Macy's stores are located all over the United States, and their business representatives sailed from San Francisco to five merchants along the coast of China, a more than one-month boat trip.

What are Macy's commercial representatives doing in China?

Li Kangping could guess with his toes that American sellers wanted to do business directly with Chinese manufacturers, and American capitalists did not allow middlemen to make the difference.

The biggest difficulty faced by Li Kangping is that even if he has a business license in the United States, he cannot control the sales channels in the United States, and he ships mahjong to the United States, and if there is no mature and perfect sales channel, the mahjong can only be stacked in the warehouse. What's more, Li Kangping does not have a business license in the United States, and the $28,000 he earned is purely a white wolf with empty gloves in the form of exploiting loopholes.

The big capitalists in the United States can tolerate you taking advantage of loopholes once or twice, but you will never be able to exploit loopholes forever.

The situation is clear, and Macy's bought Li Kangping's 400 mahjong pairs for $28,000 to test the waters.

As a result of testing the waters, Macy's decided to abandon the Lee middleman in Guangzhou and run the mahjong business on its own.

Li Kangping could afford to put it down, and he politely said goodbye and left Samuel's office.

The manager is nothing more than a wage earner, and the real person in Macy's is Strauss, who owns the equity.

Li Kangping drove to Strauss House on Long Island, where he was guided by a French butler through a tall Gothic library with carved oak inlaid on the walls, a technique that only Chinese craftsmen can perfect.

It can be seen that Charles Strauss liked and understood Chinese craftsmanship, and as for whether these carved oaks were processed by Chinese craftsmen in the United States, or migrated from ancient Chinese buildings as a whole, Li Kangping is not sure, after all, his aesthetic level in traditional Chinese skills is limited.

Walking out of the library is a small garden with a round table in which Strauss feasted Li Kangping.

A plump Polish maid brought silver cutlery, and a sturdy Swedish manservant waited on the side. The dozens of servants at Strauss House construct a map of Europe, you meet Rucia, Maria and Jorgensen, you travel from southern Europe to central Europe, and finally to northern Europe, where you dine with a German Jew.

"Li, among these Chinese students, you are the most special." Strauss said, "They were busy with their studies, and you and I started a business, a business that had never been done before in --- United States. ”

Li Kangping picked up the foie gras and put it in his mouth, and he said, "Mr. Strauss, thank you for your hospitality." The principle of my business with you is win-win, so can we always win-win? ”

"Lee, you know, I'm just one of the shareholders of Macy's, a $50,000 business, I can make a decision in a matter of seconds, and my decision will be executed very quickly. However, a business of $500,000 or $1 million needs to be judged at the shareholders' meeting. Strauss smoked a cigar and tasted wine, without moving a knife or fork.

"Got it, I got it."

Li Kangping has been taught, he has really been taught, and the Jews are really good at doing business.

In just a day or two, Macy's Jewish shareholders made an estimate of the prospects of the mahjong business in the United States, and immediately sent business representatives to China.

It is not unreasonable that anti-Semitic sentiment is gradually spreading in the United States, who wants to be reduced to a wage earner of the Jewish capitalist group?

But then again, the United States is a country where even if you defeat the Jewish capitalists, there will be WASP capitalists or capitalists of other origins.

Marx tells us that as long as there are interests, capitalists will not disappear. If the profit exceeds 100%, the capitalists dare to try anything, even assassinating the president of the United States.

Marx also said: If you don't have the slightest desire for wealth, then you are just.

However, Li Kangping has the desire to do this, so he can't get up for the time being.

"Lee, I heard that you are the inventor of the American mahjong scoring rules?" Strauss asked with interest.

"Sort of." Li Kangping said.

Strauss added: "You should have your own legal company in the United States, and if you pay taxes to the United States, the United States will protect you." ”

Li Kangping was embarrassed: "But I don't know how to handle the foreign investment procedures, and even if I know, the approval process will probably take several years." ”

Strauss smiled: "Samuel is very experienced in this area, he will help you activate the New York State Foreign Investment Act, and what you have to do is fill out a few forms, sign an agreement, and that's it." I don't think that will delay you much, will it, my physicist? ”

Li Kangping raised his wine glass: "There is nothing better than this." ”

"Lee, I like you as a physicist, but business is business, you understand?"

"Mr. Strauss, I have learned a lot from you, yes, business is business, I came to America, I sat in your back garden and had a delicious lunch with you, I chose to follow the rules of the game in America, and your rules."

"Cheers."

"Cheers."

That's right, business is business.

Round1, our Guangzhou Li is slightly inferior and admits defeat.

At the Columbia laboratory, the results of the fifth experiment came out at one o'clock in the afternoon, and it failed.

When Li Kangping took over at 11 p.m., the sixth experiment was carried out at the ninth hour.

At six o'clock the next morning, the professor and Allen had not yet arrived at the laboratory.

Li Kangping dismantled the glass plate and observed by himself whether the silver layer pattern had been produced.

No pattern was seen, and the sixth experiment failed.

The professor was very stubborn, and he insisted on failing ten times and then stopping work.

You see, the professor used the word "failure", and the professor was mentally prepared to fail ten times in a row.

Mr. Li's foreign investment license was followed up by Mr. Samuel, who met him at nine a.m., in front of a five-story gray building in East Harlem.

"King's Building, yes, I like the name." Li Kangping said.

The name of this building is King Building, and its shape does not have the momentum of a royal palace, it is just an ordinary commercial building, and it is better than the name of the building.

"The King's House is the private property of Mr. Charles Strauss and you can rent it here for a long time, if you wish." Samuel was very familiar with the King's Building, and he led Li Kangping into the building, and the two took the elevator upstairs.

"On the first floor there are shops, on the second floor there are several bond advisory firms, on the third floor there are syndicate newspapers, on the fourth floor there are fruit companies--- but I've never seen them in the fruit business."

When the two came to the fifth floor, Samuel said, "There is a magazine on the fifth floor, run by a few young people. Mr. Li, please come here, this will be your company's office. ”

Mr. Li stopped at the door of an office with a sign on it: Leiden-Cohen.

"Mr. Lee, under New York State law, you are going to invest $28,000 in Leiden-Cohen, New York, to become the new owner of the company, are you willing to do that?" Samuel asked.

Li Kangping smiled: "Why not? ”

"Boss, please come inside."

Samuel took out the key to open the door to the office of Leiden Cohen, and the two entered the room.

The office was empty, with ten desks with telephones, document bars, typewriters, and other office furniture including filing cabinets, electric stoves, coffee makers, and so on.

All in all, Leiden-Cohen looks like a regular company where employees take a vacation.

"Leiden-Cohen, what kind of business does it do?" Li Kangping asked.

"It's a trading company, but it's doing poorly and it's in bankruptcy." Samuel opened the filing cabinet and retrieved a pile of materials and put them on the table, saying, "It doesn't matter if all of the business materials of Leiden Cohen are here, you can look at them or not." ”

Out of an abundance of caution, Li carefully flipped through the business information of Leiden-Cohen.

Leiden-Cohen was founded in 1920 as a new company just last year.

In the past year, Leiden-Cohen has made a total of eight trades, involving pencils, pens, ink and other stationery, with a total transaction value of 1,768 US dollars, and paid taxes on time with no bad records.

To Li Kangping's surprise, the current owner of Leiden-Cohen is Samuel.

Samuel isn't a worker, he's a boss.

"Mr. Lee, you signed this agreement to deposit $28,000 into this account, and Leiden-Cohen is yours."

"Samuel, can I hire a lawyer to help me with this investment and transfer business?"

"Of course, it's your right."

"Shall we see you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

"No problem, the key is given to you, and you and your lawyer can come and review the documents at any time."

Mr. Li paid $500 and hired a lawyer.

In fact, the lawyer only worked for Li Kangping for three days.

Under the extremely efficient operation of professionals, Li Kangping became the owner of 100% of Leiden-Cohen Company.

Li Kangping did not want to continue the name of Leiden-Cohen, and he wanted to change the name of his company.

Since I do business in the U.S. and make American money, it looks like my business name should be American.

The first company name that came to Li Kangping's mind was "Manhattan Company".

However, in the New York State Directory of Companies, there are already people who have registered "Manhattan Corporations".

Li Kangping's word Zhuxi, he had an idea and took the English homonym of Zhuxi Zeus.

Unfortunately, the Zeus company was also registered.

That would have to be called Manhattan Zeus Company.