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"and after?"

"After the liberation of Shanghai, the municipal government adopted a policy of restoring the economy and supporting the resumption of business by industry and commerce. Under the mediation of the industrial and commercial departments and the New Medicine Association, Dakang Western Medicine Store converted all the drugs, including those seized from Yan Guangjun, into debt and resumed business in a debt-ridden state.

After reopening, Wang Kangnian was very active for a while. He joined the Laozha District Federation of Industry and Commerce, and was also the director of the residents' committee of the building where the Dakang Western Medicine Store was located and the deputy director of the Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries Committee.

Since its reopening, Dakang Pharmacy's business has improved, with sales of about 260 billion yuan, making some money and paying off some debts. "

Su Lizhen asked, "How much does Wang Kangnian owe?"

"The total amount of principal and interest is about 15 billion."

"The profits of Western medicine are not low, right? 260 billion in sales and 15 billion has not been paid back yet?"

"Mrs. Xian, you don't know that Wang Kangnian was not honest in his business later. Dakang Western Medicine Store didn't have much capital, so he had been carrying rice in empty sacks. The cost of capital was very high. Moreover, he bought and sold short and passed inferior goods as good ones. Many businesses could only be completed halfway. Either he couldn't get the final payment or he needed to spend extra money to settle the matter."

"Wang Kangnian's reputation has always been bad?"

"Yes."

"Who would want to do business with him if he has a bad reputation and does not do business honestly?"

"public."

Su Lizhen nodded slightly, "Who did you get the information from?"

"It's mainly Ma Weishan."

Su Lizhen thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know which Western medicine store has a better reputation?"

"Yan Guangjun's professional new drugs have a good reputation."

"address."

"It seems to be No. 278 Dongtai Road."

Su Lizhen took out a National Day 1st Anniversary Study Manual, wrote down the address, then closed the manual and said, "Jinji Pharmaceuticals is very concerned about the shipping channels in Shanghai and will not allow its reputation to be damaged. I need your help."

"Take your orders, Mrs. Xian."

"Dong Yuan, Wang Zufan, Ma Weishan, Xia Yalun, and anyone else, no matter who it is, recruit one of them to take the lead in reporting Wang Kangnian."

Su Lizhen paused for a moment and continued, "Ma Yinchu once gave a speech titled "We want those who profited from the national crisis to pay back the inflated paper money," in which he criticized the wealthy and powerful for making a fortune from the national crisis during the Anti-Japanese War.

Last November, an article was published in the Liberation Daily, which mentioned the financial policy of "national defense first, market stability second, and other expenditures third."

Last year's military expenditure accounted for a high proportion of the total fiscal revenue. On the Korean battlefield, due to logistical supply reasons, the volunteer army gradually fell into a disadvantage in the tug-of-war over Seoul.

In order to turn disadvantages into advantages, logistical supply capabilities need to be strengthened. Logistics means money, and money comes from the economy. Wang Kangnian's approach not only undermines the overall economic environment in the mainland, but also reminds people of what Ma Yinchu said, 'The front is tight, and the back is tight.'"

Su Lizhen smiled and said meaningfully: "Wang Kangnian is very suitable to be set as a negative example. A negative example will also give birth to a whistleblower hero. This kind of hero can always gain some 'example' benefits. You should send a gift to the hero in advance to congratulate him."

Wu Hongan understood what Su Lizhen meant and asked, "Mrs. Xian, what is the budget for the gift?"

"1000 million, let Su Jin handle this matter, 500 million is her travel expenses."

"clear."

Then, Su Lizhen handed the matter of posting the recruitment notice to Wu Hongan, and asked him to contact a small restaurant as a venue to test the chef's skills, and also go to the Public Security Bureau to report. Depending on the attitude of the Public Security Bureau, he would decide whether to go to the residents' committee.

Around half past ten, Su Lizhen hired a car from the hotel and went out.

In the early days of the founding of New China, the Shanghai Port State Import and Export Company developed rapidly, with its work focusing more on the management of import and export business with the Soviet Union and various people's democratic countries. However, private merchants had obvious advantages in being familiar with the business of capitalist countries and the market operation forms they emphasized, especially in their long-established overseas market connections.

Due to the shortage of materials and reliance on imports, in order to restore the economy as soon as possible, the state, when making overall adjustments to industry and commerce, encouraged private businessmen to actively engage in the industry by using supportive policies such as loans and wholesale foreign exchange to encourage private businessmen to actively engage in import and export business.

In addition to economic and market factors, the corresponding business relationships also correspond to the current situation. In the early days, the country emphasized the use of private merchants to carry out import and export business with capitalist countries. The key was to use the power of private merchants to break through the external blockade.

Before Zhoushan was liberated, Taiwan's warships used Zhoushan and surrounding islands to impose an armed blockade on the Yangtze River estuary and the eastern coastal areas, restricting the entry and exit of mainland cargo ships.

A large amount of import and export materials at the Shanghai Port had to rely on the overseas connections of private merchants to circulate and be transported in and out of Shanghai Port via Tianjin, Qingdao and Yangcheng.

In order to make up for the shortage of import and export trade, especially imported materials, the Shanghai Port decisively issued a "large-scale import and export" mobilization order to all kinds of import and export merchants, not only concentrating on wholesale business licenses, but also approving a large number of foreign exchange applications while encouraging barter transactions;

We support private businessmen from all walks of life to negotiate import business through foreign exchange transactions, and instruct them to make full use of all overseas relationships to find export targets for imported materials and domestic goods, and actively expand import and export business volume.

In the second half of last year, the import and export business volume of Shanghai Port surged, reaching six times that of the first half of the year. During this period, although affected by the Temporary Measures for the Allocation and Use of Foreign Exchange, private merchants were no longer allowed to "operate independently with their own foreign exchange" and had to strictly implement the foreign exchange application approval system, the initiative and flexibility of independently conducting import and export business declined.

However, driven by the overall policy of increasing business volume, private import and export traders are still extremely active, and a small climax of import and export transactions has appeared in the market.

A few days ago, China and the Soviet Union signed a military loan agreement, with October 1950, 10, when the Chinese People's Volunteer Army went to the Korean War to resist the US, and ...

Also a few days ago, at the SH City Business Representatives Conference, a number of private import and export traders and private factory owners submitted proposals, reflecting that a large number of orders and assets in the industry that had not completed foreign exchange settlement in the United States were frozen, and some businesses that had already signed contracts were forcibly interrupted.

Private merchants who are accustomed to barter transactions are particularly passive. They have basically completed the purchase of export goods domestically, but the export risk has increased due to the obstruction of barter imports, and delayed export shipments also face the problem of commodity inventory backlogs.

In response to this situation, in compliance with the import and export business management requirements of the East China region, the Shanghai Port issued a notice announcing the suspension of the issuance of US exchange regional export licenses and the establishment of an emergency import materials handling action committee to coordinate merchant business declarations.

In order to ensure that foreign import and export trade is not in vain, the Foreign Trade Administration Bureau and the Customs jointly mobilized private traders again. In addition to requiring them to implement the "first in, last out" principle when conducting barter transactions to ensure the safety of imported and exported materials, they promised to give private traders a series of preferential policies:
For example, they are granted special wholesale foreign exchange quotas, allowed to import goods without certificates (they need to obtain certificates later but will not be fined), and given special support for importing banned materials through Hong Kong.

Although these preferential policies barely stabilized the import quota, they did not completely offset the negative impact of the blockade and embargo. Considering the corresponding risks and difficulty in making profits, many small and medium-sized or speculative private traders began to withdraw.

On the other hand, the embargo not only prevented the transportation of materials, but also directly severed the corresponding business relations. Not only did a large number of American merchants withdraw from the Shanghai port, but for the sake of national ideology and to obtain US aid, British, French and other capitalist countries' business firms also successively withdrew from the mainland.

At one time, nearly two-thirds of the foreign merchants at the Shanghai port closed down, which in fact weakened the port's ability to conduct import and export business. The sales of export commodities to capitalist countries, which were originally mostly operated by foreign merchants, dropped sharply, and commodities such as tung oil, pig bristles, tea, and silk were the most affected.

No matter what kind of economic system is implemented in the mainland, the general direction of state-owned enterprises advancing and private enterprises retreating is basically clear. If it were not for the embargo, the overseas customer relationships controlled by private merchants would be particularly important for current imports and exports. Perhaps the pace of state-owned enterprises advancing and private enterprises retreating in the foreign trade field has made great strides forward.

It is precisely because of the embargo that the difficulty of importing goods has increased. Private traders who have the ability to import can make good profits and put on the ill-fitting "patriotic" hat on their heads.

Import trade at this time has great potential for private merchants, as they can make money and gain praise.

Relatively speaking, the market situation for export business is not so optimistic. First, the exchange rate is not so friendly to exports, and the currency value is inflated, resulting in export goods not having much price advantage. Second, many export businesses require foreign companies to act as agents, which eats up a large portion of the profits and further reduces the price advantage.

In addition, the "unified purchase" in "unified purchase and unified sale" includes most of the key export products with good profits, which means that the purchase costs for private merchants will increase.

Since exports are unprofitable or very profitable, private traders are naturally not interested and focus their main energy on imports. However, for a country, it is certainly not acceptable to only import without exporting. Where will the foreign exchange come from if there is no export?

As a result, state-owned import and export companies accelerated their encroachment on the lucrative import business, restricted and squeezed the "huge profit" space of private traders in imports, and gave preferential treatment to private traders with larger export business volumes when making wholesale payments, and "encouraged" private traders who were not at a good advantage in exports.

A few days ago, after Xian Yaowen called Su Lizhen, he sent her a telegram and asked her to register Jin Zhao Group. The actual distribution of shares was 60% for the Xian family, 25% for Cen Peipei, and 15% for Su Lizhen. The group was affiliated with Cen's Trading Company. Nominally, Cen Peipei held 85% of the shares and was the largest shareholder. The main business was re-export of goods from the mainland, and the secondary business was re-export of goods to the mainland.

The former is carried out openly, while the latter is kept low-key.

Xian Yaowen likes the word "allotment" very much. Whenever this word appears, it means an opportunity to make a fortune.

As the saying goes, there is no business that is difficult to do. It is only difficult because the pricing is wrong. If others sell their houses for 1000 million yuan, but you sell yours for 20 yuan, buyers will come from eight miles away on their knees to make the deal, and they will even throw broken glass on the ground to each other, thus raising the entry threshold - if you don't even dare to kneel down to deal with broken glass, how can you be qualified to do this business?

Xian Yaowen is happy to be this kind of buyer and has the courage to kneel on broken glass. His motivation is not for a huge profit of one or two million, but the simple pursuit of contributing a little to the mainland's import and export trade.

Of course, with your back to the sky and your face to the earth, you can only make a tiny profit of 10 or 20 million yuan at most by picking up the profits bit by bit.

City God's Temple.

Su Lizhen went to a shop called Donglouge to pick up the invitation cards that she had ordered yesterday, bought some study supplies, and then sat down in a teahouse called Lepulang.

The boss of Le Pu Lang was originally engaged in celluloid production. Many colleagues in the same industry gave him face and came to take care of his business. As a result, this place became a designated teahouse for celluloid and bone card dealers, and also a place for exchanging information in the plastics industry.

Because of this, Su Lizhen did not choose the nearby Lake Pavilion and Osmanthus Hall which are more suitable for tourists. Perhaps she could pick up some business while tasting tea.

He chose a seat in a corner, ordered some tea and snacks, looked around the entire teahouse, then ground the ink and wrote the name of the private merchant and the signature on the invitation.

After filling in the ink for one street, the ink was almost dry, so she asked Dong Chuning to deliver it first, and she continued writing.

Before leaving, she found the lobby manager of the hotel and rented the conference hall of the hotel. She would hold a tea party for business negotiation of Jinzhao Group at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and directly negotiate export business one-to-many. This would be more efficient, saving time and creating internal competition. If someone dares to export at a low price, there will be someone who dares to make a profit at a loss.

It doesn’t matter if you make a loss from exports. Just complete the “export target” quickly and do more import business to make up for the loss.

From the perspective of Jinzhao Group, any business that dares to pay more will be looked up to, and the group will return the favor by brokering transactions between the business and Jinji Trading Company. After all, businessmen all know how to behave, so a hint from Su Lizhen should be regarded as a small disrespect.

Su Lizhen was filling out the invitation and didn't notice that there were new guests in the teahouse, a man and a woman, two adults, with a chubby little girl.

The little girl was not very quiet. She was holding a toy car in her hand. As soon as she got out of the woman's control, she squatted on the ground and started playing with the toy car. She pressed the car and pulled it back, and the spring inside the car was tightened. Then she let go, and the car was driven forward by the spring.

The little girl first played in a circle, picking up the car when it ran away and then playing again. After playing for a while, she suddenly started a relay race, where the car ran to was a new starting point, and when the car accidentally went under another table, it would always cause ripples, and the man would clasp his fists and apologize to the guests at that table.

The man's status may be unusual, and his fist-bumping will be rewarded with others' fist-bumping as a token of no problem and as a greeting.

After the car ran for three sections, it started the fourth section with the front of the car aimed at Su Lizhen's table. The spring was tightened, and as soon as the hand loosened, the car went straight to the bottom of the table, changed direction at the corner of the table, and hit the tip of Su Lizhen's shoe directly.

Su Lizhen was frightened and her hand trembled, and the first stroke of the character "Zhen" pierced through the character "Wang", and the invitation was ruined.

She lowered her head to look under the table and saw the toy car, then looked up and saw the little girl approaching her. She put down her brush and waved to the little girl.

The man who was about to clasp his fists not far away saw that it was a strange woman, so he stood up and walked forward.

Su Lizhen picked up the toy car, and when the child came closer, she stroked the little girl's head and said, "Little sister, tell your auntie what your name is."

The little girl was not shy and answered directly: "Maomao."

"How good is Maomao?"

"six……"

"Maomao, have you apologized to your aunt?" The man approached and said to the little girl first, then looked at Su Lizhen and said, "Madam, I am sorry for disturbing you."

Su Lizhen smiled at the man and said, "It's okay, Maomao is very cute."

Su Lizhen put the toy car in the little girl's hand and said, "Maomao, I'll return the car to you. Go back with your father."

"Thank you auntie."

"Goodbye, ma'am."

The little incident quickly passed and Su Lizhen continued to fill out the invitations.

When Dong Chuning came back from delivering the previous things, she had already filled out all the invitations. Dong Chuning continued to run errands, and she called the waiter to pay the bill. She prepared to go out for a meal and come back to sit down later.

"Settling accounts."

"Ma'am, Mr. Shen has already paid your bill."

"Which Mr. Shen?"

"It's Mr. Shen Xianqi who was talking to you just now, the big boss of the tobacco business."

"Oh, what's the little girl's name?"

"I only know she's the Sixth Miss, but I don't know her name."

The guy actually knew but couldn't say it. Shen Xianqi was a well-known figure and his name was easy to find out, so it was okay to tell others. But it was different for Miss Shen. She was a family member, so how could he tell others casually?

Unless, just a token of my appreciation.

Su Lizhen had been to teahouses and restaurants, and knew the character of the waiters. She was just asking casually and would not spend money just for a name.

The place they chose to eat was Da Fugui, a nearby Anhui cuisine restaurant that might not be easy to find in the future. As soon as they entered the restaurant, Su Lizhen looked up and saw Shen Xianqi's family of three. It was a coincidence.

She didn't go over to disturb them, but just told the waiter when ordering food that she would pay for Shen Xianqi's table.

After ordering the dishes, before they were served, Su Lizhen saw Shen Xianqi walking towards her. She couldn't help but be surprised at how familiar he was with the people in the area and how the restaurant even told her about paying the bill right away.

As soon as her thoughts flashed through her mind, Shen Xianqi came up to her and clasped his fists and said, "Ma'am, I'll let you pay for it."

"Mr. Shen, you're welcome. We have a give-and-take relationship." Su Lizhen stood up and stretched out her right hand to Shen Xianqi, "Xian Su Lizhen, I came from Hong Kong."

Shen Xianqi and Su Lizhen shook hands and then withdrew, "Madam Xian, I don't know your husband's name."

"My husband is just a small businessman. Mr. Shen may not have heard of him." Su Lizhen said politely, "My husband is a great man."

Upon hearing this, Shen Xianqi was shocked at first and then surprised. He was shocked at hearing the name Xian Yaowen. Not long ago, his good friend from Hong Kong mentioned Xian Yaowen in a letter to him, talking about Xian Yaowen and Zhou Ruoyun's marriage. He knew that Xian Yaowen was no ordinary person.

What is surprising is that Su Lizhen gave herself her husband's surname. From the perspective of women's rights, taking her husband's surname is a kind of inequality, but from the perspective of a concubine, it is an affirmation of her identity. She does not have the title of wife, but enjoys the dignity of a wife.

You have to know that in the early years, concubines did not even have the right to be mothers, and the children they gave birth to had to call the wife "mother". If they encountered a difficult wife, it was not impossible for the mother to make her kneel down to the child, or even let the child kill the mother to prevent future troubles.

Simply put, if Xian Su Lizhen did something stupid outside, Xian Yaowen and the Xian family would cover for her. On the contrary, if Su Lizhen did something stupid, Xian Yaowen could stop the loss and refuse to recognize Su Lizhen as a member of the Xian family. He could beat her, sell her, or kill her as he pleased. Morally, it had nothing to do with the Xian family, and legally, the other party could handle it on their own.

After a moment of daze, Shen Xianqi said, "Mrs. Xian is too modest. Mr. Xian is well-known in Hong Kong. I have also heard of him in Shanghai."

"Mr. Shen, you are too kind. My husband is just a newcomer in the business world. He still needs the support of Mr. Shen and other business seniors."

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it. Madam Xian, my wife and I have just started eating. If you don't mind, please come over and eat with us."

"Then excuse me."

Su Lizhen followed Shen Xianqi over and Shen Xianqi introduced her.

"Madam Xian, this is my wife Qiu Dansu, and this is my daughter Dianxia, ​​whom you have just met." (End of this chapter)