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Chapter 288 Prosperity

Li Wen's main purpose of coming to Yangcheng this time is not to participate in the Canton Fair, but to gain experience and learn about the domestic and foreign companies coming to Daxia this time.

After all, I will have to share the same pot with these people for a long time in the future. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you fight a good battle.

But before that, Li Wen had to get proof of participation in the Canton Fair, otherwise he wouldn't be able to enter the exhibition hall.

But a small piece of evidence proved that Li Wen didn't take it to heart. After all, the relationship over the past few years was not in vain.

Chang'an City, as a provincial-level city and an important industrial town in the northwest, naturally has its own commerce department, foreign trade department, and many institutions.

Sun Lianying's father was the boss of the Qin Provincial Department of Commerce, and Li Wen knew the sales department leaders of several large factories in Chang'an, so it was a trivial matter to get a ticket.

Li Wen first inquired about the location of the liaison team of the Qin Provincial Department of Commerce at the reception desk of the Canton Fair. Then, he went to the post office and called Sun Lianying in Chang'an.

"Comrade, help me transfer the call to the Minsheng Department Store in Qin Province. The phone number is..." Li Wen asked the operator to help transfer the call.

All calls these days need to be transferred manually, especially long-distance transfers which take longer. Of course, extensions within the unit do not need to be transferred.

After waiting for a while, the call was finally dialed, and Sun Lianying's voice came over.

"Uncle Sun, I am Li Wen. I am in Yangcheng now. I would like to ask Grandpa Sun for a favor and get a ticket for the Canton Fair.

Hey! That's right, give me a call and I'll talk to Grandpa Sun personally." Li Wen hurriedly wrote down the phone number, said a few words to Sun Lianying and hung up quickly.

Repeating the operation just now, Li Wen called the Department of Commerce, explained his identity, and asked the operator of the Department of Commerce to help transfer the phone number to Sun Lianying's father's office.

"Hey, it's Xiaowen! I haven't seen you for a few months. Why do you have time to call my old man today?" A strong voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Grandpa Sun, I'm in Yangcheng now! The Canton Fair will be held soon, and I want to go in and join in the fun.

You always think it's easy to get tickets for joining the club, why don't you get one for me?" Li Wen didn't be too polite and explained his meaning directly.

"Small question, just go to our trading team in Yangcheng and ask Uncle Kang to give you a place in the trading team.

I'll call Xiaokang later and tell him, you go directly to him! No more words, I'll save you some money and come back to Qin Province to sit at home." Mr. Sun hung up the phone immediately after saying that.

Li Wen smiled and hung up the phone, sighing in his heart: "There needs to be someone! Someone can travel all over the world, but no one can move even an inch."

"Comrade, do you still want to call? The total phone bill is nine dollars and fifty-six cents." The post office staff stared at Li Wen, fearing that he would run away.

"No more, thank you comrade." Li Wen smiled and took out a handful of loose tickets, counted nine dollars and fifty-six cents and handed them over.

"Serve the people!"

The female staff member breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Li Wen happily taking out the money.

Since the second version of the currency ceased to circulate in 1964, the currencies in denominations of ten yuan and five yuan have disappeared. Even if there are countries, they no longer exchange them because they are exchangeable within a limited time.

Therefore, a strange phenomenon has appeared in the market in the past two years. There is no large-denomination currency anymore, and all transactions have become loose tickets.

However, this does not affect the lives of ordinary people, because for them, one dollar is a large amount of money.

Li Wen smiled and nodded, hailed a tricycle on the roadside and headed towards the guest house where the Qin Provincial Department of Commerce was located.

After arriving at the guest house and finding the trading group from the Qin Provincial Department of Commerce, it happened that the leader of the trading group was Kang Qichao, the second-in-command of the Department of Commerce, and the certificate was issued to Li Wen smoothly.

"Uncle Kang, I'm sorry to trouble you this time." Li Wen smiled brightly and stuffed Kang Qichao with a pack of Great China cigarettes.

"Good boy, the road is quite broad. All I smoke are these good cigarettes. Even your uncle and I can't afford it." Kang Qichao was very familiar with Li Wen and was not polite. He smiled and put it away.

Naturally, a flurry of pleasantries ensued, and finally Li Wen declined Kang Qichao's suggestion that he stay in a guest house.

It can be said that there are tens of thousands of people coming to Yangcheng to participate in the Canton Fair this time, and most of the guesthouses are already full.

Li Wen asked several guest houses but there was no room, so he gave up in the end. He simply stopped looking because the space in the warehouse would be great.

As the date of the Canton Fair approaches, the surrounding areas of Daxia are becoming uneasy again. The war between the Ruan and Chou countries has spread to Daxia.

The powerful rubbish of the soft country had no choice but to ask for support from Daxia, hoping that Daxia could save them. Considering the consequences of losing their lips and teeth, the country decided to provide assistance to the soft country and help this poor child.

But Li Wen knew that, just like his name, the Ruan Kingdom was a white-eyed wolf that bullied the weak and feared the strong. After Daxia helped them drive out the Chou Kingdom, they turned their guns and attacked Daxia.

Damn it, picking up the bowl to eat and then putting the bowl down to scold her is not much better than her mother's childhood.

However, Daxia did not do this nor was it a helpless move. The Chou Kingdom's war was obviously an evil plot against Daxia, so Daxia could only take advantage of it.

Fortunately, Miss Qiu was born last year, which straightened up the waist of the entire Daxia and made everyone less worried.

On the 14th, the Canton Fair officially started. Only then did Li Wen know the full name of the Canton Fair, "Daxia Export Commodities Exhibition".

On this day, outside the exhibition hall of the Canton Fair, various participating trading groups met neatly and orderly, and then began to enter the venue.

The Canton Fair brings together all the excellent products from Daxia, from a nail to a car or machinery, all of which have been brought here.

Li Wen seemed to have arrived at the wholesale market, where various types of products were piled up for people to visit.

There are company leaders and translators standing at each stall to facilitate explanations to foreign guests who come to visit.

Li Wen stayed at the Canton Fair for a week and got to know the differences in transactions at the national level.

These transactions could easily cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, which made Li Wen greedy.

You must know that the U.S. dollar in this era is very strong, and it is not a parallel import in the future. A few hundred thousand U.S. dollars is equivalent to tens of millions in the 21st century.

I also indirectly learned about the entrepreneurs in Xiangjiang where I plan to go and the economic strength of Xiangjiang.

Xiangjiang received capital from mainland China in the 1960s and officially began to take off.

However, today's Xiangjiang is still dominated by small and medium-sized businessmen, and there are only a few large oligarchs. The monopoly of a few big families like in later generations has not yet occurred.

However, Buddhism, Malay, Singapore, and Xiaozhi have a great influence on Hong Kong. Li Wen must pay attention to these in the future.

After getting what he wanted, Li Wen didn't stay at the Canton Fair any longer.

After all, he can only go in to see, not buy, and he has no foreign currency!
Chapter completed!
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