Chapter 041: A New Route (Part 2)
A week later, Ren Pingsheng took that familiar route to India again. He had been planning this trip for a long time, and when the first order of LUBIN Pharmaceutical arrived in Hanhai City, he immediately set off for Mumbai to solve several urgent matters at the moment.
One is to negotiate with LUBIN Pharmaceutical about continuing to ship, and when we negotiated the first order, LUBIN Pharmaceutical gave them a wholesale price of 200 yuan per box, and a total of 2,500 boxes were shipped to China, and all of them have been sold out.
According to Ren Pingsheng's pricing, An Qi distributed it to the group owners at a price of 800 yuan per box and a nine-percent discount, and recovered a total of 1.8 million yuan of payment, excluding the remuneration of 50,000 yuan for the entrainment of customs clearance and Rajiv Raja, as well as the 250,000 yuan reserved for necessary expenses, and the remaining 1.5 million yuan in cash has been converted into rupees and remitted to the account of LUBIN Pharmaceutical through the channel of Lingtao Trading Company.
Ren Pingsheng wants to place an order this time, but it is not a few thousand boxes can be satisfied, from the information fed back from Anqi's sales network, there are more than 5,000 non-small cell cancer patients in dozens of hospitals in Hanhai City alone who need medication, in order to ensure that the patient's drugs are uninterrupted, and also to prepare for the later development of the market, Ren Pingsheng has to get enough drugs this time.
Generally speaking, in order to stabilize sales and maintain customer relationships, enterprises will allow long-term cooperation with large customers to purchase goods on credit, and then return to the enterprise after the other party's sales are collected. Strictly speaking, Ren Pingsheng's volume is not enough to purchase on credit, but he left a good impression when he first met with the president, and the sales of the first order were very smooth, after some struggle, LUBIN Pharmaceutical agreed to Ren Pingsheng's purchase on credit, but to return the payment within three months.
Ren Pingsheng asked for 25,000 boxes of goods this time, with a total price of 5 million yuan, which was ten times that of the first order in terms of quantity and price. Of course, with so many medicines, it is impossible to go down the road of "ants moving", and the second thing Ren Pingsheng has to solve is how to ship these 25,000 boxes of generic drugs back to China.
Before setting off for the shipment, Ren Pingsheng had to get a partner on the Indian side, and he had already decided to upgrade Rajiv Raja to a partner to handle a series of matters on the Indian side for him.
After the test of the first cooperation, Rajiv Raja showed far more reliability than the vast majority of Indians, and considering the benefits of the surname Raja, it is better to find someone you know than to look for someone you don't know.
Ren Pingsheng's proposal flattered Rajiv Raja, he thought that he was lucky enough to earn more than 20,000 yuan from the medicine clearance, but he didn't expect that now he can become Ren Pingsheng's partner in India, which is much more promising than the taxi driver's business, and he also has the opportunity to make the surname Raja shine again in Mumbai, so as to realize the regret that the old Rajiv Raja failed to complete.
For Ren Pingsheng, the benefactor and employer, Rajiv Raja showed 20 points of enthusiasm and hospitality to hospitality, in the days in India, Ren Pingsheng lived in Rajiv Raja's house, although his house is not in a very noble community, the house itself is not very comfortable, but Rajiv Raja and his wife from the Vaishya caste hospitality, but Ren Pingsheng personally experienced the life of the Indian commoners, but also made him feel a lot of good feelings for the family, when parting, he also bought Rajiv Raja's wife and two daughters a lot of gifts, so that they are grateful to him.
Compared with the last time, Ren Pingsheng has money in his hands this time, it is much easier to get things done, and Rajiv Raja is running for him, and soon leased the warehouse of the general dry cargo ship from Mumbai to Bangkok, and LUBIN Pharmaceutical transported 25,000 boxes of drugs from the warehouse and loaded them directly onto this general dry cargo ship and transported them to the port of Bangkok, Thailand.
This universal dry cargo ship is called Ganesa (Ganesha, representing success and happiness, and is regarded as the god of wealth in Southeast Asia), is a medium-sized cargo ship with a deadweight of 10,000 tons, the distance from the port of Mumbai to the port of Bangkok is about 1,700 nautical miles, according to the average speed of the Ganesa 17 knots, it takes about 100 hours to arrive at the port of Bangkok, so almost 5 days later, Ren Pingsheng and his Indian generic drugs have arrived at the port of Bangkok.
The Port of Bangkok actually has two annexes, just like Yangsan and Waiqiao in Han Harbour, one is Pattaya, the world-famous erotic capital, which is mainly a general cargo and bulk cargo terminal, and the other is Laem Chabang, which is mainly a container terminal.
Ren Pingsheng's bulk carrier arrived in Pattaya, of course, but he was not interested, nor did he have time to find fun, with the memory of his previous life, he had already contacted Qi Tianbao in Thailand in advance.
Qi Tianbao is a person, Ren Pingsheng has not had much contact with before, and his biggest impression of him is that since his sophomore year, he has been selling some homework notes and high-imitation sneakers in school, and often goes in and out of the dormitories of various colleges.
Since graduating, Qi Tianbao has worked in the National Nonferrous Mining Group, and was sent to Thailand to participate in prospecting, at this time is in the headquarters of the Chinese branch in Bangkok, with his help Zhang Luo, Ren Pingsheng found a medium-sized truck locally, unloaded the goods on the bulk carrier.
Although Qi Tianbao warmly retained and strongly invited Ren Pingsheng to Bangkok's famous red light district to experience the famous Thai ladyboy, Ren Pingsheng excused himself on the grounds of fatigue from the journey, only rested in Bangkok for one night, and set off on the road with the driver the next day.
Of course, Ren Pingsheng did not forget to give Qi Tianbao 10,000 yuan as a reward for his introduction in Bangkok.
The gentleman is righteous, the villain is profitable, and when it is time to spend money, he will never spend less.
From Bangkok, head north to Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand. Ren Pingsheng on the road, only to find that he overestimated the ability of Thailand's infrastructure construction, at that time from Bangkok, Thailand to China Kunming's Mankun Highway has not been built, Bangkok to Chiang Rai is the national No. 1 highway, the total length of about 700 kilometers, Thailand's highway and China's domestic national highway is similar, but the maintenance of the road surface is far less than China, many road sections because of lack of funds to maintain, damage and wear and tear serious, the road surface is relatively bad, so the speed of the car is not fast, can only walk about 100 kilometers a day.
The truck driver is a typical Thai man, short and thin, mild-mannered, devout Buddhist, and very steady in driving, of course, in Ren Pingsheng's view, this kind of stability is too slow, but he repeatedly asked to speed up, the driver refused on the grounds of safety, Ren Pingsheng was in a hurry, so he had to obey the driver's proposition, and drove for 7 days before arriving in Chiang Rai Province.
When it came to planning a transport route from Mumbai to the country, Ren had three options:
The first is for Mumbai to ship directly to the vicinity of ports in China's inland sea, and then to the country via a feeder ship. This route is the easiest and the fastest, but to evade the inspection of the Chinese coast guard and border guards, Ren Pingsheng asked himself that he did not have such ability, if he found a smuggler with a way, the cost would definitely be very high, and it was not safe, so it was rejected from the beginning;
The second is to transport from India by land to the junction of northern India and China, and enter the customs from Tibet or southern and northern Yunnan. This route is only theoretically possible, not to mention how poor the land transportation conditions in India are, the border between India and China is the Himalayas, with an average altitude of more than 7000-8000 meters, Ren Pingsheng is just an ordinary person, he lacks the ability to control the plateau, so this road just thought about it and gave up;
The third is from Mumbai to Southeast Asia, and then up the Mae Kong River and through the border of Yunnan Province. There are many advantages of this road, the most important is that sea and water transportation occupy half of the distance, reducing a lot of transportation pressure, and after entering Yunnan Province, you can also use the convenient transportation conditions in China to quickly transport the goods back to Hanhai City, and Ren Pingsheng finally chose this route.
And on the Mekong River waterway, there are two more options.
One is to transport directly to the mouth of the Mekong River, that is, the city of Saigon in Vietnam, and sail directly along the Mekong River channel, the advantage of this route is that it is all water transportation, which can save a lot of costs. However, the Mekong River flows through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, each country has to deal with border inspections, except for Thailand, the other four countries are relatively backward in their economies, and the domestic political climate is also quite unstable.
Another option, that is, the route that Ren Pingsheng is now taking, is to transport land from Bangkok to Chiang Rai Province in Thailand, and then sail up the Mae Kong River by boat from Chiang Saen Wharf, as long as it passes through a waterway of more than 100 kilometers between Thailand and Myanmar, you can reach Mengwax County in Xishuangbanna Tai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, and only need to pass through Thailand and Myanmar on the way, which greatly reduces the risk of being intercepted and extorted by multinational customs. Moreover, according to Ren Pingsheng's experience along the way, the police and government personnel on the Thai side have always turned a blind eye to smuggling, as long as you give them a small bribe, it can be solved.
But starting in Chiang Rai, the rest of the journey is also a challenge.