Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0672 Life is full of drama
the next day.
Nan Yi went to Jiujiang Road alone to investigate and quickly selected a few stores, a grocery store, a shoe store, and the last one was a breakfast shop.
First of all, he ruled out the shoe store. It was just past nine in the morning, but the store was already crowded with people. With such good business, they would definitely not be willing to sublease it. The second was the breakfast store. Business was also booming. Even if he could take it over, the price he would have to pay would certainly not be small.
"Qingyun, keep an eye on this. I want to know the daily customer flow of the grocery store, and see if there is any suitable place for a warehouse behind the grocery store. It can be a building or an open space, as long as the place is big enough."
After Liu Zhen was transferred to Shanghai, Ruan Zhiling and Fan Qingyun, who were originally responsible for protecting her, were no longer suitable to follow her closely. They are now responsible for the security of Fang Mansion. Nan Yi also transferred a person from China to be Liu Zhen's driver.
Nan Yi brought along Fan Qingyun, who was already somewhat familiar with Shanghai, for research today.
"clear."
Fan Qingyun responded and found a vantage point to observe the grocery store across the street.
After handing the task over to Fan Qingyun, Nan Yi took a taxi to Lafei Garden on Hengshan Road. Taxis in Shanghai are still ridiculously expensive, and the journey of more than six kilometers cost him over a hundred yuan.
However, the driver did not take a detour, which can be considered a mutually beneficial relationship.
After getting off the bus at Hengshan Road, Nan Yi almost had the idea of opening a taxi company in Shanghai, but then he thought, forget it. Aren’t his own affairs complicated enough?
Nan Yi sat in the cafe and sat for a while.
Akashi Yushin from Nanguang 010 came over. Before he was about to bow, Nan Yi stopped him and said, "Just sit down."
“Ha… yes.”
As soon as Akashi Yushin sat down, Nan Yi said, "You don't need to report the financial situation, just talk about the abnormalities in the factory."
Akashi Yushin sorted out his thoughts and said, "Chairman, there are many problems in the factory. The three most serious ones are: first, there are seven people on the factory's employee list whom I have never seen in the factory; second, the factory's entertainment expenses are very high, with 170,917 yuan already spent in September;
Third, a lot of products from the factory were secretly leaked out and appeared in the Tokyo market. The president of Tsuruha Cosmetics, Matsumoto Yosuke, once called me and scolded me. "
"rebuke?"
"yes."
"Mr. Mingshi, you've been wronged." Nan Yi first consoled him, then said, "I've made the decision to withdraw my shares from Nanguang 010, but I don't want the money. I want to use the 29.5% shares to exchange for the 100 acres of land at the foot of the factory."
"President, the value of the factory..."
"I know. I don't like things to be out of my control. Apparently, we don't have much say in Nanguang 010 Factory. Director Leng told me that she was given a hard time when she was distributing dividends at the beginning of this year, and she almost had to beg for dividends."
"Yes, Zhao Ruijin and Lin Nanguang have teamed up to exclude us. They are very dissatisfied with Nanguang 010 Co., Ltd.'s control over sales channels."
"Oh, Lin Nanguang is out of his mind, right? He owns 40% of the company's shares, isn't he happy to get dividends every year?" Nan Yi spat, and said, "Evaluate the value of the company. Forget it, there's no need to evaluate it. You can find Lin Nanguang privately and ask him if he wants our shares, and the price..."
Nan Yi weighed the options and added, "The price is 12 million. We don't have to sell the shares and exchange them right away. We can wait until late December this year to do it. Sell the shares first and then exchange them."
"yes."
"You go back first and hold on for a while. When things are over here, you can go back to Tokyo for vacation. Please bring a gift to Matsumoto Yosuke for me to apologize for the losses we caused to Tsuruha and negotiate with him about compensation.
Once the negotiation is complete, you can ask him how to solve the problem of him scolding you. If his solution does not satisfy you, then your next task is to investigate the crane feather and find its weak points. "
Akashi Yushin said excitedly: "President, I'm not hurt at all, there's no need to make a big fuss over me."
Nan Yi's face was stern, and he said seriously: "Mr. Mingshi, you are my subordinate. You have been wronged, and I have the obligation to seek justice for you. That's it, you leave first."
"Yes, President."
Akashi Yushin stood up, stopped himself from bowing again, and left with a look of reverence on his face.
Although NanGuang 010 has many problems, its profitability is indeed good. If there were no land issue, selling shares in seven or eight years would be more in line with Nan Yi's interests.
Unfortunately, time waits for no one. Once the development of Pudong really started, there was no chance to get the land. Even if NanGuang 010 had been selling for a century, it would not have been able to sell the value of 100 acres of land. Nan Yi still knew what was more important.
What's more, NanGuang 010 has great limitations. The drug cannot be stopped. Once it is stopped, all previous efforts will be wasted. Baldness is not fatal. Once patients feel that the financial burden is too heavy, they will abandon the product at any time.
The longer the time goes, the more people will know the shortcomings of NanGuang 010, and potential new customers will weigh in their minds whether to fall into the trap. It will become increasingly difficult to develop new customers, and the prospects are not very optimistic.
In addition, Nan Yi is a little unbalanced psychologically. He was the one who opened up the Japanese market, and Catherine was the one who brokered the Eagle Country market. It can be said that the market was entirely built up by him, but his gains were far less than his efforts.
Forget it, I don’t want to play anymore!
After leaving the cafe, Nan Yi made a long-distance call to Ueto Masami, asking her to investigate who was poaching his girls in Tokyo and secretly selling Nan Kou 010.
Time passed quickly and it was the next afternoon when Fang Mengyin came back from Wentong Bank.
"The talks went smoothly. Wentong Bank's president, Li Jinchu, very much welcomes Fang Group to invest in the company." Fang Mengyin made a turn of events here, "But the maximum share they can offer is 12 million."
"12 million, that's 2% of the shares, so little?"
"It can only be this much, no more."
"Okay, grandma, do you have a say?"
"Yes, they can exercise their rights as shareholders. Nan Yi, I can see that Wentong Bank does not want a shareholder with Hong Kong capital background. The 2% stake should be given for the sake of 10 billion yen."
"Um."
Nan Yi thought that if he didn't want to pay too much, then he didn't have to. At least he had occupied a position. He could increase his shares in the future depending on the situation, and they had to be shares of the head office.
"Grandson, after the properties were cashed out, the Fang Group had more than 6 billion Hong Kong dollars in idle funds in its account. Hong Kong Electric and Kowloon Motor Bus also had a lot of idle funds in their accounts. All this money must have a place to go. What do you think?"
Among the three Hong Kong livelihood enterprises controlled by Fang Group, except Hong Kong Gas, the other two are the largest shareholders, and the position of chairman is controlled by Fang Group. In particular, the shares of Kowloon Motor Bus have reached 63.5%, and the other shares are relatively dispersed. Fang has absolute controlling rights and can force through any strategy it wants to implement.
"Grandma, let's talk about it later. The reason why I want to raise funds for the three holding companies is because the world economic situation is not right, and the stock market is likely to experience major changes in the near future."
"Stock market crash?"
"Well, when I was in Tokyo a few days ago, I paid attention to Japan's financial market. In the first few months of this year, many large Japanese companies issued bonds to raise funds, and the money raised was used to speculate in stocks.
The current price-to-earnings ratio of Nikkei 225 is as high as 48.5 times. Japan's stock market is seriously overvalued and investors are too enthusiastic.
The bond issuance continued until this month, when Japan's bond market finally showed signs of collapsing under the pressure.
Grandma, have you ever heard of Soros? "
"I've heard of him. He's from a hedge fund, right?" Fang Mengyin said.
"Yes, Quantum Fund previously invested several billion dollars in the Tokyo stock market, and just a dozen days ago, the money was transferred to New York. I guess Soros thinks the Tokyo stock market is not going well, but the U.S. stock market will be relatively strong.
Currently, the price-to-earnings ratio of stocks sold in the U.S. stock market is around 19.7 times, which is still within a controllable range. Compared with Japan's extremely high price-to-earnings ratio, the Chinese securities market is relatively safe.
However, Soros may have overlooked or not overlooked but did not pay attention to it. The US government bond market is extremely dependent on Japanese buying. The collapse of the Japanese bond market will directly affect the US bond market and cause a chain reaction.
Grandma, let me tell you again why I think there are historical factors that may lead to a stock market crash.
The late 1950s and the entire 1960s were the golden period of China's economic development. The economy continued to grow steadily, and the inflation rate and unemployment rate dropped to very low levels.
By the 1980s, the Chinese stock market had been in a 50-year bull market, with the stock market value rising from US$2.472 trillion in 1980 to US$5.995 trillion.
Since 1982, the stock price has continued to rise and the trading volume has increased rapidly. Not long ago, the daily trading volume reached 180.6 million shares.
The stock market was booming, its growth rate far exceeding the actual economic growth rate, and the growth rate of financial transactions far exceeded the growth rate of world trade.
Due to the high profitability of the stock market, a large amount of international hot money and private capital continue to flow into the stock market. These funds engage in speculative transactions in the stock market in pursuit of short-term profits, creating a false prosperity in the stock market.
During the fifty-year stock market boom, there have actually been many shadows.
From 1973 to 1975, the Bretton Woods system centered on the US dollar collapsed, and the United States experienced the most serious economic crisis since World War II, resulting in rising inflation rates and high unemployment rates.
In addition, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union greatly weakened the country's economic strength, causing its international and even domestic market share to continue to decline, and its foreign trade deficit and budget deficit to continue to rise.
As the White House relaxed financial market regulations and provided tax cuts to stimulate stock investment, huge amounts of international hot money poured into the U.S. stock market, driving stock prices to continue to rise.
So far this year, Japan's new investment in purchasing Chinese stocks has reached 15 billion US dollars, and stock prices have almost collapsed. All this means that the Chinese stock market will undergo a major adjustment.
Since August this year, the New York stock market has begun to experience large fluctuations, and some people on Wall Street have already begun planning to short the stock market.
In addition, Scarlett just received news from the Federal Reserve two days ago that they are about to raise interest rates and will legislate to end tax incentives for acquisition financing. Once this news comes out, hot money will surely flee in a hurry.
There is another bad factor. This year, the stock market has started to use computers and implement programmed trading. This is a new technology that has not been tested. It is not a big deal in normal times, but this year, if the stock market starts to fluctuate abnormally and the selling pressure is so high that the computers crash, then it will be a big deal. "
"You should be busy, right?"
"I have been idle, but my subordinates have been busy. Grandma, you should go back to Hong Kong to be the savior. The market will definitely rebound after the big drop. Use 5 billion Hong Kong dollars to rescue the market and buy stocks of Hong Kong companies. When the stock market improves, sell the stocks.
Before collecting and releasing, send a signal to the outside world. Sometimes a good reputation is useless, but sometimes it can play a big role. It’s good to have the name of Fang Guanyin. "
"Sending out signals before launching and retrieving will cause us to lose a lot of profits. Grandson, are you willing to do that?" Fang Mengyin said with a knowing smile.
"It doesn't matter if we make less money. Xiangkeng is just a sheepfold. There are only a few wolves here, and they are basically fixed. Apart from Guan Erfu, a sheepdog with many followers in the village, there is no possibility of more wolves appearing. The most we can do is wait for the wolf cubs to grow up. If we lose a little now, we can make it back in the future."
The top capital forces in Xiangkeng have already taken shape. They are interconnected and have intentionally or unintentionally blocked the path for the second-tier capital to climb up.
If you want to expand in Xiangkeng, you can only focus on real estate, but the good land near the prosperous area has been divided up, leaving only some scattered plots. With these plots, you may create a billionaire with "claimed" assets of tens of billions, just like Cao Cao's army of 800,000 in the Battle of Chibi, which was very empty.
If such a billionaire wants to mobilize hundreds of millions of funds , he can only borrow from the bank. If the bank does not give him face, he can only beg for help from everyone. If no one is willing to help, then it's over, and the billionaire empire will collapse in an instant.
The assessment of one's net worth has always been mysterious. A person with tens of billions in cash may not be worth as much as a person with hundreds of billions in debt. The value of unsold scrap metal can be estimated at tens of billions at any time.
In short, there are only a few wolves in Xiangkeng, and the only way forward is to inherit and reduce. No wolf wants to see the herd expand further. After all, the number of sheep is limited, and one more wolf will mean fewer sheep.
Without an industrial revolution or a class revolution, this pattern will be difficult to break.
Fang Mengyin said angrily: "What sheep? Wolf, that's too ugly."
"Grandma, if you don't want to hear it, I won't say it. I'm going out to see my son." After Nan Yi finished speaking, he walked out of the living room and came to the garden outside.
In the garden, Nan Wuwei stood beside a bunch of chrysanthemums, observing the bees collecting nectar.
"Be careful, be careful of bees stinging you."
"The bees are busy collecting honey and don't sting me, Dad. Bees are so lazy. They only start working when the sun comes out." Nanwuwei said in a soft voice.
"It's not laziness. The weather is getting colder. When the sun is not out, there is too much moisture. The bees' wings are covered with dew, which makes them very tired when they fly. Moreover, bees are afraid of cold, so they have to wait for the sun to warm them up before they can start working."
"Oh." Nan Wuwei nodded his head, raised his head and said to Nan Yi: "Dad, when are we going back to Beijing?"
"Want some warmth?"
"think."
Nan Yi leaned down and picked up Nan Wuwei, "We will be back in a few days. Daddy will take you to see the boats on the Huangpu River tomorrow, okay?"
"Okay." Nan Wuwei nodded his head again, "Dad, can you tell me a story?"
"Tell me a story. Dad didn't bring a storybook. So, I'll make one up for you. Wait for me." Nan Yi thought for a moment and came up with a good beginning. "800 billion light years away, there is a planet with a fifth-level civilization called the Scythe Planet.
There is a group of space garbage merchants on the Sickle planet. They pick up space garbage in the vast universe and then sell the garbage to other level four planets. This business is easy to do and the profits are huge. Moreover, they are outside the legal system of the Sickle planet, secretly hide the money they earn, and never pay taxes.
Over time, these space garbage merchants became rich enough to rival a country and lived a very luxurious life.
The citizens of the Scythe planet saw how well the space garbage traders were living, so they followed suit and joined the ranks of the space garbage traders.
As one thing goes up, another goes down. One morning, the King of the Scythe Planet, the Scythe King, finally discovered that the taxes he could collect were getting less and less. So, he enacted a new tax bill and established a team to fight against the space garbage merchants, called the 'Cleaners Squad'.
However, those space garbage merchants are backed by the powerful families of the Scythe Planet and represent the interests of the powerful families. Whenever the cleaning team sets out, the space garbage merchants will immediately get the news and flee in all directions.
After the cleaning team left, they came out from their hiding place and continued their activities.
After a while, the Scythe King realized that the current method was not working and he had to think of other ways.
So the Scythe King convened a meeting of his think tank, and everyone worked together and finally came up with a good idea - currency reform, abandoning the original currency and issuing a new one.
This new currency is incredible, it is called time currency, which is... inaction, everything in the universe has life, there is birth, and there is death."
"Yeah, Dad, I know, please continue." Nan Wuwei had already been caught up in the story made up by Nan Yi and was eager to hear what was to come.
"Okay, Dad, continue." Nan Yi smiled and continued to tell the story, "The sickle planet is a level 5 civilization, the technology is very advanced, there is no disease on that planet, humans have achieved immortality, time seems to have lost its meaning to them.
But as soon as the plan for time currency reform was implemented, everything became different.
The Scythe King gathered the dignitaries together and conveyed to them the plan for the time currency reform. Upon hearing about the currency reform, the dignitaries strongly opposed it. However, after the Scythe King explained the content of the time reform, the dignitaries thought about it for a while and voted unanimously.
The Scythe King's plan is to establish a time committee with the royal family and powerful families as core members. This committee issues an order to all citizens of the Scythe planet: within the specified time, citizens must go to the Time Committee to install a time storage device.
This storage device stores time, that is, the time the citizen can continue to survive. Once the time in this storage device is exhausted, the citizen will die immediately.
When the time storage device is installed, the time of each citizen is taken away, leaving only one year in their storage device. If citizens want to stay alive, they must make money, which is time currency.
The Time Committee has a large amount of time currency extracted from every citizen, and they also have the ability to create unlimited amounts of time currency. In this way, wealth and power are firmly concentrated in the hands of the Time Committee.
The Time Committee attacked everywhere, taking over all the businesses, entertainment venues, restaurants and all places related to making money on the entire Scythe planet, and all citizens became workers for them.
After working for one day, they can get two or three days' worth of time currency. They have to use one day to survive, and the rest is the "currency" they can use for consumption. They can use it to buy food and drinks and go to entertainment venues.
Each citizen's time storage device will be linked to the terminal of the Time Committee. If the Scythe King wants to collect taxes, he only needs to enter instructions on the terminal and the citizen's time currency will be transferred away without the citizen's consent.
Since the time currency reform was completed, the Scythe King no longer has to worry about which citizen does not pay taxes, nor does he have to worry about the public security of the Scythe planet. If a citizen commits a crime, there is no need to hunt him down. He only needs to enter the command in the terminal to directly withdraw his time currency.
From then on, the citizens of the Sickle Planet lived and worked in peace and contentment. Everyone devoted themselves to their work and worked together to promote the development of the Sickle Planet. Soon, the Sickle Planet became a level VI civilization, leaving the other level 4 civilizations far behind and became the overlord of the universe.
Okay, that’s the end of my father’s story. Next time I’ll tell you the story of the confidentiality agreement in 1977. That year, my father was the captain of the Bottle Commando. ”
"Okay, but, Dad, I didn't understand the story you just told." Nan Wuwei said confusedly.
"Haha, it's okay if you don't understand now. You will understand when you grow up. There is an ant nest in the backyard. Daddy will take you to play with ant writing."
"Uh-huh."
…
Capital city.
It was almost time to get off work when Leng Yan got on a cart and went to the Shengchen Pharmaceutical factory.
When the workers gathered in the factory office saw Leng Yan appear, they immediately calmed down and looked at the three sacks on the cart with burning eyes.
With a creak, the cart stopped in front of the factory office and Leng Yan jumped off.
"Section Chief Yuchi, Accountant Jiang, come over and help us pay the employees' salaries as soon as possible."
When Yuchi Shao and Jiang Ziqi heard the call, they immediately came to Leng Yan. The three of them moved the sack off the cart together, then opened the sack to reveal the banknotes and coupons inside.
"This... Assistant Leng, why is the money so scattered?" Jiang Ziqi said as soon as he saw the money in the sack.
"I borrowed the money from friends who run small businesses. They are all street vendors who make a profit from the profits. There is no other way. Time is too tight and I don't have time to go to the bank to change the money. Please pay the wages quickly. Changes are also money and can be spent all the same." Leng Yan waved her hand, her face full of haggardness.
Of course not. In order to play today's role well, she didn't sleep all night last night. How could she not look haggard?
"Assistant Leng, where is Director Nan? How long has he not been to the factory?"
Without caring about worldly affairs, the good-natured Du Shoufu asked a question that concerned both the factory office and the employees.
"Director Nan is busy with his business. His business has reached a critical moment and he can't leave. Besides... it seems there is no need for him to leave. Secretary Du, I have to go to the district to resign on behalf of Director Nan and myself. Sorry, I don't have time to talk to you more."
Leng Yan said, then turned to Yuchi Shao and said, "Chief Yuchi, please count the money quickly and give me a receipt. I still need to ask Director Nan for reimbursement."
Du Shoufu was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked, "Resigning? Assistant Leng, are you and Director Nan leaving?"
Leng Yan deliberately raised her voice and replied excitedly, "What else can I do if I don't leave? Director Nan has decided to give up. He is not going to take the last 500,000 yuan and today's 100,000 yuan. He said that people should be honest. Since he promised to pay the employees within one day, he must do it.
He wanted to contribute to achieve a win-win situation for everyone, but some people didn't accept it. What could he do? He couldn't just waste time here. Director Nan has parents, a wife and children. I also have parents. We all have to support our families..."
Leng Yan calmed down, suppressed her emotions, and then said calmly: "Secretary Du, I'm sorry, we give up."
As soon as Leng Yan finished speaking, Qiao Weiping walked out of the crowd and shouted shrilly: "Assistant Leng, you and Director Nan can't leave. If you leave, what will happen to the Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory and the employees? You can't leave..."
"Assistant Leng, you can't leave."
"Assistant Leng, find Director Nan. You can't leave."
…
Led by Qiao Weiping, several employees also started shouting. Then, one led to two, two led to three, and soon most of the employees were mobilized.
This is the power of coercion. When frenzy is prevalent, individuals cannot stay sober or think independently.
It’s not that no one doubts that the current situation was deliberately pushed by someone. Qian Liaoyuan has some doubts, and Qin Shuguang is absolutely suspicious, but they dare not express their doubts.
Not to mention finding trouble with Nan Yi, they can hardly protect themselves right now.
Why is there no improvement at the Jiuyao Factory? Why can't things move forward?
Isn’t it because the two of them took the lead in stopping it?
"Okay, the valuation is 12 million, why don't you get the money back! You can't get the money back, and you're stopping others from getting the money back. Qian Liaoyuan and Qin Shuguang are the sinners of the Nine Pharmaceutical Factory."
This is the voice of most of the employees at the Jiuyao Factory.
In fact, for most employees, there is no difference whether the Jiuyao Factory is worth 12 million or 4 million. Is there a direct relationship between the value of the factory and their salary?
No, it has nothing to do with it. The high value of the factory does not mean that their wages will be high.
Is there a big difference in economics between being a security guard in a company with a market value of trillions and one with a market value of one hundred thousand, other than the fact that the larger company looks more respectable?
Not big, not big at all.
Whether it is 12 million or 4 million, although the valuation differs by three times, it makes little difference to Nan Yi. It is nothing more than investing a few hundred thousand more.
There are plenty of ways to get back the extra money you invested later.
What Nan Yi cares about is not the valuation, but the right to speak. If he doesn't remove the troublemaker now, and someone else jumps out to complain when it comes to key plans at critical moments in the future, how can things move forward?
To Nan Yi, no one in the Jiuyao Factory was a good person. Shen Qinglian emptied the factory but refused to jump in. He came to save Daxia, which was on the verge of collapse, and then he jumped out when he was ready to turn the situation around.
This is clearly bullying him because he is young and they think he is an easy target!
"call!"
Nan Yi swung his left hand and a nail flew towards the target hanging on the wall. After flying for 0.03 seconds, it directly pierced the wall more than one meter away from the target.
"Dad, your aim is too bad." said Nan Wuwei who was watching on the side.
"Haha, son, you don't understand. Go and pull out the flying nail and see, I have already cut off the hemorrhoids of a mosquito."
"Um?"
With great disbelief, Nan Wuwei ran to the wall and pulled out the nails. Then he looked at the nail heads and then at the wall, "Dad, there's nothing."
"Hmph, you are not allowed to play video games in the future. Your eyes have been damaged. You can't even see such a big hemorrhoid." Nan Yi said righteously.
After I finished speaking, I started to wonder, "That's not right. I clearly calculated all the data, so why did it go off the mark? Is it because the mosquito flew too fast, or did I calculate the data wrong?"
"Dad, you're lying."
Nan Wuwei made a face, threw the flying nail back to Nan Yi, and ran away with his legs stomping.
