Rebirth 1989: My Unlucky Career

Sholokhov came to the stage and said slowly:

"I will be the host of this bidding. Before we start, let me tell you the specific content..."

During Sholokhov's introduction, Zhao Zhuo had a general understanding of the rules of the entire auction.

The rules can be said to be simple and crude: this time, the Dara Automobile Factory took out five brand-new Dara trucks. The four companies present each gave a price, and then Kirill made a judgment and eliminated the one he was least satisfied with.

A price, the remaining three people bid again, and then Kirill eliminates one again, and finally the remaining two people bid again, and then eliminates one.

In the end, the remaining person will be able to get the five trucks from the Dara Automobile Factory based on his own bid.

After Sholokhov finished explaining the rules, Kirill slowly spoke:

"Also, I would like to add that this business is not a one-time deal. The person who finally gets the five trucks will also get the exclusive right to cooperate with the Dara Automobile Factory.

In other words, as long as our Dara Automobile Factory still wants to conduct transactions in the future, we will give priority to listening to this person's quotation."

Hearing this, all eyes lit up.

Although the Dara Automobile Factory is not one of the top automobile factories in the Soviet Union, the car inventory in the factory is still an astonishing figure.

Obtaining the exclusive right to cooperate with Dala Automobile Factory is equivalent to obtaining a steady stream of automobile resources!

Anyone can see the huge business opportunities contained in this.

All of a sudden, the other three companies except Zhao Zhuo were all gearing up and looking eager to try.

It seems that everyone is very greedy for this exclusive cooperation right.

Although Zhao Zhuo looked calm, he was a little shocked in his heart.

His shock was not because he was excited about this exclusive cooperation right, but because he was surprised by Kirill's methods.

Originally, the few people present came with the mentality of picking up leaks, and their psychological price for the truck was not too high.

After Kirill offered up the so-called exclusive cooperation rights, in order to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Dara Automobile Factory, everyone will definitely raise their psychological expectations of price.

Coupled with this layer-by-layer bidding rule, the final transaction prices of these five trucks will definitely not be very low!

More importantly, the so-called exclusive cooperation right is just a verbal check. Whether it can be cashed or not depends entirely on Kirill's attitude!

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhuo gave Kirill a thoughtful look.

Although this Soviet man looks ordinary, his methods are really extraordinary!

"The bidding begins now, please write down your bids."

Sholokhov said a word and the bidding began.

Four people, including Zhao Zhuo, each had a piece of white paper and a pen in front of them.

Zhao Zhuo already had a plan in mind, and without even thinking about it, he asked Yalikov to write a line of words on the manuscript paper.

On the other hand, the other three people didn't know how to write.

Originally, they all had their own expected price, but now they are tempted by Kirill's multiple rules and exclusive cooperation rights, and they don't know what to do.

Seeing the frowns on several people's faces, Kirill was not in a hurry, with a hint of a faint smile on his lips.

After several minutes, the other three people instructed the translator to start writing and each wrote down their first bid.

After Sholokhov collected the four pieces of paper, he read out the contents on them one by one.

"Mr. Liu Hao, ten thousand catties of bread."

"Ms. Sun Xiaoyu, eight thousand cotton coats."

"Uncle Da, five thousand catties of bread."

"Mr. Zhao Zhuo, there are 10,000 bottles of canned salted fish, totaling 5,000 catties."

This was not the first time for several people present to do business with the Soviets, so the conditions quoted were all common living supplies, and even the types proposed by Uncle Da and Liu Hao were the same.

However, no one expected that what Zhao Zhuo brought out would be...canned salted fish.

If you say it is a daily necessities, it can be considered as such, but it always feels a little weird.

Who would want so many canned salted fish when they have nothing to do???

The other three people looked at Zhao Zhuo and couldn't help but feel a little confused. They all felt that Zhao Zhuo must be the one who was eliminated.

But Zhao Zhuo looked calm, even calm.

Because he noticed that when Sholokhov mentioned canned salted fish, Kirill's eyes clearly lit up. Although he quickly calmed himself down, he was still keenly caught by Zhao Zhuo.

"Thank you everyone for your bids. The first one to be eliminated is...Uncle Da."

In the first round of quotations, Uncle Da's price was twice as much as Liu Hao's, so he was naturally eliminated in the first round.

Seeing this, Uncle Da was a little surprised at first, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He was surprised because he didn't expect that his bread would be inferior to Zhao Zhuo's canned salted fish.

The wry smile was because Liu Hao's bid was a bit too high.

His current fleet was obtained from the Soviets in exchange for various living supplies.

According to his guess, five thousand kilograms of bread was already a lot, but he didn't expect that Liu Hao would open his mouth twice as much as him.

Ten thousand kilograms of bread would cost twenty to thirty thousand yuan when converted into money.

Such a high price is unacceptable to Uncle Da.

"It seems that the era when a bottle of Fengyoujing can replace a radio has passed, and the little courage I have left is no longer suitable for such a business.

It seems like I should just stick to my fleet and live a peaceful life."

Uncle Da sighed and said calmly.

In Uncle Da's eyes, with more and more transactions between China and the Soviet Union, many Soviet people are not as easy to fool as before. Although there is still a gap in material prices between the two sides, it is not as big as before.

Liu Hao saw Uncle Da sighing and smiled proudly. Although ten thousand kilograms of bread was indeed not a small sum, Liu Hao couldn't help but feel proud when he saw that he was beating his competitors.

But after hearing Uncle Da's words, Zhao Zhuo smiled faintly.

Because compared to the tens of thousands of yuan that Uncle Da and Liu Hao paid to buy bread, the total value of Zhao Zhuo's 10,000 bottles of canned salted fish is only two thousand yuan!

Back in the cannery, Wang Penggang was so worried that his hair almost turned gray because of the batch of cans. He couldn't care less about the price.

Finally, Zhao Zhuo proposed an offer of 6,000 yuan to buy 30,000 bottles of cans. Wang Penggang no longer cared about losing money and hurriedly agreed.

In other words, the canned salted fish in Zhao Zhuo's hand only costs 20 cents per bottle, which is extremely cheap!

I don’t know if Uncle Da and Liu Hao would be so surprised that they couldn’t open their mouths from ear to ear if they knew about Zhao Zhuo’s low cost, and what they would think in their hearts.