The shops on the commercial street where Shanghu Shopping Mall is located are suddenly filled with all kinds of inexpensive and high-quality imported goods from Montenegro. The same type of goods are cheaper and of better quality than those in Shanghu Shopping Mall. All of a sudden, Shanghu Shopping Mall seems to have become cheaper than cheap shops because the main advertising selling point of these shops is that they are cheap and suitable for ordinary people.
As for the high-priced and luxurious imported goods, they are naturally the various luxury goods stores in the Zhengdong Railway Building.
Originally, the wealthy locals would go to Zhengdong for shopping to have more status and face, but they often did it secretly to avoid being attacked by the mob. But now, it seems that overnight, not only are high-end national products no longer available in Shanghu shopping malls, but even low-end products are no longer available, and have been outdone by foreign garbage.
A newspaper vaguely mentioned the term "IQ tax", which is eye-opening. It is a new term, but very appropriate. It seems that people who go to Shanghu shopping malls to shop are really paying IQ tax.
At the same time, the Ouyue City Hall was in chaos because an army under the banner of the Ouyue Division appeared in Ouyue.
After much investigation, it was confirmed that the Oyue Division, which was rumored to have been completely destroyed in the northern region of the empire, had indeed returned.
He went straight back to the base camp, a military camp more than 50 miles away from the city of Aoyue.
This military camp was originally occupied by the newly formed Aoyueling Security Brigade. The brigade's senior officers were all outsiders, and the soldiers were recruited locally.
As soon as the Okukoshi Division arrived, the soldiers of the Security Brigade turned against them and disarmed the 1st Battalion, which was loyal to the Kyoto military. The Okukoshi Division took over the camp.
The city hall soon received a telegram from the division, in which the division commander Kawamoto Shigeyoshi requested that the division pay the military salaries that had not been received for more than a year, pensions for the soldiers who had died in battle, consolation money for the disabled soldiers, and additional allowances for the expedition for more than a year.
At the same time, there is also a need for military expenditures to replenish weapons, supplies, etc.
The city hall could only urgently send a telegram to Kyoto, requesting the military to make a decision. The current cabinet is completely a decoration, and various decrees of Prime Minister Yamamoto Yu are usually issued by the military.
Kazunobu Kobayashi, the new governor (lord) of Okuoshi Province and mayor of Okuoshi City, did not expect to receive a reply from Prime Minister Takeshi Yamamoto the next day, saying that he would allocate supplies and money to the Okuoshi Division as appropriate, and that he would soon send a special envoy to express his condolences to the Okuoshi Division for its hard work and contribution.
Kobayashi Kazunobu had no idea what the Prime Minister was up to, so he could only hold an emergency meeting to discuss the amount of money to be allocated to the Okuetsu Division and try to deal with it as little as possible for the time being.
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A two-story shop called "Ao Yue Shai" on the commercial street near Shanghu Shopping Center actually sells local handicrafts, and is not involved in the fierce competition between imported and local products in the local area today.
In the window room on the second floor, Lu Ming sat on a bamboo chair with a very Japanese style, fiddling with a car toy on the table. It was a clockwork toy car. The packaging box was all in Japanese. It was produced by a toy company under the Ueto Group.
Lu Ming pondered for a while and said, "Well, you found it very well!"
Standing opposite was Papada, who was dressed casually today, in that bad-girl cool outfit that matched her mixed-race wild beauty very well.
In fact, like Erika who was sitting next to Lu Ming, both of them were dressed in the same college style, wearing a black knitted hat, a black college style uniform dress, white socks and black leather shoes, but Erika was the ultimate cute and sweet, while Papada was a cool bad student.
The two of them went shopping in the Ueto Department Store together and discovered this toy car.
"We need to send samples to a specialized agency for analysis to see if it infringes on the patent rights of New World Toy Company. In my opinion, there is a 90% chance of that." Lu Ming weighed the toy car with interest.
New World Toys Company was separated from Hua Xia Clothing Company a long time ago and became an independent subsidiary controlled by Hua Xia Group.
New World Toy Company's clockwork toy cars, clockwork robot dolls, etc. are popular all over the world.
The small mechanical device that uses a key to turn the reel to power the toy is a patent of Huaxia Technology.
The patent is valid for twenty years, which means that only after twenty years can other companies use the key spring technology in toys without obtaining authorization.
The toy car products currently produced by the Ueto Group Heisei Toys Co., Ltd. are very similar in shape to those of the New World Toy Company, including the layout of the color-painted patches, which are exactly the same, except that different colors are used, and a key spring device is used.
In other words, it is not only a copycat product, but also infringes on the patent rights of Huaxia Technology.
After thinking about it, Lu Ming picked up the phone and asked someone to come to Ao Yue to get toy samples, and then immediately returned to Xianquan to take a plane to Donghai.
Within two days, we will produce the analysis results. If it is confirmed that the company not only commits counterfeiting but also infringes on Hua Xia Technology’s patents, we will immediately file a lawsuit against the Ueto Group through the law firm of Lu, Liu, Stewart & Wang.
Listening to what Lu Ming said on the phone, it seemed that he was the big boss behind these super companies. Papada who was listening was even more shocked.
Lu Ming looked at her and smiled, "You did a great job. You are worthy of being a top student in the business school."
Papada said hurriedly: "It was Erika who discovered it first, saying that this toy car seemed to infringe copyright."
Lu Ming looked at Erika, who lowered her head shyly and whispered, "I just think it's too similar to the Yunxiao car you bought me a few years ago."
Lu Ming coughed. After all, Papada was an outsider. They managed the relationship between the couple, and he just coaxed her like a child, often buying her toys as gifts. It still felt a bit awkward.
"Since you don't like being a teacher, then you and Papada can go to her department together. I'll feel at ease knowing she'll take care of you." Lu Ming said this, feeling somewhat helpless in his heart. Erika really couldn't be the leader among the children.
It was Papada who secretly told her that Erika was not happy at school.
Erika also told her best friend Papada about her dream, which is to be a virtuous wife, take care of her husband and children, and give birth to more children for herself.
It seems that the education she received since childhood is still deeply rooted in her heart.
While feeling helpless, one can't help but feel touched.
"I, I don't dislike being a teacher..." Erika said in a low voice, not daring to look at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming smiled and was about to speak when the phone suddenly rang. Lu Ming answered the phone, listened for a while, and whispered something.
Standing up, Lu Ming walked to the window.
There was a faint noise in the distance, and a large crowd of people gradually gathered at the entrance of the commercial street. Many of them were dressed in kimonos, wooden clogs and short swords on their waists. In the front row of the crowd, several banners were held up. Lu Ming could understand the Japanese language, which was written in Chinese. The general meaning of the articles on these banners was "expel Montenegrin products, support domestic products", "down with the unscrupulous businessmen who helped the Montenegrin invaders to wage a trade war", etc.
Then, a large group of people began to enter the commercial street and marched shouting slogans.
The horrible noise could be heard clearly here, and Erika and Papada both came to the window.
"Stop looking!" Lu Ming gestured to the two of them.
Although they were curious, they both obediently left the window.
Outside, the Japanese ronin were beating up anyone they saw, and they even broke into shops and smashed things, and it seemed they even had a knife fight with a shop owner.
Just then, gunshots rang out, and young men in peaked caps holding submachine guns rushed out of many shops. The black muzzles of machine guns appeared from the windows on the second floor of some shops, spitting out flames and firing.
The crowds of Japanese thugs fell down one after another like harvested rice.