In the blink of an eye, Jiang Zhihan had been in the special reading room of the city library for six weeks.
A few weeks ago, Jiang Zhihan had divided his day into two parts. The morning and afternoon parts were divided into science history, biography, and popular science and technology magazines. The remaining half of the time was allocated to economics and financial investment. In the field of finance, Auntie Feng helped him find a university professor to consult and compiled a very long book list.
Of course, Jiang Zhihan didn't have the time to read every book, and many city libraries didn't have them either. However, it was good to have a start. Jiang Zhihan only used the reading list as a reference. He continued to explore and added some of his own ideas in the process. Since many investment and financial management books did not have a Chinese translation, Jiang Zhihan was forced to start reading some original English books, and his reading speed slowed down greatly. However, he still gritted his teeth and persevered. He took the original book home and read it late into the night.
A week ago, Jiang Zhihan went to Old Master Yang excitedly. He could finally hold on for half an hour in the standard horse stance, and he felt that he had made great progress in breathing.
The old man didn't praise him. He only taught him a more complicated set of breathing exercises and a set of coordination and balance exercises. Jiang Zhihan didn't ask much, but carefully noted down what he had just learned.
Old Master Jiang had told Jiang Zhihan that Internal Martial Arts, Internal Martial Arts, had to be done step by step at the beginning and not be rushed. Qi cultivation was the foundation, just like building a foundation. He would rather spend more time and do it as solidly as possible. When he accumulated more things, there would be a day when he would be able to make a breakthrough. At that time, he would be able to make great progress.
What surprised Jiang Zhihan the most was that he met Lin Suo from the police station at the old man's house. The two of them left the old man's house together. Lin Suoyan said that he was the nominal disciple of the old man's martial nephew. His master had moved away from the Central Plains two years ago, so he came to visit the old man on behalf of his master every month. Sometimes, he would also ask for advice on fist techniques and martial arts.
Jiang Zhihan thought to himself that he was a generation older. He didn't say anything, but his eyes revealed a smile.
Lin Suo patted Jiang Zhihan's shoulder.""Don't think that I don't know what you're thinking. The old master said that you are not an official disciple, not even in name. So don't even think about talking about seniority in front of me.”
Jiang Zhihan naturally asked about the handling of the incident in the field. Lin Shuo said that no one was caught on the spot. He had hoped that someone present would testify, but no one came out to cooperate. Moreover, these ruffians didn't often move around Seventh High. He also asked the victim, but he could not name the perpetrator. He only remembered a few nicknames that the group of people called each other when they hit each other. As for the victim's injuries, the most serious ones were several fractures in his legs and wrists. There was also a serious concussion and some internal bleeding. The doctor said that if the head continued to be hit, or if the internal organs were hit multiple times, it was very likely to be fatal.
Lin Suo's expression turned serious as he said to Jiang Zhihan,""You probably saved a life. As policemen, we have to thank you."
Lin Suo spoke so solemnly that Jiang Zhihan felt a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say.
Lin Suo asked if Old Ma or Xiao Li had come to question Jiang Zhihan since they were in charge of the case, but it seemed that they had been handed over to the criminal police team. Jiang Zhihan shook his head, but he also admitted that he didn't know any of them, so they might not be of much help. Moreover, Jiang Zhihan had indeed mentioned them to Xiao Li.
"Then wouldn't this matter be left unsettled?" Jiang Zhihan asked.”
"You don't understand our case," Lin said. The police station was seriously undermanned, and the criminal police team was even more lacking. Other than some cases that were related to social stability, such as murder cases, vicious robbery cases, large-scale property loss cases, or cases that were personally caught by the higher-ups, it was impossible for anyone to investigate other cases. Not to mention investigating, even filing a case was not easy. Many of the cases were just left aside. In cases like this, it mostly depended on luck. Sometimes, these guys committed other crimes and might confess as well.”
"For example, this case can be classified as a serious case of intentional assault, or it can be classified as a case of injury caused by a fight. If it was the latter, it would be a small case. The key is your school's attitude. If they insisted that this matter had seriously affected the normal operation of the school and exerted some pressure through relevant channels, they would receive more attention. But I heard that your school leaders and many teachers have organized a trip. The person who came to our police station seems to be the deputy section chief of your security department. The section chief also went on a trip.”
"The old man is quite concerned about you. He asked me to think of a way to pay more attention to this case." This matter was originally taken care of by Old Ma. He's an old comrade, so it's not good for me to say anything. The good news was that for some reason, the criminal police team was very proactive this time. Someone came down to care about this case and took the case. I greeted a former classmate from the criminal police team and asked him to pay more attention.”
Jiang Zhihan thought about it and said to Lin Shuo,""My intuition is that the leader and his most vicious subordinate are very hot-tempered and look like people who will take revenge for the smallest grievance. It's very likely that he'll come back to take revenge on the victim or even me.”
"You're not worried for no reason. If they still want to take revenge and vent their anger, they might have a higher chance of finding you." According to my analysis, the kid who went to find the person, or the guy who led the group, will probably hide for two days or even go out of town to hide. If they understood the general procedures of handling cases, they would know that this kind of case would pass quickly as long as no one died. By then, they would be much safer when they returned. As long as they come back and show up arrogantly, we will have a chance to find them.”
In the end, Lin Suo gave Jiang Zhihan his phone number and told him to look for him if he needed anything.
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One afternoon, Jiang Zhihan came out of the reading room and started his simple lunch, which was actually just a few slices of bread. Jiang Zhihan didn't want to waste time on the road, so he chose not to go home. A few slices of bread and some water from Auntie Feng's office would do.
Director Qi's wife was now looking at Jiang Zhihan in a new light. A child his age could spend more than a month in the library like a day. He was the first to come and the last to leave. Not to mention anything else, his perseverance was not simple.
She had time to chat with Jiang Zhihan at noon every day. She also felt that he was knowledgeable and not a bookworm.
That morning, the library had just held a meeting to discuss the operation of the special reading room. The start-up funds for the reading room project were allocated by the city. The original plan was to achieve self-finance and break-even after 6 to 12 months. Three months had passed since the trial run, and the certification situation was not as good as expected. In addition, he had to buy some books, magazines, audio and video products every month, and most of them were imported from Hong Kong and abroad. They were expensive. The management was not confident that they could break even in a few months. There were many suggestions for this matter. Some suggested lowering the license price to attract more readers, while others suggested temporarily canceling the monthly purchases of some more expensive foreign journals. Some even suggested that when the city's funding ended, if they could not break even, they would directly terminate the project and merge all the collections into the original library system.
Auntie Feng was one of the three people in charge of this project. Of course, she did not want this project to be terminated. After all, this was directly related to her performance evaluation.
Jiang Zhihan saw Auntie Feng's worried expression and asked casually. Auntie Feng explained the situation briefly.
Jiang Zhihan said," I don't want to see this reading room close.”
"You stay here every day. What do you see?" Auntie Feng asked him.”
Jiang Zhihan said,"There are quite a lot of people in the recording room on weekends. There aren't many people in other places."”He continued," Actually, think about the readers in the special reading room and foreign language reading room. According to tradition, some of them should be middle and high-level scholars. Most of these people are in the university system. The university system also had its own library and reading room. In addition, Xijiang District, where the universities were concentrated, was too far away from here. It would take about 40 to 50 minutes by bus. This resulted in the loss of a large number of readers. "As for middle school students, other than far-sighted parents like you and Mr. Quinn, most of them don't want their children to spend a lot of time and money on so-called idle books other than textbooks. Therefore, this is another part of the loss. The rest were people who were more accepting of new things, people who wanted to understand new things, and people who had professional needs. In the long run, there would be more and more people, and this project should have more and more prospects. However, in the short term, such as a year, this group of people might not be enough. After all, it would take some time for the spring breeze of reform and opening up to completely sweep through the inland city of Zhongzhou.”
Aunt Feng remembered that when she participated in the launch of this project, the leaders were mostly thinking about how to establish an image of reform and opening up for the library. As for whether it was feasible from the potential consumer groups, it was never on the agenda.
After listening to Jiang Zhihan's analysis, she felt that it was very fresh and said,""Then do you think there's any possibility of improvement?”
Jiang Zhihan said," I haven't done any real market research. I'm not sure. But basically, I think some suggestions can be considered." For example, the recording room was obviously the place with the best income. Could he consider opening a certificate specifically for the recording room? You see, the video studio outside is very popular now. There are people from all walks of life who go to watch it. There are men, women, young and old. Many of the films in the recording room were not available outside, and the equipment was not bad. Although the library couldn't be turned into a video room, if they thought of more ways in this area, they might be able to make the income of the video room balance the initial deficit of the other two places. Another example was whether he could consider working better with the university system since they had the largest potential consumer group. He could consider renting some things to them or exchanging some collections with them on a regular basis. This would at least reduce the purchase volume of the reading room. Another example was that young people nowadays liked fashion. Could he consider setting up a separate reading room for non-academic and fashionable reading materials, such as novels, military, fashion, music, and so on? If it came to the issue of registration fees, it was not impossible to consider lowering the fees. In addition to the monthly ticket, they could set a one-time fee for the use of a single reading room, or charge a fee for each video screening. There were still many ways to think of.”
Aunt Feng didn't expect Jiang Zhihan to say so much at once. It was still very enlightening for her, and she valued him even more. She smiled and said,"When I need to write a plan, you can help me refer to it."”
Jiang Zhihan smiled and said,"Alright, if you need me, just say it."”
After lunch, Jiang Zhihan returned to the reading room and saw a young man smoking on a bench outside. He saw this person almost every afternoon. Like him, she was always the last to leave. Jiang Zhihan had never spoken to him before, but he still nodded politely.
Seeing him nod, the young man suddenly said,""An economics major? Or finance?"
Jiang Zhihan was stunned. The young man explained,""I see that you've been very engrossed in Master Williams 'value investment these few days.”
Jiang Zhihan rubbed his nose in embarrassment.""I'm a sophomore."
The young man raised his eyebrows and said," Times have indeed improved. When I was in my second year of high school, I didn't even know who Williams was."”
Jiang Zhihan could tell that he was the proud type, but he didn't dislike him. He smiled and said,""I only found out about it a month ago.”
"Mingfan, third year at Zhongzhou University, international trade department.”
Jiang Zhihan smiled." I've met a professional. Jiang Zhihan, Zhongzhou Seventh High School, second year of high school."”
"What's your experience after seeing value investing?" Ming Fan asked.”
This is a test. Jiang Zhihan thought for a moment and said,""You're forcing me to show off in front of an expert. In fact, his theoretical system was not complicated. Of course, as the founder, it was very impressive. It was just like how we found Newton's three laws to be simple, but the first one to come up with it was amazing. His value system theory was different from physics theory. This was because economics or investment was more like art than science, or at least a combination of science and art.”
Jiang Zhihan continued," For example, one of the seven criteria he proposed for a company to be selected is to have a product that has the so-called core competitiveness. Such a product can have a core competitiveness that is difficult to imitate in the current and more importantly, in the future market. This competitiveness could be a long-established reputation among consumers, a cutting-edge technology that was difficult to replicate, or a unique cost control system. Because the capital market emphasized forward-looking, investors and speculators paid more attention to the competitive advantage of a product in the future. Theoretically speaking, this was very simple and easy to understand. We needed to find companies with core competitive products. But how? How could it be forward-looking? He didn't say it, and he probably couldn't say it.”
"Give me an example?"
Jiang Zhihan said," For example, the Mo Corporation, the giant and pioneer of the communications industry. Back when they developed the 'Project Yi Xing,' cell phones were still an amazing luxury. In that plan, they would send 24 satellites in orbit to cover the entire world. No matter how one looked at it, this was an incomparable core competitive advantage. Satellite launch, communications, and mobile phone design were a complete product system that made the entry barrier extremely high. It was difficult for later competitors to step in. Compared to the distributed transmission network based on the ground base station, which was still weak at that time, the 'Istar Project' did not have an obvious price disadvantage, and the advantages in communication coverage and quality were incomparable to the former. Wasn't this a typical core competitive advantage? However, there were a few people who could predict that cell phone technology based on base stations would reduce the cost to a very low level in a very short period of time, causing the 'Project Irene' to lose its competitiveness completely. In fact, this required a great foresight in technological development to be able to predict it. Therefore, this was a classic case of knowing it was easier than doing it.”
"That's why Williams 'loyal follower, Master Ba, claims to only invest in industries he understands."”
"I heard that he has a deep understanding of personal consumption, insurance, and the basic energy industry. Moreover, the materials he had access to were not something that ordinary investors could see. This was also a form of unequal information.”
"That's right." Did you know? The investment courses in our economics and international trade departments still teach the old-fashioned formula of stock price calculated by dividends. It was hard to imagine that they could still preach about something that had expired for decades.”
Jiang Zhihan said,"It's rare to meet a professional. If I have any questions in the future, please guide me."”
"No problem," Ming Fan said straightforwardly.
The two of them chatted for a while more before returning to the reading room together.
Three minutes before closing, Jiang Zhihan packed his things and was the last to walk out of the reading room. After going down three floors, she saw Ming Fan and a petite girl standing together in front of the library. The girl was wearing a T-shirt with a landscape painting on it. Paired with a pair of jeans, she looked very fashionable.
"My girlfriend, Shanshan, works here."”He then introduced Jiang Zhihan." Jiang Zhihan. I just met him. He's a genius in his second year."”
Jiang Zhihan smiled bitterly.
"You're an acquaintance of Director Feng, aren't you?" Shanshan smiled. Everyone in the reading room praised you for being super hardworking.”
Jiang Zhihan teased Ming Fan,"No wonder you come here to work on time every day."”
The three of them walked to the bus stop outside the library. Jiang Zhihan pushed his bicycle and wanted to part ways with them.
"Do you think China will allow the capital market?" Ming Fan suddenly asked.”
Jiang Zhihan said without hesitation,"It's not a matter of whether, but a matter of time."”
"Why?" "
Jiang Zhihan: " Although the capital market has all kinds of flaws, it gathers funds and drives funds to promote industrial development. The efficiency of the planned allocation method is incomparable. When the economy and industry of the dynasty reached a certain stage, there would definitely be a need to create a capital market to accelerate the flow of funds.”
"Will there be a good start?"”
Jiang Zhihan: " It's hard to say how it will develop. After all, the capital market may be more volatile at the beginning. But it will definitely begin."
"Great minds think alike." When the capital market of the Heavenly Dynasty starts, I hope that we are one of the few people who are prepared.”
After a pause, he patted Jiang Zhihan's shoulder affectionately and added,"Work hard, there is a golden house in the book.”
Jiang Zhihan glanced at Shanshan and replied,""The book has its own beauty."
Ming Fan laughed loudly and proudly hugged his girlfriend's shoulders.
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