He joined the family in Tianjin and was employed as an office boy in Ye's company. Although the job was not well paid Father learned a lot about business. Because his English was good, he was soon writing and translating important letters for the company r bought an old typewriter and often typed these letters at home after dinner. His whole family stood around the dining table to watch in admiration. Ye Ye wondered about the heads of international companies who received these valuable documents. What would they think if they knew that they had been typed with one finger by an eighteen-year-old boy? At the end of the First World War, the Japanese had been allowed to take control of some parts of China which had belonged to Germany. But they wanted more. They moved into Manchuria and into Tianjin. The Japanese army became more powerful in Tianjin, and their treatment of the Chinese was without pity. The Japanese tried to force successful Chinese businesses to work with them.They visited" the company that Ye Ye and Father worked for many times, and the employees were beaten. Eventually the company decided to move away.