Chapter 0655 - Open Market
It was late at night, but the fax machine kept ringing.
Lin Wan tore off the fax page, glanced at it and handed it to the blonde and blue-eyed Mao Mei beside her, and told her to fill in the follow-up form and pay the account.
International trade is a very long, wide-ranging and complex process.
In the past three months, the 'Holy Light' has quickly completed the transportation of 500 wagons, and four Tu-154s have also flown to the imperial capital to join the United Airlines fleet.
Because of the fast delivery, low price and guaranteed quality, the reputation of 'Shengguang' in the Damao market has naturally been established.
Whether it is Deputy Minister Chuikov, the 'Holy Light' visiting group, and even some Damao merchants who come here, they have provided the 'Holy Light' with a large number of orders for the purchase and sale of goods.
For example, Chuikov sold ten operating Il-76s to 'Holy Light' in the name of 'second-hand equipment'.
Also sold was the overhaul line for large aircraft. This includes 2,000 professional engineering and technical personnel under the Ministry of Aviation Industry, 1,000 professional training places in aviation academies, and tens of thousands of large and small manufacturing and maintenance equipment.
For these equipment, the 'Holy Light' delegation also bargained with Maozi for a long time. Because of Maozi's industrial deformity development, the good ones are good, the bad ones are bad, and some equipment is not as good as the domestic ones.
Picking and choosing can save a lot of money.
In addition, the plane can fly away directly. However, the equipment of the overhaul line is obviously not enough to rely on the capacity of air and rail alone, and it needs to be transported by sea.
'Holy Light' has no maritime channels and does not understand the commercial laws of various countries. At present, there are few people who are familiar with international trade in China.
Lin Wan had never dealt with the shipping business, and everything had to be learned from scratch. She has gone through a lot of hard work in the past three months.
Later, the solution was simple, it would have been nice to spend money to hire the corresponding businessmen from Moscow. Maozi himself still has frequent trade contacts with Europe, and there are quite a few professionals.
For example, the Mao Mei next to Lin Wan, who is in her thirties, used to work in the customs department, and 'Holy Light' paid twice the salary to invite her. She works hard, works overtime diligently, and has a responsible attitude, which is really a rare good employee.
After recruiting one, you can continue to recruit a batch. Now there are only about a dozen Chinese employees such as Lin Wan, and more than 20 locals are hired.
The 'Holy Light' transported the bulky goods obtained by Da Mao's family to Leningrad, that is, St. Petersburg, and chartered European freighters to load them to Guangzhou. The whole schedule is about a month or two.
As for domestic goods, they should also be chartered to be shipped in Guangzhou or Modu. Each transportation volume is more than 10,000 tons, and it is 1,000 heavy trucks at every turn, or millions of pieces of clothing plus 10,000 tons of non-staple food.
In the past three months, the 'Holy Light' has rented more than 20 boats. The total volume of transportation is more than half a million tons. The first batch of ships has already arrived to complete loading and unloading.
Shipping is also related to finance, and Lin Wan not only has to deal with freight forwarders, but also with European banks and insurance companies.
'Holy Light' is recruiting people from China for internships, so that one day they can truly go out into the world. In short, the affairs faced by an international group are also international.
Zhou Qingfeng plans to open a branch of 'Holy Light' in Moscow, where he will hire locals to work for him. This branch can even radiate the entire European market, making it easier to earn foreign exchange.
Overseas trade in this era was really lucrative, and the profits were particularly high.
A large number of domestic clothing appeared on the markets in Moscow, and the originally empty counters were given a little more color. The style is definitely the latest in Europe, and the material may be worse, but the price is half cheaper.
Leprechauns are particularly fond of cutting and designing costumes. They take inspiration from European fashion magazines to design models that suit the habits and postures of local consumers.
The textile and garment industries in the magic capital produce coats, shoes, hats, underwear, etc. according to these model garments, and export them in large quantities.
Because of the cheap price and novel style, a large number of clothing orders appear in front of Lin Wan through the fax machine every day. She was amazed at the current state of consumption in this collapsed empire.
It's clear that society is a mess, but the spending power is not bad at all.
Zhou Qingfeng once explained: "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse." Woolly bears completed basic industrialization and modernization 50 years ago.
Its citizens are accustomed to living a well-off life, with abundant food and clothing, easy work and entertainment, and ordinary workers have annual tourist holidays. We are really poor in comparison. ”
**In the 10s, the life of the woolly bear was on par with that of Europe. The economy is getting worse and worse, but the consumer demand is not bad at all, and you have to listen to the opera when you are hungry.
Only in a few years, when the Da Mao family is full of oligarchs, enterprises go bankrupt, and the economy is in an avalanche, will their common people realize that the great motherland that once sheltered them really does not exist.
What is the current situation......
Lin Wan is still a 'dirt bun' in essence, and she can't understand the thoughts of the ordinary people.
The steady stream of orders is indeed a joy to behold, and all types of domestic goods can be found in Moscow.
Maozi has a habit of eating canned food. Canned fruit, canned pork, canned fish, anything. The canned food in the Tianyang area has long been purchased out by the 'Holy Light', forcing them to find a source of goods across the country.
Before He Yulan looked for a fully automatic food production line, the subordinate units of the Provincial Department of Light Industry did not pay much attention to her. Now it's okay, the order volume is large enough, and someone else is begging her to buy the production line.
Canned food alone, 'Holy Light' feeds the industrial chain of at least 100,000 people in China. Domestic media are reporting that canned food suddenly caught fire in the second half of this year, and production and sales are booming.
Lin Wan's team processes hundreds of demand orders every day. Every time she sends an order back, she feels an encouragement. Behind the order is often the livelihood of a company, dozens or hundreds of employees.
You must know that the demand for Maozi is really getting bigger and bigger, and they even want to import pots and pans from the 'Holy Light'. For example, ceramic dishes, metal cutlery, kitchen utensils, household appliances and furniture.
The orders for these ordinary goods were sent to Lin Wan, which made the top students of Modu Finance stunned - how could Mao Zi even import these unskilled goods? Can't they produce it themselves?
Some Maozi merchants even took the initiative to introduce orders from some European countries to the 'Holy Light', which also contained a large number of ordinary products in daily life.
Zhou Qingfeng couldn't laugh or cry about this, at most he explained, "It's not easy to make products cheap." If they don't produce Maozi, they toss themselves, and Europe doesn't produce because labor is too expensive.
Leave it alone, just make money anyway.
We need a special overseas trade department to do this business, which is not something that one or two hundred people can do. Maybe it will grow into a super-large department. ”
At present, the branch of 'Holy Light' in Moscow has not yet been established, and Lin Wan, the secretary general, has to be on the front line for a long time.
Due to the time difference, and in order to cope with more and more procurement needs, she has compressed her sleep to three or four hours a day.
At two o'clock in the night, Secretary Lin could finally go to sleep for a while. But Zhou Qingfeng pushed open the door of the office, walked in excitedly and shouted: "Ermao's market is open." We have another place to dump goods. ”
Lin Wan's tired eyes closed, slammed on the desk, and muttered, "You come, you come, I can't stand it." ”。