Hong Kong Island: From a small stall to a global supplier

Chapter 159 Arms
Hong Kong is a famous duty-free port, but that does not mean everything is duty-free.

Alcohol, tobacco, electronic products, luxury goods, dried seafood, etc. are all subject to tax. In addition, customs inspections on many imported items are also very strict, and some items that do not meet the standards are also prohibited from import.

For example, zombie meat is also strictly prohibited from import. Tiao Li, Sheng Wo and Xin Kee all have the business of smuggling frozen meat from Europe and the United States. The meat is parked on the open sea and then transported to private docks by large planes. It is called large-flying meat!
This kind of business requires large refrigerated cargo ships. A Japanese Pan-Ocean REF3520 refrigerated ship with a capacity of 758 cubic meters costs more than 2000 million Hong Kong dollars. It can transport about 3500 tons of frozen meat at a time, and the frozen meat alone costs about 4000 million.

This business is not affordable for ordinary associations.

No matter what business you are in, you can hide it from people outside the circle but you can never hide it from people inside the circle. After all, you have to ship goods.

"He Quanxing, a small gang with the prefix 'He', operates near Saigon. There are a total of more than 200 members in the gang, and they are engaged in the red wine smuggling business." Manghua said in a low voice.

Blind Hua was originally from the Donglian News Agency, so his source of information was quite wide. Besides, he and Quanxing also wanted to sell the smuggled wine, so the news could not be concealed.

"Why are you speaking so quietly? You're sneaking around like a thief." Wang Yaotang had difficulty listening and said unhappily.

"Ah, oh." Blind Hua took a peek. Although he didn't know why Brother Yao asked these questions, he was sure of one thing: he and Quanxing were finished!
Anyone who has anything to do with the God of Wealth Yao in business will either end up falling apart or their family will be destroyed. There will be no good ending!
The evil star Tan Lang is playing a joke on you.

After sending the man away, Wang Yaotang thought for a while. Normally, it would be best to wait and ambush He Quanxing the next time he moved goods, but smuggling was something that couldn't happen every week. It would be normal to move goods once a month or even every few months.

The wait was too long!
"Wei Tao, call Aji over."

……

June 1th, Pengcheng.

"This is Director Shi of the Merchants Group."

"This is Mr. Wang Yaotang, the founder of Hongdou Clothing."

"Hello, Director Shi."

"Hello, Mr. Wang."

"I've heard that Mr. Wang is young and promising. I've tried my best to think of Mr. Wang as younger as possible. Unexpectedly, he still breaks my concept of youth." Director Shi said with emotion, shaking his head.

Wang Yaotang was wearing a tailor-made casual suit and had a slicked-back hair. Although he was not very successful now, he was also well-known. There was no need for him to pretend to be mature to win people's trust.

"There's no other way. My father died early and my family was poor. I had no choice but to come out to work. Children from poor families have to grow up early." Wang Yaotang said with a smile.

"If that's the case, I should make my family poorer." Director Shi said with a smile, "Please come in. This is not the place to talk."

There has been nothing going on recently, and the smuggling business cannot be started for a while, so Wang Yaotang followed Siyanzai and Awei to cross the border to try.

Siyanzi had already taken care of the factory construction, and this time they would directly install the machinery to begin trial operation. There was not much business to discuss, but when the China Merchants Group heard that the big boss was coming, they suggested that they must entertain him in case new business was brought in.

According to the information, Mr. Wang Yaotang is a newly emerged clothing businessman who runs an erotic clothing brand at a young age.

The group went directly to the small canteen of the China Merchants Group, where a banquet had already been prepared and the host and guests were seated. As soon as the dishes started to be served, Wang Yaotang's eyes suddenly lit up!
Braised bear paw, grilled yellow mutton, grilled deer leg, roe deer leg with cloves, roe deer with juice, hazel grouse, grilled wild goose, flying dragon soup...

A lot of wild game. In a dozen years, this meal would be enough to send everyone to death.

"Are there a lot of these wild delicacies?" Wang Yaotang felt a little jealous when he saw them.

"If you like it, Mr. Wang, you can take some back. We have prepared vacuum-packed food. You can just heat it up and eat it." Director Shi said with a smile.

Wang Yaotang was stunned. No, there are pre-prepared dishes at this time?
Isn't this too advanced?
Well, although they are all pre-prepared dishes, there are still big differences between the dishes.

After listening to Director Shi's explanation, I learned that wild animal fur was also an important component of export earnings at that time. Many places even had special hunting teams. Many foreign businessmen liked these dishes after eating them when they came to the mainland, but no one abroad knew how to make them, so the higher-ups thought of making them into pre-prepared dishes specifically for export to foreign businessmen.

To this end, China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation has also specially produced a "Game Recipe" picture album for publicity and promotion, and some major wildlife producing provinces have also produced their own promotional materials.

Wang Yaotang's mouth twitched when he heard this. I eat protected animals for the country?
Eating more means making a contribution?
During the introduction, the waiter pushed a cart and brought up a few bottles of chilled red wine.

When it comes to food, the master chefs in Hong Kong all came over from Guangzhou and Shanghai in 49. If we really talk about being particular, some of the old chefs who were rehired are the ones who are really particular!
"Forget about the red wine." Wang Yaotang smiled and waved his hands. "These foreign wines are only praised to flatter the foreigners. As a Chinese, I don't like to drink them."

This one sentence greatly surprised several people in China Merchants Group. They had come into contact with many Chinese businessmen from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but it was the first time they heard foreign businessmen say words like "foreign devils" and "flatterers". It was really... weird!

Nowadays, the country is proud of foreign companies and believes that the moon is rounder abroad than at home. Otherwise, red wine would not be served directly during hospitality.

Red wine is all imported, which consumes foreign exchange!

Foreign exchange is so valuable these days!
"Haha, Mr. Wang is really... funny and unique." Director Shi was the first to react and said with a smile. "A year ago, the five of us couldn't even get 200 yuan together. We were lucky to have enough to eat, but we didn't have the right to like foreign things." Wang Yaotang shook his head.

"Very insightful. You have to be qualified to like someone." Director Shi was silent for a moment and immediately changed the subject, "Mr. Wang speaks very good Mandarin, better than even this local official. He is the best foreign businessman I have ever met, bar none."

"I may have a talent for languages. If I want to do business in China, I must learn Mandarin." Wang Yaotang smiled faintly, "I can also speak French, English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian."

"Is this true?" Director Shi and his colleagues widened their eyes in disbelief.

Even Bespectacled and Awei looked at Wang Yaotang in surprise. When did he learn it? They were together all day, so how come they didn’t know about it?

Wang Yaotang: Just learned it!
[You purchase the skill 'French' (LV1), spending 100 reputation points]

[You purchase the skill 'Japanese' (LV1), spending 100 reputation points]

[You purchase the skill 'Spanish' (LV1), spending 100 reputation points]

[You purchase the skill 'Portuguese' (LV1), spending 100 reputation points]

[You purchase the skill 'Russian' (LV1), spending 100 reputation points]

[Current reputation: 4135/13545 (famous all over the world)]

Wang Yaotang switched between several languages continuously. Many people in China Merchants Group now know a little foreign language, and can at least understand English, Japanese and Russian.

Director Shi touched his head and said, “No, you really can do it!”
No wonder the information they obtained said that this person started from scratch in less than a year and had a net worth of tens of millions. This kind of language talent alone is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

He deserves to be successful!

Before, I envied Wang Yaotang for being so rich at such a young age, but now I admire his abilities and even look at him with a little more respect.

Looking at the looks in everyone’s eyes, Wang Yaotang knew that his reputation was not in vain.

"What would you like to drink, Mr. Wang?" The waiter pushed in another cart, which was filled with various liquors.

Feitian Moutai, White Yangtze River Bridge Wuliangye, White Label Xifeng Liquor, 35° Fenjiu in porcelain bottles, Zhanggong, Shenhua... all of these export-oriented liquors.

Domestic liquor has a high alcohol content and strong concentration. A sip of it will leave a burning line. It is hard to imagine drinking liquor at a business reception or party. After one glass of liquor, people will lie down. How can they communicate?

At that time, Mr. Zhou proposed to develop low-alcohol liquor to show the world my country's thousands of years of liquor making technology!

Therefore, the alcohol content of exported liquor is generally lower than that of domestic liquor.

Wang Yaotang's eyes turned around and fell on the ginseng wine. He had drunk other wines before, but this one was the only one he had never drunk. "This is it."

Three glasses of wine were poured first, and then everyone started chatting. After a few drinks, the topic ranged from Hong Kong customs and culture to social conditions, and unknowingly turned to politics.

Throughout history, when men get together and don’t talk about business, they either talk about women or politics.

"As for the return of Hong Kong, I understand that most people are against it." Wang Yaotang shook his head and said, "In 45, Hong Kong had a population of only 50. Now it has 500 million. It has only been 36 years. How can it be a natural growth? You can talk about the country and territorial integrity with the cultural and business circles, but it is impossible to talk about this with ordinary people. Everyone wants to eat well, wear warm clothes, live in a big house, and drive a good car. They went through untold hardships and risked a high mortality rate to get there. Now they are suddenly talking about the return. Then it was all in vain."

"Of course, it doesn't really matter what the grassroots people think. After all, they can't make any noise. The real representatives of Hong Kong are the business community. The cultural community of Hong Kong actually has no status."

"The opinions of the public are still very important." Director Shi said quickly.

Wang Yaotang laughed and didn't mention it again. "As for the business community, to sum it up, they want both. They want the mainland's market and cheap labor, and they want political independence."

Director Shi grinned as he listened. Mr. Wang was being too blunt... so blunt that he couldn't respond.

After chatting for a while, Wang Yaotang suddenly said, "I would like to buy something."

"Oh, what?" Director Shi became interested. The China Merchants Group dealt with a lot of foreign businessmen and also took on some sales tasks.

Wang Yaotang looked up and grinned, "It's nothing, just some small stuff. You have plenty of them, like the Type 40, Type 63-56, Type 75, Type mortar, and Type mm recoilless gun!"

"Pfft, cough cough cough..."

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ps: Wait for the next chapter, I'm working on it
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