1928: The rise of giant merchants

September 3, the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928).

The battle for the No. 1 club in the Far East between Big World and New World was quickly decided under Meng Xiaodong's three-day performance.

On September 1st, all tickets to the Great World were sold out, and more than 200,000 people came to the amusement park to play, which was quite similar to the time when the four major public parks were opened.

But that is because the park is free to the public, and the Big World is a paid place to play.

The most severe impact from the big world is the Chinese paid park opened by Zhang Honglu and others.

This group of Manchu relics and old-school businessmen are obsessed with making a little profit. They would rather invest their money in slandering and slandering the world than lowering the price of park tickets or improving the quality of park services.

Feng Shaoshan and a group of people returned from petitioning, half happy and half worried. The content of the petition was approved by the principal.

However, in the content of the resolution passed by the Second Wuzhong Plenary Session announced on September 1, the president and the Jinling National Government authorities did not make any substantive response. They only promised in the "Arrangement of Military Cases": "Military expenditures in the entire budget cannot exceed 50 %, disarmament is the first priority for military and financial management!”

As for the ten basic demands mentioned in the petition: the temporary solutions include reducing the number of troops, unifying finances, improving party discipline, customs autonomy, exempting miscellaneous taxes, labor-management cooperation, and restoring transportation; the fundamental solutions include promulgating regulations, supervising finance, and permanently ensuring security. wait.

Only disarmament matters received a response.

When a group of tycoons returned, they encountered a dispute between the Big World and the New World.

Huo Tianhong played in the two amusement parks for a long time, and immediately understood that his second brother had suffered another disastrous defeat!

But his favorite wife, Lu Lanchun, had to accompany Ye Luo to sing all day long, until her mouth was dry and her tongue was dry, and she could not leave the stage to rest until two o'clock in the morning.

Ye Luo applauded and rewarded him with 100 yuan as an encouragement. However, the 100 yuan banknote was like a big slap on the faces of Zhang Wanlin and Yongxing Company!

If he was causing trouble like Lu Xiaojia, Huo Tianhong would have plenty of means to correct and deal with it. However, Ye Luo's rank was more than a little bit higher than Lu Xiaojia's, so he was so calm and composed that he bought a ticket for the seven-day celebration and sat there drinking tea and snacks. He behaves like a die-hard theater fan.

This dull knife makes cutting flesh uncomfortable and very abrasive.

Huo Tianhong had no choice but to tell Zhang Wanlin to swallow his anger and swallow the bad breath, so as not to let Ye Luo catch the pigtails.

Three days passed.

There are only a few visitors to the New World Amusement Park, and the excitement on the opening day has long faded.

However, Ye's World is becoming more and more lively day by day, and the attendance rate of Ye's Guangming Cinema next to it has also increased a lot.

In just three days, it became recognized as the number one club in the Far East!

September 3rd.

The group of troupe actors invited by Yongxing Company breathed a sigh of relief.

The second young master, who was annoying, had a sunny and handsome smile, but was meticulous in every word, was not present.

He gave the tickets to a group of employees from Ye's Security Company, led by Ye Hao to continue watching the show, making sure to make the seven-day and seven-night carnival on the big stage "joyful" to the end.

Ye Hao's torture methods are not as good as Ye Luo's, which makes people feel more relaxed.

Yello left the New World because he suddenly received an invitation from Mr. Merieux, the French Consul General.

In the afternoon of that day, a grand farewell ceremony will be held in the banquet hall of the French Consulate General in Shanghai.

In the end, Merieux was unable to resist the pressure from both internal and external sources, and was transferred by the Minister to China to serve as Consul General at the Consulate in Tianjin.

In the banquet hall.

Yelo danced with his arms around Nia Ivanova. Since the last night he rested at their mother and daughter's house, he had secretly contacted this socialite from Russia.

Nia and her daughter Anna are now dance teachers at Ye's Dance Company, and they have a large number of Belarusian dancers ready. As soon as Ye's dance halls open, they will quickly seize the market and become popular all over the country.

But Nia is still very worried about opening a dance club in Shanghai.

The dance industry is particularly hot in the United States. With the booming stock market and real estate market, the economy continues to heat up, and various entertainment venues and projects are rising steadily, you can easily earn waves of hot money in the United States.

However, this dance business only lasted for less than half a year and began to decline.

Not to mention the shrinking overseas markets.

At present, only large cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai have dance halls in China, and they are all located in large hotels. They are the main means of communication for the upper class.

Not to mention the common people Ye Luo refers to, even those in the middle class may not dance.

It doesn't look like a booming industry.

Naiheniya and her daughter had no choice.

They fled to Shanghai from Russia. It would be better to be a dancer than a prostitute.

Moreover, none of the industries Ye Luo has been involved in has failed.

It can be said that when Xiao Aqiao and others are preparing for the dance hall, the driving force for everyone basically comes from the personal charm of Ye Luo, the second young master!

They have already seen the profits brought by the booming film industry.

Since the establishment of Ye's Film Company, the wages of film industry employees acquired by Ye's have at least doubled.

As for top actors, such as Hu Die, Ruan Lingyu and others, their monthly salary has increased to 2,000 oceans!

Twenty-four thousand oceans a year!

Many owners of small and medium-sized factories do not yet earn such high incomes.

After the dance ended, the secret conversation between Ye Luo and Nia also ended.

Ye Luo learned some secrets about the Sassoon family from her.

It was Sidney Barton who revealed the contents of Yello's paper to Victor Sassoon.

After all, Victor Sassoon was the number one British businessman in Shanghai and was recognized as the richest man. In Barton's heart, his status was still much higher than that of Yello.

It's just that he is different from those foreigners who prefer to show off, or at least pretend to be hypocritical.

Victor Sassoon was proud and arrogant. He had the amazing business acumen of the Jews, but also their arrogant and profit-seeking bad habits.

After learning about this, he first quietly returned to England and collected a large amount of the Sassoon family's liquidity. Then he flew to the United States and invested all of it in the stock market.

Nia obtained this information by interacting with these upper-class people.

The figure she heard was $120 million.

That's right.

Victor Sassoon has gained nearly $120 million from the U.S. stock market through short-term manipulation!

Considering that men like to brag in front of women, the amount may not be that exaggerated, but it must be tens of millions of dollars.

And as long as the Sassoon family insists on continuing to invest money until next October, they will make a lot of money.

What makes Ye Luo extremely regretful is that he is not qualified to enter the venue to make money.

Because he does not have a relatively strong network of relationships in the U.S. financial industry and business, and his Chinese identity has too many restrictions, even if he relies on GE or Citibank, he cannot conduct long-term and short-term operations with large amounts of funds.

This is why Ye Luo is eager to establish a financial company and an industrial company overseas.

With this foundation, he can play stocks with these foreigners next year and let them see what the real "Black Tuesday" is.

More haste less speed.

But this news is enough.

Victor Sassoon made money from Yello, but he wanted his son to ruin his job.

A blatant provocation and declaration of war. As a rising star in the Chinese business world, Ye Luo will naturally not avoid war.

This also made him realize the nature of foreigners.

Seeking profit only.

I look down on weak countries and weak people from the bottom of my heart.

Several consuls general have a good relationship with Ye Luo, firstly because they make money from him, and secondly because there is no substantial conflict of interest and he can do a lot for them.

To put it bluntly, Ye Luo is easier to use than the Three Tycoons.

You are unkind and I am unjust.

So this time around Merieux, Ye Luo had no intention from the beginning to really help him solve the situation where the three tycoons dominated the French Concession.

They just used the time difference and information gap to extort a sum of land.

But Mérieux didn’t think so.

He thought Ye Luo was doing something for himself.

After all, as soon as they got the land, they paid exactly the rent. The big world opened at the speed of light and slapped the three tycoons' new world in the face.

It's a pity that he still couldn't delay the time and was transferred.

Therefore, Mérieux had a great sense of Yello, and even when he left office, he was full of praise for him.

After the dance, the two of them didn't rest. Nia took Ye Luo's arm as a dance partner and walked with him towards the foreign tycoons who were laughing loudly.

Seeing him coming, the little fan Fan Erdi immediately waved excitedly: "Hey, Ye, come on!"

At a glance, Ye Luo saw the petite Fan Juli holding the tall Fan Erdi, looking like a young couple.

It seems that this good thing is about to happen.

He walked over quickly, and Fan Erdi happily introduced Ye Luo to the foreign men and women around him: "Everyone, he is the famous second young master. The recently popular Ye's Guangming Cinema and Great World Amusement Park in the French Concession are one of his properties! "

The foreign men and women all exclaimed.

They didn't care about the Chinese at all, but they were very interested in the recent hot spots. Guangming Cinema and Big World were popular in the concession, and many foreigners were also regular customers. When they heard that this was actually a Chinese company, they were curious and a little puzzled. Know the true identity of the boss behind the scenes.

Fan Erdi did not hesitate to speak and told Ye Luo's life and background in detail.

At the age of sixteen, he went to study abroad at the highest university in the United Kingdom and the United States. He spoke English so fluently that he was not Chinese, and he was tall, handsome, and a wealthy gentleman. He was the perfect template for a lover.

At this time, the atmosphere between men and women in the concession was very open.

After going around, Ye Luo received a stack of business cards, more than 70% of which were from foreign women.

"It seems that you are busy tonight, Ye." Verdi smiled ambiguously, and then pointed to the front, "But before that, go see Mr. Mérieux. He has something to tell you."

"Okay, I'll go over first." Ye Luo and Nia raised their glasses and touched Verdi before leaving, "By the way, congratulations on your promotion to general director and consul general. My business will enter the French Concession soon. , and I hope you will take more care of me."

"Haha, we haven't decided yet, Ye, you are really well-informed." Verdi smiled happily. In fact, he has already been appointed, but France has not yet officially issued the approval for appointment. "Don't worry, as long as you come to the French Concession to do business, , green light all the way, smooth sailing.”