Porcelain bowls and plates.
The largest order was 100,000 pairs of cotton gloves and 100,000 pairs of long-staple cotton socks. Zhao Xiaohai thought it was pretty good and the salesmen were very capable.
"Who ordered this?" Zhao Xiaohai asked, pointing to the order for cotton gloves and socks.
Li Ming knew all about these orders, and without even looking up the information, he answered immediately, "It was placed by a company called Sunflower International Trading. They've been operating in Hong Kong for two or three years. I heard the owner is from the Soviet Union. I also did business with them at my previous company."
When Zhao Xiaohai heard the word "Soviet", several thoughts flashed through his mind.
"What's the other boss's name?" Zhao Xiaohai asked.
"I need to check this."
He flipped through the documents and finally found the name, "Frunze Andreyevich Nikonov. These Soviet names are really hard to pronounce.
Zhao Xiaohai wrote down the name.
"Lao He, have someone contact people in China to send these orders to them as soon as possible. Also, please complete the two things I assigned to you as soon as possible." Zhao Xiaohai instructed.
"Okay, boss."
Li Ming went out to do something. Zhao Xiaohai picked up the folder and turned to the page with the order for 'Sunflower International Trade'. He looked at the name and then the contact information.
He drummed his fingers on the table, recalling the information about the Soviet Union he had read in his previous life. To be honest, he didn't know much about the situation in the Soviet Union during this period. In his era, the Soviet Union had become history, buried in the dust.
All I know is that a once powerful empire was eventually destroyed by the United States.
However, he also read some sporadic information in later life, especially on economics. When studying modern economics courses, one cannot avoid the United States and the Soviet Union. Not to mention the United States, a whole chapter can be devoted to it. The economic performance of the Soviet Union from the 1980s to the 1990s, when it disintegrated, is also an important learning area.
The Soviet Union's heavy industry was very developed and was capable of producing various fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers and other weapons and equipment. The long-term Cold War made the Soviet Union heavily inclined towards heavy industry, and its light industry was much weaker.
Zhao Xiaohai knew that since the early 1980s, a group of profiteers had emerged in northern China. They packed large and small bags of China's light industrial products, such as clothes, shoes, socks, gloves, canned food, toothpaste and toothbrushes, and took trains thousands of miles to Russia to sell them.
Often, one trip can earn several times or even dozens of times the profit. Some entrepreneurs in later generations started from here.
The most famous figure among them is Mou Zongqi. He shipped hundreds of railway cars of light industrial products at a time and exchanged them for airplanes, making hundreds of millions of yuan in profit. This operation is still talked about by countless people today and has even been included in textbooks.
Then why don’t the two countries engage in trade?
have,
But not much.
The reason can be attributed to politics, which I will not go into detail here. At that time, China and the Soviet Union had not yet normalized diplomatic relations, and it was even more impossible for trade to be normalized on a large scale.
This also gave the profiteers an opportunity.
It is very difficult for China's current products to squeeze into the market dominated by European, American and Japanese products. In comparison, the Soviet Union is a blank slate.
As long as light industrial products are sold well, there will be no worries.
Others think that Chinese products are clumsy, big, black and rough, but the Soviets don’t mind. They first solve the problem of whether they have products or not, and then solve the problem of whether they look good or not.
As for Zhao Xiaohai's research on this Soviet man, it was because he suspected that he was similar to himself, also working for the country, and even more pure than himself.
Sunflower International Trading Company,
Listen to the name.
The sunflower is the national flower of the Soviet Union and has a similar meaning to the hammer and sickle.
If the other party is sent by the state, there is more room for maneuver, because state procurement is usually large in volume. If the two can work together
Pick up the phone and dial the number of Sunflower Trading Company.
"Hello who?"
The call was connected quickly.
"I am the business manager of Tongsihai Trading Company. I would like to talk to Mr. Furunzhi from your company." Zhao Xiaohai said into the microphone.
"Okay, I'll transfer the call to Mr. Frunze," said the staff member.
Not long after, a calm male voice came from the other side, saying in English: "Hello, what can I do for you?"
"Hello Mr. Furunzhi, let me introduce myself. My name is Zhao Xiaohai, and I am the business manager of Tongsihai Trading Company. I would like to talk to you about trade. Do you have time?" Zhao Xiaohai said.
"Is there something wrong with the batch of goods we ordered?"
"No, I want to talk to you about new business. I think we have the potential for deeper cooperation."
The other party hesitated for a moment.
"Okay, let's make an appointment to meet."
That afternoon.
In a private room of a bar in Hong Kong.
Zhao Xiaohai met Fu Runzhi. Fu Runzhi was very tall, about 1.9 meters tall, in his thirties, with black hair and deep eye sockets, giving people a calm and capable feeling.
He stretched out his hand and shook hands with Zhao Xiaohai. Zhao Xiaohai felt that the other person's knuckles were a little rough, and his arms were very strong. He could tell that this man had been training for a long time and had touched a gun before.
But Zhao Xiaohai was not afraid, because he was talking about legitimate business.
Secondly, there are five or six semi-automatic guns in the space, so at worst we can just fire a burst of bullets.
If anyone stands in my way, I will kill him; if Buddha stands in my way, I will kill him.
Both parties sat down.
Zhao Xiaohai poured the other person a glass of wine.
"I wonder what Mr. Zhao means by deeper cooperation?" Fu Longzhi said after taking a sip of wine.
"Mr. Frunze, I would like to ask, are you working for your country?" Zhao Xiaohai asked.
After hearing Zhao Xiaohai's question, Fu Longzhi frowned slightly and looked at him, "What do you mean, Mr. Zhao? Does this have anything to do with our transaction?"
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