Chapter 99 The American Businessman
No matter from any perspective, the smart factory "Yuan Jiao" is undoubtedly a powerful prop. Despite this, it actually has many restrictions on its use, such as the permission level restrictions at the beginning.
In order to improve the authority level, Zhong Yang tried his best to do everything. The simplest one is to desperately use smart factories to build various production machinery. The unknown existence of life created the "Yuan Jiao", and its original intention was to accelerate the development of scientific and technological civilization.
Therefore, based on this, the head of the intelligent system will judge Zhong Yang's behavior. Anything that is helpful to establishing a productivity system can increase the corresponding authority value without relying solely on the functional construction units that have been set up in the smart factory. On the contrary, the authority value for doing inappropriate things will also be deducted.
Through constant experiments, Zhong Yang summarized many rules: the production of products can increase the authority value; the collection of technical data can increase the authority value; even the knowledge system of basic disciplines can also increase the authority value. However, the authority value can be increased, and it will naturally be consumed. This is the reason why Zhong Yang stopped mass production of mechanical servants and land soldiers, not just because of the lack of resources and energy.
In the judgment of the chief officer, the mechanical servants and the land soldiers are products outside the entire civilization system and will have an adverse impact on the civilization of the earth itself. Therefore, for each "general worker" is created, 10 permissions will be deducted, a "bachelor" is deducted from 50 permissions, and a land soldiers will be deducted from 100 permissions.
Zhong Yang spent a lot of energy to accumulate the authority value to 491,520 points, reaching the authority standard of level 15. It is also because his own development concept conforms to Se's original intention that the two sides can continue to cooperate. If Zhong Yang produces a large number of land soldiers and puts them into actual combat, and attempts to unify the country and even the world in this way. Not to mention whether he can defeat the great powers in his heyday, but the chief officer cannot get over it. The authority value is deducted to a negative value, and then the "Yuan Jiao" leaves. From Se's words, Zhong Yang did feel this meaning vaguely.
Moreover, the country is not so easy to unify. No matter how powerful the smart factories are, they can't compete with the overall level of those productive countries. Aircraft, cannon and warships are bombarded, and even if the land soldiers are covered in iron, they will have to be reshaped. For this reason, Zhong Yang had to choose to develop in a low-key manner.
China's redemption is not the fault of some ambitionists or organizations, but the result of the common choice of most Chinese people in the general environment. History is history, and the so-called accident is just because a certain person or some people are selected from its inevitable group. Killing someone is at most time to choose again, but the result is still not changed at all.
Zhong Yang saw this very clearly. He understood what the Chinese people in this era were eager for. There were only two ways to save China: one was that a political group assisted the original minority of social elites and increased the efforts of exploitation to gather materials and wealth that could be used to provide their own productivity development. The route was taken by Britain and other countries. The land enclosure movement was typical of that year; the other was that a political group stood on the side of most of the lower-level people, relied on dividing the interests of a few people to obtain resources and wealth, and used the name of righteousness to plunder.
These two methods cannot be said to be good and bad, and who is good and who is evil. They are just differences in means. However, Zhong Yang is more inclined to the first method, because the means of exploitation are more gentle and the options are broader.
The low productivity will inevitably lead to insufficient material supply in the society as a whole, which means that not everyone can enjoy sufficient resource allocation for their own development. This is the beginning and unshakable foundation of private ownership. If this is not solved, nothing will be useless. Therefore, only by gathering wealth and materials can we conduct research and development of productivity and take the lead in supporting a group of social elites.
When it comes to fighting local tyrants and dividing bad gentry, there must be no precedent. Not to mention how many local tyrants and bad gentry deserve the crime, just talk about the invasion of individual interests in the name of the collective. Insufficient supply of materials will inevitably only meet the needs of a few people. So who is controlling the title of righteousness?
The result is that most people have become "individuals", while a few leaders have become "collective", and they have also made the exploited people accustomed to it and reached a state of "voluntary".
Since the people feel that they are satisfied with just one bite of food and then participate in the feast of dividing the property of the "few people", they have laid the bitter fruit for their sad future. Zhong Yang does not think that there is such a so-called innocent thing. Ignorance and innocent are different things.
Therefore, Zhong Yang was not in a hurry to expand his power, because there was no need. Guangdong was open early, so the customs of the people were relatively simple. It was not a mistake to see everything from money, and it was also called "the most feudal superstitious place". At least Zhong Yang did not often see anyone who dared to be unfilial to his parents. Even the head of the family did not dare to contradict his old and weak father, but instead waited respectfully.
In Guangzhou, Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang have spent a lot of effort to adapt to the business atmosphere here. Here, business talks about business are iron rules, and personal feelings are not very meaningful. Take Duan Yitian and Chen Ze as an example. Their companies have been intertwined several times, but they have always been very good in personal relationships. Only when they do not affect their interests due to their feelings, will they not affect their feelings due to interests.
Most Guangdong people are not heroic, but a kind of rational gentleness. At least Zhong Yang learned one thing from the people here: "I made friends, but I didn't let him rush to me."
Because of this, I can't understand some people, and they shout loyalty in their mouths, but in the end they are turning against each other because of interests. Those who call brothers and brothers, those who are willing to give for you are not necessarily true friends, because they are also asking you to give to him. Once you fail to meet his expectations, you will be regarded as enemies. A truly heart-to-heart friend will never feel that the other party has betrayed him, because this definition itself is very problematic.
For friendship itself, do not give other meanings besides feelings, otherwise it will be blasphemy.
Relying on the transformation of the body as a strong body, Zhong Yang worked hard for three days without sleep, and then he modified all the fire and water production lines ordered by Chen Ze. The original high-efficiency energy transmission device was dismantled and changed to steam power. Although the design was relatively large, it was not too troublesome because of the help of "bachelor's degree" and "general workers", and all the problems were quickly solved.
After finding Chen Ze, he sent the entire production from the sub-space in an empty and spacious large secret warehouse. In fact, Zhong Yang was still very happy to receive such a large order. He was not urgent to earn the silver dollar. What really made him happy was the acquisition of the authority value. This time, the construction of the entire production line allowed him to accumulate more than 5,000 authority value at one time, and the silver dollar income was distributed in proportion to Chen Ze.
Tangwei Town has now become the largest machinery production and processing base in Guangdong. Even if it only produces some civil machinery used in light industry, Tianxing Group has attracted the attention of many foreign businessmen. Don’t underestimate their information collection, and don’t think that they are all arrogant and despicable.
Even if they look down on the Chinese in this era, they are essentially merchants, and merchants do not get over their interests because of their personal emotions. Among all the great powers, British merchants have the most sensitive noses, but American merchants are the most pragmatic. The United States is a country with interests as the foundation and interests as the prerequisite. They do everything for their interests. Especially those outsiders who set foot on the eastern land with a desire for gold, there is only one reason for them to come to China: money!
Donald Pukanst is such a person. The great prosperity of the United States in the 1920s was after a year or more recession, and around July 1921, the present day when Zhong Yang lived. Although the famous stock market plunged until November 1929, production and commercial activities began to decline since July of the year.
The most serious of these is the agriculture in the United States. Under the attack of large banks on Wall Street, a large number of free farmers fell into bankruptcy and took on huge debts. Donald Pukans was born into a farmer family, and his father committed suicide by swallowing a gun, and his mother passed away because he was too sad. In desperation, Donald had to dig out the silver blocks that his grandfather had finally saved from the cellar, and exchanged them for US dollars and secretly came to China on a steamer.
He hated those bank consortiums with human nature, and even hated the Jewish chaebols who drove him out of the Mississippi River. In order to avoid debt, he even had to travel across the ocean to unfamiliar China. Only when Donald held the suitcase containing $50,000 tightly in his arms did he feel that life was stable.
Because he has no friends he knows, is not familiar with the environment, and does not understand Chinese, Donald can only wander around the streets aimlessly every day. For such a well-dressed foreigner, the Chinese gang gangster acts restrained, at least he just stole Donald's wallet and a pocket watch three times, and there are no cases of kidnapping, blackmail and ticket tearing.
Donald didn't know the situation in the entire South China, but recently there were various large-scale war news about the Guangxi and Guangdong warlords on the streets. Donald had been in Guangzhou for nearly two weeks and knew more or less. Donald had no confidence in a region that was still in a war-torn period, but because he didn't know where to go, he had to continue to stay in Guangzhou. At least the low prices here are a place that Donald was very satisfied with.
Donald lives in a small street called Xiangdoulan and rents a house with a pretty good environment. This is the British concession area, and the public security is pretty good. The most important thing is that most of the people who live here are gold diggers from the UK or the US, and many people have common topics.
Just in the evening, Donald's door was knocked, his voice was soft and soft, showing the good upbringing of the people. Although Donald himself did not come from a noble family, he also felt a kind of respectful mood from the gentle knocking of the door. He shouted in American English: "Please wait, I'm here."
He opened the door with questions, and standing in front of Donald was a brightly dressed Chinese man. The suit made of high-quality materials was soft and gorgeous, showing the other party's extraordinary origin. Combined with his young and energetic attitude, Donald, who is also a young man, had a good impression.
"Hello, Mr. Pukans, I am the business manager of Tianxing Group. My name is Yao Liang." After calling warmly in American English, Yao Liang smiled and stretched out his right hand to show kindness to Donald.
Although he was still not sure about the other party’s purpose, Donald did not intend to reject the kindness of strangers. He also invited Yao Liang into the house with a smile. Because he wanted to save money, he could not bring out any good things to entertain guests. He only had a glass of water and a few pieces of skewed side packs.
As a young man who has been living on the farm with his father, Donald doesn't know how to beat around the bush, but is a little straightforward: "What is your purpose?"
Faced with Donald's doubts, Yao Liang was also prepared. He took out a document written in English and handed it to Donald: "We learned that Mr. Pukans has been inquiring about business information in Guangzhou, so we sent you this document, which detailed the matters and specific methods and requirements that need to be paid attention to when engaging in commercial activities in Guangzhou City, as well as specific methods and requirements. I hope it will be helpful to Mr. Pukans."
Not only because the other party spoke English, Donald was even more happy about the information contained in the other party's words. He has always been struggling with no way to make money. Does he urgently need such information? He kept flipping through this document of high value in his hand. Donald seemed very excited: "Thank you so much. If possible, you can call me Donald, and my friends call me that."
With a cheerful smile on his face, Yao Liang naturally knew about Donald's thoughts. Although Donald looked honest and honest, he thought of making friends with Yao Liang so quickly, just to have a local person who knows the market. But he didn't care, and the other party's idea coincided with his purpose of coming this time.
"Okay, Donald, since we have become friends, I'll tell the truth. Our Tianxing Group is well-known in this area. 85% of the light industrial machinery products come from factories under our group, and a large number of daily necessities manufacturing technology also comes from the production processes provided by our company." Yao Liang's words were filled with pride and pride, and these achievements were indeed enough to make him qualified to do so.
"I know all of these, but I heard that your company does not cooperate with foreigners. At most, it only sells machines. Many key process processes are kept confidential. Why did you find me this time?" No wonder Donald had a question.
Although Tianxing Group is huge in scale, it rejected the financing plan from Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, and even claimed that it would never go public and refused to join the business with foreign merchants. Even domestic merchants rarely could do business with Tianxing Group, except for the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce and the Nanyang Huo Family. When Donald first came, he had noticed the local giant of Tianxing Group. However, firstly, he had too little capital, and secondly, he heard about the other party's behavior, so he gave up the idea of coming to the door.
"Donald, I told you this to you when I think you are a friend. My boss can't trust bankers and has no good feelings for Jews. Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong has a deep Jewish background, so we don't plan to cooperate with these bankers who can't spit out bones." Before coming to Donald, Tianxing Group noticed this seemingly down-and-out American and investigated some backgrounds about him through some channels. The words Yao Liang said were also directed at this information to resonate with the other party.
Tianxing Group is eager to expand its foreign business, but it must find a foreigner who is easy to control as a puppet, otherwise it will easily expose its figure. After preliminary screening, Donald entered the sight of core members of the Guwenwen Association.
As the first batch of "American businessmen" Zhong Yang wanted to train, Donald became the primary experimental target.
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