Tomb Raiding: The Bloodline of Dragons and Snakes, Starting from the Kunlun Divine Palace

Chapter 8: Luring the Rats Out of Their Holes to Secure Glacier Climbing Supplies

Panjiayuan, Canglongge Antique Shop.

"Uncle Ming didn't answer the phone," Big Gold Tooth said in surprise. "I clearly made an appointment to see him today."

"Oh? Has something changed?" Wu Yutian had originally planned to have a good talk with Uncle Ming about who would lead the team, but he didn't expect that Uncle Ming in this world would actually go into hiding?

A dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a mouse's son can make holes.

I knew before that Uncle Ming originally came from a family of corpse carriers in western Hunan, which, to put it bluntly, was an important part of the tomb raiding industry chain.

Some collectors specialize in collecting mummies; for example, the most valuable mummies in the world are those of Egyptian pharaohs.

The mummified remains left behind by the Xia Kingdom also have a certain value, sometimes even exceeding that of other treasures.

Early tomb raiding gangs were not familiar with the sale of mummies, as these corpses were large and inconvenient to carry and store, so they outsourced the work to professional corpse carriers.

Uncle Ming accumulated wealth through this kind of business when he was young, settled down in Hong Kong, and even opened a factory in Shenzhen.

Unfortunately, when he went to Taiwan for tourism, he lost most of his cash at the Donghu Gang's casino.

He still owed Qiu Xiaochi a high-interest loan, and even if he sold the Shenzhen factory, it would be far from enough to cover the debt.

So he mortgaged his Hong Kong house to banks and microfinance companies to get a full loan, transferred the factory in Shenzhen, and then ran away with his lover Shuna, his adopted daughter Ah Heung, and his henchman Ah Dong.

The easiest place to evade the pursuit of these Hong Kong and Taiwan gangs is Beijing.

The area is strictly controlled, and even powerful groups dare not openly use firearms here.

Even controlled knives are difficult to carry out, and even if one were to take action, it would be easy to be caught in one fell swoop by the tight police force of Kyoto. Therefore, for Uncle Ming, Kyoto is a good place to hide from debts and seek refuge.

Moreover, he was well-prepared, having left more than one address in the capital, so that even if the meeting place he used for business negotiations was found, he would still have other safe houses to hide in.

But this put Wu Yutian in a difficult position.

Once a mouse enters its hole, it's not easy to get it to come out and show itself.

Just now.

A news report on the radio caught my attention.

"Bolan mountaineer Veriksky has once again come to the Xia Kingdom Sports Bureau to train the Xia Kingdom mountaineering team in Kyoto."

"Because he was the first human to reach the summit of Mount Everest in winter in 1980."

"And our mountaineering team will also launch this challenge on Mount Everest in the coming winter!"

"Climbing Mount Everest in winter and understanding its winter ecological environment will be of great help to my country's scientific research."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yutian had an idea.

To get Hu Bayi and Uncle Ming's group to come to me, I should start by understanding their needs for climbing Kunlun Mountain this winter.

Of course, what I saw in the original novel and the TV series was that they were going to buy ginger to make ginger juice to melt the thousand-year-old ice and reduce the difficulty of excavation.

However, upon closer inspection, I discovered that Kyoto has over a hundred large and small farmers' markets, as well as small supermarkets.

At this time, Kyoto's permanent population had reached 950 million.

The ginger supply reserve is one kilogram per person, which is about 10,000 tons.

At that time, military trucks only had a carrying capacity of five tons, and it would take about two thousand trips to transport all the ginger.

I can afford to buy it, but even if I can transport it, I have nowhere to put it.

Moreover, this seems to be a national crackdown on the resale of essential goods.

Oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, and garlic are all necessities of life, and the government does not allow individuals to buy them up to the point that others cannot buy them.

So we had to abandon the idea of ​​buying up all the ginger.

Since monopolizing resources is not feasible, the only option left is to use a fishing strategy.

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The next day.

Wu Yutian made a special trip to the Crescent Hotel to visit mountaineer Veriksky.

He lives here, so he must have some interest in the antiques of the Xia Kingdom.

The Crescent Hotel's most distinctive feature is that it holds antique auctions from time to time.

Even on days when there are auctions, some cultural artifacts with distinctive Xia Kingdom characteristics will be exhibited.

However, after meeting...

Wu Yutian learned that Verricksky simply enjoyed admiring Xia Kingdom antiques and relics during his travels, but he neither participated in the theft nor in bidding for these items.

On the contrary, he also has a side business selling mountaineering equipment.

Of course, this business was still too advanced for the Xia Kingdom, whose economy was not yet developed.

Before Wu Yutian traveled through time, he knew that in mainland China, the first outdoor products company to eventually grow into a listed company was not established until 1997.

Therefore, Verikski did not find a good agent in Kyoto.

He provided free winter mountaineering training for the Xia Guo Mountaineering Team, with the aim of promoting his Ouzhou Company's outdoor products.

Of course, his ice axe is the most praiseworthy item.

Wu Yutian knew that in 2022, the man in front of him, Verekski, received the "Golden Ice Axe Lifetime Achievement Award".

He was able to conquer Mount Everest in winter thanks to his excellent equipment, superb skills, abundant physical strength, and amazing perseverance.

Although Kunlun Shrine is not as high as Mount Everest.

However, to find the crystal corpse in the Demon Kingdom Glacier, one must climb the equally steep and dangerous glacier peaks!

Without proper equipment, someone like Uncle Ming, a middle-aged or elderly man in his fifties, would have no chance of completing the climb.

Uncle Ming is a businessman from Hong Kong who has a greater preference for imported equipment.

For example, his bodyguard, Ah Dong, had undergone real combat training on the battlefields of North Korea and the Philippines.

It also carried a large amount of imported equipment.

"You can rest assured that you'll leave the Xia Guo agency for mountaineering equipment like ice axes and ice chisels to me," Wu Yutian said to Verricksky, patting his chest confidently in the luxurious private room of the New Moon Hotel. "I guarantee we'll achieve five million in sales annually, with a daily increase of over 50%!"

Chapter 9: Serving as the General Distributor of High-End Mountaineering Equipment

Although the company Sanfu Outdoor was only established in 1997 and listed on the Shenzhen Small and Medium Enterprise Board in 2015.

However, Wu Yutian was confident that he could accelerate this process, and the company was established in 1983 and went public in 7 years.

Because he knew that the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the Xia Kingdom would be established on December 1, 1990.

The first company to go public was Kyoto Amanqiao Department Store Co., Ltd.

In the early stages of this era, there will be no publicly listed companies producing niche market products.

However, outdoor products are also department store products, and so are antique and cultural products. Therefore, acquiring an outdoor products company and expanding an antique and cultural products company is the first step for me to enter the department store market!

"Five, five million?" Vericksky was dumbfounded. He thought that he would be doing very well if he could sell a few hundred thousand in sales every year in the Xia Country market.

The director of the State Sports Administration had actually spoken to me privately, saying that his nephew was developing outdoor products and, through recommendations from various levels of the Sports Administration, he estimated that he could sell 400,000 to 500,000 units.

"How much goods did you bring this time? I'll buy them all!" Wu Yutian said, patting his bulging leather bag.

"You bought everything? Are all the citizens of Xia Country this rich? I brought 50,000 yuan worth of goods." Verricksky exclaimed in surprise.

I brought a batch of goods with me, intending to wait for the sports bureau director's nephew to come and test the sale.

However, the other party has not yet paid the money; they are simply using their connections across the country to contact buyers.

However, the items I brought were all top-of-the-line and high-end. Currently, only the national sports bureau and the national team can barely afford some of them; local sports bureaus and individuals in the mainland simply cannot afford them.

Of course, how can the spending power of ordinary mountaineering enthusiasts on outdoor equipment compare to that of tomb raiding and treasure hunting expeditions?

“I brought all the money, but I have one request.” Wu Yutian opened the leather bag he was carrying and took out 50,000 yuan in cash neatly arranged inside.

These days, there are too many shell companies with no money or goods, all trying to make a quick buck.

It's rare to see a business owner like Wu Yutian who's willing to spend real money.

"What do you want? Just tell me." Having seen the cash, Verikski was ready to give up on the sports bureau chief's nephew.

Deep down, he still believed in the market economy. He believed that as long as the Xia Kingdom, which already had a population of one billion, opened up its market and released the purchasing power of its people, it would have a much broader market space than the planned economy system where officials promoted goods!

“I hope you will hold a press conference with me. I will invite the city’s most well-known newspapers and media to report on our cooperation and publicize that I have become the general agent of your Ouzhou Company in Xia Guo.”

"Of course, this also means promoting your product extensively!"

"Then, you just need to notify your Ouzhou production plant to prepare as many products as possible."

"Of course, I also hope that you can consider moving the production base to the Xia Kingdom mainland. We can build the best factory here and sell our products from Xia Kingdom to the world!"

“Oh my God! Mr. Wu, your thinking is too advanced. How do I know if you’re a 'big liar' or not!” Vericksky had been traveling in Xia Country for many years.

He claims to be an expert on the Xia Kingdom, so many of his old friends in Ouzhou want him to act as a go-between to sell their goods in the Xia Kingdom.

However, building a factory in Xia Country was something they wouldn't even dare to dream of.