Gong Changqing, Chen Shenglan, Gong Er and Lao Jiang looked at Chu Qianqian, taking out whole dried pheasants, hares and dried fish from the boxes they brought back, with smiles on their faces.
Chu Xiangqian was able to get so much dried cured meat. From the looks of it, he must have already arranged the supply with the mainland.
And the relationship on the mainland should be quite strong.
If Chu Xiangqian has a job, he will naturally be able to gain a foothold on Hong Kong Island.
The last box contains a complete set of tiger bones, tiger whip, ten sets of deer antlers, and deer treasures.
Fifty pounds of dried tiger meat, fifty pounds of dried venison, 10 wolf skins, fox skins and one complete tiger skin.
Gong Er and others were shocked.
A piece of tiger bone costs thousands in mainland China. If it is a Siberian tiger weighing more than 500 kilograms, the price will be doubled.
When I got to Hong Kong Island, I heard from Lao Jiang that tiger bones are more difficult to obtain, so the price would naturally be several times higher.
As for the tiger skin, Chu Xiangqian planned to give it to Gong Er, but Gong Er shook his head after hearing it.
He also said that as a woman, using tiger skin as a mattress would be a bad thing.
Then he suggested that Chu Xiangqian frame the tiger skin and hang it in the main hall of the drug store with a price tag of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars as a sign.
Chu Xiangqian immediately realized that the prices of tiger skins, tiger bones, and tiger whips on Hong Kong Island were more expensive than he had imagined.
If you switch to the Mainland, a piece of tiger skin Chu Qianqian dares to bid at most 2,000.
But in Gong Er's opinion, a intact and well-handled tiger skin is worth 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Can a whole set of tiger bones cost 20,000 yuan?
As for the tiger whip, Chu Xiangqian only wanted to quote 500.
Now, let’s just quote 5,000.
As for whether it can be sold, you have to try it first.
Tiger skins were hung in the cured meat shop, and more and more people came to watch the fun.
However, the price tag is HK$10,000. Unless you are rich, no one has the spare money to buy it back.
After all, even in winter here on Hong Kong Island, the temperature is above ten degrees.
Fur is a niche business here.
The customer base can only be targeted at old men and women from wealthy families.
The more people come in, the more people buy dried meat.
As for tiger bones, tiger whips, deer antlers, and deer treasures, some people may need them, but Chu Xiangqian felt that displaying the tiger skins was enough to show off.
Secondly, there are people who really want to buy it. Seeing that there are dried venison and tiger meat for sale in the store, they will come to inquire about it.
What people didn't expect was that the tiger skin only hung for three days before it was bought by a middle-aged man driving a car in the evening.
By the way, I also bought 10 kilograms of tiger meat jerky priced at RMB 50 per kilogram, and 10 kilograms of venison dried meat priced at RMB 20 per kilogram.
This tiger skin alone has already earned back one-third of the cost of buying this shop.
He just waited for Chu Xiangqian to tell the master and mistress who asked for help that the profit of these dried meats was 20%.
Gong Changqing and Chen Shenglan were stunned and realized that they had forgotten the principal amount of the goods.
But when I thought about it, if I could earn more than 2,000 yuan at a time, I might be able to earn back the money to buy a house in a year, and a smile suddenly appeared on my face.
Unknowingly, he had spent half a month on Hong Kong Island. At noon this day, Chu Xiangqian was planning to go to the White Rose Barber Shop to get a haircut.
By the way, I wanted to see if Sanjiangshui was there, and I wanted to get some advice from him, and asked who could contact the official responsible for population registration in Kowloon.
Chu Qianqian did not forget the seven boxes of treasures that Shibata Katsuhisa transported from the mainland.
It's just that I have just arrived in Hong Kong Island, and I don't know where to look for Shibata Katsuhisa.
Naturally, we have to settle down first and then check.
As soon as he stood up, he saw Qian Guotai walking in dressed in a long robe.
Chu Qianqian's expression twisted, knowing that Qian Guotai came to the door to get rid of the traitor hiding in Hong Kong Island.
He asked Qian Guotai, "What do you want to buy, sir?"
Qian Guotai scanned a large pile of dried fish hanging in the shop and asked in confusion, "Didn't you say you sell dried meat here?"
Chu Xiangqian is not stupid. He gets hundreds of dried pheasants and hares every month, and outsiders will not think there is any problem.
But if the sales were liberalized and hundreds or thousands of units were shipped every month, then the problem would be huge.
So after selling out 500 kilograms of various dried meats in half a month, Chu Xiangqian told the public that except for dried fish, everything else was out of stock.
If you want it, you have to do it next month.
But privately, people from well-off families have come to order pheasant meat, hare meat, tiger meat, and venison.
Chu Xiangqian didn't agree for the time being, but when the middle-aged man who bought the tiger skin came to his door yesterday, Chu Xiangqian didn't hesitate and reached an order for a sika deer.
When I was in the capital, a pound of good-quality deer antler cost 200 per pound, but here in Hong Kong it costs double that, 500 per pound, and I often can’t buy it.
Although there are already artificially bred sika deer these days, they are all done by farms within the system.
It’s not that difficult for outsiders to buy.
The wild ones are more difficult to enter Hong Kong Island. Basically, they are already reserved by local pharmacies before they appear in the market.
They prepare it carefully and sell it for takeout at several times the price once it changes hands.
When he was still in the capital, he sold a complete sika deer with antlers to Deputy Director Li of the steel rolling mill. The price was 1,500 per deer.
If sold to a wealthy person on Hong Kong Island, the price is 4,500, which is three times the price.
However, the other party required that the weight should not be less than 150 kilograms.
If it weighs more than 200 kilograms, the price is not 6,000, but 7,000.
Chu Xiangqian nodded and agreed to place the order without much thought.
Then he got a business card from the other party that said 'He Mansion'.
Combined with the last time, Chickadee followed the middle-aged man, bought the tiger skin, and took a car across the sea to a villa in the mid-level luxury area between Victoria Peak and Central on Hong Kong Island.
Chu Xiangqian basically determined the identity of the other party.
However, this has nothing to do with him. Chu Xiangqian has never thought about having any friendship with the other party.
When you come to the door at this time, people think you are begging for food.
Chu Qianqian looked at Qian Guotai and said, "The dried meat purchase channel is still being established. Although the goods from the mainland are good, they are in short supply. I have recently been discussing the supply of goods with the shippers in Nanyang.
It's just that it was difficult to reach cooperation for a while, so these fish were left to dry. "
Qian Guotai nodded.
When Chu Xiangqian was in the capital, he was famous for hunting and fishing. Qian Guotai was not surprised that he was able to raise hundreds of kilograms of dried meat.
As for discussing cooperation with businessmen from Nanyang, that is even more appropriate.
In the end, Qian Guotai bought a 3-pound dried fish and left without saying anything after paying.
There was just a piece of paper with an address in the 3 yuan given.
Chu Xiangqian read it and threw it into the novice village.
After dinner in the evening, Chu Xiangqian told his master and mistress that he was going to discuss the supply of goods with the Nanyang cargo owner.
I went out and rode a bicycle I just bought a few days ago, and came to a teahouse in Mong Kok.
When I saw Qian Guotai in the private room, he was drinking tea and watching the Yue Opera "The Prime Minister of the Six Kingdoms" performed on the stage.
Chu Xiangqian had no interest in opera. After sitting down, he asked directly, "Where does the target live? Do you have any photos?"
Qian Guotai shook his head angrily, secretly thinking that he deliberately chose this play, which was a waste of effort.
He took out a photo from his pocket, gave his address and name, and said, "If possible, get this done as soon as possible."
Chu Qianqian nodded indifferently. With the tits here, it would not be difficult to create an accident.
But after thinking about it, if he secretly kills the target in one day, the superiors might be wary, even worried, and afraid of him.
"I need three days to conduct reconnaissance and implement the plan. If everything goes well, the target will be achieved in a week."
Qian Guotai knew that Chu Xiangqian was active enough, but this time things were a bit troublesome.
After thinking about it, he whispered, "The target killed a dozen of our comrades back then. I thought he was dead, but I didn't expect that he was not only alive, but also fled to Hong Kong Island to become a rich man.
Several comrades who were lucky enough to survive came to me, hoping to get rid of him as soon as possible. "
Chu Qianqian nodded silently. He should satisfy this request.
"I'll go take a look tonight and take action if the opportunity is right."
After saying that, Chu Xiangqian mentioned Ma San's disciples and grandsons again. If there was a chance, it would be better to take action first than to have others come to them.
Qian Guotai thought for a while and said, "Those people in the mainland have been arrested. Those who were released without any problem were also arranged to go to the northwest. They will not be able to cause trouble to you again.
Now there is only one group hiding in Southeast Asia.
If you have time to go there, I will give you specific information as soon as possible. "
Chu Xiangqian was temporarily relieved.
But considering that tits can fly 350 kilometers in one hour, even if they fly to the Lion City, it will only take one night.
Once you find someone, you can poison, set fire, assassinate, etc. Titmouse can do it.
"You check it for me and I'll find someone."
Qian Guotai was stunned and then thought of Ding Lianshan.
As the secret killer of the Xingyi Bagua Sect, even if Ding Lianshan himself is old, it is normal for the old man to have apprentices.
With these people taking action, there is really no need for Chu Qianqian to go to Southeast Asia on his own.
Qian Guotai nodded, but thought in his heart that he still had to talk to his superiors about this matter.
It will be useful when the guarantee is not complete.
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After leaving the teahouse, Chu Xiangqian wanted to go home, but he didn't go far on his bicycle when he saw a movie theater not far away.
I couldn't help but walk over and buy a ticket to go in.
While sitting on a chair watching a movie, the tit had already flown all the way to a villa area a few blocks away under Chu Xiangqian's command.
After searching for a short time, we quickly determined where the traitor lived.
After observing around the villa for more than an hour, through each window, I not only roughly determined the layout, but also basically knew who lived inside.
Chu Xiangqian walked out of the cinema, secretly thinking that such a bad martial arts movie had an attendance rate of 70%, so for him, making movies might also be a profitable business.
He also entered the media and entertainment industry, running a film company, a cinema, a newspaper, and finally a TV station.
You don't need to show off your platform to the Mainland. If you just maintain a neutral and unbiased attitude, it will be impossible for the Mainland to win over you from now on.
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Let the tits stare at the traitor's bedroom, observing the other party and waiting for the opportunity to take action. Chu Xiangqian himself stopped by a tea shop.
I bought five kinds of tea, including Longjing, Biluochun, Tieguanyin, Jasmine Tea, and Houkui, totaling 10 kilograms.
I plan to give it as a gift when I return to the capital.
Seeing that there was a Dahongpao in this store, Chu Xiangqian's first thought was that he didn't believe it.
During the Republic of China, Dahongpao cost 64 yuan per catty, which was equivalent to 4,000 catties of rice at that time.
If converted into current Tianchao currency, it would cost 460 yuan.
And this does not include the value of food stamps.
After arriving in New China, they no longer appeared on the market.
The boss didn't expect Chu Xiangqian to know so much, so he reluctantly explained that Dahongpao was a tea species cultivated in Hangzhou from branches cut from three Dahongpao plants in Wuyi Mountain.
But even so, only 3,000 kilograms are sold to the outside world every year.
When we get to Hong Kong Island, we can buy it at 120 per pound.
Chu Qianqian curled his lips inwardly, he couldn't deceive himself with this kind of provocation.
If you buy it, you will be taken advantage of.
Carrying a box containing 20 tea cans and leaving the tea shop, I saw that Titmouse never found a chance to make a move.
Chu Qianqian sighed and rode his bicycle to the villa where the target was.
After observing for a while, he returned home.
Three days passed in a flash.
That night, Chu Qianqian came to the area of the villa again, looked around, and selected a big tree fifty or sixty meters away from the villa.
After climbing up the balcony easily, he took out a level 8 bow and arrow from his storage and looked at the villa. He could just see the bedroom window where the target lived.
At Chu Qianqian's command, the tit knocked on the glass window of the bedroom with its beak.
After a while, the target opened the window, smiled and used a piece of pastry to attract the tits.
Chu moved his bow and drew the arrow in an instant, without any need to aim.
Relying on feeling and experience, one arrow is aimed at the target, instantly penetrating the target's heart.
The arrow brought out a large mass of blood and penetrated straight into the wall.
Chu Qianqian smiled, his current bow and arrow accuracy, within a hundred meters, was definitely far better than that of firearms.
Moreover, the wounds caused by the arrows were larger than the rifle bullets at this time.
Future rifle bullets will roll over after entering the human body. Under the cavity effect, internal organs will be damaged and cause massive bleeding.
But today's rifle bullets are too powerful, and most of the time they penetrate instead of staying and rolling inside the human body.
Therefore, the arrow's lethality is greater.
——
Seeing the target twitching through the tit's sight, Chu Xiangqian jumped off the tree, put away his bow and arrow, got on his bicycle and walked back.
In less than a minute, in Titmouse's sight, the target was already lying motionless on the floor.
And because there is not much movement, the room itself has sound insulation effect.
No one in the villa noticed anything unusual.
Chu smiled forward and instead of rushing home on his bicycle, he let Titmouse try to pull out the arrow.
After more than an hour, the chickadee finally pulled out the arrow, grabbed it with its two little claws and flew out of the room, landing in front of Chu Qianqian.
Putting away the arrows, Chu Qianqian rode his bicycle and went home leisurely.
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The next morning, he called the housekeeper of the He family and told him that the sika deer had been shipped to Hong Kong Island and asked him to come and pick it up in the afternoon. Chu Qian went to the newsstand and bought a newspaper.
Soon I saw a newspaper reporting that the owner of 'Zhengxin Goods Store' was assassinated at home last night.
Chu Qianqian smiled, believing that Qian Guotai would be able to understand at a glance that the target was killed by him after reading the newspaper.
In the afternoon, the housekeeper of the He family came to take away a whole sika deer that had been processed, and Chu Xiangqian also received 4,500 Hong Kong dollars.
Just when he was thinking about how much money he had earned these days, Qian Guotai walked in with a smile on his face.
"Boss, wrap up 3 dried fish for me."
Chu nodded forward and wrapped the three dried fishes in old newspapers while listening to Qian Guotai say, "I received an encrypted telegram from my superior this morning, which is a great compliment to you.
At the same time, the boss asked me to ask you, are there any difficulties that need to be solved? "
Chu Qianqian smiled, showing his worth, and his attitude immediately became more enthusiastic.
After pretending to think for a while, he said, "I need gold bars, and Nanyang is not very willing to accept Hong Kong dollars.
There is a shortage of U.S. dollars in the country, but everyone can accept gold bars. "
Qian Guotai was very happy, but there was a shortage of both U.S. dollars and Hong Kong dollars in the country.
What ordinary people don't know is that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country had to raise the price of gold several times in order to stimulate the gold mining industry.
It will rise again in 1963.
In the years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there is actually a lot of gold left in the mainland.
But these days, U.S. dollars can be exchanged directly for gold from foreign banks.
In other words, there is no shortage of gold in the international market.
As a result, the country has gold in hand, but cannot exchange large amounts of foreign exchange.
Of course, it is impossible to exchange on a large scale. After all, gold is more suitable for packaging.
In terms of liquidity and acceptance, US dollars are more popular.
What most companies and individuals prefer is the U.S. dollar, which is easier to carry and make settlements.
The exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the U.S. dollar will fluctuate slightly at this time and in the next dozen years because the exchange rate between the pound and the U.S. dollar has been stable all year round at a ratio of 4:1.
The U.S. dollar is also anchored at a fixed exchange rate.
In other words, for a long time in the future, the exchange ratios of British pound to US dollar and British pound to Hong Kong dollar will be 1:4 and 1:16.
On the contrary, the price of gold fluctuates from time to time.
So when he heard that Chu Qianqian wanted to exchange Hong Kong dollars for gold, Qian Guotai agreed without even thinking about it.
"How many Hong Kong dollars do you want to exchange?"
Chu Qianqian silently calculated that the tiger skin was sold for 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Pheasants and hares weigh 500 kilograms. Since they are dry goods, I priced them at 2 yuan per kilogram after referring to the prices in other dry goods stores.
If sold out in half a month, 1,000 Hong Kong dollars will be recovered.
This is more than twice as expensive as domestic prices.
But if you need bills in China, it’s actually not that expensive.
50 kilograms of tiger meat costs 50 yuan per kilogram, and 2,500 yuan is recovered.
Venison is 20 per pound, and 50 pounds is 1,000.
Because dried fish doesn’t require too much consideration about its source, Chu Xiangqian plans to put 2,000 kilograms of dried fish in the store every month from now on.
The price tag was 1 yuan per catty, but in the past half month, only 1,100 catties were sold.
None of the wolf or fox skins were sold, not that everyone bought them, but that people just wanted to buy finished furs.
But Chu Xiangqian was reluctant to use some coupons to synthesize finished furs in Novice Village.
Adding everything up, I have earned HK$14,600 in half a month since I opened the store.
If the remaining 900 kilograms of dried fish are sold, it will equal a monthly income of HK$15,500.
This is definitely a high income in Hong Kong Island.
As for ordering, only the He family has taken an order for sika deer after being approved by me. It takes too long to accurately estimate how much they can earn.
But even so, in this half month, I have already earned 19,100 Hong Kong dollars.
After thinking about it, Chu Xiangqian said, "Based on 208 Hong Kong dollars per tael of gold, give me 10 large yellow croakers weighing 10 taels in exchange."
After Qian Guotai heard this, his eyes nearly popped out.
This is 20,800 Hong Kong dollars. How long has Chu Qianqian been in Hong Kong Island?
(End of chapter)
