My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 248: Let’s test the waters with tens of millions
By the way, before leaving, I called Chi Shiming to make an appointment at the restaurant.

The local tyrant arrived early, but it was obvious that he did not have enough experience in the underworld. He did not know how to order food and had never experienced such a high-level scene.

I was a little surprised. I certainly didn't expect that Weidong and his friends, who looked like ordinary and casual people from an acrobatic troupe or drama club, could actually bring out a bunch of middle-aged and older officials.

And it looks like the level is not low.

Shen Cuiyue treated anyone who pleased Weidong as her own brother. She nodded and took the menu, then examined Wu Shengyun: "Are you coming?"

So some things either need to be practiced on the road with someone, or they need to be taught by someone at home.

Wu Shengyun was not at all nervous. He had just stepped in and saw the menu.

He walked over skillfully, bowed and nodded, and asked, "The cuisine here is mainly Huaiyang cuisine. The river seafood is sweet, so are there any food taboos?"

There is absolutely no such bad habit of asking the leader to order food for him, and how could he trouble the leader with answering multiple-choice questions? He tried his best to help Weidong make room for chatting, greeting and familiarizing himself with others.

No matter how polite they are, we should respect the occasion and prepare enough cold dishes according to the number of people, and double the amount of hot dishes according to the number of people.

Then he quickly sorted out the skeleton of the dish by mainly stir-frying, supplemented by steaming, boiling and frying.

They also deliberately made some distinctions between hot and cold food, meat and vegetables, thick and thin food, and dry and wet food at the two tables with nearly twenty people.

Shen Cuiyue was satisfied and she skillfully arranged for everyone to take their seats.

Lao Gao, Manager Zhang and Director Tang were all inserted into the program along with Chi Shiming, and the two private rooms with nearly 20 people ensured that the communication between the two sides was not dull.

Occasionally she would use her elbow to remind Fengchu to follow the master closely and be a good hostess.

Therefore, the host and guests here could see: "Comrade Xiao Rang, you have many elite soldiers and generals around you."

In recent months, Weidong has been intensively participating in meetings and meeting with various figures. He said: "I am grateful to this era of reform and opening up for bringing us together. I also hope to make more contributions to this situation in this era."

The words are very appropriate, but whether you think he is just being polite is a matter of opinion.

At least Chi Shiming was sitting at the bottom of the table, which was his first time to come into contact with this level.

It was almost a bit admiring to see Wei Dong handling this situation skillfully.

It is obvious that this is Chi Shiming's biggest shortcoming at the moment.

This has nothing to do with whether you are good at dealing with people or not. If you have no experience and no one to guide you, you will feel awkward and unfamiliar.

Weidong not only had the foundation of dealing with Lao Shi in the past, but also had many exchanges with the old leaders of Shangzhou, and was gradually becoming more familiar with Jiangzhou, and had seen a series of things in Pingjing.

Looking back, you will naturally feel much more relaxed.

But people were just casually asking about what the inspection had been about, so there was no need for Weidong to brag. He just started the topic and Director Tang took the lead, Manager Zhang assisted, and Lao Gao from the Jiangzhou Foreign Affairs Office supplemented it.

They were also very grateful to Weidong for giving them this opportunity to show themselves.

When they sorted out the details of more than a dozen branches under the major themes such as urban construction in the Yau Ma Tei area and the appearance of the economic development zone, Chi Shiming felt a little regretful that he should have followed along to experience such a rich and unique perspective.

Weidong was already enjoying the giant tiger prawns.

He also has the temperament of watching his subordinates fight while he sits back and relaxes.

The people over there looked at each other and nodded. This young man really lived up to his reputation.

Weidong was naturally relieved because he had nothing to ask for. He occasionally chewed on his food and made a few comments: "Today we're mainly looking at the exterior, experiencing the city's style and the construction. Next, we'll try to find opportunities to observe and visit the interior, such as factories, office buildings, large companies, hotels of various grades, and even residential buildings. These are all battlefields for us to learn from. Don't just keep saying, "Come on, eat! Only when you're full will you have the energy to continue your investigation and learning."

Obviously, he is still a resident enterprise under the Economic Development Zone, and Old Tang is his direct management leader, so everyone naturally listens to him.

I don’t know what the other officials and leaders at all levels who came to HK for inspection were paying attention to, which made Weidong absolutely display a calmness that is rare in this era.

I don't think this is that great, it's just a long way to go.

And it is very clear. If I can learn it, I will learn it. If I can’t learn it, I will figure it out on my own.

It also emphasized Jiangzhou Jiangnan District, the first economic development zone in the mainland. Previously, it planned to build an economic and trade building, but now the idea is to learn from the Guangdong Fair and build a convention and exhibition center. Jiangzhou will definitely play a good exploratory role in this accelerated economic system reform.

What he actually meant was that we need to look at everything, so could you please just leave us alone? He said it in such a high-sounding and sensible way, and he would definitely not run away.

The feeling on their side was that you were so embarrassed that you were just being soft-hearted. "Since Xiaorang has explained it so clearly, we would be failing to cooperate if we didn't lend a hand. Tonight, we'll help you coordinate with a few Hong Kong-funded companies that are relatively cooperative. Starting tomorrow, you'll be assigned to various links such as factories, offices, and large companies for research and study."

It’s okay to let Weidong be like this.

However, he never thought that what he said was all created by the times, and he was at most a pig standing on the vent of the wind.

But it depends on the time period. This was in late November 1984, when the joint statement had just been finalized but not yet officially announced.

The Hong Kong businessman who was found here can't be an ordinary person.

The next day, Chi Shiming was shocked.

It also made this Jiangzhou HK guy, who was still in the primitive accumulation stage, completely surrender.

After the banquet ended happily, we found a hotel nearby to stay in.

Chi Shiming originally asked if they wanted to go to a bar or nightclub at night to have a look. He was not into that, but he knew that for people from the mainland, seeing that now was as far away as seeing the Jade Emperor's Palace of Heaven.

Weidong wasn't interested at all, so they just went back to the hotel and chatted all night.

This was the first time he met a backpacker with the same ideas as him. Even the other party's planned route for killing monsters and leveling up was almost the same as his.

First, we repeatedly did long-distance cross-border transactions to accumulate original capital, but later it became very clear that it was for the purpose of doing real estate.

This idea is even more reliable than his intention to sell planes.

It seemed to Weidong that this guy had learned all the real estate tricks in HK, and once the policy allowed, he would be able to take off and become a real estate tycoon in the mainland!
So even if the other person is still a backpacker now.

But Weidong is very optimistic about his future. After all, not everyone has all the talents and abilities, and can also possess this HK residence permit, which is like a cheat card.

It allows this native Jiangzhou person to travel freely between the double tracks.

Chi Shiming was also very excited, and admitted that he was not up to the mark at the moment. Even though he had accumulated millions of funds, which was already a huge amount in the mainland, it was still a drop in the bucket when invested in real estate, so the goal he had set for himself was to continue transporting like this for more than five years.

He still didn't tell Weidong what he brought in his bag from Jiangzhou to HK, but every time he returned to Jiangzhou from HK, he would say, "I brought a digital watch..."

As he spoke, he took off a small square digital watch with a golden metal case from his wrist.

Rang Weidong was still wearing the mechanical watch he bought from the trading company after it was closed down. It was the most common 17-diamond Shancheng watch. There were five watches in total at the time, owned by three men and two women. The other four were hidden in the safe in Dong Xueying's office.

In the eyes of this couple, watches worth dozens or hundreds of dollars are actually a bit ostentatious and unnecessary.

Without the Type 77 watch on his waist, Wei Dong didn’t want to wear it anymore.

He took it with a bit of a dumb laugh: "Is this a big profit?"

Chi Shiming took a deep breath before saying, "I sell this in Jiangzhou for 80 yuan. Do you think it's expensive?"

Wei Dong was shocked: "Eighty!?"

He carefully looked at the watch in his hand again. He vaguely remembered that he had bought one at a street stall outside the tax compound in the 1990s or 2000s. It cost only a dozen or twenty yuan and it worked reliably. "I think this thing should be very cheap. Electronic products can be very cheap as long as they are mass-produced. It can beat mechanical watches."

Just like digital cameras surpass film cameras, and calculators surpass abacus.

Chi Shiming chuckled, "You're truly well-informed. This is a cheap movement made in Japan, and it only cost four dollars. Adding this electroplated case from Hong Kong, it's only a little over eight dollars. The plastic case only costs a little over six dollars. I don't wear a strap, so I can carry 146 of them back at a time. I can seal them in the gaps of my backpack and carry them back to Jiangzhou around my waist. The round-trip airfare is 48 dollars, and the Guangzhou-Kowloon Through Train is dollars round-trip. That's my cost."

That's why Wei Dong looked at Chi Shiming differently from the very beginning.

It was by combining the power of the Times and the knowledge of the multi-millionaire who sells bacon that I was able to find this path to primitive accumulation.

Chi Shiming figured it out entirely on his own.

Of course, Wei Dong quickly calculated that the gross profit for each trip was 10,000 yuan, so selling watches was still not the biggest part of the millions of funds.

But he didn't ask: "Well, eighty yuan, this is actually the information gap that I profited from. Ordinary people only think that electronic watches are more advanced and valuable. A mechanical watch costs fifty to one hundred yuan, and this one can indeed be sold for eighty yuan. How do you sell it? In my experience, someone like you who flies once a month would probably have to spend all your time in Jiangzhou to sell it all, because you shouldn't be allowed to sell it publicly in the first two years. I'm just curious, you don't have to tell me."

In fact, he was more curious about the fact that the other party did not look like a socially inept, talkative salesman at all.

It is impossible to achieve the KPI performance of 200 yuan per month without some eloquence for a "valuable item" with a unit price of 80 yuan.

Chi Shiming shook his head. "I have a partner in Jiangzhou who works at the newly opened home appliance wholesale market in the city. He's actually been secretly selling skewers there for several years. He told me about the sudden surge in transportation companies that run weekly from Yuezhou, and how many digital watches worth twenty or thirty yuan are being taken there. That's why I switched to a metal-cased watch like this. It looks more upscale."

Wei Dong burst into laughter in shock. "Mine! This transportation company is also mine. Although the watch business has nothing to do with me, the home appliance wholesale market behind Haochi Street, for example, is all transported to Yuezhou by my fleet!"

Chi Shiming also laughed dumbly: "It's really fate. Usually when I go to Yuezhou, I always take the afternoon through train back to Hong Kong. I couldn't buy a ticket yesterday, so I stayed an extra night. As a result, I met you. This can be regarded as a formal farewell to this backpack trading business."

In fact, from his expression that showed he was not too worried about the impact on his watch business, Wei Dong knew that this was just a side business during his flight back to Jiangzhou.

But he didn't ask, just like he hadn't mentioned selling titanium ingots. "I had no intention of going into real estate, so I'll give you a few residential buildings I'm going to build for my employees to practice on."

Chi Shiming was so excited that he rubbed his hands together.

(End of this chapter)