Chapter 17 [Buying a Car]
The Mercedes-Benz van in front of me looks very stylish, with black spray paint depicting flames and two front wheels reaching a height of 1.2 meters. The inside of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info compartment was very tidy, Yang Yong personally opened the door of the Mercedes-Benz truck, sat in it and felt it. The cab is very spacious, because the truck is very high, so the front windshield has a very good line of sight, and the dashboard is also very modern.
The interior is made of walnut, classic atmosphere, and the cab is fully equipped with all kinds of facilities, and there is even a 30-liter Xiaoice box in front of the passenger leg. There are also two bunk beds behind the seat, and the bed is one meter wide and has a lot of space, so people can sleep on it very comfortably. I took a look at the gear of the car is an automatic transmission, and the mileage of the truck is 3500 kilometers, which can be said to have just passed the run-in period, and Yang Yong, who jumped out of the cab, expressed great satisfaction. Then I looked at the rear compartment, the area of the compartment reached 20 cubic meters, and the length reached six meters, which was used to hold the rags that I had auctioned back everywhere, and the load of this truck reached 30 tons, which was enough. The price is also very fair, the most important thing is that this Mercedes-Benz truck has not had any traffic accidents, nor has it been flooded, 35,000 US dollars can buy such a favorite truck, Yang Yong is very lucky.
Immediately made a decision to pay in full cash to buy the Mercedes-Benz truck, and after the two parties signed various documents, the truck was renamed Yang and was Yang Yong's private property. After buying the Mercedes-Benz truck, Yang Yong asked the staff who sold him where he could modify the truck, after all, the cargo lift frame was too high, and the ground in the rear compartment reached 1.2 meters. There are a lot of heavy things that can't be lifted on the car, and a hydraulic lift has to be added to the rear compartment to transport large and heavy goods. After the guidance of the salesman, Yang Yong drove a Mercedes-Benz for more than ten kilometers and came to a car modification factory, Yang Yong wanted to carry out a large-scale transformation of the carriage, not only to increase the lift, but also to add a locked secret room in the carriage to store valuables. This chamber is not too wide and one meter wide enough, and the vertical steel plate is two centimeters thick, and it will take 10 minutes to cut the steel plate with an oxygen welding machine. The rest of the modification plan is only to add a few hooks on the inner wall of the carriage to fix the contents of the carriage in case some important mechanical equipment hits the rear compartment when cornering, and the remaining one has a bathroom, a water tank, several workbenches and a few high-power batteries.
Finally, the lift, the lifting capacity of the lift should reach more than 5 tons, so that it can cover most of the range of use, the modification cost of the Mercedes-Benz truck reached 15,000 US dollars, which means that Yang Yong bought a truck plus the modification fee, a total of 50,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to half of the cash reserves Yang Yong trembled. But you can't help but refit it, because it's too troublesome to have no lift, after all, the auctioned warehouse has only one day to deal with it, and if the time limit is exceeded, you just need to accept a fine and confiscate the contents of the warehouse.
The Mercedes-Benz truck was handed over to Yang Yong, a tuning factory, and he took a taxi, returned to the second-hand car trading market, got into his Chevrolet and ran home. After coming to his own building, he opened the small door in the backyard and drove the Chevrolet in, and from then on the garage on the first floor became his own workshop, and his car could only be parked in his own small garden to endure the wind and rain. Yang Yong's garage area is not large, only 25 square meters, at this stage as a transfer warehouse is still very qualified, there are many tools in the garage are ready-made, and there is even an oxygen cutting machine.
Yang Yong spent the morning tidying up his garage, and then dragged his tired body back to his grocery store. I said hello to my mother, ran up to the second floor, went back to the room, took a shower, washed off my tiredness, and then used the computer to watch my recruitment information. The more I look at Yang Yong, the happier I become, because there are already 4 qualified people who have applied for their own recruitment information, Yang Yong contacted them one by one and explained that the interview time was on April 1, that is, the day after tomorrow, and at 10 o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, he conducted a preliminary interview with the 4 candidates who met the standards in his garage. After dealing with these things, Yang Yong still concentrated on the Internet to check where there is such information as the auction of abandoned ownerless warehouses, there are thousands of ownerless warehouses in the United States every day for auction, these more than 1,000 warehouses are just a general number, and no experts and scholars have to count the real number. So more than 1,000 is just a general concept, according to Yang Yong's own estimates, the exact number of unowned warehouses sold in the continental United States every day is not clear, but at least more than 10,000 are auctioned. So there is a lot of auction information on the Internet, there are thousands of warehouses for auctions every day, dozens of states, Dallas today, Boston tomorrow, so the information is very rich.
Yang Yong used a notebook to record the information of all warehouse auctions in April, and then used the map to indicate the driving route. Every city has to go through this way to make money, hard work is inevitable, but there is a good saying, no one can succeed casually, where does not suffer the money. So in the next month, Yang Yong will transform into an angel on the road, spending 24 hours a day in the car, you can imagine how terrifying such a day is, but for the sake of green dollars, Yang Yong has to grit his teeth and hold on.
I put the map of the United States marked with the route of action into my carry-on bag, and saw that I had time to deposit $20,000 of the $50,000 in the bank and put it in my card in the afternoon to facilitate my own withdrawal, and the remaining more than $30,000 was put in my purse and carried with me. Because all state governments in the United States require bidders to pay in cash and refuse to swipe cards and checks, cash must be carried with them. Because all bidders have to pay cash as soon as the auction is over, even if you go to withdraw the money by card, you don't have that time.
In the remaining two days after these trivial matters, Yang Yong immediately became a good baby, helping his mother out of the stall during the day, and then taking the supply order of his grocery store and calling each supplier to buy a batch of goods. At least it can top a month's storage capacity, after all, many of the goods sold in his grocery store are not light things, and his mother can't move them alone, which will affect his own business, so Yang Yong plans to take advantage of his time to prepare more goods for his mother to sell. A month later, he came back to the grocery store to save his mother's tiredness, people have serious things to do time passed very quickly, two days passed quickly, April 1 early in the morning Yang Yong got up early, ate the breakfast made by his mother, and then returned to the kitchen, made a pot of strong black tea, took a few cigars downstairs to his garage. Chairs and tables were set up at the door of the garage, sitting quietly and drinking tea while waiting for the applicants to come to the door, and just after 10 o'clock, Yang Yong's ears heard the sound of brakes on the street. Because there was a sign on the wall of the garage door that said "Apply", Yang Yong was not afraid that the applicants would not find the exact recruitment position, and sure enough, two minutes later, a middle-aged white man wearing a white shirt and jeans who looked to be about 35 years old walked into Yang Yong's garage.