When the big cities in the north are still discussing whether there should be private enterprises, the coastal areas in the south have already existed, compared to Hong Tao, who is more accustomed to talking about business with these private bosses, because they have fewer concerns, only consider a cost and profit, and it is more refreshing to talk.

This is the first serious copycat product that Hong Tao has seen in this life, travel shoes. There are two kinds of brands, Nike and Conway, the workmanship is not bad, and the materials are not as exaggerated as the copycat products of later generations.

Hong Tao doesn't care whether it is a copycat product or not, as long as the price and quality meet his own requirements, and interestingly, when Hong Tao and this private leather shoe factory reached a cooperation intention, he immediately called several fellows. According to this situation, Hong Tao only needs to sit in the hotel room, and don't have to go anywhere, he used to worry about the source of goods that is difficult to find, and people don't care about your selection, you can pick at will, and whoever you do is no problem, completely rely on the products in your hands to speak.

On the night of the third day, Hong Tao boarded the long-distance bus to Shishi Town with a large stack of letters of intent for cooperation, as well as a large bag of fruits bought by Section Chief Liu for him and the second master. It took nearly 8 hours to travel from Fuzhou to Shishi Town, and when the long-distance bus arrived at his destination the next morning, Hong Tao was not too tired. But the second master is obviously not done, his back is sore and his legs hurt, and the years are not forgiving.

Spring|state. Since ancient times, it has been a commercial region, especially the maritime merchants, and the maritime merchants of that era were import and export trade! Therefore, the people who have lived here for generations have a commercial taste in their blood. Shishi Town, just south of Quanzhou, is closer to the sea than Quanzhou, and its east is Quanzhou Bay. To the west is Shenhu Bay, and when it was more than eight years, it was not a city. Just a small town.

The town is not big, there are only three or four thousand households in total, and according to Boss Wan, there is only one restaurant and hostel called Shen Shi. Because according to the customs of the locals. Guests are generally invited to their own homes to set up a banquet at home, and even to sing and watch movies, they are invited to their own homes to close the door and watch. The reason why there is this restaurant and hostel is mainly to take care of those overseas Chinese who have returned to their hometowns, and they usually treat themselves in the restaurant.

That hostel, that is, the only place where Boss Wan and Hong Tao said that they could receive northerners. The hostel is easy to find, not far from the bus station, and the manager is a Shenyang person. And this hostel is actually a joint product of a certain district government in Shenyang and the Shishi town government, and Hong Tao can't imagine it. How could these two towns, one in the south and one in the north, come together to run such a hostel?

Regardless of whether he understands it or not, anyway, this is 100% a good thing for him and the second master. Because the people here are more xenophobic, they are not very welcome to outsiders, and it is impossible to invite you to live in their house. The hostel is very big, there is no problem with eating, drinking and lodging, Hong Tao didn't say a word, after entering the door, he first asked for the two best rooms, and then let the second master lie down and rest, this way is about to break up the old man.

After settling down the second master, Hong Tao was not sleepy, he slept in the car several times, don't look at him can't sleep on the train, but there is no problem in the car, he can sleep in a daze every minute, and sleep is not lighter than the bed, no matter how bumpy it is, it will not be affected. Since he didn't want to sleep, Hong Tao planned to go out for a walk, but before going out, he still found the manager of the hotel first, and asked very modestly whether he could go out at will.

Hong Tao really had never been to Shishi in his previous life, not because he couldn't come, but because he didn't want to come, why? Because after entering the 21st century, in addition to being famous for smuggling, there were also many swindlers, and the scammers were renovated in a few years, and the theft of bank cards, mobile phone text messages, telephone fraud, and so on all led the trend of the national fraud circles, and the impact was not very good. Although not everyone in Fujian does this, and this is also a handful of-stirring sticks, who wants to go to a place where deception is abundant?

In later generations, Hong Tao watched a documentary called "Ironclad Evidence", which was filmed by Fujian Film Studio, and the filming time was about the 70s. At that time, when Hong Tao was watching this film, he had a question about the Shishi Town in the 70s described in the film, is this true? Why do you ask that? Because in that documentary, Shishi Town has actually become a market economy since the early 70s.

What kind of era was that? It was still a buzzing era, and you had to dig out and criticize each more chicken, but here, it doesn't matter. What were the stone lion people doing at that time? They went to the surrounding areas to buy grain, cloth, and cooking oil, which were daily necessities controlled by the state, and then shipped them back and sold them at a high price. By 1977, there were only more than 100 registered industrial and commercial households, but more than 1,000 set up stalls to do business, and the total population of Shishi at that time was only more than 3,000.

There is a historical reason for this: since ancient times, there has been little land and many people here, and it is impossible to support so many people by farming alone, and the concept of doing business is deeply rooted here. And not only do business locally, the Shishi people also have the courage to pioneer, they abandon their families and businesses, and their footsteps have reached many countries in Nanyang, so almost every family here has overseas relatives, which is what we call overseas Chinese. Therefore, they know more or less about the outside world than people from other places, and they also have some money in their hands because their relatives overseas keep mailing things back, so they want to live a better life.

How can they live a better life? Of course, they are trading, so what are they selling? The stone and lion people have a way, they put the clothes and articles mailed by their overseas relatives on the street to sell, and they come and go, forming a kind of trade called a clothing appraisal stall. The word "apprehraising" probably means buying and selling used clothes, and in the words of later generations, it is a used clothes stall. Relying on this kind of small business, the word 10,000 yuan household has probably existed in Shishi since the sixties and seventies, and they are not satisfied, they feel that they are not happy to just do this kind of business of buying and selling, so they began to build family workshops and factories again, and sell them by themselves.

Around 1971, Shishi was unlucky, and the province sent a working group to conduct a house-to-house inventory, smashing more than a dozen underground black factories, and arresting several early birds, all of whom were severely punished on charges of speculation, and those clothing stalls were strictly banned.

However, this is not the first time that the stone lion people have been cut leeks, and their ancestors have been tossed like this in all dynasties, so they also have a strong ability to survive and resist pressure. When you strictly investigate, that person will stop doing it, just like Hong Tao, hiding the money and not taking it out, they are waiting for the opportunity. So as soon as the buzz ended, these people dug the money out of the ground again, whether it was to build a small factory, or to ask someone to bring it to their relatives overseas to help them buy goods.

Hong Tao was skeptical about these histories, but in the face of the facts in front of him, he couldn't believe it. Hong Tao and the state-owned Shenshi Hotel where they live is on the most lively Dalun Street, and after you go out, there are stalls and shops to the left and right, most of which sell clothes, as for whether they have a license or something, Hong Tao thinks it's hard to say, according to what is said in the discipline film, the people here don't value that thing too much.

Why is the stone lion called the stone lion, Hong Tao has not studied it, but he thinks that at least the first word of the name is quite appropriate, there is almost no land here, and there is only one thing in the streets and towns, that is, stones. The ground is paved with stones, the houses are made of stones, and there are no trees on the hills, but they are full of big stones.

Shopping is shopping, Hong Tao didn't dare to ask a stall, let alone buy any goods rashly, he only dared to stand aside and take a look. Because before coming out, the innkeeper had already warned Hong Tao that if you want to buy something, then think of a price, and then ask the stall owner if you sell it, don't ask how much this is, ask how much it is, and then bargain, and then you don't buy it, then you will be miserable. The stall owner will never let you go, you must be asked to buy what you just asked, and the price is higher, you don't plan to resist, no matter how fierce you can fight, no matter how fierce you are, you can't kill the whole town of people, they are all fellow villagers, although they can usually compete, but when they meet outsiders, they are still very united.

"Seven Wolves, Jinba, Xtep, Anta, Peak...... It's all this Gada's brand, it's amazing!" Hong Tao took the camera, and it only took 2 hours to turn the entire Shishi Town, and then looked at this barren stone city, it is hard to imagine that in the future it has become an important town for China's clothing, printing and dyeing, and shoemaking. (To be continued......)

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