Chapter 50: A Money-Making Business Like No Other

On Monday morning, Roman came to the youth apartment at nine o'clock on time to pick me up and take me to his parents for acupuncture. On the way, I told him, "I have already arranged for you to give you twenty ginseng sticks next week." Roman was delighted to hear this: "Very good! The ginseng you gave me is almost gone, I used Qia Qia to soak a ginseng and put it on the shelf of the restaurant bar, many customers are asking after seeing it, I told them that this is the ancient and magical ginseng of the East, which has been growing underground for almost ten years, it can strengthen the body and treat many diseases, and long-term use can prolong life, and it will also bring good luck to people. The customer was very interested and asked me where I could sell it? I said I could help them order from China, a ginseng plant cost $150, and it would be shipped by air. In this way, more than a dozen ginseng plants have been sold. "This Roman is really good enough, he is definitely a master storyteller, I can't help but give him a thumbs up, Roman asked me, "Can you give me more next week?" Twenty trees are not enough to sell. I replied, "Then I'll give you 30 ginseng next week, and I'll give you 30 ginseng every month from now on?" Roman said, "Yes, it would be better if there were more." "I calculated in my heart, Sveta went to China for two weeks and rested for a week, so it was equivalent to a cycle of three weeks, if I brought more than 30 ginseng plants each time, according to the calculation of half a year, the average number of ginseng plants per month was more than 40 ginseng, and I gave Roman 30 plants every month, and I kept the rest for backup. As the saying goes, if you get too much ginseng, it will be sold at the price of cabbage, although it is said that the Beijing cabbage in Russia is not cheap, but after all, it is also sold by the kilogram, and each kilogram is sold for up to ten dollars, and my ginseng is sold for more than 200 US dollars according to a fifty US dollar, and a kilogram is almost more than 200 US dollars, which is 20 times the price of Beijing cabbage, of course, it is more than 20 times the price of Beijing cabbage. Besides, Sveta can't bring much with him every time. If Roman's restaurant sells well, and thirty trees a month is not enough to sell, I can give him the stock in hand, and then I can ask Sveta to bring ten more trees at a time, and I will give Sveta one or two hundred dollars each time in the future, and she will be very happy if she doesn't have to take any risks to make some extra money. After making a wishful thinking, I said to Roman, "If you can't bring too much each time, I'll give you thirty ginseng first, and if it's not enough to sell for a month, I'll find a way." Roman said, "Well, that's it, don't tell anyone about this, it's our business." I said, "Don't worry, I will keep trade secrets, there is a saying in China that God knows what you know, I know." Roman smiled, "Peng, Mara Jieji (good)"

Roman asked me again, "Peng, do you think about what other good things you can get over and sell in my restaurant?" "I think Roman is such a good storyteller, and he says that ginseng can bring good luck, so he just got some Xiuyan jade carved toads and put them in his restaurant to sell. The last time I gave Valroga a jade carved toad, I saw that Valroga liked it very much, and rich people in Russia should like it just as much. If Roman is good, he will definitely be able to sell for a good price, and he will have to price thousands in Chinese craft stores, let alone here. So I said, "I know that Russians believe in feng shui very much, if I get some high-end feng shui mascot jade carvings from China, I wonder if they can sell them in your restaurant?" Roman nodded and said, "Yes, Russians are very good at feng shui, you can get some here, I put it next to the ginseng wine on the bar shelf, if anyone is interested, I can also help them order, these things are liked by rich people." You must know that most of these Russian upstarts now have unclean money, so the more money they have, the more superstitious they are, the things you get must be good, not afraid of expensive, rich people put these feng shui mascots in their homes and offices is also a kind of show-off, and then you have to make it clear what the meaning and function of these things are. I said, "Don't worry, the jade carvings I got must be very exquisite and high-end, and they are all hand-carved by high-level craftsmen." Roman said, "That's the best, the better the thing, the more people will be interested, and the better it will be fetched." "I thought to myself, then I want my family to order ten Xiuyan jade carved toads first, this thing does not take up space, if it is customized in batches, it will only cost more than 100 yuan a piece, and it will not exceed 200 yuan with a high-end wooden box, I will give Roman 150 US dollars, according to his level of foolishness, he can sell it for 3500 US dollars or even more casually. Thinking of this, I can't help but rejoice in this new and different money-making business. I thought to myself, when I return to China, I must study and study well, and then get something different.

After returning to the company in the afternoon, Katya said that Brother Chao had called and asked me to call the domestic company after I arrived at the company. After I dialed the phone, it was Xiao Wang who answered the phone, as soon as I heard that it was my voice, Xiao Wang called Brother Chao to listen to the phone, Brother Chao took the phone and asked me first: "Dapeng, are you okay over there?" I replied, "It's all good, Brother Chao, you don't have to worry about it, how are you?" Go back to a qiēshun lì, right? Brother Chao said: "We returned the night before yesterday, and yesterday I took them around the city, and I didn't come back for three months, and I just came back a little uncomfortable." I smiled and said, "That means you're about to become an old man." Brother Chao also laughed, and then continued: "I went to your house last night and gave money and red wine to your parents, your family is very good, I told them that you have adapted well here, and told them that you will find a beautiful Russian girlfriend as soon as you come, and they are very happy to hear it, and they want you to bring Tanya back when you go back." I said, "Why are you suing them for this, and you won't keep it a secret for me, now it's good, and then go back to China, and the beauties in the company will ignore me." Brother Chao scolded me with a smile: "You stinky boy, eating what is in the bowl and thinking about what is in the pot, okay, don't say more, I'll be relieved that your side is normal, and I have to go to Ivan to determine which factories to see." I said, "Brother Chao, wait, I still have important things to say, if we use this company to sign a contract with Valroga's company, will we have to pay taxes in accordance with Russian law in the future?" I remembered this yesterday, and I wanted to ask Lena today, and I would call you as soon as I arrived at the company, but I didn't have time to ask her. Brother Chao immediately said: "We ignored this question at the time, but fortunately you remembered, your thinking is becoming more and more mature, and it is worthy of praise, you don't need to ask Lena, I asked her directly, you want Lena to answer the phone." I called Lena to answer the phone, and Lena took the phone and listened to it for a while and then talked a lot, and I was surprised when I roughly understood it. Russia's tax rate is staggeringly high, with a mess of taxes that add up to almost 100 percent of the amount of sales. Many Russian companies are falsifying their accounts, otherwise they would not be able to survive at all. For a foreign-funded company like ours, the Russian tax police will strictly inspect it, and it is difficult to make false accounts, so Lena does not build yì We use this company to sign the contract. After Lena finished speaking, she handed me the phone, and Brother Chao said on the phone: "Dapeng, fortunately, you thought of this problem, and it was very timely. Russia is now in an economic crisis, and the government has come up with a lot of messy and exorbitant taxes for fiscal revenue, and it seems that if we go to negotiate business and sign contracts in the future, we must bring Lena with us. I'll talk to Ivan about it later, and ask him to talk to his boss Varoga and see what Varoga means. Roc: Is there anything else you would like to say? I then went on to tell the story of meeting Yuri, the son of the old man Anton, and told me about Yuri's construction of agriculture in Novosibirsk and the introduction of greenhouse planting technology, and after listening to it, Brother Chao said: "This construction is very good, I told the company CEOs in the morning about the idea of shipping vegetables and fruits to Russia, and the CEOs were very interested." I'll report back to Yuri and the bosses later. We can invite Yuri over and see where China can work with them in agriculture. We don't necessarily do it ourselves, but we can find some agricultural companies to use Yuri's connections to match. "Hearing Brother Chao say this, I can't help but admire, after all, Brother Chao has eaten a few years longer than me, and his way of looking at things is much wider than me. It seems that we can't fix our thinking on a single international trade, and we can also be a matchmaking international broker, and this scope and prospects may be broader.

After ending the call with Brother Chao, I immediately called home. As soon as my mother answered the phone, she asked my girlfriend about it, and I said that I would bring it back to China to show you in the future, and she told me to pay attention to my body and safety. After listening to her advice, I asked about the situation at home, and my mother asked me to rest assured that everything at home was fine. I told her and my friend to buy 35 ginseng trees, and then went to the handicraft market to order 10 Xiuyan jade carved toads with the best wooden box packaging, and the size and quality of the toads were according to the one I brought when I went abroad. My mom took the notes carefully and said that she would make a decision tomorrow. I then told her to buy some Chinese medicine for neurasthenia and insomnia, and then told her when she handed it over to the attendant of the international train called Sveta at Shenyang Station, and bought some fresh fruits and handed them to her.