Chapter 358
A Japanese man of less than one meter five stepped forward in a hurry, gripped Su Chunjun’s hand tightly, bowed and said, “Su Sang! Greetings!”
His name was Matsuda, a Japanese businessman who ran a doll factory and was one of the most anti-Suzuki Saburo in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce.
Zhu Yuyan stood behind Su Chunjun, giving a full display of what a Japanese would imagine a wife to be – silent, with a smile tattooed on her lips.
Matsuda also brought his Chinese wife, a woman with small, bound feet, terrified, her head never raised from the moment she entered. She was not wearing a kimono or a cheongsam, but the dress of a Han Chinese woman, with her hair in a bun.
It was obvious at a glance that she was a Han Chinese, and since she had tied her feet, her family might have had some money, otherwise they would not have allowed their daughter to tie her feet, and would have sent her out to work.
Only the landlord, the squire this does not need the daughter to do labor to earn money Han family will give their daughters to tie small feet.
Her face is small, round, at a glance is not big, at most fifteen or sixteen years old. Her forehead picking hair, looks like a big brain thief, because the brain big blessing, so regardless of men and women, will pick off the forehead hair, with the bald – may also be the custom of the Manchus have picking hair, the Han people’s aesthetics is skewed over.
Regardless of whether it was the Chinese education of a lady or the Japanese education of a wife, this girl had no right to express her opinion on such occasions, so she was silent like a shadow, only involuntarily looking at her Japanese husband when she sat down and stood up, as well as when she took the cup of tea.
Su Chunjun and Zhu Yuyan were having a banquet at the former Feng family residence, and today was clearly a family feast.
The table was set with western food and steaks were eaten. Men all wear suits, women dress much more freely, Zhu Yuyan today wear cheongsam, is Zhu lady’s old clothes, although stored for more than 20 years, still bright and shiny, change does not lose status. This cheongsam is tattooed with fish scales on the gold thread, lined with crimson satin, in the crystal light beautiful dazzling.
Such a cheongsam, no five hundred dollars can not come down, and now have long been unable to find the old craft cheongsam master, want to do no place to do.
Although Matsuda looks small, but he has a lot of heart. Even if he didn’t know what was going on, or what Su Chunjun and Zhu Yuyan were up to, he knew one thing very well, and that was that they both wanted to pay off Suzuki Saburo!
I don’t know if he learned his Chinese from his Chinese wife or not, but his Chinese is a little bit of a Wu Nong soft and coquettish, but what he says is very straightforward.
Matsuda: “We can take down Suzuki Saburo together!”
“As long as I become your only friend, I will support you with all my might!”
“I’m willing to give you one-third of my income every year to make you a big official!”
Zhu Yuyan didn’t have to do anything at tonight’s banquet, just bring a pair of ears to listen.
Before that, Su Chunjun also introduced her to the origins of this Matsuda, including his trading.
After listening for a while, Zhu Yuyan understood why Matsuda wanted to take down Suzuki Saburo so badly, and why he was so sure of himself.
Because his doll factory was very profitable!
Doll factories weren’t quite the same as tinplate factories, they were slightly less technical and required workers who were proficient in only a few simple tasks to complete the assembly of the dolls, and compared to tinplate, the sales of his dolls were quite good.
The dolls he makes are all blonde American dolls – no other skin color hair color, all blonde.
Because blondes are the hottest dolls right now.
This wasn’t the world that would later pursue political correctness; the world was now twisted, it was pathologically pursuing white aesthetics, the whole world was.
And scarcity of goods is a global problem as is war, and white people in the US and UK are starving. Zhu Yuyan reads magazines that like to translate foreign “expert” articles, and she has seen foreign experts fooling foreigners into eating potatoes, saying that potatoes can satisfy the body’s needs without eating bread, and bragging that they don’t eat vegetables, eggs, and milk, and that potatoes with a little bit of pepper and salt will do, so this is called a fart to satisfy the body’s needs.
Magazine translation is of course to borrow the mouth of foreign experts to appease the Chinese people, you see foreign experts have said so, of course, you want to believe it ah.
However, the people had to be able to read the magazine first, and they also had to be literate.
As a result, wives like Zhu Yuyan, who can read the magazine, don’t have to eat potatoes.
When you are hungry, buying a beautiful doll to coax your child is a world-recognized good idea.
That’s why dolls are now a global hot product. You may not be able to buy canned goods than canned food because food is rationed, but you can still buy a doll at a department store with the money in your hand.
Matsuda’s factory never worries about orders as long as it is open! He has so many orders saved up right now that he can ship them out as soon as he starts work.
And unlike Saburo Suzuki’s factory, which only needed men, he needed at least half as many women to sew the dolls’ hair and clothes on.
For Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun, the advantages of choosing Matsuda were obvious.
First, his factory could recruit women workers.
Women were far less likely than men to survive in this city because there were so few jobs available to them.
Second, rubber.
The heads and bodies of the dolls were rubber, and although they could not be used to make tires, they could be made into wires and syringes. These are very important supplies.
China does not have rubber trees, the United States knows very well, so from the beginning not to export this to China, so the car tires, aircraft landing tires, and so on, China all do not have, the arsenal simply can not make, can only buy the United States of America’s trucks and airplanes. Now all the cars in China are foreign, and so are the airplanes. Some people in the former government wanted to make their own, but then they thought it would be better to buy them, which is convenient, cheap and fast.
On the other hand, Western medicine is now the most advanced medical technology, but not only in terms of ideas and concepts, but also technically and in terms of equipment China is completely controlled by the West.
Zhu Yuyan was able to learn the basics of sterilization and basic medical treatment at school thanks to the principal being enlightened enough – and the school being rich enough – to practice with strictly foreign goods, with a glass syringe costing more than ten dollars, and rubber dripping tubes being reused, making it impossible for a patient to exchange one for another, which is something that money can’t buy. This is money can not buy.
Zhu Yuyan, listening to Matsuda say how good his business, foreigners how much they like his dolls, his mind is thinking of dripping tubes and wires insulation and medical rubber gloves, smiling brightly.
This dinner party established the friendship between Su Chunjun and Matsuda, and the two went hand in hand on the avenue of government-business collusion.
With Su Chunjun’s great help, Matsuda’s factory was started at the speed of a rocket ship. The factory was built – wooden buildings are fast – while recruiting workers. The recruited workers basically came into the factory with the raw materials and started working right away. The dolls that were manufactured were shipped out the same day and put on a ship to America.
Other Japanese businessmen flocked to Su Chunjun as if they had seen a success story. But next, Su Chunjun was not so nice.
This forced the Japanese businessmen to spend more money to get through his door. It also made Matsuda even more fortunate that he was more responsive to Su Chunjun, and agreed to take the factory’s waste materials and sell them for a small amount of money.
Suzuki Saburo was so furious that he was forced to fulfill his promise to Su Chunjun as soon as possible by renting him a train.
But the train is not so good to rent, even he, want to go through the Japanese military to rent a train is also need a little time to communicate.
He did not tell the Japanese military that Su Chunjun rented the train in order to send rich Chinese people out of the city.
Of course the Japanese military didn’t want the rich to leave. Ten thousand ordinary people are no match for one rich man.
Did they come to China to rule over the poor Chinese?
Of course not, their target has always been the rich, the rich and powerful families of China.
So Saburo Suzuki knew very well that once he said that, the train would not be rented.
What he said was that he needed these trains to help him transport Chinese slaves, and he needed a lot of Chinese slaves for his factories.
Of course, he might maybe ship some grain or other supplies, but it was all normal business dealings, he had to sell Japanese goods, and sometimes he might not take money, he might take something else, and so on.
For the sake of the money that Suzuki Saburo sent, and the Japanese military didn’t think he would betray the Japanese Empire, so the train, it just arrived.