Han Kongque said with a smile: "Many, not just one, year-round acquisitions."
Although Han Kongque spoke slowly, the old man obviously didn't understand.
"I'm old and my memory is not very good. Please speak more slowly." The old man said to Han Peacock word by word.
Han Kongque said: "I want a lot."
"A lot?" This time the old man understood.
"Yes, a lot." Han Peacock confirmed again.
At this time, some young people selling vegetables gathered around. These people looked darker at first glance. They should all be locals.
These young people obviously cannot understand Chinese, let alone speak it. But once they understand it, they will naturally be able to translate for them.
When they heard that Han Peacock wanted to purchase a large amount of vegetables and fruits, the young people were very excited and started asking questions. However, they spoke too fast, and Han Peacock's half-baked Detun language would definitely not be understood.
"You are the fish seller yesterday." At this time, a young man said.
Han Kongque was stunned. He didn't understand anything else, but he understood the word selling fish. This person should be working on the construction site, otherwise he wouldn't know where he was selling fish yesterday afternoon.
"Yes." Han Peacock said without hesitation.
"Do you have that much money?" The young man looked suspicious. Does a fish seller have the money to buy the vegetables and fruits in their hands?
The young man spoke very hard, but Han Peacock still understood.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "It's not available now, but it will be available in ten days. I was sent by the company to Daqian Station to contact the source of goods and pay on the spot while waiting for transportation."
This time Han Peacock spoke a lot, and several locals couldn't understand him, so they had to ask Lao Wu to translate.
After the chickens and ducks talked for a while, the people around them dispersed. After all, Han Peacock would not accept their things now. Now they wanted to sell today's things.
Lao Wu has a second-hand store here, one of his eight second-hand stores in East Timor. Since this store has just opened, he spends more time here.
"This is my nephew Wu Xin. He has been here for less than a year. He understands some Portuguese and can speak some English." After walking into Lao Wu's shop, Lao Wu introduced him to Han Peacock.
Han Peacock knows that this is normal in China. Generally, those who do business are relatives. If you get rich, if you want to expand your business and increase your manpower, you will definitely ask your relatives for help. At least such people can rest assured.
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Wu Xin just nodded to Han Kongque and continued to be busy. It could be seen that Lao Wu's second-hand store had a very good sound. Within a short time, four or five groups of people came and went.
"Come, let's have a cup of morning tea." Lao Wu walked inside with Han Kongque, moved out a small table, and made some tea.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "You don't have to be so polite. I'm new here and I still need a lot of help from Uncle Wang."
"It's necessary to help. We Chinese outside the country naturally help each other. You're welcome. If you want to know anything, just ask me." Lao Wu said very cheerfully.
The two of them drank tea and watched the locals coming and going outside, bargaining with Wu Xin. They felt that they were not much different from those in China.
"Looking at such a scene, isn't it very warm? It was not like this in the first few years when I came here." Old Wu said to Han Peacock.
"Huh? It was quite chaotic at that time, wasn't it?" Han Peacock asked.
Lao Wu smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't believe how chaotic this place was at the time. When I first came here, I applied for a hotel management job. After we arrived, our boss arranged for us to stay in a hotel. We started working the next day.
, I am responsible for management.
At the beginning, we repaired some houses that were destroyed by the war, and we continued to do so for eight months. Due to various reasons, by August 2003, the Wandao Industrial Park that was originally mentioned had not yet opened.
Fortunately, a new opportunity came. There was a hotel named 2001 that was going to be renovated. It needed someone as knowledgeable as me to manage it, so I went there. I got along well with the owner of the 2001 hotel, and we often analyzed and worked together.
Which business is likely to make money faster.
Soon we discovered a business opportunity. The local people were very poor, but they were unwilling to work overtime to earn money. I myself encountered it. During the construction of a cast-in-place floor, the concrete was not poured in place.
I require all workers to work two hours of overtime and receive an extra day's pay.
The local workers were not willing. This kind of thing could be easily solved in China, with more money and less trouble. But the local worker said: My mother told me that it is useless to make so much money. Once the war starts, there will be nothing left.
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The locals only earn 3 US dollars a day, eat corn, and basically have no vegetables to eat. The quality of life is not good because they don’t earn much! They usually wear slippers and go barefoot, and the place they live in is even more unimaginable to us, with walls surrounded by palm leaves.
, if the roof is covered with metal sheets to protect it from wind and rain, it will be fine.
Some families only use a few thicker wooden sticks to prop up the roof. They have no doors or walls, and they cover the roof with thatch. They don’t have much property anyway, and they are not afraid of stealing or robbery. However, their living expenses are not light. Some men marry
I have four or five wives. I have a local worker who married five wives and gave birth to 20 children.
Although they usually eat very cheap corn and the like, there are too many people in the family, and the 3 US dollars earned a day still cannot make ends meet. However, the locals are very interested in new things and are willing to buy things, regardless of the quality.
, as long as it works.”
At this point, Lao Wu laughed: "Doesn't it feel incredible? The ideas of people here sound weird to us, but this is caused by the environment here. In comparison, their habits are more suitable
The environment here.”
"Now that there is no war, are they still unwilling to make their lives better?" Han Kongque asked.
"Why don't you want to? Haven't you seen that people here are willing to spend money? Otherwise, the business of my store would be so good?" Old Wu said with a smile.
"These seem to be all second-hand products. Even brand new ones in China are not expensive, right?" Han Peacock asked.
Lao Wu said: "Such second-hand goods are cheaper, while new ones are more expensive. They don't have that much money, but they are happy to buy them, and my profit is not low. Of course, selling this kind of second-hand goods is better."
Lao Wu was still very proud of selling second-hand goods. After he discovered this situation at the time, Lao Wu thought that cheap second-hand goods might be popular in the local area.
So he conducted a survey and asked local employees working in his company what they needed.
They said: "We need second-hand TV sets, second-hand mattresses, second-hand bed cabinets, second-hand cabinets..."
In China, no one wants such things, and a large part of people throw them directly into the garbage dump, especially clothes, which have no place to throw away.
Otherwise, a primary school in China needed some used clothes a few years ago, but now they don't want them anymore and still receive several tons of them every year, and there are even some very new ones among them.
Since there is such a good market, Lao Wu naturally doesn't want to let it go.
So Lao Wu organized the supply of goods, and the first batch of goods was shipped from Singapore. It only took 3 weeks to get to them. Soon, they became Lao Wu's first customers.
After that, Lao Wu and several Chinese bosses in Singapore jointly raised US$50,000 and set up a company specializing in wholesale and retail of second-hand goods - Red Star Trading.
The meaning of the name at that time also included the meaning of the national flag, hoping that the motherland would bless their business and prosper.
The second-hand goods business started at the end of May 2004, and the first general meeting of shareholders elected Lao Wu as general manager.
I had little experience at the time, so I was exploring as I went. The goods were purchased from Singapore, where the citizens are relatively wealthy. Sometimes the items that were eliminated were simply because they were out of date, while the items were still very new and very popular with the East Timorese.
In terms of publicity strategy, they continuously publish advertisements in the local "East Timor News" twice a week, and the monthly advertising fee in the newspaper alone is 700 US dollars.
There are all kinds of things for sale, whatever is good for sale, from the most expensive kitchen equipment, second-hand computers, to the cheapest 10-cent hairpins for women.
Many people accidentally came to their store and suddenly found that there were second-hand TV sets and second-hand computers for sale at a quarter to one-fifth of the original price. They were so happy that they not only bought them themselves, but also brought others to buy them again.
At this time, Lao Wu and others would pay them some business fees to stimulate them to bring new customers over.
Business was booming and the investment was recovered that year.
"Only once did I miscalculate. I bought a batch of women's clothing from a Singapore store. The price was very cost-effective, with an average of only US$1 per piece. We sold it for US$7 to US$8, but no one bought it at all, resulting in a large backlog.
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However, a few days later, a friend there called me and told me that the goods had been robbed during the riots. However, I did not take it seriously and thought my friend was joking. At that time, I saw us making money and went to the local second-hand store.
The number gradually increased, so I came out and opened my own construction company called 'Yang's Construction Pte Ltd', and I returned to my old career in the construction industry."
The locals believe in Christianity and the people are relatively kind. Except during the riots, Lao Wu has not encountered any malicious attacks before, and the crime rate is not high. Of course, there are drunken gangsters everywhere, which is not surprising.
The biggest difficulty was the language barrier. They had no language training at all before going abroad.
The local residents speak Indonesian and Portuguese. East Timor used to be an Indonesian territory, and there are a large number of Indonesian businessmen doing business there. Speaking Indonesian is a tradition and most people can speak it.
For a long time, East Timor was a colony of Portugal, so Portuguese was the official language. (~^~)