Reborn in America, I'm serious about making money.

Since the last time he suffered a loss of thirty or forty million US dollars, Zhang San was naturally very hurt. It wasn't for any other reason than that, even though diamonds wouldn't be worth much in the future, a diamond this big would still be very valuable.

Fortunately, other factors offered him some comfort. For example, since joining the WT, China's exports have grown rapidly. Data in the report shows that this year is better than last year.

In 2005, China's exports showed a vigorous development trend. Export value continued to grow that year, making it an important force in global trade.

China's exports are diverse, covering everything from traditional manufactured goods to high-tech electronic products. Light industrial products such as clothing, footwear, and toys made in China remain highly competitive in the international market, while exports of heavy industrial products such as machinery, electronics, and chemicals are also showing rapid growth.

Export markets are also becoming increasingly diversified. In addition to traditional European and American markets, exports to emerging markets such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America are also increasing. This not only reduces the mainland's dependence on a single market but also provides mainland enterprises with broader development opportunities.

According to the report, what does this have to do with Zhang San? It has a huge connection. He owns numerous companies in mainland China, and the sales revenue of these companies is in the hundreds of billions. It is unrealistic to convert all of this money into foreign exchange. It is really unrealistic. Not to mention how much foreign exchange mainland China has to support Zhang San's conversion, even if it did, it wouldn't be enough to sustain the situation.

Therefore, Zhang San could only earn foreign exchange through exports. Global entertainment peripherals, digital products, including communication equipment and chip products, as well as large-scale chip manufacturing, also earned him a large amount of foreign exchange.

The export of precision equipment, including semi-finished CNC machine tools, as well as the production of auto parts and related accessories, are all included in its exports.

Even those little gadgets are constantly being introduced.

The outflow of this money has little impact on the mainland; it's not that Zhang San isn't receiving foreign exchange inflows, just much less. It's mainly for subsidies.

Zhang San owns his own fleet of ships, many of which were acquired from East Germany—at least twelve in total—and he later ordered some more from the Continental Shipbuilding Company.

During the financial crisis, they also received more than twenty ships from the Southern Dynasty. In addition, they also have a shipbuilding company that specializes in building container ocean-going cargo ships.

Its transport capacity is five million tons. It also has an advantage: when shipping containers to North America return, they can bring back waste paper.

At this time, his paper mills in Dongguan and the Yangtze River Delta region had already reached a point of overcapacity and had begun exporting to surrounding countries, island nations, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. Their paper mills had been completely defeated by him, and a dumping model had now been formed.

Because the production capacity is so large, and the cost is extremely low—so low that, apart from shipping and processing costs, there are basically none.

They sold their products at a third less than in the dumping countries, bankrupting and acquiring local paper mills, essentially defeating all surrounding businesses. They then imported pulp from the mainland for production, driving up prices...

The mainland, with its extremely high labor costs, defeated Southeast Asia, which has even lower labor costs. It's quite a remarkable achievement, but who can blame them when these companies of Zhang San are disguised as North American businesses?

Some things are beyond Zhang San's control, and he can't change anything on his own. His current control over the companies is limited to finance; the rest is all in the hands of the management team, who are now ambitious and whose drive he can't control.

That's how the world is. Once you awaken the ambitions of some people, as a boss, you can only encourage them. Otherwise, they might jump ship from the group and start their own business.

"Boss, are all you Chinese this crazy?" John, the mascot brought in from North America, was a name Zhang San liked, so many of his subordinates were named John. He complained to Zhang San with some helplessness that those people were too difficult to manage. Some of them were very bold, but every time it was about money, they would ask headquarters for help and then expand their business under the Americano banner.

"Although they brought us profits, I feel that they have ruined our company's reputation."

Zhang San glanced at him, inwardly cursing, "How can you say such a thing without feeling guilty? When has America ever had such a cowardly person like you? Trash."

"I think they did a great job and shouldn't be criticized; they should be commended. Can't you see? They did an excellent job. It's just that you're too comfortable in North America."

John knew from Zhang San's dissatisfaction that he had lost his ambition, which had angered his boss. However, he immediately said, "I will support their work, and I will go there myself if necessary."

"No, I think you should go sooner; that way, the locals will be wary of our identities."

Zhang San is no saint; he'll use any available resources. Having experienced the trials of Wall Street in Southeast Asia, he should know that North American companies like those are not to be trifled with.

"You are a true American, you should be very assertive and let them know who the real benefactor is."

"Yes, sir! I'm leaving today."

Sending this guy who usually sits in an office and earns a high salary to the forefront is a good option; at least it can provide a fair environment for those ahead of Zhang San.

More than a decade later, who knows how many cases of Europeans and Americans were harmed in Southeast Asia? Blonde hair and blue eyes are still very useful; in those places, they won't become walking millionaires.

Sure enough, John, the mascot, set off that very day, flying from Shanghai to Bangkok. Upon arrival in Bangkok, he was greeted by local staff, and he quickly integrated into the local traditional culture.

Zhang San heard that he was living like a groom every night there, and even when asked to come back, he refused. He heard that this guy was working incredibly hard to ensure the group's business could expand there.

"Boss, you really have a knack for this. Manager John is incredibly motivated now. I heard he even got the attention of the local leader for his business. I'm truly impressed."

After hearing this, Zhang San didn't know what to say. John's tastes have changed. On the mainland, he was like a nice guy, but over there, he's like a wolf, and a lecherous one at that.

It must be said that the ancients were not lying: an orange grown south of the Huai River is an orange, but an orange grown north of the Huai River becomes a trifoliate orange.