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Chapter 1010 Wenzhou Merchant
I met a few Chinese with a Wenzhou accent.

Both men and women.

Since 1985, tens of thousands of Wenzhou people have set out from southern Zhejiang to start businesses all over the world to make a living.

America, Europe, Southeast Asia and other places.

Once these Wenzhou businessmen integrate into the local area, they can easily form groups, forming countless large and small Wenzhou business groups.

They are the earliest practitioners of commercial activities, promoters of new products, and also the earliest smugglers, smugglers, and manufacturers of fake and inferior products.

The wisdom and cunning displayed by the early Wenzhou merchants in business are completely different from hard deceit and force, but they fully demonstrate the cunning and blood without moral bottom line in the process of primitive accumulation.

There is an unbelievable economic case with black humor.

Local farmers sent letters to state-owned enterprises all over the country, ordering various second-hand machinery and equipment, and these equipment were immediately resold on the spot after arriving in the local area.

Then, those farmers went to the newspaper to publish the obituary of death under a pseudonym, and when those foreign companies came to collect their debts, some people showed them the obituary with a mournful face: people also died, who should they ask for debt collection?
In this way, all farmers in a village participated in this very weird fraud game, and the local area also formed the largest second-hand machinery and equipment trading market in southern Zhejiang.

Seeing that Su Chen and his party were all speaking Cantonese, these Wenzhou people stepped forward to strike up a conversation.

"Are you compatriots from Guangdong or Hong Kong?" one of the gentle-looking people asked in Mandarin.

Su Chen replied: "We are from Hong Kong. Listening to your accent, you are from Wenzhou, right?"

Hearing this, several people were in awe: "You can hear this, it's amazing!"

Wenzhou dialect has many types and great differences, which can be described as the most in the whole country.

In the territory of Wenzhou, there are as many as 12 languages ​​that are incomprehensible to each other. It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, Wenzhou dialect was used as a secret language, and the devils directly caught them blind.

And Su Chen could only tell that it was Wenzhou dialect, but he couldn't understand what it meant at all.

Due to geographical restrictions, the internal differences in Wenzhou dialect are enough to make an authentic Wenzhou person confused.

"I just can roughly hear the Wenzhou accent." Su Chen greeted, "Since we met here by chance, it is fate, why don't we sit down and have a cup of coffee together?"

"Okay." The man nodded, beckoning his companions to sit down together, and then stretched out his hand: "Hello, my name is Lin Guang, and I develop in South Carolina. This is my fellow villagers Chen Qian, Wu Yuejin and Li Haixiu."

"Hello." Su Chen greeted them with a handshake, and said with a little surprise, "I'm from South Carolina, but it's going to span the entire America. Are you here to develop business?"

Lin Guang smiled and said, "The main reason is to come and see this place, and to see if there are any business opportunities."

In fact, Wenzhou people are really good at finding business opportunities. They always have a keen sense of business, and they dare to take any opportunity.

"May I ask, what did you do in China before you went abroad?" Su Chen asked.

Lin Guang said with a smile: "I used to be a doctor of Chinese medicine before going abroad, but it is very troublesome to open a medical clinic in the United States. I have worked in various jobs. Anyway, I have experienced all the hardships of new immigrants starting a business. You have not immigrated, have you?"

"No, none of us immigrated." Su Chen thought hard for a long time before he remembered the name.

Good guy, king of lighters!
No wonder the name feels familiar.

"I think that if you want to develop in the United States, you can't integrate into their inherent industries, but start with the industries they lack."

Su Chen said, "Now domestic workers are cheap, and they can produce products in China and then ship them to the United States, because consumers care most about cost performance."

Lin Guang regained his energy. At first he thought it was just an overseas student, but this young man explained the key points of business in one word.

"Talk about it." Lin Guang said seriously.

Su Chen picked up the lighter that Frank put on the table, and said, "It's like a lighter, although this thing is small, but the foreign market is not small, and Wenzhou seems to have improved technology now.

Although the internal quality is not as good as the original, the appearance and craftsmanship are hard to tell, but the price is only one-tenth of the original.

I heard that Li Zhongfang, a Wenzhou native who immigrated to Hong Kong, has opened the door for Wenzhou lighters to go abroad through his trading company. I think that a trading company can be established to sell Wenzhou lighters to the United States.

But this is just my family's opinion. Whether it can be done or not depends on you. "

"lighter?"

Several people, including Lin Guang, couldn't help thinking seriously. It is no exaggeration to say that the hair of Wenzhou people is hollow.

Even though it was just the words of passer-by A, they would all think about it seriously.

"Dare to ask your name?" Lin Guang came back to his senses.

Su Chen said: "Mian's surname is Su, Su Chen is from BJ."

"Su Chen? Are you the Su Chen who is called the 'Oriental Wizard' by the Yankees?" Lin Guang and the others' eyes lit up.

Almost all Chinese in the United States have heard of this name. Even if they have never met each other, they still need a kind of spirit after many years of development in the United States, and use it as their own example.

Su Chen smiled and said: "If there are not two oriental wizards, it should be me."

"It turned out to be Mr. Su, what a disrespect and disrespect." Lin Guang shook hands with him again, "I saw your picture in the "Time" magazine before, but I didn't think of it for a while."

Su Chen said: "Their photos were all taken by me a few years ago, so it's not surprising that I didn't recognize them."

Then he looked at the time and said, "I still have something to do. If you want to stay in California for a few more days, I will treat you well later."

"Don't bother Mr. Su. If you have something to do, please do it first." Lin Guang said, "We have been here for several days, and we plan to go back tonight. Thank you for your words."

"You're welcome." Su Chen said, "Then we will meet again when we have time."

"Okay, Mr. Su please."

Several people sent Su Chen outside, saw him get in the car and leave, and then returned to the house to continue sitting.

"Is it really that oriental wizard?" Chen Qian asked, "Why do I feel a little different?"

"The photos from a few years ago are definitely not the same, but I don't think the chance of impersonation is very high." Li Haixiu said, "Of course, it doesn't mean that no one is impersonating."

Lin Guang pondered for a while: "I think it should be true. Although there are changes, the changes are not very big. Besides, they didn't lie to us."

"Will the lighter he said really have business?" Wu Yuejin asked.

A few people fell silent for a moment, no one knew if there would be any business, and this kind of business needed to be investigated by themselves.

If they are asked to find someone to order and transport, there may be a chance of fraud.

But now people just say something and leave.

There should be no scams.

Su Chen ignored what they were thinking. After leaving here, he was busy meeting Chambers...

(End of this chapter)