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Chapter 879 The Fruit of the Psychological Master (Third update, please subscribe)
I get up at 6:00 every morning and go to bed at 12:00 at night. I work so hard. I only have half a day off on Sunday.

In this way, a month passed.

In fact, this month, Koji Narita only spent less than three weeks on the assembly line because the first week was used for training.

Even as the overworked worker who once made his American colleagues cry, Narita Koji felt that he had completely become a walking corpse - he even forgot everything else. He was working overtime like other workers - he had to work overtime for four or five hours every night just to earn a pitiful amount of overtime pay.

Overtime! Overtime! Overtime!

Working overtime every day!

Of course, it’s not to say that there were no other gains. For example, while working, Koji Narita noticed that the clothes had no labels, so he specifically asked his squad leader about it during dinner.

“Labels, what kind of labels do we need?”

The monitor said directly.

"These clothes will be sent to Southeast Asia."

"Send it to Southeast Asia?"

"Yes, it is washed in Nanyang. Nanyang has a duty-free zone. When clothes are sent there, a label "Made in Nanyang" will be sewn on them. Then, they become made in Nanyang."

"In fact, we can even sew it up directly. Nanyang won't care about it anyway. All they need to do is put a label on the carton."

So this is ah!

Koji Narita finally found the truth he was looking for, the relationship between sweatshops and Nanyang manufacturing.

Finally, after persisting for a few more days, Koji Narita, who had wanted to give up several times, finally made it to the day when payday was paid.

The accountant handed a wad of money to Narita Koji and said:
"Kojima Chuji, right? You are a new employee. You worked fewer overtime days last month, so your salary is less than that of the old employees. You also went to the toilet overtime three times and were fined. But it doesn't matter. If you work more overtime in the future, you will get more salary. Once you are familiar with the rules, you won't be fined!"

Koji Narita, the former "overtime maniac", looked at the stack of money in his hand. It was not thick and all were in ten-yuan denominations. It was estimated that it was less than 200 Kyushu circulation notes, which was about 3000 yen, less than 8 US dollars.

This is the result of Koji Narita's hard work for several weeks.

"I worked so hard for so long, and I only made this little money?"

In an instant, Koji Narita's inner defenses were broken!
The next second, Narita Koji looked at the accountant with a look of grief and anger, and said in a tearful voice:

"What you are doing is inhumane! This is basically a sweatshop!"

……

Sweatshop!
"'One dollar shirts' are not shirts at all. They are sweatshop textiles made in Asia. They are products of slavery by factory owners in Kyushu, the Philippines, Malaya and other countries and regions,"

"We must see what is behind those sweatshops while cheap products are flooding the U.S. market and causing American unemployment."

……

Overnight, accompanied by a report titled "Nanyang's Blood-Making Machine - Asia's Sweatshop", all Americans knew the secret of Nanyang's rise.

“…using hundreds of millions of people in Asian countries as slave workers, establishing so-called free trade zones, importing goods from Asian sweatshops duty-free, and using their favorable position in the GATT to export large quantities of cheap products to the United States, impacting the U.S. market.”

For this era, Nanyang's epoch-making approach was far beyond their imagination. This dimensionality reduction attack on business thinking directly stunned all European and American countries. "You can actually do business this way!"

But as a politician, Dulles was also stunned.

"In the past, I only knew that guy was a very good businessman, but now I know that he is simply cunning to the extreme."

Dulles' words were absolutely from the bottom of his heart. Anyone who knows a little about business knows how ingenious his series of operations are.

"Although Kyushu has not joined the GATT, they have established a free trade zone. They import cheap goods manufactured in various places to Southeast Asia, and then export them under their own brand... This cunning guy is taking advantage of our loopholes."

Eisenhower's tone was very complicated, and he didn't even know how to describe his feelings at the moment.

"Yes, Mr. President, they have taken advantage of us in this matter. Now they can use Japan's cheap labor to impact the American textile market. In the future, they can also use Indonesia, Siam, Vietnam, and even the entire Southeast Asia to provide them with cheap labor. In the future, they will not only bring an impact to our textile industry, but also bring unprecedented impact to other industries."

Eisenhower's brows furrowed more and more at Dulles' words.

"Does that guy really think they can ignore the rules?"

"Mr. President, the problem now is that everything he did was in compliance with the rules of the game. They just opened a tax-free free trade zone, which did not violate the rules of the game."

The rules of the game... Eisenhower frowned and spoke as he thought.

"We must not allow them to take advantage of loopholes in the rules, nor allow their cheap goods to destroy our industrial production and take away American jobs. We must make further revisions to the GATT to protect American interests!"

At this time, even Eisenhauer had forgotten the lesson that Li Yian taught him in Chang'an a few years ago.

Those warnings of danger in these prosperous times had inadvertently become Eisenhower's own thoughts, and he himself didn't even know that this subconscious thought had been planted several years ago.

"Yes, Mr. President, it is very necessary. We must protect the interests of the United States."

"Dulles, we must prevent the products of these sweatshops from entering the United States. We must not allow them to use products produced under slavery to impact American industry. Under the impact of these sweatshops, any industry in the United States will eventually go bankrupt."

Then Eisenhower continued.

"Moreover, such exploitation will give the Russians an opportunity. What they are best at is taking advantage of those workers."

"So we have to do everything we can to stop this. Not just for the sake of American industry, but for the sake of the free world as well."

Well, if Li Yian had only planted a seed in their hearts at the beginning, now they have to give free rein to it. When people use their imagination, you can never imagine what kind of results they will imagine?
What is certain is that when they realize the danger, they will continue to magnify the danger, and in the end they will all end up in the same place.

Eisenhower then discussed with Dulles how to stop all this. Slowly, a seed that had been planted long ago began to take root and grow in their hearts.

"It is certain that if we do this, Li will be very unhappy. The reason why he is so concerned about Indonesia and Siam is largely to take advantage of the cheap labor there. Now we are indeed preventing him from using these cheap labors. It can be said that we are fundamentally preventing the Nanyang people from using those countries to set up sweatshops, which is bound to arouse his strong opposition."

Dulles' reminder prompted Eisenhower to speak.

"This is not the most important issue now. We will never allow anyone to take advantage of these loopholes to take advantage of the United States. Nor will we allow anyone to provide ammunition to the Russians for their own selfish interests. So, no matter how unhappy he is, he must accept it."

When mentioning Russia, Eisenhower asked again.

"How far has the Siamese crisis developed now? What is the attitude of the Russians?"

(End of this chapter)