Nan Yi looked away from the computer screen and leaned back. "Have you ever heard of the price of a freighter?"
"I have learned that the price of a new ship is about US$113 per ton, and a second-hand ship in good condition is about US$85 per ton. I tend to buy a second-hand ship because there are no new ships available, so I have to wait."
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "Make me a plan with a time limit of two years. How much shipping fee can be recovered in two years? And what price can be sold for after two years?"
"Nansheng, you don't think the shipping business is promising?"
"Jiang Shang Fishery."
Zhao Jinshui was slightly annoyed, "How could I forget about Jiangshang Fishery? It already has a shipping business."
"Nansheng, I understand. I will give you the plan as soon as possible."
"Okay, go ahead."
"Black sesame paste... When I was a kid, I couldn't sit still when I heard the hawking of sesame paste. Black sesame paste..."
The afternoon passed in a flash. Nan Yi, who was sitting at the table eating dinner, heard the sound coming from the TV. His eyes instantly misted over and a wave of memories flooded his heart.
Southern black sesame paste was the food he had always dreamed of but could not get in his previous life. He didn’t know whether it tasted good or not because he had never eaten it. However, the memories the advertisement gave him were beautiful, so beautiful that it made him feel melancholy.
"Campus Belle, buy two bags of black sesame paste and send them to Shanghai tomorrow. They are the Nanfang brand."
"OK."
As the weather gets hotter, the atmosphere in many places becomes more lively.
On the Soviet revisionist side, the Supreme Soviet passed the "Law on the Principles of Denationalization and Privatization of Enterprises", also known as the Privatization Law.
At the end of the first phase (1992), 40% to 50% of the fixed production funds of enterprises owned by the union will be removed from direct state management; by the end of the second phase (1995), this proportion will rise to 60% to 70%.
According to the Privatization Law, state-owned enterprises can be converted into leasing enterprises or collective enterprises, or transformed into joint-stock companies and sold by tender or auction. They will mainly be purchased by the enterprise's employees, but other Soviet revisionist citizens or foreign citizens and legal persons also have the right to purchase them.
Once this bill came out, the long-delayed Vasily Bank project had legal support, and the time had finally come for it to be established. The Southern Banking System selected several people to rush to Moscow to fill in the Vasily Bank Preparatory Committee.
Chang Guoqing came back from Zhucheng and reported to Nan Yi about the hot real estate market there. Zhucheng, a small city with only 100,000 people, has more than 700 real estate companies and more than 200,000 employees. The land that was worth less than 70,000 yuan per mu two months ago has now risen to nearly 90,000 yuan. This is the first-hand price without resale.
After listening to Chang Guoqing's report on the basic situation, Nan Yi asked him to take out the map of Zhucheng he brought back and spread it on the table. While listening to Chang Guoqing's story, he was thinking in his mind.
"This is Beibu Gulf Square, where the International Pearl Festival will be held in October; this is the Overseas Chinese Hotel, next to which there are more than 100 mu of vacant land, the land price is relatively high, more than 300,000 yuan per mu; this is the Eighth Primary School, next to which there is also vacant land; this is Qiaogang Town, where a cable TV network will be established this year; this is Changqing Park..."
Chang Guoqing first took a corner and told Nan Yi about the land situation in Zhucheng bit by bit.
"This is Wuzai Village, also known as Company Village. Almost every residential building is the office of a company. Further ahead, this area is more chaotic and noisy. A group of people doing sales gathered there..."
"Guoqing, go back and make a development plan for Zhucheng worth 18 million. You have to combine the local characteristics, make the plan look attractive, and boldly use literary embellishments in the data. The investment figures must be reasonable and can withstand scrutiny.
Once the plan is ready, you can make another hard trip..." Nan Yi took a pencil and drew a few circles on the map, "Here, here, here, here, here, buy a little bit of each piece of land, don't buy it all, until you spend all 18 million, you can come back."
"Boss Nan, should the plan be based on the land?"
"No, the regional orientation in the plan does not need to be too strong. You can use words such as adjacent, close to, and along the line. You can find a hypothetical plot of land to design. I will give you two days to work overtime. Someone will come to the company to discuss cooperation the day after tomorrow, and you will need it then."
"Okay, I'll do it now." Chang Guoqing responded.
"Wait a minute." Nan Yi stopped Chang Guoqing and handed him a piece of paper. "This is the employee compensation plan I designed for the company. Take it and have a look. If you have any different opinions, you can raise them."
Chang Guoqing took it and looked at it. There was a form on the paper with Nan Yi's name written in the first row. He looked to the right and saw "600.00" in the basic salary column. Continuing to the right, he saw a box filled with various subsidy items and numbers. A rough addition showed that the total was more than 3,000 yuan. The last two columns also included job dividends and project dividends, with the numbers being 1% and 2% respectively.
After reading it, Chang Guoqing's heart trembled, and he immediately looked at the line below, which was his own salary.
The basic salary is "540.00", and the subsidy items are more than Nanyi, mainly travel allowances and housing allowances. A rough calculation shows that he gets more than 700 yuan more per month than Nanyi. The last two items are the same as Nanyi.
"Boss Nan, is this salary standard too high?"
"Where is this? Qiongdao, where soldiers were exiled in the past. You, including me, come to work in such a difficult place, so naturally the subsidy should be higher. You don't need to worry about the specific figures. I want you to see the balance issue, whether any comrade has been wronged, and so on. Okay, take it and take a look."
"good."
Chang Guoqing held the paper and left Nan Yi's office thoughtfully.
Hongtu Real Estate is just a one-time deal for Nan Yi. He doesn't want to spend too much energy on intrigue with the people here. He doesn't want to make the salaries high and sell it to everyone in a favorable manner. In addition, there are 3 million left in the company's account. Nan Yi has not emphasized the financial system that he has always paid great attention to in Hongtu Real Estate. He is sending a signal to everyone in Hongtu Real Estate - spend money however you want, just be good and everyone will share in the benefits.
Of course, you can spend money, no matter under what name, as long as you use invoices and receipts to offset the accounts. You cannot embezzle money, nor can you blatantly embezzle public funds for personal gain.
After tearing off two pages of the calendar, Chang Guoqing handed over the Zhucheng development plan. Nan Yi took a quick look at it and didn't find any obvious problems, so he put it aside.
It was almost ten o'clock when Su Meng arrived, and Nan Yi called Chang Guoqing to go to the conference room to discuss the matter.
"Chang Guoqing, General Manager Chang, the vice president of our company." As soon as they entered the conference room, Nan Yi first introduced Chang Guoqing to Su Meng, and then introduced Su Meng, "Su Meng, General Manager Su of Nanhaimeng Company. Nanhaimeng is a company that specializes in serving real estate companies. Guoqing, General Manager Su used to be an employee under me. He has lofty ambitions and is unwilling to stay in my small pond. He jumped out to start his own business."
For certain considerations, the legal person of Nanhai Meng is Su Meng, and Nanhai Meng is not a joint-stock company, so there is naturally no shareholder issue. If there is a shareholder, there is only one Su Meng, who holds 100% of the shares.
In fact, Nan Yi and Su Meng did not sign any private agreement, and no receipt was given to her when the 180,000 yuan was given to her. From a legal point of view, Nan Yi and Su Meng have nothing to do with each other, and Su Meng can kick Nan Yi out at any time.
"Hello, Mr. Chang, I'm Su Meng." After Nan Yi introduced, Su Meng took the initiative to extend his right hand to Chang Guoqing.
"Hello, Mr. Su, I'm Chang Guoqing."
Facing Su Meng, Chang Guoqing was cautious. Nan Yi's words just now had a hint of meaning, which almost told him clearly that Su Meng was his person. As for whether to add the word "female" in front of the word "person", he still had to observe further.
"Sit down, everyone." Nan Yi pressed his hand, and waited for the other two to sit down before continuing, "Last month, I wandered around Coconut City. I didn't go anywhere else, but to the stock subscription points set up by foreign companies here. They were very popular, and there was no problem selling stocks.
This gave me an idea. We can also sell some internal employee shares at Hongtu Real Estate. We don't need to sell too many. We can set the total number of shares at 50 million, each at one yuan. We can take out 20%, or 10 million shares, for external sales. The par value is 1 yuan, but the selling price is 1.4 yuan, which is a premium. "
As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, Su Meng immediately responded, "Boss Nan, the market for internal employee shares is very hot right now, but Hongtu Real Estate is a newly established company with little reputation and no performance. It should be very difficult to sell the shares at a premium."
"What Mr. Su said makes sense, so our Hongtu Real Estate has prepared two development plans. Please review them, Mr. Su."
Nan Yi handed two folders to Su Meng. One was the plan made by Chang Guoqing, and the other was the Golden Jade Nine Cauldrons plan compiled by Lai Huri. Nan Yi just changed the name and some minor details.
"Boss Nan, can I take the two plans back to have a look? I need to study them carefully to see if your company's stock can be sold at a premium."
"Of course, I just hope that President Su can hurry up. We are in a hurry to raise funds. I also hope that you can earn your service fee as soon as possible."
"Okay, I will give President Nan and President Chang a reply as soon as possible."
Nan Yi just needed Su Meng to show up, sell internal employee shares and hand over this job to Su Meng. This was all Nan Yi had planned in his mind a long time ago. Even the solution that Su Meng had not proposed yet, he had already explained it to her long ago.
As a local company, it has a bank behind it and is immersed in the hottest real estate sector. In addition, there is a repurchase clause that allows it to be sold back to the company at RMB 2 per share if it has not been listed for two years. Therefore, Nan Yi is not worried at all about not being able to sell the shares.
He didn't have much selfish motive in selling internal employee stocks. He was more of a curiosity-seeker and also wanted to help a group of lucky people.
In 99% of cases, the internal employee shares will become worthless. Those who buy the shares can forget about getting their money back. In the end, they can only curse their bad luck and let the matter go unresolved. Those who buy Hongtu Real Estate shares can still get 0.6 cents in interest, which is much higher than the interest on a two-year deposit in a bank.
As the days go by, Coconut City's multi-line work is moving forward.
The construction of Coconut Tree Building started, Lai Huri approved 30 acres of land in a prime location, the Jindieyu Jiuding project was launched, Su Meng came up with the "Nan Yi" plan, and Hongtu Real Estate began to sell internal employee shares. Instead of setting up any sales points outside, the point was set up directly at the entrance of the company. Those who came to buy stocks could also visit the company by the way.
By the sea, near the mouth of Wanquan River.
Nan Yi was holding a fishing rod in his hand, with a beautiful girl sitting on his left and right. Behind him, there were dozens of security team members scattered around, including Nan Yi's three, Nan Ruoyin's Human Cannon Team, Sloppy King Team, Fan Hongdou's Southern Country Team, and Acacia Team.
Also cruising on the sea were the Red Bean and the Fox, carrying the BBQ team and the Hamburger team respectively.
He picked up the fishing rod and took a naked-cheeked snapper off the hook. He measured the size with his hands, but was not satisfied. He threw the fish back into the sea, threw the hook out again, and said slowly, "Do you plan to live at home or buy a house outside?"
"Boston is too far from New York, so I plan to live by myself," said Nan Ruoyin.
"Anko, what about you?"
"I want to live in the South Loft."
"It's no longer habitable. The north and south lofts of the Columbus Apartment have been used as company offices."
"What about godmother (Liu Zhen)'s apartment in Manhattan?"
"It's rented out. Scarlett's original house is still empty. You can live there."
Fan Hongdou thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. It's too far from school. I'll buy a house in Shangcheng District."
Nan Yi turned to look at Nan Ruoyin and said teasingly, "American, don't be stingy. Show some hospitality and give her a set of red beans."
Nan Ruoyin pouted and said, "Dad, the houses in Morningside Heights are so expensive, but... Hongdou, since we are sisters, I'll give it to you."
"It's so reluctant, let's just forget it."
Fan Hongdou's tone was calm, but it was full of provocation.
"Dad, you heard it, she said forget it." Nan Ruoyin didn't fall for it at all.
"You two should stop trying to be clever in front of me."
"whee."
Nan Ruoyin and Fan Hongdou smiled at each other.
After fishing for more than two hours, the father and his two daughters followed the invited fishermen to a muddy beach to dig crab holes.
The blue crab resources in Coconut City are not abundant, not to mention that Nan Yi and his team were going for the sturgeons that had taken over the nests of other fishermen. Under the guidance of an experienced fisherman, the three of them came to a blue crab nest and dug down with a shovel. When the hole was more than 40 centimeters deep, Nan Yi dug down with his bare hands until he reached the depth of the accumulated water. The fisherman handed Nan Yi a steel bar with a curved hook.
Nan Yi took it and probed into the cave a few times. When he didn't feel any feedback from touching any hard objects, he felt the movement in the cave. Then he put away the steel bar, lay on the muddy ground, and reached into the cave with his hands to feel around.
After a while, he came across something slippery. He grabbed it and pulled it out of the cave, and a sturgeon was pulled out. This was not the end yet. Nan Yi lay down and continued to explore. He heard from the fishermen that sturgeons usually stay in pairs.
After another round of groping, Nan Yi pulled up another slightly smaller sturgeon.
"Dad, it's so small."
After Nan Yi's hard work in capturing the criminal, he was met with Nan Ruoyin's disdain.
"Come to the next hole and see how big you can catch."
"I'll come if I want."
Nan Ruoyin was tough both in words and actions. After the fisherman pointed out another hole, she followed Nan Yi's example and, after the hole was dug deeper, she also lay on the ground and dug inside.
Nan Yi didn't help but watched, he came to a broken bamboo and kicked it. With the sound, a crab claw stretched out from the mouth of the bamboo, showed its claws for a moment and then retracted immediately.
Seeing that there was something inside, Nan Yi hurriedly picked up the bamboo, poked one end into the ground, and hit it again and again, very gently and carefully, for fear of cracking the bamboo.
The bamboos on the seashore are often not abandoned by people, but are deliberately placed there by fishermen to attract blue crabs or other crabs. It is okay to catch a blue crab, but it is a bit unethical to destroy the bamboos.
After a long time, with Nan Ruoyin's cheer, a blue crab fell to the ground with a plop. Nan Yi was quick-eyed and quick-footed, and stepped on the blue crab with one foot.
"Come and see, what a big fish."
Nan Ruoyin was holding two fish in her hands and shouting at Nan Yi proudly.
Nan Yi avoided the crab claws, picked up the blue crab, and clasped his fists towards Nan Ruoyin, "I admit defeat."
"Thank you for letting me."
The two children stayed in Coconut City for a day, and then Nan Yi took them to the Li Village in Wuzhi Mountain. It happened that someone in the village was sick, and the village wanted to hold a Nuo sacrifice for him.
The Li people believe that the reason why people get sick is mostly due to evil spirits, and only by seeking help from the power of gods through the ghost god can the disease be driven away.
For this purpose, the Li people have to hold a certain ceremony, in which the ghost god chants incantations and dances beside the patient until he sweats profusely and enters a completely trance-like state. Only then can the patient be connected with the ancestor ghosts, and rely on the power of the ancestor ghosts and gods to drive away evil spirits, eliminate disasters and cure diseases.
The dance they performed was the Nuo dance, a dance related to ghosts and gods that originated in the Central Plains. It was introduced here by the Han Chinese witches and shamans (women were called witches and men were called shamans) in an unknown year.
The Nuo sacrifice had become a formality in the Li village. When Nan Yi and his companions arrived, they happened to see a man carrying a medicine box leaving the boat-shaped hut where the sick person lived.
It is said that the ancestors of the Li people in Qiongdao originally lived on the sea and used boats as their homes. Later, they moved to land and built boat-shaped houses on land to commemorate their ancestors. The men in the village have long hair tied in a bun in front of their foreheads, wrapped their heads with red or black cloth, and wear collarless tops with an open front.
Women have tattoos on their faces, wear embroidered skirts, embroidered headscarves, buttonless tops with an open front; they like to wear earrings, necklaces, bracelets and other accessories.
Lizhai is not closed but rather open, and has become a tourist area. Nan Yi and his friends even found a tour guide, Bai Hui.
Baihui’s surname is not Bai. Bai means mother. Baihui means Lin’s mother, and Lin is Baihui’s eldest daughter. This is the rule of the Li ethnic group to address married women.
Bai Hui took Nan Yi and his group around the Li village, then carried a hatchet and led them into the outskirts of Wuzhi Mountain.
"We Li people have always believed that there is a sacred tree deep in Wuzhi Mountain. More than 20 years ago, a girl from our Li village found a soldier who accidentally got lost in the jungle. She encountered the sacred tree."
Bai Hui led the way while recounting anecdotes. It was obvious that this was not the first time she entertained tourists.
"Aunt Baihui, is there anything magical about the sacred tree of your Li people?" Fan Hongdou asked.
"I don't know."
It was a bit inappropriate to ask about someone else's sacred tree, so Nan Yi changed the subject and said, "Bai Hui, did that girl and the soldier get together later?"
"They got married, and the soldier brought the girl back to his hometown after he retired." Bai Hui swung the hatchet and chopped the vines that blocked the road. "I can only take you around the periphery. The deep jungle is very dangerous. There are not only poisonous snakes, but also..."
Bai Hui seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.
Nan Ruoyin: "Aunt Baihui, what else?"
Bai Hui hesitated for a while and said, "There is also a Li village on the other side of the mountain. There is a young man named Arong in the village. He was a soldier and a combat hero. He returned from the army three years ago wearing a big red flower and a medal of honor. The village even held a homecoming celebration for him.
There was a beautiful young woman named Ahua in that village. Many young men in the village wanted to express their love to Ahua and find love on March 3rd. Arong was one of them.
Who would have known that on the day of March 3rd, when Arong came to Ahua, she had already sung folk songs with Atu from the neighboring village. Arong and the young men from her own village became more and more passionate as they listened to the duet, and couldn't help feeling jealous.
In order to win back the girl from the village, the young men deliberately disrupted the folk song duet between the two. The conflict became more and more intense, and the young men in the village surrounded Ah Tu and the dozen young men who accompanied him.
All the young men in the village respected Arong, so Arong stood in the front. After a while, the young men from the two villages started to curse at each other. As they were cursing, Arong impulsively threw a punch, and the two villages started fighting.
As the fight went on, Arong's village fell into a disadvantage. Furious, Arong took out a military dagger and stabbed the young men in the other village indiscriminately.
Ah Rong's dagger slashed many people in succession, and finally pierced Ah Tu's artery, causing Ah Tu to faint instantly. Seeing this scene, Ah Hua was so scared that her face turned pale and she screamed.
Later, the police came and took Arong back, but he kicked the police over and fled into the mountains.
"A Tu is dead?" Nan Yi asked.
Listening to Bai Hui's story, Nan Yi gradually found that the story sounded a little familiar.
"He's dead." Bai Hui sighed, "Arong fled to the mountains and hid for half a year. Later, he came down the mountain and took away several young men from the village. He specialized in robbing gold mines in the mountains and committed several major crimes. It's a pity that a good young man became a fugitive."
Nan Yi knew who A Rong was. He was now the number one criminal in Qiong Province, and his wanted information would be published in newspapers from time to time.
"Baihui, I think the scenery on the hill above is nice, let's stop there."
Having grown up on the edge of the jungle, having fought in wars as a scout, and having weapons in his hands, Nan Yi believed that he could win if a fight really broke out, but it was hard to say how many lives would be lost.
After climbing up the hillside and carefully admiring the scenery, Nan Yi suggested returning to the village.
They returned to the village without any trouble. When night fell, a bonfire was lit in the village and young men and women performed the bamboo dance. Bai Hui brought a clay jar to Nan Yi and his companions, with several thin bamboo tubes inserted in the mouth of the jar.
Holding the pottery jar, Bai Hui brought it to Nan Yi and said, "This is the biang wine from our Li Village, which is called Shanlan rice wine in Mandarin. Please have a taste."
"Thanks."
Nan Yi took the pottery jar, invited Bai Hui to sit next to him, and pushed the pottery jar towards her.
Bai Hui understood, grasped a bamboo tube and took a long sip.
Out of politeness, Nan Yi took a sip, and a wonderful taste spread from the tip of his tongue to his taste buds, "Strong, sweet, slightly spicy, spicy but not dry, good wine."
"Boss, Shanlan rice wine is made from our unique Shanlan rice. When it is just brewed, it is milky white, sweet and slightly spicy. After a year, the wine turns yellow-brown and looks like agate. The sweetness decreases and the fragrance becomes stronger. After a little longer, the wine will turn red or black. At this time, the Shanlan rice wine will have a strong aftertaste."
Nan Yi sensed something different in Bai Hui's introduction. It was not like a tour guide explaining something, but more like a sales pitch or investment promotion.
"Bai Hui, please speak frankly if you have anything to say."
"I want to open a winery, but I have no money." Bai Hui said bluntly.
"Tsk, that's really straightforward." Nan Yi muttered to himself, knowing that it must be the grand appearance of their group that aroused Bai Hui's imagination.
Nan Yi lowered his head, pinched the bamboo tube and took another small sip. Instead of swallowing it, he spit it into his hand and observed the color of the wine. It was milky white with a hint of yellow. According to Bai Hui's previous introduction, the wine in the pottery jar should have been brewed for about eight or nine months.
"It was brewed in mid-October last year," said Bai Hui.
Nan Yi raised his hand and put the wine into his mouth, then turned to look at Bai Hui and said, "You speak Mandarin very well. Did you go to high school?"
"I studied until the first year of high school."
"oh."
Nan Yi nodded, took out a piece of paper and a pen from his bag, wrote down the address and pager number of Coconut City on the paper, tore off the paper and handed it to Bai Hui, "I understand what you mean. If you want me to invest money, you should make a plan for me, clearly state what you plan to do, how much money you want me to invest, when I can get my money back, and how much profit you can bring me every year after I get my money back.
In addition, there is another major premise for me to invest money..."
Nan Yi stopped talking here, his eyes fixed on Bai Hui's.
"What premise?"
"In addition to leaving enough for living, you and your family's entire belongings must be invested in the brewery. It would be best if you could borrow a large sum of money. To put it bluntly, the brewery depends on your life and property. Only in this way can I rest assured that you will run the brewery well.
In return, you will be responsible for all matters of the winery in the future. I will only wait for the distribution of money at the end of the year and will not interfere in anything. You consider it first. If you can accept this premise, we can move on. "
After Nan Yi finished speaking, his eyes turned towards the direction of the campfire. Next to the campfire, a ghost man with two assistants wearing grey robes, black belts around their waists, and black turbans on their heads were already ready.
The ghost has three pheasant tails inserted on his forehead, a long sharp knife bag on his belt, and a pheasant tail inserted on the foreheads of his two assistants. One of them holds a bow and arrow, and the other holds a sharp arrow.
Opposite the three people, there are five miasma ghosts, all dressed in the same black robes and wearing wooden masks, representing the five types of miasma ghosts with pointed heads and big ears, green faces and fangs, wide mouths and big noses. All of them have hideous faces and look a bit scary.
Suddenly, musical instruments such as the single-wood drum, ding-dong, mouth bow, mouth worship, nose flute, and Zhuoba were sounded. The ghost man waved the knife in his hand, stabbed left and right, slapped the ground and pointed to the sky, chanting spells in a loud voice to expel the miasma ghost.
After the Ghost King chopped down the five miasma ghosts, two assistants jumped out, jumping around and spitting fireworks from their mouths from time to time.
"Dad, what do you think is hidden in their mouths? They vomited seven times, but I didn't see them drink the oil again." Nan Ruoyin muttered on the other side of Nan Yi.
It's nothing to spit fire from your mouth, you can see this trick everywhere, but the seven consecutive spittings without drinking oil are really amazing, the flames are more than one meter away, you can see how much force is used. If you purse your lips and spit lightly, the liquid in your mouth can be spit out several times, with such great force, you should be able to spit out all the liquid in your mouth in one go.
"Maybe there's a mechanism in its mouth."
"I guess so. I really want to see what the mechanism looks like."
"Go over there and act cute and see if they are willing to tell you." Nan Yi said with a smile.
Nan Ruoyin didn't take the bait at all, she pouted and said, "No, I'm afraid they will beat me if I try to find out how others eat."
"Little clever ghost."
Nan Yi said lovingly and turned to look at Bai Hui.
Bai Hui saw Nan Yi looking at her again, gritted her teeth and said, "Boss, I agree."
"Okay, let's move on. Once you figure out the points I just mentioned, come find me in Coconut City. Cheers."
Nan Yi picked up the pottery jar again and handed it to Bai Hui.
As they were afraid of the presence of Arong's gang in Wuzhi Mountain, Nan Yi and his party did not stay in Li Village for long. They asked the people in the village to ride motorcycles to the city and call a few taxis that night, and stayed in a hotel in the city at night.
After a good night's sleep, Nan Yi and his party returned to Coconut City.
The two children took a yacht to Xiangkeng to start their university study journey. Nan Yi returned to work, and the first thing he did was to send Zhang Min to find a store and apply for a tobacco monopoly license. He himself took a pencil and ruler to design the cigarette tickets.
Doing business inevitably involves welcoming and seeing off guests. Cigarettes are the hard currency of this era and everyone likes them. Nan Yi plans to open a cigarette store to provide convenience for people who don't like cigarettes.
In the future, Dream Town will give out cigarette coupons as gifts. Those who like cigarettes can go to the store to exchange them for cigarettes. Those who don’t like them can sell the cigarette coupons back to the store and exchange them for a very magical, colorful paper that can be used to exchange for goods.
In about twenty minutes, Nan Yi designed the draft of the cigarette ticket. The layout was very simple, with an artistic "票" character in the center and a four-digit code in the lower right corner. It would be printed with a digital coding machine in the future. The numbers were not numbers, but passwords. Different characters in the code book represented different people.
Nan Yi looked at the draft from left to right, and if he saw anything awkward he would change it. He changed it here and there, until it looked more and more awkward. He discarded it and redesigned it, one draft, two drafts, and after he had five or six drafts, Nan Yi picked up the first draft again and looked at it in his hand. The more he looked at it, the more satisfied he was, and he couldn't help but nod.
"Done."
Nan Yi patted the paper in his hand and put it aside. He collected the other waste paper and threw it into the trash can. He picked up the teacup, walked to the window, and leaned over to look at the street below.
Bang!
The office door was pushed open and hit the wall heavily.
"Go out and knock before coming in." Nan Yi frowned and shouted with his back turned.
"Nan Yi, Cheng..."
"Can't you hear me? Get out and knock on the door before coming in." Nan Yi recognized it as Su Meng's voice, but his tone did not become softer.
Su Meng bit her lip, closed the door again with a look of grievance, and then knocked on the door with her hand.
"Come in."
Pushing the door open, Su Meng walked behind Nan Yi and said twistedly, "Something happened to Cheng Hainan."
Nan Yi took a sip of tea calmly, "What happened?"
"He was taken away by the police."
"Oh, I see."
Listening to Nan Yi's indifferent reply, although Su Meng felt aggrieved, she still stuttered and said, "Can you...can you..."
"No, and there is no need to. His case is not serious. There is no relevant law in the country for producing gambling machines, and the extent of his involvement in smuggling is not deep. The most he can do is confiscate his illegal gains and add a fine. He can stay in prison for ten days or half a month and then he can be released."
Cheng Hainan is a very lucky guy. Apart from the huge financial losses he may suffer from the things he did, his personal freedom will not be a big problem.
"You...how did you know?"
Nan Yi turned around, looked at Su Meng and said, "I reported it, how could I not know?"
Su Meng stared at Nan Yi in astonishment, "Why did you report him?"
"It is a citizen's duty to report to the public security authorities any criminal activity they discover. Is there anything wrong with what I did?"
"I...you..."
"Don't be so me-me-you-your-your-yourself. Although I thought Cheng Hainan had a bad temper at first, he had a strong sense of self-esteem and was not a bad person. Plus, I introduced the color TV business to him because of your face.
But what?
As soon as he made money, he came to me to show off, all the way." Nan Yi waved his hand, "It's nothing, I just thought he was dazzled by wealth, I didn't take it to heart at all.
He should never have ordered someone to call me for kidnapping and extortion..."
Bang, Nan Yi slammed the teacup lid heavily on it, "My family is my Achilles' heel. Anyone who dares to threaten my family is my enemy. Since Cheng Hainan's actions were not excessive this time, I let the matter go.
Please tell him that I have seen many people who repay kindness with enmity. If it happens again and again, I will not be so easy to talk to him next time.
Also, could you please ask him how he got my satellite phone number? I remember I only told this number to a few people in the company."
Nan Yi’s last words were like torture to Su Meng. How else could she know? She told him .
Su Meng's legs went limp, and her entire upper body swayed. She didn't expect Cheng Hainan to lie to her. When Cheng Hainan asked her for her number, she clearly said that she wanted to find Nan Yi for something. So, so...
"How could he do this? How could he do this?" Su Meng muttered to herself, unable to believe it and not wanting to believe that Cheng Hainan was such a person.