Chapter 116: Night Talk
Meng Xin came back a few days later than Lin Qi, and after returning home, the two naturally played the role of a loving couple. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The only flaw in info may be that it did not have a child as soon as the parents wished.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the two were even poured a stomach of wine by the parents of both sides, and then they were driven into the new house arranged for them by the family.
"Hey, to be honest, I haven't seen you for more than half a year, and the employees of your company say they can't be contacted, what are you usually doing?" Meng Xin asked quietly in order to alleviate the embarrassment of the atmosphere.
"Mainly running business out there. Lin Qi said, "In fact, it is more difficult for companies to make money by starting their own businesses. You can only find a little business outside that can make quick money, of course, after the company grows larger, you gradually don't need to look for money outside. ”
"Illegal business?" Meng Xin was a little skeptical.
"Not really. Lin Qi shook his head and said, "There is speculation, and illegal business will not be done." Even if there is a problem, it is a loophole abroad, and it has nothing to do with the country. ”
It is common for Chinese to observe ordinary ceremonial orders and certain morals, but, more often, Chinese people like to exploit loopholes, such as bribery, such as speculation.
Especially overseas, the probability of Chinese people exploiting loopholes and legal loopholes will be infinitely magnified. Of course, not only the Chinese, but in fact, the businessmen of all over the world are the most adventurous at best, and the most adventurous at worst are the kind of profiteers who were described hundreds of years ago as the kind of profiteers whose pores are bleeding at the risk of being hanged with 300 percent of their profits.
For example, in the Opium War in China's modern history, those British opium dealers cultivated opium in India and sold it all over the world. These bold businessmen know that they may violate Chinese laws and risk killing their heads, but they will also have nothing to fear, because they do not violate the British force, at most they will risk failure and return to the UK. Perhaps, these opium dealers and warmongers are law-abiding gentlemen in their homeland, but they will never obey the law overseas.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, businessmen from Europe, the United States and Japan also used illegal means to steal the Soviet heritage by rapidly corrupting the governments and authorities of the disintegrated countries. These profiteers from developed countries, with abundant capital, have taken the upper route, and belong to the big thieves of modern society. In contrast, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, China basically made a small fuss, and the biggest deal was only to exchange domestic daily necessities for Soviet planes. Some countries that have already had big economic problems, such as Greece, Italy, Spain, and the like, basically relied on printing a large amount of currency and sweeping all kinds of assets in the Soviet Union, and lived a good life for a while. Later, European countries introduced the euro and abolished their original national currencies, which further caused the former Soviet Union countries, which held the currencies of the former eurozone, to suffer huge losses.
The traders in the country are still relatively restrained. But overseas, except for some big companies and big brands that talk about word-of-mouth, they are ready to do long-term business, and they are relatively well-behaved. Ordinary traders can evade taxes and smuggle at best, and at worst obtain excess profits by bribing officials and using clearly illegal acts.
Now, of course, there is no longer such a large-scale speculative opportunity as it was during the collapse of the Soviet Union. But Chinese speculators have spread to every corner of the world. Taking advantage of loopholes and going through the back door has gradually become a secret business strategy for many Chinese people.
The more sophisticated Chinese businessmen will certainly make a fortune at the risk of being hanged overseas, but they will take care to preserve their way out. Profiteers who are not very particular about even their own people are pitted, for example, the once notorious Fuqing Gang, which specializes in cheating overseas Chinese. Even if the later Fuqing Gang wanted to wash their name, their reputation had been stinky for decades.
Many of the businesses run by overseas Chinese do take the risk of breaking the law, but the Chinese are relatively cautious, and even if they take risks, most of them choose things with relatively low punishment after the fact, and the one with relatively low punishment and amazing profits is undoubtedly to open a casino. From north to south, there is an encirclement of illegal casinos around China's territory......
Whether it's South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia...... There are such gray casinos everywhere, and the main customers are Chinese gamblers, in addition to the locals.
Every year, it is conservatively estimated that more than hundreds of billions of domestic capital are transported overseas because of these gray casinos.
Meng Xin suspected that Lin Qi was gambling.
"Gambling is nothing, what I do, do not violate domestic laws and regulations, do not cheat Chinese. After something happens, you can confidently ask the embassy to bring people back to China intact. Lin Qi smiled and said, "In addition, there are some confidentiality agreements involved. By the way, just talk about me, what about you?"
"Me?" Meng Xin said proudly, "The industry I am engaged in is a relatively deep technical threshold, and I guess you can't understand it." I can only tell you that the technology we are studying can be used in domestic lithography machines to narrow the gap between domestic lithography machines and international semiconductor giants. It can be said that within three years, the popularization of 7nm lithography machines in China is no longer a problem. ”
"So powerful?" Lin Qi couldn't help but be surprised.
In the parallel world, Lin Qi fully felt the gap between the technical level of China and overseas. However, this side of the world, one after another, is regarded as a technology that cannot catch up with the international advanced level in China, but it has reached the international advanced level one after another.
Of course, the acceleration of technological breakthroughs in many fields is also a sign that it has been since the 90s, and this phenomenon has begun to accelerate in the 21st century. On the one hand, this is because after the reform and opening up, the speed of domestic capital accumulation accelerated, and there was money to invest in more scientific research projects. On the other hand, it is the self-motivation of the Chinese, who are in the forefront of the world, and have a good development environment, which can naturally create miracles.
In many parts of Africa and South America, many former colonial countries have not built a single railway for decades or even nearly a hundred years after independence. Most of the infrastructure was built by the colonists of the former suzerain.
It is unimaginable that a new railway has not been built for decades or even hundreds of years. And the kind of countries that do not work hard are very common in many parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Even so, India's Ah San, who is often ridiculed in China, is of course a strange role compared with China. But let's be honest, compared to most developing countries, India is already a self-motivated country.
India's only flaw may be the caste system, an anachronistic feudal remnant that has constrained its development.