Chapter 723 - 302: My Wife Disagrees! (Part 3)
Another one is one dollar each, with a limit of one pack of twenty per phone number.
This is the normal market price, Li Yang’s labor costs are high, and he didn’t take any profit from this.
Then, the news spread, and people from many nearby cities flocked to Green Water Heaven and Earth to buy.
Various purchasing agents emerged.
Originally, one household had one membership number, now everyone wished for more family members, earning a couple of hundred yuan per purchasing run.
Li Yang couldn’t stop these, he could only manage himself.
On the night before the Spring Festival.
Shihe Mansion.
Jiang Banxia waited until very late, waiting for Li Yang, who returned wearing a mask and protective suit, and specially disinfected himself upon entering.
"Did something happen at the factory?"
"Nothing, just an employee caught stealing stuff, I went to handle it."
Those employees, mostly from small towns, expecting high work ethics from them is unrealistic.
The saying, "Poverty leads to cunning, wealth breeds kindness," isn’t just said for no reason.
If there’s profit to be made, someone will make a move. On regular days, they don’t lack anything but still might want to pick a couple of cabbages from someone else’s garden, let alone now masks equate to money.
They easily sneak back dozens to hundreds after work.
They forgot that the factory has surveillance, and Li Yang especially assigned people to monitor it.
Salaries were sufficient, initially six thousand per person, recently with overtime, an extra hundred per day, implementing two shifts.
It’s not that he didn’t want to have three shifts, but they couldn’t hire that many people short-term.
During the holiday season, not everyone is willing to work.
"Sigh, hubby, you’ve worked hard, let me massage your shoulders."
"That sounds great!"
Li Yang quickly took a shower and then lay on the bed.
Jiang Banxia’s small hands were still smooth and soft, even though she was already a mother of two.
While enjoying the massage, Li Yang was also sending messages.
The deliveries couldn’t be sent out, but fortunately he prepared a week in advance, and Extreme Shadow Cars have service centers in major cities, those staff were distributing supplies bit by bit.
As for selling cars? Not a chance!
Jiang Banxia saw Li Yang typing non-stop, and asked, "They’re saying Jiangbei is going into lockdown."
"Yes, I’ve got the supplies ready, the warehouse at that Green Water Heaven and Earth near Jiangbei is sealed with everything, it’ll supply Jiangbei. Also transferring supplies from neighboring towns to deal with local situations. This couldn’t have been anticipated, doing this much already is enough for a clear conscience."
"Do we need to donate some money?"
"What’s the use of donating money now, let’s wait and see."
Who even donates money at this point, Li Yang doesn’t even know how much he’ll lose this time.
Actually, he quite hoped that his butterfly effect would make this situation disappear entirely.
Just on supplies, he filled the warehouses of nine supermarkets, spending a full twenty billion.
Still owes the suppliers.
Thinking of breaking even is a no-go, the margin was low to begin with, who knows how much will have to be given away for free.
The big thing is employee salaries, in the next few years, staff output versus salary won’t be proportional, most staff will have nothing to do, but salaries need to be paid.
That’s why he wasn’t overly impulsive; otherwise, he would have increased the employees to two hundred thousand already.
Now it’s just over one hundred thousand, costing over thirty billion a year, three years would be a hundred billion.
Other costs aren’t low either, three years will see losses of four to five hundred billion.
He’s never lost this much money before.
Jiang Banxia’s management fees aren’t enough, and the A-Share funds there belong to the fund investors, he can’t touch them.
"By the way, from now on all employees will live and eat at the company, no going out allowed, annual leave canceled, and there will be subsidies."
The only profitable area is finance, so none of the Wanliu Capital employees can leave.
Otherwise, can’t have him and Jiang Banxia doing all the work.
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Jiang Baichuan received a package from Green Water Group.
The package was huge, about the size of a fridge, requiring two people to carry it inside.
Li Yang had told him in advance, so he let his family sign for it.
Knowing Li Yang’s personality, it couldn’t be anything valuable, so he wasn’t worried!
Once opened, he was stunned.
Masks, protective suits, disinfectant, even a small ventilator and some fever-reducing medicine.
Of course, the most important were some oxygen-filled seafood and fresh beef.
You can’t buy these on the market anymore, and it won’t be transported here in the short-term, even though the Capital City isn’t far from the coast.
Of course, if Jiang Baichuan wanted, he could get it, but it’s unnecessary.
"Send the ventilator to the hospital, we won’t need it at home, keep the rest, and if the fresh food can’t be stored, put it in the fridge."
After giving his orders, he went to his study.
He had just seen that the package had Green Water Heaven and Earth’s logo, and many products inside had labels.
He knew with Li Yang’s character, he wouldn’t profit from the supermarket, but his biggest funding source, Extreme Shadow Cars, would definitely face challenges going forward.
The heavy employee salary burden was a wake-up call for Li Yang.
He called Li Yang.
"Li Yang, I received your gift, you were thoughtful. But difficulties are temporary, don’t get too distressed, if there are problems, let me know, we’ll figure it out together."
Li Yang said, "What are you talking about, I’d never get distressed. Originally, the nine supermarkets’ warehouses were prepared for the festive season, now I’m doubling the prices, I’ve struck it rich! I’ve heard prices in Modu have risen five or six times? I’m not that ruthless, doubling is enough."
"Then, congratulations on getting rich?"
"Sigh... that’s what I was thinking, but unfortunately, my wife disagrees, and I always listen to her. She said losing a mere one or two hundred billion is nothing, she wants to earn a trillion back for me! In US Dollars, no less!"