Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 740: Resale means ten times the profit
Even with Chu Xiangqian's limited knowledge of wine, he knew that noble rot wine could definitely be considered the ceiling, or even the crown, of sweet wine.

Margaret and Nata, as well as several of their close friends, are all avid fans of this wine, but even Margaret has such a high status.

Before I was with Chu Xiangqian, I couldn't just drink whenever I wanted.

After receiving financial support from Chu Xiangqian, this girl started to have people keep an eye on the auction house and wine shop every few days.

Whenever there is noble rot wine, as long as the price is reasonable, Margaret will call to participate in the auction.

The reason why this wine is so popular is not mainly due to its taste and price, but its production, which to some extent depends on fate.

Moreover, the production areas are very rare. It was the first time that Chu Xiangqian heard that this kind of wine could be produced in the polar bear region.

After thinking about it again, I realized that the taste was indeed good, and was almost the same as the several bottles of Hungarian botrytis wine that Margaret had bought. So I agreed to the price of $8 a bottle without hesitation.

If it were shipped to London, the nobles would accept it, and it might be sold at several times the price if it were packaged differently.

Then Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but think of the polar bear's diamond.

Whether in the past, present or future, polar bears are actually the largest producer of diamonds, but their diamonds are just not valuable.

With an annual output of several million carats, once it is recognized by the European and American markets, Polar Bear will be able to drive down the price of diamonds without having to wait for Dahannan to make a move in the future.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian feels that the polar bear's noble rot wine may be like diamonds. Not only is it suppressed by Europe and the United States, but even the European and American people do not know that polar bears can also produce this kind of wine.

However, Chu Xiangqian also understood that Polar Bear probably wanted to use his relationship with Margaret, Philip, and even Elizabeth to help them promote botrytis wine into London's upper class society.

Once the nobles knew that polar bears also produced this kind of wine, orders would naturally be sent back to Moscow.

Moreover, it will not be so easy to suppress European wineries.
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The deal was done, the goods were airlifted in advance, and the only thing left was to settle the payment.

After deducting the 1% deposit paid in advance for the previous 20 boxes of vodka, the final payment for this 4 boxes directly exceeded 10 US dollars.

Chu Xiangqian wrote a Standard Chartered check for $10.26 payable on demand and handed it to Vladimir.

Then he indicated to him and Elena that they could call the Standard Chartered branch in Shanghai to confirm the authenticity of the check and whether there was enough money in the account to pay for it.

Vladimir and Elena were overjoyed, but Chu Xiangqian still took precautions. At the same time, he also expected the polar bear to find out some information that Chu Xiangqian wanted the polar bear to see through this account.

The account from which this check was drawn was used to trade bicycles and other light industrial products with China. Not only was this account supervised by China, China also had the right to know about all fund expenditures.

Of course, although the Celestial Empire is keeping an eye on it, it can only monitor the branch in the Magic City.

The head office in Hong Kong Island is still not affected.

Moreover, this account is only used to trade light industrial products with China. In other words, the money in this account is still deposited on time by Chu Xiangqian from Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong every month.

Therefore, no matter whether the Chinese government is keeping an eye on this account or not, the impact on Chu Xiangqian will be minimal.

It was obvious that Chu Xiangqian was deliberately trying to attract the polar bear's attention to himself and the Celestial Empire, and then trade the business of bicycles, watches, radios and sewing machines with Asan.

The reason why this business was exposed was not because Chu Xiangqian was stupid, but because of the war that happened not long ago, the relationship between the Celestial Empire and India was somewhat tense.

Linda has sent a telegram saying that her father, elder brother and several local partners in Tianzhu, after receiving this batch of light industrial products this month, sent a telegram saying that starting from February next year, they will gradually reduce the purchase quantity of four light industrial products such as bicycles.

Chu Xiangqian knew that it was inevitable that the business would gradually decrease or even be cut off. After all, Ah San had lost so badly and his self-esteem was so strong.

No one had previously carefully checked whether the light industrial products such as bicycles exported to India originated from China or England, where the import and export shell companies were registered.

But that’s no longer the case. The Indians, who have suffered such a terrible defeat, will surely cause trouble if they hear any rumors.

If things go wrong, a huge fine will be issued and all the money that Linda's family, the Hajak family, earned from importing light industrial products in the past two years will be taken away by the Indian officials.

Then, all the light industrial products that Chu Xiangqian transported from Hong Kong Island to India that month would be seized 100%.

Once seized, Chu Xiangqian and the Hajak family will be counted as having placed an order for 5 bicycles, 10 radios, and 10 watches with a fourth five-month delivery period.

The monthly shipment volume is 2 bicycles, 2 radios, and 1 watches.
The total price equals 54 pounds 216 million dollars.

If Chu Xiangqian lost the fifth batch of orders, he would directly lose tens of millions of dollars in business, which was something Chu Xiangqian could not accept in any way.

So Chu Xiangqian thought of finding a polar bear to take advantage of the other's power.

When the Polar Bear finally found out that there were large transactions between it and the Celestial Empire and India every month, based on Chu Xiangqian's understanding of the Polar Bear.

These guys will definitely try their best to do business with you.

After Tianzhu was beaten, the more painful it was, even if Chu Xiangqian hadn't gone, he would still have hooked up with the polar bear.

The polar bear also hopes to use India to contain the Celestial Empire.

If the two sides could fight a few more wars, it would inevitably slow down the development of the Celestial Empire, so even if India did not look for the polar bear.

They will also take the initiative to join forces with India to deal with the pressure from the Celestial Empire.

In addition, India and England have always had ties and even flirted with each other. In the future, light industrial products will be labeled as Polar Bears and then resold through England's import and export shell companies.

Perhaps, not only will the import volume not be reduced, but it may increase because of the use of the polar bear's skin.

Chu Xiangqian did not intend to squeeze out England's bicycle sales in India, but he had no psychological burden at all to squeeze out Japan's bicycle market share.

I am not even afraid of the neon causing trouble at this time.

When Chu Xiangqian met Frankie Miller, he cautiously and bluntly refused to stay in the courtyard and called to inquire about the authenticity of the check, with a meaningful smile on his face.

At the command, Titmouse and Sable immediately followed Vladimir who drove away.

As for Elena, although this girl is also considered a beauty, there is still a big gap compared to the stunning beauty.

So no matter how much Elena, who stayed behind, hinted and seduced him, Chu Xiangqian remained unmoved.

This made Elena feel discouraged and unwilling.

I got angry and thought to myself, just wait for me.

Elena quickly decided in her mind to send a few swallows to Hong Kong Island and London to find an opportunity to get close to him.

Half an hour later, Vladimir came back and confirmed with Chu Xiangqian that there was no problem with the check, and then handed over the handover procedures for 4 boxes of wine stored in the airport warehouse to Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian also took the opportunity to put Huang Diao'er into a secret contact point of the Russians in the capital.

After seeing Vladimir off, he returned to the study, took out paper and pencil, and began to draw the people in the secret contact point that Titmouse saw.

But he was not in a hurry to hand over the portraits to Xue Jianguo. He planned to rely on the tits and martens to slowly find out who was in the contact point, who they would contact and who they would contact.

But this idea was rejected by Chu Xiangqian within a few minutes.

After all, this is the capital city. It's okay to play the long game and catch the big fish, but if you are not careful and overlook something, problems may arise.

It would be better to just hand over these people from the Russian contact points to the higher-ups to deal with them.

Moreover, since I purchased polar bear wine myself and planned to purchase more polar bear goods in the future, I still had to notify my superiors.

There is no need to go to the Forbidden City this time. He will take Zhang Haiyang to see his immediate superior Tang Lianxin.

When Old Man Tang heard that Chu Xiangqian had traded more than 10 US dollars worth of wine with the Russians, he immediately felt sorry for him and said he was wasting it.

It’s not that China is short of sweet red and sweet white wines. If you purchase from Changyu, the price will be at least half as much cheaper.

If you want stronger liquor, Erguotou and Shaodaozi are just as good as vodka.

As for mead, Old Man Tang didn't say anything at first, but after making a phone call, he started muttering that China has sweet rice wine, sweet yellow wine, lychee wine, and bayberry wine that are no worse than the Russians' mead.

Chu Xiangqian was tired of listening to this, and he also knew that Old Man Tang was now chattering like Tang Monk, just wanting to make US dollars and then get orders from domestic wineries.

He said directly to Old Man Tang, "Okay, okay, I'll buy $20 worth of domestic sweet wine and liquor from you, okay?"

Tang Lianxin smiled, knowing that Chu Xiangqian had to give him face.

He picked up the phone and called his subordinates, instructing them to investigate the Beijing white wine and Changyu's sweet wine.

With this $20 order, life will be much easier for several wineries.

In the second half of this year, the drought has passed, and the grain harvest in the second half of the year is pretty good. At least we can be self-sufficient.

There is no need to purchase food from abroad anymore.

But in the previous three years, people could barely afford to eat, so the wineries had no grain to make wine, and even fewer people drank.

As for Changyu, although grape production was also affected by the drought, even though the output was reduced by several percent, few bottles of red wine brewed in the past three or four years were sold.

If the large amount of finished wine that is piled up cannot be sold, it is possible that even the wages of the winery workers cannot be paid.

Finally, Chu Xiangqian bought 5 boxes and 4 bottles of sweet red and sweet white wine from Changyu, with an average price of US$3.65 per bottle, for a total price of US$14.6.

Chu Xiangqian immediately felt that he had been cheated, but fortunately he soon found out that the wine was one that had been stored in the cellar for three years. After tasting the sample himself, he also felt that the wine was good, and only then did he feel satisfied.

Generally speaking, wine tastes best when stored in a cellar for 3 to 5 years.

As for Erguotou, 2.25 boxes, 6 bottles of 13.5-bottle packs, were purchased by local wineries in Beijing for a total price of US$5.4.

Each bottle was 0.4 US dollars, less than 1 Chinese Yuan, so Chu Xiangqian agreed without thinking twice.

Then he kept a small portion of various wines and hid them in the cellar of the Qianmen courtyard, and entrusted the rest to Xue Jianguo to help transport the purchased wines to Hong Kong Island.

After the New Year, Chu Xiangqian returned to Hong Kong Island and put all the wine in the warehouse at the dock into the warehouse in the Novice Village and took it to Stromgarde.

In addition to the noble rot wine purchased at a total price of US$4.8, the rest of the wine was sold to dwarves and elves in several territories, and 20 gold coins were easily earned.

A dwarven gold coin weighs 10 grams, which is equal to two tons or 2 million grams.

Based on the international gold price of US$45 per ounce this year, one ton is US$159 million.

This batch of wine was sold for US$318 million, making a direct profit of nearly 10 times.

Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but become motivated about the wine selling business.

After spending three days with Luna, I returned to Hong Kong and immediately called Old Man Tang and Vladimir.

Order the same amount of wine again.

Tang Lianxin and Vladimir were naturally very happy when they received the call, but after hanging up the phone, they also began to be surprised at Chu Xiangqian's sales channels and sales capabilities.

For the polar bears, that's 4 boxes, a total of 2.4 bottles of red wine, vodka and mead, plus it took a week to transport the wine to Hong Kong Island.

This means that Chu Xiangqian only took more than 20 days to sell all the wine.

Old Man Tang had the same idea as Vladimir and was even more shocked. After all, there were 13.5 bottles of Erguotou.

Even Old Man Tang didn’t know that domestic liquor became so popular?
Moreover, a quick search was conducted in Hong Kong Island, and it was found that these wines were not available in the Hong Kong Island market.

In other words, all the wine was sold abroad by Chu Xiangqian.

While they were impressed and admired Chu Xiangqian's business ability, they soon felt normal again.

There are so many countries abroad. If you divide them up randomly, each country may only have a few thousand polar bears and tens of thousands of bottles of Chinese wine.

If the quantity is further divided among cities, and reduced tenfold, it will be sold out in twenty days, or half of it will be sold. It is not uncommon for dealers to urge for more goods.

If there were orders worth 10 or 20 US dollars every month, Vladimir and Tang Lianxin would smile so hard that their mouths would be crooked just thinking about it.

As for Chu Xiangqian, the total population of several dwarf and elf territories in the northern part of Middle-earth.

There are 170,000 to 180,000 dwarves and 60,00

There are only 20 bottles of various kinds of wine, and the dwarves alone can consume them in two or three days.

Moreover, for the dwarves, they do not have to consume their own grain to make wine, so the extra grain can feed more people.

In addition, the wine provided by Chu Xiangqian was stronger and tasted better than what they brewed themselves, so they would not hesitate even if it was twice as much, let alone 2 tons of gold a month.
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After Chu Xiangqian handed over the second batch of orders for red wine, vodka and mead to Frankie Miller, just as he expected, some of the Polar Bear executives immediately regarded him as a collaborator.

Some people even gave orders to protect him secretly.

120 million US dollars a year is nothing to Chu Xiangqian, but in fact, whether it is China or the Polar Bear, if someone can provide them with 120 million or 240 million US dollars in foreign exchange.

The custodian will treat this person as a VIP.

Although the polar bear no longer had any hostility towards Chu Xiangqian, it still planned to send the beautiful swallow to lurk around him.

It would be best if this swallow, or several swallows, could become his assistant in business in the future, or even be the person in charge of a certain business.

(End of this chapter)