193: Worth millions, intelligence upgraded. (The Finale)
The Chairman was momentarily stunned, a trace of surprise appearing on his face.
"What? You have premium loquats? And they're in Cold Storage?"
The Chairman asked, full of curiosity, his face filled with question marks.
He had been shocked that morning when he learned that a Typhoon had knocked all the loquats down, causing prices to soar across the entire city and even in neighboring cities.
Currently, the summer-exclusive loquat jam was the hottest product in their factory; they had even opened a separate production line just for it.
This production line was used year-round; in the summer, it produced loquat jam as a summer hit, while in the autumn, it produced jams like pear or fig to sell as bestsellers.
In the winter, they used winter-exclusive fruits to make jams, such as milk strawberry jam, which always sold out, but currently, there was no fruit that could replace the loquats on this production line.
It wasn't the right season yet, and apart from loquats, there were no other fruits suitable for making jam; even if there were, the factory would have to develop a new recipe, which would delay the production line for several months.
A recipe's ratio required at least several months of research; for instance, they only dared to launch and scale up production of the loquat jam this year after researching it last year.
But once this production line was interrupted, there simply wasn't a substitute fruit available.
He had contacted the procurement department as soon as he woke up that morning, and sure enough... prices had risen. Their jam, which originally sold for 30 per bottle, had raw material costs of three yuan—which was for one jin of loquats.
After deducting the costs for research and development and the production line, he estimated they could only make ten yuan per bottle.
But now, the price had risen to 15 per jin! Moreover, a price of 15 per jin was acceptable, and they could still make a profit.
The main issue was... at 15 per jin, it was still a situation where they couldn't buy enough.
loquats couldn't be stockpiled; they had to be bought fresh. They needed 1000 jin of loquats a day to produce one hundred jin of jam.
It was hard to buy 1000 jin on the market right now; once summer arrived, various loquat products were launched, and many competitors were fighting for the fruit supply.
Even if they bought 1000 jin, it was useless... it would only alleviate the crisis for one day. Based on his business acumen, they needed to buy at least enough loquats for seven or eight days of use.
Chen Kai nodded silently. "I have them, and they are fresher than what's on the market."
"And... I have a rather large stockpile of loquats, seven thousand five hundred jin."
The Chairman slammed his hand on the desk and stood up, his face full of astonishment.
"How much??! Seven thousand five hundred jin??"
"Can I see the quality of the loquats!!"
Chen Kai immediately took two loquats out of the small bag he was carrying; having learned his lesson last time, he had specifically taken them out of the Cold Storage the previous night.
This was to prevent any issues in case he wanted to check the quality of the items in advance.
The Chairman immediately took the loquats, carefully examined their size, peeled one, tasted it, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Not bad. Can you guarantee that all your products are of this quality?"
"If they are all of this quality, I will take them all. Seven thousand five hundred jin, right? If it's this quality, I want all of it."
Chen Kai smiled immediately. "Sure, then will you go directly to the Cold Storage with me?"
Chen Kai smiled slightly and immediately stood up to shake hands with the Chairman.
"Good, let's go. I'll tell my driver to start the car."
The two of them went downstairs together and quickly headed toward the Cold Storage.
Half an hour later, Chen Kai parked the car in front of the Cold Storage, led the Chairman quickly to the entrance, opened the door, and took a look at the stored loquats.
The Chairman randomly inspected a few boxes and found that the quality was quite good, with little damage.
He tasted a few more and found that the flavor was also quite good.
He nodded in satisfaction and gave a thumbs-up.
"Alright, I'll take this batch. How much do you want per jin in total?"
Chen Kai smiled faintly. "The current market price is 16 per jin. Since you're buying a lot, I'll calculate it at 15 per jin. That's 7550 jin in total, coming to 113,250."
Chen Kai silently calculated with his phone's calculator, starting to think about how much he had earned on this trip.
Hiring people cost nearly ten thousand yuan in total, and buying the fruit cost over twenty thousand.
This trip wasn't as incredibly profitable as he had imagined, but earning eighty thousand yuan was already quite good.
This was already in line with his expectations; it was not bad.
Very quickly, he reached a deal with the uncle's group, and the Chairman readily had the finance department pay the money.
After receiving the money, Chen Kai personally handed the keys to the owner of the Cold Storage, told him in advance that he was leaving, and said that once they finished loading, he could rent it out to others again as he wouldn't need it anymore.
Only then did he slowly leave the Cold Storage.
Early in the morning, five days later, Chen Kai suddenly received a strange call while in his Rental House.
He answered it immediately; for the past two days, he hadn't dared to miss a single unknown call.
He had even boredly bragged to a scammer for half a day; the scammer had asked if he had spent one million in Tai Tai and whether it was his own transaction.
He said yes, that he had bought an elephant, which left the scammer speechless.
As soon as the call was connected, a serious voice came from the other side.
"Mr. Chen Kai? Hello, I am from the Demolition Office. May I ask if you are the owner of the property at Chunjiang Road Residential Complex?"
"The demolition compensation is 2.9 million. Is this acceptable to you? If so, we can sign the contract in person."
Chen Kai was thrilled when he heard this; it was one hundred thousand more than he had anticipated!!!
Moreover, he had bought it for 120,000 less, paying 120,000 below market price, and he was getting an extra 100,000 in demolition compensation!
He immediately drove to Chunjiang Road Residential Complex, and even saw the salesperson on the side of the road with a face full of regret, and the landlord who was crying, wailing, and hitting the salesperson in agony.
"Ah!!!! Why!! Why!! Didn't they say it was the neighboring area being demolished? Why is it our complex being demolished?"
"You damn Real Estate Agent!!! Why did you sell it so early!!!!"
Chen Kai watched this scene with a faint smile and quickly negotiated the price with the demolition personnel.
He asked for two apartments at 12,000 per square meter, plus an additional subsidy of 800,000.
This way, he could get two apartments for free; even if he sold them, he could make nearly another million.
Subsequently, he moved his parents into one of the apartments.
Two days later, Chen Kai unlocked a discount on an audi a6 from the Advanced Intelligence, so he quickly equipped his parents with a car for them to go on self-driving tours whenever they felt like it.
Now that he had his own place, he simply moved the two girls, Liu Yunshang and Tang Yunshu, in together to live in his house.
Half a month later, Chen Kai unlocked the second Advanced Intelligence, and the intelligence he unlocked was all worth over 200,000.
Two months later, Chen Kai had unlocked the entire Advanced Intelligence System, with a monthly income of six million.
One year later, relying on the Intelligence System to Score a Bargain, Chen Kai gradually became the richest man in Jiangnan!
Two years later, there were almost no bargains left to be found in Jiangnan, so the family of five simply began traveling across the country, spending every day either having fun or on the road to Score a Bargain.
[The End.]