Rebirth: Outstanding

The purpose of the business seminar held in Hakone Town is actually that Hakone Town wants to use this meeting held by a well-known economist to attract businessmen from all over Japan. After all, in Hakone, it is impossible to only attend the meeting. Contribute.

Nearly a hundred businessmen from Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo and even Nagoya, most of them owners of grocery stores and small department stores, attended this seminar. Song Tianyao, Shi Yehui, and Wei Meixian went to the meeting site and told these economists. Song Tianyao listened very carefully to his speech, and asked Wei Meixian to raise her hand to ask questions from time to time.

This kind of seminar was extremely boring and boring to Wei Meixian's ears. These economists kept talking and emphasized that business must have business ethics, and business value does not lie in how much money is made.

If business value is not determined by how much money is made, what is the determination?

Not only Wei Meixian, but most of the businessmen present were bored with scholars' topics.

Finally, when the meeting ended on the third day, Wei Meixian felt that it was finally possible to no longer need to translate this unrealistic economic theory. Song Tianyao took the initiative to invite the speaker of the third day, Xin Min Bao Ba, to have dinner. Of course, this kind of dinner is paid. Yes, Song Tianyao paid 18,000 yen for being able to contact Xinminbaoba up to ask questions.

A family in Hakone Town has a decades-old history and is located in an izakaya called Tsukizaya.

Song Tianyao had a sincere face and a shameless attitude to ask questions. He asked this Xinminbao who holds the title of professor at the University of Tokyo and economic adviser to many regional governments in Japan:

"Mr. Xinmin, I agree with your theory very much. The value of a businessman is not how much money is made. The business ethics you emphasize is very important in a business career. I think what a businessman sells is not just commodities, but also services to customers. The ultimate goal is not to make much money, but to make every customer feel happy. In fact, when you meet customer requirements and make customers happy, it also means that you have already reaped the corresponding benefits at the same time."

Although Shin Minhohachi is well-known in Japan's theoretical and economic circles, and there are indeed many businessmen who come from afar to hear his advice, but no one wants to invite him to lunch, and most of them take photos with him in a hurry after the meeting. He took the photo as a show of his capital and left. He didn't have much interest in the business values ​​he offered. Song Tianyao was the only one who really asked questions.

"Mr. Song, what kind of business are you in?" After Wei Meixian helped Song Tianyao finish the translation, Xin Minbao asked with a smile: "I really can't imagine that you, a Hong Kong citizen, are the only one in this kind of speech in Japan. A businessman who recognizes my philosophy."

Song Tianyao personally helped the other party to pour a glass of sake: "Before doing wig production and sales in Hong Kong, but I am planning to open a department store business in Japan in the near future, Mr. Xinmin, I would like to ask, why do you think the businessmen attending the conference are not interested in your speech? Or do you not recognize your business ethics?"

"Because most of the merchants participating in the meeting are not very large, but small and medium-sized stores. These stores basically still maintain the Japanese pre-war business concept, the credit system, regardless of whether the buyer is a wealthy merchant or a housewife. You can pay on credit, settle accounts on a monthly payday, quarterly, half-yearly, etc. Therefore, in this case, the merchant feels that he has paid the other party first, and has not received cash, and has done better than the other party. So there is no need to talk about this kind of business ethics." Xinminbao eight did not hesitate to Song Tianyao's question, and gave the answer easily.

Song Tianyao frowned slightly: "Then this is a bad vicious circle, very bad, and it is not good for both parties."

After listening to Wei Meixian's translation, Xinminbaoba looked at Song Tianyao seriously: "This is indeed a bad vicious circle. How do you recognize it?"

"If you keep on credit and the merchant can't get the funds back, you should choose to increase the price of the goods on credit, while the buyer will continue to default because of the increase in the price of the goods, and it will be difficult to settle the bill. The debt will only increase. After listening to you After the speech, I feel that I have found my own new business. I want to open a department store business, encourage everyone to pay in cash, and satisfy all the wishes of customers as much as possible, and provide employment opportunities for locals. The most important thing is to have Business ethics." Song Tianyao said seriously.

Xin Min Bao Ba was a little surprised. Song Tianyao's understanding of his own ideas was just a little bit surprised. But after a while, he asked some idiotic questions: "I remind you, Mr. Song, there are many department stores in Japan, and department stores are not the majority of ordinary Japanese people. I can go shopping frequently, and the service attitude of the department store is also very good. The situation I said only exists in small and medium-sized stores."

Song Tianyao was a little excited to talk to Xinminbaoba about his thoughts: "What if I open a department store that serves ordinary people? The price will be the lowest, the attitude is better than those high-end department stores, and the production of self-owned brand products, such as The soaps, condiments, etc. produced on the shelves can be produced by building small processing plants, canceling other sales methods, and supplying my department store at cost prices. I am selling at the lowest price, and the factory can recruit locals. Work, what do you think? I think this is what merchants should do, not just to make money for themselves, but to let other people in the area where the store is located also gain something. This is business ethics. And earn Profits should be used for local public welfare undertakings, such as schools, hospitals, etc. This can also improve the company's brand and recognition."

"I think your idea will make many regions in Japan invite you. However, this idea has a huge investment, and the return on benefits will be slow, but if it succeeds, it will easily become the first choice in the minds of local people." Xinminbao eight said with emotion: "Mr. Song, it is rare. As a young Chinese in Hong Kong, you have no prejudice against Japan, and you are more optimistic about Japan's economic development than Japanese businessmen, and you are willing to work hard for it."

"Can you help me recommend some information on some areas in Japan that are slightly slower? I don't intend to compete with those high-end department stores for big cities." Song Tianyao hesitated and said to Xinminbaopal: "I don't have any hatred against Japan. The war has been It passed, didn’t it, Japan is also a victim, and the pain will continue."

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"Why? You don't know me?" Song Tianyao stretched out on the sofa, and asked Shi Yehui, who was looking straight at him but didn't dare to speak.

Shi Yehui signaled Wei Meixian to go out first. At this time, Wei Meixian's face was covered with the words "Song Tianyao is a traitor", and Song Tianyao gave Song Tianyao a blank look and walked out of the room.

"Secretary Song, when you do business in Japan, you are not talking about making Japanese money? Now it sounds like you are building factories and hiring Japanese workers. Japanese workers are paid very high. Why should they be cheap? In Hong Kong, labor is cheap. Is it good for the freight to be sold in Japan?"

Song Tianyao smiled and looked at Shi Yehui: "Do you hate the Japanese?"

"Hate, of course hate. The Japanese went to Hong Kong. One of my older brothers was arrested to do coolies. He was exhausted and didn't get any money." Shi Yehui said honestly.

"I hate it too. Should I bring a few guns to kill in Japan to avenge the dead Chinese? How many Japanese can I kill?"

"But there is no need to build another factory and invite workers. Zhong is going to help them build schools and hospitals, right?" Shi Yehui scratched his head. He would hardly be angry. After the dialogue told him, Shi Yehui felt that if his boss really did this, he might be drowned by the Chinese after returning to Hong Kong.

"I will build battery factories in areas where Japan’s agriculture is developed, and soap factories and seasoning factories in areas where the fisheries are developed, so that people there can buy cheap goods and start working in the factories to earn salaries. I will also help them. Building schools and hospitals makes them very satisfied. Is this a traitor?"

"Of course." Shi Yehui's face became difficult to look.

Song Tianyao lit a cigarette by himself, and said to Shi Yehui: "Smoking is harmful to your health, will you die if you smoke one?"

"No." Shi Yehui lowered his head and said, "Secretary Song, if you really want to help Japan..."

"But if you keep smoking one by one, will you definitely die?" Song Tianyao interrupted Shi Yehui, still holding the cigarette and asking Shi Yehui.

"Can."

"That’s right, you really think I’m cheap for Japanese people and open a factory to help them pay? I open a battery factory and cause mercury leaks three to five times a year, which can wipe out dozens of hectares of arable land. Eating food grown from those toxic land is like smoking cigarettes. I discharged tons of toxic chemicals into the sea waters of developed fisheries. The fish ate the poison. The Japanese eat fish, and the poison is slowly in people’s lives. The body germinates and grows. After a few decades, whether it’s weaning off offspring or bleeding, it’s up to me to bleed? Understood? While making money from the Japanese, while making good relations with them, while helping them to poison, let them. On the road happily, am I a traitor?"

"But what if you find out?" Shi Yehui listened in a cold sweat.

This is the style of his boss with a smile on his face and a knife behind his back, while helping the Japanese to poison while making Japanese money.

"Of course we open department stores. For those factories, we will come to Japan and cooperate with the local government to open them. Then there will be problems. The government will take the lead. The big deal will be closed. Department stores have no relationship with factories. You really think I am. Speaking of opening a factory, it’s just for my department store. I’m so stupid? Of course, the good reputation of the department store is reserved for myself. Of course, the bad things are done by the Japanese themselves.” Song Tianyao took a sip of cigarettes: “In Japan, don’t hate Japan. People, do you know? Be very polite, very polite, and treat yourself as a traitor."

"Zhongyou, your female secretary is not allowed to show off her feet. Either accompany me to be a traitor or change secretary. I have already said that although the war is over, this kind of harm to Japan will continue. Of course it is. I am here to hurt."