The next few days.
Everyone was busy preparing for the advance into the north.
In addition to integrating the commodity resources in China, we also need to distribute the goods brought back from Russia.
Fortunately, the two countries are highly complementary in this regard.
Don't be fooled by Russia's lackluster performance in light industry; it's truly impressive in heavy industry.
Under Chen Dong's policy of low profit and high sales volume.
The goods brought back from Russia were snapped up by various distributors in just three days.
Goods worth 2 million rubles, based on their actual value, would probably sell for more than 30 million RMB.
Of course, this refers to the ideal situation.
To achieve such results, a significant amount of manpower, material resources, and time will be required.
Time is precisely what Chen Dong lacks most right now.
Therefore, giving up a portion of the profits to quickly recover funds is his choice.
2 million rubles, purely in terms of monetary value.
The exchange rate given by the Bank of Russia is 1 ruble to 1.6 US dollars.
However, in reality, the black market price during this period was 1 ruble to 1.2 US dollars.
One is the black market, the other is the bank; a single round trip can earn a difference of $0.40.
If you operate this way, your funds will grow like a snowball in less than a month. Why bother trying to find other ways to make money?
The reason why a black market exists is because Russia is still in a planned economy.
Existence implies its own justification!
It doesn't mean that if you take your rubles to a bank, they will exchange them for dollars.
If that's the case, then what's the point of having a black market?
Therefore, there is no need for it to exist.
Based on the black market price, 1 ruble is equal to 1.2 US dollars.
2 million rubles, which is 2.4 million US dollars.
That's roughly equivalent to 11.5 million RMB.
However.
Chen Dong sold all the goods worth 11.5 million yuan, recovering a total of 15.6 million yuan.
In other words, this batch of goods only earned 4.1 million.
4.1 million sounds like a lot, right?
But if you think about it carefully, the shipment came from Russia, a distance of more than 6,000 kilometers, and there were tariffs and other fees involved.
Deduct all these miscellaneous expenses.
With 11.5 million worth of goods, a profit margin of 35% is hardly considered cross-border trade.
I'm afraid the gross profit margin of opening a restaurant is higher than this.
However, business can be a profound subject, with many intricacies and complexities.
At the very least, time costs and efficiency costs were not taken into account.
What seemed like a loss for Chen Dong actually gained time.
In terms of capital utilization, it cannot be compared to hundreds of millions or tens of millions.
Within a few days.
Chen Dong and A Long visited factories of all sizes in the vicinity.
The warehouse full of unsold goods made Chen Dong very happy.
Canned fruit, canned food, gloves, leather jackets...
These goods have almost reached the point where no one wants them.
However, transporting these goods to Russia would turn them into a large amount of rubles in a very short time.
The fundamental reason for the large surplus of goods is people's excessive worry about the unknown.
In 1988, the government liberalized prices, moving from a planned economy to a market economy.
From large items like televisions and refrigerators to small items like needles and thread.
All the goods that appeared in the stores and shopping malls were snatched up by the crowds.
Some families stockpile enough salt to last them for decades.
Some families have even stockpiled hundreds of pairs of leather shoes...
The factory was also operating at full capacity amidst a huge roar, and various goods quickly appeared in the stores again.
It was only at this point that people calmed down.
They discovered that it would take them several years, or even decades, to consume all the stockpiled goods.
Against this backdrop, the once-popular goods that were re-produced suddenly became unwanted items.
Among them, canned food products are produced in the largest quantities.
These items, however, can only become slow-moving goods, piling up in warehouses to gather dust.
However, this actually benefited Chen Dong.
He and Ah Long's family went from house to house negotiating prices, signing contracts, and transferring funds from the company's accounts.
In just two or three days, Chen Dong single-handedly bought up all the unsold goods near Yanjing.
The procurement of goods was temporarily halted when the warehouse in Xiushui could no longer hold them.
And these goods, purchased at bargain prices, cost less than 2 million RMB.
......
May 16th.
Chen Dong and Jiang Fei saw A Long and the others off together.
For a long time to come, Ah Long will be in charge of transporting goods.
As for Ah Hu, after this period of training, he can now speak a few simple Russian phrases.
Of course, his role is not limited to that.
Besides assisting Lin Zhiming in selling a train carload of goods individually, its biggest role was to exchange the rubles earned from selling the goods for US dollars on the black market.
On the way back.
Chen Dong looked at Jiang Fei, who was dressed quite smartly, and joked.
"Brother Fei, have you been settling back in these past few days?"
"Not bad, I feel like I'm one step closer to being a successful person, hahaha..."
Although Jiang Fei was joking, he was telling the truth.
At that moment, he was dressed in a suit and tie, wearing black leather shoes, and he really looked like a successful person.
At this point, even the most critical eye would not regard Jiang Fei as a low-level hoodlum.
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