Due to security needs, Zhang Nan did not let the convoy stop here, but just looked at the Chinese traders outside through the thick bulletproof glass.

Zhang Nan is very interested in these people outside, that is the fallen master, this legendary famous fallen master, a group of fallen masters who can even be regarded as having their heads tied to their trousers and belts to come out and wander!

As a post-60s generation, I have experienced the great social changes in the 80s and the rapid development in the 90s. This will start a business, and also pay attention to a "north and south", south is to go to Qionghai, Pengcheng, Yangcheng, because the county is located in the south of the Yangtze River, since the last life this will be at least twenty or thirty thousand people in the county south.

As for this "going north", it is to do border trade with Russia and Eastern Europe, or simply go to the capitals of other countries, there are more people in the north of China, and of course, there are also Jiangnan Wen merchants all over the world.

It is not easy to "go south", and even more so to "go north", being a stranger in a foreign land, running to other countries, or countries with chaotic social order, the difficulties and sadness are probably only clear to the fallen masters themselves.

From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the closure of an ant market, no one knows how many Chinese people have broken into Russia in the past 20 years.

There is only an approximate estimate, and it is said that at the peak, there were as many as 100,000 Chinese masters a year in the Moscow region alone!

Coming and going, walking and coming, some people returned to their hometowns with a lot of dollars and gold clothes, and there were many people who were frustrated and hurt and parted, and some people were broken in a foreign country.

Seeing that the market outside has expanded many times, it is estimated that there can be thousands of people here, this is a group of people who can be fearless for the sake of profit and survival, can bear hardships and stand hard work, and can even endure humiliation!

Zhang Nan is both familiar and unfamiliar with these things in his heart: his nephew Jia Nan, who sat in the front car with Charlie, had a good and close college classmate in his previous life, and his family was a well-known Wen businessman who had been trading with Russia for many years.

At the beginning of 2010, his nephew got married, and his classmate who was originally in Lucheng was going to go to Yan County to drink happy wine, but because of the sudden closure of an ant, he did not show up and rushed to Moscow temporarily.

Zhang Nan had met with that nephew's classmate before, and later had a few meals with that person, speaking of which, the second generation of Wen Shang, who was over 30 years old, was pouring bitter water: when an ant forcibly closed down, his family's entire 18 containers of goods were detained, and the losses were heavy!

Scolding Maozi, what else can you do except a few words right away?

Just because of the damn "gray customs clearance" that has become a common convention for more than 20 years, the goods in Russia are all reimbursed, not to mention that he can't win the lawsuit, and he doesn't know where to go to the lawsuit.

That time, after arriving in Russia, he found that it was impossible to get his goods back, so he stayed in other people's fields for a long time, and even went to prison because he was counted as tax evasion, so he could only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach and run back!

Tens of millions of goods are returned to the emperor, and legally speaking, this truth is still in the hands of others.

Later, as far as Zhang Nan knew, his nephew's fellow scholar later completely gave up doing business with Russia for more than ten years, saying that he would no longer deal with Maozi for eight lifetimes!

This has been the case for 10 years, and in the 90s, Huaxia took office to do business in Russia and was full of huge risks, and it was difficult everywhere, and if one was not careful, he would be crushed: in those years, there was a ready-made way for China to engage in international trade with most countries in the world, but Russia did not!

Every Chinese person who wants to open up this market has to go out of a place where there is no road, and the worst thing is that the Russian market is as unpredictable and sinister as the devil's triangle, and those who open up the market are like climbing on a cliff, and there is a danger of falling down and falling to pieces at every moment.

China's private enterprises and individual businessmen have suffered heavy blows from the ruble's plunge again and again, suffered heavy losses of money and goods again and again, suffered robbery, extortion and bullying again and again, got up from adversity countless times, and started from scratch countless times!

They endured unimaginable hardships and dangers at home, and made great contributions to the continuous export of Chinese commodities to Russia, year after year, day after day.

Zhang Nan looked at it, and today's "One Ant" is already the largest retail and wholesale market in Europe, which is a holy place for Chinese businessmen with foresight to get rich, and a place of sadness and despair for those who follow the trend!

Whether it is rich overnight or dead without a place to be buried, everything is inseparable from the chaotic Russian society, the best government officials, the murderous and greedy gangsters, and the combination of the two "gray clearance".

The Chinese businessmen themselves do not go to the Russian customs to go through the formal customs clearance procedures, pay the customs clearance company, and let the customs clearance company handle it on their behalf, which is gray customs clearance.

At present, Zhang Nan's partnership company is actually the largest customs clearance company in the whole of Russia, and to put it bluntly, it is in collusion with Russian customs officers to withhold the taxes that should be paid to the Russian Federation, and it is the Russian government that loses and it is himself and Russian officials who are fat.

All this is for the sake of convenience, speed, and cost saving, and the Chinese businessmen in Russia are basically self-employed and small and medium-sized private enterprises that do not have the right to operate foreign trade.

As long as some people make more money through gray customs clearance, others will choose gray customs clearance.

What about the formal route?

It simply won't work!

Customs officers will speed up the approval process of gray customs clearance, deliberately slow down the formal customs clearance procedures, this endless loop of trap you can only jump into, not jump, unless you yourself are big enough, such as large Chinese state-owned enterprises.

Russia's ** police know the handle of gray customs clearance, and they don't catch it in vain, and they also know that bribery is a common thing for Chinese businessmen, which is called "spending money to buy peace".

Before his company took over the management of an ant, the police in this neighborhood were all eyeing the Chinese people, and they usually tried all kinds of ways to ask the Chinese businessmen for money.

The Russian police will deliberately interrogate Chinese merchants, and even if the person under investigation is normal, the police will ask for money for alcohol.

Don't give?

Take your passport, you have to pay for it if you want to get it back, and if you're in a bad mood, you will take people in cars and put them in an iron cage in a police station until you get the money.

Zhang Nan looked at these compatriots outside and thought of the words of his nephew's classmate: "Who was a Chinese businessman in Moscow in the 90s who had never been locked in an iron cage!"

Some people say that Chinese people are accustomed to giving money when they encounter problems, and this habit is taught by officials. Now it seems to be working at home, but in Europe, this habit can make Chinese businessmen miserable! Especially in Russia, spending money can buy a moment of peace, but it will bring endless disasters to oneself and one's compatriots!

It is also said that there is no strong power in Russia, and what is bought with money is not peace, but a catastrophe one day!

In fact, it's all, how can you do things in Russia without spending money?

People are crazy and poor, fists, knives, iron cages, and even guns are waiting!

Those who hold the "theory that Chinese businessmen deserve it" are a bunch of idlers and brick families who stand and talk without backache; they are extremely vicious, and there is no poor place on this earth that can do things without paying bribes, and this is the case in Asia, Europe and the United States, and even black Africa is allowed to follow this standard.

Unless...

Unless your fist is bigger than someone else's!

For example, it is very useful for outsiders to speak with their fists in Africa, otherwise there would be so many wars.

But fists don't work very well in Russia, except for Zhang Nan who opened a plug-in, let's spend money to buy peace here, at least now in the 90s.

In the country of Mao Zi and ** Mao Zibi fist?

Basically looking for death!

All the strange phenomena and irrationalities originate from the **, from the complete ** and degeneration of Russian society!

Zhang Nan believes that he is powerless to change the temporary status quo of trade between China and Russia, and even the emperor and president have the strength to attack this area after more than ten years in power, what can Zhang Nan do?

At most, it is to formulate a standard for everyone to come together, not to make a lower limit, and by the way, let the original relevant gangsters in Russia stay away or simply disappear completely, so that the greedy power organs will not bully their own compatriots a few times.

As for the future?

Mr. Emperor may give himself some face, at least not so ruthlessly when closing the market. It's not easy for small businessmen, it's no problem for you to close the market, but this trick of confiscating goods is really lacking in morality!

As for the market itself, he wanted to give him away, Zhang Nan thought that by that time, he should have made astronomical money in this market a long time ago, and he would give up if he gave up, and he didn't care anyway.

The arrival of the convoy and the gathering of armed guards naturally attracted the attention of merchants and customers, but it was just attention, and it did not affect business here.

There are big people coming, no matter who comes, it has little to do with small businessmen, and it is still important to have their own business.

The Chinese love to watch the excitement, but the men and women have long learned that it is better not to watch some excitement in Moscow, so as not to harm the fish in the pond.

Besides, the market is huge, and there are always a few people who see the fleet.

The convoy continued on and soon arrived at the Old Market, a heart of colourful small castles, where several entrances and exits were armed with handles.

Although it is not as exaggerated as the AK in hand, many of the big men in civilian clothes have their arms around their waists, and they are one step away from being unscrupulous.

The car drove directly into the "castle area", and the entrance and exit were immediately closed by the security personnel, without the need to prepare signs.

After the convoy enters the market, it stops, and this part is the real Russian-style flea market, which is different from selling Chinese goods outside, and here it is for outsiders to buy Russian souvenirs.

Getting out of the car, Zhang Nan looked left and right, and frowned.

"Sasha, you're letting me go to the market like this?"

"Boss, for safety. "Alexander is covered in hob meat.

As far as the eye can see, there are armed men on the high ground, and security personnel guard the key points between the passages of shops typical of traditional Russian architecture.

And then there is: apart from myself and the owners of the shops, there is not a single customer here!

It was cleared early!

Shaking his head, Zhang Nan said helplessly: "Comrades, even if you learn from Reagan's visit to Red Square, it is better to play a scene in which the KGB pretends to be an ordinary tourist." ”

As he spoke, he pointed around, "This is too awkward, I don't feel it when I walk around." ”

At this time, Andre came up to play a round and said with a smile: "Boss, the goods are still there, and I have notified everyone in advance to put out the good things at the bottom of the box, you must find something you are interested in."

We also gave each family a $50 subsidy, and we didn't lose enough to them, but basically we still made money. ”

"Hmm. ”

It's pretty much the same, otherwise I don't know how people scold you behind your back.

Zhang Nan said to Charlie, Xiang Jiannan and others: "Just look at it, buy it casually, count it mine." ”

Let's go to the nearest store.

Andre followed, and then asked something interesting, which made Zhang Nan, the boss, feel good.

"Boss, Washington shouldn't have known that it was a scene until now, how did you know, boss?"

He was so curious.

Zhang Nan stopped and smiled, "You go to find the news photos that were published at that time, and among the 'chance encounters' tourists with Reagan is the current First Deputy Mayor of Leningrad, understand?"

Now it was Andrei's turn to be surprised: of course he knew that the deputy mayor was from the KGB!