Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0623 Soft Knife
"I brought a group of soldiers with me this time. I will take them to scout out jewelry stores and gold shops in the morning."
"You don't have a proper job, and you want to enter the jewelry industry?" Fang Mengyin scolded.
"Asia has a jewelry counter. I plan to find a jeweler in Hong Kong to cooperate with and establish a jewelry brand in the mainland. I will be the second and the other party will be the first."
"Hitchhiking?"
"Yes, I don't plan to invest too much energy in it. It's my own private property. I'll leave it to Wuwei in the future. When he grows up and wants to pick up girls, it will be convenient to have his own jewelry store."
Fang Mengyin frowned after hearing Nan Yi's words, "Your upper beam is crooked, and you want to make the lower beam crooked as well?"
Nan Yi drank the last mouthful of porridge and waved his hand. Xiang He brought the teacup over. Nan Yi took it, rinsed his mouth, wiped his mouth, and said calmly: "Grandma, times have changed. People nowadays are more self-centered, more in line with their own hearts, and more focused on self-enjoyment.
If a couple are both well-behaved and neither of them has any extramarital affairs, does that mean they are in love?
I don’t think so!
Even if they didn't cheat physically, they must have cheated mentally. I don't think the reason why they didn't cheat physically was because of love, but definitely because of other concerns, such as morality, law, or they didn't want to bear the possible bad consequences of cheating.
If cheating does not cause any changes to life and work, how many people in this world can guarantee that they will not cheat? "
"You little jerk, you have so many twisted ideas. I don't want to listen to your nonsense. Xianghe, get the car ready."
"Yes, ma'am."
Fang Mengyin stood up and said, "Will you come back for dinner tonight?"
"No, my lover and I are eating outside."
"What about tomorrow?"
"We will have dinner at home tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. After dinner tomorrow, I can accompany you to go shopping. You can also show off my pretty face to others." Nan Yi said in a disrespectful manner.
"Thirteen o'clock."
Fang Mengyin cursed with a smile, then left with Xianghe.
Nan Yi said he wanted to check out the place, but he did not go there directly. Instead, he went to Taikoo City first and knocked on a door.
"Honny, you're here."
As soon as the door opened, Liang Yun, wearing silk pajamas, appeared in front of Nan Yi.
"Honny, please stop yelling. It's painful for me to hear you yelling unwillingly. Can you please come in?"
"It's convenient, of course it's convenient." Liang Yun welcomed Nan Yi into the house and invited him to sit on the sofa. "You sit down first. I'll go change my clothes."
"Go ahead."
As soon as Liang Yun left, Nan Yi looked at the furnishings in the living room. Compared to the last time he came here, there were a lot more things in the living room, and it already looked a bit like home.
After two or three minutes, Liang Yun, wearing a T-shirt and denim shorts, walked back to the living room.
"Have you thought about it?"
Nan Yi asked after Liang Yun sat down on the sofa opposite him.
"I've thought about it." Liang Yun said with pursed lips.
"good."
Nan Yi nodded to the school beauty.
The school beauty rushed to Liang Yun and slapped her twice. Liang Yun's cheeks turned red and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.
"I remember I told you last time I came here that I'm very busy and may not be able to come here once a year. If one day you get tired of your current life and want to find another man, I will definitely not make things difficult for you or stop you."
Nan Yi said as he walked up to Liang Yun, took a few pieces of paper from the coffee table, and wiped the blood from the corner of Liang Yun's mouth.
"But there is a prerequisite for what I said, that is, you need to tell me in advance when you take action. Once we have explained everything to each other, you can do whatever you want."
"He and I are innocent. I didn't..."
Nan Yi raised his hand, interrupting Liang Yun from continuing, "I know, if you kissed and slept with him, do you think you would still have a chance to listen to me talking to you about reason and rules here?"
Nan Yi threw the paper used to wipe the blood stains into the trash can, and took out a few pieces of paper to wipe his fingers.
"It is precisely because you did not do anything excessive physically that I came here to talk to you in person. But you ate with him, went shopping with him, and even had a warm hug with him, so you got two slaps in the face. This is the price of betrayal."
Nan Yi stretched out his right hand and said, "I have explained the reason. Next, I wish you the best. I hope he will be your Mr. Right."
Liang Yun put her right hand into Nan Yi's palm and said softly, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. I will deposit the remaining balance of the mortgage into your account. You can regard it as compensation for the loss of your youth or as my blessing to you. From now on, you and I will live our own lives and never see each other again."
After saying that, Nan Yi took his hand back, left quietly, and sang a happy breakup song without any hesitation.
"Nansheng, do you want to find that guy?" The school beauty asked after they returned downstairs and got back into the car.
"No, I just traded with her." Nan Yi replied, picked up the map on the seat, looked at it for a few seconds and said, "Go to King's Road first, then turn to Tin Hau Temple Road after arriving at Tin Hau Liuxian Street, and have lunch at Jiankang West Street after shopping at Baifu Road."
"Nansheng, let me go to the jewelry store to check it out later. Chen Huju from the Big Circle Gang has been committing crimes crazily during this period. We may very likely run into them." Tiger Cub said as Nan Yi had just finished speaking.
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "Does Chen Huju have a younger brother named Ji Bingxiong?"
Regarding security-related matters, the Intelligence Committee is in contact with the school beauty and the tiger cub. When Nan Yi doesn't take the initiative to care, these information will not be reported to him. Therefore, Nan Yi didn't know about Chen Huju's crazy crimes, but he had heard of the name Chen Huju.
"Yes, Chen Huju's chief horse."
“Haha, what’s the point of having a leader or not? There are only a few people.” Nan Yi smiled and said, “Then the inspection will be handed over to you. Bring two more people so that they can take care of you if anything happens.
Pay attention to what price range of jewelry is most common in each store, and see what jewelry is mainly promoted. Also pay attention to the appearance of the salespersons. Give them a score out of 100. "
"clear."
Tiger cub got off the car and drove away with two people. Nan Yi's schedule was disrupted. He sat in the car and thought for a while, then asked the school beauty to hand him the car phone.
"Grandma, do you know Li Wenda?" Nan Yi said after the call was connected.
"The one from Li Jinji?"
"right."
"I don't know him, but I have his phone number."
"Then please make a phone call for me and tell him that Nan Yi from Yaqing Company wants to visit him."
"Why, I don't need to introduce you to him as my grandson?"
"Haha, grandma, you can do whatever you want."
"Today?"
"Um."
"Wait for my call."
Having said that, Fang Mengyin hung up the phone.
Nan Yi sat in the car and waited for a while, then Fang Mengyin called.
"Li Wenda is fishing in Longxia Bay. You can see him by walking toward the sea from Longxia Bay Stone Carvings."
"Okay, I'll go over now."
An hour later, Nan Yi arrived at the beach of Lobster Bay and walked to a middle-aged man while singing Cantonese opera.
"Mr. Li is in a very elegant mood, fishing alone by the sea while listening to the song 'Fishing in the Snow on a Cold River'."
"Young man, do you know how to listen to Cantonese opera?" Li Wenda turned his head and looked at Nan Yi and said.
"A little bit, but I prefer Tong Tik-sang's plays."
The author of "Fishing in the Snow on a Cold River" is Jiang Yuliu, also known as Nanhai Shisanlang. Nan Yi mentioned Tang Disheng, firstly because he really liked Tang Disheng's plays, and secondly because Tang Disheng was Jiang Yuliu's apprentice; Li Wenda listened to Jiang Yuliu's plays, but Nan Yi could only listen to Tang Disheng's plays, which was regarded as respect for Li Wenda's higher status than him.
"Yes, there are not many young people who know these two people." Li Wenda praised Nan Yi and said to a person standing next to him: "A Ming, bring a stool over for Nan Shao."
Asking Ah Ming's men to bring a stool, Li Wenda invited Nan Yi to sit down , then turned to look at the float, "Do you like fishing?"
"I like night fishing. It's quiet at night and I can think about things while fishing."
"I like to come here to fish when I have free time. Now that I'm older, I like quietness. Fishing while listening to Cantonese opera is my greatest enjoyment now. It's too early for a young man like quietness. Young people should like hustle and bustle." Li Wenda said.
"If you make too much noise, you need to be quiet for a while. If you are quiet for too long, you will want to make some noise again."
"It's good to make some noise from time to time. Young people should be more energetic." Li Wenda lifted the hook, checked the bait and threw it back. "Director Fang has long been a hot figure in Hong Kong Island, but I only heard that she has a grandson, but I never know his name. Nan... The manager is very low-key."
Li Wenda originally wanted to call Nan Yi "nephew", but that would make him seem shorter than Fang Mengyin, and calling him "grandson" was a little too much. He had no choice but to address Nan Yi by his title.
"It's not that I'm low-key, but I rarely go out in Hong Kong, so it's normal that Mr. Li doesn't know about it. But in the future, I should be able to go out with Mr. Li more often."
"Oh, why do you say that?"
"Because I want the mainland agency rights of Li Jinji, a ten-year contract, and an agency fee of three million Hong Kong dollars a year."
"Manager Nan's offer is very generous." Li Wenda said calmly.
"Mr. Li, you may have misunderstood. The agency fee I mentioned is what Li Jinji pays to our Yaqing Company."
Li Wenda looked at Nan Yi in surprise, and said calmly: "Three million a year is not a lot of money, but why should I give it to you? Not to mention that our Li Jinji has no plans to enter the mainland for the time being. Even if I give you the agency rights, you should pay Li Jinji the agency fee."
"There are three reasons. First, Yaqing Company is a joint venture company, and the major shareholder is the Haidian District Government of Beijing. Second, the Asia Shopping Mall under Yaqing Company is the largest shopping mall in the mainland. It has not yet opened, but its influence is already huge. All the famous brands in the mainland are proud to supply Asia.
In addition, within three years, Asia Mall will enter Shanghai and Guangzhou, and then slowly enter other cities. In the future, Asia will be fully rolled out in the mainland.
Li Jin Ji can be sold wherever Asia goes, and three million can buy the words "strongly recommended" from us Asia.
Third, there is a Changtian Soy Sauce Factory in Fushan. The leader of this enterprise is very capable and works hard to make the factory flourish.
The mainland is promoting the factory director responsibility system, and then the shareholding system. When the shareholding system is reached, the factory director will have the opportunity to become the real owner of the factory. At that time, Changtian Soy Sauce Factory will be a strong rival of Li Jinji. "
"Haha, the first and second reasons of yours are acceptable, but the third one... do you think elephants should be afraid of ants pinching their legs?" Li Wenda said with a smile.
"Yesterday, I went to Changtian Soy Sauce Factory and had a good impression of the deputy director Pang Haitian. We hit it off right away. He told me that he wanted to upgrade the production process of Changtian Soy Sauce Factory, but he had no money.
I answered him: Before I joined Asia Qing Company, I worked in an investment bank on Wall Street called Pan American Investment Holdings. My position was neither high nor low, just the president of the Asia-Pacific region. I could try to help him to get Pan American Investment Holdings to invest in Changtian Soy Sauce Factory.
Mr. Li, I heard that Li Jinji just established an office in Los Angeles two years ago, and is now about to set up a second office in New York's Chinatown.
I have lived in New York for a while and have some connections there. If Mr. Li needs anything, I would be happy to help him.”
"Oh, I wonder if the Director Pang you mentioned will lead Changtian Soy Sauce to go abroad and sell it all over the world?"
When Li Wenda heard the words "Pan American Investment Management", he was no longer as calm as before.
"I think so." Nan Yi said uncertainly, "He might set up a new brand to produce affordable soy sauce and oyster sauce. Based on the sincere heart of all Chinese people in the world, he will first sell the new brand to Hong Kong, and then use the power of Pan American Investment in China to directly develop it in the North American center.
In addition, I heard that Director Pang has good connections in the Chinatown Business Association in London, and he also has a good personal relationship with Ye Ronghuan of Rongye Bank. "
As of this year, Li Jin Ji has been an old brand for nearly a hundred years, specializing in oyster sauce and shrimp paste. In the 1930s, Li Jin Ji came to Xiangkeng and has taken root there since then.
In the early stages of Li Jin Ji's development, the consumption power of Hong Kong was still relatively low, and there was little demand for high-priced oyster sauce. Therefore, Li Jin Ji adopted a unique market development strategy: starting with overseas markets, and then working hard to expand the Hong Kong market.
This was very different from the corporate philosophy of "pacifying the country before fighting the enemy abroad" at the time, and it was precisely this kind of flexibility that earned Li Jin Ji a good international reputation.
Li Jin Kee's main market is Europe, and it is now striving to expand into the North American market. If a new brand really dumps cheap oyster sauce into these two markets, it would be tantamount to hitting Li Jin Kee's sore spot, which would at least paralyze it if not kill it.
And because of the exchange rate difference and export tax rebate policy, let alone price parity, even if they sell products abroad at a loss, mainland companies with "new brands" can still make huge profits and live a very comfortable life.
Li Wenda tried hard to suppress his anger and panic, and said again calmly: "It's a good idea, Manager Nan. I like to be alone and quiet when I go fishing. Please leave me a business card."
Nan Yi took out a business card and handed it to Li Wenda with both hands. "Mr. Li, I will stay in Xiangzhen for a few days this time. The phone calls in Beijing will probably not be able to reach me these days. You continue, I'll take my leave first."
After returning to the car, Nan Yi made a phone call to Beijing.
"Has Li Jinji's trademark application been accepted?"
“It has been accepted.”
"Oh, I see. Let's go register a trademark for crocodile shirts. The crocodile head should face northeast, due north, northwest, southeast, due south, and southwest."
"The one from France?"
"Haha, you can also say it's fragrant."
"Isn't it a bit too low-class to take advantage of this trademark loophole?"
"Low-level?" Nan Yi said playfully, "Then register another stinky tofu trademark with the words 'smellier than Yang Kaiyan's feet'. It's only eight words, don't make any mistakes."
"Son of..."
"Comrade Yang, do you know what the Five Ethics, Four Beauties and Three Loves are? Quality, pay attention to your quality."
“Beep, beep…”
Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Nan Yi curled his lips, took the phone from his ear, dialed a new number, and called again.
"I'm at Xiangkeng. I'll be downstairs at your building in forty minutes."
On Sai Wan High Street, Ruan Mei rushed to her closet after hanging up the phone, took out the only five or six pieces of clothes she had, and happily gestured in front of the mirror.
