Li Jianing stood before the desk, holding a stack of files to report the company's situation to Lin Yan, who sat in his boss chair listening.
The content was dry and dull, but Lin Yan did pick up on a few things. The company was truly in dire straits. Without the Lin Group, these employees would likely be unemployed within days.
"So, our company is still operating at a loss?"
"Yes, Mr. Lin."
Li Jianing replied respectfully. It was true, if they weren't struggling, they wouldn't be selling the company.
"Hmm, you may go," Lin Yan nodded, crossing his legs. It seemed running this company wouldn't be easy. While his family was wealthy, losing money was absolutely unacceptable.
Li Jianing couldn't discern anything from Lin Yan's expression and turned to leave the office. She was somewhat mystified by this new boss. Judging solely by his appearance, he didn't look like a boss at all. She found it hard to believe Lin Yan could manage a company, but it wasn't her concern. With the Lin Group backing them, the company was sure to stay afloat.
Li Jianing felt absolutely confident about this. She figured this company was likely just a training ground for the young master, with someone to pick up the pieces regardless of success or failure. Those below them would simply need to execute.
After Li Jianing left, Lin Yan picked up the files on the desk and began to read them carefully. According to the information, the company's main business was food trading.
Imported white sugar, imported milk, dairy products, and so on. Of course, there were other projects, but the most profitable were white sugar and imported dairy products.
These were all traditional offline foreign trade. In addition to these, there was also some new foreign trade like cross-border e-commerce, but its proportion was small and not particularly profitable.
Lin Yan rubbed his nose and looked around. He had a question: was trading white sugar so profitable?
As far as he remembered, China was also a major sugar-producing country. They shouldn't be short of sugar, right?
With the help of Baidu and the information he had, Lin Yan figured it out in no time.
Good heavens, it was indeed a huge profit!
Most white sugar was processed from sugarcane. In China, the purchase price of a ton of sugarcane was about five hundred yuan. Honestly, just this price shocked Lin Yan a little; it was indeed too cheap.
And across the entire Blue Star, China was not the place with the cheapest sugarcane prices. The cheapest was
It seemed the most pressing issue now was to solve the raw material problem. Changing products was out of the question, but where to get the raw materials was a real challenge.
Lin Yan estimated he would need at least tens of thousands of tons to barely keep going for a while. Tens of thousands of tons. Unless he bought above market price, it would be absolutely impossible to gather them in a short period.
After thinking for a long time, Lin Yan couldn't come up with a good solution, so he stopped thinking about it. He turned and pushed open the door to the lounge. Lin Yan guessed, based on his father's usual style of speaking, that using his own family's resources was probably out of the question, and he would have to find his own way.
The lounge had already been equipped with simulators by Zhang Mingzhi and the others. The originally forty-square-meter room had become crowded with the addition of the simulators.
Putting on the helmet, Lin Yan sent a message to his master, Ma Wang, and then got onto the simulator, starting his training for the day.
The hot and intense driving training left Lin Yan drenched in sweat. Two hours later, Lin Yan got off the simulator, wiped his sweat, and opened the refrigerator to take out the grilled meat he had bought that morning. There was a barbecue grill in the room, and Lin Yan planned to make do with a meal here for lunch.
He had to admit, this thing was quite useful.
Setting up a small table, Lin Yan prepared to eat, and casually made a call to his wife.
"What are your thoughts?"
As soon as the call connected, Su Mojin, after hearing about the company's situation, sat on the sofa and offered Lin Yan advice. Su Mojin was still in her light-colored pajamas, and on one corner of the sofa lay an open laptop, indicating she had also been working just moments before.
"I plan to ask my friends over in Dongya to help me think of a way, see if we can acquire a batch."
Lin Yan truthfully shared his thoughts. With his master's status, acquiring some sugarcane shouldn't be difficult.
Fortunately, Ma Wang hadn't seen Lin Yan's message yet, otherwise, he would have been angered to death by Lin Yan! Acquire sugarcane? And five thousand tons? Do you take me for a farmer! No, a landlord!
Su Mojin was stunned after hearing this. Her small face changed, and she seemed unable to suppress a chuckle. After a moment, she couldn't help but let out a giggle, her eyes blinking at Lin Yan.
"Aren't you being silly? Five thousand tons, where would your friends get that to collect?"
Su Mojin said, looking at her husband through the screen with a smile.
She suddenly realized her husband could be quite cute sometimes, appearing smart at times and a bit foolish at others.
Under Lin Yan's somewhat confused gaze, Su Mojin explained softly.
"Do you think your friends are rich landlords? Five thousand tons, let alone collecting it, even buying it would be difficult, and who knows how much it would cost."
Lin Yan didn't understand, but Su Mojin had relatives living in the countryside, so she understood some things about acquiring agricultural products.
In any country, ordinary people are generally suspicious of strangers. Outsiders will not sell unless they offer a much higher price than the original buyer. Who knows if you'll only buy for one year or every year?
If you offend your previous regular customers by selling for a bit more money this year, and then you don't come back, what will you do if you can't sell your goods?
The idea of acquiring it yourself is not very realistic.
After listening to Su Mojin's detailed explanation, Lin Yan began to understand a little.
There were so many nuances to acquiring vegetables.
"Okay, then I'll have my friend contact the local distributors later, see if we can ease things up, build some connections."
"What, you're going to sell yourself!"
Hearing Lin Yan's words, Su Mojin said playfully.
"Yes, sell myself. Would you be willing to part with me?"
Lin Yan teased. He hadn't wanted to reveal his identity, even if the two companies might have had some past connections. He believed that as soon as he revealed his identity, the other party would at least give him some face.
"Hmph, I wouldn't part with you, darling. Your grilled meat looks so delicious~"