Rebirth: Outstanding

When Mrs. Beth came to the study for the second time and told her husband that he should go to bed, Shi Zhiyi was still looking at the notepad Song Tianyao handed him during dinner.

The text written in this notepad is just handed over to any politician to look through, and most of them just throw it away with disdain, because the content on the notepad is really not as profound and thought-provoking, but it is the businessman's pursuit of profit. A little bit of insight.

However, Shi Zhiyi felt that the text on Song Tianyao’s notepad was really irritating to him. If Song Tianyao really knew about astronomy and geography, the world situation, and political crises, Shi Zhiyi might have written this notepad long ago. Throwing away the trash can, Song Tianyao didn't. He analyzed the current business situation in Hong Kong from the perspective of a pure businessman and the possible way out.

The San Francisco peace treaty with Japan was signed last week by 48 countries in San Francisco, the United States. In fact, long before the treaty was announced, interested people who often read the news and newspapers to understand the situation through Japan's industrial footsteps in the past two years and the United States' attitude toward Japan , I can already understand roughly.

On the same day as the peace treaty was signed, the United States and Japan signed the "U.S.-Japan Security Treaty." It was considered that when the Korean War was in full swing, Japan was officially included by the United States as its military allies, making Japan officially a U.S. military base in Asia. And the logistics center.

Japan’s industry and economy recovered rapidly in just over a year. With the promulgation of the embargo, it quickly grabbed and swallowed Hong Kong’s market share worldwide. Song Tianyao wrote in his notebook very simply. Replacing machines with cheap labor to make Americans' money, and let Americans make money, hangs on the breath of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry.

But this sentence is not a general statement. Song Tianyao immediately listed some of his survey of Japan’s data. The average consumption of meat, eggs, and milk per person in Japan is now 2.5% in 1949. Japan’s national consumption level has exceeded the peak period of Japan’s pre-war development from 1934 to 1936 this year, reaching 106%. The actual wages of Japanese laborers, especially workers, have also returned from the early post-war period to the pre-war period. 95.6%. In 1950, the average wage of a machinery factory in Japan with about 50 employees was 100. By June 1951, the average wage of workers had risen to 113. Large group companies with more than 1,000 employees had a wage increase. It is 1, and mining companies can even increase to 170, an average of more than 50%.

A large number of women in Japan were trained and sent to work in clothing, daily necessities manufacturing, textiles and other industries. In these light industries, the number of female workers has accounted for 50% or even 57%. After the Korean War began, the major Japanese chaebols Monopoly capital has received special orders from the U.S. military and the export of American technology. From 1950 to 1951, the U.S. military’s special orders for Japanese industries have reached 710 million U.S. dollars. This huge figure has also led to capitalists in almost every industry in Japan. Money was invested in machinery and equipment, and began to work overtime to produce orders for the U.S. Army. The demand for workers increased. Today, the Japanese labor force is no longer sufficient to maintain the construction industry that Japan urgently needs to expand after the war. The 140,000 households dropped directly to 240,000 households in 1951, because many construction workers have already switched jobs, Japanese workers are extremely scarce, and wages are constantly rising.

The data has been listed so detailed that even ordinary businessmen can understand Song Tianyao's meaning without the need for Shi Zhiyi, the head of the Industrial and Commercial Management Office.

Japan has already been fed by the United States, and it has no appetite and ability to intervene as long as it is not too lucrative industries. So Song Tianyao feels that Hong Kong should now take advantage of the Japanese big fish and meat to eat too much, and it will soon break through. Belly, when you don’t have an appetite for coarse tea and light rice, eat some congee and side dishes to make a living and earn some American money. As long as you do enough, at this time, whether the Japanese or the Americans, there is no reason to stick to Hong Kong. To completely defeat Hong Kong, it is unlikely that the Americans will break their faces with the United Kingdom shirtlessly. It is more likely that Japan will free up its hands to **** Hong Kong business after the Korean War.

During this period of time, Hong Kong has no shortage of cheap labor that Japan desperately needs, and the non-munitions manufacturing industry that has no strength to intervene in Japan barely hangs on.

After reading this small notepad, Shi Zhiyi thought about Song Tianyao saying that he had prepared for two months of homework. He only felt that Song Tianyao did not brag casually. If these data and data did not have a two-month meditation record, it would be impossible. Feel free to make it up.

If you really follow Song Tianyao’s statement to make American money, make Americans make money, and stimulate the development of Hong Kong’s manufacturing industry by the way, should you be able to survive this difficult period, or at least not leave too ugly during your tenure? data?

The last time he cooperated with Song Tianyao, he exchanged the position of director and the status of his wife. Song Tianyao's boss became a Justice of the Peace, and Likang became the leader of the pharmaceutical industry.

If you work with this young man again this time, what can you gain? And Song Tianyao, who has worked hard to investigate and study for two months, can finally get what?

Shi Zhiyi suddenly felt that he was already looking forward to it. This young man is really a good partner. At least he is well paid, so let's try from the fake intentions Song Tianyao said?

...

Kowloon, Daliang Hotel.

Xia Zuozhi and Xia Hari brothers looked stiffly at Song Tianyao who was smiling at them.

The two brothers are both typical Indian high-caste appearances. They are tall and have fairer skin than ordinary Indians. They also have typical Aryan features. Xia Zuozhi is thirty-two years old, and Xia Hari is twenty-nine years old. All are at the peak of a man.

Compared with most Indians living in Hong Kong, George Xia and Xia Hali had a difficult time when he first came to Hong Kong with his parents. After that, even during the Japanese Occupation, everyone panicked, and the Xia family never went down again. Even now, because of the devaluation of the Japanese military ticket after the war, the family has plummeted, and the Xia family still has a grocery store that can barely support the livelihood of the family of more than 20 people in Hong Kong. It depends on the brothers in front of Song Tianyao to make money.

Before the two came to the hotel, they had been thinking about who the boss of Gao Minghui was and why they should do business with them, until the young man opposite introduced himself, claiming to be Song Tianyao, and Xia Zuozhi had not reacted yet, but Xia Hali was stunned. After a while, he looked at Song Tianyao with a little surprise. He often reselled some popular drugs on the black market. Naturally, he knew that the turmoil occurred in the pharmaceutical industry not long ago. In almost a short period of time, Zhang Jia, the former big makers of the pharmaceutical industry, was caught Likang’s annexation, although it was said that the Chu family and the Cai family joined forces to deal with the Zhang family, but everyone did not see it. Many people in the Pharmaceutical Association rumored that Likang’s secretary Song Tianyao had set up a strategy from the beginning to the end to defeat the Zhang family. In order to reward Song Tianyao, Likang boss and Justice of the Peace Chu Xiaoxin specially sent Song Tianyao to a secondary pharmaceutical wholesale company that has the right to take goods directly from Likang.

"Mr. Song, I have heard your name." After the initial surprise, Xia Hali spoke to Song Tianyao first.

Then he gave a brief introduction to his elder brother Xia Zuozhi, who had never heard of this name. He only heard the short sentence of the secretary of Justice of the Peace Chu Xiaoxin, which made Xia Zuozhi's eyes light up. A secretary of a big man can do business simply. too much.

"Mr. Song, Mr. Gao said you wanted to see me?" Xia Zuozhi asked Song Tianyao politely.

Song Tianyao nodded: "Of course, I heard from the teacher... Gao Minghui said that you had also bartered with the barracks before, and like Gao Minghui, the British quartermaster was impressed. Even Gao Minghui told me about you. In fact, you can also become a purchaser for the military camp, but unfortunately, someone may maliciously spread some of your news to the British soldiers. When I heard him talk about this, I felt very sorry. You are not like the rumors. , Because you are not so greedy in bartering transactions, I like to work with such people."

Xia Zuozhi and Xia Hali looked at each other, and Xia Zuozhi opened his mouth and said to Song Tianyao: "Mr. Song, I don't know what kind of cooperation it is?"

"I would like to invite two people to return to India to collect women’s braids for me. The length should not be less than 35 cm. When each braid arrives in Hong Kong, I will pay one Hong Kong dollar. The current one Hong Kong dollar will be exchanged for 20 Indian paisas, ten pies. Sa is enough to exchange enough food for a day for a family of five in a remote area of ​​India. There are 10 paisas left. Without transportation and labor expenses, as long as the calculation is clear, there will be huge profits. The more hair you buy , The greater the profit, what do you think?" Song Tianyao took out the cigarette and lit one by himself, then smiled and said, looking at the two Indian brothers in front of him.