money player

"The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud; sing to our beloved motherland, which is now on the road to prosperity and strength. Sing to our beloved motherland, which is now on the road to prosperity and strength..."

In Shaoxing, there is a tea mountain that originally belonged to Lu Xun's Zhou family. Dozens of rural women are busy picking tea leaves while humming songs.

Their fingers were flying, and tea leaves were flying into the baskets. They were completely focused and unwilling to stop for a moment.

The comrades from the supply and marketing cooperative were waiting at the foot of the mountain. The picked tea leaves could be exchanged for money after being carried down the mountain. With the money, they would roast a few eggs at home and make candied eggs for the debt collectors.

Similar scenes are being played out across Shaoxing and tea-producing counties in Zhejiang.

Zhejiang widely grows Zhenmei tea and Zhu tea, which looks like gunpowder after being roasted. These two types of tea are very popular in North Africa, especially in Morocco. Almost everyone drinks them every day, and the per capita tea consumption is quite large.

Casablanca, Morocco.

According to the Treaty of Fez, France has full control over Morocco's customs, finance and trade. Tea is a daily necessity for Moroccans, and the import rights are monopolized by France. Tea is mainly imported from India, Ceylon and China, but the import channels are completely controlled by French trading companies.

Moroccan Arab and Jewish merchants often acted as agents for French trading companies and were responsible for the local distribution of tea. They purchased tea from French importers and sold it to rural and urban areas through a market network in cities such as Casablanca and Marrakech.

Peretz Comptoir, a trading company established by the French Jewish Peretz family, has been engaged in tea import business in Morocco since 1912. Its current head is André Peretz.

Wei Xinhua, a native of Shanglin, was born into a gold-mining family. He mined for gold in the gold mines on the Gold Coast for more than three months. Because he knew some English, he was transferred to the business department to engage in gold sales. After working there for less than half a year, he was transferred to Jinhai Company and stopped selling gold and started selling tea.

At this time, he was sitting in the office of Peretz Firm, quietly waiting for Andre Peretz to read a letter full of letters he didn't recognize.

After a long while, Peretz put down the letter and said to Wei Xinhua, "Please ask someone who can make the decision to come over and discuss the details of the contract."

"OK."

……

Black Beauty Restaurant.

Fu Ling laughed for a while and said, "Sun Wukong is the Monkey King and the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. What is Mr. Xian's title?"

"I don't have any title, but I do have an official position. When the emperor was still the King of Qin, I worked at Yexiao, mainly responsible for logistics. For example, when Marshal Tianpeng went out on official business, I had the obligation to take good care of Miss Gao, send her anything she needed, and accompany her when she was lonely and empty..."

"Hahaha." Fu Ling burst into laughter, then covered her mouth, making a puffing sound.

Seeing her laugh so loudly twice, the girl sitting between Fei Baoshu and Xian Yaowen looked over to Yu Han. Her eyes stayed on Fu Ling's face for a moment, then moved away and passed by Xian Yaowen's face. Soon, joy filled her eyes.

If you act like this, you are either seeing a generous regular customer or a sincere regular customer.

"Mr. Xian, I'm sorry, a regular customer has arrived. I'll go over and say hello."

"Please help yourself."

Xian Yaowen said casually, putting his hand on the back of Fu Ling, who was laughing so hard that she choked, to help her calm down.

He ordered Fu Ling, Fei Baoshu ordered another girl for Mu Xue. Yu Han came later just for Mu Xue, and added a pair of chopsticks to this table, using it as a donkey to enjoy the show. He didn't plan to ask for a tip, so he didn't have to fulfill his service obligations.

As soon as Yu Han left, Fu Ling, who had just calmed down a little, turned her head to look over.

After staring for a few seconds, he turned his head back and chuckled, "Mr. Xian, does Miss Gao smell good?"

"How can a woman not smell good?" Xian Yaowen picked up the serving chopsticks and took a piece of pig intestine from the dish to Fu Ling's plate. "Even if it doesn't smell good, it tastes good."

Fu Ling took a look at the pig's large intestine and said happily, "Does it smell good after being pushed by a pig?"

"fragrant."

Xian Yaowen picked up another piece of pig intestine, put it quickly into his mouth, and chewed it slowly while holding his breath.

Pig intestines come from uncastrated wild boars, which have high levels of androgen in their bodies. These hormones inhibit the liver from breaking down skatole, causing it to accumulate in the fat. No matter how much you wash the pig intestines, if the fat is not removed, they will still have a fecal smell.

It tastes very good, but a little hard to eat. After chewing it thoroughly, add some rice wine to cover the smell and dilute the skatole concentration.

I put down the cup and heard a magnetic male voice behind me, "Ms. Jiang is really amazing. She is so young and yet she can sell tea to American soldiers who only drink coffee and Coke."

"Mr. Tang, I was just lucky. The American soldier wanted to change his taste, and I happened to run into him."

"Miss Jiang, there's no need to be modest. You are truly capable to be praised by the Tea King."

"What tea king? That's a thing of the past. Don't mention it, don't mention it."

"Ms. Jiang, Mr. Tang's Huacha Company is the largest tea company in China. He used to export 4,700 metric tons of tea every year."

"Four thousand seven hundred metric tons? Mr. Tang alone exported the entire Taiwan tea industry?"

"Yes, business was going well, but bad luck struck. The Anti-Japanese War broke out and all of Mr. Tang's factories, warehouses, and machines were burned down. The tea factory couldn't be moved..."

"Mr. Li, stop talking. The past is too hard to recall. Let the past be the past. Let's focus on the present. Ms. Jiang, Taiwanese tea is uniquely suited for making black tea and green tea. Now the Korean War has created a North African market. North Africans don't buy green tea from the mainland. The green tea production capacity of the Japanese has not yet fully recovered. Now is the best opportunity for Taiwanese tea."

"But...we at Yongguang only make black tea and have never made green tea."

"Ms. Jiang, Taiwanese black tea is no longer competitive and can only be used in combination. No one knows about the North African market yet. If Yongguang starts with North African green tea, it will definitely be profitable."

"Mr. Tang, I would like to ask how big is the North African market?"

"This year, we expect to export 200 metric tons of Chinese tea, and the export will grow exponentially every year. Ms. Jiang, as long as we cooperate, Taiwanese tea can take over the entire North African market."

"Fuling, you smell so good, are you using any high-end cosmetics?" After listening a few times and understanding what was going on, Xian Yaowen continued the conversation.

"It's not cosmetics, it's Babaisan from the pharmacy." Fu Ling raised her hand to show Xian Yaowen, "I used to have spots on my hands, and they faded a lot after using Babaisan."

"What is Babaisan?"

"It's for washing face and hands. It's a Jin Dynasty imperial formula. There's also a better one, Yurongsan, which Cixi used."

"Then why don't you use Yurong Powder? It's very expensive."

"It's three times more expensive than Babaisan. A small bottle costs several dollars."

"What about vanishing cream? It's very expensive in Taipei?"

"Don't you know that your wife's cosmetics didn't have to pay tax when she entered the country?"

"No."

“They’ve all been opened and used, right?”

"right."

"Then you probably don't have to pay taxes." Fu Ling lowered her voice and said, "You don't know, Taiwan's cosmetics have been taxed several times. Originally, I had to pay more than 70 cents for a dollar of cosmetics to pay taxes. Now I can't buy them even if I want to. Starting this month, the government has banned imports and sales. If I want to buy them, I can only go to the black market. They are shockingly expensive and I can't afford them."

"You are not allowed to sell it, but are you allowed to use it?" Xian Yaowen pointed at Fu Ling's lips.

"It's okay to wear lipstick, no one will check, but it's troublesome to perm your hair or wear nail polish. If the police see you, you will not only be fined, but also locked up for a day."

"So exaggerated?"

"That's the rule, but you can lose money to avoid disaster."

"Oh, so it can be flexible. This is interesting. If those people you mentioned who sell cosmetics on the black market are caught, can they be flexible?"

Fu Ling curled her lips and said, "Those people, they all have adults as their backers, how could they be arrested?"

"So impressive."

Cambridge, USA.

In the study room of the Science Library at MIT, which is open 24 hours a day, a shameless Chinese student named Zhang Zhongmou used the light in the study room and sat in front of a typewriter, typing away.

Due to the limited financial resources of his family, his father exhausted his savings and could only afford his first year's tuition. He has to earn his own tuition and living expenses in the future. He is now focusing on earning living expenses.

Suddenly, he smelled cigarette smoke coming from behind him. He turned around and saw a Chinese man about his age.

"Chinese?"

"Zhang Zhongmou?"

"I'm Zhang Zhongmou, who are you?"

"Adam Fund, Jeon Wook."

"Adam Fund? I've never heard of it. What does Mr. Quan want to talk to me about?"

Quan Xu came to the desk opposite Zhang Zhongmou and pointed, "Can I sit down?"

"Please take a seat."

As soon as Quan Xu sat down, he got straight to the point, "Let me introduce the Adam Fund. The Adam Fund is an education support fund that my boss Xian Yaowen just established not long ago. It aims to support outstanding but financially disadvantaged students to complete their studies."

As he spoke, he took out a document from his briefcase and placed it on the table. "The details are all in there. Please take a look, Mr. Zhang."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhongmou picked up the document and quickly flipped through it.

Soon, a smile appeared on his face, "I am willing to sign the contract."

"You have to go to a law firm in New York to sign the contract." Quan Xu took out a few dollars and a business card and placed them on the table. "Call this number when you arrive in New York next weekend and I will pick you up."

Shanghai.

Wu Hongan sat in Baiqueling's office and signed an agency and OEM contract with Baiqueling's boss Gu Zhimin.

The agency contract is signed on behalf of Jinji Agency. In the future, Jinji Agency will represent a large number of competitive brands in the mainland and vigorously explore the Southeast Asian market.

The hometown attachment that millions of overseas travelers cannot give up can carry a market size of tens of millions of dollars. Moreover, with the foreseeable increasing communication difficulties, this market will get better and better. As long as it is occupied, it will be easy to make money in the next twenty years.

The OEM contract was signed on behalf of Jinji Logistics. Xian Yaowen, who reads policy clauses more attentively than most people read pornographic novels, must have known that Taiwan has promulgated the "Luxury Goods Trading Prohibition Order". The stricter the ban, the more expensive the products will be. It makes sense to ship cosmetics to Taiwan to sell.

Here in Taipei.

After Black Beauty finished her meal, Xian Yaowen moved up the things he was going to do next and asked Fei Baoshu to visit Chen Xiaodie, the eldest son of Chen Diexian, a writer of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School.

In 1915, Chen Diexian was years old. The major event of that year was the "Twenty-One Demands of Unequal Treaty", which set off a nationwide movement to boycott Japanese goods. Two years earlier, he had the idea of ​​producing tooth powder to compete with Japanese tooth powder, and finally took action to establish his own tooth powder brand, Butterfly.

The pronunciation of "butterfly" in Shanghai dialect is close to "invincible", forming the promotional slogan "butterfly bites diamonds", which is aimed at the Toyo King Kong brand toothpowder.

Patriotic marketing was quite effective in those years, and Butterfly quickly became popular. Later, with celebrity marketing, Butterfly became one of the three major domestic brands in the cosmetics industry. However, after Chen Diexian passed away, Butterfly went from bad to worse. Chen Xiaodie was unable to turn the tide, so she devoted herself to the mountains and rivers, writing and painting.

Now he lives in Taipei and makes a living by painting, while his sister stays in the mainland to take care of the Butterfly brand which is about to die. Fei Baoshu went to talk to him about borrowing the Butterfly brand for use in Taiwan. After all, Butterfly was one of the three major domestic products and had a certain influence in Taiwan, which could open up the market faster than creating a new brand.

Besides, the condition Xian Yaowen had to give was two components, just for a hype material - Butterfly is rejuvenating in Taiwan in the new year, and only one of the three major domestic brands is standing out; the boss of Prince Chemical is a kind and righteous person who remembers his roots and does not bully the weak.

Taiwan has three major export industries: sugar in the south, tea in the north, and camphor. Tea is not only the largest, but also the sum of all other industries. The north tea refers to Dadaocheng, where tea factories and tea houses are concentrated. Along the way, people who stop by (in the arcade) are picking tea leaves. (End of this chapter)