Chapter 405: Global Smuggling Wave, Whose Country’s Door Is Open?

“V woo V woo——”

Before the smuggling group on the US-Mexico border had gone far, the piercing sirens surrounded them, and the border police shouted at them through the loudspeakers of the vehicles.

“We are the police of the US Federal Border Management Bureau. We now suspect that you are smuggling. Turn off the engine immediately and accept inspection!”

“Turn off the engine immediately!”

While shouting, the roar of the armed helicopter was heard in the air.

If it were normal, these smugglers would definitely step on the accelerator to the bottom, and even a gunfight would be inevitable, because there were three full bags, and they were the kind of bags and backpacks used for travel. If they were caught, they would be sentenced to life imprisonment.

But this time, they did not resist.

Turn off the engine and get out of the car.

Hold your head with both hands.

The action was almost done in one go.

With four police cars surrounding them and an armed helicopter hovering in the air, the professionalism of the US police was revealed.

Some people were fully loaded with bullets and aimed at the head, some were responsible for vigilance to prevent accomplices, and some people came forward with guns, ready to shoot at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that now if a smuggler farts loudly, he will probably be shot. The border police are too nervous and they may shoot at any sign of trouble.

But this is understandable, because the United States does not ban guns. In a country where everyone can own a gun, who dares to gamble with their life?

You should know that when 5.56 and 7.62 bullets are fired, even if the gun holder is a child, it is equally deadly.

Perhaps many people who have watched movies and TV series will subconsciously think that as long as important organs are not injured, it is okay to be shot.

In fact, in addition to important organs, puncturing arteries is also fatal. For example, once the aorta in the leg is damaged, the situation is similar to that of a fountain. If there is no professional first aid to stop the bleeding, the person who was shot will faint due to excessive blood loss in about 44 seconds, and will die from excessive bleeding in about three minutes.

It is precisely because of practical experience that the US border police will be as serious as facing a great enemy.

"Hold your head, you damned beast, you filthy thing!"

"You are God's shit!"

"And you bitch, hold your head!"

The armed police cursed and stepped forward until they handcuffed the smuggling gang, and then they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"The crisis is over."

Someone immediately passed the message on the intercom.

In the command room of the intercom, the boss in charge of command also immediately instructed the work: "Well done, check the amount of flour, don't forget any details, this is related to our bonus and promotion opportunities, understand?"

"Understood."

"Zizi--"

The two ended the conversation, and the boss in the command room was already fantasizing about promotion.

In the past, he could turn a blind eye. These flour offenders traded at most the size of a fist, and they were only locked up for a few months after being caught, and some could be bailed out directly.

But this time!

Three bags!

Three bags in total!

He has been a border policeman for so long, and he has never seen such an arrogant person. This is at least hundreds of kilograms, and may reach five hundred kilograms.

Five hundred kilograms of flour, 250,000 grams, according to the street price of 80 US dollars per gram, 20 million US dollars are dangling in front of us.

Because of the huge amount, the command center even dispatched armed helicopters.

But the boss always felt that something was wrong, as if the arrest was too easy...

Just when he couldn't figure it out, a curse came from the intercom.

"Fuck it, it's not flour, these bastards are smuggling mobile phones, fuck!"

Obviously.

The American police who were on duty didn't expect it.

I thought I would get a promotion and a raise for solving a big case, but I didn't expect it to be a mobile phone.

"Mobile phone?"

The boss was also stunned.

They came to the border to smuggle mobile phones?

Are you kidding me?

Now both sides are confused.

The smuggling team saw the armed helicopter for the first time and trembled with fear, while the US-Mexico Border Management Bureau saw the smuggling of mobile phones for the first time. The two groups of people were just a little bit of a fool, and their eyes were opened.

...

Coincidentally.

Two days later.

Another group of people smuggled at the border.

Because the camera was far away, the command center at the Mexico-Mexico border only saw a few large bags of things being loaded into the trunk, and then speeding away.

Once again, all personnel were dispatched.

Once again, armed helicopters were deployed for support.

"This time it should be flour, right?"

The boss muttered to himself.

According to the clues they had, the person who came to the border to trade this time was Felix, a habitual offender of smuggling flour, and it had not been fifteen days since he was released from prison last time.

Ten minutes later.

The intercom sounded disappointed again.

"It was a mobile phone again."

"Bang——"

The boss slammed the table hard.

Two promotion opportunities turned into nothing, and he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "What happened? Let the habitual offenders reform!"

"Report!"

Suddenly, the police officer in charge of monitoring widened his eyes, enlarged the video screen and said, "At 021 o'clock, a trading gang appeared."

The boss looked sideways and saw two groups of people trading secretly.

Because it was night, it was impossible to see what they were trading, only a rough outline.

"Is this the time?"

The superior once again directed the operation.

But 20 minutes later, the intercom once again transmitted the slightly low voice of the police on duty, saying: "It's still the cell phone."

The moment the voice fell, the head of the border management bureau finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"Mobile phones, mobile phones, are these habitual criminals crazy? They are smuggling mobile phones across the border!"

"Bring them back, I want to interrogate them!"

He didn't believe it.

These people would be content with mediocrity.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. These smugglers have made hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars a day. Are they really willing to make these hundreds or thousands of dollars?

After making quick money, it is difficult to make slow money. The so-called gambling addiction is like this. With a few years' salary, how can you still have the heart to work properly?

As the smuggling gang was brought back, the boss summoned Felix alone. The two sat in the interrogation room, facing each other.

"Do you remember me?"

The boss asked.

"Of course."

Felix nodded and grinned: "Chief Brad, thanks to you, I stayed in there for fifteen years."

As soon as he finished speaking, he added: "But Chief Brad, we shouldn't have done anything serious this time, so we can't stay in there for another fifteen years."

"Why did you come to the border to smuggle mobile phones?" Brad didn't answer his question, but asked his own question.

Silence.

Felix didn't answer.

"You still have ten seconds. If you don't answer my question, you will regret it." Brad's tone completely turned cold.

Three promotion opportunities, three hopes were shattered, which made him very annoyed.

If Felix didn't say it, he wouldn't mind helping him recall it himself.

"Do you want to know?"

Felix smiled.

"You still have seven seconds." Brad had stood up, his thick arms clenched, and you could see the blue veins bulging.

"Stop, stop, stop." Felix immediately admitted his weakness. He didn't want to see the other party's thundering methods again, and then he told everything in detail.

After a moment.

Brad was silent.

Smuggling a mobile phone, nearly 200% net profit?

What did "Das Kapital" say?

"If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move, if there is a 50% profit, capital will be willing to take risks, if there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged, if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws", this sentence also applies to smugglers.

It is precisely because the profit is as high as 500%, or even 1000%, that those flour smugglers are willing to gamble with their lives.

If it is only 10%, who will risk their lives?

If you have a monthly salary of 3,000, will you risk your life for your boss?

Brad couldn't believe what Felix said, perhaps because he didn't believe that a small mobile phone could be sold for 5,000 US dollars, or even 6,000 US dollars.

He changed several groups of people, but the results were the same.

Smuggling electronic products, it's too hard to convict them. Brad, who was sitting in the office, thought about it all night. In the morning, when no one was around, he chose to talk to Brad in detail.

...

A week passed.

The problem of the trend of the Brilliant X2 became more and more serious.

A new profession has emerged in Europe, that is, "Brilliant X2 Recyclers". They get the information of Brilliant X2 users through some channels, and then offer high prices to recycle mobile phones through various means such as phone calls and text messages.

According to the exchange rate conversion, the price of the Brilliant X2 Collector's Edition in Europe is 13999 Dragon Country Currency, which is 1999 euros. The price of recycling a Brilliant X2 is 2500 euros, and the unopened one can even be given 3000 euros.

Not only Europe, but also Africa, Oceania, America and other countries and regions where it is sold have seen a wave of rushing to buy the Brilliant X2.

If you can grab a mobile phone, it is no less than winning the lottery.

As Li Zhenzhen, who is responsible for the international market, she keenly noticed that the world has begun to go crazy, or that her own brand has been recognized by the wealthy circles in Europe and the United States.

As soon as the incident happened, she notified Chen Xing by email.

After Chen Xing understood the whole story, he not only did not increase the difficulty of cracking mobile phone information communication, but also increased the supply of product production capacity in Europe and the United States.

The United States closed the border?

It has no effect at all.

Considering the Internet needs of the American people, Chen Xing also urgently called Zhao Chenguang and asked him to think of a way to find a legitimate reason to cover the United States with 5G network signals.

"If you cover the United States with 5G high-speed network, aren't you afraid of being overtaken in the field of artificial intelligence?" Zhao Chenguang was a little puzzled.

The reason why the US representative was rejected and the 5G high-speed network was not built for the United States was because Chen Xing said that NVIDIA had in-depth research on artificial intelligence and it could not be built easily.

But what Zhao Chenguang didn't know was that Chen Xing had already poached people secretly.

The moment Huang Renxun handed over the graphics card data, he and Chen Xing were tied to the same boat, and there was no turning back.

If Huang Renxun wavered, Chen Xing only needed to make the matter public, and the former would probably disappear completely.

The strongest opponents of artificial intelligence have confirmed their return. Even if the 5G high-speed network is handed over to the United States, they can only do nothing.

And the most important thing is that without the KT-001 baseband chip module of Longxing Group, mobile phones produced by American companies cannot use 5G high-speed networks. The same is true for equipment. However, once used, the network operation is controlled by Longxing Group, and clues can be found at any time.

"We have achieved significant results in artificial intelligence. Even if it is opened to the United States, it will not pose a threat to us." Chen Xing did not mention the matter of Nvidia, but said something that could be found out.

"Jiuzhou Ai?"

Zhao Chenguang asked tentatively.

"Well, believe my judgment. This wave of smuggling can completely shake the US market and benefit us without any harm."

Chen Xing responded.

"I understand."

Zhao Chenguang was born into a family, and he was not the kind of fussy person.

After figuring out the whole story, and Chen Xing's personal guarantee, the Longguo Space Agency issued a notice only the next day, which roughly meant that the Beidou communication satellites in Mexico and Canada were faulty and needed to be replaced urgently, but because the construction was less than a year old, out of humanitarian "warranty", this replacement was free of charge.

On the third day after the announcement was issued, the Brilliant X2 mobile phone in the United States was no longer a 4G signal, but a 5G signal state.

For a while.

The price of mobile phones doubled again.

If the previous profit was only 200%-300%, it is not an exaggeration to say that smuggling a Brilliant X2 mobile phone can get a 500% profit.

Not only the Brilliant X2, Longxing Group's Longxing series, Geek series, and Tianyu series have also begun to enter the United States.

As the world's largest consumer country, the United States' purchasing power is no joke. Just look at the regional business share of the world's top 500 companies and you will know that its consumption capacity can be described as "far ahead".

Discount global shopping platform has also seen a situation of supply and demand for Longxing Group's products.

Users can earn $200 by recycling a Longxing X3.

Users can earn $400 by recycling a Geek X2.

Users can earn $600 by recycling a Tianyu X1.

And if a Brilliant X2 is recycled, it will earn $1,000 to $3,000 depending on the standard version, honor version, and collection version. You must know that this is for users without channels. Those smugglers with channels make several times more money than normal users.

Originally, Jack Ma and Liu Dongzi thought that Longxing Group's four flagships would return to normal purchasing power in less than half a month.

But they never expected that the emergence of the smuggling wave would cause a surge in sales of the four flagships, and they had to urgently close pre-sales and adjust the inventory to "none".

Discount global shopping platform is out of stock, some people start to go to offline experience stores, and some people even want to buy the display machine.

Such a large-scale smuggling wave naturally attracted the attention of the US high-level officials.

Washington.

Inside the Parliament Hill.

Renato Marotta looked at the content of the submitted documents, and the whole person was first in disbelief, and then in silence.

Smuggling mobile phones?

This is simply unheard of!

But when he learned that the smuggled mobile phones were Longxing Group mobile phones, and the recently popular global Brilliant X2 folding screen mobile phone, he was silent.

He clearly included Longxing Group in the DOD list and banned its products from entering the country, so how could he still set off a smuggling wave?

What is the DOD list?

The DOD list is a death list set by the United States for military-industrial enterprises. As long as any enterprise is on the list, it will be directly restricted by the United States and its allies.

To put it bluntly, as long as it is on the DOD list, it will be difficult for the enterprise to survive in the global market.

The DOD list has always been called the corporate death list, and the companies that can be on the list are basically from the Dragon and Bear families.

Longxing Group can enter the global market with the DOD list, largely thanks to the 5G high-speed network.

Whether it is Japan, South Korea, or European and American countries, they all want to build a 5G high-speed network covering the whole country.

If there is a demand, who cares about your list?

If there is no 5G high-speed network, the strategic layout of Longxing Group will probably encounter the strongest entry restriction in history.

"Damn it."

Renato Marotta clenched his fists.

He has arranged everything he can for Longxing Group, but still failed to prevent it from entering the US market.

The most outrageous thing is that, strictly speaking, they are not sold in the US market. It is their own people who spontaneously smuggle and buy them, and they buy them at several times the price.

Who can you ask for justice?

What else can be done?

Want to ban?

How can you ban?

They are smuggled into the country. In this "ban" environment, you can only raise the price if you increase your efforts.

Renato Marotta felt like he was going to burn, and Chen Xing and Longxing Group were like ghosts, entangled in his thoughts.

However, what Renato Marotta didn't know was that compared with mobile phones, the more serious thing was actually "software smuggling".

TikTok has long been built into the motherboard chips of the four new flagships, and Chen Xing has also greeted Zhang Ming and asked him to enrich the ecological content of the software as much as possible.

Mobile phones are hardware smuggling.

TikTok is software smuggling.

Under this increasingly fierce smuggling wave, more and more American people have been exposed to short video software.

Gradually, YouTube creators have also settled in TikTok, moved their past videos to the new platform, and compressed the content, playing the core in 15 seconds.

This time.

Jewish capital panicked.

Longxing Group has grown rapidly, and they can still remain restrained, but "software invasion" has really panicked them.

In the United States, or the world, they like to control the media.

The Bailey Group and the Vanguard Group control 95% of the world's media platforms and also control the thoughts of the vast majority of the world's people.

Like in the S2 season, they used countless movies to weaken themselves and make people around the world feel pity for their plight.

But what about the essence of the incident?

It is because they manipulated prices and let countless people starve to death on the streets.

Let alone 500,000 yuan of bread, if anyone dared to raise the price of a bowl of white rice to 200 yuan, it is estimated that the bolt of the gun would smoke.

It is precisely because of the whitewashing of movies that the world has been compassionate and tolerant to the Jewish people for a long time.

Now the emergence of TikTok, this uncontrolled global media platform, makes the Jewish consortium feel uneasy.

Wall Street, New York.

No. 666 PanVision Building.

Pascal, with delicate features and a suit, came to the top floor office again, and the three people waiting inside stood up.

"The task given by the above is to acquire TikTok if it can be acquired, and if it cannot be acquired, let it be extinguished forever in the United States."

His tone was calm, but under the cover of calmness, there was a trace of imperceptible anger.

"We are also discussing this issue, but TikTok is not operating here, so it may be a bit difficult to deal with." Lyle Wallace, the head of the Bailey Group, responded weakly.

"Can't do it?"

Pascal walked up to him.

He started to turn slowly, just like last time, like a walnut.

"This!"

Lyle Wallace gritted his teeth.

Pascal showed no mercy. If it weren't for the British royal family, he would have taken action long ago.

"Can... can do it."

Lyle Wallace responded with a red face.

Robert Heavey, the head of the Navigation Group, and Davich, the future successor of the US Federal Reserve, swallowed their saliva unconsciously. They dared not disobey the decision of the "Six Wings".

And TikTok did threaten them. Even if Pascal didn't say it, they would try their best to ban it.

"Within three days, I want the result."

Pascal let go of the hand that was turning the walnut and sat down on the sofa.

Lyle Wallace and the other two looked at each other, feeling scared. Although they knew that they might not be able to complete the task, they still responded one after another.

"Okay."

"No problem, Mr. Pascal."

With the end of the Belle Group and the Leading Group, Zhang Ming, the founder of ByteDance, who was far away in Longguo, first received a text message, then an email, and finally a cross-border phone call.

The text messages, emails, and phone calls all wanted to express only one meaning, asking him to name a price and sell TikTok to them.

Will Zhang Ming agree?

To be honest, yes!

But Chen Xing behind Zhang Ming is not necessarily the case. His strategic layout is not just for this little profit.

The most important thing about TikTok is not its short video profit, but that it can break the control of the Jewish consortium over the world media.

With the TikTok platform, people around the world no longer need the review of the Belle Group and the Leading Group, and can directly express their opinions and see the information they want.

Its existence will directly break the information cocoon built by the Jewish consortium.

[No idea for the time being. ]

Zhang Ming concisely replied.

He actually knew very well that if he sold TikTok against all odds at this time, he could instantly achieve financial freedom, but in contrast, Chen Xing would immediately stop providing big data technology, and ByteDance and Douyin in China would be sniped, which was equivalent to self-destruction.

For these petty profits, is it necessary?

Absolutely not necessary!

Zhang Ming is a smart man. He also saw the potential of Longxing Group and knew that there would be hope only if he joined the group. After replying to the Jewish consortium, he immediately informed Chen Xing of the news.

After receiving the call, Chen Xing, who was far away in Shenzhen, was surprised to ask: "How many registered users does TikTok have worldwide?"

"200 million."

"200 million?"

Chen Xing was stunned.

He thought TikTok was electronic opium, but he didn't expect it to spread so quickly, which was far beyond his expectations.

After a brief thought, Chen Xing responded: "It's fine to operate normally. Now it's just the beginning. I will go to the capital in two days and we will talk in detail."

"Okay, I'll pick you up then."

Zhang Ming nodded in response.

He would not doubt Chen Xing's strategic vision. A man who had increased the company's market value by thousands of times in two years no longer needed to prove his strength to others, because the Longxing Group's signboard would speak for Chen Xing.

After seeing Zhang Ming's rejection email, Lyle Wallace could only choose a backup plan, listing TikTok and related sites as virus websites, and notifying local network operators in the United States that the number should not receive registration verification SMS messages for the software application.

However.

Those with Longxing Group mobile phones can still access directly.

Those without Longxing Group mobile phones can also access TikTok nodes in Mexico and Australia by climbing over the wall.

After being completely banned by the Jewish consortium, TikTok's US users have increased instead of decreased. Through word of mouth, it even aroused the curiosity of some people because of the ban. Overnight, it surged by 3 million users, and most of them were students and young people.

This made Lyle Wallace confused. Facing the "electronic opium" sweeping the world, he seemed to have no way out. Now his crotch was cold, fearing that Pascal would come to play with him.