Since I moved, I have informed the building manager and have all the mail sent there forwarded to my new address.

It would make sense if Miss Bergman had been to the little house.

However, the problem was that Han Chudong had never mentioned to her where he lived, and the address written on the letter was the villa's house number.

He began to suspect that Miss Bergman had not moved away and had been secretly following him recently.

When I thought of this, the hairs on my back stood up. I wasn't really too worried, but it was just the aftereffect of watching too many crime TV dramas that scared me.

I haven't heard from her for a long time, let alone seen her.

At that time, Miss Bergman's disappearance was too strange, and this incident has been bothering Han Chudong. He hurriedly tore open the envelope, and found only a photo inside.

A photo of a woman's back. She is wearing jeans and a white sweater. It is probably taken at home because she is wearing slippers.

When Han Chudong saw this photo, he felt relieved. Although the face was not shown, he knew that this was a photo of Helena Bergman.

Judging from her hair color, she had blonde hair when I first saw her in Chinatown, and later she dyed it brown.

As the hair grows, you can see from the photo that the newly grown golden hair is quite different from the dyed hair.

I don't believe anyone could fake such small details, and I felt relieved to learn that she seemed to be doing pretty well.

Turning over the photo, it says on the back: “Don’t worry about me. Although I can’t tell you what happened, my family and I are fine. Maybe one day I will go back to find you and talk to you face to face about what happened before I left.”

There is a kitchen knife image behind this text.

How could Han Chudong not remember the little story in the motel and laughed happily.

I carefully looked for details in the photo, trying to figure out where she was, but there were no clues and the shipping address was not filled in, so even replying to the letter was impossible.

A little disappointed.

Sitting at the dining table, I took a deep breath and looked at several other letters. There was an invitation to participate in the exhibition sent by the Toy Association and a repayment notice sent by the bank. Mobile phone text messages and e-mails have not appeared yet, but I receive some letters almost every day.

After reading it casually, he continued to sigh and returned to his room with the photos and letter paper.

It’s a pity that I don’t know when we can meet again, and even whether I can see her again is a mystery.

The bad mood that lasted the whole day started with this letter.

Not long after, Han Chudong received a call saying that imitation hand-warming pillows had appeared on the market. There was almost no technical difficulty in making this thing, but he did not expect other businesses to react so quickly.

The head of Mango Toys Company asked him what to do.

Han Chudong couldn't answer this question.

What can be done? Others have not copied the pattern. We cannot judge that those toys infringe his patent rights on appearance just because there is a hole in the middle of the pillow and the hand can be put in.

It will definitely have an impact on the sales market and will also damage the interests of Mango Toys and its agents.

That's what doing business is like, you face competition everywhere.

He believed that other types of toys would also be gradually affected by piracy. Fortunately, he had a backup plan and applied for a patent for a four-wheel-drive racing car in advance. He was not afraid that the agents would be tempted when they saw the toy.

Children get bored with old things faster than adults, and they don’t intend to live off the products currently on the market for the rest of their lives. They just want to maximize profits as much as possible…

Near the end of the year.

More than two months have passed since Han Chudong started his business.

The importance of Thanksgiving cannot be compared with that of Christmas. The Fourth Middle East War, the subsequent impact of the Watergate scandal, economic stagflation, stock market crash, rising unemployment rate, etc., are all affecting people's mood for the holidays.

The end of the year is approaching, and after the short Thanksgiving holiday, everything is back to normal.

The employees got a short break and realized that if they worked harder for a while, they would get a vacation of about 15 days, so their morale became even higher.

As December approached, students were looking forward to the winter vacation, and the sales of toy companies and home appliance retailers increased significantly. Han Chudong could earn nearly 100,000 US dollars a day from the products produced by Mango Toy Company.

This made him deeply understand a truth: there is no future in working for others, and starting one's own business is the right way to go.

However, ordinary people don’t know what will happen in the future, so Han Chudong’s initial success was both inevitable and accidental.

I am currently discussing with an accounting firm how to avoid taxes.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

In the United States, if you are found to have committed tax evasion, the punishment may be doubled at the very least, leaving you with a criminal record that is difficult to clean up. In serious cases, you may lose everything and go to jail.

Tax avoidance is not tax evasion. In the short term, if you earn an average of 100,000 US dollars a day and pay taxes honestly, you will have to pay about 40,000 US dollars according to California tax law. Han Chudong was stupid enough to do it.

The firm's accountant's advice to him was to move the company's registered address to Puerto Rico as soon as possible.

This place currently belongs to a free federation with autonomy, located in the Caribbean Sea. It is considered a territory of the United States, but it is not entirely the 51st state. Many powers belong to Washington, D.C., but when it comes to taxation, it has little involvement with the IRS.

If Han Chudong hadn't been told by a professional accountant he paid for, he would have never known this, and learned that the tax amount of up to one million US dollars could be reduced to about twenty US dollars.

I was immediately attracted and agreed to the proposal to acquire a company registered in Puerto Rico and use a shell company to replace Mango Toys and Baofeng Electric Appliances to avoid taxes. Nowadays, many companies choose to place their registration there. I also consulted several tax avoidance experts, and the advice they got was the same: it is protected by US law and is relatively safe.

The tax problem was solved, and one worry was reduced. In order to complete the transaction before the tax deadline, Han Chudong personally went to Puerto Rico in early December. It was so hot that he doubted his life.

There were not many tourist attractions to visit, and after spending three days there, he immediately flew back to Los Angeles. It was so relaxing that it was unimaginable. The accounting firm provided one-stop professional services, and Han Chudong hardly had to worry about anything.

After the shell change, it means that as a boss, his tax rate is lower than that of his employees. The middle class is the most unfortunate because they have no legal channels to avoid taxes.

Not paying any money is equivalent to making a lot of money. The remaining money is more than the two houses I live in now. From a long-term perspective, I can also save a lot of money in the future, so I am naturally very happy.

December 7th.

There are only ten days left until the Christmas holiday.

Today, Han Chudong brought a small team, including Kiko Mochizuki, Accountant Wang, a service middleman who was said to have excellent acquisition negotiation skills, and two lawyers, to a small cosmetics company called "Rainbow" for inspection.

The company is not big, but the name is pretty good.

The business has been around for a while, mainly selling facial masks, but its performance has been stagnant and its market is concentrated in a small area in Southern California.

The reason for targeting it is mainly because this company has ready-made sales channels and a shabby small factory whose lease will expire at the end of next year.

Of course, Han Chudong didn't care about the factory. He only cared about the sales channels and salesmen. He didn't care about the production line and raw materials. He came to Long Beach because he heard that they were very cheap...