"I don't think you're an ordinary person, and ordinary people can't come here, and your temperament also shows that you are extraordinary. In this way, I don't embarrass you, we just need you to cooperate with me in smuggling and making a fortune! I will no longer pursue the matter between you and my daughter, and I will not force you to marry her!" Liu Cuifang said with a big sting.

I have to say that now some people have become very bold. Because now the economy of the USSR is more difficult than it seems, and even, it can be said that the nominal GDP of the USSR exceeds that of China, but in terms of food and clothing, etc., it is even inferior to the current Chinese.

It is precisely because of the scarcity of consumer goods that smuggling is no longer a rare phenomenon in the Soviet economy, but a common phenomenon.

And after Lin Qi heard about Liu Cuifang's request, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, a super-rich man like himself was only regarded as an ordinary Chinese businessman, and the other party just wanted to make a little fortune and carry out the smuggling trade between China and the Soviet Union.

In fact, the matter of smuggling is not big or small. However, the current trade channels between the USSR and China are restricted, and official trade between them is small. It is precisely for this reason that Sino-Soviet trade was more of a collaboration between China's fallen masters and smugglers in the Soviet Union. The smuggling trade between the two sides is actually a small-scale economic complementarity.

For example, China lacked steel, metals, machinery, fertilizers, timber and even trucks, but the Soviet Union did not lack it, but because of the lack of export markets, there was a serious surplus, which affected the Soviet economy.

At the same time, the Soviet Union lacked food, condiments, clothing, daily chemicals, and other necessities for life. To put it simply, now in the USSR, even toilet paper is in short supply, and affordable toilet paper is placed on the counter and will soon be sold out. Most people can only accept the high prices of the black market.

"Smuggling is illegal!" Lin Qi said in a deep voice, "Actually, we can change our thinking and engage in legal Sino-Soviet trade!"

Now that Sino-Soviet relations are gradually thawing, it is not very difficult to engage in legal trade. You must know that even some companies in Europe, Japan and the United States have already obtained the qualification to set up branches in the Soviet Union to do business, and there is no reason why Chinese companies with the same socialist brand cannot enter the Soviet market.

"What do you know? Legal goods can't make money at all when they go to the Soviet Union!" Liu Cuifang somehow said this in a very fast tone, and she also used a lot of technical terms, "You must know that nominally the prices of goods in the Soviet Union are very cheap, far cheaper than those in Europe, Japan, and other countries! The prices of officially imported goods in state-run shopping malls are very low, and some of them are sold at official channels at prices lower than the cost of imports, which are basically the benefits provided to the people at a loss. However, a considerable number of legally imported goods were taken out by powerful people in the Soviet Union and sold on the black market at high prices. With the official price system of the USSR, legal trade is not only not profitable, but also loses money, only smuggling, and smuggling is the only mode of making money!"

According to Liu Cuifang's performance just now, she is definitely not an ordinary woman, but a strong woman with business talent. If it were in China, she might have taken advantage of the spring breeze of reform to become a shopping mall hero.

But in the Soviet Union, she could only be reduced to a smuggler.

"Then what goods do you need?" Lin Qi thought carefully for a long time.

"All kinds of goods are available, and the more Chinese goods you can buy cheaply, the better. Wait until we develop it later, and then we will work on more profitable products. Liu Cuifang said, "However, food, tobacco, wine, winter clothes and so on, must be very marketable." For others, I'm not so sure. ”

"Was there a market for VCD players and game consoles in the Soviet Union?" Lin Qi said.

Clothing, alcohol, and tobacco are not the strong points of the new entrepreneurship department. The new entrepreneurship department is mainly a strong project, focusing on electronic consumer products and cultural and entertainment products.

"There is a market!" Liu Cuifang said, "The Soviet Union had empty shelves, and it was difficult for ordinary people to buy goods even if they had money, so they could basically exchange paper tickets for real commodities, whatever they were! By the way, I need you to set up a trading company on the Sino-Soviet border, and you don't need to worry about transportation and marketing in the Soviet Union." On the Chinese side, if you can handle the purchase and warehousing, we can handle the rest, and in terms of profit, I will add 20% to the market price of local goods in China, which will be calculated as your profit. On the Soviet side, you don't care how much we earn or how little we earn!"

Lin Qi frowned and said, "You want to pull me into the water and do smuggling trade with you?"

"What's so bad about smuggling?" Liu Cuifang said stunned, "Don't say that there is no smuggling in China, there are a large number of smugglers in the Soviet Union, many of whom are Chinese! In addition, the southern coast is not still all kinds of automobiles and household appliances, smuggled into the Chinese market?"

When Lin Qi heard this, he felt that China was very good at light industrial products, but the quality and output of automobiles, household appliances and other products were not enough to meet domestic demand.

As a result, many people began to smuggle foreign garbage, such as second-hand cars, second-hand color TVs, second-hand computers, and second-hand refrigerators, to the Chinese market for sale. The reason for the smuggling is that the state has imposed higher tariffs on these imported consumer goods to protect China's domestic manufacturing industry. However, as long as there is a market spread, there is room for arbitrage, but there has always been smuggling.

It's just that China's smuggling is a legend, and the smuggling of the Soviet Union can be accessed by almost everyone.

Countless Soviets wanted to smuggle, but not all of them had access to it. It was necessary to cooperate with people from other countries outside the Soviet Union in order to obtain cheap goods that were lacking in the Soviet Union.

When it comes to cheap goods that the Soviets can afford, Chinese goods are clearly the first choice. At present, the world's major industrial countries, which can have a complete range of industries like China, and the products are extremely cheap?

Even if the price of many Chinese products increases tenfold, it is not expensive!

It is precisely because of this that the Chinese group can make a fortune by casually wholesale some Chinese goods!

"Why do you think that I will definitely cooperate with you?" Lin Qi suddenly laughed. knew that Liu Cuifang was just a woman who was interested in smuggling, and her husband Ivanov was just an ordinary local petty officer. Moreover, the reason why they want to smuggle with green eyes is also because Liu Cuifang did not have a job in the Soviet Union and relied on her husband's salary to support her. And Ivanov has not received his salary for at least 3 months.

On the contrary, it was her daughter Diana who came into contact with the Chinese group of fallen masters, which gave Liu Cuifang the idea of taking risks and smuggling to make a fortune.

"You should be a wealthy businessman in China, I guess you have at least tens of millions. Liu Cuifang gritted her teeth and said, "And you are already married, it is estimated that you are very afraid of your wife." So, what do you think of the consequences of me going to China to make trouble with you and my daughter?"

Diana and Ivanov both bowed their heads, obviously ashamed of Liu Cuifang's insistence on using her daughter as a bargaining chip.

"Okay, let me think about it, and I'll get back to you in two days. Lin Qi nodded. In fact, Lin Qi needed time to investigate the situation of Diana and the others.

They couldn't say anything, so Lin Qi agreed.

After all, it is still in Komsomolsk, and the state, through diplomatic channels, asked the Soviet Union to guarantee the safety of Lin Qi. Therefore, if something really happens, the Soviet Komsomolsk can use the plane to send Lin Qi back to China.