Turkey's land is surrounded by water on three sides, the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Its main body is the Anatolian Peninsula, and only the east is connected to the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East.
This results in the Tuji's coastline being extremely long, and there are a large number of ports, villages, and towns along the coast. It is very easy to transport goods ashore, and smuggling is also particularly easy.
The local chicken merchant Ilham contacted was a typical smuggler and a rich man in the town. His residence was a large courtyard surrounded by walls, and an imported satellite TV receiver was installed on the roof.
It’s just that European products are too expensive and most people can’t afford them.
People in the town still like to watch the excitement. When they heard that goods in short supply have arrived in Hong Kong, they all came to the rich man's house and gathered around the yard to wait and see. The rich man also did not miss this publicity opportunity and moved a large color TV and placed it in the yard for everyone to see.
Demonstration.
Assembly, positioning, and wiring are all not difficult.
A twisted pair wire is led from the 'pot' that receives the signal. The main body of the receiver is like a set-top box, placed on the top of the color TV. The special thing is that this device is equipped with a remote control.
The TV is placed at home and can be operated while sitting on the sofa.
According to the instructions, all configurations are very simple. Just slightly adjust the direction of the roof receiving antenna, and clear pictures and sounds will soon be transmitted from the TV.
Wow..., there was an uproar inside and outside the rich man's yard.
A TV needs to have a signal, but cable TV is not yet popular. Every household either uses a Yagi antenna or a 'pot'.
The Yagi antenna is the simplest, just put together a few cans. But its reception effect is too average, far inferior to the reception of low-orbit satellites.
The wealthy man pressed the remote control in his hand and adjusted several channels in succession. He was very satisfied and said to Ilham: "This has a good reception effect. It is easy to use and is much better than the French product. How much does one cost?"
The price was mentioned on the radio before landing. Ilham understood that the rich man wanted to tell the crowd of onlookers. He thought about it and said: "Retail price is five hundred US dollars, and there is a 20% discount for more than ten units."
This was definitely not the transaction price of both parties, but the rich man in the town held the remote control, pointed at the beautiful European female host on the TV screen, and shouted to the surroundings:
"Look, such a good thing only costs five hundred dollars. If you buy one, you will have something to do at night. I know some TV stations show good movies. It can be cheaper if you buy more. It is half the price of French products."
There is a whole set of smuggling sales channels in the town, and everyone makes a living from it. The wealthy businessman is obviously the core, and those who surround his house are the distributors.
As soon as he shouted, someone immediately stood up and wanted to talk carefully and inspect the goods.
The sales price of 'Holy Light' in Odessa is two hundred dollars per unit, and the retail price is definitely much more expensive. But no matter how expensive it is, it is still half the price of European products.
On the day Ilham arrived at Tuji Port, all three thousand satellite receivers were loaded and unloaded. Distributors in the town rushed over to get the goods, and in one night, all the supplies were divided up.
That night, more than 200 receiving antennas were erected in the town. Residents found that their nightlife became very exciting. The variety of TV programs was beyond imagination, especially the late-night program, which kept people awake all night.
European TV stations, that scale is quite large. Europeans themselves don’t realize it, but it is a critical blow to a society as ruthless as native chickens, and it will be of great benefit to increase the birth rate next year.
With this practice, the distributors in this small town were even more excited and confident in the products in their hands. They drove various means of transportation and headed inland with the goods the next day.
At this time, it is a race against time. The sooner you sell, the more funds you can collect to buy the next wave.
Ilham made money from just one trip. He stayed at a rich man's house in the town that day and ate roast mutton in the courtyard at night. By the way, besides receivers, was the sale of other goods good?
"Almost every family in the town has relatives in Europe, especially many who go to work in Germany. Everyone has some remittance income, and they have high vision, and they don't like ordinary things."
The wealthy man felt quite proud when he said this.
After World War II, the European economy entered a period of rapid recovery and labor became scarce. The French thought of their black uncles in their North African colonies, and the Germans thought of their old friends, the native chickens.
As a result, a large number of black uncles poured into "Francestan", and native chicken workers worked hard for "Deutsche Mann". France and Germany were the economic engines of Europe, and they felt that they were really smart at the time.
But if I watch it fifty years later... I don’t know whether it’s smart or stupid. Anyway, we can just watch the joke from a distance.
"The goods shipped from Ukraine are really suitable for us. Home appliances were sold very well before, with the latest styles and cheap prices. But..."
The rich man frowned as he spoke, "There are too many home appliances coming in recently."
"Too much?" Ilham was eating sliced mutton, a little surprised by this, "Can't it be sold?"
"It's cheap and easy to use. Everyone likes it." The wealthy man affirmed at first, but still shook his head and said, "But the trouble is that there are so many smuggled goods that it affects the sales of our own domestic products."
Tuji also has a home appliance industry, and domestic and foreign sales are part of its economy. However, 'Shengguang' began to reduce domestic sales of 'e-waste' in 1992 to protect its own industry, and instead shipped goods abroad.
dumping.
The home appliances purchased from the e-commerce platform were refurbished, and their performance and price were unmatched by their opponents. The local chicken provoked Uncle Zhou, and he immediately discovered that the number of home appliances smuggled in on weekdays was more than ten times higher than before.
This order of magnitude increase has brought extremely terrible side effects. There are a large number of smuggling ships on the Black Sea, which are transshipped from Odessa and then invested in the domestic and foreign markets of native chickens, directly causing huge competitive pressure on the industry.
"I don't know why, but 24-inch color TVs are now half cheaper than in the past, and the quantity shipped is several times more. I traveled to several cities and found that none of our domestic color TVs or even European brand color TVs can be sold."
The wealthy man said with compassion and concern, "I have talked with some electrical appliance store owners and they said that if this situation is not stopped, our home appliance industry will be crushed."
Ilham stopped the meat-cutting knife and asked in a low voice: "Then you will boycott smuggled electrical appliances shipped from Odessa in the future?"
The rich man immediately waved his hand and said unceremoniously: "How can that be done? All the people in our town depend on this business for their livelihood? At least one or two hundred ports along the coast are doing this. If we don't do it, others will do it.
More.
Who doesn’t like the electrical appliances shipped by ‘Holy Light’ that are cheap and good? Even the owners of electrical appliance stores are reluctant to part with the profits. They are just complaining, and if there are no smuggled goods, they will complain even louder.”
Ilham thought that these local chickens had suddenly changed their gender, but he felt relieved when he heard that they were still as greedy for money as ever. In his opinion, the home appliance industry of the local chickens was dead, and there were still fewer competitors.
The rich man's patriotism could not resist his pursuit of wealth, but he was still very worried about the country's situation. "In addition to the inability to sell domestic appliances, our textiles seem to have been affected recently."