Return To 1977 Chapter 694: Supply
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Buying a shirt is just a start.
I went shopping one after another, buying pants and leather shoes.
It is said that a person relies on his clothes and his horse relies on his saddle. After putting on a new outfit, a person will immediately become completely different.
Dressed as a Hong Kong citizen, not only did the rusticity of a bunch of rough Beijing gentlemen disappear immediately, they all became amateur overseas Chinese.
The slim-fitting shirt with red and white florals on a black background, and the skinny-legged denim bell-bottoms that tighten the buttocks, highlight the feminine softness and tall figure of "Ciermei".
Almost instantly, she, an authentic Beijing girl, transformed into a striking and fashionable modern girl.
Not to mention that the guys in Beijing were whistling and commenting, saying she looked like a movie star, almost unrecognizable.
On the street, he constantly attracts the attention of strange men, and the rate of turning back is at least over 90%.
The most exaggerated one is a Hong Kong old man in his fifties with a big belly in a suit and leather shoes.
Even if he has a young **** his arm, he can't bear it anymore.
This old guy was very interested in "Cerion Plum". He couldn't help but stop next to it and stared at it for a long time, almost distracted.
Of course, his female companion was unhappy and very troubled by this.
But no matter how hard he was urged to leave, he wouldn't listen.
In the end, "Dabao" helped her. Pointing at the old man's nose from afar, he cursed.
"Silly X, look at your grandma! If you look blindly again, I'll dig out your eyes!"
At this moment, the old man with a big belly changed his face in fright, and ran away as if he had seen a ghost.
Of course, this group of brats also had a lot of fun.
As a gangster, there is nothing you can do, your quality needs to be improved.
In short, let’s just walk and watch.
Element Alley, Yuanshi Alley, Yuanboli, Subo Alley, Gaodixin, Xudikou, Hongdeng Alley...
Any place where people can stand is a stall. By the time I have visited all of them, it will be around one o'clock in the afternoon.
Maybe it was because they were too excited, or maybe because they had too much breakfast, but no one felt hungry.
So even though it was time to eat, everyone just went to a roadside stall and drank a bowl of sweet potato syrup and peanut sweet soup to quench their thirst.
After that, they continued their efforts and rushed to the "Thirteenth Line" not far away.
Until four o'clock in the afternoon, we finished visiting these two busy markets. The task of inspecting the market today was completely completed.
With their feet sore from walking and sweating from the crowd, they went to eat at the most famous "Big Sanyuan" in Changdi.
But it must be said that since these guys were selected by Hong Yanwu, they are definitely smart enough.
It’s only been a day and a half since I arrived at Huacheng, and I’ve only spent one day shopping at the market, but by now, I’m already familiar with numbers in Cantonese.
Not only can they understand, each of them can also say "Ya, Yi, San, Shi..." in a convincing manner when they open their mouths.
What’s even more remarkable is that at the stalls they visited along the way, they all silently kept in mind the types, quantities and prices of the goods traded by the boss and customers.
While eating, Hong Yanwu took out a small book to calculate the market prices while eating. Each of them reported one by one, and there was basically no omission, which ordinary people could not do.
In addition to this, the most important achievement today is that everyone has truly figured out the source of goods for "Gaodi Street" and "Thirteenth Line".
Before coming here, Hong Yanwu originally thought that the clothing in the Guangzhou wholesale market, apart from smuggled "parallel imports" and a small number of Hong Kong goods purchased from the Overseas Chinese Building and the Seamen's Club, had to be sourced from the mainland around the city. Township enterprises began to produce clothing imitating Hong Kong clothing styles.
According to his opinion, markets such as "Gaodi Street" and "Thirteenth Bank" can be considered as "second batch" or "third batch" at most. As intermediate links, this profit is hidden.
And since he has sufficient capital in his hands, and township enterprises have much greater autonomy than state-owned enterprises, why should he be slashed with a knife? It's better to go directly to the manufacturer to purchase the goods.
But he never expected that the reality was completely different from what he had imagined, with considerable discrepancies.
In fact, when they went shopping today, they discovered that 90% of the Hong Kong goods on the market were not smuggled imported goods, but normal trading goods that were blatantly flowed into the mainland through Zhongying Street in Shenzhen.
On the other hand, since smuggling is done by fishing boats on the high seas at great risk, of course the limited warehouses will only contain things that occupy the smallest area and have the highest profits.
So what comes from the mainland through smuggling channels will not be ready-made clothes at all. Almost all of them will be bulk nylon cloth, cigarettes, watches, electronic watches, calculators, household appliances and the like.
Then let’s think about it further. No matter how great the autonomy of township enterprises, they are still collective systems and are governed by systems.
No matter what, I don’t dare to use smuggled fabrics as raw materials.
But in my country's current economic environment, the bulk of clothing costs are raw materials rather than labor.
As a result, the clothing produced by township and village enterprises has no advantage at all in the market price.
The only ones who really dare to use these cheap raw materials are self-employed private businesses.
So the price of clothing produced by family workshops is naturally much cheaper than state-owned and collective products.
In fact, anyone who has been to "Gaodi Street" or "Thirteenth Street" will find that the shops along the street are almost all shops in the front and factories in the back.
In the front, there is noisy business, but in the back, it is just hammering and sewing.
We can make as much fabric, yarn, and garments as you want.
It is precisely for this reason that there will always be an endless supply of cheap clothing in a wide variety of styles in Huacheng's clothing wholesale market.
No matter where self-employed people come to buy goods, there is no need to look far.
Of course, the weak link of these clothing must be the product quality, there is no doubt about this.
But cost-effectiveness is one thing, and there are no absolutes.
If we really want to be serious, there is a strange phenomenon that seems to violate economic laws in the Huacheng market.
That is, once the high-quality products of many large state-owned manufacturers are wholesaled by individuals, they are indeed much lower than the official price.
Take the currently popular automatic folding umbrella as an example. The wholesale price of products produced by state-owned manufacturers is eight yuan and ninety cents, and the retail price in state-owned stores is ten yuan and fifty cents.
In the hands of individual vendors, the wholesale price of folding umbrellas in Hong Kong is six yuan and nine cents, but the state-owned folding umbrellas are only five yuan and eighty cents.
The most important thing is that even though domestic umbrellas are sold so cheaply, they are definitely not fake products.
Regardless of the quality specifications, color patterns and the manufacturer's products, they are all exactly the same.
What's going on?
To be honest, it is very difficult for locals to figure this out. Only Hong Yanwu can really figure it out.
It just so happened that when they were shopping at the umbrella shop in the "Thirteenth Bank" today, a self-employed person from Fuzhou approved a batch of umbrellas. In order to go through the consignment procedures, this guy even asked the stall owner for an invoice.
This time, Hong Yanwu happened to witness it with his own eyes, and he saw the clues from the invoice.
I bet that invoice is a foreign trade invoice, and the price is calculated in foreign exchange.
Who is Hong Yanwu? He had been playing foreign exchange in the capital.
As soon as my mind flashed, I knew something was fishy.
Afterwards, he tried his best to inquire about it, and it turned out that it was exactly what he thought. The reason behind it was attributed to foreign exchange.
You must know that in order to compete for the market, no matter which country sells its own products in the international market, they are very cheap.
The same is true in our country. For foreign exchange-earning products exclusively for export, the country often provides tariff exemption or tax rebate treatment.
For example, the Shanghai brand watch only sells for 60 yuan abroad, but it costs 120 yuan in China. This is the reason.
The same goes for automatic umbrellas. It is of course much cheaper to buy them with foreign exchange or foreign exchange certificates.
As time goes by, some people see the loopholes in foreign exchange arbitrage. In order to earn a huge price difference, they often go through the shipping agency documents and ship the products that should have been exported abroad back to the local market for sale. .
As a result, RMB - foreign exchange or exchange certificates - export commodities - RMB, has been turned over in this way, and there has been a situation that most people find extremely strange and incredible.
To put it bluntly, the essence of this kind of thing is actually similar to Hong Yanwu buying and selling with foreign exchange certificates at the Friendship Store in Beijing.
The only difference is that he deals in small-scale luxury goods, while people here deal in large-scale daily necessities.
Another thing is that he has almost a monopoly and sells at high prices.
Many people are doing this here, with fierce competition on price, and profits can only come from volume.
Needless to say, once Hong Yanwu learned the inside story, he had to make some adjustments to his original plan of purchasing goods directly from the manufacturer.
After thinking about it, he felt that the most urgent task now was not to purchase goods, but to find a suitable house first.
After purchasing goods from various markets, they can be easily stored in the house and serve as a warehouse.
Secondly, you can also divide the six boys under you into two groups and take turns to stay here.
Not only does it save the cost of staying in a hotel, but it will also become more convenient to customize clothes in batches in the market and buy low-end goods in the market.
So, the task he gave everyone tomorrow is to rent a house. The best location is between "Gaudi Street" and "Thirteenth Street".
The standard is that the more spacious the better, the faster the better, the room does not get damp, and money is not an issue.
Only when the house is settled will the rest of the matter be easy to handle. Otherwise, there will be no place to store the goods purchased. Hotels do not turn guest rooms into warehouses.
As for the types of goods purchased, Hong Yan meant that "Ciermei" had limited capital, so all her money would be used to purchase small items such as hair cards, headwear, jewelry, and folding umbrellas.
In the future, you may wish to specialize in this. Not only is it convenient to carry goods, the risk is small, but the gross profit margin is still high.
As for him, he plans to eat clothing and leather shoes in large quantities, and then pack them into a truck and transport them away together.
In this way, not only can the purchase cost be minimized, but they can also maintain monopoly profits for each other, and no one will compete with the other.
Even if "Ciermei" wants to sell clothes, he can sub-contract them to her when she returns to the capital, which is more suitable than her own purchase and delivery of goods.
"Cier Mei" was really happy with Hong Yanwu's suggestion.
To be honest, there are too many styles of clothing in the Huacheng market, and there are too many weird shapes, so you might be in for a big loss.
She was scared if she really wanted to purchase goods.
But small things are different. Most people will like the things here.
What's more, if the east is not bright and the west is bright, if you buy ten models, you can still sell several models.
So Hong Yanwu not only thought carefully about her, but this was indeed a suitable thing for both of them.
Thinking of this, "Cier Mei" quickly raised her glass and readily agreed.
"I won't say anything anymore. I'll just listen to you. Let's get started tomorrow. I'll lend you flowers to offer to the Buddha. I wish you all success tomorrow and get rich together."
Of course the others raised their glasses in response, and Hong Yanwu’s group of men almost all looked impassioned.
"Dabao" said, "With Mr. Hong in charge, we can all accomplish anything if we work together. Sister, just wait until you return to Beijing to count the tickets. You must be right."
"Li Ben'er" also agreed, "Yes, I've spotted it too, the goods here are really good. The clothes here are so cheap, they look so beautiful, no one in the capital has seen them before. I can guarantee that as long as Once we get it back, our night market will be even better.”
"That's right, there is no one who doesn't like to mess around, regardless of women or men. They are all the same. After being suppressed for so many years, it's easy to get a small chance. No matter how tight your life is, you still have to look good..."
Everyone chatted about their excitement and stood up to clink glasses together.
It's a pity that it's a bit sad that the joy is so great.
Because I was so excited, nine glasses collided with each other, and two glasses were actually broken.
With just a "click", two glasses of "Baiyun Beer" and broken glass stubble were spilled on the whole "Taiye Chicken" in the dining room.
The two boys who broke the cup quickly threw the thing in their hands, while everyone looked at it in shock.
But fortunately no one was injured.
Hong Yanwu was the calmest. He only looked at it and said nonchalantly, "It's a good sign, good luck is coming."
Then I asked the waiter to bring me a chicken and two cups.
At this moment, everyone also reacted. They all found it funny and couldn't stop laughing.