Break out of the courtyard

The establishment of factories in the mainland by the three Japanese traditional Chinese medicine companies was a long-standing plan. They would place traditional Chinese medicine production in Jingcheng, Shudu and Baoding, drive the cultivation of medicinal materials in the surrounding areas, and then sell them to Japan.

In this way, Japanese pharmaceutical companies not only reduced costs, but Japanese people could buy cheap drugs and the mainland also earned foreign exchange. It was a win-win situation for all parties.

Looking at the happy expressions of the people from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and the three Japanese pharmaceutical companies, Zhang Heping smiled calmly.

This seemingly win-win cooperation will lead to a gradual decline in the status of Japan's material production in the islanders' economy as more and more Japanese manufacturing industries are transferred to the mainland, thus causing industrial hollowing out.

This change was not caused by Zhang Heping!
Rather, in order to reduce production costs, the people of Japan spontaneously went to the port economic and technological development zones in the mainland to set up factories when they could no longer reduce costs in Japan.

As a result, many Japanese companies producing light industrial products have closed down on a large scale.

Coupled with the export restrictions imposed by the United States on Japan and the trade disadvantages brought about by the appreciation of the yen, the Japanese government had to decide to shift from foreign trade to domestic demand and lower loan interest rates in an attempt to promote domestic consumption!

In January this year, Japan's Ministry of Finance cut taxes by 1 trillion yen and spent 1 trillion yen, which was actually aimed at expanding domestic demand and revitalizing Japanese companies.

However, Japanese businessmen have already discovered the mainland’s advantages in cheap labor and raw materials. Who would be foolish enough to move their factories back to Japan?
Having said that, although many Japanese factories have moved to the mainland, not many Japanese companies have gone bankrupt!
This is because, after getting loans, most Japanese companies joined the ranks of real estate and stock speculation, while ordinary Japanese people joined only after realizing it.

The next day, Zhang Pandi and people from the 3rd Bureau of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office took the delegation of the three Japanese pharmaceutical companies and flew to the first stop, Jingcheng in Banna!
Zhang Heping did not send anyone from the Heping Group to go with him, mainly because he planned to gradually reduce his holdings in the shares of Ridao Pharmaceutical.

Previously, he wanted Banna to control a Japanese pharmaceutical company, and for this purpose he even asked the Heping Group to guarantee a loan for them at Huifeng Bank. Unfortunately, Jingcheng did not dare to do so.

In his previous life, Zhang Heping didn’t understand why the country had to introduce so many Japanese companies!

In recent years, Zhang Heping has understood it!

In the early days of reform and opening up, apart from Chinese businessmen from Hong Kong and Japan, only businessmen from other countries were willing to invest in the mainland, fearing that the mainland would be nationalized if they went there.

You know, the question of whether it is capitalism or socialism is not exclusive to the mainland, and there are also disputes in this regard in today's capitalist countries!

Just after the Japanese stock market closed in the morning, Zhang Heping received a call from He Zijiang in Banna, saying that he had received a call from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

"Old He, I have no objection to you cooperating with the Japanese people on Jingcheng Pharmaceutical Factory, but you must firmly grasp the controlling rights of the pharmaceutical factory." Zhang Heping walked out of Heping Investment Company and headed towards the safe passage on the side, still reminding He Zijiang of some precautions.

News from the mainland was still somewhat isolated. Although He Zijiang had met many foreigners at the Canton Fair, this was his first time to set up a joint venture.

...

Near noon, Zhang Heping returned to Renheyi Community with his concubine Chen Shuting, only to find that his third nephew Tang Qiang was still on Pingba trying to trick the wealthy ladies in the Heping real estate circle into investing in his fund.

Because the funds of Heping Investment Company were no longer available for purchase, and those rich ladies were always asking whether they could buy into the private equity funds controlled by Zhang Heping, Tang Qiang, the head of Datang Investment Company, seized the opportunity and set up an open-end fund that could be subscribed and redeemed at any time.

"Uncle! Uncle..." Tang Qiang hurried over when he saw Zhang Heping coming back.

"Uncle, you can sell those Dongdu properties to anyone, so just sell some to me! I'll pay in cash and never default on payments!" Tang Qiang followed Zhang Heping and happily entered the Zhang family villa.

There were outsiders in the living room, and Zhang Heping couldn't explain that Dongdu Real Estate would not last for a few more years, so he could only frown and go to the study on the second floor.

Chen Shuting, who went home with them, stayed in the living room and greeted the rich ladies.

"Uncle!" Tang Qiang followed into the study room, quickly closed the door, and then lowered his voice and said, "I know you're worried that I'll be trapped in the Dongdu real estate market, but I've really made every possible preparation this time. Look at this!"

Tang Qiang said, handing a page of paper to Zhang Heping, "Please read it, uncle, and don't tell anyone else!"

This nephew has been pestering him since last week!
At first, Tang Qiang just said that he also wanted to go to Ridao Dongdu to speculate in real estate.

After being rejected twice by Zhang Heping, this guy revealed that after buying the Dongdu property, he could mortgage it to the Rijima Bank, get a 2% low-interest loan, and then invest the loan in the Rijima stock market!
However, Zhang Heping still refused and did not explain the reason.

Zhang Heping looked at the shareholding structure of the six companies on the paper and snorted, "Do you think that if you let someone hold the company's shares on your behalf, you will have no risk at all?"

Tang Qiang said confidently: "These six people who hold shares on behalf of others all have parents, wives and children. They dare not regret it!"

"People die for money, birds die for food!" Zhang Heping crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it to Tang Qiang. "As long as the benefits are big enough, those nominees will dare to commit suicide, and then pass the company's assets as inheritance to his children. At that time, do you dare to kill his whole family?"

"I..." Tang Qiang hesitated and didn't dare to say anything harsh, because the six companies were registered in Magnesium, and the nominees were also Magnesian. The Tang family now has no assassins willing to kill for them!
Especially, going to Magnesium to kill people!
Tang Qiang hesitated and said, "But if I use Datang Investment Company to buy a house and then use the mortgage loan to invest in stocks, the risk of failure in stock investment is no less than the risk of holding the property on behalf of others!"

"You only see the risk of losing money, but can't you see the risk of losing your reputation?" Zhang Heping sat behind his desk and stared at Tang Qiang coldly, "If I sell you the property under the name of my stepmother's investment company, do I still need the Heping Group to endorse your reputation?"

Tang Qiang opened his lips, he had never thought about this aspect.

He just listened to the advice of the Magnesium people in the company, set up a few Magnesium shell companies to take loans to trade stocks, and secretly cooperated with the Datang Investment Company to manipulate the market.

Tang Qiang argued: "Uncle, those six magnesium companies have nothing to do with us, so they will not affect our reputation!"

Zhang Heping was too lazy to change his nephew's mind, and said bluntly: "If you don't buy a house from me, it won't affect my reputation. Do you understand?"

Tang Qiang took a deep breath and then exhaled, "Okay! I'll ask someone to go to Dongdu to buy a property somewhere else."

From this sentence, we can see that Tang Qiang has not given up his previous plan of taking out loans to invest in stocks.

He thought that if he could complete the Dongdu real estate transaction from Zhang Heping in one go, the price would definitely be much cheaper and a lot of labor costs could be saved.

Then, the increase in the real estate prices in Dongdu can allow him to make some money, and the success in stock trading can also allow him to make some money.

Tang Qiang is well aware of the risks of real estate and stock speculation. The Hong Kong property and stock markets have experienced several ups and downs.

Therefore, he accepted the suggestion of finding someone to hold several shell companies in Magnesium to bear the responsibility for the failure of real estate and stock speculation.

Zhang Heping watched Tang Qiang leave the study without saying another word to him.

Zhang Heping had advised the other party before that his stepmother's investment company was selling Dongdu real estate, so why did he think he could still make money by buying Dongdu real estate?
Unfortunately, I don't know what's wrong with this guy. He is very confident that the real estate in Japan will continue to rise. If nothing unexpected happens, it will indeed rise for two or three years; but after the house price goes up, can it be sold for cash?

If the house cannot be sold, it will be given to the Rijima Bank. This is the real purpose of the six shell companies. They are indeed not afraid of the nominee playing tricks.

When going to Central in the afternoon, the concubine Chen Shuting told Zhang Heping in the car that Tang Qiang revealed to those rich wives that his company had insider information about Wall Street!
To this end, Zhang Heping paid special attention to the capital movements of Tang Qiang, Datang Investment and Wall Street through the electronic trading systems in Hong Kong, Japan and Magnesium.

...

Although Zhang Heping has been very interested in Japanese stocks recently, he has not left Shenzhen's Heping Optical Card Factory and Precision Instrument Factory idle.

Both factories are expanding their facilities to prepare for the production of digital memory cards, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and smartphones.

What makes Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park nervous is that the Shenzhen Heping Optical Card Factory has ordered a batch of chip manufacturing equipment from the mainland. It is not clear whether it is to expand the production of optical cards or to produce computer hardware.

After all, this factory is a direct subsidiary of Tingmei Trading Holdings. It is much closer to them than Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park, and the employees are paid much higher wages!
Now, seeing that the production of 30 computers donated to the mainland is about to be completed, and Tingmei Trading has not yet signed an order for new computers with 1G memory and 2.5GHZ dual-core processor with Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park, the person in charge of Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park is a little anxious.

March 3th, Saturday.

Zhang Heping went to Shenzhen and talked with Director Wang at the Science Printing Factory about the construction of pharmaceutical factories in Jingcheng, Shudu and Baoding, the local Chinese medicinal materials planting economy, and its impact on grain planting.

When the two of them went to the cafeteria of Tingmei Health Factory for lunch at noon, Director Li, the person in charge of Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park, had been waiting at the factory gate for more than an hour.

When the dark-skinned Director Li saw Zhang Heping coming over, he immediately ran up to shake his hand, "Mr. Zhang, long time no see!"

Zhang Heping pulled his hand back and said with a smile, "Director Li, how is your chip cooperation with the Magnesium guy going?"

"Hey! Don't mention it!" Director Li frowned with a resolute face. "Those guys from China have only been here for a week, and our guards discovered through surveillance that they had sneaked into our laboratory and stole the hard drive from the laboratory computer."

"After we recovered the hard drive, we took the suspects to the capital and handed them over to the foreign affairs department."

Zhang Heping looked at the middle-aged man in his 40s and pointed his left hand towards the Tingmei Health Care Factory. "I just happened to have something to tell you. Let's go to the cafeteria first and talk while we eat."

The guard at the door who had just stopped Director Li saw Zhang Heping coming and asked Zhang Heping to register briefly before letting him pass.

"I've heard of the Tingmei Health Care Factory for a long time, but I've never had the chance to visit it!" Director Li looked at the workers leaving get off work with a smile, "I heard that the average salary here has reached 1000 yuan?"

"The products here have high profits, so the piecework wages are higher." Zhang Heping nodded and smiled at the workers who greeted him, but said to Director Li: "Why? Do you want to raise the wages of your workers?"

Director Li's eyes showed envy. "If you work here for a year, you can become a millionaire. I want to come here, not to mention the workers in our industrial park!"

"That's just the beginning!" Zhang Heping said with a sly smile, "The technicians and engineers at the Heping Optical Card Factory and the Precision Instrument Factory earn even higher salaries!"

"If I announced the salary and benefits of the factory over there to your industrial park, do you believe that half of the people in your industrial park would quit and work for me?"

"Alas..." Director Li sighed for no reason, walked into the small restaurant on the second floor of the cafeteria in silence, and then whispered to Zhang Heping:
"After those guys from the United States came to our industrial park, they began to lure our technicians and engineers to work in the United States with high salaries."

"One month's salary, 1 magnesium yuan..."

Zhang Heping looked at Director Li who couldn't stop shaking his head and said with a smile: "How many people have resigned recently?"

"Four technicians and one engineer have left!" Director Li's tone was very helpless, "There are still seven resignation applications that have not been approved!"

"Auntie Wang, look!" Zhang Heping raised his chin towards Director Li, "This is the result of not being willing to offer high salaries!"

"Even if the average salary in the computer industrial park can reach 1000 yuan, the number of people quitting their jobs will be reduced by half!"

Director Wang Sumei did not express any opinion, but just ordered dishes silently.

Zhang Heping said, and then looked at Director Li, "If your industrial park doesn't make changes, I won't dare to ask you to process computers for me!"

"This..." Director Li came here originally for the new order for the next month. After hearing what Zhang Heping said, he was a little confused and didn't know how to answer.

"With the profit of several billion magnesium yuan last year, how much salary did you pay to the employees in the industrial park?" Zhang Heping asked disdainfully, "Is it 300 million magnesium yuan?"

300 million magnesium yuan is just over 1000 million RMB, which is not even a fraction of the industrial park’s profit last year!
The key point is that Director Li shook his head at this time and his brows frowned even deeper!

"Director Lu of the Heping Optical Card Factory has a monthly salary of 4 magnesium yuan this year, and various bonuses and dividends are calculated separately." Zhang Heping said calmly:

"I provided money and technology to build your industrial park. Now, it is also because of my technology and sales channels that you have so much profit."

"Go back and tell your superiors that it was me who said that if they don't raise your wages, I will build another computer industrial park in Shenzhen and then poach people from your Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park with high salaries!"

Wang Sumei looked at the middle-aged man opposite her who opened his mouth several times but could not say anything, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Director Li, just report it truthfully when you go back. I will also report this matter. The salary over there is indeed too low."

Director Li, who had dark skin, had red eyes all of a sudden. He stood up, stood at attention, raised his hand, and saluted Zhang Heping and Director Wang. "Whether it succeeds or not, I want to thank you two on behalf of everyone!"

"It would be better if it doesn't work!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "The Heping Optical Card Factory and the Precision Instrument Factory are both expanding their factories, and they are short of manpower!"

"By the way, the three factories controlled by Tingmei Trading are all military-civilian joint ventures. It is impossible for your superiors not to know the wages offered by these factories."

Director Wang looked at Zhang Heping with some amusement. This guy was fanning the flames like this, probably because he was resentful about the loss of Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park.

Wang Sumei shook her head secretly. She had cooperated with the higher authorities to take away the Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park. She actually had some complaints against certain people, but she was unable to resist at the time.

But things are different now. Think about the smartphone production that the Peace Photonic Card Factory and the Precision Instrument Factory are preparing for. Will computers still be so important in the future?

...(End of chapter)