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Of course, Sun Wufu would not forget to take care of the people in the capital, as well as his fellow villagers in his hometown.

He deliberately kept back a batch of goods that he was reluctant to sell, mainly a batch of household appliances and some suits.

Most of the household appliances were moved to the Zhongguancun Electronics Market in Beijing in early June.

This electronics market, which also belongs to Ning Weimin and is currently managed by Gu Minghai, has already been renovated.

Although it has only been half a year since it started attracting investors, two-thirds of the space of more than 10,000 square meters is still vacant.

But when this batch of goods arrived, the entire electronics market was suddenly in an uproar.

Both the merchants operating in the mall and the customers who were buying things, when they saw two truckloads of refrigerators, color TVs, tape recorders, video recorders, and televisions, they all rushed over and watched enthusiastically as if they had seen gold and silver treasures.

Gu Minghai, the person in charge of the electronics market, was even more surprised. He never expected that Ning Weimin would designate someone to send him such a large number of Japanese home appliances.

“Are these all original?”

"All."

"How much does this stuff cost?"

This was a bit difficult to answer, and Sun Wufu, who knew the whole story, just smiled innocently.

Gu Minghai thought that he didn't know either, so he calculated it in his mind.

I feel that if we go by domestic prices, even if it’s old, it would be worth at least 200,000 or 300,000 yuan.

After all, Japanese originals are much more expensive than domestic home appliances.

"What does President Ning mean?"

"Boss Ning is worried that your business is not doing well, so I asked you to send this batch of goods to you. I want you to open a second-hand home appliance sales department in the name of the electronics market and sell these things cheaply in the market. This way, you can attract some customers and make the market more lively."

"Selling cheaply?" Gu Minghai didn't understand. "How much is considered cheap?"

"You can just sell it for 40% of the market price. For example, this color TV costs 1,500 yuan in China, right? You can just sell it for 600 yuan."

"Won't that be a loss?" Gu Minghai was shocked. This is a color TV, and it's an imported one.

Sun Wufu smiled again, "Anyway, that's what President Ning told me. He may call you soon."

Suddenly he remembered something important. "Oh, by the way, Manager Gu, there is something I must remind you of. The voltage in Japan is 110v, while the voltage in our country is 220v. So you can't sell these appliances directly. You need to get an adapter transformer first. Or you can ask someone who knows the business to modify them."

Although Gu Minghai heard it, he still couldn't recover from his surprise for a long time.

"That's cheap. Six hundred for a color TV, two hundred and forty for a refrigerator, one hundred and twenty for a washing machine. Why sell it to others? There's not enough for everyone I know. If nothing else, I'll keep one set after the renovation is done."

Sun Wufu had anticipated this, so he followed Ning Weimin's instructions and said, "This batch of goods is just for exploration, they are all ordinary. There will be more goods in the future, and there will be better ones. For example, Japan has large-capacity refrigerators, and color TVs also have remote controls. In addition to washing machines, there are also dryers. If you are the market leader and you are in charge of this market, what are you worried about? Who else can be shortchanged? You should follow President Ning's instructions and boost market popularity. Because only when these goods are sold and the effect is seen, will President Ning continue to send people to ship back."

Only then did Gu Minghai realize that he had lost his composure. He looked at Sun Wufu, whom he met for the first time, feeling a little embarrassed and a little grateful.

Thanks to others for reminding me, otherwise I would have been too clever and ended up doing something bad.

Looking more closely now, Sun Wufu's Japanese suit is so straight, no worse than Pierre Cardin's suit.

I became more convinced that this person was extraordinary and should not be underestimated.

So I started to imagine it myself and my enthusiasm immediately rose.

"Well, thank you. Oh, your last name is Sun, right? You are in charge of the supply from Japan. Oh, Manager Sun, I'm sorry. Please come to my office and have a seat. I'll make you some good tea."

"No, you're quite busy, otherwise... I won't bother you anymore."

"Well, you're welcome. You've worked hard on this journey, so I must treat you well. Please stay for lunch. I'm afraid we'll have many opportunities to interact in the future. You know what, with this batch of hot goods, my market will definitely be booming!"

Look, Sun Wufu, a rag collector, went abroad and came back to trick a former executive of Pierre Caton. His ability is almost as good as Zhang Haogu in "Three Levels Up".

But then again, the fact that Sun Wufu is so highly regarded is not entirely bluffing.

After all, birds of a feather flock together. He has followed Ning Weimin for such a long time, and has been influenced by him. Naturally, his words and actions are similar to his.

And as the saying goes, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and traveling ten thousand miles is not as good as meeting countless people.

Since Sun Wufu became a vagrant, he has been traveling all over the world and has been to many places.

Now that he has gone abroad, the difference between Japan and China is so great that his knowledge and ability to navigate the society have also increased accordingly.

In addition, when I was young, I was wandering around in chaos, but now I understand the truth and start to live soberly. This is another crucial difference.

So even Sun Wufu himself did not notice that his thoughts, abilities, and even personal temperament had been quietly changing, and he was becoming more and more like a small boss who could stand on his own.

Otherwise, Ning Weimin would not have assigned him so many tasks this time.

So it should be said that it was actually a very normal thing and not outrageous that Gu Minghai, who had never met him before, was shocked by him as soon as they met and regarded him as a fellow worth making friends with.

Even when he returned to his hometown, the elders and folks in Sunjia Village could feel this huge change in him more clearly and regarded him as a real big shot.

Perhaps this is called a class leap, just like the Qi-refining masters in the novels of immortal cultivation who break through to become foundation-building masters.

However, compared with his personal changes, the changes in Sunjia Village in recent years seem not that great.

Although reform and opening up has released a wave of institutional dividends.

The village brigade was changed into a village committee, and the original secretary appointed by the superiors became the democratically elected village chief. The village also had electricity and roads built.

After the implementation of the production responsibility contracting system, the villagers' lives began to improve.

The Chicken Butt Bank gave everyone some cash in their hands, and every household began to compete with each other in raising pigs. Even many families in Sunjia Village built large tiled houses and bought bicycles, watches, and sewing machines. Some individual villagers even bought televisions and tape recorders.

But the problem is that this kind of rural prosperity ended when agricultural and sideline products became abundant to a certain extent. At present, the focus of the country's economic work is on cities, and resources must be concentrated on major projects first. It is impossible to completely solve the fundamental problem of rural backwardness by relying solely on the slow development of the agricultural economy.

Farmers now not only have to endure the industrial scissors gap, but also have to bear the responsibility of retaining funds. Their lives are really not as comfortable as in previous years.

Take Sunjia Village as an example. Everyone’s clothes are no longer patched, but they can now have enough food to eat.

However, most villagers still feel that they are not well-off. They cannot afford meat on weekdays, and they lack oil and water. It is even difficult to pay the tuition for their children.

The only commercial institution in the entire village now is still that small store selling only a single product, which used to be the sales outlet of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Apart from an additional tractor and dozens of bicycles, there are basically no modern gadgets on the country roads in Sunjia Village, and the logistics method of the past with animals driving carts is still maintained.

Fortunately, Sun Wufu is in the capital and is willing to take care of his fellow villagers in his hometown. At least those who go to the capital to seek refuge with him are making money with him and can also bring back some rare items from the capital.

This is why there are more than a dozen wealthy families in Sunjia Village who own color TVs, can pay the reserve fund in full every year, and can afford to pay a few hundred yuan for a bride, surpassing several surrounding villages.

Otherwise, Sunjia Village really has nothing to boast about, and is not much better than the surrounding villages.

So even though Sun Wufu was in the capital and seldom came back, people from all walks of life in Sunjia Village, including the village cadres, remembered his kindness and regarded him as the pride of the entire village.

But because of this, since Sun Wufu unexpectedly did not come back for the Spring Festival for two consecutive years, and this year many children did not come back either, this inevitably made many people a little uneasy, and a rumor began to spread in the village.

Some people wondered if Sun Wufu had become a city dweller and was beginning to dislike their poor village.

Many people are like this. Once they move to the city, they are afraid that others will know that they are from the countryside.

After that... he will still remember the kindness of his fellow countrymen, and everyone will be able to go to the capital to seek refuge with him again...

As a result, on June 1989, 6, Sun Wufu suddenly returned home and not only broke these false speculations with practical actions, but also shocked the surrounding area with his earth-shaking momentum and pomp.

It turns out that on this day, Sun Wufu's return was not only a little sudden and unreasonable, but also because he brought back his fellow villagers who stayed in the capital, the returning team was really huge.
The key point is that the way they returned home was unprecedentedly special.

They did not come back on foot, nor did they take a horse-drawn carriage. Instead, they chartered a big bus with a smoking rear end in Baoding. More than a dozen people returned from Baoding Prefecture on the bus.

That’s not all. What was unexpected was that there were so many Japanese goods on the truck.

There are clothes, home appliances, pots and pans, stationery and toys, colorful and of all kinds, it's dizzying to look at.

It is conceivable how much of an uproar this will cause.

In fact, when this big bus with a smoke coming out of its butt drove into Sunjia Village, the three villages it passed by along the way were all in an uproar, and many people followed to watch the excitement.

In the countryside at that time, no one had ever seen such a thing. No one had ever chartered a bus and loaded a load of goods back home.

As a result, when Sun Wufu got off the car, he told the villagers that the whole car was full of Japanese foreign goods, which he brought back to sell to everyone cheaply, and the price would not exceed half of the similar products in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Well, this is even more serious.

Whether they were people who came along to join in the fun or people from Sunjia Village, they all rushed to those things after the goods on the bus were unloaded.

They jumped into the Japanese goods that Sun Wufu brought back specially as if they were jumping into a river, picking and choosing, and having a lot of fun looking at them.

Especially the young people in the village, they can’t get enough of Japanese clothes.

At that time, wearing suits had become fashionable and popular in China. Even young men in rural areas had to make a suit before getting married, and they would ask local tailors to make it.

The tailor's technique is of course very simple. The shoulder pads are the same as those of a Zhongshan suit. Just alter the collar of a Zhongshan suit and it becomes a suit.

Needless to say, this suit is so good compared to the one Sun Wufu brought back that you can tell the difference just by looking at the color, cut, fabric and style without even having to try it on.

As a result, some people took out money to buy the goods, so a rural fair was held on the spot. Half of the goods were sold out on the same day. Not only did Sun Wufu make the villagers happy, but he also earned 21,000 yuan for the company.

In the days that followed, Sun Wufu's home was more lively than a teahouse. Village cadres and Sun Wufu's relatives took turns visiting and inviting Sun Wufu to their homes for a drink. Whoever got there first would have face.

There were many more people, known or unknown, coming to the door. They were all from nearby villages who heard the news and came to buy cheap Japanese goods.

Even the person who came back with Sun Wufu was surrounded by others all day long, listening to them tell stories about their adventures outside over and over again, and the people never got tired of listening.

Especially the two guys who came back from fighting Japan with Sun Wufu, they boasted a lot and won the support of countless listeners, which really made them proud.

Even those who stayed in the capital were stunned by them. After all, the new things in the capital were different from those in Tokyo.

For example, every time we talk about how expensive things in Japan are, a kid who just came back from Japan would grimace and say that they only had six fried dumplings in a plate in Japan, but the Japanese treated them as if they were some kind of delicacy.

A plate costs 500 yen, which is 15 yuan according to the official exchange rate, and 30 yuan if you exchange it yourself.

There is also the rent, which is extremely expensive. More than 20 people live in 14 rooms, and the monthly rent is 800,000 yen, not including water and electricity. According to the official exchange rate, it is 25,000 yuan, and if you exchange it yourself, it is 50,000.

The people in Sunjia Village were all deeply moved after hearing this.

Everyone said that Japan is not a good place to go, because the money for a few dumplings is enough to buy a banquet.

One month’s rent is enough to build a two-story building.

What a shady place!

However, the guy who had boasted just now said, "But they are damn rich. The things we brought back were actually free. The Japanese don't want them anymore, and they all bowed down and begged us to take them away for them. Do you know how much we can earn in Japan in a month? 150,000 yen! This is a fixed salary, not including the bonuses we get from selling extra good things! One month's work in Tokyo is equivalent to one year's work in the capital, you know!"

Although not all of them have received education, most have an education level above primary school.

But when it comes to economic accounts and a person's income, this arithmetic problem can still be calculated.

Even if it cannot be calculated immediately, 150,000 is a scary number in itself.

Then all the noise disappeared, and the scene suddenly became silent. (End of this chapter)