Chapter 143
The next day, Liang Songfang went to the school to find Zhou Fuqiang. Zhou Fuqiang was very surprised and secretly pulled her aside.
"Didn't I tell you not to come to my workplace? I still have classes to attend."
Zhou Fuqiang is in charge of the class's discipline at school. He is usually very strict and stern. When he opens his mouth, it is a rule, and when he keeps his mouth shut, it is a morality!
It can be said that he has a very positive personal image and many years of teaching experience. Parents all think that he is a reliable veteran teacher.
If people knew that he had an affair with a widow, would he still have a good reputation?
Liang Songfang was a little anxious, "I have something to tell you."
"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it in private. Don't let anyone see us. Your image is important."
Seeing that he didn't take it seriously, Leung Song-fong said anxiously, "There's no time! I'm telling you, I might be sick, a bad disease, that kind of disease!"
Zhou Fuqiang was stunned and didn't react. "What disease?"
"It's that kind of dirty disease! The kind that can infect people, AIDS!"
Zhou Fuqiang was unfamiliar with these three words. These days, TV doesn’t talk about these things, and ordinary people have no channels to obtain this knowledge.
But when Liang Songfang mentioned the disease, Zhou Fuqiang still understood what she meant.
"Impossible! I'm fine! How could I have a dirty disease?"
"I am also a victim. Someone infected me. He has been diagnosed," Liang Songfang kept coughing and her face turned pale. "This thing is very easy to spread."
"How is it possible to be contagious after just a few times?"
"How is that impossible! The doctor told me that oral sex is the main mode of transmission and it is very easy to spread without a condom!" Liang Songfang said, "Don't blame me, I didn't mean to infect you. I can tell you that I have done my duty! Don't mess around with others in the future. Even if you want to, wear a condom!"
Zhou Fuqiang was speechless after hearing the news.
He didn't know much about AIDS yet. He had only vaguely heard about it a few times. It was a fatal disease!
Once you are infected, your life is over!
Zhou Fuqiang was so frightened that his legs went limp. He dared not delay any longer and secretly went to a hospital for a check-up.
Who would have thought that the result would not be optimistic.
Zhou Fuqiang felt like the sky was falling. He didn't understand why he had contracted this dirty disease. Could someone die after just a few times of having sex with them?
What Zhou Fuqiang didn't expect was that the doctor turned out to be the parent of his student.
That night, the doctor reminded his child:
"Don't have physical contact with your teacher Zhou, and don't touch anything contaminated by his blood."
The doctor's child is an introverted girl. Last year, her grandmother gave her a skirt as a birthday present, and she happily wore it to school.
But he was reprimanded by Teacher Zhou:
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Don't you just want to seduce men?"
The girl was so hurt that she cut her skirt into pieces out of fear.
After that, she was always worried that Teacher Zhou would look at her with tinted glasses.
After hearing what her father said, the girl asked with concern:
"What's wrong with Teacher Zhou? Is he sick?"
The doctor hesitated to speak, fearing that his daughter would not take it seriously, and finally said: "Your teacher Zhou has been infected with AIDS! He got it from having affairs with women! AIDS is contagious, I have already reported it to his school! You better be careful!"
The girl felt like the world was falling apart.
Teacher Zhou has AIDS? Teacher Zhou, who always criticizes others for their bad morals, would actually mess around?
Sure enough, the next day, Zhou Fuqiang's story spread throughout the school.
Everyone looks at Zhou Fuqiang with tinted glasses.
For the first time, Zhou Fuqiang felt the feeling of being looked down upon.
He lowered his head and wanted to continue the class, but was called out by the principal.
The principal said that the parents were afraid that he would infect other students with infectious diseases, and that he had bad morals, so he decided to expel him!
That would have been fine, but when word got out about Zhou Fuqiang's affair, his wife heard that he was having an affair outside and she insisted on divorcing him.
When Meng Nan heard what happened to Zhou Fuqiang, he simply couldn't believe it!
Is retribution in this life so quick?
People who resist condoms got AIDS so quickly?
Seeing that she was taking pleasure in the misfortune, Zhen Zhen said, "Don't look at AIDS patients with tinted glasses. Many AIDS patients are also victims."
"Ah?" Meng Nan was puzzled.
"I heard that the news came from a blood-selling group in a poor village in the next city."
"Collective blood selling?"
"Yes, the people were too poor to eat, so they organized blood donations. In order to save money, they shared one needle, which led to this large-scale infection."
Zhen Zhen felt that this matter was very serious. The common people were already poor enough, and now they had to suffer such an unprovoked disaster.
She contacted Xu Wei and wanted to donate money to the village to treat AIDS.
There have been a lot of AIDS patients in the hospital recently, and Xu Wei has also heard about this.
Blood transmission has been surpassed by sexual transmission, and just like that, the word "condom" has been brought up again.
Hearing that Zhen Zhen wanted to donate, Xu Wei was almost moved to tears:
"Big sister, you are such a kind person!"
"Come on, I don't want the common people to suffer like this! What's more, if one village is infected, it will spread to ten people, and ten to a hundred. We in Xinyao will soon be implicated."
Xu Wei assured that it would attract attention. "I will ask the relevant departments to publicize it, the news will also talk about it, and then promote common sense about AIDS prevention in newspapers."
Zhen Zhenting donated money, but also discovered business opportunities from it.
Chinese men can ask their wives to get sterilized, but they will never put themselves in a difficult position.
As long as an advertisement saying "It is better to spend 50 cents on condoms than to spend 1 million on medical treatment", men will definitely be willing to pay for condoms.
Zhen Zhen told Meng Nan his idea, and Meng Nan thought it made sense.
"I'll first place an ad in Xin Yao's newspaper to see the effect."
In this way, Meng Nan bought an entire article in the Xin Yao Evening News to publicize the impact of AIDS on the United States.
Of course, if the situation in the United States is so serious, how can China be any better?
Then, she changed her tone and talked about the current situation of AIDS in China, telling everyone that the main route of AIDS has long been sexual transmission!
To avoid being infected with AIDS, the best way is to use condoms!
According to research, using condoms can effectively reduce the transmission rate of AIDS.
After Meng Nan's article was published, it indeed caused a huge uproar in Xin Yao.
Chinese men love to take care of their health, but they are even more afraid of death. They can mess around outside, but they won’t tolerate being infected with dirty diseases and putting their lives in danger!
On the night the article was published, Nanbang in Mengnan was packed with people queuing up to buy condoms.
At the same time, Xu Wei also announced that Xinyao, as a pilot city, will put condoms on shelves in supermarkets and other places!
When a person is lucky, everything goes well.
In that year, the country lifted controls on condoms because the HIV infection rate was too high.
Mannon nearly jumped up:
"Grandma, from now on, our condoms can be sold in all supermarkets in China."
Zhen Zhen was happy for her granddaughter, "The profit of condoms must be very high, right?"
"Of course not!" Meng Nan became excited at this point. "Grandma, let me tell you, the gross profit of condoms is over 85%! Especially since we have our own rubber factory and our own brand, the profit is especially high! For a box of condoms that costs 5 yuan, our profit is over 4 yuan, which is much higher than sanitary napkins!"
It's true that Meng Nan wanted to make condoms, and it's also true that he wanted to make money.
Zhen Zhen didn't expect the gross profit margin of condoms to be so high.
"No wonder the profits of a condom company can exceed those of China's number one Internet company."
"What?"
"It's okay." Zhen Zhen lamented the high profits of condoms.
Meng Nan took strong action and placed condoms in major supermarkets across the country.
At first, many supermarkets were still waiting and watching, but when they saw that the national documents had come down, they openly put condoms on the shelves.
Of course, many people are embarrassed to buy them, but once night falls, many men start looking for condoms on the streets.
Meng Nan also delivered condoms to drugstores.
Thanks to her efforts, condoms went from being unsalable in the early days to being popular all over the country today. By the end of the year, Meng Nan made a careful count and found that over 100 million condoms were sold in Nanbang!
The profit was as high as 40 million!
Under Zhen Zhen's promotion, Xin Yao Airport also initially finalized a construction plan.
Xu Wei found a local construction company and planned to build the project in three phases. He then sought donations from major companies and finally raised 200 million yuan for the first phase of the project.
At the same time, Xu Wei also started the first phase of investment promotion for the clothing wholesale market he wanted to open.
On the day of the investment promotion, Zhen Zhen followed Xu Wei to visit the wholesale market.
Xu Wei took her from the first floor to the fourth floor, but to her disappointment, there were not even five businesses on the entire floor.
"Why is there no one here?" Zhen Zhen was puzzled. "Didn't you invite any investors?"
"We've recruited! Where's the director of the investment promotion office? Didn't he say there would be no problem? How come the people haven't arrived yet after the business has opened?"
Wholesale buildings are Xu Wei's political achievement and also his efforts for Xin Yao.
The building has been renovated and the government has invested a lot of money in it, but there is not a single person in the trading market.
A group of merchants came in, but when they saw the deserted market, they shook their heads and decided to close their stalls.
Xu Wei was very anxious:
"We have been working hard to attract investment in Xinyao, so why is there no one here?"
Zhen Zhen asked: "What is the investment policy like?"
The investment promotion director wiped his sweat and replied: "We will waive half a year's rent, exempt all taxes on the processing plant, and promise to give them the best booth and future publicity!"
Zhen Zhen couldn't help shaking his head, all the post-promotion was just empty talk.
We didn't pay much attention to them in the early stages, and even after they moved their home here, they weren't treated well in the end.
"This is too weak! I would rather give it up!"
"All for free?" Xu Wei frowned. "We spent a lot of money renovating the government building! Besides, how can we build the second phase of the building if we can't collect rent?"
"If you always think about making money, how can you attract businesses? Your government needs to show some sincerity."
Xu Wei didn't expect it to be so deserted.
He thought at least half of the shops could be rented out.
"But our shop prices are not expensive, only a few hundred yuan per square meter! The prices for the first floor entrances with large customer traffic are higher, while the prices for the third and fourth floors are particularly cheap."
"No matter how much money it is, without merchants there are no customers, and without customers there is nothing!"
Zhen Zhen thinks Xu Wei is okay as an official, but he is too stubborn when it comes to doing business.
"You have to attract people, increase the number of styles in the clothing market, and bring in customers from other cities. Once things are stable, you can think about making money!"
Xu Wei may not listen to what others say, but he will listen to what his elder sister Zhen says.
"So what do you say we should do?"
Zhen Zhen pondered and said:
"You can advertise in Guangzhou, Vancouver, Wushi, and Hangzhou, saying that Xinyao has a tax-free policy to attract businesses to invest! Then introduce Xinyao's tax exemption and tax reduction policies, and say that Xinyao has supporting schools, gymnasiums and other facilities, which are very suitable for businessmen to invest locally!"
After listening to this, Xu Wei was stunned for a moment, "Then what?"
"Then do you still need me to teach you? Put the investment phone number in all major newspapers. When people call to inquire, ask the operator to praise our new Yao as much as possible! Try to get them to come and inspect it!"
"Investigation?"
"That's right. For example, businessmen from Vancouver will come in groups to inspect. As long as they are willing to come, the government will receive them!"
When Xu Wei heard that it would cost money, he almost grimaced.
"How much does it cost for food and accommodation? The rooms in the county guesthouse are empty anyway, why should we spend money on them?"
"That's not a small amount of money."
"How can you make a lot of money without spending? You've built an airport, so what's the point of doing some advertising and treating people to a meal?"
After being scolded by her, Xu Wei didn't dare to say anything else and immediately ordered his staff to do it.
The director of the investment promotion office couldn't help but wipe his sweat.
The tax-ludging policy is much better than the previous rent reduction!
Fortunately, Boss Zhen secured this welfare policy for them.
Otherwise, even if he tries his best, he may not be able to succeed.
After Zhen Zhen went out, he looked at the clothing market.
This is a renovation of the original county government building. It has a good geographical location, many supporting facilities around it, and a large-scale vegetable market.
"This vegetable market is the largest one in our city center, right?" Zhen Zhen asked.
"Yes, tens of thousands of people come here to buy food every day!"
To the left of the clothing market is the vegetable market, and to the right is the old train station.
The old station is being relocated but is still in operation.
Many buses go to both the new station and the old station.
Zhen Zhen gave Xu Wei an idea and suggested that he open up the road between the clothing market, the vegetable market and the station.
"It would be best if the station exit and the clothing market were connected."
Xu Wei was stunned. "Wouldn't the flow of people be too mixed?"
"Is it that everyone is good, or that no one is good?"
"People who go to the market to buy vegetables are carrying vegetables to the clothing market... This is outrageous! Besides, we are a wholesaler, not a retailer!"
"Don't worry about wholesale or retail, just recruit people first! Wholesale customers will sell at a lower price, and retail customers will sell at a higher price. The merchants will make their own decisions."
Zhen Zhen was worried about Xu Wei because he saw that he was not very smart.
Although Xu Wei is not good at business, he has known Zhen Zhen for many years and he knows very well——
Sister Zhen is telling the truth!
"Did you hear that? Write down everything Boss Zhen said and do as she said! Connect the intersections of the vegetable market and the station to the clothing market and use a waterproof shed to connect them. It probably won't cost much."
You have to say, Zhen Zhen’s suggestion is really good.
Although customers at the vegetable market don’t necessarily buy clothes, there are only a few places in Xinyao City where one can buy clothes.
After customers take a look around and find out that clothes are sold here, they will come here specifically next time.
Not to mention the station, with tens of thousands of people coming and going every day, it is basically a living signboard.
A week later, Xu Wei's newspaper advertisements in several cities showed results.
The Investment Promotion Office received a call from a businessman in Vancouver, who said that more than 50 people in their village were engaged in clothing wholesale and wanted to find a wholesale mall. They learned that all fees were free in the first two years and wanted to verify whether it was true.
The director of the investment promotion office quickly conveyed Boss Zhen's words:
"Free tickets, free accommodation, free meals! We offer everything for free, welcome to come and inspect!"
The director of the investment promotion office reported the situation to Zhen Zhen.
Zhen Zhen's suggestion made him laugh: "What else can you exempt? There are more than 50 people coming to inspect! You should quickly charter a bus from the station and bring them over!"
The director of the investment promotion office slapped his forehead and said, "Look at my brain! I'll go and apply to the leader right away! I will definitely treat them well!"
As a result, more than 50 businessmen from Wenzhou came to Xinyao City for inspection.
In recent years, Xinyao City has become very famous, and its poverty alleviation efforts alone have been reported in newspapers several times.
There is a good evaluation of the new Yao outside.
Many businessmen say:
"The government here doesn't make things difficult for merchants, doesn't charge fees arbitrarily, and is very supportive of private businesses! Locals make wool sweaters during the day, and the government attracts customers to buy them! Farmers who raise sheep even get subsidies!"
Vancouver businessmen, upon hearing that the New York government is so open and inclusive, are eager to come and do business.
But it is not so easy for them to move their family.
This time, they wanted to do wholesale business collectively and wanted to find a clothing wholesale market to settle down. Who would have thought that they happened to see the Xin Yao investment advertisement on the Internet.
Logically speaking, Vancouver is a coastal city and is much more developed than Xinyao, an inland city.
But after the merchants from Wen City came, they all felt that Xin Yao had things that other cities did not have.
Xinyao is very open. The pepper and medicinal materials trading markets are crowded every day. The wool sweater trade is booming, and merchants from all walks of life drive to Xinyao every day.
There is always a constant stream of people on Xinyao's main road, mostly large and small trucks transporting goods.
Xinyao has only been an independent city for two years, but the people of Xinyao all speak Mandarin!
This alone is enough to shock Vancouver businessmen.
There are many merchants coming and going from the north and south, and the locals do not have any xenophobic views, which makes Vancouver merchants feel a different atmosphere.
They visited the clothing market and were surprised to find that there were quite a few people there.
"Where do so many guests come from?"
"They are not guests," the investment director explained. "It was our boss Zhen from Zhenxin Group who came up with the idea to connect the clothing wholesale market and the vegetable market, which attracted tens of thousands of people from both sides every day."
Vancouver businessmen looked at each other and admittedly, at the moment, the Xin Yao wholesale market was not yet mature.
But they have fifty businesses!
Everyone has customer resources.
Xinyao City has developed transportation and is much closer than Guangzhou. Customers from surrounding cities are definitely willing to come to Xinyao to pick up goods.
"Will you really exempt Xinyao from taxes for two years?"
"It's absolutely true! And, our boss Zhen said that whoever signs the contract first gets to choose the store first! These golden stores at the door are all yours to choose as long as you are willing!"
Vancouver merchants raised their hands one after another, "I'll sign! I want the first one!"
"I want to enter the second room!"
"I want third!"
Just like that, these fifty Vancouver merchants officially settled in the Xin Yao Clothing Market.
They are all experienced wholesalers. In the early years, they were engaged in clothing smuggling business by shipping on the coast of Vancouver and Guangzhou.
Among them was a young man named Cui Jianyi, who was less than 30 years old. He closed three stalls in one go.
He made his fortune by making imitations of big brands. He has a stylist in Paris, and whenever there are new styles on the runway, he immediately copies them and sells them at his stall.
Cui Jianyi not only imitates, but also modifies the designs. He always adds new elements popular in the fashion shows to the popular items in previous years and makes them his own.
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