Chapter 349: Chinese Train
Moscow Yaroslavl railway station.
Two railroad workers, while slowly tapping the bottom of the train with a wrench, chatted loudly that although they were at work, their minds were not focused on work.
"Woo-woo-"
The sound of a long train whistle suddenly drowned out the sound of a wrench hammering the wheels.
The two railway workers straightened up in surprise, and the Russian aunt on the right tiptoed and shouted: "Is there a train coming today?"
"I heard that the number of trains in China has been increased. ”
"It's definitely an international train, in this direction, what do you think?" the Russian aunt looked up, her waist and legs looked stronger than a man's, and her tone was full of surprise.
She worked with a Slavic man, although he was strong, but he was a little bit smaller than the Russian aunt next to him, just like a fat duck seeing a fat goose. He jumped onto the platform in two steps, looked at it for a while, and shouted: "It's a car from China, it's not wrong, hurry up." ”
"Okay, let's go, did you bring any money?" the Russian aunt dropped the wrench and ran to the unloading area.
The Slavic man followed, touched his pocket, and said, "Take it all." I was so lucky that I ran into an increasing number of trains. ”
There are several people running in the same direction with them, everyone is chasing me, talking and laughing from time to time, and in a trance, I feel like I have returned to 10 years ago.
When it reached the unloading area, the international train had just arrived, and without waiting for it to stop, a train worker rushed up and pried open the carriage, revealing a full pile of leather shoes.
A crowd cheered, completely unconcerned that the shoes didn't even have basic packaging. Perhaps it is precisely this that gives people a stronger impact.
The Russian aunt was the first to reach out and shouted: "I buy, I want 10 pairs." ”
Another sturdy aunt didn't shout, rushed up to grab a few pairs of hugs on her chest, and then shouted: "Count the money, count the money." ”
As soon as the people in the back look at it, then go on. What are you waiting for.
As a result, it was not only the train workers who came from afar, but also the Chinese train workers who were supposed to maintain order. He jumped up and took down a variety of leather shoes.
The Chinese workers who escorted the car stood in several directions of the unloading area with a smile, so that people would not leave with the goods. After a while, someone came over with a pen and paper and lay on the carriage to take notes: "Do you want 10 pairs of leather shoes, do you want 10 pairs of leather shoes? 4,000 rubles per pair, or 40 yuan, which one do you choose?"
"4000 rubles. "The Russian aunt handed out a roll of rubles. One year ago, this money could be exchanged for $10,000 and I could buy hundreds of pairs of leather shoes, and now I can buy 10 pairs of shoes, which is already very happy.
This is a preferential treatment given by Dahua to railway station workers, allowing them to buy supplies at wholesale prices first. Because the domestic products are cheap. Counting the difference in wholesale prices, many train workers grabbed the "Chinese" domestic products, not for their own use, but for their families to go out to set up stalls.
Dahua China doesn't care about this. Whoever hands it over to set up a stall is not a stall. As long as you can sell the domestic goods, that's fine. Moreover, this trick can also be successfully supported by Soviet railway workers, making Dahua's freight channel extremely smooth, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
"I want 20 pairs!" the Slavic man squeezed in. On a cold day, he took off his coat. Half of the arm is exposed.
The Russian students hired by Dahua did not have to wait for the number of money, and wrote down the amount he wanted. The conduct of the Russians is still very good, and there are very few cases of false statements or understatements.
"And mine. The people in the back kept shouting.
According to the rules of the railway station, they were not allowed to crowd the unloading area like this. However, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and who cares about these rules.
If it weren't for the fact that the railway authorities were still able to pay their salaries, these employees might not have come, as many workers in state-owned factories do.
However, the employees of the Yaroslavl railway station were glad that they came, or rather, that they worked at the Yaroslavl railway station.
The railway system in the Soviet Union was different from that of other countries, and there were often multiple railway stations in a single city, and trains in different directions were located in different stations. In Moscow alone, there are 9 railway stations. Next to the Yarosfla railway station is the Leningrad railway station, and there is a fast train to Leningrad - if the driver of the fast train comes to work.
Similarly, the train line from Moscow to Kazan is taken at the Kazan station in Moscow, the train line to Belarus is taken at the Belarus station in Moscow, as well as Kiev station, Kursk station, etc......
The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world, occupying one-sixth of the world's land area. While God has given them unparalleled resources, it has also put unparalleled pressure on their transportation.
The train line from Moscow to the 15 union republics alone is farther than the line from 15 European countries, and the difficulty of construction and the need for funds are also unbelievably high.
Such a huge empire, which, since the 70s, has been in a state of making ends meet, living on the sale of oil and gas. If the Soviet Union could still compete with the United States in an all-round way during the Khrushchev era, then the Brezhnev era can only be said to be a remnant of military glory...... At that time, political debates between China and the Soviet Union broke out one after another, and there was no way to talk about the normalization of relations between the two countries.
The workers of the Yaroslavl railway station became one of the most idle.
But in recent years, the life of the workers of the Yaroslavl railway station has become better and better, because the trains from China are always very oily, with a large number of light industrial products, all of which are the most sought-after in Moscow, and most of these enterprises allow the train workers to buy some products at low prices, so that the workers of the Yaroslavl railway station make a lot of money.
Although it cannot be compared with the Soviet era, if you compare it with your neighbors, then it is not half a star.
"Is there anything else?" the Russian aunt suddenly shouted, probably because she saw too many leather shoes.
The bookkeeper looks to the back.
Goro, who was in charge of the matter, thought for a moment. The order said: "Go and open cars 12 to 16." ”
The seventh child of the second uncle's family was flexible like a monkey, jumped into the carriage twice, and opened the heavy iron door, revealing the goods inside.
After the seventh child went to junior college, he didn't want to study anymore, and the fifth child had no choice, so he took him out. It just so happens that the Russian side is employing people.
However, the image of Lao Qi and his family is a little different. The fourth and fifth are all strong figures with broad shoulders and thick bodies, but the seventh is long and thin. When you take off your clothes, you can see the ribs. It's just that in terms of character, Lao Qi still has the style of Jingshan people. Not at all frightened by going to the messy former Soviet Union, but very excited, not only mingling with the Russians he knew, but also learning dozens of Russian sentences in a purely rote way, more than the mental head in school.
Here, the Russians poured into the newly opened carriages.
I saw that the No. 12 and No. 13 carriages were full of shoes and hats and other clothes, the No. 14 carriages were stuffed with sausages and bacon, the No. 15 carriages were boxes of "medicine", and the No. 16 carriages were soap and other daily chemical products......
The Soviet economy was paralyzed, though. Finally, it is still running according to inertia. Products that are sold at a high price are more cost-effective than those sold in Western countries.
There were several railroad workers who left their shoes to buy other products, and Gorou didn't care, just asked people to clean up.
Train transport was extremely important for their export work, as the Soviet Union was a continental country. The distance between the port and the big city is so great that supplies would not have been able to arrive without trains. Therefore, coordinating trains to ensure the safety and stability of these vehicles has become an important matter for Gorou to consider. In order to allow the Sino-Soviet train to be able to run additional trains. And normal operation, Dahua has invested considerable energy, and even sent technicians to help maintain it for free, giving priority to the selection of goods, and selling it to train workers at this price, Dahua has made a lot of money.
The chaos lasted for 30 minutes before the railroad workers reluctantly left the unloading area. Large machinery began to enter, and Shiro also focused on the small vendors who had been waiting outside.
At this time in Moscow, there were powerful wholesalers, and the wealth did not exceed 10,000 US dollars, and it was not small to have 1,000 US dollars. This is not to say that there are no rich people in Moscow, but the rich people in Russia themselves would rather pinch foreign exchange and wait for the price of goods to drop, or buy factories at low prices, but will not come to do these small transactions.
A large number of buyers and a small amount of capital are the characteristics of Chinese commodity buyers. Some of the vendors didn't even buy as much as the railroad workers, but Dahua still treated them fairly.
It takes a day for a train to be fully distributed. To say the least, thousands of people have bought Chinese goods.
Dahua's translators were not idle, and every time they wrote down an account, they would tell the other party in Russian: "You are welcome to take out a loan to buy Dahua products, and if you use RMB, we will give you a 30% discount." ”
Talking too much, there are always people who go to the bank and ask for a loan in RMB.
Don't look at the financial collapse of Russia, but the business of the banks has not stopped, especially the loan business, and has done more. Because the bank also has rubles. Especially those private banks, their deposit reserves are also depreciating, so although it is also considered depositors' money, but if the depositors' ruble is depreciated, what is the point of the bank's existence?
On the other hand, due to the impact of inflation, the interest on bank deposits has also increased. If they don't want to close their doors or lose money to depositors, they have to do everything they can to lend their money while charging high interest, which has risen to 100% a year and is rising with inflation.
At this time, it is easier than usual to get a loan.
The same scene was actually staged in China a few years ago. In the late 80s and early 90s, China also fell into hyperinflation, and banks gave high interest rates of more than 20%, as a result, many people would rather save money to the bank regardless of the impact of inflation, and fantasized that if I had 10,000 yuan, I would not have to do anything in the future, just eat interest every year...... As for the loan that should be cost-effective, it seems that it is not cost-effective because of the bank's running around, and at that time, it is really simple to want a loan, and it is begged for a loan by the bank......
The newborn Russia, it seems, is repeating this, except that their inflation is so severe that it is desperate.
Only those who sell Chinese goods, or have other ways to get money, will go to the bank for loans. While these future Russian tycoons have proved the importance of vision with practice, they have also put the Bank of Russia in a dilemma.
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