Chapter 516 Dumping
Veracruz, an important port city in the Gulf of Mexico, is very close to Mexico City and is an important material transportation port for the current Mexican government. After deciding to win over "Governor Alphonso" as an ally, Dania immediately started to act vigorously and resolutely, first of all, to improve her strength.
Uncle Ike exchanged 50,000 shots of atropine from Zhou Qingfeng, which was the medicine that "Incredible" urgently needed. Now there are more people in the end of the world who need first aid than in the past, but the medicine is basically one shot less. This makes it more precious to the smuggling channel of "Governor Alfonso".
However, Danya did not care about how anxiously the North American headquarters urged the batch of atropines to be transported back. She privately seized the batch of drugs and brought them to Veracruz, where she wanted to sell the batch of drugs privately.
Dania felt that she had moved fast enough, but when she landed at the airport in Veracruz with several large boxes on a light plane, she found that the desperate smuggling merchant was already driving a small steamer and carrying a large number of cargo to the port here.
Small smugglers often don’t get the most valuable supplies, but they know what’s the most in short supply in the market right now. For example, ignition in the wasteland world is a problem, so Dania saw hired workers unloading a large number of matches from the port. These matches will be sent to cities near Mexico City with human carts.
The urban circle around Mexico City has 20 to 30 million people in extreme poverty. It is the most densely populated place in Mexico. There is a huge demand for matches and can be sold no matter how many of them. However, Dania asked strangely: "What do Mexicans use to buy these matches?"
"We use coal to buy it. Look at the smugglers. They transport all kinds of goods on small steamer wheels, but they are all transported away. Cuba does not produce much coal, and the "Aurora Legion" is extremely short of fuel and coal." The explanation to Danya is Garcia, the director of the Port Authority, who is a vicious bureaucrat.
Dania was sitting in Garcia's office, and from the window, she could see the busy port crane working, and a large number of Mexican poor were selling their labor and carrying goods on ships like ants.
"Miss Danya, you can also get enough coal from me. I will give you five hundred tons of coal, just leave all the atropine you bring." Garcia laughed. He was in charge of the transportation of materials at Veracruz's port, and the ability to eat and take a cattle was his own skill.
The coal mines in northern Mexico are rich in resources, but it is a problem to transport them out. Dania cannot go directly to the place of production to obtain coal. She can only find a source of goods from the port that specializes in diversion of materials. And in the dock's cargo warehouse, there is indeed a mountain of coal.
It is completely necessary to reduce the number of tens of thousands of tons of coal by hundreds of tons. However, officials in Mexican ports dare to set the loss of floats by more than 50% and then gain a lot of benefits from it.
"Five hundred tons?" Dania sneered, "Mr. Garcia, do you think I am the little smugglers who can bully you? What I brought is not matches, soap, or daily tools, the atropine I brought that can save lives. This thing is more precious than gold on the market.
I can also bring morphine, penicillin, sulfonamide, heart disease drugs, skin disease drugs, and medicines for treating all kinds of common diseases in the future. If you want to exchange the medicines in my hands with hundreds of tons of coal, you are too greedy."
Garcia hummed twice and added a price: "Okay, medicines are quite special, one thousand tons of coal. There is no more than this."
"It seems that I need someone to talk to me about drug sales." Dania did not hesitate, grabbed the wide-edged white feather hat beside her, lifted up her long skirt and turned around and walked out.
Garcia was stunned at first, then slapped the table with a fierce look, and cursed with a 'bang': "You'd better sit down for me. I'll let you enter my office, not to let you play tricks on me."
Two Mexican gunmen immediately stood at the door of the office, blocking Dania's way out with a stern face. But the woman did not turn around and just turned her head slightly and said contemptuously: "Garcia, don't forget your identity. You are just a dirty Mexican bureaucrat, and any pig can replace you."
"You...!" Garcia was so angry that he was furious, but he was angry but couldn't vent, because he really didn't dare to touch the 'Incred' person. Because 'Incred' was absolutely cruel in protecting his shortcomings. He could only bear the anger and lowered his voice and asked, "Miss Danya, how much coal do you want?"
"I want a thousand tons..." Dania said a number first, which made Garcia happy, but she added, "...Diesel."
One thousand tons of diesel? Why don’t you grab it?
Garcia slammed the table in anger again, "Miss Danya, do you know how nervous diesel is now? The atropine you have in your hand will definitely not be exchanged for 1,000 tons of diesel, or even a hundred tons."
"Is that so? I'm willing to wait and see. There are many people with diesel, but few people with medicine." Dania put on her hat and gave Garcia more opportunities to speak, and walked out of the office of the Director of the Port Authority lightly.
After finding a hotel for temporary stay, Dania began to silently calculate the possibility of success of her operation. Veracruz is Mexico's oil production site. Although the refineries here have also suffered damage, their production capacity is much more than the almost rebuilt Havana refinery, and there should be no shortage of various fuels here. After all, the oil supply in other parts of Mexico is provided here.
As for the corruption of Mexican officials, they would definitely dare to take ruthless measures for the sake of interests. After all, diesel can be refined from oil, but Atropine is really nowhere to be found. Dania decided to see a few more powerful figures of Veracruz, and maybe she could get more.
While staying in the hotel, Dania once again felt that various goods from Havana began to invade the entire Caribbean area. The plates and forks she lived in were marked "aura-made" in the high-end hotel.
"You even need to import metal plates here?" Danya asked the service staff in surprise while dining.
The hotel waiter was very calm, "The society was in chaos before, and a lot of things were damaged, and ordinary daily necessities became in short supply. Although the local area could also produce dishes, dishes, etc., it was not as good as Havana's."
What is good in Havana?
Danya couldn't help but remember a rumor I've heard before. Before the nuclear bombs destroyed the world, the "Aurora Legion" had deceived a large number of industrial manufacturing equipment from the Nipole Nipos shipyard controlled by the "Incredible". I guess these industrial equipment are creating a lot of wealth for the "Aurora Legion".
"Imported things should be more expensive, right? Will locals be more economical and use locally produced bargains?" Danya asked again.
"No, imports are cheap," the service staff denied, "and now imported goods are sold together. For example, we cannot produce sanitary paper yet, but the demand for paper is rigid. Those smugglers force us to buy sanitary paper and also buy other things. Anyway, the price is cheaper, so we bought it."
Chapter completed!