After a day's journey, the train finally arrived in Mongolia.
Mongolia is a landlocked country located between China and Russia, surrounded by both countries.
The capital is Ulaanbaatar, and the main ethnic group is the Khalkha Mongol, which accounts for about 80% of the country's population. There are also other ethnic minorities such as the Kazakh.
With a land area of 1,566,500 square kilometers, it is the 19th largest country in the world, but its population is only 3 million, which is less than the population of a fifth-tier city in China.
Due to historical reasons, it became a loyal lapdog of Russia and a buffer zone between the two superpowers.
How far should you lick it?
Whether it's the economy, construction, or culture, everything is copied verbatim.
Interestingly, you can see from the map that wherever there is Chinese territory, it is covered in lush greenery, while when it comes to Mongolia, it is either mountains or Gobi desert.
Besides these, there are only endless grasslands, and the arable land area is pitifully small.
To put it bluntly, it has nothing.
They finally managed to mine some minerals from underground to sell for money, but then there were sandstorms for 300 out of 365 days a year.
As the train entered Mongolia and came to a stop, Chen Dong gathered everyone together and gave them instructions.
"From now on, until the train reaches its final stop, everyone will take turns on duty."
"Is everything clear?"
"clear!"
Chen Dong nodded in satisfaction.
The K3 train traveled for a total of 7 days and 6 nights.
The actual time spent traveling within China's borders was only one day.
In other words, the K3 train will be traveling abroad for another 6 days and 6 nights.
According to relevant regulations, when a train arrives at a station where the country enters the country, Chinese train police officers must disembark, while Russian train police officers will not board the train.
This means that for the next six days and six nights, there wasn't a single train police officer on board.
Although this train to wealth has not yet turned into a bloodbath.
But wealth can be a powerful motivator. It's not the theft itself that's worrisome, but the fact that people might have designs on it. There are some things we have to be wary of!
In the early 1990s, trade between the two countries fully recovered.
The K34 international train between Beijing and Xiong Guo was crowded with a large number of Chinese traders.
They sold all sorts of goods in Moscow, earning huge profits and paving their way to wealth.
Some people gradually became addicted to the extravagant and decadent lifestyle.
They felt that being a middleman, traveling back and forth between two places, was too slow a way to make money, and it wasn't enough to cover their extravagant lifestyle.
So some people had crooked ideas. Instead of traveling back and forth between the two countries, which was both tiring and didn't make any money, they thought it would be better to just rob those middlemen.
They boarded the train as usual, but this time their purpose was to rob it.
In the beginning, they mainly targeted snakeheads and smugglers who brought goods from Yanjing onto trucks.
And they won't rob the other party of everything; they'll still show some consideration, since they're all Chinese.
Later on, these ruthless bandits became so ruthless that they didn't even recognize their own family members.
They robbed everything in sight, even their own relatives and friends, and the number of robbery gangs was increasing.
At its peak, almost every international train was looted.
Sometimes, a single train can be robbed five times in a row.
One group of robbers got off the bus, and another group got on, as if they had planned it beforehand.
In the end, even knowing the danger, countless businessmen still boarded the train like moths to a flame.
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While everyone was taking turns eating, Ah Hu said with some concern.
"Brother Dong, what are we going to do with all this goods once we get to Moscow? Will it be easy to find a warehouse? Will we be able to sell them?"
Ah Hu wasn't the only one with this question; anyone doing international trade for the first time would have the same question.
Chen Dong smiled upon hearing this. The fact that Ah Hu asked this meant he didn't consider him an outsider, and he replied.
"Brother-in-law Lin Zhiming, do you still remember him?"
"Remember!"
"Yes, I contacted my brother-in-law beforehand and asked him to come to Moscow ahead of time and rent a warehouse for us there."
Upon hearing this, Ah Hu looked enlightened.
No wonder Chen Dong had such a calm expression; it seems that Brother Dong had considered everything.
Looking at it this way, isn't it just that I'm worrying unnecessarily and making trouble for myself?
Chen Dong patted him on the shoulder and then said.
"As for these leather jackets, there's even less to worry about. Let alone 30,000, even 300,000 or 3 million, we can still sell them."
Three million pieces? That's a lot!
"You... you still know too little. Once we get to Moscow, you'll understand what I mean by this."
At this moment, a Russian man sitting next to the table interjected in broken Chinese.
"My friend, you're right, the situation there is absolutely terrible... everything is lacking!"
The two looked over in surprise. The speaker was burly and had the large nose typical of Russians.
Upon noticing their gazes, Big Nose hurriedly stood up and introduced himself.
His name was Krinev, and like Chen Dong and his associates, he was also a middleman.
In his early years, his grandfather had visited China and participated in that war.
Influenced by his grandfather, Krinev developed a strong interest in China and learned the Chinese language.
After hearing Krinev's explanation, Chen Dong could only express his utter admiration.
There's a reason why Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world.
The simple question "What does that mean?" can leave countless foreigners speechless.
Krinev was able to clearly express the meaning of the words, which was at least at the level of a level eight in Chinese.
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