money player

Chapter 160 Singapore

To wave away a shopkeeper is not to say goodbye to his hands behind his back and do nothing, just watch his subordinates work.

In fact, there are quite a few things that need to be arranged in advance.

Regarding Li Xianglan, Xian Yaowen had to draw up a contract template in advance for Yoshiko Matsuda's reference. When he called Michelle on the long-distance call, he mentioned the matter and wrote a formal written report.

Regarding film, he still had to improvise. First, he understood the color requirements of Hong Kong film companies and learned that black and white films were still the main ones. The usage rate of color films was not high. By coincidence, Fujifilm's 35mm black and white films were popular in Hong Kong. Channel Being relatively simple makes things a little simpler.

Film is a little simpler. Although color film has matured and the West has begun to enter the era of color photography, color film after several price cuts is still expensive. The retail price of Kodak's cheapest 8-exposure 828 format film is close to $2, which is too expensive. , it is better to buy cheaper black and white film. After all, the outline and quantity of guns only need to be seen clearly, and the color is not important.

However, you still need to buy a batch of color film. As someone who is about to become a bra king, Xian Yaowen plans to give himself the title of "Teacher Xian" and make great efforts to learn photography skills. In the future, he will have one more hobby - - Take free bra photos for women to retain their youth and freeze their youth.

Well, he still has to invest in a nude photography museum to raise his hobby to the level of art, lest Wu Xiaoxiao scold him for being shameless and obscene.

Regarding expenses, Michelle has already used up his 170 million loan limit. He left 1 Hong Kong dollars in advance activity funds for Yoshiko Matsuda in the name of Friendship Cinemas. All subsequent funds can be transferred to the public account.

There is no need to be secretive in the operation of film. It is a normal business behavior for a theater company to hoard this stuff and there is no need to explain it to anyone.

Before leaving Tokyo, he went to Gotenyama, Shinagawa District, to secretly pay attention to the development status of Tokyo Communications Industry Co., Ltd., and came to the conclusion that he was young and full of vigor, but he was not alive and was in the difficult stage of getting by in the early stages of starting a business. , Sony’s momentum is far from forming.

With this conclusion, he was relieved, and there was plenty of time left for him to figure it out slowly.

Before leaving Toyo, he also went to Hamamatsu City, where he heard another good news. Honda's motorcycle road encountered a big stumbling block "Toyo Government". At this time, Toyo had several There are hundreds of motorcycle manufacturers and suppliers, and Honda is a latecomer and is disliked by those in power. Although Honda has developed a serious motorcycle, it is not popular and the government does not approve it at all. Give it the quota of accessories it needs.

He asked several Honda employees to inquire, and Soichiro Honda found a solution. He established a team to participate in the Isle of Man TT competition. When he came back with a championship, he would not only make the Honda brand famous, but also win glory for Japan. Naturally, the government would not Will stop Honda from making motorcycles.

Very good, the championship is not something he can just take if he wants. He can completely develop for a period of time and wait until he is stronger before contacting Honda.

When he left Hamamatsu City and returned to Tokyo to take an international flight, Yoshiko Matsuda, who came to see him off at the airport, told him another news. She had found a good puppet candidate, Keiko Nagumo, a twenty-year-old widow.

The name was good and the age was good, but when he heard Yoshiko Matsuda introduce Keiko Nagumo's family background, he became a little uneasy. It was not that the family background was noble, but Keiko Nagumo's father was a bit special.

Nagumo Chuichi, the undoubted number one person on the anti-Japanese contribution list. It would be no exaggeration to call him the anti-Japanese hero and the number one anti-Japanese general. With only one person's power, he ruined the family fortune of the Little Japanese Navy. If it weren't for him , the little boy and the fat man may not be able to explode in the East, and perhaps the Victory Day of the Anti-Japanese War will be postponed for who knows how long.

In terms of his contribution to the war against Japan, Nagumo Chuichi is definitely qualified to shout: "Who else!"

Is it polite to let the daughter of an anti-Japanese martyr be a puppet?

Regarding this issue, he planned to think about it carefully when he turned back.

……

5 month 17 day.

Xian Yaowen arrived in Singapore. As soon as he left Kallang Airport, he immediately went to the telephone office and hung up a phone call to Xian Yaowu, informing him that he had arrived in Singapore. Xian Yaowu put down the phone and took out an envelope that he had been carrying with him for the past few days. He opened it, took out the letter paper inside and unfolded it. He saw that it read: "There is a brown paper envelope in the safe No. 2 in my study. There are three letters in it. This letter is for you. Take it out when I call you next time and follow the instructions in the letter.

Note: The key to the safe is with Pepe. The password is Grandma's birthday. The letter is encrypted. To decrypt it, find Lizhen and ask her, "What book was I reading that night?" She can understand.

You must be gentle when opening the safe. There is a mechanism inside. Pay attention to the hair on the door. Also, remember that it will burn after reading. "

Due to the geographical location, Xiao Tianlai's joint defense team is slightly different from other joint defense teams. They often have to cooperate with special agents to do some peripheral work, such as standing guard, sentry, blocking intersections, etc. Having more contact with these people, they have acquired intelligence-related knowledge. He could understand it more or less. Xian Yaowu knew a little bit about wireless telegraphy, so he could naturally understand what the encryption and decryption in the letter was like.

He couldn't help but mutter about what important thing his elder brother wanted him to do, making it so mysterious.

However, despite muttering, he was quite obedient. He took the envelope and letter paper to the toilet, burned them and watched the ashes washed away by the water. After everything was in order, he returned to his work station and continued to work.

Over in Singapore, Xian Yaowen finished his phone call, bought a newspaper on the side of the road, and then went into a teahouse.

It is said to be a tea room, but it actually does not sell tea, but coffee. There is a big pot on the table. You just need to pour it into a bowl. After you finish one bowl, you can add another bowl. Open it and drink as much as you can. How much? Pricing is based on head, not bowl.

It was very hot in Singapore in May. On the way here, we were caught in a thunderstorm for two or three minutes. I was sweating heavily. Xian Yaowen was very wet. He took off his suit, unbuttoned his shirt, and only wore a vest. He drank half a bowl without adding sugar. I drank some cold coffee to relieve the heat, and in order not to be intrusive, I took off my shoes, rolled up my trousers to my knees, exposed my calves, and squatted on a chair like other customers.

He picked up a copy of "Sin Chew Daily" and pricked up his ears to listen to the conversations of other guests. But in a blink of an eye, he closed his ears and sank into the world of newspapers. He was not very lucky. When he entered Hainan Nest, he could only listen. I understand that two people are talking about Qionghai Diao, but the other people don’t know whether it is Danzhou Diao, Li dialect, Miao dialect, or Jun dialect, but they just can’t understand it anyway.

It was a coincidence that when he turned to the second page of the newspaper, he saw a report about Qiong'an Rubber Plantation. It was said that after the liberation of Hainan, the army took over the rubber plantation and planned to launch a large-scale rubber planting business on Qiong'an Island.

The core content of the report is this. It just tastes weird and has a bit of a yin and yang vibe. If I remember correctly, "Sing Chew Daily" is owned by Hu Wenhu and the Hu family. It is owned by the same owner as "Sing Tao Daily". "Sing Tao Daily" is not It's left-leaning, but why is Sin Chew Daily leaning right-wing?
He couldn't figure out the Hu family's position, but it didn't stop him from continuing to read the newspapers. After reading "Sin Chew Daily", he read "Nanyang Siang Pau", read two articles, scanned other headlines, and then read the "Business Daily" Throw it aside, the business newspaper has no business, and there is almost no business information. It is just words to guide public opinion according to one's own position, selling sheep as dog meat.

After half an hour, I flipped through several newspapers. Xian Yaowen found that reading Singapore newspapers was very difficult and too subjective. He had to separate the objective content from the subjective. Fortunately, his knowledge was not bad, otherwise he would have wanted to read something pure. It's really hard to report the facts.

The newspaper was like shit, so he had to change his plan of mainly reading the newspaper today. He put the newspaper away, got dressed, put a 20-cent coin on the table, and went out to enjoy the scenery while pretending to be a fool to passers-by.

The weather is over 30 degrees and the suit is stiff, but you are a fool.

A fool is a fool, he doesn't care about the eyes of passers-by, he just carefully observes the style of the street and the clothes of passers-by. At this moment, his main identity is Xian Yaowen, the general manager of China Garments, and he has to pay attention to the shirt market in Singapore.

Obviously, there will be no market for long-sleeved shirts in Singapore this season. Short-sleeved shirts are still the main focus. Maybe we can launch casual-style short-sleeved shirts in advance, or even hippie-style ones. We can also consider launching women’s shirts in advance. There should be a market for casual styles with contrasting colors, long hems that can be tied together, and wide open necklines to expose collarbones or peaks and valleys.

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To be continued.

I’ll read the next chapter tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)