28 Honey
For half a month, Lin Yilong accompanied the Yeang sisters to walk around the northern region, and saw them off at Pujiang Airport and returned to Moscow to take care of Mr. Yeang.
Lin Yilong himself took the train to Xiangjiang, which is known as the pearl of the Queen of England.
A considerable number of local residents are not very comfortable with the relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland, and have a rather bad attitude towards people from the mainland. He only spoke English when he went out on business, and he didn't understand the local dialect anyway - because Lin Yilong had been in Wales for a long time, his spoken English had a slight Welsh accent - and the people of Xiangjiang did not regard Lin Yilong as a mainlander, but as a foreigner. The service he enjoyed and his attitude towards others improved a lot.
The senior of his Xiangjiang branch has no objection to Lin Yilong's lifestyle in Xiangjiang, and the working language in the Xiangjiang office is English, and he does not feel that Lin Yilong is hypocritical when he speaks English in a half-work and half-private occasion such as a gathering of colleagues.
The senior, whose English name is "Lei", has the grace of knowing Lin Yilong, and it was he who recommended Lin Yilong to Allen Binghamton; Of course, there is another reason here that the senior's wife is Lin Yilong's classmate, and it is her matchmaking that makes the two chat. Therefore, every time Lin Yilong goes out to Xiangjiang, he will bring some gifts to these seniors and his classmates that are common in Britain but not common in Xiangjiang, such as foaming pear wine.
"I didn't expect that after only a year, you went to Wales to start your own business. Friday afternoon, the busiest time of the week for the firm, Lin Yilong and his senior brother actually met at the Intercontinental Hotel for coffee.
"People are constantly changing. Lin Yilong's ears were a little cocooned by such an exclamation, and it was still his classic answer.
"Then what are you doing this time, it's not for Bonnie. Lin Yilong's English name is Bonnie, and for nearly a year, Lin Yilong has been seeking the possibility of his classmate being his agent in Hong Kong.
"Not really. Lin Yilong explained, "I think the market in Shanghuan is very interesting, and I want to ask them if they need saffron, which is my main purpose, and of course, Bonnie is my secondary purpose." ”
"I'm actually quite against Bonnie working for you. The senior said, "Of course I know that you don't have this intention at all, but I always feel a little threatened in my heart." ”
"Every time you come, you say that, really. Lin Yilong took out the four glass bottles filled with saffron he brought and gave them to his senior brother, "A gift for you." ”
"That's what you call saffron?" "That's what you call saffron," he said, after looking at the dried stamens for a while, "it's similar to what I bought at the Dubai Duty Free Shop." ”
"You know, this kind of thing is cultivated in Kashmir most often, and it is through illegal channels from Dongtujistan through the Longhai line to the mainland. Because of the open-door policy, a considerable part of Iranian saffron has also arrived in pharmacies in Sheung Wan, do you think I have a market here?" asked Lin Yilong.
"Don't think about it, you know it so clearly, the first place to buy is still a local condiment or perfume merchant, how can anyone else. Ray said, "Besides, you can deal with it locally, in a metropolis like Xiangjiang, there are so many saffrons coming here from various channels, where is it not more cost-effective than you to transport here from Wales?"
"Rather, I thought that this kind of thing should be like Wagyu and something, and it could be used as a springboard from here to the mainland. Lin Yilong said.
"You've read too many novels, and you've not heard of the strictness of border control in the mainland, and you are still not allowed to import beef from countries with a history of mad cow disease. "North America, the European Union and Neon are all not imported. Unless you're selling it to make it profitable for the illegal transporters, how much does your saffron sell for?"
"The unit price is about 9 pounds per gram. Lin Yilong reported such an ambiguous figure.
"Kashmir is much less than you, and you don't have to go through customs duties. Lei continued to try to dispel Lin Yilong's thoughts, "How can you compete?"
"Maybe British-made ......" Lin Yilong naturally knew his disadvantages, so he wanted to use marketing methods.
"This is already a gold price, how much more do you want to sell?" Lei said, "Those who have money go directly to the Middle East or Greece to buy it, those who know the market go to the end of the Longhai line, and those who don't know and can't afford to pay directly use saffron, how can it be your turn to saffron." ”
It's useless, there's no way to serve the country.
It should be said that the reason why Lin Yilong wants to deal with domestic enterprises is that the negotiation cost is low, if he goes to talk to the EU manufacturers, just the commodity promotion meeting, negotiation, transportation and valuation can make people worry for a long time;
"Actually, I have other things to export, do you know the kind of honey that Melife found, specifically for the side effects of chemotherapy?" Lin Yilong mentioned the nectar that Ray introduced to him, Ray's grandmother was doing chemotherapy during the time when the three of them were in Wales, and Ray was recommended by the doctor what kind of honey, 37 pounds 100 grams.
After all, Lin Yilong had never used this kind of honey, and the only one he could use was his cousin-in-law, who had a very distant relationship with him. But the fact that it has survived until now is not necessarily due to this honey. What outsiders say Lin Yilong doesn't know very well, if his honey is put on the market according to the health food category, the income is much higher than the price of ordinary honey alone.
This is completely ignorant of conscience to make money, health food is not a medicine after all, it is impossible to play a therapeutic role - this honey claims to boost the mood of chemotherapy patients is just the effect of glucose and fructose in honey, ordinary honey can also play a similar role - and if the buyer finds that the effect is not right, he can take the "follow the doctor's advice" This is a golden sentence that has been tried and tested in the health food industry.
"What, you have an interest in this business?" Ray asked.
"Yes, I have traveled to Siberia and the Jordan Valley in search of this bee and honey, and I have found it. Lin Yilong said, "Unlike saffron, this thing is just a myth made by a group of people, but this bottle is made by me and I with saffron, ginseng and other nectar, since each one has something that prolongs life, invigorates blood and dispels blood stasis, and combines it with honey, the absorption of these ingredients will be better." Of course, this price is also very expensive. ”
Lin Yilong handed Lei the honey in the flower garden sealed as a sample, except for the darker color, other things such as viscosity and solids content were similar to the honey sold by Melife, but the fresh taste was much better than other honeys.