Chapter 675 Fifty Years Old in the Millennium

The influx of Hong Kong and Taiwan culture led to a surge in sales of music, movies, posters, and tape recorders.

Mobile vendors can't easily set up speakers, and they can't earn much money each day just by hawking their wares.

Zhou Yue had spent more than half a year researching the situation in Guangzhou, so opening a store at this time was not considered reckless.

As for her part-time job selling lingerie at a women's clothing store, it was because they saw potential in her business.

However, Xiao Jiu doesn't participate in managing the store; instead, he hires two waiters to watch the store every day, working in two shifts.

She spends her time traveling to Hong Kong to purchase goods, taking care of her child at home, and occasionally shipping goods to Heilongjiang Province.

A year later, Tang Cuilan's business has improved dramatically, and she now easily earns a net profit of 1,000 yuan every month.

She had already reached the level of a "ten-thousand-yuan household" at a very young age, which shows how well the goods she sent over sold.

Although she hasn't sold out yet, based on the sales figures, she estimates it will only last for a few months. She needs to find a good transportation channel to ship the goods over.

As the reform and opening-up policy took hold, more and more people flocked to Guangzhou, leading to various fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair practices in the market. These people specifically targeted outsiders, which is why Xiao Jiu stopped Tang Cuilan from coming over.

Now, it's not just Xiaojiu who imports genuine products from Hong Kong; Zhou Yue also searches everywhere in Guangzhou for cheap pirated goods.

In an era rife with counterfeit goods, genuine products were harder to sell. But the quality was there, and people with the means wouldn't buy counterfeit goods after using genuine ones. So you can't say that nobody bought them; it's just that fewer people bought them than counterfeiters.

So Zhou Yue decided to sell both types at the same time, but only the genuine products were displayed. For this purpose, Xiao Jiu even found a so-called sourcing channel. In fact, the goods from that sourcing channel were still obtained from her. All she wanted was a traceable source.

Of course, Xiaojiu also sells goods in Hong Kong, mainly fruits.

She wholesaled the fruit to small vendors at different prices based on quality, and the vendors were responsible for selling it. The profit she made was no less than that from selling clothes and audio-visual products. In fact, because of the cost of living in Hong Kong, she felt like she could make money by doing anything.

As we all know, housing is the most expensive thing in Hong Kong. Housing includes not only housing, but also utilities such as water, electricity, and gas. It is not an exaggeration to say that it accounts for two-fifths of their salary.

Besides accommodation, food is another major expense, such as eggs, milk, vegetables and meat, beer and cigarettes, eating out, and coffee.

Furthermore, Hong Kong's transportation costs, clothing, and entertainment expenses are among the highest in the world.

The consumption level in Hong Kong at that time was at least twenty years ahead of that in Guangzhou.

Therefore, no matter what supplies Xiao Jiu moves out of the space, he can make a fortune.

She used all of her profits to buy clothing and trendy electronic products in Hong Kong.

As is well known, the best investment in Hong Kong is real estate, with housing prices even surpassing those in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

But no matter how good this place is, it doesn't belong to us for the time being. In addition, with Ning Meng's identity, Zhong Xing's identity can only make it convenient for her to come here to make purchases.

Being able to drive out to shop every day and secretly take a speedboat back to the other side at night is an incredibly happy thing for her.

Of course, she also encountered the double-crossing scenarios depicted in movies in Hong Kong, and she never showed mercy in such situations.

If they dared to shoot her, she would shoot back and kill them. She would put the bodies into a spatial storage space and then throw them away during the night's river crossing, leaving no trace.

With this boldness, the couple worked hard in Hong Kong and Guangzhou for five years, and finally in 1990, they took over a state-owned garment factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy.

From then on, the state-owned enterprise became a private enterprise. Using her memories from her previous life, she did not mind the difficulty of training and hired many recent college graduates to join their factory. She asked them to design some novel clothes based on her descriptions and modify them with popular elements from Hong Kong. With internationally renowned magazines as the trendsetters, their clothing factory turned a profit in just two years.

Through five years of sales, she also managed to clear out some of the time-sensitive goods in the space.

For example, food, non-staple food, and electronic products popular in the 1960s and 70s were sold off, with only a few items of collectible value kept.

The vegetables, fruits, and meat products that were given away as a gift when the warehouse was first opened have all been consumed over the years.

All she kept were meat and seafood products, as well as pollution-free vegetables, fruits, and grains that she had painstakingly sourced from various countries.

The medicines were selected for disposal if they could be processed, and those that could not be processed were kept for personal use. A batch was even given to Tang Cuimei for medical research free of charge.

"Sis, although it's past its expiration date, it's still usable because it's been stored in the warehouse, and there won't be any side effects,"

Cui Mei was delighted. "That's great! This will save us a lot of money. Don't worry, I understand."

There are also many old antiques in the weapons, ammunition, and various vehicles.

For example, it was used by Japan during the Republic of China period and in the 1960s and 70s.

She kept only enough for their self-defense and household use, and sold the rest to gangsters in Hong Kong.

The gang needs a large quantity of weapons and vehicles. Although what she has is not enough to satisfy their needs, even a small amount is still something.

The remaining building materials and machinery were also distributed to the state-owned factories that could cooperate with them.

By June 1990, Xiao Jiu's space contained only the food, medicinal herbs, a small amount of electronic products, a small amount of furniture and appliances, various antiques of inestimable value, and the gold she had stored.

Through her collaboration with Zhou Yue, they not only opened a garment factory but also an appliance store. Their relatives and friends followed suit, setting up clothing and appliance businesses in their respective territories, with the distribution channels naturally originating from the couple.

Their foresight allowed them to successfully circumvent the wave of layoffs in the 1990s, and as a result, every household enjoyed a better life.

Among them, Tang Cuilan and her two sisters-in-law, who had gone into business earlier, were the ones who fared the best.

My two older brothers are still working in the government sector, but my sisters-in-law resigned first to start their own businesses, opening clothing stores that source their goods from their factory.

After the couple amassed assets exceeding ten million yuan, they established Hope Primary Schools in impoverished counties across the country to help local children receive free education.

At the same time, they secretly donated the antiques in the space in batches to the provincial museums in the places where the antiques came from, according to their regional distribution.

Just like Hong Kong's return to China, Xiao Jiu completely fulfilled her mission, returning all the antiques she had brought back from museums around the world to her motherland. What remained were her private collections over the years and had nothing to do with the country.

No matter how great her achievements are, or how many times she has been named one of the "People Who Moved China," she has always refused to appear in front of the media.

So much so that on her fiftieth birthday, in the year 2000, her identity remained a mystery.