The King of Global Scrap Collection

29: Chapter 26: 3000000 29: Chapter 26: 3000000 Zhuo Cheng Building!

Looking at the towering building of twenty-plus stories before him, Li Zhongnan felt slightly awestruck.

Did this entire building belong to Zhuo Cheng Group?

Although Nangang couldn’t compete with Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou, thanks to hosting the country’s largest port, it wasn’t much less prosperous than some of those second-tier cities inland.

This building, located right in the downtown area, must be worth several hundred million, right?

Following a receptionist, he was led to a conference room on the eighteenth floor.

After waiting for about ten minutes, in came a woman who epitomized the modern professional.

She was rather good-looking, tall, fashionable, and beautiful.

Of course, he didn’t feel it was appropriate to stare too much.

She shot him a smile and said, “Mr.

Li, nice to meet you.

I’m Hu Yang, the personal assistant to the CEO of Zhuo Cheng Group.”

Li Zhongnan stood up gracefully and replied with a smile: “Miss Hu, nice to meet you.”

After a brief exchange of pleasantries and a handshake, they got straight down to business.

Although he didn’t get to see Zhuo Ting, he didn’t think much of it.

He was here to talk business, and it didn’t matter to him who conducted the negotiations, as long as they were reliable.

Li Zhongnan set several dozens of mobile phones on the table.

A technician walked in and greeted Hu Yang before carefully starting to examine the phones.

After looking at the phones for a while, the technician remarked, “The cases fit together compactly, the seams are smooth without sharp edges.” Then, he opened the back cover to sniff, commenting, “It has a faint scent of sandalwood!”

Afterward, the technician continued to check aspects like the phone keypads and data port.

He tested the performance by turning the phones on, then checked the IMEI numbers online.

Finally, he concluded, “The handsets haven’t been activated yet and appear to be brand new, most of them being domestic models.

However, parts like the chargers are not original and are of inferior quality.”

Hu Yang nodded in acknowledgment, shot a smile at Li Zhongnan, and asked, “Mr.

Li, do you have all the necessary paperwork, such as invoices?”

Li Zhongnan laughed and said, “No!”

Hu Yang thought for a moment and suggested, “Even though these are new phones, the accessories are an issue… How about we price them at 80% of the price of new phones?

What do you think, Mr.

Li?”

“No problem!

President Zhuo and I are good friends.

I don’t mind taking a loss!” Li Zhongnan was quite generous in his response.

In reality, he was thrilled.

The offered price was slightly higher than for refurbished phones, so he had no reason not to sell.

What a thick-skinned guy!

Hu Yang silently criticized him, and then she continued, “However, our main market at Zhuo Cheng is in Southeast Asia where we offer affordable products.

We don’t want phones priced higher than 1500.”

“Ahem.”

Li Zhongnan coughed and, despite being a bit reluctant, he said, “Miss Hu, I don’t have that many phones.

Your company is huge, can’t you afford it?

Ah, I’m quite close with President Zhuo, we just had breakfast together this morning!”

Why should he avoid dropping a big name when he had the chance?

Hu Yang rolled her eyes at him, but in the end, she begrudgingly nodded in agreement.

After Li Zhongnan left the office…

Zhuo Ting came in and casually asked, “Did you finalize the deal?

How’s the quality of the phones?

How much did they cost?

Even if the quantity is small, we can’t make a loss on Zhuo Cheng’s end, no matter who the other party is.”

“Boss, I don’t know what to say.”

Hu Yang thought for a moment before replying, “The bodies of the phones are all brand new, but the accessories are not.” She hesitated a little, then continued, “It’s very likely that he has had a technology breakthrough that allows refurbished phones to be unrecognizable as such.

If we could…

the market in Southeast Asia is being overwhelmed by a price war…”

But Zhuo Ting just chuckled, objecting, “No one in the world has been able to do that!

Do you believe someone from a scrapping background could have the capability?”

Hu Yang asked, “So how did he come by those mobile phones?”

“He either stole them or robbed them!

The pretense of buying them scrapped is pure distraction.” Zhuo Ting let out a sarcastic smile, then shook her head, saying, “This time, I’ve entirely misjudged the situation.”

Hu Yang nodded agreeing, “Boss, you’re right with your analysis.

He’s quite shrewd and certainly not straightforward and honest.”

“Alright, let’s forget about this matter here.”

Zhuo Ting waved her hand dismissively, but a slight frown creased her attractive features.

“Being a franchised dealer will never be a long-term solution.

Even if we expand our shops throughout Southeast Asia, the lion’s share of the profits still goes to others.

How’s the development progress of our R&D team?”

“Two butterflies, flying so fast~~~”

Li Zhongnan entered his shop, glowingly jubilant and singing a tune.

Seeing his cheerful mood, Chen Xiaoting teased, “Boss, you seem extremely cheerful.

Did you find some money?”

Li Zhongnan proudly announced, “Even better than that, I just clinched a big business deal.”

“Oh!”

Chen Xiaoting responded with a chuckle, “Congratulations!

Boss, with such a big development, shouldn’t you be thinking about giving me a little bonus?”

Li Zhongnan waved and commanded, “Great!

I’ll give you another two hundred this month as a reward!”

“Oh!”

Chen Xiaoting rolled her eyes.

Two hundred, huh…

Late, she took an invoice out of the drawer and handed it to Li Zhongnan, “Boss, this is an invoice for a recharge of a hundred thousand.

Keep it safe!”

Li Zhongnan gave the invoice a cursory glance before accepting it, “Xiao Ting, how’s the business these past few days?”

Chen Xiaoting answered, “Well, boss, in the shop, we’ve collected twenty-one old mobile phones and sold twelve.

On the Taobao store, we’ve sold nearly fifty units.

All were sold at refurbished phone prices.”

Li Zhongnan was taken aback.

The Taobao shop had just gone live, and in two days they had already sold fifty phones.

This revenue already exceeded that of his brick-and-mortar store.

He pondered for a moment then asked, “How much did the promotion cost?”

“Haven’t calculated it yet!”

Chen Xiaoting stuck her tongue out.

“Xiao Ting, you’ve worked hard these days.”

Li Zhongnan patted the young lady’s shoulder and smiled, “Let’s do it this way.

I’ll give you a few days off.

You can get some rest and take this opportunity to learn more about online marketing techniques.”

He had decided to give all the phones in his current inventory to Zhuo Cheng Group, and there wouldn’t be much of a recovery business to do in the store.

He might as well close up shop and give the staff a vacation to recharge their energy and learn some new skills.

As for when to open again, that would be a decision for another time.

He planned to first sell off the current batch of phones and then, once he had sufficient funds, make a trip to Dongguang to expand his source of goods.

He’d heard there were villages full of electronic waste there, with discarded phones and computers being sold by the tonne.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaoting was a bit alarmed, “Boss, aren’t you trying to get rid of me?

I…”

“No way, you’re doing a great job!”

Li Zhongnan laughed lightly, urging her, “That’s all.

You may leave now.”

After Chen Xiaoting left, he quickly pulled down the shop shutter.

He then moved all the discarded phones to the warehouse, waved his hand, and suddenly found himself in a vast metal space.

He then issued a command to the system:

“Repair them all!”

“Ding: 3280 mobile phones in total.

210 units of Apple 6S, 380 units of Xiaomi 3, Huawei…

All have been repaired, requiring a total of 1300 gold coins.

Do you confirm this?”

“Yes!”

“Initiating repairs…

Repairs completed…

1300 gold coins used.

The system now has a balance of 3700 gold coins!”

One hour later.

Just as Li Zhongnan was leaving the Zhuo Cheng Group headquarters, his phone buzzed, indicating a new message: Dear customer, your card ending with xxxx has received an income of 3,250,000.

The total balance is 3,300,000.

More than three million!

Making a billion didn’t seem so difficult after all, did it?