jdhmnovel Chapter 237 Wine Business
Chapter 237 Wine Business
After Lei Gong finished speaking, Lu Yongqiang smiled and said, "Mr. Lei, since you have investigated me, you should know that 20 million US dollars is not a lot for me. If you only want to negotiate a deal with me for money, then I have to excuse myself."
"Mr. Lei, if possible, let's talk about the red wine business. If this business is successful, it can generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year."
The reason why Lu Yongqiang returned to see Lei Gong was that when Lei Gong was held hostage by Lu Yongqiang, he secretly put a note in Lu Yongqiang's pocket with the words "red wine" and a phone number written on it.
The red wine business is what Lu Yongqiang has been secretly conducting for the past two months.
This story started after the multinational boxing championship. The boxing match caused quite a stir at the end, but Lu Yongqiang was busy dealing with community affairs at the time and didn't pay much attention to Las Vegas.
With Xiahou Wu's strength, it was naturally no problem for him to win the boxing championship. However, after winning the boxing match, all the people in Gangcheng were attacked. No less than a hundred people died in Las Vegas that night, and even more were injured.
Bigwigs like the Crown Prince and Xiyan were accompanied by enough bodyguards and subordinates. The heavy casualties were caused by their bodyguards and subordinates, but no one themselves was injured.
Xiahou Wu escaped death by a hair's breadth.
After the boxing match, Xiahou Wu's deal with the big guys was complete. For a master like Xiahou Wu, the big guys were naturally unwilling to give up.
After all, the boxing match wasn't just for this one, there would be another next year. If Xiahou Wu could stay, then the next year's match would also be guaranteed.
But Xiahou Wu naturally didn't want to stay any longer. As soon as the boxing match was over, Xiahou Wu left alone. That night, two or three hundred people chased Xiahou Wu.
Xiahou Wu was also very powerful. While being chased by hundreds of people, he suddenly killed forty or fifty of them and ran away with his seriously injured body.
That night, Xiahou Wu suffered three gunshot wounds and nineteen knife wounds, and was truly covered with bruises.
When Dadong and Duxie found Xiahou Wu, Xiahou Wu was hiding under a dilapidated bridge, performing surgery on himself and digging the bullet out of his body with a dagger.
When Dadong and Duxie met Xiahou Wu, Xiahou Wu had already dug out a bullet from his body. He was definitely a ruthless person.
After Dadong and Duxie rescued Xiahou Wu, Lu Yongqiang originally planned to let Xiahou Wu return to Gangcheng to help him, but Xiahou Wu insisted on quitting the underworld and living an ordinary life.
Since Xiahou Wu was unwilling, Lu Yongqiang did not force him and had him sent to the winery in France.
Lu Yongqiang bought the winery just to provide a shelter for himself, so the winery is not big, but since it is a business, Lu Yongqiang naturally does not want to lose money.
So before buying this winery, Lu Yongqiang had some considerations.
The red wine produced by this winery tastes good and is quite famous locally, so it has no trouble selling. When Lu Yongqiang bought the winery, its business was doing well, with an annual revenue of more than two million.
The previous owner of the winery suffered heavy losses in other businesses, so he wanted to sell the winery. It was not a loss for Lu Yongqiang to take over.
When Lu Yongqiang approached Xiahou Wu to negotiate terms, in order to win people's hearts, he gave up half of the shares of the winery to several of Xiahou Wu's junior brothers and sisters, and also gave up the management rights of the winery, allowing Xiahou Wu and his junior brothers and sisters to run it.
When handing the winery over to Xiahou Wu's junior brothers and sisters, Lu Yongqiang emphasized that the winery had a mature management team and told Xiahou Wu's junior brothers and sisters not to interfere in the management of the winery. If they really couldn't stay idle, they could help out at the winery and give others a hand.
But some people just wouldn't listen. Less than three months after the winery was handed over, it went from profitable to loss-making. The originally mature management team was also dismantled by those outsiders. What's even worse is that all the winemakers of the winery left.
If a winery loses its winemaker, it means the winery is almost doomed.
When Xiahou Wu arrived at the winery, it was almost going bankrupt.
Faced with the winery's difficulties, Lu Yongqiang did not intervene. He was thinking of waiting for the winery to go bankrupt and see if he could trick Xiahou Wu and his junior sister into coming to Gangcheng.
What Lu Yongqiang didn't expect was that Xiahou Wu's years in the kiln were not in vain, as he actually met a talented chemist in the kiln.
Xiahou Wu knew that the man was called Qian Manduo. Although his name was not very impressive, he was indeed a talented person.
He has a lot of money. He is in his thirties and has only a junior high school education. When he was young, he worked as a bartender in a bar. Later, he joined He Liansheng and hung out on Bolan Street.
Although Qian Manduo is not well educated, he is good at making fake wine. He used to work as a bartender in a bar on Bolan Street. He often replaced the real wine in the bar with his fake wine. The red wine he made is almost indistinguishable from the real one.
The reason why Qian Manduo was sent to the kiln was because he was framed by Hua Fu of He Liansheng.
The bar where Qian Manduo used to stay was the one that Hua Fu was in charge of. Qian Manduo would often swap his drinks in the bar, but walking around at night was bound to lead to unexpected events. This was what happened to Qian Manduo, and Hua Fu caught him secretly swapping his drinks.
After Hua Fu knew that Qian Manduo was making fake liquor, he did not punish Qian Manduo. Instead, he began to cooperate with Qian Manduo and began to secretly produce various fake liquors in large quantities.
Qian Manduo was responsible for making fake wine, and Hua Fu was responsible for sales. The two of them were very successful for a while.
But this fake wine is fake, no matter how hard you try to make it look real, it can never be made real. The two of them enjoyed themselves for half a year before something went wrong.
Afterwards, Hua Fu pushed all the blame onto Qian Manduo and disguised himself as a victim. Qian Manduo was imprisoned in Stanley and sentenced to five years.
After Hua Fu cheated Qian Manduo out of money, he had no intention of letting Qian Manduo go. He ordered people to bully Qian Manduo from time to time in Stanley. Qian Manduo did not have a good life in Stanley.
Later, Xiahou Wu was imprisoned in Stanley and lived in the same cell with Qian Manduo. Xiahou Wu couldn't stand others bullying others, so he helped Qian Manduo several times. Later, the two gradually became friends.
Before Xiahou Wu was released from prison, Qian Manduo had already been released from prison early. When he was released from prison, Hua Fu was already finished, so after he was released from prison, no one from the underworld bothered him. Later, he found a job as a bartender in a bar on Bolan Street.
The winery lost its winemaker and was about to face bankruptcy. Xiahou Wu thought of Qian Manduo first. He then called Qian Manduo and tricked him into going to France.
After Qian Manduo arrived at the winery, although he didn't know how to make wine, he knew how to blend wine. He used chemicals to blend a bottle of red wine that didn't taste very good to make it taste like top-notch red wine.
After a lot of tinkering with the winery's blend, the red wine it blended tastes not bad. Not only is it not bad, it already has the taste of those top-quality red wines.
Xiahou Wu has been in Stanley for two years, but he is not as honest as he looks. After tasting the blended wine, he immediately informed Lu Yongqiang.
After Lu Yongqiang knew about this, his first reaction was that he had made a fortune. The taste of blended wine was no worse than top-grade red wine. This was money.
Although this blended wine tastes as good as top-grade red wine, it contains certain chemicals, which results in a very poor shelf life. According to Qian Duo's estimate, the taste of the wine will change within a year at most.
No matter how good a wine tastes, its value will be greatly reduced if it is not easy to preserve.
Although the value is greatly reduced, this blended wine is not without value. It’s just that this wine cannot be sold as real wine, it can only be sold as fake wine.
After so many years of doing business in fake shoes and clothing, Lu Yongqiang has gained enough experience in the counterfeit business.
Lu Yongqiang personally went to France and, after discussing with Xiahou Wu and Qian Manduo, formulated a sales strategy for this wine.
For the red wine blended with Qianmanduo, Lu Yongqiang asked the winery to mark the shelf life of twelve months during production, and the price of the wine is priced between one thousand and two thousand Hong Kong dollars.
Afterwards, Lu Yongqiang brought a batch of red wine back to Hong Kong City. After arriving in Hong Kong City, he directly threw the red wine to a man who was engaged in fake wine business in Tuen Mun.
The red wine is of good quality, but has a short shelf life. In the hands of this fake wine dealer, the value of this wine is very high. Without Lu Yongqiang's instruction, this person simply changes the packaging of the wine and sells it as high-end wine.
After this man made money, Lu Yongqiang had someone spread the news, and soon a big dealer came to him.
The biggest dealer in the fake wine business in Gangcheng is Xinji. Lu Yongqiang cooperates directly with Xinji. Xinji gets the goods from Lu Yongqiang's winery. The red wine is delivered to Gangcheng through formal channels and then handed directly to Xinji. As for how Xinji packages and sells the wine, Lu Yongqiang does not ask at all.
As for Lu Yongqiang, he just owns a winery in France, and Xinji places orders through him. He has all the necessary procedures and everything is legal and compliant. As for counterfeiting, that is Xinji's business and has nothing to do with him, Lu Yongqiang.
It was no secret that Lu Yongqiang had cooperated with Xinji, but not many people knew about it. Moreover, since the sales channels were opened up, Lu Yongqiang had asked Xinji to contact Xiahou Wu directly in order to clear himself.
Therefore, if there were no special investigation, ordinary people would not know that Lu Yongqiang owns a winery, nor would they know that Lu Yongqiang is in the red wine business.
So when Lu Yongqiang saw the word "red wine" written on the note given by Lei Gong, he became a little interested, and then he called Lei Gong, which led to their second meeting.
After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Lei Gong said, "Mr. Lu, you are really impatient. We need to discuss this deal slowly so that no one will suffer any loss."
After Lei Gong finished speaking, Lu Yongqiang said, "Mr. Lei, I know that the Sanlian Gang controls one-fifth of Taiwan's high-end wine market. Although the red wine from my winery has some issues with its shelf life, its taste is no less than those high-end wines. More importantly, the price of my winery's wine is only one-tenth of those high-end wines."
"Mr. Lei, since you've found out I'm in the wine business, you should understand that I'm not a greedy person. If you're willing to cooperate, I can offer you a 10% discount on the purchase price. This is my greatest sincerity."