Su Ye inquired about the rental of a cold storage warehouse in Fangang City. It was a humid southern weather during this period, and the tea would be greatly affected if it was exposed to moisture.
The modern atmosphere of the port city made Su Ye feel as if she had returned to China in the year 2000. She took Teacher He and Liu Gang out for a meal.
This time when they came to Hong Kong, Su Ye's treasury was even more solid than the last time. Last time they came to Hong Kong, Su Ye emptied out her property to buy an electron microscope. After the winter, she saved up food money for several months, and her treasury gradually emptied.
Naturally, Su Ye was even more rude when he went to a restaurant.
She chose a restaurant that was famous in the Hong Kong newspaper. The chef was the champion of the Hong Kong Food Competition. The food was delicious and its price was proportional. Teacher He just opened the menu, Su Ye took the menu book and said with a smile: "Teacher He is not familiar with it, come on."
Teacher He had a hard time reading the English menu. He was afraid that Su Ye would laugh at him for being a bumpkin, so he didn't argue and just handed the notebook to Su Ye. Liu Gang had the experience of reading it first, so he was much calmer this time.
He was looking forward to the pineapple bun he had eaten last time.
But he never expected that Su Ye would order so many dishes! Australian lobster, crab claws inlaid with various flowers, lobster cream pasta, crispy roast goose with roses, chicken wings stuffed with bird's nests, and shrimp fried rice were served on the table. Liu Gang tugged at Su Ye's clothes, fearing that he would not be able to pay and would have to stay to wash the dishes.
Su Ye said, "Eat as much as you want. I'll treat you. Seafood in Hong Kong is very cheap. This meal will cost no more than 50 RMB."
Teacher He was a little shocked. Isn't 50 yuan a lot? 50 yuan is equivalent to his salary for one and a half months!
But the dishes in front of him were indeed appetizing. He thought he could buy 30 yuan of Su Ye himself. This time he just wanted to broaden his horizons. It was inevitable that he would spend a lot of money when he was away from home.
In fact, the total price of the meal ordered by Su Ye was more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars. She asked the waiter to change the price on the receipt to 100 Hong Kong dollars. Although the waiter was confused, he still wrote a fake receipt for Su Ye. Mr. He, who had no idea about the price standards in Hong Kong, was completely fooled.
This time, Su Ye truly tasted the wonderful taste of money. The delicious food took his mouth and the delightful enjoyment exploded in his taste buds.
She also had this feeling, not to mention Teacher He and Liu Gang. Their eyes lit up while eating. They sucked their fingers clean after finishing the lobster, poured all the lobster juice into the fried rice without wasting any, and ate all the meat of the roast goose and even put the skeleton in their mouths to chew until they could taste it.
Teacher He had never eaten such delicious food in his life. It was so delicious that people could lick the plate clean, and even wanted to eat it raw.
After Su Ye had eaten his fill, he drank some tea and looked at them while they ate.
In the end, they walked out of the restaurant holding onto the wall. Teacher He sighed with satisfaction and pain: "People in Hong Kong live such a happy life!"
A meal that costs fifty yuan can make you so full, and you can add more rice as you like. Isn't this heaven
Su Ye just smiled and didn't refute.
The next day, Su Ye went to rent a warehouse. The daily rent for the cold storage was 50 yuan, and the monthly rent was 1,000 yuan. She decisively chose to rent by the day and paid the rent for one week in advance. Within one week, they must find a way to sell these 10,000 kilograms of tea to the mainland.
The driver Xiao Wang and Yang Xue's father arrived at the port city soon after and moved the tea to the warehouse. After that, they left the port city together.
"Teacher Su, do we really not need to stay and help?" Yang Xue's father asked worriedly before leaving.
Su Ye shook his head. "I'll leave everything to you from now on. Uncle Yang, go back to work in the factory."
Teacher He originally thought that Su Ye had obtained the import permit, which meant that he had already contacted the buyer. But then Su Ye told them: "Starting tomorrow, we have to sell these 10,000 kilograms of tea here."
Teacher He was dumbfounded.
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It was still chilly in the spring, and the busy roads were crowded at night. The cars lined up with their headlights on looked like a glowing silver ribbon. If Mr. He was just here for fun, he would have found this scene very pleasing to the eye.
But unfortunately, they came to sell tea, Teacher He sighed deeply.
They spent the entire day going from restaurant to restaurant trying to sell tea, but were turned away countless times.
Su Ye did sell more than a dozen boxes of tea, but this number was insignificant compared to the huge number of tens of thousands of boxes of tea. Local restaurants already have a stable tea supplier and do not favor foreign tea. Hong Kong in this era is particularly xenophobic. It's okay when speaking English, but once they speak Cantonese, they are exposed. Whether it's Su Ye or Teacher He, they don't know how to speak Cantonese.
Su Ye is a little better than Teacher He and can roughly understand Cantonese.
Teacher He shook his head and sighed, "Xiao Su, you won't be able to sell tea like this."
Su Ye said sincerely: "Teacher He, what insights do you have? I am all ears."
The next day, Teacher He rented a tricycle for HK$10 per day. They set up a street stall near a busy vegetable market. The rent for the mobile stall was zero. Teacher He said, "Xiao Su, let's set up a street stall!"
"Tea for sale, freshly picked tea, tribute from the Qing Dynasty royal family, top grade gold inlaid jade!" Teacher He shouted.
He has a strong ability to adapt. Although he is a human resources teacher, it does not seem strange for him to transform himself into a market vendor. The identity switch is very natural for him.
Liu Gang was an even more diligent and hardworking person. In order to sell tea, he shamelessly opened a box on the spot and invited everyone he met to drink tea.
After a whole day, although their throats were hoarse from shouting, the profit was very considerable. Liu Gang counted the money and they earned a total of 400 Hong Kong dollars that day, which is equivalent to 177 yuan in RMB, which is the rhythm of 5,000 yuan a month.
You have to know that when high school students were repairing watches, they only earned a few thousand or a few hundred yuan a month, and less than five thousand yuan a quarter.
Teacher He felt very satisfied. He thought that if he continued to stay in Shanggou Village for another month, he would be able to raise enough money to buy tea.
night.
Teacher He was happily counting the thick stacks of Hong Kong dollars. He even made a sound when counting the thin banknotes, as if he was showing off to Chong Suye.
"Oh, I didn't expect that Teacher Su also has areas he is not good at."
Su Ye smiled helplessly and praised Lao He a lot, but she quickly did some calculations in her mind:
"The rent of the warehouse is HK$50 per day. The daily food and lodging expenses for the three of us in Hong Kong are HK$50. The daily rental of a tricycle is HK$10, which adds up to HK$110. At this rate, we make a profit of HK$290 per day. However, we have 10,000 kilograms of tea. If we continue to sell like this, we won't be able to go to the mainland this year."
"Are you selling tea?" Su Ye reminded Teacher He.
Their main job is to be human teachers, and they have to go back to work quickly after selling the tea!
"Aren't you here to sell tea?" Teacher He suddenly asked back after reacting.
If not to sell tea, why are they coming to Hong Kong
The two of them stared at each other. Su Ye felt like he didn't want to pay any attention to this funny guy, so he turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his clothes and brush his teeth.
With a "puff" sound, Liu Gang almost spit out a mouthful of tea.
"Teacher He, you forgot that the members of the village production team are waiting for you to go to the Chinese class! They can recognize all 100 characters." Liu Gang said.
Teacher He was stunned for a moment, and his mind, which was overwhelmed by the joy of making money, suddenly calmed down. Making money is no more important than teaching and educating people.
Capitalist society is indeed prone to corrupting people’s hearts!
After a while, he asked with a smile: "Then according to Teacher Su's opinion, what should we do next?"
Su Ye spent the night thinking about this problem, and she already had a rough plan in mind. She was a complete newcomer in sales, and she was able to sell tea in City C before, all thanks to favors. However, in capitalist society, favors were not valued, and Su Ye could not afford to talk about favors when she came to this strange place.
Although the quality of tea is good, it is also true that it will not be able to open up the market in a short time. Su Ye thought about it all night, what is her advantage
At night, when everyone was setting up stalls, the cold sea breeze blew Su Ye's mind and made her more clear-headed. She was not good at sales, but she was a person who came from the back, so why should she fight with this road? If the mountain can't come to her, she will go to it!
Su Ye said: "There is a way to sell the tea within a week, but you all have to listen to me and follow my instructions in everything you do."
She turned off the tap and gave them both a pinky smile.
"Come and listen, Liu Gang, tomorrow you need to do this... Teacher He, you need to do this..."
The expressions on Teacher He and Liu Gang’s faces were wonderful.
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The next day.
Hong Kong City Securities Exchange.
Three young men walked into the trading floor, and one of the men opened an account at the counter, "Buy Jardine Matheson, subscribe for 1,000 shares."
The teller quickly took down his information and handed him the stock certificate.
The young man was Su Ye, who had grown to 1.7 meters tall this year. She dressed as a man, wearing a Zhongshan white jacket, a black vest with pine and crane patterns, and a pair of black cloth shoes, looking like an immortal. Behind her followed a bodyguard in a black suit.
Teacher He was wearing a pair of shiny leather shoes, a suit, and a pair of black sunglasses on his slicked-back hair. He looked like a cold-blooded reactionary tyrant in a Hong Kong movie. He looked expressionless, but he was actually terrified.
No one would feel comfortable wearing clothes worth several hundred dollars, and his legs became weak when he walked into the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
This place seemed more magnificent than anywhere else. Even the tellers were wearing suits, and the air conditioner was on to provide a slight cool feeling. God knows if this was the first time in Mr. He's life that he had used an air conditioner.
Teacher He had heard of things like stocks.
But in his opinion, stocks are a gambling game, and spending money to buy stocks is like throwing money into the water. He controlled the urge in his heart to carry Su Ye away, and kept a straight face and said nothing.
Liu Gang followed Su Ye's orders last night and followed her obediently without saying a word.
He felt it was so fresh and everything he came into contact with was so interesting. He didn't know what Teacher Su would do next, but he felt inexplicably safe.
He felt that Teacher Su was really mysterious and powerful.
The history of Hong Kong stock trading can be traced back to the 1960s. At that time, stock trading was still considered gambling in China, but it had already taken shape in Hong Kong. Most of the people who played stocks at that time were rich people with capital. It was not until the 1970s that stocks really became popular among ordinary people.
A major event happened in 1961. The new president of the United States took office and the U.S. economy entered a period of strong recovery. That year, the Dow Jones Index rose by 22 points. From 1960 to 1961, the U.S. stock market entered a small bull market stage. At that time, many big bosses in Hong Kong made their first pot of gold in the stock market in 1961.
This is what Su Ye remembered from reading Buffett's biography. In 1961, he wrote in his first letter to shareholders that he had a 45% return that year. Decades later, he generously shared his holdings at the time. Su Ye once went to study Buffett.
Su Ye bought Jardine Matheson for a reason. Jardine Matheson was founded in the 1930s and is still one of the world's top 500 companies 60 years later. Its business scope is extremely wide, covering finance and insurance, real estate, retail consumption, machinery manufacturing, and transportation services. Chinese people are probably familiar with its subsidiaries, including Pizza Hut, Wellcome, Mannings Pharmacy, and Maxim's.
This year, Jardine Matheson had just gone public. Fortunately, it took advantage of the bull market in US stocks. Its issue price was HK$16 per share, equivalent to HK$36.1. It increased by 10 times just after the market opened, resulting in a hot subscription situation. Later, it was oversubscribed by 56 times.
What does 56 times oversubscription mean
This is the concept of buying the best stocks.
Su Ye took off his black sunglasses and smiled at Teacher He.