"Haha, stop joking, friend. How could India be a customer?" Michael Sandberg laughed heartily at Song Tianyao's words. "That guy is the dumbest person I've met since I retired and started working in the bank."
Song Tianyao was wary of Michael Sandberg, yet also held a favorable impression of him. This was because the Britain possessed not only ambition but also the ability to match it, and he knew how to work hard to achieve his goals. He did not discriminate against China person. In his eyes, Hong Kong had only three types of people: his clients, his potential clients, and the dead.
In order to find potential Chinese business clients, this guy started learning Mandarin and Cantonese. Song Tianyao already knew from their previous casual conversation that he had specifically learned Japanese when he worked at the HSBC in Japan in order to deal with Japan, and could even talk fluently about Japan history.
In some ways, Song Tianyao felt that the other person had many similarities to himself.
Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Sandberg was a man who believed in the utmost importance of money and whose ambition was directly proportional to his ability.
After having dinner with Michael Sandberg and then visiting Angie Perlis in her room at the Dulles Hotel, where she was handling agreements and contracts, Song Tianyao returned to the factory and asked Lou Fengyun to help him contact Scribe Hui.
Xia Zuoji's newly established garment factory could be sold cheaply to Scribe Hui in charge of making uniforms for the British Army. He planned to call Scribe Hui and remind him to keep in touch with Michael Sandberg so that he could take over the factory equipment.
When the phone was called to Tianming Company, it was Sister Fen who answered. She said that Scribe Hui had asked her and Nine-Tattooed Dragon to take care of the vegetable and grain delivery business of Tianming Company, and had gone to Japan and had not yet returned.
"He didn't go to Japan to order machinery? Or was he planning to go to Japan to get married and have children? Why hasn't he returned yet?" Upon receiving news that his Scribe Hui had not returned, Song Tianyao frowned.
Lou Fengyun was also a little puzzled. "I'll call Wanqing's father for you and ask him."
After saying that, Lou Fengyun dialed the phone number of the garment factory jointly owned by Tianming Company and Meng Wanqing's father Meng Chengzhi. After talking to Meng Chengzhi for a few minutes, Lou Fengyun hung up the phone incredulously and looked at Song Tianyao, who was waiting for news, speechless.
"What's wrong? Has Scribe Hui gotten into trouble again? Is he hiding and nowhere to be seen?" Song Tianyao asked, looking at Lou Fengyun's expression.
Lou Fengyun shook her head, saying incredulously, "Mr. Meng said that Ah Hui, along with several tailors and a bag of the Nationalist Army produced in a factory, went to the US military bases in Okinawa, Japan, with an officer exchange group from the Hong Kong military camp. Apparently, this officer group had cooperated with the United States soldiers during World War II and had a close relationship with them. Ah Hui took the tailors there this time to help the United States soldiers there take measurements for their uniforms and try to produce some Nationalist Army. If the price is reasonable and the quality is up to standard, the United States soldiers there may use Ah Hui to supply their uniforms in the future."
Not only was Lou Fengyun incredulous, but Song Tianyao, sitting there, also couldn't believe it.
After all that scheming and planning, he barely managed to gain control of a new industry, and he hadn't even officially made any money from United States yet. He was just starting to prepare to take over those United States orders when his Scribe Hui, failed miserably, and he had already expanded his military uniform business to include Nationalist Army, directly making money off the Nationalist Army?
"Didn't Ah Hui and Mr. Meng's garment factory only produce military uniforms for a few barracks on Hong Kong Island before?" Song Tianyao asked, still somewhat disbelieving.
He remembered that the last time he saw Scribe Hui, Scribe Hui said that he was only doing business on military uniforms for a few barracks in Hong Kong Island. How come he has gone to Okinawa, Japan so quickly to do business with United States?
Lou Fengyun said to Song Tianyao, "A month ago, the uniform orders for the seventeen military camps in Hong Kong were all assigned to Ah Hui and Mr. Meng. Otherwise, why would Ah Hui be so busy that he had to hire a secretary? Ah Hui doesn't dare to make too much profit in his military business. After making money, he always uses it to bribe the officers of each camp. Except for when you see him and he scolds you a few times, he is almost universally loved."
"I still remember the first day that guy went to the military camp to deliver vegetables. He got into an argument with an old lady from the countryside, spat on her, and was beaten up by her family. Then he came to me complaining." Song Tianyao was stunned for a moment, then smiled self-deprecatingly, "I was thinking of arranging some things for him, but now he has a big business deal, so it's not good to keep calling him around all the time. Oh well, I'll contact Wanqing's Dad about the India guy garment factory thing. Actually, thinking about it, Scribe Hui is really lovable. He helped the Britain soldiers sell supplies, and he only earned less than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars from more than a dozen military camps. If I were one of those officers, I would definitely love him too, even though he's a bit silly and doesn't know how to make more money. Of course, I would take care of him when there's business."
"Why don't you transfer the factory to Miss Angie as well, and I'll go help Ah Hui at Tianming Company? Anyway, that company is yours too," Lou Fengyun said to Song Tianyao.
Song Tianyao glanced at Lou Fengyun: "What, worried that the Foreign Girl will come back and take over the factory? No way, the factory can't do without you, and the Foreign Girl won't have the energy or time to focus on just one factory. Once she's sorted out things in the United States, she'll be keeping an eye on the products Manifest Glory Trading Company sells to the United States. This time when she comes back, the one who can really relax is me, I don't need to think about so many things anymore."
"What will you do when you have free time?" Lou Fengyun rarely heard Song Tianyao say that he would have free time.
Song Tianyao rubbed his temples. "When you have some free time, go and focus on making a newspaper."
Receiving this batch of wigs is just the beginning.
Chapter 302 The New House
"Miss Lu, my Big Brother has made so much money, you can't let him easily swindle it away with just a house like this. You have to ask for an exorbitant amount." After walking around the newly acquired mansion of Chu Xiaoxin, Song Tianyao said with a smile to Lu Peiying in the living room on the first floor.
The marriage between Chu Xiaoxin and Lu Peiying had been arranged. Lu Wenhui, who had received a Western education since childhood, did not place too much importance on the wedding date. On the contrary, Madam Chu of the Chu Family invited feng shui masters from Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong to help Chu Xiaoxin and Lu Peiying choose a wedding date. In the end, the three masters each wrote down several dates, and Madam Chu compared them together and chose a date that all three masters agreed was a date that matched the so-called blessings of heaven, earth, wealth, and longevity, as well as the compatibility of the heavenly stems, earthly branches, and people in various ways: March 9, 1953.