50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 640 The Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household in the 80s
At that time, the average wage in the United States was around $1400, which was considered a high salary among white-collar workers.

Now, after working for several months, most of their salary has been sent back to their hometowns through Cathay Bank.

After the employees transferred their US dollar salaries back home, they were automatically converted into RMB at the bank. Those amounts were not small sums in their local area.

At the current official exchange rate of about 1:3, that means they have to send back 1.5 million yuan to their family every month.

In those days, how powerful was a household with 10,000 yuan? In major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, it was a different story. But in inland county towns, it would be a day to hold an awards ceremony to celebrate such a person's wealth.

Most problems in this era are money problems, whether it's illness, debt, or weddings and funerals.

After the money was sent home, all the problems in their families were resolved smoothly, so they were able to relax.

However, Sun Zhiwei knew that this might not be a good thing.

Once you have money, relatives and friends who want to borrow money or take advantage of you will come knocking on your door. This leader and that leader will ask you to set an example and lead the villagers to get rich. What will you do?
Losing money is inevitable, but that's a minor issue.

After all, they are all relatives or fellow villagers. They might try to take your money, but they won't kill you.

They've taken your favors, and they'll likely remember your kindness in the future. If you're in a village, this will create a safety net for your family.

Conversely, if you are reluctant to part with your wealth, and some envious outlaws learn of your family's reputation, and your family has poor interpersonal relationships, the consequences could be unpredictable.

Therefore, how to manage these interpersonal relationships is the new problem their family needs to face.

To be honest, he didn't think the family could handle these issues well. Often, no matter how the poor become rich, their mentality collapses.

He shared his concerns with a few people, and then left it at that. These were their private family matters; a gentle reminder was fine, but meddling too much would only annoy them.

Over the past few months, the four of them have gotten along quite well with Sun Zhiwei and his wife, and he is unwilling to ruin this good personal relationship.

Now that their family matters have been settled, Sun Zhiwei is preparing to find them some work, since being a bodyguard doesn't offer much of a future.

Dong Haoyang went to work at Pinkerton Company at the behest of Sun Zhiwei.

He's only in his early thirties, not too old, and has a family, so he still has some ambition.

He didn't reject the new job arrangement; on the contrary, he liked it because fixed-point security was something he was good at.

Moreover, the work in Pinkerton is more challenging and offers more opportunities for advancement, which is a good thing for him.

Zhu Hongfei, Zhao Wanting, and Du Qiaoqiao are all young and lack ambition; they are not interested in moving to a new work environment.

Sun Zhiwei didn't force them. It would be fine to keep them around as drivers or bodyguards, since he and Tong Jiajia needed some manpower anyway.

However, he has already had four people introduce their comrades over, especially Dong Haoyang, who is new to Pinkerton and has no loyal subordinates to work with.

The mass return of troops to their hometowns will not begin for another six months; it is estimated that the higher authorities are currently screening which units will remain or leave.

Some well-informed people are probably already looking for a way out, and he believes that some clever people will definitely see this opportunity.

Once he has a team, he can then find people to open branch offices in Borneo and Africa.

He believed that the higher authorities would be happy to help those comrades who had returned to their hometowns find a way out, as long as Sun Zhiwei could send them job invitations through proper channels.

This could be seen as exploring a new path for the future resettlement of veterans. One must take things one step at a time, and after getting rid of most of the mundane tasks, Sun Zhiwei began to learn to look at problems from a higher perspective.

December is approaching, bringing with it the most important Western holiday: Christmas, and the whole of New York City is starting to get lively.

LaGuardia Airport also saw its first peak in passenger traffic since Sun Zhiwei took over, putting immense pressure on the aging airport.

Sun Zhiwei certainly couldn't leave it unattended. He instructed Huang Mingyu to focus his attention on the airport and jewelry stores during the Christmas season, two companies that were about to experience peak passenger traffic, and to prepare support plans in advance.

After a large number of heavily armed guards were transferred from Pinkerton, the security situation in both chaotic locations immediately improved.

Sun Zhiwei also told Huang Mingyu not to be stingy. Any employee who works overtime during the holiday and misses the Christmas holiday should be given a high amount of overtime pay. He must not cause any trouble in this regard.

He's not a real capitalist; he's quite easygoing when it comes to making money.

Of course, he was more interested in making money, especially big money.

Just before Christmas, the design department completed all the blueprints for the expansion and renovation project, and he immediately released the news of the airport expansion and renovation project.

It must be said that airlines are the most responsive in this regard.

Within 24 hours of the news being released, several airlines had contacted airport manager David Sheffield.

David had never dealt with this kind of thing before, so he could only contact Sun Zhiwei, who told him not to worry and to wait a little longer.

Sure enough, as the news spread, more and more shipping, aviation, logistics, insurance, construction, building materials, and advertising companies came knocking on our door.

This time, Sun Zhiwei didn't need to handle the reception. After receiving Sun Zhiwei's commission, Huang Mingyu, the head butler, began to assemble a team.

He then took full authority to represent the Robert Group and began organizing and attracting investment for the airport expansion and renovation project.

During this period, Sun Zhiwei's biggest support for him was the transfer of $20 billion in cash from Cathay Bank, which became Huang Mingyu's confidence in negotiations later.

We have plenty of money, at least for the first two phases of the project. If you want a piece of the pie, you'll have to pay a fair price.

It must be said that Sun Zhiwei's decision to advance funds and have the design department produce the architectural plans first was prescient.

When Huang Mingyu was trying to persuade the airlines, he would directly ask for money as long as he pointed to the location in the rendering.

Seeing how easily Huang Mingyu handled these matters, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Such a large project is not something one person can handle alone. Fortunately, he set up the Robert Group in advance and poached Huang Mingyu from the bank.

Sun Zhiwei wasn't good at business negotiations, but he was good at getting ideas from later generations.

When he saw that some major luxury brands were also on the list of negotiators, he thought of the scale models commonly seen in real estate sales offices in later generations.

So, they found someone to create a large miniature airport model based on the design drawings after the completion of the third phase of the airport project.

When Huang Mingyu saw the airport model two weeks later, he was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)