Chapter 1589 Nothing is easy

This is a bit different from the situation I was asked when I went to the Ministry of Agriculture for consultation! Xun Pengcheng couldn't help but feel a little cheated. No wonder when he went to consult, the people from the brokerage company just blindly suggested that he go to Danzhou to work locally.

After conducting an on-site inspection to make a choice, he was vague about the basic costs required to start a plantation in Danzhou. He only said that land prices would differ in different regions, but did not come up with a specific quotation.

The land price that Xun Pengcheng learned from the Plantation Economic Company under the Ministry of Agriculture at that time was also at the level when the plantation project was promoted here a few years ago. He thought he could afford it, so he chose Danzhou

This was his destination, but he didn't expect that the actual situation was not the same. The difference in land prices was enough to make him return to the status of a poor person overnight.

"These bunch of useless bureaucrats!" Xun Pengcheng secretly criticized the work of the Ministry of Agriculture.

But after learning about it along the way, he also understood that the reason for this situation was mostly because plantation investment was still in the limelight. Many big business houses and wealthy businessmen poured in a lot of money to start plantations.

The scale and cost of plantations have also increased. Considering performance, the Ministry of Agriculture will naturally be more inclined to support large-scale plantations. Over time, small projects like his are not so valued.

Xun Pengcheng originally thought that the generous remuneration given by the Madalan people would be enough to turn him into a big landowner with no worries about food and clothing, but now it seems that wealth is getting richer, and it is still far from being truly rich. It is not just picking up casually.

You can invest in any business. But to open a plantation here, the process is not as simple and easy as you expected. Whether it can succeed or not will ultimately depend on money.

When Guan Ping saw that he was not very interested, he advised again: "There are so many profitable businesses nowadays, and it is not necessarily necessary to set up a plantation. The leaders also said in the newspaper that if you work in 360 years, you will be the number one scholar!"

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"Is there any other good business in Danzhou?" Xun Pengcheng asked smoothly.

Guan Pingcai said: "That's a lot! Danzhou's academies, salt production, and shipping are all famous industries, and there are countless big families who have made a fortune from them. If you are interested, you can also try it."

Xun Pengcheng thought about it. He knew nothing about salt production and shipping. As for academies, he had taught in a private school in the countryside for a period of time before coming to Haihan, but he didn't know what the academies in Danzhou were like. But he had heard about Danzhou before.

There are famous academies such as Bailu Academy and Dingxi Academy. After this trip, I will take the time to visit these places.

But when it came to opening an academy, Xun Pengcheng knew that his abilities were definitely far behind, and a place like an academy would have to hire some knowledgeable masters to recruit students. This was much harder than buying slaves with money.

If you don’t have a certain network of contacts in the industry, you won’t be able to do it. Although Xun Pengcheng’s contacts in Sanya span all three religions and nine streams, his weakness is really in the cultural field. He usually has no chance to contact the masters in Sanya’s high-end academies.

, and those people are all talents who are highly valued by the executive committee, and it is not possible to impress them with a little money.

Besides, opening an academy requires enclosing land, building buildings, and enrolling students. There are so many troublesome things. Xun Pengcheng is not in the mood to take care of them one by one. Although he is a scholar himself, perhaps because he has taught for a period of time, he is deeply familiar with it.

He knew the troubles involved, but he had no interest in running a school. Even though he knew that the education industry was a profitable business, he had no intention of entering this industry.

Xun Pengcheng only talked with Guan Ping for a long time during the dinner, but he was either not interested in the business at all, or he was a complete layman and had no way to deal with it. This kind of frustration made Xun Pengcheng feel a little frustrated. He had imagined that

Starting a business with a certain amount of capital should be easy and beautiful. As long as you set up the business framework, you only need to enjoy the happiness later. But now it seems that let alone enjoying the happiness, the first step to build the framework is extremely difficult. With him

To complete this step with the current ability, I am afraid it will require a lot of effort.

After the banquet, they came to the residence prepared by Guan Pingcai for the two of them, which was a very ordinary two-person room. According to Guan Pingcai, it was usually a place for his stewards to live, but in the past two days, two stewards had asked for leave and went home, so

So he vacated this room. Lao Gao had been driving for most of the day and had a few drinks during the banquet. He was tired early. After washing, he said hello to Xun Pengcheng and lay down. After a while, he was snoring like thunder.

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Xun Pengcheng didn't feel much sleepiness. The experiences he had after arriving in Changhua partly confirmed his previous views on plantation projects, but partly exceeded his expectations.

The reason why Xun Pengcheng chose the plantation as his target was that on the one hand, he felt that this investment project could be fully entrusted to Haihan Official, which would be more convenient to operate and worry-free in management. On the other hand, he also believed that the plantation could make money and provide benefits.

The period is quite long, and generally speaking, it is a very cost-effective business as a long-term investment. However, after visiting the field, he found that the profits of this business are considerable, but not everyone can operate it. If you do not have strong capital, then enter

What awaits you in this industry is that you may be drained of money before you even get the benefits.

There are many big businessmen who have made a lot of money from plantations, and they continue to invest the money they earn in this industry to expand their business scale, but Xun Pengcheng failed to catch the best time for this snowballing operation. He is now

If you enter the market easily, you will most likely run out of ammunition and food during the primitive accumulation process and be forced to become a part of other big snowballs.

This possibility does not only exist in his mind. In fact, there is also a lot of competition and mergers among plantations, and even some industries have begun to appear close to monopoly operations. For businesses, being able to

The formation of a monopoly in a certain industry or a certain product is almost equivalent to controlling the market pricing power, and the benefits brought by this will be extremely considerable. Therefore, many large businesses are increasing investment year by year to expand their business scale, while trying to merge

After all, small and medium-sized plantations in the same industry can expand their business scale through mergers and acquisitions, and their return on investment and results will be faster.

At present, Haihan official has not taken a clear attitude towards such a trend. The market is still in a state of wild growth. Naturally, some adventurers will enter this market, but those who are not strong enough or unlucky may

Drowning in the turbulent water. Xun Pengcheng thinks that his strength is limited, and his luck seems to be good, which is a bit biased towards wealth. However, he is not lucky enough to think that he can continue to rely on luck. If he is not even sure about the business he wants to invest in, then this

It is far safer to keep money in Haihan Bank than to throw it out like water.

But he is not willing to give up just yet. As Guan Pingcai said, there are so many profitable businesses in Haihan Kingdom. There is no need to stick to plantations or other types of businesses. The key is to find a goal that suits you.

Danzhou is one of the three big cities on Hainan Island. As a coastal city with a natural harbor, it also has a very strong business atmosphere, and the competition is not as fierce as Sanya and Haikou, so Xun Pengcheng chose this place.

Place as your own destination.

Whether there will be a suitable deal or not can only be determined after he goes to Danzhou. Xun Pengcheng can only cheer himself up in this way. He doesn't want to lose confidence before he arrives in Danzhou.

Let’s go and see it.

Early the next morning, Xun Pengcheng bid farewell to Guan Pingcai and continued to Danzhou City. On the way, Xun Pengcheng remembered that Guan Pingcai was one of his readers, and felt that this fate was really strange. If not, Guan Pingcai probably would not have hosted a banquet and stayed overnight.

He didn't have the chance to know so much of the situation he told. He didn't expect that his work in the past two years would still bring benefits after he resigned. Xun Pengcheng suddenly felt that his previous experience of working in a newspaper could be regarded as an important part of his life.

A fortune. At least the vision and knowledge I have now are beyond the reach of many ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Xun Pengcheng felt a little happy. Since he has more vision, ideas, and money than ordinary people, his chances of success should also be higher than ordinary people. As long as he thinks about it slowly, he will surely find a business that suits him.

After leaving the spice plantation in Guan Pingcai, we took the official road. According to Lao Gao, it was still about a hundred miles away from Danzhou City. If we walked quickly and straight, we could reach Danzhou in one day. But Xun Pengcheng couldn't reach Danzhou at all.

Not worrying about this moment, he still ordered Lao Gao to walk slowly, with the main purpose of inspecting the plantations along the way.

Branch roads continue to extend on both sides of the official road from Changhua to Danzhou, and these branch roads lead to various farms and plantations not far away. Xun Pengcheng, who has been in Sanya for a long time, finally saw it for the first time.

How developed is Haihan's agriculture? You must know that these plantations, which often cover hundreds or thousands of acres, are not the same as the old-style landlords' management methods. First of all, the land property rights of the plantations are owned by the Haihan state, and the operators only get

Land use rights for a certain period of time; secondly, these operators no longer regard such projects as pure agriculture, but operate them as commercial projects, which is different from the old-style landlords who exploited long-term workers and

The business models of farm laborers are also fundamentally different.

Xun Pengcheng did not have a precise understanding of this difference in the past. He even thought that plantation operators were actually equivalent to landlords. However, after personally inspecting here, he knew that his past views were somewhat biased, and he could deduce this

He admired the Haihan Executive Committee for its agricultural development model.

Although Xun Pengcheng did not catch the best time to start a plantation, he also knew that private plantations had created a large number of wealthy people in Haihan. These people may not be smarter and more capable than him, but they seized the opportunity and suddenly became famous.

Xun Pengcheng is not upset that he was not lucky enough to catch up with that wave, because he knows that in Haihan Kingdom, new business opportunities will appear almost every day, and those who can seize these new business opportunities will also have the opportunity to become leaders in a certain industry.

Leading figure.

The business model of plantations has been around for several years. From a historical perspective, it is still a relatively new industry. However, because Haihan had already formulated a relatively complete system when it launched this model, plantations have actually grown from scratch.

At the beginning, it was promoted with a relatively mature model. In just a few years, the industry has entered a period of stable development. It is basically impossible to get rich overnight, and the threshold height is also increasing year by year.

When Xun Pengcheng wanted to enter this industry, the threshold was so high that he could hardly cross it.

However, Xun Pengcheng had already thought about it last night. Even if he does not engage in this industry in the future, it would not hurt to know more about the relevant situations. He accumulated a lot of messy knowledge when he was a reporter, many of which will also be used in specific fields.

Time will come into play. Adding some plantation-related information to this memory warehouse will not take up too much space.

Since Xun Pengcheng is not in a hurry, Lao Gao is happy to have his leisure time. Many of the plantations along the way are his customers. If he wants to take Xun Pengcheng to visit him, there will usually be no problem. Occasionally, he will meet someone like Guan Pingcai.

A hospitable host will also take the initiative to entertain you.

Later, Xun Pengcheng was also curious and asked Lao Gao: "Don't they regard me as a competitor? I think they didn't avoid me at all, and they just let me in to visit casually."

Lao Gao responded: "You are not in this industry now, so where is the competition? Besides, even if you open a plantation here, it is not certain who will compete with whom!"

Xun Pengcheng thought the same thing. A person like him who had not even entered the industry had the right to be feared by others. Even if he entered the industry, he would probably be regarded as a meal by the veterans, and he felt relieved at the same time.

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On the night of the second day on the road, the two stopped in a town called Haitou Town. Naturally, this small town far away from the city did not have much prosperity. Lao Gao said that almost all the people living in the town were people living nearby.

There are craftsmen, blacksmiths, plasterers, carpenters, bamboo craftsmen, etc. who work on the plantations. And this small town with a permanent population of only four to five hundred people actually has a Haitou Town Police Station as an agency in charge of local security.

Of course, the scope of management of this police station is not limited to Haitou Town. In fact, there is only such an official security agency within a radius of dozens of miles, so the scope of its management is quite large. There are several plantations alone.

There are as many as ten. And the staffing of this police station is only ten. You can imagine the difficulty of maintaining and managing such a large area.
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