Chapter 33 Something Strange
After praising Joseph, Tang Cheng saw that Zhou Hongxiang didn't seem to understand the things on the table, so he took one and helped Zhou Hongxiang buckle it on his belt. "I designed this thing myself, and when I used to go out with a gun, I either used a shoulder strap holster, or I didn't use a holster, and I just inserted the pistol into the lower back. The use of shoulder strap holsters is more secretive, but when the gun is drawn, it will be a little hindered to delay the speed of the gun. ”
"And to this way of not using a holster, directly inserting the pistol in the back waist position, one is that the concealment is not good, and the second is that there will be a possibility of misfire. The quick-draw holster I designed can be attached and removed from the belt at any time, and the grip of the pistol is not in the holster, which makes it easy for the user to quickly dispense the gun. In front of Joseph and Zhou Hongxiang, Tang Cheng covered the holster on his belt with his shirt, and then turned sideways, and his right hand was already pulled out of the quick-draw holster.
"Oh God! You're so fast, you're definitely a natural assassin! Joseph naturally knew the purpose of Tang Cheng's design of this kind of quick-draw holster, after the finished product was made, Joseph privately practiced wearing this quick-draw holster, after he saw Tang Cheng's gun-out speed with his own eyes, he immediately secretly congratulated himself in his heart that he was not Tang Cheng's opponent, otherwise he would die a miserable death.
According to Tang Cheng's gun-out action, after Zhou Hongxiang practiced several times in a row, he immediately fell in love with this kind of holster fastened on his belt, and when Zhou Hongxiang practiced quickly drawing the gun alone, Tang Cheng and Joseph talked in a low voice on the side. "Joseph, you'd better not pass on this new quick-draw holster design, and it's not suitable for military equipment." Taking the cigarette handed by Joseph, Tang Cheng paid attention to Zhou Hong's makeup with the corner of his eye, and secretly lowered his voice.
"Tang, we are friends, I have helped you so much, but you are too stingy!" Joseph muttered in a disgruntled voice, then opened a drawer, took out a bunch of keys from it, and opened the safe disguised behind the oil painting in front of Tang Cheng. "These are some contracts related to the new sapper shovel, and there are some companies in the United States, Britain and Germany, according to the contract, Germany is a one-time buyout authorization, and the United States and Britain are profit sharing."
"Well, you don't have to explain it to me, I know what profit sharing means, which means that for every one of these sapper shovels they produce or sell, we can divide the money in proportion to the sale price." Joseph's chatter made Tang Cheng a little impatient, and he directly grabbed the stack of copies of the contract and roughly flipped through the pages one by one. Joseph knew that Tang Cheng could speak English, but he didn't know that Tang Cheng was just a half-baked English level who could speak and write.
"According to what we said before, you can get sixty percent of these profits." Flipping through the copies of the contracts, Tang Cheng finally got to know what Joseph was most interested in. promised to give Joseph sixty percent of the benefits, which was when Tang Cheng handed over the design drawings to Joseph, and he had already thought about it repeatedly. Tang Cheng originally thought that something like a sapper shovel, which did not have much technical content, would end up being just a one-shot deal, but he did not expect that Joseph would be able to sign a sharing contract with American and British companies.
Tang Cheng felt that the sixty percent benefits were not wronged, and Joseph, who was positively confirmed by Tang Cheng, also felt that his efforts were not in vain, and the sixty percent benefits he got from Tang Cheng were enough to buy a big house and a new car in Berlin. "Don, do you have time tomorrow night? I've got a good bottle of wine, why don't you come to me tomorrow night, how about we have a drink?" "The important matter has been said, but Joseph suddenly sent an invitation to Tang Cheng.
Joseph was a guy like Grandet, and he would actually take the initiative to invite himself to drink, Tang Cheng turned his head to look at Joseph with a look of disbelief, he felt that this was a joke from the other party. Being stared at by Tang Cheng with distrust, Joseph said that he was very aggrieved, "Don, what kind of eyes are you, I really invited you, not joking with you!" Joseph's expression was very sincere, but the more he was like this, the more suspicious Tang Cheng became.
However, Tang Cheng did not refuse Joseph's invitation, but also made an excuse that he had something to do tomorrow night, and Joseph had no choice but to postpone the time until the night after tomorrow. "This foreigner is quite interesting! But I feel that he is a little dishonest, and his eyes are constantly rolling, just like a thief on the street! Leaving Joseph's leather store, Zhou Hongxiang told Tang Cheng about her influence on Joseph, but this evaluation was not too good. Tang Cheng could also hear that Zhou Hongxiang was vaguely hinting that he should not get too close to Joseph, so he immediately held back a smile and told Zhou Hongxiang about the relationship between himself and Joseph.
"You mean, that foreigner was doing something for you? But what if he takes your money and runs away? After figuring out the relationship between Tang Cheng and Joseph, Zhou Hongxiang's eyes immediately widened, expressing her consternation, she really couldn't figure out why Tang Cheng believed in a yellow-haired foreigner so much.
"You don't have to worry about this, although Joseph is a foreigner, he is a businessman. It is the nature of businessmen to value profits, but foreign businessmen like Joseph care a lot about the spirit of contract. This means that as long as there is no danger to my own safety or there are major external reasons, Joseph will never run away with my money. Besides, he knew very well that without me, he would lose the opportunity to make a lot of money. Because he makes money by hard work, and I make money by talent and creativity. ”
Tang Cheng's explanation, Zhou Hongxiang didn't understand everything, but seeing that Tang Cheng had absolute confidence in whether Joseph betrayed him, Zhou Hongxiang no longer dwelled on the topic just now. "Before I went to Shanghai, I handed him a design drawing for a new type of sapper shovel, which is what the two of us just talked about." Now that he has decided to accept Zhou Hongxiang, Tang Cheng has already decided to inform Zhou Hongxiang of some of his things, and what Joseph and he has handled is only the first thing.
"This new type of sapper shovel, to put it bluntly, is very simple, and there is no technical content at all. However, Joseph has done a good job, and through his connections, he has contacted a number of companies in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany. When all the money is recovered, it is impossible to say that you will be carefree for the rest of your life, but there is no problem in buying a big house and a small car. Tang Cheng opened the door of the sedan for Zhou Hongxiang, and at the same time slammed at the Western-style house on the street, and the latter immediately understood the meaning of Tang Cheng's words.
Just by designing a unique style of sapper shovel, you can buy a big house and a small car, and Zhou Hong, who sits in the car, has already been in a sluggish state, and secretly asks in his heart Is foreigner's money really so easy to make? "I just saw that you gave him another brown paper bag, is there another design for him?" Although design drawings are still a new term for Zhou Hongxiang, in Zhou Hongxiang's heart, the four words design drawings have been equated with money.
Tang Cheng, who was about to start the car, glanced at Zhou Hongxiang when he heard this, and saw Brother Kong Fang full of eyes in the other party's eyes, Tang Cheng immediately woke up, and then smiled angrily. "What good things are you thinking! I'm not a scientist, and I can make a design for money with a pat on the head. Besides, foreigners are not stupid, and they will never spend money on things that are useless to them. Zhou Hongxiang seemed a little disappointed by Tang Cheng's answer, but she was still interested in the paper bag that Tang Cheng gave to Joseph.
"You mean that paper bag! That was the title deed and some formalities of my old house, the whole family moved to Chongqing without falling behind, and the house here was kept there, and the housing prices in the city were so high now, I pondered to hand it over to Joseph to help me sell it. "What is in the brown paper bag, Tang Cheng naturally won't tell Zhou Hongxiang to know, because he knows that if Zhou Hongxiang knows the inside story, it means that Zhang Jianghe also knows.
Zhou Hongxiang obviously didn't suspect that Tang Cheng's answer just now was only lying to her, because Tang Cheng had mentioned the sale of the house to Zhang Jianghe at the dinner table a few days ago. The current mansion of the Tang family is not the so-called old mansion, so it is not a pity for Tang Cheng to sell it. Zhang Jianghe's yard is different, it is the old mansion where the Zhang family has lived for generations, Tang Cheng said several times, Zhang Jianghe never agreed to sell the yard.
"I think it's better to have a house, and I can earn more money if I don't have money, but if I don't have a house in the city, I can only sleep on the streets!" Perhaps influenced by Zhang Jianghe, Zhou Hong's way of persuading people is very tactful, and the original temperament of daring to say and do has changed a lot.
"This is not a matter of money, although I have not been in Shanghai for a long time, but depending on the momentum of the Japanese, starting a war is inevitable. Nanjing is the national capital, and the Japanese will not give up attacking here, and once war breaks out, only places with inconvenient transportation in the southwest will be safe. If Nanjing can be defended, it will be fine, but once it is lost, the people and houses left here will be at the mercy of the Japanese. ”
Although Zhou Hongxiang still didn't understand what the war meant, she was also shocked by Tang Cheng's words, and Tang Cheng sighed secretly when she saw this. "Don't tell Uncle Zhang about this, because this is just my own inference, it hasn't happened yet, and no one can say what will happen. Going south to Chongqing is just a precautionary measure for me, even if my inference is wrong, we have nothing to lose. ”
What Tang Cheng revealed in his mouth made Zhou Hongxiang instantly silent, according to the previous agreement with Zhang Jianghe, now is the time to go to the theater to pick him up. Tang Cheng and the two drove silently all the way to the place where Zhang Jianghe listened to the play, who knew that as soon as they entered the theater, they saw Zhang Jianghe was surrounded by some men in black at a table in the corner with a gloomy face, and there was a person sitting opposite him, Tang Cheng had good eyesight, and he recognized that person was Zhou Shenghai at a glance.