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Chapter 364 Teacher Cleaner

"Such a good factory, such good equipment..." Olaf Schulz was still sighing.

Yang Dongsheng didn't find it strange at all, the industrial structure of West Germany overlapped too much with that of East Germany.

West Germany may be able to tolerate the continued existence of similar companies in other countries in Eastern Europe, but East Germany... For politicians who rely on votes to get to power, the most unofficial person in this world is the father of the money maker!
West Germany has Siemens, so Olaf Schulz's refrigerator factory must die; West Germany has Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Schaeffler, and ZF, and East Germany's auto industry must die; West Germany has Krupp, East Germany's steel industry must die; West Germany has BASF, and East Germany's chemical industry must die...

Unless there is a product that East Germany has but West Germany does not have, and is also internationally competitive, it is possible to survive this reunification. Unfortunately, East Germany does not seem to have such a company.

It is precisely because of the sharp increase in the unemployment rate in the areas that originally belonged to East Germany that in order to appease the people, these cities that originally belonged to East Germany will build houses for the people, and only then did they invite Yang Dongsheng.

Speaking of which, Yang Dongsheng has to thank them.

"Didn't our factory be sold to the Americans? Why are you here to receive it?" Olaf Schulz suddenly remembered something.

Unlike those East Germans who wholeheartedly defected to the West, Olaf Schulz belonged to a member of the vested interest groups in East Germany, and he didn't have a good impression of the United States!
"That's right! They sold this factory to an American company, but that company is my registered branch in the United States!"

This kind of thing can be found out in the United States, and there is nothing to hide. Yang Dongsheng is even a little surprised why this has not been discovered in China so far.

"Then you have to be careful! Refrigerators have been produced here for decades. Spraying and phosphating are highly polluting processes. They couldn't solve the problem, so they found you!" Olaf Schulz kindly reminded.

"Thank you for your reminder, Mr. Schultz! If you have nothing else to do tonight, let's have dinner together. I still want to ask you something about this factory!"

Yang Dongsheng invited the old man to dinner. On the one hand, he thanked the old man for maintaining the factory in the past few years. Those equipments are kept in good condition, and Yang Dongsheng can sell them for a lot of money; on the other hand, it is rare to see a person who is so friendly to them in Germany.

According to Yang Dongsheng's experience during his last trip to Europe, Europeans generally have deep hostility towards them.

I heard from the foreign student who was their tour guide last time that when he first arrived in Germany, a German classmate walked up to him arrogantly before a class and said to him in a questioning tone, "The Soviet Union has disintegrated, why did you Haven't disintegrated yet?"

Now there are many closed factories in this area that originally belonged to East Germany. Olaf Schulz had a high position in East Germany. Through him, Yang Dongsheng can learn more about the situation.

They found a very classy restaurant.

In the depressed East Germany, there is a rare prosperity here.

Opposite the restaurant is a square whose name I don’t know. Surrounding the square is a circle of historic-looking buildings. On the side facing the square is a row of huge floor-to-ceiling windows. The scenery inside the square can be seen at a glance.

German food is notoriously monotonous, but this restaurant has ingredients flown in from all over the world, as well as a variety of wines to choose from.

Yang Dongsheng picked up the menu and looked at it. The prices of various dishes are also very good.

Although the price is expensive, the business of the restaurant is very good-no matter where you go, even if the market is depressed, there are vested interests.

Several people ordered food and wine, and Olaf Schulz whispered, "My God, are these foods made of gold? This meal is almost enough for my wife to buy ingredients for a year!"

Yang Dongsheng said, "Mr. Schultz, it's rare for me to eat this once. Don't worry, I will treat this meal as your consultant fee!"

"Then the price of my consultant is really not low!" Olaf Schulz laughed.

Olaf Schulz also cooperated and introduced the current situation.

Before reunification, there were about 8500 state-owned enterprises in East Germany. Now, perhaps not even half of these enterprises can survive, and most of them are water, electricity, and gas companies. There are very few real industrial enterprises.

Some of Olaf Schulz’s friends work in the national shipyard, and some work in the lawful automobile factory. These factories have strong technical strength. On the eve of reunification, their products can be exported to many countries in the world, even including Britain, In France and other countries, these enterprises basically went bankrupt after the reunification.

Even if the prices have fallen far below the actual prices of these factories, West German companies are unwilling to buy these factories because they don't want to bear the burden of the workers in those factories.

Several people talked for a long time, Olaf Schulz got up and went to the toilet, but he didn't come back after nearly 10 minutes.

Yang Dongsheng looked at his watch, thinking that the old man must be constipated, right?
At this time, there was a quarrel coming from the direction of the toilet, and Olaf Schulz's voice was obviously among them.

Yang Dongsheng and the others quickly got up and went over, only to see Olaf Schulz arguing with a young waiter, his face flushed.

The two spoke German, but Yang Dongsheng couldn't understand, so he said to his subordinates, "Go and call their manager!"

The restaurant manager came over quickly, reprimanded the young waiter severely, and apologized to Olaf Schulz.

Olaf Schulz said something in German to another middle-aged man, who looked like a cleaner, but the man shook his head.

"Let's go, I don't want to stay in this place anymore!" Olaf Schulz said.

Yang Dongsheng paid the bill, and several people walked out of the restaurant. Olaf Schulz said, "The man just now is my friend. He works as a cleaner here. That young man used to be his student. Because of his strict teaching, he offended everyone. That student, when I went in just now, that student was embarrassing him!"

"Student, your friend is a teacher?"

"Yes, he is a teacher!"

"How did the teacher become a cleaner?"

"Because his technical school closed down!"

In East Germany, the unemployment rate is astonishingly high. This is not the worst. As the exchange rate between the East German mark and the West German mark has become 1:1, the price of everything in East Germany has instantly become nearly 5 times.

A large number of well-trained skilled workers had to become masons in the construction market; young and beautiful women became prostitutes...

"Technical school, a school for training skilled workers?" Yang Dongsheng's heart skipped a beat.

In later generations, high-quality skilled workers have always been the short board of our country's industrial development. Yang Dongsheng has a technical school under his command, but the level is really unbelievable.

(End of this chapter)