Chapter 387: The Context of the Times

Masayoshi Kishimoto personally led another trip from Haneda International Airport on a Gulfstream series private jet, flying directly to Shanghai, China.

He had a soft spot for the city that was second only to Tokyo in Asia. To be precise, he was favorably impressed with the people of Shanghai.

Although he has heard many people talk about how the general impression of the Shanghai people are not good, but still does not change his original intention. Hanging in the mouth above said “country people” Shanghai people, that are often the small class of people.

They belong to this category of people who grew up in this international metropolis, living the ordinary life of the common people, the heart aspires to the middle-class life, the head inside the fantasy of the rich people’s rich life.

In the intellectual class, there is basically no such thing as a “country bumpkin”. As a matter of fact, more than half of the cadres at the division level and above in Shanghai are outsiders.

The reason for this situation is traced back to the period of the cadres who went south. To be able to sit on this level above the people, that is the common people often say the official.

Non-divisional cadres, that is, ordinary civil servants, will not be the provincial Ministry of Organization specifically set up a file, much less in some provinces let you hand over your passport, immediate family members can not emigrate overseas.

Otherwise, it will not be given promotion or dismissal. There is no lack of social elites and professionals among them, so they generally have the ability to think independently.

There is a consensus among this group that why should I change my past lifestyle and habits? Therefore, they stubbornly do not speak Shanghainese, which is also known as Wunong soft language.

The post-00s native Shanghainese have gradually stopped speaking Shanghainese, or are no longer able to speak it well. They have begun to speak Mandarin and are more accepting of the modern Western lifestyle.

The best thing about Shanghainese is that they are clear. What’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine, you don’t take advantage of me, and I don’t take advantage of you.

For this reason, some of these are the basic situation that Justice Kishimoto understood and came into contact with in his previous life. In his opinion, I am afraid that among the cities in mainland China, there is none more friendly to the Japanese than Shanghai. Otherwise, there would not be 300,000 Japanese living in this city in the future.

The person whom Masayoshi Kishimoto wanted to see in Shanghai was Chen Tianqiao of Shanda Network. At this point in time in 2000, Chen Tianqiao was still an unknown ordinary businessman. The other side of the company is mainly operating the main business related to animation, performance is not good.

Masayoshi Kishimoto was holding a whiskey in his hand, and his eyes were looking at the blue sky with white clouds through the glass window. He did not feel anything about the nice weather outside, and once again fell into his personal thoughts.

Masayoshi Kishimoto was suddenly reminded of a TV series he had watched as a child in the mid-90’s called “Shanghai Man in Tokyo” starring Chen Daoming.

Although it didn’t have the same fame as “Beijingers in New York”, it was enough to reflect how difficult it was for some Shanghainese to live abroad.

In the 21st century, there was also a Chinese documentary about Shanghainese in Japan, which also reflected the need for a way out for ordinary citizens seeking to change their established destiny.

At this time, the Shanghai people can go out to work is to go to Japan in the name of studying. Even if they went out to Hokkaido, a small place with a population of only 100,000 at its peak.

Nowadays, it’s nearly half that number, only 50,000 to 60,000 people. The vast majority of the young people have run off to Tokyo, leaving only a few old and infirm women and children behind.

Hokkaido has a lot of romantic imagery in many people’s minds. It’s like soaking in hot springs, watching the snow, and drinking sake.

In fact, Hokkaido so large a piece of land, as one of Japan’s four major islands, on it independently established a prefecture. In a lot of remote places, even the Japanese call it the land of the foreigners or the land of the foreigners.

Even Shikoku, the smallest of the four islands, was divided into four prefectures. Its main economy is still agriculture. Hokkaido’s economy was not good either.

For this era of mainland Chinese students, know Hokkaido, or from Li Liangping this Japanese third-rate writer wrote “a bowl of spring noodles”, also known as “a bowl of buckwheat noodles”, and thus know the city of Sapporo.

Kishimoto justice heart face has a very good number. The expansion of universities in mainland China revealed employment problems until 2003.

Ordinary people’s children want to change their own destiny, and even family, as well as the fate of the family, the most secure way and shortcut still lies in the college entrance examination. Doing business requires capital.

Officially, the average monthly income of Shanghai people in 2000 was 1,285 yuan. In fact, Justice Kishimoto dares to guarantee that the monthly income of the general public living in the alleys will only be half of the average monthly income, that is to say, it is centered on the monthly income of six or seven hundred soft dollars.

He wasn’t thinking baselessly. He was immediately reminded of a reality-themed TV series written and directed by Guan Hu called “The Outsiders”, which happened to be a reaction to the reality of Shanghai people’s lives around the twenty-first century.

One of the lines that stuck with him the most was the words of the owner of a small sewing store scolding his own nephew. The context is that his own nephew is in a relationship with a local Shanghainese woman. He was initially the passive one and didn’t take the initiative to hook up.

They (aka the Shanghainese), don’t try, and it doesn’t matter. They are still them. But you (the outsider), it doesn’t. If you don’t make an effort, they look down on you.

The owner of the little tailor store will get angry and slap his own nephew, that is, the girl’s mother scolded at the door. Those rednecks, small red man, yakuza …… Shanghai specific used to scold people words naturally a brain outwardly undoubtedly.

In fact, the girl is not what high-level, is the bus above just started selling tickets, was given priority to the way the children of internal workers to get their father’s work unit of a job.

Shanghai people are not like Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong area people so like to do business independently. Their first choice is still to study to change their destiny.

At this point in time, going abroad for gold plating is still somewhat useful. With the passage of time, it will go all the way down. Masayoshi Kishimoto knew in his heart that twenty years later, China would be a different place.

The “turtles” will also become “belts” in large numbers. The fact that they went abroad to study is to maximize the salvation of the pheasant universities abroad. Of course, it also reflects the social class they are in.

Students who fail to get into major universities in mainland China, as long as they have some family money and are generally in the lower middle class, their first choice will definitely be Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Russia and Australia.

If they are upper middle class or affluent, their first choice will be developed countries in Europe and the United States. Students who study in ordinary universities are often from families of workers, peasants and soldiers, and a few are from the lower middle class or from the families of rural cadres.