Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0521 Train shift meeting the glass king
In a day and a half, Nan Ruoyin left a legend in the alley where Li Lamei lived.
Although after the 1980s, stories of overseas relatives returning to visit relatives and friends and giving away color TVs, refrigerators, gold and silver jewelry became common.
Even if you don't have it around you, you will have it in your mouth.
It is not a new thing these days if a family has a rich overseas relative. Apart from arousing envy, it is not worth spreading widely.
At this time, many speculators obtained their initial capital from overseas relatives.
It’s just because of Nan Ruoyin’s age that people are talking about it so much, and this legend may be spread for a longer time.
At the same time, Nan Ruoyin also made people in the alley feel sorry for her.
There are examples of children in this era who have become little adults and are very sensible at the age of eight or nine. Although they are not everywhere, they are not rare either.
Precocity is often accompanied by misfortune, and children's maturity is basically accelerated by suffering.
People in the alley would wonder how much suffering must a little girl of eight or nine years old have endured to become what she is now?
This is the symbol of this era and the way people think in this era.
If it were thirty years later, it would have to be about time travel, rebirth, and slicing. Most people had not experienced suffering and could not understand it. It was an era when people wanted to jump off a building after eating instant noodles for a month. It was an era of individuality.
The late 1970s, all of the 1980s, and early 1990s, spanning twenty years, the five years between the ages of eight and thirteen for most of the people can be compressed and fast-forwarded. Apart from eating, playing, and learning a few new words, these five years contributed almost nothing to the establishment of a person's three views.
The establishment of an ordinary person's three views mainly depends on three factors: knowledge, vision and time. They need time to increase their knowledge and broaden their horizons.
But if a person's living standard is particularly poor or his conditions are exceptionally good, then the decisive factor of time will become secondary.
A person who is busy from morning to night every day and can barely fill his stomach will hardly have the opportunity, energy and time to continue learning. If he is trapped in a place and cannot go out, it will be difficult for him to broaden his horizons, and his three views will be formed and fixed very early.
Those with excellent conditions do not have to wait for a cramming machine to stuff "knowledge" into their stomachs step by step. Whatever they want to learn, they can naturally find channels to learn it in advance.
He can go wherever he wants to broaden his horizons at any time, and he can experience different worlds and different cultural customs.
In today's universities, teachers will also tell students about "Qin State", the country with the most powerful economy today; they will also talk about Soviet revisionism, the country with the most powerful military today.
Most of the teachers who gave lectures had never been to China or the Soviet Union. What they taught was all from books, which were most likely out of touch with the times. Their understanding of China and the Soviet Union was guided and influenced by the "book writers" intentionally or unintentionally. They were just reading from the books.
They may also incorporate their own subjective consciousness and then relay it to students. It is conceivable that what students finally receive and learn will be full of loopholes.
Nan Yi’s way of educating Nan Ruoyin is different. He lets her open her eyes and see the world.
How do farmers farm , and what are their pain points? How do workers go to work, and what are their pain points? How do businessmen do business, and how are cities managed? Why are happy people happy? Why do patients' families kneel down to doctors in hospitals?
Nan Yi will let Nan Ruoyin experience the different people and different lifestyles in the world.
Whether it is the boy scouts and mercenaries in Africa and Southeast Asia, civilians living in warlord-dominated areas, gang members, mafia, business elites, chaebol leaders, small civil servants, presidential candidates, etc., Nan Ruoyin has or will soon come into contact with and explore all kinds of people.
During the eleven years from the age of eight to eighteen , Nan Ruoyin set out to practice reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles.
She is already standing in Rome, a place that billions of people may never reach in their entire lives. Next, she will change lanes and race with the small group of people who are also standing in Rome, towards the next Rome.
After dealing with Li Lamei's affairs, Nan Ruoyin returned to Xiangkeng first. She had to go back for a few days to take care of her business, and then come back to meet Zhou Maode.
July 10th, June 12th, Tuesday.
There was no TV to watch during the day when the TV station was under maintenance. It was close to National Day and the day was special. Nan Yi did not choose to take a plane, but asked Chen Feng to get a soft sleeper compartment for him and boarded a train heading south.
When the train passed Shanghai, there were two people, one adult and one child, a man and a woman, in the compartment.
"Xian Sang, have the cherry blossoms in your hometown bloomed?"
"It's already open. Mr. Xu missed you and asked you to go back and have a look when you have time."
"Alas, after more than a thousand years of hard work, when will my Xu family achieve hegemony? When will I, Xu Gui, be able to show my real name to others?"
"You bastard, you are just a child from a poor family, do you deserve to be named Xu?"
"You're ruining my mood, it's rare that I have such a strong desire to perform." Nan Yi spat, then turned to Fan Hongdou and said, "You're back pretty early. I thought you wouldn't be back until the end of this month."
"Godfather, I miss you." Fan Hongdou said, blinking her big eyes.
"Godfather misses you too."
Nan Yi did not expose Fan Hongdou's insincere words. If Akesa Vegetable Company had not been busy recently, Fan Hongdou would not have come back so early.
"Weimin, when do you plan to expand your business domestically? If those rag-pickers are not integrated, all the preliminary work will be in vain." Nan Yi threw a copy of "Modern Writers" to Fan Hongdou and started talking to Xian Weimin.
"It will take some time. Japan is still attacking the city and the electronic waste treatment plant in Manila is being expanded. You called me back now, and I am too busy." Xian Weimin rubbed his temple and said, "Look at me, I have lost more than ten pounds. It's all because of fatigue."
"It will pass if you hold on. It's the same thing as before. It was the same thing when I was a sophomore. I lost more than 20 pounds in less than three months. When you come back, go through the capital and visit Zou. He can prescribe some food supplements for you."
Xian Weimin's work intensity is already high, and he also has to find time to study. For the past two years, he has been living like a senior in high school.
"That's good. Did you eat all the herbs that Men San'er collected?"
"Nonsense, you treat me like a pig. There's more. You can eat ginseng like a carrot. Eat as much as you want. I plan to send someone to North Korea in a few days to discuss the issue of Paektu Mountain Korean ginseng."
"Aren't you already planting ginseng in Northeast China? Why are you going to North Korea?"
"The Northeast is too uncontrollable. Seeing that the ginseng market is good, people will follow suit and the brand of Northeast ginseng will be ruined sooner or later. I have to find a way out for myself. North Korea is easier to control. I just need to get through to the Kim family."
"Can you do it?"
"Of course. The Soviet revisionists themselves are having a hard time, and their aid to the Jin family is almost stopped. Now is a good time to come to them."
"In the name of the Reclamation Group?"
"No, it's not appropriate for the Reclamation Group to come forward. It's too politically sensitive. I'll set up a new company and the Reclamation Group will secretly control it. In addition, I also plan to set up a company in South Korea to participate in the competition for the interests of Korean ginseng. Forget it, these are all later. We'll talk about it later. Let's talk about what's happening right now first."
"You said, I still don't know why you called me back this time."
"I asked you to come back this time because I want you to take over my position. You will be the one to worry about Wenchangwei's affairs in the future."
"Ah? You don't care?" Xian Weimin exclaimed.
“Don’t get excited. We are only letting you take over in name only. Once the Olympics start, the names of Xiongqi and Jianmeiku will become well-known. By then, our Wenchangwei will be famous all over the country, more famous than the other two villages.
Wenchangwei will definitely be very lively next time. You know I don’t want to be famous, so I’ll let you be the first to come forward. It’s just right that you can also promote the Weimin Regeneration Group and prepare for entering the mainland.”
"Oh, I thought you were not going to manage Wenchangwei anymore." Xian Weimin said with lingering fear.
Others may not be clear about this, but Xian Weimin, who already manages a large business, knows all too well the importance of Nan Yi to Wenchangwei. Although it seems that Nan Yi has not done much, the overall strategy was set by Nan Yi, the tactics were also formulated by Nan Yi, and the overseas channels were also opened up by Nan Yi.
If Wenchangwei loses Nanyi, its future prospects will be very bleak. Not to mention strategies and tactics, the situation of one person having the final say in the village will turn into a situation of many people talking at the same time, and no one will be able to integrate the strength of the entire Wenchangwei.
"Weimin, I've said before that I won't leave Wenchangwei on my own initiative. I'm just waiting for the day when the villagers kick me out. In the entire Wenchangwei, at present, you're the only one qualified to be the leader. After I return to the village, I'll talk to Uncle Yaohua and let him down. From now on, he'll nominally be your messenger."
Xian Yaohua holds 8% of Wenchang Investment's shares and Xian Weimin holds 15%. Their combined shares hold 23%, which exceeds the 22% held by the largest shareholder, Nan Yi. If Xian Weimin were to be the nominal decision-maker and Xian Yaohua also had the final say, the village committee would truly become a one-man show under his family.
Even if Nan Yi agreed, no one else in the village committee would agree.
The situation here is very subtle. Nan Yi can hold the position of decision-maker for two reasons: first, he has never made a mistake; second, he is an outsider. To hold the position firmly, he needs the support of the Xian family.
In the eyes of other people in the village committee, they could promote Nan Yi to a high position, but could also easily pull him down.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Under the premise of not destroying the Wenchangwei family business, the decision of whether Nan Yi can keep his position is not in his own hands.
Nan Yi has only two rights to make mistakes. If he makes a mistake once, Wenchangwei will just think that he made a mistake. But if he makes a mistake twice, everyone will doubt his ability and will definitely drive him out of office. He will not be given the right to make a third mistake.
It is easy to say "one mind", but it is not so easy to do it.
Farmers have both simple and honest characteristics, but also short-sightedness. If they fail once, their morale will immediately become unstable.
"This is the only way, but you have to stay at my house overnight tomorrow." Xian Weimin said after thinking for a while.
"Heh, you can't escape the fifteenth day if you can't get over it. Uncle Yaohua, the anger he has for being suppressed by his own son won't be over until he vents it out."
"No matter what, if I delay it for one more day, he will be less angry. I will just slip away. By the time I come back for the New Year, his anger should have mostly subsided."
"You can sleep at my place. There are only two beds in your house. Who the hell wants to sleep in the same bed with you?" Nan Yi frowned.
"Whatever. Hongdou is back, why hasn't Ruoyin come back?" Xian Weimin suddenly asked.
"I have just returned to Xiangcun after staying in the capital for a few days. I will be back in a few days. I plan to let Hongdou go back to the village to study for six years. After finishing the first grade in Shencun, she will go to the Kingdom of Qin and transfer back before the college entrance examination."
"Godfather, do you want me to come back?"
"Yes, Godfather is going to step down from Wenchangwei. You will go to the South House on behalf of Godfather."
"But what about Akesa?"
"Godfather will send capable people to manage the company. Don't worry. Godfather will not let your business suffer any loss. This time when I go back, I will plant some Chinese cabbage in the vegetable garden. Godfather will leave it to you to take care of it. If you plant it now, you can harvest it in a month. You should be able to make five or six dollars."
"How can you earn so much? Isn't it only eight mu of land? How much is a pound of Shencun chicken feather vegetables ?"
Growing vegetables has become Fan Hongdou's forte. She can quickly calculate in her mind how many vegetables can be grown on one acre of land and how much the cost is, but she only calculates the domestic price.
"I really don't know. Five or six yuan. I just said it casually. I haven't paid attention to the price of vegetables in China for a while. When we get to the village, go ask Grandma Ge."
He couldn't even tell the price of the chicken feather vegetables off the top of his head, and he didn't even have any idea of the price of this dish. This made Nan Yi feel a little guilty. He didn't ask for the exact price, but at least he had to have an idea of it.
Nan Yi couldn't estimate how much profit he could make by planting cabbage on eight mu of land. This made him feel uncomfortable, so he secretly reminded himself not to slack off, because making a living from the land was the foundation of the Nan family.
When Nan Yi was blaming himself, the door of their box was knocked.
When I opened the door, the first person I saw was the conductor, and standing next to him was a middle-aged man in his forties.
"Comrade Nan, this person is an acquaintance of mine. He got off in Yucheng, Gan Province. Do you think he can squeeze into your compartment?" The conductor said when he saw that it was Nan Yi who opened the door.
The train conductor is called Gao Tie, Hu Jianren. He has an elder brother named Gao Gang, who works in a key department of the railway and has considerable influence. Chen Feng's soft sleeper was arranged through Gao Gang.
Nan Yi glanced at the middle-aged man beside the high-speed train and said with a smile, "Of course, no problem, comrade, please come in, there is a berth in the compartment."
The purchasing qualifications for soft sleeper cars are not as strict as in the past two years. After all, we are in a market economy now. If soft sleeper cars are relatively empty, some of them will be sold to people with "some connections". But it will only be a part, not all of them. Enough empty compartments must be left to deal with emergencies.
Chen Feng only helped Nan Yi to get the purchasing qualification, but Nan Yi actually paid for all the tickets for the eight beds in the two boxes.
Under this premise, Gao Tie still brought people here, which means that he has a very good relationship with the people who came, or the people who came were very unruly and Gao Tie had to give him face.
No matter what the situation is, Nan Yi has to give face to the high-speed rail.
"Sorry to bother you." The middle-aged man said in Mandarin with a Minnan accent.
"Don't disturb me, please come in."
Nan Yi led the middle-aged man into the carriage, said something to Gao Tie, and then closed the door of the compartment.
"Let me introduce you. This is Xian Weimin, a farmer. This is Hongdou, my little princess. My name is Nan Yi, the village accountant."
There was no need for Nan Yi to give a false name. If he wanted to, he could have asked Gao Tie about his name. He couldn't hide his own name, so there was no need for him to hide Xian Weimin's name either.
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Hello, my name is Cao Teler, Hu Qingren, and I sell glass."
"Haha, Lao Cao, come and sit. The bed over there is the little princess's phoenix chariot, and no one else can use it." Xian Weimin greeted with a smile.
"Why are you pretending to be so cultured? The Phoenix Chariot is for the Queen, and the Red Bean Chariot is at most called a Brown Eave. Lao Cao, please feel free to do as you please. You have a cup in your bag, right? Try my tea." Nan Yi picked up a can of tea from the table and shook it.
"I brought it. How can I go on a business trip without a teacup?"
Cao Teler put his bag on the floor and sat next to Xian Weimin.
"Then go rinse it and change the tea. The water in the thermos happens to be freshly filled." Nan Yi said this while checking the list in his mind. He had already met several future business celebrities, and now there was another one.
Be it said that he is confident or arrogant, no matter who he meets, Nan Yi is very calm and never has any thoughts of worshipping. All he does is observe calmly and consider whether the other person's gloves are white.
"Wait a minute, the tea in my cup was just brewed at the station. It would be a pity to throw it away." Cao Teller said, taking out his teacup from the bag.
"Since it's freshly brewed, let's drink two cups first. Lao Cao, Weimin and I are used to being casual with each other. Don't mind if I call you Lao Cao. If you like, just call me Xiaonan."
"I don't mind, I don't mind, just call me Lao Cao, it's nice to be close to him."
Cao Teler had been travelling around the country with his father doing small business since the early 1960s. He had done everything from selling tobacco, selling fruits, to growing wood ear mushrooms. He was an old speculator who had long been honed to perfection in the ways of the world. If he didn't make friends with those who could ride in a soft sleeper, who else would he make friends with?
Nan Yi was also happy to get close to Cao Teler, who became rich earlier than him. He had a fortune of tens of thousands in 1975, while he was still searching for corpses in 1977. When he met the old speculator, he had to show some respect to him.
"Lao Cao, what kind of glass are you selling?"
"The glass for water meters is not easy to sell. I have been running around in Shanghai for several days but haven't sold a single piece of glass. There are two water meter factories in Yucheng and I plan to go visit them." Cao Teller's face was full of bitterness as he spoke.
"Water meter glass. I don't know much about glass, but I've seen water meter glass before. It shouldn't be difficult to make, right? Can any factory that can make glass make it?"
"Not all of them, but almost all of them. It's not difficult technically. As long as the production direction is changed, any glass factory can do it."
“Township enterprise?”
"Yes, it's a small factory in the town, which I contracted to run." Cao Teller said lightly.
"I'm sorry, but Lao Cao is a factory director." Nan Yi said in surprise.
"Don't even mention it. We haven't even paid for this year's contract yet, let alone making money. I'm so worried."
"Lao Cao, you've been in Shanghai for several days, but you didn't go to Santana to take a look?"
When Nan Yi mentioned Santana, Caotler became very excited. "Of course I've seen it. I also heard that Santana is working on the localization of all parts."
Well, since he has already been to Santana and knows about "full localization", Nan Yi guessed that Caoteler has already thought about making automotive glass.
Alas, the title of a guide is lost.
"The Santana is too damn expensive. The car is not much better than a Toyota sedan, but the price is more than ten times different." Nan Yi said indignantly.
"You can't compare them like that. Santana is just starting out, and both the factory investment and R&D costs are much higher than the very mature Toyota. I believe that once the technology matures, the price of Santana will definitely come down."
Caotler put forward his different views.
"Hehe, I hope so."
Nan Yi doesn't believe that the guy who can make a lot of money by lying down would be willing to sit up; the place where people are willing to give money even if they curse will actively say "Welcome".
Only when faced with a survival crisis will the old man be willing to come down from heaven to connect with the world. He will welcome with words but curse in his heart, criticizing the changing times and missing the good years when life was so happy.
Yes, it’s a good year. The buyers can stuff red envelopes into the sellers’ pockets and use the back door to get in. How can that be bad?
Then, Cao Teller didn’t mention the matter of the car glass, and Nan Yi didn’t mention it either. The two chatted about random things for a while and then took a break.
Nan Yi and Fan Hongdou took a notebook and started drawing Gobang. Cao Teller climbed onto the upper bunk to take a nap. Xian Weimin took out a Japanese economics book and began to read. The only sound in the entire box was the occasional giggle.
Nan Yi was outsmarted by Fan Hongdou, and only won the first round, and then lost. He even used his special move, the Bagua formation, but after drawing three circles, Fan Hongdou's triangle broke the formation.
Nan Yi couldn’t figure it out. He was a big shot in the Go circle of Lianzhong World. Relying on his superb Go skills, many girls invited him to the chat room to chat.
After losing thirty-seven games, Nan Yi has realized that in front of Fan Hongdou, his Go level is nothing but trash.
So he turned into a referee and flipped the table, "No more playing, Hongdou. If you play Go again in the future, I will spank you."
“Hehehe!”
Nan Yi shook his head, walked out of the box, went to the washbasin to wash his face, feeling extremely depressed.
In his previous life, he thought he was pretty good at all the sports, but here he was crushed by others. No matter basketball, football, table tennis, badminton, gobang, or skipping rope, there were always people who could restrain him.
Fortunately, he still maintained an undefeated record in chess, but there was nothing to be proud of, as he had only played against a lousy chess player who thought himself to be a master.
"Alas, apart from farming, there is nothing I can call myself an expert at."
Nan Yi was depressed for a while, but immediately perked up. He thought that he seemed to be quite capable of making money.
