rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 621 Cross-border Trade

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chapter 621 Cross-border Trade

Wang Yan stayed in Yanjing until after the New Year's Day holiday, and then returned to her hometown of Erlong Town.

On New Year's Day, Chen Li even took his entire family to watch the flag-raising ceremony again.

There is no way ~ Although Chen Li has taken his family to see it before, a military band does not appear every time the flag is raised.

Chen Li has always felt that if conditions permit, every Chinese should actually watch the flag-raising ceremony.

The scene where people from all over the country gather in a square, and then these people who don't know each other sing the national anthem in unison, is really shocking.

And it's different from singing the national anthem at the opening of a sports meeting. It's hard to say exactly how to describe Chen Li. Generally speaking, the sense of ceremony given by the two is completely different.

Anyway, Chen Li feels that this kind of thing can really be experienced once under certain conditions.

Of course, in fact, Chen Li felt it more than once, but no matter which time, the shock brought to Chen Li still did not diminish, but became more intense.

As for the reason, Chen Li is very clear about it. Of course it is because the motherland is gradually becoming more and more powerful.

For the same reason~the stronger the motherland is, the better the lives of the people will be.

In his previous life, Chen Li actually didn't feel that strongly about this point in his own life.

But after being reborn once, Chen Li's feelings about this could be said to be vivid in his mind.

When Chen Li was reborn, there were even families in Erlong Town who didn't have enough to eat.

It’s the kind of thing where you really can’t have enough to eat!

I only eat one meal every day, which is porridge and pickles. Sometimes I even eat the last meal but don’t even know where to find the next meal.

But in the past few years after Chen Li was reborn, I can't say that this situation has completely disappeared, but it is definitely very rare.

There may be some families who are still extremely poor due to other reasons, but it is really rare to not have enough to eat.

For those children who grew up in honey pots, they may not have such a big feeling about this kind of thing.

But in fact, even twenty years later, there are still many places on the earth that are still in the stage of not having enough to eat.

Our country can almost completely solve this problem in just a few decades. From this, we can actually see the strength of the motherland.

Of course, the strong rejuvenation of the motherland naturally requires a process. In 2000, this will happen. No, now it should be said that it will happen in 2001.

In 2001, although China was reviving, its international reputation was not very high.

This was something Chen Li realized personally when he went to the island country to discuss cooperation with people.

Yes~ not long after the time entered 2001, Chen Li went to the island country, intending to negotiate formal cooperation with the people of the island country.

As for the cooperative projects, of course they are ideal!

As we all know, the islanders are famous for their love for beef.

Among the world's top meat dishes, the status and price of Japanese wagyu are even more shocking.

But in the second half of last year, this situation suddenly changed.

A kind of beef named Ideal Beef has appeared in high-end meat dishes in China. This Ideal Beef has a quality that is not inferior to or even higher than that of Wagyu beef, but the price is only one-third of that of Japanese Wagyu beef.

In fact, at the beginning, both Ren Xiaobo and Wu Minyi, who joined later, had some objections to the pricing.

After all, even though the quality of Ideal beef is not inferior to that of Wagyu beef, the price is set so low. This is definitely not a smart decision.

It would be fine if it was just a short-term operation method, but it was obvious that Chen Li simply wanted to "beat" the price down.

As for the reasons he gave, they seemed a bit naive to Ren Xiaobo and Wu Minyi, but if you take a closer look, you can find that they seem to be a bit "high"!

Because the reason given by Chen Li is that everyone can afford to eat beef from Ideal Cow.

Of course, this statement is rather general. After all, no matter how "low" the price of Ideal Cow's beef is, it is only for Japanese Wagyu beef from the island country.

In fact, the price of Ideal Niu beef is still high-end among domestic meat ingredients. It is obviously unrealistic to say that everyone can afford Ideal Niu beef.

However, this is what Wu Minyi and Ren Xiaobo think, and that is because their thinking is limited to this stage in 2000.

During this period of time, Chinese people can’t even have pork every day, let alone ideal beef, which is countless times more expensive.

There are two types of Ideal beef produced by Ideal Ranch, namely Ideal No. 1 and Ideal No. 2.

The benchmarks between the two are actually the famous Australian Wagyu and island country Wagyu. Although they are both Wagyu, there are actually very obvious differences in terms of price and meat quality.

To put it simply~ In fact, Australian Wagyu is more suitable for the taste of Chinese people, while Island Wagyu. Hmm~ Well, in fact, the real Island Wagyu has never emerged in China.

Despite the fact that in the previous life, a lot of businesses in China were selling Japanese Wagyu beef, in fact, China’s ban on Japanese beef lasted almost until shortly before Chen Li was reborn.

This also means that before that, there were basically only two sources of Wagyu beef from island countries in the domestic market.

One is to smuggle it over! After all, people who can afford to eat Wagyu beef from the island country naturally don’t care about being “slaughtered”. And because these people are not afraid of being slaughtered, the high profits naturally make some people choose to take risks.

However, there are actually only a few such channels. For the same reason, whether it is the people who don’t care about being “slaughtered” or the high prices, the real island country Wagyu market is actually relatively limited.

For the vast majority of people, the Wagyu they eat from the island country comes from second-hand imitations and fakes!

The two may sound like the same thing, but they are not exactly the same thing.

The so-called copycat actually refers to many businesses passing off Australian Wagyu beef as the so-called Island Wagyu beef.

Because although the price of Australian wagyu is also high, it is still a bit lower than that of island country wagyu.

Although this approach is also fake, it can still be regarded as more conscientious. After all, Australian Wagyu is also Wagyu, and the difference from Wagyu in island countries is not as big as imagined.

Therefore, if it is just a copycat, then the consumers will be deceived at most, and at least the deception will not be that serious.

But another kind of "fake". That's another matter.

Some criminals use so-called "high technology" to turn the original unqualified beef into high-quality beef, thereby making profits.

And these people, for the sake of profit, basically have no limits.

In his previous life, Chen Li had been fooled by this. At that time, a friend told him that he had connections and could get authentic Wagyu beef from the island country. The price was much cheaper than buying it in an outside store.

In fact, at this point, smart people will be able to find out the tricks, but Chen Li didn't think so much at the time.

There is no other reason~ In Chen Li’s understanding at the time, although the price of Wagyu beef in the island country was very high, it was mostly due to tariffs and the methods used by businesses to make profits. If it were actually the price of Wagyu beef in the island country, it was not that expensive.

This made Chen Li very speechless. After all, at that time, he didn't even know that China was actually banning the import of beef from island countries.

Because Chen Li had eaten island cuisine several times, and although he didn't particularly like it, Chen Xue and his girlfriend at the time did like it quite a lot.

So Chen Li placed an order directly with that friend without saying a word, and then spent nearly 3,000 yuan on a large piece of so-called island country wagyu.

Then there was nothing more.

When Chen Li got the piece of Wagyu beef from the island country, the texture and pattern of the beef looked very beautiful. At that time, Chen Li even felt that the thousands of dollars spent were well worth it.

But when the beef thawed, Chen Li was stunned for a moment.

The originally beautiful Wagyu beef from the island country turned directly into a piece of rotten meat, and the originally beautiful marble pattern turned directly into a pool of blood.

At this time, Chen Li still didn't understand that he had been deceived. This was not Wagyu beef from an island country at all. It was most likely even smuggled sick and dead beef.

Of course Chen Li could afford to pay the three thousand yuan, but the feeling of being deceived or even being looked at as a fool was very unpleasant.

At that time, Chen Li was scolded by his girlfriend and sister for a long time, which made Chen Li angry!

But when he called his so-called "friend" to settle the score, it turned out that he had even canceled his mobile phone number.

This made Chen Li a little helpless!

There is no way ~ Because of work, Chen Li's interpersonal relationships in his previous life were actually quite complicated.

To put it bluntly~ After staying in nightclubs for so many years, Chen Li has basically come into contact with people from all walks of life.

Even if Chen Li in his previous life had a relatively accurate eye for people, he would always encounter overturning situations if he came into contact with too many people.

Just like the buddy who deceived him that time, this buddy actually had no ability, and his identity was even just a driver.

Chen Li got acquainted with him because this buddy brought his boss to Chen Li's nightclub many times.

It was precisely because of his identity as a driver that Chen Li didn't really suspect him at first.

After all, although he is just a driver, his boss's import and export business is quite large.

But in fact, when that guy deceived Chen Li, he had already been fired by his boss, but Chen Li didn't know the news.

In the end, there was nothing he could do. After all, no one could be found. Even if Chen Li reported the matter of three thousand yuan to the police, I guess the police would not pay too much attention to it.

In the end, Chen Li had no choice but to suffer the consequences of being dumb.

However, the chain reaction this incident brought to Chen Li was not that good. Anyway, since that time, Chen Li has never eaten the so-called island country wagyu, even if it is the island country wagyu in some high-end restaurant.

Still not sticky.

Because whenever he sees this thing, Chen Li will think of the appearance of the island wagyu beef he bought in his previous life after it was thawed.

It is precisely for this reason that after Chen Li fiddled with Ideal Niu No. 1 and 2 from the system, his first idea was to enter Ideal Niu into the island country market.

Of course~ this idea just passed through Chen Li's mind for a while.

Because Chen Li knew very well that this kind of thing was basically impossible.

The reason is also very simple. Chen Li learned from Xiaomeng that the beef produced by the system will be sold almost all over the world in the future, but it has suffered setbacks in the island countries.

It’s not that Ideal Beef is not liked by Japanese people. In fact, at that time, Ideal Beef was very competitive in terms of quality and price compared to Japanese Wagyu.

It's just that in this kind of cross-border trade, sometimes the value attached to the goods itself is not at all considered.

It is said that after the island country discovered that its own Wagyu beef was threatened, the island country directly issued a ban on the import of beef produced by Shennong Animal Husbandry at that time.

In front of the state machine, the significance of one or two commodities naturally becomes extremely insignificant.

But even so, many people from island countries still choose to go to China to taste this delicacy that cannot be eaten in island countries.

It is said that on weekends at that time, restaurants in several coastal cities in the east of the country were crowded with islanders from island countries, and this beef became a must-eat delicacy for islanders after coming to China.

It was precisely for this reason that Chen Li received an invitation from Wu Minyi at the beginning to go to the island country to negotiate with people about the export of ideal cattle. He was very negative.

After all, he already knew the "result" in advance and knew that it was difficult for the ideal cow to survive in the island country, so he naturally had no hope for it.

But Chen Li knew this "result", but Wu Minyi and Ren Xiaobo did not.

In the eyes of these two people, the quality of ideal cattle is not inferior to or even higher than that of Japanese Wagyu beef, but the price is much lower than that of Japanese Wagyu cattle.

This also means that Ideal Cow~ is definitely very attractive to islanders who like to eat beef.

And as long as the market of the island country is opened, the prospects for ideal cattle can be said to be bright!

Therefore, after Wu Minyi took office, in addition to using the contacts she had accumulated to help open the market for ideal agricultural products, she also focused more on the island country's market.

And the fact is just as Wu Minyi thought, after she brought the top ingredients of Ideal Agricultural Products to her previous customers, these products were quickly recognized by the market.

However, due to the popularity of ideal agricultural products, it will take a certain amount of time to completely open the market.

But Wu Minyi is definitely very optimistic about the future of ideal agricultural products.

And just some time ago, an island country businessman who had cooperated with Wu Minyi before sent her an invitation. The other party invited Wu Minyi to go to the island country to talk about the ideal cooperation.

Wu Minyi didn't think much about it, and then went over to talk. However, during this conversation, Wu Minyi discovered that the other party's purpose was not that simple.

Because this time, the other party’s goal is not just to import beef, but also to target ideal cattle.

Yes ~ it’s ideal cow rather than ideal beef!

In fact, when she first heard the news, Wu Minyi rejected the other party without thinking too much.

She's not stupid, so she won't do this kind of thing.

But Wu Minyi never expected that after seeing the incident exposed, this guy would go out of his way to create a lot of trouble for Ideal Agricultural Products.

Naturally, it was impossible to hide this kind of thing from Chen Li, so he decided to take this trip to the island country.

(End of chapter)