Chapter 387: Background of the Times
Masayoshi Kishimoto personally led the team to travel from Haneda International Airport again on a Gulfstream series private jet to Shanghai, China.
He has a good impression of this city, which is second only to Tokyo in Asia. To be precise, he has a good impression of Shanghainese.
Although I have heard many people talk about how bad their general impression of Shanghainese is, he still does not change his original intention. The Shanghainese who say "countrymen" on their lips are often small citizens.
They belong to the kind of people who grew up in this cosmopolitan city, living the ordinary life of small citizens, longing for the prosperous life of the middle class in their hearts, and lusting for the rich people's rich life in their heads.
In the intellectual class, there is basically no longer any "redneck" title. As a matter of fact, most of the cadres at the department level and above in Shanghai are from other places.
The reason for this situation has to be traced back to the period of cadres going south. The person who can sit at this level is the official that the people often talk about.
Non-department-level cadres, that is, ordinary civil servants, will not be set up a special file by the provincial organization department, let alone ask you to hand over your passport in some provinces, and your immediate family members will not be able to immigrate overseas.
Otherwise, they will not be promoted or dismissed. Among them, there are many social elites and professionals, so they generally have the ability to think independently.
There is a consensus among this group, why should I change my old lifestyle and habits? Therefore, they stubbornly do not speak Shanghainese, that is, Wu Nong's soft language.
The post-00s natives of Shanghai have gradually stopped speaking Shanghainese, or they are not good at speaking. They began to speak Mandarin and became more receptive to the modern Western way of life.
The biggest advantage of Shanghainese is that they can carry it clearly. What's yours is yours, what's mine is mine, don't take advantage of me, and I won't take advantage of you.
For this reason, these are the basic situations that Kishimoto Masayoshi knew and came into contact with in his previous life. In his opinion, the most Japanese-friendly city in Chinese mainland is probably Shanghai. Otherwise, there would not be 300,000 Japanese living in this city in the future.
The person to meet on this trip to Shanghai is Chen Tianqiao of Shanda Network. At this point in time in 2000, Chen Tianqiao was still an ordinary businessman who was not well known. The other company's main business is mainly related to animation, and its performance is not very good.
Masayoshi Kishimoto held the whiskey in his hand, and his eyes looked through the glass window at the white clouds and the blue sky. He didn't feel much about the good weather outside, and once again fell into personal thinking.
Masayoshi Kishimoto suddenly remembered the mid-90s, that is, when he was a child, he watched a TV series "Shanghainese in Tokyo" starring Chen Daoming.
Although it is not as famous as "Pekingese in New York", it is enough to reflect how difficult it is for some Shanghainese to live abroad.
In the 21st century, there is also a documentary made by Chinese about Shanghainese in Japan, which also reflects the ordinary citizen class in order to seek to change their own established destiny and need a way out.
At this time, the way for Shanghainese to go out to work is to go to Japan in the name of studying. Even if you go to a small place in Hokkaido, where there were only 100,000 people at its peak, you have to go out.
Today, there are nearly half of them, only 50,000 or 60,000 people. The vast majority of young people have fled to Tokyo, leaving behind only a few old and infirm women and children.
Hokkaido has a lot of romantic imagination in the hearts of many people. This is like soaking in the hot springs and watching the snow, and you can also drink sake.
In fact, Hokkaido, one of Japan's four major islands, is a separate prefecture. In many remote places, even the Japanese call it the land of Fanwai or the land of Huawai.
Shikoku, the smallest of the four islands, is divided into four prefectures. Its main economy is still agriculture. Hokkaido's economy is not good either.
For Chinese mainland students in this era, knowing Hokkaido still originated from Kuriya, a third-rate Japanese writer who wrote "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles", also known as "A Bowl of Soba Noodles", so as to know the city of Sapporo.
Kishimoto has a lot of numbers in his heart. The expansion of university enrollment in Chinese mainland revealed that employment problems would not be until 2003.
If ordinary children want to change their own destiny, and even the fate of their families, and the fate of their families, the most stable way and shortcut is to go to university through the college entrance examination. To do business, that is the need for capital.
According to official reports, the average monthly income of Shanghainese in 2000 was 1,285 yuan. In fact, the monthly income of the ordinary citizens living in the alleys is generally only half of the average monthly income, that is, the monthly income of six or seven hundred soft girl coins.
He's not an unfounded whim. I immediately remembered a reality-themed TV series "Stranger" written and directed by Guan Hu, which just reflects the real life of Shanghainese around the 21st century.
The line that he remembered the most was the words of the owner of the small sewing shop who scolded his own nephew. The background is that his nephew is in love with a local Shanghai woman. He was initially passive and didn't take the initiative to hook up.
They (i.e., Shanghainese), if they don't work hard, it doesn't matter. They're still them. However, you (outsiders) can't do it, and if you don't work hard, they will look down on you.
The owner of the little tailor's shop would be furious, and slapped his own nephew, and the girl's mother scolded her. Those rednecks, little red guys, deflated three...... The specific words used to curse people in Shanghai are naturally exposed.
In fact, the girl is not a high-level, that is, the bus has just started to sell tickets, and she has been given priority to take care of the children of internal workers to get a job in the unit where her father works.
Shanghai people are not as fond of independent business as people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Their first choice is to change their fate by reading.
At this time, it is still useful to go abroad to gild. Over time, it will go all the way down. Kishimoto knew in his heart that in 20 years, China would be a different story.
"Turtles" also turn into "kelp" in large quantities. They went abroad to study, but they saved some pheasant universities abroad to the greatest extent. Of course, it also reflects the social class they are in.
Students who cannot be admitted to key universities in Chinese mainland, as long as they have some family backgrounds, are generally middle-class in the lower reaches, and the first choice will definitely be Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Russia, and Australia.
If the middle class is in the upper reaches or the affluent class, the first choice will become the developed countries in Europe and the United States. Students studying in ordinary universities are often from families of workers, peasants and soldiers, and a few are children of middle-class or township-level cadres.
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