Chapter 385: Developing Your Own Port Supply Chain
Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but smile when she heard the familiar name.
Indeed, after the liberalization, Teresa Teng became all the rage in mainland China and became the youth star of many people.
However, she didn't intend to be a sucker, as these kinds of black market retail items would definitely have a hefty markup.
She doesn't need these. Even if she wants to buy them and sell them in Beijing, she can't buy them from these terminal merchants.
She had to find a middleman who did wholesale business, or even...if she had connections in Hong Kong, she could get the goods directly from Hong Kong.
Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but think of Luocheng.
I heard that Luo Cheng has been active in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over the past year or so. He must have connections.
However, she quickly rejected this idea.
She was able to be a supplier to Luocheng before because the risk was too great to do it on her own.
From now on, I'll be free and have to figure everything out on my own. If I rely on Luocheng, it's one thing to owe them favors, but they might become my competitors in the business world in the future.
This means that the basic supply channel has been controlled from the very beginning, and I am afraid that we will be restricted in every aspect in the future.
I'd better think of a solution myself first.
However, she didn't know anyone in Hong Kong, and even if she did, they might not be willing to sell things to her. This was Guangzhou, which was still some distance away from Hong Kong.
Shenzhen, which is only a line away from Hong Kong and later developed into a city comparable to Beijing and Shanghai, is still a fishing village at this time. The event of drawing a circle in this fishing village will not happen until next spring.
The establishment of a real special economic zone there will have to wait until the year after next.
Xia Juanjuan smiled and refused the man selling the tapes, then dragged Li Zhan out of the black market.
Li Zhan laughed and said, "Why? You don't want to watch anymore? Are you here to investigate military intelligence?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "No, I was just strolling around and asking about the price. But..."
She pondered for a moment and whispered, "Li Zhan, I want to take this opportunity to go to the south, closer to the harbor city, and have a look."
Li Zhan was stunned for a moment and asked, "A place near the port city? It's all separated by wire mesh. Unless there is a special application, people from there can't come to us, and we can't go there either. You don't have a way to go there, so you can't buy the goods, right?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled knowingly. Liezhan was quick-witted and realized that she went there to buy goods.
She said, "Let's go and take a look first. Right now, that's the closest place to Hong Kong City on land. If you go by water, you can go directly along the river to Guangzhou City, but firstly, it's upstream, and secondly, the distance is too far and unsafe. People will definitely take the land route more often. But...anyway, let's go there first, and when we come back, we'll go and take a look at the pier."
After hearing her analysis, Li Zhan smiled and said, "Okay. I'll go with you. Let Dad, Mom, and the children stay in Guangzhou and wait for a while."
The two made a plan and went directly to the station to buy tickets.
The two places are more than 100 kilometers apart. Shenzhen is still a fishing village, so there is naturally no direct train. However, there are trains to the nearby county town, and then you can take a car or other ox carts to get there.
After buying the ticket and coming out, Li Zhan suddenly leaned over and whispered in Xia Juanjuan's ear: "Juanjuan, step aside, I have something to do."
Xia Juanjuan's face was a little red because he suddenly did such an intimate thing in public. Now after hearing him say this, she hurriedly looked around, but found nothing.
However, Xia Juanjuan still obediently stepped back and paid attention to Lizhan's movements.
After Li Zhan gave her instructions, he sneaked out as quietly as a leopard.
He walked up to a man wearing a peaked cap, and suddenly grabbed the man's arm with lightning speed, saying with a smile: "Comrade, we all have hands and feet, why can't we earn money with our own hands? Why do we have to be pickpockets and steal other people's things?"
A man in a suit and carrying a briefcase who looked quite out of place walking in front of the man in the duck cap heard the noise, turned around and looked at Li Zhan and the man in astonishment.
Then, he opened his briefcase in panic, and found that the leather briefcase had been slashed at some point, and the envelope of money that was originally inside was nowhere to be found?!
"Oh! Where's my money! My money! Thief! Did you steal my money?"
The man in the duck cap glared at the man in the suit and Li Zhan fiercely, then fixed his eyes on Li Zhan's face: "You said I stole it, so I stole it? Catch the thief and the robber, which eye of yours saw me stealing? Search if you can!"
Finally, he did not forget to threaten fiercely: "I'm warning you, mind your own business!"
Li Zhan looked at him, then pointed his chin to the side and said with a smile: "I don't need to search you. Because the money is now with your accomplice!"
When the man was called out, he immediately ran away.
It happened in a flash. Lizhan grabbed the man in the peaked cap's arm swiftly, took two steps forward, and grabbed him by the back of the collar before his accomplice could run away.
Next, Xia Juanjuan witnessed a scene that she had only seen in Hong Kong and Taiwan action police films before.
No matter how the two pickpockets tried to escape or tried to fight Li Zhan off with punches and kicks, their arms or clothes seemed to be tied to Li Zhan's hands with some silk thread, and Li Zhan was pulling them as if he was playing Tai Chi.
The one who ran out just took a step was pulled back, the other one raised his foot to kick, but was kicked by the other one first, his knee bent and he fell to the ground!
After a short while, the two men were subdued and their hands were tied behind their backs.
Li Zhan searched his accomplice's body and took out the thick envelope. He walked up to the man in the suit and said with a smile, "Comrade, this is yours, right?"
The man in the suit, like everyone else present, was still in a state of shock.
Hearing Lizhan's words, there was a burst of cheers all around, and everyone shouted "good job".
The man in the suit quickly took the envelope, looked inside, and then said gratefully, "Thank you! Sir, if it weren't for your help, I would have lost everything this time!"
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