Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1301 In broad daylight
Two days before the end of the Canton Fair, Duan Yun suddenly received a call from Wang Shi, asking him to arrive at the designated location around 4:30 tomorrow afternoon with his convoy and manpower, and someone will deliver the goods to the fishing village on the shore. on the pier.

Hearing what Wang Shi said, Duan Yun thought he had heard it wrong, because in his past impressions, smuggling or smuggling is usually sneaked in at night, and he has never heard of blatantly smuggling goods in broad daylight. .

However, after confirming twice, Huangshi still asked him to arrive at the designated port at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon, so after the two finished talking, Duan Yun immediately dialed the number of the transport team.

Wu Gang and others, who had to go to Hong Kong to inspect the goods yesterday, have returned to Shenzhen. After learning that all the parts of the machine were well packaged and no obvious defects were found, Duan Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

Duan Yun originally thought that the merchants in Hong Kong would ship the goods after a few days, but what he didn't expect was that just after Wu Gang returned to Shenzhen, Hong Kong informed Duan Yun that he was ready to ship the goods, and the efficiency was high, which made Duan Yun feel surprised tongue.

At this moment, Duan Yun became excited and nervous.

These few machines are related to his future business layout, and almost emptied most of his foreign exchange reserves. If the transportation fails, the consequences are unimaginable.

After calling Dajun Erhu and the two brothers, Duan Yun began to smoke cigarettes one after another.

That night, Duan Yun almost didn't sleep all night, and by the noon of the second day, he had already arrived at the designated place that Wang Shi had notified him a few hours earlier.

Because Wang Shi had arranged for him not to show up before, Duan Yun just drove the car to a gentle slope a few hundred meters away from the pier, then picked up a telescope and looked towards the pier.

Today's weather is not bad, the sea ahead is calm, and just below the hillside, the army and the Erhu convoy are already in place, parked next to the fishing village pier.

After a while, Duan Yun heard the sound of a motorcycle behind him, turned his head to look, and found a man wearing a helmet quickly approaching.

"Manager Wang?" When Duan Yun saw that it was Wang Shi who came, he greeted him in surprise.

"I knew you would definitely come." Wang Shi glanced at Duan Yun, took off his helmet and hung it on the handlebar, and then said to Duan Yun with a smile: "Speaking of which, if it were me, I would definitely come too. After all, it is worth several million dollars, if something happens, it will really make you vomit blood..."

"I don't understand. Hong Kong people are so big, and they dare to smuggle goods in broad daylight. Are they really not afraid of being seized?" Duan Yun asked a little puzzled.

"You may not understand some things. They don't have diamonds, and they dare not take on the porcelain work, and the route they took is actually legal..." Master Wang said.

"Legal?" Duan Yun was taken aback when he heard the words.

"Let me tell you, if it was three or four years earlier, no one would have dared to play like this, but it's different now..." Wang Shi and Duan Yun talked about the "secret".

It turns out that smuggling between Hong Kong and Hong Kong has long been a semi-public "grey industry".

In the early 80s, the home appliance market was in high demand, and the supply of goods was seriously short of demand. Not only were the prices expensive, but they also needed to be supplied by ticket. This made the home appliance smuggling industry a lucrative "grey industry".

In the 2017 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film "The Big Tree Draws the Wind", the starring Ye Guohuan in the film is also the "Three Thieves King" Ye Jihuan in real Hong Kong. He is a thief who robs gold companies. , He immediately washed his hands and became an anonymous smuggler.

This shows how attractive the profits are.

In the mid-80s, there was a wave of crackdown on smuggling along the coast of the mainland of China. The state took a heavy blow and cracked a number of smuggling cases involving a large number of people and a huge amount. The smuggling industry in coastal cities in that period was indeed greatly curbed. , Many practitioners either escaped or went to jail. The effect of the anti-smuggling operation is very obvious.

However, a few years later, household appliances smuggling surged again along the coast. Compared with the previous smuggling industry: it is mainly divided into three parts: border transportation, distribution of electrical appliances and electrical retailing, and each link has a large interest group. People are complicated.

The first step in the smuggling was to transport a large number of elevators from Hong Kong to the coast of the bay, using a private modified speedboat called Dafei.

The speed of Dafei is extremely fast, and it can reach more than 90 kilometers per hour on the sea. This speed was absolutely impossible to catch up with the coast guard ships at that time. However, this kind of ship transformation did not consider the steering and braking problems, and it was very dangerous to drive. , except for dedicated smugglers, it will hardly be used by others.

The British Hong Kong government at that time was very corrupt. The local smuggling groups in Hong Kong continued to transfer benefits to some regulatory agencies for many years. Therefore, the British Hong Kong government ignored this smuggling behavior and even provided them with some intelligence information, including mainland coast guard patrols. satellite video and location.

It is precisely because of this that it is very difficult for the mainland police to crack down on smuggling along the Hong Kong line. It only takes 7 minutes for Dafei to make a round trip, which is so fast that coast guard ships cannot catch up.

After these goods are transported to the coastline, someone will soon take these electrical appliances away, and then collectively transport them to several domestic wholesale markets, among which the most famous wholesale market is "Yifa" in Panyu.

Yifa Wholesale Market is not big, only less than 500 meters long, with hundreds of stores, but at that time more than 80% of the country's smuggled electrical appliances flowed out here.

But this easy-to-fat market has produced many "self-made" electrical appliances companies, including Ruifeng Olympus, Sumida and other companies, which all started from this market.

The most famous among them is Boss Huang. In the early days, he relied on the easy-to-fat market to pour electrical appliances, and then shipped them to the north, mainly in BJ for sales.

Moreover, Boss Huang has a very good mind. He is also an electrical appliance. The biggest difference between Boss Huang and others is that all electrical appliances are fast in and fast out, and they are extremely sensitive to market conditions.

Because there is no normal purchase process for smuggled electrical appliances, the quantity coming in is random, and the price is not stable, so when there is a backlog of goods, the retail price can easily plunge.

(End of this chapter)