Welcoming Aoyama in the office was Shutaro Tokura, director of the overseas division of Panasonic Densho, who is also the person in charge of the Philippine region, and when he saw Aoyama coming in, he greeted him warmly: "Welcome, welcome, I have long heard Jiancun say that Aoyama is a first-class talent, this time our Panasonic Philippines branch is really like a tiger with wings!"

Qingshan hurriedly said modestly: "You have won the award, may I ask what kind of work I am responsible for this time?"

Shutaro Togura nodded to Kenmura and said, "Kenmura, you can talk about it specifically." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Aoyama, let me introduce you to the fact that we have established two joint ventures in the Philippines with local investors. One of them is an electrical appliance factory, employing more than 1,500 people, and is a large production plant with about 30 Japanese cadres, located about 40 minutes outside of Manila.

The products include brown production lines such as TVs, stereos, and karaoke, and white production lines such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, and electric fans. At present, the production line is working in three shifts. Jian Cun slowly introduced.

"Huh, you have to start work in the middle of the night?" Aoyama asked, a little surprised.

Shutaro Togura explained, "It's so hot here, so it's better to work at night. ”

"Oh, I see. Aoyama suddenly realized.

"The other is a sales company, and I'm the president of this company, and it's about 20 minutes to drive east from Manila. There are about 300 employees, but there are only five Japanese cadres, including you. ”

"Well, in other words, I'm going to work for this company in the future?" asked Aoyama.

Kenmura nodded and replied, "Well, that's right, but we don't work as Panasonic overseas correspondents, but as employees of local corporations. In other words, it is not Panasonic's salary that is received, but the pesos of the local boss. (The peso is the name of the currency of the Philippines, and one peso is equivalent to one cent and three yuan.) ）

"And who is the local boss?" asked Aoyama.

Shutaro Togura explained: "The owner of the factory and the sales company is the same person, named Carlos Mendoza, and he is a very obnoxious old Spanish man. In terms of the proportion of shares, Mendoza accounts for 40 percent of the factory, 52 percent for Panasonic, and 8 percent for others, and Mendoza accounts for 55 percent for the sales company, and Panasonic only has a little more than 40 percent. ”

"Then why doesn't the company invest a little more?" asked Aoyama, puzzled.

"You know, the Philippines now has a foreign debt of $30 billion, and the Aquino government is in dire need of foreign investment. Basically, the Philippine joint venture company is only allowed to be 40 percent foreign-owned, but the joint venture company will export products and earn foreign exchange, so the Philippine government has revised the regulations, if the export ratio exceeds 70 percent, then there is no problem that the company is 100 percent owned by foreign capital, but now Panasonic's export ratio is less than 20 percent.

In other words, although Panasonic has taken the lead in the factory, Panasonic will not be able to take the lead if the sales company does not find a way to increase the export rate. I, on the other hand, am the president of this troublesome company, and you will serve as my deputy as a business strategy consultant. ”

After introducing the company's situation, Jian Cun took Aoyama to his residence, and said with a little embarrassment: "According to the company's regulations, employees with families can live in independent houses in high-end residential areas, but single people like you can only live in single apartments." ”

Qingshan hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's easy to live here." ”

Maybe he felt embarrassed, so Jiancun thought for a while, and then said: "Eh, Qingshan, your luggage hasn't arrived yet, right? ”

After settling down in the place to live, Jiancun took Aoyama to a high-end club called "Orange" to pick up the wind, and Jiancun said proudly: "Aoyama, how is it, not bad? This is a high-end club that only foreign-funded large enterprises and local wealthy businessmen will come to, and it is estimated that it is also the most Filipino place in the whole of Manila." ”

Then he pointed to the young lady who accompanied the wine and said, "Don't underestimate them, they are all college students, but unlike those college students in Roppongi, they all have to work hard to make money."

It's a place in the Philippines where men are lazy, so a lot of women are excellent. And there is a very strange tradition in the Philippines, that is, if there is a child in the family who is smarter, then everyone will put all their efforts into this child, even if the family is not rich, they must provide for her to go to college, but when she graduates from college, she will have to rely on her income to support the whole family. That's pretty much the case with the girls in this shop. ”

"Well, typical dependency structure. Aoyama summed it up briefly.

Then he continued: "But the unemployment rate in this country is extremely high, and there are very few good jobs. So in order to feed a large family, even if you study the electronics industry, you can't get a bar to accompany you in the end. ”

"Is the income of the wine lady high?" asked Aoyama.

Kenmura shook his head and replied, "It's not high, it's only 3,000 pesos (about 20,000 yen) a month." If you are short of money, you have to sell your body. ”

After chatting for a while, Jian Cun received a call that he had to go to a friend's place temporarily, and Aoyama took a taxi back to the hotel alone. On the way, the driver suddenly asked Aoyama, "Sir, is it your first time in Manila?"

"yes, yes. ”

"Oh, I just look at it. But to be honest with you, the girls in the store you just went to are so boring, I'll take you to a good place, where the beauties are very enthusiastic. The driver said with an obscene expression.

Qingshan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I have to get up early tomorrow, go back to the hotel directly." "In fact, Qingshan is not at ease with this driver, for fear of falling into some trap, after all, he has just arrived in the Philippines, if something happens on the first day, then how can he hold his head up.

Just as the two were talking, the driver suddenly found that there was a roadblock in front of him, and went down to ask before saying to Qingshan: "Oh, it's so miserable, a child who stole something in this neighborhood was killed by the police!"

Aoyama curiously stepped forward to take a look, and was horrified to find that it was actually the little boy who sold him newspapers and cigarettes at noon.