Chapter 26: The Opportunity Is Yours!
Jiang Tao and Xiao Liu, the three of them, weren’t as close as they were with Wang Lianming.
But they were still good friends, and they would occasionally get together for a meal or something.
You treat me this time, I’ll treat you next time.
We’ll take turns, and no one will say they’re losing out or gaining an advantage.
After greeting the few people into the house, they all chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere was very lively.
After a few rounds of drinks, Jiang Tao felt the time was about right, and then he said:
“A friend of mine who does fruit wholesale said that satsuma mandarins will see a super market trend in the next few days.
My friend has always had a keen eye for market judgment; he’s already a millionaire tycoon at such a young age.
He told me this this time because he saw that I’ve had a tough year, and he feels sorry for me.
I have a lot of confidence in my friend’s analysis and plan to get involved. Do you guys want to join?”
“Huh? Satsuma mandarins are going to see a super market trend?”
“For the past half month, we’ve been selling satsuma mandarins every day, and we haven’t heard any rumors about it.”
“Brother Jiang, is this market trend reliable?”
Xiao Liu and the other two had a hint of doubt on their faces after hearing Jiang Tao’s words.
It wasn’t that they were being suspicious.
The main reason was that the three of them, who were fruit vendors and sold satsuma mandarins every day, hadn’t heard any news about it.
Jiang Tao, an outsider, was now saying that he had learned about the market trend for satsuma mandarins.
Wasn’t this a complete reversal of the natural order!
“If it weren’t reliable, I wouldn’t have called everyone over. I finally stumbled upon such a market trend, so of course I want to make money together with everyone.”
Jiang Tao didn’t waste more words with Xiao Liu and the others. Talking a thousand words or ten thousand words was not as convincing as taking some practical action.
“Whether you believe it or not, I plan to invest about 250,000 yuan this time and will go to the wholesale fruit market to stock up tomorrow.”
“If you don’t want to do it, you can help me sell the oranges then, and I’ll pay you a salary, which will definitely not be less than what you earn now.”
Jiang Tao’s words stunned Liu Zhiyuan and the other two.
“Investing 250,000 yuan to buy satsuma mandarins? Brother Jiang, are you serious?”
Liu Zhiyuan widened his small eyes, his face full of surprise.
250,000 yuan was not a small sum for the men present, who were all Beijing Drifters from rural areas.
Daring to take out so much money at once to invest in a project required immense courage!
“Yes, Lunar New Year is coming soon. Let’s do one last big push. If we make money, we can go home happily for the New Year!”
Jiang Tao’s expression was calm and composed. The people present saw his confidence in his smile.
However, they all had their doubts.
If this investment failed…
They probably wouldn’t be able to celebrate the New Year!
Investing and doing business isn’t something you decide on a whim.
After Jiang Tao clarified his firm stance, he didn’t try to persuade Liu Zhiyuan and the others and started inviting them to eat and drink.
Whether to do it or not was up to them to decide.
Anyway, the opportunity was presented to them; it was up to them whether they could seize it.
Jiang Tao gave them the entire night to consider and asked them to give him a definite answer tomorrow morning.
The dinner party lasted from past 7 PM until past 9 PM.
After Liu Zhiyuan and the others were full, they went downstairs together.
Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei went straight home.
Zhang Chao, after taking several turns in the urban village, was about to reach his doorstep when he turned into another alley and entered a foot massage parlor.
After seeing Xiao Liu and the others off, Jiang Tao had a video call with Xu Li for a while longer.
Today, his mother-in-law bought Jiang Xue a red dress to wear for Lunar New Year, and the little girl specially changed into it to show Jiang Tao.
Jiang Xue inherited her mother Xu Li’s tall and slender figure. She was a little glutton but never gained weight.
Her features resembled Jiang Tao’s: big eyes, a high nose bridge, and an oval face, making her a perfect little beauty.
Dressed in a beautiful dress, she looked like a little princess from a fairy tale!
“It’s probably impossible to find another girl as beautiful as my daughter in the entire universe~”
Jiang Tao was never stingy with his praise for his daughter; he could say anything to compliment her.
Jiang Xue chuckled and said, “It’s because Daddy is also the most handsome dad in the universe, so he could have a beautiful daughter like me~”
“Hey Jiang Xue, I’m the one who gave birth to you.”
“Daddy also made a great contribution!”
“Who taught you all this!”
The family of three chatted and laughed until past 10 PM before ending the video call.
After a simple wash-up, Jiang Tao was still thinking about the intelligence refresh at midnight and couldn’t sleep.
So, he opened the intelligence related to satsuma mandarins from today and reread it word for word.
【Today’s Intelligence】: You reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate with Yu Dongdong yesterday, and obtained relevant intelligence—
Due to meteorological reasons, satsuma mandarins will experience a price surge in three days.
The increase will exceed 100% and last for a week; stocking up appropriately is advisable.
……
The intelligence refreshed this time was different from previous ones about certain locations having certain items.
It was about the future price trend of a certain product.
Furthermore, the intelligence also mentioned the start and end times of this market trend.
With such detailed intelligence directly in front of him.
If he couldn’t handle this operation well, he would be like Teacher Xiao Yan said, fit to go home and be a pig.
“Calculating based on a principal of 250,000 yuan, the wholesale price of a large satsuma mandarin weighing 10 jin is 35 yuan.”
“250,000 yuan can buy about 7,000 pieces.”
“The current market price is 5 yuan per jin. A 100% increase means 10 yuan per jin, and each piece will sell for 100 yuan then.”
“7,000 pieces is 700,000 yuan!”
“Subtracting the cost of 250,000 yuan, there will be 450,000 yuan in net profit!”
“Damn, that much!”
Seeing the result calculated on his phone’s calculator, Jiang Tao was startled.
He hadn’t calculated it carefully before; only now did he realize how profitable this satsuma mandarin project was!
This market trend would last for at most a week, and Jiang Tao also planned to finish the operation within a week.
Even after giving Xiao Liu and the others some share, some hardship fee, he himself could guarantee a profit of at least 350,000 yuan!
And that was the net profit after deducting the initial principal of 250,000 yuan!
“We need to find a place to store 7,000 pieces of satsuma mandarins!”
“The outdoor temperature is just right now, so we don’t need to rent a cold storage. We can find a courtyard house in the urban village.”
“The rent for a courtyard house in the urban village is at most around 2,000 yuan a month, which is more suitable than renting a warehouse.”
After calculating the profit from this market trend, Jiang Tao started thinking about a place to store the goods and future sales.
The first step for the satsuma mandarin project was to enter the market at the right time and get as much inventory as possible.
The most crucial step was to sell the low-priced goods obtained at a high price to cash out!
Jiang Tao took out a ledger notebook and a carbon pen from the drawer.
He wrote down whatever came to his mind.
A good memory is not as good as diligent writing.
Many ideas that flashed through his mind would be forgotten if not recorded promptly.
After writing and drawing in the notebook for over an hour.
Soon, it was midnight, and a new day had begun.
