Chapter 18 The seafood business is a pretending business

After sending Gu Kun away, Section Chief Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, when Gu Kun told Chen Li not to shoot just now, she was really nervous.

Although domestic newspapers and TV stations are very positive nowadays, they will not broadcast messy folk revelations. But after all, they are foreign businessmen, and Section Chief Chen is also afraid that he will be embarrassed to say the wrong thing and throw him abroad.

This can't be blamed on her lack of stiffness at the waist.

Because you can't take the national pride of the Chinese people in the 2010s and ask for an ancient man in the 90s. At that time, people really survived from the era of poverty and fear, and when they first saw the development of the outside world, they were quite desperate in their hearts.

What's more, now Gu Kun's identity is "Nanyang Patriotic Overseas Chinese", strictly speaking, he is the beneficiary of the courtesy of foreign guests on the mainland's side, and the butt decides the head, so of course he will not be "angry with him".

After Section Chief Chen made the arrangements clear just now, he decided to report to his direct leader.

She knocked lightly on the door and walked into the office of a deputy commissioner in charge: "Commissioner Lu, there is a matter today, I handled it like this, you see......"

Commissioner Lu patiently listened to her report on the cause and effect, and actually attached great importance to it: "Oh, this is a good thing, we should strongly support it." Although Xu Feng is a private company, he can be regarded as a leader and a face in this circle, you go back and talk to him, let him talk to that Gu Kun about his intentions, don't rush to quote, report to us.

If his offer is still not satisfactory to Gu Kun, we can mediate and let the foreign trade and economic cooperation secretly give Xu Feng some subsidies. If this matter can be taken down, the comrades of the foreign trade and economic cooperation department and foreign exchange management will definitely thank us. ”

Section Chief Chen was a little puzzled: "Chief, is it really so important? In my opinion, at most, it is only a business of hundreds of thousands of yuan, so many departments need to cooperate?"

The leader took a sip of the teacup: "Xiao Chen, you still don't have a high enough consciousness." This is not a matter of hundreds of thousands of RMB business, but of the internationalization of RMB. Tell me, since January this year, the customs and foreign trade and economic cooperation departments of several provinces have been able to maintain the number of foreign businessmen who are willing to accept RMB?"

Section Chief Chen sighed quietly: "Anyway, there shouldn't be one in our province." ”

The leader nodded: "You can be regarded as concerned about the situation, in fact, there is no need to be presumptuous, because not only we don't, but the whole country has heard that Yunnan Province and Liaodong Province have opened, and some Burmese businessmen and North Korean businessmen are willing to recognize the yuan." Except for these two, the rest of the provinces are not open, and even the old Maozi in the northeast does not recognize it.

The country canceled the dual-track exchange rate system, and the pain did not pass so quickly. Two months ago, the renminbi was still 5 yuan 8 against the US dollar, and after the merger a month ago, it fell directly to 8 yuan 4. And then in a few days, eight yuan six, eight yuan eight - you think about it, if you are a foreign businessman, who is willing to accept RMB at this time?

Today's case of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, although the money is not much, can be used as a model case for the calculation of RMB in our import business, which is a matter of gold and gold, and we must pay attention to it, even if we give more subsidies, in fact, it is nothing. ”

The little bit of the financial exchange market is like this, the more things rise, the more people seek after, the more they fall, and everyone panics and waits.

In January, although the renminbi fell to eight yuan and six against the dollar, foreign businessmen were all waiting and seeing, and generally felt that "the renminbi can stabilize at eight yuan and six yuan, all because of the forced foreign exchange settlement of the central government in China."

In other words, the state is restricting the use of US dollar reserves and not allowing too many US dollars to be spent, so the RMB exchange rate is stable.

Foreigners feel that if Chinese companies are allowed to spend dollars on foreign purchases, the renminbi will definitely fall far from falling.

The more panicked this idea is, the less foreign businessmen will accept the yuan.

According to the original history, the transition period basically had to panic for nearly a year, and it was not until the beginning of 95 that it could be considered completely stabilized, and the central government dared to officially announce that "the dual-track system was successfully completed".

But Gu Kun knows history, and he knows that the renminbi will eventually survive the period of doubt and become strong. Therefore, he dared to accept RMB settlement generously one year earlier than other foreign businessmen who could not see the situation clearly.

This hits the typical tuyere of the bone tree in Qianjin City.

Section Chief Chen comprehended the spirit of the leadership and hurriedly continued to help contact him secretly.

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The words are divided into two ends.

Two hours later, the White Swan Hotel.

Xu Feng, who was running with a tiger's head and letting the secretary carry the eldest brother, hosted a banquet for Gu Kun, a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese in Nanyang, in a private room.

The box is full of dishes, the waterway is fresh, the famous things are all on display, and the consumption is thousands of yuan.

Of course, Xu Feng didn't give Gu Kun face to treat him like this.

It was entirely because of the acumen of a businessman that he felt that the guests who could be endorsed by Section Chief Chen of the Customs Deposit Office were worthy of such hospitality.

The dishes on the table were not all ordered by Xu Feng, there were a few sea fish, which Gu Kun asked his sister to teach the chef of the White Swan to cook, and the ingredients used were the wrasse, Tsing Yi, and stonefish that Gu Kun fished from the Malay seas.

Under normal circumstances, the White Swan Hotel, which ranks first in the country, will definitely not accept guests to bring their own ingredients. However, Xu Feng supplies the white swan all the year round, and the hotel is accommodating.

"Mr. Xu is a busy man, I have heard of you in Lanfang. It is too much of a shame for my brother to be able to talk to me in person today about this kind of small business of hundreds of thousands. ”

As soon as the two sides met, Gu Kun put on a high hat for each other very respectfully.

Xu Feng is an old fritter, and he doesn't float at all under normal circumstances. However, when I heard that my reputation had spread to Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, I couldn't help but be proud.

"Brother Gu is polite, I really didn't expect you to be so young, it's really terrifying. Mr. Gu has ...... How many are 20?"

Gu Kun: "No, 18." I like to be refreshing, so I said it bluntly, please Boss Xu try these Su Mei and Tsing Yi first, and give my brother a psychological price. ”

Of course, Xu Feng had eaten these fish, but he still tasted each dish very carefully. As the No. 1 seafood merchant in Guangdong, he has a very good taste. To do this business, first of all, you must have a strong tongue and eat good or bad.

"Yes, it's really fresh, this is the best Su Mei and Tsing Yi. After tasting it in style, Xu Feng did not hesitate to praise it.

There is no need for him to use the method of belittling the other party's grade to lower the price, that is too profitable.

Gu Kun saw that the other party cooperated, so he naturally said: "These things cost fifty or sixty reams a kilogram for retail sales in Malaysia, and about forty for wholesale." According to the official exchange, it is 80~100 RMB. I also have to consider the loss, it is not easy to transport live fish to the ocean, according to the industry rules, I think Tsing Yi out of 150 yuan, Su Mei 200, is a more reasonable price. ”

Xu Feng grinned: "Your price is more expensive than the Eastern Star Grouper, and ordinary melon seed spots can eat three or four times the amount, with all due respect, there is no market for cultivating these varieties in Guangdong." If you really want to sell at a high price, you can go to those Xiangjiang merchants, who eat seafood more upscale and exquisite than us. ”

Gu Kun: "You're saying that there aren't enough rich people in Guangdong who can afford to eat this thing?"

Xu Feng: "It's not that I can't afford it, it's that I can't see the cost performance." ”

Gu Kun smiled: "Brother Xu, I know that you are the first person in Huaxia to have a mobile phone, and I thought you were a knowledgeable person." What is the picture of the high-end and luxury seafood business? Isn't it just a sense of class difference that no one else has, and no one has what I have?

Invite foreign businessmen, in the final analysis, it is a face, as long as you take out something that others do not have, and it is higher than others, you will have face. As for whether it is delicious or not, as long as it is really unique and can be explained, it is delicious.

The Canton Fair is coming soon, and while other Malay seafood merchants haven't reacted to the fact that 'the rich people in China can actually afford to eat Napoleon wraise', you will preemptively monopolize the supply of goods with me for a few months, and you will not be able to satisfy your customers?"

Xu Feng nodded: "Such a simple truth, how could I not know." But the fish is different from the lobster king crab, its appearance is not peculiar enough, and people who don't know the goods feel that they all look the same when they are served on the table, and it is definitely not as good as the lobster king crab when it is used to pretend to be forced. ”

Gu Kun clapped his hands and asked his sister and Chen Li, who were going to the banquet together, to carry over a small fish tank filled with seawater and oxygen. There are a few wrestling wrestling eyebrows and Tsing Yi inside.

"Brother Xu, I don't think it's difficult, let the hotel display the fish, and show it to the guests when they are alive, so you will naturally have face." This Tsing Yi is turquoise, and Napoleon wrasse is sea blue, both of which are the hues and luster of ornamental tropical fish. Even if you don't eat it, just put it in the display wall of the fish tank, and everyone knows that it is a good product that has not been seen before.

You say that it is not easy to distinguish dead fish that has been burned, and it is not easy to distinguish between live fish when ordering? People have spent a lot of money and gained knowledge, and if they are not delicious, they must say that they are delicious, otherwise how can they be worthy of their own money? ”

What's more, this fish is delicious, but it is not so delicious that the taste alone can make the 94-year-old Chinese people pay 200 yuan a catty.

It's telling the truth.

"This is not unreasonable...... Xu Feng also thinks it seems feasible.

The two varieties brought by Gu Kun are both delicious and relatively beautiful.

He decided to give a price that the other party could accept, and try the water first.

It's a big deal that this thing is not scarce in the future, and the value of pretending to be forced has dropped, so it's better to lower the price yourself.

"I agree in principle with your way of cooperation, Brother Gu, you are really a visionary. ”