We are all reborn, who wants to be the richest man?

Hunchun, Jilin Province.

Some people say that this is the most depressing city. You can see the sea at a glance, but you can never reach the beach.

There is a Tumen River in Hunchun. It takes only 15 kilometers downstream to reach the Pacific Ocean, and the straight-line distance is only 12 kilometers.

Such a city has become an inland city because the Tumen River is surrounded by North Korea and the Soviet Union on both sides where it flows into the sea.

Hunchun Distillery is a small local distillery that mainly produces its own brand, Hongqihe brand liquor and fruit wine, and its customers are this city.

There are at least 8,000 wineries of this size in China. In many places, there are more than ten in a city, and most of them are tertiary industries of some enterprises.

The market demand is here, the number of manufacturers has increased, and the sales situation can naturally be imagined.

Therefore, 99% of such wineries across the country have either closed down or are relying on relief funds to survive.

Hunchun Winery is no exception. Although it is not on the verge of bankruptcy, the workers are not getting their full wages now and can only deal with it one day at a time.

But everything has changed since last year. The old factory building has been expanded and becomes much more magnificent and grand.

The winery has also introduced a lot of equipment, all of which are brand new foreign machines with a high degree of automation.

Not to mention the business, there are trucks of all sizes coming in and out every day, it has become the largest and busiest factory in the local area.

What Hunchun people envy the most is the working conditions in the winery. Not only have the salaries increased a lot, but there is also a constant supply of gifts during festivals and holidays.

This situation has made those workers who originally thought that the winery was going to fail and were looking for ways to transfer out now feel very upset.

Coming back? Sure, you need to apply like everyone else.

Looking for connections? See who dares to come and plead for you.

However, these are people who have some understanding of the facts, while many people who don’t know the situation are just curious.

I don’t know how this old winery suddenly opened up sales and became in short supply. Also, many of its wines are not sold locally.

Not to mention the locals, even many winemakers in the winery are still at a loss as to what to do.

In the raw material workshop, Xiao Jia, who had just entered the factory, found it very novel to see the small potatoes being unloaded from the trucks.

"Master, shouldn't sorghum and barley be used to make wine? Why is there only potatoes and corn in our warehouse?

And these potatoes, aren’t they too small? It seems like they were pulled here from the fields where no one wanted them.”

Seeing the disgusted look on the face of his new apprentice Xiao Jia, Master Cao slapped him on the back of the head in annoyance.

"You know shit. We brew foreign liquor. Don't you see that our bottles are covered with foreign codes?"

"No wonder, I thought so." Xiao Jia suddenly realized.

"It's OK as long as the food we give to foreigners doesn't kill them. There's no need to be so particular about it."

This view is somewhat contrary to that of today's people. For today's people, things sold abroad must be the best, even if we lose money, because there are subsidies to cover us.

"What do you mean as long as it doesn't kill you? That's cost control. How can we not use these potatoes that aren't rotten or bad?"

Xiao Jia didn't quite understand what was said. He looked at the warehouse full of potatoes and asked curiously, "Master, what's the difference between this foreign liquor and our liquor? Why is it made from potatoes?"

"Difference?" Master Cao thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if there is a big difference, but their liquor doesn't have the spicy taste of ours. You'll know if you try it when you get a chance."

Working in a winery, you can still drink wine if you want to.

Watching the unloading trucks leave, Master Cao stopped chatting and urged, "Hurry up and get to work, and take these raw materials to the cleaning workshop.

The higher-ups have been pushing us to do more recently, so the production capacity has increased a lot this year. Otherwise, it would not be so easy for you guys to get into the factory.

I tell you that you have come at the right time, as you have been recruited for such a good job with such good treatment.

If this had happened in the past, if you didn't have some strong family connections, you wouldn't even be able to find a job like this.

Even if you enter the factory, you are still an apprentice. Do you want to become a regular employee? Just wait.

Now look at it, I can become a regular employee in three months, so I can be happy."

"Hehe." Xiao Jia couldn't stop grinning when he heard this.

To be honest, he didn't expect that so many people with experience and academic qualifications were not selected, but he, a hard laborer, was selected.

The recruiters thought to themselves that they were looking for people to work, not to sit in an office and read newspapers. Why would they want to hire someone with delicate skin and tender flesh?

"Master, speaking of our factory, the name of this winery is so strange."

Wardega, this is the new name of the liquor factory.

This is the distillery under the newly established subsidiary of San Miguel Brewery Group, Shengli Liquor, which mainly produces vodka.

The establishment of the Wardega Winery not only created a large number of jobs, but also indirectly increased farmers' income.

Just like the raw materials of potatoes, those potatoes that are not growing well and are particularly small will be purchased by the wineries. You should know that those that cannot be sold were used for their own consumption in the past, and the rest were rotten in the fields and used as fertilizer.

But it doesn’t matter to the winery. After all, they are making wine, so as long as the price is right, it’s fine.

Therefore, the current Wodega Winery is very important in Hunchun and has driven a lot of economic development.

"Just do your job, you're just talking nonsense every day."

……

There is a towel factory in the northern suburbs of Vladivostok. At this time, the fishy smell here is so strong that it can be smelled from far away, and it still looks a bit like a towel factory.

In fact, towels have not been produced here for half a year, and those machines have been thrown in a corner gathering dust.

Originally a small towel factory set up to serve the surrounding areas, it has only a few hundred workers. Now they are relying on subsidies to survive because they cannot sell their products.

Ever since Ivankov came in, a large number of cheap towels have been circulating on the black market. Even stores purchase goods from him. The towel factory has no way to survive.

But the towel factory can stop production, but the workers inside can’t rely on the government, right?

It just so happened that Luo Nianzhong's seafood plan was implemented at this time, and the seafood company founded by Ivankov required a large amount of labor, so the towel factory was transformed into the current seafood processing plant.

"Mendeleev, hurry up and get your people to load the truck. The airport won't wait for anyone. This batch of goods must be loaded onto the plane before four o'clock in the afternoon."

"Don't worry, Qin Zuo, we'll have a vodka carnival party tonight, and no one will want to miss it."

Foam boxes with ice cubes are filled with abalone, sea cucumber and various shellfish products.

The next step is to seal the boxes. The sealing team seals the boxes of seafood tightly with tape and then hands them over to Mendeleev's transport team.

His people would load the goods onto trucks and transport them to Vladivostok Airport, loading them onto transport planes waiting there.

……

In the early morning of the Vladivostok port, a fishing boat entered the port accompanied by the sound of a ship's horn that echoed through the sky.

"Hurry, speed, don't worry about the other fish, load the Atlantic salmon onto the truck and bring them closer to the factory first."

As soon as the ship docked, people who had been waiting at the dock began to direct the crew to unload the cargo quickly.

After everyone had done their job in an orderly manner, the man took out a pack of cigarettes and passed it to the captain.

"Berezki, what did you gain from this trip?"

"Not bad. I estimate the production of Atlantic salmon alone will be 30 tons."

The smile on Bereski's face showed that he was satisfied with the results of this trip, but he changed the subject and asked again.

"When will the new ships be built? We can't go on like this, our supply speed simply can't keep up."

"It'll be almost there. We should be able to go out to sea in less than a year. Those guys at the Black Sea Shipyard are quite capable. The ship they are designing and building is specifically for catching salmon. It can easily catch hundreds of tons at a time."

"Ha, I never thought that those who build warships would start building fishing boats one day." Bereski's words were full of sarcasm, but the sarcasm was not directed at the people in the Black Sea Shipyard.

Since 85, the Black Sea Shipyard has been shut down on a large scale, and the workers can only live on subsidies, because they have no money.

However, the Polar Bear has no money, but Luo Nianzhong does. The Black Sea Shipyard is full of talented people. Taking this opportunity, Luo Nianzhong asked Ivankov to command the Great to start poaching a large number of people.

Money? I'll give it for free, as long as the Vladivostok shipyard can be sold when privatization comes.

These valuable shipbuilders, Luo Nianzhong, are of great use. Letting them design and manufacture various civilian ships now is to improve their skills so that they won’t become rusty in the future.

You know, after the polar bears split up, there was no shipyard for water vessels in Russia. Luo Nianzhong could definitely train one to enter Russia's military industry.

At the dock, Atlantic salmon, commonly known as salmon, were sent into the factory one by one. The workers in the factory, who had been waiting for a long time, processed, packed them one by one and loaded them onto trucks.

It took a whole day, and the salmon were finally processed when the sun had long set.

At Vladivostok Airport, when this batch of salmon arrived here, a huge transport plane had already been parked here.

Yes, it is a transport plane, not a cargo plane, but it was requisitioned and used as a cargo plane.

The An-124 transport aircraft, the world's second largest transport aircraft which was officially delivered by Polar Bear in 1986, is waiting to be installed.

It was so blatant that the only An-124 transport aircraft in the entire Far East that was finally obtained was directly converted from military to civilian use, and now its registered company is actually Asia Port.

Check? Yes.

It is the emperor's right to solve the Far East's financial affairs and develop the Far East's economy on his own. If I don't do this, it won't be able to transport goods.

Besides, the interests in the entire Far East are now intertwined like an iron barrel. Who can be asked to investigate?

Moscow? They don't have the time to spare right now, otherwise how could they remain indifferent after digging so many Black Sea shipyards?

After all the cargo was loaded and the hatches were closed, the An-124 soared into the sky under the cover of night.

……

At the Aberdeen Fish and Seafood Market, just seven hours after the An-124 took off from Vladivostok Airport, the batch of seafood had already been delivered to the deep-sea fishing company here.

This deep-sea fishing company is a newly established fishing company by Luo Nianzhong. Its main business now is to transport fish from the Far East to Hong Kong Island, Southeast Asia and other regions for sale.

Sea transportation is too slow, which is okay for other fish, but not for salmon.

Deep-sea fishing companies must ensure that every salmon is delivered to customers within 36 hours, so as to maximize the taste and freshness of the salmon.

Hong Kong people love to eat seafood, and their per capita seafood consumption ranks first in Asia.

Abalone, salmon, fish maw and other shellfish are the favorites of Hong Kong Island residents. With the development of Hong Kong Island's tourism industry, seafood has become Hong Kong Island's iconic food and the demand has increased significantly.

That is to say, the demand for salmon is not too high now, otherwise the current production in the Far East would definitely not be enough.

Everyone thinks salmon sushi is a specialty of the islanders, but you don’t know that salmon in the islanders and Hong Kong used to be fried. It has only become popular to eat it raw in the past two years, thanks to the promotion of the Norwegians.

They gave salmon to the island countries for free, stipulating that they could only eat it raw.

Don't think they are kind-hearted, they are just cultivating the market.

Because the water quality in most salmon producing areas in the Pacific Ocean is not top-notch and is prone to breeding bacteria, but this is not the case in Norway now.

It was with this trick that they completely opened up the Asian market in the 90s. After 2000, Hong Kong imported more than tons of salmon a year, and the island countries imported even more, nearly tons a year.

How could Luo Nianzhong let Norway enjoy this benefit alone? Aren't you artificially cultivating them? Then I can just spend money in the Far East to imitate them.

The Far East is now making preparations for both scenarios. Artificial breeding is already on the right track, but it will definitely not be effective in a short period of time.

Fortunately, the area north of the polar bears is now the best salmon producing area in the Pacific Ocean, and the water quality is absolutely no problem. It is not so easy for Norwegians to enter the Asian market now.

The shop of the Deep Sea Fishing Company is crowded with people starting at 12 o'clock in the evening.

These people are the purchasing agents of major restaurants and bars. For them, there is nothing to complain about.

Whether the product is good or not, whether it is worth the price, and how much more can be bargained down, all of this affects a buyer's petty cash.

So don’t worry about whether it’s a new store or not, as long as you have good quality products and low prices, that’s the key.

Therefore, once deep-sea fishing stores were opened in Southeast Asia, they quickly opened up the local market. Now the process is to develop in depth to capture more market share.

"Give me 1000 abalones and ten salmon."

"I also want ten salmon and two hundred kilograms of sea cucumbers."

The only restaurant that dares to ask for this must be a buffet restaurant. There are no cheap buffets in Hong Kong Island. They are all in five-star hotels and high-end restaurants.

So these are the only places that sell salmon for five or ten servings; Japanese restaurants can’t compare.

"Boss, are there plenty of abalone today? Give me three thousand."

People in Hong Kong are obsessed with abalone and only like large abalone. In the past, many restaurants would offer high prices for double-headed abalone but not anymore.

Because the abalone from deep-sea fishing are all large abalones produced in the Far East, each one weighs one kilogram and is truly a single abalone.

Thanks to these abalone and salmon, deep-sea fishing quickly established a foothold in Hong Kong Island and in Southeast Asia.