Some people say that northerners are all talk without practice.

Many people said it was extremely vicious and that we rushed up to do something, and it was all over the place, but in their hearts they thought, forget it, I have to be the last one.

Therefore, northerners always talk in vain without taking actual actions.

In the 1990s, there was a joke that targeted this characteristic of northerners.

It was said that several northerners and a southerner were dining at the same table.

One of the northerners said that there was a good opportunity to make money recently.

All the northerners sitting here said yes, and the response was, "You just need to take the lead, and we will follow."

Only the southerners just listened silently and smiled without making any comments.

As a result, all the northerners, including the one who mentioned it first, took no real action and just pretended that it didn't happen.

On the contrary, only the southerners really gave it a try, and later actually made money.

The funniest thing is when a southerner pays for a treat and thanks the northerner who gave him an idea at the banquet.

Not only was this person unexpectedly surprised, but he also received a lot of complaints because of it.

The other northerners actually blamed him.

"Hey, there is such a good thing, why did you just tell him and not us?"

Look, this obviously exposes the clown image of northerners to the world in a way that exposes scars.

But having said that, although this phenomenon is common, it cannot be simply concluded that southerners are smart and pragmatic, while northerners are stupid and hypocritical.

Because this phenomenon cannot be separated from the specific objective environment, the position of this joke is unfair.

Although it is very likely that this incident is true, it may be another matter to really analyze it from the different perspectives of both parties.

Apart from anything else, I must first reiterate the particularity of the era. This is the 1990s.

What are the characteristics of this era?

The iron rice bowl is still there, and most northerners enjoy this stable lifestyle.

This is not the case for southerners. They are the first to leave their hometowns, and many more people choose to go out to do business than those in the north.

In addition, we need to pay more attention to one detail. In the joke, most of the people in this group are northerners, and there is only one southerner.

Why is this happening?

Is it most likely that this dinner was hosted by a northern city?

So the southerners want to survive in a different place, so they invite guests to curry favor with some people?

Isn't it unfair to compare two people with different living situations, different occupations, and even different values?

For example, it is completely conceivable that a southerner like this, who is very capable but cannot speak well, can get along in a state-owned enterprise?

On the other hand, are the northerners the kind of people who lack economic consciousness at all? Do they not value people who do business in their bones?

Thinking this way, it may explain why there were more bureaucrats in the north and more businessmen in the south for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

So in essence, this is still a problem of "a bug in the summer can't talk about the ice".

Different living environments and requirements create different people's living standards and living abilities.

To put it bluntly, even though they are both turtles, it makes no sense for the turtles to laugh at the tortoises for not being able to swim.

As for Ning Weimin personally, since he is a person who is lucky enough to have the insight beyond his time and be able to overlook life and time. Then through what happens around him, he will see this issue more and more clearly.

He found that he was surrounded by real-life examples of this principle.

The most direct thing is that very few of the senior executives of Pierre Cardon's investment group could remember to exchange Japanese yen for him.

Even when they were drinking, they agreed happily.

But Qi Yanjun was very loyal and sent him 1.2 million yen at the official price out of good looks.

Manager Sha probably gave him a tentative 3.85 million yen at the black market price because he was a philistine who refused to let go of any opportunity.

No one remembers this incident anymore.

As for him, he didn't break his promise and accepted everything except to express his gratitude.

Privately, he did tell Qi Yanjun and Manager Sha that the yen was expected to appreciate significantly.

I advise them to exchange their money for more Japanese yen as much as possible even if they don’t need Japanese yen at home.

But that’s it.

Whether they are willing to believe it or not, and how much they can follow it after believing it, that is their own problem.

As for other members of the investment group, most of whom are busy spending money to enjoy themselves, there is still a big gap even in how they consume and how they handle their personal wealth, which still reflects each person's different value orientation and intellectual vision.

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Take the matter of buying a car, for example.

Zhao Daqing, who was a worker, peasant, and soldier student, ordered a Santana.

Xiao Gu wants to buy a Japanese Blue Bird. This has something to do with him being young and liking Japanese electrical appliances.

There are also people who are loyal fans of Pierre Cardon and believe in French products, so they will try their best to buy a French car.

No matter the horizon, Citroen will do.

This person also likes to save francs. He basically converts the foreign exchange certificates issued by the company into francs.

Unexpectedly, France, an old capitalist country, is not very successful, and the franc is basically falling every year.

It would be better not to make this mess and save foreign exchange certificates from the beginning.

There is another person who doesn’t want to buy a car, but just wants to study abroad and further his education.

If it weren't for the fact that he was denied a visa twice due to guarantee issues, he would have left long ago.

This time he made a fortune himself, so he didn't need a guarantee.

But it is conceivable that this boss despises his golden job and dreams of going abroad to wash dishes for foreigners.

Once you make this crucial step wrong, your luck may be good or bad.

However, vanity is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it can still help Ning Weimin.

Just like a few people who think they are smart, they quietly absorb the zodiac tickets in the market that have not yet reached the lowest price, and are willing to serve as leek seedlings for Ning Weimin to speculate on the zodiac tickets in the future.

Also, the high-end gold lighters co-branded by Ning Weimin and Zeng Xianzi launched in the mainland market were also sold well because of the vanity of these people.

At the end of May, at the request of Ning Weimin, Zeng Xianzi sent a total of 42 lighters to the mainland, and several of them were placed in every Pierre Cardin store in Beijing.

Don't even look at the price tag, which is nearly 20,000 per piece.

However, after being put on the counter for two weeks, only eleven of these "rich gold" items were sold.

It not only promotes the further spread of brand awareness, but also effectively increases the sales volume of clothing.

What’s even more surprising is that among the thirty-one sold, in addition to the executives in the investment group, each of the two company executives who did not participate in the investment group also bought one.

Co-authored alone, Pierre Cardon has digested eleven of them internally.

And this group of people seemed to have made an agreement. Whoever bought this gold lighter would like to light up a cigarette in public in the company to show off.

As a result, this behavior of showing off wealth was quickly repaid.

Don’t forget, lighters all come in the same style, so it’s easy to get them confused.

Well, after some misunderstandings occurred that almost resulted in heavy losses of property, no one dared to show off anymore.

Of course, such market reaction naturally made Zeng Xianzi overjoyed, and he no longer had any worries about cooperating with Ning Weimin.

To be honest, even excluding the purchases by these executives, the sales volume of twenty units far exceeded Zeng Xianzi's expectations.

Even if we estimate it on a national scale, in Zeng Xianzi's view, sales of four to five hundred per year are not a problem, which is a free profit of four to five million.

If once this kind of gold lighter really becomes a iconic item for wealthy people in the mainland, as Ning Weimin predicts, then the sales volume will increase several times, which is worth looking forward to.

Therefore, Zeng Xianzi not only decided to formally join the partnership, but also divided the labor and cooperated according to the plan set by Ning Weimin. He made gold lighters a new project of the two companies and vigorously promoted sales in the mainland.

Moreover, in order to reward Ning Weimin for such a good idea, he readily agreed to help Ning Weimin and find a way to exchange a large amount of Japanese yen for him.

Even if this is somewhat inconsistent with mainland policies, it doesn't matter.

Who makes Ning Weimin his most reliable and reliable partner in Pierre Cardon?

In this way, the currency exchange issue that would have troubled many people was easily solved by Ning Weimin.

It must be said that the blessings and misfortunes of a person's life are actually not affected by his or her individual qualities at all times.

When you finally enter old age, you will have different career achievements and family situations, that is, there are huge differences between people in their knowledge, vision, and how they treat others.

If a person is not good at these two aspects, it can only mean that he has serious misunderstandings about the world.

If you don’t believe it, there is actually another incident that happened to Mr. Picardon, which further illustrates this truth.

In May, before the finals of the model competition, the master was invited by the Fashion Culture Correspondence Center to take time to give lectures to students in Beijing.

These students are all top students from various departments who came from the predecessor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, which at this time was also called Chemical Fiber Engineering Institute.
To be continued...