Chapter 2254
Want to Change Partners
He Xinghua didn't blame his "friends" in América.
If you put him in the other person's shoes, he might make the same choice.
When they first started their business, they were willing to invest in even beggars on the street.
Regardless of how the money came about, entrepreneurs would be overjoyed to accept it.
However, once a company grows to a certain level, it will inevitably want to clarify the resources around it.
They will consider who is of high value to them and who has become a burden to their progress.
Entrepreneurs who only care about loyalty will never go far.
The kind of story where a group of brothers start from nothing and then work together to build an empire can only exist in a small-scale peasant economy.
And most of those people are chosen by fate.
This is the only explanation.
Just like Pei County was to Liu Bang,
Huaixi was related to Zhu Chongba.
Otherwise, how do you explain all those outstanding people coming together?
In today's business world, people no longer believe in fairy tales.
Usually, it's a group of brothers who conquer the world, and those who can't keep up are ruthlessly abandoned by the small group.
When some people achieve success and then look back, they see the brother who once shielded them from harm in a street-side snack shop.
Meanwhile, the successful person sits in a luxury car, dressed in impeccable attire.
The loser, with a cigarette dangling from his lips and looking slovenly, was a complete failure.
A striking contrast in the imagery.
Yan Bugui has recently been considering abandoning his partner.
He felt that Yan Jiekuang was being too greedy.
During this period, the Yan family must have been the most prominent family in this alley, the kind that other families could only envy.
Yan Bugui made a fortune from his early hobby of growing flowers.
This will definitely make everyone envious.
But this isn't a field that just anyone can enter.
To put it bluntly, more than half the people in this alley can't tell the difference between clivia and other flowers.
Even if others know what a clivia is.
That also means they can't distinguish between good and bad quality.
So everyone was envious of the Yan family's wealth, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Yan Bugui will definitely keep his mouth shut.
But Yan Jiekuang was eager to prove himself.
So, without realizing it, Yan Jiekuang revealed that he and his son could earn three to five hundred yuan a month.
This is Yan Bugui's first point of dissatisfaction.
In his view, making big money in silence and showing off is never a good thing.
Yan Jiekuang's smugness and self-satisfaction were clearly inciting those with ulterior motives to target his family.
But Yan Jiekuang also had his own thoughts; he had failed too thoroughly before.
He fled from Beijing, and his wife and children went with someone else.
Last week, he thought about going to see his son, but Zhang Chunhua chased him out of the alley with a kitchen knife, and he even lost one of his shoes in the process.
This will definitely invite endless ridicule from everyone on the street.
Yan Jiekuang thought Zhang Chunhua was being unreasonable, but he didn't consider that he had left nothing behind when he abandoned his wife and children at home.
If Zhang Chunhua hadn't had help, the mother and daughter might have starved to death.
Now Yan Jiecheng shamelessly shows up empty-handed, wanting to see his son.
If she were to swallow her anger, she would be too spineless.
Of course, Yan Jiekuang had his own reasons for arriving empty-handed.
He sent back the five hundred yuan last time, but Zhang Chunhua didn't accept it.
In his opinion, no matter how many gifts he brought to her door this time, Zhang Chunhua would definitely not accept them, given her personality.
Rather than letting the gift go to waste, he figured it was better to save some money. Yan Jiekuang's guess about Zhang Chunhua's personality was correct.
But he forgot about the intricacies of human relationships.
Whether Zhang Chunhua accepts it or not is her business.
Whether he buys it or not is a reflection of his feelings for his son.
Even if you buy it and bring it over, Zhang Chunhua might throw it away.
At least not everyone will laugh at him. There will inevitably be a few soft-hearted people who will think that Yan Jiekuang had no choice back then and that he has now turned over a new leaf.
That's just how things are in society.
If you want a good reputation, you have to endure the humiliation that comes with it.
Putting aside everything else, a few middle-aged women who had watched the Yan family rise to prominence originally wanted to set Yan Jiekuang up with a partner.
Seeing his actions, they all gave up on that idea.
If she's so stingy with her own son, what benefits can she possibly gain from introducing him to potential partners?
Of course, what Yan Bugui was most dissatisfied with about his third son was not Yan Jiekuang's publicizing of the Yan family's wealth.
Instead, Yan Jiekuang would always ask Yan Bugui for money after completing a business deal.
That is, they want his hard-earned money and a share of the profits.
Although the father and son did not agree on a specific ratio for the profits.
This was Yan Bugui's mistake; due to his health, he had truly been out of touch with society for far too long.
When Yan Jiekuang said that orchids could make money, I thought it was only one or two yuan.
At that time, Yan Bugui's health was not very good. He really wanted to help his third brother and guide him onto the right path, so that Yan Jiekuang could at least make a living by relying on his eyesight in the future.
He never expected that the Clivia market would be so hot and so profitable.
With his keen eye, he recently visited the suburbs and reconnected with some old acquaintances.
Although not every potted plant is as profitable as the one sold to Xiao Lan at the beginning.
But Yan Bugui can still find deals that yield double the profit.
He can sell the twenty he collected for forty.
And so on.
With such high profits in sight, Yan Bugui was hooked.
Yan Jiekuang kept clamoring for a 50/50 split of profits, so how could Yan Bugui possibly agree to that?
Isn't that like cutting flesh off his body?
For a while, Yan Bugui had been giving his third brother a little less and then using other excuses to get rid of him.
For example, the kind of wishful thinking that "saving money to do big business later".
At first, Yan Jiekuang ate.
But after eating too much, Yan Jiekuang began to have his own thoughts and started to wonder if Yan Bugui's old problem had relapsed.
The father and son didn't have a very pleasant argument.
The Yan family in the old city of Beijing.
Today, the Yan family father and son sat facing each other. Yan Bugui had no expression and looked very relaxed.
Yan Jiekuang, on the other hand, had a dark expression on his face, his dissatisfaction written all over his face.
There was no other reason. A few days ago, the father and son found a nice potted plant. They bought it for three yuan and sold it to Xiao Lan for sixty-five yuan.
The key point is that the flower pot wasn't found through Yan Bugui's connections, but rather by Yan Jiekuang while wandering the streets and alleys.
At the time, the owner considered the flowerpot to be worthless and left it at the door, the flowerpot itself was broken.
But it was in very good condition.
Yan Jiekuang then went to the owner's house to bargain, and finally took out three yuan to buy the potted plant.
At this point, it can be said that this deal was entirely made by Yan Jiekuang and had nothing to do with Yan Bugui.
But the flowerpot was broken and needed to be replaced.
It sounds simple, but there's still some technical skill involved.
So he had no choice but to go home and beg his father.
The matter was resolved, the flowers survived, and they sold for a high price.
But Yan Bugui only gave him ten yuan, which infuriated Yan Jiekuang. (End of Chapter)