Chapter 102 I want to be the man who is the King of Sheep!
The next day, early morning!
Looking out the window, the whole world is white!
"Sir~" Seeing Su Chen coming down, Chen Fei immediately walked over.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Su Chen looked at him with some confusion. Why did he look like something was wrong?
"Sir, I checked the weather forecast last night. It will snow in the north in the next few days, which will make travel very inconvenient!"
"Besides, it's almost 620 kilometers from the imperial capital to Xilinhot, the provincial capital of Xilin Gol League. It takes six or seven hours to drive there. It's not very safe on the road in snowy weather. Why don't you let Xiao Peng and I handle the sheep shopping? I guarantee it will be done beautifully!"
Su Chen looked at Fade Chen's serious expression, smiled and patted his shoulder and said, "Who told you that I was going there just to buy sheep? If it was just for a few sheep, why didn't you ask Li Fei to deliver them to me directly!"
After hearing this, Chen Fei seemed to have some understanding, but his vision limited his thinking. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out why Su Chen had to go to Xilingol League in person!
"Okay~ You and Xiao Peng should check the car carefully first, so that nothing unexpected will happen on the way!"
"Yes, sir!" Now that he knew that Su Chen had other things to do, Fade Chen knew that his previous worries were unnecessary.
Looking at Chen Fei's departing back, Su Chen nodded with satisfaction. At least now Chen Fei can think independently and is not like the wooden man before, who does whatever he is told.
"Old Jiang~ Chen Fei and Xiao Peng are both pretty good. If you give them more guidance, they will be able to take on important responsibilities in the future!" Su Chen said softly.
Jiang Hui appeared behind Su Chen at some point and said "hmm" softly!
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"Have you checked everything?" Jiang Hui asked Chen Fei and the other man who were standing next to the car.
"Everything has been checked and we can set off at any time!" Chen Fei replied immediately.
"Okay~ The master said that we don't have to be too anxious along the way. Drive slowly and safety is the most important thing!" After saying that, Jiang Hui went to ask Su Chen for permission to set off.
I don’t know if it was God who knew that Su Chen and the others were going on a trip, but the snow stopped unexpectedly.
"Wow, the snow is cleared quite quickly!" When the car drove onto the elevated road, we found that the road was quite clean and there was basically no snow on the road.
Looking around, you can see sanitation workers on both sides of the road, working with sweepers to clear the remaining snow on the road.
"There's nothing we can do. This is the imperial capital. If we don't clean it up in time, it will have a bad impact!" Chen Fei, who was driving, said without turning his head.
Su Chen also understood the reason. Different locations require different ways of dealing with the situation. Besides, the north already has a set of effective solutions for snowfall, which can quickly clear the snow on the road.
It was completely different from what Su Chen had expected. He thought everyone was driving very slowly because of the snow, or even had the car slip.
But in the end, the road was cleared very cleanly. Apart from the snow on both sides of the road, there was no difference from summer.
The road was smooth all the way and there was no traffic jam due to the snow. For safety reasons, Su Chen asked Chen Fei and Xiao Peng to drive slower.
We stopped at three or four service areas to rest, and it took us nine hours to reach Xilinhot instead of six hours. Surprisingly, it hadn't snowed here yet, but the wind made us feel a biting cold.
It was already eight o'clock in the evening. There were basically no pedestrians on the road, and only a handful of cars were driving on the road.
Xilinhot, as the provincial capital of Xilingol League, is not a very large city and there are not many high-rise buildings. Except for a few high-rise buildings in the business district, the rest are small buildings of several stories.
"Is there any place to stay for the night?"
After sitting in the car for several hours, even after taking a break at the highway service area, Su Chen still felt tired.
"Sir, it has been arranged. Yunhe Hotel is considered the best five-star hotel in Xilinhot!" Jiang Hui immediately turned around and said.
Su Chen nodded slightly when he heard this, then took out his cell phone and sent a message to Ji Wan, telling him the hotel he was staying in.
Just after sending the message and before Su Chen put down his phone, a call came in.
"Mr. Su, have you arrived in Xilinhot?" The caller was Ji Wan.
"Yeah~ We're just about to go to the hotel!"
"Okay, Mr. Su, I'll wait for you at Yunhe Hotel!" After saying that, he hung up the phone, looking anxious.
Su Chen looked at the hung up phone and a smile appeared on his lips.
Ji Wan was also very anxious. He paced back and forth at the entrance of the hotel in the cold wind, looking around.
As far as he could remember, there had never been anyone that Brother Chen had personally called and asked him to receive seriously, and this person with the surname Su was the first one.
In addition, when Xiao Chen called him, he vaguely mentioned to him that Su Chen could help them solve the problem of Ujumchin sheep. These two points made him extremely concerned.
Otherwise, he would not have seen the message sent by Su Chen, immediately called to inquire, and drove over.
He would take a few glances at every car parked in front of the hotel.
Xiao Chen did not send him a photo, but just said, "When we meet, you will definitely recognize me."
It was still quite cold in Xilinhot at night, and the cold wind made even this Inner Mongolian man shiver.
"Ji Wan!" A deep voice came from not far away.
Ji Wan quickly looked in the direction of the voice and saw three young men and a middle-aged man walking towards him. The leader was a young man about twenty-four or twenty-five.
"Chen Fei, Xiao Peng!" Ji Wan never expected to see two familiar faces.
A flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he instantly understood the meaning of what Xiao Chen had said to him before.
"So that's how it is!" Ji Wan muttered to himself, and then quickly walked up to him.
"Hello, Mr. Su!"
Su Chen looked at the Inner Mongolian man who was a head taller than him, with his sturdy arms as strong as his thighs.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long!" Su Chen said, looking at the hint of frost between Ji Wan's brows.
He also guessed in his heart that Ji Wan had been standing at the door waiting for them for a while.
"I just arrived a while ago, Mr. Su, please come in!" Ji Wan raised his left hand and made a false gesture. Who said that muscular men don't have brains? Su Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and raised a smile at the corner of his mouth.
After entering the hotel, Jiang Hui went to check in, while Su Chen and the other three sat on the sofa in the hotel lobby and started chatting.
"Chen Fei, Xiao Peng, why are you here? Didn't you join the Vanguard?" Ji Wan said excitedly, speaking a little too fast.
"Ahem~" Fade Chen coughed twice.
Realizing that he had said something wrong, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Didn't you join the Pioneer Training Camp?"
Su Chen, who was sitting on the sofa, had a frivolous look in his eyes. He glanced at the three people obscurely, as if there were some unknown secrets in the training camp.
But think about it, whose training base is so well-equipped, and whose members are all retired from special forces?
Chen Fei and Xiao Peng looked at each other and said, "We are now Mr. Su's bodyguards and drivers!"
Ji Wan's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this. He knew what kind of people Chen Fei and Xiao Peng were in the training camp, and he never thought that they would be Su Chen's bodyguards.
Thinking of this, Ji Wan looked at Su Chen with a complicated look, and became even more respectful to him.
Jiang Hui checked him in very quickly. Just as Ji Wan was about to ask about Su Chen's plans for the next few days, he heard Jiang Hui's voice beside him, "Sir, check-in has been completed. You can go to the room!"
Su Chen stood up and stretched his body, then straightened his collar. "Let's go to the room and talk. This lobby is quite cold."
Jiang Hui booked a top-level suite, which has several rooms and is not much different from the presidential suites in big cities. It is also very cheap, only over two thousand yuan.
If this happened in other big cities, the price would be at least five digits!
"It's still more comfortable inside~" Su Chen leaned on the sofa, feeling the comfort brought by the heating.
Chen Fei and the others also went back to their rooms to pack their luggage. Ji Wan sat on the sofa and watched Su Chen stretching. He wanted to ask something, but he didn't know where to start.
"Jiwan~"
Just as he was thinking about it in his mind, Su Chen's voice rang out.
"Mr. Su~" Ji Wan came back to his senses and instantly straightened his back and sat up straight.
Su Chen was also stunned when he saw this, then waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be so serious, we are all friends after all!"
"Understood, Mr. Su!" Ji Wan agreed readily, but he still sat upright.
Seeing that he had no intention of changing, Su Chen stopped forcing him and went straight to the point, asking, "Ji Wan, what's going on with your Ujumchin sheep? I only heard a brief explanation from Xiao Chen and Li Fei before, and I don't have a specific idea in my mind!"
Ji Wan didn't react to Su Chen's words for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Mr. Su, do you want to ask about the situation of the entire Ujumchin grassland?"
The Ujumchin sheep was born based on the entire Ujumchin grassland. The entire grassland is divided into Dongwuqi and Xiwuqi. Because of the unique geographical environment of the Ujumchin grassland, the sheep raised in these two places have become the most authentic Ujumchin sheep and can be called the best sheep in the world!
"Well, let's talk about the Ujumchin sheep!"
Ji Wan nodded, and after organizing his words in his mind, he slowly said, "At present, the annual output of sheep raised in the entire Ujumchin grassland is as high as one million. Unfortunately, many high-quality sheep cannot be sold and are sold at low prices to middlemen in Xilin Gol League."
"I heard before that it was a competition within the alliance market?" Su Chen sat up straighter.
Ji Wan smiled bitterly when he heard this, "I guess so!"
"Inner Mongolia is a major sheep-producing province, with an annual output of 12 million sheep. Every year, the various leagues and cities in Inner Mongolia will fight for the market, saying that their mutton is better and engaging in price wars!"
"In addition, there are those unscrupulous merchants who use the name of Ujumchin sheep to make mutton rolls mixed with duck meat, which has ruined the reputation of Ujumchin sheep. Naturally, the middlemen also lower the purchase price because of this."
"In the final analysis, the main reason is that the entire Inner Mongolia market has not been integrated, there is no unified sales channel, and it has fallen into the dispute of "warlords' separatism"!"
Su Chen tapped his fingers lightly on his knees, his mind racing. He came here with a plan, which was to buy all the sheep in the Ujumchin grassland!
Be the king of the sheep village!
“How many breeding and grazing areas are there in the Ujumchin Grassland now?”
"There are many breeding pastoral areas. In our Dongwu Banner alone, there are more than 40 pastoral areas of all sizes, and a total of 40,000 herders. Some of these herders raise several thousand sheep, while others raise hundreds! The annual output of sheep in Dongwu Banner reaches 500,000!" A proud look emerged on Ji Wan's face when he said this.
The main reason is that Ji Wan’s family is the largest individual breeder in Dongwu Banner, with an annual output of nearly 5,000 Ujumchin sheep and an annual income of more than 20 million!
Due to various reasons, the sheep from the Ujumchin grassland are now sold at a price of about 80 yuan per catty. You should know that in the top-notch mutton hotpot restaurant Xiyuanju in the imperial capital, the hind legs of Ujumchin lambs are sold by gram, and the price is comparable to that of Wagyu beef.
Just at this price, Xiyuanju’s business is packed every day, and sometimes it’s hard to get a seat, with long queues waiting!
Su Chen's plan is to take over the production area and then develop downstream people, such as Sicong, Qin Fen and others, especially star actors like Chen He and Deng Chao, who are preparing to open mutton hotpot restaurants in first- and second-tier cities across the country. With their respective fame and the quality of Ujumchin sheep, they will definitely be able to quickly open up the market.
Moreover, since I purchase the goods first-hand and there are no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference, I can ensure the income of the herders while also making a lot of money myself. It is really the best of both worlds.
But the biggest problem we are facing now is how to integrate the Ujumchin grassland. There are so many breeders in Dongwuqi alone, not to mention the larger Xiwuqi!
You can only eat one bite at a time, and do things one step at a time!
Su Chen pondered for a moment and made up his mind, "Ji Wan, if I want to raise livestock in the entire Dongwu Banner, I wonder if you have a solution!"
"Integrate the entire Dongwu Banner?" Ji Wan was also shocked by Su Chen's words.
You have to know that the entire Dongwu Banner's output has reached 500,000 sheep. Even if each sheep weighs 40 kilograms and is sold at 80 kilograms, that is 16 small goals!
It would take them 80 years to earn the more than 20 million yuan a year of their family income!
Ji Wan swallowed and said, "Mr. Su, is what you said true or false? You know, it's a project worth more than 10 billion. If you run away at that time..."
"Puh, puh, puh~" He slapped his mouth a few times and said apologetically, "Mr. Su, it's not that I don't trust you, it's mainly because this matter is too big and it's not something I can decide."
Hearing this, Su Chen looked at Ji Wan in surprise. It seemed that he had the channel to integrate the entire Dongwu Banner's animal husbandry!
Ji Wan also saw Su Chen's confusion, and quickly explained: "My father is the chairman of the entire Dongwu Banner Animal Husbandry and Breeding Association. His prestige among breeders is very high. Many breeders were trained by my father!"
Su Chen now understands that Ji Wan is also a rich second-generation!
"Well~ You can talk to your father about this matter first. If there is no problem, you can arrange for me to meet your father. As for my strength..." Su Chen smiled, leaned on the sofa with his arms folded, and said calmly: "If you are worried, you can call Xiao Chen and ask!"
Hearing Xiao Chen's name, Ji Wan nodded solemnly.
"Okay, Mr. Su, I will go back and tell my dad about the specific situation... I will call you tomorrow!" Ji Wan is now impatient. If the entire Dongwu Banner can be integrated and a brand can be created, it will be a great thing for them!
"Yeah~Okay. Just drive slower on the way back!"
Ji Wan nodded and left with excitement.
(End of this chapter)