money player

Chapter 189 Local Products

Near noon, four people in the office sat together, flipping through magazines on the market that were similar to Playboy, such as "Life", "Vogue", "Vanity Fair", "Penthouse", "Esquire", etc., from time to time, Several people will exchange a few words about the magazine.

It doesn't matter that Xian Yaowen is holding a copy of "The New Yorker" in his hand. Reading during working hours can be classified as not doing his job. He was like this because a middle-aged woman who came for an interview had just left.

The middle-aged woman is not a housewife. Her name is Emily Hahn. She is a well-known copywriter with a Chinese name of "Xiang Meili". She once published a biography of the three Song sisters and lived in Shanghai for a while. Not long after, she became Shao Xunmei's concubine. The two talked about literature and smoked opium together, and later staged a legendary story in Hong Kong.

In general, Xiang Meili is a celebrity in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and everyone who reads newspapers knows that she is a foreign concubine.

At first, Xian Yaowen didn’t understand that Xiang Meili would come to the flower club for an interview. Xiang Meili was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He had worked with her for many years, received a generous salary, and wrote serious articles. After chatting, he finally Learned that Xiang Meili wanted to "change" and try something different.

Naturally, he welcomes writers who are well-known. The bigger the twist, the better. After giving up the interview, he sent out an invitation to write a biographical love story about a well-known figure. In some places, the steps are a little bigger, and it must be in line with Playboy. Positioning, the royalties are astronomical one dollar per word (word).

Xiang Meili was very satisfied with Xian Yaowen's "respect" and promised to submit a manuscript within a month. Xian Yaowen just listen, he is a freelance writer, so it is strange that he will submit the manuscript on time.

No, after Xiang Meili left, he asked Simpson about her. Simpson dug out a few copies of "The New Yorker" for him and let him read Xiang Meili's autobiographical articles.

After reading it, he marveled at the tossing spirit of this woman, Xiang Meili. When she was Shao Xunmei's concubine, she met her current husband in Hong Kong, and settled in the UK after marriage. He found that family life was too restrictive for him, so he left the UK and lived alone. Entering an apartment in New York City, pushing the marriage into widowhood.

Yes, you are a sultry middle-aged woman. You can send out invitations to male model pool parties in the future. I believe she will definitely enjoy it.

The morning was spent in interviews and magazine discussions.

At noon, he deliberately made a time difference and deliberately walked farther away for lunch. It is the same in any country. There is a natural gap between the boss and the employees. Stripping away the elements of performance, the boss and employees can never get along. Lunch is for employees. It's a rare time to relax. As a boss, you have to be a bit pushy, so don't add trouble at this time.

Why don't you maintain your own identity, mingle with the masses, and listen to the voices of the masses? Don't talk about it. Employees have to deal with it carefully, for fear of being judged if they don't say a word right. The performance of "loving each other and being a family" occasionally comes Just fool the people outside, there is no point in pretending every day.

His lunch is hot dogs from a street food truck. If he buys four, he gets one and a half, and Qi Longque gets two and a half.

Despite his glamorous appearance, he has actually entered a stage of very tight cash flow. The cash he can use in the United States is less than 4000 US dollars, plus the 2.33 US dollars exchanged in Singapore (Lu Yuepeng’s 7 MYR), the total is only 2.6 Less than 3000 U.S. dollars, to be exact, he has less than U.S. dollars in funds at his disposal. After paying the bills for today’s home purchases, there won’t be much left over.

He doesn't panic if he doesn't have money. There are ways to solve it. The best option is to find a top rich person to calculate the average. Getting rich overnight is not a dream. The worst option is to borrow money from rich people. He plans to adopt the worst option, which is actually already in operation.

Don’t panic, don’t panic. It’s a fact that you don’t have money. You can just relax and order flowers when no one is seeing you. There are hot dogs and coffee, and a lunch costs tens of cents. It is affordable and not shabby.

It's just that the food looks a bit ugly, and there's no easy place to sit. He and Qi Longque happened to sit across from each other in a high-end restaurant, eating hot dogs on one side and cutting steak on the other.

In fact, Xian Yaowen is not so boring. He is rich both spiritually and materially. It's just that he doesn't have enough money at the moment. It's not a status word like "when he will be rich" to fool himself. He is sitting here just because there are people around him. There is a hot dog stand, and there is also a newsstand. You can eat hot dogs and read newspapers without wasting your time at all.

While turning the page, he turned to get the coffee cup, only to see Qi Longque staring in one direction. He turned around and saw a busty girl wearing a black vest and color-blocked shorts, who was about to laugh at Qi Longque. Longque, his eyes also straightened. This girl has the same style as Marilyn Monroe, which is very in line with the current Western aesthetics.

He took out a pen, took the phone book, quickly wrote down the address and phone number of the flower club, and chased after the girl.

"Hi Girl."

He shouted as the girl placed one foot on the streetcar.

The girl looked back at him and saw that he was a stranger. She was stunned for a moment, and then got into the car faster.

Having no choice, he had no choice but to run two steps quickly and jump on the tram at the right moment. He didn't need to look around, because the girl was sitting in the direction where he was looking.

With a smile on his face, he walked up to the girl who looked surprised, frightened, and seemed to have a hint of joy, "Let me introduce myself, I am Adam, from a men's magazine, and I found that you are very suitable to be on the cover of our magazine. You If you're interested, call me."

With that said, without waiting for the girl to react, the phone page in his hand was thrust into the girl's hand, and then he made a gesture of calling and hurriedly got off the tram.

Standing still on the street, a cheerful smile appeared on his face. When they met face to face just now, he recognized the girl. Jane Mansfield, known as Cartoon Monroe and Poor Man's Monroe, will be the future He will become popular by imitating Monroe, not simply being a "little Monroe" on the screen, but fully riding on Monroe's popularity.

The reason why he knew this woman was thanks to the Kennedy family. The story of Monroe and John F. Kennedy will be known to everyone in the future. Monroe even tried to squeeze out Jacqueline and ascend to the throne of first lady, Jane Mansfield. Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, he was not clear with Kennedy, and they were two brothers, in addition to John and Robert.

If I remember correctly, Monroe hated this little Monroe very much and dissed her in newspapers countless times. Haha, she had the nerve to diss. Didn’t she herself become famous by imitating Jean Harlow? It’s a credit to her that she died early. , otherwise it would be lively if one generation slanders the other.

Looking back, he took another look at the tram to confirm the route. Although he was sure that Jane Mansfield would call him, he was also worried about what might happen. When he just learned who the girl was, he had already included her in the list. It's best not to miss a plan.

After staring for a while, he turned his head and looked at Qi Longque, who was standing close to him, and said teasingly: "Do you miss a woman?"

"Yes." Qi Longque answered directly.

This is not the first time for some things, and the shy period has long passed.

“Local or hometown?”

"Local."

"Local products, please wait. Let's go to Chinatown tonight and have some local food first."

Back in the office, his main job was to receive interviewers. Thanks to the relatively mature job search channels of employment agencies in New York, and the current employment environment, there were quite a few interviewers in the afternoon, and he picked out an intern among them. , a trainee reporter, and two editor candidates. They need to test their quality. After the questions are asked, a retest will be arranged the day after tomorrow.

There are also candidates for senior journalists, senior editors and publishers who have come for interviews, but these positions are relatively important and none of them have been decided. For them, today is not even a preliminary examination, it is at best a meeting, and preliminary examinations, re-examinations, and interviews will be arranged later. After the final test, there will be a trial period of one or two months.

There was no way. He could only say that he understood some theory about the magazine and knew what positions were needed, but he did not have a systematic understanding of the specific job level verification. He could not judge the depth of the other party's professional skills just by chatting.

When he got off work, he called Priscilla Zheng to the corridor.

"Hui Xian, one thing I didn't say this morning is the internal recommendation system that our company will implement in the future. If there is a shortage of people in the company, you can recommend people you are familiar with. Once hired, the company will give the new employee two weeks' salary as a reward. Reward. You can find your neighbors, ask them about photographers in the village, and recommend a few. The club temporarily needs two. If you can get them, I will give you a special reward. You can buy a house here. You make the down payment yourself, I will help you with the loan, and then the company will help you bear half of the monthly loan."

"Why do you only talk to me alone?"

"What do you mean?"

“Internal recommendation system.”

Xian Yaowen patted Priscilla Zheng on the shoulder, "You are the pioneer cow I brought from Hong Kong. You are said to be the founding hero of the flower club. When the flower club develops, you will naturally have a contribution to the success of the dragon. I will Give you a certain share.

In view of this, I won’t beat around the bush about some things. The internal recommendation system is a good way to increase cohesion and work enthusiasm, but it is not suitable for use now. The core team of the flower club at the beginning cannot have small groups, otherwise it will When we start a group, it’s easy for me as the boss to be ignored, especially since you and I are both outsiders. It takes time to integrate, do you understand? "

Priscilla Cheng nodded, "The way of the emperor's balance."

"Haha, it's not that big." Xian Yaowen took back his hand and rubbed his hands together, "Hui Xian, I'm afraid you will have a grudge in the future, so I will tell you something in advance. Your promotion in the company and other people Likewise, only those who are capable will get the job. I will not guarantee you a high position. Everything is up to you to earn.

However, you will always be the most special one in the company. As long as you can always maintain your current original intention, your salary, bonuses, shares, and all benefits will increase year by year. This is my promise to you. There is a long way to go, so you can watch it as you go. , I won’t let you pay by mistake. "

Priscilla Zheng nodded again, "I believe in the boss, and you can also believe in me, boss."

Xian Yaowen smiled calmly, "I was telling you as a boss just now, and now I am talking to you as a friend. The current price of a decent apartment in New York is about 1.5 US dollars, with five or six rooms, three or four People live in a comfortable place, and you can choose the location. The down payment is about US$5500.

According to last year's data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the income of a typical American family is around US$4237, and it only takes 3.54 years to buy an apartment without food or water. In my opinion, this is an unreasonable number. Compared with Hong Kong , the houses here are so cheap and there is still a lot of room for growth.

If you buy a house early, you won't suffer a loss. You should first calculate how much down payment you can raise. I will personally lend you the remaining amount. "

Priscilla Zheng thought for a while and said, "I want to think about it."

"There's no rush. You can think about it slowly. You can come to me whenever you figure it out."

……

Be Street, the central area of ​​Manhattan's Chinatown.

When it comes to Chinatown in the United States, it is naturally the most typical one in San Francisco. In the early 19th century, the first stop for Chinese coming to the United States was San Francisco. In the middle and late 19th century, the reputation of the Chinese for being docile and easy to bully, and willing to work for less money spread. , capitalists in other cities directly contacted the piglet sellers, and the Chinese began to enter the hinterland of the western United States directly without passing through San Francisco.

There is a word Coolie, which means coolie. Its pronunciation is very similar to that of coolie. However, in fact, neither word is the transliteration of the other. It can only be said that the ugliness of human nature is as black as crows in the world.

Although coolie means coolie, when used, it is often used to represent a narrower meaning of "Chinese laborers". Coolie is a contemptuous term for Chinese laborers. Some white-skinned wretches treat other yellow-skinned wretches. The contemptuous name.

The reason why American capitalists go all the way to recruit workers from Asia is because they value cost-effectiveness. Chinese workers are more affordable than white workers. In the same unit of time, Chinese workers do much more work than white workers, and they receive higher wages. Much less.

Precisely because of the involution of Chinese workers, white workers had to lower their salary expectations and work more with less money. At first, involution was only in the fields of gold rush and railway engineering. When the gold rush dissipated and the railway project was completed, involution Putting out the five tigers and herds of sheep, shouting the slogans of Yanjia Tuan and Pu Ni Amu, they launched a charge into other industries.

The white workers looked at it and thought, what's going on? If they get involved with these Coolies, there's no way they can survive. I didn't say anything, just fuck the guys, that's all. From the beginning of the conflict, it gradually evolved into white workers versus Chinese workers. Organized attacks.

In Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco and Washington, in the past ten years, two groups of poor people have been instigated by malicious people. Not only can’t it go back up, but it’s even lower than before.

In order to avoid the attacks of white workers, many Chinese workers migrated from the west to the east. This is the main origin of the Chinatowns in the east. The Chinese workers who stayed in the west lived in groups for self-protection, forming the Chinatowns in the west.

In the beginning, there were only a group of members of the Little Knife Society and the White Lotus Sect who were chased by Sticky Rods in Manhattan's Chinatown. This group of people defined the gray style here. When other Chinese workers migrated from San Francisco and other cities, it also meant dividends. monstrous.

So, an arrow pierced the clouds, thousands of troops came to meet each other, and Hongmen came soon. There were more sheep than wolves, and our own people did not fight our own people. They blocked the intersection of Chinatown and started playing private servers in the United States. .

It was like this in the beginning, but after a few years, the reproduction rate of sheep could not keep up with the expansion of the wolf population. There were too many sheep and wolves, and the red eyes were not enough. The situation of not violating the rules of the river was naturally broken, whether it was Hongmen or Blackmen. , brothers or not, it was a random fight for profit, and the "Huijiaomen" became the "Huijiaomen", On Leung Hall and Hip Sing Hall.

In the first thirty years of this century, the two churches did not get along well with each other. They often started fighting over trivial matters. Among them, a trafficked woman named Bao Jin caused a war between the two churches. It kept going on and on, but never stopped. Only during the years when Sun Wen was working as a Hongmen double-headed stick in Chinatown, he threw out the anti-Qing and revolutionary Wang Zha as soon as possible, so the two halls were relatively peaceful.

After all, they are all decent people, and they still have courtesy, justice and shame. Although Hongmen's purpose of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty is too embarrassing to wipe the butt, but they are all descendants of Hongmen anyway, and they want to use Hongmen's moral principles to fool their subordinates. It is unjustifiable for those who carry the banner of anti-Qing rebellion not to help.

Thirty years later, the country was in turmoil. The banner of national justice was suppressed, and the two churches maintained superficial peace. However, as time passed, the banner retreated, and the undercurrents in Chinatown returned to turmoil.

Port Arthur Restaurant is by far the largest Chinese restaurant in Manhattan and even New York. It occupies the second and third floors of No. 7-9 M Street and is decorated with many Ming and Qing-style teak carved tables and chairs. The second floor faces Open to the public, the third floor is a maze-like restaurant dedicated to private banquets, mainly weddings, birthdays and funerals.

Xian Yaowen and Qi Longque were sitting by the window on the second floor, looking at the street through the window. There were two groups of people standing face to face below. Two figures who were probably the leaders stood out from their own camp and were close to each other in the middle. Look at the two people. His posture, he should be holding a gun in his hand and thrusting it into the opponent's stomach.

"Sir, do you think there will be a fight?"

Qi Longque watched with great interest, but kept his head against the wall, looking down at the smallest angle to reduce the possibility of being affected by stray bullets.

"There are too many people, and they have guns in their hands. If they fight on the street, it will make too much noise, so there won't be a war. But you can't eat the taste of your hometown. There won't be peace tonight. Let's take a walk after dinner. , I will take you to Little Italy and taste the Sicilian style.”

With that said, Xian Yaowen withdrew his gaze and lowered his head to read the Chinese newspaper he just bought on the street.

Similar to Hong Kong, newspapers in Chinatown are also divided into left and right. Most reports have position issues. It does not matter the three elements of news. To restore the original appearance of an event, you need to compare the left and right. If there is no comparison, you can only make a subjective judgment.

After reading the left and right newspapers for a long time, he has a basic grasp of the writing routines of both sides, and has a mature mechanism for stripping away nonsense and bringing order to chaos.

(End of this chapter)