Chapter 231: Doing Things for Zhongping (Second Update)

Xie Hushan felt that the country really had great people and that the Canton Fair was very considerate to foreign businessmen.

Nowadays, it is not as convenient for foreigners to come to China as it will be in 2024, when they can handle entry and exit at any airport or train station. The two external routes are mainly determined during the founding of the People’s Republic of China. One is to take a train or plane from Moscow to Yanjing, and the other is to go from Hong Kong Island and Macau to Pengcheng and Yangcheng to enter the mainland.

In order to attract foreign businessmen to participate in the Canton Fair, the country issues visas to these foreign businessmen on separate papers.

Upon entry, a separate visa paper with a stamp and a paper clip will be issued to foreign businessmen for them to pin on their passports and collect when they leave the country.

In other words, there will be absolutely no trouble for foreign businessmen whose nationalities do not have diplomatic relations with China. There is no need to leave any trace of entry into China on their passports, so as to avoid trouble for the foreign businessmen from their countries.

Facts have proved that if a country lowers its profile, the effect will be obvious. At this moment, there are dozens of South Korean and Singaporean foreign businessmen staying at the Oriental Hotel where Xie Hushan is staying.

Neither country has established diplomatic relations with China yet. All these people went to Macau from their own countries, and then entered the mainland from Macau with their visa papers pinned to their passports using paper clips.

Moreover, before the official opening, buses will come to the hotels where foreign guests are staying every day to pick up foreign businessmen and take them to nearby tourist attractions in Guangzhou for free.

After dinner, if foreign businessmen feel bored in the hotel, they can take a bus to the Friendship Theater, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Theater, Yangcheng Cinema and other places at any time to enjoy the wonderful art performances performed by outstanding art troupes selected from all over the country, free of charge.

After enjoying three days of living as a fake Hong Kong businessman, Lao Yang’s family member, Comrade Lu Yuan, had an outrageous idea. She felt that she should work hard to make money, and after having a child with Lao Yang, she would make the child a foreigner and live in a Chinese foreign hotel every day to enjoy a good life.

The venue for the Canton Fair is the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building in Yangcheng. The first, second and third floors are divided into various exhibition halls. The joint trading delegations from various provinces are all small fry ignored by the organizers. No matter whether they are from coastal provinces or inland provinces, as long as you are a joint trading delegation, the positions you get are all in the corners.

The prime positions are occupied by the foreign trade headquarters of each system.

The seven enterprises in the knitting garment group of Zhili Province were allocated a small room. The other six enterprises were each allocated two shelves, while Zhongping was only allocated one shelf.

Han Hongzhen sat on the sofa in the hotel room, took a sip of the soda that Taozi handed her, and said with a wronged look on her face:

“Thank you Hushan! I’m done! The trading group has held three meetings in total. I’ve never had a quarrel with anyone in my life, but this time I had a fight with the team leader. I won two and lost one. What else do you want me to do? I’m not a real shrew!”

“You should have won all three arguments! It’s obvious that these workers are bullying others. What are you afraid of? Why don’t you dare to really fight with that old man? Otherwise, give me the key, and watch me dress up as a woman and go to the dormitory at night to teach the old man a lesson! And you’re rebelling against him!” After hearing the final booth allocation, Xie Hushan complained to Han Hongzhen who went back to the hotel to inform him:

“We all earn foreign exchange for the country. Why should the working class suppress us peasants? They have two shelves, while we peasants have only one shelf?”

After Han Hongzhen moved into the dormitory, she held three internal meetings. The first meeting was for the Zhili Province Joint Trading Group to prepare for unified internal actions. All external contracts would be quoted by the group leader and ultimately signed in unison to prevent any unit from deliberately quoting a low price and ruining the situation.

If this is passed, Zhongping will not be able to decide how much to sell its T-shirts for. The trading groups will look down on this rural enterprise and target it. They will definitely quote a high price that foreigners cannot afford. So Han Hongzhen opposed it and said that if it is to be unified, the Light Industry Ministry’s Trade Corporation should be allowed to unify the pricing for the provincial joint trading groups. Otherwise, what to do if the prices vary from province to province?
The second meeting is the internal price coordination meeting for each commodity group of the trading group. The quotations for commodities in the same commodity group should be compiled into a special price list. The external prices are not allowed to be lower than a certain number, or higher than a certain number, and they can be flexibly adjusted every day. For example, A’s ready-made clothes today are not allowed to be sold for less than ten yuan, while B’s ready-made clothes today are exactly nine yuan, and the opposite will be true tomorrow. In short, each unit can have a similar discount day to win orders.

Han Hongzhen objected again, because the date arranged for Zhongping was very late. According to this schedule, it was very likely that foreign businessmen were preparing to return to their home countries, so how could they patronize the business?

The third meeting was the booth allocation meeting. This time, Han Hongzhen still objected, but to no avail.

Because she had opposed it twice in a row, the trade delegation was very dissatisfied with her. The leader of the team slammed the table directly. Other companies have achieved results in previous years, but you are a rural enterprise and have no results. Being able to show up at the Canton Fair is already a support from the province for the work of the Women’s Federation. I have the final say on this distribution method. If you are not satisfied with Zhongping, you can withdraw from the exhibition now and report me to the province. “It’s useless for you to say anything else now. We only have one shelf for ready-made clothes. Either we participate in the opening tomorrow or we go home.” Han Hongzhen put down the soda and said:

“They were all high-ranking officials from their respective units, and there were soldiers outside, but no one was arguing. I was the only one who spoke up, a rural woman. I tell you, when I was arguing, I was terrified, for fear that the leader would slam the table and call the soldiers to rush in and arrest me…”

Xie Hushan didn’t need to continue complaining, and sighed: “Alas, what did I say? Women are not good, they are easy to be bullied, and they can only suffer in silence when they suffer losses…”

Before he could finish his words, the huge hotel room immediately became quiet. Taozi, Lu Yuan, Han Hongzhen, Lin the translator, and Zhu Youjun all turned their eyes to Xie Hushan.

“Comrade Xie Hushan didn’t mean it literally. He just…” When Yang Liming saw that the women’s eyes were not right, he immediately put down the newspaper nearby and wanted to help Xie Hushan out.

Lv Yuan moved her eyes to him and stared at him. Yang Limin hesitated for a moment and decided to stand with the women’s group, so he temporarily changed his words: “I mean, he has always been like this.”

“I was wrong. How about this? Fourth sister, you’ve worked hard for more than half a year of preliminary work. Let’s start from here and leave the rest to me.” After Xie Hushan complained a few words, he patted Han Hongzhen’s shoulder and comforted her:
“I’m not saying you’re incompetent. I just think they’re bullying you, a woman, for your dignity.”

He stood up and picked up the cigar provided by the hotel and toasted it. He walked to the window of the guest room and looked outside. Then he turned around and said to everyone in the room:
“Six state-owned factories share one room with us, right? I asked them to close half of it within three days. After a week, the whole room will belong to us. How dare they rebel against us!”

After saying that, Xie Hushan looked at Cao Tianbao, who was lying on the sofa reading a Hong Kong comic book. He said, “Brother, brother! Stop reading! Thank you for your hard work.”

Cao Tianbao put down the comic, stood up and walked over in confusion. Xie Hushan put his arm around his shoulders and walked towards a deserted corner in the distance. He whispered something in his ear. Cao Tianbao nodded continuously. After listening, he called to Xuanzi:
“Hin Tsai! Return to Hong Kong Island! Do something for Zhong Ping!”

“What are you doing? If the two of us go and kill people, it will be a disgrace to Zhongping.” Xuanzi muttered to himself. He did not rush to agree, but looked at Zhu Youjun first, waiting for the other party to express his opinion. When he saw Zhu Youjun nod, he walked towards Cao Tianbao: “What are you doing?”

Hins is different from Cao Tianbao. Currently, Hins follows Zhu Youjun to make a living at Sungang Railway Station. Zhu Youjun pays him a salary and is considered his real boss.

Cao Tianbao smiled and said, “Following the orders of Brother Shan, the boss of Zhongping, I will return to Hong Kong Island and pick up girls at public expense!”

Yang Limin was the first to react and looked at Xie Hushan who was lighting a cigar:
“Even if there is a problem, it is an internal conflict. What are you going to do? I tell you, this is not the time to retaliate. If the organizer finds out and accuses you of sabotaging economic development, no one can save you!”

Although he didn’t know what Xie Hushan and Cao Tianbao whispered, when Yang Limin heard the words “flirting with girls at public expense”, he could understand a few Cantonese words in the past two days. He guessed that Xie Hushan was going to use some kind of honey trap on those girls and then use his sexual habits to get rid of them…

Besides, it is impossible for this guy to really fall for the beauty trap. He himself was fooled when he was in the county committee. The beauty only showed up once, but there was no follow-up. If he really used that trick again, he would cause others to be accused of having problems with their work style, and those people might be suffocated to death.

These people were carefully selected by Zhili Province to earn extra money for the province. If Xie Hushan were to wipe them out by some unorthodox means, the province would have to use rocket launchers to blow him up!

Xie Hushan bit his cigar, turned around and looked at Yang Limin, and said in a defiant tone:

“Tomorrow is the first day of the opening. Let’s see. If the representatives of the six families look like well-educated and sensible human beings, then there is still hope. If they dare to act like big brothers, I will let them see the cunning of peasant grandfathers.”

(End of this chapter)