Chapter 11 Section 10 "Participation" in counterfeiting

Jiao Niang promised me to go to work in the counterfeit cigarette workshop where she worked. The counterfeit tobacco workshop is hidden on the top floor of a five-story building. We can only enter at night, and the door of the workshop is closed during the rest of the time.There are also two windows in the workshop, and the windows are nailed with thick boards. Even at night, even if the room is brightly lit, there is not a trace of light leaking from outside.The secrets of the workshop will not be leaked. In the whole building, there is a small shop on the first floor. There is a tea table like a tree root in the shop as always. Every afternoon, the owner of the counterfeit cigarette workshop will sit in the shop until it is almost dawn. Closed.Just like the dry land on Liangshan Hulu Zhugui, or like the old movies "The Electric Wave That Never Disappears" and "Shajiabang", this small shop is the eyeliner of the counterfeit cigarette workshop.It opened earlier than the counterfeit cigarette workshop on the fifth floor, and closed later than the counterfeit cigarette workshop.

The first floor is a small shop, the fifth floor is a counterfeit cigarette workshop, and the second, third and fourth floors are all empty and unoccupied. The owner of the counterfeit cigarette workshop will not live here, he lives in a building opposite.There are only five workers in the counterfeit cigarette workshop. Besides Jiao Niang and me, there are three other girls, all of whom are the boss' daughters and relatives.They also live in the opposite building. The building with a simple appearance is luxuriously decorated inside, with high-end appliances and everything you expect.

What this counterfeit cigarette workshop completes is the final packaging process, which is to connect scattered counterfeit cigarettes with filters, put them in boxes, seal them, add film, and pack them into boxes.Every night, when counterfeit cigarette dealers come to the village in the city, someone who carries them sneaks into the workshop from a shop facing the street in the village in the city, and packs the whole box of fake cigarettes in a huge black box. Put them in plastic bags, carry them on your shoulders, and sneak them to the shops facing the street.After the counterfeit cigarette dealers waiting there paid the money, they moved the fake cigarettes into the trunk of a high-end car. The boxes containing fake cigarettes were usually written with words such as "disposable chopsticks" and "Master Kong Instant Noodles". If you encounter inspections during the transportation, you can generally pass the customs in vain.

What kind of fake cigarettes are produced by the counterfeit cigarette workshop is based on the needs of counterfeit cigarette dealers.If the counterfeit cigarette dealers say that Zhonghua cigarettes are selling well recently, this workshop will produce Zhonghua brand cigarettes; if Hongmei cigarettes are selling well, the counterfeit cigarette workshop will produce Hongmei cigarettes.This workshop can produce all the cigarettes in the world, but the raw materials are all the same.These raw materials can produce a pack of ultra-high-end cigarettes worth hundreds of yuan, and can also produce a pack of low-end cigarettes priced at one or two yuan.

This counterfeit cigarette workshop is only a dozen square meters, and various brands of cigarettes are scattered in the corners. Some brands I have heard of, and some brands I have not heard. These cigarette brands cover all provinces and regions in the country.According to the regulations of the tobacco monopoly, these cigarettes were sold all over the country. This situation is really terrifying! All the work in this fake cigarette workshop is done by hand. The job of two of the girls was to connect loose cigarettes to filters. They applied glue to the filter and then inserted the end of the loose cigarette. The filter had the name of the cigarette printed on it.If the counterfeit cigarette dealers need "Yellow Crane Tower", they connect loose cigarettes with the filters of "Yellow Crane Tower"; Cigarettes linked.What remains unchanged is loose cigarettes, but only filters.

This counterfeit cigarette workshop has hundreds of cigarette filters and can produce hundreds of counterfeit cigarettes. The job of Jiao Niang and I is to pack these connected fake cigarettes into cigarette cases.One type of cigarette corresponds to one type of cigarette case, and there are hundreds of types of cigarette cases, all of which are beautifully printed.Jiao Niang's technique is very skilled. She grabbed the cigarettes in the pile, which happened to be 20 cigarettes. Then, she picked up her fingers and stuffed the fake cigarettes into the cigarette case, which happened to be a pack of cigarettes. To complete the whole process, she only needed to few seconds.

Another girl is in charge of pressing the film, wrapping a layer of film on the outside of the cigarette box.In order to prevent counterfeiting, there will be a pull wire at the joint of the regular cigarette film, and there will be wavy protrusions on the pull wire.This girl was specially made to make this "bump". She picked up the iron and gently slid it with the sharp corner of the iron, and the "bump" appeared. In this way, a pack of genuine cigarettes is made. But where did those loose cigarettes come from?What are they made of? My working hours at the counterfeit tobacco workshop are from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am the next morning.After getting off work from here, I went home to rest for a while, and I rode my bicycle to the distribution department about two kilometers away from the village in the city. I loaded up the newspapers of the day and distributed them to various newsstands and subscribers. At about 10:00 noon, I finished my publishing work and went back to sleep in the urban village.

Counterfeit cigarette workshops are open at night.I usually don't get up until night. Since the counterfeit cigarette workshop is very secretive, it is very difficult for law enforcement officers to seize it.In this cat-and-mouse war, law enforcement officers have also mastered a set of mouse-catching essentials.For example, by smelling with the nose, these professionals can usually smell the special smell of tobacco through the door a few meters away from the counterfeit tobacco workshop; also, check the electric meter, because the counterfeit tobacco workshop is open at night, so the meter readings are very high Big.There are still many tricks that I cannot disclose to the outside world, so as not to arouse the precautions of counterfeit cigarette dealers.If these abnormalities are found, law enforcement officers can decisively pry open the door for inspection.Usually, in these rooms, more or less fake cigarettes can be found.

In that fake cigarette workshop, my hands and feet were clumsy. Every time I worked, I accidentally tore up the cigarette case or broke the cigarette. Every time I was scolded by the film-coated girl.This girl is the boss's daughter, and she is the workshop director of this fake cigarette workshop. I don't want to work for them and do harm for them.I do this on purpose. Jiao Niang once secretly complained to me, saying that the director of the workshop blamed her for introducing a stupid person like me.Jiao Niang said: "You have to work hard and give me a sigh of relief. Otherwise, I can't be a human being here."

I nod. However, since I was already in, they didn't dare to dismiss me casually, they were worried that I would report them after I got out. However, I still can't adapt to the job in this workshop because I am clumsy, so they can only change jobs for me. They made me a porter.