Chapter Eighty-Nine: Being a Fallen Master is like being an underground party

After drinking a cup of Longjing tea before Ming, Xiao Zhang HeBei and I became familiar with each other. Because I was about to start a new life in Novosibirsk, Xiao Zhang was very interested in my life in Novosibirsk and a qiē in Novosibirsk. I then told me about some of the things I had experienced during my time in Novosibirsk, and Xiao Zhang and Lao Lin were dumbfounded. Especially when I talked about the part where the Afghan war veterans Vidali and Sergei made a big fuss in the airport police office, Xiao Zhang's mouth opened nervously and excitedly, and the water glass in his hand was almost crushed by him, while Lao Lin waved his fists excitedly, as if he was beating the police at the scene.

After listening to me, Xiao Zhang filled my teacup with water, "Dapeng, you have a cup of tea, you spoke so well, just like in the movie, I was nervous to death, these Russian policemen are too bad, they are simply a group of bandits, it seems that you will have to hide from the police in Novosibirsk in the future." Lao Lin patted his thigh and said: "It's too enjoyable, it's so relieving, these bad cops like bandits have to clean up like this, if I was there at the time, I would have to go up and beat them a few fists to relieve my hatred." As soon as I heard Lao Lin say this, I understood that he must have suffered a lot from the Russian police, and I smiled and said: "Brother Lin, it seems that you have been blackmailed by the police." Lao Lin said hatefully: "Yes, I have been doing business in Russia for three or four years, and I have not suffered the losses of these bandit policemen, and at most I was robbed of more than 3,000 US dollars by them in collusion with bandits." Xiao Zhang and I said in unison, "Wow! So much. Lao Lin sighed and said, "Hey! That time, I also blamed myself for my lack of experience, in the past three or four years, I have made no less money in Russia, and I have not eaten less losses, and I am full of tears when I think about it. Xiao Zhang said, "Brother Lin, I'll make you a cup of tea, and you can tell us your story." I responded to the side and said: "Brother Lin, tell me, you are a Russian veteran, let's listen to your story, and follow the long knowledge to increase some experience in doing business in Russia." ”

Xiao Zhang brewed a cup of fragrant Longjing tea for Lao Lin, and Lao Lin took the teacup a little embarrassed, "Thank you, brother, I am a farmer, I used to drink a big bowl of tea, I have never drunk such a high-grade tea, good tea is a waste for me, and I can't drink it well." I'm clumsy, I'm afraid that I won't be able to speak well, and I'm sorry for your good cup of tea. Xiao Zhang put his hands on his chest and said, "Brother Lin, you are too polite, look at what you said, no matter how good the tea is, people drink it, if people don't drink it, it is just a leaf, you say yes?" Tell us how you came to Russia to be a leader, as long as it is your personal experience, no matter what you say, we want to hear it. Lao Lin heard Xiao Zhang say this, hugged his fist to Xiao Zhang and said: "Brother, you are really good at talking, anyway, there is nothing to do in the car, then I will tell me how I came to Russia and what I have personally experienced, I am different from other international masters, I can't be completely regarded as a master, I didn't buy and sell but sold my own products." ”

After taking a sip of tea, Lao Lin told us his story, but Lao Lin was a little different from the old man I met. Here is the definition and background of the inverted master, the inverted master is a special group that appeared in the eighties of the last century, and the term inverted master was widely popular in the mid-to-late eighties and early nineties of the last century. In the process of changing from a planned economy to a market economy in the hinterland, especially in the era of the dual-track price system, some people took advantage of the price difference between planned and unplanned commodities to buy and resell relevant commodities in the market to make profits. "Inverted Lord" was once popular all over the country, especially in the BeiJing area. They first resold agricultural and sideline products from the countryside to the cities, later resold electronic products and clothes from the southern coastal cities to the inland cities in the north, and then resold all kinds of light industrial products from China to Eastern Europe and Russia.

Lao Lin was originally an authentic farmer on the North China Plain, facing the loess with his back to the sky and relying on the sky to eat, and his life could only be mixed with food and clothing. After China's reform and opening up, Lao Lin's elder brother had a flexible brain, and saw that many people made a fortune by buying and selling, so he started to be a bad man in the countryside. First, they poured agricultural products into the cities, and then poured clothes, shoes and hats back to the countryside from the cities, making some money. Later, at the end of the eighties, Lao Lin's brother met a businessman who wholesaled leather gloves, and the businessman asked him to organize some people in the village to help him process gloves during his spare time, so Lao Lin's brother pulled his brother Lao Lin to open a glove processing workshop.

In the beginning, the brothers bought some sewing machines and equipment, and organized some rural women to process the incoming materials during the slack time. After all, you can only earn a processing fee for processing for others, and the work of processing with incoming materials cannot be guaranteed for a long time, and you have to develop and produce yourself if you want to make money. So the two brothers began to develop and produce their own materials as soon as they discussed, and it was not enough to develop and produce alone, the most important thing was to sell the products. So Lao Lin's brother returned to the old business and ran the market, mainly running around the city, Shijiazhuang Baoding These two cities are the main places for Lao Lin's brother, and slowly ran down, and accumulated some customers. The brothers' glove processing workshop also began to be busy, so the two simply contracted out the land and recruited more than a dozen people to start professional production of gloves. In just one or two years, the two brothers made money, each of them built the largest house in the local area, and also bought a small truck for delivery.

But the good times didn't last long, and many people in the county saw that they made money from producing and processing gloves, and began to imitate and open a glove processing workshop. Chinese have such a common problem - following the trend, as long as they see others doing well, they will follow in a swarm, and never know that they are innovating. As a result, the two brothers suddenly had a lot of competitors, and the old customers who rarely bargained were also the nearest big city to HeBei was the capital BeiJing, so the brothers began to go to BeiJing with glove samples to sell, and heard that BeiJing Yabao Road and Silk Street were the hottest business.

After arriving at Yabao Road on Silk Street, they found that there were many foreigners with yellow hair, blue eyes and big noses in these places who were buying goods in large bags. After inquiring, I learned that these were all foreigners from Eastern Europe, many of them Russians, and the two brothers thought that it was cold in Eastern Europe and Russia, and gloves must be needed. But unexpectedly, after running for a day on Xiushui Street on Yabao Road, not a single pair of gloves were sold. After careful observation and research, the two brothers understood that the original samples they brought were not on the right way, the leather gloves they produced were for the Chinese, the yardage was small and there was no hair inside, these leather gloves from Eastern Europe were large sizes and had to be furrowed, the warmth must be very good, only one or two in the Yabao Road and Silk Street markets were in stock, and the price was not low, but the business was very good.

After the two brothers found out the situation, they bought some samples of gloves that the foreigners wanted, and after rushing home, they developed the board as quickly as possible. Brother Lao Lin once again brought a new glove model into Beijing, and this time more than 20,000 pairs of gloves were sold at once, and the order came later. As soon as the business here was booming, another group of people followed suit, and it didn't take long for the situation of competing with each other to reduce prices.

When Brother Lao Lin went to BeiJing to deliver goods, he heard that many people from Yabao Road on Silk Street began to run international trains to Eastern Europe and Russia, and many people made a fortune. The adventurous elder brother Lin immediately decided to take gloves to Russia, so he got a passport and visa, bought an international train ticket, and started his career as an international master. Unexpectedly, the first batch of gloves was snatched up by the Russians at the stations along the way before they could wait for Novosibirsk. After returning to China, Lao Lin's brother and Lao Lin studied and decided to hand over the production to the wives of the two people, and the two brothers specialized in running international trains to sell goods, so Lao Lin began to follow his brother to run international trains in Russia.

At the beginning, the two brothers ran the international train to sell goods, and then the business on the international train was not as good as before, the two rented a room in the Chinese wholesale building in Moscow to sell the goods, Lao Lin's brother was responsible for selling the goods, Lao Lin and his brother took turns to run back and forth in the country and Russia to deliver goods and take the international train to bring the goods. More than half of the gloves produced in the family's workshop were sold in Russia by the Tongguò brothers. While coming out to Russia and opening up new markets, they also led a group of people in their county to become international leaders in Russia.

The international career of the two brothers is full of hardships and tears like that of the fat brother Lao Chen, and they have also encountered the trampling of Chinese hooligans in the international column, and the property they brought was robbed, and they have also been robbed by Russian bandits, not to mention the blackmail of the Russian police, and even the unfortunate tragedy of the Russian police colluding with hooligans to rob.

Once in Moscow, Lao Lin went to another Chinese wholesale store to collect payment, and Lao Lin hid the more than 3,000 US dollars he received in the mezzanine of his clothes, and went out of the wholesale building to take a taxi home. As soon as he got into the taxi and walked out less than a kilometer away, he was chased and stopped by a police car hiding in the alley opposite the wholesale building, and the police told the taxi not to wait, and asked Lao Lin to get into the police car for inspection, and Lao Lin had no choice but to get into the police car. In the police car, the police first checked Lao Lin's passport, and then searched Lao Lin's body unreasonably, and after finding the dollars on Lao Lin's body, the police did not move the dollars, but drove the car out of a distance, and in a small alley where no one was, after asking Lao Lin for 100,000 rubles, the police let Lao Lin get out of the car. Lao Lin got out of the car and secretly rejoiced, ready to walk to the front road to find a taxi home, before he could walk out of a distance of 100 meters, suddenly a masked Russian bandit with a stick came out of the front of the alley, Lao Lin was about to turn around and run in another direction, turned around and found that there was also a masked Russian bandit with a stick standing behind him, before Lao Lin had time to resist, the bandit behind him knocked Lao Lin unconscious with a stick and robbed Lao Lin of more than 3,000 US dollars.

Later, a Russian woman passing by called the police, and the police car arrived after a long time, and the police pretended to take Lao Lin back to the police station to make a record, and then the matter was over. Since that time, when they go out to collect money or bring money out, the two Lao Lin brothers have gone out together, and when they come out of the batch building, they must first observe whether there are any police cars hidden in the dark, and only dare to go out after confirming that nothing goes wrong. Before going to other wholesale buildings to collect money, they also observe the surrounding terrain and situation, do not take a taxi at the door of the wholesale building when they go out, buy bread from the nearby non-staple food store first, walk out of the noodle packaging as if nothing happened, take a taxi after walking a distance, and do not go back to their own wholesale building when they get the money, but immediately go to the bank to remit the money back to China or immediately go back to the place where they live. The Russian police focused on the Chinese who took a taxi or came back to take a taxi as soon as they left the building, knowing that these Chinese were either illegitimate or carrying large sums of cash.

After listening to Lao Lin, I said: "Brother Lin, you are really not easy, maybe those two bandits were pretended by the police and designed to rob the Chinese." It's not easy to be a bad guy in Moscow, it's like being an underground party, you have to be on guard against the bandit-like Russian police at all times. ”

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