Chapter 196: Panic Over Poultry

Half an hour later.

On the way back.

Li Mingyu was driving, holding the contract in her hand.

Her face was filled with rage.

“This old woman dares to mock me for being unwanted!?”

“I haven’t even mocked her for being a stepmother!?”

“And she dares to talk about me?!”

“She doesn’t even look at her own sagging appearance!”

“And that waist! She walks like she’s doing the Yangko dance!”

“She’s infuriating me to death!!!”

The more Li Mingyu spoke, the angrier she got, slapping the contract in her hand onto the steering wheel, making a ‘slap-slap’ sound.

Seeing this.

Jiang Ning could only try to persuade her gently.

After much persuasion, he finally managed to calm down Ms. Li’s anger a little.

After all, she was still driving…

“What are you going to do?!”

Then.

Without waiting for Jiang Ning to reply, Li Mingyu held up the contract.

“No cooperation!”

“Not even if they offer the best conditions!”

“Otherwise, I’ll never speak to you again!”

Alright, alright, alright.

Jiang Ning quickly comforted this young mature woman whose bust size seemed to have expanded by one.

Actually, there was no need to say it, Miss Jiang wouldn’t cooperate anyway.

Although the conditions offered were good.

But Jiang Ning could tell at a glance.

What Shang Jie wanted was not the profit from the cooperation; she wanted the entire ‘Shi Ning Ji’.

If this contract were signed, it would indeed bring considerable profits in the early stages.

But as long as the time was right.

In just a few days.

The ‘Shi Ning Ji’ signboard could immediately be replaced with the ‘Emperor’s Chicken’ signboard.

Even the change procedures wouldn’t take three steps.

This kind of act, of making wedding clothes for others.

Li Mingyu didn’t see it, but Jiang Ning saw it clearly.

It seems this young Mrs. Shang also knew.

Although Jiangzhou is very large.

Large enough to give birth to dozens of fried chicken shops.

But Jiangzhou is also very small.

Small enough to only support one local fried chicken chain.

Either ‘Shi Ning Ji’ would suppress ‘Emperor’s Chicken’.

Or be replaced by it.

As long as ‘Emperor’s Chicken’ still wanted to expand.

This war would not stop.

Actually, the time was almost right.

While a certain law hadn’t been introduced yet.

The plan…

Let it begin.

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Wangjia Village.

Located at the junction of Jiangzhou and Linzhou.

Like Tianjia Village.

The villagers of Wangjia Village, almost every household would raise some poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.

The free-range scale was not large.

But these were a very important source of income for the villagers.

But this year, ever since large-scale farms began appearing in neighboring villages.

Some people in the village also started to have ideas in this regard.

But unfortunately.

They had no technology.

They had no funds.

At most, they could only unite the village, to set up a small-scale farm.

Only a few thousand animals.

When they first started.

They didn’t even have a sales channel.

In the end, the village stepped forward, and contacted the farm in the neighboring Tianjia Village.

Only then did they gradually manage to sustain their sales channels.

But without systematic, large-scale farming.

Dead chickens and sick chickens often appeared in the farm.

This also led to Wangjia Village’s farm never making much money.

When it became clear that the villagers’ many methods weren’t very effective.

Voices of giving up slowly began to emerge in Wangjia Village.

However, at this very moment.

The person in charge of the neighboring Tianjia Village, sent a message.

“What? Merged farming?”

Wang Xiaofei, the person in charge of Wangjia Village’s farm, looked at the delicate and simple girl in front of him, and asked with a puzzled voice.

“What does ‘merged farming’ mean?”

Hearing this.

Tian Ting smiled.

“It means you provide the land, and we send people to help you with the farming.”

“Regardless of profit or loss, we’ll split it fifty-fifty.”

Hearing this.

Wang Xiaofei fell into thought.

Although he started working after graduating from junior high school.

But after so many years of experience, he had learned a lot about business matters.

If this person in charge, Tian Ting, only talked about benefits, he definitely wouldn’t believe it.

After all, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Even if the other party’s farming technology was truly impressive.

But the crucial point was the phrase “losses will also be shared equally.”

This made Wang Xiaofei quite interested in the feasibility of this ‘merged farming’ plan.

However.

Wang Xiaofei was also a cautious person.

Looking at the contract in his hand, he added a question.

“Are there any additional requirements?”

“Yes, just one.”

“Tell me.”

“To standardize sales, all chickens ready for market, must be sold uniformly by our Xiangrikui Company.”

Unified sales?

For Wang Xiaofei, this was simply a godsend.

He immediately picked up the pen, and swiftly signed his name on the contract.

And similar things.

Had not been the first time in Jiangzhou in the past two days.

Basically, all farms of a certain scale, had received a contract from Xiangrikui Company.

Either it was merged farming, or cooperative sales.

Or other proposals.

When this news belatedly reached Ms. Shang Jie of Hongsheng Group.

That Xiangrikui Company had already successfully controlled 30% of the sales channels for edible chickens in the entire Jiangzhou market.

And this number was slowly expanding.

“What’s the background of this company?”

Shang Jie, frowning at the company name on the document, asked aloud.

“President Shang, we’ve checked, it’s a farming company just established after the New Year.” The secretary said, and handed over another paper document.

Shang Jie took the document, and looked down at it for a moment.

Frowning slightly, she said:

“A company co-founded with a village, and a female university graduate who just finished school.”

“And they have the audacity to want to control the farming and sales of edible chickens in the entire city?”

“Where did they get the funds?”

Although it was absurd.

But the facts were right before her eyes.

This made Shang Jie have to accept it, and then patiently read through the contract in her hand.

A moment later.

When Shang Jie saw the names of the merged farms on the document.

An indescribable chill, suddenly wrapped around her heart.

Among them were 7 farms, and 2 farming and sales companies.

More than half of them were places responsible for the chicken supply of their ‘Emperor’s Chicken’.

If these raw materials were all controlled by others.

Then their ‘Emperor’s Chicken’.

No.

Even the interests of the entire Hongsheng Group would be affected.

After all, within Hongsheng Group, many products were linked to chicken meat and eggs.

Although Hongsheng Group’s procurement covered the entire province.

There were still a small number of local procurement orders.

Thinking of this.

Shang Jie tapped the table.

“Xiao Wang, go contact the group’s procurement department, and have them issue a procurement list for chicken products to me.”

“Also.”

“Contact Wang Quanming of Desheng Company.”

“Tell him I have something important to discuss with him in person.”

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Just as many people belatedly discovered problems with chicken suppliers.

A company named Desheng Poultry, also joined the competition for chicken ingredients.

However.

This company was not competing for the chicken ingredient farming line.

But rather focusing on competing for the sales channels of chicken ingredients.

The actions of the two companies, one after another, quickly attracted the attention of many people in the catering industry.

They all speculated about what was happening.

Some astute individuals, also began to participate in this competition.

In short.

In just about a week.

Chicken ingredients in the entire Jiangzhou market, saw an unexpected surge in prices.

Eggs, which originally had a wholesale price of 1.5 yuan per jin, now directly rose to 2 yuan.

A decent-sized chicken that used to cost 15 yuan, now couldn’t be bought for less than 20.

Faced with rising raw material prices, many restaurants had no choice but to raise prices to reduce losses.

For a time.

The market was in a panic over poultry.

However.

Only a few restaurants in the entire market, still maintained their original prices for chicken products.

Besides those foreign enterprises, the two largest local ones, were ‘Shi Ning Ji’ and ‘Emperor’s Chicken’.

At this moment.

Sensitive people seemed to have already noticed something.

They began to focus their attention on the supply chains of these two establishments.

“‘Emperor’s Chicken’ has Hongsheng Group backing it, so having enough ingredients is understandable.”

“But how can ‘Shi Ning Ji’ sustain itself for so long?”

Yang Xia, the manager of KFC Times Square Flagship Store, when facing her colleagues, raised such a question.

And those with similar questions.

Besides her, there were many other professionals in the catering industry.

Who were also inquiring everywhere about the reasons behind it.

However.

As the initiator of this ingredient competition.

A certain Miss Jiang, was being held down by several girls on a roller coaster at an amusement park.

Her mouth kept uttering words like “No,” “Let me down,” “I want to go home.”

Unfortunately.

It was useless.

She could only watch helplessly as the roller coaster she was on, slowly climbed to its highest point.

The next second.

“Oh my god~~~!!!”
(End of this chapter)