Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

After abandoning the strategy of targeting large companies and focusing on selling shiitake mushrooms to individual vendors at the trading center, Yang Lin's subsequent actions became much smoother.

Compared to companies, sole proprietorships are basically run by individuals or families.

They also hire employees and acquire assets.

The difference is that sole proprietorships have unlimited liability.

The operator's personal and even family assets are held liable for his business activities without limitation.

The company is a limited liability company, and its shareholders bear limited liability only to the extent of their investment.

For example, if someone uses 100,000 yuan to do business, but an accident occurs and they lose 1 million yuan.

If the business is run by a sole proprietorship, the individual will bear unlimited liability and will be required to fully compensate for the one million.

However, if the investment of 100,000 was made in the name of a limited liability company, the investor only needs to compensate the maximum amount of 100,000.

The remaining 900,000 yuan in debt is often left unresolved after the company declares bankruptcy.

Therefore, in a sense, self-employed individuals are often more concerned about their businesses than those who run companies.

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Seeing that Yang Lin agreed, the other merchants who had already reached an agreement with Yang Lin to acquire the goods also introduced their friends who had opened shops in the Junma Wholesale Market.

As sole proprietors, their strength and scale cannot compare with those of established companies.

The mushrooms are mainly sourced from purchasing them in rural areas or from wholesalers in counties and townships.

Supply is not very stable; there are periods of high demand and periods of low demand.

They will not easily let go of any opportunity to receive goods.

Upon hearing that Yang Lin had a large-scale planting area and had not yet signed contracts with other companies.

The vendors introduced to Yang Lin from the Junma Wholesale Market were generally willing to source their goods from him.

Yang Lin has placed a certain number of orders.

"Alright, alright, there are already quite a few people. If there are any more, I might not have any mushrooms left to give you."

After estimating that the number of vendors was enough to consume all of his mushrooms, Yang Lin stopped looking for new vendors.

A group was created on a messaging app, and all interested merchants were added to the group chat.

"We're all legitimate business people, so I won't discriminate. We'll discuss pricing, harvest times, and prices for different grades of shiitake mushrooms in the group chat and come up with a plan that everyone can accept..."

The same batch of shiitake mushrooms can fetch different prices from different buyers due to negotiation issues, bargaining skills, or other transaction details.

Although the shiitake mushroom market is nearing maturity, the fluctuations will not be significant, only a few cents up or down.

However, Yang Lin didn't have the silver tongue to negotiate prices with each of the shrewd merchants.

They also didn't want to see the same batch of goods sold to vendor A for five yuan and to vendor B for four yuan and eighty cents, causing him unnecessary trouble and entanglement.

Sure enough, the vendors argued fiercely in the group over a price difference of just two or three cents.

Finally, Yang Lin made a concession, lowering his offer by two cents compared to the first bid from the middle-aged couple.

Premium grade shiitake mushrooms are priced at 7.8 yuan per kilogram at the farm gate, first grade shiitake mushrooms at 4.8 yuan per kilogram, and second grade shiitake mushrooms at 3.3 yuan per kilogram.

This price is slightly lower than the recent purchase price of shiitake mushrooms.

Of course, as a condition of the price reduction, the vendors had to send their own people to collect the goods.

Yanglin does not offer delivery service.

Everyone in the group agreed without further objection.

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After agreeing on prices with the vendors and having a brief meeting, Yang Lin had achieved his goal for this trip.

The village chief and the village party secretary called him again, saying that the town mayor and people from the county poverty alleviation office had visited his forest farm today.

They are very interested in his understory economy model and are prepared to provide some policy support.

Ask him when he can return to the village.

"Soon, we'll be back by this afternoon."

After responding to the village chief over the phone, Yang Lin quickly bought a train ticket and returned to Wuyou County, arriving at Qingshan Village.

The round trip took Yang Lin two days.

The shiitake mushrooms in the forest have grown taller and larger.

At this rate, his batch of mushrooms will be ready for harvest in just three more days.

The village chief, the village party secretary, and several village-based cadres all came to Yang Lin.

"Xiaolin, how do you grow those mushrooms?"

"They grew so densely everywhere that the town mayor and Director Wang from the poverty alleviation office were both taken aback. They said they were going to make you our rural leader in getting rich..."

Upon meeting Yang Lin, the village chief and the Party secretary excitedly praised Yang Lin's forest farm.

Several newly arrived village cadres also considered nominating him as a leader in getting rich.

"Um... Village Chief, I'm just a mushroom grower. What does 'leading the way to get rich' mean?" Yang Lin asked, somewhat confused.

"It doesn't mean anything else, it's just a title..." a village cadre from the Agriculture Bureau immediately explained.

Utopia County is a national-level poverty-stricken county, and poverty alleviation has always been an important task for the county.

"Rural leaders in getting rich" is a title that has gradually become popular since the start of poverty alleviation campaigns.

This mainly refers to those who play an important role in helping farmers increase their income and boosting the rural economy.

He can be a person, such as a large-scale farmer or livestock breeder in a rural area.

It doesn't have to be a person, such as a cooperative or a leading local enterprise.

This morning, Director Wang from the Poverty Alleviation Office gave the forest farm a very high evaluation after inspecting it.

They believe that Yang Lin's forest farm can fully drive the economic development of the entire Qingshan Village and even Hongyan Town.

He is fully qualified to be a leader in helping people get rich.

With this title, Yang Lin's name and his economic model of cultivating fungi under the forest will be reported in the official media of Wuyou County.

To increase the visibility of his forest farm.

Furthermore, if Yang Lin is able to hire some impoverished households as employees of the forest farm, the government will provide certain policy support.

If Yang Lin can lead the village to develop the under-forest economy and expand the scale of under-forest shiitake mushroom cultivation.

The government will also look for more sales channels for the shiitake mushrooms produced in Qingshan Village.

During the poverty alleviation campaign, the counterpart provinces that Nanzhao Province was paired with for assistance were Liang Province and Shanghai.

If the quality and yield of the forest-grown mushrooms in Qingshan Village are acceptable, the government will contact the supporting enterprises in Guangdong Province and Shanghai.

"Understood. In the future, when hiring employees, I will try my best to hire people from impoverished families first, but let me make it clear first, I will not hire people who are lazy and unwilling to work." Yang Lin quickly agreed.

A false reputation has its own purpose.

The empty title of being a leader in getting rich can bring him a certain influence, even though he is currently unknown.

In a sense, this also means that he has gained official recognition, which adds some fame to his forest farm.

To attract more buyers.

Using this as a starting point will make it much easier to open up the huge consumer markets of Guangdong and Shanghai in the future.