Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1584

In the next month, Duan Yun's life was uneventful, but at the same time, the economic deterioration in the Soviet Union was much faster than Duan Yun imagined. The ruble continued to depreciate, and it even reached one dollar. The 3.6 ruble mark is a full double of the ruble's depreciation before the Soviet experts came last time, and all of this happened within a month.

The deterioration of the Soviet economy also made many people in the country see huge business opportunities.

The Chinese in 1991 were also very poor. However, compared to the Soviet Union, China’s light industry was indeed very good. The home appliances and daily necessities that could be sold on the market were already very rich, while in the domestic shopping malls in the Soviet Union, there were only sporadic items on the shelves. It is not necessarily possible to buy a few commodities, which shows how big the gap between the two countries is in light industry.

Although the Soviet Union has not yet officially disintegrated, many domestic businessmen have calmed down and started various forms of transnational business.

At the central borders of Dongning and Suifenhe, the people of the two countries began to barter on a large scale. The Soviets exchanged gems, jewelry, binoculars, matryoshka dolls, woolen coats, and mink hats for various daily necessities in China. The most traded items are alcohol and tobacco. The value of a bottle of Erguotou is used for bartering, which is much higher than the domestic value.

This also gave birth to the industry of the first batch of international underdogs. A large number of Chinese carried various light industrial products to the Soviet Union to barter, and then found them to sell in China.

Soviet products are often rough and bulky in style, but they are very strong and durable, and the materials used are very thick. Many people at border ports like to buy a Soviet electric stove, which is a stove made of very thick heating tubes. Boil water and stew vegetables are very good, the quality is really very durable, some people often boil water or stew vegetables and forget to look at the pot, and the vegetable soup spreads out on the heating ring, there is nothing wrong with it, and it can be used for a lot year.

This kind of thing is spreading faster and faster, so that many domestic losers go to the opposite side of Manzhouli to make a fortune, some sell kettles, some sell gloves, and some sell electric heaters, and these losers are overjoyed Yes, there seems to be a shortage of everything in the Soviet Union, and they can make money selling everything, but the most in demand is instant noodles.

The Russian Far East garrison was extremely short of food at that time. As long as it was food, almost all their equipment could be exchanged. However, there were only professional departments in the country, and the military equipment in the hands of the poor was exchanged for RMB. Therefore, the instant noodles in the hands of a large number of Russians came from BJ Hebei. , the three eastern provinces were shipped out of Manzhouli.

The Russian way of eating noodles is to soak the noodles, add salt to eat, and then drink soup with seasoning packets, and as long as there is a little spicy taste in the seasoning packets, they will be thrown away directly.

So at that time, BJ’s down-to-earth men buried their heads in eating instant noodles at home one by one, packed the noodles together, packaged the seasoning together, and checked out the spicy seasoning package. This tedious work continued until June 1992. Shanghai wholesaled large quantities Separate instant noodle cakes, no need to unpack them by hand.

Among these international losers, the most famous one is a man named Mou Qizhong.

This year, Mou Zhong, a native of Wanxian, Sichuan, who has always believed in his business genius, finally proved his genius.

After leaving his hometown, Mou Zhongzhong has been hunting in Shenzhen, BJ and Hainan. He founded Nande Company and has done various trades, from selling steel to wholesale wool. He has always liked unconstrained style, never Let go of any big scene where you can show up.

In 1989, he was invited to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This was the first time that Chinese entrepreneurs participated in such a well-known unofficial forum.

The prices in Davos, Switzerland are extremely expensive. Mou Zhong didn’t dare to eat the food in the restaurant, so he went to the alleys to find the cheapest pies every day. The conference lasted for half a month. It was only when I checked out that I was told that as an invited guest, his board and lodging were all covered by the forum.

Not long after his return from Davos, he met a man from Henan on the train from Wanxian to BJ. He learned from the other party that the Soviet Union, which was facing disintegration, was preparing to sell a batch of Tu-154 aircraft, but no buyers could be found, so he had a whimsical idea Yes, he thinks it's a business worth risking.

Mou Qizhong's Nande Company has neither foreign trade rights nor aviation operation rights, nor does it have enough funds. It is simply impossible to trade by air.

But Mou Zhongzhi decided to give it a try. He inquired about the news that Sichuan Airlines, which had just started flying a year ago, was planning to purchase aircraft.

With Sichuan Airlines' intention to purchase aircraft, Mou Zhong organized a large backlog of goods such as canned leather clothing from local state-owned enterprises in Sichuan, and prepared to use barter to reach the deal.

Mou Zhong could grasp people's thoughts very well. He chose the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in BJ as the place where he received the officials from the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the Soviet Union.

At that time, the Soviets, like those in China, had a relatively serious idea of ​​official standards. When they heard what Mou Zhong said, these Soviet representatives were immediately in awe, and the subsequent negotiations became very smooth. This deal sounds completely wrong. The possible business has gradually become a reality.

Just at the end of April this year, Mou Zhong’s Nande Company, Sichuan Airlines, and the Soviet Union reached an agreement that the Chinese side exchanged 4 wagons worth 4 million yuan for daily necessities in exchange for 500 Soviet-made Tu 4 aircraft. The trade was reported by the media. Afterwards, Mou Zhongzhong suddenly became a popular figure in the country. He claimed to have earned 154 million to 8 million yuan from it. In fact, Mou Zhongzhi's operation has been wandering on the edge of policy, but the story of "canned food for airplanes" made Mou Zhongqi One of those overnight successes.

However, Mou Zhongzhong seemed to have a growing appetite later on. He planned a lot of "grand plans" that sounded scary, including blasting a hole in the Himalayas with a width of 50 kilometers and more than 2000 meters. Warm and humid air flows into China's arid northwestern region, turning it into a rainfall area. This seemingly absurd thing has been recognized by many domestic experts, and it also made Mou Zhong a hot topic in public opinion throughout the 90s.

Even Mou Zhong himself has won many titles such as "China's Top Ten Private Entrepreneurs", "China's Reform Figure", "China's Top Ten Industrialists", and his SÜD Group is known as "the experimental field of China's reform and opening up". China's real private enterprise", in 1994, Forbes magazine in the United States listed Mou Qi in the annual list of the world's richest people, ranking fourth in mainland China.

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