me 50,000 yuan for the funds I bought for the Zhaojun Bridge Factory. The younger brother said: "Didn't you pay in installments? If you invest more money, what is the difference between buying it in full?" I laughed wordlessly.The younger brother didn't care about money, but he was afraid of being poor and afraid of losing his hard-earned money.