Rebirth: Outstanding

When receiving a call from his subordinate, Director of the Customs Administration, Shen Wenkang, Shi Zhiyi was in his office looking at the Chinese Manufacturers’ Association forum on the anti-dumping issue of Japanese goods held by the Department of Industry and Commerce some time ago. record.

At this time, the minutes of the meeting on the desk were carefully divided into several categories by himself, with no impact, slight impact, severe impact, and no impact yet.

The hardware industry, enamel industry, stationery industry, glass industry, thread reel industry, cloth dyeing industry, and mosquito-repellent incense industry were classified by him as an industry symposium seriously affected by the dumping of Japanese goods. At this time, he took every one of them seriously. I repeated it carefully, and marked it on some key data.

As an official in an overseas colony, Shi Zhiyi knew and positioned himself very accurately. In this regard, he is much stronger than many older British colonial officials. Many older British colonial officials often become slack because they are far away from the British mainland and are not promoted for a long time. But Shi Zhiyi But consistently, when you reach a certain position, you start to take this new job seriously.

For example, as the Deputy Director of the Department of Industrial and Commercial Administration, he must have a detailed understanding of the current environment and conditions of Hong Kong's industry and commerce, and point out the direction for future development.

The United States supports Japan to engage in large-scale global free dumping, and it may not be that it wants to contain Hong Kong. After sorting out the trivial data in front of him, Shi Zhiyi put down his pen with a headache.

Hong Kong is currently the most severely dumped by Japanese goods in the stationery and hardware industries. Take several pencil factories in Hong Kong as an example. Last year, they produced more than 400,000 boxes of pencils and sold 320,000 boxes for export. The rest are sold in the local market in Hong Kong. The 320,000 boxes of pencils sold abroad are mainly sold in London, the British territories, and the Middle East. A total of 200,000 boxes are sold. Australia, Africa, Europe, India, Indonesia, Egypt and other sub-regions sell 120,000 boxes. , But this year, the dumping of Japanese goods, which quickly recovered with the support of the United States and stood out in Asia, had a huge impact on the industry and commerce of Hong Kong, a British colony in the Far East. The original sales, Australia, Africa, Europe, India, Indonesia, Egypt and other Hong Kong stationery sales areas have been invaded by Japanese goods. The CIF price is even lower than the Hong Kong ex-factory price, which easily squeezes Hong Kong stationery out of these. However, Hong Kong does not have enough strength to fight a price war with Japan, because the price of Hong Kong's stationery raw materials has risen, and there is no basis for fighting a price war with Japanese goods to win the market.

According to the figures given by the stationery industry, the external sales volume of Hong Kong's stationery industry this year is probably less than half of last year.

This is only the most obvious case. Other cases that have not been quickly reflected but are full of crises following the promulgation of the embargo. There are many others, such as the battery industry and the cable industry. The biggest reason for American products is that the raw materials are supplied from mainland China, but now that the embargo is enacted, the price of raw materials means that the price of raw materials will increase rapidly. Goods competing for the Southeast Asian market?

Damn the embargo! Damn Yankee! Damn Japanese!

Shi Zhiyi exhaled depressed, cursing in his heart.

At this moment, the Director of the Customs Department, Shen Wenkang, called. After Shi Zhiyi connected, Shen Wenkang's voice was somewhat puzzled:

"Mr. Deputy Director, as you said before, the Likang company that asked me to cooperate with them is carrying away the seized medicines from the customs warehouse with great fanfare, and at the same time delivering new medicines inside. In short, They should be doing shoddy things."

"How much are they going to transport?" Shi Zhiyi was taken aback for a moment and asked.

In fact, he had just arrived at the office in the morning when he received a call from the Governor’s House. The phone informed him that the British troops assisting the customs in guarding the warehouse had been ordered to leave. The Governor and the Chief Secretary hoped to see that in the next two days, The Department of Industry and Commerce and the Customs Department can quickly and seriously complete this investigation on the drug problem in Hong Kong.

Quick and serious, Shi Zhiyi certainly understands the meaning behind these two words. The Hong Kong Governor should have been negotiated by the Zhang family, so he needs to look at the bribes and let the customs complete the investigation as soon as possible. Send the medicines back to the companies, but at the same time, they must be done earnestly. In other words, something must be found out. You can't do an investigation with great fanfare, but get nothing.

"According to the secretary's performance, he shouldn't be so stupid." Shi Zhiyi held the phone receiver, thinking of Song Tianyao and Li Kang's performance, muttering to himself.

Shen Wenkang on the phone did not hear clearly: "What did you just say?"

"It's nothing, let them. They have two days. If they can't figure it out, they will take away the seized goods in the customs warehouse. They are the best customs investigation and processing objects." Shi Zhiyi said to Shen Wenkang, "You All you need to do is to keep the list of medicines in the customs warehouse. If Likang Trading Company cannot give a reasonable explanation, how they move out and how they move back, and they have to bear all the responsibilities for the whole thing. Let the customs officers and the marine police keep an eye on the whereabouts of the medicines. Likang can move the medicines to their own warehouse, but they are not allowed to transport the medicines before the whole thing is settled. If they have the medicines. The act of getting on the ship immediately caused the marine police to detain the cargo ship anchored at the pier."

"Understood, sir, I will arrange for someone to do it right away." Shen Wenkang hung up after speaking.

After hesitating again and again, looking at the 150,000 Hong Kong dollars sent to him by Song Tianyao and Angie Peris, Shen Wenkang concealed from his boss. One night, he and a dozen British soldiers were in the customs warehouse. I took photos of the seized military assets.

For Shen Wenkang, those photos are not threatening, but only useful, because the photos cannot tell whether the batch of military hemostatic powder belongs to Zhangjia or Likang. If Likang is the last to bear the responsibility for the whole thing, he can easily kill it. The batch of military-funded hemostatic powder is actually Likang's.

After Shi Zhiyi hung up the phone, he continued to look at the information at hand without any fluctuations. He had already given Song Tianyao a chance. As a person in charge of Hong Kong's industry and commerce, it was already very rare for him to give a certain company a chance. Seeing that Secretary Song helped his wife get the reputation, otherwise he would not be interested in a Likang Trading Company even if he took a glance. If the other party could not grasp this opportunity, or became self-defeating, then wait until he finally takes the action to clean up the situation and take the knife. Song Tianyao didn't blame him when he lifted it up and cut at Likang, he could only blame him for being too weak.

"Actually, the secretary is still very young, and it is normal for his ability to be insufficient." When opening the report in his hand, Shi Zhiyi's mind appeared in his mind when he was talking with Song Tianyao in St. John's Cathedral. , Sighed with emotion:

"Mr. Governor may be the happiest person. He has enjoyed a great meal before the whole thing is over."