My Courtyard Refuge

VIII Tobacco, Alcohol, Sugar and Tea

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Starting from June 15th, Xu Dong began to receive various couriers one after another. Sometimes there were hundreds of packages a day, and soon there was no place to set foot in the yard.

In order to organize these packages, Xu Dong was so tired that he almost couldn’t straighten up.

On June 18, the purchased vacuum machine arrived. Not all merchants are capable of providing vacuum packaging, so Xu Dong simply bought one.

living comfortably without anybody’s help.

It was not until June 25 that Xu Dong sealed all the products and moved them to the warehouse, placing them in categories.

The next day, Xu Dong went back to Luyang again, reunited with his family for three days, and then went north for the fourth time.

This time Xu Dong planned to stay for a longer period of time. The excuse was that the business volume in the capital had increased dramatically, and the company needed his help to establish a branch. This “business trip” would take at least a month or two.

Neither Yang Lina nor Xu’s mother had any doubts, because during this period of time, Xu Dong only took 180,000 yuan from his family for business commissions.

To be able to commission so much, frequent business trips are justified.

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On the last day of June, Xu Dong once again placed a large order with suppliers, this time the products were mainly concentrated in the four categories of tobacco, wine, sugar and tea.

Xu Dong himself is also a smoker, but after ten years in his previous life, he quit smoking a long time ago.

However, the shelf life of cigarettes is not bad, the longest can reach four to five years, it is a popular item for gift-giving, and it is also very popular on the black market, so he directly placed an order for 50 boxes.

This alone cost more than 3 million yuan.

Next comes wine, which has a longer shelf life and a lot of hard liquor has almost no shelf life.

The longer the time, the more fragrant the wine will be.

Xu Dong ordered a batch of several major brands of strong liquor in China, including high-end and mid-end brands, including Moutai.

In total, there were almost 3,500 boxes, and a total of more than 8 million yuan was spent.

In addition, Xu Dong also ordered 100 cases of various wines, all of which are suitable for long-term storage. He was looking for a big foreign brand, and spent more than 100,000 yuan.

Next came the tea leaves. Xu Dong usually only drank green tea and was not very familiar with other teas.

After some communication and inquiry, he finally ordered only 1,000 kilograms of tea bricks, mainly Pu’er tea and ordinary tea bricks.

These tea bricks generally have a shelf life of more than ten years, are easy to store, durable to drink, and very cost-effective.

Finally, it is the bulk of this purchase – sugar!

The more famine the era is, the more people crave two things, one is fat and the other is sugar.

About 70% of the energy needed by the human body is provided by sugar, which is also an important substance that constitutes tissues and protects liver functions.

In the future, food will be fully controlled by the state, and Xu Dong won’t be able to get involved. Small-scale transactions will be fine, but large-scale transactions will definitely be investigated, which is too risky.

As for fat, that is, meat and cooking oil, the shelf life is a flaw, and Xu Dong doesn’t plan to participate in it.

Not only can sugar have a very long shelf life, but the country’s control is not very strict, which gives Xu Dong room to get involved.

In the future, sugar can be compared to food, and it is a hard currency that can be realized at any time, and there is no market for a long time.

Therefore, Xu Dong intends to stockpile a batch of white sugar as the ballast stone of the warehouse to deal with various crises that may erupt.

However, the quantity purchased this time was really too large. Xu Dong contacted several suppliers, and only then did he make up the quantity of 1,000 tons, with a total value of about 7.2 million yuan.

After a week like this, all the tobacco, wine, tea and sugar ordered this time arrived, and the yard was piled up again, and Xu Dong even had to rent a temporary warehouse.

This time it took Xu Dong more than a month to put everything together.

So far, the entire warehouse on the second floor of the basement has been fully filled, and even the warehouse on the first floor of the basement has only about half of the space left.

This situation made Xu Dong couldn’t help showing a foolish smile.

As the saying goes: if you have food in your hand, don’t panic in your heart.

So far, what Xu Dong has bought are some commodities that are more suitable for long-term storage, and more than half of the hoarding task has been completed, and the next amount will not be so much.

On August 8, Xu Dong concentrated on purchasing a batch of household appliances, including televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, etc., soybean milk machine, juicer, razor, and kitchen and bathroom appliances, etc., I bought more than a dozen copies of each.

Xu Dong remembered that in his previous life, after the catastrophe, these household appliances were very difficult to buy, and the price was extremely expensive. It is better to hoard a batch now to avoid trouble.

In addition, Xu Dong has hoarded hundreds of electronic products such as computers, mobile phones, game consoles, radios and tablet computers, even considering the share for his grandchildren.

In addition, Xu Dong also purchased household rice mills and flour mills, which are needed when processing rice and wheat.

He even bought a set of equipment for making tofu, and the store provided a full set of video teaching materials, claiming that he would know it after just one look.

On August 10, two more cars suddenly appeared in the courtyard. One was a 10-seater Mercedes-Benz luxury business car.

The other one is a small van with a fresh-keeping and freezing function. It is mainly used to transport goods, and it is more convenient to enter and exit.

Both vehicles are fuel vehicles and cost a total of 7.3 million yuan.

Why choose a fuel car?

One reason is that the technology of electric vehicles is still immature at this time, and the battery needs to be replaced every few years, which is very inconvenient;

Second, in the future, the supply of fuel will be more abundant than electricity. In Luyang in the previous life, for example, in order to ensure food production, power cuts will be cut off almost every day.

And don’t forget, when a large solar flare erupts, it will cause a global blackout. At that time, fuel vehicles will be more reliable.

On August 12, Xu Dong locked the gate of the courtyard house and was about to drive to an orchard in the suburbs of Yanjing.

The purpose of his trip is not to buy fruit, but to purchase a batch of mature, high-purity honey.

The sugar content of this honey is so high that the bacteria cannot survive in such a high sugar environment.

Archaeologists once unearthed 3,300-year-old honey in the Egyptian pyramids, which has not deteriorated at all.

After arriving at the destination, Xu Dong made a phone call and quickly found the owner of the orchard. The two parties had met online before.

“You are Mr. Xu Dongxu, right?” the orchard owner greeted.

“That’s right, I am.” Xu Dong nodded, “You are Boss Hu, right? It’s a pleasure to meet you!”

Boss Hu didn’t waste time, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to see honey.”

The two walked around to the center of the orchard, and there were seven or eight beehives nearby, and the bees came in and out in groups of three or four.

“Boss Hu, what kind of bees do you raise here?” Xu Dong asked curiously.

“Italian bee.”

“How about the ability to produce honey?”

“The ability to produce honey is not bad, and the ability to produce royal jelly is also very strong. Do you want to have some?” Boss Hu started to sell at the right time.

Xu Dong shook his head: “I don’t need it for now, let’s talk about it next time!”

He checked the information before he came, and the shelf life of royal jelly is very short and has no storage value.

“Oh, that’s fine, then we’ll start collecting honey now!”

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At five o’clock in the afternoon, Xu Dong left with more than a dozen bottles of freshly baked honey. The honey was definitely real honey. He saw the squeezed honey with his own eyes, but he didn’t know if it was ripe honey.

However, Boss Hu vowed that his honey is of good quality and can be stored for several years.