Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home

Chapter 311 Start cooperating with Inspector Lu

A serious businessman actually doesn't need to deal with black and white in Xiangjiang. He can just do business honestly. It doesn’t matter if the underworld wants protection money, or if the white gang wants tea and filial piety money. In fact, there are not many. Both black and white are about rules and morality.

Both black and white are seeking money. If the environment were so bad that ordinary people would be extorted after making money from doing business, then there wouldn't be so many factories in Hong Kong.

The products that Luo Cheng operates are legitimate businesses that can be operated casually in Hong Kong with great fanfare and are not afraid of investigation. This kind of business can be put on the table.

Detective Lu and Zeng Qirong were sitting in the business car sent by Luo Cheng. He owned a high-end car, but he had to admit that this business car was really good. If Luo Cheng wanted to do business in Kowloon or some other district, he would have given the van and this business car to Zeng Qirong. If anything happened on the ground, he could come out and say hello.

But Luo Cheng wanted to cooperate with them. The filial piety fee given to Zeng Qirong was not low. Although he didn't say what he was given to Inspector Lu, he must have thought of it a lot.

Not to mention that Luo Cheng is in righteous business, even if he is a gangster, Inspector Lu will consider it. However, if he is a gangster, he will not participate in the cooperation, as long as he pays enough filial piety.

Inspector Lu really thought the gift from Luo Cheng was good, but he didn't know. He was running a serious business, and if he needed to take care of it, there was no need to spend money like this. People who engage in gray business cannot give too much of a share. So I feel that Luo Cheng's purpose is not that simple.

Therefore, Detective Lu asked Zeng Qirong to tell Luo Cheng that he liked the gift very much and invited him to come here to have tea and get to know each other.

Zeng Qirong knew that the cooperation with Luo Cheng was basically done, and if Luo Cheng cooperated with Inspector Lu in the future. Although he has a good relationship with Detective Lu, he must be more polite to Luo Cheng in the future.

Luo Cheng's current manpower and factories are in Wan Chai District. He has to wait until Luo Cheng finishes talking to Inspector Lu before deciding how to treat Inspector Zhou. If the profit is large enough, it doesn't mean how to deal with Inspector Zhou. Inspector Zhou has been operating recently and wants to go further. If Inspector Lu is really happy working with Luo Cheng, he won't mind helping Inspector Zhou and promote him to chief inspector, but he will have to be transferred to another place.

After Luo Cheng came to Xiangjiang recently, he didn't have to do anything except enjoy life. I also developed a bad habit of walking birds. This made Gao Ru a little bit uncomfortable. They came to Xiangjiang and seemed to have done nothing. Luo Cheng asked her to wait.

As for the factory here in Xiangjiang, Luo Cheng is not like back home. When he was the factory director, he went to work every day to manage. In Xiangjiang, outsiders address Luo Cheng as either Mr. or Boss.

For people from China, the word boss is indeed unfamiliar. Even those who used to do business alone are still considered shopkeepers. There is no such title as boss in China.

In fact, the word boss comes from BOSS. And BOSS means not only the boss, but also the superior. In today's Hong Kong, if you see a senior British police officer in the police station, anyone with a higher position than you can call him BOSS. As for the Chinese, I feel that the word boss is more appropriate. But some people are not used to hearing it. It is more elegant to be called Mr.

Luo Cheng told Gao Ru that China is socialist and the working class, even if he is the director of a factory, must set an example. Every day, like a worker, you have to go to work and be responsible for some tasks.

But it’s different in Xiangjiang. Xiangjiang is capitalist. The owner of the factory is making money for him, and he can just hire a manager to manage it. In China, the manager is also the position of factory director, but here in Hong Kong, large factory managers are called Manager's.

Gao Ru doesn't need her to do anything here now. She just wants her to adapt to the life and environment here. When he opens up the overseas export route, she will be responsible for export matters. It is best to learn English. If she doesn't know it, she will have to give him some advice. She asked for a translator. In Xiangjiang, translators are not expensive. Because they were colonized by the British, the older generation of people in Xiangjiang do not know much English. However, in Xiangjiang, if you know English, you can find good jobs in some departments.

Therefore, there are quite a few people here in Xiangjiang who can speak English, and it is not expensive to find a professional translator. But the word "inexpensive" here refers to the rich. In fact, even an ordinary translator with a decent level of translation now costs several hundred yuan a month. A good translator, if you have good academic qualifications, will be more expensive, but a good one will only cost about 500 to 600 yuan.

This kind of salary is already a salary that ordinary domestic workers cannot earn in a year. This is also the reason why many international students don’t want to go back after they graduate. Those who can study abroad are basically good in ability and can speak English. Even if they work as a translator in a place with Chinese people, they are better than returning to China to become professors.

Luo Cheng directly offered Gao Ru a salary of 800 in Xiangjiang. She was considered one of her own, and her salary could not be calculated based on ability alone. Moreover, a good translator costs RMB 500 to RMB 600, so the person who translates for her can’t be paid more than her. However, a translator of 500 to 600 yuan must be able to understand some related terminology to get this salary. Those who can only communicate in English can only get a salary of 300 to 400 yuan at most.

She received eight hundred, and in order to assist her work, the translator she hired paid five to six hundred. Luo Cheng also said that for her future job, she would definitely be assigned a driver here, and the driver's salary would be two or three times that in China, more than 200 a month.

In order to reduce expenses, Gao Ru has been really trying to learn English recently, and Luo Cheng even hired a person to be her English teacher.

In fact, no matter who comes to Xiangjiang or to the country of little devils, their mentality will change. People in the Rabbit Country are hardworking and not stupider than others. When it comes to patriotism and dedication, most people have it. If the treatment is just a little different, many people will accept it. There are even some people who selflessly dedicate themselves to the country with an income that is ten times less than those abroad.

But the problem is that your sacrifice is taken for granted in the eyes of some people. As a person from the Rabbit Country, they think you should have such an awareness. Therefore, even though I am very capable, I still have to rank myself with a group of inferior people. Even if you don't know how to handle relationships, you won't be able to get ahead.

As for real talents, they should concentrate on their own work. How can they think about who they want to please or who they should align with.

Therefore, some people say that people who have been abroad have wild minds. This is indeed the case. You and I are all mortals. Financial and material temptations are not easy to resist, and they are not illegal. So Gao Ru also accepted the fact that he could earn 800 a month. Of course, based on the exchange rate, it was actually about 650.

She is a college student. If she works in China, even if she makes progress, she will only earn this much in a year. But this is Xiangjiang. Luo Cheng told her that the coolies on the dock are not stupid, but they are afraid and like to make solid money. But look at those people who work on boats at the pier to sell food at night. Just a few casual customers will have to work as coolies for several days. An ordinary couple with a little skill can run a stall and earn more than 200 yuan.

As long as a rickshaw puller has a good mind, he often works in hotels, dance halls, movie theaters and other places. As long as you spend some money to buy a rickshaw, you can earn hundreds of dollars a month.

And you, Gao Ru, are a college student, why can't you get a higher salary? You must know that the job here is not an iron rice bowl. A farmer from China can earn dozens of yuan. As for skilled workers from China, one or two hundred is very easy. College students are reserve cadres in China, which is not bad.

After Luo Cheng explained the wage hierarchy here to Gao Ru, he made her understand that capital society is not a fair society, but a society in which those with ability and brains can directly embody value. Of course, black-hearted capitalists are different.

It has only been a week since I last had morning tea with Zeng Qirong. Zeng Qirong found Luo Cheng in person, and this time he invited him to a restaurant in Kowloon District for dinner, not a teahouse. A restaurant is a place to have dinner, and it costs a lot, but at the level of Luo Cheng and Inspector Lu, the cost of eating and drinking is nothing at all.

Talking about cooperation with Inspector Lu in the restaurant was different from that of Inspector Zhou. The main purpose was to discuss the suitability of cooperation with Inspector Zhou. Luo Cheng did not fully understand the situation and environment in Xiangjiang. As for Inspector Lu, he is the prototype in Boss Liu's movie, so Luo Cheng understands his situation.

Inspector Lu was at the height of his popularity in Xiangjiang for only ten years. Ten years later, he went to Taiwan. And many of his properties in Xiangjiang that have not been transferred have been seized, and Luo Cheng cannot let him participate in his business as a company partner. Because if this happens, he will be investigated in the future, and even if Luo Cheng is doing serious business, he will not be able to escape the relationship.

Nothing will happen to Luo Cheng, he is just afraid that the company he runs will be implicated. Buru was on guard against this from the beginning. Even if a 'Touch You' car gave him a commission of two thousand, it would be better than just taking seven thousand and doing nothing like Inspector Zhou.

If it is a commission, Detective Lu will get two thousand, and Director Zeng will get five hundred. A 'Touch You' car costs about 10,000 yuan, which seems to be more than 500 yuan more. But if we cooperate on a commission basis, some additional management will have to be paid for, and the cost may be more than Five hundred. But this saves trouble. Sales commissions are recorded and will be liquidated later. This is also a normal business method.

And this money, like the black money collected by Inspector Lu, will all be handed over to Director Zeng when the time comes, which is equal to two thousand and five thousand for one car. They paid 7,000 for a van and several hundred for a refrigerator and air conditioner. Anyway, they had already negotiated a commission.

But given this much, if Luo Cheng hadn't brought the assembly to Xiangjiang and reduced profits in the industrial zone, they would have earned even more than Luo Cheng. This naturally has Luo Cheng's purpose, which is that the premise of cooperation is to hope that Inspector Lu will come forward and help him contact some powerful overseas business people in Xiangjiang.

You can sell 'Touch You' here at a very cheap price, which is probably only one more transportation fee than selling it to a little devil. But the money Luo Cheng promised to sell could also be used to purchase various items through their company, including fabrics, grain, soybeans, milk powder, etc. Even steel materials can be used to withstand payment.

In this way, those who trade may not earn much from the vehicles, but from Luo Cheng's side, purchasing a batch of materials and then earning the price difference will make a lot of money back and forth. For example, a vehicle requires a payment of more than 6,000 to Luo Cheng, but for supplies, as long as a suitable supplier is found, he can earn another sum of the more than 6,000 payment. It would be enough to give Luo Cheng about five thousand supplies at most.

As for the goods sold overseas, Inspector Lu can no longer take money, because the overseas sales are equivalent to wholesale prices. If Inspector Lu is allowed to sell them overseas, he cannot sell them at high prices, and it is impossible to share the profits with him. Asking Detective Lu to do this also told him that the source of his goods were all domestic and smuggled, and he couldn't use Hong Kong dollars if he asked for them. If they don't have the supplies to pay for the goods, they will have no source of goods.

So although this is a prerequisite for cooperation, it is also a necessary condition. Xiangjiang is just a large island and does not produce any supplies of its own. If a person leaves the port, it is not allowed to bring more than fifteen kilograms of food. However, as long as you follow the formal procedures, you can leave the port with fifteen kilograms of gold.

Detective Lu thought about Luo Cheng's request and realized that he could indeed help with this matter. But even with the introduction, he couldn't interfere with the export business.

Simply, let Luo Cheng take it easy first. Luo Cheng doesn't have much goods in Xiangjiang right now. And since the commission he gave was so high, it would be better to help Inspector Zhou by promoting him to Chief Inspector and transferring him out of Wan Chai District. As for Luo Cheng's cooperation with him, Inspector Lu will also send someone to say hello.

The purpose of saying hello was to let Inspector Zhou understand that it was Inspector Lu who contributed to his promotion to inspector. Don't be transferred to other areas and go to Luo Cheng to develop in his new place. When Luo Cheng gave up such a huge profit, his ambition was not on Xiangjiang's side at all, and Inspector Zhou simply couldn't hold it back.

At the end of October, Inspector Zhou was promoted to chief inspector and transferred to another place. When leaving, he didn't even say hello to Luo Cheng. There were some things that the two of them wanted to meet again to avoid embarrassment.

Then the new inspector in Wan Chai District was on the side of Inspector Lu, but even so, Luo Cheng still found a good piece of land in Kowloon District and arranged for people to build villa-style houses.

In mid-November, Inspector Lu held a banquet at a restaurant in Kowloon District, one of which was to promote local vehicles in Hong Kong. Another is that we have invited many businessmen doing overseas trade, some formal and some irregular. Irregular ways include arms business and drug dealing. These people may not be able to go directly to some countries, but if the price is cheap, they will smuggle some vehicles to sell, and sell them to some people doing gray business. If there is demand, they will buy them at a price higher than the retail price.

Even Laihao was invited by Detective Lu. This guy is rich and likes to show off. Lai Hao took a fancy to the business car that Luo Cheng gave to Detective Lu, and asked him if he still had one, and bought him one and ten more vans. Of course, the ten vans were bought for his subordinates, and he was not generous enough to spend two to three hundred thousand to give them to his subordinates. When the time comes, I will directly assign some small bosses to pay for them.

Not only those who opened various factories, but also many gray businessmen who engaged in pornography and gambling were invited by Inspector Lu.

The person who was invited, Inspector Lu may not remember that you bought a car, but if you didn't buy it, you would not be giving face. Inspector Lu would not be so petty as to deliberately trouble the other party for this matter. But if the other party encounters something in Xiangjiang in the future, he doesn't mind adding insult to injury.

At the banquet, Luo Cheng also took Gao Ru to attend, so that people from all walks of life could get to know his cousin, his future assistant. Gao Ru was asked to toast Inspector Lu with a glass of wine. Inspector Lu also gave him the honor and drank it all in one gulp. With this attitude, everyone knew not to offend this girl easily in the future.

Almost all those who could be invited by Inspector Lu were wealthy people, so after the banquet, many people went to find Director Zeng. Luo Cheng said that he would only deal with it unless someone comes to buy a car on his own initiative. Even if it is handled, there is a traffic police department here in Xiangjiang that can register and count license plates. As long as the license plate statistics are registered, a commission will be given to Inspector Lu. Anyway, it is the whole of Xiangjiang. No matter how Luo Cheng sells cars in the future, he will be given a commission.

The little devil also has a car sold in Xiangjiang, but he can check the place of origin on the car. If it is not a car made by him, he will not recognize it. As for the ones opened in Xiangjiang without a license plate, they don't care about Luo Cheng and just investigate them directly.

As for refrigerators and air conditioners, they cannot be registered. Luo Chengcheng asked Inspector Lu to arrange stalls for him in various areas of Xiangjiang and asked him to send accountants to supervise them. Luo Cheng really hasn't paid much attention to Xiangjiang's market of three million people yet. By the 1970s, the entire market in Xiangjiang was booming, and the per capita salary reached 700. Ordinary people could afford refrigerators and air conditioners after working for a few months. At that time, even in a market with millions of people, the purchasing power was terrifying.

But Luo Cheng knew that as long as Boss Liu's movies were not too artistic, Inspector Lu would have fled to Taiwan when the Independent Commission Against Corruption was established. At that time, the market in Xiangjiang was completely open to formal operations, and Luo Cheng had been allowed to develop in Xiangjiang for ten years. If he was still unable to protect himself after Inspector Lu and the others left, he might as well just wait for the domestic reform and opening up and return to China to live a stable life. What about life.