National Tide 1980.

In mid-May 1989, Ning Weimin finally consolidated his career foundation in Tokyo and made arrangements for the stock market. He then quickly left the place of trouble and flew to France to reunite with his wife and daughter.

At this time, his businesses in Tokyo and the capital were in a defensive state of contraction, seeking only to maintain stability rather than advance.

In Tokyo, Ning Weimin even temporarily stopped the planned promotion for the TV series "Journey to the West" which he had just purchased.

I'm just doing the necessary translation work and dubbing by Japanese voice actors, and I'm going to continue when the time is right.

In Beijing, Ning Weimin postponed the construction of Longtan Lake Park due to problems with the schedule of the Japanese personnel, and the construction has not started yet.

The project currently underway is only the production of related arts and crafts artworks led by teachers and students from the sculpture departments of two art colleges in Beijing.

After all, someone in Tokyo was deliberately targeting and suppressing him, and a chaos was also brewing in the capital.

Ning Weimin didn't want to suffer a big loss by accident and let his property and efforts in both places be wasted by "man-made disasters".

As for Maria and Yin Yue, whom he valued, they went to a safe place to start studying.

Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao also moved into Yunyuan as he requested and helped him look after the house.

In short, no matter whether it is an important project or someone he values, his only goal at the moment is to get through it smoothly and not get involved in any trouble.

However, luck is a hard thing to say, and even in this case, there are exceptions.

Ning Weimin still has a business under his name, which he cannot suppress even if he wants to. Instead, it is thriving and in urgent need of expansion. That is the waste recycling industry led by Sun Wufu.

There is no way because the profits in this industry are too lucrative.

It was only after Sun Wufu had worked in this job for a while that he truly understood how sweet this job was.

In his opinion, this business seemed to be the gold mine left by God specifically for them, the Chinese who went to Japan.

First of all, the wealth of the Japanese is obvious.

They will treat as garbage things that have just been used a few times or even things that have never been used.

Sometimes the discarded items are mixed with expensive items, such as gold bars, coins, jewelry, brand-name lighters, brand-name watches and large sums of cash.

The probability of this kind of "surprise" is much higher than in China.

Even though the broadsword industry has only been officially open for business for half a year, their main source of supply is from Katsushika Ward, as well as the surrounding economically underdeveloped areas such as Adachi Ward, Sumida Ward, and Edogawa Ward.

However, they relied on the skills they had learned in China to rummage through furniture and check whether there were any hidden objects, but they still suffered a lot of losses.

The most expensive items included a brand new Dunhill lighter, two 80% new Rolex watches, three pearl necklaces, a diamond brooch, a sapphire ring, and a total of 3.852 million yen in cash.

But this is not the most valuable item. The most valuable item is a jar of fifteen small gold coins hidden in the belly of the Buddha statue. It is one of the common gold coins in the Edo period of Japan, and it is from an early period, not from the end of the shogunate.

One tael per coin. Now is the hottest time for collectors in Japan.

According to the current market price, a single small gold coin is worth about 550,000 to 600,000 yen, so the total value of the fifteen gold coins is as high as 8 million to 9 million yen.

In other words, not counting the stable main business, just these prizes obtained by luck created an additional profit of nearly 16 million yen for the company, which was enough to pay back the four years' factory rent.

After the company sent people to verify the value of these things, they themselves received an additional bonus of 2.7 million yen.

If we add to that the old items that Sun Wufu specially selected for Ning Weimin that might have come from China, then we have to say that there is a chance to win a prize almost every day in this job.

But even with such a high admission rate, it is still nothing compared to Japan's institutional welfare.

You know, Japan's waste recycling system has always been known for its "strict classification" for the sake of environmental protection.

For example, different categories such as metals, plastics, and paper need to be strictly separated for recycling, and electronic waste is further subdivided into dozens of subcategories. It is no exaggeration to say that even milk packaging needs to be rinsed and cut open.

This kind of refined sorting not only reduces subsequent processing costs, but also improves resource conversion rate.

For people like Sun Wufu, it means saving trouble and efficient operation.

They collect Japanese household trash and sort it out with almost no effort.

The most troublesome categories are the collected clothes and shoes. If there are any that are useful and high in value, they will be picked out and washed and ironed again.

There are also some toasters, ovens, televisions, refrigerators, tape recorders and the like, which will also be wiped and cleaned if they are still usable.

They are not as stubborn as the Japanese, who are not bound to follow industry requirements and keep iron to iron and copper to copper.

No matter whether something is good or bad, it must be destroyed first.

Only those items that are completely broken and cannot be sold will be disassembled and the metals will be sorted according to Japanese industry requirements.

So in their eyes, household waste should not be considered waste at all. They are commodities that can be exchanged for money almost directly.

Even though the recycling price of waste in Japan is much lower than that in China, the volume is large and it is easy to convert it into cash.

For example, furniture, home appliances, household products and clothing that could be sold at the second-hand market were taken there by people and vehicles and sold.

As for those materials that have been restored, they are almost all gathered together and sent to waste resource processing companies. Once the inspectors take a look at the goods, as long as there are no impurities, they can be exchanged for money on the spot.

With such a capital turnover rate and such a sales model, it would be hard to count the money.

It's totally different from the things they collect in China which are always covered with dust, dirt, mold and smell, and they have to hold their noses and send them to the scrap collection station to queue up and get looked down upon.

Secondly, although the Japanese workers responsible for garbage disposal belong to local governments, they are all civil servants and have stable jobs that guarantee a stable income regardless of the weather.

However, because of psychological contempt for this industry, no Japanese are willing to work in this profession, and there is a huge labor gap.

In addition, the current exchange rate in Japan is high, the price of waste recycling is cheap, and the Japanese have to pay to throw away large garbage. This has led to the current garbage disposal model in Japan being unmotivated and inefficient for companies involved in the industry.

But for the common people, it takes up a lot of energy and has been a long-lasting pain.

So when faced with the free waste recycling service model provided by Sun Wufu and others, the Japanese people simply have no ability to resist.

Almost every time people see the company's ads in their mailboxes, they call to inquire.

Among those who called, at least one-third would hand over the large pieces of garbage and some unused old items they had cleared out of their homes to Sun Wufu and his team for disposal.

As a result, after just a few months, Sun Wufu and his colleagues' business was no longer as good as it used to be.

From nine in the morning to seven in the evening, the phone rings in an endless stream almost throughout the day, and they receive at least a hundred calls every day from addresses waiting for them to pick up their goods.

There is no way to finish the work, really no way to finish it. The work I receive can only be put on the back burner, and it keeps piling up.

It can be said that the entire Tokyo market is too large, and there is no one competing with them at all, so that old customers are enough to support them, and they don’t even need to distribute flyers, otherwise they will be in trouble.

But the problem is, this is also where the trouble comes from.

For Chinese people, making money is very joyful.

But the most painful thing is to see the money in hand, but not be able to earn it because of insufficient manpower and space. Especially now that Japan is in the most crazy period of large-scale construction of urban expansion and demolition of old buildings and construction of new ones.

In April, Sun Wufu received a big job that was offered to him unsolicited, which opened up room for business growth in the big knife industry.

It turned out that the president of the construction company that was responsible for renovating the factory building for Dadao Industry took the initiative to contact Sun Wufu, the company where Liu Yang had worked.

This construction company has just demolished a factory building and needs to transport the scrap metal away. If it were to go there, the president would have to hire someone and a car for this purpose. But now the president has discovered that Dadao Industry disposes of its garbage for free, so he wants to use the scrap metal to pay for the transportation and let the people from Dadao Trading Company transport the scrap metal away.

The result was naturally a perfect match, and Sun Wufu agreed immediately.

Needless to say, both parties were very satisfied with the final result. Sun Wufu and his team of eight people came with a small truck and it took them most of the day to move all the items away. This saved the owner of the construction company no less than five or six hundred thousand yuan.

And for the broadsword industry, the profits are also considerable.

Because when Japanese build houses, they use a lot of copper plates for exterior decoration, and sinks and other things are also made of copper.

The construction company dismantled eighteen or nineteen tons of scrap iron and some scrap aluminum, but the key point is that there was as much as one and a half tons of brass, as well as wires and other things. Adding them all together, there were almost two tons of scrap copper.

This scrap copper is worth a lot of money. The recycling price in Japan is 60,000 yen per ton, which is 1,800 yuan per ton.

A simple calculation shows that if it was sold to a Japanese company on the spot, this simple manual labor could earn over 200,000 yen a day.

If these scrap metals are to be shipped to the country where raw materials are urgently needed, the price will have to be tripled.

Coming here to move iron means moving money.

It's much more profitable than getting cement bags, waste wire rods, iron racks, etc. from construction sites in China.

The key is that the boss of the construction company still wants long-term cooperation. So think about it, if you contact other construction companies, wouldn’t there be a lot of such work?
In particular, when Ning Weimin brought Sun Wufu and others to Japan, he told them from the very beginning that he would try to transport metals to China, hoping to solve some of the domestic raw material shortage problems.

Now, isn't this the possibility of achieving this goal?

So Sun Wufu was very excited and immediately contacted Ning Weimin to make relevant reports.

If they want to transport non-metallic materials into the country, they must expand their business to cooperate with construction companies. It will not work if they just rely on household waste.

But the problem is that although they have found the target, they lack people, equipment and space to engage in large-scale scrap metal business.

We don’t have enough manpower now, we need to invest in more equipment, and we need to find a bigger place to store the goods. What should we do?

Therefore, Ning Weimin decided that he would be responsible for solving the equipment and venue problems, and Sun Wufu would be responsible for returning to the country to recruit people.

According to the plan jointly agreed upon by Ning Weimin and Sun Wufu, at least a few dozen more people would be needed to be enough.

In this case, in addition to recruiting the team left by Sun Wufu in the capital, he might have to go back to his hometown to recruit people.

In this way, at the end of May 1989, Sun Wufu was able to return home in glory with the approval of Ning Weimin.

Sun Wufu did not come back alone, he was accompanied by two children from his hometown who carried his bag for him.

This time he came back by plane, which was very different from the first time he went abroad.

Not only was he wearing a suit, but he also took a taxi to a hotel after getting off the plane, looking like a well-dressed big boss.

Although he still has a certain rustic air, he is not much worse than those Japanese who fly to the Republic to buy wives.

But to be honest, he was not trying to show off or deliberately spending Ning Weimin's money, but because he really needed it.

You know, Dadao Industry has accumulated a lot of goods since it started operating in the past six months.

Sun Wufu's trip back to China was actually just in line with Ning Weimin's request, to help the company clear its inventory and explore routes for the return of materials.

In fact, Ning Weimin ordered five 20-foot containers and loaded one-third of the inventory.

His plan was to send these things to Tianjin by cargo ship, then let Sun Wufu declare the customs, and then hire a car from Tianjin to send these things to the Panjiayuan Market in Beijing to see if they could be sold.

what's the result?
These goods caused a small sensation before they even left Tianjin.

Because these 140 cubic meters of goods include almost all daily necessities, including furniture, home appliances, clothing, tableware, kitchen utensils, shoes and hats, luggage, musical instruments, toys, sports equipment... it can be said that it is enough to open a store.

The key is that the quality is still very good. Most Japanese people take good care of things.

So this batch of goods became a dazzling sun. Self-employed people in Tianjin heard the news and came to the hotel where Sun Wufu was staying. They worshipped the god of wealth and almost blocked his door.

In the end, their money rushed into Sun Wufu.

Most of Sun Wufu’s goods had no chance of leaving Tianjin and were divided up by these people.

Then these goods were openly displayed in Tianjin's second-hand markets, small commodity markets, and clothing markets.

Many things were sold as new goods, and many people in Tianjin were cheated and bought these things as if they were new goods.

Regardless of the fact that they are second-hand goods, they shouldn't be too angry because they are indeed cheap and useful.

If you want to buy a guitar in a domestic store, a Hongmian brand practice guitar costs sixty yuan, while the few Japanese Farida folk guitars that Sun Wufu brought back only cost three hundred yuan.

People who like musical instruments know they have found a treasure as soon as they get their hands on it, and true connoisseurs buy it happily without even bargaining.

He immediately notified his buddy, and the two of them pooled their money and bought the other few as well.

A skirt with fashionable style and beautiful color only costs 80 yuan.

Just look at the texture, once you take a look at it, girls who love beauty will find it hard to resist and can only pay for it enthusiastically.

But in fact, neither the individual business owner nor the final buyer knew that Sun Wufu got everything for free, with zero purchase cost. The company's net profit only needed to deduct the shipping fee of five boxes, which was approximately equivalent to 40,000 yuan, and the customs duty of more than 7,000 yuan.

So even though he only charges 50 yuan for guitars and 20 yuan for clothes to those middlemen in Tianjin, the profit of Dadao Trading Company is as high as 90%.

And those electronic game consoles from Japan, whether handheld or red and white, were all snapped up.

Even a box of Famicom game cartridges that Sun Wufu brought back was sold at a sky-high price of two thousand yuan by individual business owners in Tianjin.

The least worthwhile items are actually furniture, which are large in size and cheap in price. Perhaps you can find someone willing to pay a high price for them in a store, but it is difficult to sell them at a high price to these self-employed individuals who are smarter than monkeys.

But even so, in the end, Sun Wufu still received about 763,000 yuan in cash from individual business owners in Tianjin.

After deducting the costs, even the fees he paid for selecting the products in China, he made a net profit of about RMB 700,000.

Equivalent to 23 million yen.

This means that including the other inventory of Dadao Trading Company, just by reselling some ordinary non-brand products, Sun Wufu and his team have earned nearly 100 million yen for Ning Weimin in the past six months.

Even if this business is shameful, who can say that collecting junk in Japan is not a good business? (End of this chapter)