Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The next morning, Zeng Wangcai sent his son to school as usual, and then returned to his courtyard in Houhai to work.

In the morning he mainly did two things. One was to contact Li Jiacheng and ask him to prepare funds, the more the better; the other was to contact Bao Anpai and ask him to prepare the boat.

Now on Jiang Island, Bao An faction is Zeng Wangcai’s official spokesperson, and all matters concerning Wangye Island are handled by Bao An faction.

And Li Jiacheng is Zeng Wangcai's biggest secret backup.

Over the years, Zeng Wangcai has made a lot of money, and the funds are divided into several directions. First, through Li Jiacheng, he invested in large overseas companies, with considerable annual returns; second, he purchased raw materials, invested in space, and fed space production equipment; third, he invested domestically to strengthen the country.

Regardless of whether it is Huayao or China Resources, in fact, neither of them is profitable now, and some are even losing money. Among Zeng Wangcai’s domestic businesses, only the automobile business is profitable.

The garment factory also makes money, but the money it earns is far less than what Zeng Wangcai needs.

It is precisely because Zeng Wangcai has invested so much money in the country that he has become so popular, and the higher-ups do not allow anyone to threaten Zeng Wangcai.

Having said that, Zeng Wangcai was thinking about whether he should let Li Jiacheng, the richest man, surface and participate in the war of national destiny with Wanka on Wall Street.

If Li Jiacheng emerges, Zeng Wangcai's greatest source of wealth will be exposed.

“If you have technology but no money, people can still tolerate you. But if you have both money and technology and have everything you need, people will definitely not tolerate you, and that will cause much more trouble…” After finishing the call with Li Jiacheng, Zeng Wangcai smiled bitterly to himself.

He knew very well that the main reason why he could live so comfortably without too many troubles was that he founded "Yintuniu" with Yellen and Mason, giving Americans hope of obtaining technology.

Because Americans have money. Once you have money and all you need is time to develop, that would be unfair.

In later generations, many real experts in China got into trouble!

In the end, Zeng Wangcai did not let Li Jiacheng step forward. He decided to wait and see. After all, Xu Damao and the others had not gone there yet.

In the afternoon, Zeng Wangcai went to the steel rolling mill to hang out with his wife, and originally wanted to go home after get off work with her.

As a result, Zhang Xiuzhi and Lou Xiao'e had to hold a meeting to resolve production issues, so they left Zeng Wangcai aside.

This proves the saying that when power is decentralized, those in charge will have more free time.

In the entire Zeng family, everyone is busy with their careers, making contributions, and shining.

Among the older generation, Zeng Youqian is still playing a role in the garment factory, working on bulletproof vests; Chen Yumei has become the representative of the cooperation between Tiandi Grocery Store and the supply and marketing cooperative.

Xiaoqiang, a younger generation, keeps opening stores and controls Huayao Communications to radiate the whole country...

Zeng Wangcai is the only one who has nothing to do!

He returned home and parked the car. The yard was deserted, with no one there.

"What kind of thing is this..." Zeng Wangcai sighed, "Strong country, forced the whole family into prison, ah..."

Let’s go eat instant noodles. Jinhuan is the best. She won’t go anywhere else. She just stays at the shop at the door and acts as a store manager.

Zeng Wangcai ran outside the grocery store and asked his sister to make him a bowl of noodles with eggs and ham.

It’s cold now, and even though there are warm sheds outside, there are fewer people here.

Zeng Wangcai was just killing time by eating noodles and watching TV when Xu Damao came with Sha Zhu.

"Mr. Zeng..." Xu Damao sat opposite Zeng Wangcai with a licking face.

"You bastard, calling me boss is bad news." Zeng Wangcai wiped the soda on his lips and scolded with a smile, "Don't look for me if you get into trouble. I have no power and can only eat instant noodles now."

"No trouble, really!" Xu Damao glanced at Sha Zhu who was outside and did not come in, and whispered, "Regarding Sha Zhu, can you give him a chance and let me take him abroad to have some fun?"

"Fuck, say it again?" Zeng Wangcai said angrily, "Is this a joke? You're here to do something important, this is not a joke. You've been good at everything else for so many years, but you can't control the present. This has never happened before. Usually you play after you've finished your work, but this time you're thinking about playing without doing anything... Did Shazhu seduce you?"

Silly Zhu: “….”

What does it have to do with me?

He was the one who seduced me, okay...

"Brother, brother... Brother Cai!" Xu Damao immediately changed his words, "It's not what you think. I'm definitely here to get things done, but you said that I went there mainly to corrupt... Oh no, it's to corrupt them, to give them sugar-coated bullets, to make the Russian officials like me and want them to be inseparable from me, and then we can talk about business, right?"

Zeng Wangcai did say this because he knew Xu Damao was good at this.

In the original novel, Xu Damao used this trick to take down Li Huaide when he was not developed and had no resources, and when ordinary people did not even realize how to use sugar-coated bullets. In the end, he even wanted to use this trick to take down Li Huaide's superior.

Unfortunately, Xu Damao had no connections at that time and hit a wall, otherwise who knows how great his later achievements might have been.

This is the situation over there with the Russians now, and using people like Xu Damao is definitely the right approach.

"That won't work either!" Zeng Wangcai shook his head and said, "Shazhu is not on the same page with us. He is Yi Zhonghai's man. You know Yi Zhonghai, he's a cunning bastard.

"Although Yi Zhonghai has been very honest over the years, we don't need to make trouble. Nanluoguxiang is now very harmonious, unlike before when there were so many trivial matters."

After saying this, he lowered his head to eat noodles, making it clear that he didn't want to agree.

In fact, Zeng Wangcai doesn't need to care about Yi Zhonghai now. Their statuses are already worlds apart. If he continues to argue with Yi Zhonghai, it will be like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

He just doesn't want to be bothered. The harmonious environment of Nanluoguxiang is hard-won. The main reason why his parents live here is that they are comfortable and free.

"Yes, I knew it was like this!" Xu Damao didn't dare to say anything more, and went out to say to Sha Zhu, "You heard everything just now, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but let's just forget about it."

Shazhu stiffened his neck and said, "I won't!"

He opened the curtain and walked in. His expression changed in a second, becoming a face similar to Xu Damao's. He smiled like a dog and said, "Brother Cai, I have abandoned the dark and joined the light..."

Sha Zhu is a dog-licker by nature, otherwise he would not have been schemed against by Qin Huairu.

So now his transition is very natural and there is no sense of incongruity at all.

"Shazhu, it's not that I don't want to help you!" Zeng Wangcai patiently explained to Shazhu's plea, "You are not alone now, you have a family, you have children, and you have elderly people to support. If you leave, what will happen to your restaurant?

"This restaurant depends entirely on you. If you leave, the restaurant will have to close. How can you and your family go with the northwest wind? Going abroad takes more than a day or two. You have to take a train for half a month... Besides, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu will hate me to death if they know that I helped you go abroad. Let's not talk about this. It's useless for you to go..."

"How can I have a family? How can I have children? I am the only one registered in my household registration..." Sha Zhu felt sour in his heart that he almost knelt down to Zeng Wangcai, "I will be embarrassed if I tell others about it. I can't say it. Brother Cai, I call you brother and will call you brother from now on. Please be kind and help me this time..."

Zeng Wangcai had not agreed yet. Coincidentally, Yi Zhonghai had nothing to do after dinner, so he wandered over from the restaurant and happened to see Sha Zhu begging Zeng Wangcai for help.