Chapter Forty-Eight: An Alternative Smuggling Business (6,000 Words, Subscription Requested)
In the middle of September, you already have to wear two clothes in the northeast, but at this time in a small place called Lilong in the south, it is in full swing.
A few fishermen, shirtless, brought boxes of smuggled goods out of their fishing boats, and at this time it was just getting light and no one was aware of the beach.
In the early 80s, the Lilong smuggling market became famous at home and abroad, and the sea transportation here is convenient, and the smuggled goods from Hong Kong and Taiwan are popular here.
The smuggling of Lilong was only a few years, and it reached its peak two years later in the 80s, and at this time, seven or eight years later, there are only scattered smugglers.
With the announcement of the reform and opening up at the end of the year, after the closer ties with overseas countries have emerged, there will be a wave of smuggling peaks here one after another.
The owner of the smuggling boat is Wu Asheng, who is in his early forties, and it is his son and brother who are moving goods for him.
They are from Lilong Village, Wu Asheng is a very bold person, and in the village, he is also a restless element, because of overseas relations, he has been rectified a lot in those years.
At the beginning of the year, he learned of a smuggling route from fishermen in other villages, and bought some watches and tape recorders from Bay Island, and then sold them back, and this time and again, he could make at least 100 percent of the profit.
When Wu Asheng learned the news, his heart has been itching, there have always been many small businesses in this place, and they are also bold, the most primitive chicken feathers for sugar, they can go to all parts of the country.
In the past two years, as the control began to be relaxed, Hong Kong and Taiwan goods have unconsciously become popular in the local area, and everyone knows where these goods come from.
The first batch of smugglers who ate crabs can be said to have made a lot of money.
Of course, even if some fishermen knew, they didn't dare to go, after all, the sky was mighty, was the gun fast or their fishing boat fast?
After Wu Asheng inquired for a few months, he finally figured out who was on the other side and how to redeem it.
Smuggling is not something you can buy by simply driving a fishing boat.
Do you take the soft sister coins of this era to buy goods from Hong Kong and Taiwan?
People don't recognize it at all!
I don't recognize the soft sister coin, but gold and silver, people recognize it!
In this era, there may not be much gold, but there are a lot of silver dollars.
So I don't know when the silver dollar became a stable currency among smugglers, and those Hong Kong and Taiwan smugglers recognized this thing.
A silver dollar on the high seas, on their smuggling boats, could be exchanged for twenty-two to twenty-six soft sister coins, and the smugglers could purchase goods of equal value at will.
And these goods exchanged for silver dollars, once those goods are shipped back, the value can be doubled in an instant.
This is simply a real profiteering, you must know that the current salary in China is only a few dozen yuan, and a small fishing boat, a round trip, can earn hundreds of thousands!
Who can not be impressed?
Under such a situation of huge profits, from the end of the 70s to the beginning of the 80s, in just a few years, it is said that hundreds of millions of silver dollars flowed out of the state alone.
This is a complete set of interest chains, although the domestic Tianwei is mighty, but in the face of 100% profits, nothing works!
At the end of June, Wu Asheng collected 70 quick silver dollars from relatives and friends, followed his fellow villagers to the high seas, and successfully exchanged a small sack of watches and two tape recorders.
Wu Asheng still remembers the situation at that time, as soon as he came back, someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night, Wu Asheng was scared half to death, but when he touched the wall and asked, he learned that someone came to pick up the goods.
His seventy silver dollars, exchanged for goods, Wu Asheng still remembers, sold together for two thousand five hundred and sixty, and on that trip, his profit was one thousand and one!
One thousand and one!
This is still sold directly to the second dealer, if you sell it alone, no matter how much profit is seven or eight hundred, it will not be a problem!
But Wu Asheng, who did smuggling for the first time. Don't you dare to try!
Wu Asheng has never experienced such a huge profit in his life, those excitement and excitement, as well as hesitation and anxiety, are still vivid.
But after two months, Wu Asheng found that Tianwei did not find him, but there were more Hong Kong and Taiwan goods on the market, which showed that more and more people knew that smuggling made a lot of money.
That heart, which had nowhere to put it for a long time, once again gave him motivation, and Wu Asheng once again raised funds from relatives and friends this time, and distributed dividends according to the proportion of fundraising.
With the first surprise harvest, this time, Wu Asheng raised 300 quick silver dollars, and developed the members of the smuggling gang to three.
This kind of dangerous behavior is naturally based on the bond between relatives, and Wu Asheng took his brother and eldest son this time to buy goods again.
After tossing back and forth, 300 silver dollars were successfully exchanged for two sacks of watches and more than a dozen cassette recorders of various models.
This time, Wu Asheng is not going to sell these goods to the second dealer anymore, he is going to sell them to a few of his own family members.
In the past two months, Wu Asheng has figured out where those second-class dealers usually sell their stolen goods, and now there are people selling smuggled goods everywhere in major markets and cities, and this money is not so much earned by others as it is earned by his own people.
The reason why he got into watches and cassette recorders is that this thing sells well, in the seventies, it was still the era of three turns and one ring, a watch, a radio, something that many families dream of.
Now that there are better tape recorders, people in the city are naturally crazy.
The next day, Wu Asheng set off with a few relatives, each carrying a satchel with two tape recorders and more than a dozen watches hanging on his body, and went to several nearby markets separately.
Wu Asheng entered a local market, and as soon as he entered, he heard a burst of music on the side of the road.
Drop you off outside the village
There is a sentence to explain
Although it is already a hundred flowers
Don't pick wildflowers on the side of the road
……
This song of Teresa Teng was only popular on Bay Island in 77 years, but now it is heard in a small fishing village in Huangzhou on the other side of the sea.
But the locals are used to it.
When Wu Asheng heard this, his face changed even more, he didn't expect that someone would occupy the position so early, he knew that this place had been preempted.
Apparently someone is using this song to attract customers.
He also likes to listen to this song, and now in his satchel, there are several boxes of Teresa Teng's tapes.
However, Wu Asheng quickly calmed down, since there are peers, it means that the market is not strictly checked, so it is better!
He was on the other side of the street, put down his satchel, took out the tape recorder from it, took out the tape, put it in, pressed the broadcast button, and the music slowly played.
Unhurried, he unbuttoned his shirt, which contained more than a dozen watches, took off two of them, and put them on his left and right hands.
A red leaf brand watch in the left hand, a sea lion electronic watch with a date function in the right hand, and a bulging shirt show the true color of a man!
Wu Asheng never thought that in just a few months, he would change from a proletarian to today's magnanimity, unimaginable, unimaginable!
Wu Asheng was ready to wait for the morning market to start, and at this time, he was fluttering, the corners of his mouth were upturned, and his sense of accomplishment was bursting.
But at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of electricity not far away, and when he turned his head, he saw a young man with a large satchel at his feet, and a long square table placed there, on which was placed a large loudspeaker radio, and the other party was debugging the radio.
After a while, the loudspeaker radio heard the crisp sound of the announcement.
"Welcome to China Central Radio...... It's morning reading time......"
Then, the other party seemed to be tuning the voice, and in an instant, the host's voice in the two loudspeakers instantly expanded several times, directly covering the sound of the tape recorder music on the entire street!
Wu Ah is numb!
What made him more numb was still to come, I saw the other party put down the loudspeaker radio with a smile, and then opened the big satchel, only to see dozens of packaging boxes densely packed inside, and I couldn't see what was inside, but soon, Wu Asheng knew.
The other party rummaged inside for a while, and took out two watches from it, one on each hand.
Then, what made Wu Asheng a bad person happened!
The other party put on a watch, turned down the loudspeaker radio, and then put the watch in the big satchel, the large and small models of radios on the square table one by one, and even inserted a big sign on the table, which read, "Ningjiang brand radio, electronic watch, welcome to buy!" ”
Then, as the young man laid out the goods, he shouted to the people passing by.
"Walk by, don't miss it, the latest technology electronic watch, as long as nine yuan a piece, as long as nine yuan a piece!"
As soon as this voice came out, Wu Asheng's whole person was like petrification, he really couldn't imagine, how could the other party be so bold, not only openly inserting a big brand to sell, but also daring to shout and shout for sale?
Wait, he quickly got to the point!
An electronic watch for nine dollars a piece?
I rubbed it!
It took him a long time before he slowly raised his right hand, and the beating numbers on the black and white LCD screen, like his heart, were beating non-stop.
This electronic watch, the group of dogs said, is the latest technology products in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the current wholesale price is only eighty-one, he entered ten yuan this time, and is ready to sell one hundred and sixty-one!
After a full five minutes, Wu Asheng felt that his dizzy head slowly woke up.
Still a little unconvinced, he slowly walked up to the young man step by step.
At this time, it was still less than six o'clock in the morning, and there were not many customers, most of them were vendors.
In just five minutes, the young man's side was already surrounded by nearby vendors.
Those vendors are most interested in the nine-yuan electronic watch.
Seeing that there were not enough watches on the table, the young man was smiling and smiling and continued to take out a few electronic watches from his satchel and handed them to the onlookers.
A few vendors in their hands, can't help but make a smack, this group of vendors have a lot of watches in their hands, but their watches are at least more than 100, and now there is a watch for nine yuan a piece on the market, so that many traders can't help but be surprised.
Many vendors have already been thrilled and have begun to wear them on their hands and try them on.
The young man still laughed and didn't stop it.
This young man, named Zhang Jun, had a cousin named Wang Yan, who was the same Wang Yan who once offered to sell radios on the black market, which left a deep impression on Chen Can at that time.
Zhang Jun is a local, Wang Yan's hometown was originally from Qizhou, and later followed his parents' work transfer to Liaoshen, one in the northeast and one in the southern coast, it was difficult for the two families to meet in their lives.
However, the recruitment of salesmen in Ningjiang Wireless Factory gave Wang Yan the opportunity to return to her hometown.
Wang Yan's work performance has been very good this year, and her business ability is also very strong, and Chen Can has seen this name several times in the monthly sales report.
With the mass production of electronic watch projects, Ningjiang Wireless Factory established the Southern Business Department, and the first director was Wang Yan.
Wang Yan led more than 50 bold and careful salesmen, traveled thousands of miles, along the railway line, all the way south, and finally arrived in Zhuzhou last week.
This is Wang Yan's hometown, she can't wait to return to her hometown, see her grandfather who she hasn't seen for many years, and see her grandmother, and finally many relatives.
Among them is Zhang Jun, Wang Yan saw that this cousin was eloquent and well-connected, and even if he pulled the other party into the gang, he became the first agent of Ningjiang in Xuzhou.
Zhang Jun is very well prepared this time, not only in this market, but also in more than a dozen nearby markets, there are his people.
Wang Yan is his cousin, his family knows his own affairs, and his cousin told him that if he does a good job, he will open the entire market in Zhuzhou and earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which will not be a problem at all.
Hundreds of thousands!
This amount of money stunned Zhang Jun, and also shocked the entire Zhang family!
For this reason, the entire Zhang family quickly became an alliance of overall interests, and some respected elders began to go to various cities to run for it.
A cousin of a certain authority patted his chest and promised that as long as the Zhang family's goods were regular goods, he promised that no one would check them!
With this guarantee, Zhang Jun quickly set up a sales team of dozens of people and began to sell in various local markets.
Wang Yan dared to say that this amount was naturally investigated, and the shipping in Fuzhou could lead to several big cities.
The local area has always had the habit of doing small business, as long as the development of enough downline, it is completely possible to cover the entire coastal area through those downline, the Ningjiang brand sales network.
And before coming, Wang Yan went to Ningjiang Wireless Factory, Chen Can personally received her, and told her a little trick of "domestic sales to export sales", Wang Yan was shocked.
She also came with a special task this time, that is, to find out the local smuggling channels, and through these channels, to sell Ningjiang's products back to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
When Wu Asheng picked up a nine-yuan electronic watch and compared it with the electronic watch on his right hand, he found that there was indeed a slight difference.
The other party has a lot of rough workmanship this time, and there is no calendar function, and other aspects seem to be...
It doesn't seem to make a difference, does it?
Wu Asheng is once again in his heart, to that damn Taiwanese guy XXOO fucking shit!
Zhang Jun had already noticed Wu Asheng, and for this alternative peer, an imperceptible smile appeared in Zhang Jun's eyes.
His cousin asked him to keep an eye on the smugglers on the street and build a good relationship with this group of people, which was very useful.
Zhang Jun immediately enthusiastically introduced the electronic watch in his hand to Wu Asheng, and seeing that the other party's face was like dirt, the smile on Zhang Jun's face was even worse.
After a few vendors next to him paid the money and left, Zhang Jun saw that there were fewer people, so he stepped forward and grabbed Wu Asheng's hand, mysteriously pulled him aside, and said in his ear.
"Boss, are you interested in talking about a business?"
Wu Asheng looked at Zhang Jun with doubts, he just came to see the situation, naturally he would not buy the other party's electronic watch, he was still thinking about how to deal with his goods, where was he still in the mood to talk about business.
Zhang Jun smiled mysteriously again, leaned into Wu Asheng's ear and said.
"This electronic watch, take more than 100 goods, give you six yuan five, the one in your hand will not be less than eighty, you say that you take six yuan and five goods, and then sell it to those Hong Kong and Taiwan guys, it is not a problem to sell ten yuan, right?"
Zhang Jun's words were like a thunderbolt, which shook Zhang Jun a little dizzy.
At this moment, there is only one sentence in his mind!
"Fuck, it's a sales genius!"
Wu Asheng was moved, and he was indeed moved!
After more than 40 years of life, it was the first time that he felt that the world was a little unreal!
Such an unreal world was staged in front of his eyes, and Wu Asheng's whole person was numb.
Seeing Wu Asheng's expression, Zhang Jun knew that the other party was tempted.
Regarding the smugglers, Zhang Jun already knows a lot of inside information from his cousin.
Professional team work is different!
Zhang Jun immediately leaned into Wu Asheng's ear again and said.
"If you have an idea, this afternoon, go to Qingyang Village, and we'll talk about it in detail!"
After saying that, Zhang Jun no longer paid attention to Wu Asheng and continued to shout about his business!
Wu Asheng didn't know when he went back, he was in a daze all morning in the morning market, and when he got home, he found that he hadn't sold a single watch all morning, and the tape recorder had been sold.
This situation was encountered by Wu Asheng for the first time, and he didn't know where he should go next for a while.
By noon, the relatives had come back one after another, and the situation was worse than expected, and everyone was depressed.
Seven people, all morning, only sold three watches, and a few cassette recorders were sold, but compared to the situation of the war, they have never encountered this situation now.
Not only Wu Asheng, just today, in the local market with a radius of dozens of miles, those smugglers and second-class dealers, the sales are miserable!
It can be said that the appearance of the Ningjiang brand, with its own strength, almost killed the entire smuggling industry!
No way, a watch that costs more than 100 yuan is a common thing in this era.
And now, Ningjiang brand's nine-yuan electronic watch has successfully put the once high watch price down!
Of course, now everyone's perception of electronic watches, is not enough cognition, just look at the digital beating LCD screen, a high-tech comes to mind, such a high-tech product, only sold for nine yuan a piece, it's just the price of cabbage!
If all the goods in his hands were smashed in his hands, Wu Asheng didn't dare to imagine what would greet him.
This money is collected by dozens of relatives, and if you can't pay it back, then your whole family will not be able to survive here!
At noon, the Wu family ate quietly, and everyone's faces were heavy, and a depression filled the whole family.
Wu Asheng had no appetite at all, and simply drank a bowl of porridge, and he sat at the door of his house, and the whole person fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, in the sky, dark clouds, heavy rain, Wu Asheng looked at the distance, on the sea, a wooden fishing boat is facing the wind and rain, the waves hit again and again, the fishing boat always galloped forward, finally, the fishing boat jumped out of the waves, rushed out of the wind and rain, and galloped away in the distance......
Seeing such a situation, Wu Asheng suddenly had a few words in his mind!
"If you don't break it, you can't stand it!"
At that moment, Wu Asheng finally made a decision that changed his life!
He then returned to the house and informed a few relatives that they would dispose of all the watches at cost, or even at a loss of 20%.
Now Ningjiang brand electronic watches have just appeared on the market, many people do not know the situation, at this time, you can completely dispose of the watch in your hand at a low price.
He believes that those second-class dealers, at this time, definitely don't have such great courage as themselves!
He wants to get back the funds quickly, and now that the wolf is coming, if he doesn't make changes, it's too late!
In addition to this decision, he is also going to Qingyang Village to have a look and see who that wolf is!
Wu Asheng's decision also changed his future fate.
Everyone's fate is so wonderful, everyone's life, will experience countless crossroads of fate, every direction, will be a new life destiny.
Chen Can, who was in Ningjiang, also received a telegram from Wang Yan half a month later, and gave a detailed description of the local situation in Zhuzhou.
and told Wu Asheng and other smugglers, and also told Chen Can a good news.
Within this month and a half, the Zhuzhou side has reached contact with a certain smuggling syndicate in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the first batch of 500 electronic watches of the Ningjiang brand has been shipped over.
The price Wang Yan gave Zhang Jun 6.2 yuan, Zhang Jun's price to the smuggler was 6.5 yuan, and the price that the smuggler gave to Hong Kong and Taiwan was currently 7.5 yuan per piece.
It's only a dollar in profit, but it means there's a lot of opportunity and it's safe!
Transporting goods from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland is completely different from transporting goods from the mainland to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
One is outflow, the other is inflow, the risk is basically borne by the other party, and it is not bad to earn a dollar per watch.
Wang Yan is now trying to sell radios, pocket radios with headphones, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan, there is also a certain competitiveness, mainly because of the price.
The price of radios in Hong Kong and Taiwan is still too expensive.
Of course, radio is much less attractive than electronic watches.
This is the new competitiveness brought by scientific and technological progress!
But this is just the beginning, low-cost electronic watches are sold back to Hong Kong and Taiwan, which represents a new beginning!
After the electronic watches in Hong Kong and Taiwan are lowered, more and cheaper electronic products will be launched in Ningjiang, and sooner or later the electronics industry over there will collapse.
When Chen Can saw this report, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, he didn't expect that an idea he once had in his mind had now become a reality.
Reality is so magical!
It's already October, Chen Can is about to go to Yangcheng with the Ministry of Industry of Liaoshen at this time to participate in the 44th Canton Fair, this time, the delegation of Ningjiang Wireless Factory, there will be ten people with him, this time they are fully prepared, ready to go out!