My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 917 With vinegar, of course we have to make dumplings.
It was as if they had a brainwave connection; the next day at noon, You Qili managed to get Li Xuehong's contact information and arranged for Wei Dong to come over.

"They said you're in Hong Kong, could you ask customs to make an exception? My goods are stuck!"

It was quite obvious that hearing You Qili's setback made Wei Dong immediately happy.

While inwardly reprimanding himself for gloating, he calmly leaned back on the sofa with his cordless phone, asking, "What's going on?"

Yu Qili was truly helpless: "We originally planned to import 10,000 units, but now we've only imported 7,000. Customs finally discovered this loophole, but they actually issued a notice at the last minute, raising the import tax rate for this type of refrigerator to 250%!"

Wei Dong couldn't help but burst into laughter, covering his mouth and apologizing profusely: "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry... Do you really think the customs department is a stone statue? They might let you off the hook once or twice if they see your goods slipping through the cracks, but they're not going to let you off the hook. As long as they apply to the General Administration, they can find and fix the loopholes!"

This kind of thing is all too common for tax authorities.

There are always new products and new businesses on the market, and all sorts of tax evasion tricks are racking their brains to find loopholes in tax regulations.

Therefore, taxation must be adjusted at any time.

In short, Wei Dong never thought of finding loopholes to do business, and even if he did something that was currently unrestricted, he would know when to stop.

"If you're going to import 10,000 units, then try to get them all in one go. That way, customs won't make an exception. If you insist on blatantly slapping them in the face once, twice, or three times, it's no wonder they'll target you!"

This reminds Wei Dong of the NBA referees known for their ability to control the game. Commercial leagues are all about suspense and attracting attention with evenly matched contests. It's not about betting or manipulating the game, but about maximizing the league's profits by slightly shifting the balance.

So when facing a referee, don't try to get away with something and then act innocent or deliberately slap them in the face, or you'll end up getting thoroughly beaten down.

Haha, it made Wei Dong feel that he was now vaguely on the verge of a breakthrough in his skills.

Combining the tricks of the NBA court with business seems to actually be a viable business opportunity.

Yu Qili wasn't angry: "Changing policies every day is a chronic problem. Sigh, what can I do? Nanli is going to host the Olympics this year, which will have a big impact on the entire production line. Moreover, the amount is huge, so I can only pay in installments for shipping... Now our remaining 3,000 refrigerators are stuck at the customs clearance port from Hong Kong to Pengzhen. Can you find someone to make an exception?"

Wei Dong shook his head: "What do you mean by changing orders every morning and evening? You're allowed to exploit loopholes, but others aren't allowed to plug them? I never argue with customs about these details, let alone about financial interests. If I'm not careful, it could turn into a major crime of tax evasion and smuggling. If you don't plead guilty and get it dealt with quickly, it will be considered a major smuggling case, and you'll be in deep trouble!"

Yu Qili lamented, "Have you ever heard of a 250% tariff? It's deliberately targeting me! How can I possibly pay the tariff and get through customs? This will just take back the nearly ten million we earned from the previous seven thousand units!"

Wei Dong secretly admitted that human happiness is built on the suffering of others.

I guess some honest business people enjoy seeing others make money through underhanded means and then get caught – what goes around comes around.

"Then there's nothing we can do but cancel the order. In my experience, these kinds of things are best dealt with quickly. Once you realize that a deal is going to fail, you have to get rid of it as soon as possible to reduce sunk costs. Otherwise, things might get complicated and you'll end up losing even more money."

Yu Qili must have also thought about it: "Is it possible for you... to buy this batch of goods in Hong Kong and transfer them to you at the ex-factory price? I'll consider the shipping cost from Nanli as a loss."

Oh, it's business, huh? Wei Dong immediately put on a different face: "If you don't think there's any benefit to it, do you think I'd be the one to take the fall? You organized the buyers in China before ordering from the Nanli factory. What am I supposed to do with them? Besides, it's questionable whether 3,000 units can even be sold in Hong Kong. Otherwise, someone would have already done this business. Why would it be my turn?"

The mainland market has only recently opened up, and there are definitely still undiscovered sectors among the millions of products available.

Hong Kong's Nanli has experienced rapid growth for two or three decades; I know it all too well.

Yu Qili's negotiation skills might be good enough against those inexperienced, pretentious people in the mainland, but now Wei Dong has to negotiate with people above Lao Fang and engage in intrigue with the Director of Broadcasting, the Commissioner of Police, and billionaires.

Compared to others, it seems to have fallen behind.

He readily conceded with the slightest pressure: "We sell this refrigerator for 7,500 yuan in mainland China, but the actual wholesale and factory price is around 6,000 yuan. You only need to pay 5,000 yuan per unit."

They didn't intend to take advantage of the situation, so they just let Wei Dong try his luck, and look, the price dropped by three million.

Compared to before, when I worked so hard carrying dozens of kilograms of cargo and still couldn't earn more than 300 yuan.

Satisfied, I received the information about the Hong Kong transshipment trading company and handed it over to my wife to handle.

The proprietress nodded happily: "I remember he transferred the barge fleet, neon light factory, and screen printing factory to us, right? He was a really nice guy."

Wei Dong was both amused and exasperated; You Qili was essentially cutting off an arm to save his life.

The payment is to be returned to all parties who have already paid. After deducting all expenses, we made nearly ten million in profit, but now we have to come up with three million to settle the matter.

Maybe he used the name of the convenience food research center to lure in orders from various parties.

These days, people who can afford to spend 7,500 yuan on a refrigerator are generally not private households; people with 10,000 yuan in savings are still a rarity.

In some cases, you might even have to pay a penalty for breach of contract.

However, in Hong Kong, where commerce is highly developed, these operations are carried out very quickly. By the time people were ready to watch the movie in the evening, three thousand refrigerators had already been stacked at the dock construction site and the South Asia scrap yard.

Letting Wei Dong's already scabbed elbows and knees make him walk like a stick figure, he glanced over and exclaimed, "Holy crap! How big is that?!"

It wasn't that the size of the 360-liter refrigerator surprised him; later, it became popular for civil servant families in prefecture-level cities like Shangzhou to buy this kind of large side-by-side refrigerator.

The main thing is that I didn't expect three thousand units to pile up to be so astonishing.

Moreover, these refrigerators, which are already 1.7 meters tall and two people wide, become even larger with the addition of foam packaging boxes. They look like small mountains when stacked up.

If Weidong didn't have such a large territory and so many workers, the cost of just storing and unloading goods would be quite high.

He Shawen skillfully directed the South Asian men to pile all the packing boxes onto waterproof pallets, and then tore open the waterproof cloth to wrap the outside tightly.

If it weren't for his years of experience in buying and selling, Wei Dong would have almost given several of these machines to the South Asia Command on the spot.

I still asked Kawashima to go to the movies with me.

He also reported that "Nanya New Village" already has more than 400 families and over 50 children. Now that life is stable, they will definitely have many more children, who will all be your loyal servants in the future...

There are as many as 1,200 South Asian men working in various places.

Due to the regional situation, the majority of the workforce now consists of able-bodied men in their twenties to forties.

Now everyone is thinking about working hard with the old man, earning money to get a legal identity, going back to their hometown to get married, bringing their wives to Hong Kong, joining the new village, and having their own families!

Wei Dong was internally screaming, "Holy crap, this is outrageous!"

Hong Kong is indeed a multi-ethnic city, but it's impossible for the population to reverse course like this, where having many children means having many blessings.

But to encourage the police to conduct a complete cleanup and repatriation of refugees like this, without any thought of the bigger picture, made Wei Dong feel that it was too inhumane.

Then, in the past few days, women have been bringing their children, in groups of two or three, to spread movie posters all over the city. The old man's movie is sure to be a box office hit!

These people weren't brought to Hong Kong by Wei Dong; they were simply gathered together by him and Cheng Lang to create value.

What?

Upon arriving at the cinema, the Taoist priest secretly reported to him that the guy named Hu Yongbin was very diligent. As soon as he arrived at the basketball court, he changed his clothes and busied himself cleaning and moving things.

He would just sit in the corner and daydream when he had nothing to do.

Wei Dong could only say he would investigate further.

Then I received some bad news.

Upon meeting Chen Wenliang, he immediately rejected the idea of ​​a 360-liter refrigerator: "How small are houses in Hong Kong? Not every household has a mansion like yours. Almost no ordinary family has ten feet of space to put such a large refrigerator. Besides, what can't you buy in Hong Kong? There are wet markets, supermarkets, and ice cream shops everywhere. Why would you want to put such a large refrigerator at home and take up space? There are only so many wealthy families who don't care about space, and most of them already have one. They can't sell it!"

The translation made the wife immediately grin cutely.

Even though the goods were bought at a discount, they still cost over ten million, enough to buy a luxury mansion in Repulse Bay.

The TV station's administrative director also rushed over to attend the premiere of the company's work. He couldn't help but laugh when he saw Wei Dong's strange walking posture and his vest and shorts.

She immediately asked her best friend for advice: "What can we do? Should we encourage everyone to buy one? I can buy one, and I'll buy two more to give to my friends!"

Wei Dong didn't even notice her Cantonese; instead, he frowned and asked, "Vegetable market, supermarket, ice cream shop?"

Qin Yuye quickly explained, "It's a convenience store. Because many convenience stores have ice cream cone signs outside, we've always called them ice cream stores since we were little..."

Wei Dong raised his hand and froze for two seconds: "There are stocking-patterned milk tea shops, right? We can open fruit iced tea shops, each tiny enough to accommodate only one or two employees and one of these large refrigerators. All the goods are actually delivered by refrigerated trucks from the main store. Hahaha, it's not impossible to open three thousand shops throughout Hong Kong, including Pengzhen..."

With vinegar on hand, making dumplings shouldn't be too difficult, right?

Qin Yuye was both surprised and puzzled: "Fruit iced tea, what is that? I've never seen it in mainland China, but it sounds like a really fun thing!"

It's a stock of equipment worth over ten million, and the subsequent investment will definitely be... tens of millions of dollars. Now she can care about having fun.

Wei Dong expertly ordered: "Iced latte, peach four-season spring tea, taro balls with grape, jasmine green tea, bubble tea, and iced lemonade for one or two Hong Kong dollars a cup. Guess if these will be a bestseller this summer!"

Who hasn't ordered a few drinks from Big Snow King?

Located in a subtropical climate, Hong Kong is indeed full of beverage shops and milk tea shops, but so far, there are no chain stores of tiny size that cover the entire city.

If Da Xue Wang can succeed, I definitely can.

Qin Yuye got excited too: "Wow, it sounds delicious! I want to make it! Oh dear, I don't know how to make it!"

This led Wei Dong to develop a path dependency: "Why not just find a high-end hotel and poach a beverage expert? I don't believe that expensive drinks in high-end hotels, selling for five or ten yuan a cup, wouldn't sell in the whole city?"

Even the smugglers applauded and praised Bo Zai Dong for his brilliant business acumen.

Even Zou Huimin was arm in arm with her new best friend, her eyes shining with admiration, as she had personally witnessed the birth of this business idea.

"How about I follow your lead and do well too? I can draw advertisements..."

(End of this chapter)