Chapter 128 Down Jackets Have Great Potential (Bug Fix): First Update

Was Wang Xiao tempted?

She was truly smitten.

She is optimistic about the European market.

Before she transmigrated into the book, the European energy crisis had just broken out due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Chinese down jackets, considered essential for winter, quickly became a hit in the European market.

One of the online shop owners she knew sold 30,000 down vests in one go.

They raise ducks in Romania to obtain down, and then import the rest of the down jackets from the country.

Once the garment parts arrive, use a down filling machine to insert the down, complete the subsequent steps, and a down jacket is finished.

These down jackets are sold directly from Romania to various parts of Europe, giving them a significant cost advantage.

Current sales figures tell her that next year will be a big season for down jacket sales.

Because Chinese people have a characteristic: when they find that a single item is selling exceptionally well, everyone will follow suit without considering the consequences.

Next year, many new down jacket factories will definitely be established in China, and everyone will be busy producing down jackets.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, controlling production costs will be crucial.

Teacher Peng continued to promote himself: "I plan to expand the scale next. There is so much open space here in Romania, raising ducks will not be a problem."

Wang Xiao finally nodded and said, "Okay, may I have the honor of visiting your farm tomorrow?"

Teacher Peng readily agreed: "No problem."

The next day, Wang Xiao went to his duck farm and discovered that this highly educated man was indeed both insightful and proactive.

Teacher Peng raises ducks, and he makes the most of them.

Besides duck meat and feathers, he also dried the duck manure to make organic fertilizer, which he sold to Chinese merchants who contracted land to grow vegetables.

According to him, he originally planned to raise earthworms himself to produce earthworm castings and then sell them.

In this way, the fertilizer will be more effective and it won't smell bad at all.

Unfortunately, most Chinese people who lease land to grow vegetables don't recognize the value of earthworm castings.

He had no choice but to settle for second best and sell duck manure directly.

There's no way around it; sellers always have to meet the needs of consumers.

Wang Xiao was delighted to hear this and gave a thumbs up, exclaiming, "You're amazing! You're really amazing!"

The weather is nice today, the sun is shining brightly, and the river is not frozen, so it is sparkling.

The plump, white ducks leisurely paddled on the river, seemingly unafraid of the cold.

Wang Xiao roughly estimated that there were indeed tens of thousands of ducks, each one looking very lively.

Teacher Peng said that he can sell hundreds of ducks every day, and that's no exaggeration.

No wonder he wanted to sell duck feathers; the feed for so many ducks alone would be a considerable expense every day.

Moreover, Romania has suffered from drought this year, resulting in a severe reduction in grain production, and it has to import grains from abroad, so the price of feed must have increased as well.

Teacher Peng pointed to the open space in front of him: "I plan to build a duck house over there, and this greenhouse will be used specifically for growing green fodder. The ducks will grow their feathers well if they eat well."

Wang Xiao was amused by him.

Look how hard they work to sell duck feathers.

She finally nodded, expressing her intention to cooperate: "After I finish what I'm doing, I'll go back to China and see if any down jacket factories are willing to invest here."

In fact, even if she hadn't, she was already planning to do it.

The more Chinese businesses invest in the real economy and production sectors in Romania, the more it will help improve the overall social status of Chinese businesses.

Only by setting up factories and providing jobs can we gain the support of the local government.

As for whether it will be possible to successfully recruit workers to set up a down jacket factory here.

If that doesn't work, we should recruit people from China.

Currently, the workers at her garment factory work in the factory during the day and grow vegetables in the fields after get off work. On average, each person earns about six or seven hundred yuan.

This income would be far less than what you'd earn working in a developed capitalist country.

If you work in the Pearl River Delta region within China, you can earn about the same amount if you're quick and efficient.

However, in the suburbs of Bucharest, the factory provides free room and board, with couples having separate rooms, and three meals a day, including eggs and meat or fish, are never lacking.

Moreover, since everyone comes from the same place, there is no regional discrimination, and no fear of being bullied.

All things considered, it seems alright.

Therefore, so far, not only has no one resigned from the factory, but some people have even brought their relatives to work there.

In their words.

Six or seven hundred yuan. After a year of digging in the fields at home, and paying all kinds of taxes, fees, and expenses for seeds and fertilizers, the whole family can't earn that much.

It's already pretty good to have this much income a month now.

After all, while everyone knows that doing business can make money, not everyone is good at doing business.

Having a stable job and receiving a monthly salary better meets the needs of most people.

Teacher Peng immediately emphasized, "Mr. Wang, you'd better hurry. Only after you give the order will I dare to expand the scale of breeding."

He truly has no worries about selling the duck meat.

Due to various problems in the privatization process, in addition to the decline of agriculture, poultry farming in Romania is also increasingly depressed.

However, in the 1980s, Romania's agricultural and livestock production was an important source of foreign exchange.

In other words, local agricultural products have sales channels and markets, and are recognized in the European market.

In this situation, with just a little effort, he can sell ducks off in no time.

He absolutely forbade waste; the duck feathers had to be sold.

Wang Xiao laughed and said, "Then I have to finish what I'm doing."

What's up?

One of her goals was to sell small agricultural machinery. Her trip to Romania was specifically aimed at opening up the local market for Chinese small agricultural machinery.

This matter is progressing fairly smoothly.

Thanks to word-of-mouth promotion from the Chinese Embassy and Chinese businesspeople, people soon came to us asking to see the samples.

After Wang Xiao led the group to inspect the operation of the agricultural machinery, several people made their decisions and decided to purchase it.

In their words, the Chinese are indeed remarkable.

Not only were the clothes and daily necessities exquisitely made, but even the farm tools were small and flexible, just right for the small plot of land they were allocated.

Interestingly, everyone paid in cash, and some even paid the full amount before the goods were shipped from China.

In the words of these Romanian farmers (each with dozens or even hundreds of acres of land), they trusted their Chinese friends, so they dared to pay in advance.

However, Wang Xiao suspects that the truth is that local farmers are also afraid that by the time the agricultural machinery arrives, the Ley will have depreciated again, and prices will have risen to an unknown level.

Instead of waiting in fear, it's better to take advantage of the fact that you can afford it now and finalize the agricultural machinery deal.

What did Wang Xiao do with the Ley he got?

Without hesitation, she used most of the money to pay wages to Romanians working in factories and wholesale market construction sites.

The remainder was distributed as bonuses to the Chinese employees at the factory.

Their salaries are paid in Chinese Yuan, so they are not worried about the serious devaluation of the currency.

Lei is in their hands more to cover the miscellaneous expenses of daily life.

After all, besides eating and sleeping, everyone has to spend money normally.

After finishing his work on the agricultural machinery, Wang Xiao went to the city's container market to attend its opening ceremony.

Now it's officially open for business. After nearly half a year of hard work, the annex of the Huaxia Market Building is complete, and the customers who used to do business in the shipping containers have moved in.

We have no choice but to move. Winter in Bucharest can last from November to March of the following year. Just relying on shipping containers, you can freeze like a shivering puppy.

Before it gets really cold, hurry up and move in!

Inside the warm and cozy room, the merchants who came to buy goods were more willing to browse around.

After a Tai Chi performance, a lion dance, and a long string of firecrackers, the merchants in the container market completed their collective relocation.

The empty shipping containers weren't left idle either; they were transformed into kiosks, rented by more small businesses to continue their operations.

What made Wang Xiao happy was that about a third of the people renting the containers this time were locals from Bucharest.

This is a pretty great trend, and Romanians are slowly starting to do business.

Initially, the landlords of the Chinese businessmen accompanied them to the container market to buy goods, which were then sold in other small and medium-sized cities and rural areas of Romania.

Then, as Romanians gradually became familiar with the process, they began to try wholesaling goods and retailing them.

Now, more than half a year has passed, and they have started renting container spaces to do business in the market.

This means that the Huaxia wholesale market has become more closely connected with the locals in Bucharest.

Even if the municipal government wants to back down in the future, the locals who have a vested interest in the matter will not easily agree.

This means that the market's long-term operation can be guaranteed by an additional layer of protection.

The Bucharest municipal government leaders were also pleased.

They initially welcomed the arrival of the Chinese because the latter brought much-needed supplies.

Moreover, these goods are obviously of better quality and lower price than those from Western Europe, and are more in line with the needs of Romanians.

However, this one-sided output can never last.

They hope that the existence of this market will bring more benefits to Romanians.

The increasing number of people joining the market and shifting from buying to selling is a positive trend.

Wang Xiao then said a lot of nice things, basically saying that he hoped that one day more than half of the goods sold on the market would be produced in Romania.

They are now moving toward that goal.

After saying all the nice things and politely seeing the leader off, Wang Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to continue browsing the market.

She needed to check for safety hazards again; there were so many people, and the goods being sold were mostly flammable.

If a fire or other emergency occurs and is not dealt with promptly, it can be fatal.

After looking around, she happened to run into Elena helping her parents sell goods at the shop at the very end.

Upon seeing the boss, she quickly came out to greet him.

Wang Xiao looked at her, paused for two seconds before remembering, "Oh right, there's something I need to ask you to do."

What are we doing?

As a buyer, a buyer in the traditional sense.

Go to Western European countries to buy up leftover stock, and import the goods you think will have a market in Romania.

Elena blinked several times, looking confused: "But, boss, we have all the best-selling items."

Now, in addition to Western European businessmen placing orders directly with garment factories, they also obtain more fashion information from expired Western European fashion magazines and from Romanian people working in shopping malls in Western European countries, and then make their own clothes and shoes.

As it turned out, their strategy was very effective, and almost every product sold well.

“No, we need to expand into more markets,” Wang Xiao explained. “Besides clothes and shoes, we also need more Western European goods. I plan to open a store here, a specialty store for Western European products.”

This store primarily targets wealthy people in Romania.

This is important: the concept of a wealthy person is different from that of a super-rich person.

The super-rich are different. They don't have the habit of buying things domestically; they'll simply fly to Paris, Milan, or Berlin to make their purchases.

But wealthy people are not so particular; they have a wider range of choices.

It's fine domestically, as long as the shopping environment is elegant and they sell genuine Western European goods.

Wang Xiao made this plan because she wanted to enrich the types of businesses in the Huaxia Wholesale Market and bring people from all walks of life in Romania into the market.

On the other hand, she was paving the way for the domestic market.

Despite the current low national income, there will always be a market for luxury goods.

People are willing to spend 900 yuan to buy a Montblanc t-shirt, even though they are also willing to spend the same amount of money to buy genuine Western European goods.

Wang Xiao wants to create an offline cross-border e-commerce model.

She has already started using airplanes to bring seafood and fresh fruit from her destination.

However, so far, the two routes to Eastern Europe have not been able to import enough goods into China, and they have also wasted valuable transportation resources.

She felt that this aspect was definitely worth exploring further.

Since there is a domestic demand for foreign products, and given that she already has such a unique advantage, what reason is there not to satisfy everyone?

Both Jinning and Xiaozhou have large populations.

The fact that a Montblanc T-shirt costing 900 yuan can sell out in this era indicates that this petit-bourgeois consumer group has already formed.

They have their own consumption needs, and they need labels to highlight their identity.

Although Elena was a little confused, she still showed the spirit of an energetic subordinate and readily agreed.

She has been doing the job of selecting goods for more than half a year, so she is no stranger to this area.

Even when venturing into a completely new field and doing it for the first time, she felt excited and motivated, rather than nervous and fearful.

Wang Xiao smiled broadly and once again painted a rosy picture for the young woman: "Work hard, our market is still developing, and I need more senior executives."

So, young lady, leading a buying team is just the beginning; your career is only just starting.

After giving his subordinate a shot of adrenaline, Wang Xiao waved goodbye.

Back at the market management office, she emphasized to Ruan Xiaomei once again that she should not keep the Ley in her hands. Either exchange it for US dollars as soon as possible, or if she felt it was not worthwhile, exchange it for goods, such as houses, land, or timber.

Ruan Xiaomei couldn't help but sigh, "When will things finally settle down?"

Back in China, people often said that money was becoming less and less valuable; a large bill (ten yuan) could be gone in just one trip to the market.

But the complaints from back then seem incredibly pretentious compared to those now.

The speed at which the leuth has depreciated is truly a case of money not being money at all.

Wang Xiao sighed, "What can we do? We can only deal with things as they come. To put it bluntly, if Lei is able to maintain stability, we won't have any chance to make money."

Everything has two sides; if you want it, you have to have it all.

Wang Xiao only stayed in Romania for a week before flying back to China.

She was in such a hurry not because she was in a rush to go back to China to arrange for the distribution of agricultural machinery.

In fact, she had just received Lei Yi when she immediately notified Tang Yicheng to ship the goods from Northeast China.

Yes, yes, for convenience and to improve efficiency, Tang Yicheng paid the agricultural machinery factory directly.

Actually, they wanted to buy a car, but they wanted Tang Yicheng to give them a significant discount, which they refused without hesitation.

Are you kidding me? The problem with cars isn't a lack of buyers, but rather a shortage of supply.

Why should they earn less money for no reason?

Wang Xiao was in a hurry to go back to discuss opening a factory in Romania with a down jacket manufacturer.

Although Teacher Peng hadn't sold the duck feathers before, this thrifty and frugal intellectual, adhering to the spirit of never wasting anything, still dried all the duck feathers time and time again.

The weight accumulated over the past few months is enough to make thousands of down jackets.

With down being so scarce right now, thousands of down jackets are no small number, and it's definitely worth the effort.

Instead of contacting the down jacket manufacturer by phone, she made a special trip back to China to meet with them in person.

On the one hand, it's to show how much importance they attach to this matter.

On the other hand, she really had to go back to China.

After more than half a year of persistent efforts, the teams led by Sister Miao from Jiangdong Chemical Research Institute and Kalayev from Moscow Robotics Institute, after countless failures, finally created lifelike sex dolls.

How realistic is this doll?

Anyway, Sister Miao was firmly against airlifting it to Bucharest so that Wang Xiao could see it with his own eyes.

She thought it was too scary; people would think they had brought a body onto the plane.

It looks just like a real person.

Even if you look closely, you might mistake it for a real person.

Wang Xiao chuckled and was overjoyed: "It's good that it looks like it, I'm just afraid it won't look like it enough."

It makes customers lose their nerve.

Then she really wasted a lot of money.

Wang Xiao happily boarded the plane and flew all the way to Xiaozhou.

Why didn't she just go back to Jiangdong?

Because there are direct flights from Bucharest to Xiaozhou.

If we fly all the way back to Jiangdong, we'll have to transfer in Moscow.

Besides, Wang Xiao came to Xiaozhou back in the summer, and more than four months have passed. She should check on the situation here in Xiaozhou.

In this era without video chat, in this era where constant monitoring is impossible, if the boss keeps coming over to inspect every now and then, it might not be long before this place is no longer her territory.

Xiaozhou Airport was as busy as ever.

On the tarmac, more than twenty planes were busy loading cargo.

Once each aircraft was loaded, it eagerly took off.

The female bodyguard, Lyuba, stared wide-eyed in surprise. What did she see? Hey, it was a plane from Flight 224.

So it turns out the rumors about the Air Force starting to seriously take on jobs transporting goods are true.

Wang Xiao glanced at it and explained, "It charges at least $70,000 per flight, which is quite a lot."

If it weren't for its strong military backing and the high demand for large cargo planes, she really wouldn't have been willing to spend the money.

As soon as an airplane takes off, another airplane lands.

Several refrigerated trucks were waiting outside. As soon as the plane landed, they drove over in order, and then boxes of seafood were transferred into the refrigerated compartments and quickly transported to the hotel.

The freshness of seafood directly affects its price.

The last two boxes of seafood were loaded onto a minivan, which bore the label of Xiaozhou International Trade City.

In reality, it belongs to a restaurant within the International Trade City.

"Let's go," Wang Xiao said enthusiastically. "We can go to a restaurant for a meal."

This restaurant only opened in October of this year. Rather than calling it a restaurant, it's more like a self-service supermarket that offers seafood processing services.

The products sold there are mainly seafood air-freighted from the Baltic Sea, as well as some fruits imported from Romania and Moldova.

Well, the latter came in under the guise of Romanian fruit.

To be honest, this year in Moldova was quite tragic.

It neither succeeded in merging with Romania nor removed Russian troops from its territory, and even the Transnistria region maintained its de facto independence.

Whenever Wang Xiao thinks of this country, he deeply feels what it means for a weak nation to be unable to make a sound.

Because no matter how loudly it shouts, people can pretend they didn't hear it.

At this time of year, there isn't much fruit left in Romania and Moldova. The only fruit on display is probably apples, along with various dried fruits.

As they were about to enter the building, Sergei suddenly came to his senses: "This building isn't finished yet, even in the summer."

He was very certain.

Wang Xiao laughed and said, "That's right, it was only really completed at the beginning of this month."

This building should be considered the first truly modern office building in Xiaozhou.

The annex next to the tower is a shopping mall in a commercial city that has been open for a long time, and the row behind it is all warehouses.

Sergei clearly felt that the warehouse seemed to be larger as well.

“Yes.” Wang Xiao nodded, making no attempt to hide his pride. “Because clients who rent office space also need these warehouses.”

ah?

The bodyguards looked at each other in bewilderment.

Even Xiao Gao and his colleagues, who knew very little about office buildings, had seen on TV that office buildings were just places where big companies worked. Why would they need warehouses?

Even if you're just renting a place to store office supplies, you don't need such a large warehouse.

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Well, after thinking it over, I decided to rewrite the ending of the previous chapter and this chapter. I wrote it too quickly and didn't have the detailed outline on hand, so I missed some content. I only realized this later when I felt like the connection was broken.

I'm so sorry.

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