Rebirth of the Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 129 Chapter 128: Brewery

Situ Haonan suddenly realized, and immediately rang the electric bell with his hands.

"Ding dong!"

"Ding dong!"

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The electric bell rang through the loudspeaker, resounding throughout the factory area.

After a while, the small door next to the big iron door opened a gap, and an old man with a flashlight came out.

"Hey, who are you looking for? No more jobs!"

This set of fluent questions reveals the decline of the brewery.

When Situ Haonan saw someone coming out, he hurried over and said enthusiastically to the old man, "Old man, we're not here to find a job."

"I heard that this brewery is for sale, so come and have a look!".

The old man glanced at Situ Haonan, then at Lin Huaile and the others behind him, nodded after a while, said "Wait a minute!", turned his head and walked into the yard.

"Throw it away! Bankrupt, what a dick!"

Chang Mao leaned against the car, smoking a cigarette, and cursed loudly.

What you said is crazy!
Although it is not the middle of the night, it is also night.

Yau Tsim Mong may only be getting lively now, the streets are full of young people who want to spend the night, but the countryside has already finished dinner and is ready to rest.

The world in Xiangjiang is not peaceful, and there are many bad boys in the countryside. Of course, the elderly should be more careful.

"crunch."

The small iron gate opened again, and the old man came out leading a middle-aged man.

"Hello, are you the boss who came to see the factory?"

'I am the director of Jiafeng Brewery, just call me Axiang. '

The middle-aged man surpassed the old man in front, walked up to Lin Huaile and the others, and asked politely.

Lin Huaile nodded, stretched out his hand, and held it with Ah Xiang.

"Brother Xiang, hello, why are you bothering me so late?"

"I heard from my brother that your factory is going to be transferred, so I came over to have a look."

"I don't know if it's convenient?"

Lin Huaile briefly explained his reason for coming, turned around, and looked at the brewery.

Ah Xiang hurriedly nodded, and quickly agreed: "Of course."

"The boss asked me to make a move as soon as possible, one call a day."

"It's just what people want to see."

"Everyone, please!"

Ah Xiang led the way, leading Lin Huaile and others into the factory area.

There are quite a few yards, at least square meters. There is an assembly line factory in the center, a cold storage for beer storage on the right, and a three-story office building, and the dormitory building at the end.

But the lights were dim, and only one light was on, which should be the room of the director Axiang.

"The entire yard is about square meters. The land has already been bought, and the title deed is also in hand."

"However, the land in North Point is cheap and not worth much."

"Three assembly line workshops can accommodate 100 people to work at the same time."

"Because what we make is German craft beer, the output is small, even if we start at full power, we can only produce liters a day."

"If it is filled, it can only reach a daily output of bottles!".

Axiang turned on the electric light in the workshop, instantly lighting up the whole workshop, even if there was a layer of dust on the brand-new production machine, it was shining brightly under the light.

With a daily output of bottles, it is indeed a small factory.

The famous Harbin Brewery has a daily output of 20 kiloliters and a daily bottling of 10,000+ bottles.

Ah Xiang also saw that Lin Huaile was the leader, so he took out a cigarette, lit one for him, and distributed it again.

Patting the machines in the workshop, he said with great heartache: "These machines are all the latest products produced by the Rhein Machinery Factory in Germany."

"I just arrived in Xiangjiang by freighter last month."

"I debugged and debugged for a week before I got a thorough understanding of the parameters. It was about to be sold just after it was put into production. It was really outrageous."

Listening to Ah Xiang's complaints also aroused Lin Huaile's curiosity, so he asked, "Since it's a new machine or a new factory building, why sell it?"

"As far as I know, Xiangjiang does not have good craft beer."

"If you open the market, you must make a lot of money."

"It doesn't make sense to push the cornucopia out. Did you encounter any difficulties?".

Hearing this, Ah Xiang was stunned, sighed, and resignedly patted the machine a few times before persuading him: "Lin Sheng, let me advise you, the beer business is not easy to do."

"You'd better give up as soon as possible!"

"Our boss and Luo Dazhuang's family are distant relatives. It's hard to do anything, and we haven't managed a single business."

"The bars and nightclubs that were negotiated before, all go back on their promises."

"10,000+ bottles of good beer are all spoiled in cold storage."

"It was only later that I found out that this industry is monopolized by associations, and ordinary people can't get in at all."

"Lin Sheng, I advise you not to go into this muddy water!".

Ah Xiang revealed all the secrets, and advised Lin Huaile not to buy the brewery, so as not to get into trouble.

Get in trouble!

He is trouble!
Lin Huaile thought it was a big trouble at first, but he didn't expect that the short mule would come to make trouble.

For others, this is indeed a big trouble, but for Lin Huaile, it is a trivial matter.

"Small problem, we can handle it."

"How much does the brewery charge?"

Lin Huaile didn't care, and asked the price directly.

It's hard to persuade a ghost who wants to die!

Seeing that Lin Huaile was determined to buy it, Ah Xiang stopped dissuading him, and replied, "The owner wants to sell both the land and the venue."

"The three floors of the office building are more than 1000 square meters in total, and the dormitory building has fifteen large rooms, with toilets and bathrooms."

"There is also a cafeteria on the first floor."

"You can also see that the architectural style of the entire factory area is German Gothic style, and a well-known designer was invited to design and build it."

"The cold storage is not powered on, but the equipment is in good condition."

"It can store bottles of beer."

"A refrigerated truck!"

"The base price of the owner is 300 million, as long as the cost is recovered!".

The price is fair!

But the business is to take advantage of the fire to rob, and prepare to take advantage of the boss's eagerness to make a move and ruthlessly kill the price.

"German craft beer sounds nice, but it's hard to sell!"

"The rich drink brandy, and the common people drink vigor."

"Only white-collar workers in big companies have money and the taste to drink craft beer."

"By the way, brewer?"

Lin Huaile suddenly thought that the most valuable thing in a brewery is not the venue and machines, but the experienced brewers.

"The winemaker has returned to Germany to be with his wife and children."

"But the signed contract is an annual contract, and it can also be transferred to you, Lin Sheng. You can call him back with just one phone call."

Hearing Lin Huaile's question, Ah Xiang answered quickly.

"Just have a winemaker!"

"The price is a bit high. The land in North Point is well-known in Xiangjiang. Hundreds of thousands can buy more than ten acres."

"After all the calculations, it means that these production machines are worth a little money."

"Give me a reserve price directly. If the price is right, we will find a lawyer's office and sign a contract!"

After Lin Huaile asked what he cared about most, he began to haggle over the price.

"Lin Sheng, this is the reserve price."

"I'm just a part-time worker, so don't make things difficult for me."

"Otherwise, you can negotiate a price, and I will discuss it with the owner. If the intention is the same, we will meet and chat."

Although Ah Xiang has the name of a factory, he can't make a decision on the price at all, and needs to ask the owner for instructions.

It is basically a megaphone, only responsible for docking.

"280 million, including the winemaker's contract."

"Brother Xiang, please submit the price according to this price. If it is successful, I will thank you very much!"

Lin Huaile has little spare money recently, so he can take out 200 million. The remaining gap needs to be filled with money from Xinghe's account.

'Okay, I'll call my boss now, please come here. '
Ah Xiang invited Lin Huaile and others to his office, accompanied by the old man who was at the shift, and found a few bottles of beer produced by Jiafeng, and invited them to taste, while he went to the next room to make a phone call.

Because there is no bottle opener, Situ Haonan can only perform his stunt, lifting the bottle cap with bare hands.

With a push of his hand, he swiftly lifted off the bottle cap stamped by the machine, and handed it to Lin Huaile.

Lin Huaile took the beer, took a sip, and found that it was indeed very different from Sheng Mi, and the taste was much better.

In fact, the difference between craft beer and ordinary beer is the difference in raw materials and brewing process.

The main raw materials of craft beer are malt, hops, yeast, and water. No additives are added during the brewing process, and the brewed beer is more natural and tastes better.

Although the main raw materials of ordinary beer are malt, hops, yeast, and water.

However, in order to save costs, ordinary beer will replace part of the malt with rice, corn, starch, etc., and the taste of the brewed beer is far less rich than that of craft beer.

One is the difference in fermentation process.

German craft beer is brewed using the Ayer process, especially the fermentation process is very strictly controlled, and its room temperature needs to be strictly controlled at around 10-20 degrees.

After the fermentation is completed, there is no need to filter and sterilize.

The brewing process of ordinary beer is just the opposite of that of craft beer, using the Lager process.

Yeast fermentation temperature is generally controlled below 10 degrees. After the fermentation is completed, it needs to be filtered and sterilized. This is done to increase the preservation time of beer.

Craft beer is mostly fermented using the upper fermentation process. During the fermentation process, orange peel, green plum, rose syrup, etc. can be added to increase the aroma and taste.

Industrial beer is mostly fermented with a lower fermentation process, and the fermentation time is only 7 days, so the fermentation will not be particularly sufficient, resulting in low wort concentration and a lighter flavor.

Strictly speaking, the beer in Lin Huaile's hand should be regarded as dark beer.

Dark beer, also known as dark beer, is generally brown or dark brown, the original wort concentration is 12 to 20 degrees, and the alcohol content is above 3.5%.

The liquor highlights the aroma of malt and burnt malt, the taste is relatively mellow, slightly sweet, and the bitterness of hops is not obvious.

"Brother Le, this beer is good, much better than Heineken!"

Changmao took a sip and drank half of the bottle. He tasted it a bit, but with his limited vocabulary, he couldn't come up with any high-grade compliments, so he could only compare it with the most expensive Heineken in the world.

Lin Huaile drank a few sips, then looked at the old man who was sitting at the door, and asked, "Grandpa, this beer tastes good, how much did you sell for a bottle before!".

The old man chuckled, looked outside the door again, and cursed with a smile: "20 yuan a bottle."

"Sick head to buy it!"

"After a hard day's work, I can only drink three bottles."

"It can't be sold in the market at all!".

Ok!

Lin Huaile instantly found out the truth about the bad business of Jiafeng Brewery!

The main force of beer is ordinary citizens and food stalls.

Although bars and nightclubs are also big, they all sell private-label Heineken. Only the beer hall in Lan Kwai Fong has regular customers who drink expensive craft stout.

A bottle of San Miguel's beer costs two yuan, even if you drink ten bottles, it's not much money.

But Jiafeng can't do it. If you want to treat guests to a drink, if it's less than two or three hundred, don't even think about it.

You must know that a factory worker in Xiangjiang now only earns 2000 yuan a month, so he would be willing to drink such expensive beer, and the whole family would not be able to live well.

Therefore, reducing costs is a top priority.

Ah Xiang came back quickly, handed Lin Huaile a piece of paper, and said happily: "Lin Sheng, this is my boss' phone number."

"He asked you to meet tomorrow."

"If there is no problem, you can sign the contract and receive the check!".

Since we have made an appointment to meet, we have agreed to a price of 280 million.

Lin Huaile nodded, put away the phone number, and prepared to leave.

"Lin Sheng!"

Ah Xiang stopped Lin Huaile, and seeing the other party's puzzled face, he continued, "There are still about ten boxes of craft beer left in the warehouse."

"If you don't drink it, it will expire."

"Grandpa and I can't finish drinking. If you don't mind, we can take a few boxes away."

"It's good to give it to friends to try!".

The rivers and lakes are not only about fighting and killing, but also about the ways of the world.

It seems that Ah Xiang still wants to work in Jiafeng, and make friends with his future boss in advance.

Anyway, the beer is not his own, and he can't drink it up wherever he throws it away, so it's better to be a favor.

"Then trouble Brother Xiang."

"In the future, I will inevitably trouble Brother Xiang, I hope you don't bother!"

Lin Huaile took out two hundred-yuan bills from his wallet, stuffed them into a cigarette box, and patted them on Ah Xiang's hands.

Ah Xiang readily stuffed the cigarettes into his pocket, and led Lin Huaile and others to carry the beer with a smile on his face.

Lin Huaile was not too greedy, and only took two boxes, said hello to Ah Xiang, and drove away.

Richard stood in front of the large French window of his study, holding a red wine glass in his hand, shaking it gently to let the red wine evaporate further and make the taste of the red wine more delicious.

On his desk, a document with a red envelope was lying on it, with Lin Huaile's pinyin engraved on it.

The young man who approached carefully turned out to be a gang member.

This made Richard feel amused. When would these underground mice dare to appear in front of the cat in an open and honest manner.

The check has been successfully cashed and deposited into the charity account of the Art Foundation opened by Wen Ning.

The site selection of the library is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and construction should not start before he leaves office.

This is a rule that must be enforced.

In fact, in the eyes of Richard, there is no difference between the Chinese in Xiangjiang, whether you are a member of a gang or a wealthy family.

Because of their identities, they can't affect him at all.

It's just that all-pervasive reporters are more annoying, and he needs to be careful.

However, he has already sent someone to investigate Fengrun Insurance, and found that it is a formal company, and has nothing to do with the gang's business, nor is it involved in money-losing activities.

The main types of insurance are also well-known to the public, such as robbery and fire insurance, without any problems.

This is the conclusion given by the security department after investigation. Richard believes that his subordinates will not deceive him.

As for bribery, that is even more nonsense.

That little guy probably didn't have enough pay to let the hawk dogs trained in the five places speak for him.

An identity context is an identity context, and a business is a business.

As long as the business is legal, nothing else matters.

After all, only the judge and God can judge whether a person is guilty or not.

Even Churchill hooked up with Chelsea's Merle family. Even if the chief of Whitehall knew about his trivial matter, he would laugh it off.

In fact, there is another reason why Richard does not reject Lin Huaile in his heart, and it accounts for a large part.

That was Shen Bi's attitude.

You know, Shen Bi's business card will not be given to insignificant people easily.

As the largest financial tycoon in the Far East and Southeast Asia, the people he takes the initiative to befriend will definitely not be small characters.

This is also the biggest reason why Richard opened his eyes to Lin Huaile.

In fact, Richard came to Xiangjiang this time with a huge mission on his shoulders.

After the oil crisis, the overseas colonies of the British Empire had been completely lost. The Suez Canal War made the whole world understand that the empire on which the sun never sets has completely become a thing of the past.

There are only a handful of colonies that are still in the hands, and even if they are in the hands, they are in turmoil and demand independence.

And the Pearl of the Far East, Xiangjiang, once again appeared in the eyes of senior Whitehall officials.

When Richard left London, he brought a copy of the Xiangjiang revitalization plan formulated by Whitehall.

According to this plan, Xiangjiang will become the new manufacturing base of the British Empire to replace India.

Industrial revitalization is easy to say.

Tokyo, which is very close, has started industrial and semiconductor innovations with the support of Yankees.

Because of its limited area, Xiangjiang cannot accept the complete set of industrial system factories in India. It can only produce some small appliances such as refrigerators, TVs, and electric fans.

Richard now has more than a billion pounds of interest-free loans in his hand, and he doesn't know where to invest.

The Jardine Consortium, which was supposed to undertake the task of the industrialization process, was very uncooperative.

This group of arrogant fools even asked him to deposit money in Standard Chartered Bank in front of him, and continue to support them in acquiring land and robbing the world's high-quality ports.

He was even considering whether to communicate with Whitehall to replace these pig teammates and cooperate with HSBC's Shen Bi instead.

"Honey, why is it so late and still not resting?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Wen Ning, who was wearing a pink nightgown, pushed open the door of the study, walked to Richard's side, put his arms around his waist, and asked softly.

Richard felt his wife's body temperature, put the red wine glass in his hand on the desk beside him, turned around and hugged Wen Ning, and said softly: "How did you play today?".

Wen Ning Xiaoniao raised his head gracefully, his eyes sparkled, and he said with a smile on his face, "Very good."

"Xie Lan accompanied me to Huang Daxian to worship God."

"I went to eat roast goose again. I found it was much more delicious than the Chinese fast food in Chinatown."

"I brought half of it back for you, but I didn't expect that you didn't come back for dinner after meeting for so long."

Hearing Xie Lan's name, Richard frowned subconsciously, but he relaxed it quickly.

Wen Ning, who had lived together for many years, immediately caught Richard's strangeness.

You know, she was admitted to Oxford University through her own efforts, and the Conservative Party once recruited her and wanted her to become a backbench MP.

It's just that at that time, she was bewitched by love and gave up this excellent opportunity.

"What's the matter? Darling!"

"It's the young couple, what's the problem for you?"

Wen Ning stretched out his hand, habitually helped Richard, and stretched his eyebrows. This was a little game full of love between them.

"There is no problem, it's just that the security department handed over Lin Huaile's identity information to the office today."

"This interesting young man is actually Mr. Merle from Xiangjiang!".

Richard picked up the red confidential document from the desk, and put it in Wen Ning's hands indifferently.

Wen Ning, who was born in Chelsea, of course knew the name of the Merle family.

The Merle family, which runs brothels, racetracks, and bars, is a spoiler for the law and order in Chelsea.

But because of the relationship with the Churchill family, the local sheriff was powerless.

It was not until a few years ago, when Allen was the Minister of the Interior, that this group of rats was brought to justice.

The famous Merle family declined like this.

Wen Ning did not expect that the young man who behaved elegantly at the banquet would actually be a gang member.

Since it was found out that he was a member of a gang, Xie Lan should also be involved.

Thinking of this, Wen Ning felt incredible.

But the investigation information of the security department can't lie. After turning a few pages, she fell silent, not knowing what to say.

Because she asked Xie Lan to play tennis with her tomorrow, she wondered if these intimate actions would bring trouble to Richard.

"I hate these Gestapo!"

Wen Ning hugged Richard tightly, muttering something in his mouth.

"This is a red confidential document, and no one can read it except me and the governor."

"Even the chairman of the Legislative Council needs my authorization to inspect it."

"Don't worry, no one will care about the identities of the two of them."

Richard knew what Wen Ning was worried about, so he patted her hand to reassure her.

Wen Ning was a little puzzled, Richard was usually very careful, even when meeting with Shen Bi, he would choose it in public, so as not to make a statement.

What's going on today?
On the contrary, you are not worried that your close relationship with gang members will affect your career?
"Xie Lan has been with you for several days, did you make any small request?"

Richard saw Wen Ning's doubts, but instead of explaining, he asked about Xie Lan's recent situation.

Wen Ning shook his head, and said affirmatively, "I asked her several times overtly and secretly, asking her if she had any difficult things to do."

"The charitable donation of 50 yuan has indeed made our life much easier."

"Even out of gratitude, I am willing to let her be my weapon."

"But she didn't follow the trend to make her request. She only said one sentence, saying that the two of them are very eager to gain our friendship!".

Richard's smile froze, and he couldn't figure out what was going on in Lin Huaile's head.

A merchant is a philistine, and when he sends a gift, he can't wait for it to be effective immediately, without delaying a moment.

Even in London, it is rare to see such a patient businessman.

What a lot of fun!

(End of this chapter)