It's late at night, but the fax machine keeps ringing.
Lin Wan tore off the fax page, glanced at it and handed it to the blonde girl next to her, telling her to fill in the form and pay the account.
International trade is actually a very long process, involving a wide range of areas, and is quite complex.
In the past three months, 'Holy Light' has quickly completed the transportation of 500 freight trains, and four Tu-154s have also flown to the Imperial Capital to join the United Airlines fleet.
Because of fast delivery, low price and guaranteed quality, ‘Shengguang’ has naturally established its reputation in the market.
Whether it was Deputy Minister Chuikov, the ‘Holy Light’ visiting group, or even some Da Mao businessmen who came here because of the reputation, they all provided the ‘Holy Light’ with purchase and sale orders for a large number of goods.
For example, with a stroke of his pen, Chuikov sold the IL-76 that was currently in operation to the Holy Light in the name of "second-hand equipment".
Also sold was the overhaul line for large aircraft. This includes 2,000 professional engineering and technical personnel under the Ministry of Aviation Industry, 1,000 professional training places in aviation colleges, and tens of thousands of large and small manufacturing and maintenance equipment.
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For these equipments, the 'Holy Light' tour group had to bargain with Maozi for a long time. Because Maozi's industry has developed abnormally, the good ones are good, the bad ones are bad, and some equipment is not as good as domestically produced.
You can save a lot of money by choosing carefully.
In addition, planes can fly away directly. However, the transportation capacity of aviation and railways alone is obviously not enough for the equipment for overhaul lines, and they need to be transported by sea.
‘Holy Light’ has no shipping channels and does not understand the commercial laws of various countries. There are currently few people familiar with international trade in the country.
Lin Wangen had never handled shipping business before, so she had to learn everything from scratch. She went from being clueless to being able to cope with it in the past three months, which was a lot of hard work.
Later, the solution was simple. Just spend money to hire corresponding business personnel from Moscow. Maozi himself had frequent trade contacts with Europe, and there were many professionals.
For example, Lin Wan's sister Mao, who is in her thirties, used to work in the customs department. Shengguang paid twice the salary to hire her. She works hard, works overtime diligently, and has a responsible attitude. She is really a rare good employee.
Once you recruit one, you can continue to recruit a group. Now there are only about ten Chinese employees such as Lin Wan, but more than 20 local people are hired.
'Holy Light' will transport all the large goods obtained from Damao's house to Leningrad, that is, St. Petersburg, and rent European freighters for shipment to Guangzhou. The entire shipping period takes about one or two months.
As for domestic goods, they also need to be shipped by chartering ships in Guangzhou or Shanghai. Each transportation volume is more than 10,000 tons, which can easily include a thousand heavy trucks, or millions of pieces of clothing plus 10,000 tons of non-staple food.
In the past three months, 'Holy Light' has rented more than 20 ships. The total transportation volume exceeds 500,000 tons. The first batch of ships has arrived at the shore to complete loading and unloading.
Shipping is also related to finance. Lin Wan not only has to deal with freight forwarders, but also with European banks and insurance companies.
‘Holy Light’ is recruiting people from China for internships so that one day it can truly go global. In short, for an international group, the affairs it faces are also international.
Zhou Qingfeng plans to open a "Holy Light" branch in Moscow to hire local people to work for him. This branch can even reach the entire European market, making it easier to earn foreign exchange.
Overseas trade in this era is really profitable, with extremely high profits.
A large number of domestic clothes appeared on the market in Moscow, and the originally empty counters gained a bit of color. The styles are definitely the latest in Europe, and the materials may be a little worse, but the price is half the price.
The goblins especially like to cut and design clothes. They will get inspiration from European fashion magazines and design models that suit the habits and body shapes of local consumers.
The textile and clothing industries in the capital produce coats, shoes, hats, underwear, etc. based on these model garments and export them in large quantities.
Because the prices are cheap and the styles are novel, a large number of clothing orders appear in front of Lin Wan through the fax machine every day. She is extremely surprised by the consumption status of this collapsed empire.
It is clear that society is in a mess, but our spending power is not bad at all.
Zhou Qingfeng once explained: "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Mao Xiong completed basic industrialization and modernization fifty years ago.
Its citizens are accustomed to living a well-off life, with abundant food and clothing, easy work and entertainment, and ordinary workers have travel holidays every year. In comparison, we are really poor."
In the 1980s and 1990s, the life of Mao Xiong was in line with Europe. People's economy was getting worse and worse, but consumer demand was not bad at all. He would listen to opera even if he was hungry.
Only in a few years, when the Maoist oligarchs are everywhere, businesses go bankrupt, and the economy collapses, will their people realize that the great motherland that once protected them really no longer exists.
What is the current situation...?
Lin Wan is still a 'bumpkin' in nature and cannot understand the thoughts of the common people in Mao Xiong.
The steady stream of orders is really gratifying. Domestic products of all types and grades can find corresponding markets in Moscow.
Mao Zi has the habit of eating canned food. Canned fruits, canned pork, canned fish, everything. The canned goods in Tianyang area have long been purchased by the Holy Light, forcing them to search for sources across the country.
Before, when He Yulan was looking for a fully automatic food production line, the units under the provincial Department of Light Industry ignored her. Now, the order volume is large enough, and others are begging her to buy the production line.
In the canned food category alone, Holy Light supports at least 100,000 people in the domestic industry chain. Domestic media are reporting that canned food suddenly became popular in the second half of this year, with both production and sales booming.
Lin Wan's team handles hundreds of demand orders every day. Every time she sends an order back, she can feel inspired. Behind the orders are often the livelihoods of a company and dozens or hundreds of employees.
You must know that Maozi’s demand is really growing. They even want to import pots and pans from ‘Holy Light’. Such as ceramic dishes, metal cutlery, kitchen supplies, household appliances and furniture.
The orders for these ordinary goods were placed in front of Lin Wan, which confused the top students at Modu Finance - why did Maozi even import these goods with no technical content? Can't they produce them themselves?
Some traders even took the initiative to introduce orders from some European countries to the Holy Light, which also included a large number of ordinary products in daily life.
Zhou Qingfeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this. He could at most explain, "It's not easy to make products cheap. Maozi doesn't produce because they are doing it themselves, and Europe doesn't produce because labor is too expensive.
Ignore it, as long as you make money.
We need a dedicated overseas trade department to handle this business, which cannot be handled by one or two hundred people. It may develop into a very large department."
At present, the Moscow branch of 'Holy Light' has not yet been established, and Lin Wan, the secretary-general, has to be on the front line for a long time.
Due to the time difference and to cope with the increasing purchase demands, her sleep has been reduced to three or four hours a day.
At two o'clock in the night, Secretary Lin could finally go to sleep for a while. But Zhou Qingfeng opened the door of the office, walked in excitedly and shouted: "Er Mao's market is open. We have another place to sell goods.
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Lin Wan closed her eyes tiredly, bumped into the desk, and murmured: "Come on, come on, I can't stand it anymore."