1928: The rise of giant merchants

After the press conference, Zhang Dingyao, mayor of Shanghai Special City, walked slowly to Ye Luo. He was accompanied by Zhang Qun, who is two years older than him and is currently the political undersecretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the director of the Ordnance Industry.

These two people are both big bosses in Jinling.

More importantly, Zhang Dingyao is the current mayor and will resign due to illness in 1929, and his replacement will be Zhang Qun!

"Hello, Mr. Ye." Zhang Dingyao reached out and shook hands with him, "The speech you just made made people excited! Yes, who said we can't do business better than foreigners? We are a vast country with a lot of talents. If everyone dares to speak and act like Mr. Ye, sooner or later Shanghai will be dominated by Chinese businessmen!"

"Mayor Zhang is overrated. I'm just an ordinary businessman." Ye Luo smiled and shook his head. From Zhang Dingyao's enthusiasm, it is not difficult to see Jinling's new planning trend for Shanghai in the future.

It seems that at this time, they have already made plans to clean up the business world and formulate new rules.

"Mr. Ye is too modest. How can an ordinary businessman sell more than 400 cars in Shanghai in 10 days? If you think you are ordinary, then I think everyone in the General Chamber of Commerce is just a loser!" Zhang Dingyao was not polite in his words. It can also be seen from his tone that Jinlingfang really has great dissatisfaction with the General Chamber of Commerce, which now dominates the world.

Ye Luo guessed that the decision to dissolve the General Chamber of Commerce next year might have been put on the agenda by the two of them at this time.

The now-famous General Chamber of Commerce President Fu Xiaoan would soon be wanted by Zhang Qun, and then fled to RB. It was not until 1931 that he returned to Shanghai to regroup.

Ye Luo dared to offend the General Chamber of Commerce and ignored them because he knew the direction of history.

Cleaning up these old-school businessmen who are occupying the toilet and doing nothing is the first thing that will be done after the nominal unification, but no one expected that this day would come so quickly!

The three of them chatted for a while. Zhang Dingyao was actually very curious about what means Ye Luo would use to compete with foreign car dealers. If it weren't for the sales volume of the Chevrolet 490, and other businessmen would say this, he would just regard it as rhetorical farts. theory.

But Ye Luo vowed to give the foreigners a war message, but it gave him a subtle feeling that things could be accomplished.

It's a pity that this kind of inside information usually involves the company's core secrets. Zhang Dingyao knew that it was inconvenient to ask, so he just brushed it off.

"Mr. Ye, what do you think of the war in the north?" Zhang Qun suddenly asked.

Ye Luo was wary and replied with a smile: "Secretary Zhang, I studied economics and management overseas. If you ask me about the structure of the business world and business experience, then I can still make a fool of myself, but you want to ask me about politics." , that’s really clueless!”

"Haha, that's right. I said that if Mr. Ye wanted to go into politics, he would study law and politics." Zhang Qun looked at Zhang Dingyao with a smile, "But there is something I don't know whether I should say."

"Secretary Zhang, please speak directly."

"I heard that the Ye Family Labor Federation is deeply involved with the Feng Clan." Zhang Qun lowered his voice and watched Ye Luo's expression change as he spoke, "The Northern Expedition is about to be finalized. Mr. Ye, you should be the one to prioritize this. You understand."

"Don't worry, Deputy Chief Zhang. I have already made it clear to my father that our Ye family is a businessman. The businessman's duty is to do business and make money. Don't think too much about other things." Ye Luo raised his eyebrows and replied with a smile, "The Labor Association will do that." By the way, Deputy Chief Zhang should have seen our family’s determination.”

"Haha, of course." Zhang Qun saw Ye Yuqiao's actions in his eyes. For him, the Feng clique's forces would naturally not be stable after the Northern Expedition, but they would never kill them all. The movements of the Labor Federation suited him well. mind.

"Mr. Ye, wise people don't speak secretly. Here I will give you some reassurance." Zhang Dingyao held his hand, leaned closer and whispered, "The Ye family belongs to the Ye family, and your Ye's investment company belongs to the Ye family." Investment Company, as long as you do business honestly and are courageous and innovative Chinese businessmen like you, we will strongly support you."

"Thank you very much." Ye Luo smiled and shook hands with him again.

He had waited so long just for this sentence.

However, Jinling Fang, like Beiyang Fang, should not be trusted.

But after all, in the next ten years, Shanghai Beach will be ruled by the other party. It is better to have less trouble than to be targeted everywhere.

"I'm looking forward to the car rental business that Mr. Ye mentioned. I hope you won't disappoint me." Zhang Dingyao finally said with a smile, and then asked someone to send Ye Luo out.

After he left, Zhang Dingyao put away his smile and asked Zhang Qun, "What do you think of this young man?"

"Courageous, courageous, capable, and arrogant." Zhang Qun calmed down for a moment, and then said calmly, "According to normal circumstances, after offending the General Chamber of Commerce and the old-school businessmen groups at the same time, and being labeled as a clique, he should You should be very panicked. The Ye family looks like this, even Ye Yuqiao himself can't sit still, but he is always as stable as a mountain. This young man... is not simple."

"He should know very well in his heart that if he can really make the car rental business bigger, he will honor the beautiful words I said today. But if it fails." Zhang Dingyao's eyes gradually turned cold, "We don't need to make the same mistake. To protect him at the risk of falling out with other Chinese businessmen."

"It's because he feels so bright and can still maintain his composure, so I admire him a little." Zhang Qun smiled and nodded, "Anyway, let's see how he responds to the foreign offensive."

After leaving Citibank, Ye Luo asked Ma Yongzhen to drive directly to Building 2 of the British Consulate General in Shanghai.

The maid Audrey was already familiar with him. When she saw it was Ye Luo's car, she immediately smiled and let him go.

After Sidney Barton went to the United States, the Consulate General was leaderless, and many foreigners simply went to various concessions to have fun.

Nowadays, the main entertainment activities are listening to operas, watching horse racing and dog racing, and regular eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In the public concession, the Jinling Grand Theater and the Far East Racecourse are the best, and in the French Concession, the New World Amusement Park stands out from the crowd.

Only a true academic like George would stay in the room reading and writing at this time.

Seeing Audrey bring Ye Luo in, George immediately put down his pen and paper and stood up happily to greet her.

"Ye, I heard about the press conference in the morning. Congratulations. I didn't expect that you really made the Chevrolet 490 a big business!" George was very happy that his best friend could fulfill his promise, which was why he admired Ye Luo so much. s reason.

Ever since he was a student, Ye Luo has never failed in anything he wanted to do!

It seems that the word failure does not exist in his life dictionary!

"This is just the beginning. Don't forget, the car company also owns part of your shares." Ye Luo smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Mine? No, I'm not interested in this at all." George shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's more painful for you to let me do business together than to kill me!"

"Okay, but I think you might be interested in this thing." Ye Luo took out a stack of white paper.

Seeing the title above, George's eyes lit up instantly: "This is the follow-up to that paper."

But soon, his eyes dimmed: "It can't be just the third one out of 20."

"No, it's the third to the tenth." Ye Luo handed him the compiled papers, "This should be enough for you to study for a while."

"Great!" George excitedly took the manuscript, resisting the desire to check it immediately, and looked at Ye Luo, who was a little malicious, "There is no free lunch in the world, tell me, Ye, what do you need me to do?" What's going on?"

"Haha, George, it's really easy to communicate with you." Ye Luo gave him a thumbs up, "I want you to help me contact Mr. Solei, the foreign manager of the telephone company."