Chapter 196 Barter Barter
Master Hui stood at the door and looked at Song Tianyao pitifully. Song Tianyao had complained too many times. When he first met Song Tianyao, if he scolded him, Master Hui might be so scared that he would not dare to breathe for a long time. He went back to think about how he made Secretary Song unhappy. However, after too many times, Master Hui himself was used to being scolded every time when he saw Song Tianyao. If Song Tianyao smiled and praised him for doing a good job, he would feel uncomfortable.
So Song Tianyao scolded him for not knowing how to read and treat food, and he couldn't do anything good at delivering food. He ignored it at all, covered his eyes, raised his head and said with confidence:
"I went to Xiyingpan Barracks as Secretary Song said to deliver vegetables to those soldiers. After I sent the vegetables to the military barracks warehouse and changed them to the warden. After I walked out of the military barracks, I was stopped by a group of grandmas and called me an idiot, saying that I only took this little bit, what should I do in the future? As soon as I decided a few words, a grandma spitted at me!"
"Did you beat that grandma?" Song Tianyao looked at Master Hui and asked.
Master Hui lowered his head: "No, she spit at me, of course I spit at her too. Of course she is not as bad as me at age. She has never vomited me. But as soon as I finished spitting her, a countryside slap emerged from behind her. She was as strong as a cow. She punched me without saying a word and beat me like this. Most of the tobacco, alcohol and groceries she received were also separated by those grandmas."
"You are so sharp. I, Pu, you, and the old man can spit on it. Even the goods you exchanged can be taken away by the country grandma." Song Tianyao grabbed his scalp with force, turned it on the spot for a few times, and said to Master Hui with a grudge.
He was preparing to read and recharge during this period, but whether it was Lou Fengyun, his parents, A Shuan orphans and widows, or the master Hui in front of him, he always had to do something. Although Song Tianyao could withdraw 8,000 Hong Kong dollars from Guanya's account every month at this time, and it was more than enough to take care of these people, Song Tianyao did not want these people to be idle. It was not that he was reluctant to spend money to support everyone, but that he always felt that people would only become lazy as they became lazy. It was better to be busy with things and make themselves look more energetic.
Lou Fengyun is now sitting in Western medicine every day, just like the shopkeeper of Yingde Western Medicine Store. She orders goods, keeps accounts, and collects money by one person. She lets Song Tianyao’s mother Zhao Meizhen sit in the head of a nominal boss’s wife every day, sitting in the wind and rain corridor outside the door without any storm, playing mahjong with neighbors, chatting and bickering, and not even making three meals a day. Song Tianyao’s old beans and Song Chunliang even goes to Liheng’s company to purchase goods once a week, and the rest of the time is to sit on a chair holding a radio and listen to the radio broadcast. Song Wenwen is the most unhappy because she has been responsible for cooking and cleaning up housework for Lou Fengyun and her rare parents.
Although A Shuan's wife, Mrs. Fen, was placed in the single-story building on Jordan Road, Kowloon by Song Tianyao and hired a maid, she was also from a poor family and lived a life of wealth and idleness. When Yingde Western Medicine opened, she had repeatedly told Zhao Meizhen and even Song Tianyao that she would not have a salary and asked her to come to the Western Medicine Business to help do things and run errands, and just express her feelings.
Wu Xiu'er was taken care of by maids in three meals a day and housework. Seeing that Fen's sister-in-law was really idle, Song Tianyao simply rented the first floor of the Tang Building where Daofen, Daofen, Daofen, and opened a small Wu Ji Zao foreign goods store, and handed it over to Fen's wife for her. In this way, her residence is on the upper floor and the store downstairs, so that a woman doesn't need to travel too far.
As soon as the store opened, Master Hui took the initiative to find Song Tianyao, saying that it would be enough to take care of his boss, Sister Yun, who was the woman in the Western Medicine Store. However, Sister Fen's wife's house is an orphan and widowed mother, who is not literate, may be easily deceived. It would be better for him to go to help Sister Fen's shop for the foreign goods store. Before he could speak, the excitement fell on his face and could not even hide it.
When Shi Ye Hui spoke, he actually thought that Song Tianyao would not agree. Unexpectedly, Song Tianyao actually agreed to let Shi Ye Hui go to help Fensao. However, he did not go to manage the grocery store, but went to buy the vegetables that the indigenous people in the New Territories had to sell in the city in the early morning of every day, then remembered to weigh them, and then transported them to the Xiyingpan Military Camp in Hong Kong by ship to exchange for the tobacco, alcohol, salt, sugar and other supplies in the hands of the British troops stationed in Hong Kong, and then transported them back to the grocery store for sale.
The reason why Song Tianyao asked Shi Ye Hui to barter at the British military camp stationed in Hong Kong was not that he had the unreliable intention of reselling British military funds in Hong Kong. Barter at the barter of the military camp is now one of the most common small businesses among the minority people in the lower-level Hong Kong.
The British British troops stationed in Hong Kong received various materials from the huge base of Japan's surrender in Hong Kong, because after Japan captured Hong Kong, it used Hong Kong as a logistics supply base and a nursing home for wounded soldiers to build it. In addition to the materials supplied by Japan's local sources, most of the materials plundered after invading Southeast Asia were also transported to Hong Kong. After Japan surrendered, all of these large amounts of materials were cheaper than the British British troops stationed in Hong Kong.
The British troops stationed in Hong Kong regularly hand over ships, machines, rubber, kerosene, etc. that cannot be disposed of at will to the Hong Kong colonial government to help auction them for money. However, in addition to the sought-after supplies, various cigarettes, towels, liquor, sugar, salt and other daily necessities are still piled up in more than 30 warehouses in more than a dozen barracks and thirty warehouses in Hong Kong.
Most of these production dates were seven or even ten years ago. Military officers from all British military camps were helpless. Towels, sugar, and salt could be digested by more than 10,000 British troops stationed in Hong Kong. However, most of the cigarettes were Japanese cigarettes. In addition, they were stored for too long and lacked taste. Even if they were distributed as free benefits, no one would like to collect those soldiers who were used to smoking local British cigarettes. As for white wine, let the soldiers who were used to drinking smoky whiskey, fruity brandy or even light beer drink alcohol-flavored oriental liquor? It was no different from forcing them to drink poison.
Not to mention that the soldiers are willing to touch these materials, the food and vegetables in each military camp have also begun to emerge. As the British expeditionary force stationed in Hong Kong in the Far East, these British soldiers enjoyed the privilege of their families accompanying the army after the war. With the number of people over 10,000, going to Hong Kong, in addition to expanding the area of the camp, increasing the number of family housing, and building kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, restaurants, shops and other supporting facilities within the military camp, each military camp has fallen into a food and vegetable crisis. It is not because the family members are in the military. The salary of these British soldiers is not enough to buy vegetables and food. It is precisely because the family members are in the military camp. This expeditionary force has increased its salary and benefits to ensure that the salary of each British soldier is enough to meet the expenses of a family in the military camp.
The salary I received was indeed too much, but the military camp did not have enough food and vegetables. The British army stationed in Hong Kong, including meat, alcohol, and even flour, were transported from the UK or Australia. The British military only guaranteed that more than 10,000 soldiers had enough daily necessities and did not count the huge demand for family members. The reason was that the salary increase had been raised for these soldiers. The salary increase was to consider the reasons why family members were with the army. What they needed could be purchased in Hong Kong.
However, there is not much land in Hong Kong. Even the rice that Chinese eat by themselves was imported from mainland China and Thailand. After the embargo was issued, the rice prices have risen a lot, which has caused complaints from Hong Kong people. As for the Hong Kong flour market, it is monopolized by Australian companies and American companies. It is common for poor families to eat rice, but they rarely can afford flour.
Previously, the vegetables from various military camps of British troops stationed in Hong Kong were purchased by the military officers in the streets. Now, the families of the military have learned to bring their own money to nearby markets to buy vegetables and grains and cook home. Often when the military officers go to purchase vegetables, the vegetables have been purchased by the military officers. The Hong Kong people selling vegetables are ready to close the stalls, and there are only a few leaves left.
The British troops stationed in Hong Kong only have 12,000 people, but the family members of the Sui Army have even exceeded 10,000, including children. The family members of the Sui Army have consumed a huge amount of local vegetables, so they can't even make a simple vegetable salad for the soldiers in various military camps and restaurants because there are not enough vegetables.
Forced by helplessness, several military officers near the New Territories asked for instructions, they began to think about Japanese supplies, and bartered with local people. Vegetables and grains were exchanged for tobacco, alcohol, tea and sugar. Originally, the local vegetables and grains in Hong Kong were produced in the New Territories, and people in the countryside would also go to the city to sell vegetables in their spare time. Now, these New Territories people saw ghosts using tobacco, alcohol, and vegetables, and carried unicycles or carrying poles, filling their own vegetables and grains, and no longer entered the city. They sent them directly to the military camp. Two baskets of vegetables were exchanged for two baskets of cigarettes, which was definitely a big profit for the people. For the military officers, those tobaccos, alcohol and alcohol had no taste and occupied the warehouse, which was no different from waste. It was a big advantage to be able to exchange for two baskets of vegetables.
This kind of barter that was very happy was quickly transmitted from the New Territories to Kowloon and then to Hong Kong Island. Military officials from all the barracks said that we also had expired supplies that were moldy in the warehouse and no one was willing to ask for. We simply started bartering, including vegetables and grains for supplies.
However, the military camps in Hong Kong have no advantages, because the people choose to barter in the New Territories military camps or Kowloon military camps nearby. They can get the same thing. Of course, they will not travel far to Hong Kong Island and take a small ship to cross the sea to give two baskets of vegetables to the ghost soldiers who can't afford vegetables in Hong Kong.
The Xiyingpan garrison garrison, who had no one willing to exchange for supplies, had to lower the price, exchange a basket of vegetables for one basket of half a basket of tobacco and alcohol. Only after the profit was slightly higher, did some people want to get together and come to the sea to deliver vegetables once.
Song Tianyao asked Shi Yehui to do a barter business with the three military bars in Hong Kong. His arrangement was to ask Shi Yehui to charge vegetables from rural vegetable farmers in the New Territories at a price better than the barter of the New Territories, and then transport them across the sea to the Xiyingpan military barracks in Hong Kong Island in exchange for tobacco and alcohol supplies.
In fact, Song Tianyao knew that with the barter trend, the prices of expired tobacco and alcohol exchanged in the military camps were no longer valuable outside. It can even be said that the prices were about to fall, which were not as good as vegetables. The reason was that those vegetable farmers blindly cut off the price when they got the tobacco and alcohol, and did not understand the market conditions. The former vegetable farmers might sell a cigarette for five Hong Kong dollars. In order to cash out faster, the latter vegetable farmers could sell all the cigarettes in their hands for four Hong Kong dollars, followed by three yuan, two yuan, and one yuan. After the initial huge profit, there was only a vicious cycle of price reduction and dumping.
Song Tianyao didn't want to hoard cigarettes and alcohol to make money. He was always far-reaching than those who were promoted to fight against the common people. The British army warehouses would always be emptied for one day. This kind of business would not last long. Instead, it should be a good relationship with the British garrison during this period when ordinary people regard British soldiers as idiots, and make money and losses. It is only thirty or fifty yuan a day, and he still loses. Compared with the money he lost, he hopes to maintain the connections of military officers in various military camps with good business ethics. The real business can be carried out in the unilateral procurement of British troops after the materials are emptied.
Today is the first day when he asked Shi Yehui to try bartering with the military camp. Song Tianyao has considered many possible details, politeness, simple English phrases, and even people in the community that specializes in collecting vegetable farmers' protection fees near the military camp. Song Tianyao asked Gao Laocheng to say hello specifically, not allow them to make things difficult for Shi Yehui.
As a result, Song Tianyao thought he had arranged everything, but no matter what, he could not imagine that on the first day of barter, Master Hui, who was beaten up, ran to see him with his bruised eyes and told Song Tianyao that he was not beaten by the people in the martial arts world, but quarreled with the countryside grandma and spitted with each other. The tobacco and alcohol he earned was not snatched away by the people in the martial arts world who collected protection fees, but was snatched away by a group of grandmas.
After hearing Master Hui's words, Song Tianyao rubbed his face hard and covered it with his hands. Master Hui and Meng Wanqing could not see Song Tianyao's facial expressions. He could only hear Song Tianyao's voice loud enough but was obviously angry and shouted in a weak tone:
"Pu, Emu! I can calculate the planning methods of the four people in the Zhang family. I can guess what Fu Yixing is thinking about when he is in the Jinyao Lei! I just can't imagine you who can spit with the countryside when you go to deliver vegetables! You come and ask me, I just blame me for not thinking that the grandma is better than you? I blame me for being stupid! Hei Xinhua will die so early, most of whom I died under your chronic murder! I really can't guess you at all, let's go! Get away!"
Master Hui was silent by Song Tianyao's scolding, but he insisted on standing there motionlessly and refused to get out as he ordered. After Song Tianyao finished scolding, he spoke carefully: "Secretary Song, why not let the guy I rescued go to transport vegetables with me? He has been hurt a lot and has nothing to do. Although he is a little lame, he always boasted that he is very good at beating and looks very intimidating. He will deliver vegetables with me, and promise that he will not be snatched away by the grandmas again."
"No problem, you can just let someone accompany you to see you off. You can stay away from me now, hurry up, I don't want to see you." Song Tianyao pointed at the stairs behind Master Hui with his finger, and said with a weak tone and numb expression.
After receiving Song Tianyao's consent, Master Hui turned around and ran downstairs. He had just walked across the corner of the stairs and smiled like rotten persimmons. He held his fists in his hand and muttered to himself: "Pu, you, the lame dragon, who is limping all day long to catch eels. When he comes back, he will be around Mrs. Fen! This time, he asked Secretary Song to transfer you to deliver food with me! Even Secretary Song can't guess what I think of. I'm very sharp. I tie you to my side and stare at you every minute!"
Chapter completed!