1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Chen left Ye Mansion satisfied with Ye Luo's promise.

Ye Luo was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, eating fruit while thinking about the whole story of the Jiang Anlun incident, as well as some extremely important details that may not have been recorded in historical materials.

Although today's Shanghai is dominated by Zhang Dingyao and Wang Hu from the Guangxi clan, both of them will be affected by the Jiang Anlun incident and leave Shanghai one after another.

Xiong Shihui did not get along with Wang Hu, and also had deep conflicts with Zhang Dingyao's faction. Historically, although he was greatly affected by the armed cigarette shipment, he was not actually damaged, and he left Shanghai later than Zhang Dingyao and Wang Hu.

Many people say that the Security Command can be saved. Firstly, the main messenger behind Xiong Shihui is Song Ziwen. Secondly, the real controller is Qian Dajun. He is a senior general who is highly trusted by the principal and will not reduce his power at will.

But Ye Luo had a vague feeling that the Jiang Anlun incident was an inadvertent mistake that Xiong Shihui made after accidentally learning about it and preparing to take advantage of it.

Otherwise, with his or Song Ziwen's strength, if they were to be honest with Lu Yusheng directly, it would be impossible for Lu Yusheng not to share the profits with them.

According to Ye Chen, no one knew about the plainclothes officers from the garrison headquarters boarding the ship, which shows that Xiong Shihui had the idea of ​​​​taking advantage of others.

Whether he and Song Ziwen, who may be standing behind him, have joined forces with Lu Yusheng is very important, and Ye Luo must find out.

Otherwise, if Ye Luo takes action against Jiang Anlun and involves the high-level officials of the National Government behind it, the gain will outweigh the loss.

After carefully considering several possibilities of the incident, Ye Luo slowly stood up and asked Xiaoli to help him put on his clothes. He called Shi Jianqiao, Cao Fan and others, and prepared to go to Shiliupu Pier to take a look at Song Ziwen Yun. That shipment came.

In order to persuade Jiang Keting to agree to sell these Japanese goods at Zhentai Gauze Factory, Ye Luo pulled Fan Erdi out to act as a shield.

The two used Fan Juli's name to open a leather bag company called Fan's Transport, which was registered with the public affairs office and jointly funded and controlled by the Fan family and Fan Erdi. There was no trace of Ye's family in it.

Regarding the cooperation between the two, Verdi was actually frightened.

He is extremely wary of Ye Luo's financial resources and influence. If the joint venture company has a large amount of Ye's capital, Fan Erdi has no confidence in defeating Ye Luo in the internal power struggle.

Ye's joint venture bank was Ye Luo's own idea, and Fan Erdi didn't want to take it over, but it was different for other companies.

If one day he and Ye Luo fall out, there will be a large amount of Ye's capital in the company, which will give Verdi an extra headache.

Over time, the companies jointly established by the two people agreed that Ye Luo would not inject capital and would only enjoy dividends and personnel transfers and appointments with certain authority.

To put it bluntly, even if Fan Erdi knew that Ye Luo had first-rate business ability, he would still prefer to use the comprador system that has always been used for cooperation between foreigners and Chinese.

Foreigners invest in and control the company, and Chinese people run the business and distribute dividends. If there is a conflict, the foreigners can directly kick out the Chinese collaborators.

This was a discriminatory cooperation restriction that the Chinese had to accept when they were weak. Fan Erdi was worried that Ye Luo would not be willing, but he did not expect Ye Luo to agree immediately.

Who makes this suit Ye Luo's heart?

He is not short of this little profit now, but he cares about getting burned unnecessarily.

As a result, Ye Luo and Fan Erdi hit it off immediately. They accepted the large amount of Japanese textiles purchased by Song Ziwen from the Japanese invaders in the name of Fan's Transportation, and then transported them to Suzhou City and entrusted them to Jiang Keting.

Rolls-Royce came all the way to Shiliupu Pier.

Seeing the long-awaited dock becoming more and more prosperous, Ye Luo felt quite comforted.

Among the gangster tycoons, Tan Si is considered a relatively decent one.

The docking gang has been controlling all businesses near the dock for ten years. Although its size is far inferior to those tycoons who do gray and black business, it is worse than stability and security.

Whether it was Lu Yongxiang's downfall or the independent group's raids, the situation in Shanghai was changing, but Tan Si could always stay afloat.

Because he knew the warlords and high-level politicians well, Tan Si knew very well what could be touched, what could not be touched, and what must be strictly prohibited.

Except for the goods of foreign companies, which are inspected by personnel from the Ministry of Industry and Public Affairs Bureau, the goods of other Chinese businessmen cannot escape the daily inspection by the dock gang.

Ye Luo had never thought of any better way to hide smoke than Jiang Anlun.

You can use this to escape the inspection of the Pier Gang.

Until he saw the huge Nissin freighter arriving in Shanghai, holding up the sign of Fan Shipping, the people at the dock who were about to board the ship for inspection were blocked by others. They heard that the goods on the freighter belonged to the Second Young Master and the French Consul General. , and after they left very wisely, Ye Luo had a vague feeling that his uneasiness was about to be fulfilled.

"Jianqiao, we'll be there immediately." Ye Luo called to Shi Jianqiao and took the lead, followed by a large group of people from Ye's Security Company, attracting the attention of countless ordinary people arriving in Shanghai.

After the dissolution of the Labor Federation, Tan Si has been responsible for the order of the dock gang. However, as the Ye family gradually rose to prominence, he also visited many times, insisting that the property be "returned to its original owner" and let Ye Luo's people be responsible for the security of the dock.

Ye Luo had no choice but to let people from Ye's Security Company practice.

Seeing such a large group of people approaching, several patrol officers in the patrol room were sweating profusely. The leading detective hurriedly jumped off the deck and ran towards Ye Luo.

"Second Young Master! Why are you here?" The short detective took out his cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit it for Ye Luo respectfully, and said with a smile, "This is a routine inspection. If you are not happy, we will not do it."

"Well, I will personally take people to inspect the goods. You can ask your people to go back." Ye Luo nodded.

In fact, this detective had no intention of actually selecting a few goods for inspection. Only a fool would be stupid enough to cause trouble on the cargo ship of the Second Young Master and the French Consul General!

If Ye Luo didn't come, he would just walk around for a few times and then let the workers unload the goods.

The short detective nodded repeatedly, just in time to lead the team to finish the work, and left the Nissin in a flash.

The dock gang members below also immediately helped to disperse the onlookers, and only arranged for unloading workers. After Ye Luo completed the inspection, he asked them to temporarily move the goods to Fan Transport's large warehouse in the French Concession.

"Jianqiao, come with me alone. Hengsan, you will blow everyone else off the boat."

After speaking, Ye Luo took a quick step towards the deck.

Shi Jianqiao smelled a strange smell, nodded and followed Ye Luo silently.

Hengsan and his team expelled all the staff on the ship as quickly as possible.

The huge Nissin was empty.

Ye Luo and Shi Jianqiao walked to the loading point, where boxes after boxes of tightly wrapped goods were stacked.

"Break one and have a look." Ye Luo whispered.

Tear--

Shi Jianqiao took out the dagger he carried with him, cut the rope quickly, and opened a cargo box. When he opened it, he saw that it was all a mess of textiles.

She put her hands inside to explore in various ways, and then her expression changed.

"Second Young Master, there is something in the mezzanine." Shi Jianqiao exerted force with both hands, and the cargo box instantly fell apart. All kinds of textiles were scattered on the floor, and packs of cigarettes fell out one after another from the mezzanine partition.

"Is this... big smoke!?"

She whispered, quickly picked up a package and handed it to Ye Luo.

Ye Luo's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that his guess was right again.

What could be more suitable as a shield than his second young master's name?

No wonder Song Ziwen wants to promote the sale of textiles.

It turns out that the real value of these Japanese products is the packs of high-quality cigarettes hidden inside!