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After more than five years of Sovietization, East Germany has already shown a distinct Soviet style, as can be seen from the newspapers.

Wastefulness is rampant, and people don't know how to cherish paper and ink. For the sake of beautiful layout, 60 to 70 percent of the content is only decorative and has no reading value. However, with an optimistic attitude, they can black out the part that affects intelligence and keep the words with high repetition rate, and give them to Xian Yuzhen to learn German.

Well, it's just an idea. It would be better to hire a human-shaped repeater for Xian Yuzhen instead of wasting ink and time.

Skip the meaningless content and read the content worth reading.

After the war, the United States was torn between the "Morgenthau Plan" to turn Germany into an agricultural country and the relatively mild "Simson Plan". The discussion lasted for two years and ended in early 1947 when Marshall became Secretary of State. The United States was determined to revive Western Europe to contain the Soviet Union. To this end, it did not hesitate to give up eastern Germany and was determined to support western Germany to once again become the engine of European economic development.

With the assistance provided by the Marshall Plan, West Germany's post-war economic reconstruction entered the fast lane.

However, the Soviet Union was obsessed with obtaining as much spoils of victory and war reparations as possible, or trying to win over the Germans to its own camp. Even though Germany had been divided into East and West Germany, the Soviet Union still did not have an accurate attitude towards East Germany and continued to uphold the principle of gaining practical benefits first, but at the same time it did not completely give up on winning over the Germans.

The Soviet Union's initial highest goal was to create a unified socialist Germany. The second best option was to allow the establishment of a completely neutral Germany. The bottom line was to turn the occupied part into a socialist country controlled by the Soviet Union. Obviously, reality only allowed the Soviet Union to stick to the bottom line.

Although the Soviet Union's attitude towards East Germany was "take it", its enthusiasm for the work it promised to West Germans was very high. People in West Berlin who couldn't find jobs and lived a tight life yearned for the Soviet-style environment of "work more or less, work or not work" and still get paid, and many of them threw themselves into the arms of East Germany.

To put it bluntly, most of the people who went from West Germany to East Germany were not talents needed by the country, but burdens that needed to be supported by the country.

Similarly, the United States was also making promises to the East Germans. Perhaps the United States was better at making promises. Those who ran from East Germans to West Germany were mainly technical personnel and strong laborers. They pursued an environment where more work, more pay, and believed that they could live a better life through their own efforts.

With such a contrast, West Germany would be superior to East Germany in creativity, and the gap would become larger and larger over time. Otherwise, East Germany would not have been forced to erect the Berlin Wall. The propaganda of the anti-fascist defense wall was nothing but a fig leaf to cover up the truth.

Before the Berlin Wall was erected, it was necessary to establish a special HK consulting branch in West Berlin, mainly to recruit talents from East Germany. After the wall was erected, a passage from East Berlin to West Berlin had to be opened, so that top talents from East Germany could be recruited.

Xian Yaowen hoped that East Germany would adopt high-pressure rule. The unruly people would definitely put on airs and wait for the courtesy of three visits to their cottage if they were not slapped a few times. How could they just crawl into a dog hole leading to freedom?

When Xian Yaowen was reading an article about the five-year plan, Stie came over with a tray. She put the tray on the table, picked up the French press and poured coffee, saying, "Mr. Adam, I don't know what kind of coffee you like. I didn't prepare coffee beans in advance, so I brewed my own coffee beans."

Xian Yaowen glanced at the French press and said, "Steve, it's okay. Get another cup and pour yourself a drink. Let's chat for a while."

"Okay." Stee was delighted. "Do you need some snacks?"

"have what?"

“Tiramisu.”

"You can have some."

After Steve brought the tiramisu, the two sat at the leisure table in front of the window, bathed in the soft sunlight coming in through the window, and chatted relaxingly.

"Your French has improved a lot. Where do you go when you're not busy?"

"I'll see the scenery, drink coffee, and chat with strangers wherever I go," Steve said in a confident tone.

"So, you found Paris fascinating?"

"Yes, I didn't know Paris was so beautiful."

Xian Yaowen smiled faintly and said, "Paris has always been beautiful, but you didn't know how to appreciate it before."

Stillio thought for a moment and said, "It seems so. I look at Paris from a different perspective now than before."

"You misunderstood what I meant." Xian Yaowen raised his hand and made a diagonal upward motion. "This is how you looked at Paris before, from an upward angle, and you felt that all the beauty of Paris had nothing to do with you. Your life was filled with a house that you couldn't clean no matter how hard you tried, food that was hard to swallow, and clothes that were stained with oil and couldn't be washed clean.

In short, everything is bad, and your mood is even worse. You probably don’t know that I can actually see that you used to try hard to control your bad emotions in front of me.

Steve, you have a bad temper, am I right? "

"Mr. Adam, you are right. My previous life made me very unhappy and I was never in a good mood." St. said with a sigh of relief: "It's good now. I have escaped from my previous life."

Xian Yaowen took a sip of coffee and put the cup back on the cup holder. "Steve, I am very satisfied with your work. You have been doing a good job. I will talk to you about a salary increase later.

However, your job is not complicated and almost anyone can do it. I am a businessman and I cannot convince myself to give you too much salary."

Xian Yaowen patted the back of Steve's hand and said, "But I hope your life can be better than it is now. So, are you willing to do more complicated and more important work? Then I will have a reason to convince myself to give you a higher salary."

Siti's heart was pulled up and down by Xian Yaowen, just like riding a roller coaster. After complaining in her heart, she said, "Mr. Adam wants to assign me other work?"

"Yes." Xian Yaowen nodded slightly, "Your position is temporary in nature. In fact, it could have been revoked a few months ago. Now there are two positions for you to choose from. The first is to be my maid. The salary will be adjusted to 30 pounds. The next salary adjustment will probably be when I ask you if you are willing to serve as a butler.

Maybe in a year, maybe longer.

The second is to work in my company. You have to learn how to use a typewriter, learn communication skills, and so on. There is a lot of knowledge to learn and you will be very tired, but your future has unlimited possibilities.

Remember the dragon?

"The lady I corresponded with?"

"Yes, her salary is 208 pounds, ten times yours." Xian Yaowen paused for a moment, and then said, "Not only that, she also enjoys other benefits, such as food, clothes, and medical treatment. All her personal expenses are paid by me. She has two paid vacations every year and can go wherever she wants, and I still pay the bills.

If you choose the second position, you may also receive a dragon's salary. Of course, it is only possible. As I said before, I am a businessman. If you want me to pay you a high salary, you must have the value to match the high salary. "

I patted the back of Sti's hand again and said, "You have three days to think about it slowly. You only need to think about the bright side, not the dark side. For example, is Long able to get a high salary because he slept with me? Do you also want to sleep with me?"

Xian Yaowen spread his hands and said, "Steti, I am very confident about my appearance. Usually I don't need to pay anything to sleep with a woman. On the contrary, I will only sleep with a woman when I want to gain something."

Sti was very shocked. She never expected that Xian Yaowen could guess what she was thinking. Just now she was thinking, "If Mr. Adam asks me to go to bed with him, I don't think I would mind." It turns out that you can't just go to bed with him whenever you want.

She carefully looked at Xian Yaowen's face, then looked down at the practical parts. Suddenly, she sighed, "I used to think of Mr. Adam as a boss, not a man and a woman. It turns out that he... damn Sharif, a Turkish liar, made me miss so many beautiful things."

Xian Yaowen looked out the window, thinking about the contents of the newspaper, leaving space for Sti to think and daydream.

Most women who are somewhat pretty think that the man's kindness to her is often for the purpose of having sex with her, or at least one of the purposes. She assumes that she deserves biased love or compensation by having sex with a man.

Appearance is one of the criteria for scoring a woman's comprehensive ability. If a woman is to be placed in a position that requires socializing, her appearance must first pass the test. If a woman's appearance is not good but she has strong other abilities, she should be placed in a position that does not require high intensity of external social interaction.

Needless to say, Sti's appearance is the kind that allows her to have wild thoughts. She is also very friendly and not too aggressive, which makes her suitable to be the first person to communicate with talents. She is also German, so Xian Yaowen has no one more suitable than her to send to West Berlin as a pioneer.

The two of them just sat there, each thinking about their own things.

After a long time, Xian Yaowen put 10 francs on the table, asked Stie to buy some clothes, and took her to a cocktail party in the evening.

When Sti left happily, Qi Longque and Xie Huiran carried a few boxes from the car and assembled a high-power radio in the study.

After a while, there was a constant sound of dripping water in the study, and notes were placed in front of Xian Yaowen.

“Zheng Yueying went to northern Myanmar.”

Call back: Got it.

"Mr. Xian has been going to Kowloon Walled City frequently recently. It's probably not because of Kan Meilin."

Call back: Don’t worry about him.

"My eldest lady went to the Kowloon Walled City Dental Clinic today and started to learn the course of judging people by their teeth."

Call back: Keep a low profile.

"Tokyo and Mosquito reported that Kong Lingxian began to frequently contact military and political figures in the United States and South Korea, and was suspected of having selfish motives. The list of people recruited by Kong Lingxian from the East Asian Chamber of Commerce..."

When Xian Yaowen saw the name "Quan Douhuan", his eyes were instantly glued to it. He didn't expect that Kong Lingxian had such a great opportunity. Not only did she get to know Quan Douhuan, but she even treated him as brother and sister.

Lighting a cigar, Xian Yaowen fell into deep thought.

After twenty minutes, he finished thinking and said to Qi Longque: "Send a telegram to Saohuli and ask Zhangtou and Yeji to investigate the situation of the Korean Kong clan members, especially all the information of the clan grandsons. If they are not married, investigate the candidates for the Kong clan wives.

In addition, we must quickly identify several former Korean members of the Military Control Commission, mainly men, with an emphasis on military strength. After the training is completed, we will send them to Daegu to protect Kong Lingxian's safety. No chance of error is allowed.

Send a telegram to Shaobing. Immediately dispatch no less than three security personnel to Daegu upon receiving the message to protect Kong Lingxian's safety. No chance of error is allowed. Also, recruit and train a small team of North Koreans. Immediately send them to Daegu after the training is completed."

After that, he said to Xie Tingyun, "Tingyun, go call Miss Lu and ask her to prepare some Shanghai snacks for Miss Zhou, and some Shandong snacks for Miss Kong, and give them to Liu Rongju."

"clear."

After giving the instructions, Xian Yaowen picked up a larger note, which was a telegram from Matsuda Yoshiko, explaining several things:
1. Arrowood introduced a person to Yoshiko Matsuda, Joan Charlotte, who was Arrowood's cousin whom his father Edward had vaguely mentioned to him, and the person he intended to marry.

According to Arrowood, Joan Charlotte is on a long journey, and her next stop after leaving Tokyo is Singapore, followed by Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This is not a long-distance trip at all, it is clearly a "blind date" signal to him - Joan has time, is close to you, and can arrange a meeting at any time.

If he pretended not to understand the subtext, Arrowood would probably mention arranging a job for Joan Charlotte at the East Asia Trading Company in a few days. It was normal to arrange a person from your own for a partnership business, but who arranged it was very important.

Meeting Joan Charlotte was inevitable, and a close relationship was possible, but marriage was impossible, as Charlotte's family was not strong enough and she was not Jewish.

His legal wife must be Jewish and have an extraordinary family background. She must be the unappreciated second daughter or collateral daughter in the family, and cannot be an illegitimate daughter. In this way, she can enjoy the family's reputation without being tied to the family battleship and shouldering too many family responsibilities.

To put it bluntly, he needs a ticket to become an "insider" of the American Jewish consortium.

The brothers fought against the wall and defended against their insults.

They cannot become one of their own people, but can only become the big fat meat. If they want to protect themselves, they have to give up their great interests, depend on a certain consortium, and be labeled as a family general or even a family slave. Once this label is attached, they can only tear it off after going through bloody storms and long years, overthrowing the old rules, and taking the lead in rebuilding new rules, to have a chance to clear the suspicion of "ungratefulness".

This road is difficult to walk. After the two world wars, American financial groups not only remained unscathed but also made huge profits from the war. They have also just experienced a wave of dumping and harvesting from post-war reconstruction. Each family is powerful and their influence is intertwined. What can they use to fight against others?

Unless he detonates several atomic bombs on American soil, triggering World War III and then taking advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, if he doesn't die, he will pull everyone to the same starting line as himself, and everyone will compete for the first place based on their own abilities.

But after such a war, the United States might become a third-rate country. Why would it bother to establish a consortium in a third-rate country?
Of course, this is just a hypothesis. The difficulty of promoting World War III is no less than all the consortiums crying and begging him to be the leader of the consortium. It is totally unrealistic.

In short, the Charlotte family could not give him a ticket, but they could form an alliance, in which case Joan Charlotte could only be his concubine. The interests of the two families were tied together, and they established the Marxist-Leninist consortium together.

The interests of the Marxist-Leninist consortium are meant to be divided and cannot all belong to the Xian family. Having a second shareholder with a slightly larger stake is not necessarily a bad thing. An interest group can never retain only one voice, have different opinions, be filled with debates and compromises, and seeking common ground while reserving differences is the right way.

If we work together as one, we can only create miracles in the first part, but in the second part, we will make all kinds of stupid moves. The best way to deal with this kind of interest group is to do nothing. If they live too comfortably, they will fight against each other. As long as you don't give them the opportunity to defend themselves from external insults, you can just sit back and wait for your opponent to be killed.

He picked up a pen and wrote a letter to Arrowood, tactfully informing him that he would meet Joan Charlotte in New York later. Then he wrote a private letter to Joan Charlotte, sealed the envelope, and put it in Arrowood's envelope.

Second, the revenge operation against He Zhenbei of Changan Garment, which was led by Yuan Shigeo, has ended. After a long period of cooperation, He Zhenbei has tasted enough sweetness and gained the other party's trust. Finally, he encouraged the other party to cooperate in running the Korean clothing business.

As a result, the shipload of goods that He Zhenbei had invested his entire fortune in was detained as soon as it arrived at the Korean port. Not only was he unable to get the goods back, he also had to face a huge fine. When the goods were in the hands of the East Asia Chamber of Commerce, all he had to pay was some facilitation fees.

He Zhenbei is a small figure and he almost forgot about this matter. Yuan Shigeo did a good job. Not only did the revenge action not cost anything, but it made a lot of money. This little devil can be kept.

Third, Yoshiko Matsuda's friendship with Ryoichi Sasagawa and Nobusuke Kishi has been very effective. She has participated in Ryoichi Sasagawa's motorboat racing career, and brought him into the "Ginza Nightclub Unification" business led by Hisayuki I of Toseokaicho, and established the Ginza Tiger Company with multiple parties.

The company's shareholders include the major shareholder Toseikai, the second shareholder Matsunaga Trading Company, the third shareholder Major General Charles Willoughby of the Second General Staff Department where Arrowood works and a number of related stakeholders, the fourth shareholder Sasakawa Ryoichi, and the fifth shareholder is Toa Trading Company and Watanabe Trading Company of Arisue Agency.

He has become the nominal chairman of Watanabe Trading Company, and has to provide funds for the Arisue Agency and transfer benefits to Charles Willoughby's group of officers from the Second General Staff. The obligations are not small, and they also come with power. The East Asia Trading Company has already moved to Naha, and the acquisition of land in Naha's prime location is also underway.

As for Nobusuke Kishi, there is no exchange of interests for the time being, but the relationship between the two sides is deepening day by day, from simple personal connections to lifelong friendships. Yoshiko Matsuda has become good friends with Yoko Abe, who is about to get married. In May, Yoko Matsuda will help prepare for Kishi's wedding in the name of a friend.

Fourth, Watanabe Atsushi, the former chairman and current vice chairman of Watanabe Trading Company, wanted to report to him in person.

This made him frown. Watanabe Trading Company was just trying to get a piece of the pie from East Asia Trading Company. There was no need for them to report to him. The so-called reporting was probably not about business, but about "reporting" intelligence work.

"What do those two bastards Arisue Seizo and Suzuki Keiji want to do?"

It doesn't take much thought to guess that if the purpose of meeting him is not for financial gain, it can only be for intelligence work. It is very likely that some secret agencies are planning to spread their influence to Hong Kong or Singapore and want to borrow his help.

It would be fine if it was the two devils' own idea, but I'm afraid it was Arrowood or Charles Willoughby's idea. Needless to say, the two men must have detailed files on him on their desks.

"You've taken advantage of me, and you want to drag me down with you?"

As far as he knew, none of the intelligence agents were good people. They were above the law and did whatever they wanted. It was not surprising that he was treated like a chamber pot. He could accept Charles Willoughby treating him as a chamber pot, but Arrowood could not.

If Arrowood had such an idea, he would die.

Tapping his fingers lightly on the table, he lit a cigar in a daze as he pondered over what to do.

In any case, Watanabe Atsushi needs to meet.

5. Kunitaro Arimoto accepted a hot spring resort villa in Tokaido, and one weekend he asked Zhang Guowen, the president of Shiye Food, to arrange for six girls to spend the weekend with him.

RV Girl accepted all the money without any hesitation. At the same time, she did not forget the conditions of exchange. The National Institute of Nutrition had begun to recommend ramen to the Japanese people, and Xian Yaowen's slogan "National Gospel" was also adopted. The demand for Shiye Ramen skyrocketed, and orders came in one after another.

6. When Umado Express was established, Keiko Nanyun found a separate office location and cut off all ties with Matsunaga Express from the very beginning.

The business has just started, but it is very popular with potential customers and we have received many applications.

……

Yoshiko Matsuda reported every detail of everything that had happened since he left Tokyo. At the end, she said in the telegram that he had successfully quit smoking and only had an increased appetite, with no other adverse reactions.

This is to inform that the pregnancy preparations are going well and she is ready to be a mother.

Xian Yaowen put out his cigar and picked up a note he had read before. It clearly read "Congratulations, sir. Mrs. Ruoyun is pregnant."

He sighed, "It may not be a happy event, I hope it's a daughter."

If Zhou Ruoyun gave birth to the Xian family's eldest son, Zhou Maochen, the old fox, would most likely do something naughty, and who knows what last words he would leave for Zhou Xiaoyun. In short, trouble is inevitable. (End of this chapter)