Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0579: Thousands of Things, Many Threads
“Come over when you have time. I’m going to make an international call later.” Yang Kaiyan said calmly.
After Ya Qing appeared, Yang Kaiyan was no longer optimistic about her and Yang Shanqing's clothing wholesale market. She felt that her investment was basically wasted.
Fortunately, the investment was not huge and she could still afford the loss.
"Now that the decoration is completed, we can immediately find wholesalers to move in. Cousin, our funds will be recovered soon." Yang Shanqing did not know that his cousin had lost interest in his project and was still full of confidence.
"You should hurry up with the investment promotion and give some discounts. If you can collect rent for one more year, then collect it for one more year. The longer the term, the better."
"Cousin, we don't have to worry about tenants for our wholesale market. Once we collect the rent for the first year, we can recover our investment and make a lot of profit. If the market business is better than expected in the first year, we can increase the rent in the second year. If we collect rent for several years at a time now, we won't have the opportunity to increase their rent."
The Yaqing Company made such a big fuss, but Yang Shanqing didn't react to it at all. He was so slow. Yang Kaiyan felt a little guilty. Why did she trust her cousin and invest the money?
Yang Kaiyan closed the document in her hand and said with a little impatience: "Anyway, you listen to me and recover the funds as soon as possible. You must act quickly. Okay, I need to make a phone call."
"Then...cousin, I'm leaving first."
As soon as Yang Shanqing left, Yang Kaiyan walked directly to the door, hung up the "Do Not Disturb" sign, then returned to her desk and continued to look at her documents.
In Yang Kaiyan's hand was the investigation report of Fang Group. She was assessing the asset scale of Fang Group.
Knock knock knock!
"Come in."
He Ping walked slowly to Nan Yi's desk and said, "General Manager Nan, did I disturb your work?"
"No, what do you want to talk to me about, Cashier He?" Nan Yi said in a gentle voice.
"General Manager Nan, I'm going to Japan soon and I need a letter of introduction to apply for a passport."
"Passport." Nan Yi chewed for a moment and said, "You are a cadre, right?"
"Yes, I'm level 24."
"Then you should ask Chairman Lin to issue your letter of introduction. It's not appropriate for me to issue it. Will there be a secondment letter?"
"There should be." He Ping said a little unnaturally.
"Oh, then just send me the secondment letter when the time comes." Nan Yi said, pulling out a pen from the pen holder, writing a number on a note, tearing off the note and handing it to He Ping, "This is the number of a friend of mine in Tokyo. You can call her if you need any help."
He Ping looked at the number and carefully put away the note. "Mr. Nan, thank you."
"You are welcome."
"Then I'll go out first and not disturb you at work."
"Um."
As soon as He Ping left, Edwin entered Nan Yi's office.
"Edwin, you've come at the right time. Panasonic, Hitachi, Sanyo, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Sony all have offices in Beijing. You can go and contact them to discuss supply issues.
Sony in particular values the Chinese market very much. Asia will have several large-screen advertising spaces, as well as some small advertising spaces. We can negotiate with them using advertising space and purchase volume as conditions, get a low discount, and bring back a batch of gifts.”
"Mr. Nan, do you want to contact electrical appliance dealers from other countries?"
"There's no rush. Right now, the mainland only recognizes Japanese brands. We'll consider other countries' brands later. We'll see if there's any space in the electrical appliance section and then decide. By the way, this is the electrical appliance catalog of the Friendship Store. The ones marked with red lines have higher sales. We, Asia, don't want them."
Edwin took the document, looked at it, and nodded, "I understand."
Before Edwin left the office, the phone on Nan Yi's desk rang again.
"Hello, Nan Yi from Yaqing Company."
"I, Li Jin, come out and sit down."
"Personal or business, for personal matters, find a place to go at night, and for business matters, come to my office."
“Both public and private matters are taken into consideration.”
Nan Yi looked at the calendar clock on the table and said, "If you can wait until lunch, then talk to me. If you can't wait, you can come to my office now. I'm very busy today and can't leave right now."
"It's not that urgent. Where are we going to eat lunch?"
"Well, then please accommodate me. There is an Aguo Restaurant at the back door of Beijing University. It opens at 12 o'clock sharp."
"Okay, I'll find it myself." Li Jin said and hung up the phone.
After being busy in the office the whole morning, Nan Yi arrived at Aguo Restaurant five minutes early at noon.
"Busy?"
When Nan Yi arrived, Li Jin was already there and several dishes were placed on the table.
"At the beginning, there was nothing I could do. There were so many things to do and I had to worry about everything. I also had a lot of things to do in the afternoon, so I won't drink anymore. I'll make up for it next time."
"It's okay. I can't drink either. I have to go back to the camp in the afternoon. Let's talk about business first. My superior asked me to ask you, in addition to those with good image, do you need those with worse image? You know, so many people are going to be laid off this time, and the placement of veterans is a big problem." Li Jin said.
"Yes, of course. In addition to security guards, we also need tally clerks, warehouse managers, and logistics personnel. Qinghe International also needs people. It's no problem to place 300 people. However, the salary of these people is not as high as that of the security guards. If they are not supervised, I can only give them 150 or 160 yuan a month at most."
"One hundred and fifty or sixty is already a lot. They can't find such high-paying jobs back home."
"As long as it's not too little, it's good. As for other benefits, what other units have, Yaqing has them too. What other units don't have, we will have too. We will definitely not treat our soldiers unfairly. As for welfare housing, I will also put it on the agenda in two or three years. There are too many people, and the old soldiers' household registration is a problem. Your military region must help solve this problem, at least solve most of it."
"The household registration issue is not easy to resolve, and our army doesn't have the ability to solve too many problems." Li Jin said with a frown.
"I don't care. Haidian District has only given us 30 quotas. Who do you want me to give them to? I won't make it difficult for you. When you go back, report to your leader. At least three people must bring one household registration quota. I will place three times as many people as there are quotas."
Li Jin said with a dark face: "Aren't you making things difficult for me? There are more than a hundred household registration quotas, and I can't change them even if I want to."
"I don't want you to change. You just need to be responsible for passing on the message. Let's leave it at that for official business first. Let's talk about your personal matters." Nan Yi picked up the chopsticks and took a look. The lame man had made progress. The chopsticks were surprisingly clean.
"We have to start doing business in logistics."
"Give it straight."
Li Jin had already mentioned the army’s business ventures.
"Some businesses need to be run independently, while others will consider cooperating with the society, not only state-owned enterprises, but also individual enterprises. During this period, our logistics department has been holding meetings to discuss possible businesses. I think one of the businesses is very good."
"Transportation, right?"
"Awesome, you guessed it right at the first try." Li Jin praised.
"It's easy to guess. The only thing that's easy to make money and suitable for you to get involved in is transportation. I have to say that you have a good eye. You can definitely make money in transportation, and it's a lot of money. If you want to borrow money, that's easy. I'll give you a lower interest rate."
It is really the most suitable for the transport troop to do the transport business. The problems that trucks in the society have to face are not a problem for the troop, whether it is various reasonable or unreasonable charges, or the car bandits who are very active nowadays.
"No, I don't need to lend you money. I have ways to get money. I just want to borrow your brand." Li Jin said to Nan Yi with burning eyes.
"Yaqing, are you still a legitimate child?"
"Ye's family is of good origin."
Nan Yi pondered for a while and said, "You can borrow it, but you can't just borrow the sign. You have to borrow one from the manager as well."
It's not so easy to borrow a brand. If Li Jin does anything out of line, Nan Yi will also be implicated.
"Don't trust me?"
"You want to hear the truth?"
"Come on, don't say anything. You just don't trust me. Okay, send someone over."
"Think it over carefully. I'm going to send someone to finance."
"That's perfect. I don't need to hire an accountant." Li Jin said calmly.
Nan Yi heaved a sigh of relief, "Well, I'll leave 200,000 in the account, you can use it if you need it, and just leave it there if you don't."
"You're such a good brother." Li Jin said, hugging Nan Yi's shoulders.
"Okay, let's eat. We're in a hurry."
"Okay, okay, let's eat."
Having achieved his goal, Li Jin felt extremely relaxed.
…
Throughout the week, Nan Yi was busy working during the day and had to take care of his son's diapers at night, so his sleep time became fragmented.
Fortunately, Nan Yi's sleep quality has always been good. Deep sleep can account for 34% of his sleep time, which is about 9% higher than that of ordinary people. It is this mere 9% that allows him to get higher quality sleep than ordinary people with a shorter sleep time.
Sunday.
The cold wind is howling and the snow is falling.
Hu Yi, bah, Nan Yidao came to the park wearing a white dress.
At this moment, he had a knife in his heart and a knife in his hand.
"Master Qiu, my swordsmanship is only half-baked. Are you sure you want to practice with me?"
"Practice, of course. You don't need me to kneel down and kowtow to you as a disciple, right?" Qiu Hanmin said with a smile opposite Nan Yi.
"That's not necessary. I'm not qualified to accept disciples. Besides, although I practice the Eight Cuts Knife, it has little to do with Wing Chun. In the past, in order to deal with the British bayonets, Lord Lin Zexu trained the Water Warriors in Guangdong Province. What they practiced was the streamlined and improved Eight Cuts Knife Technique. The Water Warriors called it the Eight Cuts of Poison.
Later, some of the Shuiyong joined the Taiping Army, and the Eight Practices of Killing Poison were brought over. After being improved again, the sword technique changed greatly, and the name also changed, and it was changed to Brother and Sister Sword Technique. "
"Hey, Nan, is there anything special about the brother and sister's swordsmanship?"
"Mr. Qiu, have you ever heard of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?"
"Not much."
"Oh, Hong Xiuquan said that he was the second son of God and the younger brother of Jesus. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom he founded was a combination of the 'God' in Christianity and the explanations of 'God' and 'Heaven' in our scriptures.
Christianity has the doctrine that everyone is God's child and everyone is equal before God ;
The teachings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom incorporated the Confucian ideas of "all the world is one family" and "all people in the world are brothers", becoming "all men in the world are brothers; all women in the world are sisters."
The Brothers and Sisters’ swordsmanship was derived from the teachings of the God Worshipping Society.”
"I understand, Nan boy, you continue."
"In the fifth year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign, Chen Kai failed in his attack on Yangcheng and retreated to Guangxi Province with 40,000 remaining soldiers, where he established the Great Cheng Kingdom. Chen Kai first called himself the King of Zhennan, and later changed his name to the King of Pingxun. The Brothers and Sisters' Swordsmanship was renamed again, and changed to the Northward Swordsmanship, which showed his determination to march north.
Chen Kai managed to survive in Guangxi for seven or eight years, but then fell into decline. In 1863, Huang Dingfeng built a fortress in Xiaoping Tianshan, Guixian County, and proclaimed himself the King of Jianzhang. Liu Kunyi, the governor of Guangxi Province, took Huang Dingfeng's mother as a hostage, and Huang Dingfeng surrendered and was executed.
The practice method of the Fabei Sword Skill also fell into the hands of Liu Kunyi. Later, Liu Kunyi renamed the Fabei Sword Skill to the Liu Family Sword Skill, and it became the Liu family's family tradition.
Liu Kunyi's son came to Beijing to settle down in the 1920s and devoted himself to practicing the Liu family's swordsmanship. After he passed away, the Liu family's swordsmanship was passed on to his son.
By the time of Liu Kunyi's great-grandchildren, no one in the Liu family was willing to endure the hardship of practicing the Liu family's swordsmanship. Instead, the Liu family's young son-in-law had a strong interest in martial arts and inherited the Liu family's swordsmanship.
Just a few days ago, the Liu family sword technique was renamed again, and now it is called Nan family monkey-killing sword technique."
"Hahaha, Nan kid, you are teasing me." Qiu Hanmin laughed out loud, "The son-in-law you are talking about is you, kid."
"Haha, from the beginning of Liu Kun, you just listen for fun, don't take it seriously; up to the Fabei Sword Technique, everything I said is true. As for whether what I practiced is the original Fabei Sword Technique, it's hard to say, it may have been improved by later generations. In any case, let's call it Fabei Sword Technique, as a way of respecting the creator."
"You can call me anything. Let's start now?"
"Okay, watch carefully. I'll show you first." Nan Yi held two swords in his hands, set up the formation and started to perform. While performing, he also called out the names of the moves.
"The first move is to march out of Xunzhou, the second move is to surprise attack Yangcheng, the third move is to enter the Pearl River into the sea, the fourth move is to go north to Tamra [Jeju Island], the fifth move is to patrol the sea with eighteen attacks, the sixth move is to occupy the Tiangang Guard, the seventh move is to march into the Forbidden City, and the eighth move is to turn the tables."
Whoosh, whoosh, Nan Yi wielded his two eight-cutting swords with great power and murderous intent.
In the last move, the two knives seemed to be chopping meat, aiming at two points and chopping continuously.
"Boy Nan, I understood the first seven moves. Your sword techniques and the names of the moves are very appropriate. But I don't quite understand the last move of "Reversing the Host". It looks like you are chopping someone. Are you chopping Emperor Xianfeng?" Qiu Hanmin asked as soon as Nan Yi finished his move.
“ I’m not sure whether it’s Emperor Xianfeng who will be chopped off. It’s possible that it’s not just Emperor Xianfeng who will be chopped off. As for the name of the move, I guess it has both the meaning of the Han people regaining power and the allusion of the Hakka people taking power. Most of the leaders of the Taiping Army at that time were Hakka people.
Mr. Qiu, let's not care what it means. Just follow me and slow down the rhythm of the moves. This sword technique involves moving various parts of your body, which is suitable for you to stretch your muscles and bones."
"Okay, let's get started."
…
When Nan Yi and the other man finished their exercise, it was only five minutes past seven.
Qiu Hanmin wiped his sweat with a white towel and said, "Nan boy, today is the weekend, Yaqin will go buy breakfast by herself, will you accompany me to eat something?"
"Okay, but let me take a message home first."
"You are quite family-oriented, kid."
"Haha, the situation is special." Nan Yi smiled and didn't explain too much.
The two found a breakfast shop that had both fried liver and large meat buns, ordered two servings of fried liver and a few buns.
Before the meal was halfway through, Qiu Hanmin suddenly asked, "How is Yaqing Company doing now?"
"Fortunately, things went smoothly."
Qiu Hanmin said: "It's not easy for young people to start a business. If you encounter any difficulties, you can tell me. I still have some face in the outside world."
"Okay, I'll thank Mr. Qiu first."
"After you came to my house last time, Heping often mentioned you and wanted to invite you to my house for dinner again. Let's find a day to come to my place for dinner again." Qiu Hanmin said.
Qiu Hanmin first mentioned Yaqing Company and sold it well, and then mentioned Qiu Heping. His purpose is not difficult to guess.
"I'll come back later. Recently, there are so many things going on at Yaqing Company. I'm so busy and there's no one to help me share the burden." Nan Yi said, as if he suddenly thought of something, "Mr. Qiu, you have a wide network of contacts and know many people. If there are any suitable talents, please introduce them to me."
When Qiu Hanmin heard Nan Yi's words, his face was filled with smiles.
"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it for you. I have a good appetite today, would you like another two taels of buns?"
"Okay, I'm only six-tenths full."
After filling his stomach, Nan Yi returned to the old house, took a bath, and watched TV with Liu Zhen.
Near noon, Nan Tieli actually came to the door.
Nan Tieli, with a very unhappy look on his face, as if he had lost his parents, sat down on the sofa. Nan Yi and Liu Zhen looked at each other.
"Brother, what do you want from me?"
"I want to go to the country."
Hearing Nan Tieli say this, Nan Yi secretly gave Liu Zhen a wink.
Liu Zhen nodded slightly, stood up and walked outside.
"Did Jin Yan say anything in the letter, or did the lawyer come to the door directly?"
"Both." Nan Tieli said dejectedly.
Nan Yi thought to himself: "It's been less than half a year, the news of divorce came a little early."
"What do you think?"
"I'm going to the Kingdom of Qin to ask her in person. When she left, she said she would definitely come back." Nan Tieli slammed the coffee table heavily with his right hand, howled, and then hit his head with both hands left and right.
"Sister Xiaolan, take Wuwei to the bedroom; School Beauty, close the door."
People leave and the door closes.
Nan Yi took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, moved the coffee table to the side, and then glanced around to see if there were any valuables.
Everything was fine. Nan Yi walked to Nan Tieli, grabbed the collar and lifted him up.
Bang!
A slap.
Bang!
Another slap.
"What the hell are you crying about? Is your dad dead or your mom dead, huh?"
Bang bang bang!
Three consecutive fan strikes.
"Go to the Kingdom of Qin? Spend thousands of dollars round trip just to see that bitch? Did you get the money from the wind?"
Bang!
"I'll let you go to the Kingdom of Qin."
Bang!
"Go to the Kingdom of Xian..."
It is too tiring to persuade a man with words. If you have enough strength, just beat him up. This is the most direct and effective way.
Loosening Nan Tieli's collar and throwing the mess back onto the sofa, Nan Yi walked to the long table, took out a pack of cigarettes from it, and went to the kitchen to get a lighter.
Throwing the cigarette and lighter at Nan Tieli, Nan Yi moved the coffee table back to its original place, said "Go to the yard", and walked to the yard first.
The snow was still falling, there was no wind or rain, the weather was cold, but not as cold as Nan Tieli's heart.
Nan Tieli opened the cigarette case awkwardly and wanted to take a cigarette out of it. His hands were shaking and the cigarette fell to the ground. He took one, two, three, and finally the fourth one.
He held it in his mouth, click, once, twice, whoosh, and the flames rushed upwards.
ignite!
“Cough cough cough!”
A violent coughing fit.
