Tai Sha Tau Pier, Sai Kung Fishing Port.
This is the food street with food stalls. It starts from the Haiyin Bridge which was opened to traffic last year. There are six or seven tables in a horizontal line and stretch for two miles in a vertical line. Hundreds of restaurants are connected together. Each table has two or three people at least and six, seven, eight or nine people at most. As many as tens of thousands of people are crowded on one street to eat. It is quite spectacular.
Nan Yi rejected the several empty seats pointed out by Lin Guangwei and waited for a while. Seeing that the seats at the outermost edge near the entrance of the food stall were being filled, he walked over, put Nan Wuwei in the safest seat, and sat next to his son.
"Boss, what's so good about this position? Jiang Feng's view has been blocked by others." Lin Guangwei complained as he sat down.
"What do you know? If someone causes trouble at those spots you just pointed out and the crowd gets agitated, they will either be beaten to death or trampled to death."
"Okay, you're the most precious one, what do you want to eat?"
"Water cockroaches, rice worms, silkworm pupae, and the rest are up to you."
"Herbworms won't work. They make me sick." Lin Guangwei frowned and said, "How about sandworms instead?"
"Useless thing, you still dare to say you are from Guangzhou. Forget it, I will take care of you and give you some light dishes, such as Sanzhi, stewed turtle with bats, dragon and tiger fight, and steamed placenta, medium rare."
Nan Yi was about to earn a million dollars and felt that his life had reached its peak. He was so confident that he couldn't help but make a joke.
"Nan Yi, you are just trying to disgust me. Never mind. I'll just order some seafood."
"hehe."
Nan Yi smiled and didn't continue the joke. Instead, he turned around and looked at the diners at the food stall.
Nowadays, the unit wages are almost the same across the country, and the regional differences are not obvious. If you work in a unit, the income level in Guangzhou is not much higher than that in the mainland, but consumption is completely different.
At the current food stalls, a leisurely meal would cost at least fifteen yuan per person, but there are more than ten thousand people sitting here. It has to be said that there are many wealthy people in Guangzhou.
"What are you looking at? Did you see someone you know?"
Lin Guangwei ordered the dishes and seeing that Nan Yi’s eyes were dazed, he waved in front of him.
"I only have a few acquaintances in Yangcheng, which one do you not know?" Nan Yi retracted his gaze and looked at Lin Guangwei, "I think the summer in Yangcheng is the most comfortable. Sitting here, enjoying the river breeze and drinking a glass of draft beer, I feel cool from the inside out."
"I don't have the same mentality as you. I have social events at least 200 days out of 365 days a year. They're either karaoke bars or saunas. I have to go. Merchants from the mainland buy into this. Now I feel like vomiting when I hear the word karaoke bar."
"Fuck, then you said you would take me to see it?"
"Boss, I'm just saying this. I know you've been flying all over the world. If we talk about experience, you can take me with you."
"Don't talk about this. Where's your girlfriend, Qu Li? Are you still together?"
"She and I have never been together. She has a boyfriend now. I will go to support her occasionally, and we will live together from time to time."
When Nan Yi heard this, he smiled playfully and said, "Stop, that's really elegant. Or are you good at playing? Aren't you afraid of being blocked on the bed?"
"It's him, a gigolo, he wouldn't dare to do that even if you give him the guts... You really can't talk about people behind their backs, that's Qu Li's boyfriend." Lin Guangwei pointed in the direction of his face.
Following the direction Lin Guangwei pointed, Nan Yi saw a tall and thin man who looked quite handsome. His left earlobe was reflective, so he must be wearing an earring. The man's hand was around a woman's shoulder. The woman looked very worldly. Nan Yi guessed that she was engaged in an ancient profession like that of a killer.
"You said he's a gigolo?"
"That's right."
"Then he doesn't just eat one. This person should also help feed him."
"The pretty boy is quite likable." Lin Guangwei spat, "Ou Li was really blind to choose him."
"Take care of yourself and be careful of cross infection."
"Don't curse me. I won't look at it anymore. Let's eat." Lin Guangwei turned his head and started to eat the prawns that the waiter had just brought over.
Lin Guangwei didn't watch it, but Nan Yi continued to watch it. He had a premonition that something was going to happen.
Following his line of sight, Nan Yi saw Qu Li and another woman rushing towards her boyfriend's table angrily.
At five meters, Ou Li's hand reached behind her back; at four meters, Ou Li had a kitchen knife in her hand; at three meters, Ou Li rushed forward; at two meters, the kitchen knife was raised high, Nan Yi stood up and hugged Nan Wuwei; at one meter, the kitchen knife was swung down, the school beauty and the tiger cub stood in front of Nan Yi; at half a meter, the kitchen knife completed the handover ceremony, Ou Li's hand loosened, and Ou Li's boyfriend clamped the kitchen knife with his left shoulder.
“Murder…!”
"It's so tempting!"
The sharp cry sounded, but few of the diners were disturbed. They just stopped talking and turned their eyes to the kitchen knife. Some ruffians even ran away. Judging from their behavior, they were not scared, but took the opportunity to escape the bill.
Nan Wuwei covered his eyes with his hands, looking scared, but the width between his fingers was enough to hold a Xinhua Dictionary, and the outline of a pair of kitchen knives was reflected in his eyes.
Lin Guangwei was confused for a moment, then turned around and looked, and suddenly, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
The female suspect, Ou Li, was no longer as furious as before. Her face was pale, and her hands and feet were stiff. If her eyeballs were not still moving, Li Ziban would probably have been unable to resist arriving early so as to be the first to arrive.
The woman who was wrapped up by Qu Li was already stunned when Qu Li drew the knife. It seemed that she had no idea that Qu Li would do this.
Nan Yi did not think there was anything wrong with Nan Wuwei's behavior, and he did not suspect that there was a fifty-year-old loser in his body. Like Nan Yi, Nan Wuwei also liked to watch people slaughtering pigs. At the age of three, he went to his own slaughterhouse to help clean various internal organs. This kind of small scene could not scare him at all.
However, Nan Yi was a little embarrassed by the diners' behavior, as if the car had rolled over three and a half times and the driver was afraid that it would explode and quickly lie down. The pushing and trampling that Nan Yi was worried about did not happen, and he could not help but be suspected of making a fuss over nothing.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Nan Yi said to Lin Guangwei: "Um, Guangwei, what is the name of the victim?"
"What victim?"
"The one with the knife on his shoulder."
"It seems his name is Zhong Jilong."
"Okay, Zhong Jilong is a good name, it sounds tough."
Lin Guangwei didn't want to chat with Nan Yi. He took out his phone from his bag and was about to dial the number when he suddenly stopped and looked at Nan Yi blankly, "What's the hospital's phone number?"
"He is your love rival, and you are afraid that he will die from excessive blood loss."
Although Nan Yi said this, he knew in his heart that Lin Guangwei wanted to call the hospital because of Qu Li. Zhong Jilong's injuries were not serious, so there was still a chance to settle the matter privately. If it was too serious, it would be difficult to settle it privately.
"You can try 120. I don't know if Guangzhou is connected."
Lin Guangwei tried to call, " It doesn't work ."
"Oh, please help me. What are you waiting for? Help him into your car and rush him to the hospital."
After several explanations and a flurry of activity, Zhong Jilong was helped into Lin Guangwei's car. Lin Guangwei took him to the hospital first, while Qu Li and her female companion got into Nan Yi's car and followed behind Lin Guangwei's car.
"Are you hungry?"
"Hungry."
"We'll send the two aunts to the hospital and then go eat."
"good."
"Sir, can you please not send us to the hospital?" Qu Li's female companion turned around and interrupted the conversation between Nan Yi and his son.
Nan Yi raised his head and turned his gaze from Nan Wuwei's face to his female companion's face, "If you want to settle it privately, go to the hospital, pay the other person's medical expenses, and then discuss the compensation terms. Otherwise, the police station will definitely take Qu Li away first, and will release her only after the negotiation is completed."
"I...I can..."
The female companion stammered, her baby face became oval, but she just couldn't utter the rest of the words.
He hadn't noticed it before, but when Nan Yi took a closer look at his female companion's face, he couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. Her oval face with a little baby fat made her look cute and pleasing to the eye. She had a full forehead, a straight nose, small lips, and a round and slightly upturned chin. The four highs and three lows outlined a beautiful curve.
Her eyes are not big, but they sparkle like stars, and she has natural eye bags. If she smiles, her eyebrows should be curved and her smile should be sweet.
"She has a sweet voice and a sweet face. She's a good candidate for singing sweet songs."
Nan Yi put aside his thoughts and said to his female companion, "Forget about me. You're already involved. You'd better follow me. What's your name?"
"Jiang Yingshui."
When Nan Yi heard the name Jiang Yingshui, a poem suddenly came out of his mind, "In the Mood for Love, with my sweetheart, I escorted you home every night. We were inseparable, but we left each other easily. It's hard to be in Guangzhou on a small day, and I'll sing when you ask me to sing. The most painful thing is to be drunk alone in the Red Mansion, and miss you so much, will you come back? After washing away all the lead and dust, it's hard to return after riding the wind and waves."
"???"
Three question marks popped up in Jiang Yingshui's mind, and she wondered if this man was sick.
Nan Yi caught a glimpse of Jiang Yingshui's disgusted expression through the rearview mirror. He did not try to explain anything. Although she was the object of his fantasy when he first drew a map as a teenager in his previous life, and it had a special meaning, his son's belly was the most important to him now.
They followed Lin Guangwei's car in silence all the way to the gate of the Chinese medicine hospital. After dropping the two girls off at the hospital gate, Nan Yi stared at Jiang Yingshui for a few more seconds and asked the school beauty to drive to find a place to eat.
The car drove less than a kilometer when the school beauty pulled over. There were three food stalls next to each other on the right side of the road. There were many small trucks parked at the door. Through the gaps between the cars, you could see the lighted signs of the food stalls and seven or eight tables at the door.
After getting Nan Wuwei off the car, when they were not far from the food stalls, Nan Yi saw several strange pairs sitting at the tables. There were sloppy middle-aged men with weather-beaten faces who looked several years older than their actual ages. Three or five men still had white towels around their necks that used to be white. There were beautiful young women with exaggeratedly large earrings and fashionable and cool clothes.
Passing by a truck, Nan Yi glanced at the license plate and found it was a Hong Kong license plate, which was not surprising.
The beginning of Hong Kong people's longing for China is truck drivers. Even before they return to their mother's arms, they can't wait to come back and settle down. Every time they deliver goods, exhausted, they think that at a certain door, there is already a tutor waiting for them to come over to learn Mandarin, and their hearts are warm.
"Repeat after me. One, two, three, four, two, grandpa and grandma's milk!"
Nan Yi picked an empty table and sat down. He ordered a plate of fried rice noodles first and asked the boss to serve it quickly. Then he slowly looked at the menu and ordered four dishes and a soup.
As soon as the dishes were ordered, the fried rice noodles were served.
Nan Yi pulled out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, wiped them, and handed one pair to Nan Wuwei.
After eating a few mouthfuls of rice noodles to fill his stomach, Nan Yi put down his chopsticks and his mind started to race again.
When he saw the truck and the truck driver just now, in addition to thinking about tutoring, Nan Yi also caught some inspiration about logistics. Logistics must be done, not for the logistics fee, but because the reclamation group needs to build its own logistics network. After all, in the near future, the reclamation group will transport food to all parts of the country.
It is unrealistic to maintain a large-scale fleet as the cost is too high. If you cooperate with freight companies, the cost will not be too low as they will take a cut. If you cooperate directly with drivers, the management cost will remain high.
A more reasonable model is to cooperate directly with drivers, but to obtain the expenses of management, dispatching and other staff from other channels, and it would be best if there is still a little extra profit.
For truck drivers, theoretically, they can only earn a one-way profit when transporting goods from point A to point B, and they usually transport goods empty-handed on the return trip. Therefore, when calculating the cost, they often include the return trip expenses in the quoted cost.
Of course, this is only in theory. In reality, drivers will try their best to find return orders. It would be best if they can find a high-priced order, but it is also OK if they can't find a low-priced order. As long as the quoted price is greater than the increased fuel costs and labor costs, they will generally accept it. This is the so-called return order.
There are fewer trucks and drivers now, and truck drivers have firmly controlled the seller's market. They can make a fortune just by looking up to the sky. Don't try to bargain for the freight when you ask them to transport goods. If you think it is too expensive, they will turn around and find new orders.
Therefore, as long as there are few people engaged in an industry and there is no internal competition, you can still make a lot of money in an inconspicuous business.
This is the situation in the current transportation industry. A driver who transports goods for the reclamation group always has a ten-yuan cigarette in his mouth. He has a heavy smoking habit and smokes at least two packs a day.
Tsk tsk, a ten-yuan cigarette costs seven or eight hundred yuan a month. No matter whether he is a spendthrift or not, if it were someone else, even if a family of four were all paid and did not eat or drink, they could not expect to reach the level of cigarette freedom that he has. You can imagine how much truck drivers earn nowadays, and it is impossible for it to be less than two thousand yuan a month.
But human desires are endless, and making money is addictive. It is impossible for a truck driver to not take return trip orders .
The Kenzhi Group can completely set up an independent driver's friend information service company, set up outlets one by one, and collect freight information. Drivers who want to receive return orders can go to the outlets to rest, drink a cup of tea, and wait for the staff to match the orders according to the region. If the match is successful, the driver can reward the staff with two cups of tea and drive back happily.
There is no need to ask where the order came from, nor to ask whether it was accepted at the price of a return order. Such questions are too embarrassing and difficult to answer. If you ask too urgently, the staff will only say that the order was accepted at a loss. The purpose of Driver's Friends is to sacrifice themselves and solve all worries for the drivers.
The idea of ​​Drivers' Friends is perfect, but today's drivers are very capable and don't need help from others. Only a fool would run such a company.
Regarding this issue, we have to talk about the "common prosperity" that Nan Yi often talks about. A driver spends 800 yuan on cigarettes every month. What does this mean?
This shows that transportation is a good business, so it requires fellow villagers and acquaintances to work together.
A driver cannot be a driver working for others. He has to be a driver who owns his own truck. Both the truck and the driver belong to him. Only then can he earn more.
"What? No money? Can't afford a car?"
"Don't panic. Look around in your city to see if there is a driver-back-to-back company. Don't be afraid. Push open the door and walk in. Tell the staff boldly that you want to buy a large truck. As long as you have a good reputation among the neighbors and there are two or three people willing to guarantee you, this company will lend you money with an interest rate of less than 10%..."
The Drivers' Back-to-Back Company lends money to drivers to buy large trucks, develops and expands the team of large truck drivers, and makes this industry prosperous... When everyone gets rich together, it will naturally be beneficial for the "Drivers' Friends" to conduct business. As for the problem that drivers have borrowed money but have no channels to buy cars, the Drivers' Back-to-Back Company will also help solve it.
Driver Back-to-Back Company has a strategic partner - Haitang Trading. This company is very powerful and has many connections in Soviet revisionism. It is capable of bringing sturdy and cheap large trucks into the country. It is absolutely economical to buy their cars, and the interest rate can be reduced by two percentage points.
Information platform -> loan affiliation -> car sales, one thing leads to another. Car sales can also expand into a series of businesses such as car repair, car modification and decoration, insurance agency, etc. Whether you do it yourself or bring in partners, these are industries with promising prospects in the near future.
"Damn it, I raise a chicken just to eat a chicken drumstick, set up a breeding farm to raise chickens, and then set up a supporting feed factory, slaughterhouse, and retail store. I am doing this like a nesting doll. Isn't this too much?"
Nan Yi stroked his chin and after briefly weighing the pros and cons, he decided to move forward in this direction. Making money is secondary. Doing so can create more jobs and enable more people to achieve common prosperity and a well-off life.
"Dad, the food is here."
All the dishes were served. Seeing that Nan Yi didn't move, Nan Wuwei pushed his hand.
"Oh." Nan Yi came back to his senses, picked up the chopsticks and put some kale into Nan Wuwei's bowl, "Eat more greens."
Nan Wuwei took a bite of rice and said, "Well, Dad, I want more bamboo shoots."
Having been to so many places, Nan Wuwei, like Nan Yi, would mix in some dialect-specific nouns when speaking, which made his speech a little confusing.
"good."
Nan Yi responded and put some stir-fried water bamboo into Nan Wuwei's bowl. He watched over Nan Wuwei's food first, and after he finished half a bowl of rice, Nan Yi started eating his own food.
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the next day.
The weather was still hot, and Nan Yi stayed at home without going out.
It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. Nan Yi handed the takeaway dishes and chopsticks from lunch to the restaurant waiter who came to recycle them, treated him to a soda, and then walked out to the yard with him.
There were two pigeons standing on the tree again. The tiger cub said that their crops were still broken and there were still rings on their feet.
When Nan Yi heard this, he immediately became interested. He called Nan Wuwei, wrapped the lens of the telescope with two layers of gauze, cut a small hole on it, put on a pair of sunglasses, and took the telescope to the balcony on the second floor.
Pigeons that can become racing pigeons must have been trained. They have fixed flight routes and generally do not fly around randomly.
Nan Yi and Nan Wu divided the work between two people, each observing one direction.
After observing for about half an hour, Nan Wuwei suddenly shouted, "Dad, there are seven at three o'clock."
Nan Yi turned around and looked over, and sure enough, he saw several pigeons flying quickly towards the northeast at an altitude of about 35 meters, with a speed of at least 90 kilometers per hour.
"It's flying very fast. It must be in a competition. I don't know how big the bet is."
The pigeons flashed by, their speed was too fast and the sample was too small, so Nan Yi could not estimate their flight range.
"The flight boundary is 800 meters, the pigeon's flight altitude is 30-45 meters, the flight speed is about 92 kilometers per hour, the flight is in a straight line at a constant speed, the wind speed is gentle, and there is no need to consider humidity. The shooting distance is 45-170 meters, and the elevation angle is 65-75 degrees. The PSG-1 uses NATO 7.62×51 caliber ammunition, the bullet diameter is 7.82 mm, the bullet neck diameter is 8.58 mm, and the weight... Calculate how many snipers should be deployed to have an accuracy rate of more than 80% to shoot down the designated pigeon."
"Uh... Dad, there's no way to calculate. You didn't tell me how good the snipers' marksmanship was, whether the PSG-1 was semi-automatic or bolt-action, and the interval between each sniper's shots."
"PSG-1 is semi-automatic, so it's hard to say the level of the sniper. Assuming all the data are provided to you, can you calculate it?" Nan Yi said, putting down the telescope.
"Dad, I can do it."
Nan Yi nodded and said solemnly: "Dad believes in you. Our Wuwei has a high talent for mathematics."
“Hehehe.”
"Stop giggling, it's still hot, let's go down."
Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei back downstairs and let Nan Wuwei continue to lie on the bamboo bed to cool off and read comics. He himself slumped down on the bamboo lounge chair beside him, motionless.
During this period, Nan Yi felt powerless. He couldn't think of a way to earn 50 million yuan a month just by selling micro-businesses. He also couldn't think of 50 golden ideas worth millions that could be sold quickly.
His memory is not good either. He doesn't remember what major events will happen in the rest of this year. The only thing he remembers is the "Three Black Minutes". He only remembers that it was about an event in the World Cup qualifiers, but he has no idea what it was specifically about.
It’s not that I didn’t remember it, but I don’t know the cause, process, and result of this incident. I just heard a few words from somewhere by chance.
Fortunately, the memories of his previous life were of little use. All the major economic events in his memory were inevitable under the promotion of someone. So far, no accidental event has been found. Or, they could have been inferred according to the laws of development of things a few years ago.
My memory is not good, and there have not been many speculative opportunities recently. The Japanese stock market is still rising, but the increase is no longer as exaggerated. The Bank of Japan has long discovered the problems of loan frenzy and excess liquidity, but it is still arguing about the strategy of a soft landing.
Over the years, Nan Yi has experienced and witnessed many major events, and he also knows some inside information. When a company or bank encounters a major accident, the so-called thunderstorm, a few days, months, or even years before the day when everyone knows about it, a small group of people have already known about it, and have quietly developed solutions and simulated them several times.
When there is a sudden thunderstorm, only ordinary people will be confused, while those who are prepared will always remain calm.
Just like the Bank of Japan is preparing for a soft landing and is secretly preparing for the right time to implement a solution, but ideals are beautiful and reality is cruel. The holes in both the stock market and the housing market are too big and not so easy to fill, not to mention that there are many forces that do not want this hole to be filled.
The same goes for the Nan Group. If anyone wants to deal with the person who filled the hole, the Nan Group will definitely lend a hand. I dare not say how much, but I will give any amount within 5 billion US dollars and am ready to rush forward and sacrifice heroically at any time.
As for the U.S. stock market, after experiencing Black Monday, there was a brief period of silence and adjustment, and then the second bull market began. So far, the U.S. stock index has doubled again.
In the past few years, large American companies have been implementing globalization strategies to drive new growth points for corporate profits. Obviously, they have found them, which is why the second bull market in U.S. stocks has emerged.
Speaking of globalization, it is not a new term. As early as the colonial era in the 19th century, colonial powers represented by Britain imported raw materials from colonies and then sold their industrial products all over the world. This was a manifestation of globalization.
However, globalization has now been given new connotations. This time, globalization is mainly driven by multinational corporations. It is the globalization of sales and even more so the globalization of production.
Globalization of sales means that American companies sell goods to other countries. From the early 20th century to the late 1960s, the United States has been a net exporter of goods, and the phenomenon of globalization of sales continues to exist.
However, in the 1980s, there was a significant change in the form of US companies' exports, and they began to export more intangible goods - services.
Since the Reagan reforms and the personal computer revolution, the U.S. service industries, such as scientific research and the entertainment industry, have made tremendous progress and established a leading edge in the world, which is a prerequisite for the global export of U.S. service industries.
Globalization of production means that American companies gradually move their manufacturing processes to overseas developing regions.
After experiencing rapid increases in prices and wages in the 1970s, labor costs in the United States have become too high and no longer suitable for the survival of labor-intensive enterprises. Therefore, many companies began to build factories overseas or outsource production to overseas companies.
Domestic American companies are more responsible for high value-added service links such as R&D and marketing, while the number of pure processing and manufacturing companies has been greatly reduced.
On the road to globalization, American companies have played to their strengths and avoided their weaknesses, leveraging their service technology advantages and avoiding their labor cost disadvantages, ultimately maintaining high profit growth. As a result, globalization has become the only way for the U.S. economic momentum to shift from manufacturing to services.
The National Security and Policy Committee predicted that globalization would occur in the 1980s, and later conducted an analysis that this phenomenon was both technologically inevitable and politically accidental.
From a management perspective, the computer and information technology revolution in the early 1980s greatly reduced the global management costs of multinational corporations. Through advanced personal computers and remote communication technologies, multinational corporate headquarters can promptly understand the operating and sales situation of branches around the world and make immediate decisions and commands.
Therefore, the advancement of information technology is an important condition for the formation of multinational corporations.
From the perspective of industrial division of labor, the comparative advantage of the US service industry began to rise in the 1980s, so globalization also appeared almost at the same time. Globalization is in line with the general trend of US companies to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses and to regionally decouple the manufacturing and service links.
The political contingency is reflected in the sudden change in the world political direction in the 1980s, the rapid dissolution of the Cold War between the East and the West, the opening up of socialist countries to the outside world, and the joining of billions of people into the global trade system, which gave globalization a more substantial definition.
Throughout the 1980s, although the U.S. economy experienced several years of prosperity due to the strong growth of the service industry, the unemployment rate in the United States never fell below the natural unemployment rate of 5% because the high-end service industry absorbed too few jobs. The unemployment problem became a concern for Reagan.
The prescription prescribed by this old Chinese doctor is to further support the service industry and further deregulate, especially the financial industry. After the removal of regulations, it is expected to become another pillar of the US economy and ultimately help solve the unemployment problem.
The systematic regulation of the U.S. financial industry can be traced back to the New Deal, most of which were drawn up by President Roosevelt and his administration based on the bloody lessons of the Great Depression.
Half a century later, Reagan believed that these regulatory policies were too outdated and had seriously restricted the development of the financial industry and were not conducive to the rapid growth of the overall economy. Therefore, he began to undertake financial liberalization reforms.
Volcker, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, did not agree with Reagan's deregulation views. He opposed Reagan's policies and believed that financial regulatory policies were necessary to prevent financial risks.
Reagan did not listen to Volcker. Instead, he kicked this hero of the US economy out of the Federal Reserve in 1987 and replaced him with Alan Greenspan, who supported financial liberalization, clearing the way for his own administration.
During this period, the financial liberalization in the United States went through three stages, namely interest rate liberalization, regional liberalization and business liberalization.
As early as the stagflation period in the 1970s, affected by the sharp fluctuations in inflation rates, market interest rates also often fluctuated and were unable to match the policy interest rates. Therefore, there were calls for interest rate liberalization in the industry.
The reform lasted for 16 years. By March 1986, with all deposit interest rates no longer subject to restrictions, interest rate marketization in the United States had been fully realized.
While the interest rate liberalization reform was being implemented in full swing, U.S. states were also relaxing restrictions on the geographical operations of commercial banks. In 1982, Massachusetts passed a reciprocal law for interstate operations in the New England region, marking the beginning of states legislating to lift banking restrictions.
So far, only a few states in the United States are not open to foreign banks.
In fact, Vail Bank is already preparing to enter several other major agricultural states. Whether the lives of American farmers and ranchers are good or not still depends on Wall Street. As long as Wall Street capital fluctuates a few times in beef futures, many cattle ranches will face bankruptcy and the risk of their ranches being taken away by banks.
The same goes for Shennong Nanliang. If it weren't for the Nan family's financial support, and Shennong Nanliang was separated and left to fend for itself, it would have gone bankrupt by now.
The Nan family has been shifting back and forth between finance and bulk grain transactions, making up for losses in the east and losses in the west, and arbitrage hedging and futures manipulation have been coordinated throughout.
To be honest, in the Shennong Nanliang system, Wangmu Fruit Industry has always had the most considerable profit margin and is the least worry-free . Fruit does not involve national food security, so it is naturally subject to less supervision and constraints, and it is relatively easy to manipulate the market.
It is very easy to push up prices in a small area. If a fruit ship docks a few days later, the price of the fruit can increase by several yuan.
In particular, Wangmu Fruit Industry has a full industrial chain layout. If the fruit cannot be sold at a high price for the time being, there is no need to rush to sell it at a low price. It can produce low-end jams and juices, and the pomace can also be used to make feed. Even if it does not sell a single fruit for five or six years, Wangmu Fruit Industry can still sustain itself.
Fresh fruits and secondary processing can be adjusted at any time, and Wangmu Fruit Industry has a great deal of initiative. It is not afraid of others manipulating the market or the market collapse. As long as there are still people eating fruits, Wangmu Fruit Industry will still thrive.
In short, in the next few years, the southern banking system will light up the financial attributes of Shennong Nanliang, with bulk grain in the left hand and financial short selling in the right hand, with soybeans doubling today and wheat quintupling tomorrow.
Nan Yi shook his head and stopped thinking too deeply. He pulled his thoughts back and continued to think about the urgent matter of 50 million.
It seems that there is no point in using London gold. The gold market has now become a battle at the national level. Although the Nan family has been transporting grain to the Soviet revisionists, it is just a drop in the bucket. The Soviet revisionists have a large food gap and their foreign exchange reserves are very poor. The Soviet revisionists have been quietly selling gold to exchange for foreign exchange to buy food.
Nan Yi rushed into the gold market with only tens of thousands of dollars, but something went wrong in one second, he had to add margin in three seconds, and he was kicked out in five seconds.
Gold is not a play, and neither are cotton, wheat, rapeseed, oats, soybeans, corn, sugar, coffee, cocoa, pigs, timber, silver, platinum, copper, and aluminum.
"The only thing that's worth a try is rubber. How about I first verbally promise to sponsor some front or revolutionary army, and then ask them to show their sincerity by setting a few fires in the rubber plantations I designate? This seems to be a good idea, and it's much more reliable than working with gamblers to shoot pigeons."