Chapter 309

Su Chunjun personally handwrote a dozen or so wedding invitations, tucked two of them away, and personally went to deliver them to Mr. Jiang and Secretary Zhao.

He called Zhao’s secretary beforehand and waited for ten minutes before going there.

When he entered, Mr. Chiang and Mr. Zhao were together.

When he saw him, Mr. Jiang smiled and waved, “Come over here, Little Su, and congratulate your brother Zhao with me.”

Su Chunjun readily changed his name to “Brother Zhao”.

“What is Brother Zhao’s happy event? Is it a new beautiful wife or a new big fat kid?” Su Chunjun laughed.

Secretary Zhao laughed and shook his head, “You, you’re sharp and quick with your mouth, and you’re still unforgiving.”

VIP Jiang patted Secretary Zhao’s shoulder and said with a smile, “You’re going to scare your big brother Zhao by saying that. Your sister-in-law controls your brother Zhao very strictly, ask your brother Zhao, he doesn’t even dare to look at the girl at home.”

Secretary Zhao said, “Don’t make fun of me, Mr. Su doesn’t even dare to smoke at home, I’m still a lot better than him.”

Mr. Su’s smoking at home was stopped by his wife, ordered him to smoke into the charcoal pot of the matter has spread throughout the building, especially Zhu Er Miss that “this is a quick death” is a famous sentence.

They say that women with knowledge can’t be messed with, and look, women who haven’t been to college before are not so smart to threaten.

After a round of laughs, Jiang Jiang just passed the appointment book to Su Chunjun.

Su Chunjun unfolded a look, suddenly realized.

The appointment letter named him as the head of the special office, the prime minister of the city’s major and minor affairs.

Secretary Zhao, on the other hand, was appointed as the deputy head of the office, giving him a hand.

It seemed that he was a higher official than Secretary Zhao, but Secretary Zhao was clearly here to monitor and manage him.

Besides, Mr. Chiang also made it clear that this was his “big brother Zhao”.

Su Chunjun put away the letter of appointment, handed it back to Secretary Zhao with both hands, and said with a bow of his hand, “Big Brother Zhao, I’ll have to trouble you to take care of me in the future. Please also ask Brother Zhao to speak favorably for me in the future.”

Secretary Zhao also hurriedly picked him up and said, “Director Su, you are overstating it. I still have to listen to you at work.”

Su Chunjun shook off his hand and bowed again, “I don’t know much about my work, so I need more guidance from you, Mr. Zhao.”

The two of them pushed and pushed, appearing modest and peaceful.

Jiang was very satisfied, stopped the two, said: “You will help each other in the future, each other’s progress. By the way, Little Su, what’s in your hand?”

Su Chunjun then presented the invitation, politely inviting VIP Jiang and Secretary Zhao to the wedding.

Su Chunjun: “It’s at the Peace Hotel, only eight tables, I want to make it simple.”

Anyway, those who want to send gifts now can just send them directly to Zhu Jia Lou, and he doesn’t have to openly receive gifts at the wedding, which is not good influence.

Essential Jiang put away the invitation and said with a smile, “Must go, must go.”

Su Chunjun hit the snake with a stick, and quickly said, “The important member is willing to come is my honor ah. The important member has been very loving and caring, I would like to shyly make another small request. The important member knows that I have cut myself off from my family, and when I was engaged, my teacher and headmaster from my university attended on my behalf, acting as an elder, and now I would like to ask the important member to accept a bow from my wife and me on behalf of my father during the marriage ceremony.”

VIP Jiang was a bit hesitant: “Ahhh, this ……”

The guest of honor at a wedding is not a simple relationship, not to mention the fact that it is on behalf of Su Chunjun’s father and ancestor elders who are sitting to be honored by the new couple. His friendship with Su Chunjun was not to that point, what if Su Chunjun was recognized as his person later? For a man of his position, he would rather have no one than no one at all around him.

What’s more, Su Chunjun has just taken over a big pot now, and it’s not known whether he can hold the pot well or not.

Jiang was not very willing to get involved with Su Chunjun.

He looked to Secretary Zhao, wanting him to relieve him.

Unexpectedly, Secretary Zhao smiled and said, “This is a happy occasion. The VIP might as well say yes.”

VIP Jiang sighed secretly.

He knew that this was because he had caused Secretary Zhao’s displeasure by throwing him under the bus, so Secretary Zhao deliberately played dumb and wanted him to get involved with Su Chunjun. This way, in case Su Chunjun failed in the end, Secretary Zhao would have to take the blame and he wouldn’t be able to escape.

It was difficult to ride the tiger.

Jiang had lost his chance to refuse, so he could only say, “Okay, okay, I’ll definitely go then. Little Zhao, you go too.”

Secretary Zhao didn’t care about VIP Jiang’s occasional cold face and nodded with a smile, “Definitely, definitely.”

Essential Jiang collected the invitation and remembered something else, asking Su Chunjun, “I heard that you transferred two teams of people and had them change their clothes, is there something wrong?”

Su Chunjun laughed, “Not a big deal. Yan Yan is friends with Hirata Yoshiko of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, that Hirata Yoshiko is Suzuki Saburo’s fiancée, and the Hirata family themselves are famous as large landowners and textile merchants in Guandong. Yan Yan then wants to hold a charity bazaar to persuade Hirata Yoshiko to contribute goods, and all the money from the bazaar will go to the charity foundation to operate.”

Essential Jiang and Secretary Zhao exchanged glances.

Secretary Zhao snapped, “This means that the Japanese businessman will offer goods and all the money from the sale will go to Yan Yan’s charity foundation?”

Su Chunjun smiled and nodded, “Right.”

Secretary Zhao fumed, “How could the Japanese agree to this? Isn’t this a money-losing deal?”

Su Chunjun: “I couldn’t understand what Yan Yan was talking about, anyway, the Japanese agreed. Though the goods sent were all marginal fabrics and scraps. Maybe the Japanese merchants need to get rid of them too.”

Essential Chiang stood up with a slap on the sofa, “Go go go, let’s go and have a look together. That bazaar is today, right? Where is it being held?”

Su Chunjun: “On Nanjing Road.”

On Nanjing Road, there was a lot of traffic.

Although the stores on the street were closed, the road was still full of rushing cars and people with gray faces and hurried steps.

On the side of the main road, a dozen straw mats were set up and piled up with mountains of rags. Behind them was a large banner with the words “Charity Sale” printed on it, and the Japanese flag and the emblem of the Hirata Chamber of Commerce hung on the left and right.

Zhu Yuyan and Hirata Yoshiko stood beside these mountains of cloth.

Hirata Yoshiko was red in the face.

The pedestrians coming and going around all ducked and dared not look at this place, and also did not dare to come close at all, obviously on the side of the road, but hard to empty a large piece of empty space.

What made Hirata Yoshiko blush was not being watched by a group of Chinese commoners.

Rather, it was her new Chinese friend, Ms. Zhu, who was shouting at the top of her lungs:

“Great news! Great news! The owner of the Jiangnan Textile Factory has run off with his sister-in-law!!!”

In the car across the road, VIP Jiang choked on a mouthful of water and coughed badly. Secretary Zhao hurriedly patted the VIP’s back, dumbfounded.

Secretary Zhao asked Su Chunjun, “Xiao Su, this is ……”

Su Chunjun covered his mouth, wanting to laugh and not daring to laugh, and said, “This …… I don’t understand …… Yan Yan said this is called a sales strategy.”

Zhu Er Miss is not the only one who is shouting, the listener and granny she brought, and the gendarme who changed into ordinary clothes next to the stall are also shouting.

“Extraordinarily happy news!”

“The director of the Jiangnan Textile Factory has run away with his sister-in-law!”

“All goods are on sale at super-low prices!”

“Ten cents a bag! Ten cents a bag! Pick up whatever you want! Ten cents a bag!”

Ms. Zhu Er was mouthing off, “It’s a jump sale!!!”

In the other car sent around the corner, Suzuki Saburo let the car go after listening to his subordinate’s report.

He thought he was going to be impressed with this Ms. Zhu.

I heard that the Zhu family used to be a big businessman in China, only to fall down later. This Ms. Zhu was indeed worthy of the Zhu family’s bloodline.

It seems that she is not trying to deceive Hirata Yoshiko and the Japanese. There was a high possibility that this charity sale would be a success.

As for whether or not it would make money and how much it would make, Suzuki Saburo didn’t care.

He just needed to get the Chinese people used to Japanese goods.

Although it was not yet possible to force all Chinese stores to sell Japanese goods, it was okay for a small road sale to open up a little bit.

All of them relayed their shouts and made sure that all the people passing by heard this propaganda.

But Yoshiko Hirata is saddened because they have been standing here all day, and now it is getting dark, and no one has come to buy the ten-cent bags of cloth.

She cried, “We have failed.” Mr. Suzuki must be very disappointed.

Zhu Yuyan immediately said, “Jiazi, have you never done business before? What kind of business makes money on the first day? It’s only right that the first month, the first year may not even be profitable. We just need to let the customers remember that we are here in the beginning. That way when they need it they’ll look for it. It’s not like we’re selling for just one day.”

Hirata Yoshiko was convinced that it twisted but sounded reasonable, so she didn’t argue back.

That’s why she didn’t notice that Ms. Zhu Er was confusing the concept.

It was true that the bazaar would not be sold for only one day.

But it wouldn’t be sold for three or five years either.

Even if Yoshiko Hirata wanted to, Second Miss Zhu didn’t have the time to offer her company.

But after dusk, things took a turn for the worse.

To be precise it should be after the sun was about to go down, Zhu Yuyan and the others were about to close up their stall, when someone finally came over and asked, “You’re closing up? Let me buy a packet?”

Zhu Yuyan immediately stopped closing the stall and said cheerfully, “Take your pick!”

There was only one granny who spoke, but there were four or five people who came up to pick, and then in a flash, it turned into a dozen more!

It was as if all these people had been watching from the sidelines before, and only dared to lay their hands on it now that the sun had gone down.

Zhu Yuyan realized that a business opportunity had come! Immediately shouted: ”We’re closing the stall! We’re selling them cheap! Now it’s eight cents a bag! Eight cents! You can’t lose or be fooled for eight cents! Eight cents! Big bag, small bag, all for eight cents!”

Someone asked, “How big is the bag?”

Zhu Yuyan boldly said, “Sacks are fine, big brother! I’m here are the boss against the debt of things, to sell quickly to get money home ah!”

It was finally dark.

In front of the stall was crowded with people.

Called the two teams of gendarmes all guarded the perimeter, and Hirata Yoshiko brought the Japanese also guarded the outside, see someone stuffed full of a bag to go forward to block the collection of money.

Only eight cents though.

It was certainly a loss.

It was trimmings and scraps, but it wasn’t worthless, and sending it back to Japan would make a lot of money.

But that’s not how business works. First of all sending it back to Japan is wrong. China is such a big market and there are so many people in it, so why send it back to Japan?

If you do send it back, you are bound to get scolded, which shows that people in China are too incompetent.

But selling it this way is surely not going to make any money either. You will lose a lot of money.

But Zhu Yuyan said this is not a loss of money. This is called publicity. Publicity is an investment, just like advertising.

Now Japanese goods advertising may not be many people see, will also attract resistance, but if the way to sell cheaply to the people with charity sales, they will accept.

As for the “Jiangnan Textile Factory” this is just a gimmick, the big deal is that later on, say Jiangnan Textile Factory sells all the things made in Japan, rounded up is also Japanese goods.

Don’t worry about the details.

Anyway, Hirata Yoshiko saw that all the cloth and scraps were snatched up within half an hour, and the money recovered in the end was only about twenty dollars, which was not enough to pay for the lunch of so many people.

But that image of everyone scrambling to get their hands on it still shocked Yoshiko Hirata, and she was happy and satisfied that she could now go and tell Mr. Suzuki about it.

She said enthusiastically, “Thank you, Yanji!”

Zhu Yuyan was also happy and said, “We’ll continue selling tomorrow! You can pull two more carts of cloth tomorrow!”