Manhattan Reborn 1978

a new day.

new York.

Manhattan, upstairs at Wildfire Bar on 42nd Street.

David frowned and slowly sat up from the bed. He leaned against the bed and sat quietly with his eyes closed. After a while, he felt that his head was slowly recovering.

He took a few deep breaths, opened his eyes, slowly got out of bed, and walked into the bathroom~

. . .

Two 10 minutes later.

Susan was holding several plates of side dishes in her hands. When she walked out of the kitchen, she saw David who looked very bad. He walked out of the bedroom and walked forward with concern and asked.

"What time did you go to bed last night? Didn't you get any rest?"

David raised his hand to brush down his hair, shrugged helplessly, and smiled.

"I had some insomnia last night, so I just wanted to read in the study for a while..."

"As a result, I fell asleep on the desk while watching it~"

Susan pulled David and made him sit at the edge of the dining table. She pressed her cheek against his forehead and felt that his body temperature was still normal. .

"Why don't you wake me up? I can stay with you~"

"Hehe~"

"You slept soundly, like a little pig... I couldn't bear to wake you up~"

"you are a pig!"

"Hahaha~"

Susan wrapped her arms around David's head, hugging him completely, and whispered.

"Promise me! Don't do this again, okay?"

"Okay~ Never again!"

Cui Yingying, who had been busy in the kitchen, poked her head out and saw the two embracing each other at the dining table, she couldn't help but smile~

. . .

breakfast time.

Susan asked Cui Yingying to give David a brief check first. After confirming that his face was so bad because he didn't get a good rest last night, he finally felt relieved.

David saw her nervous look and Cui Yingying's silent but concerned eyes, and asked them both with a smile.

"What plans do you have today?"

Susan tilted her head and glanced at Cui Yingying, thought for a moment, and said, "We originally planned to go shopping today..."

"Go shopping again?"

"Don't you like shopping?"

"Hey~ I just made an excuse to comfort myself because I didn't have time to go shopping~"

"Now that we have time, it's the discount season, and there are many things we haven't purchased yet..."

David put down the milk glass in his hand, blinked, and asked, "By the way, what day is it today?"

"Uh... It's Thursday!"

"Ah~ Now is the discount season after Thanksgiving..." David nodded suddenly.

Cui Yingying, who didn't understand the conversation between the two, asked David curiously: "When Susan and I were shopping these days, we found that many stores were advertising discount sales."

"This is...a pre-Christmas promotion, is it brought forward?"

"Hahaha~"

David and Susan looked at each other and laughed~

Susan cheerfully explained: "When I spent my first Christmas in Philadelphia a few years ago, I was just as confused as you are now..."

"Why do people react so strongly to discount advertisements given by merchants after Thanksgiving and nearly a month before Christmas~"

"Later, when I arrived in New York, I discovered that..."

"Haha~ David, it's up to you to do the talking!"

"Oh well!"

David picked up a piece of carrot with chopsticks, put it in his mouth, and explained to Cui Yingying.

"Activities like this year-end discount promotion have become a common marketing method in the entire winter sales industry in the United States decades ago."

"As for the discount promotions in Philadelphia that Susan just mentioned, after Thanksgiving and before Christmas..."

"In fact, in the early days, not all merchants would participate in such sales activities that would lose money~"

"Only the food retail industry, in order to solve the problem of selling inventory after Thanksgiving, came up with post-holiday food clearance and discount sales~"

"Yingying, you are definitely familiar with the various vegetables and fruits we see every day~"

"Most of them are fresh fruits and vegetables produced in areas near our northern autumn."

"But we must use various means to preserve them and sell them during the coldest time of winter, when the price is also the highest."

"It's not an easy thing!"

David saw Cui Yingying nodding in understanding, shrugged with a smile, and continued.

"Let me give you an example to explain~"

"For example: garlic!"

"In the fall, when we go to the market to buy a bag of garlic, the retail price may be around $2."

"The purchase price for retailers is about 1 dollars, and the cost price for wholesalers is probably only about 5 dollar~"

"Then, as autumn passes, winter comes~"

"The retail price of garlic will continue to rise as the weather gets colder~"

"And who has been diverted away from the rising retail prices of garlic that we can see?"

"It's most likely some smart wholesalers and some seemingly smart retailers!"

David picked up a hard-boiled egg, smashed it hard on the table, and continued preaching.

“What’s the biggest difference between wholesalers and retailers?”

"The ability to resist risks and the ability to withstand losses!"

"Wholesalers, as middlemen between farmers and retailers, not only have to bear the fluctuations in commodity market prices during the stocking stage after purchasing large quantities of agricultural products~"

"You also have to bear the costs and risks of transportation, handling, inventory storage, etc. Farmers and retailers do not need to bear it~"

“Therefore, their smart and experienced wholesalers will choose to start clearing inventory with stepped price reduction promotions when early winter comes to ensure that they will not suffer from excessive hoarding or inappropriate storage method and suffer unnecessary losses~"

David smiled and put the egg in his hand on his plate first, then reached out and picked up another egg and said.

"In addition, as vegetables and fruits from southern states have gradually entered the northern market in winter in recent years, these northern wholesalers have also summarized their own set of sales cycle calculation methods~"

"For example, in terms of time, these wholesalers may sign product purchase contracts with local farmers in May or June."

“In August and September in the autumn, after a large number of local agricultural products have been harvested, they will transfer these goods purchased at low prices to various big cities far away from the production areas for centralized storage and management, waiting for the winter. Coming~"

"By the end of autumn, without causing a strong impact on market retail prices, these wholesalers will open their warehouses little by little and let the stockpiled goods gradually enter the market."

"And during this sales period, if you haven't cleared most of your inventory by around Christmas, it will put the wholesaler's subsequent inventory at greater risk of slow sales~"

"So, in this short period of one month from Thanksgiving to Christmas, the retail prices of food will generally not rise, but will only fall a little~"

When David finished talking, he put another peeled hard-boiled egg in front of Susan.Put the egg you just peeled on your plate into Cui Yingying's plate.

Both women looked down at their own eggs, then raised their heads and looked at each other, and couldn't help but smile sweetly.

David seemed to have never noticed this, picked up another egg, and said.

"This is very in line with the laws of financial development. This way of making money by taking advantage of the seasonal cycle of food sales has also indirectly inspired salespeople from all walks of life."

"They have also found similar cycles in their own industry that keep circulating again and again, and they have tried to take advantage of it~"

"So, after more than ten years of summarizing various experiences~"

"Since 75, the discount and promotion day on the first day after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia has gradually spread to large, medium and small cities throughout the United States, and has become an agreed-upon day for merchants and consumers... consumption day!"

David raised his peeled eggs, took a bite, squinted his eyes and smiled at Susan and asked.

"Do you remember the joke someone told in the bar last time?"

"Uh...what's the joke?"

"Haha~ It's that Philadelphia policeman and taxi driver making fun of each other~"

"...Oh~"

Susan chewed the eggs in her mouth, thought for a moment, and nodded: "I remember~"

"The man said: Philadelphia police officers and taxi drivers, on the first day after Thanksgiving, stood leisurely on the side of the congested road and complained to each other."

"Hahaha~ That's right!"

David swallowed the egg in his hand, picked up the milk, took a big sip, and smiled.

"The day they complained happened to be the first Friday after Thanksgiving."

"So last year, New York started using Friday discounts as a new advertising gimmick to attract consumers to spend crazy amounts of money~"

"Exactly, tomorrow is Friday~"

"I think you and Cui Yingying...it's better not to join in the fun tomorrow~"

"Why don't you go find those stores with advance discounts today and buy some prices..."

"Hmm...you have a good idea!"

After hearing this, Susan nodded in agreement.

"But... what will you do with lunch at home today?"

"Me? You can go find Brother Biao to solve it!"

"..ok~"

"Yingying, eat quickly! We'll leave soon!"

"Ok~"

. . .

After breakfast.

David pushed the two of them directly into the bedroom, took out two of his credit cards, put them into their hands respectively, and said with a smile.

“As long as you see something you like, don’t hesitate to buy it~”

"This can be regarded as my early Christmas gift to you~"

"Wow~hahaha~"

Susan smiled and jumped on David, smiling at Cui Yingying.

"Look! I was right!"

"Today, let's...Happyshopping to our heart's content!~"

Cui Yingying, who was standing nearby, looked down at the credit card in her hand, then looked up at David and Susan, who were smiling happily, and nodded.

"it is good!"

"Hahaha~"

David kissed Susan twice on the face, put her down, and urged her to change clothes quickly. .

Then, David walked up to Cui Yingying, opened his arms to her, and smiled.

"Promise me! You must have fun today~"

"..OK!"

Cui Yingying gently shook the credit card in her hand, stepped forward, hugged David, and put her cheek against his ear. She hesitated for a while, but couldn't think of what to say. .

David felt Cui Yingying's mood swings in his arms, and couldn't help but use his arms a little harder, hugging her whole body, and said with a smile.

"Hahaha~ We are all family!"

"Family being together and being happy is the most important thing... isn't it?"

"..Um!"

Cui Yingying tilted her head back with a flushed face, looked directly into David's eyes at close range for a few seconds, closed her eyes, and kissed his lips.

David was a little surprised by Cui Yingying's initiative. He moved two steps and looked towards Susan~

As a result, he saw Susan shaking her fist at him with a smile and saying.

"Polly and I have similar menstrual cycles..."

"In two days, when we get our period, you will be Yingying's alone!"

"Hmm~??"

David's eyes widened, and when he saw Cui Yingying's face as red as a tomato, she got into his arms. .He said with a helpless smile.

"You three can still have a chance to take a break from each other's shifts..."

"And me?"

"I.."

"Hahaha~ You are such a bastard! Hahaha~"

Susan pointed her finger at David and gave a thumbs up with a hearty laugh.

"Hehe~"

David shrugged shamelessly, lowered his head and said to Cui Yingying.

"Come on~ That kiss just now doesn't count! Let's do it again~"

"..Hahaha~"

----

District of Columbia.

The morning light illuminates the earth in the cold wind of early winter.

On the border of Washington and Virginia, Langley on the Potomac River, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia).

One of the heads of the CIA branch in Greece, Gust Evra Coster, with a pair of big panda eyes, came to the door of the office of Kai Relit, the deputy director of the human resources department of the CIA headquarters, and said his secretary asked with a smile.

"That bastard, haven't you come to work yet?"

Deputy Director Ratley's middle-aged female secretary shrugged to Gust and whispered.

"He just called. He may have to go to a meeting before coming back~"

"A meeting? What meeting?"

"I don't know~"

"...Okay~"

"By the way! This is the gift I brought back for you from Greece..."

The secretary lady was surprised and took the small gift box and said with a smile: "Thank you!"

“Greece is indeed a great place!”

"Hahaha~"

Gust adjusted his glasses proudly and said with a smile: "Germany, if you are tired of your husband... I can take you to see the Aegean Sea!"

"Tch~ get out of here, you bastard!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

After about half an hour.

Deputy Director Kay Relit returned to his office.

The secretary held a folder, told him about today's work arrangements, and mentioned Gust in the last sentence.

After hearing the name, Ratley glanced at the secretary in surprise and asked with a smile.

"Where is he?"

"It should be at the door already~"

"Haha~ Let him come in then~"

"Ok."

. . .

After a few minutes

Gust sat expressionlessly opposite Deputy Director Ketterley and asked in a low voice.

"Did you have another meeting this morning? How many layoffs will our Greek branch have?"

Ketli spread his hands and said with a wry smile that he was helpless: "Your Greek branch will lay off at least one-fifth of its staff."

"what?"

"I.."

"Hey~ don't be impatient yet!"

"This layoff plan is not for one of your branches, but for all overseas branches!"

"The number of layoffs in your Greek branch is still the smallest~"

"The London branch, which has the largest number of layoffs, is expected to lay off about half of its staff."

Gust secretly gritted his molar teeth and asked in a low voice: "Then what? Our plan for next year has been submitted to the headquarters. What should we do if there is no one...?"

"Hehe~"

Kaitley laughed dryly, glanced at a piece of information at hand, and changed the subject.

"In this layoff plan, the headquarters will lose many people~"

"But several new branches in the country can give them a chance to choose~"

"For example, the heads of the New York and San Francisco branches have told me many times that they need more experienced manpower reinforcements."

Gust felt his eyes light up and sat up straight, and asked: "New York and San Francisco!?"

"How many people do they need?"

"Forehead.."

Catley glanced at the folder at hand, straightened his tie with his hands, stood up and smiled.

"Did you know? This morning, I got up late and didn't have breakfast~"

"The last time the headquarters organized a physical examination, the doctor told me that I must develop..."

Ketley said as he strode out of his office.

Gust stood up with a smile on his face. After watching the "Director" leave, he turned around and reached out, picked up the folder from the table, opened it and looked through it quickly.

soon~

Gust found the answer he wanted, and returned the folder to its old location with satisfaction~

----

new York.

Manhattan, upstairs at Wildfire Bar on 42nd Street.

After Secretary Maggie briefly reported today’s work schedule to David, she turned around and left, returning to the company~

David walked to the door, closed the door, turned around and looked at the somewhat reserved Kihara Nobunari, and smiled.

"Haha~ Don't be polite, sit down wherever you want!"

"I'm resting at home these days, so you can help me keep an eye on the phone first."

"If anyone contacts me, just go upstairs and call me~"

"Okay, boss!"

Kihara Nobunari nodded respectfully. After seeing David sit down, he slowly sat down and looked at David seriously. .

David picked up the coffee and took a sip. Seeing that he was still a little reserved, he asked with a curious smile.

"Just now Maggie said that three-year, five-year, ten-year and 20-year contracts were prepared for you, but you directly chose the indefinite contract?"

"Yes!"

"Can you tell me why?"

Kihara Nobunari sat up straighter and said with a smile: "You are a very wise boss with a long-term strategic development vision!"

"It's my honor to be appreciated by you and serve you!"

"...Okay~"

"This answer is very standard!"

"Any more?"

"..Yes!"

"You pay a lot of attention to the island country with the fastest economic development in the world!"

"So, it is not difficult for me to guess that you will definitely expand your business to Asia and island countries in the future!"

"And I am a native of the island~"

"I can help you gain more and greater benefits in business expansion in the island country!"

"Hmm~"

"Bah bang bang~" David applauded Kihara Nobunari's answer and said with a smile.

"If you want to stand alone and become the head of our island country branch... you still need to study more!"

"Yes, boss!"

"I will definitely live up to your expectations!"

"ok~"

David stood up, extended his right hand to Kihara Nobunari, and said with a smile.

"Welcome to join us, my friend!"

"Thank you! Thank you!" Kihara Nobunari hurriedly stepped forward, took David's right hand with both hands, and bowed slightly.

"Hahaha~"

"I told you, you don't have to be so polite!"

"Ok!"

"Um.."

"There are some books in my study that are very suitable for your study. In the past few days, you can read them in the living room and accumulate some theoretical knowledge."

"Then, after you return to the company, you can follow Sam and others to learn more financial-related professional knowledge and strive to master them all faster."

"Okay, boss!"