After traveling to this world, Feng Xiaochen had never been to Jinnan. Although he knew in his previous life that Jinnan was a region with a strong commercial atmosphere, he had no feeling about what Jinnan looked like now.

After leaving Hoi An, Feng Xiaochen got on a long-distance bus and headed to Jinnan. In fact, Ruan Phucang also proposed to find a small car to take Feng Xiaochen to Jinnan directly, but Feng Xiaochen politely refused. He felt that he was still young and it was okay to take a long-distance bus, so there was no need to bother Ruan Phucang.

Feng Xiaochen took a long-distance bus from Jianlu to Jinnan. When Feng Xiaochen got on the bus, he was shocked and saw that the bus was full of sacks, cardboard boxes, etc. Instead, the passengers looked like accessories and could only find a gap in the cracks between these goods. With the help of the flight attendant, Feng Xiaochen found a place to sit, which was in the aisle between the seats on both sides, and under his butt were three cardboard boxes. Because the cartons themselves were piled up high, Feng Xiaochen had to arch his waist a little to avoid his head from hitting the roof of the car.

"This won't be a bad place, right?" Feng Xiaochen asked the flight attendant worriedly while sitting down carefully.

"If you can't sit down, these are all iron tools." A man next to him replied. He was sitting in the seat, but there was a box under his butt, and he was holding a huge travel bag in his hand, blocking his face. Feng Xiaochen almost didn't recognize that there was another living person just now.

"Why are there so many things on this car?" Feng Xiaochen asked in surprise.

The man smiled and said, "Brother, is it the first time I went to Jinnan? Our Jinnan goods are shipped here like this. When you come back after purchasing the goods, you have to come out like this."

"What does it mean?" Feng Xiaochen wondered even more, "Also, why do you think I went to Jinnan for procurement?"

"If you don't do purchasing, why are you going to Jinnan for?" the man asked in confusion.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Can't I go to visit relatives and friends? I have a friend in Jinnan, so I'll go see him."

"Oh, so that's how it is." The man suddenly realized.

The car started moving, and left the bus station crookedly and headed to the road leading to Jinnan. Due to the severe overload, the car could not speed up. The driver tried hard to step on the accelerator, causing the engine to make a palpitations. Most of the passengers No. 40 and 50 sitting in the car were men. As soon as the car got on the road, everyone took out cigarettes to smoke, and chatted loudly in Haidong dialect. Feng Xiaochen felt a fog in front of his eyes, and his ears were filled with a mute and ridiculous local accent. He didn't know what they were talking about.

The road was bumpy, and the car was like a small boat surging in the waves, rising and falling. Feng Xiaochen's forehead had a passionate intimate contact with the roof of the car from time to time. Every collision made him worry about the rapid loss of IQ. If he continued to bump into this, when he arrived in Jinnan, he would probably be a fool.

"Brother, why are you pulling things back in big bags and small bags? What kind of goods are they?"

Anyway, it was bored to sit, so Feng Xiaochen chatted with the man sitting next to him.

"Since you have friends in Jin Nam, don't you know what happened to Jin Nam?" the man asked, "What are your friends doing?"

"He opens a store and sells bearings. You Jinnan is a little famous," said Feng Xiaochen.

"Who is the one selling bearings?" asked the man, "Maybe I still know you."

Feng Xiaochen asked back: "Does Jinnan sell bearings many people?"

The man smiled and said, "Of course there are many, at least forty or fifty stores. Look at the one who sits in front of him, his family sells bearings. Look, the few boxes of goods he bought this time were all imported from the Haidong Bearing Factory in Jianlu."

"What about you, what do you sell?" Feng Xiaochen asked curiously.

"The skull is the connecting parts you use in the factory," said the man. He pointed to the people around him and continued, "Now our Jinnan is a nationally famous standard parts distribution center. All provinces across the country have come to our Jinnan to purchase standard parts. However, there is a division of labor for specific things to sell. For example, I sell connecting parts, I am in Songqiang County, the gears are in Pingji County, and the bolts are in Xianghe County. Your friend sells bearings, must be in Shiyang County, right?"

"That's right, it's indeed in Shiyang County." Feng Xiaochen smiled, "He did it early and started his business in Shiyang. In order to sell bearings, he was almost arrested by the government at this time last year."

"You are talking about Mr. Yao, are you?" The man asked Feng Xiaochen with a solemn expression on his face.

Feng Xiaochen said: "His name is Yao Weiqiang. Are you referring to Mr. Yao?"

"Oh, you are actually Mr. Yao's friend!" The man's expression immediately became colorful. He let go of his hand holding the travel bag and found a pack of big front door cigarettes in his pocket. He wanted to politely swear to Feng Xiaochen, and said something like apologizing like disrespect and clumsy eyes.

Feng Xiaochen made him confused. After finally refusing the other party's kindness, Feng Xiaochen asked: "Why, brother, is Lao Yao very famous in your Jinnan?"

"Why is there no name?" the man patted his thigh and said, "It's all because of our Jinnan today that we have today. He is now the commander-in-chief of our Jinnan businesses. No, no, I mean, he is our leader!"

This man was originally a talkative person. He heard that Feng Xiaochen was Yao Weiqiang's friend, so his interest in talking was even higher. Feng Xiaochen didn't know much about Yao Weiqiang's situation, but he just made a phone call occasionally, and couldn't say much on the phone. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he began to inquire about Yao Weiqiang and Jin Nan's situation from the man, and the man also knew everything. Although what he said was so vivid, it could still reflect some of the situation.

It turned out that last year, after Feng Xiaochen asked Peiman to go to Jinnan to help Yao Weiqiang play a double act, the restrictions on Yao Weiqiang and some other "kings" in Jinnan were lifted. With the help of the government, Yao Weiqiang set up a Sino-German joint venture Filo (Jinnan) bearing distribution company, purchased bearings from bearing factories in various places and placed them in his own stores for sale.

Because he has complete products, some very unpopular bearing varieties can also be provided, and industrial enterprises across the country like to come to him to distribute goods. In the past, some companies need to use dozens of different bearings in production. Purchasers have to travel to several provinces and find seven or eight companies to complete them. Now, as long as they find Yao Weiqiang's store, they can achieve "one-stop distribution". Even if they cannot meet the needs 100%, they can also provide at least 70% to 80% of them, saving buyers a lot of time and travel expenses.

Seeing that Yao Weiqiang's business was doing well, some of the small bosses next to him began to feel itchy, so they imitated Yao Weiqiang's appearance and started the bearing business. Jinnan people probably have a commercial gene and everyone knows how to do business. These imitators will specifically study the bearing varieties sold by Yao Weiqiang, and then try every means to find some bearing varieties that Yao Weiqiang lacks, as their own characteristics, and then sell the bearings of other major goods.

As the man described to Feng Xiaochen, in just a few months, dozens of bearing distributors appeared in Shiyang County, forming the well-known "bearing street" in China. These dealers have their own characteristics, some specialize in rolling bearings, some specialize in sliding bearings, some specialize in plastic bearings, and some miniature bearings. There are also differences in grades. Some stores insist on selling high-end goods only and pay attention to quality, while some stores specialize in selling cheap and low-quality bearings to meet the needs of some township small enterprises to produce low-end industrial products.

The emergence of these imitators is not entirely a competition for Yao Weiqiang's Filo Bearing Company, but has formed a certain complementarity. Although Yao Weiqiang is capable, he cannot take over all kinds of bearings in China, especially from his own brand reputation. He cannot sell low-end bearing products, while his neighbors can fill these gaps, thus achieving a complementary effect.

As the bearing business in Shiyang County becomes bigger and bigger, merchants in several counties around have also become interested. They thought that those buyers who went to Shiyang to buy bearings might also have the demand for purchasing connectors, bolts, gears and other industrial standard parts. The bearing business has been done by Shiyang people. So can they make some achievements on other industrial standard parts?

In Jinnan, in addition to Yao Weiqiang, the "bearing king", there were originally nine other "bearing kings", who made certain specific products separately. Under the leadership of these people, Songqiang, Pingji, Xianghe and other counties have formed their own characteristic industries, and places such as bolt streets and gear streets have emerged. In this way, the entire Jinnan region has become a national industrial standard parts distribution center and a holy place for factory buyers.

"There are at least 10,000 people in Jinnan who are traveling abroad, purchasing various standard pieces and transporting them to Jinnan. I don't brag about it. Except for those particularly large standard pieces, it is not cost-effective to ship them back and sell them. Other things, as long as they are available in China, can be found in Jinnan. The goods here are complete than those from the Ministry of Materials." The man said with a gaze.

"You just said that Lao Yao is your commander-in-chief, so what's going on? He sells bearings and you sells connecting parts. Do you have any connection?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Hearing Feng Xiaochen's question, the man lowered his voice, pretended to be mysterious, and said, "This matter starts with what you said about Mr. Yao being almost arrested by the government. Do you know why the government not only did not arrest him, but also asked him to do a bigger business?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "I heard Lao Yao talk about this. I heard that he found a German company and he had a joint venture with him, so the government opened his mouth to him."
Chapter completed!