Siheyuan: I am Jia Dongxu's cousin

"Brother Xia, which dividend do you want to choose?" He Lanqing touched Xia Xingze with his left arm.

Xia Xingze thought about it and replied, "The second one!"

"But..." He Lanqing was more inclined to the first option. After all, if he chose the first option, he could become one of the wealthy people in Hong Kong Island in just five years.

"Tianpeng, which one do you choose?" Xue Mu asked Wu Tianpeng beside him.

"The first one!" Wu Tianpeng said without thinking.

Wu Tianpeng was originally recruited by Zhang Weiguo at a high salary, so it is normal to choose the first one.

"Then I..." Xue Mu hesitated for a while and said, "I'll choose the second one!"

Although Xue Mu was also poached by Zhang Weiguo, she didn't have much desire for money. When Zhang Weiguo found someone to cure her mother's terminal illness, she decided that if Zhang Weiguo fired her, she would sell herself to the Flower Planting Group for the rest of her life.

What's more, the salary Zhang Weiguo offers is already very high.

……

"Okay, everyone should have made their choice!"

After Zhang Weiguo finished speaking, everyone started talking.

"Boss, I choose the first dividend distribution method!"

"Me too!"

"Boss, I choose the second one!"

Finally, He Lanqing, Wu Tianpeng, and Jiang Zhenyu chose the first dividend distribution method, while Meng Cheng, Lin Qing, Xue Mu, and Xia Xingze chose the second dividend distribution method.

Many years later, Helan Qing, Wu Tianpeng and Jiang Zhenyu thought about their choices and felt extremely regretful.

"Okay, Lin Qing will send the documents to you later, and you can just sign them then."

After distributing the dividends, the Flower Planting Group started to operate at high speed again.

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A week later, in Hong Kong Island, in the banker’s villa.

"Oh..." Zhuang Jing'an sat on the sofa in the hall, looking at the financial report handed over by his secretary, and sighed continuously.

Ever since the Zhonghua Group’s quartz watches appeared on the market, sales of its own mechanical watches have plummeted.

In just two months, their dealership's customers had dropped by 90 percent. If this continued, the dealership would soon go bankrupt.

"Dad, don't worry, our business will get better."

Zhuang Mingyue came behind Zhuang Jing'an and gently patted his back with her slender white hands.

"Mingyue, you don't understand. I'm afraid it will be difficult for our Zhuang family to get through this crisis!" Zhuang Jing'an did not relax because of Zhuang Mingyue's comfort.

Zhuang Jing'an has been in the watch business for so many years and has a clear understanding of the situation.

The quartz watches produced by the Flower Planting Group are so cheap that basically any Hong Kong resident can afford one by saving money for two months.

The price of quartz watches produced by the Flower Planting Group in Hong Kong Island is half the price of that in Japan, and can be purchased for only HK$1000.

"Dad, why don't we ask our cousin for help!" Zhuang Mingyue suggested again.

"Jiacheng?" Zhuang Jing'an thought for a moment and waved his hand, "No need. He can barely protect himself now, let alone help us."

"Oh well!"

In fact, Zhuang Mingyue went home this time just to ask her father to help her husband, but seeing how worried her father is now, it seems that he probably can't help.

If Zhang Weiguo had not come, Li Ka-shing would probably be making a lot of money from the plastic flower business.

But with the arrival of Zhang Weiguo, Li Ka-shing inexplicably gained a powerful competitor, the Lou family.

Initially, the Lou family planned to engage in textile business in Hong Kong Island. Later, during a family gathering, Zhang Weiguo suggested to Lou's father that the plastic flower business had great potential.

Father Lou still believed in Zhang Weiguo's vision, so when he returned, he asked his son to investigate the plastic flower business. In addition, with the backing of the flower planting group, Lou's plastic flowers were better than Li Ka-shing's in terms of cost and quality.

This led to many of Li Ka-shing's business partners gradually going to the Lou family to buy plastic flowers.

Li Ka-shing asked his wife Zhuang Mingyue to go home today in order to test Zhuang Jing'an's attitude and see if he could borrow some money from him to help him get through the difficult times.

But looking at the current situation, Zhuang Jing'an did not ask Li Ka-shing to return the money he had borrowed before, all for the sake of his daughter.

After Zhuang Mingyue left, Zhuang Jing'an hesitated for a long time and finally made a decision.

The market for mechanical watches will only get worse under the strong attack of quartz watches, and it’s time to take sides.

Now he can still survive on the OEM orders from Europe. But when the quartz watches are sold to Europe, not to mention OEM, the mechanical watches there will probably be in a difficult situation!

"Oh..." Zhuang Jing'an sighed and picked up the landline phone in the hall.

"Old Lou, if you have time, I'll treat you to tea."

When Father Lou heard Zhuang Jing'an's words, he didn't think much about it and replied with a smile: "Okay, I've been thinking about this good tea for a long time."

Zhuang Jing'an smiled bitterly and said, "I will definitely satisfy you this time!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Jing'an looked at the crabapple blossoms outside the villa in a daze.

“I hope that this time, I can get the quartz watch OEM for the Flower Planting Group because of Lao Lou’s face!”

Zhuang Jing'an and Lou's father have been good friends for many years. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, one chose to stay in the country and the other chose to come to Hong Kong Island.

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In the afternoon, in a teahouse box.

Zhuang Jing'an saw Father Lou put down his teacup and said with a wry smile, "Old Lou, to be honest, I have something to ask of you this time."

"Lao Zhuang and I have been friends for many years. If you have any problem, just tell me directly. I will definitely help you if I can!"

Father Lou knew his good friend very well. He was very proud and would not ask for help from him unless he was at his wit's end.

Zhuang Jing'an looked at Lou's father's sincere expression and sighed, "Alas..., Old Lou, you have a good son-in-law!"

"Since you are like this, I will speak frankly."

Zhuang Jing'an said, "Old Lou, you know that my business is mainly in watches. Do you know the new quartz watches that have come out recently?"

"Quartz watch? Is that the one Weiguo made?"

"That's right, it's the quartz watch your son-in-law made." Zhuang Jing'an smiled bitterly and continued, "Your son-in-law is amazing. He basically leaves no room for survival in any industry he targets!"

Zhuang Jing'an looked at Lou's father with an envious look on his face.

Look at that son-in-law!

Look at your son-in-law again!

After hearing this, Father Lou had a general understanding of the matter. It was estimated that Lao Zhuang had been badly beaten by the quartz watch made by Weiguo, so he had no choice but to come to him for help.

Thinking of Zhang Weiguo, his son-in-law, Lou's father's face unconsciously showed a look of pride. The best thing he had done in his life was probably marrying Xiao'e to Zhang Weiguo.

His son-in-law's business acumen makes him, a former Lou Bancheng, bow down to him.

From the original Flower Planting Newspaper to the current quartz watches, as long as the industry that their son-in-law is interested in, he is basically the industry leader, far ahead of the second one.