Chapter 44: The Beginning of Everything Is Difficult

New York's Chinatown, also known as Chinatown, is home to more than 600,000 Chinese living in the area, with a large concentration of Chinese on the East Coast.

In 1848, two men and one woman arrived in the United States on the sailing ship "Wandering Eagle", which was the first Chinese to immigrate to the United States. At the end of the 19th century, after the Chinese Exclusion Act was first promulgated and implemented in California, the excluded and persecuted Chinese migrated to the East Coast of the United States in large numbers, and finally chose to settle in the land at the feet of Ye Dongqing, and continued to grow in scale, thus forming the largest Chinese concentration in North America today.

In New York's Chinatown, the main language spoken is Cantonese, but there are other local dialects as well.

At a glance, there are Chinese newsstands at many street corners, you can hear Chinese radio when driving, TV is Chinese at night, and there are a large number of roadside restaurants, about one out of every three stores is a Chinese restaurant.

The general lack of education, coupled with the fact that they are often excluded due to their skin color and cultural background, makes it difficult to find satisfying jobs, so most of the Chinese here choose to start a small business, or learn a trade and so on to earn a living.

New Yorkers call it a "slum," which gives an indication of their living conditions, and although there are some rich people, the proportion is far from that of the white people, who are mostly at the bottom of the social ladder.

Some elderly Chinese Americans don't even know English, saying that they live in New York, which is more like living in this small society "isolated" from other places, and cannot integrate into mainstream American society.

Ye Dongqing grew up here and knows this very well.

His grandmother fled to the United States in the forties of the last century, and his grandfather's family was even earlier, and there was still an emperor reigning when he left China.

In his parents' generation, life was a little more comfortable.

Because Ye Dongqing's son is an accountant, the kind of certified public accountant who got the AICPA certificate, but unfortunately he only graduated from a community college, and large companies will not want this kind of person with low education, who does not have the strength to change to a good house and earn some money to support his family.

I have the impression that before the death of my parents in an accident, the family was quite happy to huddle in a dilapidated small house.

Grandma died early, and the family of four was crammed into an old house of about 60 square meters, and then the smoker grandfather fell ill and died, so he had a separate small room. As for the people at his mother's house, he didn't have much of an impression, he didn't seem to have met before, Ye Dongqing was still young when they died, and he couldn't remember too many things.

After the accident, he went to live with his aunt, and a few years passed, and the compensation for the death of his parents was spent cleanly.

More than 300,000 US dollars, I can't stand a few people together, I only spend it without making money, renting a house, and the tuition fees of my cousins and cousins are all big expenses, and my uncle also likes to gamble, and before Ye Dongqing became an adult, he even sold the house.

At that time, he was so angry that he cried because of this, but the guardian had the right to dispose of these assets, and in the end his uncle succeeded.

Since then, the hatred has deepened, and he just wants to leave their house as soon as possible, and it seems that he never wants to recover the money. However, even if you want to recover it, it is not easy, this kind of lawsuit is difficult to win, and it can be excused that it is for Ye Dongqing to rent a big house, and it has been used up in the process of "cultivating" him.

Out of sight and out of mind, I didn't want to be angry about it last time, and I didn't want to do it this time, the little love between my parents and my aunt's family has long been consumed in his life, and he is the kind of passerby from now on.

They don't do things authentically, Ye Dongqing has backbone, and they just repay the "grace of nurturing".

If you ask what it's like to be an orphan, it's like a ship that can never dock, and you have to go with the flow and rely on yourself for everything.

Slowly develop the current character in low self-esteem and frustration, it is difficult to believe and get close to anyone wholeheartedly, Ye Dongqing is very easy to get along with, and it is not easy to get along with......

Familiar streets, familiar shops.

On the corner across the road, there are piles of fruit, herbs, and seafood stalls, mixed with various Chinese signs, many vehicles, and the snow on the roadside has not yet melted.

The simple billboard of the Tamsui Fund Company was erected there, and after the workers stacked all the gifts and household appliances, they drove away, and the words were repeated in the loudspeaker, and it was only more than ten minutes after coming, and the amount of funds raised was zero.

Some people try to understand the details of financial products, but no one dares to take the risk of investing money in a company that they have never heard of, no one's money is blown by the wind, and the matter of starting tens of thousands of dollars, how can it be as casual as buying fruits and vegetables.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, Ye Dongqing also wants to hold a party for high-end rich people, and then pull the relationship to get investment from them, at present, Tamsui Fund Company has no scale and no performance, who will believe him?

Knowing that many passers-by have spare money in their hands that can be used for financial management, and the scale may not be small, now they just need to find a way to make them willing to take it out.

I was afraid that someone would search for Tamsui Fund through the Internet, so I paid someone to update the website and spent $800,000 to advertise it, which will be placed on the homepage of some financial forums with high clicks.

There are also these prizes, posters and the like, a total of more than 100,000 US dollars, tomorrow the second batch of goods worth 100,000 US dollars will also be delivered, specially made for the company's employees to make a Chinese version of personal posters, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Columbia and other famous school background, plus Citigroup, Morgan, Goldman Sachs these work resumes, looks quite gimmicky.

Reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, in order to make a name for himself, Ye Dongqing decided to fight hard, but if he couldn't do it, he went back and continued to call obediently along the bought list one by one, trying his luck to find risk-taking investors.

Seeing several passers-by one after another, he stopped to look at it and left, he wondered in his heart, thinking about what went wrong.

It stands to reason that the rate of return of 7.5% a year is not low, and other wealth management companies will set the minimum investment amount, and if they want to reach about 7%, at least 500,000 US dollars, they are not sure that they will definitely make money, and there is a certain risk of loss of principal.

I didn't have high requirements, and I lowered the minimum investment amount to 10,000 US dollars, but no one came to the door, so I can only say that the reputation of Freshwater Fund is too small. If you think about it carefully, it is probably because no company has done this before, it is too down-to-earth, and people subconsciously choose not to believe it.

While frowning and thinking, a woman with a child in her arms stood in front of him, shook the leaflet with her free hand, and asked in Mandarin: "Your company has anything to do with the Brazilian Vale company?"

Ye Dongqing didn't react for a while, he didn't know how the other party could think in this direction, and said decisively: "It doesn't matter much, we have a promoter who used to be a member of the board of directors of the Vale company that sells ore, and he is strong. Come here for a cup of tea, and I'll explain this product to you......"