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Chapter 172: The Power of Group Buying (Subscription Requested)

The group was shocked by the mountains of wood in front of them.

Especially Zhang Ruonan, who was just along for the ride, was even more stunned when she heard that these inconspicuous pieces of wood were actually worth 3 or 4 billion.

“This is too extravagant!” Zhang Ruonan muttered softly.

For first-tier female celebrities like her, despite rushing to events every day, the money they actually get in hand each year is very limited.

After all, in recent years, the bubble in the domestic entertainment industry has been punctured, and real hot money has flowed into the online celebrity e-commerce market. Many celebrities are now starting to do live broadcasts because they value the fast money.

In addition, Zhang Ruonan's contract is in the hands of others, and a large part of her income from filming and advertising has to be turned over to the brokerage company.

Unless she invests in big movies and TV series for dividends, she might earn over a billion a year. Usually, she only gets tens of millions, and sometimes not even as much as those top online celebrities.

A pile of broken wood in the eyes of ordinary people can be worth her entire lifetime of income.

This kind of dimensional reduction attack on wealth really gave Zhang Ruonan a very big shock.

Although she has been in the entertainment industry for several years and has seen those big financial backers with strong funds,

Since boarding Chen Jue's yacht, Zhang Ruonan has found that her worldview is changing every day.

“No wonder those seniors are racking their brains to marry into wealthy families. The world of the rich is indeed different!” Zhang Ruonan sighed in her heart, looking at Chen Jue, who was calm and composed, with complex emotions.

Even Zhang Chengcheng on the side was extremely excited after seeing these piles of raw logs. While taking pictures and recording videos, she sent a message to her father in China: “Dad! Look at these materials, they are the top-quality ecological wood, even better than the parameters on the previous list.”

Zhang Peng hurriedly replied on WeChat: “Chengcheng, then you have to hurry up and choose! Don’t let your Uncle Zhao and the others pick all the good ones.”

This time, he only sent his daughter alone to the Far East to select materials, also intending to cultivate the future successor of Pengcheng Wood Industry and see if his daughter could bear the important task of the family business.

Of course, the reason why Zhang Peng was relieved was also because he had previously signed an letter of intent with Red Star Trading for payment upon arrival.

Even if the materials sent were not up to par, he could just deduct the payment and return the goods.

If it really didn't work, there would still be a group of savvy people in the same industry helping Zhang Chengcheng, so there would definitely be no major problems.

As for the timber merchants like Lao Zhao, they were like loaches drilling into holes. With the idea of 'first come, first served', they quickly went around the piles of wood, selecting the raw logs they wanted.

In order to compete for some old materials with high growth rings, the timber merchants, who were originally calling each other brothers on the yacht, were arguing red-faced and almost rolled up their sleeves to fight on the spot.

Because in the eyes of these timber merchants, these high-quality raw logs from the Far East are equal to money.

Under the general trend of increasing timber consumption in China, any one log can be sold as soon as it is shipped to China, and how much you earn depends on your own ability.

Seeing everyone so enthusiastic, Lao Shang sent several Russian secretaries and assistants who had studied in China to place orders and circle materials for everyone using the procurement software on the PAD.

As long as the materials are finalized, this batch of raw logs stored in Zarubino Port will be sent to the bulk cargo ship at the dock overnight and transported all the way to the customer's designated domestic port.

Whether it is self-pickup or door-to-door delivery, it can be completed within half a month at the earliest.

This is the benefit of having cleared the relationship with the local oligarchs in advance, at least the customs clearance of goods is given the green light throughout the entire process.

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Because they had seen the inventory strength of Red Star Trading, a group of a dozen timber merchants specially called their acquaintances and relatives in China to explain the situation while selecting materials and placing orders.

They have been in this business for decades, and their network in China is naturally very wide.

Like them, who have been opening stalls in Manzhouli for many years, this trip to purchase, in addition to buying for themselves, is actually to be the vanguard for relatives and friends, to explore the way.

If they don't have enough funds, they can pull people to join and wholesale together!

At the Manzhouli Timber Fair, the originally planned procurement intention demand of only 30,000 cubic meters was forcibly炒 (chǎo -炒作)炒 to more than 400,000 cubic meters under the appeal of Lao Zhao and others.

Including Pengcheng Wood Industry, the original procurement amount of 60,000 cubic meters was increased to a full 200,000 cubic meters.

According to Zhang Chengcheng, she took out her old bean's coffin lid (老豆的棺材板都给掏出来了- colloquial expression meaning she used all available funds) for this trip, and even united several domestic listed companies that have business dealings with Pengcheng Wood Industry to place orders together.

After all, the temptation of seeing the goods on the spot is not comparable to the cut sample that Chen Jue took out earlier.

More importantly, the price given by Red Star Trading is very honest, and it is still a free shipping form of payment upon arrival, giving nearly 10% discount compared to those old-fashioned importers in China.

For commodities like raw logs, a discount of 1 or 2 points is already very remarkable.

Being able to give out 10 points, Lao Zhao and the others couldn't imagine what Red Star Trading was making money on.

If they didn't have connections in the Far East and had taken down the local oligarchs, how could they give such a discounted price comparable to a bone fracture?

If they didn't take advantage of such a big advantage, then they would really be short-sighted green bean-eyed turtles!

So when Lao Shang added up the total order volume, the order volume placed by this group of people on the spot reached more than 600,000 cubic meters, and the contract value also reached a value scale of 9.27 billion due to the premium after purchasing mostly high-growth, large-diameter raw logs.

Such an astonishing amount of accounts receivable made Chen Jue a little pleasantly surprised, and he shouted in his heart: "These timber guys are really damn rich!"

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Solving the recent cash flow problem of starting a business with one trip abroad, Chen Jue's mood improved a lot.

Although the money has not really arrived in the account, with the old brand industrial groups such as Pengcheng Wood Industry taking the lead, Chen Jue is not afraid of not receiving cash within the next half month.

Doing stall business now does not promote owing accounts, basically it is one hand pays the money and the other hand delivers the goods.

So after everyone visited the warehouse in Zarubino Port, Chen Jue led the small team to play in the main city of Hassan District for a day, experiencing the local customs of Greater Russia.

In the next two days, they will also transfer to the Sovava logging farm in Blagoveshchensk for inspection.

After all, the raw logs in the dock warehouse are only 300,000 cubic meters, and the remaining excess must be freshly cut at the logging farm.

Anyway, since they are here, Chen Jue plans to take these gold masters for a few days to show more of the strength of Red Star Trading.

Maybe after the news of the Far East inspection team ferments in the next few years, the timber merchants who open stalls in Manzhouli will definitely contact Lao Zhao and the others to place more group buying orders.

The domestic solid wood consumption is as high as 200 million cubic meters per year, and imports alone exceed 100 million. The wood that Chen Jue has cultivated can be said to not even splash a ripple when sprinkled in such a large market.

However, on the first night of arriving in the Far East, Chen Jue still pulled Lao Shang together to plan the follow-up plan to explode the US soybean futures market.

When he learned that Chen Jue had already recruited [Breeding Experts] and had even begun定向 (dìngxiàng - directional)定向 cultivation of 'Desert Soybeans', Lao Shang's eyes began to gleam with treacherous laughter: "Boss! Recently, I have thoroughly studied your human's current financial transaction system, especially the loopholes in the US financial market are like sieves. As long as our spot goods are sufficient, exploding US soybean futures is a matter of minutes!"

When Chen Jue heard that this MC lackey seemed to have his own tricks, he immediately became interested: "What's the next operation?"

The big-nosed villager smiled嘿嘿 (hēihēi - onomatopoeia for a chuckle)嘿嘿 and took out a distribution map of East Asian ports from his [Backpack], pointing to Rizhao Port on it: "First of all, we have to buy it!"

The second chapter was not finished last night, starting today.