"Three thousand pieces, two thousand for tops and one thousand for pants, half for men and half for women."
"Did you give them the clothes?"
"Give it to me."
"What price?"
"One cent lower than the shipping price."
"Did they mention that anyone in their family knew anyone from our family?"
"No."
Hearing this answer, Li Xu frowned even more.
Nowadays, the price of clothes generally ranges from ten to twenty yuan. Even if they bought the cheapest clothes, it would still cost around 30,000 yuan. There are not many families in Tang County that can afford this amount of money, and basically everyone in these families has had dealings with the Li family, but they didn't mention it, which means they probably didn't come from these families.
In this case, the money should have been collected by a group of people.
But how many families would be needed to come up with such a huge amount of money?
To have such good popularity, the other person should not be a person who wants to do business, but an honest person staying in his hometown.
Unless the group of people who pooled the money want to do business.
It's no wonder that there really is such a group in Tang County. Thinking of this, Li Xu asked again, "Do you know the name of the leader?"
"I know. The leader is called Yang Hu."
"How old do you look?"
"About forty."
Li Xu laughed immediately. Now they matched. "I know who they are."
Li Chen was stunned. "Do you know them?"
"Not only do I know him, you know him too."
"ah?"
Li Xu didn't keep the secret any longer and said directly, "They should be the black market gang. As far as I know, the black market boss is called Ah Hu, and he is about the same age."
He first met Ah Hu more than 20 years ago, and the two have had frequent dealings since then.
Li Xu had never seen Ah Hu's appearance before. He inferred Ah Hu's approximate age from some details such as his body shape.
The Li family has had enough food and drink over the years, but that doesn't mean they won't go to the black market.
Not to mention Li Ping and Li Chen, even Li Jiakang has been there several times.
Li Chen immediately revealed a look of realization and blurted out, "So it's them."
Li Ping, however, was somewhat puzzled. "If Yang Hu is the black market boss, then the people who came with him must all be from the black market. With so many people coming, will the black market still be able to operate?"
Since the Li brothers went out to do business, they have never been to the black market again. So now Li Xu has no idea about the specific situation of the black market. He can only guess, "Maybe the black market has new people coming in, and they don't need people like them."
Although he was just guessing, he actually got it right.
The older generation like Ah Hu handed over the management of the black market to their children, while they went out to do business.
Li Ping smacked his lips and stopped talking. He asked, "Xiao Xu, will you meet them next time they come over?"
"Yes, I have to see what Ah Hu looks like."
Li Ping was delighted and was about to speak when Li Chen spoke first, "Where did Brother Qing go? Why haven't I seen him for so long?"
"He didn't come back. He is trading stocks in Hong Kong." Li Xu then gave a brief account of the situation.
Li Chen was stunned and speechless for a long time.
Then he began to report on his work and talk about what had happened during this period.
First of all, he was responsible for recruiting bodyguards for Li Ju and Li Haitao, and this task had not yet been completed.
Secondly, the Xiu Kang Hotel will be completed in half a month. The hotel staff have been recruited and Pang Dong is training them.
Finally, the government issued an announcement a few days ago that it would build a management line of more than 80 kilometers long using barbed wire between the special economic zones and non-special economic zones.
Li Ju is getting married at the end of the year. The reason why Li Xu is preparing bodyguards for her and Li Haitao now is to leave enough time to test the bodyguards and prevent unqualified people from appearing.
There's not much to say about the hotel, just pick an opening time.
As for the management line, this was the famous second-line customs. The rule that people in later generations are familiar with, that one must obtain a border pass to enter the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, was promulgated after the construction of this management line.
More than twenty days passed in a flash, and it was the day when Xiu Kang Hotel opened.
Xiukang Hotel has 28 floors, is 100 meters high, has a total construction area of 52,000 square meters, and has 582 guest rooms. It is now the tallest building in Shenzhen and the first large-scale hotel in Shenzhen. It attracted countless attention on the day of its opening.
For the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Li Xu and his team did not invite business people, but only invited the city's top leader, second-in-command and Qian Jin to attend.
There is no way. The level of the business people here is too far behind Li Xu and his team, so it is not appropriate to invite them.
When Qian Jin and the other two received the invitation, they did not refuse at all and accepted it happily.
As soon as the opening ceremony was over, several Hong Kong businessmen booked rooms, but no one booked the presidential suite.
This is understandable. After all, the room rates at Xiu Kang Hotel are really too high, not much different from those of the top hotels in Hong Kong Island.
Now is not the time when there will be a surge in the number of rich people. Li Xu wants to raise the status of the hotel so that people who are not yet rich will dream of living there.
In this way, even if they don’t need to stay in a hotel after they become rich, they are very likely to stay for two nights.
The more people stay at the hotel, the more famous it will be, and the more famous it is, the more people will stay there.
It has to be said that Li Xu's plan was very successful.
From that day on, Xiukang Hotel became synonymous with luxury in Shenzhen, and countless people dreamed of staying in the presidential suite for a night and riding in the hotel's fleet of Mercedes-Benzes to parade around the city.
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