Chapter 79 Transportation Channels
Today, Saturday.
Like most weather of the year, Los Angeles is still sunny.
There weren't that many pollutants in the air, and the sky was very blue, with planes flying high in the air, leaving long strips of white trails.
Close to the street, you can always hear the sound of cars passing downstairs, as well as the sound of the horn.
There are vendors selling fruits, oranges and grapefruit taste good in this season, Han Chudong just drank a glass of orange juice in the morning, he entered the juicer in the store, and brought the table home a few days ago.
After a brief chat with Miss Kiko Mochizuki, she rested her feet on her humble desk, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.
Over there in the Middle East.
The Yom Kippur War was in full swing.
The United States is a-stirring stick that causes trouble everywhere and enriches oil merchants and arms dealers.
According to the Los Angeles Times, it seems that spy satellites were also used to help the Jews.
It's a pity that he didn't have much money during the period when oil prices soared, otherwise Han Chudong would also want to make a profit from it, but he doesn't know much about this era, so it's better to be careful, and it's safer to engage in industry now.
In recent years, tens of thousands of soldiers have died in Southeast Asia, and the number of wounded is even greater, and people no longer know why they are fighting, but the situation seems to have eased a lot recently, and the person in the white house was deeply affected by the Watergate scandal and could no longer bear the pressure, and decided to withdraw the army from there one after another.
This has little to do with Han Chudong, his little butterfly is not capable of making much waves.
Compared with this kind of news, it is obvious that I am more concerned about today's economic and technological developments, such as the launch of Intel's 8008 processor.
The newspaper editor may not understand it, but simply write it.
Han Chudong was thinking about making more money, so he went to the southern Silicon Valley area to talk to the people of this company.
For the time being, there is no need to worry, the funds should be used on the cutting edge, and at the moment even a microcomputer has not been developed, let alone a so-called personal computer.
After drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.
It's just over eight o'clock, and the interview won't start until ten o'clock.
Notified and asked Accountant Wang to help with the reception first, Han Chudong drove alone to talk to the transportation company to discuss business, and took him with him, because he knew acquaintances and could get a low price.
Hand warmer pillows are ready for production.
Han Yigun also helped to negotiate with the owner of the garment factory, and successfully won a relatively good ex-factory price, 80 cents a piece, including raw materials and post-packing work.
The external retail price can be increased by about ten times, in addition to the transportation cost and the money earned by agents and retailers, Han Chudong can still earn a lot from it, and is ready to wholesale to agents at a price of about three dollars and fifty cents, at least before the large-scale appearance of counterfeit goods, you can make a profit.
It's already winter, even if there are copycats, it is estimated that they will not be on sale until next winter.
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Driving a big truck is hard work.
Sometimes staying in the car for ten days and half a month in a row is boring and dangerous.
Pay a lot, the return is also considerable, so many people are willing to do it, there are many transportation companies here in Chinatown, Han Yigun took him to the largest one, it is said that it has a supply channel to more than a dozen states.
Han Chudong has already talked to the boss of this transportation company, and this time he came to inspect in person, and if he thinks it is reliable, he can finalize the details of the supply.
The United States has a huge railway network, which has a lot to do with Chinese laborers and black laborers, and it is not too much to describe it with the words "history of blood and tears".
It is undoubtedly cheaper to ship by truck, but Han Chudong discussed with Mr. John Hunter, and the other party meant that he would rather spend a little shipping and ship the product for sale as soon as possible.
There are Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, a festival and a festival, all of which are the best-selling time periods of toys, and there is no need to consider the extra shipping costs for the time being.
Whatever the agent says, anyway, the freight doesn't have to be paid by Han Chudong.
I was in a hurry to get back to the company, and the car was driving very fast.
The name of the transportation company is "Speed Freight", surrounded by iron railings, more than a dozen large trucks are parked on the ground covered with gravel, and the containers are written with the words "Los Angeles-Philadelphia", "Los Angeles-San Francisco", "Los Angeles-Seattle" and so on.
It's like running a taxi, you have the strength to run a freight company, and the boss's skills are certainly not weak.
Han Yigun asked someone, and soon took Han Chudong to an office, there were many people standing inside, the bald boss was smoking a cigar and giving a lecture, as if a certain driver was drunk and crashed the car, and they were asked to pay attention to safety in the future.
The voice sounded very intimidating, and it felt more ruffian than the Hou brother who opened the underground casino.
Knowing that his son had something to do later, Han Yigun didn't have the patience to wait slowly, so he knocked on the wooden door with his hand and said: "I brought my son here, he just started business, you can help a little, there are a large number of goods in the warehouse waiting to be sent to New York." In early winter, this is your brother Hao, Wang Hao, who used to be in the same school as me. ”
The alumni are right, but in fact, there was not much intersection at the beginning, and it was only after Han Yigun did this business that he got to know him again.
I've eaten together a few times, and the relationship can only be regarded as okay, the kind that each has its own needs.
Many people know Han Yigun, some of them have been planted in his hands because of fighting, drinking, gambling, etc., and there are also honest people who drive big trucks, but most of them are not very peaceful.
As for Wang Hao, who has a bald head and a strong body, he can become the boss of the largest transportation company in the vicinity, which can already explain something.
A businessman who does not work long in this business.
In order to grab business and make money, trouble is indispensable, wolves have more meat and less meat, and everyone wants to make more money.
The current is not the 21st century, the security in poor places is not very good, and these Chinese bosses who can become big are more or less gray methods.
At the beginning, even Sun Laosan's electrical repair shop had people come to collect protection money, which became an unspoken rule, and the richer the businessman, the easier it was to be remembered.
Speaking of which, Han Chudong did not miss the light of Han's shot.
If he hadn't had such a father, unless he moved away and moved to a place with better security after making a fortune, it would definitely not be as easy as it is now, and even the company might have become someone else's industry.
Even if it is a fluke, most of them have to share the cake and spend money to keep it safe, this is not an empty conjecture, the world is like this.
Chinatown is like a mud pond isolated from rivers, lakes and seas, just a little water, if there are fish to survive, there will be fish to die, you fight for me, it is normal.
Han Chudong doesn't have to fight with them for anything, he has the confidence to jump into the dragon gate, and after his father finished introducing him, he said with a smile: "Brother Hao, if I can, I want to ship it today, one batch to New York, one batch to Rhode Island, and then there is a large number of goods waiting to be sent, right?"
"My eldest nephew came to me to do something, even if it doesn't work, it will be successful, hurry up and sit down, Brother Han, you have raised a good son." ”
The owner of the transportation company named Wang Hao waved his hand, and a group of truck drivers immediately breathed a sigh of relief and walked out.
"What's good, if you have a bad temper, you have a little talent in business, and you invent small toys to make some money, which can't be compared with you big bosses. ”
casually politely said, Han Yigun sat down and added: "You tell my son about the freight, if you make money, I will take the goods from you, let's finish the talk quickly, there is still something on his company's side, and he made an appointment to meet at ten o'clock." ”
Boss Wang took the calculator, pressed a few numbers and said: "Okay, I'll give it to you at the lowest price, to be honest, I'm not happy to ship the goods on the East Coast, and if I come back, it will be a loss if I run an empty car, but I just happened to bring some steel back from Pennsylvania recently, just this number, Rhode Island plus one hundred and fifty dollars." Don't tell the outside world, if it's all at this price, I won't be able to do business......"