The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 314: Unsolvable Problems

Life is like a long dream
The wind and frost on the road blow dry

How many directions do beautiful dreams have in this world?
Find the love in the dreamy heart
The road is endless

Life is a dream and aspiration
There are faint tears in the dream

Where to go to find the direction in my heart

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"A Chinese Ghost Story" has been released in Hong Kong, the Cantonese version, and the songs are also very charming.

In later times, not only did songs of this style disappear, but most of them became just clichés. Even movies no longer had this kind of style.

The fighting scenes, characters, and styles of this era make people feel very involved. Although the special effects technology of later generations is so good, many films are not at the same level as those of this era.

When Jiang Cheng saw the female ghost in the film, he had another evil thought: Joey Wong, another goddess-level Hong Kong actress has appeared.

In addition to the classic film "A Chinese Ghost Story", there is another very good art film that is worth watching this year. That is "Autumn Fairy Tale" starring Chow Yun Fat and Hong Jie, which is really a very good "old movie".

This year, Teresa Teng's song "I Only Care About You" was extremely popular in China. In Shenzhen, it has become popular to play this song in stores to attract business, so in some places, this song can be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.

During the Chinese New Year, another song became popular. Fei Xiang sang "A Fire in Winter" at the Spring Festival Gala. Jiang Cheng didn't think there was anything special about it, it just became popular for no apparent reason.

Jiang Cheng was a little disappointed with this year's Spring Festival Gala, as there were no skits. Lao Zhao had not appeared yet, and Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao did not perform on stage this year.

By 1988, Jiang Cheng thought he could have a year off. If the child was not still young, Jiang Cheng would have taken Zhou Lingying on a trip.

Since he went to Hong Kong to start a business at the end of 1972, Jiang Dong Lai was established in 1973. In the early days, Jiang Cheng liked to be a hands-off boss and was very casual in the management of the company.

But because Jiang Cheng had a policy at that time that people who worked for five years would be given a car and people who worked for eight years would be given a house. At that time, a car cost 10,000 yuan and a house cost tens of thousands, so Jiang Cheng could afford it.

Now, Jiangdonglai in Hong Kong has basically not expanded and has been maintaining its status. It has been more than 15 years, and the practice of giving away houses when working has long disappeared.

There are also some people who were relatively old when they started working and are now starting to retire.

Some laws in Hong Kong are not yet perfect. Some unethical bosses will dismiss their employees before they reach retirement age, which can save a lot of money.

In fact, these old employees are better off, after all, they have been in the same company for more than ten years. Even if the factory's processing business has been transferred to China, Jiang Cheng has arranged other positions for them, which is considered a very humane company.

The old employees also have a sense of belonging. Even though they are old, they are very satisfied to let them guard the warehouse.

But once they retired, new employees took their place. If Jiang Cheng continued to be a hands-off boss, problems would arise. The key is that different times have different customs. In the 1970s and 1980s, most people in Hong Kong were honest.

As the business grew, some loyal employees were facing retirement or transfer, and new employees had no sense of belonging. Economic crimes began to occur more frequently within Jiangdonglai.

Just after the New Year, Jiang Cheng went to Shenzhen to accompany Zheng Ke and his daughter Zheng Shuang for a few days, as compensation for not being together during the New Year.

Maybe it’s because of her good genes. Zheng Shuang is only a few years old, but she looks like a little beauty.

Jiang Cheng took them to the zoo to see animals and to the Shenzhen beach. Zheng Shuang inherited her mother Zheng Ke's artistic talent and could play the harmonica at a young age.

Judging from Zheng Ke's teaching, he might also train Zheng Shuang in the arts and he plans to let Zheng Shuang learn dance when he grows up a little bit.

After spending a few days in Shenzhen with Zheng Ke and Zheng Shuang, he fulfilled his father's responsibility. Jiang Cheng went to Hong Kong, but as soon as he arrived, something happened that made him feel overwhelmed.

The company's financial staff actually embezzled several funds from the company to speculate in stocks in the second half of the previous year, and the scandal was only exposed because of the losses in stock speculation at the end of the previous year.

If the financial staff had not lost money from stock trading, it is possible that no one would have noticed if they had added the money to the account.

Traditional account management methods are easy to be exploited as long as there is not enough supervision and someone inside does not take action.

A small financial staff member actually embezzled tens of millions of the company's funds for personal stock trading.

Of course, the money was embezzled bit by bit, and it was also because the funds were trapped in the stock market that the funds were embezzled like crazy in a snowballing manner.

This can only be attributed to the bad luck of the financial personnel. In fact, in the second half of 1987, Hong Kong experienced another stock market crash, which was even the most serious stock market crash in Hong Kong.

Affected by the stock market in the United States, the Hong Kong stock market began to plummet in late October. "Black Monday" was used to describe the stock market situation at that time.

Lao Li and some wealthy people lost tens of billions in this stock market crash. Ordinary people mortgaged their properties to invest in the stock market, and their savings over the years were wiped out. In addition, many people were heavily in debt.

Jiang Cheng was still feeling proud for a long time at the end of last year, because in October of the previous year, the stock market in the island country also experienced fluctuations. After having been rising all the time, it unexpectedly fell by more than ten percent.

However, due to the appreciation of the island nation's currency and the increase in purchasing power, foreign funds continued to flow into the island nation's stock market. The island nation's stock market became the first to emerge from the "Black Market Monday".

And in the previous year, the trading volume of the island nation's stock market exceeded 300 trillion yen. What does this mean? It is equivalent to nearly 3 trillion US dollars.

With 3 trillion US dollars in the 1980s, even if Jiang Cheng took a small piece of the pie, it would be enough for him to become the richest man in the country in thirty or forty years.

Moreover, if you really want to get a large fortune, the interest you earn in the bank for 30 or 40 years will be an astronomical figure. You should know that the interest rate for deposits in Hong Kong is not low now, it can be more than 6%.

With this interest rate, if Jiang Cheng transferred the money in the island country and deposited it in the Hong Kong Bank, I am afraid that the interest rate of the bank in Hong Kong would be lowered by him.

Because a single bank cannot afford such high interest rates, and the bank collects deposits for lending. With such a large amount of money coming in, even if the bank relaxes its loan policy, it will be difficult to lend out all of it.

This can either stimulate consumption and encourage everyone to take out loans, or reduce internal pressure and lower interest rates to reduce interest payments.

During the stock market crash, Jiang Cheng laughed at Lao Li's heavy losses and said that his wealth was trampled under his feet. He didn't expect that such a disgusting thing would happen to him just after the Chinese New Year.

The loss of tens of millions was nothing to Jiang Cheng. But it was a disgusting thing, and who would want to encounter such a thing right after the Chinese New Year?

The key point is that the financial staff member was recruited by the same group of people who had worked with him at the beginning through connections. Once the matter was exposed, even the company's veterans came to Jiang Cheng to plead for mercy.

Such a large sum must be repaid, and if it is not paid, the property will be seized to pay off the debt. Someone pleaded for mercy, Jiang Cheng wanted the other party to make up the debt and then resign from his position, so it is not impossible not to pursue it further. But the other party simply cannot pay back tens of millions, and the house is not enough to pay off the debt.

Jiang Cheng only needs to report to the police, and then he will have to wait for the procedures to be followed. However, there are two types of procedures. After all, it is an economic crime, and even if the amount is huge, the scope of impact is not large.

The severity of the punishment also depends on the parties involved. If Jiang Cheng wants to investigate thoroughly, it basically means a heavy punishment. If Jiang Cheng is unwilling to investigate further, even if he has to go to jail, the punishment may not be that severe, at least he can be sentenced to fewer years.

In the end, Jiang Cheng did not go to court to put pressure on the other party out of consideration for the other party's plea and the fact that the other party was actively paying compensation and repaying the debt.

The house and some remaining property of the financial staff who made the mistake became Jiang Cheng's, but the difference in the amount was still a huge range for ordinary people. No one could not get off the case in eight years, and this was the result of Jiang Cheng not investigating it thoroughly. If he wanted to investigate it thoroughly, it would take more than ten years.

Of course, the person who introduced the other party to the company will also be implicated, and he will enjoy a high-paying retirement package in a few years. Letting him resign voluntarily is to save his face and take the initiative to save his face.

This misappropriation of company funds for stock speculation can only be regarded as one of the bad things about Jiangdonglai. The luxury hotel built with an investment of 200 million yuan also saw cases of taking kickbacks and using the hotel's venue to enrich themselves.

In the Jiangdonglai supermarket, there was also a situation where the merchandise count did not match.

This is the situation in Hong Kong, and it is also the case in many "Jiangdonglai" supermarkets in China, especially those that use personal connections to bring people with connections to work in supermarkets and falsely report losses.

But the most serious problem at the moment is the misappropriation of funds by the head office for stock speculation. It is too difficult to supervise other places.

Jiang Cheng believes that traditional industries are simple and easy to manage. However, at the same time, as the business scale expands, traditional industries are prone to loopholes.

There are so many stores, some people use their connections to get some goods in to sell, but they don't put it into the company's account. Using traffic and stalls to sell their own goods is also taking advantage of the company's loopholes.

It's good enough that you don't get burned to death without any evidence because the accounts are not balanced.

Just like what is popular now~You are like a fire in winter, the blazing flames burn me.

Setting up a supervision team is not only a huge expense, but what if the team is also corrupt?

In the final analysis, it was Jiang Cheng's ability that did not match his position. It was easy for a person who was a Didi driver to start with the help of space. It was also easy to make a fortune with some knowledge and insights from later generations. But a person who had never managed a company still gradually grew a company.

If Jiang Cheng integrates all his wealth and resources, it can no longer be called a company, but a group, the Jiang Group. Even if he develops further in both the black and white worlds, the group can be upgraded to a chaebol.

Now Jiang Cheng can only passively deal with problems as they arise. Jiang Juan alone, even with her classmate Liu Li, still needs some time to grow. But growing up can only solve part of the problem at most.

Jiang Cheng was really worried about the problems of embezzlement and corruption. Jiang Cheng felt that he had no ability to solve them completely. Fortunately, traditional industries have strong resistance to such risks, because physical industries, especially supermarkets, are unlikely to have their turnover affected by market environment problems.

At least we are still optimistic now. Prices are rising, everyone's wages are rising, and consumption levels are rising. Even if there are various problems, overall income is still rising.

Some people can only make a small profit within the scope of their power. If things get serious and the accounts are too obvious, they will really take the initiative to find someone to investigate them.

In 1988, Jiang Cheng was in a state of giving up and stopped working on any projects.

The game room was opened at the end of the year, which was actually January of 1988. This new thing attracted a lot of people as soon as it opened, not only children, but also many young men who were curious.

Jiang Lin was first arranged to look after the store, together with a disabled person found by Jiang Cheng. The disabled person was introduced by the street office, which solved the problem of eating for others.

In March, Jiang Yang, who was not yet an adult, was also arranged to go there.

Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang were immediately fascinated by the game consoles, and they took turns playing. Sometimes all the machines were occupied, and Jiang Lin would occupy one by himself.

Because you put the game coins in, open the key at the bottom and take out the box containing the coins.

Jiang Lin, who had just failed in his chicken farming venture, started to falsify accounts while he was in charge. When business was busy, he would sell 10 yuan worth of coins and claim that they only made 5 yuan, which made it difficult to check the accounts.

Opening a game room at the end of this year is really only suitable for yourself.

Another thing is to open a game room, and Jiang Cheng also moved slot machines there. Slot machines are not defined as gambling in China now. As long as you don't refund the money, the winnings are just game coins that can be used to play games, so it is not considered gambling.

But this thing can easily arouse some gambling nature. Even if the game room says it is for entertainment, the game coins purchased are not refundable. But the winner can sell the game coins to the people who play the game.

In addition, Jiang Lin was there and found that the gambling game was about eating more and vomiting less, and the motherboard in the game machine could adjust the difficulty. He privately allowed the winners to return the game coins they won.

Because he can win or lose quickly on slot machines, and the money can be made quickly, he becomes very greedy.

Opening a game room in the urban area of ​​Changcheng City, this second-rate guy who usually has nowhere to go in the city has found a good place.

When the weather is hot, a few people buy a bottle of drink, smoke and run to the game room to play games. It is really a great place to kill time.

Jiang Cheng had not considered this, and he had not experienced this era. He never thought that the game room would become a place for second-rate people to relax.

This is just like when Internet cafes first appeared, some scoundrels liked to hang around them. Even if you didn't have money, you could go into an Internet cafe and sit there and enjoy the air conditioning. There was no rule that Internet cafes didn't allow people to enter without paying to surf the Internet.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng felt that he had made Jiang Lin work in the game room, which was a bit of a waste for him. During the summer vacation, Jiang Cheng even took his family to play there. He found that Jiang Lin also had a bit of a lazy and second-rate aura.

I learned how to smoke, and when I had nothing to do, I would play cards with others. I got along well with some unemployed young people.

After all, he was Jiang Cheng's nephew. Seeing Jiang Lin's expression, he really regretted it. The main reason was that Jiang Cheng never thought too much at the beginning. He asked Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang to look after the game room. In fact, he also wanted to transfer the game room to them later.

Let them earn some capital first. If the game room makes money, they will definitely see it while working here. Then Jiang Cheng will find a reason to say that the boss here doesn't want to run it anymore and wants to transfer it.

Jiang Cheng didn't care about the little money invested in the game room, but he had just "cleaned up the mess" for Jiang Lin last year, so he couldn't just give him another game room.

Jiang Cheng thought that if he could earn thousands of dollars a month from the game room and then transfer it to Jiang Lin and the others, it would also be an explanation to the brother of the original owner of this body.

The main reason is that Jiang Lin is not lovable. When Jiang Lin gets married and has children in the future, if his children are good, Jiang Cheng doesn't mind helping his children to become rich.

(In fact, the time period has been accelerating recently, mainly because I want to write about the children growing up and have a perfect ending. There is not much development left in the story itself.)
(End of this chapter)