Chapter 50: The Magic of Stockings
Jewish businessmen once said that the business of women and children is the best thing to do. This is absolutely true, in Japan at the moment, two things are the most popular, one is chocolate, in fact, it is not just chocolate, but the Japanese people have a special love for sweets, but now there are fewer and fewer channels to obtain sugar; The other is nylon stockings.
The emergence of nylon stockings can be said to be an epoch-making leg revolution in the history of women's clothing, its magic to women is unimaginable to men, the sexy legs wrapped in translucent stockings not only adjust the leg lines to a certain extent, but also inadvertently exude an ambiguous sexy taste, so in 1940 when the first batch of nylon stockings went on the market, although as high as two dollars a pair, 72,000 pairs of stockings were still sold out in just one day, the same year, It also reached a terrifying 6.4 million pairs of sales. Unfortunately, during World War II, nylon was listed as a military product, so stockings were sold in limited quantities, and even in order to support the front-line war, American women began to boycott stockings painfully (interested friends can go to see the movie "The Last Subway").
With the stationing of the U.S. military and the impact of American culture, nylon stockings have also begun to quietly change the aesthetics of Japanese women, especially among the two kinds of women, nylon stockings are extremely popular, one is the woman of a wealthy family out of novelty and increase their own charm to buy a large number of people, the other part is as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Pan Pan, they originally bought stockings to cater to the aesthetic views of American soldiers, and then began to gradually like this kind of good things that can enhance their feminine charm, therefore, Nylon stockings also gradually conquered Japanese women, and there was even a ridiculous thing where girls slept with American soldiers just for two pairs.
Originally, nylon stockings were only sold in the supply centers of the US military, and the Japanese would definitely not be able to buy them, and the US military also supplied them in limited quantities according to their grades, and of course, most of them ended up on the black market all over Japan. Since 1947, when Downing's nylon factory was established in Tokyo, the Allied Command began to purchase nylon stockings from Downing, but recently due to a large increase in parachute orders, the nylon factory did not have enough raw materials and personnel to produce anything else, so the nylon stockings on the Japanese black market were out of stock.
This is a huge disaster for women who are used to nylon stockings, so the price of nylon stockings on the black market has skyrocketed, but unfortunately no one can get much supply. There are so many girls under Morimura, there are no nylon stockings, this temptation is discounted a lot, and he also carries the tasks of many high-ranking officials and giant businessmen, but after searching all the channels, he found that there are no goods, and there are more than one wave of people doing the same thing.
In the end, he had to hit the idea to the ultimate source of nylon stockings --- Tangning's nylon factory, at first he didn't dare to come to Tangning, because although he dealt with Tangning twice, he always felt that Tangning hated him very much, and he could only touch his nose when he came to the door rashly, so he wanted to ask Matsuda Yoshiko for help.
In fact, Morimura and Matsuda Yoshiko are old acquaintances, firstly, it is impossible not to deal with the underworld in his business, and secondly, Matsuda Yoshiko's intelligence network inevitably needs beautiful girls, so the two are very familiar, but when Matsuda Yoshiko heard his intentions, he suggested that he go directly to Tang Ning to tell the truth openly, because according to her understanding of Tang Ning, although he doesn't like Morimura very much, he still won't mix too much personal feelings for business, At the same time, she also picked a girl that Downing likes among the girls under Morimura and asked Morimura to bring it as a meeting gift.
After listening to Morimura's explanation, Tang Ning thought about it carefully, and then said: "I understand what you mean, but the current situation is like this, we have received a large order, and we must ensure the production of this batch of parachutes, so there are not so many raw materials used to produce nylon stockings, but it is not impossible, but I don't know if you can accept it." ”
Morimura was almost desperate when he heard Tang Ning's words in front of him, but when he heard that there was a solution in the back, he suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly replied: "Captain, you don't know how short of stockings is in the black market now, as long as you have a way here, I will definitely be able to accept it." ”
Seeing this, Tang Ning continued: "In fact, the solution is very simple, we can use the leftovers of the production of parachutes to produce nylon stockings, but in this way, the quality of the stockings will definitely be affected, I don't know if you want such stockings?" ”
Morimura's little eyes rolled: "As long as it looks okay on the outside, this thing is originally bad, and no one can wear a pair for a year, so now as long as it is in stock, there is no worry about not being able to sell it." ”
Tang Ning nodded and said, "Okay, you send Mingzi to my house, and I'll go and study how this matter should be carried out, and then I'll write to you." ”
Out of the office, Tang Ning brought the department heads responsible for production and research and development of the nylon factory to a meeting, and finally decided to intercept one-fifth of the nylon in the production of this batch of parachutes, plus the leftovers left over from the production of parachutes, to produce nylon stockings, but the quality of stockings is required to be lowered by a grade, but the whole process must be strictly confidential, and the escort team and the inspection team will closely supervise the whole process.
Tang Ning did this with two considerations, one is that he wants to take this opportunity to make a little more, although he has opened a lot of factories during this time, but because the investment is too large, and his consumption in other aspects is too high, so he does not have much living money in his hands, since there is an opportunity to make money now, he does not want to miss it. And he didn't point to Morimura, after the meeting, he found Matsuda Yoshiko, through her channels, began to fully distribute nylon stockings to the black market, although the black market is a place where the weak eat the strong, but for this kind of scarce materials has always been a green light, because the black market also knows the importance of passenger flow, so that the two-pronged approach, should be able to ship a large number of goods, and quickly return funds.
On the other hand, Tang Ning wants to mix sand for Mr. Jiang, anyway, this batch of parachutes is in your hands, which is the life of Kaishen Logistics, so there is no need to have any conscience burden for you to mix some water in terms of quality, as long as you use the undead, by the way, this can be regarded as a contribution to the Anti-Japanese War......
As for the military department, his response is to openly claim that he is a low-grade stocking made of leftovers, and then take a good look at the relevant officers in charge of the audit, it is estimated that as long as it does not affect the delivery of this batch of parachutes, there should be nothing wrong!
PS: Although it has been criticized for making $3 billion with stockings in the Republic of China speculators, it was true that it was profitable to sell this thing in that era, and in addition, it was not that I wanted to add PS to the text, but this exclusive place where there was no author's remarks before it was put on the shelf, I can only post it here......