Chapter 50 An alternative smuggling business (6,000 words long chapter, please subscribe)

The weather in mid-September already requires you to wear two layers of clothes in the Northeast, but at this time in a small place called Lilong in Paizhou in the south, it is in full swing.

A few shirtless fishermen were taking out boxes after boxes of smuggled goods from the fishing boats. The sky was just getting light at this time, and no one noticed this beach at all.

Lilong Smuggling Market became famous at home and abroad in the early 1980s. The sea transportation here is convenient, and smuggled goods from Hong Kong and Taiwan became popular here.

Lilong's smuggling scene only lasted a few years, reaching its peak two years later in 1980. Today, in 1978, there are still only a few smugglers here and there.

With the announcement of reform and opening up at the end of the year and closer ties with overseas countries, there will be a smuggling peak here one after another.

The owner of this smuggling ship is Wu Asheng, who is in his early forties. His son and brother are carrying the cargo for him.

They were from Lilong Village. Wu Asheng was a very courageous person and a restless element in the village. Because of his overseas connections, he was often punished in those years.

At the beginning of the year, he learned about a smuggling route from fishermen in other villages. He imported some watches and radio cassette players from the Bay Island and then sold them back. This time, he could make at least 100% profit.

When Wu Asheng heard the news, he was always itching in his heart. There have always been many small businesses in Paizhou, and they were also very courageous. They could trade the most primitive chicken feathers for sugar, and they could go all over the country.

In the past two years, as control has begun to loosen, Hong Kong and Taiwan products have unknowingly become popular in the local area. Everyone knows where these products come from.

The first batch of smugglers who took advantage of the situation can be said to have made a lot of money.

Of course, even if some fishermen knew about it, they would not dare to go. After all, God is so powerful. Who is faster, the guns or their fishing boats?

After asking around for several months, Wu Asheng finally found out the contact person on the other side and the exchange method.

Smuggling is not just about sailing a fishing boat over and you can buy something.

Do you use the soft girl coins of this era to buy products from Hong Kong and Taiwan?

They don’t recognize it at all!

Soft sister coins are not recognized, but gold and silver are recognized by others!

In this era, there may not be much gold in China, but there are a lot of silver dollars.

So I don’t know since when, silver dollars became a stable currency among smugglers. Those smugglers from Hong Kong and Taiwan recognized this thing.

A silver dollar can be exchanged for twenty-two to twenty-six dollars on the high seas on their smuggling ships, and the smugglers can purchase goods of equal value at will.

And the value of these commodities exchanged for silver dollars can be doubled in an instant once those commodities are shipped back.

This is simply a real huge profit. You must know that the current salary in China is only a few dozen yuan, and a small fishing boat can make hundreds or even thousands in one round trip!

Who can not be moved?

In such a situation of huge profits, from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, in just a few years, hundreds of millions of silver dollars were said to have flowed out of Paizhou alone.

There is a complete chain of interests here. Although the country is mighty and mighty, when faced with 100% profit, nothing works!

At the end of June, Wu Asheng collected 70 silver dollars from relatives and friends, followed his fellow villagers on a trip to the high seas, and successfully exchanged a small sack of watches and two radio cassette players.

Wu Asheng still remembers the situation at that time. As soon as he came back, someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night. Wu Asheng was scared to death. Finally, when he touched the wall and asked, he learned that someone came specifically to pick up the goods.

The goods he exchanged for seventy silver dollars, Wu Asheng still remembers, were sold together for two thousand five hundred and sixty. On that trip, his profit was one thousand one!

One thousand and one!

This is still sold directly to the second dealer. If you sell it alone, no matter how much profit you make, it won't be a problem!

But Wu Asheng, who was doing smuggling for the first time, was still too timid to try it!

Wu Asheng has never experienced such huge profits in his life. The excitement, excitement, and hesitation are still vivid in his mind.

But after two months, Wu Asheng discovered that Tianwei had not found him. Instead, there were more Hong Kong and Taiwan goods on the market, which showed that more and more people knew how to make big money through smuggling.

The heart that had already had nowhere to rest gave him motivation again. This time Wu Asheng once again raised funds from relatives and friends, and distributed dividends in proportion to the funds raised.

With his first surprise harvest, this time Wu Asheng raised 300 silver dollars and expanded the smuggling gang to three members.

This kind of dangerous behavior is naturally based on the relationship between relatives. This time Wu Asheng took his brother and eldest son to buy goods once again.

After much back and forth, three hundred silver dollars were successfully exchanged for two sacks full of watches and a dozen radio cassette players of various models.

This time, Wu Asheng was not going to sell these goods to the second-hand dealers. He was going to sell them to several of his family members.

In the past two months, Wu Asheng has figured out where the second-rate dealers usually sell their stolen goods. Nowadays, people are selling smuggled goods everywhere in major markets and cities. Instead of making money for others, it is better to make it for yourself.

The reason why he bought watches and cassette players was that they were easy to sell. In the 1970s, it was still an era of three turns and one beep. A watch and a radio were the dreams of many families.

Now that there are better radio cassette players, people in the city are naturally crazy about them.

At dawn the next day, Wu Asheng set out with a few relatives, each carrying a satchel with two radio cassette players in it and a dozen watches hanging on his body, and went to several nearby markets.

Wu Asheng entered a local market. As soon as he entered, he heard a burst of music playing on the roadside.

Send you outside the small village

I have something to say

Although the flowers are already blooming

Don’t pick wild flowers on the roadside

…

This song by Teresa Teng only became popular on the Bay Island in 1977, but now it is heard in the small fishing village of Dengzhou on the other side of the sea. If you are an outsider, you will be surprised.

But the locals are used to it.

Wu Asheng's expression changed even more when he heard this. He didn't expect that someone would occupy the position so early. He knew that this place had already been occupied.

Apparently someone is using this song to attract customers.

He also likes to listen to this song, and he has several cassettes of Teresa Teng in his bag now.

However, Wu Asheng quickly calmed down. Since there are colleagues, it means that the market is not strictly inspected, so that’s even better!

On the other side of the street, he put down his satchel, took out the radio cassette player, took out the tape, put it in, pressed the play button, and the music started playing slowly.

He took his time and untied his shirt. There were more than a dozen watches hanging inside. He took off two and put them on his left and right hands.

On the left hand is a Hongye brand watch, on the right hand is a Sea Lion electronic watch with a calendar function, and the bulging shirt shows off his manly character even more!

Wu Asheng never expected that in just a few months, he would go from a proletarian to the wealthy he is today. It is unimaginable, unimaginable!

Wu Asheng was preparing to wait for the morning market to start. At this time, he was in a state of elation, with the corners of his mouth turned up, and a sense of accomplishment.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of electric current coming from not far away. He turned around and saw a young man with a large satchel at his feet and a long square table.

There, there was a large-speaker radio on the table, and the other party was debugging the radio.

After a while, a crisp broadcast came from the big-speaker radio.

"Welcome to China Central Radio...it's morning reading time..."

Then, the other party seemed to be adjusting the sound. In an instant, the host's voice in the two loudspeakers amplified several times in an instant, covering up the music from the radio in the entire street!

Ah Wu is numb!

What made him even more confused was yet to come. He saw the other party put down the loudspeaker radio with a smile, and then opened the large satchel. He saw dozens of packaging boxes densely packed inside. He couldn't see what was inside, but soon, Wu Asheng

knew.

The other party rummaged inside for a while and pulled out two watches, one for each hand.

Then, something bad happened that made Wu Asheng wholeheartedly miserable!

The other party put on his watch, turned down the volume of the loudspeaker radio, and then placed the watches and radios of various sizes in the large satchel on the square table one by one. He even put a big sign on the table that read "for sale in Ningxia."

Jiang brand radios and electronic watches are welcome to buy!"

Afterwards, the young man placed the goods and shouted hello to the people passing by.

"Don't miss it if you're passing by. The latest technological electronic watch is only nine yuan a piece. It's only nine yuan a piece!"

As soon as this voice came out, Wu Asheng's whole person turned to stone. He really couldn't imagine how the other party could be so bold. Not only did he openly put up a big brand to sell, but he also dared to shout loudly about selling?

Wait, he quickly grasped the point!

A digital watch for nine dollars a piece?

I wiped it!

After a long time, he slowly raised his right hand. On the black and white LCD screen, the beating numbers were beating constantly like his heart.

This electronic watch, those idiots said, is the latest technological product from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The current wholesale price is only 81 yuan. This time he bought 10 yuan and is planning to sell it for 161 yuan!

After a full five minutes, Wu Asheng felt that his head, which was a little dizzy, slowly came to his senses.

He still didn't believe it, so he slowly walked up to the young man step by step.

It was still less than six o'clock in the morning, and there were not many customers, most of them were vendors.

In just five minutes, the young man was surrounded by nearby vendors.

What the vendors were most interested in was naturally the nine-yuan electronic watch.

Seeing that there were not enough watches on the table, the young man smiled and took out a few electronic watches from his bag and handed them to the onlookers.

Several vendors held it in their hands and couldn't help but make a tut-tsk sound. Many of these vendors had watches on their hands, but their watches cost at least more than 100 yuan. But now there is a nine-yuan watch on the market.

, which surprised many traders.

Many vendors were already so excited that they began to carry them on their hands and try them on.
To be continued...