Chapter 10: Clock City
When he arrived at Suicheng Station, Pei Zhe went straight to West Road.
This is a famous clock street, gathering countless watch shops and industrial chains throughout the West Triangle.
In the fifties of the last century, the state imported more than 100,000 sets of watchmaking equipment from Switzerland, most of which remained in Suicheng, part to Shenghai, and a small part to Jinmen.
As a result, the country gave birth to domestic watch brands such as Suicheng Watch Factory, Shenghai Watch Factory, and Jinmen Seagull.
Even in later generations, some famous Swiss watches, the movement is still made in Suicheng, it is simply better than blue, and the apprentice beats the master to death.
At this time, the station west watch street is thriving, Pei Zhe carried a backpack and walked into a building called Kowloon Watch City.
Breguet, Tissot, Longines, Rolex, Vacheron Constantin...... There is no shortage of internationally renowned brands, and of course, there are also domestic brand stores such as Seagull, Tianwang, FIYTA, Polaris, Rossini and so on.
And Tianwang is also very famous in Nanyue, not far from the railway station upstairs above the clock, is the Tianwang watch advertisement.
Pei Zhe flashed past these mechanical watch brand stores, which was not his goal.
Eventually, he picked a medium-sized joint venture and walked in.
"Pretty girl, is your manager there?"
Pei Zhe took off his sunglasses, glanced at a few counters, and said to the shopping guide who came over.
The shopping guide smiled professionally and said politely, "Sir, do you have anything to do with our manager?" ”
"Talk about business."
"Then wait a minute." The shopping guide looked at the other party for a moment, not like a joke, and turned to leave.
After a while, a manager in a suit in his early thirties walked over.
"I wonder what's the matter with you?" The manager asked.
Pei Zhe got straight to the point, rolled up his sleeves directly, and said: "Let's talk about business, if you can call the shots, you will make money in this transaction." ”
On his wrist, he had several unopened electronic watches wrapped around him.
The manager smiled slightly, seemed to find it interesting, and said, "You go on." ”
"It's very simple, I have 27 of these watches now, and I will sell them to you at a price of 100 yuan lower than you here, and if you don't have them, ...... lower than the market price."
Pei Zhe paused and continued: "At the same time, I will buy all the money I get to buy your low-grade domestic electronic watches, on the condition that the price is one yuan higher than your purchase price." ”
He was not afraid that the other party would not agree, a miscellaneous store like this was not a thousand but hundreds in the watch city.
If you don't do it here, just change it.
The manager stared at the watch on his wrist and said, "Can I see the goods?" ”
"Of course."
Pei Zhe opened his backpack and placed more than 20 foreign brand electronic watches on the table.
For the watch stores in Suicheng, Japanese benzene goods and Western European goods are all in demand, and compared with domestic brands, the price difference is huge.
Because foreign exchange is needed for imports now, and China's foreign exchange is far less abundant than that of later generations, and it is stretched thin.
Casio is now the top brand, firmly occupying half of the high-end electronic watches.
Sanyo is also a brand that is often seen, this kind of one with a calculator is still very eye-catching, and the appearance is really special enough.
There are also Astro in Western Europe, European goods with the mystery of high-end professionalism, some people have a soft spot for them, very popular.
"Are you making a deal with it?"
The manager checked each watch and it was genuine.
Pei Zhe replied: "No, this is the first one, once every half a month, and the number will be doubled." ”
The manager calculated in his heart, this is indeed a profitable deal, and the foreign brand is a hundred yuan lower, and there is still a lot of room for profit.
And low-grade domestic production, such a large number of goods, profits should not be underestimated.
Moreover, this door-to-door business is equivalent to picking up for nothing, making money at both ends, and there are follow-up ......
"Okay, then we'll have a good time working together!"
The young manager was very bold and made decisions on the spot.
In the end, Pei Zhe sold 27 foreign brands at double the price, in exchange for a domestic electronic watch worth 12,000 yuan, plus a few hundred yuan in cash.
Towards evening, Pei Zhe walked out of Kowloon Watch City with a large red and blue woven bag, which contained more than 400 electronic watches.
There is no way, that kind of foreign genuine product, there is no special counter, it is unrealistic to want to set up a stall to sell it yourself, and most people don't believe that this is genuine at all.
His ultimate goal is a cheap domestic electronic watch in a woven bag.
In the evening, Pei Zhe opened a single hotel, took a cool shower comfortably, and then lay on the big bed to study the city map in his hand.
Early the next morning, he bought a train ticket for the Zhangjingguang Line and went all the way north.
Since the breakthrough of the three horizontal and five vertical, it has been the main artery of transportation, Pei Zhe carried his bags on his back and carried woven bags, just like those migrant workers who left their hometowns, squeezed onto the train.
Finding a good spot in the aisle, he took a deep breath of his cigarette and couldn't help but scold himself for being stupid.
"Damn, I knew I bought tickets in advance......"
The train ticket in his hand is the so-called station ticket, there is no fixed position, and the thought of relying on the pestle for dozens of hours makes his legs tremble.
For those who are used to traveling by plane and high-speed rail, this is definitely a hellish test.
There were also a lot of people crowded in the aisle, not only peasant brothers, migrant workers returning to their hometowns, but also an old man, squatting on the ground with a blackened snakeskin bag, all kinds of beings.
The green train has no air conditioning at all, and there are no windows in the aisles, and the car is like a smoldering stove, hot and sweaty.
Pei Zhe struggled for a few hours, and after the sun went down, the carriage was finally cooler.
Due to the non-stop drinking water, I soon couldn't hold back my urine, and I had to squeeze out of the crowd and queue up to go to the toilet.
After putting the water comfortably, I washed my face before returning to the original place.
At this time, the old man said angrily: "There was a second-rate son just now, and he wanted to turn over your bag, but fortunately he was driven away by the old man with a flat pole!" ”
Pei Zhe's heart sank, and he hurriedly checked the woven bag, but fortunately the contents were not lost.
"Thank you, old man!"
He sincerely thanked him, but he didn't expect that with a toilet effort, his whole body belongings would be at risk of being stolen.
If it weren't for this kind old man, he would really die before he got out of school this time, and he could only go home in disgrace.
What a disgrace for the reborn!
When the dining car came, everyone knew it was time to eat, and they brought out their own food.
Pei Zhe also prepared a lot of instant noodles and ham sausages, and when he saw that the old man's lunch box only had cold steamed buns and pickles, he couldn't help but tear open the ham sausage package and put it in the other party's aluminum lunch box.
"No, no."
The old man hurriedly excused himself, but when he saw that he couldn't excuse himself, he could only take a bite and said in surprise: "This thing is so delicious......
At this time, most of the people in the country were still in poverty, running around and toiling for a living.
In rural areas, they still have to pay public grain and retention funds every year, and life is very difficult.
The world is not a pure land, each has its own suffering, they have to leave their hometown, go out to work, shed blood and sweat for the construction of the city, and finally leave their youth to the city construction, with a lot of age and illness back to their hometown, only then did the economic take-off of later generations.
is also a sad guest in Hongchen, who is a pitiful person in Mo Dao.
Pei Zhe was silent in his heart when he saw this scene, obviously he had a good life in his previous life, but he still couldn't see the suffering in the world.
In this life, in addition to making money to make the lives of the people around him better, he suddenly wanted to make the world better.