Chapter 072 This is the profit from robbing a bank
Brother Wu of Bamboo Society comes and goes in a hurry.
After the helicopters left, Lin Zhengying looked around, then held an umbrella and said wordlessly, "Director, us?"
Zhao Donghuai had already asked the field assistant and others to take away the camera, and said calmly, "What does it have to do with us? Do whatever you need to do, shoot the movie."
After filming the aviation scene, it was time to shoot outside the airport. There were more than one scene outside the airport. The first time was when Lan Jieying and He Qing arrived by plane and were deceived by the uncle played by Zhang Guorong.
Then Lin Zhengying flew over to find her daughter, rescued her, found Ah Rong in the area, fought, beat up Ah Rong and his accomplices, and then chased Ah Rong, causing Ah Rong to jump off an overpass and into the street, where he was hit by a car and died.
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after a while.
The filming of the Hurricane Rescue crew went smoothly. The scene between Lan Jieying and He Qing was completed in two official filmings. When Lin Zhengying came on the scene to shoot the scene chasing Zhang Guorong, something unexpected happened.
Ah Wing ran all the way outside the airport and onto the overpass. Ah Ying grabbed the car and chased her. Ah Wing jumped off the bridge. He first jumped to a parked truck below, got out of the car, and was hit by another car.
The stand-in failed to jump continuously. He stepped on the front windshield when jumping out of the truck, and injured his sprained foot when he landed. He could not continue and could only shout "Ka".
The piece of glass is not completely broken, there are some dents and cracks.
Cars and everything else are rented from Wanwan.
The work was temporarily suspended. The person from the car rental company came forward and said calmly, "A piece of windshield costs 3,000 Hong Kong dollars. Let's record it."
As soon as he said this, a clerk came out and cursed, "Poujie, don't think I don't know anything. A relative of mine works in a glass shop. The maximum cost of a windshield is 2,000 Hong Kong dollars."
At cost.”
The people at the car rental company were unhappy, "Oh shit, the ex-factory price is shared with our Taoyuan distributor, and it's still HK$1,000 per piece. Why don't you just go to the manufacturer and buy one? If you say 3,000, it's 3,000."
"We went to the glass shop to get the goods, which cost at least more than 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a piece!"
"You have such a big crew, but you still lack money for a piece of glass? You can't afford to film any movies."
The field manager was furious and wanted to say something else. Zhao Donghuai, who was carrying a handheld camera, said, "Okay, let's calculate it at 3,000."
Seeing the situation, I didn’t say much more.
The person from the car rental company smiled and nodded, "Boss, I wish you a smooth start."
Zhao Donghuai didn't say anything more and walked back to try again. His substitute's sprained foot was injured? Just replace him. There is no shortage of dragon and tiger martial arts masters in Hong Kong in this day and age.
While walking, another flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.
Auto glass seems to have a lot of potential.
He recalled the story of a wealthy man in southern Fujian Province who made his fortune from glass. In 1983, he contracted a small glass factory and began to make glass for water meters like the mainland's "check water meters." It was not until 1985 that the industry was transferred to automobiles.
Glass.
There seems to be a little story here that I don’t know whether it is true or not. The rich man Cao was riding in a car and was scolded by the driver not to break the glass. It cost several thousand yuan. He was a glass maker himself and was surprised how it could be so expensive.
I went back to check it out and researched it, and found a big mess.
A car windshield that cost less than 200 yuan could be sold for three to four thousand yuan on the market. This was 1983!
Don't think that a piece of glass was so expensive in 1983 that no one could afford it. It can be said that there were very few private cars driving in the mainland in this era... and it was not sold to private cars.
Truck drivers in the 1960s and 1970s, taxi drivers in the early 1980s, and car drivers, ordinary people simply cannot apply for this kind of job.
At that time, many cars in the mainland were imported, including smuggled cars. However, in terms of production technology, it was difficult for mainland glass factories to produce automotive glass. Even if they were produced, it was far inferior to international standards. Car glass was almost monopolized by island glass.
Domestic products on the island are so expensive, costing less than 200 yuan, and can be sold 15 to 20 times for you. This is the profit from bank robbery, and official cars and smuggled cars are the big customers.
That wealthy man from Southern Fujian Province, Cao, imported various international equipment for glass production and produced the first piece of car glass that followed international standards, such as the front windshield, which was priced at 2,000 yuan a piece, and demand exceeded supply.
In the early days, due to limitations such as production capacity and company distribution channels, it was not too fast to make a fortune.
After all, if a township enterprise starts out, even if it imports foreign production lines and production techniques and wants to spread its products across the country at once, it will still take time to slowly make money and expand its operations.
But he did it. He became the king of Chinese car glass and sold it to Europe and the United States in the future. Even at Amei’s house, a piece of glass for 30 US dollars can be sold for more than 200 US dollars a piece at a retailer. This layer of distribution makes too much profit.
Run to play direct sales.
Later, I was sued by Amei and Dana, and spent more than 100 million on a protracted anti-dumping case.
The batch of waste paper that Zhao Donghuai bought from Amei last time, as well as the more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars transferred from the sale of industrial air purifiers, have already arrived!
That thing was done before Hurricane Rescue was officially formed. Now Hurricane Rescue is almost finished! There are only a few location scenes left.
"If I build a glass factory from scratch, it will be too slow... I am still thinking of taking over the Shaw Brothers Cinema chain! I must raise enough money before April 1985 to have a chance to snatch it from Pan Disheng."
"Originally, I thought I would take advantage of this Wanwan filming trip to visit Wanwan's industrial air purifier manufacturer, buy some goods and transfer them to make money."
"But car glass, windshield? The guy at the car rental company said that the factory price is only 1,000 Hong Kong dollars per piece, which is discounted to 400 RMB. Now the island country's glass monopolized by the mainland sells for 3,000 to 4,000 RMB!"
What is this concept? In 1983, the black market price was only 4 cents per Hong Kong dollar.
This is more profitable than an industrial purifier!
Also, the ex-factory price sold to distributors in Benbei, Taoyuan, Wan and other places is HKD 1,000. Distributors in one city or county sell to glass shops one after another and increase the price, and the stores sell to retail buyers at additional prices.
Belongs to the foundation of all industries in society.
In the era of Internet big data in later generations, various large platforms are still mature, killing sellers and buyers, and then reporting "losses every year"...it is said that all money disappears from the world.
After filming today's scene, after the crew moved to Taoyuan Airport, Zhao Donghuai left the trivial matters to Lin Zhengying and Cheng Xiaodong. He thought about it himself and first contacted an industrial air purifier manufacturer. The ex-factory price is more than 2,000 knives, but after adding
The tax is over 3,000 dollars.
Ship it back to the mainland and sell it for 10,000 U.S. dollars, with a net profit of more than 200%. Make a profit!
For car windshields, in 1983, the largest glass company in Benwan, Fanbo Group, had just put into operation its first flat float glass factory for a few months. It still cooperated with Niu Buluo and obtained the most advanced technology from Niu Buluo.
Float automotive glass is generally the most advanced windshield technology in the world.
He tried to talk on the phone and mentioned that he might purchase a large amount of goods, worth tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. They were very decisive. After calculating the tax, it was directly equivalent to 750 Hong Kong dollars per piece, which is equivalent to 300 RMB per piece.
If he buys goods worth 10 million Hong Kong dollars, has the windshields shipped back to the mainland and island countries priced at the same price, and sells them for 3,000 to 4,000 yuan a piece, this theoretically turns them into 100 million Hong Kong dollars!
The problem is that it is easy to earn RMB, but it is difficult to convert it into Hong Kong dollars.
You can't find car owners who need windshields one by one, sell them piece by piece, and ask them to pay in Hong Kong dollars. That's nonsense. They are basically public cars.
Find a distributor in each province, and then find a distributor at the provincial level and then at the city and county level? That will reduce profits step by step, but it will still make more money than industrial air purifiers.