Chapter 7: The History of the Fallen Lord
When he parked the car, Lao Chen bought 20 bottles of Baikal beer at the small kiosk on the platform, and now the four of us and Zhejiang Meizi are sitting in the box, eating Baikal smoked fish and drinking Baikal beer, while enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the window, and the mood is very comfortable.
"I just heard Meizi say that China's fallen master mainly takes 3/4 of the Beijing-Moscow international train, fat brother Chen, have you ever run that line?" I couldn't help but ask the fat brother, "Can you still be considered an international master if you haven't run the Beijing-Moscow international train 3/4 times?" Lao Chen and I first ran that line, let me tell you the history of the fallen master and our story. The fat brother took a sip of beer and told us about the history of the international master in a very good mood, "The first international master was the Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Czechoslovakians, Poles and Russian old Maozi in Eastern Europe. At that time, Beijing's Yabao Road and Silk Street were the main places for these international masters, sometimes they also like to go to large department stores to buy, the most favorite to buy is pearl necklaces and silk clothing, watching these foreign men dump back in large bags and small bags, those Beijing traders on Silk Street on Yabao Road were also moved, some bold Beijingers tried to get passports and visas to go to Eastern Europe, these are the earliest Chinese masters, they opened their eyes when they arrived in Eastern Europe, dare to love this place is full of gold, Anything is multiplied several times to earn, and it is sold out. ”
The fat brother took a sip of beer to moisten his throat, and then continued, "This time the Chinese grandfather began to break into Eastern Europe in large quantities, the first was Hungary, but the Hungarian country is too small, the population is less than 10 million, as soon as the Chinese army comes, the market is soon saturated, everyone's goods are similar, and finally began vicious competition, the result is no money, and then the Hungarian government began to restrict the Chinese, it really can't be mixed, the Chinese grandfather began to transfer to the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, and the most that went was the Czech Republic, The Czech Republic is considered the richest in Eastern Europe, and at that time, outside the gate of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, at the gate of the Czech Embassy in Ritan, good guys from Monday to Friday, Chinese queuing for visas every day could go for miles. The Czech embassy did not open until 9 o'clock, and many people from all over the country came to Beijing to apply for visas in the middle of the night. At most, there are tens of thousands of Chinese in the Czech Republic, and you can see black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese masters anywhere. ”
The fat brother paused, took a big sip of beer, and then said, "Our buddy is the first batch of Eastern European masters, he went early to make a lot of money, he used to do business on Silk Street, see those Eastern European foreign masters buy the whole package and the price is not very much, I think the business in Eastern Europe must be easy to do, I want to go over to see, just a few buddies also have the idea of going to Eastern Europe, they hit it off, so I asked an acquaintance to apply for a passport and a visa, and he really went out, he brought a big bag of pearl necklaces for the first time, For 20,000 yuan of goods, guess how many times it has multiplied over there? "It's tenfold." Meizi is fast-mouthed, "It seems that Meizi also knows about the first batch of Beijing masters to break into Eastern Europe." "Yes, the uncle of one of my classmates also went to Eastern Europe at that time, and he is still there and has a restaurant." Meizi said.
The fat brother paused for a moment, and the happy expression on his face swept away, as if he suddenly touched the painful memory. After taking a big sip of beer, the fat brother continued: "Meizi, your classmate uncle is a successful Chinese master in Eastern Europe, not only making money but also gaining a foothold. Lao Chen and I are considered losers, we have also traveled to Eastern Europe, been to the Czech Republic, and mixed in Prague, but we went a little late, as soon as our buddy came back, Lao Chen and I wanted to follow him, but the unit had to do leave without pay, the unit did not approve it at first, it dragged on for a long time, and then the passport and visa were done, and the time passed for almost a year. When I arrived in the Czech Republic, I found that there were too many Chinese, the business was no longer good, the language was not clear, and there was a lot of money to find a translator to do things, and the translation was 30 crowns (about 10 US dollars) an hour, and you had to charge 15-30 crowns to help you call, and I don't know how much this money spent, and the food and accommodation were expensive to death, and renting a house cost five or six hundred dollars. During that time, we went to the wholesale market in the Czech Republic to find goods, and then practiced stalls to sell goods, there were no formalities and had to beware of the police everywhere, the police there were really dark enough, once I and Lao Chen practiced stalls in the pedestrian street in the center of the city, the business was very good, it didn't take long to sell a lot of goods, our brothers were happy, suddenly a group of police came to arrest our brothers, we hurriedly gave small gifts, and asked them to take one each, but they ignored our set, and directly opened their mouths to 1000 crownsThis is more than 300 US dollars, and we have not been sold for 1,000 crowns for a while, so we were stupid, and after begging for a long time, we almost knelt down, and finally paid 500 crowns. We've also been to Prague's largest open-air market, where foreigners are allowed to set up stalls, as long as they pay a management fee, this market is a bit like a big ant market in Moscow, there are Middle Easterners, Vietnamese, Russians, blacks, anyway, there are all kinds of people, but most of them have business licenses. We just found a place to set up the stall, and before we could sell the goods, the police came, thinking that we would pay the management fee, but there was no business license to fine, we hurriedly closed the stall, and compared with them that we were not placed, they called an interpreter to tell us, and if we did not put it, we would have to pay a fine, 300 crowns could not be less, otherwise we would take it back to the police station and detain it, and we had to pay the money obediently. I went to Poland for a month, and the Polish police were blacker than the Czech police, and they were blackmailed by them, and in the end the money didn't make enough to almost lose the old capital, and our brothers had to go back to China in disgrace. Just 91 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia opened up to China, our brothers combined, Eastern Europe went late, this Russia can not be late, so began to break into Russia, the earliest is to run 3/4 Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow international train. At the beginning, the Chinese masters who broke into Russia were similar to our brothers, and they had the experience of going to Eastern Europe.
One is bolder than the other, the entire 3/4 international train in addition to the people is the goods, stuffed everywhere, even the table is full of goods, the train as soon as Mongolia enters the territory of Russia began to sell goods, along the way the station is crowded with people, the old Maozi is holding the money in his hand and desperately squeezing it, sometimes the parking time is short and it is too late to get off, we simply pull the window down to sell, see who has more money in the hand to grab, a general glance is not time, according to the approximate amount to pick up the goods to the person's hand. "Didn't Lao Maozi take a look at what it was first?" I was curious and interjected, "No matter what goods they want, as soon as the train leaves, those who don't buy the goods chase the train and shoot the windows, that's called a madness, the goods are basically sold out without going to Moscow, and as soon as they get to Moscow for perfect gold, they will buy a return ticket back to Beijing immediately." ”