National Tide 1980.

Chapter 746 Take Advantage

To lose is to take advantage.

This is an old saying that people in the old capital often say, and it represents a traditional philosophy of life and values.

But not everyone can understand this sentence correctly.

Like many people, they simply interpret this as saying that in order to take advantage of it, you will suffer a loss, or if you suffer a loss, you will definitely be able to take advantage of it.

There are also some people who will use this sentence as an excuse for cowardice to avoid conflicts with others as much as possible.

Or use it as a reason to face failure to reduce the remorse and guilt of your own incompetence.

Some people even think contemptuously that these words are old-fashioned, impractical, and completely outdated.

All of this is of course very wrong.

Only a few wise people can take this sentence as a belief away from fame and fortune to maintain inner peace.

As for Ning Weimin, he is even a minority among the minority.

Because not only can he understand this sentence correctly, but he can also successfully apply and implement this sentence in business behavior, and reap huge actual profits from it.

His personal understanding of this sentence is - plant a plane tree, and a phoenix will come.

To put it bluntly, only by paying first and then reaping can we gain the trust of others.

If you can do things, you must be able to do things, so that others are willing to give you a chance.

Only by showing people sincerity with practical actions can we put a long line and catch big fish.

Let's take the fact that he deliberately planned to open a Tangong branch in Japan.

From the perspective of a normal person, his plan is too wild and unconscionable.

Because to open a branch in Japan, it will use huge foreign exchange funds and take huge investment risks.

Who can guarantee that it will be successful?
What if the water and soil are not acclimatized?

This is not a matter of lack of foresight and self-confidence, a small fortune, and short-sightedness.

To be honest, although we always think that Chinese food is extensive and profound, Huaxia's cooking level is the best in the world.

But overseas is not recognized.

Even during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, when Chinese food went overseas, it did have a glorious moment.

But the problem is, after that, it gradually faded away.

As far as Ning Weimin lived in his last life, even in 2020, overseas recognition of Chinese food is still limited to fake Chinese food.

There are almost no restaurants operating authentic Chinese cuisine overseas.

The cognition and recognition of Japanese and Korean cuisine by foreigners is higher than that of Chinese food.

Chinese food has never gained its rightful place in the world's catering industry.

To put it bluntly, it is not an exaggeration to say that Chinese food has always been shit on the neck by two grandchildren in overseas markets.

Being run over by the little brats who don't understand four or six times, he was so aggrieved that he got home.

So you might as well think about it, at the moment when Ning Weimin has just smoothed out the business model of Tangong Restaurant and Temple of Heaven Park, and all businesses are gradually being fully rolled out and flourishing day by day.

From the point of view of several investors, should we cherish the hard-won brilliant achievements in front of us?

Should we continue to make steady progress, concentrate on the basic market, and maximize domestic profits?

So how likely is it that several investors will support Ning Weimin's trip to Fusang and open a branch in his old capital?
No one would feel the need to take such a risk.

To put it bluntly, underpowered.

It's a good thing to do it, but it's just icing on the cake.

If there is a mistake and the investment is lost, it will shake the foundation.

Everyone's reputation will be ruined, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

Especially for Ning Weimin personally, it is even more worthless.

If it is done, he won't take a penny more.

If he messes up, he has to bear the corresponding responsibility.

Therefore, the director of the Temple of Heaven is absolutely unable to figure out how a shrewd person like Ning Weimin would come up with such an unreliable idea.

Naturally, I hope that he will wake up quickly, and I will try my best to persuade him to give up this idea.

But then again.

It is precisely because Ning Weimin has always been doing things regardless of personal gains and losses in the eyes of several investors.

In the eyes of everyone, the plan he proposed is not selfish, so it is not easy to veto it.

It is precisely because Ning Weimin personally created a altar palace restaurant that can lay golden eggs, and successfully planned so many cultural activities with good economic and social benefits. He has long made the impossible possible, Proved his business acumen.

His opinion deserves the attention of several investors and should not be ignored.

It was precisely because Ning Weimin could have ignored it, but had spared no effort to help the Temple of Heaven Park develop and advise them.

And successfully improved the commercial operation of Tiantan Park, increased income, and benefited all employees of the park.

Only the director of the Temple of Heaven felt in his heart that he owed Ning Weimin a huge favor.

Only then will he be full of trust in him and willing to support his work unconditionally.

In fact, their relationship has long been no ordinary partner relationship.

Ning Weimin is no longer "following others and obeying orders".

On the contrary, it was reversed, and it was the director of the Temple of Heaven who obeyed Ning Weimin's advice, almost to the point of superstition.

This made Ning Weimin's plan to open a branch in Tokyo possible.

To be honest, despite the firm opposition from the Director of the Temple of Heaven at first, he really couldn't hold back Ning Weimin's fooling around.

As the master of the game, Ning Weimin knows that 500 years cannot be discussed, and the domestic and foreign trends of 30 years must be well-thought-out.

And this kid's mouth skills are as good as those of a cross talk actor.

As the saying goes, there are two skins in a person's mouth, both pros and cons are justified.

He has reason and evidence, and he has the advantage of his tongue.

The spending power of the Japanese, the food preferences of the Japanese, the current advantages of Tangong, the preparations he has made for it, and how he plans to manage it after going out...

Just like this one, two, three, it is really not difficult to do the ideological work of the director of Tongtian Temple.

So just like a ghost hitting a wall, the old director couldn't help himself, and was led away by this kid.

Soon his thoughts fell again, and the initial apprehension and doubt were replaced by the excitement and excitement that he might have the opportunity to go abroad.

In his eyes, Ning Weimin's selfless and courageous appearance became brighter.

For comparison, Ning Weimin is the protagonist of the novel "Avenue of Golden Light", Gao Daquan who is determined to lead the collective to become rich...

As the saying goes, there is no effect without cause.

If Ning Weimin didn't have the dedication to make wedding dresses for others.

If he didn't look like a fool, he did so many things in advance to be considerate of others.

How could he do this?
How is it possible to get the support of several investors?

How could there be a chance to squeeze the wool of the Japanese?
Absolutely nothing.

Some people may sneer, saying that Ning Weimin's structure is too small, and being a slave is addictive, why rely on others?How well do you do yourself?

But in fact, the master who said this is really stupid.

According to this, the officials in politics and the CEOs of the world's top [-] companies have been wiped out in one go. Which one of them did it for their own family?

Of course, the bigger the backing, the cheaper it is to do big things.

Don't forget, it's not easy to go abroad these days.

There is no way out, how do you go through the formalities?
If you can't even pass the political review, let alone visas and how to raise foreign exchange as capital.

Even if you go out, even if you hold a lot of money.

Is it possible that being alone in a foreign country can unscrupulously participate in the feast, making money like no one else in the stock market and real estate market?
Japan is a country with legal violent organizations. At this time, Yakuza has not yet reached the time of recession, and the black economy is also flourishing.

With no contacts or power to protect yourself, just taking money to Japan, wouldn't this be a takeaway delivered all the way to someone's door?

But if he had an errand to open a branch for Tangong in Tokyo, the situation would be very different for Ning Weimin.

That means he has the business resources of a multinational corporation to help him.

At the same time, there is a government-issued identity protection body, and the country is backing it up.

If something happened in Japan, Ning Weimin would not only get help from Pilkardon Japan Company, but also the embassy for help.

A foreigner like him, in Japan, not to mention that he won't be provoked, even the Japanese government will have scruples.

Isn't this the same as having a golden light body protector?
What's more, Ning Weimin is just doing it for others for nothing, so he won't suffer no matter what.

If he wasn't an executive of Pilkardon, he wouldn't be able to buy tens of thousands of calligraphy and paintings by famous modern masters at the price of cabbage, he wouldn't be able to get a business in off-stock clothing, and he wouldn't be able to make a fortune from handicrafts.

If he didn't open the Tangong Restaurant, he wouldn't be able to get the opportunity to make money from utensils, and he wouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to buy so many red sandalwood furniture and high-quality official kiln porcelain that the state banned private sales.

If he hadn't planned so many cultural activities with social sensational effects, it would be impossible for him to follow the lead of Manager Huang Xinyuan Huang of the Sugar Industry Tobacco and Liquor Company.

Then he and Zhang Shihui's Tobacco Hotel lost a large chunk of income.

If he didn't manage the fasting palace and altar palace well, he wouldn't have the conditions to get along so well with the director of the Temple of Heaven.

How can Sun Wufu collect second-hand goods for him?

And if he didn't have these, he would not have the corresponding financial resources to take back Ma's garden.

Like Ning Weimin, he works for others and makes wedding dresses for others.

Wouldn't it be better for Bikong to have the name of a boss, but he has to run around every day to be a slob, or to squeeze some money from treasury bills to be more promising?
To put it bluntly, Ning Weimin's errands are the same as serving as the director of the Ministry of Industry in the Shanghai-Shanghai Concession in the 30s, and as the four chief inspectors in Hong Kong City in the 50s.

It's a good deal to give people money and bribe them to buy such an errand!

What's more, Ning Weimin's ambitions are different now, and the criteria for judging gains and losses are more diverse.

Because for people who have big ambitions and want to do big things.

What is learned at work and the experience gained is the most important.

Ning Weimin will undoubtedly start his own business.

But in real life, if you want to make your company bigger and stronger, and become world-renowned, you can’t do it by finding a way to make the first pot of gold, relying on pre-emptive strikes to seize the leading position in the industry, and then hugging a thick official leg. thing.

Where is it so simple?

Historically, Hu Xueyan went bankrupt just because he was an official and businessman.

Even the Ma family, the richest man in the capital, suffered from being an official and businessman, and took in several 10 taels of silver and could not get it back.

Officials and businessmen, that is a double-edged sword, they get rich quickly and die quickly.

To use another analogy, if we want to promote Chinese food to the world, let it be recognized by the world's catering industry and get the status it deserves.

Is this something that just anyone can do with a golden finger?
No real skills, difficult!

But how did this come about?

Then you have to practice!
Ning Weimin worked for Pilkardton and worked for Tangong Restaurant, which was equivalent to using other people's money and resources to train himself.

This gave him the opportunity to do great things in advance when it was impossible to develop and grow on his own.

And I learned a lot from those higher-level people I came into contact with.

In fact, in this life, apart from what you eat and what you learn, what else really belongs to you?

This principle, but those who only take advantage of the advantages and not suffer losses, and those who are eager for quick success will never understand.

In the same way, Ning Weimin was not afraid of losing money and making money, and held such a grand banquet for the sculpture art exhibition to entertain people from all walks of life in the art world. The money was not in vain.

He decided to personally invest in the purchase of those old craftsmen to make high-quality goods, and exhibit them to insiders.

In fact, the more he lost in the eyes of others, the more he made.

Do not believe?If you don't believe me, just take a look at what he got at the sculpture art exhibition banquet.

First, through a leader of the Artists Association as an intermediary, the director of the Jingcheng Ivory Carving Factory took the initiative to talk to Ning Weimin.

He also sent an invitation to Ning Weimin, hoping that Ning Weimin would spare time to visit the factory.

The factory director said that they also have a complete set of "Twelve Flower Gods", which was an award-winning work exhibited at Tuancheng in Beijing, the Working People's Cultural Palace, and international expositions in the Soviet Union and London, England.

It was originally supposed to be collected by the History Museum, but because of unresolved funding issues, this matter has been delayed again and again.

Now that the warehouse has been held for many years, there is no hope at all.

If Tangong is willing, the factory is willing to sell at a low price, which is better than keeping Ku.

If Ning Weimin likes traditional themes, they also have large-scale ivory works such as "The Heavenly Girl Scattering Flowers", "Chang'e Flying to the Moon", "Mulan Joining the Army", "A Dream of Red Mansions", and "The Romance of the West Chamber".

Prices are also negotiable.

Who made Ning Weimin support the art industry so much?

Second, it was a stone expert working at the Municipal Arts and Crafts Corporation who came to find Ning Weimin on his own initiative.

According to him, when several farmers in Shoushan Township, Fuzhou recently destroyed their fields and dug up the ground in order to find Tianhuangshi, they dug out a very large Tianhuangshi, which is extremely precious.

That piece of Tianhuang stone weighs eight or nine catties, it can be called the king of Tianhuang, and its estimated price is at least [-] to [-] yuan.

Their company thought over and over again, felt that they couldn't afford it, and planned to give up. They originally wanted to inform Rong Baozhai about it.

But after seeing today's exhibits, he felt that if Tangong Restaurant was interested, it would be nice to spend money to buy them as exhibits.

If Ning Weimin is interested, he is willing to recommend it.

You know, since Tianhuangshi was excavated in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, for three to four hundred years, how many generations have dug Tianhuangshi once and destroyed a field.

When the fields are destroyed, the field stones may or may not be dug out, or only a small piece the size of a fingernail may be dug out, and the more you dig, the fewer and fewer.

It usually takes a few years for the land that has been dug to become a paddy field to be able to harvest crops normally.

Therefore, in Shoushan Township, not to mention Tianhuang, but other varieties of Shoushan stones, such as Gaoshan, Duling, Shanbo, Qijiang and other varieties, it is not easy to find a large piece now.

This matter is definitely reliable and very timely news.

Thirdly, a person in charge of the Sichuan Restaurant came to chat with Ning Weimin, saying that they imitated the large-scale carved floor-to-ceiling cover and the grape container made by Tangong, and the effect was good.

But today I am still attracted by the feeder of their "Twelve Flower Gods".

They also had an idea, and planned to spend [-] to [-] yuan to order a set of plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo themes.

So I want to ask Ning Weimin how much these feeders cost.

What is character?
This is character.

Maybe it's because Ning Weimin is too "love to suffer".

So God can't stand it, so he has to stuff treasures and gold and silver into his hands.

Look at what's going on, I can't even take advantage of it...

(End of this chapter)