Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1073: Pornography and Gambling Are Not Poisonous
Just as Nan Yi and Ruan Mei started eating, Zhang Baizhi came over and said to them, "Miss Ruan, Mr. Ruan, thank you for what you did just now."
Without waiting for Nan Yi to speak, Ruan Mei said first: "It's okay, little sister, just be careful next time."
"Thank you, Miss Ruan." Zhang Baizhi thanked again.
"It's okay, go and get busy first." Ruan Mei sent Zhang Baizhi away, and then said to Nan Yi: "I think she's pretty good, not like a little gangster."
"He's a nice guy and he has no conflicts with the little gangster. Since you want to go to Shencun with me, I'll go back to sleep tonight."
When Ruan Mei heard Nan Yi's words, she immediately said, "If you dare to leave, I will die in front of you. Throughout the year, you only have a few days to accompany me, which is not even as many as the statutory holidays."
"Ms. Ruan, it's a pity that you're retiring. Just now when you said 'I'll die in front of you', the resentful expression on your face was textbook-level."
"Stop making sarcastic remarks and go to the movies with me later."
"What movie?"
"Western film, "Seven Deadly Sins", starring Bibbitt."
Nan Yi was surprised and asked, "Watch this? Why not watch a romance movie?"
"What's so good about romance movies? We can just act in them ourselves. Have you seen 'Love in a Foreign Land'?" Ruan Mei looked eager to try.
"The leading actress is Maggie Cheung. Are your acting skills as good as hers?"
"The male lead is still Tony Leung Ka Fai." Ruan Mei retorted, "We are acting in a romantic version. In less than five minutes, you've already taken off my clothes. What kind of acting skills do you have?"
"Who is taking off whose clothes? Have some shame. I still have my torn shirt. It's all evidence of your humiliation of me. I can use it as evidence in court in the future."
Ruan Mei blushed and said, "You are so annoying! Don't say that to me."
The short night passed quickly as they bickered, ate, watched movies and acted out movies.
the next day.
At noon, in the lotus pond on the east side of the Fang family manor garden.
Nan Yi and Lai Huri, who got off the plane last night, were both wearing waterproof pants. One of them was holding a shovel and digging the mud in the pond.
Anyone who has dug lotus roots knows that the mud in the lotus pond is different from the rotten mud that you usually sink into when you step on it. It is very dense and compact. When a shovel is stuck in the mud, it takes some effort to pull it out due to the pressure. If you don't have experience, it will be more tiring.
Lai Huri was inexperienced. He dug a few shovels and was exhausted. He stuck the shovel into the mud, stuck his butt on the handle of the shovel, lit a cigarette, took a break and said to Nan Yi: "Boss, if you want to eat lotus roots, just buy them from outside. This pond is almost one acre in size. If we build a house on it, it can sell for tens of millions, right?"
Nan Yi stroked his body, his chest almost touching the mud, and groped in the mud along the direction of the lotus root tip with his hands, carefully and gently. Only after all the mud around the lotus root tip was cleaned up did he take the lotus root tip out of the dug tunnel.
He held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, but found no cracks or breaks. Then he put the lotus root tip aside, shook his hands, raised his arm and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, then blinked. Only after the astringency disappeared did he reply to Lai Huri.
"Tens of millions are nothing. In my eyes, this lotus pond is worth billions. I am happier digging a lotus root from here than making hundreds of millions outside."
"Boss, you are returning to basics." Lai Huri said with a smile.
"I'm not at such a high level." Nan Yi waved his hand and said, "I simply like doing this kind of work."
"Being a lotus root digger, working from autumn to winter, is a very satisfying job."
"It's different. I dig lotus roots just to eat them myself, without any other purpose. But it's different for people who dig lotus roots. It's a job. If I do it, I will be thinking about how to do less work and earn more money."
Nan Yi pulled up the shovel stuck in the mud and walked to Lai Huri. "If the farmers' worries could be stripped away, leaving only the part that makes them happy, I would not think about making money. I would stay in Wenchangwei, plant two or three acres of land, raise a few chickens, raise two pigs, marry a wife who is neither ugly nor beautiful, have two children, work around the fields during the day, and catch frogs and water snakes and put them in traps at night. It's good to keep it simple."
"Not marrying Liu Zhen?"
"She is very ambitious. If she can't stay in the countryside and can't get into college, she will go back to the city." Nan Yi followed suit and sat there like a lazy tiger. "Okay, let's not talk about hypothetical life. Let's return to reality. What did you gain this time?"
Lai Huri threw away his cigarette butt and said seriously, "I have traveled to five or six countries, visited many health care centers and pension funds, and signed dozens of cooperation contracts. After this Christmas, there will be three large groups coming to Dream Town, one of which is the destination tour group with 169 people, and the other two groups have 407 people. There are 215 trial stay contracts, and the rest are one-year and two-year contracts."
There are several types of contracts in Dream Town. There are trial contracts, which are available for one to three months. You can come and live here to try it out, and leave immediately if you don’t get used to it. There are short-term contracts, which are available for one to three years. The longer the time, the more favorable the price, and the contract can be renewed or not upon expiration. There are long-term contracts, which are available for five years or more, and the discounts are greater than those for short-term contracts.
Another type is an all-inclusive contract, where the client makes a list of his or her properties and calculates the current value of the assets. Dream Town designs the contract based on the resulting amount, the client's age, physical condition and other parameters, and is responsible for the client's daily life, physical therapy and medical treatment in his or her later years, until the day the client grows old and has taken care of his or her final affairs. The contract is then considered complete.
This kind of contract is equivalent to a bet. Dream Town bets that the customer will age within the period designed in the contract, or age prematurely, while the customer bets that he can live a few more years.
Although there are countless ways to make customers age earlier, Dream Town disdains to use such methods. It will not put its efforts into such sneaky things, but will put its efforts into evaluating the appreciation potential of assets, accurately evaluating the physical condition of customers , precise calculations by actuaries, and screening of customers.
Dream Town does not run on volume, but only entertains high-quality customers. Taking all the discounts into account, the minimum monthly fee for a customer is US$1,650. To put it bluntly, customers who don't have a sense of money are not welcome.
"Not bad, keep it up." Nan Yi patted Lai Huri on the shoulder, "Dream Town can provide high-quality food, medical care and services, but some services are difficult to arrange. Our customers come here to enjoy their old age. It is up to them to decide whether to be self-disciplined or live casually. If they are not happy, it is meaningless to live longer.
That's why I urged you to come back. Let's talk to Bojong and open a cruise line from Coconut City to Macau. If you want to gamble or find women, let them go to Macau."
Lai Huri thought for a moment and said, "Boss, this is a good idea, but...what if the customer loses all his money? Will Dream Town still be doing business?"
Nan Yi laughed and said, "Dream Town does not act as a code-stacker. We are just improving our service items. Customers who need it can go there, and customers who don't need it should not be encouraged.
Addicted customers will try every possible means to play. If they solve the problem locally or go abroad, no matter what happens, we will be passive. If something goes wrong and bad news comes out, all our years of hard work will be wasted.
I have an appointment with Bo Qiong for dinner. You are responsible for talking to her. There are two principles. First, don't be a stacker. Second, don't take her commissions. Give all the commissions she deserves back to the client. Also, don't talk too deeply today. Just express your intention and give the other party time to investigate your identity."
"We still need to discuss this matter with Duan Wenxuan. If Coconut City disagrees, the route won't be able to start."
Lai Huri has been the president for several years, coordinating the affairs of Dream Town and considering issues more comprehensively than before.
"It's easy to deal with Coconut City. The better the business of Dream Town is, the more foreigners will come, and the easier it will be to deal with the unfinished buildings. Once the flight route issue is settled, the holiday villa village plan should be launched, and the International Health Forum will be seamlessly connected."
Lai Huri said with a smile: "Boss, you are doing this one thing after another, and none of the money is going out."
"Nonsense, it's been almost seven years, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent..."
"I didn't spend any money. I've already made back the initial costs through real estate speculation, and now I still have a lot of profits in my account."
Nan Yi glanced at Lai Huri and said, "Forget about that. The process of starting a business should be hard. When you become successful and famous in the future, when you appear on TV shows, you can make your early days look more miserable. You can modify the stories of Gou Jian, Zhang Qian, and Yu Gong and apply them to yourself."
"Boss, isn't this too fake?"
"Whether it is fake or not is not important. The key is whether it meets the needs of society. Hard work makes you rich. Success requires effort and dedication. The correctness of these principles needs to be maintained. Do you want to tell young people in the future that you have an extraordinary family background, a wide network of contacts, and you can succeed in starting a business just by eating and drinking every day without suffering much?"
When Lai Huri heard this, he opened his collar and said, "I haven't suffered much yet. Look at me, big brother. My body is so white and my face is so dark. They are all from being exposed to the sun in the desert of the Middle East."
"I know you're working hard, cover it up quickly, a grown man showing his collarbone." Nan Yi spat with a look of disdain, then stood up and said, "Hurry up and get to work, come back to have a lotus root feast in the evening, I made some bayberry wine with monkey wine, and we'll open the jar tonight."
"Where did you find the monkey wine?"
“I brewed it myself.”
“It’s fake.”
"What the hell, do you know what monkey wine is? In order to store food for the winter, monkeys in the mountains pick fruits in tree holes. If there is no shortage of food in the winter, the monkeys will not eat the stored fruits. The fruits in the hole will ferment and become fruit wine. Whether this stuff tastes good depends on fate. It may even be poisonous.
The people of Nanchen Winery have been observing and researching in the mountains for several years and have mastered the best brewing technology. Once they have built a monkey island and a fairy spring, and trained a group of monkeys who can brew wine, they can put monkey wine on the market once the hype is created. "
“It’s the same old routine.”
"It doesn't matter if it's old or not, as long as it's useful, I've planted fruit trees on the mountain. The rotten fruits that can't be sold are used to make wine and juice. Half of the fruit residue is used as snacks, and the other half is used as special feed for fruit trees. This is called returning to one's roots."
Nan Yi dug two shovels and when he saw the lotus root, he became gentler, for fear of breaking the lotus root and letting mud get into the holes, which would make the taste worse.
Lai Huri slammed his shovel into the mud and spat, "Swindler."
It took three hours to dig a one-acre lotus pond, but only a corner was dug out. There were about 150 to 160 kilograms of lotus roots. About 30 kilograms were left for himself to eat, and the rest was shared with neighbors, and the ones in the pond were kept for next year.
If the lotus roots are not dug up in one year, they will continue to sprout in the next spring. The young lotus roots can be eaten raw or stir-fried, and the old lotus roots can be used to make soup, so they will not be wasted.
Nan Yi and the other person left the lotus pond, washed up, picked the tenderest lotus roots, peeled them and put them in their mouths. They were crisp with a hint of sweetness, pink and tender without a strong smell of mud, and could be regarded as a low-sugar fruit.
In the evening, the negotiations with Boqiong went smoothly. It was a mutually beneficial matter and a preliminary agreement was easily reached.
After a night's rest, Nan Yi and Ruan Mei passed the customs and, accompanied by Chen Yuxiu and Duan Bugao, went to the VCR factory, VCD factory, electronic pet factory, Superman computer factory, and Superman card factory.
After a tour of the factory, another meeting was held which was not very formal, but the content of the meeting was quite important.
The meeting was not held in a conference room, but in the Huaqiangbei area, starting in front of the large-scale spray-painted building of nearly 100 square meters at the entrance of the Women's World.
"When this place was still under construction, I thought the location and creativity were good, so I found the boss and took over a lot of counters. Now I come here once a month to collect rent, and I come in person. I collect more than one million yuan in rent each time, and I feel very happy."
Chen Yuxiu's face was full of complacency as he talked about his successful investment.
Nan Yi looked through the gate into the women's world for a few seconds, then turned to look at a building being built nearby. After looking for a while, he turned back and asked Chen Yuxiu, "What building is being built nearby?"
"The world of men echoes this side."
"Oh, that's a good idea, but men's clothes will definitely not sell as well as women's. You have a good eye. When this place becomes more prosperous, the annual rent will be at least over 100 million."
Nan Yi praised Chen Yuxiu, lingered nearby for a while, and then walked towards the Shennan business district of Panhua Qiangbei.
Taking Huaqiangbei as the core business district is the conclusion drawn by Nan Yiyong based on its development vision. If we were to talk about the current core business district, it would be the Futian section of Shennan Avenue, with Tianhong Shopping Mall as its landmark.
In today's Shenzhen, Duty Free Group, Dajiangnan, China World Trade Center, Friendship City, Guoshang and others are all big players in the department store industry, but they are not located in this area. The only up-and-coming department store nearby is Wanjia Department Store. Although its momentum of rising is very strong, Rainbow Department Store is still a standout.
Moreover, Rainbow Department Store is very creative and is a madman who is always three steps ahead of others. It proposed the concept of online shopping a few months ago and even equipped itself with warehouses and delivery personnel. It seems that it is also planning to build a base.
Arriving at the entrance of Tianhong Shopping Mall, Nan Yi looked up and paid tribute to this martyr who was destined to fail.
"Bu Gao, what do you think of online shopping?"
"There is a lot to look forward to in the future, but now is too early."
Duan Bugao answered without thinking, which showed that this question had already been in his mind.
"Yes, it's too early now. The Internet is not yet popular, and computers are still expensive. Ordinary people can't afford them." Nan Yi turned around and looked at Chen Duan and the others. "Has the sales of Little Superman computers reached a bottleneck?"
"This year's sales volume is expected to be only 7% higher than last year. The market potential has almost been tapped. There may be a small decline next year, and perhaps a cliff-like decline the year after." Chen Yuxiu replied with a surprised look on his face.
"It's understandable. The market is like this, and the responsibility does not lie with you two." Nan Yi nodded and waved to the fairy beside him. A hard drive came into his hand. "The future will definitely be dominated by computers. Its applications will be everywhere. Mastering the use of computers will become a necessary skill for many jobs."
Nan Yi shook the hard drive in his hand and said, "It contains the basic information of all the hardware manufacturers in the world and the models, basic performance and prices of the computer accessories they produce. Without pursuing the latest accessories or high configurations, a computer can be put together at a relatively cheap price.
You guys should take it back and study it carefully. Should you create a new brand to enter the low-cost computer field, or should you directly transform Little Superman?
Another basic component of a computer includes: motherboard, CPU chip, power supply, memory, hard disk, graphics card, sound card, chassis, monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and floppy drive.
Apart from modems and floppy drives, which will soon become obsolete, if we can pick one or two things we are capable of, work hard on them, and do them to perfection, I hope they will become industry giants.”
Chen Yuxiu said with a dark face: "If you want to become a giant, you can only choose from computer cases, keyboards, and mice."
"You are so unconfident. You can definitely think about the power supply and sound card."
Chen Yuxiu's face turned from dark to calm, "Do you think I'm stupid? The profit margin of power supply is limited. We are capable of making ordinary sound cards now, and the profit can be calculated. Professional sound card research and development is difficult, and the market is too small, it is not a good business.
Chassis, keyboard, and mouse are all produced by Xiaochaoren Computer. Our technical strength is far ahead in China. We just deliberately created our own interface model. If we modify it and dig deeper, it will not be difficult to enter the international market. "
"Okay, you have a clear mind." Nan Yi praised, and walked south again. As he walked, he said, "Erdong Electronics needs to change its positioning and become a technology company focusing on R&D and design. We will sell all the factories we have at the right time. In the future, our products will be manufactured by our partners, and we will not keep any factories ourselves."
