Chapter 282 Strange phenomenon caused by price difference
The Magic City.
As the Spring Festival passes.
The temperature on the banks of the Huangpu River has begun to rise.
The number of tourists abroad is also increasing.
Especially the Japanese and Koreans who prefer to come to the Magic City, after the Spring Festival, many people use the 72-hour visa-free policy to fly directly to the Magic City.
Of course, it is unknown whether it is really coming to travel or fake travel.
Because in recent years, among the flights between Seris, Japan and South Korea, there are many second-dea dealers moving in the ant.
For example, rice, etc., in fact, some people will transport them to Japan and South Korea through suitcases.
The main reason is that Ameika's economy has become increasingly difficult in recent years, and naturally, it has been more intense to harvest Japan and South Goryeo, which has led to the economy of these two places being in great trouble.
Another reason is naturally that Cyris's industry is developing faster and faster, and has had a strong impact on Japan and South Goryeo in all walks of life.
In the face of internal and external difficulties, the lives of ordinary civilians are inevitably affected, and various rice waste, vegetable waste and oil waste are present.
After all, these two places where they lived a good life in the past, the prices of vegetables, fruits and many agricultural products are notoriously "noble". The local agricultural association does not allow large-scale imports of cheap agricultural products from abroad. In the past few years, the Japanese agricultural association suffered huge losses in investment. They could only use the method of raising the rice price to make up for their losses in the financial market and further increase the rice price.
There is a saying that life will find a way out.
Since local agricultural products are expensive, just go abroad to buy cheap agricultural products.
It only costs about 700 yuan to buy a ticket between Osaka, Japan and the domestic magic capital.
As long as the goods carried by passengers entering the country are worth no more than 200,000 yen, it is tax-free. The value of this item is not calculated based on the local price of Japan, but on the price of the origin.
The regulations in Nan Goryeo are similar.
Therefore, many people flew over to buy some agricultural products and food that they could carry back, including rice, dried kelp, kimchi, compressed dried vegetables, and compressed dried fruits as the main items.
Of course, the one that benefits more in this aspect is actually not the Magic City, but Qin Island in Qilu Province. Because the local direct flights with South Korea only cost more than 400 yuan to travel, many Koreans will come to play for two days on weekends and then buy a lot of things to fly back.
Hailufeng Company is in the storage supermarket in the Magic City.
More than a dozen Koreans walked in with a silent mouth.
"Hello, what do you need?" The waiter came forward with the simultaneous translation headphones and microphone.
"Hello, Smida, I want to buy fruit..." a Korean girl who can speak Mandarin said with a stuttering.
Press the start button of the simultaneous translation device, and this set of equipment ordered from iFLYTEK will run immediately. It is better to order this simultaneous translation device than a waiter who specializes in job fair foreign languages.
In order to deal with foreign tourists, the physical commercial department has equipped the business points of port cities with this kind of simultaneous translation equipment, especially international metropolis like Magic City. This storage supermarket alone is equipped with ten sets of simultaneous translation equipment.
Just now, when the waiter heard a "Simida" coming from the door, he knew that these people were from Goryeo, so he asked colleagues who had the same voice translation equipment to go up and guide them.
"Hello, are you going to buy fruits, right?"
The Korean language sent by the translation device is clearly and accurately transmitted to these Korean people, and new equipment with AI technology is introduced, with a very high degree of accuracy.
A middle-aged Goryeo man said with an exaggerated expression: "Oh? Is this a translator? It's so amazing."
"What do you need for everyone? Just tell me directly." The waiter led them to the fruit area.
The voices of these Korean people were very loud, like a thousand ducks, buzzing in their ears. The waiter was also smiling dryly, and secretly scolding these Korean people for being vulgar. If she hadn't seen them come to consume, she wouldn't want to receive them.
After coming to the fruit area, the "Simida" who shouted loudly became more densely as if a chain reaction occurred in a nuclear explosion.
"Zhehai, durian, look..."
"Smida, there are so many durians. How much does these durians cost?"
"I'll take a look...15 Huayuan 500 grams?"
"15 Huayuan? 3,000 won?" An old lady murmured to herself: "It seems that 500 grams in China seems that 10,000 won."
"Really?" Her husband Jin Dawen widened his eyes.
The aunt said with certainty: "Of course, I often go to the market to buy things. Recently, durian in China has become cheaper. Previously, 500 grams cost 12,500 won."
Jin Dawen showed a suspicious expression: "Why is the durian on Seris so cheap? They should not be the origin, right? Is the quality different?"
When the waiter heard this, he quickly explained: "This customer doesn't have to worry about quality. We are the world's most important company that pays attention to food safety. Our company is also the world's largest durian manufacturer, producing about 14 million tons of durian every year."
"14 million tons?" Another young man widened his eyes, his brain was a little down instantly. Obviously, he could not imagine how huge this production scale was.
The waiter smiled and said the comparison: "Based on the population of your southern Goryeo, each person is 275 kilograms of durian per person per year."
"So many?"
"Simida!"
"It's so amazing, no wonder it's so cheap."
These people were shocked.
Judging from the shocked expressions of these people, it is obvious that the Nan Goryeo media deliberately did not report such things in order to avoid causing people's hearts to fluctuate.
However, the media in South Goryeo does not report it, but it does not mean that the inflow of this information can be prevented. After all, it is the Internet era, coupled with the civil exchanges between countries.
After the opening of part of the Internet in China, with the 72-hour visa-free entry policy, entry express travel is very popular, especially in Northeast Asia, where foreign tourists have come to travel in recent years.
This has led to a lot of domestic information spreading rapidly around the world with the return of these foreign tourists.
Especially the South Korean people who were arrogant and confident in the past, many of them were either hit hard, had their temperaments changed drastically, or became fanatical.
After all, in their internal and in the media in the Western world, Cyris has always been a backward and poor image.
However, at this moment, when they really came to this land, they found that their previous perceptions were wrong and completely different.
That huge sense of gap instantly broke their artificial self-confidence and then exposed the background of inferiority complex.
In the second floor seating area of the storage supermarket.
The Koreans who bought a lot of fruits were sitting around several tables, chatting enthusiastically while eating fruits in a hurry.
They bought a box of durians and asked the clerk to split them directly, otherwise they would not be able to split them at all. After all, these mature durians are difficult to split them open, and they need to split them directly before they can open the shell.
"Himmer...so full!"
"This taste is completely different from the durian in China."
A girl sneered while eating kiwis, "Haha, Shengkai said it seems that you have eaten durian in China."
"Lina, how do you know I haven't eaten it?" The young man holding the durian flesh looked angry.
"Then when did you eat it?" Jin Lina sneered and took a bite of the soft kiwi fruit.
"Haha, of course I've eaten it. Just when Yuanliang celebrated his birthday, there was durian at his birthday party." After swallowing the durian flesh, he took off his disposable gloves, and then found the photo of the birthday party from his mobile phone album: "Look..."
Jin Lina stretched her neck, glanced at it for a few seconds, and pursed her lips: "Haha, Han Won-liang? Is it your rich classmate? This birthday thing is just the same!"
"Uh..." Although Jin Shengkai wanted to refute, he suddenly felt speechless when he looked at the fruit on the table.
"Is there nothing to say?" Jin Lina picked up the cut melon-patterned honeydew and ate it in big mouthfuls: "Woo... so much juice... Mom, you eat this honeydew melon, it's delicious."
"This banana is also very delicious, why is it not imported in China?"
"Haha, how could those bastards allow imports? If they release imports, what will they earn?"
"Simida!" "Damn it, why is it so delicious and so cheap? Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
"If you are not used to it, you can come here to travel!"
"But air tickets cost money!"
"Idiot, you can just buy a plane ticket to Qindao. The round-trip air ticket price is only more than 400 Huayuan, or about 80,000 won."
"80,000...I earn about 3.7 million won per month." The man estimated it and his eyes lit up: "It's really good!"
Another companion who was eating melons smiled and said, "We bought round-trip air tickets, plus two days of accommodation and meals, and it cost about 400,000 won. And we didn't just come here to travel."
Jin Shengkai asked in a low voice: "By the way, Brother Fengshen, what should you do to make money as you said before?"
Huang Fengshen winked and smiled, saying, "Don't worry, everyone has finished eating, we will go to the third floor directly, you will know then."
"The mysterious secret..."
After eating for more than an hour, more than a dozen people killed a box of durian and a lot of other fruits. Looking at the remaining peels, fruit cores, tissues, etc. on the table, they did not have the idea of cleaning up, but walked leisurely towards the third floor with their stomachs straightened.
When Aunt Clean saw the mess in the ground, she secretly scolded these Koreans for being incompetent.
But she didn't say anything to curse people. After all, the company gave her good treatment, so she quickly packed up.
The group of Koreans came to the third floor.
Looking at the clothes and home textile products on the shelves.
"Brother Fengshen? Is this what you said to make money?" Jin Shengkai looked puzzled.
"Haha, do you know how much this piece of clothing I have?" Huang Fengshen did not answer Jin Shengkai's question first, but asked back while pinching his shirt.
"This..." Jin Shengkai subconsciously touched the other party's shirt, and then asked uncertainly: "Is this silk?"
"I'm right, to be precise, this is artificial silk." Huang Fengshen brought Jin Shengkai and Jin Lina to a shelf: "Look at the price!"
Jin Shengkai glanced at the label on the shelf: "576 Huayuan? 12 pieces? It's probably equivalent to 9,600 won per piece?"
"Simida! So cheap..." Jin Lina's eyes suddenly shone. She had bought a set of silk pajamas before, which was an ordinary fast-selling brand, and the price was four times that of these pajamas in front of her.
"Sister, how much does silk clothes cost in China?" Jin Shengkai really doesn't know about this.
"It's four times that of this in China."
"Really?"
"What do you lie to you?"
Suddenly, Jin Shengkai frowned and then asked in a low voice: "Can we take it back after we buy it here? Will it be investigated?"
"Don't worry! As long as the total value does not exceed US$600, about 860,000 won, there will be no problem. So after buying the goods, collect the invoice and throw away all the old clothes we brought from China, so that we can bring a lot of clothes back."
Huang Fengshen, who is obviously a veteran, is very skilled in this kind of operation.
As long as you tear off the label of your clothes, put it on your body, or put it in your suitcase, the customs will have no choice.
After returning, they have formed an industrial chain, re-washed and tidyed the clothes, then put them on a new label, and then sold them directly to those in need through online channels at a price of two to three times the price.
If everything goes well, you can earn five or six hundred dollars in one trip.
The profits brought by this price difference will naturally attract the attention of second-dea dealers.
But there is no way. The minimum retail price of silk clothing entering Nan Goryeo through formal channels is about 150 yuan, and the quality is relatively poor.
For low-end products in Cyris, the price of artificial silk clothing is generally between 40 and 60 yuan per piece.
The price difference and quality difference between the two are enough to make people take risks.
What's more, this kind of behavior of purchasing clothes on behalf of others is difficult to investigate and deal with.
Because many Koreans who come to Saris travel basically have more than a dozen silk clothes on their own. Unless they are completely banned from flights on both sides, or the prices of flights on both sides are increased several times, they can curb this kind of smuggling behavior of ant moving.
However, it is basically impossible to ban flights from both sides.
Raising the air ticket price is also difficult to do, because airlines see every flight full of money, so they don’t care about the passengers’ clothes.
After all, clothes are not prohibited items, and they are personal daily necessities for passengers. You can’t ask passengers not to wear silk clothes on the plane, right? This may make the whole world laugh to death.
Therefore, there have been a lot of artificial silk clothes flowing from Seris to South Korea and Japan recently. Those passengers in economy class have more than 20 artificial silk clothes, and they have spread the clothes to everyone through gang operations, and there will be no situation where one person buys more than a dozen pieces of the same clothes.
For example, in front of us, the family tour group with Huang Fengshen as the core, they divided the work and distributed a dozen clothes to all members. In the same way, they bought more than twenty dozens of silk clothes.
And after purchasing, they kept the invoice and calculated the value of everything to avoid the value of the thing exceeding the upper limit of $600 when entering the country.
Although each of them is holding more than twenty pieces of clothing, it is actually worth about two hundred US dollars, so they can buy other things.
Therefore, they purchased various compressed vegetables and compressed fruits.
These things are also new products launched by Hailufeng Company after the New Year.
Compressed vegetables are completely disinfected and dehydrated vegetarian dishes, compressed into chunks, which can be used to cook vegetable soup.
For example, compress tomato pieces, compressed carrot pieces, compressed onion pieces, compressed cabbage pieces, compressed kelp pieces, etc.
These things have been added with salt, MSG and other ingredients. A small piece can be cooked in a large bowl of soup. The nutrients are retained very high, so there is basically no big difference between fresh vegetables.
Especially when used as a seasoning, the thing will quickly spread out as soon as it is cooked due to complete dehydration and compression.
Among them, tomatoes and onions are the most popular.
The next small piece of tomato compressed pieces and an egg is a large bowl of tomato egg soup, which has a richer flavor than the tomato paste.
After all, tomato paste also contains moisture, and after pretreatment, part of the tomato flavor is lost. However, Hailufeng Company’s tomato planting base in Gansu Province does not adopt traditional tomato varieties, but uses varieties with very high tomato flavor concentration and not resistant to transportation. Anyway, they will have to be dehydrated and compressed in the end, and it doesn’t matter whether it is resistant to transportation or not.
Not only these Koreans like this product, but many domestic office workers who are busy with work also like this product very much.
Especially small packages of tomato, onion, mushroom blocks, etc., which are easy to store and use, and they also retain almost 99% of the nutrients and a certain amount of cellulose. This is the new generation of healthy food.
When instant noodles, you can throw away the noodles and replace it with this vegetable piece. There is no problem.
The Koreans are just instant instant consumption experts. After buying these vegetable pieces, they will put instant noodles directly or make noodles.
Of course, this kind of business will definitely not last too long. After all, the officials of Nangaoli and Japan are not fools, so they will definitely take measures to suppress this smuggling.
In addition to the second-deao dealers, there are actually a lot of people who really come to travel. Although these people will bring things back, the amount of them is generally not large.
In short, it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish between tourists and second-dealers, especially in the context of huge price differences between the two places, this abnormal smuggling will definitely exist for a long time.
Unless one day Nan Goryeo and Japan announce large-scale import of cheap agricultural products and clothing products from Cyris, there will be room for the second dealer to survive because of the huge price difference.
In recent years, after the sharp drop in domestic prices, the price differences in various parts of East Asia have become even greater, and a series of strange phenomena have emerged.
For example, in order to attract tourists from South Korea, in order to attract tourists from South Korea, the domestic airlines that run the route are specially provided with low-priced aviation fuel. The price of these biodiesel-modified aviation fuel is only 4,500 yuan per ton.
Using low-priced fuel, flights running this route can maintain a round-trip ticket price of 400 yuan for a long time.
In fact, domestic aviation fuel prices will also decline one after another. After all, the production capacity of biodiesel produced by soybean oil and gutter oil is rapidly climbing. It is estimated that in less than two or three years, the domestic biodiesel price will drop to about 4,500 yuan per ton.
With large-scale raw materials, you can be so willful.
Especially in areas where large-scale cultivation of celadon soybeans and celadon soybeans in the north, biodiesel production capacity will inevitably continue to increase and prices will also decline accordingly.
(This chapter ends)