After conning several companies into making so-called "samples" for their guesthouse, Jian Yong and his companions' minivan finally arrived in Shanghai.

Bao Zhihui cleaned up the stove in the small canteen of the guesthouse neatly, and Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong would eat here together in the future.

Chu Miaohong felt a little disappointed about this. She liked to control her partner's appetite. For example, if Zhang Hongcheng made her unhappy, she would make sugar-fried chili peppers...

Jian Yong, Kou Shihong and Bao Zhihui did not need to find another dormitory. They each found a single room in the staff dormitory of the guesthouse and lived in it.

It doesn’t matter if there is no bed or furniture, there are camp beds left by Minister Li and Secretary Zhao.

Then he borrowed a half-broken single bed from the Heilongjiang Province Guesthouse, fixed it up, and put it in Bao Zhihui's place.

All done!

Zhang Hongcheng actually wanted to move in immediately, but when he saw Chu Miaohong's unfriendly look, he immediately gave up the idea.

That’s right, it’s more convenient to move here, but we can’t have nighttime chats behind the bedside partition.

Although there was no office furniture yet, Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong had already moved their workplace to the guesthouse.

Zhang Hongcheng's desk was borrowed from the street. It was missing a leg and was padded with seven or eight red bricks.

He was seriously recalling the long-distance communication he had with the fat man during this period.

The fat man provided a lot of foreign economic data from that period. After repeated consideration, Zhang Hongcheng found a roundabout way.

In 1971, Nixon announced the decoupling of the US dollar from gold, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system headed by the US dollar.

At the same time, national liberation movements began to emerge in the Middle East and the first oil crisis broke out.

There is excess liquidity of US dollars worldwide.

From 1973 to 1974, the United States and other Western countries fell into stagflation uncontrollably, and the Federal Reserve's interest rate was wildly raised to 13%.

Does it look familiar to you?

Sometimes the world is so wonderful. The closed era has made people who are in the fourth global economic crisis feel nothing.

Quote: In 1973, China's total exports reached 5.82 billion euros, 2.58 times that of 1970. In addition, in 1975, my country's total foreign trade reached 14.75 billion euros, 3.2 times that of 1970.

Why have China's exports become stronger when the world is in crisis?

Zhang Hongcheng knew this very well, because the things we can export are good and cheap.

For example, Japanese people imported a large number of Chinese handicrafts, and cheap and high-quality products were the favorites of users at this time.

This is a manifestation of the so-called lipstick effect.

Zhang Hongcheng felt that since he was standing on the edge of this trend, he might as well take a careful gamble.

He contacted more than one furniture factory.

The drawings sent by the fat man were divided into three parts and given to three furniture factories to make samples.

Many carpenters were puzzled as to why they were only asked to make a few wooden legs.

I tried to put it together for a long time but couldn't figure out what it looked like.

The workers were very dissatisfied with this. They didn’t even give us all the drawings. How could they not trust us so much?

Zhang Hongcheng immediately put the blame on Minister Li who was far away.

"Well, the boss said he wants to conduct an investigation, so I can't do anything..."

The lobby of the guesthouse was filled with various items shipped back from three furniture factories, two textile factories and a parts processing factory.

Zhang Hongcheng took Jian Yong and others to check the drawings one by one.

It’s true that the things made by hand by master craftsmen these days are no worse than the machine-made products of later generations, and they even have a slight aesthetic appeal in lines.

This is a set of simple style fabric assembly sofa kits that are common in later generations.

Zhang Hongcheng and a few people assembled it according to the drawings.

In less than half an hour, a set of exquisite Western minimalist style fabric sofas appeared in the hall.

There is a three-seater sofa and two single-seater sofas, accompanied by a wooden coffee table.

Ignoring the exclamations of Bao Zhihui and others, Zhang Hongcheng turned his gaze to Chu Miaohong.

My partner is from North America, born in 1988, and her taste should be more or less in line with today's Western standards.

Chu Miaohong looked at the sofa set in front of her in surprise. She sat down carefully, touched the material of the sofa, and finally cast a surprised look at Zhang Hongcheng.

Was this guy a carpenter before he was reborn?

No, looking at the clumsy way he sawed wood in the forest farm, you could tell he was not a physical laborer.

“Very good, it will definitely sell well!”

Chu Miaohong secretly told Zhang Hongcheng the result. She was the only one who knew Zhang Hongcheng's plan.

"Everyone come down!"

Zhang Hongcheng chased away Bao Zhihui and Jian Yong who were lying on the sofa and rubbing against each other.

"Load the things into the car. We should go and thank the Oriental Foreign Affairs Hotel!"

Zhang Hongcheng has always been very purposeful in doing things.

The reason why he deliberately wanted to get involved with the foreign-related hotel and owed them several favors was for today.

A second-hand imported van (Jinbei had not yet come out) drove directly to the back door of the hotel.

Several hotel employees who were watching the fun came forward and lifted the sofa out of the car.

"Hey, Chief Zhang, your sofa is really light."

(Relatively light, not the composite wood of later generations.)

“It’s called minimalist style.”

Zhang Hongcheng smiled and asked Jian Yong and others to move the things while he went directly to find the hotel manager Yang Tonghai.

Yang Tonghai heard that Zhang Hongcheng had sent a set of sofas to the lobby as a reward for his previous help to his guesthouse.

Even though he had been smooth talker all his life, he couldn't help but sigh.

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