I simply said hello to the people in the same carriage, then lay on my bed and started reading.
The clanking of the train tracks and the noisy chatter of people around him could not affect Lin Yi. He was already immersed in it.
In fact, this kind of immersive reading feels very refreshing.
My whole mind seems to have left my body, and I have wandered into the world of books. Learning makes me happy, and learning will make me happier in the future.
Three days later,
Lin Yi checked into that hotel again.
"Boss, we meet again." Lin Yi greeted the hotel owner.
"It's Brother Lin. He's here again just ten days ago. It seems business is going well." The hotel owner said with a smile.
“Really good.”
"Are you going to pick up the goods from the last place this time? I'll contact you." the hotel owner said.
"Is there a better place if I change this time?" Lin Yi asked.
He not only visits more places to purchase goods, but also inspects the market to fully understand the current market conditions.
"No problem, I guarantee it will be bigger than last time and have more complete products." The innkeeper promised.
The boss opened a room for Lin Yi,
Lin Yi happily paid the 50 yuan information fee.
Lin Yi was woken up at five o'clock in the morning the next day. He followed the same routine as last time and boarded a boat at the pier, carrying a boatload of trespassers to an island.
This market is indeed bigger than the last island. There are fifty or sixty local shops with more types of goods. There are seven or eight shops that only sell sunglasses.
On the island, he saw someone exchanging gold and foreign currency.
You should know that domestic gold trading is now subject to strict controls, private gold and silver trading has been frozen, and domestic gold and silver trading is stipulated to be uniformly operated by banks.
Gold jewelry was not allowed until 1982.
It is said that when the gold store in Beijing opened, more than a ton of gold jewelry was sold in one day. People said that they were poor at that time, but their purchasing power was still terrifying.
Nowadays, gold and silver trading on the island is naturally illegal. They mainly collect gold, and then take the gold and silver to the sea to trade with smugglers.
They mainly collect, but of course they also sell, but they will increase the price. Lin Yi thinks this is normal. Making the difference is the most basic means of doing business.
As for foreign exchange exchange.
Nowadays, the country has strict control. It is said that the country's foreign exchange reserves are only a few hundred million US dollars and some other foreign currencies. Foreigners who come to China must exchange them for foreign exchange coupons in order to collect foreign currencies.
With foreign exchange coupons, you can buy many things that you can’t buy in ordinary department stores at Youyi Store, and you don’t need a coupon.
Nowadays, many people go abroad, but the country only gives a very small amount of foreign exchange quota. It is good for one person to exchange a few hundred dollars, but it is really not enough. There are also many people who want to bring something back from abroad, so they need more.
Many foreign currencies.
When the right path fails, a black market naturally arises.
In the 1980s, the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar was about 1.7 yuan for 1 U.S. dollar, but people simply didn’t recognize that, and the renminbi could not be freely converted into U.S. dollars.
On the black market, this exchange rate can be doubled several times. One U.S. dollar can be exchanged for six or seven yuan. It is not uncommon for black points to exchange for eight or nine yuan. The highest peak in history is said to have reached 1:12.
Lin Yi went in and asked about the exchange price, "How can I exchange U.S. dollars?"
The man looked at Lin Yi and said: "1 to 8 U.S. dollars."
"Where's the Hong Kong dollar?"
"HKD 0.5 to 1".
Lin Yixin said.
It would be great if I could earn U.S. dollars or Hong Kong dollars. Anyway, the system eats RMB, and the U.S. dollars can be exchanged for RMB on the black market, which can multiply several times in one go.
But I can only think about it.
Given his current situation, it would be difficult for him to go abroad. For the time being, he might as well pursue the honorable and lucrative career of being a bad guy.
Pick up the goods.
The prices here are basically the same as the prices on the island I went to for the first time. I guess they also got angry, otherwise the market would be in chaos if they were all asking for prices.
Seven or eight merchants selling sunglasses,
Lin Yi ran from house to house.
He was not slow in picking up the goods. By noon, he had already picked up enough goods and walked out with two large bags in his hands. There was a restaurant next to him. Lin Yi went in and ordered a bowl of noodles to fill his stomach and take a rest.
There is a stall next to the restaurant,
There are various printed materials on it.
Some people gathered around the stall, laughing and talking in low voices while watching. Lin Yi went over curiously, and after seeing it, he thought he was a good guy.
color changing lighter,
beauty poker,
illustration pictures,
Novels with all kinds of exciting titles and a lot of ellipses.
Some bikini-clad posters and calendars are the most normal.
Reform and Opening,
When capital and technology are introduced, some messy things also come in, and this is inevitable.
Maybe these things are somewhat attractive to others, but for Lin Yi, who has been baptized by modern information and owns several T hard drive seeds, these can only be regarded as elementary products.
But when he saw those calendars, some ideas suddenly came to his mind.
"Boss, how do you sell these calendars?" Lin Yi asked.
"A single sheet is 5 cents a piece, and a set of twelve is 5 yuan a piece." The stall owner was a middle-aged greasy man who answered in broken Mandarin.
The price the boss said was obviously too expensive.
"What about wholesale?" Lin Yi asked.
"If you want to wholesale in large quantities, the price is RMB 30 for a single sheet and RMB 3 for a set of twelve." The boss gave a similar price this time.
Department stores also have wall calendars,
It’s good to sell before the Chinese New Year every year.
Basically, a single sheet costs one yuan, and a set of twelve pictures costs 10 yuan. However, most of the wall calendars sold in department stores feature landscapes, potted flowers and birds, and celebrity calligraphy and paintings. There will definitely not be anyone wearing a bikini.
Beauty.
They are a state-owned enterprise that sells calendars with sexually explicit content. If problems are raised by the superiors, the leaders will definitely be held accountable and punished. Those department store leaders are known for their stability. If they don’t make mistakes, they have merit, so it is impossible to sell these.
Style wall calendar.
It's now November, and it's almost the time to change the calendar. If I can get a batch of these bikini beauty calendars to sell and fill this gap in the market, it will definitely be very popular.
However, Lin Yi quickly rejected this idea.
He calculated that with one cubic meter of his space, he could bring back at most one or two thousand wall calendars at a time. Even if he earned 3 yuan per book, it would only be more than 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, which was far worse than selling sunglasses.
If you want to make money with wall calendars,
The best way is to find a local printing factory, print a large batch, and then quickly put it on the market before New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and sell it wholesale to make a quick profit.
"Boss, give me a copy of each," Lin Yi said.
"One copy of each is only thirty or fifty copies. You can't give us a wholesale price for this quantity," the boss said.
"My quantity is not small, please give me a cheaper price."
"Then it's 4 cents for a single piece and 4 yuan for the whole book," the boss said.
It wasn't too much at first. Lin Yi didn't bargain. The boss took out one copy of each from the bookstall. In the end, he counted more than 20 types of leaflets and 12 full volumes of more than 20 types, a total of more than 50 yuan.
money.
When selecting, Lin Yi read them one by one.
There were equal parts European and American beauties and Asian beauties. There were many that he didn't know, but there were also many big stars that would be familiar to future generations.
Such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren.
Lin Yi bought these calendars,
It was not for sale, and certainly not for his own use. His idea was that if he could find a suitable printing factory when he returned, he would use these calendars as base plates.
Four p.m,
The fishing boat took everyone away, and Lin Yi returned to the hotel. The process was still the same as before. Lin Yi asked the boss to help book a berth for the return trip to the city. The boss accepted the money and readily agreed.
The sunglasses that came in this time had already filled up the space. In order to put down the calendars, Lin Yi took out the sunglasses and threw away the straps, finally making room to put the calendars in.