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“Although Britain was afraid of the growth of communism in the Malay Peninsula, the Malayan military government’s primary concern before sending troops to encircle and suppress the Malayan Communist Party was not the Soviet Union’s supporters in Southeast Asia, but the Nationalist government that was supported by the United States.

After all, the United States has been committed to promoting the policy of "decolonization" since Roosevelt was still alive, and has been working with the Kuomintang to wipe out the forces of communism and imperialism in Asia.

As soon as Japan announced its surrender, the National Army's 1st Front, led by Commander Lu Han, advanced into the area north of 17 degrees north latitude in French Indochina. In name, the purpose was to disarm the Japanese, but in reality, it was to prevent the French colonial rulers from making a comeback.

Vietnamese nationalists represented by Nguyen Hai Chen and Vu Hong Qing were ready to establish a Vietnamese regime close to the National Government with the support of Chiang Kai-shek and strangle the communist movement led by Ho Chi Minh in its cradle.

The 93rd Army Division, which had been confronting the Thai army on the Sino-Thai border at the end of World War II, was commanded by its commander Lu Guoquan and stationed in the Laotian capital of Luang Prabang to assist the anti-French Prince Phetsarath in consolidating his regime. It also fought against the Vichy French army for a time. It was obvious that the Nationalist government intended to subvert European colonialism with the support of the United States.

This move not only caused panic among the French, but also among the British, who were bound to respond.

Considering the large number of Chinese in Southeast Asia and their economic influence that cannot be underestimated, the Nationalist government, which had just defeated the Japanese, would surely be able to establish a bridgehead on the Malay Peninsula to challenge British colonial rule with the support of overseas Chinese.

Both the Malayan Communist Party, which believed in communism, and the Nationalist government, which was supported by the United States, became a threat to the British Empire in Southeast Asia at this moment.

Faced with this new political situation, the Malayan military government had to adjust its policy of winning over the Chinese and suppressing the Malays during World War II, and instead support Malay elites such as Tunku Abdul Rahman to suppress the Chinese.

Considering that Indonesia was a Dutch colony, the British could not allow the Malays and Indonesians to form a new country out of consideration. However, by returning Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu, which had been ceded to the Thais, to Malaya, the Malays were able to regain their previous advantage in population to counter the Chinese.

In May 1946, the United Malay National Organisation, also known as UMNO, was born to promote Malay supremacy.

Based on the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the United States supported the National Government’s navy led by Colonel Lin Zun to lead four American-aided ships to recapture XSQD and NSQD, project the National Government’s sphere of influence to the South China Sea islands, and boost the national morale of the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

At that time, the Liberation War had already begun, but the Chinese on both the left and right sides of Malaya united together for the Kuomintang's status as one of the world's top four countries, and were ready to fight a decisive battle with UMNO with the help of the United States.

If it were not for the Soviet Union's political offensive in Eastern and Central Europe and the growing strength of communism in the Far East, perhaps the Chinese representing the United States and the Malays representing Britain would have already started a proxy war on the Malay Peninsula.

The threat of communism led the United States and Britain to reach a new consensus that it was far better for Southeast Asia to remain in the hands of European colonists than to fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.

As a result, the United States adjusted its policy, not only refusing to assist the Nationalist government in recovering Hong Kong, but also demanding that the Nationalist army withdraw from French Indochina.

In 1948, the situation of the Liberation War became clear. The Malayan Communist Party took advantage of the situation and rose to power. It once again called on the brothers of the People's Anti-Japanese Army who used to fight guerrilla warfare in the jungle to take up arms and organize the "Malayan National PLA" to resist British colonial rule. It planned to connect the red revolution on the Malay Peninsula with the red revolution on the Chinese mainland.

Once the Malayan Communist Party overthrows British colonial rule, the newly established Malayan Communist Party regime will inevitably become a vassal of China.

The left-wing Chinese on the Malay Peninsula were very excited about this, while the right-wing Chinese had mixed feelings because historically the Malay Peninsula had never been so close to China.

The United States, which understands this fact, is even less likely to be happy to see Malaya become a country close to China. The pro-American Kuomintang government has retreated to Taiwan, and the pro-Soviet China will make the Malay Peninsula a projection point for the Soviet Union to penetrate into Southeast Asia.

For this reason, the United States drastically changed its position and decided to support Britain in defending the Malay Peninsula.

In order to effectively suppress the Malayan Communist Party that shouted "Down with imperialism", Britain had to follow the independence thoughts of emerging countries after the war and began to promote the independence of the Malay Peninsula under the most favorable environment for Britain.

At first, the British planned to leave out the Chinese and Indians and discuss with UMNO the feasibility of establishing the Federation of Malays, but they were immediately boycotted by the Chinese and Indians.

So the British supported the Indian Malayan Indian National Congress in 1948 to further isolate the Chinese.

The rebellion of the Malayan Communist Party and the issuance of the emergency order gave the Federation of Malaya a legitimate reason to purge the Chinese. While they were pointing guns at the Malayan Communist Party, they also disregarded the face of the National Government and ordered the dissolution of all the branches of the Kuomintang in the Malay Peninsula, completely ending the National Government's interference in the political affairs of the Malay Peninsula.

However, the British also learned a lesson from the experience of the Japanese devils, that the result of ethnic cleansing of the Chinese would force all the Chinese into the arms of the Malayan Communist Party.

What's more, there are right-wing Chinese capitalist forces represented by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, which are important forces that the British can use to suppress the Malayan Communist Party.

Therefore, on February 1949, 2, the pro-British businessman Sir Tan Cheng Lock, with the support of the British, established the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) to represent the Chinese in resisting the idea of ​​the Federation of Malaya.

The establishment of MCA symbolizes that the three major ethnic groups in the Malay Peninsula, namely Malays, Indians and Chinese, now have their own political parties to represent them.

However, those who joined MCA were not only the pro-British Chamber of Commerce represented by Datuk Sir Tan Cheng Lock. Pro-Japanese elements who joined the Overseas Chinese Association during World War II, as well as many KMT supporters, also joined MCA with the secret encouragement of the KMT veterans in Nanyang and even the KMT government.

Compared to colonial elites like Tan Cheng Lock who were highly westernized and could not even speak standard Chinese, the overseas Chinese associations and Kuomintang members who joined the Malaysian Chinese Association still retained a strong sense of Chinese national identity and even maintained ties with Taiwan.

As a result, a strange situation arose. While Tan Cheng Lock and other MCA senior officials were fighting for the rights of Malays and Indians, the Overseas Chinese Association and the remnants of the Kuomintang were also using the MCA banner to deal with the Malayan Communist Party.

Compared to the United States, which likes to confront the socialist camp head-on, Britain is a true old-fashioned realist. Although Britain resisted the Soviet Union and encircled and suppressed the Malayan Communist Party in the Malay Peninsula, its attitude towards the Chinese Communist Party was still quite friendly.

Britain, which wanted to prevent the mainland from invading Hong Kong, became the first Western country to recognize the new mainland regime in 1950. Under such circumstances, the activities of Taiwan and pro-Kuomintang overseas Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia would not be welcomed by the British government.

However, if anti-communism is carried out under the banner of the Malaysian Chinese Association, then Britain will not only turn a blind eye, but will even provide support.

Because MCA is a political party in Malaya, it is the Malayan Chinese who are against communism, not the Nationalist government. Their motive for being against communism is to help Britain to extinguish the PLA, not to push Malaya to join the Nationalist government, so there is no problem.

The British realised that Chinese nationalism, more than any other ideology, would ultimately consolidate the anti-communist consciousness of the Malay Chinese.

However, due to their vigilance against the Nationalist government, the British were unwilling to seek help from Taiwan. Instead, they looked for those Guangdong elders of the Kuomintang who were in exile in Hong Kong but were not so loyal to Chiang Kai-shek.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Fakui, who served as the commander of the 2nd Front Army, appointed his former chief of staff Hua Zhenzhong of the Yangcheng Headquarters to lead a group of troops to Malaya to assist the British army.

However, Zhang Fakui himself was too anti-imperialist and unwilling to help the British army suppress the Malayan Communist Party, forcing Britain to turn back and seek help from Taiwan..."

After Xian Yaowen's long speech, Shuixian, who seemed a little confused, asked, "Master, do you think the Malays will eventually gain power in Malaya?"

"It's not that I am optimistic subjectively, but objectively it is the most likely. In the future, the Chinese will not have much political voice in Malaya, and will also be suppressed economically. And considering the population ratio, the Malayan government will not like Singapore, where the Chinese have an absolute advantage."

Xian Yaowen embraced Narcissus and walked downstairs. "I told you before that Singapore has a superior geographical location. The Japanese call it New Gold Mountain. If possible, the Malayan regime would naturally be willing to take over Singapore. However, if you eat it, you will have diarrhea, so you can spit it out."

"Will I have diarrhea?"

"Nine out of ten times, yes. From the perspective of the Malays, the best way to reconcile the conflict between the Malays and the Chinese is for the Malays to always put pressure on the Chinese and prevent the Chinese from having the right to speak in politics and the economy.

The Malayan government will not treat Singapore equally. It will definitely pay more taxes and receive less or even no support. However, if Singapore does not rely on Malaya, it will be very difficult to survive. If nothing else, water supply will immediately become a problem.”

Narcissus said jokingly, "So, Singapore will continue to cling to Malaya?"

"Probably. If we want to seize the wharf, we have to take advantage of the situation and look for opportunities in the chaotic situation in Malaya." Xian Yaowen patted Narcissus on the arm. "Okay, let's stop talking about this topic. There is no rush for the wharf. Let's do the current work first."

The two men came down from the high ground, walked for a while on the street, passed by Tiger and Leopard Villa, and saw that its neighbors were all living in shabby houses.

Chifengcuo more often means a vacation home. Rich people have their main residence somewhere else, and the house they occasionally stay in when they go on vacation at the seaside can be called Chifengcuo.

The wooden houses where the poor live can also be self-deprecatingly called "chifengcuo", which literally means a house with leaks everywhere. You don't have to worry about freezing in Singapore, but you have to be careful of mosquitoes, and it is often windy, which makes it easy to be swallowed by fireflies.

What the two saw was the latter, a whole row of wooden houses occupying a good geographical location.

After taking a look and visiting several families, he found out that the price of buying a Chifeng house ranged from 500 to 800 yuan. Xian Yaowen pointed and asked Shuixian to buy the entire row of wooden houses and then demolish them immediately, leaving only the land.

Haw Par Villa is now a well-known tourist attraction. The two stood at the gate for a while and saw many people buying tickets to enter. If the land is kept in hand for a few years, with the help of Haw Par Villa, a real house can be built, or a house suitable for running a restaurant can be built and rented out to others to sell Burmese cuisine.

Walk a little further, and you will see the joint temple of Mazu Temple and Zushigong Temple. Looking towards the beach, you can see a bunker. The British fought the only relatively resolute and brutal battle here. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, so the angry Japanese concocted the Alexandra Hospital Massacre.

After walking twenty meters forward, the two arrived at the door of Qiongquanxing Coffee Shop, entered the shop, found an empty seat, and poured coffee with the large teapot on the table.

The sea directly opposite the fort is a typhoon shelter with little wind and waves. It is rated by illegal immigrants as the best illegal immigrant spot in Singapore, and Qiong Quan Xing Coffee Shop is the illegal immigrants' resting place.

The first floor is a coffee shop, and the second floor is where people live, with beds for rent. The illegal immigrants will take a shower, change clothes, and have a good sleep on the second floor, then wake up in the middle of the night and rush to their future under the moonlight.

Since the Great Depression, Singapore has begun to restrict the entry of Chinese men, issuing only 500 entry permits each month. However, it has opened its doors to women, welcoming them not only to come and work, but also to obtain permanent residency.

Since the second half of the previous year, policies have been tightened, and it has become extremely difficult for Chinese to obtain entry permits. Without a certain level of taxpaying ability, not to mention new arrivals, even those who have been abroad for a few years may not be able to come back.

Basically, it is very difficult to return to Singapore after going back to Tangshan. It is self-evident what the British are guarding against.

However, Fujianese people never need the British's approval to come to Singapore. If Mazu says they can come, they can come. Xian Yaowen and his companions had only been sitting there for less than three minutes when they saw several groups of people with Fujian accents coming here and picking up one illegal immigrant after another with alert eyes.

Among them there are many people with bulges around their waists and looking at their outlines, they may be carrying knives or guns. They could be members of secret societies or the Malayan Communist Party.

After looking at it for a while, Xian Yaowen lowered his head and continued to study the map.

All the way from Haw Par Villa to the coffee shop, there are many wastelands on the roadside. He marked them one by one on the map. Then, based on his memory from the road, he marked what each piece of land was suitable for building and crossed out the land that was suitable for building HDB flats.

Most of the land in Tanjong Pagar is relatively cheap, costing only a few dimes per square foot. You can buy a large piece of land by spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After the marking, Xian Yaowen showed the map to Narcissus and pointed at a mark. "The outline of this piece of land can be carved into a pipa shape. It is not far from the water collection point of the hill. It is very convenient to store water when it rains. The small bridge and flowing water can be turned into running water."

"The Red Mansion is built here?"

Xian Yaowen did not answer directly, but pointed to the place beside the note, "There is a height difference here, and there is a wild tree. If you carve it, it will be like the poem, 'She finally appears after much anticipation, still holding the pipa and half covering her face.'"

Buy the land, and then find someone to survey it. If it is possible, this is the Red Mansion Dream Pipa."

Pointing to another location, he said, "This is a perfect place to build a triangular building with a triangular garden in front of it. The building will be called the English Building and the garden will be called the English Corner. There will be a statue of Raffles in the garden with a sign in his hand that reads 'You have to learn English. You can't do without it.'"

Narcissus was confused, "Master, what does this mean on the sign?"

"We put a few talented female graduates from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the English Building to talk to guests about British drama and British poetry, Shakespeare, William Blake, etc., only elegant topics."

Narcissus hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, if we add an English building, the whole style of the Red Mansion will be destroyed."

Xian Yaowen smiled calmly and said, "The true essence of the Red Mansion lies in the people, not the scenery. Moreover, the style is not something that can be judged by the eyes, but by the mouth. The level of the style depends on how you blow it.

Pay someone to praise everything from feng shui to architecture, and praise it as hard as possible. If necessary, you can set up an architecture award, called the Singapore Architecture Engineering Award.

This is also a business. If you want to win an award, you have to spend 10% to 20% of the budget for building a building to buy an award. It’s not a fair deal. You have to beg for it…”

Xian Yaowen waved his hand, "Forget it, that's too far off topic. It's better not to make such dirty money. In fact, it doesn't necessarily need to be blown. The pipa is not a Chinese musical instrument, and it was not played vertically in ancient times. It can be said to be a symbol of the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.

This is true for Pipa and Singapore, where various cultures blend together. The guests of the Red House are not just pure Chinese. There are also half-Tang foreigners like me, Malays, and Indians. As long as we have a certain level of financial ability, we will accommodate them.

The Red Mansion does not promote nationalism, but pragmatism, and its focus is on resource integration. "

"Oh, what is pragmatism?"

“Pragmatism is a political theory that emphasizes that states must pursue the maximization of their own interests and achieve this goal through the most appropriate means. Its core idea is the balance of power between countries, that is, the pursuit of status and influence in the international political system.

To put it bluntly, a country should maintain its security and prosperity through economic, military, diplomatic and technological means, without considering moral, human rights and ethical factors. "

Xian Yaowen patted the back of Narcissus's hand and said, "The business philosophy of Honglou is to provide customers with all services within our capacity, provided that it is not considered illegal under the laws of Singapore."

“Only provide legal services?”

Xian Yaowen glanced at Narcissus and said, "Law is nothing but human feelings. What is human feelings? Special treatment for special cases and leniency are human feelings. The law is dead, people are alive, and human feelings have owners. If you can write your own name, sign on the human feelings and declare your ownership to the world."

Narcissus smiled calmly.

Xian Yaowen nodded, looked out the window and took a few puffs before saying quietly, "The Red Mansion needs an owner in legal documents who is also the nominal owner announced to the outside world.

You are nominally just the manager of the Red Mansion, a worker who gets paid for your work. You will be in charge for a year or two, train a reliable manager, and then retreat behind the scenes. "

"Who will be the master?"

"Majie or your sister, someone you can control. If they do well, they will get a lot of benefits. If they are treacherous, they will go to the sea and become mermaids."

"Ah."

After drinking their coffee, the two went to the Queen Restaurant on Middle Road, next to the shop.

The entire road of Middle Road is almost entirely made up of two-storey shophouses, and three-storey shophouses are relatively rare. However, Queen's Restaurant, located at No. 81 to 97, occupies eight shophouses on Middle Road and is five-storey, making it a unique shophouse that stands out from the crowd and is a beautiful attraction and landmark in Singapore.

Yaoyi Investment’s office is at No. 80, a three-storey shop next to the Queen’s Restaurant.

Narcissus specifically found this place, because it wanted it to be next to a landmark building to make it convenient for guests to visit.

There was originally a wooden house on the roof of the shop. After Narcissus bought it, she renovated it into the general manager's office with two brick walls and two glass walls. Each of the two brick walls had a bulge facing outward, with a ventilation fan installed. An air conditioner was installed next to the skylight on the roof, so the office was not hot at all.

There is a sunshade teahouse outside the office, with fortune trees on both sides to block the sunlight and sight. On one side, there are three large water tanks arranged in a triangular shape. The tanks are filled with water and have water lilies in them. Behind the water tanks is a floor fan, and the wind blows across the water, making it cool.

Glancing at the office, Xian Yaowen was sitting at the tea table. Narcissus brought him a stack of documents for review, then sat down beside him and boiled water to make tea.

"Master, do you know CKTang?"

"The department store on Babali Road?"

"Well, its owner is Dong Junjing, a Teochew. He plans to buy land in Orchard Road to build a department store. He came to me a few days ago to seek investment from Yaoyi."

Based on the information Narcissus told, Xian Yaowen could easily think of Tangs, which would be Singapore’s first department store in the future. On Orchard Road, which is densely populated with high-rise buildings, the short and stout Tangs is a landmark.

"Do you know which piece of land he has his eyes on?"

"He didn't say." Narcissus paused and asked, "Master, you don't think he is interested in our piece of land, do you?"

"It's hard to say." Xian Yaowen put down the document and looked at Shuixian, "Have you dealt with all the aftermath?"

Narcissus nodded, "It's been handled. The land has been divided into 20 pieces and registered under different people's names."

"Yes." Xian Yaowen nodded, "1 cents a foot?"

"Correct."

“It’s really cheap. The land in Orchard Road has the potential of 310 to 410 square feet.”

Narcissus exclaimed: "Can it increase thousands of times?"

Xian Yaowen smiled faintly, "It's only our piece of land. Other plots of land are not so cheap, right?"

"The cheapest is 7 cents, and the others are basically more than 1 yuan."

"This is a relatively normal price. Orchard Road's geographical location determines its unlimited potential, especially our plot of land, which is located at a traffic choke point and is the perfect place to build a shopping mall."

"If the Taishan Pavilion Cemetery is not moved, who would be willing to go there to buy things?" Narcissus muttered.

"More than 900 years ago, an Arab named Al-Jahiz proposed the concept of food chain. More than 20 years ago, an Englishman named Charles Elton published a book called Animal Ecology, which elaborated on the concept of food chain.

Build a rice warehouse next to the Taishan Pavilion Cemetery. It doesn't need to be too big, as it will naturally attract rats. Open the warehouse and feed the rats, and they will come when they smell the rice.

When there are rats, snakes that eat rats will also come. Rats and snakes will dig holes. The grave will be hollowed out and the coffin may be exposed. When seeing the rotting corpse, crows, ravens and vultures will fly over. They are pitch black, dirty and smelly, and anyone who sees them will say it is unlucky.

Have you ever heard a ghost story?

"Yeah, yeah." Narcissus nodded repeatedly.

Xian Yaowen grinned evilly, "Do you like to hear it?"

Narcissus nodded again.

"When I'm done, I'll make up a story about a 'fierce ghost scaring people to death' that happened on the roadside at the Taishan Pavilion Cemetery."

Narcissus suddenly reacted, “Master, do you want to scare the cemetery away with ghost stories?”

"It's not the graves that are scared away, it's the filial sons and grandsons of the graves. Chaozhou people have a saying called Feng Shui. If you do something about Feng Shui, the graves will naturally move away."

Narcissus frowned, "Master, this is bad for your virtue."

Xian Yaowen smiled calmly and said, "It's okay if you don't want to use evil methods. Just spend more money, use legitimate methods, do some good deeds, move the grave back to Tangshan, and return to your roots."

Narcissus frowned even deeper, "How much will it cost to move the grave back to Tangshan?"

“We don’t have to pay for it all. We just need one famous Teochew person to come forward and initiate this. Others will naturally follow. It can be done with tens of thousands of yuan.

If you want to save some effort, you can buy another Feng Shui site for the cemetery and find a famous Feng Shui master to do the Feng Shui. It won't be too difficult to move the grave. It would be best to find a Feng Shui master to look at the Taishan Pavilion Cemetery first and point out that the Feng Shui there is not good. "

"You have to have someone believe in nonsense."

Xian Yaowen waved his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I know a little bit about Feng Shui. After I saw it that day, I felt that the Feng Shui of Taishan Pavilion Cemetery is not very good. Just ask the Feng Shui master to exaggerate the badness."

"Should I ask a Feng Shui master to take a look?"

"Hmm." Xian Yaowen frowned and muttered, "Chinese cemeteries are troublesome, but Malay cemeteries are fine. We can just put explosives in them and blow them up. The Malayan Communist Party will naturally jump out and take responsibility for it."

Narcissus pouted, "Master, do you have to be so cruel?"

"You knew there was a Jewish cemetery across from the MacDonald Building?"

"Ah."

"That's a good piece of land. I'll tell you what the Jews are taboo about someday. Find a way to take it."

Narcissus rolled her eyes at Xian Yaowen and said, "Master, are you not done yet?"

"Hahaha."

Xian Yaowen smiled brightly and lowered his head to look at the documents.

After spending half an hour reading all the documents, he picked up the cold tea and drank it all in one gulp.

"Tell me about He Henian's situation."

"In early January, he repaid me 21.5 yuan including principal and interest, and in mid-February, he borrowed another 35 yuan from me, saying that he would use it for a quarter."

"The reason for borrowing money this time."

“Import sugar from Cuba.”

"Tell me immediately when he pays back the money."

"it is good."

"Pay attention to the outside news. If you hear that someone is planning to build a sugar refinery in Malaya or Singapore, inform me immediately."

"Master wants to invest in a sugar mill?"

Xian Yaowen shook his head. "I don't want to invest. I just want to get a sugar mill for free. There are no crops that can be used to make sugar in Malaya, so the raw materials must be imported. On the one hand, they signed orders with high liquidated damages, and on the other hand, they attacked the raw material import channels. The sugar mill couldn't afford the liquidated damages, so they had to hand over the factory."

Narcissus's face darkened, "Master, why are you thinking of doing something so evil?"

Xian Yaowen said with a straight face, "Don't talk nonsense. My business principle is to operate with integrity and treat people with kindness. How could I do anything crooked? I won't make mistakes due to negligence. I won't give you the opportunity to make mistakes."

Narcissus chuckled and said, "I'll find someone to do the evil things?"

Xian Yaowen grabbed Narcissus's cheek and said jokingly, "It's worth my careful training of you. You've become smarter."

"Of course." Narcissus said with a smile, "A good teacher produces good students."

"You're so sweet." After pinching Narcissus's cheek again, Xian Yaowen let go of her hand and asked, "How is Wu Libang's paint business?"

"Dove's second-hand paints are selling very well, and a new factory is already under construction. Recently, a Danish paint brand invited him to visit Denmark for study."

"Very good, there is no future in second-hand paint business, we still have to build our own paint brand." Xian Yaowen changed the subject and said, "Investment is not like investing money and then waiting for the money to be divided. There is no such thing as investing once and benefiting for life. In front of money, character is usually unreliable.

For example, in the desert, when Li Si was about to die of thirst, Zhang San gave him a sip of water. Li Si was so grateful that he wanted to pay with his life. Indeed, a sip of water in the desert is equal to a life.

But once out of the desert, Li Si no longer has to worry about dying of thirst. The value of that sip of life-saving water will continue to depreciate. Maybe he doesn't want to give anything in return to Zhang San. Maybe he will give back three sips of water, two sips of water, or just one sip of water. No matter how many sips of water, they will never be worth that sip of life-saving water.

Yaoyi Investment currently lacks the strength to provide its investment targets with real money but cannot provide any additional added value.

For example, a paper trading company signed a long-term paper supply agreement with the Hu Wenhu family newspaper group. The company can use the agreement to buy paper from the paper mill on credit or borrow money from outside. This is additional value-added that Yaoyi Investment does not have.

"Master, do you mean that in addition to investing money in Wu Libang, we have to play other roles in his paint business?"

"Yes." Xian Yaowen nodded, "Our investment is that life-saving water. As Wu Libang's business gets on track, its value in Wu Libang's mind continues to decrease. Even if we only get the return we deserve, he may become greedy in his heart and can't wait to kick us out as soon as possible.

We want to consolidate our position. First, we must make Wu Libang inseparable from us. Second, we must be strong enough so that Wu Libang will not dare to have second thoughts. "

"I understand." Narcissus nodded.

Xian Yaowen shook his head, "No, you don't understand at all. When screening investment targets, one should first look at the tactical level and secondly the strategic vision. Tactics is the ability to get things done, and strategy is the ability to judge the future. I can choose the right path every time.

You don’t have to understand tactics when investing, but you must understand strategy. You must accurately grasp the right time to invest money and invest in the right people. You should also understand when the industry enters a bottleneck period, withdraw your investment at the right time, and then wait for the next opportunity to invest again.

Simply put, your strategic vision must be stronger than your investment targets.”

Narcissus said with embarrassment: "Master, I haven't been to school much, I don't know much, I..."

"You, don't underestimate yourself." Xian Yaowen patted the back of Narcissus's hand. "It's never too late to read. You are working and studying at the same time. This is very good and very efficient. One year is equivalent to sitting in the classroom for several years. Within two years, your knowledge depth will surpass that of ordinary college students.

Moreover, the information channels you have are inaccessible to ordinary people. The height of strategic vision needs to be built up with information. Without information, it is impossible to make correct judgments on things, and there is no such thing as profound strategic vision.

Information is very important. It can be said to be the key to success or failure. Just in terms of information channels, you have surpassed 95% of people. "

Narcissus hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, how can you be sure that we are surpassing and not falling behind?"

"Okay, okay, you asked a good question." Xian Yaowen said happily. (End of this chapter)