National Tide 1980.

As the saying goes, bad news travels a thousand miles, but good news stays inside; this is human nature.

People are always more willing to pay attention to negative things and seem indifferent to positive things.

So even though the Guo family took remedial measures as soon as possible for what happened in their hotel, the results were very poor.

The recent experiences of the hotels under the Guo family have become a topic of conversation and a joke among people in Southeast Asia.

Even though they tried their best to block the news afterwards, major newspapers in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong were very considerate and promised not to spread the matter further.

But unfortunately, because the relevant news has been reported in the newspapers and the incident took place in the lobby of each hotel, many guests witnessed it with their own eyes.

It is impossible to completely cover up this kind of gossip. It spreads by word of mouth like a virus and wreaks havoc everywhere.

Not only did it cause irreparable damage to the Guo family's reputation, it also seriously offended the Guo family's dignity, which naturally made the Guo family extremely unhappy.

So, as to how to resolve this matter, there were two different attitudes within the Guo family from the very beginning.

One is the hardliners who insist on retaliating.

He believed that no matter what the cause of the incident was, no one would dare to do such a thing to the Guo family and get away with it without paying a price.

You know, the Guo family has close ties with many wealthy families in Hong Kong.

For example, Mr. Huo, who is the most prestigious and has a good handle on both black and white.

So these people thought that since the other party used gangsters from Hong Kong City, they could start from Hong Kong City and use the good relationships with the Guo family to make these gangsters turn against them and serve as witnesses for them.

Then take legal action to claim compensation from the other party.

It is necessary to sue the other party to the point of ruining his reputation and bankrupting him of all his wealth.

The other type is the pragmatists, who believe that good shoes should not step on stinky dog ​​shit, and there is no need to further intensify the conflict and stimulate the other side to take more extreme measures.

The other party’s business is based in Japan, and Japan is currently a place where the Guo family’s influence has not yet reached.

In such a situation where they are out of reach, if they run to Japan to fight the other side, it would be like a dragon swimming and hiding, with half the effort and twice the result. It would be too disadvantageous to the Guo family and would instead elevate the other side's status.

Besides, what would happen even if you win the lawsuit?

The Guo family may not get enough compensation, but will pay a higher price instead. Such confrontation and legal proceedings should be avoided at all costs.

It is better to make peace with the other party and stop the loss in time with appropriate favorable conditions.

But no matter what, the two groups have an indisputable consensus - that is their condescending attitude.

Perhaps because they have been one of the richest families in Asia for too long, the Guo family thinks they have many descendants and strong strength. Facing the Southeast Asian countries, they can almost be said to be a privileged aristocracy.

So, they look down on others in their hearts. Even facing the current situation, they still don't think that Matsumoto Keiko and Ning Weimin are opponents who can negotiate with them on an equal footing.

This cannot be said to be out of malice, but purely out of habit. In their hearts, they think they are superior. They can't help but think that they are already honoring the other party by sending people to negotiate with them.

So no matter what conditions they put forward, the other party should accept them with a pinch of their nose and be grateful.

As a result, the special representatives sent by the Guo family in Japan did not have a pleasant experience as soon as they came into contact with the Wu Film Studio and the Dangu Restaurant.

You have to know that this person who accepted the special mission and was said to be "fully responsible" was not even a member of the Guo family.

He is just a deputy general manager with a different surname hired by Guo (Xin)'s company.

That’s not all. The key point is that this vice president came to negotiate on behalf of the Guo family. In order to protect the Guo family’s reputation and interests, he did not treat others as human beings at all, and the conditions he offered were extremely disgusting.

First, he took all the responsibility, saying that the Guo family was not aware of the restaurant being smashed and that it was some people in Japan who acted on their own initiative.

There is some misunderstanding in this matter, and it will not benefit anyone if the matter continues.

So he hopes that both sides can exercise restraint and resolve the matter peacefully as soon as possible.

Speaking of the losses caused by the smashing of the Tan Gong Restaurant, the Guo family has always attached great importance to business cooperation with mainland China.

The Guo family was willing to pay US$80,000 to Tan Gong Restaurant for renovation because it was a mainland enterprise.

On the other hand, the Guo family can avoid pursuing any responsibility for the economic losses suffered by the hotels owned by the Guo family.

However, Tan Gong Restaurant must also formally apologize to the hotels under the Guo Group in written form and promise to prevent such incidents from happening again.

Second, on behalf of the Guo family, he demanded that Fog Studios must terminate the filming of "Crazy Rich Asians", saying that the film project must be cancelled and that the Guo family would not make any compensation for it.

If Mist Studio insists on having its own way and is determined to damage the reputation of the Guo family.

The Guo family will not give up and will hire a team of lawyers to protect their reputation and sue the studio, and collect evidence to claim compensation from Wu Studio.

In short, you'll just have to consider yourself unlucky. If you don't obey, I'll sue you until you go bankrupt.

To put it bluntly, this is a bit like the China-US economic negotiations decades later. It is obviously the big country America that needs help, but it insists on putting on airs and keeps talking about "starting from strength" in front of you. How stupid!

Needless to say, what do Matsumoto Keiko and Ning Weimin think when faced with such self-righteous negotiations and such brazen demands?
Naturally, they had no interest and were too lazy to pay attention.

In fact, not to mention that they were unwilling to meet with representatives of the Guo family.

Out of resentment for the Guo family's arrogance, Okamoto Akira wasted a week in Singapore.

Ning Weimin was planning to follow the same prescription and give this guy a good beating.

He taught Okamoto Akira not to say yes or no, but to treat the other person as if he were nothing.

Just do what you should do and waste time playing with this guy.

Keep on trying until this guy realizes what's going on and leaves.

As a result, even Okamoto Akira, who was responsible for receiving the other party and delivering the message at the beginning, no longer showed up, and really treated the other party like a dried salted fish.

As a result, the vice president was received at the "coffee buffet" just like Akira Okamoto who took the initiative to go to Singapore to get in touch with the Guo family.

Just two days passed, and the other party could no longer sit still. He was furious every day and tried everywhere to contact Okamoto Akira.

However, even if he blocked Okamoto Akira, he would at most get a lukewarm response.

"I'm sorry, my boss thinks your request is extremely unreasonable and lacks sincerity, which is difficult to achieve. I'm not the one who said that, you also said it was a misunderstanding, but you only asked us to apologize, and you didn't punish the people who smashed our store. Is this fair? So, my boss has been hesitant about whether to agree to your request. To be honest, my boss also wants to save face, and the possibility of it being approved in the end is really not high. Can you also discuss with the headquarters to see if you can come up with more constructive conditions? Otherwise, I'm worried that your trip to Japan will be in vain."

With just this one move, the opponent was left helpless and almost vomited three liters of blood.

Faced with the constant urging for results from the Singapore headquarters, and faced with Okamoto Akira who was playing hide-and-seek with him every day, the deputy manager who came for negotiations began to find that his job was really difficult, and he was quite depressed.

There has also been a huge change in attitudes.

The arrogance and high spirits at the beginning are gone.

Instead, there was a bit more politeness and a bit more attentiveness.

He actually communicated with the headquarters as Akira Okamoto requested, to see if they would agree to let him order the idiot named Ikuo Suho who smashed the restaurant to apologize to the other party in person.

He became more and more active in trying to reach a consensus with Akira Okamoto in private, and hoped that he could convince Keiko Matsumoto and Ning Weimin on his behalf.

But to be honest, even if he really managed to make Suho Ikuo apologize, it would be useless.

Once this request is fulfilled, there will be more requests waiting for him to fulfill.

How could Ning Weimin let him off so easily? How could the Guo family give him so much authority?

In particular, he was proud to be a servant of the Guo family.

As long as he doesn't wake up and realize that there are people in this world who can choose not to piss on the Guo family.

As long as he still doesn't know how to respect his opponent from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, it is impossible to offer conditions that can truly satisfy Ning Weimin.

In other words, the deputy general manager's failure was almost doomed from the beginning.

In a sense, he is just a tool, and it is only a matter of time before he leaves here with a disappointed ending.

The only difference is whether he can realize it sooner and make a dignified return, or persist and end up leaving in disgrace.

Judging from the current situation, this guy still has unrealistic desires in his mind, and he will most likely be kicked out in a mess.

But on the contrary, Okamoto Akira felt very happy from the bottom of his heart. He loved this game of playing with mice as much as he loved playing golf.

Don't forget, he had been treated like this before.

The humiliation inflicted on him by the Guo family was engraved in his mind, and he would probably never forget it in his lifetime.

So comparing the two, how wronged and painful he was in the past, and how relieved and happy he is now.

Ning Weimin will repay kindness when he is grateful, and will avenge his enemies when they are wronged. This style of behavior really suits his taste.

In particular, he was very understanding of the feelings of his subordinate and actually let him personally take the lead in revenge.

Just for this, he is willing to offer his loyalty forever.

What the hell is this Sugar King? The Guo family, aren’t they just idiots who let us fool them?

How dare you be so bold as to come up to us and ask us to apologize?
idiot……

Similarly, Guo Kefeng in Beijing could clearly sense that his plan was being hindered, that the situation was getting worse, and that things were not going well.

To be honest, he was indeed wronged.

As the head of the Guo family's grain and oil business, he has devoted all his time and energy this year to trying to open up the mainland market of the Republic.

He worked day and night, devoted all his energy, and spared no expense. It can be said that he bet the future of his career on the mainland market and on this deal.

If for no other reason, it is because opening up the mainland market is extremely important to the future of the Guo family, and its significance is simply immeasurable.

If grain and oil products are allowed to enter, it will only be a beginning.

In the future, the Guo Group will definitely use this as a basis to continue to strengthen cooperation with mainland officials.

It is almost inevitable that, as long as a foundation of mutual trust is established with mainland officials, all industries that the Guo family has a hand in will enter the mainland market, thereby obtaining unimaginable profits.

So this matter must succeed and failure is not allowed. This is the consensus between him and the Sugar King Sixth Uncle.

However, he never expected that just when the joint venture with COFCO Group was finally negotiated and about to be completed, such a ridiculous thing would happen out of nowhere in Singapore.

What's even more ridiculous is that an event that should have nothing to do with business in the mainland actually affected the progress of the joint venture plan here in a strange way.

If this thing was ruined, Guo Kefeng would really want to hit his head against a wall and die.

So he didn't care who caused the trouble, and he didn't have time to think about whether it was unfair for him to clean up other people's mess.

Even if it is just to protect his oil and fat cooperation project, he has to act quickly to reduce the negative impact of this matter as much as possible.

So he not only contacted the Chongwen District Service Bureau and the Temple of Heaven Park as soon as possible, but also personally visited the heads of the two units, wanting to make compensation in person and explain the misunderstanding.

In order to improve the impression of the Guo family on the Agricultural University experts, he also hoped that people from COFCO could introduce him to the Agricultural University for a visit and donate some money to the Agricultural University to resolve the conflict as soon as possible.

But the result was that although his intentions were good, in reality the results were minimal.

The service bureau is an official unit. After understanding his purpose, their attitude did not change and was quite nice.

But when it comes to the substantive issues, the other party starts to talk about other things and starts to give perfunctory answers in official language.

Regarding Guo Kefeng's request that they restrain Ning Weimin, the head of the service bureau said that this was agreed upon when the management contract was signed with Ning Weimin.

As a shareholder, the service bureau only makes pure financial investments and does not interfere with actual operations.

What's more, Ning Weimin always exceeds the performance targets every year. With a shopkeeper like him, they have no right to interfere in the management of the restaurant.

Asking even one more question would be a sign of disrespect and lack of trust towards the meritorious officials.

Therefore, if there is any conflict between the Guo family's hotel and the overseas branch of Tangong Restaurant, and if there is really a misunderstanding, it would be better for the Guo family to send someone to negotiate with Ning Weimin in person, and they will not interfere.

Just like that, the service bureau was extremely experienced and with a Tai Chi push, they blocked Guo Kefeng's request without leaving any trace.

But when we got to the Temple of Heaven Park, the attitude was much worse.

Everyone got along well at first, but when the other party heard the purpose of Guo Kefeng's visit, the top leader of the Temple of Heaven slammed the table and cursed at him.

He even shouted things like, "If I had a gun, I would shoot you right now!"

Not to mention that Guo Kefeng wanted the other party to put pressure on Ning Weimin.

At this moment, if there hadn't been someone stopping him, Guo Kefeng might have been punched a few times on the spot.

Guo Kefeng was so frightened that his face turned pale. He had never seen an old man with such a hot temper.

Even when their hair is completely white, they still want to fight and kill, and they are not afraid of stretching their arms and legs.

So he quickly tucked his tail between his legs and left.

After he came out, he learned from the person who sent him off that the director he met was a worker-peasant cadre.

When the country was founded and the bandits around the capital were being cleared out, he killed three bandits from Xiaotangshan with a pistol. He was a real murderer who had killed people and seen blood.

And he is the most protective of his shortcomings.

Not to mention facing a foreign businessman like Guo Kefeng, even if the superiors from the Tourism Bureau or the District Government dared to make such a request to the director, the director would curse.

The other party also said that Guo Kefeng's move was really counterproductive, and it would have been better if the principal didn't know about it.

Now that I know this, I might even have to make an international long-distance call to encourage Ning Weimin and support him in continuing his struggle and seeking justice for himself.

After hearing these words, Guo Kefeng almost cried.

He didn't dare to stay any longer and quickly got into his car and drove away.

As for the experts and professors from the Agricultural University, their attitude was even more clear and thorough; they didn't want to see him at all.

His words were delivered through COFCO’s people, and his reply was delivered back through COFCO’s people.

People say that agriculture is the foundation of a country, and there are many technologies in agricultural universities that are not allowed to be visited by foreigners.

There is no need for academic donations.

The Agricultural University has funding allocated by the state, as well as commercial projects sponsored by people who are keen to help farmers. If they accept donations from a foreign grain trader, they will not know how to explain it to their superiors.

As experts, their suggestions for the joint venture project are just to discuss the matter and make advance considerations for food and oil security.

There is no deliberate targeting, so Guo Kefeng does not need to think too much. The real thing is to adjust the cooperation plan to be more perfect.

Guo Kefeng, who had hit a wall everywhere, was now exhausted and could hardly hide his disappointment.

He just didn't understand why such a small matter as a restaurant being smashed was so important in the eyes of these people?
They even went so far as to destroy their large-scale grain and oil cooperation projects worth billions. What on earth were these people thinking?

What's even stranger is that this is the first time he has encountered a situation where even the silver bullet offensive is ineffective.

Aren’t these government agencies in the mainland supposed to be short of money?

Otherwise, they would not have invested in opening restaurants overseas.

Moreover, according to his experience, most people in mainland China are afraid of being poor and are obsessed with money.

During the year he was in the mainland, every time he donated, even if it was only 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, he would be treated as a guest of honor by people in the mainland.

But this time his method that always worked failed. It was really weird!
You know, he was planning to give one million RMB for each place! One million!

Why aren't these people tempted?
In fact, let alone him, even the people at COFCO felt that the development of this matter was very strange.

This person is also a second-generation person, so some of his words are blunt.

"Hey, Mr. Guo, why are things so unsuccessful for you? It's strange. A foreign businessman like you should be popular wherever you go."

"I think Ning Weimin is interesting. How much do you know about him? I want to meet him."

"To be honest, there are very few people who can make your Guo family indigestion both overseas and in the mainland. This person is really capable..."

Guo Kefeng just felt dizzy and his head was getting bigger and bigger.

You actually said this to me in person, this...should be considered an insult, right? (End of this chapter)