Easy Tycoon

Chapter 885 The largest late-night shopping market in South America
South America is a place with many scenic spots, and many people travel to South America every year.

When you arrive in South America, one of the places you have to go is the Iguazu Falls.As one of the three major waterfalls in the world, Iguazu Falls has long been a business card in South America. Every year, more than 200 million tourists come here to enjoy the waterfall.

Yang Jing has admired Niagara Falls, one of the three largest waterfalls in the world, but he has never seen the other two, Victoria Falls and Iguazu Falls, which are located at the junction of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Victoria Falls is far away in Africa. When you can go there depends on the situation.But the Iguazu Falls is on the edge of Paraguay, and the straight-line distance from Asuncion is less than [-] kilometers. Compared with Huaxia, which is thousands of miles away, it is almost equivalent to standing at the gate of the Iguazu Falls .

If you don't go and take a look, you're really sorry for yourself.

Although Gege has been to many scenic spots in the world before, she has never seen the Iguazu Falls, so she is also very happy to appreciate the widest waterfall in the world.

Both the boss and the proprietress wanted to go, so these bodyguards naturally didn't say anything.

Just go.

From Asunción to Iguazu Falls, you don't even need to take a plane. For a distance of [-] kilometers, the plane has to descend before it can even climb to the flight altitude, which is not troublesome enough.Therefore, Yang Jing and the others decided to drive to Dongfang City and enjoy the scenery of the tropical rainforest along the way.

The car rental service in the small town of Ita is quite prosperous. Chris and the others rented four silver-white Mercedes-Benz Gs without much effort.

After driving out of the small town of Ita, go directly to Highway 1, then drive eastward to Paraguari, then drive northeast, enter Highway 2, and then enter the town of Colonel Oviedo, then enter Highway 7, and then go all the way You can reach Dongfang City to the east.

It took Yang Jing and the others less than six hours to drive the three hundred kilometers away.Of course, this is in Paraguay. It is quite good to have such a road in the tropical rainforest that can drive at a speed of [-] to [-] kilometers per hour.If you are in Huaxia, if you travel [-] kilometers by high speed, it will take about three hours.
However, the road condition of this road is not bad, but this road is very similar to Huaxia 20 years ago. There are many toll stations and toll road sections, which makes Yang Jing and the others quite annoyed.

You said that this is not a highway, so what kind of toll do you charge?
So poor!
When approaching Dongfang City, there was a sudden downpour of rain. The rain was so heavy that even the wipers on the car could not be wiped properly. In desperation, the team had to find a spacious place on the side of the road and stopped. Then a group of people sat in the car and stared dumbfounded at this rare spectacle—the eastern half of the sky was brightly sunny, while the western half of the sky was covered with dark clouds.

This scene of the sun shining brightly and raining heavily reminded Yang Jing of a famous song "Sun Rain" once sung by his younger brother Qi Qin.

The heavy rain came and went quickly. After more than ten minutes, it was as if an invisible big hand turned off an invisible faucet. The heavy rain that was pouring down just now stopped suddenly, and then the sky The dark clouds also turned into white clouds with different shapes.
Bruno smiled and said, "This kind of rain is very common in tropical areas. Have you seen the classic movie "Forrest Gump"?"

Ge Ge and Yang Jing nodded, and Bruno continued: "There is a set of shots in the movie, talking about the time when A-Gump was in Vietnam. The movie uses a narration to introduce all kinds of strange heavy rains in Vietnam. A-Gump Gan said that in Vietnam, there is rain from top to bottom, rain from sideways, and rain from bottom to top, blah blah. An unreasonable rain."

Grid said with a smile: "I remember that set of shots, it's so interesting, I like Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump."

Yang Jing smiled wryly and said, "Daughter-in-law, do you think it's good for you to guard your fiancé and say such things?"

Grid laughed loudly, "So you would be jealous too."

Bruno, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, and Clark, who was driving, shut up immediately.

When it was raining, the convoy had already driven to a distance of about [-] kilometers from Dongfang City, so when the convoy continued to move forward, they saw houses gradually appearing on both sides of the road.

This is already the suburb of Dongfang City.

Bruno has been here before, so he is very familiar with it. After seeing that the young couple stopped teasing each other, Bruno started introducing again.

"Boss, if you go further, you will enter Dongfang City. Dongfang City is the second largest city in Paraguay, with a population of about 40. Before the 60s, it was just a border town near Brazil. But In the 60s of the last century, the Paraguayan government designated this place as a free trade zone. The preferential policies allowed a large number of foreign businessmen to flock here, and Dongfang City slowly prospered. Because Dongfang City is a tax-free city, now Dongfang City is almost A very large market, many businessmen from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and other countries gathered here, oh yes, there are many Chinese people here, the most people are from the Bay Island, and there are also many businessmen from the mainland of China. Son, Sophia, we can go to the largest bridgehead market in Dongfang City in a while, and you will definitely meet fellow Huaxia folks there."

Hearing what Bruno said, Princess became interested, and she asked, "Are there really many Chinese people here?"

Bruno nodded and said: "That's for sure. Huaxia people are really hardworking. When I came here more than ten years ago, there were already many Chinese people opening supermarkets and restaurants here. At that time, [-]% of the people near Qiaotou Market The supermarkets here are all run by Chinese people. Because the products from China are not only of high quality but also cheap, they are very popular with people in South America, so the supermarkets opened by Chinese people here are very, very popular.”

Yang Jing nodded with a smile and said, "That's right, no matter where we Chinese people go, we can make a fortune there. It's not just casual talk about the hardest-working, smartest and hardest-working nation in the world."

While speaking, the convoy had already driven into the suburbs of Dongfang City, and the houses on both sides of the road began to become densely populated. Looking into the distance, even if it was more than 20 kilometers away, you could still see the tall buildings in the center of the city.In contrast, Dongfang City has more tall buildings than Songcion.

The No. 7 road that crosses the entire Oriental City is the main street of the Oriental City. This road starts from the town of Colonel Oviedo. After crossing the Oriental City, it will pass through Astami across the Paraná River. De Bridge, that is, the bridge known as the "Friendship Bridge" enters Brazil.

The bridgehead market that Bruno mentioned before, as the name suggests, is located on the west side of the Friendship Bridge.

Although the core area of ​​Qiaotou Market is located on the north side of the road at the west end of the Friendship Bridge, in fact, as long as you enter Dongfang City, you can enter this super-large market, because you have just entered Dongfang City, and the entire No. It was full of a large number of vans.

This kind of large truck is called a "big sedan" locally. If it is in China, it is the kind of large van similar to a container truck.

"The two sides of Highway 7 are the core area of ​​Dongfang City and the most prosperous area in Dongfang City." Bruno pointed to both sides of the road. Yang Jing and Gege looked to both sides and found more and more people. High-rise buildings have appeared, restaurants, supermarkets, shops can be seen everywhere, and even many luxuriously decorated casinos have been seen.

But there were more people—the shirtless porters.

These porters loaded boxes of heavy goods into those vans, busy like a group of worker ants who don't know how tired they are.

"Further forward is the Qiaotou Market." Bruno pointed to the front left and said, because there are too many vehicles here, the driving speed of the convoy can only be maintained at about [-] kilometers per hour. "The Qiaotou Market is a bit inconspicuous. If the locals hadn’t told me that it was the Qiaotou Market when I came here, I wouldn’t have believed that it was the largest late-night shopping market in South America!”

"Late night shopping market? What does this mean? Could it be that this market is all traded at night?" Grid asked puzzled.

Bruno nodded with a smile and said, "That's what it means. Don't think there are many people here, but it's already noon. If it was early morning, the number of people here would be several times higher than the current number. The streets are full of people, and cars can't run at all."

After a pause, Bruno continued to explain: "The formation of the bridgehead market is not only due to its favorable location connected to Brazil, but also suitable for Paraguay's low tariff policy. When it was developed here, Paraguay's tariff was very low, and Brazil had to protect itself. In the domestic market, punitive tariffs are imposed on all foreign imports. For example, for a toy, the market price is one yuan, and Brazil may have to levy 100% tax, while Paraguay only levy 5% tax. At the same time, Brazil also To pay the goods circulation tax and the state tax of each state. This unbalanced tariff policy has caused many Brazilian businessmen to flock to this border city. They directly enter the goods into Paraguay, and then use tax evasion to sell cheap goods in large quantities. and re-ship it to Brazil for sale, and make a profit from it. And all of this happens mostly at night, so this market has become a late-night shopping market.”

"All the goods here are traded at the exchange rate of the day compared to the price in US dollars, and the price of each commodity is more than 4 to 6 times cheaper than in Brazil. Therefore, don't underestimate this market. The annual turnover of this market is as high as 60 billion US dollars. , is more than five times the income of the entire Paraguayan government! Moreover, this market also feeds a large number of locals, because although Paraguay and Brazil are exempt from visas, there is a limit to the amount of goods that each Brazilian can carry when they leave the customs That’s why in this market there are many locals who specialize in bringing goods to others, and these people are called Laria by the Brazilians.”

(End of this chapter)