money player

Sin Yiu-man then took out another blueprint, “This is an upgraded version of the Flying Angel Spinner. The stick has spiraling teeth. Just push it upwards with your hand and the propeller will fly out.”

Building upon this foundation, a third generation could be developed, using a rope to drive gears to provide upward propulsion, or employing the principle of a spring to provide upward propulsion.

"Boss, this toy can be played with by both boys and girls, I believe it will sell well."

Xian Yaowen handed the drawings to Kushner, who was speaking, and said, "Finish the design and register the patent as soon as possible."

"OK."

“Jessica, the spinning rod needs a clever little inventor as a parent.”

Jessica laughed and asked, "Boy or girl?"

"If possible, it would be best if she were Korean, a war bride and her ex-husband's child."

American soldiers never had any concept of controlling their crotches. They carried two guns and wherever they were stationed, they would spray bullets everywhere. Some would just have sex and leave their bastards behind, while others, showing the responsibility of men, would marry women, which led to the emergence of war brides.

Why does it have to be a Korean?

"Because Koreans are influenced by Confucian culture, they have a prominent cultural characteristic of caring about face. Due to war and poverty, Koreans have accumulated a lot of inferiority complex."

When a Korean perceives a powerful figure as someone who identifies with or is fascinated by their country, ethnicity, culture, or individual, there is a high probability that the Korean will offer their best to the guest.

Labor costs in Hong Kong have already shown signs of rising, and some of our contract manufacturing may shift to South Korea in the future.

Sin Yiu-man pointed at Jessica and said, "Learn a few useful Korean phrases, learn about Korean food, and let the outside world know that you like Korean food, or at least one dish, when the time is right."

Is Korean food delicious?

"It's alright. Some of the dishes have similarities with American food culture, so you should find them easier to accept."

“Okay.” Jessica shrugged. “I’ll look for Korean restaurants in New York.”

“There’s a Seoul Diner on West 35th Street, and it’s advertised in today’s New York Post.” Sin Yiu-man picked up his coffee cup and took a sip. “Our customers are children, but the parents are the ones who pay the bill.”

Gerber infant formula touts "the perfect mother chooses scientific feeding"; with the polio pandemic threatening families with large medical bills; "hiding under the table" drills (nuclear war exercises) increase psychological stress; and "Parenting" magazine suggests families stockpile formula and canned food in preparation for potential outbreaks.

青年会的课外班有补贴，每年的费用依然需要10美元；芭蕾团体课每节3美元；钢琴私教2-5美元；击剑俱乐部3-8美元；《父母》有一篇文章称‘钢琴课提升孩子纪律性’，斯坦威钢琴广告‘天才从5岁开始’。

Property prices near top-tier public schools are 20% higher than in ordinary areas, blah blah blah…

Sin Yiu-man shrugged. "The wallet we're eyeing is being eyed by a lot of bastards too. If they take more, we can only take less or nothing at all."

We need to constantly monitor the health of our wallets. When it's overfed and obese, we promptly push high-profit toys that consume fat; when it's emaciated, we can push cheap toys, such as…

Sin Yiu-man took out a commercial origami kit called "Paper Magic," saying, "This is a toy that is very suitable for marketing to low-income families with young children, but we want to make changes and integrate children's education into it."

For example, in the story of Cinderella, all the important scenes can be presented through origami. The father tells the story while guiding his daughter to fold origami, and the daughter enters the story and imagines herself as Cinderella.

For example, the childhood stories of Washington and Lincoln are perfect for fathers and sons to interact with.

Why do I only mention Dad and not Mom?
Because we live in a patriarchal society, women have to endure all kinds of unfair treatment.

Originating from English common law, a married woman's legal status is merged into her husband's name, resulting in a loss of independent property rights. As a married woman, she cannot have her own independent account at most banks.

Sin Yiu-man waved his hand, “I am not Elizabeth Stanton, nor am I going to issue a ‘Sentimental Declaration’ demanding that women have the right to vote, the right to property, and the right to education. I just want everyone to understand that although the United States has a community property law, the actual control is in the hands of the husband.”

Milton, are you responsible for all the major expenses in your household?

Kushner nodded. "Although I hate to admit it, it's true. I pay all the big bills myself. I give Shirley $70 a week for food and groceries, but she doesn't have to ask me for pocket money. I give her $30 a week for spending money."

Milton, you have four children?

"Yes."

"The youngest is eight years old?"

"uh-huh."

Milton earns a high income and is able to give his wife pocket money, but most married men's salaries can barely cover the family's expenses, and full-time housewives rarely have their own pocket money. But do they really have no money at all?

The answer is clearly no. Everyone has a sense of crisis, including full-time housewives, especially given the current social and legal environment's unfairness towards women. Husbands' infidelity is tolerated by society, while wives who have affairs are convicted of adultery.

If a wife, as the plaintiff, wants to sue her husband for adultery, she needs to provide conclusive evidence. Only a photograph of her husband naked and embracing another naked woman can serve as irrefutable evidence, and obtaining such a photograph is very difficult.

If the husband loses the lawsuit, the initiative returns to him. He can choose to continue the marital relationship, and the wife will have to endure an even worse family life. Alternatively, the husband can choose to divorce, in which case the wife will not receive a penny and will fall into poverty.

Because of the ever-present possibility of marital crises, I think most stay-at-home moms will try to save up some money on the side.

Sin Yiu-man pointed at Kushner, then at Iacocca, “Do you know the price of a dozen eggs? Do you know where the price of eggs is expensive and cheap in grocery stores, supermarkets, and Union Square farmers market?”
You don't know, and this isn't your business, but I hope you will know later.

He paused, then continued, “Besides the wallets we’re eyeing, every family also has a small wallet. It’s thin, but it’s like a piece of roast meat in your mouth. It awakens the strong maternal love in its owner, prompting them to buy their child an inexpensive but fun toy.”

Jessica smiled wryly. "Isn't that too cruel to women?"

Sin Yiu-man chuckled and said, “Time magazine called businessmen’s social engagements ‘the gray area of ​​marriage,’ and married men’s infidelity is jokingly referred to as ‘a gentleman’s pastime.’ As the middle class moves to the suburbs, married men leave home in the morning and, even if they finish get off work normally, they don’t get home until 7 p.m. If they work overtime or have social engagements, it’s normal for them to get home late at night.”

But is every late return home due to overtime work and social engagements?
I think the answer is no; the infidelity rate among married men in the United States has reached a very high level.

For the sake of our children, we should awaken the paternal love in a married man who comes home late because of infidelity. He should leave his office, turn left, and walk straight until he reaches the Jewish community, where many Jewish vendors live. Organize them to sell toys suitable as gifts for colleagues at the subway station in the morning, and deluxe versions of toys in the evening. One act of infidelity, one act of compensation for the children.

Jessica: "Isn't it more reasonable to compensate your wife?"

“Someone else will claim the compensation for the wife.” Xian Yaowen looked at Iacocca. “Li, we want to produce car models, but I not only don’t want to pay brand licensing fees, I also want to collect advertising fees from the car brands. Give me a proposal.”

"If the target audience is office workers, advertising expenses are not out of the question."

“You’re the boss.” Sin Yiu-man shrugged, glancing at his watch before looking up and saying, “It’s been sixty-five years since ‘Old Judge’ first included a baseball card in a cigarette pack, just a hundred years less than the history of the United States.”

The United States is young and has a short history. Compared to countries with a long history, it has almost no history to speak of. But the lack of history does not mean that there is no antique business.

Still-usable 18th-century furniture can be considered antiques, as can an Edison phonograph, a Colt 1851, train tickets from decades ago, railway commemorative pocket watches, cigar boxes, and Ford Model T cars.

Whether an item can become an antique depends mainly on three factors: scarcity, cultural nostalgia, and capital speculation.

Just like the 1918 inverted Jenny stamp with a face value of 24 cents, it's just a small printed piece of paper, less than 33 years old, yet its price has now risen to over $1300. Is this price reasonable?

Iacocca chimed in, "That makes sense. Inverting Jenny still has a lot of room for appreciation."

Sin Yiu-man smiled faintly: "A few months ago, I commissioned someone to transport a stone from my hometown to Hong Kong. I built a house specifically to store this stone. It is actually just an ordinary stone, which can be seen everywhere, but it carries my childhood memories and is of great significance to me."

"A true collection is like mine; without me, it would be worthless. But what about the inverted Jenny? It's just a basic printing error. Is it really that significant? Where does its appreciation potential come from?"

"Inverted Jenny is a tulip from the Netherlands."

“I like your answer.” Xian Yaowen pointed at Iacocca, then turned to Jessica and the other man and said, “I’m a good boss, and I’m preparing to pay you your pensions ahead of schedule. Baseball cards are one of the new products we’re developing. I’ll just mention two key points:”

First, control the printing volume.

The printing quantity of each baseball card must be controlled, and no more cards should be printed. Once printing is complete, the molds must be destroyed immediately to prevent reprinting.

Second, deliberately create a printing accident.

We need to have our own inverted Jenny, keeping the number under 50. Each of you should keep one, and then we should make a big fuss about recalling the products we've already distributed, letting the whole world know that we made a stupid mistake.

I believe that thirty years from now, you will receive a large windfall because of a baseball card.

Kushner said, "Boss, right now only Topps issues standalone baseball cards, priced at 50 cents for a box of 24. If we control the number of cards issued, there isn't much profit. It doesn't seem like we need to develop baseball cards."

“Baseball cards, fun baseball cards.” Sin Yiu-man rattled off one word after another. “When fun baseball cards become the new tulips, we’ve achieved our goal. Milton, this is an advertisement.”

Kushner suddenly realized what Sin Yiu-man meant.

"Alright, that concludes today's meeting." Xian Yaowen stood up and looked down at the three of them. "This is the first time the four of us have sat down together for a formal meeting, and I'm not entirely satisfied with your performance. I hope there will be some surprises next time. See you next time, everyone."

……

Lombardo Mussel House is an Italian restaurant on Via Mulberry, the main street in the heart of Little Italy.

Sin Yiu-man ordered white wine braised mussels, grilled squid with garlic and mint, wakame salad, two servings of pasta, and a bottle of Barolo red wine from the Piedmont region.

We also ordered a novelty dessert, red chocolate pudding. The red color was just a decoy; it actually referred to pig's blood. In the past, poor people in Europe relied on pig's blood and offal to supplement their protein intake. Some people developed the habit of drinking fresh pig's blood, which led to the misconception that they were vampires.

I ordered the wine and dessert to be served first. In a flash, the waiter returned, requesting that they be served first.

Take a bite of the pudding; the texture is rich like mousse, but it has a subtle rusty taste, unlike the taste of pig's blood. It must have been modified for local use. Take another bite, and you're sure it's duck blood.

After the initial curiosity, pour some red wine and savor it.

Barolo is not the name of a winery, but the name of a small town famous for its winemaking. Currently, the most famous winery in Barolo is Gaja, which is equivalent to Moutai in Moutai Town, but he is referring to Lai Mao.

Just as he told Fei Baoqi, Juliet's brand management needs a winery, but he didn't want to be a sucker and acquire a famous winery. Establishing his own winery in the location of a famous winery was a better solution. Using the same grapes and similar winemaking techniques as the famous winery was like standing on the shoulders of giants, which could greatly reduce the difficulty of flavor domestication.

Just like good cigarettes, the foundation of good cigarettes is the proportion of Zimbabwean golden leaves, and then there are various flavorings, from the cigarette pack and foil to the cigarette paper and tobacco leaves, divided into top notes, middle notes and base notes, immersing people in the world of fragrance step by step.

Good cigarettes are smooth to smoke, easy to inhale, and do not irritate the throat. They also have a rich and fragrant flavor. Most of this is thanks to ethyl maltol, which is very ambitious. It spends its life pursuing the true essence of the mala and undergoing countless refinements to cultivate more of the best qualities of its species—formaldehyde.

The same goes for wine. Aging, fermentation, and blending are all different ways of triggering chemical reactions. Five-year aging or eight-year aging are all about finding the right catalyst and flavoring, adding a drop, shaking it, and it's done in a few seconds.

The industrialization of food is all about using flavorings to tame taste. Given the speed of development of food processing technology, Americans born in the 1950s have basically started living in a virtual world of flavorings. The tastes they perceive are what food companies make them believe.

Having fully experienced the taste of the wine, Xian Yaowen felt that if the bottle of red wine on the table were further blended, it could basically pass for a wine produced by Jia Ya Winery.

He put down his wine glass and let his thoughts wander, focusing on the flavoring.

If we develop a flavoring combination like turtle and mung bean, and acquire waterworks worldwide, could we add this stimulating flavoring to tap water?
Or perhaps we could put in a lot more effort and develop a chemical mutagen to add to the environment, artificially inducing gene mutations in organisms?

It seems like they all have potential, but you should start with the simple ones.

Speaking of flavoring, the ability to cultivate a sense of taste doesn't necessarily have to start with tap water; it can also be achieved through seasonings. Seasonings are absorbed by the body and remain dormant. Then, one or more flavorings react chemically with certain components of the seasonings to produce components that create a pleasant taste...

"I just don't know how difficult it is to implement technically."

Suddenly, the restaurant's gramophone played music that sounded familiar to him, "El negro Zumbon," sung by Italian actress Silvana Mangano.

His brow furrowed involuntarily. "This song shouldn't have started circulating until November, how come it's already out now?"

A little over a month ago, Jacques de Cooan, general manager of Odde Delius, reported that Odde Delius had reached a cooperation agreement with Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis to co-produce a film called "Anna," with Laurentiis's wife, Silvana Mangano, playing the lead role.

Because he had seen the film "Anna" in his previous life and knew it was a good movie, he also had an impression of Laurence Olivier, knowing that he would become a well-known film investor and producer in Hollywood in the future, and that "Halloween" and the "Hannibal" series were related to him, so he paid more attention to this project.

According to the plan, the film was to be completed in October and released in mid-December. The publicity and distribution work would begin in November, and then "El negro Zumbon" would be heavily promoted. But now he heard about it in New York. What the hell is going on?

If this song wasn't "created" by some time traveler, he would have cursed his ancestor Laurence... well, let's not talk about the dead, I'll curse this bastard wife instead.

Before he could think any further, the person who was eating one of the pasta dishes arrived.

Pan Xiuxiu, his mother-in-law, sported a short bob haircut, deliberately making it look messy. She wore a Peter Pan collar fitted dress with a tight corset and a wide hem, all in black except for the white collar, which provided a striking contrast. She walked towards him with an arrogant gait, her red high heels clicking loudly.

Looking at Pan Xiuxiu, Xian Yaowen had the illusion that decades had passed in the blink of an eye. Which barber had such a forward-thinking idea? Short bobs were one thing, but the messy look shouldn't be the current trend.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he stood up to greet him.

"Mother."

Pan Xiuxiu sat down directly opposite, then raised her hand and pressed down lightly, "Sit down."

Upon hearing this, Sin Yiu-man sat down, but only half of his buttocks were on, demonstrating the idiom "sitting upright and solemnly".

After sending Pan Xiuxiu to New York, he had already traveled back and forth three times. This was his first visit, and he was not very courteous.

Pan Xiuxiu pondered for a moment on Xian Yaowen's face and said, "Peipei has been back in Hong Kong for some time now. How is she?"

"It's all pretty good."

Are you here in the US for an extended period?

"I'm not staying long; I'll be leaving in a few days." (End of Chapter)