National Tide 1980

It is not polite to not return the favor.

Ning Weimin certainly had to do his best to entertain Zhao Chunshu who had helped him.

Although he was in Japan, he really didn't want to have anything to do with people with gang backgrounds.

He knew very well that these people living in the underground world were destined to be suppressed by the Japanese government in the future, and they were the source of trouble.

But repaying kindness with kindness is the basic principle of being a human being. It doesn't make sense that he would be cold to others when they helped him.

He couldn't do the kind of thing that would scold the cook after eating his fill.

What's more, Zhao Chunshu was a Tianjin native from the mainland, who could actually make a name for himself in the underworld world of Japan, and his appearance was so low-key. Such a person is a legend in himself, which inevitably aroused curiosity.

So he should toast, thank you, and entertain you, with good wine and food, delicacies from the mountains and the sea...

In terms of etiquette, Ning Weimin must not let people find any faults, and he did it very well.

Fortunately, Zhao Chunshu was also a person who understood the ways of the world and had a sense of propriety in his words and deeds.

Perhaps it is because the big guys who can survive in the underworld are those who know how to restrain themselves and hide themselves.

Since he took the initiative to give up the chairmanship of the Inagawa Association to others, Zhao Chunshu has already lived a transparent life.

Perhaps it is because he is naturally good at making friends and loves to sit in this position.

Anyway, he has no intention of repaying Ning Weimin.

After those people from the Inagawa Association left, Zhao Chunshu just drank and talked with Ning Weimin during the whole eating and drinking process, talking about the local conditions of his hometown and the customs of various parts of Japan, and asking about the current situation in his hometown.

Not to mention that there is nothing related to the Inagawa Association, he did not even ask about the specific operation of the Tan Palace.

Before leaving, Zhao Chunshu received a gift box of pastries and two bottles of Moutai from the Tan Palace Restaurant, and he kept expressing his gratitude.

He said to Ning Weimin sincerely, "I have been in Japan for so long, and finally found a restaurant that can make authentic northern dishes. I am very happy to drink wine today, which is very important to me. I will come here often. So you should run this restaurant well, and you can ask for help in the future. Thank you for your hospitality and I wish you a prosperous business."

So no matter whether the other party really thinks so or is just saying polite words, Zhao Chunshu is very tactful on the surface.

He just regards himself as an old senior from the mainland, and expresses his goodwill and support to Ning Weimin, who is considered a half-fellow villager, and does not go beyond the line and make any embarrassing requests.

His enthusiasm and kindness, and his warm demeanor that makes people feel like spring breeze, all make Ning Weimin feel good about and respect him.

To be honest, if it weren't for the background information provided by Axia, he would never have seen that Mr. Zhao was actually a desperate man who relied on a pistol and conquered the world alone.

It is hard to believe that he is also a fighting master. He was also one of the best kung fu masters in the National Essence Association, which was the main fighter trained by the Japanese right-wing government at that time.

In this way, they had a great time when they met for the first time. When they parted, they left a very good impression on each other.

However, after sending Zhao Chunshu away and saving the store in Tokyo, Ning Weimin also received calls from Kyoto and Osaka.

He heard about the Kyoto branch voluntarily closing down and the Osaka store being smashed and forced to close down.

The other party also left a harsh message, expressing "respect" to them on behalf of Suo Ikuo himself.

So for him, this matter is not over here.

It is not afraid of being bullied, and there is a reason to fight back when being bullied, and the best way to retaliate is to treat others in their own way.

As the Chinese people will sing a song, "Friends come with good wine, and jackals come with hunting rifles."

He can't let people bully his store and then it's over, he also has to let the other party feel the same pain.

Yes, Suho Ikuo does not have a restaurant, but the Guo family does.

The Guo family's hotel is also a high-end chain, with stores in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong City, and Beijing.

Ning Weimin did not mind the firefighter Suho Ikuo's approach, and he also gave the other party more opportunities.

If you can do it on the first day of the month, then I can do it on the fifteenth day. Isn't it disgusting and destroying the reputation of the opponent?

In terms of business scale, he is actually taking advantage, almost barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.

Needless to say, he did not have to do it for two people, and of course he asked Axia to do it.

What surprised him was that even the price he had to pay was pitifully small.

Because Axia is definitely an expert in this area, and she also fully understood his needs.

It just requires people to cause a bad influence and destroy the other party's business reputation.

This kind of thing does not require any serious crime at all, and it doesn't cost much money.

For example, for each Guo family hotel, two or three people were arranged to pretend to be guests and go to the hotel lobby to provoke and fight each other.

Once the fight started, they insulted each other, even threw feces and urine at each other, and did whatever was disgusting.

It is conceivable how much chaos would be caused at the scene, how the guests who experienced this scene would react, and how serious a blow and damage would be caused to the Guo family's hotel, which has always regarded itself as high-end.

Let alone several hotels in different cities happening at the same time, even if there was only one, it would be enough to make the Guo family's hotel famous, and even make them the laughing stock of all high-end hotels in Southeast Asia.

Besides, the short mules in Hong Kong are greedy for money and worthless. These people dare not go to other places except the mainland.

This kind of thing will not go to jail, and it is not going to war with the enemy gang. At most, it is considered to be provoking trouble and violating public order and morality.

Even if they are caught and held accountable, they will only be detained for more than ten days and fined a little.

Then, apart from the necessary expenses such as food and accommodation, air tickets, and lawyer fees, they will not spend much money if they give each person 200,000 or 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, this is just the cost of doing things. Of course, they have to pay more money to the gang leaders.

However, it is enough to spend at most 10 million Hong Kong dollars. If they can earn at least double, it is enough to satisfy the gang leaders.

But even so, converted into Japanese yen, it is only 150 million Japanese yen.

It may be a very incredible number for others, but for Ning Weimin, this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket.

Speaking of which, it is not even half of the profit he got from the insurance company's compensation.

Therefore, this plan can be said to be extremely cost-effective and highly destructive. Ning Weimin approved Axia's proposal without hesitation.

And the rest depends on how the Guo family reacts to this "gift" and how they deal with it.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon on October 11, 1987, Guo Kefeng, who was in Beijing, returned to his luxury suite in Shangri-La Hotel alone to rest after the banquet and the guests were sent away.

He took off his tie, took off his suit, hung his clothes in the closet, turned around and sat on the rocking chair in front of the French window, and took a cigar from the box on the coffee table.

Then, in the warm sunshine, he leisurely pinched the cigar, lit it and puffed beautifully.

Smoking cigars was originally one of his few hobbies, and he preferred the feeling of relaxation after the success.

Although this was only a momentary, short-term, small reward for himself, there was an important business meeting to attend in the afternoon.

But it can make him feel the joy of gaining after hard work, full of a sense of accomplishment.

He said this not to show off, but to express his real feelings.

If someone knows his family well enough, then just from his name, you can know that he is a member of the Guo family, the Asian sugar king.

However, if people think that he was born with a golden key and can become the boss of a multinational grain and oil company at the age of 35.

Then this idea is too unfair to him, and it can even be called prejudice.

Because it is not so easy for him to get to this position.

In fact, in addition to being born well, his position today is also inseparable from his personal diligence and hard work.

You know, he is only a close relative of the sugar king, the sugar king's nephew, not the sugar king's biological son.

It is far from the level where he can rest assured and just listen to the family's arrangements and he can get to the top step by step.

And it must be said that the Guo Group, which has already established a foothold in Malaysia, is a large family. The sugar king's generation alone has six brothers, and each of them has several children of their own.

Therefore, it is conceivable that even as a member of the Guo family, Guo Kefeng still has to "roll".

He has never felt relaxed since he was a child, but has great pressure. He can't even think about living a luxurious life of eating, drinking and having fun.

It was not easy for the father's generation to start a business, and they had high education and requirements for their children. They hoped that they could become real elites. It was impossible to give them a lot of money and let them be useless parasites and live a life of luxury.

If they don't work hard, they will easily be looked down upon by the family, and then disappear among the brothers and sisters of the same generation and become a mediocre ordinary person.

If this is the case, of course, there will be no chance to enter the core of the Guo family.

Fortunately, Guo Kefeng is the one who is both hardworking and talented among the brothers and sisters of the same generation. He has been striving for success since he was a child.

Not only is he excellent in academic performance, but he also has a strong interest in business, and he has caught the eye of the Sugar King very early.

Therefore, his sixth uncle would cultivate him like his own son and give him many opportunities.

Guo Kefeng still remembers that when he graduated from the University of Singapore in 1972, he was directly named by his sixth uncle and joined the Federal Company of the Guo Group.

His sixth uncle, who was busy with all kinds of affairs, personally took him to start the flour business.

At that time, the uncle and nephew maintained a communication frequency of two or three meetings a week, and their cooperation was very tacit.

Under the guidance of his uncle, he grew up quickly, purchasing wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops from Canada, Australia, the United States and other places with high quality and low prices, processing them into flour, feed, soybean oil, etc., and then selling them all over the world.

It can be said that it was thanks to the careful training and generous teaching of the Sugar King that he quickly figured out the way to do business, made the family business flourish, and earned honor for his parents within the family.

In 1974, his sixth uncle also established Kerry Holdings Limited in Hong Kong City as the flagship company for the Guo family to conduct business in Hong Kong City and the mainland.

Shangri-La Hotel and Beijing International Trade Center are its later masterpieces.

Since 1980, the Sugar King appointed him as a director of Guo (Xin) Co., Ltd., in charge of the group's edible oil and grain business.

In 1986, the Sugar King established the Guo’s Grain and Oil Company in order to further integrate resources and expand the grain and oil processing projects of the Guo Group overseas, especially in mainland China.

And this year, the Guo’s Grain and Oil specially established the Kerry Grain and Oil Group in Hong Kong City as a professional platform for investing and expanding the grain and oil business in mainland China. For this matter, the Sugar King also sent his nephew to personally take charge.

From this, it can be seen that the Sugar King values ​​him, and how great the responsibility he bears.

However, from his point of view, he didn’t quite understand it at first.

Obviously, you can do better business overseas, why send a large amount of money to the mainland, which has not yet developed?

But he still did it with doubts. Uncle Six’s intention first.

Later, after market research, he quickly understood his uncle’s good intentions.

It turns out that the varieties of imported oils in mainland China are limited, and in this era, they are still bulk goods, such as palm oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, etc., which are mainly packaged in bulk oil or 190 kg large iron barrels.

Domestic cooking oil uses bulk secondary oil, which has many impurities, is dark yellow and turbid. When cooking, the whole house is filled with smoke. It is easy to deteriorate after a long time, and you have to bring your own oil pot when buying it.

There is no small package cooking oil that meets international hygiene standards in the mainland market.

The spectacular scene of people living in the mainland carrying small oil barrels and queuing to buy oil every day made Guo Kefeng immediately realize that this is a good time to change China's cooking oil. If a refinery is established in Shenzhen to produce small packages of cooking oil for sale, the market will definitely be huge.

Yes! This is really a huge market with great potential.

After all, there are more than a billion people there, and everyone needs to eat.

If you don't come to share a piece of this market, it will soon be taken away by others.

However, although this grand business plan is good, the Guo family is an outsider after all. They want to enter the mainland grain and oil market of the Republic as foreign capital. In the current social environment of the mainland, there are still considerable obstacles, mainly from the policy level.

Therefore, after repeated consideration and consulting with some mainland "experts", the plan of "borrowing the road" came into being.

The target of "borrowing the road" was COFCO Group, which was also eager to attract foreign investment to open up the oil and fat market at this time.

Since June this year, Guo Kefeng has started the negotiation process on cooperation on behalf of Guo Group and COFCO Group.

After several months of repeated tug-of-war-like consultations and entanglements, the two sides have finally reached an agreement.

Today is the day they signed a memorandum of understanding and a letter of intent for cooperation.

Next, as long as he goes through the process and waits for the signature and approval from above, the mainland market will open the door for him.

He is very sure that the mainland of the future will be the world of his own brand "Golden Dragon Fish" blended oil.

However, it was a bit disappointing that just as his dream in his heart was rising with the smoke he exhaled and was about to reach the most wonderful peak, an unexpected and urgent knock on the door disturbed him.

What he didn't expect was that the secretary's voice rang out at the door, "General Manager, something happened! An urgent call came from the Singapore headquarters..."