They kicked Tie Tou Su was trying to get up, until he was completely knocked unconscious!
"You didn't dodge a single move." Nine-Tattooed Dragon glanced down at the unconscious Tie Tou Su, then calmly addressed the man in the Handkerchief Qing: "Now, do I have the right to fight you?"
"You don't even dare to reveal your identity, yet you dare to fight me? You didn't follow the rules of the martial world to register, first you hit my brother, and then you injured a fellow disciple of Harmony Heroes, you idiot, how could I give you a chance! Surround him and beat him hard." Handkerchief Qing held a handkerchief in both hands, first speaking to Nine-Tattooed Dragon, but finally shouting to his laborers who had surrounded him with carrying poles.
More than twenty carrying poles rained down on Nine-Tattooed Dragon -Nine-Tattooed Dragon like a storm. After only a few blows, he collapsed to the ground, laughing at the cold-looking Handkerchief Qing, and shouted, "You dare not fight me again!"
"Last time I broke one of your legs, this time I'll break both. Hang him up, break both legs, and have 14K come and get him." The Handkerchief Qing snorted arrogantly from outside the crowd, "Idiot, a nobody like you deserves my attention?"
Chapter 213 Digging a Hole
When Mrs. Bess came to the study for the second time to tell her husband that he should go to bed, Shek Chi-yik was still looking through the notebook that Song Tianyao had handed him during dinner.
The writing in this notebook, if given to any politician to read, would mostly just be met with a dismissive laugh and tossed aside, because the contents were hardly profound or thought-provoking; they were merely the nimble observations of a businessman driven by profit.
However, Shek Chi-yik felt that the words in Song Tianyao's notebook were exactly what he wanted to hear. If Song Tianyao really knew everything about astronomy and geography, and could talk fluently about world affairs and political crises, Shek Chi-yik might have thrown the notebook into the trash long ago. But Song Tianyao did not. He was analyzing the current business situation in Hong Kong and possible solutions from the perspective of a pure businessman.
The Treaty of San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan was to be signed last week by 48 countries in San Francisco, United States. In fact, even before the treaty was announced, those who regularly read the news and newspapers and kept abreast of the situation could already get a general idea of the situation by looking at Japan's industrial progress over the past two years and the United States' attitude towards Japan.
On the same day the peace treaty was signed, the United States and Japan also signed the U. S.-Japan Security Treaty. This marked the formal inclusion of Japan into the ranks of the United States' military allies while the Korean War was raging, making Japan a formal United States. military base and logistical center in Asia.
Japan's industry and economy recovered rapidly in just over a year. With the imposition of the Embargo Order, Japan quickly seized and devoured the market share that originally belonged to Hong Kong worldwide. Song Tianyao wrote this problem very simply in his notebook: use cheap labor to replace machines to make money from United States, and let United States make money, thus keeping Hong Kong's manufacturing industry hanging by a thread.
However, this statement was not just empty talk. Song Tianyao immediately listed some data he had investigated in Japan. The average consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy products per person in Japan was now 2.5 times that of 1949. The consumption level of the Japan people this year has exceeded the peak of Japan's pre-war development from 1934 to 1936, reaching 106%. The real wages of Japan workers, especially laborers, have also recovered from the initial period of food shortages after the war to 95.6% of the pre-war level. Based on the benchmark of an average wage of 100 in a Japan machine factory with about 50 employees in 1950, by June 1951, the average wage of workers had risen to 113. The wage increase in large group companies with more than 1,000 employees was 158, and the increase in mining companies was even higher, reaching 170, exceeding the average by more than 50%.
A large number of Japan women were trained and sent to work in industries such as clothing, daily necessities manufacturing, and textiles. In these light industrial sectors, female workers accounted for 50% to 57% of the workforce. After the start of the Korean War, major Japan conglomerates and monopolistic capital received special orders from the US military and access to United States technology. From 1950 to 1951 alone, the US military's special orders for Japan industry reached US dollars 710 million. This huge figure led capitalists in almost every industry in Japan to invest in machinery and equipment, working overtime to produce orders for the US military. This increased the demand for workers. At that time, Japan's labor force was insufficient to support the construction industry, which Japan urgently needed to expand after the war. After the start of the Korean War, the number of new buildings in Japan dropped from 740,000 in 1949 to 240,000 in 1951 because many construction workers had changed careers. Japan was facing a severe shortage of workers, and wages were rising continuously.
The data has been listed in such detail that even an ordinary businessman could understand Song Tianyao's meaning without needing Shek Chi-yik, the director of the Industrial and Commercial Administration Office, to think clearly.
Japan has been fed up with United States's wealth and is not interested in intervening in industries that are not extremely profitable. Therefore, Song Tianyao believes that Hong Kong should take advantage of Japan's overindulgence and lack of appetite for simple meals to make a living and earn money from United States. As long as the gesture is made well enough, neither the Japan nor the United States will have any reason to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and completely destroy it. The United States are unlikely to openly break ties with Britain; they are more likely to let Japan have time to seize Hong Kong's business after the Korean War ends.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong is currently not lacking in cheap labor that Japan desperately needs, and its non-military manufacturing industry, which Japan no longer has the strength to intervene in, is barely hanging on.
After reading through the small notebook, Shek Chi-yik thought about Song Tianyao's claim that he had prepared for two months and realized that Song Tianyao was not exaggerating. These data and information could not have been fabricated without two months of careful reading and recording.
If we really follow Song Tianyao's suggestion—making money off United States, letting United States make money, and incidentally stimulating Hong Kong's manufacturing industry—shouldn't he be able to get through this difficult period, or at least avoid leaving behind some very bad statistics during his term?
The last time he collaborated with Song Tianyao, he gained the position of department head and a change in his wife's status, while Song Tianyao's boss became Justice of the Peace, and Likang became a leader in the pharmaceutical industry.
What would I gain if I collaborated with this young man again? And what would Song Tianyao, who had spent two months painstakingly investigating and researching, ultimately gain?