National Tide 1980.

Come and don't go indecent.

Of course Ning Weimin would do his best to entertain Zhao Chunshu who had helped him.

Although deep down, he really didn't want to have anything to do with anyone with a gang background while he was in Japan.

He knew very well that these people living in the underground world were destined to be suppressed by the Japanese government in the future, and they were the source of trouble.

But repaying kindness with kindness is a basic principle of being a human being. It doesn't make sense that he would be cold to others after they helped him.

He was not the type to do something like scolding the cook after having a full meal.

What's more, Zhao Chunshu is a native of Tianjin from mainland China. He has managed to make a name for himself in the Japanese underworld, and his appearance is so low-key. Such a person is a legend in himself, and it is inevitable that he arouses curiosity.

So we should toast, express our gratitude, and host a banquet, with good wine and delicious food, delicacies from land and sea...

When it comes to etiquette, Ning Weimin absolutely cannot be criticized for anything, and he does it very well.

Fortunately, Zhao Chunshu is a person who understands the ways of the world and is well-mannered in his words and actions.

Perhaps it is also because the big guys who can survive in the underworld are those who know how to restrain themselves and hide themselves.

Since he took the initiative to give up the position of chairman of the Inagawa-kai to someone else, Zhao Chunshu must have been very clear-headed.

Perhaps it is because he is naturally good at making friends that he can sit in this position.

Anyway, he had no intention of repaying Ning Weimin for his kindness.

After those people from the Inagawa Society left, Zhao Chunshu just drank and chatted with Ning Weimin during the entire meal, chatting about the customs of his hometown and the customs of various parts of Japan, and asked about the current situation in his hometown.

Not to mention that there was nothing related to the Inagawa-kai, he didn't even ask about the specific operations of Dangu.

Before leaving, Zhao Chunshu received a gift box of pastries and two bottles of Moutai liquor from Tangong Restaurant, and he kept expressing his gratitude.

I said to Ning Weimin very sincerely, "I have been in Japan for so long, and finally found a restaurant that can make authentic northern cuisine. I am very happy to drink wine today, which is very important to me. I will come here often. So you should run this restaurant well, and if you need any help in the future, just let me know. Thank you for your hospitality, and I wish you a prosperous business."

So no matter whether the other party really thinks so or is just saying it for show, on the surface, Zhao Chunshu is very tactful.

He merely regarded himself as an old senior from the mainland, and expressed his goodwill and support for the younger generation to Ning Weimin, who was considered a half-fellow villager. He did not go beyond the line and make any embarrassing requests.

His enthusiasm and kindness, as well as his warm and gentle demeanor that made people feel like spring breeze, made Ning Weimin involuntarily feel good about and respect him.

To be honest, if it weren't for the background information provided by Axia, he would never have realized that Mr. Zhao was actually a desperado who relied on a pistol to conquer the world single-handedly.

It is also hard to believe that he is also a fighting master. He was once one of the best kung fu masters in the National Essence Association, the top underworld organization at that time where the Japanese right-wing government trained its main thugs.

In this way, both the host and the guest had a great time at their first meeting, and when they parted, they both left a very good impression on each other.

However, after sending Zhao Chunshu away and saving the store in Tokyo, Ning Weimin also received calls from Kyoto and Osaka.

He heard that the Kyoto branch voluntarily closed down, and that the Osaka store was smashed and forced to close down.

The other party also left some harsh words, expressing "respect" to them on behalf of Ikuo Suho himself.

So for him, the matter is not over yet.

Don't be afraid of being bullied, but if you are bullied, you will have a reason to fight back, and the best way to retaliate is to treat others in their own way.

As the Chinese people would sing a song, "When friends come, we have good wine; when jackals come, we have shotguns."

He couldn't just let his store be ruined, he had to make the other party feel the same pain.

Yes, Ikuo Suho does not have a restaurant, but the Guo family does.

The Guo family’s hotel is also a high-end chain, with stores in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing.

Ning Weimin didn't mind firefighter Zhou Fang Yuxiong's actions, and he also gave the other party more opportunities to attack.

If you can do it on the first day, then I can do it on the fifteenth. Isn't that disgusting and destroying the reputation of the opponent?

In terms of business scale, he actually has the upper hand, and those who are barefoot are almost not afraid of those who wear shoes.

Needless to say, he did not need to ask two people to take care of this matter, so of course he entrusted it to Axia.

What surprised him was that the price he had to pay was so small.

Because Axia is definitely an expert in this area and she fully understands his needs.

It just requires someone to create a bad influence and destroy the other party's business reputation.

This kind of thing doesn't require committing a serious crime, and it doesn't cost much money.

For example, for each hotel owned by the Guo family, two or three people were arranged to pretend to be guests and go to the hotel lobby to provoke and fight.

Once the fight started, they insulted each other, even threw feces and urine at each other, doing the most disgusting things.

It is conceivable how great a chaos would be caused at the scene, how the guests who experienced this scene would react, and what serious blow and damage it would cause to the Guo family's hotel, which has always regarded itself as high-end.

Not to mention that such incidents happened simultaneously in hotels in several different cities, even if it happened in just one place, it would be enough to make the Guo family's hotel famous, and even make them the laughing stock of high-end hotels in Southeast Asia.

Moreover, the short mules in Hong Kong are greedy for money and worthless. These people dare not go to other places except the mainland.

This kind of thing won't send you to jail, and it's not like going to war with a rival gang. At most it's considered provoking trouble and violating public order and good morals.

Even if you are caught and held accountable by law, you will only be detained for a dozen days and fined a little.

So apart from the necessary expenses such as food, accommodation, air tickets, and legal fees, giving each person another 200,000 or 300,000 Hong Kong dollars would not cost much else.

Of course, this is just the cost of doing things. They have to pay more to the bosses of the community.

However, it would be enough to spend a maximum of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and earn at least double, which would be enough to satisfy those community leaders.

But even so, converted into Japanese yen, it would only be 150 million yen.

It may be a huge number for others, but for Ning Weimin, this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket.

In fact, it was not even half of the profit he earned from the insurance company's compensation.

Therefore, this plan can be said to be extremely low-cost and extremely destructive. Ning Weimin agreed to Axia's proposal without hesitation.

As for the rest, it all depends on how the Guo family reacts to this "big gift" and how they respond.

…………At 1987 o'clock in the afternoon on October 10, 11, Guo Kefeng, who was in Beijing, returned to his luxurious suite in the Shangri-La Hotel to rest alone, slightly tipsy, after the banquet ended and the guests were seen off.

He took off his tie and suit, hung the clothes in the closet, turned around and sat in the rocking chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and picked up a cigar from the box on the coffee table.

Then, in the warm sunshine, he leisurely broke the cigar, lit it, and puffed out the smoke beautifully.

Smoking cigars was originally one of his few hobbies, and he even preferred the feeling of relaxation after accomplishing something.

Although this is only a momentary, short-lived, small reward for myself, I have an important business meeting to attend in the afternoon.

But it can make him feel the joy of gaining something after hard work, and he is full of a sense of accomplishment.

He said this not to show off, but it was his real feeling.

If you know his family well enough, then just from his name you can tell that he is a member of the Guo family, the sugar king of Asia.

However, if people think that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he would be able to become the boss of a multinational grain and oil company at the age of 35.

That kind of thinking is too unfair to him, and can even be called prejudice.

Because it's not easy for him to reach this position.

In fact, in addition to being born into a good family, his current position is also inseparable from his personal diligence and hard work.

You have to know that he is only a close relative of King Sugar, his nephew, not King Sugar's biological son.

It is still far from the point where I can sit back and relax, and as long as I obediently follow the family's arrangements I can move up to the top step by step.

And it has to be said that the Guo Group, which has already established a firm foothold in Malaysia, is a large family. In the Sugar King’s generation alone, there are six brothers, and each of them has several children of his own.

So it is conceivable that even as a member of the Guo family, Guo Kefeng still has to "roll".

He has never felt relaxed since he was a child. Instead, he has felt tremendous pressure. He can forget about living a luxurious life of eating, drinking and having fun.

It was not easy for our parents' generation to start a business, so they had very high expectations and education for their children. They hoped that they could become true elites. It was impossible to give them huge amounts of money and let them be useless parasites and live a life of luxury.

If they don't work harder, they will easily be looked down upon by their family, and then be lost among their brothers and sisters of the same generation, becoming an ordinary mediocre person.

If that were the case, of course there would be no chance for me to enter the core of the Guo family.

Fortunately, among his brothers and sisters of the same generation, Guo Kefeng is the one who is both hardworking and talented, and he has been striving to excel since he was young.

Not only did she have excellent academic performance, she also had a strong interest in business, and she caught the eye of the Sugar King very early on.

That's why his sixth uncle cultivated him like his own son and gave him many opportunities.

Guo Kefeng still remembers that when he graduated from the University of Singapore in 1972, he was directly selected by his sixth uncle to join the Federal Company of the Guo Group.

His busy uncle was here and personally guided him from the beginning to start the flour business.

At that time, the uncle and nephew maintained a communication frequency of meeting two or three times a week and they cooperated very well.

Under the guidance of his uncle, he grew rapidly and purchased wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops from Canada, Australia, the United States and other places at high quality and low prices, processed them into flour, feed, soybean oil, etc., and then sold them all over the world.

It can be said that it was thanks to the Sugar King's careful training and generous teaching that he quickly figured out the ins and outs of doing business, made the family business flourish, and also earned honor for his parents within the family.

In 1974, his sixth uncle also established Kerry Holdings Limited in Hong Kong as the flagship company for the Guo family to conduct business in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Shangri-La Hotel and Beijing International Trade Center are its later masterpieces.

Since 1980, the Sugar King appointed him as a director of Guo (Xin) Co., Ltd., in charge of the group's edible oil and grain business.

In 1986, in order to further integrate resources and expand Guo’s Group’s overseas partners, especially grain and oil processing projects in mainland China, Sugar King established Guo’s Grain and Oil Company.

This year, Guo's Grain and Oil specially established Kerry Grain and Oil Group in Hong Kong as a professional platform for investing in and expanding grain and oil business in mainland China. The Sugar King also sent his nephew to take charge of this matter.

This shows how much the Sugar King values ​​him, and how much responsibility he shoulders.

However, from his point of view, he didn't quite understand it at first.

If you can obviously do better business overseas, why should you transfer large amounts of money to the underdeveloped mainland China?
But he still had doubts and did what his Sixth Uncle said.

After conducting market research, he quickly understood his uncle's good intentions.

It turns out that the types of oil imported into mainland China are limited, and in this era they are all bulk goods, such as palm oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, etc., which are mainly packaged in bulk oil or 190 kg large iron barrels.

The cooking oil used in China is bulk second-grade oil. This type of oil has many impurities, is dark yellow and turbid, and the whole house is filled with smoke when cooking. It is also easy to deteriorate after being left for a long time, and you have to bring your own oil bottle when purchasing it.

There is no small packaged cooking oil that meets international hygiene standards in the mainland market.

The spectacular scene of people living on the mainland queuing up to buy oil with small oil barrels every day made Guo Kefeng immediately realize that this was a good opportunity to transform China's edible oil. If a refinery was established in Shenzhen to produce small-packaged edible oil for sale, the market would definitely be huge.

Yes! This is indeed a huge market with great potential.

After all, there are more than one billion people and everyone needs to eat.

If you don't take a piece of this market, it will soon be taken away by others.

However, although this grand business plan is good, the Guo family is an outsider after all. They want to enter the mainland grain and oil market of the Republic as foreign capital, but in the current social environment of the mainland, there are still considerable obstacles, mainly from the policy level.

Therefore, after repeated consideration and consulting with some "experts" in the mainland, the plan of "borrowing the road" came into being.

The target that Guo regarded as a "borrowing passage" was COFCO Group, which was also eager to attract foreign investment to develop the oil and fat market at that time.

Since June this year, Guo Kefeng has started the negotiation process on cooperation on behalf of the Guo Group and COFCO Group.

After several months of back-and-forth negotiations and entanglements, the two sides have finally reached an agreement.

For example, today is the day they signed the memorandum and letter of intent for cooperation.

Next, he just needs to go through the process and wait for the signature and approval from above, and the mainland market will open its doors to him.

He is very sure that in the future the mainland will be dominated by his own brand of "Golden Dragon Fish" blended oil.

However, it was somewhat disappointing that just as the beautiful dream in his heart was rising with the smoke he exhaled and was about to reach its most wonderful climax, he was disturbed by an unexpected and hurried knock on the door.

What he didn't expect was that the secretary's voice rang out at the door, "General Manager, something happened! An urgent call came from the Singapore headquarters..." (End of this chapter)