Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

"I've applied. Tell me what I can do then!"

Lin Ruiqing opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know what to say. Yes, even if he applied, he had to write a plan before applying and before he could do anything.

If you go to a fund application without any prior knowledge or understanding of what you want to do, and they ask you to submit a business plan, it will all be for nothing.

Lin Ruiqing grew angrier the more he thought about it. Back when Chen Zailong and Chen Zaixing partnered up to run a supermarket, he thought he was smart to not join them, but in reality, he harbored a naysayer's opinion that they would fail. He was just waiting for them to lose money in the supermarket so he could come out and say something to spite them.

Unexpectedly, it actually succeeded, and now it's becoming more and more prosperous, with more and more branches opening. Not only is there one in Nanshan District, but also in the neighboring Linkou County and Zhaoyang District in the city. They even plan to open one in Shanghai.

As for why he chose to open a store so far away in Shanghai, according to Chen Zaixing, "Just like how I begged those three state-owned television factories in Shanghai back then, they will have to come begging me in the future to get their televisions into my Huaxingsheng Supermarket!"

Moreover, Chen Zaixing has great ambitions. Although he is currently focusing on the real estate sector in the district, he has not let up on the business related to Huaxingsheng Supermarket. He has set a general strategy: to open stores wherever there is wealth.

Chen Zaixing opened Huaxingsheng Supermarkets in every city that could develop during the reform and opening-up period, including cities like Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Tianjin, and Beijing.

The saying goes, "If you stand at the right place at the right time, even a pig can take off." Ma Yuejin, the factory manager of Lianxin Candy Factory in Nanshan District, wholeheartedly agrees with this.

By supplying goods to Huaxingsheng Supermarket, Lianxin Candy Factory successfully turned a profit last year, not only paying the long-overdue wages to its workers in full, but also distributing a lot of extra New Year's goods at the end of the year.

As Huaxingsheng Supermarkets opened more and more, Lianxin Candy Factory, which had signed a priority supply contract with Chen Zaixing, suddenly squeezed out candy factories in other counties. After having several meals with Chen Zaiguang, Ma Yuejin, the factory director of Lianxin Candy Factory, made a bold decision.

After receiving an investment of five million yuan from Guangdong Food Company, Lianxin Candy Factory transferred 30% of its equity to Guangdong Food Company. After receiving this investment, Lianxin Candy Factory accelerated the upgrading of its production equipment and, at Chen Zaiguang's suggestion, increased the dosage of sugar specifically for export.

Now, Lianxin Candy Factory has become the second factory in Nanshan District, after Guangdong Food Company, to earn foreign exchange for Tuocheng. For this reason, Lin Deying, Secretary of the Nanshan District Committee, attached great importance to it and ordered Lianxin Candy Factory to establish a limited liability company, led by the District Government and the District Administration for Industry and Commerce.

The reason why Lianxin Candy Company was able to sell its candy to America is that it uses high-quality ingredients, truly using fresh fruit as raw materials and wrapping the fruit inside with lethal amounts of sugar.

If you ask what's most abundant in southern China, the answer is undoubtedly all kinds of fruits covering the mountains and fields. These days, China doesn't have many "vegetable basket projects" or highways, so fruits are mostly produced and sold locally. Many fruit farmers are so worried when the harvest season arrives that they're practically tearing their hair out.

Just as the fruit farmers were looking at their fruit with worry, thinking it would rot in the fields again, people from Lianxin Company appeared, waved their hands, and bought it all up, loading it onto the truck immediately, with cash payment on the spot!

At their peak, Lianxin Company and Guangdong Food Company even transported various tangerines from Guangxi Province by train for processing. Food factories and canneries in other counties were envious and rushed to their respective county governments, begging Guangdong Food Company to invest in them as well.

Give your brother a hand!

Lin Ruiqing was still sulking by herself when Chen Zaiguang saw his wife like this, so he pulled the blanket up and said, "Go to sleep. Don't think about so much all day. Our current financial situation is already much better than many people's."

"Besides, I, Chen Zaiguang, am just a cook; I don't have any other skills..."

"No," Lin Ruiqing realized after Chen Zaiguang's comment. Who said a chef couldn't run a business? She slapped her husband hard. "You can open your own restaurant!"

"What the heck?"

"I was on Uncle Dong's second floor just now, watching that big color TV in his house. The movie they were showing was about how people in America eat that kind of burger, what's it called again? Oh right, I remember now, a hamburger," Lin Ruiqing said excitedly, slapping Chen Zaiguang's thigh as if she had discovered a huge business opportunity.

"Are you crazy for money, you woman? Why are you slapping my thigh so hard?" Chen Zaiguang's thigh was red from Lin Ruiqing's excited slapping. "What the hell is this hamburger? I've never even seen one before."

Lin Ruiqing ignored the warnings and continued excitedly, "Think about it carefully. Little Chicken Rice once said that the hamburgers at McDonald's in America are just two slices of bread with a piece of meat in between and some lettuce. Think about it."

"Hey, I wouldn't eat that stuff even if you gave it to me. I'm a canteen manager at Xiaochi Company, a level three chef. What kind of business do you expect me to do? People would laugh at me if they heard about it." Chen Zaiguang ignored Lin Ruiqing and went back to sleep.

"Are you an idiot! You won't do business that makes money. So what if you're a level three chef? A level three chef is still just a cook. Do you really want to be a cook for the rest of your life, with Rongrui taking over your ladle-wielding duties? Are you out of your mind?!"

"I'm not doing it anyway. I'm learning how to cook delicacies. If my master finds out I'm making meat sandwiches, he'll scold me to death," Chen Zaiguang refused to agree no matter what.

Although his master is now over sixty and retired, Chen Zaiguang doesn't want to waste the culinary skills he has worked so hard to learn. It would be really foolish of his wife to make him work in these Western fast food restaurants.

Lin Ruiqing was now determined to force her husband, Chen Zaiguang, to get out of this business. She pulled Chen Zaiguang, who was sleeping with his head covered, up, pointed at him, and said, "Let me tell you, if you're still this unambitious, I'll take Rong Rui and the two of us to jump off the Linjiang Bridge tomorrow and die!"

Little Rongrui, who was sleeping on the small bed next to his mother, suddenly sat up when he heard his mother's words. He had been pretending to be asleep. "Mom, do I have to die too?"

"You go to sleep, it's none of your business," Lin Ruiqing was still angry. She glared at her son, and Xiao Rongrui said "oh" and lay down again, but he kept thinking about what his mother had said.

"Are you crazy? How dare you say such a thing? Believe me or not, I'll slap you!" Even though Chen Zaiguang had a good temper, he was still furious when Lin Ruiqing used his son to threaten him.

"Come on, hit me! Hit me in the face! After you're done, I'll show your dad and mom this swollen face tomorrow, and see what you've done!"

"This is utterly absurd! I can't be bothered to talk to you."