I saw everything

Chapter 156: High in and high out (Medium Cup)
The end of March flew by.

Spring has arrived and flowers are blooming all over Lingnan. Especially with the approach of Qingming Festival, the suburbs of Shantou and Meishan are becoming more and more lively, with groups of local people going up the mountain to sweep tombs and worship their ancestors.

However, local areas such as Magong Town, Hongcao Town, and Gongping Town were treating the situation as if they were facing a major enemy. They dispatched two to three times more manpower than in previous years to guard various intersections and also sent out a large number of drones to patrol the mountainous areas.

The reason for such tension is mainly because Hailufeng Company's more than 50,000 acres of durian plantations are in the critical season. If the kapok tree used as the rootstock is burned, it will affect the subsequent grafting and growth.

Farm workers from Hailufeng Company also set up barbed wire fences at the boundaries of each farm, opened up fire-proof barriers, and used rocks previously excavated and blasted to lay a 15-meter-wide pure stone isolation belt.

In addition, a fire-fighting water spray pipe was installed on the barbed wire of these isolation zones.

In addition, with the reservoirs dug and built on each terrace, even if a fire spreads to the vicinity, the fire can be suppressed to a small area.

The reason why Hailufeng Company attaches so much importance to fire prevention is mainly because with the environmental protection in the past decade or so, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and electricity have replaced traditional firewood in rural areas and become the main fuel in rural areas. This has led to more and more lush vegetation in the wild and more and more accumulated dead branches and leaves.

When Jiang Miao was a child, the mountains near Xinxiang had only sparsely growing Masson pines and tenacious weeds and ferns.

Nowadays, many mountains are covered with large-leaf acacia trees and eucalyptus trees. In addition, there is a thick layer of dead branches and leaves accumulated on the ground. In dry weather, a small spark can cause a forest fire.

The weather in Lingnan this year is a bit abnormal.

In previous years, it rained heavily during the Qingming Festival.

This year, however, there has not been a drop of rain since the beginning of February. A typhoon was supposed to form near the Luzon Sea at the end of March, but it ended up heading to Japan.

This has caused the mountainous areas in the Shanmei area to become drier, making them more prone to forest fires.

It also happened to be the Qingming Festival, and many people went up the mountain to sweep tombs and pay homage to their ancestors.

In fact, it is not only the headquarters that attaches great importance to forest fire prevention, but the Gannan branch also attaches great importance to it. After all, as an inland area, they are drier than coastal areas. In addition, the area of ​​oil tea plantations managed by the Gannan branch reaches more than 200,000 acres, and they may be affected by the surrounding forest fires if they are not careful.

Fortunately, the company's employees are relatively cooperative. After all, if the farm was burned down, their performance this year would definitely be ruined.

Jiang Miao was paying homage to his ancestors in a cemetery not far from Magong Town.

This cemetery area is located at the junction of Yandun Mountain and Magong Mountain, opposite the Yancheng Breeding Farm. The cemetery was just completed at the end of last year. It is also a project funded by Hailufeng Company to support the town government.

Of course, this is also for Hailufeng Company itself.

After all, Yandun Mountain, Zhuzai Mountain, Magong Mountain and Jilong Mountain in Magong Town have all been contracted or requisitioned by Hailufeng Company, which will definitely involve the ancestral graves of local villagers.

Therefore, these ancestral tombs must be moved and then centralized.

For this, Hailufeng Company must pay this money.

The cemetery at Magongshan is not small, covering an area of ​​200 acres, and there is also a columbarium under construction.

Although Jiang Miao doesn't believe in supernatural things, it doesn't stop him from pretending to believe in them.

Except for my own ancestral tomb.

His father Jiang Dahai brought roasted pork, roasted whole lamb, roasted whole cow and a large number of gold ingot candles to the west side of the small square of the cemetery where the ownerless remains were temporarily placed. There were more than a hundred pottery jars of various sizes piled up here.

These pottery jars contain ownerless bones.

In the process of developing the surrounding mountains and factories, and widening Shanma Highway, Hailufeng Company discovered a large number of remains during earthwork operations.

Some were dug out from ownerless graves, while others simply had no graves at all. As the people of Hailufeng are relatively superstitious and traditional, they certainly cannot dispose of these remains casually and must relocate them properly.

Jiang Dahai handled this matter on behalf of the Jiang family, including asking a Feng Shui master to choose an auspicious date, hiring someone to collect the remains, building a columbarium to house the remains, and holding annual memorial services. All of this was handled by Jiang Dahai himself.

Perhaps because he was worried that this matter would be bad for Jiang Miao, Lin Shuya and others, Jiang Dahai did not allow him to worship these anonymous people.

Standing halfway up the hill in the cemetery.

Cousin Jiang Yao cut a large piece of roast pork for him: "A Miao, this is your share."

"Thank you." Jiang Miao took the bag.

Uncle Jiang Dahe, who was not far away, came over with his two cousins.

"A Miao, I came back last month and wanted to look for you, but I didn't expect you to go to the north."

"Brother Miao." The two cousins ​​called out somewhat awkwardly.

"Uncle!" Jiang Miao smiled and nodded, then turned to look at his two tall cousins ​​who looked a little immature. "It's A Feng and A Hua! I haven't seen you for a few years, I can hardly recognize you."

When he went to Hong Kong the year before last, the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua did not meet because they were studying at school and Jiang Miao was in a hurry to come and go.

Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua are twins, who are about 19 years old this year. They were born and raised in Hong Kong. In Jiang Miao's impression, they seemed to have only come back three or four times since they were young. Therefore, they are not familiar with Jiang Miao, Jiang Yao and others.

Of course, this is also related to my aunt's words and deeds. My aunt is not fond of the poor relatives from the mainland, and even feels some rejection and contempt for them.

My uncle asked quietly, "A Miao, my tea restaurant wants to buy some goods from you."

"Uncle, you can just look for dealers in Hong Kong." Jiang Miao already understood his uncle's thoughts.

My uncle shook his head: "The dealer's price is too high."

Jiang Miao shook his head and persuaded: "Uncle, if we ship the goods to your restaurant separately, the price won't be much cheaper. After all, the transportation, warehousing and procedures of small batches will increase the cost. Even if I give you the factory price, it won't be much cheaper if you take it to Hong Kong."

"Hey! The cheaper the better." My uncle still wants to get the goods from the source.

Jiang Miao frowned slightly, then said helplessly: "Okay, I will ask the sales department to send you a separate batch of goods at the factory price. You can arrange the transportation and customs clearance yourself!"

"Thank you, A Miao. When you come to Hong Kong next time, I will treat you to a meal." The uncle was overjoyed.

Jiang Miao knew very well what the other party wanted to do. They just wanted to use this relationship to become a middleman.

However, Hailufeng Company did not limit the distributors in each region, so if my uncle wanted to do it, he would not object. After all, the factory price and wholesale price are actually the same thing.

In fact, Jiang Miao was not optimistic about his uncle's approach. After all, those dealers in Hong Kong all had their own channels and fixed customer base. It would be very difficult for his uncle to grab market share from them, unless he intervened or his uncle could develop new customers. Otherwise, it would be okay to make small money, but forget about making big money.

Jiang Miao naturally would not intervene in the affairs of dealers in a small area. This kind of thing was not worth it for him to do. After all, it was too cheap.

At this moment, the heavily made-up young aunt appeared from behind her two sons.

"A Miao! Long time no see. Why don't I see your wife?"

"Aunt." Jiang Miao replied calmly, "Shuya is pregnant, so it's not convenient for her to go up the mountain."

The little aunt's eyes turned slightly: "Oh? Congratulations on becoming a father. I'm an experienced person. Pregnant women can't eat anything casually. My father has a secret recipe that guarantees the birth of a boy..."

"Ahem." The uncle pulled the aunt and said, "Sai Mei, why don't you go and burn some paper?"

"What's the hurry?" The young aunt glared at him, then continued with a smile: "A Miao, I..."

"I appreciate your kindness, aunt, but Shuya is pregnant with a girl." Jiang Miao shook his head slightly.

"This..." The young aunt didn't know how to continue the topic for a moment.

Jiang Miao didn't intend to continue talking nonsense with the other party.

Li Zixuan, who was not far away, also saw Jiang Miao's expression. As someone who had been with Jiang Miao for almost two years, he naturally realized that his boss was getting a little impatient, so he trotted over to help.

"Boss, there is something at the company that needs you to go back and take care of it."

"Oh? I'll be right back." Jiang Miao turned around and said with a smile, "Uncle and aunt, A Feng and A Hua, I have something urgent to deal with at the company, so I'll excuse myself first."

Looking at Jiang Miao's back as he left.

The young aunt muttered in a low voice: "What a boast! He even perfunctorily pays homage to his ancestors."

The uncle was a little angry and scolded in a low voice: "Sai Mei, stop talking."

"Humph."

And came to the roadside at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Miao got into the pickup truck and headed straight to the company headquarters.

In fact, he had already seen part of his aunt's thoughts. After all, her brain waves were so intense that they looked like a blatant crime under the identification panel.

After all, if someone shows kindness without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. It was probably her who instigated my uncle to purchase products from Hailufeng Company.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she has frequently returned to the mainland, and has been trying to keep in touch with Sister Jiang Miao and her mother every now and then. One can easily guess what her purpose is.

It's all for the sake of profit.

Judging from the awkward expressions of the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua today, it is highly likely that she wants to arrange for her two sons to work at Hailufeng Company. After all, the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua are already 19 years old this year and will graduate from university next year.

Jiang Miao naturally would not allow such a thing to happen. After all, judging from his aunt's situation, he would definitely look down upon grassroots clerks and would want to start as a middle-level employee.

It's not like Hailufeng Company is just in its start-up phase. At that time, fresh graduates were promoted to department heads due to pressure. Now in the company's personnel arrangements, fresh graduates have to start as grassroots employees.

Unless they have a really good foundation, such as a doctorate degree, very good scientific research ability and results, these fresh graduates have the possibility to start from the middle level.

As far as he knew, the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua were both undergraduate students at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, majoring in business administration.

Anyone who knows about business administration in a private university will understand.

Moreover, the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua only speak half-baked Mandarin and English. If they want to communicate smoothly, they can only use Cantonese and English. Hailufeng Company is really not lucky enough to have such talents.

It's not so bad here at the headquarters. Except for the locals in Magong Town who can speak Cantonese, others mostly speak Lao dialect and Hakka, but Mandarin and a small part of Cantonese can be understood.

If it is a branch, the three branches do not use Cantonese and English as daily languages.

What's more, if Jiang Miao arranges the brothers Jiang Feng and Jiang Hua to be middle-level managers for someone like his aunt who has a strong desire to control and has a lot of ulterior motives, the other party will most likely ask his two sons to find a way to bring in her aunts and cousins ​​from her mother's side.

Jiang Miao knew this very well.

Because of my uncle's tea restaurant and roast meat shop, my aunt arranged many relatives from her mother's side to work there.

If my uncle hadn't held the purchasing power himself, the tea restaurant and the roast meat shop might have been ruined by this woman.

Jiang Miao has always kept his distance from such weird relatives. After all, these people's idea is not to help you manage the company, but to take advantage of the rich. It's okay if they want to be the boss in the company, but I'm afraid they will do things like enriching themselves and eating at the same time. At the same time, they like to use moral kidnapping, and always say things like it's for your own good and outsiders can't believe it.

Jiang Miao certainly knew that outsiders could not be trusted, but not many of his relatives could be trusted either.

Moreover, it is easier to deal with outsider employees, as you can directly use harsh measures to intimidate them or even send them to jail for tea. However, it is difficult to deal with relative employees. Many of them will rely on their relative status to embezzle and take kickbacks more unscrupulously.

Currently, in the management of Hailufeng Company, there are only two relatives, my brother-in-law and my sister. The other relatives are not in the middle or upper levels of the company. Only a small number of distant relatives from Xinxiang work at the grassroots level of the company, such as security guards, farm workers, drivers, etc. These are all unimportant positions.

Before we knew it, the pickup truck returned to the temporary headquarters of the Nanhu Experimental Zone.

As it is the Qingming Festival these days, the company has closed down in batches, and the experimental area seems a bit deserted.

As soon as Jiang Miao got off the car, he saw Ye Meijing coming down from the second floor.

"Boss! I wanted to report to you at noon."

"I have to come back for something urgent. Are you free now? If you are free, come to my office and tell me about the financial situation last month."

"available."

In the chairman's office on the third floor.

Li Zixuan made tea for them.

"Boss, our expenses this month are a bit high."

Jiang Miao is looking through the financial report.

Ye Meijing glanced at the memo from time to time and continued, "The company's revenue in March was 21 billion yuan. In addition to the old business with relatively stable revenue, the new revenue was mainly reflected in feed and fish products, and there were also patent fees."

Jiang Miao, who was reading the financial report, was looking at the revenue of each major business in March.

Eel fry: 4.32 million yuan.

White truffle: 3.42 million yuan.

Fish and meat products: 6.34 million yuan.

Fish oil: 317 million yuan.

Fruit: 825 million yuan.

Physical stores: 1408 million yuan.

Dairy products: 3671 million yuan.

Patent fees: 3.84 million yuan for the patent of Egyptian catfish fish meal (paid by Haida Group in the first quarter), 1.48 million yuan for the patented fish meat of Egyptian catfish without earthy smell (paid by Cathay Food Factory in March).

Monthly total revenue was 20.0261 billion yuan.

"In terms of expenditure, in addition to the company's fixed cost expenditure of 4.7 million, in March, new procurement expenditures increased by 4.3 million, investment expenditures by 2.8 million, and engineering expenditures by 1.7 million, totaling 13.5 billion yuan."

The exact figure for total expenditure is $13.5763 million.

In other words, even though Hailufeng Company has made huge investments in recent months, the company still made a profit of 6.4 million yuan in March.

Of course, the main reason why such a high gross profit can be generated is because of the 5.3 million yuan in patent fees.

As the Egyptian catfish meal industry of other domestic feed manufacturers enters the production period, it is estimated that the related patent fees in the second quarter will reach a new high.

However, the patent fee from Cathay Food Factory has almost reached its limit, because the production line of Cathay Food Factory has been fully utilized. Together with the fish products of Hailufeng Company, the two companies produce 8 to 10 tons of fish balls, fish fillets, fish cakes, fish sausages, and canned fish every month. The domestic market is already close to saturation.

Fortunately, the expenditures in March were not normal fixed expenditures. For example, the purchase of agricultural machinery, engineering equipment, and engineering construction were all one-time investments. Expenditures in this area will drop significantly in the next month.

Of course, this is just a decline and does not mean that investment expenditure will be reduced too much.

For example, the financial budget report that Jiang Miao is looking at at this moment.

Hero Dairy has applied to its parent company to purchase 10 first-time dairy cows before the end of this year, with an estimated purchase cost of 10 billion yuan.

At the same time, Yingxiong Dairy applied for 10 billion yuan to invest in the construction of modern farms, dairy processing plants and other supporting facilities.

The total budget requested is 20 billion yuan. Even if it is allocated to each month, it is about 2.3 million yuan, which is a considerable expense.

Another department that applied for a larger budget was the Gannan Branch. They applied to purchase small-scale tea oil fruit harvesters that had already been developed. A total of 500 units were to be purchased at 2.8 yuan each, for a total of 1400 million yuan.

Together with other agricultural machinery and supporting equipment needed by the Gannan Branch, the total funding required is 5700 million yuan.

Jiang Miao asked Li Zixuan to bring the detailed documents of these departments' funding applications. He carefully reviewed them for more than two hours before completing the preliminary review of these budget applications.

Although the expenditure is huge, it is necessary for Hailufeng Company.

The financial pressure is not too great. After all, the core businesses of Hailufeng Company have strong earning power, and together with the patent fees, they can support various investments.

Even though Jiang Miao spends money like water, the company currently has a surplus of nearly 19 billion yuan on its books.

Moreover, after Jiang Miao paid personal income tax last year, he transferred as much as 12 billion yuan into his personal account. Currently, he has 15.7 billion yuan in deposits in his personal account.

This does not include the overseas bearer accounts he secretly controls, which also contain nearly 8600 million US dollars.

So he approved the budget requests of various departments, subsidiaries and branches with a stroke of his pen.

Even if the company does not spend any money, it still needs to pay taxes on these profits. Although Hailufeng Company has obtained national tax exemptions and reductions, this does not mean that it does not have to pay taxes at all. Some taxes must be paid.

Currently, Hailufeng Company has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise in a specific industry. Starting this year, it will enjoy a 50% reduction or exemption on all tax types nationwide, and local governments can also provide secondary reductions or exemptions based on local policies.

Taking Hailufeng Company in Shanmei as an example, after various accumulated reductions and exemptions, this year's tax is approximately 11.3% of gross profit.

In southern Jiangxi, the gross profit margin is 8.9%; in Qiongzhou and Mo Nan, the gross profit margin is 17.8%.

Although the tax relief was very substantial, Jiang Miao still decided to spend more money and expand investment in various projects.

After all, Hailufeng Company's profits will soon usher in a second explosive growth.

Whether it is the initial production of pandan strawberry powder, the soaring patent fees, or the harvest of soybeans in Mo Nan in October, the company's various revenues will continue to increase.

With such good finances, if they don’t spend money like crazy, are they saving so much money for laying eggs?
(End of this chapter)