The first batch of goods delivered to the department store sold very well, as Jiang Liu had expected before. As the New Year is approaching, many families began to prepare supplies for their children's wedding banquets. The 囍 character series of straw-woven items are full of novelty and their prices are much lower than many others. budget, naturally popular.
And some small storage boxes and some small ornaments are also very popular among women with well-off families, and they are sold out after a period of time.
Because the first batch of goods sold well, the department store quickly approached Jiang Liu, set the quantity of the second batch of goods, and gave a 30% deposit. At the same time, the manager of the department store also revealed to Jiang Liu an ordinary Little news that people don't know.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held at the end of the year, after the announcement of a new policy that was almost earth-shaking for the country of today, changes have begun from the central government to the local governments, especially some local leaders with a keen sense of politics. In response to the central call, many ground-breaking plans were developed.
Among them, the leaders of Tianhong Province, where Jiangliu is located, made a big decision. They contacted businessmen from fast-growing countries such as the United States, Eagle Country, and Sun Country to hold the first special product exchange conference in the capital of Tianhong Province. They intend to show local characteristic products to foreign businessmen in this exchange conference, increase foreign exchange income and promote the development of local economy.
Looking at this plan today, it can be said to be bold. Many surrounding provinces and cities are watching Tianhong Province, trying to judge the attitude of the central leadership.
For the leaders of Tianhong Province, the success of this special product exchange conference also determines their future careers. After more than a month, those foreign businessmen will also arrive in Tianhong Province. These days, Government departments across the province are busy with this.
We are ready to welcome those foreign businessmen with the best spirits, and at the same time invite and lobby those miserable craftsmen who were suppressed during the Cultural Revolution to participate in the exhibition. As for the specialty products of the province, we have selected the best among them. In order to generate foreign exchange and promote development, All leaders are well prepared.
Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Jiang Liu, but it was a coincidence. Not long ago, the city leader's daughter got married, and the whole family came to the department store to buy wedding supplies. At that time, the leader was picked up by the new batch of pure handmade products in the department store. He was impressed by the woven straw items. At that time, he was having a headache with the indicators issued by the province, and their city had no special products except iron smelting technology. At that time, the leader thought of sending this batch of goods to participate in the exchange. meeting.
But the leader was not sure whether foreigners would like this kind of local flavor, so he didn't say anything. He just told the manager of the department store that he could reserve a booth for those craftsmen. As for going to No, it's up to them to decide.
At that time, when Jiang Liu first heard the news, there was not much fluctuation, because there were too many things to prepare to participate in the trade fair, plus the differences between foreigners' aesthetics and local differences, Jiang Liu had to spend a little to make products that suit their preferences. Work hard.
For Jiang Liu, the benefits of this matter are too few, and there are too many things to worry about. But now, relying on the one-tenth of the tuition income, his savings are already very considerable, and it seems that he does not need to worry about this matter. Waste too much effort.
For Jiang Liu, this matter is not important, but for the members of the team, the benefits of expanding a sales channel are huge.
Especially in this era, the development of China is far slower than those of developed countries. Even Jiang Liu, a little angry youth, has to admit that if the retail price of goods in China is one yuan, if they have enough skills to allow foreign businessmen to accept, even It can be sold five times ten times the price, and the profit here is huge.
Jiang Liu ate the last berry in his pocket, licked the juice off his fingers, and made up his mind.
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The people on the team found that Jiang Liu had changed. He didn't know where he got a library card from the city library, and he brought back a batch of books from the city library every three or five years.
Now there is a lot of waste waiting to be done. After the library reopened six months ago, a large number of new books have been imported, including many books in foreign languages that were previously banned, and those books that Jiang Liu borrowed home.
In addition, he also bought a radio, which is a big item in the countryside. Many villagers came to want to listen to the radio that day, but they didn't think that Jiang Liu only listened to foreign stations. The words, everyone can't understand at all.
Jiang Liu seems to be learning foreign languages, which is the unanimous thought of the team members.
But when I asked Jiang Liu why he studied foreign languages, Jiang Liu didn't say anything, just told everyone that he would give them a surprise soon.
In fact, the so-called learning foreign language is an illusion made by Jiang Liu. As early as in modern times, he has already taught himself a little spoken English.
This is also Jiang Liu's small ambition. In modern times, his dream is to be promoted from a small contractor to a large contractor, but in the era he lived in, in the international metropolis where he lived, there were more and more foreigners. In particular, many architectural designs have the participation of foreign designers. Jiang Liu feels that if he can communicate in English on a daily basis, it will give him a lot of competitiveness, so he spends half an hour to an hour every morning and evening to learn English by himself, although his accent It's a bit heavy, but daily communication is no longer a problem.
In addition to paving the way for his ability to speak English, Jiang Liu also prepared goods for the exchange meeting.
Soon, the Huawaite Product Exchange Conference began.
Jiang Liu brought a few young people with relatively flexible minds on the team, and planned to take them to see the world. He probably won't stay in this small village in the future, and the future of the team still depends on these young people.
Before he came, he had prepared enough for these young people, but when he arrived at the trade fair, when he saw a bunch of foreigners who were blond and blue-eyed, full of babbling and babbled words, those young people couldn't help showing it off. timid.
But it doesn't matter, there are still rivers.
Their exhibition stand is not large, but it is enough to display the goods brought by Jiangliu.
This time he brought a single type of goods, only straw slippers, but there were some differences in some small details.
A group of foreign businessmen with translators passed by this small stall, originally not intending to stay, but when the foreigner at the head saw the goods on the counter, he stopped.
"so cute!"
The foreign businessman walked to the front of the counter, picked up a pair of straw woven slippers on the table, and exclaimed while pointing at the cute panda pattern woven from straw.
The pandas on different slippers are different, most of them still look like cubs, some are lying on their limbs, some are rolling, some are holding bamboo and eating, vivid images and even some cartoon patterns make the heart hard. When people see it, they can't help but tremble, wanting to hug and kiss the real thing.
Seeing the foreigner's expression, Jiang Liu knew that his decision was right.
You must know that in a few years, the national treasure panda will become a diplomatic weapon for China, and people can bring a lot of foreign exchange income to China just by lying down and being cute.
In addition to giant pandas, a batch of animal series straw-woven slippers also have little foxes, little raccoons and other cute things that are also very popular in later generations. Of course, in order to cater to another group of customers, in addition to these little cute things, there are also slightly simpler Transformed lions, tigers and other beasts.
These patterns are very small, occupying only a small corner of the upper of the slippers, and will not make the slippers as a whole cheap. Of course, if you don’t like the animal series, you can also choose the Chinese classical graphic series, or the plain series.
Jiangliu is well prepared, and there is always one suitable for them.
Seeing that the businessman liked the goods on the counter, the accompanying translator planned to help the businessman communicate with Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu was one step ahead of him and communicated with the businessman.
He first thanked the merchant for his praise, but his attitude was not humble, even when he was thanking, he was not humble. A merchant praised his products because his products were really outstanding. An expression worthy of such a compliment.
After coming to Huaguo, what this blond businessman felt was the excessive humility of the Chinese people. Different cultural backgrounds resulted in different personalities. For these foreigners, Jiang Liu was more like them.
Because in their opinion, excessive self-esteem means distrusting their own products, and even if they don't trust their own products, how can others trust them.
"These slippers are all hand-woven, each pair is a unique work of art, and the materials of these slippers are derived from nature, which is different from the killing behind leather shoes, and also different from the strong and stereotyped industrial smell of plastic shoes. Slippers woven from gifts from nature can make you feel close to nature when you wear them, and stepping on them is like stepping on the ground, which is the sublimation of body and mind."
Jiang Liu was running the train with his mouth full. He didn't know if the foreigners of this age had started the concept of nature conservation and animal protection, but it didn't prevent him from bragging. He only blew his straw sandals in the sky and never on the ground.
The few young people who followed Jiang Liu heard him communicate with foreigners in the same chattering language, with confident and proud expressions, and immediately realized the gap between themselves and Jiang Liu.
At this time, these young people admired Jiang Liu for a long time, and completely separated his image from that of Zeng Jin.
Hearing Jiang Liu's words, the businessman couldn't help but take off the leather shoes and socks he was wearing, and then asked Jiang Liu to get him a pair of shoes of a size he could wear.
To be honest, ordinary straw sandals are not comfortable to wear, but the straw sandals that Jiang Liu took out are an improved model of the basic model. The surface layer of the insole is a straw bottom, but the underside is padded with cotton, which makes it a little soft to step on.
"oh my god!"
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but this businessman feels that these shoes are very comfortable, and they are made of the most environmentally friendly grass and trees. Wearing them, it seems that they can really integrate with nature.
And out of the businessman's keen intuition, he was optimistic about the sales of these handmade products in his country, and he immediately decided to place an order to bring these beautiful things back to his country.
Then the two sides fought a separate battle based on the price of the slippers, and finally ended with a price of 8.5 US dollars a pair.
Now the exchange rate between the US dollar and the RMB is 1.4987 to 1, that is to say, he sold espadrilles, which are not too rare in China, at a price of around 12.7.
Jiang Liu didn't feel guilty either. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the per capita income of the United States had reached 20,000 US dollars, while the per capita salary of Hua Guo in this era barely reached 350 yuan.
Note that the latter is the average wage, and the peasants who occupy the majority of China are not even included in the average.
The other party asked for a thousand pairs of straw woven shoes, and set the style and 30% deposit. After they left, the young people who followed Jiang Liu gathered up the courage to ask Jiang Liu how much their shoes sold.
They thought that if they could sell it for two dollars, they would be satisfied.
When Jiang Liu told them the result, the young people were completely stunned.
Twelve yuan seven, just for these sandals? Is it because these foreigners are crazy, or because Jiang Liu is too capable, they can sell stones for the price of gold with one mouth.
In any case, these young people are so excited that foreigners cherish their straw sandals. When these straw sandals are sold, they will have the money to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the county and city to buy fashionable plastic running shoes and small leather shoes.
It will be the first pair of shoes other than straw sandals in their lives, thanks to Jiang Liu!