Spring Breeze 1991

More and more small traders gathered at the Yaroslav train station to buy goods. Yao Yuan pretended to be a colleague and mixed in. He was surprised to find that most of them were Chinese.

A man in a jacket saw him face-to-face, walked over and looked at him warily, and asked, "Huaxia people?"

"Yes." Yao Yuan nodded with a smile.

The man in the jacket said, "Are you here for business? You plan to buy from the train station, right?"

After thinking about it, Yao Yuan nodded.

The man in the jacket said, "Then pay the money first."

"What kind of money do you want to pay?" Yao Yuan asked with a frown.

The man in the jacket pointed to a group of people waiting to get the goods, and said naturally, "We guarantee that you can get the goods, and you have to pay for your hard work. They are all of them. If you don't believe me, ask."

Yao Yuan took a closer look and asked, "All of them have to be handed in?"

"That's right, as long as you are from Huaxia, you have to pay. We guarantee you can get the goods." The man in the jacket said.

Yao Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly laughed, and asked, "What if you're not from Huaxia?"

"Then we have nothing to do with it," the man in the jacket said naturally.

Yao Yuan understands, is it the protection fee?

They have received protection from abroad, and they only accept their own people, and dare not accept foreigners.

Yao Yuan asked, "How do you guarantee that I can get the goods? Do you have the supply?"

The domestic goods are basically supplied by Yongan Group, which has basically formed a monopoly state, and there are some scattered ones, but most of them are not successful.As far as Yao Yuan knows, Wing On Group has a fixed wholesale point, and the goods are distributed in the station, and then transported to each distribution point by truck, and will not carry out scattered wholesale outside the train station.

In other words, the sources of goods for these small vendors either come from station workers, or someone within the Wing On Group uses their rights to deliver goods privately.

Lin Xiaohu, who pretended not to know him, understood, and quietly withdrew to call Yu Yongan to inquire about the situation.I am afraid of the second possibility, which means that there is corruption within the Wing On Group.

The man in the jacket raised his eyes and said, "Of course I have the supply. Did you buy it? Why are you asking so much?"

Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Of course I bought the goods. I heard that Moscow's business is booming, and things are easy to sell, but I have to find out, right? Since you have the source of goods, then I can just buy from you at the wholesale price. Why? Want extra money?"

The man in the jacket said impatiently, "So much nonsense, you can't get the goods if you don't pay. Things are easy to sell, but the premise is that you have the goods."

"Oh, I seem to understand." Yao Yuan nodded thoughtfully, "You have no supply, right?"

"Does it have something to do with you? As long as you want to buy goods from Yaroslavsky Railway Station, you have to pay." The jacket man's tone suddenly turned cold, and two men also wearing black jackets surrounded him, staring at him. .

Yao Yuan asked, "How much?"

The man in the jacket smiled, not afraid of your dissatisfaction, and said, "Do you want to count by the number of times or a monthly subscription?"

"How much is the number of times, and how much is the monthly subscription?" Yao Yuan asked.

The man in the jacket said, "Ten dollars per session, or $150 for a monthly subscription."

Yao Yuan thought about it and said, "Then if I buy once a month, it will be ten dollars."

"Impossible, you have to buy goods every three days on average, otherwise you will lose money. You can't buy as much as you want, we will distribute it according to each person's situation. If you pay a monthly subscription, it will naturally let you buy more. Order some goods and earn more," said the man in the jacket.

Yao Yuan was taken aback for a moment, it was a little surprising.

Unexpectedly, this group of protection fee collectors have developed a membership system.

He asked, "If I pay a monthly subscription, how much can I buy at a time?"

"How much money do you have?" The jacket man looked Yao Yuan up and down.

Yao Yuan was dressed in ordinary clothes, and he didn't wear a bag, so he really didn't look like a businessman.

After thinking about it, Yao Yuan asked, "Do you accept Huaxia coins?"

"U.S. dollars only," said the man in the jacket.

Yao Yuan thought about it again, and said, "Then I'll pay three thousand dollars."

The man in the jacket was quite surprised. Three thousand dollars at a time is a big bill. He looked Yao Yuan up and down, "If it exceeds one thousand dollars, we will charge [-]% of the purchase price, so you have to pay one hundred dollars." Dollars, you're guaranteed to get a thousand dollars worth of goods."

Yao Yuan almost laughed out of anger.

From the goods from Wing On Group to the sales terminal, the profit of the last link is about 15%-20%, which is the profit left to the sales terminal.In other words, when buying goods, half of the profit will be eaten by these people.

It's no different than doing business in the country, the only difference is that there is almost no competition here because the supply exceeds the demand.

"Can it be less?" Yao Yuan made a bargaining gesture.

The man in the jacket said, "If you deposit three thousand dollars at a time, I can give you a discount of two points, and just charge [-] percent."

That's 240 US dollars, which is worth a month's wages of ten domestic workers.

This is just a commission from a vendor. Looking over there, there are at least hundreds of people waiting to buy. One can imagine how much profit these people have made by violently robbing.

Yao Yuan asked, "Then foreigners come to buy goods, so you don't care?"

"We don't care what foreigners buy, we only care about Chinese people." The man in the jacket said as a matter of course.

Speaking of this, Yao Yuan basically understood.

This group of people has no source of goods, but they used violence to obstruct the transaction between the Chinese traders and the railway workers, but they did not dare to bully the Russian railway workers, so they targeted the Chinese traders and paid the so-called commission, That is, the protection fee, in order to successfully conduct transactions with the railway workers.

A very simple and rude way, but also the most infuriating way.

What angered Yao Yuan the most was that these people only targeted compatriots, but did not dare to be tough with foreigners.

He used to hear that the so-called associations in foreign Chinatowns were cruel to compatriots and weak to foreigners, just like the leased patrols during the Republic of China. At first, he didn't quite believe it. Now, the cruel and infuriating facts are in front of him.

Going back to this era for so long, he has never been so angry.

Undoubtedly, the Chinese people are the most industrious and intelligent people. They sensed the business opportunities here in Moscow, and traveled tens of thousands of miles in groups to do business. To be squeezed by hooligans who are also Chinese.

It is conceivable that the profits in the hands of the vendors are greatly reduced.

The smile on Yao Yuan's face slowly disappeared, and his tone became weaker, "What if I don't hand it in?"

"Then you won't be able to get the goods." The man in the jacket noticed the change in Yao Yuan's expression, showing a ferocious look, "If we don't nod, you won't be able to get the goods at the entire train station!"

Yao Yuan said coldly, "It's quite skillful to pick on your compatriots and make trouble in the nest. If you dare to collect protection money from the Russians, that would be awesome."

"Fucking shit!" The man in the jacket raised his fist angrily.

He didn't even see clearly how he flew out, only saw Jiang Yong's expressionless face suddenly appear, and then quickly pulled away, and then he felt a pain in his chest, and several ribs were broken.

As soon as Jiang Yong made a move, the Russian bodyguards scattered around followed suit. The men in jackets couldn't survive a move under the hands of these former special forces and secret service agents, and they were all caught without a fight.

Yakov even pulled out his gun and held it in his hand, guarding Yao Yuan's side.

Without Yao Yuan's instructions, the bodyguards controlled all of that group of people.Seeing that the people on Yao Yuan's side had guns, the other party dared not resist.As Yao Yuan expected, when they saw the Russians, the gang who only know how to behave in a nest immediately softened.

Lin Xiaohu came back from the phone call and said in a low voice, "There is nothing wrong with Yong'an Group, it should be the goods that flowed out from the railway workers."

Slightly nodding his head, Yao Yuan said, "Let the Russian police deal with these black apples, find all their money and return it to the traders."

Lin Xiaohu went to do it right away.