Chapter 858 1992, the wind blows
December 25th was already a very special day, and the speech on the radio added a bit of specialness to the specialness.
Although it is Christmas, Christmas dinner was yesterday, so there is no need to eat special food today, as long as it is up to one's own preferences.
Dinner is still mainly barbecue, with a little salad added, and the polenta that Strong and the others prepared too much last night and left unfinished. This is a food that American families will have for Christmas dinner.
Several of the cowboys on the ranch are residents of the neighborhood. For generations, they may have run the ranch themselves, but they were unlucky and went bankrupt; a few came from South America and worked on ranches before coming to the United States; Asians, most of them are Chinese, have no pasture work experience before, but they are hardworking and willing to work, and they can get started in less than three months.
For cowboys, the treatment given by the ranch is salary, insurance, and food and housing.
Living is relatively simple, just build a few wooden villas on the open space of the pasture; eating is also very convenient, no special person is required to be in charge of cooking, the pasture only needs to provide ingredients, beef and mutton pastures have them, and the cowboys can also grow some vegetables themselves. The side dishes and seasonings will be subsidized by the farm and purchased by the cowboys themselves. This is not available in other pastures, and it is a unique benefit of the Shennong Nanliang system.
The $700 for riding a horse and the $1,500 for flying a helicopter are all after-tax wages, which are already considered high wages in the American cowboy industry. Coupled with other benefits, the cowboys’ lives are still relatively comfortable.
There is no table for dozens of people to eat at the same time, so everyone is more casual, put some of their favorite dishes from the big pot on the table into the small pot, and then find a seat at random, sit together in twos and threes, chatting at the same time While drinking.
Strong has a youngest daughter named Angela, who is about the same age as Nan Wuwei, and a son who is now in his thirties and works for Westinghouse Electric as an electrical engineer.
Strong also has a more complicated wife, Trish, who came to Montana from Seattle for an outing when he was a teenager. He fell in love with Strong, then tasted the forbidden fruit, and soon became pregnant with his son;
After giving birth, Trish did not marry Strong, but returned to Seattle to continue her studies, and like everyone else, graduated, found a good job, lived in a big city, and occasionally flew to Montana to see Looking at Strong, the two lived in such a vague way. Eight years ago, Tracy was pregnant with Angela again.
He picked up the beer bottle and touched Strong, "So, why don't you live with Trish?"
Strong took a sip of his wine and said, "I'm not used to life in a big city, and Trish can't adapt to the countryside. The conflict between us cannot be reconciled, so..."
Strong shrugged.
"Understood." Nanyi raised the bottle and took another sip of the wine, "The beer tastes good, but it's a little bit bitter for me." Nanyi drank it from industrial water beer. For too authentic beer On the contrary, I am a little uncomfortable with drinking.
"I think it can be more bitter, and I am working on improving the brewing process."
Strong didn't take it seriously. He was quite confident in his brewing level. Since his grandfather's generation, his family had been brewing beer. His father made a lot of money from brewing during the Great Depression, but later All thanks to the ranch. Thirty years ago, Strong was the young owner of the ranch.
"Ha, it seems that I will not be lucky enough to taste your wine again." Nan Yi shrugged, put down the bottle, and took a sip of the big cherry juice on the table.
After the meal, two bonfires were lit in the open space outside the house. The cowboys started their happy time. Those who could drink still held beer bottles. Everyone stood in a circle around the bonfire and watched Strong sitting on the tree stump. , playing the guitar in his hand, quietly listening to him sing a song "Jolene" written from a female perspective with his thick and smoky voice.
Strong interpreted the song very well, and the aggressive sharpness of the original singer was removed, as if a bystander cheated on a man, and the original partner begged the third party to quit the lame story.
After telling the story of the third party's intervention, Strong played "Drink Doch Eine Met" again, the tune was slowed down, and the tune sounded more like a South Korean song decades later. It is said that the two original songs The similarity is more than 80%. It has to be said that there is such a thing as a heart-to-heart in the world.
At present, Nanyi, who is eager to try, thinks that his level is not as good as others. He is unwilling to use his money-making ability to make the cowboys succumb to capital and give praise, so he has to stand quietly as an audience.
Near nine o'clock, the cowboys retreated one after another, and the happy hour ended.
Nanyi did not go back to his room, but went to the equipment warehouse of the ranch to get the night vision device.
Here in Montana, wolves often attack the ranch at night. In order to fight wolves, night vision goggles have become standard equipment on ranches, and ranches with conditions will be equipped with them.
With good equipment, a group of wolves hiked to a small hill southeast of the ranch. The wolves were very alert, and the noise of the car was too loud, which might scare them off tonight's attack plan.
In half an hour, with a distance of 6 kilometers, the group arrived at their destination. After setting up the sniper position on the hill, we entered a long silent wait.
Everything is silent, the sound of the wind and birdsong is clear to the ear, and I can't speak. No matter how low the sound is, it can float one or two kilometers away.
Two hours passed by, and Nanyi did not find any trace of wolves, but instead found two large, one small, and three peccaries. The number of this wild boar's close relative species in Montana is not too large, and it will not cause too much damage to the ranch. In addition, this thing has smell glands on its body, which will secrete an extremely foul-smelling liquid when it encounters danger. Generally, ranchers will not provoke it, and only professional hunters will regard them as prey.
After watching Xihou's family happiness for a while, Nanyi turned around and searched for signs of wolves.
Nearly an hour and a half later, a wolf finally appeared in Nanyi's sight. This wolf walked very slowly, and would stop and look around after a while, and then continue to move forward. In seven minutes, he only walked less than two hundred meters.
If there is no accident, this is the vanguard of the wolf pack, who was sent to hit the muzzle of the gun. The coyotes in Montana have been fighting with the ranchers for nearly two hundred years, and the sound of the gun has been engraved in their genes. Every year, many people go deep into the jungle to hunt wolves. Whether it is innate or acquired, coyotes always remember the sound of gunshots.
Nanyi observed the vanguard for a while, and then searched the area behind it. Soon, he found another coyote behind a lump of soil. His eyes were looking directly at the direction of the hills of Nanyi and the others. Through the night vision device, It looks a bit dazzling.
Continue to wait, the route of the vanguard is very clear, that is, to the direction of the cow pen, and the route of the second wolf is also very clear, it is responsible for watching the vanguard, as long as the vanguard is in trouble, it will immediately go to the wolves who are still hiding in the dark Call the police.
The coyote pack has always been a teamwork, each performing its duties, and there is no wolf heroism.
Still waiting, another half an hour passed, Nanyi finally saw the figures of the wolves, and muttered silently: "One, two, five, seven, the last one should be the wolf king."
He turned the gun and aimed at the wolf king.
Nanyi already has an idea, he can miss any one, and the wolf king must take it.
Still waiting, the wind is too strong, Nan Yi will only shoot when the wolf king enters within 200 meters, the trigger cannot be easily pulled, maybe there is only one chance to shoot tonight, if you miss it, you will be killed if you want to meet again I don't know that the Year of the Monkey is already here.
Maybe it's because they haven't noticed anything, the speed of the vanguard is accelerating, the speed of the second wolf is accelerating, the moving speed of the wolves is also accelerating, and the distance between the wolf king and the wolves is further widening.
Under the night vision device, Nanyi could see that the wolf king's left and right ears were asymmetrical, and the tip of the ear was missing. Either he was bitten off by his opponent in the wolf king contest, or he had escaped a fatal shot from the hunter.
Nanyi is excited, the more difficult the target is, the happier he is. There are a group of people behind him guarding him thoroughly, and the wolf king can only be beaten. Of course, he hopes that the difficulty of the game will be as high as possible.
The muzzle of the gun followed the wolf king's footsteps, calculating the distance silently in his heart, and occasionally looked at the position of the wolves. Nanyi knew in his heart that according to his rapid-fire level, once the gunshot fired, he was 90% sure that he could hit it. Three, the rest can only depend on luck.
"304, 303, 299..."
The wolf king has entered Nanyi's shooting range, and he is waiting for the wolf king to stop.
Suddenly, the Wolf King's footsteps stopped. Nan Yi waited for half a second to pull the trigger, then jumped up, changing from a sitting position to a standing position. During the process of standing up, he pulled the bolt of the gun and reloaded the bullet.
Aim at one of the wolves, add the amount of advance based on feeling, bang, pull the trigger, the coyote falls with the sound, pull the bolt to load, fire again, and another wolf falls down.
When aiming at the fourth coyote, the speed of the target had already increased, and Nan Yi was less than 60% sure of hitting it. However, he still pulled the trigger decisively based on his feeling.
Crash, the coyote fell down!
Reloaded and aimed at the other one. Nan Yi didn't pull the trigger for a long time. After five or six seconds, he lowered the muzzle of his gun and gave up shooting. He knew in his heart that he was not sure about this shot, and he didn't want to gamble on luck. .
The bullet was unloaded, and the R700 was thrown to the tiger cub. Nanyi pressed the handle of the Colt Python gun in the holster with his left hand, pressed the non-existent hat on his head with his right hand, and lifted his belt again. He took a bullet off his belt and held it in his mouth, with the BGM in his heart, and walked down the hill at the pace of a western cowboy.
Nanyi walked slowly to the wolf king's body, feeling very disappointed. The dusty gray hair, except for the missing piece of the left ear, also had the right eyeball pierced by him and the half of the head that was cut off. Not much different from other wolves.
Squatting down and lifting the wolf's ear, Nanyi poked his index finger into the bullet hole in the ball of his right eye to feel the direction of the ballistic trajectory. He aimed at the left eye, but the bullet shot into the right eye. This is a big error.
After feeling the trajectory, Nanyi dragged the wolf king to the position before it was shot, adjusted the orientation of the wolf's head, looked at the sniper position, and mentally simulated the angle of the bullet's flight.
After the simulation, Nanyi felt much more comfortable. There is a high probability that when the bullet was about to fly into place, the wolf king turned his head and just caught the bullet with his left eye. He was worthy of the more than 200,000 bullets he fired. Slightly displaced left scapula.
Nanyi then went to look at the other three wolves who were shot by him. One was shot in the neck, one in the abdomen, and the third was shot in the joint between the right rear thigh and the torso.
After summing up his shooting experience, Nanyi personally dug a pit for the four wolves and buried them without moving the fangs in their mouths.
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The next day, Nanyi and his team vacated the villa and changed to another ranch as a foothold. They stayed in Montana for four days, and participated in the permit lottery for the 1992 deer hunting season. When the results of the lottery came out, people returned to New York.
During the New Year's Eve period from 1991 to 1992, Nan Yi took his two sons to visit the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, learned a little bit of aircraft carrier knowledge, and then quietly nested in the study, and continued to experience for several years. The unfinished business of aircraft carrier models.
During this period, he also made a correct assessment of his own efficiency, and planned to delay the delivery of the aircraft carrier to September 2000, so as to deliver the gift before Nan Wuwei went to college.
On January 9, Nanyi brought the work of making models to Shanghai.
Then, his efficiency took a sharp turn for the worse.
Not only did he have to make up all the newspapers he missed last year, but he had to ponder over and over again some articles and reports in the newspapers starting from the newspapers on New Year's Day this year, for fear that he might not understand the meaning of them thoroughly.
On January 10th, Nanchen Village established a speculative ranger team, and Chen Mingdi was appointed as the captain. Manpower and funds were allocated from various enterprises under Nanchen Village. Run aluminum ingots.
Nanyi is sure that the price of raw materials will rise sharply, and it will be skyrocketing, so he puts the first vote on aluminum ingots.
The reason why it was aluminum ingots was because he judged that the price of aluminum ingots would turn upside down, and secondly, he planned to reorganize the daytime service, Henry Tiles, and Langyuan Xianpa that Chen Guowen was in charge of.
Nanyi intends to treat Bairi Feisheng Service Company as the first piece of fat distributed to the villagers, remove it from the ranks of the village collective, and transfer it to the private operation of the village, from the perspective of the village collective to achieve common progress between public and private, from the perspective of Nanyi From the perspective of the family, the assets were cashed out and part of the investment in Nanchen Village was recovered.
The sharing of hardships has come to an end, and it is difficult to predict whether we can fight side by side in the remaining days of sharing Gan. Just like what we worried about in Wenchangwei, Nanchen Village will usher in a change of personnel in ten years. In the past ten years, Nanyi must not only maintain stability, but also complete his own work of quitting and supporting Fan Hongdou to take over the position.
From the current point of view, there is no need to change Nanyi's established plan to let Fan Hongdou be the spokesperson of Nanshi (Huaguo).
The remaining two companies, Henry Ceramics, Langyuan Xianpa, and Nanyi plan to merge into a group, and then increase the business of environmental protection building materials under the group, but the initial stage will start with the business of aluminum alloy doors and windows.
Last time I heard from Lin Sining that his husband's real estate company used aluminum alloy doors and windows when building a house, and the effect was very good. The house price was sold at 1,500 yuan per square meter. This reminds Nanyi that aluminum alloy doors and windows and aluminum alloy anti-theft windows will be hot fields in the next ten years, and they can just step in and have a bite, accumulating capital and investing in the research and development of environmentally friendly materials.
Environmentally friendly materials are finally aimed at the European and American markets, and are incorporated into the specific thinking of the interweaving of domestic, foreign, and cross-border industries in Nanchen Village. If any of the post-70s generation in Nanchen Village can grow up, they must consider sending them abroad. The funds left by South Holdings abroad must also be operated on their own, and they cannot continue to serve as domestic support.
After arranging the affairs of Nanchen Village, Nanyi couldn't devote all his energy to model making. It's almost the Chinese New Year, and he stayed at home so early this year, thinking that this year's New Year should be a little more decent. As a result, packages were sent to Shanghai from various places.
SGF sent more than 30 kinds of high-end foreign ingredients; Qiantangsheng and Yu Hui from Changbai Mountain sent a lot of dry goods respectively, and the old man entrusted Qiantangsheng with two black blind gallbladders and two ganoderma lucidum; Houji Agriculture sent Vegetables with dish names on one page of A4 paper; bluefin tuna, yellow lip fish, French oyster, Australian oyster, etc. sent by Jiang Shang Fishery...
Queen Mother Fruit Industry, Luban Forestry, Reclamation Group, Baoguo Mi Hub, and Lu Yu Tea Industry also sent things over. Except for a single individual that is very large, the other orders are sent for one or two pounds or less, but even so , Waiting for everything to be collected, it still occupies the space of three rooms.
The refrigerator can't hold too many frozen goods, and Nanyi is too lazy to buy more freezers. Fang Mansion already has five refrigerators and three freezers. Go out to send the New Year's Day with the big gift bags that have been prepared one by one.
Nanyi himself is not idle, Chen's, Lai's, Zhou Li's, Deng Jiangnan's, many houses need him to go by himself. In previous years, he was busy until the end of the year, so it is reasonable to let Yan Du do it for him. , Don’t run around in person again, it’s a little neglectful.
There is no excuse to find, and it is easy to say abroad, Nanyi's whereabouts in China can be checked by any family.
I started running on the 12th, and I ran two times a day, and then I had a supper with someone in the evening. That's it, Nanyi stayed in the capital for six and a half days.
Arrived at Shenzheng on the 19th, had lunch at Lai Biao’s house, took the ferry in the afternoon, on the 20th, 21st, and 22nd, ate tail teeth in Yecheng for three consecutive days, and stayed at Ruan Mei’s place on the 23rd, babbling and crunching , Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmits,’ Ruan Mei suddenly throws a sentence to Nanyi to accompany her home for dinner.
It's almost New Year's Eve, and at this time, if you want to go to her house for dinner, which day can you go? Needless to say, on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day of the southern Xiaonian, Ruan Mei's affection is her own Xi'er, and Nanyi is Huang Shiren.
Ruan Mei's situation is a bit special. Strictly speaking, Nanyi and her have the fate of their parents. At the beginning of the matter between him and Ruan Mei, Ruan's mother nodded in person. .
Nanyi could only agree to come down and stay in Xiangtang temporarily.
On the morning of the 24th, after having breakfast with Ruan Mei, Nan Yi returned to Fang's Manor.
Fang Mengyin was at home and hadn't gone to work yet. When she saw Nan Yi came back, she asked him to go to the study to talk.
"Huang Hongzai, the youngest son of the Huang family in Indonesia, bought sapphire from Bo Chipu. Not long ago, he changed its name to Zhongce Industrial. He also invited Li Tongban, Morgan Stanley, and Japan's Itochu Corporation to invest in it. He visited me once. , I want Fang to also take a share."
Fang Mengyin stopped here, waiting for Nanyi to ask questions.
"The Huang family is the one that started out as cooking oil?" Nan Yi asked.
"Yes, it's the Huang family."
"Oh, I heard the name Huang Hongzai when I was in Lijiapo, but I'm not very familiar with it. Grandma, please tell me about him."
"Okay, let me tell you." Fang Mengyin responded, and said eloquently: "After Huang Hongzai came to see me, I asked acquaintances to inquire. This Huang Hongzai was very willful in his youth and caused trouble everywhere. In 1960, His father, Huang Yicong, sent him to the capital to study in No. 26 Middle School in order to let him learn well."
"Enrolled in No. 26 Middle School in 1960?" Nanyi confirmed.
No. 26 Middle School is not an ordinary middle school. Especially in the first eight years of the 1960s, ordinary children from large courtyards may not be able to squeeze in. Not to mention all the students in it, at least 70 to 80% are the children of high-ranking officials.
Even if you were in the first year of junior high school in 1960, five years plus three years, although it is too late to graduate from university, you have already studied for two or three years. As a college student, you will definitely be able to enter a good unit; Troops up.
Born around 1948, when he was in the prime of life, most of Huang Hongzai's alumni should be in key positions in various units. There is nothing to say about his connections in the mainland.
"Well, Huang Hongzai studied in China, and went to the countryside to join the team. In 1970, 22-year-old Huang Hongzai was taken back to Indonesia. He is the youngest son and can only inherit part of the business.
During this period of participating in the family business, Huang Hongzai gradually had his own ideas. He no longer wanted to be an industrialist like Huang Yicong, but wanted to use an inch of gold to buy an inch of time from others and start an investment business.
Slowly, Huang Hongzai began to implement his own ideas while participating in the family business. Not long after, he found a business opportunity in American real estate, bought a building, and changed hands in the second year, earning 160 million Singapore dollars.
Lijiapo in the 1980s was just when the economy was taking off. After earning a sum of money, Huang Hongzai quickly turned his target to the Lijiapo market and began to buy and sell properties in Lijiapo, and soon earned more than 300 million Singapore dollars.
In 1978, 30-year-old Huang Hongzai began to flex his muscles in Lijiapo and acquired a small company engaged in the manufacture of washing powder, which was worth 17 million Singapore dollars at the time.
Through continuous acquisitions and transfers, Huang Hongzai increased the capital of this small company to S$1 billion during the ten years from 1981 to 1991, and the company's business expanded to mining, planting, trade, hotels, real estate investment and other fields.
In the past ten years, he has completed a journey that other people and businessmen may not be able to complete in a century. Last year, he set his sights on Xiangcheng again. What do you think he came here to do? "
Nan Yi said thoughtfully: "Since he is playing with capital, he probably used Xiangyu as a springboard to enter the mainland. Huang Hongzai has a good network in the mainland. He should roughly know the policy direction of the mainland this year. The basic line must be taken care of." A hundred years will not be shaken. Having said this, it basically determines that for at least the next twenty years, the mainland will focus on economic construction.
The definition of joint-stock company and limited liability company is clear again, and there will definitely be a large group of people going to sea to do business. This time it will be different from the previous ones. Most of the people who went to sea in 1979 could not survive and were forced to go to Liangshan;
The wave in 1984 was impulsive. When the situation was uncertain, they plunged into the business world with their own enthusiasm. Some were relatively successful, but most of them wore the hats of state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises. Looking at the situation this year, Most of them want to take off their hats. The hats have already been put on, and it is not so easy to take them off. It is hard to say what their future will be.
Let alone the unsuccessful ones, the better ones will become small merchants and peddlers, and the bad ones will disappear long ago. From the perspective of probability, only a few ten thousandths of those who can be counted as successful in the sea.
In the next seven years, it will be better to watch the wind direction and go to sea one after another. Most people have already thought about what kind of business they want to do when they jump into the sea. They will ask what they can do, and what does it matter, so far. This batch is the one with the highest success rate in going to sea.
Looking at this year again, the policy has become very clear, and the legal status of private enterprises has been completely clarified. Enterprises do not need to be sneaky and affiliated as before, and they can register companies freely.
With this situation in front of us, I have long thought of going to sea, but I am old and prudent, and the cadres who are still working in various units are about to move. Whether they resign or stay without pay, most of the fields that these people will enter are related to themselves. Previous work linked to the field.
Those from the Tourism Bureau will open a hotel; the editor-in-chief and reporters of newspapers and magazines can do information business, and they can also fill in some gaps. Compared with ordinary people, editors and reporters of economic newspapers have much better sources of information. Find a field where there is not much competition in the Mainland;
For example, the auction house is still blank in this field, but Chinese people are not ignorant of it. Trust stores can be used as auction houses with a slight change, and so on.
All in all, the people who will enter the sea this year will be the ones with the clearest brains and the deepest understanding of enterprises in the mainland. They will have similar characteristics: they have worked in government departments, have deep government relations, and at the same time have certain Knowledge base with forward-looking predictive capabilities.
Facing them, those who went to the sea before did not have much competitiveness. This year's batch is called the 92 faction.
Including the ones that have gone into the sea in the first one or two years, and the ones that will go into the sea in the next one or two years, I believe that the 92 faction will create an industry that does not exist in the mainland, and instantly secure its leading position. "
Fang Mengyin smiled faintly, "The 92 faction, which faction do you belong to?"
"The business world in the world is the only thing that can't be broken. Once the snow mountain comes out, who will fight for it? The snow mountain sect's third-generation layman and guest minister, who is bestowed by the emperor with nine-grade white gloves, Nan Yi will pay a visit." Nan Yi made a bow, jokingly.
"You, you." Fang Mengyin nodded at Nanyi, shook her head and said, "I'm serious with you, don't mess around."
"Okay, okay." Nanyi laughed and waved his hands, "Stop making trouble, stop making trouble, if you want to say what kind of pie I am, someone from overseas will do it, you don't have to do anything, grandma sends millions of zeros every month There’s no end to spending money.”
"Small booklet, make fun of me again." Fang Mengyin made a gesture to hit me, Nanyi made an evasive movement, Fang Mengyin immediately withdrew her hand and smiled dotingly, "You, you, hurry up and bring my great-granddaughter back to me Look, Xu Sui is almost four years old, right?"
"It's coming soon. I'll be four years old at the end of the month. I'll arrange for Ruojin to live in Xiangtang for a period of time in the next year, so I can accompany you here."
"Okay, okay." Fang Mengyin nodded in satisfaction, and then brought the topic back to the business, "Then what's your opinion on Zhongce Industrial, should you vote or not?"
"If Huang Hongzai's business talent is real, plus his relationship in the mainland, it is still worth investing in. Wait, I'll ask someone to find out the situation."