Super Rich from Winning a Lottery-Chapter 355 - 247: Yi Xiaolin Wants to Resign

Of course Yi Anguo couldn’t just let all this rosewood get stuck in his hands. Even though his purchase cost hadn’t been high, he still had to sell it off when prices were about to peak.

If you don’t sell when prices are about to hit the top, and wait until they plunge, wouldn’t that be a big loss?

But the high‑end rosewood furniture produced by his own company couldn’t just have its price casually lowered either. Sometimes cutting prices isn’t a good thing; it makes earlier customers feel bad.

Many people who buy high‑end, top‑grade rosewood furniture are doing it for value preservation or appreciation; it’s a form of collecting and investing. Otherwise, who would spend hundreds of thousands, a million, even several million, ten‑plus million, just to buy a set of rosewood furniture?

Personal taste is one aspect, but in fact the mentality of collecting and investing also accounts for a very large part.

If you drop the price right after they’ve only just bought it, anyone would feel uncomfortable.

So for rosewood premium furniture that’s already been produced, he couldn’t arbitrarily cut prices; in that case he’d just sell the raw logs directly and still make plenty.

In any case there was only one goal: clear them out before prices peaked.

Except for Indian small‑leaf red sandalwood and big‑leaf red sandalwood, prices for other rosewoods—whether Hainan huanghuali, Vietnamese huanghuali, or Laotian big red acidwood, as well as red acidwood, "flower branch" wood, Burmese padauk, etc.—were basically steadily rising. Although there would be some turbulence, the drop range wouldn’t be large, and afterward they would climb again, with prices going higher and higher.

Especially Laotian big red acidwood: right now large logs and board stock were only a little over one hundred thousand per ton. Compared with the future price of over a million per ton, or five to six hundred thousand per ton, and particularly good large logs and board stock even reaching several million per ton, this was already very cheap.

So for these rosewoods that would continue to rise in future, he still needed to keep buying steadily now.

After inspecting all the warehouses and explaining the follow‑up plan to the two of them, and with Yi Xiaolin and Yi Xiaoman accompanying him, Yi Anguo also went to the production workshops to take a look—not only the workshop for high‑end rosewood furniture, but also the modern red oak furniture production workshop.

Finally he arrived at Anguo Furniture’s high‑end furniture showroom to look over the sample pieces on display there.

Besides selling through specialty stores and online, Anguo Furniture also received customers who came directly to the factory to place orders, allowing them to visit the entire furniture production process so they would have no worries at all.

After making a circuit, it was more or less mealtime. Yi Anguo wasn’t particular about what he ate, so he simply ate at Anguo Company’s cafeteria.

The food in Anguo Company’s cafeteria was quite good: chicken, duck, fish, and meat, everything was available, with more than twenty dishes for employees to choose from, meeting the tastes of people from different regions.

Whether light, numbing‑spicy, or fragrant‑spicy, all kinds of flavors were available.

And the price wasn’t high either: ten yuan a day covered three meals—breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The company subsidized half, and employees only had to pay the other half. It was buffet‑style, but with one condition: no wasting food. You only take as much as you can eat.

Anguo Company didn’t set up any "small cafeteria" for certain people; everyone ate together, and the meals for management were the same as those for ordinary workers.

In fact everyone in the company is equal; it’s just that positions differ and jobs differ. If even at mealtimes you draw rigid class lines, ordinary employees will feel uncomfortable and easily develop dissatisfaction and a sense of opposition.

And for Anguo Furniture Factory, the pay for people sitting in offices, ordinary white‑collar staff, was actually not as high as that of workers on the production line.

Those highly skilled carpenters who specialized in using Indian small‑leaf red sandalwood, Vietnamese huanghuali, Hainan huanghuali and other precious woods to make premium rosewood furniture were earning monthly salaries of over ten thousand yuan.

The pay for ordinary office clerks working in the office was only five to six thousand yuan a month, since it was, after all, still 2010.

Apart from the more comfortable work environment and the job being less tiring, ordinary office clerks’ wages were indeed not as high as those of production‑line workers.

Carpenters on the production line dating and marrying the pretty office girls was nothing new at Anguo Furniture Factory; it had already happened several times.

Yi Anguo was quite willing to come to Anguo Furniture Factory to inspect work. He had poured a lot of attention into this place, because compared with those other tech companies, he understood the furniture industry much better.

As for Huaxing Technology Group, Huaxin Semiconductor Group, and Hua’an Microelectronics Group, even if Yi Anguo went to these companies to inspect, he actually didn’t understand much about high‑tech. He was mainly relying on his passion, wanting to make some contribution to the country’s technological development.

As for how much profit these tech companies could bring him, he actually didn’t care that much.

Fortunately, apart from Hua’an Microelectronics Group, Huaxing Technology Group and Huaxin Semiconductor Group were now basically able to operate normally; at least they had reached break‑even and no longer needed him to keep putting in money.

He believed that in the not‑too‑distant future, they would be able to achieve normal profitability.

Although Hua’an Microelectronics Group still needed continuous additional investment to achieve technological breakthroughs, it wasn’t without profit points. For some low‑end lithography machines, packaging machines, and etching machines, it had already achieved mass production and quickly seized some domestic market share, even exporting to several Southeast Asian countries.