Qin Hao has been staying in Tianyang City for several months.
Based on the 'demonized' cognition he has always known, he is very afraid of this strange city, as if everyone wants to harm him.
At first, the two devils only dared to stay in the guest house. After a long time, they had the courage to go for a walk in the prosperous areas of the city.
As expected, Tianyang is a rather backward small town. Whether it is the shabby pavement on the main road or the faded and dusty billboards on both sides of the road, it shows that this is a poor place.
There are few tall and strong residents in the city, and there are not even a few fat people to be seen. The elderly people always look very old and thin, and even the young people are dressed very rustically.
The most fashionable girls in the market are often short and restrained, wearing styles that were popular in Europe and the United States ten years ago. The fabrics of the clothes are not very good, and most of them are made of chemical fibers.
Many people's clothes were still patched.
Grain prices have been liberalized, but non-commodity grains are very expensive. Occasionally there are imported goods in the market, which immediately trigger panic buying. (Influenced by a certain big smuggler, imported goods have become less popular in Tianyang in the past six months.)
Every day, a large number of farmers go to the city to pick up vegetables and hide in the urban-rural fringe to sell them at low prices in exchange for some low-quality daily industrial products.
(Affected by a certain big coin, farmers in Tianyang no longer need to pick their own vegetables into the city, but have dedicated people go to the countryside to buy them. The light industrial products in the city have sales, and the quality is gradually improving.)
There are no cars on the streets in the city (there are more than in the past), and almost all state-owned enterprises have closed down (they were acquired by a certain uncle).
Unemployed workers took to the streets to cause trouble (which didn't last long), the market was depressed (it was much more prosperous than in the past), and the unemployment rate skyrocketed (in fact, job opportunities were rising).
Gangsters..., gangsters..., this..., I really didn't see any gangsters.
Qin Hao writes something every day to record what he sees and hears in this strange city. His camera is always focused on the bad side of the city...
The dilapidated buildings, narrow streets, rickety old people, rusty buses, and the gray and decayed pictures are like old photos, and they look like scenes from the last century.
Qin Hao compiled these words and photos into a collection, decorated it with conjectures and rumors, sprinkled some seemingly neutral comments as rhetoric, and wrote a thick book in a few months.
This is exactly the Eastern country in the eyes of Westerners. They like to see this description with a sense of superiority, and maybe a little pity arises in their hearts.
Megan, a young foreign girl in the imperial capital, didn't think there was anything wrong with the report of the Japanese soldiers, and even encouraged Qin Hao to submit it to a Western publishing house, where he could make some money.
Maybe even become a well-known writer in Western media.
But the image of 'Holy Light' really doesn't fit with the tone of Anderson Qin's text.
When the news of "canned goods being exchanged for airplanes" came out, the Japanese soldiers were also shocked, but they quickly comforted themselves - it was just a Tu-154, and the Soviet goods must be very poor.
Countries that cannot even manufacture Soviet goods and have to outsource them are naturally even worse off.
After getting a press card and sneaking into the 'Holy Light' headquarters, Qin Hao hoped to find something inside his opponent - and saw a group of bumpkin merchants discussing how to produce sanitary napkins.
Tsk, tsk, tsk..., a country that has not even popularized sanitary napkins and has to import raw materials is indeed so backward that it is not worth mentioning.
So what if they made sanitary napkins that day? There are still many things they can't make.
Qin Hao was not too concerned about what a group of bumpkin-like local businessmen were capable of. He followed the press group and went to the open floor of the 'Holy Light' headquarters.
The large office area is another scene. Other reporters are surprised at how advanced the office equipment of the Holy Light is. The tall and fat Karl is laughing, acting as a tour guide as a German.
"Poor Karl became a prisoner of money. This is the consequence of having no faith, and his mind has been eroded by this backward country."
Qin Hao and Karl looked at each other a few times in the press group, but neither of them had any intention of saying hello to each other. Instead, the German guy showed his hands to the reporters taking pictures, "Someone just asked me why I joined the Holy Light?"
The cameras were clicking, and several microphones were stretched out. The reporters, including the employees in the office area, all hoped that this international friend from a foreign land would say something touching.
Such as loving China and so on...
"Because the monthly salary given to me by 'Holy Light' is 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is almost 20,000 US dollars a month." Carl is very fat and has a very loud voice. His Chinese is not as good as Watanabe Yuu, but I heard that it is not a problem.
Everyone is quiet and you can hear the needle drop.
"You heard it right, it's more than 20,000 US dollars a month. This is a price that even God would not refuse." When Karl said this, he glanced at Qin Hao, and then he hahahaha...
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The employees of 'Holy Light' all covered their faces. They had long known that the wages of the two foreigners in the group were extremely high, but hearing it with their own ears still made them feel... uncomfortable.
The reporters were stunned. The first reaction was to calculate how much soft girl money is equivalent to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. The second reaction was... I'm sorry, don't broadcast this.
Qin Hao's face turned red. He didn't understand why his relationship with the Germans had become so bad. Probably Karl had no position and only valued money. But he had a position.
The reporters are here to explore the secret of the success of ‘Holy Light’, not to photograph the nouveau riche.
The German guy's words were too vulgar and could not be directly promoted to the outside world. The reporters thought for a long time and perhaps interpreted the high-paying foreigners as a sign that the Holy Light attaches great importance to talents.
After laughing, the German was quiet for a few seconds. On the wall behind him was a rendering more than two meters high and five or six meters wide, with factory buildings one after another on top.
Before Qin Hao came up, Karl had already introduced this rendering of the 'Holy Light' Industrial Park. He lowered his voice, pondered for a while and said: "I must admit that I came to Tianyang for money.
The first week I got here, everything felt like it was going bad. The food was terrible, the accommodation was terrible, the workers were lazy and ignorant, the managers were stupid and greedy, and the schools were a training ground for punks.
Apart from the money, I couldn't see anything worth staying. Even the beer here was of poor quality and disgusting. But I needed the money, so I convinced myself to stay.
Not surprisingly, many employees in the company have low self-esteem in front of me. They feel that this is not good in their own country, and that is not good. They always complain to me, and many people ask me how to go abroad.
Many girls came to me secretly in the middle of the night and very boldly expressed their hope to marry me and escape from the country. This is really a bad situation, I mean I am already married and cannot get married again.
I have thought about it for a long time, and I just took this opportunity today. For the sake of my monthly salary of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, I have an obligation to say a few more words worth this price.
I want to tell you that Germany was once a very backward country like you.
Many colleagues say that Germans are very rigorous and that German manufacturing is very good. However, during the Prussian period before the 20th century, there were few factories in Germany.
Back then, Britain was the world's most powerful country, and German products were all shoddy and low-end products. We started by copying British products, but we couldn't copy them well.
In 1887, the British Parliament passed a Trademark Act, requiring foreign products to indicate their place of origin. This move was aimed at Germany - a large number of German exports were falsely claimed to be produced in the UK and were of particularly low quality.
Poverty, hunger, unemployment, turmoil, low self-esteem, ridicule and even self-denial. Everything you are experiencing now, Germany has experienced.
Life's encounters are so wonderful. When I decided to stay, I realized that this place is actually not that bad and everything can be improved.
Remember, this is important. If you have the will and motivation to progress, this is a very good start. Remember that this is not the case for all ethnic groups.
Don't be embarrassed by the current situation. The ridicule and ridicule of others are just stumbling blocks. There will always be such a process on the road to strength. I despise those who are stubborn and unrepentant.
The process of groping forward is always full of setbacks, and my responsibility is to make you less frustrated. I am responsible for vocational education, and the beginning of German industry focused on vocational education.
You are lucky to have awakened. Compared with those who have not yet awakened, you should be prouder. Maybe you yourself have not realized that the most difficult period has passed.
Now is just the darkness before dawn. From a historical perspective, everything will get better."
Karl spoke quite emotionally and in a heavy tone.
Qin Hao changed his color when he heard this and cursed in his heart: Why did the fat German say this?
The reporters who gathered around were so shocked by these words that they forgot to take pictures.
Fortunately, the camera was still working, and the people at the TV station were very satisfied, "Very good, very good. Combine this section with the previous one, it can be broadcast, it can be broadcast!"
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