Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0530 Working Queen
"Are Cosmic cigarettes so expensive?" Nan Yi said as he glanced at the fashionable Cosmic brand in Kang Kang's hand.
"This is what I smoked. I have a pack of Marlboro in my pocket. I want to share some with my regular customers ." Hyperthyroidism said, wiping his face again, "It's really stuffy today. It's not going to rain, is it?"
Nan Yi looked up at the sky and said, "It doesn't look like it's going to rain. It's not a good idea to keep fighting guerrilla warfare. We should find a shop as soon as possible."
"I want to, too. Good shops are hard to find, so I can only wait and see. I didn't ask you last time, Nan Yi, what job do you do now?"
"Just like you, I also do business. It looks more glamorous than you. I don't have to go through meat and fire, and I can eat out every few days. But who knows how hard it is here? I act like a grandson every day and drink white wine like water. This thing is about to stop working." Nan Yi said, patting his stomach.
"Others don't understand, but I've been doing business for two years, how can I not understand? Except for those who trade approval documents, who has a comfortable life doing business? To be honest, I have to take out the money and count it every day after closing the stall. If I didn't see the money increasing day by day, I really wouldn't want to get up the next day. It's too damn tiring."
Hyperthyroidism said, letting out a bitter laugh.
"Why don't you ask someone for help?"
"You think I didn't want to? I found someone before, but he only worked for four months and learned everything. Then he kicked me out and went out to work on his own. That guy is simply not a human being. He set up his stall across from mine and directly stole my business."
"Haha, you took care of me?"
"If I don't punish him, who else should I punish?" Kang Jia spat, "If you go it alone, I won't stop you. But if you stand in front of me, isn't that a clear challenge? Whoever offers me a tooth will be broken."
"Don't be afraid of the ropes after being bitten once. How much money can you make by working yourself to death? Take advantage of the good opportunity now and expand it. Set up a whole shop with more than a dozen tables. Don't just grill kebabs, think of other things."
"I also want to do it in a big way, but I'm too tired every day. I have to hurry to sleep when I get home, and I have to string the skewers as soon as I wake up. I can't think about anything else."
"So, find a helper to free yourself. If you don't trust a helper, you can find a wife. A husband-and-wife shop is also good." Nan Yi said, looking at his watch, "It's almost time, I'm going in, I've got enough mutton skewers, I'll give you the money."
"Forget it, just consider it as my treat today." Hyperthyroidism declined.
"Come on, it's just a small business. We can afford you to treat us a few times. You keep the money and I'll give you a little as a bonus." Nan Yi stuffed twenty yuan into the hand of Kang Kang, picked up a skewer of burnt pork from the grill and stuffed it into his mouth.
When they returned to the shop, Chen Feng and the other person had just started chatting idly and no longer touched the remaining lamb skewers on the table.
"Driving?"
"It's open."
"No driver?"
"I'm not so shameless as to need a driver to follow me when I go out for a midnight snack."
"Then I'll leave someone to drive for you."
Nan Yi said this and called the school beauty to his side and whispered something.
"Don't drink and drive, and don't drive after drinking. It's best to learn from me and not drive at all. I'll run away first. If you get caught by Lei Zi, don't call me. Jinzi, come and play with me next time you're on vacation. I'm a phone madman."
"Okay." Li Jin agreed cheerfully.
After saying hello, Nan Yi left, leaving Chen Feng and Li Jin behind.
"Nan Yi is quite interesting." After Nan Yi left, Li Jin said to Chen Feng, "Wherever he goes, he always has someone with him?"
"Yeah, this kid is a sickly person, with a weak body. He was beaten up when he was a kid and is scared. If I hadn't protected him, he would have been thrown into a manure tank and drowned. So, I took advantage of the money and quickly hired some bodyguards to take him with me every day."
"If he is a medicine jar, you have to be a medicine jar. You are not one among the three of them." Li Jin said disdainfully.
"Who are you looking down on? Just practice alone!"
"You can't fight me. Don't think I'm a logistics guy. I've practiced the prisoner-catching boxing."
"You are so arrogant. Forget it today. Let's go dancing first. I will practice with you some other time. Let me make a deal first. If I cut your head, you have to say it was your own fault." Chen Feng said as he stood up.
“Hehehe!”
Li Jin looked Chen Feng up and down with contempt, which made Chen Feng feel uncomfortable. He knew his own business and he was really not good at fighting.
After laughing, Chen Feng walked towards the parking lot.
As soon as he reached the door, Tiger Cub came to greet him, "Mr. Chen, Nansheng asked me to drive you."
"It's you, Nan Yi Zhenshi, my car is parked on the right, go over now."
When they arrived at the parking place, Hu cub asked Chen Feng for the key and asked Chen Feng and Li Jin to stand far away. He went to the car alone, first lying on the ground to observe the bottom of the car, then opened the hood to take a closer look, then observed the doors and windows, and also looked through the windows to observe the interior of the car.
After everything was confirmed to be correct, the tiger cub opened the car door, observed the driver's seat again, got in the car, inserted the key, started the car, and waited quietly for a minute. Nothing happened, so he got out of the car and walked to the rear of the car to check the exhaust pipe again.
"Mr. Chen, you can get in the car now."
Chen Feng was no longer surprised by the tiger cub's behavior.
Li Jin is different. Through this detail, he can get a glimpse of Nan Yi's strength.
To put it simply, the tiger cub was helping Nan Yi to show off; to put it more professionally, he was flexing his muscles and telling Li Jin to look straight ahead and not look down.
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The next day, when Nan Yi was about to go out, he received a call from Ye Wei. There was news from Changhe Woolen Textile, and they wanted Ye Wei to come over for a talk.
Nan Yi asked Ye Wei to come to the old house first and take away the business card he brought back from Xiangkeng.
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi set off for the Great Wall Hotel.
The Great Wall Hotel was recently opened. It is a four-star hotel with the full name Sheraton Great Wall Hotel. It is affiliated to the Sheraton Hotel Management Group. Because of this, many large overseas companies that are tentatively entering the country have set up offices in the Great Wall Hotel.
The car arrived at the hotel entrance. After waiting for the doorman to open the door, Nan Yi got out and walked towards the glass revolving door.
It’s not that Nan Yi wants to show off. If he got off the car and walked over from a long distance, he might not be able to walk into the hotel with the clothes he was wearing.
As Nan Yi walked into the hotel lobby, a white man sitting in the coffee shop stood up and walked towards him.
"Mr. Adam."
"Edwin, call me Mr. Nan here."
"Okay, Mr. Nan."
"Which floor?"
"Seventh floor."
"Go up."
After a brief exchange, Nan Yi and Edwin got on the elevator.
On the seventh floor, as soon as we got out of the elevator, Edwin began to explain the situation. "Mr. Nan, the room I rented is 8716. 8715 is the IBM office, and 8717 is the Siemens office. I have a good background and can use the power of others to gain power."
Nan Yi glanced at the room number and walked straight to room 8716 without saying anything.
After Edwin opened the door and they both entered the room, Nan Yi said, "Edwin, your Chinese is so good. By the end of this year, you only need to be able to say 'comrade', 'I love China', 'Chinese food is delicious', 'Chinese people are very friendly'. Don't speak too standardly, and don't use idioms like 'the fox borrows the power of the tiger'.
By the second half of next year, you have spent a year in Beijing, felt the greatness and profound history of China, and fallen in love with China, and then you slowly become an expert on China."
"Understood." Edwin responded.
Edwin, a native of the United States, majored in economics in college and studied East Asian history in graduate school. He was particularly interested in Chinese history, so he put a lot of effort into studying Chinese and reached a high level. He even gave himself a Chinese name - Jia Xu.
Nan Yi didn't like this name very much, as it sounded too sharp. If he were to choose the name, he would give Edwin the word "Feng Chu".
“Have the funds been transferred?”
"It's still being transferred. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be in the account of the Cosmos Bank tomorrow. Mr. Nan, I brought $100,000 in cash, paid $58,000 for a year's rent, and exchanged $5,000 in foreign exchange certificates. The remaining $37,000 is in the safe."
“Did you have any trouble carrying so much cash?”
"No, at the airport, airport security escorted me to the car," said Edwin.
"Hmm, then the next step is to hire a secretary who knows English. Oh, no, it should be an office assistant [miscellaneous tasks, similar to administration]. Do you understand how to recruit?"
"I already understand that I need to contact the foreign enterprise service company and tell them the recruitment requirements, and then they will send someone to interview."
“Good job.”
Since Edwin has already figured out the trick, there is no need for Nan Yi to repeat it again.
There is no explicit regulation that branches or offices of foreign-funded companies cannot recruit people in China. As long as they can recruit, they can do so on their own.
But this involves a problem, that is, the identity of "employee".
In this era, social security had not yet been implemented, and factories were responsible for reimbursement of medical expenses, pensions, wages and bonuses. In other words, the factories were responsible for eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, illness, and retirement.
However, foreign capital is simply unable to bear this responsibility by nature, so there needs to be an intermediary to take this responsibility on behalf of the foreign capital, that is, to resolve the "employee" status of the personnel. This intermediary is the foreign enterprise service company.
This company is engaged in outsourcing and personnel dispatch business, and makes money from headcount fees. It collects foreign exchange from foreign capital with its left hand, and pays RMB to employees with its right hand. If the unit changes, the numbers will basically change as well, and will change in a smaller direction.
"Do you know how much it costs to hire an office worker?"
"Two hundred and sixty dollars."
“It’s not cheap.”
This salary is higher than the salary for the same position in Xiangkeng.
"Call and ask if they can send someone over for an interview today. If they can, I will participate in the interview."
"OK."
Edwin went to make a phone call, and Nan Yi found a seat by himself.
Room 8716 is a suite. The living room is arranged like an office. There is a large desk near the bedroom and a set of modular sofas next to it. There are two desks near the door. It is quite spacious and has space for some office supplies.
Nan Yi was sitting in an office seat at the moment and did not choose to sit in the executive chair because that was Edwin's seat and he could not take the spotlight.
Turning around in his office chair, Nan Yi picked up the phone on the table, put it to his ear and listened, and a busy tone came out of the microphone.
Since it was not a serial connection, Nan Yi pressed a number and dialed the call.
"Chief Jin, are you busy?"
"Who?"
"My phone is in good quality. Is your phone broken? You can't even hear my voice."
"Brother, is there something wrong?"
"You are such a forgetful person. You forgot about my matter so quickly. In that case, forget it. You are busy. I am hanging up now."
"No, Senior Brother, where are you now? I'll come find you and we can talk."
"Great Wall Hotel 8716, I will wait for you for an hour at most. If you don't come for an hour, I will probably get sick and go to the hospital."
"Haha, Senior Brother, please stop teasing me."
"I'm not kidding you. Seriously, I just went to the hospital yesterday and the doctor told me to stay away from people with the last name Jin, otherwise I'll get angry again."
"Brother, hold on, I guarantee I'll be there in an hour. "
"Hold on tight."
Nan Yi hung up the phone and turned around in his chair, thinking that it was so difficult to do anything now. He was obviously trying to give money to others, but they were still reluctant to accept it.
At this time, in a foreign enterprise service company, a 27-year-old girl could not contain her excitement.
Her name is Wu Shixun, a nurse at Chunshu Hospital. Two years ago, she suddenly became dissatisfied with her current life and wanted to break out of the fixed circle and see the outside world, so she took the self-study exam and prepared to obtain a diploma in English.
Now she only has two courses left, and as long as she passes them she will get a self-taught college diploma. She heard about the Foreign Enterprise Service Company by chance, and thought of coming here to give it a try.
Just a dozen minutes ago, she had just filled out the form and registered her information. Before she left, she heard the staff say that a company was recruiting and asked her to come for an interview.
My heart was pounding, and I walked out of the foreign enterprise service company with light steps. I walked to the bus stop in a daze, got on the bus, and unknowingly arrived at the entrance of the Great Wall Hotel.
Standing at the door, Wu Shiqi was full of anxiety. She couldn't even find the door of the hotel.
"It's really weird. The storefront is so big, isn't the main door on the front?" Wu Shiqi muttered, and then saw someone walking out of a "glass cylinder". "Hey, is this the main door? How do I get in?"
It was the first time that Wu Shiqi saw a glass revolving door. She only saw someone coming out out of the corner of her eye, and she didn’t even see clearly how the person came out.
To figure this out, she just stood there, staring at the glass revolving door, waiting for the next person to come in or out.
One minute, no one goes in or out; two minutes, no one goes in or out; three minutes, someone goes in; four minutes, someone comes out; five minutes, someone goes in again.
It took Wu Shiqi five minutes and three times to finally understand how the magical door was opened.
After encouraging himself, Wu Shiqi walked towards the glass revolving door.
"Stop, what are you doing?"
As soon as Wu Shiqi walked to the door, the doorman stopped her.
"Hello, comrade, I'm here for an interview." Wu Shiqi said timidly.
The doorman muttered, "Interview? I haven't heard that the hotel is hiring."
"No, no, I'm not coming to the hotel for an interview. I'm going to the 8716 Genzhengmiaohongxiang Company to interview Mr. Edwin." Wu Shiqi waved his hand and said.
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Wait, I'll go make a phone call and ask. Not just anyone can enter here."
The doorman said something and walked towards a booth nearby. In the booth, there was a phone that could be used to contact the front desk.
A few minutes later , Wu Shiqi was able to enter the hotel, and then he happened to run into Jinqueer in front of room 8716.
Crunch.
When Nan Yi opened the door, he saw Jinque'er in front of him and Wu Shiqi, who was much stronger, behind him.
"62 minutes, Chief Jin, you're late. I was just about to go to the hospital."
"Hey, senior brother, stop teasing me and let me in quickly." Jinqueer said with a chuckle.
"Please come in. Is this female comrade your colleague?"
"Hello, comrade. I am Wu Shixun, sent by a foreign enterprise service company for an interview." Before Jinqueer could answer, Wu Shixun rushed to speak.
Wu Shiqi's voice is soft and sounds more like the Wu dialect, which is a bit inconsistent with her sturdy figure.
"Oh, please come in."
Nan Yi let the two of them into the room, arranged for Wu Shiqian to sit in the seat he had just sat, and then walked to the sofa with Jin Que'er, "You sit down for a while, I'll go to the interview first."
"Brother, you do your thing, I'll wait for you."
"Okay, then please do as you please."
Nan Yi walked back to Wu Shixun's desk and said to her, "Comrade Wu, I'm sorry, we haven't prepared the forms yet. I'll give you two pieces of white paper. Please write down your basic information, including your name, education, age, education experience, and work experience. One piece is in Chinese and the other is in English. By the way, do you have an ID card?"
"have."
"Did you bring it?"
"Yes."
"Okay." Nan Yi found two pieces of white paper and a pen for Wu Shiqian. "My name is Nan Yi. Take your time writing. Call me when you're done."
"Okay, Comrade Nan."
After Nan Yi finished giving the instructions, he did not go directly to entertain Jin Que'er, but walked to another desk and waited for Wu Shiqiong to finish writing her resume.
The name Wu Shixun sounded familiar to Nan Yi. If the Wu Shixun in front of him was the working queen in his memory, then she was much more important than Jinqueer.
"Edwin, we should have a copier here, and it would be better to have a printer and a computer." Nan Yi said in French.
In countries other than the Eagle Country, schools will choose English as the first foreign language to be learned, and in the Eagle Country, the first foreign language of choice is French. There are many people who speak French in the Eagle Country, and Edwin happens to be able to speak French.
Edwin stood up from his big chair, walked up to Nan Yi and said, "Mr. Nan, Canon has just launched a laser printer, the LBP-8/CX, which is very small. You can find a computer at IBM next door, and you can also buy Canon's compact cassette-based copier, the PC-10/PC-20."
"Well, I'll do as you say." Nan Yi nodded and said, "Printers and copiers are not cheap. Remember to put the instructions and receipts on the machines after you buy them. In addition, I will buy a Crown MS132 as your vehicle.
The Toyota Crown is quite well-known in China and is considered a luxury car by people.
We are not an internationally renowned company, so we need some external things to decorate our facade. This goes against our usual low-key style, but there is nothing we can do about it. We need to be relatively independent and cannot have superficial connections with the headquarters. "
Although speaking French, Nan Yi still consciously used "headquarters" instead of "Nan's".
"clear."
"Comrade Nan, I have finished writing it." Wu Shiqi turned his head and said to Nan Yi with curious eyes looking at Edwin.
"Wait a minute, I'll be right there."
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