Chapter 3 Raising Money

After lunch, Li Guangzhi and Gao Dali sat cross-legged in the living room, looking at the stacks of banknotes on the low table in the middle.

The money was found by them in every corner of the house after rummaging through boxes and cabinets all morning.

Li Guangzhi carefully counted the money twice, removing the odds, and it was a total of 370,000 yen. That's all the savings he's had saved for a year.

He and Gao Dali together can earn about 600,000 yen a month, and the living expenses in Sapporo are not high, but there is only so much left in a year, which really makes Li Guangzhi depressed.

"Brother Guangzhi, is this money enough for us to spend in Tokyo? The cost of living in Tokyo is not low. "Gao Dali asked which pot he didn't open to mention.

Li Guangzhi glared at the two goods, and wanted to scold him a few words to vent, but he couldn't open his mouth.

"Himself" memory told him that all along, the money earned by the two of them was kept by Li Guangzhi, and most of the proposals to spend money were also put forward by "himself". At this point, Gao Dali really has no responsibility.

"If you don't have enough money, try to get more! I remember that Lao You of Electric Street seems to owe us 200,000 yuan, Dali, you go to him in the afternoon and find a way to get the money back. ”

Li Guangzhi pondered for a while and said: "When you take the money, by the way, ask Lao You, the pile of electrical appliances in our house was originally taken from him, and ask him if he will recycle 100,000 yuan." ”

Lao You is a second-hand dealer on the black market who has been in Sapporo's electric street for many years. His main business is to collect second-hand electrical appliances and send them to China, and occasionally to collect and sell stolen goods.

If possible, Li Guangzhi didn't want Gao Dali, a stunned person, to deal with something like Lao You. But out of caution, he felt that it was best for him to avoid dealing with his former acquaintances, after all, he was no longer the gangster he used to be.

After Gao Dali went out, Li Guangzhi began to pack up the pile of clothes that belonged to "himself".

He didn't expect that the original "self" would be such a sassy person, and he actually loved to dress up more than a woman. Looking at the various "fashionable" clothes full of two wardrobes, Li Guangzhi finally understood where the money was spent.

He muttered curses as he rummaged through the pile of clothes. He planned to pick out some of the less fancy ones to stay, and send the rest to the second-hand store to exchange for money. For him who is short of money now, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat.

After tidying up for a while, the phone in the living room rang. He walked over and picked it up, and it was Gao Li's angry voice.

"Brother Guangzhi, Lao You, that old bastard refuses to pay back, saying that he will delay it until next month!"

Li Guangzhi was not too surprised to hear the news. In his expectations, whether Lao You, the iron rooster, will repay the money is a matter of five or five in itself. He asked Gao Dali to say that he was willing to sell the 300,000 yuan worth of electrical appliances at home for 100,000 yuan, just to arouse Lao You's greed, so that he felt that he could take advantage of it, and he might be able to be happy if he repaid the money.

He thought about it for a while, and decided that he should come forward and talk to Lao You himself. After all, if the 200,000 yuan in arrears can be recovered, it will still be of great help to him and Gao Dali's life in Tokyo.

He said to Gao Lili on the other end of the phone: "Dali, you are waiting for me there, and I will be there soon." ”

After hanging up the phone, he grabbed the key to change his shoes and went out, heading for Electric Street, two blocks away. When passing by the bakery at the corner of the street, he bought two ham breads and ate them while walking.

It was only less than two hours after lunch that he was hungry enough to eat, which made Li Guangzhi feel a little confused. This body seems to have suddenly become mentally vigorous, and at the same time, the consumption and demand for food have also greatly increased. Is this a natural reaction of the human body, or is it some kind of mutation caused by the crossing? Li Guangzhi is not clear for the time being.

Electric Street was not very far from where he lived, and he walked all the way to think about countermeasures, and it didn't take long to see Gao Dali waiting at the corner of the street.

Lao You's shop is at the end of Electric Street, a slightly dilapidated two-story building. When Li Guangzhi pulled Gao Dali to the door of the store, the sliding door of the store was closed, and there were two stout thugs standing at the door.

Gao Dali muttered on the side: "Lao You, this old bastard, has a bad reputation for liking Chinese people, and no one among the Chinese is willing to help him, and now he can only pull people from Koreans to support the scene." ”

Li Guangzhi smiled in his heart when he heard this: Looking at this situation, Lao You is still afraid of himself and Gao Dali, otherwise he would not have specially called the two Korean gangsters to come over to support the posture.

He said to Gao Dali, "Wait for me outside," and walked straight to the store. The two Korean thugs were afraid of his height, and seeing that he was alone, they didn't even dare to stop him, so they let him walk into the store like this.

Short, lean, shriveled walnut-like Lao You, with a pair of reading glasses, sat behind the counter and wrote something in a small notebook. Seeing Li Guangzhi walking in so calmly, a trace of nervousness and surprise flashed in the corners of his eyes.

But he quickly stood up and greeted Li Guangzhi with an exaggerated smile of enthusiasm.

"Yo, Brother Hiroshi is here! O Sassibri (long time no see), O Sassibri! ”

Li Guangzhi raised his hand and waved it in front of him, intercepting his broken Japanese greetings, and said indifferently:

"Lao You, you don't have any outsiders here, so we won't talk nonsense with you."

In his previous life, Li Guangzhi rarely came into contact with this kind of gray person, and he was a little uncertain about how to speak in front of this kind of person to suppress the other party. However, seeing Lao You coming forward with a smirk on his face, he immediately recalled that when he was in charge of bidding in the unit, those individual bosses who came to pull relationships with each other.

So, he put on the posture of rejecting those small bosses at that time, with a little condescending contempt and impatience in his indifference.

Not to mention, this posture combined with his tall and burly figure really frightened Lao You.

Li Guangzhi lowered his head and leaned in front of Lao You, stared at him with a somewhat flustered look, and said slowly:

"Lao You, let me make it clear to you. As for me, I took a deal with Dali outside, but the capital didn't come together, so I asked you for a debt. If you don't pay back the money, you can give me a word now. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Lao You to answer, Li Guangzhi turned around and walked to the sofa in the corner of the room and sat down, and then beckoned to Lao You.

Lao You hesitated for a moment, but got up and followed, sitting opposite Li Guangzhi.

Li Guangzhi lit a cigarette for himself, took a puff and continued: "If you don't plan to pay it back, I can't make up the capital, so I have to hand over this business to Brother Hu." Brother Tiger eats meat and I drink soup, which is not bad. Moreover, I believe that Brother Hu will definitely support me to take someone to your house in the middle of the night to ask for debts. ”

Hearing this, Lao You's cheeks couldn't help twitching slightly. Li Guangzhi glanced at him, softened his expression and said with a slight smile:

"Lao You, if you return the money today, Dali and I will definitely remember you. The deal I took this time is a long-term one, as long as I can make money the first time, I may have to find Lao You to help me when I go the next time. ”

"What are you leaving? What kind of foil method is it? "Lao You is worthy of being an old businessman, and as soon as he speaks, he goes straight to the core.

"Waste electrical appliances. Borrow your storefront and manpower to receive the goods, and we pay. ”

"Just you and Dali? You two want to dump old appliances? Lao You sneered contemptuously, with an expression that I saw through your tricks.

He has been in the second-hand electrical appliance industry for many years, although they are all petty fights, but the doorway is clear. He didn't believe that these two stunned boys could do such a deal.

"Lao You, don't bully young people to be poor," Li Guangzhi couldn't help laughing as soon as these words came out. He felt that he was going to play, so he quickly pressed back.

"Five containers, directly sent to Guiyu, Guangdong, not to mention the name of the ship and the port. What do you think, Lao You? Reliable, not? ”

Li Guangzhi leaned back on the sofa and lifted Erlang's legs, with a smug and playful look.

When Lao You heard the name of Guiyu, he couldn't help but feel shocked, and he immediately believed Li Guangzhi's previous words. He has been doing second-hand electrical appliances for so many years, so he naturally knows that what he is doing is actually just a corner business in this industry. The real money here is electronic waste.

Since the early 80s, the Japanese government has been very strict in regulating the recycling of waste electrical and electronic products. Waste electrical appliances in residents' homes, such as televisions and refrigerators, cannot be discarded at random in general garbage dumps, and must be sent to special recycling sites.

In 1998, the Japanese government also issued the "Household Appliance Recycling Ordinance", stipulating that for each discarded used TV or washing machine, air conditioner, refrigerator, its owner must pay 2,700 yen, 2,400 yen, 3,500 yen, and 4,600 yen respectively for dismantling and recycling. Violations of the law are subject to heavy penalties.

These waste electrical appliances, which cost money to be sent out in Japan, are transported in containers to some developing countries, and because they can be dismantled from them, a large number of industrial raw materials, precious metals and rare metals can be dismantled, and they can be sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars per ton.

It's a road without any legal risk, and cash flows at both ends. Therefore, since the mid-80s, Japanese gang forces have cooperated with large household appliance companies such as Panasonic and Toshiba to monopolize this financial route.

They initially shipped the e-waste to Hong Kong by sea. In the early 90s, due to the cheaper labor costs in Chinese mainland, the distribution center of these electronic waste began to move to Chinese mainland. And Guiyu, Guangdong, is the earliest and largest dismantling and distribution center.

At this time, Guiyu is just starting out, and its reputation is only clear to real insiders. Even Lao You himself only heard some rumors from his family in China.

Therefore, in Lao You's opinion, if Li Guangzhi and these two laymen did not really find the way, it would be impossible to know the name of Guiyu, let alone the relationship between Guiyu and waste electrical appliances.

Thinking of the wealth contained in this way, Lao You, who has always been scheming, can't help but feel hot in his heart. He took out a pack of Seven Stars from his pocket, leaned over with a smile and helped Li Guangzhi point it, and said, "Brother Guangzhi, I just said the wrong thing, don't be like me who is an old fool." I'll give you your money right away! ”