A celebrity once said that if there is a 10% profit, businessmen will flock to it and everyone will follow suit. If there is a 50% profit, businessmen will take desperate risks. With 100% profit, businessmen dare to trample all human laws and lose their moral bottom line.
If there is a 300% profit, the businessman will completely lose his mind and not only dare to break the law, but also risk his life.
As for the current market conditions, as long as the goods are not available in the mainland, if you have the ability to transport them from Shanghai, you can sell them at least twice the price when they arrive in Hubei and Wuhan. You don’t have to spend any effort to establish any sales channels. As soon as the ship docks, businessmen from Wuhan and Hubei will naturally flock to the ship. Even the porters are ready for you, so you can just sit in the cabin and count the money.
This is just for Hubei. If we go to Hunan or even Sichuan, we won’t be able to earn back four or five times. It’s like a money printing machine.
So the Yangtze River Company suddenly became popular, and the Shanghai businessmen also went crazy.
In November, Yangtze River Company announced a weekly voyage plan to Wuhan. Just one day later, all the positions for the voyage that month were fully booked, and the deposit alone cost hundreds of thousands.
Some companies even see business opportunities and transfer their own positions at high prices, becoming true scalpers.
Zhou Wen knew about it and didn't take it seriously. He just transferred it, so that the Yangtze River Company could become even more popular.
Some people also suggested to Zhou Wen that the market is so tight now that they might as well increase the Yangtze River Company's transportation efforts. It is just a matter of buying a few more ships. As long as they make a few trips, all costs can be recovered.
But Zhou Wen just smiled and remained noncommittal. It was only when Liu Ruolan asked confusedly that Zhou Wen patiently explained to her the beauty of hunger marketing.
After all, Liu Ruolan had studied abroad, and she immediately understood that this method had an unexpected effect on maintaining long-term and high profits in the market.
Liu Ruolan couldn't help but admire and admire Zhou Wen even more. She didn't expect that her lover was not only a good fighter, but also had so many unconstrained ideas and strategies in business. He was truly a genius in the world.
Of course, hunger marketing is only one of Zhou Wen's considerations, and he has other plans on a deeper level.
From a purely commercial perspective, hunger marketing can only be miraculous in a specific period of time. However, from the perspective of the company's long-term development, it is of course better to meet the market's greatest demand and maximize benefits.
But Zhou Wen's Yangtze River Company did not come to Shanghai for long-term development, and the war between China and Japan that was about to break out in a few years would not give him any chance of long-term development.
Zhou Wen came to Shanghai to make money, and he wanted to make big money.
In the words of later generations, it is to make quick money and leave when the time is up.
This means that any investment heavy in assets and fixed assets may eventually come to naught. Naturally, the less the better.
Moreover, the reason why Zhou Wen wants to stir up the Yangtze River Company is actually to get involved in another business soon. A big business that really makes a lot of money, and it's fast money.
Of course, these are all things for later, and Zhou Wen can't take care of them now. One is that the arms smuggled by Qichang Foreign Company have arrived, and the other is that Mr. Situ, who is far away in the United States, is coming.
The reason why the arms smuggled by Qichang Foreign Company could not arrive was mainly due to transportation problems.
As for getting those so-called scrapped weapons and gunboats at low prices or even for nothing, the headquarters of Qi Chang Yang Company in the Philippines did not put in much effort.
As Zhou Wen expected, the American army during this period was not strict in discipline and management. A senior director of Qichang Yang Company found an acquaintance of the logistics manager of the US military stationed in the Philippines. After some easy-to-understand hints, he only spent a small handling fee (bribery) and obtained the qualification to dispose of used weapons and equipment. .
At the same time, the Logistics Department of the Mi Army in the Philippines reported a batch of weapons and equipment that were in service but were slightly outdated and did not have the capability to be used in wartime.
These include 50 M2 Browning 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, 3,000 Springfield rifles, and 6 70-ton river gunboats.
This is the first thing James said.
Just because the Qichang Company in the Philippines was unwilling to destroy its brand and replenish weapons that had actually been thrown into a scrap warehouse and had not been maintained for an unknown period of time, they simply found a way to retire a batch of active-duty weapons from the military stationed in the Philippines. equipment.
And Zhou Wen was very satisfied after seeing the data of these six inland river gunboats. This kind of gunboat is called the Matt-class gunboat in the US military. It has a displacement of only 60 tons, but it is equipped with a lot of weapons.
The Mat-class gunboat is equipped with an Oerlikon 20mm machine gun on the bow and two M2 Browning heavy machine guns on the left and right at the stern. It is specially used for patrolling and guarding inland rivers, and is used to deal with various bandits and water bandits in the Philippines. and a weapon for ethnic rebel forces.
The key is that the Matra-class gunboat is equipped with a 750-horsepower internal combustion engine and has a maximum speed of 23 knots, which has surpassed the various sizes of ships currently used on the Yangtze River. Moreover, the hull is smaller and lighter, even in some narrow tributary waterways. Can pass freely.
Based on what Zhou Wen knows so far, in the entire Republic of China, only the imported torpedo boats equipped by the Republic of China Navy are faster than the Matt gunboats.
But Zhou Wen is not here to compete with the navy. He is perfectly capable of escorting and suppressing bandits.
Of course, the gunboat is treated as retired scrap equipment, and the Oerlikon 20mm cannon on the gunboat must be dismantled, which makes Zhou Wen feel a little regretful.
You must know that during World War II, this 20mm machine gun produced in Switzerland became famous all over the world. The participating countries did not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. Almost every country purchased or copied this small-caliber artillery that can be used for air defense and can also hit ground targets.
Zhou Wen had originally intended to purchase this weapon for future air defense operations of the mercenary group, but it was still some time before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, so there was no need to equip it now.
Of course, Zhou Wen would also be very willing to buy six such high-performance machine guns for free, but unfortunately he could not do so.
But even so, Zhou Wen was very satisfied with this arms smuggling. I got my favorite 'Laoganma' machine gun. Although it was a used second-hand product, Qichang Yangxing Company thoughtfully equipped each machine gun with three spare barrels. Zhou Wendu was amazed that this company must have There are experts in military affairs.
It can be seen from this that Qichang Company must be a veteran in arms smuggling and knows how to capture the hearts of customers, making you feel embarrassed not to contact them next time you have needs.
Originally, all of this equipment had entered the warehouse of Qichang Yangxing Headquarters in the Philippines as early as the end of September, but it took a lot of trouble to transport it.
