Chapter Seventeen New Project

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  "Xiao Jie, last night Old Shou Zhang called and mentioned the bet you made with Mr. Jimmy about investing in the Huanghe Winery. Dad is very happy about it. As an economics major and a friend of Mr. Jimmy's, he has authorized you to represent the winery and negotiate with him on their behalf." Yang Xinhua had already spoken with Zhou Dalong over the phone yesterday and knew about the bet between Yang Jie and Mr. Jimmy. He was delighted that Mr. Jimmy would be investing in the winery and helping with its future development.

  The Yuhe River Winery wants to develop, and it's not just relying on Yang Xinhua alone to make a success of it. As Zhou Dalong said last night, introducing foreign capital to expand production, introducing advanced management experience from abroad, making the Yuhe River brand bigger and stronger, creating a famous Chinese product, this is Zhou Dalong's expectation for the winery's future development.

  Yang Jie heard Yang Xinhua say that Zhou Dalong had called him yesterday, so he understood that today he and Jimmy would be back, Yang Xinhua must have known it early. As for why Yang Jie could drink so much, Liu Daxing had brought the hangover medicine to prove it yesterday, so Yang Xinhua wouldn't suspect anything.

  "Dad, the hangover cure that my uncle brought over, I'm sure you've already tried it last night? Actually, the old Chinese doctor gave me not only a hangover cure, but also two other medicinal wines." Yang Jie couldn't think of an excuse for a while to explain the origin of the aphrodisiac wine and the antihypertensive wine, so he could only attribute all this to that non-existent old Chinese doctor.

  "What's going on? Tell me!" Yang Xinhua, who had been through many battles and was not easily surprised, raised an eyebrow after hearing Yang Jie's words, seemingly very interested in what he had to say.

  "These two medicinal wines are the Invigorating Wine and the Hypotensive Wine. I believe you also know that many of China's old TCM doctors have their own secret recipes, and the old doctor I met had a family that had been practicing medicine for generations, but he didn't have any children or apprentices to pass it down to. So after I helped him, he passed down the recipe for the sobering medicine as well as his family's two medicinal wine recipes to me."

  Liu Daxing's eyes sparkled as he stared at Yang Jie, "Little Jie, can you really make both of these wines? If so, the future development of the winery will be set!"

  "Of course, the effect of the hangover cure, I'm sure you've all experienced it before. The efficacy of those two medicinal wines will absolutely exceed your expectations. That's why I think Yangtze River Winery can take advantage of Mr. Jimmy's funding and assistance to develop this functional wine project."

  Yang Xinhua is a military man, he doesn't like to drag things out. Since it's already been decided that Yang Jie will go talk to Jimmy about the investment, he didn't want to interfere anymore. "As long as the two types of wine are effective and harmless to humans, I agree with this matter. You get the samples of the two medicinal wines first, I'll find someone to test and analyze them. As for the investment, you can talk to him about it first."

  "Alright!"

  Yang Jie knew that Yang Xinhua was a pragmatic person, and if he hadn't seen the samples with his own eyes and confirmed the effects of the functional wine, he wouldn't have agreed to develop these two wines. Fortunately, Liu Daxing had brought some of the wine medicine over a day in advance, allowing Yang Xinhua to experience its magic for himself, so he didn't doubt what Yang Jie said about these two wines either.

  Jimmy couldn't understand Chinese, let alone the dialect of Yongnian County. Yang Jie, after getting permission from Yang Xinhua, turned around with a smile and started telling Jimmy about the functional wine he had just discussed with Yang Xinhua.

  Jimmy, with an abnormally keen business sense of smell, heard Yang Jie's two functional wines and his eyes burst out with excitement. "Jie, are you sure the two wines you mentioned are really effective? And decide to mass-produce them in this winery?"

  "Yes! I'll have the functional wine samples ready this afternoon, and then you can experience it for yourself whether it's effective or not!" Yang Jie nodded, a confident smile spreading across his face.

  "That's great! If you can really produce these two wines, and they are harmless to the human body and have a miraculous effect, I will invest a large sum of money in this winery and sell these two wines all over the world!" Jimmy looked at the confident young man in front of him, and from Yang Jie's eyes, he saw strong self-confidence. Yang Jie's confidence infected Jimmy, making his mood surge up too.

  Yang Jie got up and walked to Yang Xinhua's office desk, picked up the pen on the table, and wrote down the ingredients of two functional wines with a flourish. The ingredients of the two wines were different from each other, similar to hangover remedies, mainly using traditional Chinese medicine as the main ingredient, chemical agents as auxiliary, and some roots, stems and tree barks that cannot be used as medicine.

  Fortunately, these things can be found in Tonghe Township. Yang Jie, in order to prevent the formula from being leaked, specially mixed some unused Chinese medicine and chemical reagents into the formula. After filling up more than half of the two sheets of letter paper, he handed them over to Liu Daxing and asked him to purchase these things personally.

  Liu Daxing had experience buying ingredients for making hangover medicine, so he naturally knew how to prepare the ingredients. He happily took two prescriptions and walked out of the office.

  "Xiao Jie, regarding Mr. Jimmy's investment, you can go to the conference room next door to discuss it. I still have a lot of things to deal with here, so I won't accompany you. If there's anything you need or want to know about the winery, you can find Wang Guixi." Yang Xinhua still had many things to attend to and immediately returned to her desk after sending Yang Jie and Jimmy out of the office.

  "Mr. Jimmy, let me first give you a general introduction to this winery. As for the investment in the winery, we'll discuss it after those two functional wines have been verified." Yang Jie led Jimmy to the conference room next door, and after they sat down, Yang Jie's face showed a formulaic smile as he spoke calmly.

  Jimmy is a successful businessman, naturally distinguishing between public and private matters. Yang Jie now represents the winery to negotiate with him, he also collected his smile, seriously looking at Yang Jie, listening to Yang Jie introduce the Huohe Winery.

  Yang Jie was very familiar with the situation of the Huanghe Winery and casually mentioned its sales performance, business operations, asset situation, and other data to introduce the winery to Jimmy. Jimmy listened very attentively to Yang Jie's explanation.

  Although Jimmy lost the bet and promised to invest in the Julu River Winery, this investment had no upper or lower limit, which means that even if Jimmy invested one dollar in the winery, he could be considered to have fulfilled his promise. Therefore, in order to obtain Jimmy's financial support, Yang Jie introduced it very seriously and in detail.

  After Yang Xin Hua's operation for several years, the total assets of Yuehe Wine Factory are now around 2 million yuan, which is all calculated as fixed assets. The value of the brand and so on, Yang Jie did not say, in fact, a local brand like Yuehe Liquor has no brand value to speak of.

  "Jie, this winery's annual output is only a thousand tons, which is too small. If we develop functional wine, such an output is absolutely not enough. We need to reach at least 2 million tons per year to meet the demand of the Chinese market, let alone the global market outside of China." Jimmy listened seriously to Yang Jie's introduction and frowned, speaking directly.

  The Yuhe River Winery was previously a collectively-owned village winery, producing mostly loose white wine and low-end bottled wine. It wasn't until Yang Xinhua took over the winery that it began to formalize and rapidly develop. In just a few years, it had only just begun to take shape, with an annual output of only about 1,000 tons, but this achievement was already satisfactory for the leaders and employees of the winery.

  Yang Jie had discussed the development of functional liquor with Xiao Wu before, and knew that Jimmy was telling the truth. With the efficacy of these two types of functional liquor, as long as they were launched on the market, they would definitely cause a sensation and sell well. The Xianghe Wine Factory, which produced 1,000 tons per year, was indeed unable to meet the demand of the market.

  "Jimmy, functional liquor and self-brewed white wine are two different things. For these two types of functional liquor, we only need to add various medicinal ingredients into the finished white wine and then blend them together, without needing to brew them simultaneously with the white wine. Therefore, while expanding the production scale of our winery, we can purchase suitable white wine for processing and production."

  "My plan is to take the Yuquan River Winery as the core and build a wine industry group centered on two major products: high-end brand baijiu and functional liquor." Yang Jie's goal was very clear, and Xiao Wu had already prepared a detailed development plan for him, so he spoke fluently and in an orderly manner.

  Jimmy is a successful international businessman who has invested in many countries around the world. His vision and business acumen are far superior to those of Yang Jie, who is just starting out. After hearing Yang Jie's analysis and plans, Jimmy suddenly thought of many ideas about the future development, promotion, and operation of the wine industry group.

  However, Jimmy knew that Yang Jie's plan relied entirely on the two special functional wines. If the functional wines didn't work out, then relying solely on the small Baijiu distillery of Hechuan would be impossible to achieve Yang Jie's idea, even with Jimmy's investment.

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