Chapter 1356 The middleman’s scam
Chapter 1356 The middleman’s scam
Jiang Wan thought for a moment and replied, "It seems so."
"But I haven't been here long, just a few years."
"I also do business here, and I am familiar with all aspects of it."
"How come I've never heard of such a big factory being sold for 48? Who are you trying to scam?"
In fact, Jiang Wan didn't doubt him very much at first. She just thought that maybe there was something fishy going on in this factory.
At best, it's just a shoddy product.
He just wanted to sell the tattered Qianqian Garment Factory for 300,000 yuan. At first, Jiang Wan believed this statement, but later found something wrong.
Because the young man said: I have to pay a deposit of 10 yuan, and then wait three to five days for the boss to come back before I can sign the contract.
If that's the case, who knows if they might be scammers.
The deposit of 10 is their goal.
Of course, even though they ask for a 10 yuan deposit, no one can really pay that amount.
It is still possible to pay a deposit of several thousand yuan or ten or twenty thousand yuan.
At that time, they will take the money and run away; or if they don’t run away, they will wait until the person who pays the money comes to their door, and then they will hire someone to put them in a sack, beat them up, and kick them out of Yanjing City. What can they do then?
Isn’t there a saying that goes: Even a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake?
The middleman never dreamed that he would run into trouble today. His face was full of regret. Seeing that he had nowhere to retreat, he begged for mercy: "It's my fault, it's all my fault."
"Big sister, please spare me. I was wrong."
"Please let me go."
"I am indeed a liar, I just want to cheat some money."
Seeing that he admitted it, Jiang Wan reached out and grabbed his hair and asked, "How many people did you cheat in total? How much money did you cheat?"
“Who owns this factory?”
Seeing this, the middleman knew he could no longer deceive people.
In order to prevent the other party from continuing to pester me, I had no choice but to tell the truth.
In his words: this factory belongs to his brother-in-law, his real brother-in-law.
He was not wrong.
His brother-in-law is from the south and opened a factory here about five years ago.
Because he did make some money at the beginning, he built a new factory here two years ago, and then moved his clothing factory here and changed its name to Ximin Garment Factory.
But what he didn't expect was that more than a year ago, their factory was defrauded of a large sum of money by a defaulted check.
A large number of clothes are piled up in warehouses and cannot be sold, and no one wants them even if they are sold at a low price.
The factory’s funding chain was broken.
My brother-in-law was very annoyed about this.
At this time, the village committee where the factory was located came to ask for money.
The reason is very simple: he originally bought the land through the Yanjing Municipal Government, obtained the right to use it for 50 years, and then built a factory here.
It is true that he contracted the land.
He also has 50 years of usage rights.
However, the electricity and water for the factory were drawn from the village. At first, he paid the electricity and water bills on time.
But when the village chief came to visit, he said, "Because your factory uses too much electricity, the power switches in our village often trip, making it difficult for us to use electricity."
“So you can’t just take these electricity bills.”
What this means is that he should pay more for electricity.
At first the factory manager thought it made sense.
Because when he moved the wires over, the cables were not very thick.
There are a lot of equipment in the factory that requires electricity.
This factory manager is also a talented person.
A normal sewing machine cannot use electricity.
At that time, electric sewing machines had not yet been invented, and there were only the kind that were operated by foot. But these were relatively difficult to use.
The factory director got the blueprint from somewhere and installed a small motor on these small sewing machines. With this motor, they can be started with just one button. This is the prototype of the later electric sewing machine.
I have to say that the factory director is really a talented person, but the problem is that these small motors all require electricity.
Strictly speaking, the power consumption is not much.
Even if dozens of devices are started at the same time, the electricity can be sustained.
Hundreds of them would be too many.
The cables at that time were really thin and had not yet been updated.
The cables in the village often trip due to overloading.
The village chief also came to him for this reason.
There is nothing wrong with this excuse.
The factory manager thought: Let him take a little more, so in addition to paying the normal electricity bill, he took out another 1000 yuan to subsidize the village. Seeing that there was money to be made, the village chief smiled.
When the village chief took the money back, he felt that it was a profitable business. It was so wonderful to have such a profitable clothing factory giving him money.
So he distributed the 1000 yuan to the villagers, and then went back to the factory director to ask for more money.
For the next year, I went to ask for money every two or three months.
The amount of money he asked for kept increasing, starting at just 1000 or 2000, and later he even asked for 1.
Although the entire factory is profitable, it is becoming increasingly depressed.
Now that the capital chain has been broken, the village chief is still asking for money, which is like adding insult to injury for the factory director, making it difficult for him to move forward.
Finally he gave up.
"I don't want this factory anymore. I don't have the money you want, so just leave it like this." So his brother-in-law went back to the south in anger.
In fact, this is also a game between his brother-in-law and the village chief.
Because the people working in this factory are all young girls and young wives in the village.
As soon as the garment factory stopped production, these people who came to work were only paid a basic salary of five yuan a month.
If you don't work and don't get commission, you won't make any money.
After a long time, the village chief will definitely find a solution.
By then it is not certain who will win or lose.
When the middleman saw this scene, he felt it was a pity to place such a large factory here.
I drank too much with my friend that day, and he kept nagging me about his brother-in-law wanting to sell the garment factory.
Someone gave him an idea: "Why don't you find some rich people from other places to look after the factory?"
"If it seems suitable, I can act as a middleman and let your brother-in-law sell the factory."
"Maybe you can get a profit or a commission."
After he said this, the middleman became interested.
Not long after, by chance he met a wealthy man in Tianjin, who was the owner of a fruit business.
Fruit Brother started trading in fruits in the second year of reform and opening up, and has made a lot of money over the years.
Conservatively estimated, his family assets amounted to several million, so he thought about changing his career.
He thinks the clothing industry is pretty good because everyone needs to wear clothes?
No matter what the future holds, the apparel industry is bound to last a long time.
Therefore, through the introduction of others, the middleman met Brother Fruit in Tianjin. When Brother Fruit heard that there was a ready-made clothing factory to sell, he immediately agreed to go and see the factory.
After the middleman took him around the Ximin Garment Factory, Fruit Brother expressed his interest.
Ask him how much he wants to bid?
The middleman’s price: 48.
He actually didn't know how much this clothing factory could sell for.
This price was just something he said casually.
Fruit Brother felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, and after hesitating for a while he decided to take it.
