Chapter 405: Global smuggling wave, whose country is open?
“Vwoo Vwoo——”
Before the smuggling group at the Mi-Mexico border had gone far, they were surrounded by piercing sirens, and border police shouted at them through the vehicle’s loudspeaker. Make a shoutout.
"We are the police of the Federal Border Administration of the United States. We now suspect that you are involved in smuggling. Turn off the engine immediately and accept inspection!"
"Turn off the engine immediately!"
While shouting, The roar of armed helicopters was also heard in the mid-air.
If it were normal times, these smugglers would definitely step on the gas pedal to the end, and even fight fiercely, because there are three large bags, or the kind of bags and backpacks used for travel, and if they are caught, they will be sentenced to life imprisonment.
But this time, they did not resist.
Turn off the engine and get out of the car.
Hold your head with your hands.
The movements are almost done in one go.
With four police cars surrounding them and armed helicopters circling in the sky, the professionalism of the American police was on display.
Some people are loaded with bullets and aiming at the head, some people are on guard to prevent accomplices, and some people come forward with guns, ready to shoot at any time.
It is no exaggeration to say that nowadays, if a smuggler farts loudly, he will probably be shot. The border police are so nervous that they may shoot at any sign of trouble.
But this is understandable, because the United States has not banned guns. In a country where everyone can hold a gun, who dares to gamble with his life?
You must know that when the 5.56 and 7.62 bullets are fired, even if the gun owner is a child, it is still deadly.
Perhaps after watching movies and TV series, you will subconsciously feel that as long as the vital organs are not injured, it will be fine if you are shot.
In fact, it is not the case. In addition to the vital organs of humans, breaking down the arteries is also fatal. For example, once the aorta in the legs is damaged, the situation is similar to that of a fountain. If there is no professional first aid to stop the bleeding, it will take about 44 seconds. The shooter will go into shock and faint due to excessive blood loss, and will die from excessive bleeding in about three minutes.
It is precisely because of their practical experience that the U.S. border police feel as if they are facing a formidable enemy.
"Hold your head, you damn beast, filthy thing!"
"You are God's shit!"
"And you bitch, hold your head!"
The police with guns scolded and stepped forward until they handcuffed the smuggling gang. , these people finally relaxed.
"The crisis is over."
Someone immediately used the walkie-talkie to send a message.
In the command room of the intercom, the supervisor in charge immediately gave instructions: "Well done, check the amount of flour, don't forget any details, this is related to our bonus and promotion opportunities, understand. ”
“Understood.”
“Zizi——”
The conversation between the two ended, and the boss in the command room was already dreaming of a promotion.
In the past, he could turn a blind eye or close one eye. These flour criminals could only trade fist-sized quantities at most. If they were caught, they would only be imprisoned for a few months. Some of them could be released directly on bail.
But this time!
Three bags!
Three big bags!
He has been working as a border policeman for so long, and he has never seen someone so arrogant. This weighs at least a hundred kilograms, and may reach five hundred kilograms.
Five hundred pounds of flour, 250,000 grams, based on the street price of 80 US dollars per gram, 20 million US dollars is dangling in front of you.
Because of the huge number, the command bureau even dispatched armed helicopters.
But the boss always felt that something was wrong, as if he was caught too easily...
Just when he couldn't figure it out, a curse came from the intercom.
"Fake squid, not flour, these bastards are smuggling mobile phones, Fake!"
Obviously.
The police officer who was on duty did not expect this either.
I was thinking about solving a major case and getting a promotion and salary increase, but I didn’t expect it to be a mobile phone.
“Mobile phone?”
The boss was also stunned.
Smuggling mobile phones at the border?
Are you kidding me?
Now both sides are confused.
It was the first time for the smuggling team to see an armed helicopter and they were trembling with fear. It was the first time for the Mi-Mexico Border Management Bureau to see smuggled mobile phones. The two groups were really eye-opening.
……
No coincidence.
Two days later.
Another wave of people is smuggling across the border.
Because the camera was far away, the Mi-Mexico Border Command Center only saw a few large packages being loaded into the trunk and then speeding away.
Everyone is out again.
Another armed helicopter support.
“This should be flour, right?”
The boss muttered to himself.
According to the clues they had, the person who came to the border to trade this time was Felix, a habitual flour smuggler who had been released from prison less than fifteen days ago.
Ten minutes later.
A voice of disappointment came from the intercom again.
"It's a mobile phone again."
"Bang——"
The boss hammered the table hard.
Two promotion opportunities came to naught. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "What happened? Let the habitual criminals change their ways!"
"Report!"
Suddenly, the police officer in charge of surveillance widened his eyes, zoomed in on the video and said: "At 021 o'clock, a trading gang appeared."
The immediate boss looked sideways, and there were two more groups. Secret deal.
Because it was night, I couldn't see clearly what they were trading, I could only see a rough outline.
"It must be done this time, right?"
The boss directed the action again.
But twenty minutes later, the low-pitched report voice of the police officer on duty came again over the intercom: "It's still a mobile phone."
The moment the words fell, the head of the Border Administration finally couldn't hold himself any longer.
"Mobile phones, mobile phones, are these habitual criminals crazy? Come to the border to smuggle mobile phones!"
"Bring them back, I want to interrogate!"
He didn't believe it.
These people will be content with being ordinary.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. These smugglers are people who have made hundreds of thousands or even millions a day. They are really willing to make these hundreds or thousands of dollars. ?
After making fast money, it is difficult to make slow money again. This is the so-called gambling addiction. If you can earn several years' salary at a time, you will not have the energy to work hard.
As the smuggling gang was brought back, the boss summoned Felix alone. The two sat in the interrogation room and looked at each other face to face.
“Do you still remember me?”
the boss asked.
“Of course.”
Felix nodded and grinned: “Director Brad, thanks to you, I stayed in there for fifteen years.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he added: "But Director Brad, we shouldn't have done anything serious this time, but we can't keep him in prison for another fifteen years."
"Why did you come here all the time? Cell phones being smuggled across the border?" Brad didn't answer his question, but asked his own question.
Silence.
Felix did not answer.
"You still have ten seconds. If you don't answer my question, you will regret it." Brad's tone became completely cold.
Three opportunities for promotion, three hopes were dashed, which made him very annoyed.
If Felix didn't tell him, he wouldn't mind helping him recall it himself.
"You want to know?"
Felix smiled.
"You still have seven seconds." Brad had already stood up, clenching his thick arms, and you could see the veins popping out.
"Stop, stop, stop." Felix immediately gave in. He didn't want to see the other party's thunderous methods again, so he immediately told the whole story.
A moment later.
Brad was silent.
Smuggling a mobile phone, nearly 200% of the net profit?
What does "Das Kapital" say?
“If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to take risks. If there is a 50% profit, capital will be willing to take risks. If there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk hanging. If there is With 300% profit, capital dares to trample all laws in the world." This sentence also applies to smugglers.
It is precisely because the profits are as high as 500%, or even 1000%, that those flour smugglers are willing to gamble with their lives.
If it's only 10%, who's risking their lives?
If you had a monthly salary of three thousand, would you risk your life for your boss?
Brad couldn't believe what Felix said. Maybe he didn't believe that a small mobile phone could be sold for 5,000 US dollars, or even 6,000 US dollars.
He changed several groups of people, but the results were the same.
Smuggling electronic products, it’s so damn difficult to convict them, Brad thought about it all night while sitting in the office. In the morning, when no one was around, he chose to talk to Brad in detail.
……
A week has passed.
The trend problem of Cuican X2 is becoming more and more serious.
A new profession has emerged in Europe, that is, "Brilliant X2 recyclers". They learn about the brilliant X2 users through some channels, and then charge high prices to recycle mobile phones through various methods such as phone calls and text messages.
According to exchange rate conversion, the price of the Collector's Edition of the Bright X2 in Europe is 13,999 dragon national coins, which is 1,999 euros. The price of recycling a bright X2 is 2,500 euros, and you can even give away the unopened one. 3000 euros.
Not only in Europe, but also in Africa, Oceania, America and other countries and regions on sale, there has been a wave of rush to buy the brilliant X2.
If you rush to buy a mobile phone, it is no less than winning the lottery.
As Li Zhenzhen, who is responsible for the international market, she is keenly aware that the world is starting to go crazy, or that her own brand has been recognized by wealthy people in Europe and the United States.
As soon as the incident happened, she notified Chen Xing via email.
After Chen Xing understood the ins and outs of the matter, he not only did not increase the difficulty of cracking mobile phone information communications, but also increased product production capacity and supply in Europe and the United States.
Is the United States closing the border?
It has no effect at all.
Considering the Internet needs of the American people, Chen Xing also called Zhao Chenguang urgently and asked him to think of a way to find a legitimate reason to provide 5G network signal coverage in the United States.
“With 5G high-speed network coverage in the United States, are we not afraid of being overtaken in the field of artificial intelligence?” Zhao Chenguang was a little puzzled.
The reason why the representative of the United States refused to build a 5G high-speed network in the United States was because Chen Xing said that Nvidia has in-depth research on artificial intelligence and cannot build it easily.
But what Zhao Chenguang didn't know was that Chen Xing had been secretly poaching people for a long time. The moment Huang Renxun handed over the graphics card data, he was tied to a boat with Chen Xing, and there was no way back.
If Huang Renxun swings between the two sides and Chen Xing only needs to make the matter public, then the former will probably disappear completely.
The strongest opponents of artificial intelligence have confirmed their return. Even if the 5G high-speed network is handed over to the United States, they will be helpless.
And the most critical thing is that without Longxing Group’s KT-001 baseband chip module, mobile phones produced by American companies cannot use 5G high-speed networks. The same is true for equipment. However, once used, the network operation is controlled by Longxing Group. , clues can be found at any time.
"We have achieved significant results in artificial intelligence. Even if it is opened to the United States, it will not pose a threat to us." Chen Xing did not tell the story about Nvidia, but said something that could be found out. .
“Jiuzhou AI?”
Zhao Chenguang asked tentatively.
"Well, I believe in my judgment. This wave of smuggling can completely shake the US market and will benefit us without any harm."
Chen Xing responded.
"I understand."
Zhao Chenguang was born, and he was not the kind of mother-in-law kind of person.
After figuring out the ins and outs and Chen Xing’s personal assurance, the Longguo Space Administration issued an announcement just the next day. The general meaning was that the Beidou communication satellites in Mexico and Canada were faulty and needed to be replaced urgently. However, since the construction is less than one year old, this replacement is a free maintenance due to humanitarian "warranty".
On the third day after the announcement was issued, the brilliant X2 mobile phone in the United States no longer had a 4G signal, but became a 5G signal.
For a while.
Mobile phone prices have doubled again.
If the profit before was only 200%-300%, now it is no exaggeration to say that smuggling a brilliant X2 mobile phone can make 500% profit.
Not only the brilliant X2, Longxing Group’s Longxing series, Geek series, and Tianyu series have also begun to enter the United States.
As the world's largest consumer country, the purchasing power of the United States is no joke. Just look at the regional business shares of the world's top 500 companies. Its purchasing power can be described as "far ahead" describe.
The discount global shopping platform has also experienced a situation in which supply exceeds demand for Longxing Group's products.
When a Longxing X3 is recycled, the user can earn US$200.
If a Geek X2 is recycled, the user can earn US$400.
If a Tianyu X1 is recycled, the user can earn 600 US dollars.
When a brilliant X2 is recycled, it will earn US$1,000 to US$3,000 depending on the standard version, the Honor version, and the Collector's version. You must know that these are still users who have no channels, and those smugglers who have channels Yes, they make several times more money than normal users.
Originally, Jack Ma and Liu Dongzi thought that the four flagship models of Longxing Group would return to normal purchasing power within half a month.
But they never expected that the emergence of the smuggling wave would cause the sales of the four flagship models to surge. They had to urgently close the pre-sale and adjust the inventory to "nothing" status.
The discount global shopping platform is out of stock, and some people are starting to go to offline experience stores, and some even want to buy the display unit.
Such a large-scale smuggling wave naturally attracted the attention of high-level officials in the United States.
Washington.
Interior of Parliament House.
Renato Marotta looked at the contents of the submitted documents. He was in disbelief at first, and then fell into silence.
Smuggling mobile phones?
This is simply unheard of!
But when he learned that the smuggled mobile phone was the Longxing Group mobile phone, and it was the brilliant X2 folding screen mobile phone that has become a global hit recently, he fell silent.
You clearly put Longxing Group on the DOD list and banned its products from entering the country. How could you still set off a wave of smuggling?
What is the DOD list?
The DOD list is a death list set by the United States for military industrial companies. As long as any company is on the list, it will be directly restricted by the United States and its allied countries.
To put it bluntly, as long as it is on the DOD list, it will be difficult for the company to get involved in the global market.
For a long time, the DOD list has also been called the corporate death list. The companies that can be on the list basically come from the dragon and the bear.
Longxing Group’s ability to enter the global market despite being on the DOD list is largely due to the 5G high-speed network.
Whether it is Japan, South Korea, or countries in Europe and the United States, they all want to build 5G high-speed networks covering the entire country.
If there is demand, do you still care about your list?
If there were no 5G high-speed network, Longxing Group’s strategic layout would probably encounter the strongest entry restrictions in history.
“Damn it.”
Renato Marotta clenched his fists.
He has arranged everything he can for Longxing Group, but he still cannot prevent it from entering the US market.
The most outrageous thing is that, strictly speaking, they are not sold in the American market. It is their own people who smuggle them spontaneously and buy them at several times the price.
Who can I talk to to explain this?
What else can be done?
Want to ban?
How do you ban it?
People are smuggling into the country. In this "forbidden" environment, if you increase your efforts, you can only raise the price.
Renato Marotta just felt like they were going to be burned down. Chen Xing and Longxing Group were like lingering ghosts, haunting his thoughts.
However, what Renato Marotta didn’t know was that what was more serious than mobile phones was actually “software smuggling.”
TikTok has already been built into the motherboard chips of the four new flagships, and Chen Xing also greeted Zhang Ming and asked him to enrich the ecological content of the software as much as possible.
Mobile phones are hardware smuggling.
TikTok is software smuggling.
Amid this intensifying wave of smuggling, more and more American people have come into contact with short video software.
One after another, YouTube creators have also entered TikTok, moved their past videos to the new platform, and compressed the content, playing the core in 15 seconds.
This time.
Jewish capital panicked.
The Longxing Group was growing rapidly, and they could still maintain restraint, but they were really panicked by the "software invasion".
In the United States, or rather around the world, they like to control the media.
Balay Group and Vanguard Group control 95% of the world’s media platforms and also control the minds of most people around the world.
Like the S2 season, they used countless movies to weaken themselves and make people around the world feel pity for their plight.
But what about the nature of the event?
It’s not because they control prices that make countless people starve to death on the streets.
Not to mention 500,000 yuan worth of bread, if someone dares to raise the price of a bowl of white rice to 200 yuan, then the gun bolt will probably smoke.
It is precisely because of the whitewashing of movies that for a long time, the world has treated the Jewish people with compassion and tolerance.
Now the emergence of TikTok, this uncontrolled global media platform, makes the Jewish consortium feel uneasy.
Wall Street, New York.
No. 666 All Vision Building.
Baskar, who has small and delicate features and is wearing a suit and ties, came to the top-floor office again, and the three people waiting inside got up.
“For the tasks given by the above, if TikTok can be acquired, it will be acquired. If it cannot be acquired, it will be extinguished in the United States forever.”
His tone was calm, but under the cover of calmness, there was a hint of emotion. Wipe away the unnoticeable warmth and anger.
“We are also discussing this issue, but TikTok does not operate here, which is a bit difficult to handle.” Lyle Valles, the head of the Balay Group, responded weakly.
“Can’t do it?”
Baskar walked up to him.
Just like last time, he began to rotate slowly like a plate of walnuts.
“This!”
Lyle Valles gritted his teeth.
Baskar showed no mercy. If it were not for the British royal family, he would have taken action long ago.
"Can...can do it."
Lyle Valles responded with a blushing face.
Robert Seavey, the leader of the Navigation Group, and David Dovich, the future successor of the Federal Reserve Bank, swallowed unconsciously. They did not dare to disobey the "Six Wings" decision.
And TikTok does threaten them. Even if Bhaskar doesn't say anything, they will ban it as much as possible.
“I want the results within three days.”
Baskar let go of the hand holding the walnuts and immediately sat down on the sofa.
The three of them, Lyle Valles, looked at each other with fear. Although they understood that they might not be able to complete the task, they still responded one after another.
“Okay.”
"No problem Mr. Bhaskar."
With the fate of Bailey Group and Linghang Group, Zhang Ming, the founder of Bytedance in Longguo, first received text messages, then emails, and finally multinational Telephone.
What the text messages, emails, and phone calls wanted to express was to ask him to set a price and sell TikTok to them.
Can Zhang Ming agree?
To be honest, yes!
But Chen Xing behind Zhang Ming is not sure. His strategic layout is not just for this small profit.
The most important thing about TikTok is not its short video profit, but its ability to break the Jewish consortium’s control of the world’s media.
With TikTok as a platform, people around the world no longer need the review of Bayley Group and Vanguard Group, and can directly express their opinions and see the information they want.
Its existence will directly break the information cocoon established by the Jewish consortium.
[No idea at the moment. ]
Zhang Ming gave a concise reply.
He actually knows very well that if he sells TikTok against all odds at this time, he can instantly achieve financial freedom. But on the contrary, Chen Xing will immediately stop providing big data technology. Domestic Byte Beats and Douyin will be sniped, which is equivalent to self-destruction.
Is it necessary for these petty profits?
Absolutely unnecessary!
Zhang Ming is a smart man. He also saw the potential of Longxing Group and knew that only by reporting to the group can there be hope. After replying to the Jewish consortium, he immediately informed Chen Xing of the news.
After receiving the call, Chen Xing, who was far away in Shenzhen, first asked in surprise: "How many registered users does TikTok have worldwide?"
"200 million."
"2 Billion? "
Chen Xing was stunned.
He thought TikTok was an electronic opium, but he didn’t expect it to spread so quickly, which was far beyond his expectation.
After a brief thought, Chen Xing responded: "Normal operations will be fine. Now is just the beginning. I will go to the Imperial Capital in two days and we will talk in detail."
"Okay, I will pick you up then. You."
Zhang Ming nodded in response.
He will not doubt Chen Xing's strategic vision. The man who has increased the company's market value thousands of times in two years no longer needs to prove his strength to others, because the brand name of Longxing Group will replace Chen Xing. Star speaks.
After seeing Zhang Ming’s rejection email, Lyle Valles had no choice but to choose a backup plan, listing TikTok and related sites as virus websites, and notifying local network operators in the United States that their numbers were not allowed to receive this software application. Registration verification text message.
However.
If you have a Longxing Group mobile phone, you can still access it directly.
Those who do not have a Longxing Group mobile phone can also access TikTok nodes in Mexico and Australia by circumventing the wall.
After being completely banned by the Jewish consortium, the number of TikTok users in the United States increased instead of decreasing. Thanks to word of mouth, it even aroused the curiosity of some people because of the ban. Overnight, the number of TikTok users increased by 300 million users, most of whom are students and young people.
This made Lyle Valles confused. Faced with the "electronic opium" sweeping the world, he seemed to have no way to do anything. Now his crotch is cold, and he is afraid that Pascal will plate his walnuts.
(End of this chapter)