Chapter 0464 - Business Agency
There is a joke that asks: What is lacking in the poor family?
A: There are two things missing.
What are the two?
This is also lacking, that is also lacking!
When Qin Hao stood on the upper floor of the Imperial Capital Hotel and looked down, he could clearly feel that this country was really 'lacking this, lacking that'.
However, while Europe and the United States had already lived a life of great material abundance, the ancient countries of the East were still suffering from material poverty. Whether it is industry or agriculture, the technological level is far behind the world.
In this case, importing advanced technology and equipment from abroad became the only option. It also feeds a large number of trade agents who do import and export business.
In these years, there are agents who can do high-tech products, and life is excellent. Qin Hao's Imperial Capital Hotel is adjacent to the Forbidden City, a five-minute walk to Tiananmen Square, and Wangfujing is a stone's throw away.
This is the most prosperous area of the capital. But Qin Hao looked at the 'yellow bread' running back and forth on the street, and his heart was still a little ridiculous.
In the 90s, developed countries such as Europe, the United States and Japan had already completed the second industrial revolution with electrification as the standard, and were ready to meet the wave of the third information revolution.
However, China's electrification has not yet been completed, and many domestic enterprises want to touch the edge of informatization, but they have major shortcomings in equipment and manpower.
This kind of defect is a business opportunity for Qin Hao. As a yellow-skinned and white-hearted Chinese-American, it doesn't matter if you don't speak Chinese well, as long as you are a comprador you can make money.
China is thirsty for advanced products from Europe and the United States, especially in electronic technology, and the gap is very large, resulting in imports.
Qin Hao can afford to live in the Imperial Capital Hotel, visit Wangfujing, and have a few months of paid vacation every year, relying on a large number of domestic imports of foreign devices.
The huge profits in this are too much to let go, so Qin Hao is willing to stay in a country he doesn't like and deal with people he doesn't like. Just because those who pay for it will see him as a fellow citizen.
Damn, rich people are compatriots.
Standing in front of the window of the high-rise guest room, you can see many people wandering outside the Royal Park Hotel. Qin Hao looked down on them in his spare time like watching ants, which he found quite interesting.
The guys outside the hotel who looked around and cowered were second-class dealers. They specifically look for opportunities to get close to expatriates in the hotel and try to get some foreign exchange vouchers.
Now that the exchange rate of the soft sister currency is falling, many people are anxious to find a way to exchange foreign exchange. They tend to curse everything in a mean, disgusting, hateful tone, but in the blink of an eye, they can curry favor with any Western face.
"Poor man."
Qin Hao raised his arm and glanced at the time. He wondered why the phone in his room hadn't rang today. Half an hour ago, the front desk on the first floor of the hotel should have called to inform him that there was a visit, did you accept it?
Qin Hao has contacts with several import and export companies with the prefix 'Zhong', and each of them is eager to get a better source of goods from him. What he had to do was sell the rotten goods at as high a price as possible.
Of course, both sides have to face each other.
The import and export company would thank Qin Hao for his work and even invite him to attend certain celebrations or meetings. His presence often honors the inviter, and takes more benefits by the way.
But today, the 'electronic import and export company' with the prefix 'Zhong' did not give face, and their representative did not show up at the appointed time. Qin Hao was already angry in his heart, and decided to teach the other party a lesson no matter what.
Raise prices, reduce volumes, and downgrade them.
Qin Hao has a way to rectify those bureaucrats. He knew very well what the bureaucracy was afraid of, and that a single sentence that made the other party unable to communicate was enough to cause a stirring upheaval.
I made an appointment at ten o'clock, but I didn't see anyone.
At eleven o'clock, the phone still didn't ring, not even a perfunctory apology.
At twelve o'clock, Qin Hao decided to go to the hotel's western restaurant for lunch. He brought his mobile phone with him, but he was determined not to answer anyone's call.
But after lunch until two o'clock in the afternoon, the steak in front of Qin Hao was completely cold, and he poured a stomach full of coffee. But no one called him.
"Damn, those bureaucrats who run import and export don't usually do this? I agreed to meet, and they were all to be thankful to Dade. Could it be that they had a car accident on the way here? ”
Qin Hao almost thought that his mobile phone was broken. You can just dial a number to the hotel front desk to confirm that the phone is good, but no one is looking for him.
Do you want Qin Hao to call by himself?
No, that's not going to work.
Qin Hao is the commercial representative of ADI (Analog Devices) in the United States. As a 65-year-old semiconductor company, ADI has a world-class leadership in analog-to-digital conversion components.
The Massachusetts-based company is almost synonymous with 'top' in the industry. Its customers cover all semiconductor manufacturers. Because as long as you are in the field of electronics, you can't use ADI products.
And in this regard, the current domestic technology and products are simply not worth mentioning.
Qin Hao is not only a commercial representative of ADI, he also represents many 'Texas Instruments' products. This is also a semiconductor manufacturer that has a dominant position in the industry.
To what extent is the 'Deyi' overlord? Few of its contemporaries are still alive.
In the eyes of the Americans, China today is like the third brother in the eyes of the Chinese thirty years later. Backward, ignorant, and a little mysterious.
The average Yankee were reluctant to come to China to work, so banana people like Qin Hao were sent over. Qin Hao also constantly complained to the headquarters about the backwardness of the imperial capital, even if he lived like an emperor here.
Therefore, Qin Hao decided to calm down and never call the fat sheep he wanted to slaughter easily. This momentum must not be weakened.
But there was still no phone call in the afternoon, which was so frustrating.
It's like yesterday when it was still in the market, and the next day it will be full of people. Qin Hao realized that something was not good, and he began to call to find the friends he could contact, trying to inquire on the side.
The call was first made to the trading agents of other foreign semiconductor companies in the imperial capital. Some people are strange, some people ask rhetorically, and some people feel normal.
Could it be that he didn't calm down and was too suspicious?
Qin Hao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the guest room and paced back and forth, time slowly moving towards night. He stayed in his room all day, didn't go to the gym, didn't go to the pool, and didn't go to the bar street in Sanlitun to find women.
There was a sense of foreboding that hung over me.
There are some rumors among the trade agents who have lived in the imperial capital for a long time - whenever the import and export bureaucrats who are sent to the country are no longer enthusiastic about contacting you, it often means that they have made some technological breakthroughs.
Every time these breakthroughs are confirmed, it means that foreign manufacturers lose some profits.
However, the current technical level of China is backward as a whole, especially the large gap in the basic field, which leads to a breakthrough at a certain point and does not have much impact.
Moreover, at present, the development of foreign countries is advancing by leaps and bounds, and one step behind is falling behind step by step, and it is impossible to catch up.
Qin Hao muttered in his heart, "What I sell is the analog-to-digital conversion chip necessary for the semiconductor industry, or the most cutting-edge high-speed broadband type, and there is no opponent in the industry at all."
Even the technological breakthrough is not so fast! Scientific things must always be reasonable. ”
By night, the call finally came.
An anxious and hurried voice asked, "Anderson, is your client okay?" ”
'Anderson' is Qin Hao's big name, and he likes to be called so.
The caller was a German, who mainly sold high-end machine tools to the country. Qin Hao met each other in the bar street, and fox friends swept Sanlitun together.
"What's wrong?" Qin Hao's heart chuckled.
"It's over, my order is complete. The machinery import and export company returned all my knife orders, even if I said that the price would be reduced, they would not accept it.
You know? It's horrible, it's horrible. I've never seen those Chinese so determined, and they've never been like that before.
I asked all the friends I could reach, but no one could tell me the answer. I don't have a clue about it.
Do you know? I love China, I love the life in the imperial capital, and I love the girls here. But all this requires an order. ”
The German spoke very quickly, and the speed of his speech was fast, like a basin of cold water poured on Qin Hao's head, chilling. Suddenly, he loved the country even more...... of money.