1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Luo, the second young master of the Ye family, has returned from the United States.

In less than half a day, the news spread throughout the streets and alleys of Shanghai, and soon it became a household name.

Ye's Investment is now the largest group company in the South. It is said that it has assets of more than 50 million yuan. Its industries cover automobiles, radios, film and television entertainment, medicine, clothing, hardware, machinery and other industries, and it also controls a number of companies including Jinling National The arsenal, which is officially endorsed by the government, is the only designated business partner for Huade military cooperation projects.

In Shanghai, the reputation of the Ye family is no worse than that of the Sheng family during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. It is everyone's dream to work in the Ye family investment.

Ye's products range from women's underwear, clothing, to cars, bicycles, to daily Coca-Cola, etc., filling every aspect of a family, and it has the smell of a commercial trust.

And when the first son of the third generation of the Ye family, Ye Zhuohua, born to little Aqiao, was born, blessings from all walks of life poured in. Major newspapers and magazines used the first time to publish the young master's photos as their biggest selling point. The heat was astonishing and lasted for three whole days, and was finally broken by Ye Luo himself.

Ye Luo returned to Shanghai for the third day, July 6.

Ye Luo called reporters from well-known newspapers such as Shenbao and The News and held a serious press conference in the Ye's Building next to the Sassoon Building.

Ye's Investment will conduct an unprecedented internal purge. From top to bottom, any employee involved in abuse of power and corruption will be found out and repaired.

Ye Luo also specially set up a Ministry of Justice, with Ms. Zheng Yuxiu, wife of Wei Daoming, the current Minister of Justice and Administration, as the concurrent minister, who is fully responsible for the punishment of these employees who violate laws and disciplines.

Wei Daoming and Zhang Zhijiang initially assisted Ye Luo in punishing the Shanghai cigarette transportation case. Later, the three separated. Zhang Zhijiang had gone to Tokyo to recuperate. Wei Daoming continued to hold important positions at the top of the Jinling National Government and was often in contact with Ye Luo.

At the beginning of last year, the Jinling authorities sent Zheng Yuxiu to Paris to learn about the French government's attitude towards China, which was undergoing radical changes.

In December last year, the Legislative Yuan of the Jinling National Government was established, and Zheng Yuxiu was appointed as the first legislator. She was a legal expert among the only two female members, and the other was the principal's wife.

In January this year, Zheng Yuxiu was appointed as a member of the Construction Committee, and in March she was elected as a member of the Disaster Relief Committee. She is one of the most steadfast and loyal partners of the Yip Charity Foundation, and has made great contributions to the disaster relief in the north.

Not long ago, Zheng Yuxiu was elected as one of the five members of the Civil Law Drafting Committee, and together with Fu Bingchang, Lin Bin, Shi Shangkuan, and Jiao Yitang drafted the fifth part of the Civil Law of the Republic of China.

This sudden internal anti-corruption scandal shocked Zhang Qun and other senior officials of the city hall.

Who doesn't know that Ye's investment is now a huge economic integration, with entangled interests and intricate entanglements, and no one knows how many forces are involved.

If Ye Luo does this, he will not only antagonize many of the forces involved, but also make the investment pace of Ye Luo, which is at its peak, stagnant or even retreat, making it difficult to compete with the eyeing Sassoon Company.

Since the rise of Ye's Investment, the one with the greatest sense of crisis has been Sassoon \u0026 Co., the only giant in Shanghai in the past. Under the leadership of Qiaojie Sassoon, Sassoon \u0026 Co. has almost occupied the two major concessions and all the money-making businesses in Shanghai. industry.

Why do the Three Tycoons, Tan Si and others continue to engage in gray industries? This is because serious industries are not rivals of foreigners at all, let alone compete with the most powerful Sassoon Company among foreigners.

The Kadoorie family, who also ran a foreign business, were forced to leave Hong Kong.

Ye Luo's move seems to outsiders to have broken his arm, which is puzzling.

The one who was most surprised was Dai Li.

These days, he has never relaxed his surveillance of the Ye family. Unlike those important military and political officials who have interests in the Ye family, the Intelligence Department does not need a penny from the Ye family at all, so his judgment and analysis of the Ye family is both objective and precise.

The Ye family can be so big because of Ye Luo's painstaking management, but it is also difficult to completely separate it from some illegal things.

He could see that Ye Luo was trying his best to avoid certain things, and even deliberately alienated himself from the senior officials of the Jinling National Government. Otherwise, with Ye Luo's ability and connections, no one would object to him wanting to work in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Finance.

The more Ye Luo behaves like this, the more Dai Li feels that he has an ulterior secret.

He was unwilling to interact too much with senior officials of the Nationalist Government, yet kept moving forward. This made Dai Li think of a group of special people.

The underground organization that is always inexhaustible!

If Ye Luo has a close relationship with these people, or is even one of them, it would be a huge bad thing for the principal.

Taking this as a starting point, Dai Li has been trying to search for dirt on Ye Luo and the Ye family, but he has never been able to find the solution.

Originally, the internal problems of Ye's investment were a major breakthrough, and Dai Li even thought about how to make a big fuss out of it when he came back.

Good guy, before he could react, Ye Luo killed him with one stroke!

If Dai Li hadn't mentioned these ideas and plans to anyone, he would even suspect that Ye Luo's people had infiltrated his intelligence department!

"It's a clever plan. This is so wise and almost a monster." Dai Li sighed in his heart. The intelligence office was extremely busy these days just because the second young master gave them extra work.

The group of people captured by Zheng Yuxiu were divided into three, six, and nine grades, and those with very serious crimes were directly handed over to their intelligence office for interrogation.

Aren’t you people who are investigating underground organizations and anti-principals every day?

These people have embezzled and accepted so much money, hindering the development of Ye's family. I can't explain why. It may be related to the underground organization you mentioned. Catch them all and investigate them!

Dai Li couldn't refuse, so he could only be killed by Ye Luo with a knife, becoming a foul-smelling executioner.

In fact, they all know it in their hearts.

The people who cause problems within Ye's Investment are basically people who have been inserted by other forces or families. They don't have much ability and just want to make money. They are just guys who fail to succeed but fail to succeed.

However, if we dig deeper into these people, there will inevitably be a bunch of relatives of the emperor, which will be very difficult to deal with.

Ye Luo must know the details of these people and understand that catching them all will easily offend people, so he transferred this painful job to the Intelligence Department and asked him, Dai Li, to be the bad guy.

"This Ye Luo is so fucking evil!" An intelligence officer from the Intelligence Department was processing a mountain of documents and cursed, "Boss, you are using us as tools!"

"Haha." Dai Li has been known for his wisdom and outstanding intelligence capabilities along the way. He is a living hell that everyone is afraid of.

But now, he was overwhelmed by Ye Luo's shameless behavior and was speechless.

As long as anyone is sent by Ye Luo with the sentence "suspected member of an underground organization", he will have to dig three feet into the ground to dig out the other person's ancestral graves and check them. These days, the office of the Intelligence Agency is being stoned every day. It can be seen that it has caused public outrage.

These people don't dare to provoke the second young master, so they come to treat them as soft persimmons!

"What are Ye Luo doing?" Dai Li held a cigarette in his mouth and couldn't help asking, "His son was born a few days ago. He won't hold his son at home every day, right?"

"I heard that I went to the Paramount Ballroom early this morning and said that they were going to hold a shareholders' rights meeting." An intelligence officer scratched his head. "It seems that they made money in the United States and will distribute the money to all shareholders."

"Okay, we'll be the bad guys, and he'll play the good guy to win people's hearts!" Dai Li was so angry that his teeth itched. (End of chapter)