1928: The rise of giant merchants

That afternoon, Cao Fan drove the Ford V8 and sent all the remaining seventeen people to Ye's Industrial Park. Ye Luo personally arranged for them to be placed in various positions in the pharmaceutical factory.

Nowadays, the Dragon and Tiger Man Pills are on sale in Shanghai. It’s no exaggeration to say that the daily income is huge. The public’s demand for the Dragon and Tiger Man Pills far exceeds Ye Luo’s imagination. The first few batches of freshly made goods were sold overnight. Sold out.

After Xiang Songmao joined Ye's Pharmaceutical Company, he started to improve it, making the Dragon Tiger Pill more effective and cheaper.

Dragon Tiger Man Pill brought the Chinese and French pharmacy back to life, and became a giant in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. At this time, Western medicine was far greater than traditional Chinese medicine, and it could be said that it was going against the grain. Huang Chujiu was unparalleled for a while, and he was very interested in Dragon Tiger Man Pill. The promotion and sales are more attentive.

But few people know that the so popular Longhurendan is secretly produced in a pharmaceutical factory in an industrial park in the suburbs. Its core formula is the "Zhuge Xingjun Powder" that many people know.

With the addition of this group of sergeants from the Second Army of Shandong Province, the order and security of the industrial park will be further improved.

After seeing them off, Cao Fan took Ye Luo, Heng San and Shi Jianqiao back to No. 32 Xiafei Road.

Cao Fan was very excited about driving the Ford V8: "This car is much smoother than the military truck I drove before, and it feels much more comfortable to operate."

"Oh? You can also drive a military truck?" Ye Luo asked curiously.

Today, trucks can only be manufactured by foreign automobile companies, and military trucks are all imported from overseas. They are rarely equipped by non-elite troops.

Seven years ago, Zhang Hanqing returned from studying abroad at the age of 20. Since there was no domestic automobile manufacturing industry, he was very troubled by the fact that he could only use imported cars, and these cars always needed repairs and parts were difficult to replace.

Until May next year, the Fengtian Mortar Factory was changed to the Liaoning Mortar Factory. With a wave of his hand, Zhang Hanqing invested 740,000 yuan in one go as the start-up capital for domestic automobile research and development, and directly conducted automobile research and development in the factory.

He hired American technical expert Miles as chief engineer and established a technical team composed of technical personnel graduated from universities and junior colleges at home and abroad.

In order to produce the complete vehicle, they purchased parts from American Ruixue trucks and produced them through assembly.

The developers also absorbed the technical experience of world automobile giants such as Ford, General Motors, IWC, and Studebaker to transform the new car.

After more than two years of unremitting efforts, the first domestically produced vehicle was finally successfully manufactured on May 31, 1931 - named "Minsheng Brand Type 75 Truck".

Unfortunately, the performance and cost of this car are difficult to match with mature foreign cars, and this massive domestic car research and development has therefore come to an end.

"Well, in the Second Army, there were ten newly purchased military trucks in the army. In order to make use of them, Commander Shi specially found a group of people to learn about trucks, and I was one of them." Cao Fan nodded. , he is short and has much weaker combat power than others. He can always follow them because of this unique skill.

"Very good, I will get a truck another day, and you can help me train a group of drivers. After all, these small cars are not a good carrier for transporting goods. Nowadays, cargo transportation relies too much on trains and ships, both of which have long been controlled by foreign banks and comprador groups. , which is not conducive to our development.”

Sooner or later, Ye Luo's business will develop north or even overseas, but he does not control any railway, water transportation or shipping companies. This is a big problem. Now the National Government does not allow ordinary businessmen to get involved in this type of industry. He can only work in land transportation. Looking for a way out, after the policy is liberalized in a few years, he can expand his business network by acquiring such transportation companies.

"Okay, I promise to complete the task!" Cao Fan smiled and nodded. He only had these abilities, so it would be great if he could be favored by the second young master.

As soon as he returned to the office area at No. 32 Xiafei Road, Ye Luo saw the busy little Ah Qiao. He called her distressedly to come over and sit down, and scolded: "You are pregnant and you still don't stop like this. What if something happens?" manage?"

"Brother Luo, how come you are just like Mom and the others? I've only been less than a month old, but it sounds like it's been ten months." Little Aqiao had to sit down and drink tea obediently, "I just received a letter from Minister Bai Reply to the letter, he has confirmed for you that there is no problem with Huo Tianhong's three arsenals."

"Where's their cigarette business?" Ye Luo wanted to light a cigarette, but when he saw Xiao Aqiao, he simply took out the cigarette box from his pocket and threw it aside.

Seeing his little move, Xiao Aqiao smiled even sweeter: "I'm still checking, but judging from the various details of the information, it's almost certain that a bunch of high-quality cigarettes that have recently flowed into the market are probably from Sassoon. Family. Their transportation methods are various, and coupled with the influence of Yongxing Company in Shanghai, no one dares to stop this behavior."

"Have you checked who is selling that batch of cigarettes?" Ye Luo raised his eyebrows.

Little Aqiao nodded and said: "After checking, they are all Zhang Wanlin's goods. With this batch of cigarettes and the Qing Gang, he almost wiped out other opium dens in Shanghai. The most severely damaged was the New Labor Federation. Ye Chen originally took away a large amount of goods from the Labor Federation and sold them into the ocean in exchange for a large amount of cigarettes. At the beginning, he entered the French Concession. With the assistance of Yongxing Company, his business was doing well, but the last raid by the Independent Group Later, he seemed to have been abandoned by Yongxing Company, and now Zhang Wanlin has blocked his livelihood."

"It's a good thing if a dog bites a dog. Keeping Ye Chen alive may be of great use in the future." Ye Luo smiled and then said thoughtfully, "Zhang Wanlin has always cooperated with Edward Sassoon, but the big cigarette business is just like theirs. Yongxing Company has always occupied the largest share of the market, so why did it suddenly purchase a batch of better ones to occupy the market? And judging from Huo Tianhong's movements, his trading partner should also be Edward."

"That's strange. These three brothers always wear the same pair of trousers. Why would Edward trade with them separately? And the same goods flow in together, how to divide them? Unless the goods he sells to the two of them are good and bad." Little Ah Qiao He frowned slightly, feeling very strange.

There is only one answer that can explain this situation.

That is, Zhang Wanlin made a lot of money from this. After Huo Tianhong learned about it, he also wanted to get involved, but this business already belonged to Zhang Wanlin. It was not easy for him, the eldest brother, to rob it openly, so he secretly asked Edward to buy the goods, and then approved the bags. The company's skin comes to share the market.

This can explain why Huo Tianhong went to Ye Luo alone to sell his assets and had to avoid the two sworn brothers.

The two looked at each other and smiled, with the same guess in their eyes.

"Look, this is probably not two tigers fighting, but three monks carrying water." Ye Luo laughed loudly. He didn't believe that Lu Yusheng was not moved or took action. "Send someone to investigate Lu Yusheng's financial status." , by the way, let’s see if Huo Tianhong has any leather bag companies operating behind the scenes."

"Yeah!" Xiao Aqiao responded, and then asked in a low voice, "But in this case, Edward sold to the three of them. In terms of the amount of new goods on the market now, the quantity he wants to purchase this time is unprecedented. Sea, land and air transportation?”

"Baby, have you ever thought about a question?"

"Um?"

"If three monks all get the same water, will they all drink it?"

"No, they will run out of water. Because they soon discovered that not only they have water, but the other party also has water, and the quality is the same. The market demand is definitely not enough to be shared by the three, and they went to Edward like this, They obviously want to eat them all secretly."

"So, the first monk to drink water must be drinking the worst water. The second monk will definitely tell the water seller that my water is better than his, and the price is not an issue."

Ye Luoti nodded to her.

Little Aqiao suddenly realized: "So Huo Tianhong probably bought better goods at a higher price."

"It must be so." Ye Luo crossed his legs and laughed, "So he is far short of money than we thought. Since there are no problems with the three arsenals, we can just stand still. He wants money, and I have money, so I am him. grandfather."

"Brother Luo, how are you?" Little Aqiao knew that he was going to kill Huo Tianhong, so she pursed her lips and chuckled.

"Tsk, there is no businessman without treachery." Ye Luo not only wanted to kill Huo Tianhong, but also wanted him to make a futile effort.

I hope he won't use the Jiang'an ship to transport his pile of precious smoke.

"Oh, by the way, I have something to tell you." Ye Luo briefly told Xiao Aqiao what happened at the train station in the morning.

Nowadays, the speed of information dissemination is far less rapid than that of later generations. At this time, little Aqiao didn't know that such a big event had happened at the train station. She was frightened for a while and hurriedly checked to see if Ye Luo was injured.

"Now everyone is in my hands. Since I promised them to settle Feng Jingyao, let's invite him and Miss Feng Chengcheng to have dinner tonight." Ye Luo looked at her with a smile, "Help me prepare a gift for Miss Feng. This You’re good at it.”

"Brother Luo is going to seduce the little sister again?" Little Aqiao snickered.

Although she was Ye Luo's equal wife, she didn't care that he found another concubine, and instead encouraged this behavior.

"Spare me, I'm almost too busy right now." Ye Luo hugged little Aqiao and kissed her on the cheek, "Besides, Boss Feng is destined not to end well. I don't want to have too much trouble with his daughter. Implicated.”