Chapter 16

When Jia Hongjian arrived home, his parents were anxiously preparing to go out to look for him. "You kid, did you go out to tutor someone and forget to come back? Your father and I thought you were lost and were planning to go out to look for you," Su Ping said to her son with a bit of anger.

"Hehe, I forgot to call and let you know in advance. It's just that I taught so well today that the other party was extremely grateful. They insisted on keeping me for dinner and even promised to let their little girl marry me when she grows up, and wouldn't let me refuse. I'm really worried about this..." Jia Hongjian said with a silly grin, making up a story.

"Ha ha..." Su Ping was amused by her son's nonsense and playfully hit him on the head, mocking his evil idea of arranging a marriage with a little girl. However, her husband, Jia Gang, didn't laugh. He stood there with a serious expression, holding back his words.

"Dad, what's wrong? Did the plan not go well?" Jia Hongjian asked, pretending not to know the result, as he washed his hands in the kitchen. "Oh, do you two have some secrets? What plan?" Su Ping asked, puzzled.

"I met our son today, and he gave us a suggestion for a plan," Jia Gang explained, but then he frowned and looked at his son. "After that, I called Ma Junren myself. I don't know what that guy was thinking, he has no party spirit at all. He actually said he wouldn't sell for 10 million! What era are we in? Is he still so feudal and conservative, thinking that the formula is some kind of family treasure to be passed down to future generations?"

After complaining, Jia Gang remembered something and said to his son with relief, "But I owe it to you. Didn't I say Shen Taifu was arrested today? In the afternoon, we found out that he had received a notice from the central bank to stop accepting private funds. He immediately decided to hold a press conference to announce that he would sue the central bank governor. He was arrested in the afternoon..."

"Really? That's a bit difficult..." Jia Hongjian pretended to be surprised, but as a person who had been reborn, he of course knew the outcome! This was the loophole he deliberately left in the plan! Except for Jia Hongjian himself, no one else could execute this plan without at least 10 million in capital. Because the founder of Lebashi, He Boquan, had used exactly 10 million to break through the psychological defenses of Ma Junren, a former middle school physical education teacher, and bought his secret formula, then established the "Life Nuclear Energy" brand of nutritional supplements.

For Jia Hongjian, in this era, no one except him could buy this secret formula without spending a single cent! This was 1993! The beginning of a great era! The most important year in the 30 years of reform and opening up! In this era, Jia Hongjian could call himself a god without any modesty!

Is he too arrogant? No, no... he's too modest! In 1993, the two star entrepreneurs, Yu Zuomin from Daqiu Village in Tianjin and Shen Taifu, were both imprisoned. The reason was simple—they had a conflict with the government! Yu Zuomin had created a model similar to Huaxi Village in Daqiu Village, where the entire village was a large factory, and every household received dividends and had Mercedes-Benz cars. He himself was like an emperor, and even prime ministers didn't bother to meet him. In the end, he was brought down by covering up a murder in the village, and all his political enemies joined forces to bring him down... As for Shen Taifu, after receiving a notice from the central bank to stop financing, he openly declared that he would sue the central bank governor. He was arrested in the afternoon...

Look, how foolish the geniuses of this era were, forgetting the rule that the state apparatus is a tool of violence, which is taught in middle school textbooks!

In 1993, Guangdong saw the first "layoffs," Ferrari sold its first car in China, China joined the International Copyright Organization, and the genuine Mickey Mouse entered China. China celebrated its first Valentine's Day on February 14, and local business administrations banned the use of the term "Valentine's Day." This year, foreign capital began to flood into China, Nokia started providing G** phones, Ford entered the Chinese market, and Kodak began operating in China. China ended its decades-long rationing system for food coupons...

This year, China began to truly move away from a planned economy and entered a mixed economy with both planned and market elements... In this chaotic era, there were many naive geniuses and many crazy madmen, but the majority were ordinary people who couldn't see the future and were feeling their way forward.

At this time, the Chinese people did not understand international capital operations, did not know the rules of the game, and did not know how to play the market. They could only explore slowly. Foreign companies entered the Chinese market with immense arrogance, thinking they could conquer it in three months. In reality, many foreign companies would suffer heavy losses and eventually leave China in tears, crying and going home to their mothers... Who else could understand the local situation, know international trends, and see through the fog of time to predict the future except Jia Hongjian?

What he needed was to wait until September 13th, when Shenzhen Baoan launched its attack on Yanzhong Industrial, then he would make some money as capital, convince his father to follow his plan, and just wait for success to come. It was very simple, wasn't it?

Seeing his worried father, Jia Hongjian didn't explain further. He comforted his father a bit and then went into his room. He opened his secret book, "How Dad Steel Was Made," and began to write down the new plan he had thought of on the way. This new plan perfectly linked several of his subsequent arrangements into a chain. With this plan, Jia Hongjian could make anyone a millionaire, whether it was his father, himself, or even a stray cat or dog on the street, as long as they followed his plan, they would definitely become rich! This was the result of a sharp mind combined with a deep understanding of history.

In this plan, Jia Hongjian was a mysterious black hand hidden in the fog, like the ultimate boss of a legendary evil organization. To be honest, he quite enjoyed this feeling. In this era, being a good person wasn't profitable, but being a big villain was exciting, and he could even bully men and dominate women...

The night passed without a word, but the next morning, Jia Hongjian's parents noticed that their beloved son looked unwell. "What's wrong? Are you feeling sick?" "No, I just had a dream where Wang Danshui kept pestering me to take her out for dinner..."

When Jia Hongjian said this, Su Ping and Jia Gang's faces immediately stiffened. "That's... If that girl really eats as much as she does, it would be hard to handle. It's strange, isn't it? That girl eats so much, always saying she hasn't had a full meal since she was born, but she's still so thin, only about 90 pounds, 1.63 meters tall... How does her figure never change? She can easily eat eight bowls of rice in one meal... If Hongjian finds a wife like her, it would be quite difficult to support her..." Su Ping sighed.

"Who would have thought? It's good that the food rationing system was abolished this year. Otherwise, a heavy labor worker only gets about 50 pounds of food coupons a month, which might not even last a week for Wang Danshui... The Wang family, with two workers and more seniority than us, earns more than us, but their savings are definitely less than ours, all because of Wang Danshui's appetite..." Jia Gang nodded.

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian also nodded. He was deeply terrified by the little fox spirit Wang Danshui's mouth and her stomach, which seemed to exist in another dimension. In this era, the most honored profession in socialist China was the labor worker. A middle-aged worker with 20 years of seniority could earn two to three times the salary of a newly graduated college student.

Wang Danshui's parents were middle-aged when they had her, and they were older than Jia Gang and Su Ping. The combined salaries of the two workers were slightly higher than Jia Gang and Su Ping's. Jia Hongjian's deepest impression of Wang Danshui's appetite was when she came to his house to play with a bag of 20 steamed buns for breakfast...

Even in elementary school, Wang Danshui's huge appetite had shocked the entire building. All the adults thought she must have worms in her stomach, but after a medical checkup, the doctor assured them that Wang Danshui was perfectly healthy. If any other hospital could find a worm in her, the doctor would commit suicide to apologize...

Jia Hongjian thought this was the reason why Wang Danshui never dated, and even the reason why she later studied abroad and became a successful woman—because no one could afford to support her! If a man knew his girlfriend could eat 20 steamed buns for breakfast, he would go crazy, wet his pants, and cry, shouting that there was a monster!

However, it was soon Jia Hongjian's turn to shout that there was a monster. After his parents finished breakfast and went to work, he saw a woman who looked like Wang Danshui, spoke like her, smelled like her, and walked like her, standing outside his door with a bag full of steamed buns...

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