Braving the hot weather and sweating, the two of them walked under the shadow of the buildings like the citizens, walking through half of Shanghai, and finally arrived not far from the agreed meeting point with the fourth team.
"You take my luggage and meet them, and then take one person to the agreed place to get weapons and other things. I have something to do here, and I will meet you when the time comes. If something goes wrong..."
Lin Mo made some arrangements. He would have to go alone to meet some people later, so some simple tasks later required a few people to handle alone, so he made arrangements.
"...Don't I need to follow you to protect you..." Zhu Sanbao hesitated for a moment, then asked carefully.
"...No need..." Lin Mo shook his head and said: "The place I am going to is very safe. What is dangerous is some of the subsequent actions. I need to get more protection for the weapons first."
Zhu Sanbao nodded without asking any more questions. The two of them entered a narrow path on the roadside in front. When no one was around, Lin Mo took a dark brown briefcase from the box, took a coat and left.
When he came to Shanghai again, Lin Mo once again appeared at the door of Lin's Trading Company. However, he did not take off the disguise on his face and did not directly identify himself. He just said that he was here to discuss business matters.
Although not everyone was allowed in here, but after seeing Lin Mo's attire and asking a few questions, there was no problem, so they were let directly into the lobby, where there were business staff to contact them, and some of the products produced and sold by the Lin family were also displayed in the lobby.
Lin Mo indicated that he should take a look and get to know him first, and finally found a familiar family member in the lobby. He quietly identified himself, pretended to be an acquaintance and said a few polite words, and then seemed to be taken upstairs for reception.
A few minutes later, Lin Mo had already sat in Lin Zhenping's office and started drinking tea. However, the other party was dealing with something and had to wait a while before coming over. He arranged for his secretary to come over to entertain Lin Mo.
The secretary was also from the Lin family, and Lin Mo also knew him. However, he was about half a decade older than Lin Mo. He was not familiar with her, but only looked familiar. He just said hello briefly, and did not say more or ask more questions. He just spoke in person.
Taking care of tasks such as serving tea and pouring water.
Lin Mo didn't say anything. He drank some tea and leaned slightly on the sofa. He was tired. He drove the No. 11 bus for a long time today, and it was still under the hot sun and on the streets. He had to take a while.
Take it slow.
Inside the business, there are now some ice mirrors, ice basins, ice trays, etc. placed everywhere to cool down, but it is very cool and quiet to relieve the heat. It is just the right time to clear your mind. The exchange later will probably cost a lot.
brain.
The secretary brought in a fruit basket with a lot of things, including peaches, apples, pears, plums, loquats, plums, bananas, and even cut pineapples, mangoes, sugar cane, and the taken-out jackfruit pulp.
Years and months, it’s not easy to collect all of these!
However, Lin Mo just took off a banana and peeled it off. It felt a bit thick, and a relatively strong fragrance rushed into his nasal cavity. Lin Mo involuntarily inhaled gently to smell the fragrance. Just when he wanted to taste it, Lin Zhenping had already
Came over.
Lin Mo felt a little regretful and put it down first and said hello. After all, he came to disturb him without saying hello. He is still his elder and the due etiquette should be done.
"...You sit down for a while. I'll sign a few names and stamp it first. It just so happens that I need to communicate with you about some things recently. I'll have a good chat after I finish handling the matter."
Lin Zhenping didn't want to be polite, just said something, took the things to the desk, carefully looked through them to make sure there were no problems, then picked up the pen, signed, stamped, and handed it to the secretary.
After the secretary went out and closed the door carefully, Lin Zhenping took out the key and opened a closet door behind the desk, revealing a safe directly embedded in the wall.
As for Lin Mo, after sitting down, he picked up the banana again and took a bite. As a result, his mind wandered for nine days, but his mouth was still there, chewing and chewing after eating.
Who am I? Where am I? Does banana taste like this? Did I go back in time and haven’t eaten bananas for a while and almost forgot about it? Or has my body never had such a big reaction to this taste? Or...
The firm and smooth texture, the sweet and glutinous taste, completely overturned Lin Mo's understanding of bananas. His mind was filled with thoughts and speculations. After eating, Lin Mo finally realized this.
It should be the banana itself.
Lin Mo looked carefully and found out that they were different from those bananas in his previous life. The fruit was bigger, the skin was thicker, and the fragrance was richer. He estimated that this was the legendary Big Mac. He didn't know when it became extinct, so he thought it was there.
It was already extinct earlier!
Lin couldn't help but break off another one and smell the fragrant banana smell through the skin. It's no wonder that before the disease hit, other banana varieties were almost extinct, leaving no trace of the Huajiao that was common in later generations.
It’s such an extraordinary feeling to have a chance to stand out!
"...How is it? Doesn't it taste good?" Li Zhenping came over and sat down with a stack of paper pages about three or four fingers thick in his hands, and asked with a smile.
"It's indeed delicious!" Lin Mo nodded and didn't say anything against his will!
"If you like to eat, I'll have someone take it away for you later. You can eat whatever you want. But it's hard to get tired of it even if you eat it casually. Do you want someone to bring you some more often in the future?"
"Is there a lot of this stuff?" Lin Mo felt a little strange. This must be a tropical effect? There shouldn't be any suitable place to grow it around, right?
"There is still a semi-warehouse! Eat as much as you want. It will be delivered if you don't finish it. Don't worry about whether it is enough." Lin Zhenping waved his hand, indicating that it was no problem at all.
This made Lin Mo a little curious. After learning about it, he realized that it was actually related to rubber. It turned out that the price of rubber is extremely cheap now. The Lin family expanded their business in this area and produced many kinds of rubber products. Although some products did not look like elastic bands at first.
It was a hot seller, but after some publicity and distribution, business was pretty good.
Therefore, when importing rubber now, it is shipped by chartered ship one by one. However, there will always be unlucky times. Sometimes the ship must set sail before it is full. If the wait continues, it may be impossible to leave the port or there may be safety hazards due to weather and other reasons.
It's dangerous and may delay business here.
The manager responsible for purchasing rubber feels that it is a pity that sometimes the ships are empty. He simply buys some durable and durable fruits that are not common here and transports them back at the pier. Anyway, the customs management is quite loose and confusing.
, just bring it back and give points when the time comes.
As a result, the feedback received from this behavior was very good. The main reason is that bananas are delicious. You can eat them by yourself, invite friends, entertain customers, and even give gifts. From now on, it will become a routine operation. As long as there is free space on the ship, you will bring various kinds of bananas with you.
Fruit comes back.
"...Among them, bananas are the best. They are rare items in most places in the country. They taste good, are easy to eat without dirtying your hands, and are durable and durable. Nowadays, branches of commercial banks all over the country basically have this item to entertain customers.
Mainly because most customers are quite satisfied with it.
Mangoes, pineapples, and this thing called jackfruit are also brought here. The first two are mainly used to accelerate ripening. They can withstand storage and transportation before they are ripe, and the taste is okay. The latter ones are almost the same, but some varieties have a very special taste.
Well, the ones delivered are from specific regions and specific varieties. There are few opportunities to deliver them, and the quantity is not too large.
Moreover, jackfruit is very troublesome to clean up. If you cut open the peel of the fruit, the juice will leak out, which is very troublesome to get on your hands. The first two are not easy to clean up. The best is banana. If we had not given up the import business now, I guess this would have been done.
It became a new business deal for the Lin family..."
Lin Mo nodded and tasted everything. Although it was indeed delicious, he declined his offer to deliver it regularly. However, he did not completely refuse his kindness. He just asked him to arrange for someone to deliver a batch of fruits around twelve o'clock the day after tomorrow.
Go to the designated place.
I'm not worried about finding out anything from this, because there are some for sale on the market, but they are rarer and more expensive, and the people who import and sell them are Seven Star Company, which is stealing the Lin family's business.
I guess they are worried about the Lin family and are paying attention! After all, the Lin family still purchases a lot of things from outside, but the Lin family has not crossed the line. On the contrary, an unexpected move has brought a profitable business to the other party, because these things are relatively durable and durable.
, there are not many transportation costs, and the purchase is even cheaper. According to its selling price, these are almost nothing.
The profit margin, let alone industrial products, luxury goods, etc., is probably not even comparable to that of drugs. However, Lin Mo shook his head at this. How can expensive luxury business compare to large-scale business?
The cost and shipping fee of this thing are not high, and it can be sold at a relatively affordable price with a small profit. The audience group, based on people with a certain amount of money along the coast and rivers, is estimated to have tens of millions of potential buyers.
And what about the price now? Hundreds of thousands of people can afford it every day. There may be some people who yearn for the upper class life and bite the bullet and buy something to try, but how many people are willing to bear it? And the people in the upper class who can afford it can choose to consume.
If there are too many, you may start to buy news at high prices without blinking an eye, but after this novelty, the frequency of purchases will not be much more than that of ordinary consumers, and may even be worse.
The difference between hundreds of thousands and tens of millions of purchasing groups is a hundred times of magnitude. Assuming that you take the bulk route and earn double the profit from ordinary consumer groups, it means that you have to sell to high-end consumer groups at a hundred times the price to even out the total profit.
People are not fools. How many people really don’t care about money? What’s more, there are so many choices. Even if someone admires this kind of life and buys it, the bottom class will not envy ordinary people. The number is estimated to be even larger, and these two groups can
The selection of things is even poorer. For such things that are quite cost-effective in terms of taste and price, a single consumer will most likely buy far more than high-end consumers.
Furthermore, this product is not really scarce, it is just artificially created, and something with a high profit margin is simply too tempting. Once someone knows that they are targeting it, a bunch of people from all walks of life will definitely pounce on it like a bad wolf ship.
Several times, more than ten times the profit, you can drive a big speedboat on the sea and play hide and seek with the heavily armed coast guard and customs, let alone dozens of times? Just enjoy dozens of times the profit,
Even drug dealers can't afford this thought. A profit of several thousand percent is enough to make people put aside all worries and fears, so the total amount is not too big, otherwise the Lin family would not just sit back and watch.
Let’s not mention these smugglers, but let’s talk about the various foreign forces on the territory of the government. You can’t and don’t dare to control them. How can people not get involved in such a profitable business?
No matter how much money you make in a high-margin business, and how many days you can hold it, it is better to take the bulk route when you first discover business opportunities, and combine plantation owners, purchasers, transportation ship owners, shipping companies, and domestic distribution and wholesale merchants.
, build an interest alliance, and then even if someone wants to get involved in the business, someone will be able to share the pressure on all parties for you.
Lin Mo's calculation was absolutely correct. Not long after they evacuated Shanghai, some Japanese businessmen discovered something fishy, and then they brought several shipments of bananas from Taiwan, followed by British businessmen, American businessmen, French businessmen, Portuguese and Spanish businessmen, and even overseas Chinese from Nanyang.
, Hong Kong and Macao businessmen entered the market one after another, shipped a large number of goods from Nanyang, and made them affordable or even cheap. The Seven Star Company did not even dare to offend these people casually. The market was divided up, and these guys did not make any profit in the end.