Chapter 5 I made 1.4 million in one day! USD!
Before the plane arrived, 911 came. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoNew York was bombed by a plane, and Zuo Jianjia was the first to discover it by the networm Zuoyi.
At that time, there was no mobile Internet, and when 911 happened, it was already the night of September 11 in China, and there was almost no reaction on TV, but online videos came out soon.
At first, Zuo Yi thought it was some kind of movie clip, but when he found out that it was the real thing, he couldn't sit still, his baby sister was studying in a school in New York at this time, he hadn't been to the United States to see his sister, and he didn't know if the school was close to the World Trade Center.
Zuo Yi quickly went downstairs to find his mother, the only one in their family who had ever been to his sister's school.
Zuo Jianshe and his wife were about to sleep, but they were startled by their son's panicked appearance, and when they heard that the World Trade Center in New York was bombed by a plane, they were directly frightened stupid.
Xiang Min is in the United States, and she can't find the north at all, and what is the distance between Zuo Zai's school and the World Trade Center, she has no score in her heart at all.
Xiang Min was so frightened that his hands trembled and called Zuo Zai, at first he couldn't get through at all, but then he got through Zuo and never turned on his phone, and Zuo Zai didn't turn on his mobile phone when he went to school. She called Cheng's family again, but at this time, probably all the phones from all over the world were going to New York, and the phone did not work at all.
Zuo Zai's language school is actually quite far from the World Trade Center, but even so, you can see black smoke rising in the distance and hear loud noises.
The students didn't know what was going on, but the teachers soon found out, stopped the class, took all the students to watch CNN live, and then waited for the government's notice to see what to do.
When watching the live broadcast, several teachers asked Zuo Zai if there was a national flag. Zuo Zai's American flag and national emblem were sent to almost all her classmates, but not to the teacher.
Zuo Zai thinks that none of his classmates are Americans, and there should be no such thing, and American teachers should have or need American flags very much. At this time, because of 911, Americans' patriotic enthusiasm was at an all-time high.
Here, Zuo Zai is still waiting at school for the news of whether the class will be suspended, and Xiang Min over there is already crying urgently, she is worried about her daughter, and at the same time complains that Zuo Jianjian has to let her daughter go to the United States to study, and now she is uncertain.
Zuo Jianshe would only be more anxious than Xiang Min in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it at this time. They couldn't contact their daughter, and they couldn't do anything about New York being so far away. If something really happens to his daughter, he probably won't be able to live.
After Xiang Min finished crying, he suddenly remembered that he actually had something to do, so he asked Zuo Yi to continue watching on the Internet, and he took Zuo Jianshe to the Buddha hall next to his home to pray for the Bodhisattva's blessing.
911 is a big deal for foreigners, and Americans must think it's a big deal, but most people in New York still have to do it.
Except, of course, those who have loved ones working at the World Trade Center.
The school was soon notified to suspend classes, and Zuo returned to Cheng Fengchun's house at noon and saw that Xiao Nai was already at home. Because she hadn't seen the World Trade Center collapse up close, she didn't think anything big had happened except for the closure of schools.
Xiao Nai's mother saw Zuo come back and asked her if she still had an American flag.
I don't know if this is the first wave of people today to ask if there is a national flag in the left.
Where will you know that Americans have the habit of marching through the streets with flags and candles when they encounter major events.
The kind of national flag that the left brought with him was not without the United States, and the printed national flag made in China was recognized as dumping, and the Americans purchased it from other places, and the cost of the national flag was actually very low. But at the terminal convenience store, a national flag costs five dollars.
The daughter-in-law of the Cheng family definitely didn't go to Zuo Zai because she wanted to save five yuan. It's that 911 is too big, there are too many people who want to march on the streets, and the national flag 911 used for the parade is out of stock on the same day.
Zuo Zai's national flag had already been almost given by her, and the remaining ones were also dismantled by her and Xiao Nai as barbecue poles.
Zuo Zai heard that a national flag would be sold for five yuan or US dollars, and thought of the national flags that were piled up like garbage at her relatives' house, so she felt that she should ask Zuo Yi to get him a box again and again, and transport it to sell with the New Year's candles.
As soon as she thought of this, she quickly took out her phone.
As soon as she turned on the phone, she received a bunch of text messages, she wanted to wait and read the text messages, and it was more important to call. At this time in China, even the night cat Zuo Yi will soon go to sleep.
As soon as Zuo Jianshe and his wife came back from the Buddha hall, they heard Zuo Yi say excitedly that his sister had called.
As soon as Zuo Yi's phone was connected, Xiang Min snatched the phone, and Zuo heard that it was her mother who answered the phone, and thought that she had made a mistake, and her mother should have been asleep a long time ago. Listening to my mother's voice, she was trembling, but she asked first:
"What's wrong, what's going on?"
"Nuan Nuan, are you okay? Do you have any problems? Xiang Min asked at about the same time as Zuo Zai.
"I'm fine, what can I do?" Zuo Zai felt a little strange.
"Didn't the World Trade Center in New York get hit by a plane? You're not in danger, are you? Zuo Jianshe leaned over and asked on the phone.
"Ah, you all know that? I don't have anything to do here, it's just that all the fire engines in New York have passed by, and the news says there are a lot of ambulances. I don't know anything else, but the school is closed now. It was said that it could be a terrorist attack or something. Zuo Zai found that no one in her family was more nervous than her about 911.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, Bodhisattva bless ......" Xiang Min didn't even have the strength to take the phone at this time, so he sat down on the ground.
Zuo Jianjian's hanging heart was finally put down, he was actually a little weak, and when he saw his wife paralyzed, he went over to help him up.
At this time, Zuo Yi's phone was back in his hands. In fact, Zuo Yi was the first to be frightened, and he was also the worst frightened. He felt in his heart that his sister was going to the United States to study instead of him, and if something happened to his sister now, it would all be his own harm.
Zuo Zai heard Zuo Yi finally answer the phone, so he said:
"Brother, you go to Qiaotou tomorrow to help me get some national flags and come back, and I will transport it to me on the 14th with the New Year's candle."
"Okay, I'll get it for you." was originally a sister slave, but now Zuo Yi, who has added a little guilt, agrees.
New York was bombed by the building, and the airport was fine, so there was no problem with the charter flight of FedEx on the 14th departing on time. However, 911 was identified as a terrorist attack, and FedEx received a notice from the government that candles were prohibited from being transported by air as "dangerous goods".
Chinese candles, in the United States, were originally classified as dumping, and high taxes were charged, so almost all domestic candles could not enter the American market.
No, the process of Fengchun is to transport personal belongings, not to be sold, and the tax is not taxed, and the tax on a few candles is not much in the end.
But now, things are listed as banned, and no matter how powerful and punctual FedEx is, it is useless.
Cheng Yan went to his father again for this matter, and his father heard that the New Year's candle could not be lucky, and he was in a very bad mood. This year, the spice business in the United States has encountered a bottleneck, and he plans to light New Year's candles at the solemn temple in New York during the Chinese New Year. But the charter flights are all packaged, the money is given, and what is to be transported at the beginning is spices, what else can be done, it can only be transported.
Cheng Fengchun was in a bad mood and scolded Cheng Yan again:
"Just let you transport something, how many times have you asked about such a thing, don't you have the ability to deal with problems yourself?"
When Cheng Yan was scolded, Zuo Zai was playing with Xiao Nai next to him, this loss was that Zuo Zai was there, otherwise Cheng Fengchun's scolding would not be so civilized.
Cheng Yan probably also found out, Zuo Zai deliberately took Xiao Nai to his grandfather's side, and he was scolded by Cheng Fengchun miserably, so he cast a grateful look.
In the evening, of course, it was already morning in China, and as soon as Zuo woke up, he called Zuo again and asked her how many national flags she wanted.
Zuo went to ask Cheng Yan again, the candle can't be transported, can she carry the national flag here.
Cheng Yan didn't think about it, so he said yes. Didn't he be scolded by his father at least three or four times and asked him to solve the problem related to the ambergris by himself. By the way, he can make a decision on this matter by carrying the national flag, and he doesn't need to ask Cheng Fengchun.
With Cheng Yan's permission, Zuo Zai called Zuo Yi back and said that she wanted everything. She wants the flags that haven't been sold at the bridge.
As soon as his sister Nu Zuo got the order, he took the company's truck driver to the town to collect the national flags, he took all the national flags of two relatives' houses, said that he wanted to give people money, and was told by others, saying that it was too late to thank him, how could he take his money. He also said that there were a lot of neighbors' homes, so he wanted to bring them to him.
Zuo Yi didn't look at how many there were, and said that if people were willing to sell it to him for some money, it would be okay to take it all. The truck driver on the left left left to install the national flag and went back to his girlfriend for lunch.
Zuo Yi went back to look after eating, dumbfounded. A large truck, almost full. And the wonderful is still to come, the driver Lao Wu said, it is too much, he has just pulled a car back, this is the second car.
At the time of the meal, two truckloads of American flags were collected, and the villagers received a symbolic amount of money at most. The collection of the flags of these two truckloads did not cost a lot of money in total.
The dumbfounded Zuo Yi called his sister, forgetting that it was time for his sister to go to bed at this time, so he said to her:
"Sister, I'm miserable by you now, you asked me to collect all the national flags, I didn't spend much effort to collect them, I collected two whole trucks, and there was no place to pile them."
Zuo Yi rarely calls Zuo Zai girl, which is said when he was shocked.
Zuo Zai fell asleep in a daze, so he said to Zuo Yi:
"I can't send the New Year's candles, so you can send me the box of the New Year's candles."
"Sister, these flags are much heavier than the New Year's candles, and they are heavier than others, I think there are ten tons." The left one continues to say that there is nothing that can be done.
"You can dismantle the flagpole and barbecue it and eat it, and send the national flag here." Zuo Zai was probably eating in a dream, and remembered that she and Xiao Nai took the flagpole to barbecue. After saying that, Zuo Zai hung up the phone and fell asleep.
If you want to say that Zuo Yi is a slave to his sister, Zuo Zai hung up the phone, and without thinking about it, he asked the eighty-odd workers in the factory to stop their work and dismantle the flagpole for his sister.
How can Zuo Yi command so many people? This starts with Zuo Jianshe No. 12 coming to the factory in the morning and saying that the factory wants to let Zuo Yiguan take care of it recently, and he has no time to talk about it.
What are these husband and wife busy with? They don't know as much about the Internet as Zuo, and they don't understand what 911 is.
Zuo Jianshe was still worried about Zuo Zai's safety, and asked people everywhere if the United States was safe and whether it should leave the United States.
The World Trade Center was bombed by a plane, so he didn't dare to let his daughter take a plane at this time, otherwise he would have let Zuo return to China a long time ago. In addition to asking people, Zuo Jianshe and Xiang Min still have to go to Putuo Temple to burn incense.
So the left one is a monkey as the king at this time.
A small national flag weighs about 20 grams, but almost 20 grams are wooden flagpoles, and this flag is only 5 grams at most.
Two truckloads of national flags, more than 80 people in the factory, were dismantled from the 12th to the night of the 13th. Then pack the box overnight. The first one on the left really filled in the weight of 3.5 tons of annual candles with the small national flag.
The first one on the left also gave his sister a good order, 3.5 tons, 700,000 noodles.
700,000 faces, 700,000 faces, 700,000 faces, important things said three times.
Early in the morning of September 14, FedEx shipped it away, and it was still the 14th when it arrived in the United States.
Cheng Yan, who received the goods, heard the customs tell him that there were 700,000 national flags in the customs declaration, and his jaw was about to fall off in shock. What made his jaw drop even more was that the customs thought that this was a disaster relief material and directly released it.
He promised to help carry the national flag again, but these seven! Ten! Ten thousand! Face! It's horrible.
was so scary that even if he was going to be scolded, he still called his dad.
Cheng Fengchun was still relatively calm, and personally called Zuo Zai and asked Zuo Zai what to do with this batch of national flags. Zuo Zai himself didn't know that he had brought 700,000 national flags over, so he said:
"Uncle Cheng, now that everyone is buying the national flag, I can't buy it, I can sell it by putting on a barbecue pole."
"Do you know how many flags you have to wear?" Cheng Fengchun asked Zuo Zai.
"I asked my brother to bring a box." The number is not clear.
"Do you know how many you have in that box?" Cheng Fengchun asked again.
"I don't know, it should be quite a lot."
"It's quite a lot, 700,000 noodles."
"What, what? 700,000? So what to do, I can't finish it! Zuo Zai himself was a little frightened.
"How much do you want to sell?" Cheng Fengchun then asked.
"Isn't it five dollars on one side?"
"What if people buy more?"
"Then buy one get one free."
Having been in the spice business for many years, Cheng Fengchun has a huge sales network in the United States, but he sells spices and does not directly face end customers.
Cheng Fengchun thought about it, and called the purchasing manager of several large supermarkets he knew, and he called the first Wal-Mart. Let's just say that there are as many as there are on two pieces and five sides.
Cheng Fengchun said that there are a lot of goods, there are 700,000 pieces, and there is no flagpole. The quantity is too large, the purchasing manager did not dare to make a decision, so he asked his superiors for instructions, and the superiors said that there is no flagpole to do it, and there are more barbecue poles in the supermarket, but the price should be lowered a little more.
In the end, it was proposed that two dollars a side did not need Cheng Fengchun to deliver the goods, and the people from Wal-Mart went to the airport to pick up the goods by themselves, and directly used Wal-Mart's logistics network to send them to various states in the United States.
In the past three days of 911, not only New Yorkers, but all Americans are ready to march in the streets.
In the end, Zuo Zai also agreed, two dollars a side.
Cheng Fengchun sold all the 700,000 national flags of Zuo Zai with a phone call, and Zuo Zai, who had zero cost, earned 1.4 million in one day! USD!
At the time of 911, the Americans had to have 3 to 5 million small national flags to buy on the streets, but only the 700,000 on the left were the ones that made money.
Americans rarely make their own printing in a highly polluting industry, and the American flag produced in Qiaotou is considered to be dumped, and Americans purchase it from South America and other places.
911 happened too suddenly, and other South American manufacturers don't have so much inventory, even if there is, even if the shipping from South America to the United States is not something that can be done in two or three days.
Under normal circumstances, the cost of purchasing these small national flags in large supermarkets in the United States is only fifty or sixty cents, but fortunately, when the national flags of South America arrived one after another, the national flags of Zuo Zai had already been sold out.
By September 20th, because there were too many flags shipped from South America, there was simply more supply than demand, and the number of people marching gradually decreased, the price of American flags fell sharply, and convenience stores were not easy to sell for a dollar.
Therefore, only Zuo Zai, the "little girl who sold the national flag", made a lot of money in a daze, and everything was so good.
People who earn $1.4 million a day are not uncommon in the world, but Zuo Zai is only 11 years old at this time, and most of his peers are estimated to be still worried about ten yuan of pocket money.