Chapter 39 Don’t lie to me

The average student is eager to sleep in on weekends because classes are usually very tiring.

But Ma Liang was different. He didn't need to pay attention to the lectures at all, and he wrote his homework much faster than the average classmates. There was no great pressure at all.

This is the benefit of a liberal arts major. As a reborn boss, the knowledge is already available in his mind, making college study a breeze.

Ma Liang was very pleased to have completed her tutoring task yesterday.

This girl Su Xiaomi has finally changed her gender. He should be able to hang out for a while longer, and his tutor's salary will also increase a lot. Thinking about it, he feels happy.

So today he got up at around 7 o'clock in the morning and planned to go to the city.

It's no good if we don't make it early. We have to go to make up lessons for that girl Su Xiaomi in the afternoon (during mixed class time).

Ignoring the yelling and scolding of his roommates, he went out after a lot of ringing. First he ran to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and then took the bus to the city.

He is now reluctant to take a taxi to go to the city. Taking a taxi from Songjiang University Town to the city costs at least more than 100 yuan.

Although he has a bit more money after being approved for a student loan, he will not be so extravagant.

Anyway, there aren’t many traffic jams on Sundays, and it won’t take a lot of time to take the bus into the city.

I made a special trip to the city today to inquire about the source of goods. Selling pirated discs may seem easy, but the source of goods is not that easy to find.

Although the competent authorities turn a blind eye, this thing cannot be brought to the table after all.

He could only go there and try his luck based on the place in his memory where he was most likely to find the source of goods.

After more than two hours, Ma Liang arrived at the place - Qiujiang Road Electronic Audio and Video Market.

Studying in a suburban university town is very inconvenient, but these days there are not many colleges and universities where undergraduates can study in urban areas.

Campuses in the city center are mostly reserved for on-the-job graduate students who are more profitable, as well as local bosses who come to the CEO class to recharge their batteries.

When you make money in the future, you should buy yourself a car, otherwise this trip will be too much trouble.

The transportation in Songjiang University Town will become truly convenient only after the opening of Metro Line 9, but he will have graduated by then, so how long can he enjoy it?

So if you want to live a good life, you must first make money.

To find the source of pirated discs, you cannot go to any computer mall or Digital Plaza. You have to go to the more down-to-earth electronic audio and video market to be more likely to find it.

The Qiujiang Road Electronic Audio and Video Market is an audio and video wholesale market that spontaneously gathered in Shanghai.

Its formation basically has nothing to do with official planning, and was completely developed from the second-hand market in the early years.

As early as around 1945, some immigrants from the Neon Country took the things they couldn't take with them to sell them on Qiujiang Road before returning to China, and the history of selling second-hand goods started here.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many "quick-minded" merchants bought goods from the Pearl River Delta, imitated the stalls at the flea market under the Haiyin Bridge in Yangcheng, and sold them on Qiujiang Road, making this area

The second-hand goods business on the road is booming day by day.

Then there were various vendors selling goods here, forming a distribution center integrating wholesale and retail.

Many audio equipment and audiovisual product manufacturers also came here to find business opportunities and gradually took root.

In May of this year, Donghai Audio and Video City officially opened for business on Qiujiang Road. It is the largest audio and video wholesale center in the country and the largest audio and video retail center in the Yangtze River Delta.

Although many merchants of genuine audio and video products there are certainly selling pirated products secretly.

However, people are not as good as a thousand days, and flowers are not as red as a hundred days.

Although the business of Qiujiang Road Electronic Audio and Video Market is booming, it will inevitably have to be rebuilt and relocated after more than ten years.

But it's only 2005, and the electronic audio and video market on Qiujiang Road is at its most prosperous.

Various VCDs, DVDs, and home theaters are on sale, as well as radios, CD players, and MP3 players.

Even many smuggled imported high-end combo speakers, digital cameras, and camcorders can be found at bargain prices here.

I have to say that as long as there is no regulation, the economic vitality of the private sector is so strong that it is jaw-dropping.

There's nothing you can't think of, but nothing you can't buy.

When Ma Liang arrived, he couldn't help but be amazed by the lively scene of the electronic audio and video market on Qiujiang Road.

When he first came here in his previous life, this place had been in decline for a long time. Later, he often saw news on the Internet that this place was about to be relocated.

At this time, the Qiujiang Road Market had expanded into a large area after years of development.

The first area is around the Qiujiang Electronic Digital Mall, which mainly sells computer spare parts; the second area is mainly small shops opened in the houses along the street, selling various small commodities and electronic products.

The third block is the Donghai Audio and Video City that was forcibly planned and built by the competent authorities.

There is a two-story building and a greenhouse inside the gate of the audio and video city, with only a passage in between.

Old customers who are familiar with the industry will tell you that there were originally two markets here. The one in the building was the Shanghai Audio and Video City, and the one in the shed was called the Jingda Market. Later, they probably merged into one.

Ma Liang's goal was very clear. He immediately went straight to Donghai Audio and Video City and started raiding everywhere.

First we went to the Jingda Market in the shed, and then we visited the audio and video city.

It has to be said that the wholesale market has a great role in promoting the retail economy. At least it provides convenience for countless small merchants and hawkers to stock goods.

However, the audio-visual city is not all about selling audio-visual products, cameras, and digital accessories. There are also many stores.

Ma Liang was walking around one by one, and when he saw a store selling DVDs, he stopped and asked carefully, wondering why he had to compare stores.

He didn't go to the wrong place, and he found many merchants selling pirated discs.

It’s just that the products on their counters are all genuine domestically produced audio and video products. Only after you inquire carefully and become familiar with them, they will take out many good products for you from the box.

But what disappoints Ma Liang is that most of the pirated goods here are TVB Hong Kong dramas and domestic dramas.

Those with a stronger business sense will have more sources of Korean dramas and Japanese comics.

Only the supply of American TV series is really limited, and even if it is available, it is not comprehensive, which makes it more difficult for him to find goods.

It’s normal when you think about it, now the world is dominated by Korean dramas and Japanese comics.

If the Internet speed is not improved, the audience for American TV series will not be as exaggerated as it was a few years ago. Now it is just a niche demand.

It is precisely because downloading of various film sources has become easier and easier that American drama culture has gradually become popular.

No wonder vendors like Chen Jinfa and others don't have much supply of American TV series. They just take some and sell them when they happen to come across them.

However, it is precisely because of this that Ma Liang has a business opportunity, otherwise he would not have the chance to make this money.

The essence of many businesses is to provide differentiated services. As long as they can collect all popular American TV series and focus on promoting and selling them by category, they can be profitable.

He was about to give up on the idea of ​​one-stop shopping and wanted to get the goods from several stores, so he visited a different audio and video store.

The store doesn't look big, only about 20 square meters, but the goods are piled up in a mess. The name of the store also has a sense of the times, it's called [Awang Audio and Video City].

A small store dares to call itself a video city, which shows that the store owner is also a confident person.

Cardboard boxes were piled up in a mess in the store, and two people, a man and a woman, were sorting and counting them.

At first glance, it looks like a husband and wife shop. A new batch of goods arrived today, and the couple is busy sorting them out.

Ma Liang casually glanced at the piles of cardboard boxes on the floor and the densely packed discs on the shelves, and clearly found that the proportion of American TV series was much higher than in other stores.

He suppressed his excitement, walked up to the fat boss and said hello: "Boss, what do you call me?"

"Brother, I'm only talking about approving flowers right now. If you want to buy some CDs, come over later in the afternoon." The fat boss, who had normal hair and a southern Fujian accent, responded impatiently.

Maybe it was because Ma Liang looked like a student that people didn't bother to talk to him.

Some shops in the wholesale market are like this. They are busy sorting goods and receiving large customers who purchase goods in the morning. When they are free in the middle of the afternoon, they only sell odd items.

Ma Liang said angrily: "Who told you I'm here to buy CDs? I'm here to stock the goods. Hurry up, big business."

"Xia Mi? Little brother, frog curry gong, don't lie to me and shout!" The fat boss stopped what he was doing in surprise.

Ma Liang was in a hurry to go back as a tutor, but she didn't want to argue with him: "Who lied to you? I'm really here to buy American TV series. Do you have all the goods?"
Chapter completed!