chapter 7

  "Sara, your hair?" At this time, Sara came back, but Ketu suddenly shouted.

  Only at this moment did Jogo notice that Sara's waist-length hair had disappeared. She had wrapped her head in gauze just now, so she didn't notice it for a while.

  "I went to the temple yesterday to donate my hair to the gods." Sara smiled, "Pray for the gods to bless, master Jogo, master, madam, and everyone." "Donate to the gods, good, good." Luke smiled.

  Jogo's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered something, the news he saw on the Internet in his previous life.

  That is the hair outlet.

  Hair can be sold for money, and it is very valuable, known as 'black gold'.

  India is a big hair exporter. In previous lives, it could export more than 1,000 tons of hair a year, and most of the hair was exported to China, earning billions from China every year.

  In fact, in China decades ago in the previous life, there were some people in the streets and alleys or in the countryside who bought hair by riding a bicycle and shouting the horn.

  Generally, the longer the hair, the more expensive it is. For example, a catty over 45 centimeters can sell for thousands of yuan.

  The hair is used in several ways, the cheapest being short hair for men, mainly used to stuff mattresses, make oil filters, or extract amino acids, among other things.

  Some people may have heard of making soy sauce from hair, which is probably not reliable.

  Long hair for women can be used for hair extensions, making wigs, model wigs and more.

  It is now 1986, and China's wig factories have not yet been established, but India still exports hair, most of which are exported to Europe, the United States, South Korea, etc.

  Europeans and Americans suffer from severe hair loss, and wigs made of human hair are very popular in Europe and the United States.

  Moreover, Indian women have never cut their hair much since birth, and most of them have never used artificial dyes and pigments, so their hair is of high quality and is very popular in the wig market.

  jogo knows that many temples in India accept hair donations from believers, and there may be hundreds, or even thousands, of people every day.

  The most famous is the Tirumala Vishnu Temple, which has an average of 20,000 haircuts per day. There are more than 600 barbers in the temple alone, and more people have to be added on holidays, because the maximum number of people who get haircuts a day may reach 100,000.

  Selling hair has made the Vishnu Temple the richest temple in India.

  There are quite a few temples like this in Mumbai, and I can directly buy hair from women in the private sector, just like the situation in China decades ago in my previous life, door-to-door.

  India's hair export volume at this time is definitely not as large as it was in previous lives, and it is impossible to reach the scale of billions of RMB. After all, money is still valuable now, and inflation is not so strong. The total amount of hair exported every year is several million dollars. about.

  The U.S. dollar in this era is much more valuable than in previous generations.

  Maybe get a piece of the action yourself?

  As soon as this idea came out, jogo couldn't help but be very excited, but then he calmed down.

  Even if you buy hair yourself, how do you sell it?

  Foreign purchasers themselves do not know each other.

  After thinking about it, jogo felt that he could ask Zhao Rui and the others about this matter. If they said they didn't want it, he could also check the source of the hair first. If it didn't work, the worst he could do would be to make his own wig.

  Without further ado, Jogo didn't stay in the slums, and immediately went to investigate several temples in Mumbai.

  Banjiv Temple is about three kilometers away from Dharavi. When jogo came here, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and he saw many believers coming in and out of the temple.

  Not all of these people come to donate their hair, but even if a small part of them do, the number is quite a lot.

  Jogo walked around the temple for a while and found a place to shave their hair. He stayed here for about an hour and saw 10 women donating their hair.

  Looking at the long hair, which was basically over 50 centimeters, jogo's eyes shone. These were all rupees.

  "The warehouse is almost full of space. Has the guy who received the goods not come yet?" "

  No, I heard from the elders that he may not come until next month."

  When there were no believers to shave their heads for the time being, the two barbers were cleaning the floor. hair while chatting.

  After hearing what the two said, jogo went up to communicate with them. The two were a little wary at first. When jogo gave them 10 rupees, the other party became talkative. 10 rupees was equivalent to one day's wages for each of him.

  From their mouths, jogo finally figured out the temple's hair business.

  The amount of donated hair in Banjiv is only average in the local area. It can receive more than 30 kilograms a day and 1,000 kilograms a month.

  A woman with shoulder-length hair weighs about 100 grams, that is to say, 10 women have a kilogram of hair, and about 300 women come to the temple to donate their hair every day.

  Before the temple, there was a buyer who specialized in buying hair, and they usually came to collect it once a week.

  This time it has been almost two months, and the purchaser has not come to receive the goods, and has been procrastinating.

  According to the purchaser, all the hair he purchased was sold to Europe, and shipments were stopped in Europe in the past two months, and they are still waiting for news from there.

  jogo naturally knew the reason, the Suez Canal was blocked.

  This makes the temple a little depressed. Hair is produced every day, and now more than 2,000 kilograms of hair have been accumulated.

  The Banjiv Temple is located in the urban area of ​​Mumbai. It occupies a small area and has a small warehouse. Now the warehouse is about to explode.

  According to them, the hair in the temples in Mumbai is basically sold to Europe, so the hair in the temples is basically piled up in the warehouse.

  "It must be taken." Jogo's blood surged, this opportunity is too great.

  The temple is eager to find someone to buy it, isn't it its own opportunity.

  Regardless of the length of the hair in the Banjiv Temple, it is packaged and sold to the buyer at 10 rupees per kilogram, which is less than 1 US dollar per kilogram.

  Although jogo is not very clear about the current export price of hair, but compared with the price in the previous life, it is a huge profit.

  In his previous life, he saw on the Internet that the best-quality long hair above 45 centimeters can be sold for more than 1,000 US dollars per kilogram, and the most demanded long hair is 20-40 centimeters, and the average price is about 300-500 US dollars per kilogram. , after being made into wigs, the top wigs can be sold for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and one kilogram of wigs can be made into 5 to 10 wigs depending on the length of the hair, and the profits are all hundreds of times, black gold The name is worthy of its name.

  Whether it is China or India in this era, it seems that doing foreign trade is profitable.

  The information is poor, the purchaser will definitely not disclose the export price to others, so as to ensure its own profit.

  With the development of information in his previous life, Jogo knew that many big temples had directly established contact with foreign purchasers, and the prices were much more transparent, so the middlemen were not so profitable.

  Of course, this is only compared to the current huge profits. In fact, the hair trade in the previous life was still very profitable, after all, the purchase price was still low.

  It seems that I not only need to investigate the source of hair, but also find a way to find out the export price of hair.

  Then jogo went to another nearby temple for a while, and the situation was similar to that of Banjiv. In the past two months, the buyers basically bought hair temporarily.

  "It seems that this business is not so complicated." jogo laughed in his heart.

  If it is curly, no matter what, you must pull your hair back first.

  Probably those acquirers felt that no one else would intervene, so they didn't pull their hair back.

  If you pull it back, you have to find a warehouse to store it. This is to save some storage costs, and it is really budget-conscious.

  But in jogos opinion, as long as the temple is given enough benefits, what's the difficulty in changing a business?

  The most important thing is that jogo has already found out that they didn't sign any contract at all, because after a long time of cooperation, it becomes natural, so there is no breach of contract.

  Especially in this situation, the temple has complaints against them and is anxious to clear out the hair that cannot fit in the warehouse.

  jogo couldn't bear the excitement and didn't continue to visit other temples. The situation was almost cleared up. He was going to go to Singh's side to ask the foreign trade company if the formalities were completed. It was already the third day.

  Although he knew that it would be impossible to do it in three days, he would ask about it every day. If he didn't ask, he would always think about it because he was always uneasy. This was the key to whether he could turn around.

  jogo came to Singer's office for routine business, and after he was going to ask Zhao Rui, he went to Zhao Rui and the others to ask if they were interested in buying hair. After all, China was a big wig manufacturing country in his previous life, and the products were exported to Europe and the United States. Maybe now There is a wig factory, so there must be a demand for hair.

  "Ah, jogo, you came just in time, I was about to go find you." Singer said happily when he saw jogo knocking on the door and coming in.

  "Uncle Singh, why are you so happy today?" Everyone could see that Singh was in a very good mood.

  "Isn't it your business?" Singer laughed loudly, "Gupta Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. has been set up."

  "Oh?" jogo responded casually, but he was stunned quickly and realized "Uncle Singh, you said that my company was established?"

  Jogo named his company Gupta Foreign Trade Co., Ltd., while his father's was Gupta Import and Export Co., Ltd. Didn't react.

  Seeing that Singer shook his head to confirm, Jogo still felt a little unreal: "Uncle Singer, how is this possible? It's only been less than three days, right? Since when did they become so efficient? What did you find?" The big guy?"

  It was done in three days, jogo felt that Singer must have spent a lot of thought and found a local boss in Mumbai at a high price, otherwise it would not be possible.

  Thinking of this, Jogo bowed to Singer and said, "Thank you,Uncle Singer." The papers were handed to him.

  After receiving this, jogo truly confirmed that this was not a dream.

  Seeing jogo looking at him with questioning eyes, Singer smiled slightly and said, "It's because of the administrator."

  "Uncle Singer, did you find the administrator?" jogo was very surprised.

  Although he knew that Singh had a special position and many people would fawn on him, it was basically impossible for him, a credit manager of a branch, to get to know the Mumbai administrator and still be able to talk.

  "I said it has nothing to do with me. How could I know such a big person, that is, I have met a few times from a distance." Singer continued to explain, "This morning, the administrator is going to inspect the industrial and commercial department. For this reason, yesterday In order to show off and claim credit, the guys from the industrial and commercial department rushed to work overnight and completed all the accumulated work and various approval procedures. It is your luck that you just caught up." jogo widened his eyes,and That's such a blessing.

  "However, the administrator didn't go there this morning, because the administrator was busy dealing with the strike, and the incident got worse and worse. More than a dozen people died last night. They waited for nothing and prepared for nothing," Singer said again.

  jogo also laughed. It doesn't matter to him whether the administrator goes or not, because the business license has been obtained.

  As for the dead on strike, jogo had already expected it in his heart. He can only say that the people at the bottom are easy to be used, which is sad and deplorable.

  "Uncle Singh, my company account also belongs to the State Bank of India. He won't transfer the money from my account because of my father's debt, right?" jogo also wanted to confirm.

  Singh's face darkened: "jogo, can you still not believe me on this? You and your father are two different things."

  He had previously told jogo that the money in the old Gupta company's account would not be moved this month. Yes, but I didn't expect jogo to make such a big commotion, so his promise really couldn't be guaranteed.

  He can be sure that once the money is credited to this account, the president will not give himself any more face.

  But now there are two companies, belonging to two people, and the president doesn't dare to do this. If he really wants to sue, he can't afford to walk around.

  "Believe it, believe it." jogo said with a smile, "Without further ado, I'll go find them to sign the contract right away." "

  Well, I'll go with you. By the way, you wait a moment, and I'll find a lawyer friend to check it out. "After Singer finished speaking, he grabbed the phone and contacted the lawyer without waiting for Jogo to respond.

  jogo did not refuse. Although he was 100% sure that Zhao Rui and the others were not liars and there would be no problems with the contract, Singer was not himself. He did not know this. If he found a lawyer to see if the contract was reasonable, he would be doing it for himself. For your own sake.

  "Let's go, I have an appointment with him, and we will meet at the entrance of the hotel." Singer said with a smile.

  This business is almost done, he calculated, if 1,000 bales of cotton, Jogo should be able to earn nearly 400,000 rupees, it's only been a few days, but he has some expectations for Jogo, maybe this kid can really Pay off the loan within one year.

  Although he was helping jogo, it was still impossible for him to believe that jogo could pay off the loan within a year.

  In his opinion, if it can delay the jogo family for one day, it may not necessarily lead to any change.

  Now he is naturally happy for jogo.

  When they arrived at the door of the hotel, jogo saw a middle-aged man wearing a black suit, a white shirt, and gold-rimmed glasses coming towards them.

  "Come on, let me introduce you to Barrister Kapil Yadra." Singh introduced jogo very kindly.

  "Kuna, stop talking nonsense, you are such a big lawyer." Adela obviously has a good relationship with Singh. They joked as soon as they met, "Is this the boy you are talking about, little Gupta?"

  Adela Works in a firm in Mumbai and is very skilled in business.

  "Hello, just call me jogo." jogo said modestly.

  "It's not easy. I started doing business with the Chinese at a young age. Do you know how many people in Mumbai are anxious to find buyers now? Unfortunately, they just don't dare to contact the Chinese and are hesitant. Those guys can only make a little money. Small money, no courage, no big picture." Adela looked at jogo and said.

  "Stop praising him. The contract hasn't been signed yet. Maybe the Chinese have backed down?" Singer was very satisfied with Jogo's performance, "Go in."

  (End of this chapter)