Knight of the Light

The territory of Tuji is surrounded by water on three sides, the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Its main body is the Anatolian Peninsula, and only the east is connected to the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East.

As a result, the coastline of the native chickens is particularly long, and there are a large number of ports and villages along the coast. It is very easy to transport goods ashore, and smuggling is also particularly easy.

The native chicken merchant that Ilham contacted was a typical smuggler, a local tyrant in the town. The house is a large courtyard surrounded by walls, and imported satellite TV receivers have been installed on the roof.

It's just that European goods are too expensive for most people to use.

People in the town still like to watch the excitement. Rumor has it that there is a shortage of goods arriving in Hong Kong, they rush to the local tyrant's house and wait and see around the yard. The local tyrants did not miss this opportunity for publicity and moved a large color TV in the yard to demonstrate to everyone.

Assembly, positioning, and wiring are all easy.

A twisted pair cable is led from the ‘pot’ that receives the signal, and the main body of the receiver is like a set-top box placed on top of the color TV. Especially this device is equipped with a remote control.

The TV is placed at home and can be operated while sitting on the sofa.

According to the instructions, all configuration is very simple. Just slightly adjust the direction of the roof receiving antenna, and the clear picture and sound will soon be transmitted from the TV.

Wow..., there was an uproar from inside and outside the local tyrant.

The TV set has to have a signal, but cable TV is not popular yet. Every family either uses a Yagi antenna or just makes a ‘pot’.

The Yagi antenna is the simplest, just a few cans. But its acceptance effect is too general, far inferior to the acceptance of the "pot" for low-orbit satellites.

The local tyrant pressed the remote control in his hand and adjusted several sets in succession. He was very satisfied, and said to Ilham: "This has a good reception effect. It is simple to use and much better than French products. How much does it cost?"

The price was said on the radio before he went ashore, and Ilham understood that the local tyrant meant to tell the crowd onlookers. He thought about it and said, "Retail 500 dollars, and you can get a 20% discount for more than ten units."

This is definitely not the price of the two parties' transaction, but the local tyrant in the town held the remote control, pointed at the beautiful European hostess on the TV screen, and shouted to the surrounding:

"Behold, such a good thing only costs five hundred dollars a set. Buy one and go back and have something to do at night. I know that some TV stations are good to watch. Buying more can be cheaper, which is half the price of French goods."

There is a whole set of smuggling sales channels in the town, and everyone lives on it. The local tyrant merchants are obviously the core, and those who surround his house are the distributors.

With this shout, someone immediately stood up and wanted to talk carefully and inspect the goods.

The selling price of "Holy Light" in Odessa is two hundred dollars a unit, and the retail price is definitely much more expensive. But no matter how expensive it is, it can be done at half the price of European products.

On the day Ilham arrived at Tuji Port, all three thousand satellite receivers were loaded and unloaded. The distributors in the town rushed over to get the goods, and all the goods were divided up in one night.

That night, more than two hundred receiving antennas were erected in the town. Residents find their nightlife has become very exciting. The richness of TV programs is beyond imagination, especially the late-night stalls that make people awake at night.

European TV stations, that scale is quite large. The Europeans are not aware of it, but it is a crit for a society like the local chickens, and it will greatly increase the birth rate of next year's babies.

With this practice, the distributors in this small town are even more excited and full of confidence in the products in their hands. They drove various means of transportation the next day, carrying goods to the inland.

At this time, it's a race against time, the sooner you sell, the more you can return the funds to buy the next wave.

Ilham made money after a trip. He lived in the town’s local tyrant's house that same day. He ate roast lamb in the courtyard at night. By the way, besides the receiver, did the other goods sell well?

"Almost every family in the town has relatives in Europe, especially a lot of people who go to work in Germany. Everyone has some remittance income, and they have a high vision. They don't like ordinary things."

When the local tyrant said this, he was quite proud.

After World War II, the European economy entered a period of rapid recovery, and labor became scarce. The French thought of the black uncles in their North African colony, and the Germans thought about their old friends.

As a result, Uncle Black flooded into ‘French Stan’, and native laborers desperately worked for ‘Deutsche Smann’. France and Germany are the engines of the European economy, and they thought they were really smart.

Just look at it after fifty years...I don't know if it is smart or stupid. Anyway, we just watch the jokes far away.

"These goods shipped from Ukraine are really suitable for us. The home appliances were sold very well before, with the latest styles and cheap prices. But..."

The local tyrant frowned as he said, "There are too many home appliances recently."

"Too much?" Ilham was eating sliced ​​lamb, a little strange about it, "Can't you sell it?"

"It's cheap and easy to use. Everyone likes it." The local tyrant was affirmative, but still shook his head: "But the trouble is that these smuggled goods are so much that they affect the sales of our own domestic products."

Native chicken also has a home appliance industry, and internal and external sales are part of its economy. However, "Holy Light" began to reduce domestic sales of "e-waste" in 1992 to protect its own industry, and instead shipped goods abroad for dumping.

The home appliances purchased from the e-commerce dimension have been refurbished, and their performance and price are unmatched by competitors. The native chicken provokes Uncle Zhou, and immediately found that the smuggled home appliances were more than ten times more than in the past.

This order of magnitude increase brings extremely terrible side effects. On the surface of the Black Sea, there are a large number of smuggling ships, which are transferred from Odessa to the domestic and foreign markets of native chickens, which directly puts huge competitive pressure on its industry.

"I don't know why, the 24-inch color TV is now half cheaper than in the past, but the quantity shipped is several times higher. I have traveled to several cities and found that our domestic color TVs and even European brands of color TVs cannot be sold."

The local tyrant expressed his sorrow and compassion, "I talked to the owners of some electrical appliance stores and said that if this situation is not stopped, our home appliance industry will be destroyed."

Ilham stopped the meat-cutting knife and asked in a low voice, "Then you will boycott the smuggled electrical appliances from Odessa in the future?"

The local tyrant waved his hand immediately and said unceremoniously, "How can we do it? The people in our town rely on this for food? At least one or two hundred ports along the coast are doing this. We don't do it, others will only do it. More.

The electrical appliances shipped by "Holy Light" are cheap and good. Who doesn't like it? Even the owner of an electrical appliance store can't bear this profit. They are just complaining. If there are no smuggled goods, they will complain even louder. "

Ilham thought that these local chicken guys had suddenly changed their sex, hearing that they were still greedy for money as before, and immediately felt relieved. In his opinion, the home appliance industry of Tuji is dead if it is dead, and it has one less competitor.

The patriotism of the local tyrant failed to resist the pursuit of wealth, but he was still very worried about the state of the country. "In addition to the failure to sell domestic appliances, our textiles seem to have been affected recently."