Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 39 Don't lie to me
The average student is eager to sleep in on weekends, because usually class is very tiring.

But Ma Liang was different. He didn't need to listen carefully to the class at all, and he wrote homework much faster than ordinary students, so he didn't feel too much pressure at all.

This is the advantage of liberal arts majors. As a reborn boss, knowledge is readily available in his mind, and it is easy to study in college.

Ma Liang was very pleased to have initially completed the tutoring task yesterday.

This girl Su Xiaomi has finally changed her sex. He should be able to spend more time in the future, and the salary of tutors can also increase a lot. Thinking about it, I feel very happy.

So today he got up early in the morning at seven o'clock, planning to go to the city.

It's too early if you don't hurry, I have to go to make up lessons for Su Xiaomi's girl in the afternoon (during the mixed class).

Regardless of the yelling and scolding of his roommates, he went out after banging and banging.I ran to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and then took the bus to the city.

He is reluctant to take a taxi to go to the urban area. It costs at least 100 yuan to take a taxi from Songjiang University City to the city.

Although he has a little more money after the student loan is approved, he will not be extravagant like that.

Anyway, there is not much traffic jam on Sunday, and it will not take a lot of time to take the bus into the city.

I made a special trip to the city today to find out the source of the goods.Selling pirated discs looks simple, but the source of goods is not so easy to find.

Although the competent authorities turned a blind eye to it, this thing cannot be put on the table after all.

He can only go around there to try his luck based on the place where he is most likely to find the source of goods in his memory.

After more than two hours, Ma Liang arrived at the place - the electronic audio-visual market on Qiujiang Road.

Studying in a university town in the suburbs makes it very inconvenient to travel, but these days there are not many colleges and universities where undergraduates can study in urban areas.

The campus in the city center is mostly reserved for those postgraduates who are more profitable, and those local bosses who come to the president's class to recharge.

After earning money, I should buy myself a car, otherwise the trip would be too much trouble.

The traffic in Songjiang University City will be really convenient, but it will have to wait until the opening of Metro Line 9, but he will have graduated by then, so how long will he enjoy it?

So if you want to live a good life, you have to make money first.

To find the source of pirated discs, it is impossible to go to any computer city or digital plaza. It is more likely to find them in the more down-to-earth electronic audio-visual market.

The electronic audio-visual market on Qiujiang Road is an audio-visual wholesale market spontaneously gathered in Shanghai.

Its formation basically has nothing to do with the official planning, and it was completely developed from the second-hand market in the early years.

As early as around 1945, some expatriates from the Neon Country took things they couldn’t take with them to sell in the Qiujiang Road area before returning to China, and the history of selling second-hand goods began here.

In the 90s and [-]s, many merchants with "vigorous leaders" (flexible minds) bought goods from the Pearl River Delta, imitating the vendors in the flea market under the Haiyin Bridge in Yangcheng, and sold them on Qiujiang Road. The second-hand goods business is booming.

Then there are various vendors selling here, forming a distribution center integrating wholesale and retail.

Many audio equipment and audio-visual product manufacturers also came here to seek a business opportunity, and gradually took root.

Just in May of this year, Donghai Audiovisual City officially opened to the public on Qiujiang Road. It was the largest audiovisual wholesale center in the country and the largest audiovisual retail center in the Yangtze River Delta at that time.

Although many of them are genuine audio-visual products merchants, pirated products must also be secretly sold.

But people are not happy for a thousand days, and flowers are not red for a hundred days.

Although the business of the electronic audio-visual market on Qiujiang Road is thriving, it will inevitably end up being rebuilt and relocated more than ten years later.

But now it is only 2005, and the electronic audio-visual market on Qiujiang Road is at its most prosperous.

Various VCDs, DVDs, and home theaters are on sale, as are radios, CD players, and MP3 players.

Even many smuggled imported high-end stereos, digital cameras, and video cameras can be found here for bargains.

It has to be said that as long as there is no regulation, the economic vitality of the private sector is so strong that it is jaw-dropping.

Only unexpected, nothing impossible to buy.

When Ma Liang arrived on the ground, he couldn't help being amazed by the lively scene of the electronic audio-visual market on Qiujiang Road.

When he first came here in his previous life, this place had been in decline for a long time, and later he often saw news on the Internet that this place was going to be relocated.

At this time, the Qiujiang Road market has spread into a large area after years of development.

The first block is around the Qiujiang Electronics and Digital Commercial Building, which mainly sells computer spare parts; the second block is mainly small shops opened by houses along the street, selling various small commodities and electronic products.

The third block is the East China Sea Audio-Visual City that was forcibly planned and built by the competent authorities.

There is a two-story building and a shed inside the gate of the Audiovisual City, separated by a passage.

Old customers who are familiar with the doorway will tell you that there were originally two markets here. The one in the building is the Shanghai Audio-Visual City, and the one in the shed is called Jingda Market. Later, the two probably merged into one.

Ma Liang's goal was very clear, and he went straight to Donghai Audiovisual City immediately, and started to sweep around.

First went to the Jingda Market in the shed, and then went to the Audiovisual City.

It has to be said that the wholesale market has greatly promoted the retail economy, at least it has provided convenience for countless small merchants and hawkers to stock up.

However, not all audio-visual cities sell audio-visual products, there are also many stores for cameras and digital accessories.

Ma Liang's family was walking around, and when they saw a store selling discs, they stopped and asked carefully, so they had to shop around.

He did not go to the wrong place, and he found many merchants selling pirated discs.

It's just that all the original audio-visual products are made in China on the counter. Only after you inquire carefully and get familiar with them, they will bring you a lot of good products out of the box.

But to Ma Liang's disappointment, most of the pirated goods here are TVB Hong Kong dramas and domestic dramas.

Those with a stronger sense of business will have more sources of Korean dramas and Japanese comics.

The only thing is that there are not many sources of American dramas, and even if there are, they are not complete, which makes it more difficult for him to find goods.

It's normal to think about it, now it's the world of Korean dramas and Japanese comics.

Regardless of the speed of the Internet, the audience for American dramas cannot be as exaggerated as it will be a few years later, and now it is only a niche demand.

It is also because the downloading of various film sources has become easier and easier, and the culture of American dramas has gradually become popular.

No wonder Chen Jinfa and the others don't have many sources of American dramas, they just come across them by chance and sell some.

But it is precisely because of this that there is a business opportunity for Ma Liang, otherwise he would have no chance to earn this money.

The essence of many businesses is differentiated services. As long as he can collect all the popular American dramas and focus on promoting and selling them in different categories, he can be profitable.

He was about to give up the idea of ​​one-stop shopping, thinking about getting the goods from several stores, so he went to a different audio-visual store.

The store looked small, only about twenty square meters, but the goods were piled up in a mess.The store name also has a sense of the times, called [Awang Audiovisual City].

A small store dares to call itself a video city, which shows that the owner of the store is also a confident person.

Cardboard boxes were piled up in a mess in the store, and two people, a man and a woman, were clearing up and counting.

At first glance, it looks like a husband and wife store. A new batch of goods arrived today, and the couple is busy sorting it out.

Ma Liang glanced casually at the piles of cardboard boxes on the floor and the densely packed discs on the shelves, and obviously found that the proportion of American TV series was much higher than that of other stores.

He suppressed his excitement, walked up to the fat boss with a big belly, and said hello: "Boss, what's your name?"

"Brother, I'm only talking about approving flowers here. I want to buy discs and come over later in the afternoon." The fat boss responded impatiently with a normal hair in a southern Hokkien accent.

Xu Shi saw the appearance of Ma Liang's student, but he was too lazy to talk to him.

Some shops in the wholesale market are like this. They are busy tallying goods and receiving big customers who buy goods in the morning, and only sell them in the middle of the afternoon when they are free.

Ma Liang said angrily: "Who told you that I'm here to buy discs, I'm here to stock up. Hurry up, big business."

"Shrimp? Little Brother, Frog Curry Gong, don't lie to me!" The fat boss stopped what he was doing in surprise.

Ma Liang was still in a hurry to go back to work as a tutor, but he was in no mood to chat with him: "Who lied to you? I really came to buy. American TV series, do you have all the goods?"

(End of this chapter)