Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 997: Give Enough Money, All Problems Will Be Solved
The Japanese in the late 1970s and early 1980s were indeed qualified to be rampant.

Economically, all the big companies in China were hit so hard that they had no power to fight back.

This forced the Japanese women to use off-field means to suppress Japan's manufacturing industry and economy.

In particular, industries such as textiles, steel, home appliances, electronic products, and automobiles are constantly squeezing magnesium women's market share.

But even so, Japan's electronic products and automobile manufacturing industries in the 1980s and 1990s were still popular all over the world.

Even within a few years of the Plaza Accord, the Japanese yen continued to appreciate, and the Japanese became even more rampant.

It is said that one Tokyo can buy the entire Magnesium.

The Japanese have indeed started a buying spree, with a large amount of capital flowing into the Japanese market.

It was not until the Japanese wielded their sickles and began to harvest Japan that the Japanese realized that they were always just fish on the chopping board.

No matter how high you jump, the butcher knife will fall.

Others are the butchers and I am the meat.

Chu Xiangqian hung up the phone and immediately called the former Lieutenant Colonel Logan, now Lieutenant General Logan.

Over the years, relying on the coal business, the senior members of the US military stationed in Neon have taken at least 30 to 40 million US dollars from him.

However, Chu Xiangqian also knew in his heart that this money was used to protect China's coal export business to Japan.

To put it simply, it is to protect the lungs.

Chu Xiangqian actually earns more himself.

But apart from the coal business, people like Logan also benefited a lot from him.

Once you encounter trouble in Japan or South Korea, you can send three, five hundred thousand, or even millions of dollars over there and the problem can be solved quickly.

Sometimes Chu Xiangqian would suspect that someone in Japan had always been causing trouble for him over the years, and maybe the bigwigs of the garrison were one of the people behind the scenes.

Just because he could earn more money, Chu Xiangqian pretended not to know that he was tricked by these female generals.

The conversation with Logan was all about trivial matters.

But the two of them understood each other's intentions from these words, which sounded completely useless.

Chu Xiangqian had never trusted anyone, and had already agreed on a code book and secret code with Logan.

Logan also knew that he earned at least one or two million dollars from Chu Xiangqian every year.

And in just over ten years, he was promoted to lieutenant general, which made many people keep an eye on him.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian is not just trying to win over Logan.

It can be said that all the dozen or so high-ranking officials of the Neon garrison received money.

Even if the former commander and other senior officials retire, they will find a way to promote young people like Logan who are paid together.

Even if the new commander is transferred from the mainland, people like Logan who occupy important positions can easily drag the new commander into the water.

After Logan hung up the phone, he smoked his cigar a little faster when he thought about Chu Xiangqian's code words and the $500 million offer during the conversation just now.

He thought to himself that the Japanese had really pissed off the big boss this time.

However, if I were Chu Xiangqian and someone targeted my daughter, I would definitely be as angry as he was and want to kill someone.

The next day, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office launched a large-scale operation.

One by one, corporate executives and even a dozen securities industry bigwigs were invited to have tea.

Although nothing would really happen to anyone, this also let the Neon upper echelons know that Chu Xiangqian's relationship with the garrison was closer than imagined.

People like Logan took Chu Xiangqian's money while continuing to collect money from the Japanese.

It can be said that his mouth is full of oil.

However, the total amount of money given by more than a dozen forces in Japan did not exceed 500 million.

This immediately caused Logan and other high-ranking garrison officials to curse and demand to capture someone to give Chu Xiangqian an explanation.

In other words, give an explanation to the biggest financial backer behind you.

After more than ten years of cooperation with Chu Xiangqian, the two sides have already established a certain degree of trust.

Chu Xiangqian paid the money readily and offered a very generous price.

In more than ten years, he alone earned at least 70 to 80 million US dollars.

Even for Logan and others, every time they had the opportunity to be promoted, Chu Xiangqian would sponsor them at least one or two million dollars.

If anyone wants to go into politics in the future, Chu Xiangqian will be the natural financial backer.

Compared with the stingy behavior of the Japanese, it is self-evident who is more important.

And before giving money, the Japanese like to keep testing.

To assess how much money is needed to solve a problem.

As for Chu Xiangqian, he gave a price of three to five hundred thousand, or even millions.

This time he simply gave five million directly, so that people like Logan, even though they wanted to get the best deal from both sides, subconsciously still favored Chu Xiangqian.

And with Chu Xiangqian's 500 million as a comparison, Logan and others kept asking the Japanese for a higher price.

Otherwise, if it were like before, hundreds of thousands would be wasted by the Japanese. Just thinking about it makes me feel like begging.

As a result, the governor of Tokyo resigned and three corporate executives were investigated. It seems that the probability of him entering the sewing machine industry is as high as 90%.

Not only did Chu Xiangqian retain his 9% stake in Sony, he also took the opportunity to acquire 4% of the shares from a company.

At that time, Sony's market value was only around 160 billion.

Most importantly, Chu Xiangqian got two seats on the board of directors with his 13% stake.

No matter what decision is made in the future, Chu Xiangqian will have a significant say.

In mid-June, a 5-ton cargo ship, loaded with 1 barrels of beer, 3 cases of red wine, 5 cases of gin and cases of mead, docked at Yokota and began unloading.

When Logan's adjutant saw the boxes of wine being transported down, a bright smile appeared on his face.

In the eyes of the adjutant, just 1 20-liter barrels of beer were worth $20.

The remaining wine is worth at least $80.

What the adjutant didn't know was that the trademarks of these wines all came from Yingguo.

But in fact, the company is a Hong Kong company registered in Yingguo.

Beer and red wine come from China.

The gin and mead come from polar bears and cost just $7.

Even so, the Chinese side excitedly assured repeatedly that as long as the order was given to them, they would complete the production with guaranteed quality and quantity.

As for the polar bears, they have been cooperating for more than ten years, not to mention just a thousand boxes of gin and five hundred boxes of mead.

Even if the quantity increases tenfold, they can sell it to Chu Xiangqian's foreign trade company.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian has earned a lot of foreign exchange for Polar Bear over the years.

So not only did no one bother the polar bear, but sometimes they would also kindly provide Chu Xiangqian with some useful information.

When Jingrong, Jingxing and Nata were traveling in East Germany and Eastern Europe, a group of polar bears had been secretly protecting them.

When Jingrong and Jingxing wanted to visit Moscow, Vladimir, their long-time collaborator, called Chu Xiangqian. Only then did he know that his two beloved sons actually wanted to go to Moscow.

Although the two little guys went to play, the polar bear would not refuse.

Even when the confrontation between the East and the West was at its most intense, polar bears and bald eagles had never interrupted their exchanges and trade.

Just like Europeans and Americans in the future will think it is very dangerous to go to China, there are actually a lot of normal people-to-people exchanges between polar bears and Europe and the United States.

But Vladimir knew that if anything happened to Jingrong or Jingxing, the one in the most trouble would be Polar Bear himself.

Even malicious speculation, it was the European and American intelligence agencies that were unfavorable to Jingrong and Jingxing. So Vladimir simply notified Chu Xiangqian directly and told his two young masters not to go.

Of course, Chu Xiangqian was very receptive to advice on this matter.

A call was made to Jingrong and Jingxing's bodyguards, forcing the two little guys to come back.

Since then, the trade volume between Chu Xiangqian and Vladimir has continued to expand.

In addition to various wines, there is also black caviar, honey and chocolate.

The transaction volume now exceeds 4 million US dollars per year.

For a country, this amount of money is very small.

But for Vladimir and the forces behind him, $400 million in foreign exchange allows them to buy many luxury goods from Europe and the United States.

In fact, the upper echelons of polar bears have always liked European and American brands, and spend a lot of foreign exchange every year to buy food, drinks and daily necessities.

Chu Xiangqian once agreed to Vladimir's request and helped him get five of the latest limited edition Patek Philippe watches.

In return, Vladimir gave Chu Xiangqian a commemorative Easter egg.

It was inlaid with diamonds. From Chu Xiangqian's point of view, although it was a product of recent years, its market price was at least 50,000 US dollars.

In a few decades, perhaps a million dollars will be possible.
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After all the wine was unloaded from the cargo ship, it was transported to the warehouse outside the military camp by trucks.

About one-tenth of it will be distributed as welfare to all the garrison officers and soldiers.

The rest is distributed outside the camp and sold in supermarkets of all sizes.

Not only the seven or eight thousand soldiers in the base will be potential customers.

The entire Tokyo Bay will also be the consumer market for these wines.

Especially in Osaka, many Japanese people colluded with the magnesium army to resell the supplies of the base.

There are quite a few Japanese people who have a kind of obsessive pursuit for European and American wines.

According to Logan's own estimation, it might take two or three months to sell out this batch of wine.

But what he and the garrison's top brass didn't expect was that the Japanese seemed to particularly like this batch of beer, red wine and mead.

Even gin, which is a strong liquor, sells quite well.

Finally, I asked someone to check and found out that Japanese people like to add ice cubes, soda water and lemon to their gin.

I heard that among young people, some people add this kind of wine into fruit juice.

Logan and his friends don't care how the Japanese drink, as long as they drink.

Soldiers were even specifically required to drink gin when eating at bars and restaurants around the base.

Sure enough, not long after, some Japanese people around started ordering this kind of wine.

In just forty days, the first batch of wine has been almost sold out.

Logan and other high-ranking garrison officers thus received more than one million U.S. dollars for free.

So after Chu Xiangqian delivered this batch of wine, the subsequent shipping price was quoted at only US$40.

Logan and others ordered half a year's supply without even thinking twice.

If they were sold out in a month, they would easily make $720 million in a year.

Even with this money, these senior executives have to share it with the people below them.

But sharing the money together is the simplest and most effective way to form a community of interests.

A mid- or low-level officer can earn an extra one or two thousand dollars a month, which is much higher than his salary.

For officers at the colonel level, earning 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a month is enough to make these people work wholeheartedly for people like Logan.

Logan even called Chu Xiangqian and said that he wanted to take the initiative to advertise in Tokyo and the big version first.

Chu Xiangqian was secretly happy when he heard this, and specifically said that he would pay half of the advertising costs.

Since there is money to be made, Chu Xiangqian no longer cares about advertising expenses.

Moreover, the beer and red wine are imported from China and are branded wines, so we can also earn US dollars from China.

Perhaps decades later, the Chinese themselves will discover that the wine they brew specifically for export to Hong Kong Island has already been a best-seller throughout Japan.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Japanese stole a lot of technologies from China.

In this case, Chu Xiangqian even thought about simply setting up a team in Hong Kong to collect traditional Chinese crafts and register patents or trademarks.

It is better to be cheap to yourself than to be cheap to the Japanese.

But Chu Xiangqian gave up the idea after just one night.

Many times, good things are taken away by foreigners without the owners saying a word.

But if it is taken away by our own people, it will be a huge hatred.

Chu Xiangqian was unwilling to do such a thankless task.

However, the production of private label wine can be expanded.

Chu Xiangqian then sent people to the mainland to build a beer factory and a red wine bottling plant in Guangdong Province.

By the time things were settled, it was already August.

That day at the Repulse Bay Manor, Chu Xiangqian received a call from Margaret while having breakfast with his wife and children.

It is said that she is Norton's niece, and she invites Jingxing to spend the summer at her manor in Ireland.

Margaret called to suggest that Chu Xiangqian fly to London and the family of three go out for fun for ten days or half a month.

Chu Xiangqian just thought about it and smiled and wanted to agree.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered that Mountbatten seemed to have been assassinated by extremist forces in Northern Ireland this year.

The time seems to be this summer.

If I save Mountbatten, not only the Mountbatten family will be grateful to me.

Philip, Charles, Eliza and Yingguo, the entire upper class, will thank me.

So the people must be rescued, but Chu Xiangqian also doesn't want to be targeted by Northern Ireland extremists.

Throughout the 70s, these people were extremely crazy.

A few years later, there was even a plan to assassinate Eliza in Mexico when she visited Mexico.

After thinking about it, I agreed to Margaret.

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xiangqian thought carefully and realized that even if he took his wife and children to Montbat's manor, the risk was actually very small.

There are chickadees, martens and dogs.

If it really doesn't work, catch a few more animals like sparrows and crows to use as surveillance.

Catch a few more cats and anything unusual will escape your eyes and ears.

And if I remember correctly, the murderer placed a bomb on a small fishing boat.

Montbat himself was also negligent.

I never thought that an old man like me who had been retired for many years would become a target of attack.

There is not even a bodyguard around him.

The security measures of the manor are also speechless.

Chu Xiangqian then decided to fly to London and take Margaret and Jingxing to the Mountbatten estate.

(End of this chapter)