Chapter 317 Kunyu World Map
In the spring of 1992, before Liu Hongmin finished writing Twilight Trial, he saw news from Pengcheng on the news. He knew that the real wave of reform and opening up had arrived.
The gears of time have turned, and some things have to be done.
Because of Liu Hongmin's reminder, Lao Su is still struggling, and he can hold on longer than in the original time and space. However, according to his estimation, it can only be this winter at most.
The economic crisis over there has already broken out, and many factories have closed down due to the economic collapse.
At the end of last year, Zou Shifang also closed the net, and the short-selling profit was as high as 90 billion US dollars. All of this money was used by Liu Hongmin to acquire the factories of the Japanese, and then all of these factories underwent industrial transformation and moved to the Northeast. Although many technologies were restricted by the Japanese and still remained in the Japanese homeland, most of the equipment went to the Northeast.
As for the technology, Zou Shifang has bribed some technicians and developed some of the technology. With these technologies, domestic technicians can follow the map, eliminate the dross and retain the essence, and develop our own technical system.
This is what we are good at and what we have been doing.
We are not short of talents, but ideas. As long as we open a way, our technology can advance by leaps and bounds.
The factory moved to China and still implemented the Japanese 5S management. It must be said that this set of management standards can improve the quality of industrial products and reduce costs. Although domestic workers were not very accustomed to it at first, as long as they persisted for a period of time, they would find that this set of management standards would save a lot of trouble.
Liu Hongmin did not expect these factories to make a lot of money, because after making money, they would be sold to the main factory on the Japanese side. If he wanted to get dividends, he would need to pay personal income tax to the Japanese.
Therefore, Liu Hongmin preferred to keep all the money in the factories in the Northeast, offering high salaries to workers and building more residential areas for families near the factories. Dozens of factories established development zones in three coastal cities in the Northeast, directly driving the economic development of the three cities.
In addition to the money from the stock market, Liu Hongmin also had a lot of money from the Japanese. He used this money to buy artworks lost to the Japanese, especially ancient books and albums. The Japanese could only sell some of them when they were in trouble.
Liu Hongmin found a broker in the United States to set up a collection company, and has acquired many cultural relics from various countries over the years. Liu Hongmin does not care about cultural relics from other countries, but all domestic ones will be brought to Hong Kong for exhibition, and then replaced and brought back to the mainland.
Zou Shifang asked someone to ask the Japanese to buy them, but they would not buy them. At this time, the collection company of the broker stepped in and bought these cultural relics at a slightly lower price. After they were shipped out of the Japanese, they were directly transferred to Hong Kong for exhibition, and counterfeits were made on the spot and then replaced.
In this way, Liu Hongmin brought back many precious cultural relics.
Liu Hongmin approved a piece of land in Beijing and built a personal museum, claiming that it was full of replicas, and then he collected all the real things there.
With such deception, the museum had more and more real things, and became famous in the cultural relics circle of Beijing. After all, those cultural relics also need people to take care of them. Although the employees signed a confidentiality agreement, some news would inevitably leak out. Some people wanted Liu Hongmin to hand over these things, but he refused.
In this day and age, people are greedy for money and dare to steal things from the palace. If Liu Hongmin handed them over, who knows who would get them.
Liu Hongmin asked Ge Chaoguang to find a trustworthy person to help sort out the ancient books he had brought back. It turned out that many of the contents recorded in them did not match those in ancient books in China.
In particular, the copy of "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" obtained from the Japanese devils did not match the one in the Jinling Museum. The one in the Jinling Museum was missing a lot of things, and these things contained shocking information. If confirmed, it would change history. Ge Chaoguang and others were very excited because he felt that he had found the truth.
However, Liu Hongmin did not have much hope, because in his previous life, as of 2024, he had not been able to produce conclusive evidence, and all were just guesses.
Or someone has found evidence but is afraid to make it public, or cannot make it public.
Because if conclusive evidence is brought out, it will cause unrest in the world. Historical tracing is also a kind of ideology. If it is not handled properly, it will break the current world order. Before a solution to mushroom bombs is found, breaking the current world order is very dangerous.
The correct path is to boil the frog in warm water and slowly change the ideology of everyone in the world.
But these are not what Liu Hongmin should think about. He just wants to find the evidence. Whether there is evidence or not is one thing, whether to take it out is another.
Collecting evidence is undoubtedly a job of finding a needle in a haystack, so Liu Hongmin can only try his luck. Fortunately, the executives of his company all know that he likes ancient books, so they often help him collect precious ancient books. Liu Hongmin does not treat them unfairly. He cannot agree to promotion or salary increase, but he will definitely buy them at double the price.
The executives were not used to it at first, after all, they wanted to give gifts to Liu Hongmin. But gradually they got used to it, because Liu Hongmin was rich! Now they all regarded the collection of ancient books as a business. If they found what Liu Hongmin needed, they would become rich, and if they didn't find it, they could collect it for themselves.
Gradually, these executives became collectors, with a lot of ancient books at home. However, these people don't know much about ancient books, and they collect them just to wait for the ancient books to appreciate in value so that they can make a fortune.
In late March, Richard called.
"Mr. Liu, Twilight Trial has been translated, but you should be prepared that its sales may decline."
Liu Hongmin nodded, "I know, there are already too many novels in this series."
"It's more than that." Richard explained, "The Japanese have an economic crisis. People have no money, so consumption has been downgraded. Many countries in the world have been affected, so it has nothing to do with quality, it's just that the overall environment is not good! The sales of novels published by Random House in the past two years have been declining."
Liu Hongmin frowned, "Is it already so serious?"
"Of course!" Richard said, "When Matrix World was released, we predicted that the sales would be at least 25 million copies. As a result, it has only just exceeded 20 million copies so far, which is 300 to 400 million copies less than predicted."
Liu Hongmin was speechless. Is it true that the book industry is no longer viable?
The same is true in China, not just his novels, but the entire book industry is shrinking. On the contrary, teaching materials are increasing day by day, and sales are rising year by year.
(End of this chapter)
