"Then it's okay if you're happy, when are we going to Hetian?" Lu Zhengshan asked.

"Don't be in a hurry for the time being, my people haven't come over yet, accompany me to see the cotton in the afternoon. ”

Erdaoqiao International Market not only has the largest Hetian jade trading center in Urumqi, but also the largest cotton textile products trading center in Urumqi.

Cotton, a commodity closely related to life.

A global economic commodity.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation, four traditional industries, cotton occupies two.

It is a pillar industry in any country.

It is sown in April and May and harvested in September and October every year.

In the autumn of each year, the new reins will turn into a sea of white.

The one picked from the cotton tree is called cotton peach, and it is also called seed cotton because it contains cotton seeds.

It is to be transported to the processing plant for the first process, deseeding.

The one that removes the seeds is called lint.

At this time, the lint is still a lump, and if you need to break it up, you need to use a cotton grabber and a carding machine to break up the cotton fibers and fluffy them, so that the cotton fibers can be connected into a piece.

In this way, piles of raw cotton are obtained.

After that, there is an important process, packing.

Regarding packaging, there are international standards.

The most basic unit of China's raw cotton trade is one quintal, 100 catties per quintal.

But this is not a standard package specification.

The packaging specification of the international market is a bag, about 200 kg, a pack.

However, the packaging specifications implemented in various countries are different, only South Africa's cotton, which is just 200 kilograms of a bag, and the others should be a little more, or a little less, because of the international transactions, they are all calculated according to the package, but the quality is definitely different, so the difference is in the weight of the bale.

The weight of the package is equivalent to how much the price of cotton increases and decreases.

Like Colombia, the heaviest, a bale of cotton is 233 kilograms, which is definitely cheaper than a bale of 218 kilograms in the United States.

There are also expensive ones, such as cotton from India and Pakistan, which are only 170 kilograms a bale.

In India and Pakistan, it is not that it is expensive, but that its raw cotton is of good quality, long fiber, and low sugar content, so the weight should be lighter, so it is more cost-effective.

China's cotton quality is at the middle and upper level, the price is cheap, the standard of a pack is 227 kilograms, and the cost performance is relatively high.

In 1982, the state adopted mandatory standards for cotton spinning enterprises across the country to introduce 400 tons of balers.

Therefore, this kind of cotton enterprise is also collectively referred to as 400 cotton spinning enterprise.

The previous 200-type cotton enterprises have almost been eliminated.

The state requires that the 400 type hydraulic baler must be released, and the weight of the package must reach 227 kg, and the error of no more than 10 kg up and down can enter the unified sales channel.

Therefore, the raw cotton trade is relatively simple.

The raw cotton that is packed out is almost a standard, which is 1.4 meters long, 53 cm thick and 70 cm high.

The height of a pack, roughly at the position of the person's chest and neck.

Each pack is tied with 4 plastic straps horizontally.

The market price is between 1700 and 1800.

Entering the raw cotton market, the names of these merchants are mostly the brands of various trading companies.

Fan Yang and they asked several in a row, all at this price.

"It's expensive. Lu Zhengshan shook his head again and again: "These are middlemen, the raw cotton at the Khorgos port, when it was the cheapest last year, it was less than 1,000 yuan a pack, and it will fall if it is not good this year." ”

Fan Yang also nodded in agreement.

4 packs is a ton, and the price fell below 6000 last year, and a pack should be about 1500 on average.

Fan Yang turned back to Xiao Lu and asked, "What about the Construction Corps, and what is the general price?"

"This is not necessarily, last year, the state collected and stored 1,300 a pack, and this year it is estimated that it will be at this price. ”

That's the benefit of relationships.

Now this identity, linked to the construction corps, if the price of 1300 is eaten, it is only 6200 a ton.

By the end of the year, the raw cotton market will rebound, and it is safe to earn 3,000 yuan a ton.

Almost 50 profits.

Thinking about Fan Yang, he is still very excited, this entry time is too appropriate, 2,000 tons, 12.4 million input, plus 1 million operating funds, not to mention earning back 6 million, 5 million will definitely be earned.

Half a year, at most seven or eight months, a single trade net profit of 5 million, this business is done.

If you can eat low-cost raw cotton from Kazakhstan, you will earn even more.

And this kind of economic commodity has never been a one-shot deal.

It's a trade channel.

It's only going to get bigger and bigger.

It depends on how far it can develop in the future.

With the blowout development of the clothing market in the future, as long as they operate properly, there will be no major mistakes, and only the raw cotton will bring their own profits every year.

Don't stay in the market too much.

When they broke up, Lu Zhengshan looked reluctant.

Fan Yang saw it: "Where do you live?"

"By the river. ”

"Rented house?"

Lu Zhengshan shook his head.

"Then come with us. ”

Following Fan Yang's big fish and meat, he drank several bottles of Mucelles at night, returned to the guest house of the district party committee, and saw the neat beds and bedding, Lu Zhengshan sighed.

Fan Yang and Lao Duan couldn't speak, so they simply let Lu Zhengshan sleep in a room with him.

When I entered the room, I kicked my leather shoes and leaned back comfortably on the bed.

Turn on the TV and light a cigarette.

Lu Zhengshan had just come out of the sand nest, and although his clothes were new, he was covered with musty smells.

I was in the same room with Fan Yang, and I just felt uncomfortable.

For fear of causing Fan Yang to be unhappy.

"Well, I'll go down and buy some toiletries. ”

"Go ahead, by the way, help me bring a pack of cigarettes, and take the money yourself in the bag. ”

"No, I still have money. ”

Lu Zhengshan bought towels, toothbrushes, razors, and soap, and when he came back, he rushed into the bathroom and took a hot shower.

I feel that the bad luck of the past two years has been swept away.

He carefully shaved his beard again, and dressed in a proper manner before he came out.

"So what are you going to do, take it easy, smoke. Fan Yang smiled and threw him a cigarette.

"Thank you. ”

Lu Zhengshan took it and lit it, and sat on the chair by the window.

This kind of guest house with a local character is almost all the same.

There are two beds in the door, a bathroom, a shower in a better way, a TV cabinet opposite, two chairs on the side of the window, and a small coffee table in the middle.

On top are teacups, tea leaves.

Lu Zhengshan was about to make tea for Fan Yang, and opened the lid of the teacup, but found that the two cups of hot tea had already been brewed.

Lu Zhengshan's face turned red, he was also old and confused, he took a bath by himself, and even forgot to make tea.

Xiang Fan Yang smiled awkwardly.

"It's okay, isn't it cold for you to sit on the chair, how comfortable it is to lie on the bed, you really don't have to be so restrained. ”

"Okay, thanks. ”

Lying on the bed and feeling the warmth brought by the clean and close-fitting quilt, Lu Zhengshan sighed again.

How long has it been?

I don't even remember it.

What the hell is going on?

Once upon a time, when did you suffer such a great sin?

He looked back and couldn't imagine.

Sleeping in the sand nest, full of hunger, lost his soul, and lasted for more than a year.

I really don't know how I got here.

Lying on a quilted mattress, with a cup of hot tea in hand and a TV opposite.

It was a feeling that made him feel like a world away.

"By the way, what's the matter with the raw cotton over there in Kazakhstan? Are they also trading by the bag?"

"It depends on the channel. Lu Zhengshan thought for a while and said: " Kazakhstan is still a mess, only last year the territorial scope was clearly delineated, the country is divided into a total of 14 oblasts, equivalent to provincial-level administrative units, the name is also very rough, four of which are called southeast and northwest Kazakhstan oblast, and Alashankou and Khorgos port border is East Kazakhstan, the former Soviet Union was called Almaty, is one of the former Soviet Union several important cotton production bases, cotton processing enterprises are still many, but there is too messy, too miscellaneous, I said 200 yuan a bag of cotton, do you believe it?"

"200?" Fan Yang sat up from the back of the bed: "Are you sure?"