money player

Chapter 179 Traffic Faction

Besides, besides, besides...

On the train speeding to Shenyang, Wu Hongan couldn't help but be curious. Ignoring Lin Xingliang's instructions to open it in Shenyang, he opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside.

Taking a closer look, it was not a letter, but an article titled "Tea and Night Blindness". The first paragraph of the content described the changes in the army ration quota for the little devils. When the limit of dried vegetables was reduced from 300 grams to 100 grams, The tea limit has been increased by 3 grams.

He didn't quite understand the second paragraph. Tea leaves are rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A when entering the human body. It can nourish the eyes and prevent night blindness. It's a long paragraph.

The third paragraph makes a big jump, talking about the historical tea-horse trade, and telling the reasons why the grassland people buy tea from the Central Plains.

The fourth paragraph finally gets to the point. It roughly means that when there is no condition to eat fresh vegetables every day, you can drink tea to supplement the trace elements needed by the human body to achieve the effect of preventing night blindness.

There are two pieces of letter paper. The first one is an article, and the second one is a letter to him, asking him to be careful in Shenyang, not to participate in any form of gatherings, not to go to sensitive places, to concentrate on running the shirt business, and to wait for the company The next step is to submit the article to the Northeast Daily.

Wu Hongan was a little confused as a monk, but there was nothing else. It was very much the same as Manager Lin’s previous instructions, but the submission was a bit confusing. Zhonghua Clothing is not in the tea business, so why publish an article about tea? It is better to publish an article "Wearing shirts can prevent tuberculosis" ".

Complaints are complaints, of course he can handle the matter. Not only did he get a good business trip subsidy for his business trip to Shenyang, Manager Lin also promised that after he returns to Hong Kong, he will be included in the first echelon for promotion and salary increase. He must Behave yourself.

Shanjinlou.

Cen Peipei had just dealt with a small matter. A middle-aged woman ordered some of the most expensive snacks in the teahouse. After eating and drinking, she said she had forgotten to bring money and would bring it to her next time. Cen Peipei knew that it would be impossible for the other party to bring it to her, but she still Send the person off politely.

For no other reason than because she knew that the middle-aged woman's name was Zhang Zhiyun, a famous movie queen in the silent film era more than 20 years ago.

Zhang Zhiyun can become a movie actor and become popular, all without the help of one person. This person is Bu Wancang. Maybe it is a long-lasting love, maybe there is a certain element of gratitude. The two of them met on the ancient road (Fumin Road) Looking for a bungalow to live together.

Since the birth of the entertainment industry, it has always been a virtue. In Shanghai in the 1920s, most female movie stars liked to squeeze into upper-class dance parties. Rich businessmen also felt that it was very honorable to have a popular female star as a partner, so the law In some foreign-style houses in the concession, high-class dance parties are held every three days.

A certain upper-class person is interested in a certain female movie star or vice versa, but suffers from no way to get to know each other, so a demand arises, and a person who provides intermediary services follows closely behind. At that time, this person This kind of person already has a corresponding elegance called "prostitute".

The Minxin company where Zhang Zhiyun worked had a good friend of an executive, Xu Yingying, who was doing this business. She took Zhang Zhiyun, who was in the period of love and care at that time, to high-class cocktail parties. After going there several times, Zhang Zhiyun became She fell in love with the life of luxury and luxury, and soon kicked Bu Wancang into the arms of her national husband Tang Jishan.

Tang Jishan went to study in the UK when he was a teenager. When he was young, he had to return to China due to the outbreak of World War I. His family arranged for him to be given the title of associate at the family business Hua Tea Company. Not to mention, Tang Jishan was not a playboy. He rose to prominence within a few months, and within a few years the family unanimously agreed to let this young boy lead the Hua Tea Company.

Tang Jishan is very business-savvy and knows how to take advantage of opportunities. He found a wife who was very helpful to the Tang family's business and often hooked up with famous women. Zhang Zhiyun was just one of his prey.

If some people think that Tang Jishan just has a preference for well-known women, then they are wrong. While Tang Jishan is playing with women, she is also playing a big game of chess.

Since she and Zhang Zhiyun fell in love, Tang Jishan took Zhang Zhiyun to Europe and then to Hollywood, hoping to use Zhang Zhiyun’s identity to open up the tea market. Unexpectedly, his plan failed, and no one abroad bought Zhang Zhiyun. account.

After returning in anger, Tang Jishan felt that Zhang Zhiyun was useless, so she began to ignore her, hooked up with the president of Huaguo, and then hooked up with Ruan Lingyu, and officially lived with Ruan Lingyu, kicking Zhang Zhiyun away.

Tang Jishan still wanted to hook up with Ruan Lingyu to decorate his appearance and expand the market, but he underestimated Ruan Lingyu. As the daughter of a servant, Ruan Lingyu was like a family child, but she was able to hook up with the young master Zhang Damin at the age of fifteen. And can let the latter take him to elope.

As for Zhang Damin, he was just a playboy. He had no ability to support himself after leaving the family. After a period of time, he was living alone and waiting to die. Seeing that he was about to run out of money, Ruan Lingyu asked Zhang Huichong, Zhang Damin's eldest brother who often secretly supported the two of them, to introduce a job.

Zhang Huichong was an actor, director, and film company boss at the time. Ruan Lingyu's request for a job was basically saying: "Brother, you can make me a female movie star."

As a result, Ruan Lingyu got the opportunity to enter the film industry, and she was determined to take it. In less than two years, she emerged as a rising star. While she was on the rise, Zhang Damin remained the same. As time went by, conflicts naturally arose. When Tang Jishan extended an olive branch, she eloped again.

Zhang Damin is a young master who eloped in order to be with Ruan Lingyu. Not only did he live in desolation for a period of time, but he also missed out on the inheritance of more than 200,000 yuan that he should have had. Now his mother is being cheated on, which is unbearable. He found Ruan Lingyu asked for compensation, but to no avail, and a lawsuit was filed in court. Ruan Lingyu's mess became known to the world.

Now, Tang Jishan's plan failed, and she naturally began to neglect Ruan Lingyu, which also paved the way for Ruan Lingyu's subsequent suicide.

It is said that Zhang Zhiyun wrote a letter to Ruan Lingyu at that time, urging her not to jump into the fire pit, but she did not listen and felt that Zhang Zhiyun was jealous of her as a loser who was kicked out.

Back to Zhang Zhiyun, after she was tricked by Tang Jishan, she wasted a while. Newcomers such as Ruan Lingyu and Hu Die appeared in the film industry, and her position was no longer available. Later, she came back and made a film, which received a mediocre response. She has no place in the film industry. She got mixed up, and later moved to Tianjin to work as a prostitute. When she met an acquaintance, she couldn't show off her face, so she went to the eight major alleys in the capital and went to the prostitute.

Unexpectedly, she was discovered by a tabloid reporter who published a piece of tidbits. Her situation became known to the whole world. She was so ashamed that she could only run to Hong Kong, married the same man, and lived a life of three meals a day. , the man got tired of her and started disappearing. Zhang Zhiyun is now in a situation where he is unable to pay the rent and has no money to treat his hunger.

Zhang Zhiyun used to be quite famous, but he was a figure from the previous era. When Cen Peipei was born, Zhang Zhiyun was already lonely. Logically, she should not know about Zhang Zhiyun, but she did know it because Tang Jishan left. The traffic-oriented business route only attracted women who had their own traffic, and even invested in Lianhua Pictures, one of the three major film studios in Shanghai at the time.

Lianhua Pictures once had an actress with a very special identity. Like many celebrities active on the world stage in this era, she had many pseudonyms. Nowadays, right-wing tabloids like to publish her stories. After digging and digging in the garden of Bagua, Tang Jishan was dug out, and a large number of characters were revealed. Zhang Zhiyun's bowl of overnight rice was also fortunate enough to be put into the pot for frying.

Because of this, Cen Peipei knew that there was a person like Zhang Zhiyun, but it was impossible for her to recognize Zhang Zhiyun, who was old and yellow by looking at his face. The reason why she recognized him had to be explained by what she was doing now.

After meeting Cao Dahua in the teahouse that day, Cao Dahua came to visit again the next day. Cen Peipei greeted him attentively. After deliberately catering to him, he quickly became able to talk. Cao Dahua was quite interesting and brought people from the film industry to the mountain for several days. Jinlou cheers, new customers become old customers, and old customers bring new customers. Shanjinlou has a vague trend of being a canteen in the film industry.

Even now, there is a table of people from the film industry sitting in the private room of Shan Jin Building, one of them is Bu Wancang.

After sending Zhang Zhiyun away, Cen Peipei entered the private room, nodded to Bu Wancang, sat down in his seat, and continued to listen to the people talking about setting up a film company.

This group of filmmakers from Shanghai are so lively. Today you and I got together to open a company. We were not happy with our work, so we formed a new group of people to open a new company. Everyone in this group of people sitting in the private room is... The shareholders or backbones of a certain film company are all unhappy people. No, a new film company is about to be born.

... Majestic Hotel, Singapore.

Xian Yaowen and Narcissus chatted in the room for a while. When the atmosphere became a little ambiguous, Xian Yaowen promptly moved the conversation to the lobby on the first floor.

"Do you want anything to drink?" Xian Yaowen asked as soon as he sat down.

"Kosong."

"Aha, it seems you are ready to endure hardship." Xian Yaowen raised his hand and called the waiter, "One cup of Kosong, one cup of Kopi-O."

[Kosong, Malay for 'empty', coffee term, coffee without sugar or milk; Kopi-O, ​​only sugar without milk. ]
When the waiter left, Narcissus smiled and said: "As you said, as long as I am willing to endure hardship, I will enjoy endless blessings in the future. I think it should be fine for me to live to sixty years old. If I endure hardship for another twenty years, I will enjoy twenty years later." Happy New Year."

"First of all, your hardship time will not last for twenty years, maybe three years at most. Secondly, I think your health is not bad. When you have enough food and clothing, you don't have to worry about not being able to pay for anything you want to do. When you have money, your mood will naturally not be bad. The biggest secret to longevity is to maintain a good mood. If your luck is not bad and nothing unexpected happens, it will be very easy to live to the age of ninety."

"really?"

"It can't be fake." Xian Yaowen waved his hand, "Okay, let's not talk about this topic. It's too early to talk about this when we are in our early twenties. When we are forty, I will take you to the Alps to enjoy the snow. We will look at the vast white snow. Let’s talk about this topic slowly.”

"Snow." Narcissus's eyes became blurred, "I only remember seeing snow when I was four years old, but I have never seen it since."

"I saw snow when I was four years old... In 1929, it snowed in and around Yangcheng. Narcissus' hometown is on the edge of Yangcheng. He is twenty-five years old this year." Xian Yaowen's brain was automatically triggered, and a message floated out, shaking his head slightly, Dispersing the meaningless information, "It's not difficult to see snow. In the future, you will often go to Japan for business trips. The snow scenery there is pretty good."

"Is Toyang fun?"

"It's fun, the mountains and rivers are good, the women are good, only the men are not that interesting."

"hehe."

Narcissus' sweet smile attracted a group of people dragging suitcases into the lobby from outside the hotel door.

Xian Yaowen glanced at the visitor, then at his watch, and continued talking to Narcissus.

Yesterday, the hotel manager knocked on the guest room door and said that Dahua had reached an agreement with the two airlines and would become the designated accommodation hotel for flights operated by the two companies from today on. He apologized in advance for the possible disturbance.

After a commotion, the passengers dragged their luggage upstairs. After a while, more passengers came down from upstairs. Some went out directly, and some just sat down at the cafe to order food. There were two people sitting at the table next to Xian Yaowen. Everyone at the table started talking after ordering their meals.

The people at the two tables looked like they were business people. Needless to say, Xian Yaowen, who had a habit of eavesdropping, supercharged his ears, and arranged one ear for each table.

He didn't listen to a few words at the table on the left before he judged that the other person was a businessman from Taiwan. Because he spoke Hokkien with Japanese vocabulary, he had been ruled by the little devils for so many years, and all the Japanese he had studied had slipped away, and his usage habits were temporary. I won't be able to change it for a while.

After listening to a few more words from the table on the right, he could only judge with uncertainty that they were also from Taiwan. They were obviously just two people, but their accents were extremely mixed. The older one spoke Mandarin, English, and a mix of Shanghainese and Hakka. Vocabulary, the young ones include Japanese, Hakka, and English words in Mandarin. The older ones are probably from other provinces and have lived in Shanghai for a long time, while the younger ones are Hakkas from this province.

The table on the left was talking about topics that could be criticized from the moral high ground. It was not very exciting. The table on the right was a little hard to listen to. They were talking about Ji, Fanfeng, and Yihe. It took me a while to understand that the two of them were tea merchants. The conversation was about the business of Pufeng Tea.

"What does puffing wind mean?" Xian Yaowen asked Narcissus in a low voice.

The conversation between the old and the young was so loud that Narcissus could hear it. She corrected: "It's not Pong Fung, it's 'Pong Fung', which means bragging. Pong Fung tea is Taiwan's Fanzhuang oolong tea. Foreigners like to drink it, and Singapore can do it." Buy it.”

Xian Yaowen didn't understand Fanfeng Tea, but when it came to Fanzhuang Oolong, he understood it. In London, it should be called Taiwan Tea or Beipu Tea, which was later called Fushou Tea. He drank it when he was in London, and it was served in civilian restaurants or low-end places. Black tea is brewed from Taiwan tea.

Audrey accidentally mentioned to him that more than half of the post-war British tea was imported from Taiwan, and the quality varied. Whether it was good or bad depends on luck.

At the time, he didn't pay much attention to it. Now that he looks back and considers the word "uneven", it actually illustrates a problem - demand for tea in Taiwan exceeds supply. Everyone wants tea, and the government is severely short of foreign exchange.

During the Japanese occupation, the Japanese did not vigorously carry out industrial construction in Taiwan in order to maintain their rule. Even the fertilizers needed for agriculture and the textile industry that the people could not live without required support from the East. After Taiwan was recovered, it could be used for export. There are not many commodities that earn foreign exchange, and most of them are concentrated in agricultural products, such as tea and fruits.

Needless to say, fruits, the big brother of the government, the United States, wants to export vigorously, and there is no market to open to Taiwan. Only tea, which the United States does not have, has the potential to become a leading export product.

As far as Xian Yaowen knows, Jardine Matheson has always had a branch in Taiwan, and its main business is tea export. During World War II, the tea gardens in Nanyang were severely damaged. After the war, the British, who were in urgent need of restoring people's livelihood, probably shifted their main target of tea imports to Taiwan.

Based on this inference, businessmen in Taiwan who were engaged in tea-related businesses in the past few years probably made a lot of money, but they didn't know that they were sucked away by the new and old Taiwan dollars. Several percent of their net worth was sucked away, and exports involved currency exchange. There is only one Bank of Taiwan controlled by the government in Taiwan. If there is any fuss about the exchange rate, the tea merchants will cry for their parents.

Xian Yaowen vaguely listened to the conversation between the two, half understanding the topic, and vague about their identities, until the older one said, "I, Tang Jishan, have been in the tea business for decades...".

Oh, this is self-reporting.

Xian Yaowen curiously glanced at the face of Tang Jishan, the national husband, but didn't think he was very good-looking. He thought that Tang Jishan's fame was probably made possible by money.

Well, it’s not surprising that Tang Jishan is not the first, nor will she be the last. In the future, dreams of national husbands and billionaire girls will all come together, including Cen Peipei. Isn’t he also determined to let her join the traffic faction? The route.

(End of this chapter)