On the night when they met in the Japanese garden of the New Otani Hotel, Yao Peifang sat with Ning Weimin for a long time.
We sat there from 7pm until almost midnight.
Even dinner was served in the courtyard.
If you dare to walk 50 meters further, there is a Teppanyaki restaurant hidden in the courtyard - Shixinting.
Since the restaurant is not large and only sells Teppanyaki and sake, guests staying in the hotel will notice that there are not many people here.
In addition, it started to rain lightly at around 8 o'clock in the evening.
In fact, when Ning Weimin and Yao Peifang were dining, they were the only two people left in the restaurant besides the service staff, as if the restaurant had been reserved.
However, facing the humid and cool rain scene and enjoying a few bottles of warm sake, Ning Weimin, who should have relaxed, had a serious face and chatted about some very boring content.
It has to be said that, as he predicted in advance, they are all business troubles and work worries.
With Yao Peifang's current knowledge, it was difficult to even understand what he was saying, let alone explain it to him.
But to be honest, the extremely intelligent Yao Peifang also understood that Ning Weimin might not really be telling her the story.
The real reason why he confided these things to her was probably just like Ning Weimin said, it was to dump the garbage in his heart and reduce the pressure, so he needed someone like her to accompany him.
For this reason, Yao Peifang tried his best to do his duty as a listener.
While he was trying hard to understand what Ning Weimin was saying, in addition to smiling and nodding appropriately, he would also obediently pour glasses of wine for Ning Weimin.
She didn't know that what she had learned on her own was precisely the money-making skills of those Ginza public relations girls.
But this way it had the best effect, providing Ning Weimin with high emotional value.
So in such a considerate and quiet companionship process, Ning Weimin's negative emotions were fully released, and Yao Peifang's feminine charm was fully demonstrated.
Naturally, the two became closer emotionally, and even Ning Weimin's talk became more and more serious.
Unconsciously, their conversation gradually expanded beyond the initial scope and gradually spread to sharing their feelings about life in Japan, their impressions of Japan as a country, their views on some social phenomena in Japan, and even what Ning Weimin had just said.
He learned from Qiao Wanlin about some domestic changes and the goals he hopes to achieve in Japan...
As a result, the conversation began to become interesting for Yao Peifang.
Not only was she able to participate to a certain extent, but through these conversations, she gained a new understanding of many things and even Ning Weimin as a person.
In the end, the two of them were escorted off by the hotel waiter under an umbrella, had a good time with wine and dinner, and went back to rest.
But having said that, this free conversation is not without side effects.
Although Ning Weimin returned to the room drunk, he fell asleep deeply and had a sweet dream because of his heartfelt talk.
But some of what he said left a deep impression on Yao Peifang.
As a result, Yao Peifang, who was lying on the bed, still unconsciously recalled the experience of this day and the conversation of this night, as if he had been bewitched and had his head lowered.
It rained all night outside the window, and Yao Peifang slept and woke up in bed, thinking about it all night with the sound of rain.
This seriously affected her sleep quality.
Even in her brief dream, she seemed to be recalling and savoring the topics Ning Weimin discussed with her today.
Is Japan developed?
Is Japan rich?
Are Japanese happy?
Does the rapid rise of Japan deserve our respect?
At first she thought her answer was yes.
Apart from anything else, she had a lot of feelings when she went shopping in the underground shopping street with the inspection group as an escort today.
Before coming to Japan, she deliberately looked at Japan's geography and history.
It is clear that the land area of this country is only one-twenty-sixth of China, and its population is about one-tenth that of the Republic.
The per capita density is higher than that of our home country.
Logically speaking, the living space of Japanese people should be much smaller than that of the Republic.
But the actual situation is so shocking. Before the Republic could turn the buildings on the ground into buildings, the Japanese had already moved all the commercial areas underground.
If, like what she saw today, the Japanese already know how to make full use of underground space, then Japan's land use area will expand deeply, and the prospects are unlimited.
Besides, it's not just going underground. Today, when the station wagon was about to enter Tokyo, she also saw the chain of cars flying in mid-air, and Japan's three-passenger bridge was moving towards the sky.
This is the power of modernization!
In her view, the Japanese are not willing to be bound to a limited island nation.
However, the war of aggression had once brought the Japanese to the brink of annihilation, and they seemed to have deeply learned the lesson that "those who play with fire will burn themselves".
Knowing that we cannot covet the territory of other countries, we must base ourselves on our own land, so we are exploring another possibility.
This made her feel that the Japanese have the courage to correct their own nation, are not stingy with their own nation, and are a wise and intelligent nation!
Of course it is respectable and admirable.
However, Ning Weimin easily shattered her feeling.
Ning Weimin told her that the Japanese were like dogs and could not change their habits of eating shit, and they would never learn lessons in their bones.
Why?
Because Japan is a "villain country" that is extremely fond of strength and extremely inferior to itself. It only values strength but not morality.
The most obvious evidence is that we drove away the Japanese during the eight-year war of resistance. As a victorious country, we did not ask for compensation, but were despised by them.
However, Japan suffered two atomic bombs from the United States and was able to put aside the hatred between the country and the family and sincerely accept the American father. This kind of extremely strong "spiritual" is not something ordinary people can achieve.
In turn, Japan is also accustomed to substituting other countries with their own national character.
At the beginning, the Japanese thought that the massacre would make China surrender in fear, but they did not want to miscalculate and fall into the quagmire of a protracted war, which ultimately led to failure.
Ning Weimin also told her that she must not think that the Japanese have become civilized, polite, understand the dangers of war, and have begun to talk about friendship between the two countries.
The Japanese will never truly repent, they will only fool people with superficial apologies.
Their values are that no matter how big the mistake is, you can just accept the apology gently. Now that I have apologized, what else do you want from me?
The current friendliness towards us, the so-called war on the real estate market, is nothing but pretense and is driven by temporary interests.
Japan, a resource-poor country, relies on electronic products and automobiles as its foundation. The things they produce need to be exported, so naturally they cannot do without China's huge market.
In fact, another war has already started, but this time what everyone is fighting for is not guns and guns, but industrial technology and economic strength.
Japan, which is currently ahead of us in everything, is actually pursuing to turn China into their economic vassal and their raw material supplier, so that they can always use the high value-added of industrial products and electronic products to cut off the Chinese people.
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Ning Weimin does not deny that among the Japanese today, there are indeed some people who have been deeply traumatized by the war, regret it from the bottom of their bones, and sincerely oppose the war.
But the problem is that the underlying character of the Japanese nation is philistinism and selfishness. What happens when these people who have actually experienced the war die?
Then the next generation of Japan will think that this matter has nothing to do with them.
Not only will they try their best to deny and make excuses, but they will also feel no guilt and think that the victim is unwilling to let go of the past, which is a sign of stinginess.
As for the achievements of the Japanese in science and technology, medical care, and industry, in Ning Weimin's view, they are not entirely the result of their diligent efforts, as the Japanese themselves say.
Because companies like Mitsubishi and Toshiba were originally military industrial companies during the war of aggression against China.
After the defeat, these companies were not liquidated. Instead, they reaped war dividends during the Korean War.
It was only with the support of the Americans and the funds and technology they obtained through a large number of war orders that they achieved today's fruitful results.
The Japanese medical industry is even more despised.
You must know that Japan's biochemical troops used Chinese people to conduct countless human experiments and collected a large amount of data, which contributed to Japan's medical level leading the world today.
To put it bluntly, the achievements of the Japanese people today are all flowers watered with the blood of the Chinese people. The Japanese have always been eating steamed buns made with human blood from the Chinese people.
Is it so difficult for such a country to respect them?
On the contrary, for such countries, we should find ways to free ride and use Japanese funds and technology to help our motherland become stronger.
In this way, we can realize the rejuvenation of the nation and restore the original appearance of the world as soon as possible.
And we don’t need to be grateful at all. This is all owed to us by the Japanese. It is a debt that they should have compensated long ago but have yet to repay.
Ning Weimin even claimed that what he wanted to do most and what he was doing was just this kind of thing.
That's why he came to Japan to open a store and buy trolley cases. In fact, he was trying his best to use his own advantages to make more Japanese money, and then feed back to the country.
So far, he is doing quite well in Japan and has indeed made a lot of money.
However, how to distribute profits reasonably, and whether we can seize the opportunities given by the times and continue to strike while the iron is hot in Japan to expand our results.
However, due to the restrictions of certain people and certain systems in the country, it has become an unknown problem.
He didn't want the wealthy investor in Tan Palace to settle down and use the money he earned to live in a corner of the country and live in debauchery.
I don’t want those employees who are working hard to sweat and feel sad.
I don’t want people in China to develop a favorable impression and admiration for Japan just because they see Japan’s development, and forget about the blood feud of the war.
But there are some things that he may not be able to control on his own, and he may in turn be misunderstood as a new comprador who admires Japan. This is the source of part of his mental pressure.
In addition, some of the domestic situations he learned from Qiao Wanlin today also made him extremely unhappy.
The first thing is that there are fewer overseas orders from the Beijing Enamel Factory.
Cloisonné was originally an important industrial and aesthetic product exported to Japan, and the Jingcheng Enamel Factory located in Licun was a key foreign exchange-earning enterprise in Chongwen District.
But this year, not only were the orders received by the enamel factory from Japan less than 70% of those in previous years, but many orders in the second half of the year were canceled by Japanese customers, and many requested contract modifications and price reductions.
After feedback from relevant departments and an investigation, the news came back to the district government that the secret recipe and process of the enamel factory had been leaked.
This is most likely the result of frequent visits by Japanese delegations to enamel factories in recent years.
Nowadays, the Japanese have their own factories that can produce it, and domestic cloisonne manufacturing companies have lost their monopoly advantage.
Think about it, don't talk about making money from the Japanese anymore. If you don't do business in other Southeast Asian countries, the Japanese will take away a lot of it.
The second one is even more annoying than the first one.
Just at the beginning of this month, the Jingcheng Amusement Park, built by the district government with Japanese capital, opened grandly after three years of preparation.
All major newspapers in the capital reported this incident, and it became a trend in the city.
Whether it is young men and women traveling together, young couples in love, or families of three with children, they all flock to Beijing Amusement Park and regard it as the first choice place for entertainment.
Even though the price of a pass is as high as 20 yuan, it cannot stop the enthusiasm of the citizens. The amusement park is crowded with guests every day, with an average of at least 30,000 to 40,000 people per day, and a single-day ticket revenue of 1.8 million yuan.
But for such a popular business, Japan-China Joint Development Co., Ltd., as a foreign partner of the amusement park and fully controlling the management and operation rights of the amusement park, told the Chinese side that if it continues to operate under such conditions, it will definitely suffer losses in the first year.
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The reason they gave is that each of these electric projects, such as the Double-decker Trojan Horse, Rock King Kong, Magic Wheel of the Arrow, and Stormy Waves, requires an investment of millions of yuan, consumes a lot of electricity, and requires extremely high daily maintenance and repair costs.
Coupled with the impact of changes in the Japanese yen exchange rate.
The Japanese company said it will take more time to recoup its initial investment of 2 billion yen.
Therefore, according to the agreement, priority is given to the recovery of operating costs by the Japanese side. They predict that China will not receive any dividends in the first year and will have to wait until they recover the equipment costs.
In short, the Japanese are really too mean in doing business, and they keep the officials in the country under control.
If you can cheat, cheat if you can. It shouldn't look too ugly.
Especially for Ning Weimin, this is undoubtedly a big joke that the front is tight and the rear is tight.
No matter how hard he works to make money in Japan, he won't lose as much as he does in the capital.
It is inevitable that there will be some intolerable resentment and a rather demoralizing feeling...
In short, after learning these things, Yao Peifang felt as if he had taken an analysis class about international society.
She didn't know how much of what Ning Weimin said to her was true and how much was subjective.
The things that Ning Weimin cared about were so far away from ordinary people's lives. She couldn't tell whether they were just complaining about things that had nothing to do with her, or whether they were unfounded worries.
Moreover, Ning Weimin himself wanted to be a Japanese movie star. Hearing such words from such a person would be somewhat contradictory and funny.
But putting all this aside, she truly felt that even everything she saw with her own eyes would have another interpretation.
Moreover, the gap between people is indeed huge. Not only the way of thinking, but also the content of attention are different among different people.
The fact is that the complexity of Ning Weimin's inner world and the height of her vision have far exceeded her expectations. This may be the difference in the nature of class.
In any case, Ning Weimin turns out to be much richer than he appears on the surface. His troubles make him look less like the kind of businessman who values money very seriously. He has more humanity and responsibility.
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If what Ning Weimin said is true, no, as long as most of it is true, then Yao Peifang will feel guilty for misunderstanding that he only cares about money.
People who can think about others will always appear more attractive.
People who can think about the country will always make people respect them.
Yao Peifang suddenly felt that she was very empathetic, and found that she seemed to be able to understand the kind of necessity, so she would use money to clear the way to gain the support and trust of several investors in Tan Palace, so as not to deviate from the healthy track.
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However, some issues cannot be controlled by personal ability. Even Ning Weimin is not very sure that the outcome of the matter will be as ideal as he expected, so he can only do his best to obey fate.
She now feels that there is no need to remind Ning Weimin. He understands everything and is actually trying to overcome difficulties.
Her son hopes that Ning Weimin will not become a tragic hero. She does not want to see good people misfortune.
