The ceiling fan was turned on all night, and when I opened my eyes, I was still spinning weakly.

In my previous life, I worked in Vietnam for a few years, and I was used to the fact that there is only a dry season and a rainy season, and there is no difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Take a shower, wash up, change into clean clothes, Chen's mother brought a hearty breakfast, and took away the dirty clothes by the way. As soon as he picked up the bowl and drank a small sip of porridge, Liu Jiachang hurriedly walked in with a briefcase.

The memories have been completely fused, and in his consciousness he is a small hair who grew up with a bare ass, and he is more like a brother than a brother.

Li Weimin pointed to the chair opposite, and naturally signaled: "If you haven't had breakfast, sit down and eat together." There are so many people who can't eat it, and it's not interesting to eat alone. ”

"I've eaten it early."

Liu Jiachang sat opposite, took something out of his bag, and teased with a wicked smile: "I think it's not interesting to eat alone, so call Lijun, she promises to skip class and come over to accompany you." ”

When Li Weimin mentioned this stubble, he was extremely depressed, and asked angrily: "Make fun of me again?" ”

"It's not teasing, it's envy." Liu Jiachang leaned over and said seriously: "For the people, the eighteenth change of the female university is not false at all. Lijun is no longer the yellow-haired girl she used to be, she is getting more and more beautiful, if it weren't for the marriage contract, I don't know how many people would pursue it. ”

"The ugly duckling has become a whooper swan?"

In my impression, the girl was really not beautiful, Li Weimin was suspicious, and Liu Jiachang exaggerated to the extreme: "What are you lying about?" According to my father, her mother, that is, your mother-in-law, was a famous beauty in the Fujian Gang back then. The mother is beautiful, and the daughter is naturally not far behind, don't get cheap and sell well. ”

Li Weimin, the minor's fiancée, was really a little curious, but there were too many things to do, and he really didn't have the time and energy to think about them, so he drank the porridge in two sips and put the dishes and chopsticks aside: "I bought the ticket, what number?" ”

"The planes at Tan Son Nhat Airport are all requisitioned to transport troops and arms to Dien Bien Phu, and they can only go from Hong Kong, Manila or Singapore, and the Great China Ship happened to be Saigon at night, and I sent a telegram to ask Jiabin to book you a ticket for the day after tomorrow, China Airlines, Chennault's."

It's okay to take your own ship to Hong Kong, Li Weimin nodded slightly, picked up the information that Liu Jiachang helped him find from the Chinese Council, and asked absentmindedly while looking at it: "Jiabin is 20 this year, right?" ”

"I just had my birthday last month, and it's rare for you to remember it."

Chaozhou people are an ethnic group of marine culture, full of vigor and vitality, flexible minds, adventurous, pioneering, dare to fight, fierce folk customs, xenophobia, typical marine character. At the same time, advocating business and valuing profits is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and there is a kind of businessman thinking of "starving to death and not working".

There is a saying in the Chaoshan area: "peace should make a lot of money", which means that if the family is safe, it is equal to making a lot of money without breaking the wealth.

The Hakka people are different, they have a strong traditional concept of thinking. Confucianism of advocating literature and light business, self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world is deep-rooted.

They have this nursery rhyme: "Toad Luo, cluck; Don't study, don't have a wife", regard angry reading and getting married and starting a family as a kind of causal relationship, this kind of career choice consciousness in children's songs, has been integrated into the socialization process of Hakka children since childhood.

Although the Liu family has served the Li family for several generations, the tradition of reading is still very good.

Lau Ka Cheong went to university in Sai Kung, and his younger brother Ka Bin went to Hong Kong and lived up to expectations and was admitted to the University of Hong Kong. According to Li Guanyun and Liu Jinghui's plan, he will become the senior manager of the Li family in Hong Kong in the future.

The combination of Teochew people and Hakka people, cultivated from generation to generation, has continued for three generations, with Chinese characteristics.

Li Weimin does not know the advantages and disadvantages of this family business model, but only knows that if history does not change, the information is Guo Yan, Xu Weibin, Xu Cecilia, Ma Guoxuan, Xu Youzhu, Lin Xingpan, Huang Xiangfeng, Xu Liubo, Lin Laili, Ma Songyan, Zhou Qinxuan, Huang Yukun, Yang Xinghao, Zhan Shi...... The famous Xidi tycoons will become history in the next few decades.

According to the statistics of the Chinese Council last year, overseas Chinese capital accounts for 80% of Vietnam's processing industry, 100% of wholesale and retail sales, 50% of retail sales, 90% of foreign trade, 80% of bank credit, and two-thirds of Vietnam's total annual investment.

There are more than 30 banks in Saigon, of which 24 are opened, controlled or participated by overseas Chinese; There are 11,792 businesses in Vietnam, 8,225 in Sai Di, and they are involved in industry.

In larger industries such as textiles, iron and steel, and chemicals, overseas Chinese capital accounts for 80%. Among the 18 enterprises in Vietnam with a turnover of more than 3 billion piastes (South Vietnamese currency), overseas Chinese account for 10.

Holding a huge amount of wealth and dominating many key economic industries in Vietnam, many owners have already become billionaires, such as "rice king", "kerosene king", "steel king", "machinery and equipment import and export king...... Wait a minute.

Liu Jiachang looked at the banking information in his hand and said in a low voice: "Dadong Bank and Yuehua Bank have our shares, and Chaozhou Bank is the major shareholder, so your father is very secretive about whether to leave, and he doesn't dare to show the news, otherwise it will be easy to be run." ”

Although the United States will not send troops in a short period of time, it will provide a large amount of assistance.

In the near future, South Vietnam's foreign exchange reserves will surpass that of the United Kingdom, and South Vietnam's Piaste will become a very strong currency, and the days of making money are ahead, not to mention that there is no plan to leave, and even if it does, it will not be now.

Li Weimin put down the information and asked quietly: "What about the Bank of East Asia?" ”

Liu Jiachang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "After your grandfathers separated, the business of Changfang Changzhi was mainly in Vietnam. Hong Kong fell again, the Japanese army issued military stamps, the banks had no business at all, closed their doors for several years, and they existed in name only. Your dad and my dad discussed a few days ago whether to simply turn it off. ”

If memory serves, the British government in Hong Kong will be increasingly strict in its supervision of banks. It's easy to close a bank, but it's hard to reopen it. In the next few decades, there will be fewer and fewer banks in Hong Kong, and they will not be able to close.

How could Li Weimin watch Hong Kong's first Chinese bank close its doors and say unquestioningly: "Don't close it for the time being, I will take over when I come back from the United States." ”

"Are you going to Hong Kong?"

"Find a professional banker, if you do everything yourself, my dad and your dad will be tired to death!"

Liu Jiachang couldn't help but smile and said: "Okay, you are the eldest young master, these family businesses will be handed over to you sooner or later, and you can toss as much as you want." ”

"It's not that I want to toss, it's a pity to turn it off."

Li Weimin smiled and said in a deep voice: "The war situation in the north is not good, and the south is in chaos, people have no confidence in the French, and they have little confidence in Piast. Jiachang, you run outside every day, is there any exchange of dollars on the black market, and how much is the black market exchange rate now? ”

"It's too much, the official price is $1 to 35 piastre, and the black market has fallen to $1 to 45 to 48 piastre, and several bank shareholders are having a headache, your father was going to go to the club, but when he was about to go out, he was invited by Manager Chen because of this."

Li Weimin didn't want to miss such an opportunity, so he pretended to ponder for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said: "The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the French are not so quick to finish." Besides, the French are finished and the Yankees, go back to my dad and talk to him, try to raise some dollars, send a few people to the black market, and exchange as many as they want. ”

Liu Jiachang was stunned, and said with a smile: "Young Master, the loser is not such a defeat for you, how much is still for how much." The risk is too great, and your dad won't agree to kill him. ”

The opportunity is once in a lifetime, and Li Weimin doesn't want to ask Li Guanyun for money like yesterday in the future, so he weighed it and said resolutely: "Support the bold to death, starve the cowardly, they don't dare to do it myself!" ”

"Do you have any money?"

"If I don't have money, I can raise funds, I can borrow money."

Li Weimin paused, leaned into his ear and smiled slyly: "What I say now doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that I won't say it in the future." With such a large family here, it should not be a problem to borrow one or two million dollars. ”

If he can really borrow, the consequences of the key borrowing will be serious.

Liu Jiachang was dumbfounded, and was about to speak, Li Weimin continued: "Boss Wu, Boss Qian, and Boss Zhang asked me to move around with their son more, and you can help me make a phone call from house to house and ask them to come out for a gathering." Don't tell my dad about raising money and borrowing money, and I don't have time, so you will be responsible for the black market after raising money. ”

"What are you really doing?"

"Don't worry, you can't lose."

"No, you can't hide such a big thing from them."

"Jiachang, if you tell them that I will break up with you!"

It is the tradition of the Li and Liu families to unite among their peers, and from the moment they were born, they were destined to work together, Liu Jiachang could only support him, staring at him and asking: "After the change, you don't have a collector, right?" ”

Over the next few years, there were too many investment opportunities.

Li Weimin replied without hesitation: "After the change, I set up a company in private, find a way to hoard some oilcloth, and then find a factory to process it into tents." To be bigger, to be strong, a tent should be able to accommodate at least one family, and it should last at least a year. ”

Thinking of Dien Bien Phu, which was at war, Liu Jiachang suddenly reacted, pointed to the north and asked, "You mean that the refugees will go south?" ”

"** Don't leave ten, prepare more, and sell it to the government when the time comes. The price of other things is transparent, and if it rises too much, it seems that it is difficult to make a fortune, so it is best to sell tents. And tents, if you want to buy them for a while, you may not be able to buy them. ”

"Okay, let's get out of the way, I'll make a bet with you."

Liu Jiachang remembered what happened last night, and suddenly changed his words: "For the people, what happened to you last night, talking to the students about that, making it look like a revolutionary party." ”

Li Weimin sighed and said worriedly: "Jiachang, you have been in Saigon, and you know very well that Vietnam's nationalist ideology is like an active volcano that is erupting, and no one knows how big the lava that endangers our lives and property will spray, how long it will take, and whether it will spray on our heads." I don't want to make any revolution, I just want to save my life. Save your own life, your family's life, your friends' lives, and your fellow countrymen's lives. Plan ahead now and don't be caught off guard in the future. ”

"If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world?"

"It's not as great as you say, I just want to do what I can."

None of the Li family survived, Li Guanyun stayed in Saigon to take care of the business, one of his uncles died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, one went to Myanmar to help transfer the anti-Japanese war materials and disappeared, and the other is said to have gone to Yan'an, there has been no news at all these years, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive.

It was normal for him to want to toss something, Liu Jiachang was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "For the people, I don't know what you want to do, but I will fully support you." It's going to be a few months to go to the United States, and if there's anything you can tell me. ”

"Thank you."

"Thank you for what you and I say."

"Okay," Li Weimin patted him on the arm and said thoughtfully, "Help me find an inconspicuous place for students to gather." Amin's kid is very clever, and he can understand it by telling him. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it when I get back."