Codename Doctor, Moved to Hong Kong

Chapter 86 The Troubling Trade Deficit
The next day, Zhang Chaoyang took the hotel car to the Hilton Shipping Company's dock.

There were already a lot of people gathered at the door, all of them were beautiful women who were dressed up carefully.

If you look closely, you will see some white or black youths surrounding these beauties, and they don't look like good people at first glance.

Zhang Chaoyang ignored all this and went straight into Hilton's office.

"Mr. Hilton, I'm sorry. I need to borrow your place today to recruit some people." Zhang Chaoyang apologized to Hilton as soon as he entered the office.

"It's okay, you are our company's most valued customer. It is our duty and honor to serve customers." Hilton handed Zhang Chaoyang a cigar with a smile, and then said with a smile.

After a brief chat, Zhang Chaoyang said goodbye and left Hilton's office.

Then Xiang Guoning was called over and asked to be responsible for interviewing and recruiting cabin crew on the Crystal Palace cruise ship.

Yang Zhiyuan took fifty cargo ships and slowly set sail, leaving Hilton's dock and heading for the Port of New York to wait for loading.

After Zhang Chaoyang finished his instructions, he drove away from the Hilton Hotel and went to find Gard.

Zhang Chaoyang found Gard in an office building near New York Harbor.

"Dear Mr. Zhang, welcome to my company!" Gard opened his arms exaggeratedly and welcomed Zhang Chaoyang.

“Garde, my ship will arrive at the port of New York soon. Are all the goods I want ready?
You are still responsible for the customs declaration." Zhang Chaoyang hugged Garde and then spoke.

"No problem, I have already prepared the supplies you need!

16,000 tons of kerosene, 32,000 tons of diesel, 32,000 tons of anti-inflammatory drugs, 160,000 tons of steel...
Including the large-scale cement plant production equipment you requested, everything is ready. We arranged to transport these materials to the port warehouse yesterday, and the customs clearance procedures have begun.

At the latest, it can be shipped tomorrow!
The technicians who installed the cement plant equipment will then fly to Hong Kong. "Speaking of business, Garde returned to his serious look and introduced the situation to Zhang Chaoyang in a serious manner.

"Well, I'll let Yang Zhiyuan be responsible for contacting your people, and he will also be responsible for the follow-up matters." Zhang Chaoyang nodded with satisfaction.

"No problem, Mr. Yang is also an acquaintance, I will arrange for someone to connect with him!

When do you want the second batch of supplies?"

"You can prepare it now. After this batch is delivered, it will be filled with goods needed by America and returned to New York." Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about supplies. What America lacks the least is these industrial products." Gard smiled happily.

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and nodded. In this era, America's industry was the most developed, even to the point of being overdeveloped, so there was naturally no shortage of industrial products.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies can be organized easily.

After leaving Gard's office, Zhang Chaoyang sat in the car and didn't say a word.

He just said it very easily, but in fact, he felt very uncomfortable.

It is easy to organize supplies in America, but what about in China?
Currently, the only things that can be exported to America are porcelain, silk and tea, but it is impossible to produce hundreds of thousands of tons of materials.

This is the trade deficit.

It seems that since the Qing Dynasty, China has been caught in the dilemma of trade deficit.

An endless stream of gold, silver and treasures flowed overseas like a tide, and were ruthlessly plundered by those hateful foreign devils.

However, faced with such a situation, Zhang Chaoyang was helpless.

At present, domestic resources are scarce and various materials are in extreme shortage. If we do not rely on imports, we will not be able to meet the demand at all.

This time, he purchased from Garde all the materials that the country urgently needed. Among them, anti-inflammatory drugs were used to save lives. In the battlefield of the northern peninsula that was about to begin, how many soldiers could only wait to die because of the lack of anti-inflammatory drugs?
Kerosene is closely related to the light at night for hundreds of millions of people, and as for diesel, its importance is self-evident.

At present, domestic demand for diesel is completely dependent on imports.

We still need to find ways to increase the domestic industrial base and produce more goods for export.

Otherwise, you won’t be able to exchange supplies in the future.

The stocking machine that Zhang Chaoyang purchased earlier was actually to add an exportable commodity to the country.

There is no nylon raw material in China, so we cannot produce nylon stockings, but we can produce silk stockings, which can also be exported to Europe and the United States, and are more valuable.

Along the way, Zhang Chaoyang was thinking in his mind what kind of products could be added based on the country's current industrial base.

Gradually, some ideas came to mind.

After returning to the hotel, Zhang Chaoyang called the butler Cruz.

“Cruise, my cruise ship is ready and will sail tomorrow.

I told your hotel before that the butler team will be on board today."

"Mr. Zhang, we have prepared the most professional butler team for you. Would you like me to call them over for you to meet?" Cruz replied respectfully.

"Can!
Also notify Pete and ask him to prepare lunch for me!" Zhang Chaoyang nodded, looked at the time, and said to Cruise.

"Understood!" Cruise turned and left.

Not long after, Cruise walked in with a woman in her thirties, who was elegant, had fair skin and golden hair.

"Mr. Zhang, this is the housekeeper we have prepared for you, Miss Mary Edward. She is a senior housekeeper in our hotel and graduated from the British Butler College..." Cruise introduced to Zhang Chaoyang.

"Ms. Mary, nice to meet you!

I am very satisfied with your recommendation of your hotel!

It is always more pleasant to be with a beautiful housekeeper than with an old man like Cruise." Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile.

"Mr. Zhang, you make me sad!" Cruz said at the right time.

"I'm sorry, Cruz, I'm just telling you the truth. Although I'm very satisfied with your service, I still prefer to be with beautiful women.

That would make my body and mind happier!" Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile.

"Thank you for your recognition!" Cruise bowed and gave Zhang Chaoyang a gentlemanly salute.

Zhang Chaoyang looked at Mary and asked, "Ms. Mary, is it convenient for you to bring your team on board now?

I have just recruited some newbies and urgently need professionals like you to manage them."

"Mr. Zhang, my team and I are always available to serve you!"

"Very good. I will invite you to have lunch with Cruise at noon. After lunch, we will set off together to visit my cruise ship." Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile.

"It's my pleasure!" Mary bowed.

(End of this chapter)