Steamed rice cakes, pasted Spring Festival couplets, visited the flower market, the whole family had a reunion dinner, adults gave the children "red envelopes", went to the temple to burn incense and ask for blessings and wealth, in the past, the Chinese in Jakarta, Surabaya and other places spent the Spring Festival like this, this year seems to be a little different from previous years.

From Chinese New Year's Eve to the third day of the new year, all Chinese shops and supermarkets are closed, and the streets are full of lion and dragon dances. Adults and children wore their best new clothes, greeted relatives and friends, stood in the streets and cheered for the dragons and lions, and everyone's face was filled with joy from the bottom of their hearts. This joy is different from the previous one, it is a kind of jubilation after being freed.

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After the Spring Festival, the bridges and railways in Jakarta and Surabaya, which were damaged by the guerrillas, quickly became lively construction sites. A large number of Indonesian workers, paid 100,000 rupiah a day (the Indonesian currency has depreciated by 54 percent, or only 1.5 US dollars), are happily repairing the bridges. Although the price of goods is higher now than before, it is difficult to find a job of 100,000 rupees / day, and a hard day is enough to feed the family! In addition, lunch is also provided on the construction site, and the food is better than during Eid al-Fitr.

One and a half dollars/God! With such a low salary and such a heavy job, even the workers of the Hongtu Construction Company, the base camp of the Xingtian Society, felt that they were not wronged at all by the bigwigs to be sent to East Timor. If these cattle know that the Chinese are paid more than 20 times their salary, then they must not rebel?

As Gao Ping took the remaining more than 1,000 Chinese workers of Hongtu Company in Indonesia to the newly independent Republic of Timor-Leste to build the Dili waterworks built by the Chinese government, the newly established Jakarta and Surabaya infrastructure investment companies recruited 10,000 workers in one go. This is also a helpless thing, who let those Chinese take away all the construction machinery, and the first thing the government has to solve is the problem of unemployment?

However, more than 50,000 new jobs were created in one month, which gave the entire Indonesian society a shot in the arm, and although the unemployment rate remained high, the social order remained stable. In particular, with the repeal of the discriminatory laws in Parliament, the return of a large number of Chinese businessmen who had fled, the renovating of destroyed shops, and the reopening of closed small and medium-sized factories, Indonesia's economy finally began to slowly recover, and the unemployment rate began to fall.

It's a good start!

In an office of the Surabaya 'Chinese Freemasonry', Li Chengkai, who had been busy all day, carried an office chair on his back, rubbed his sour eyes, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Mr. Sun's $6 million from Indonesia's wealthy people was not spent in vain. Giving Chinese New Year gifts to slum children and providing a large number of jobs for the poor, Indonesians living at the bottom of the social ladder began to accept the Chinese who were richer than them, and began to gradually abandon the notion that 'the Chinese have robbed them of their wealth'.

'Knock knock', after a knock on the door, the office door was opened, Li Chengkai didn't need to look up to know that it was Wang Zhongsheng, only this kid would be like this, knocking on the door just to make a show. Especially after occupying his office, he deliberately did so, as if he wanted to show off to his subordinates that he was also Mr. Sun's classmate.

"Big guy, what happened to what I told you last time?"

When Wang Zhongsheng sat down on the desk informally, Li Chengkai opened his eyes and pretended not to know: "What's the matter?" ”

"Come on, come with me? What about loans? ”

Li Chengkai smiled, leaned back on the office chair and didn't move, "After the review, I'm going to issue you a loan of 312 million Hong Kong dollars, with a five-year term and an annual interest rate of 3%, didn't I ask someone to send you the text?" ”

Wang Zhongsheng's face darkened, glared at Li Chengkai and said, "General Manager Li, is it interesting to play this game with old classmates?" ”

Li Chengkai also removed the smile on his face, and said with a straight face: "President Wang, you have to make one thing clear, I am the general manager of the Surabaya Bank of the Far Eastern Bank first, and then a member of the Freemasonry. Those members of your club are not eligible for loans, and I can't have broken the rules to issue loans! ”

Wang Zhongsheng immediately turned his face, if he hadn't stopped him last time, he would definitely have been able to ask Ziming for a loan, "You, you cheated me?" ”

Li Chengkai didn't bother to pay attention to Wang Zhongsheng, who was embarrassed and angry, and put the text and stationery into the prepared cardboard box, preparing to leave the office that had been used here for half a month. It's true that everyone is classmates, but what is more important in the workplace is principles, and if you give up principles, it will not be beneficial to everyone.

Seeing Li Chengkai like this, Wang Zhongsheng's heart was half cold, and he hurriedly pressed the cardboard box and said in a deep voice: "Akai, two brothers in one world, let me die if you die, right?" ”

Li Chengkai stopped to clean up, looked at Wang Zhongsheng carefully, and saw that he was not a fake, so he sighed and said: "Ah Sheng, I really didn't expect that you didn't even understand some of the minimum rules, so you dared to follow Guangzi and them out to mix, and actually let you get mixed in this position." ”

Wang Zhongsheng suddenly felt a little humiliated, how could the cause he fought for become a mess?

"Let's just talk about you getting loans for members, are you sure you don't have any selfish distractions? No way, I'm afraid you have the heart to buy people's hearts. Freemasonry will eventually go to elections, and as long as you win over the members, you will be able to climb higher in the future.

If you really want to talk about it, it's not wrong that you have this thought, who doesn't want to climb higher after taking this road? As long as you don't engage in those ghost tricks, no one can say a word, but you are wrong, and you should not take advantage of other people's interests to win people's hearts for yourself.

Don't explain what kind of people Brother and Brother Zhong are, Sun Lei is not a simple character, can you hide from them with your little abacus? ”

With a few words, Li Chengkai broke through the most secret thoughts in Wang Zhongsheng's heart, and couldn't help but blush and white for a while, eager to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Cut, what's so embarrassing about that? Fame and fortune, who doesn't like it? In order to get Brother Ming's appreciation, I wanted to be his servant and wait for his daily life every day. ”

Li Chengkai scolded, stuffed a cigarette into Wang Zhongsheng's mouth, and pointed: "You still have a mistake, that is, to press people with a big hat." It's right to help members fight for opportunities, but you can't stand on the moral plane to demand others and kidnap others with moral concepts. In Brother Ming's words, this is the most immoral thing.

Helping those members is a favor, not helping is a reason, everyone has their own rights, helping or not helping is people's freedom, why do you force it? ”

Wang Zhongsheng's face was hot for a while, and he bowed his head and was silent.

After all, classmates are classmates, Li Chengkai saw his old classmates like this, and couldn't help but point: "Ah Sheng, you can give up glory and wealth and pursue your own ideals, which we all admire." Even Brother Ming said privately that among the group of classmates at CUHK, you belong to him who is blind, but he didn't expect that you, who were born rich and noble, were actually an idealist. ”

"Me"

Wang Zhongsheng said 'I', and was silent again, Li Chengkai patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "It's nothing, idealists can't be a little selfish?" Brother Ming is an idealist, right, doesn't he still pursue fame?

I'm leaving, and I'll give you a few words before leaving: Freemasonry is a mutual aid organization, but it will definitely not be a welfare home. For people like Brother Ming and Brother Zhong, they will do their part to help their own race, but they will definitely not help anyone without principles like saints.

Work hard, and when Brother Ming settles down the more than 1,000 brothers, he will gradually let go and gradually hand over the power to you branch leaders. When the time comes, don't make the same mistakes, or you will fall on your heels sooner or later. ”

That's right, Sun Ziming and his family founded this organization just to unite everyone and do their part of the obligation to the ethnic group to which they belong. If overseas Chinese want to get ahead, they must always rely on themselves, unless they can bring benefits to the Far Eastern Group, and only then can they get the support of the Far Eastern Group.

For example, those members who receive support can not only provide a stable source of raw materials for China, but also allow Far Eastern Group to diversify its investment and enter new business areas.