1928: The rise of giant merchants

After a brief lunch, Song Ziwen mysteriously took Ye Luo to a mansion in Jinling City.

When the servant at the gate saw that it was Song Ziwen, he immediately moved out of the way. The two of them did not even say hello to the owner's house, so they just "broke into the house" and went straight to the garden.

Walking to the corridor, Song Ziwen motioned to Ye Luo to slow down. After walking for a while, a crisp and sweet English recitation came.

The girl is reading English poetry. Just hearing the sound makes people want to know what she looks like.

Song Ziwen pursed his lips and asked Ye Luo to look diagonally forward.

In the garden not far away, a tall and plump girl wearing a cyan cheongsam was reading aloud from an English book under an umbrella. She had a pure accent and was obviously well-educated in English.

"Brother Song?" Ye Luo asked him doubtfully.

From their perspective, they could not see the girl's full face, but just the profile made Ye Luo feel extremely shocked!

"This is a girl from my relative's family. I worked as an English tutor for her a few years ago. She is very smart, gentle and graceful, and her family background is also very innocent." Song Ziwen looked at him and smiled lightly, "How is it?"

Ye Luo became more and more confused.

"I came here today mainly because I hope you can help me negotiate a business, and by the way, I can meet this beautiful lady from my relative's family, haha." Song Ziwen gently patted his shoulder and motioned for him to follow her towards the main hall.

Ye Luo was on alert, following Song Ziwen while thinking a lot.

Based on what he knew about Song Ziwen these days, he knew that this man was very sophisticated and his actions were very insidious.

If it was serious business or good deeds, Song Ziwen would not be so secretive or vague.

There is a high probability that there is something wrong with this business.

"The owner of this mansion is Jiang Keting. He is the director of the Zhentai Cotton Factory on the north bank of the Suzhou River in Caojiadu. The Zhentai Cotton Factory belongs to the Dafeng United Textile and Dyeing Factory. Dafeng now has two big bosses, one named Wang Qiyu, a Cui Fuzhuang, the two are known as the textile kings of Suzhou City and Shanghai Beach!"

Song Ziwen said leisurely,

"Aluo, you are not involved in the textile business, so you may not know. The leading textile industry now is the factory run by the Japanese invaders, followed by the Sassoon family's foreign companies, and then the Rong family, Sheng family and Dafeng. Three Chinese businessmen, they are the three pillars of the Chinese textile industry. Since the massacre in the capital of Shandong Province, people have been strongly boycotting Japanese goods, and the business of these three companies has been as good as that of the Japanese invaders."

Ye Luo had just taken over several textile factories from the Kadoorie family and had not yet had time to manage them, but he was actually very clear about the current situation of the textile industry.

But in order to hide his clumsiness, he deliberately pretended not to understand at all and patiently listened to Song Ziwen's popular science.

"In the past few years, Minister Wang and I have talked with foreigners about the issue of tariff independence, and one of the largest industries is textiles. Previously, in order to protect the sales of Japanese goods in the country, our cotton textile products had extremely low import tariffs and extremely high export tariffs , which will be adjusted to an import tariff of 45% later!”

Song Ziwen smiled lightly and looked at Ye Luo.

Both of them have studied financial economics and business, so they naturally understand what this means.

This was tantamount to directly cutting off the possibility of Japanese textile factories entering the country.

After they are restricted, more than half of the domestic market will be vacant, and the cotton textile industry is the most important component of the industrial and commercial sector. The taxes and profits generated every year are no worse than that of cigarettes!

"Jiang Keting is somewhat related to the principal's family. Their hometown is in Zhenhai, Ningbo, but this relative can only be regarded as a distant relative. He used this identity to do textile business in Jinling, Suzhou City and Shanghai and prospered, and my The relationship is also very good.”

Song Ziwen and Ye Luo were sitting in the main hall. The servants brought tea, water and snacks, saying that the master would be back from the factory in a short while.

"The business I want to discuss with him is very simple. I hope Zhentai Cotton Mill can help transport the Japanese textiles I imported from Shanghai to Suzhou City, and then sell them under the name of Dafeng."

Song Ziwen lowered his voice.

Ye Luo raised his eyebrows.

What a guy.

He is truly a speculator.

Nowadays, Japanese goods are boycotted and the sales of Japanese textile products are not as good as before. Song Ziwen saw this opportunity and purchased Japanese textile products in large quantities, and then sold them as "domestic products" to make a huge profit from the price difference!

When the Japanese invaders learned that the tariff rate was going to increase so much, they naturally had to clear out their inventory.

With the assistance of Song Ziwen, the Minister of Finance of the National Government, are you still worried about not being able to ship the goods?

"I don't have any company under my name, so I can't enter the industry rashly. I can only use Ye's factory as my name." Song Ziwen glanced at him and said with a faint smile, "You will never refuse this small request. Brother, am I right? Don’t worry, I will give you 15% of the profits from this wave of textile products.”

The business is good, and the way to make money is good.

As long as Ye Luo acts as a middleman, he can get generous rewards without even doing anything.

But if the Dong Chuang incident happens, Ye's reputation will be ruined.

And he doesn't bother to make such obscure money.

What Ye Luo lacks most is money.

The problem is that Song Ziwen's face is offended here, and he is worried that he may not be able to leave Jinling City.

Fortunately, Ye Luo had already considered this unexpected situation in advance and had backup plans.

"If it's just me who is the matchmaker, using Ye's name will attract more attention. How about switching to other factories under my control?" Ye Luo looked at Song Ziwen with a smile, "Brother Song just wants to have a name."

"Oh? Do you have other similar factories?" Song Ziwen is not stupid. He knows that Ye Luo doesn't want shit to stick to his butt, but he doesn't mind whether or not he uses Ye's name. Anyway, as long as "that batch of goods" is successful Just send it to Suzhou City.

"Yes, we are going to purchase a large number of them recently." Ye Luo nodded.

"That's just right!" Song Ziwen nodded, "Then I'll bother you, A Luo."

"It's a trivial matter, Brother Song is so polite." Ye Luo smiled and shook his head, but in his heart he scolded the eighteenth generation of Song Ziwen's ancestors.

"By the way, Jiang Keting's daughter is called Jiang Meiying. What do you think?" Song Ziwen smiled coquettishly.

This is how all men know how to smile.

Ye Luo was stunned for a moment. He now felt that there were enough women, and there were two real wives, Bai Xiuzhu and Xiao Aqiao. This Miss Jiang sent here, could she be a concubine?

"Good."

"It's fine if you think it's good for you. Let me tell you, A Luo, Mei Ying is plump and graceful. She hasn't been in love yet. In a year or two, she will definitely be famous in Shanghai." Song Ziwen smiled ambiguously and patted his shoulder. "You got a big deal and won't suffer any loss."

"I" Ye Luo always felt that the name Jiang Meiying was familiar, but couldn't remember it for a while. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Song Ziwen.

"Okay, let's leave this matter at this for now. When Jiang Keting comes over, you can have a good talk with him." Song Ziwen took a sip of tea, and he fully recognized Ye Luo's business ability.

At this moment, Jiang Keting, who was tired of work, happened to rush home.

When he learned that the famous Second Young Master and Song Ziwen were suddenly visiting, he quickly dropped everything and went home to avoid neglecting the distinguished guests.