My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 465 Martial Arts World

Just then, I saw photos on the hard drive that Qin Yuye had opened.

Let Wei Dong test the waters first: "Look, this part, if all goes well, I can guarantee that we can start with a few hundred or a thousand units, and definitely reach tens of thousands of units per year in the future."

Chen Wenliang, who was clearly unfamiliar with the business, quickly peeked out to see what it was, and even turned back to ask the refined-looking scholar's assistant, who also seemed unfamiliar with the actual condition of the hard drive.

But the fact that a part worth $2,500 could sell tens of thousands of units every year immediately caught Chen Wenliang's eye, and he excitedly urged, "Let's take another look, let's see what other parts are worth buying and selling?"

Wei Dong calmly said, "We need to take it slow. Let's start with this. Once things go smoothly, we can naturally move on to other things... For example, these printers. There are so many models. Give me one of each kind first. I'll pay for it and try it out. Then we can try to recommend them to our user base. That would be a starting point of several thousand or even tens of thousands of units."

While drawing a picture of a bright future, what he really thought was, "I'll build a printer first and see how it goes."

As a result, Chen Wenliang began to show a bit of his江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the world of martial arts and chivalry) spirit, waving his hand and saying, "I will send a sample of everything on this map to Pete first... but there is one crucial point, how to deliver the goods. You find a delivery point in eastern Guangdong, and I will arrange for someone to deliver it to you."

If it weren't for the old-timers in Hong Kong reminding Wei Dong about the IBM agency rights, explaining that it was a smuggler who got this useless deal, he would have been in trouble.

The implication was meant so that Wei Dong would not understand its meaning.

How could they possibly pull such a stunt!

Tariffs can be considered the last line of defense against imported goods.

This batch of Cherokees is now facing significant tariff issues.

The car that Jin Zhuoqun got through connections must have been obtained by using back channels and getting a ticket, but it definitely wasn't cheap.

It's around 220,000 to 230,000 yuan, and that's for a two-wheel drive. A four-wheel drive one would cost close to 300,000 yuan.

That's the price they charge for external sales; anyone who can get their hands on it is incredibly talented.

But Wei Dong suspected that the car was intercepted and given to some energy, mining or functional department through internal procurement.

Aside from extremely rare individuals like Wei Dong, private car ownership is practically nonexistent.

Therefore, the internal transfer price is 160,000, and the four-wheel drive price is 180,000.

Shen Cuiyue said that this was the trick those hangers-on used to swindle money from Jin Zhuoqun.

These privileged children, who control numerous resources, haven't yet learned how to maximize their potential.

When Wei Dong actually became the vice president of the joint venture, he saw the internal documents and realized that the price of each set of imported components for the Cherokee was $9140!

The current exchange rate is 1:3. Even at the black market rate of 1:5, the cost price would be less than 50,000 yuan!

So currently, the tariffs are basically doubled, then the price is doubled again for resale, and the price of the civilian version is doubled again!
As a result, since the start of Cherokee production, Pingqi's annual tax payment has increased directly from 1260 million yuan to 3150 million yuan.

However, these cars are all sold to state-owned enterprises, so the money comes from the state, which also pays a heavy tax.

Now I know why those imported computers sell for over 20,000 yuan each.

So, were these computers, which came from IBM's general distributor in Hong Kong, smuggled in?
Wei Dong immediately laughed: "What are you talking about? With so many businesses, I dare not delay paying a single penny of domestic taxes. Would I challenge this kind of customs smuggling? One case could ruin my entire business. If you want to do business with me in this way, then there's no point in talking."

Even if there were cheaper channels to get in and out, Wei Dong would never get rid of this pitfall.

In fact, the import tariffs on computer components are still relatively low, not reaching 100%, so the import tariffs on that batch of 6502 chips were not high.

The key is that the purchase price is cheap, and the tariff of nine US dollars can't be increased much.

Hard drives can also be imported through this loophole, so why bother with tax evasion and smuggling?

After listening to the Cantonese translation, Chen Wenliang raised his hands and clasped his hands again: "Then let's talk business as a legitimate business. May I ask, Pete, does your family have any respected elders in the underworld?"

His thumb was sticking out in a weird way.

Shen Cuiyue, who had been sitting behind Rang Weidong and holding his changed jersey, only raised her hand and gave a thumbs up in response after Rang Weidong turned his head: "I am a concubine of the Rang family. No one in the martial world knows which family I belong to. I am a member of the Rang family, and we will fight to the death."

The Cantonese translator was surprised. She had always heard her "girlfriends" teasing and joking around, but she never expected that she and Rang Weidong had this kind of relationship.

She clearly doesn't seem to have that kind of relationship with him.

But they still tried to pass on the message.

Chen Wenliang smiled and nodded: "That's fine then. This agency right is given to Pete, and we'll split the profits. This business is yours. I'll wait for you to take over in Hong Kong, and we'll talk more then. Damn it, nobody around me knows what this business is. Those foreign devils at the foreign trading company are all arrogant. Pete, you can deal with them however you want!"

Upon further inquiry, it turned out that the agency rights belonged to a complete company.

There's a six-story industrial building in Mong Kok with machine rooms, warehouses, and maintenance and after-sales service facilities, mostly run by foreigners.

The local agent only owns the real estate property, which is essentially rented to the IBM branch during the agency period. They are responsible for various matters such as sales, networking, and local relations, but all the technical aspects are handled by the engineers and staff sent by IBM itself, with very few local recruits.

So when he took over the Hong Kong market rashly, which was not valued by North America, Chen Wenliang had no idea what to do for the past two years, and the foreigners didn't bother with him.

The entire project is currently idle.

Wei Dong nodded in agreement. There wasn't even a written agreement between them; both had connections in the underworld, so a single sentence sufficed.

Saying goodbye to Chen Wenliang.

Instruct Wei Dong to immediately, just as he had done with the automotive team among university students, to begin forming a university student computer team.

This part is based on the research and development team of electronic turnstiles, and will become a technology company that will connect with IBM computers in the future.

Furthermore, they requested that the entire automotive team travel to Jiangzhou to attend the sales conference.

These two major projects have effectively gathered a significant number of technical talents from universities in Beijing.

This time, Wei Dong secretly set a vision in his heart: to completely change the employment, research and development, and economic situation of college students.

Let these talents truly ride the wave of the times.

Qin Yuye definitely had many questions for Shen Cuiyue, so he asked Wei Dong to check on the sleeping child, then drove back to the factory. Only then did he find Mao'er, who was playing with the dogs, training the monkeys, and feeding the myna in the guardhouse: "How did you find that card?"

Mao said calmly, "Listen."

As he spoke, he pulled out the deck of cards from his pocket, broke off one corner, and started to bounce them.

Wei Dong recalled, "You didn't move it like that when you were holding it in your hand."

Mao took it back with one hand to demonstrate, and then his little finger, which was hidden underneath, flicked it!

To Wei Dong's astonishment, he tried it and found that he, who always thought himself strong and energetic, was unable to move the corner of the card.

Mao reached out his hand to Wei Dong, who immediately understood upon touching it that there seemed to be deformed growths inside the finger bones. The child, who was only ten years old, had been practicing this deformity for several years!
Then, he would twirl that pale yellow bamboo clapper between his fingers, practicing all the time.

Why the hell is everyone supposed to specialize in something?

Of course, Hong Kong businessmen also have their own specialties.

The contract was signed in a flash the next day, and the first batch of ten million Hong Kong dollars was deposited into Wei Dong and Qin Yuye's Hong Kong accounts.

This counts as foreign exchange.

Wei Dong was appointed as the general manager of the property management company that owned both the five-star hotel and the mortgaged television production building, while Xu Rao was the chairman.

Therefore, based on the actual shareholding, Wei Dong and his two sides together hold a total of 20%, Jin Zhuoqun is further diluted to 15%, Xu Rao and his group hold 33%, and the Hong Kong businessmen investing in the hotel hold a total of 32%.

This circumvented the policy requiring joint ventures to be majority-owned by mainland companies. In reality, the TV production building was only used as collateral, and the Hong Kong businessmen did not participate at all, but they became minority shareholders in the two buildings.

In fact, they controlled 64% of the hotel's shares, which is reasonable and satisfactory.

Xu Rao and the others were very satisfied. Compared to what they had paid in Shanghai before, it was nothing. They had also gotten rid of the burden of the hard drive agency rights.

This is a genuine five-star hotel building.

They acquired one-third ownership of a real estate project worth hundreds of millions.

Completely change the situation.

The Hong Kong businessmen were also satisfied. They had a variety of well-established five-star hotel plans available, and they chose one that was roughly the same, with Xu Rao and his team starting the application and review process.

Old Geng had to transfer another technical unit from Jiangzhou.

He was responsible for the simultaneous development of the automobile factory dormitory building, the Universal Television Production Building, the Universal Hotel project, the Automobile Building Commercial Center, and a series of automobile factory dormitories that were subsequently developed.

The total volume will reach 700,000 cubic meters, and it will definitely continue for several years or even nearly ten years!

In fact, the dormitory building of the car factory has already been sold off-plan, and it is a collective housing construction project funded by its own funds. The TV production building was funded by Wei Dong, and the hotel was funded by Hong Kong businessmen, so the pressure is not great.

After staying for another five days, he personally selected about twenty people from the car team of more than eighty people to go with him first. The newly formed computer team of more than fifty people all followed, along with about ten experts from X Computer, Xishan Factory, and members of the Zhonghua Learning Machine team. Together with Rang Weidong, they formed a large group of more than one hundred people and went to Shanghai.

He's starting to show signs of becoming a leader.

The hard-seat carriages were packed to the brim, proving that Xu Rao and his group indeed had strong connections within the railway system.

Just a simple greeting and they got train tickets for everyone.

The female Hong Kong businesswoman and her family, along with the experts, still hopped on sleeper berths, but Rang Weidong still mingled with the university students, buying roast chicken, peanuts, and donkey meat sandwiches for each table, drinking and chatting all the way, having a wonderful time.

But this trip to Shanghai will obviously allow me to lead a team to set up shop at that foreign trade company.

If the previous new-style lane house could be considered a row house, it was still a bit crowded when all the foreign trade companies and accommodations were crammed inside.

Now that the issues with Xu Rao have been largely resolved, we've moved to this three-story detached old villa with an attic, which has a building area of ​​over 400 square meters. Outside, there's a garden lawn of over 200 square meters and two garages.

With the Jiangzhou office in Shanghai serving as a prestigious brand, the company underwent a dramatic transformation.

(End of this chapter)