1928: The rise of giant merchants

After bidding farewell to the principal, Ye Luo chatted with Max, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

When it comes to the collapse of the U.S. stock market, Max, a German, is not happy, but even more worried.

Like Yelow, he believed that the economic crisis sweeping the United States would quickly spread to the world, and Germany, which had just recovered from World War I, would not be immune.

In this era, once the global economy collapses, war will definitely follow.

However, at this time, Max had no time to think about Germany's economic problems. He quickly handed over the responsibility of the Chinese-German military cooperation project to Ye Luo, then packed his bags and prepared to follow the principal to Jinling.

In 1930, the Central Plains War involving the four warlords Chiang, Yan, Feng, and Li was about to begin. As the principal's most valued military adviser in this battle, Max became famous in the first battle and pushed this military cooperation to its peak.

After chatting with Max, Ye Luo took the car back to Ye's Industrial Park and rechecked the progress of each project.

At the beginning of the cooperation, under Ye Luo's deliberate guidance, we first engaged in the transportation industry, electronic equipment manufacturing and military industry.

Now, almost a year has passed. In the past, Ye's Automobile Company, which mainly sold General Motors cars and mainly engaged in taxi business, has transformed into the first manufacturing company in China to independently develop domestically produced cars.

The automobile industry in Shanghai has long been dominated by Ye Luo. The monolithic automobile industry association has driven out all foreign car dealers. Basically all Chinese automobile companies have been merged into Ye Luo Automobile or have become its strategic partners.

Zhou Xiangsheng served as the president of Ye's Automobile. He raised his voice and countless people responded. Almost all the talents and resources in the automobile industry across the country flowed into Shanghai.

The Yip's Forever bicycles that Ye Luo developed before leaving have been updated and iterated several times with the support of a large amount of funds and technology, completely suppressing the Japanese bicycles and becoming the leader in monopoly.

After Ye's Automobile was included in the Huade military cooperation project, it no longer lacked money, people, and technology. The progress made in one year was worth others' ten years. While overcoming the precision technical difficulties of mechanical parts and components, it also tried to make the first Approval of three-wheeled motorcycles.

"Second Young Master, I can guarantee you that in 30 years, the first batch of Ye's military motorcycle tricycles we produce will be on the road!" Zhou Xiangsheng is no longer short of money now, with patriotic flames burning in his chest, hoping I can contribute to the country's industry and manufacturing industry and make some contributions.

Under his urging and guidance, Ye's automobile's military project has made rapid progress, which makes Ye Luo very pleased.

"Well, how much is the first batch of goods?" Ye Luo took a sip of tea.

Zhou Xiangsheng held out five fingers: "Three hundred vehicles for sale, one hundred vehicles for personal use, and one hundred vehicles for reserve."

This is Ye's old investment rule. 60% of all products are sold to external parties, 20% are for personal use, and 20% are stored in the warehouse.

"Yes. Of the three hundred vehicles sold to the outside world, one hundred vehicles will be sent to the principal, thirty vehicles will be sent to the Hui Province Independent Regiment, and twenty vehicles will be sent to the Songhu Police Department for Yongzhen to equip his own people. "

There is a prototype next to Ye Luo. Now everyone calls it a "robot bicycle". It is still a very new thing.

At present, only the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in the Tianjin Concession has a motorcycle regiment in China.

There are mainly two types of military motorcycle tricycles they use - Japanese 97-type side tricycles and BMW R71 military motorcycles.

The Nissan 97-type sidecar is widely accepted by various wealthy armies due to its superior off-road capabilities.

This car is produced by Sankyo Internal Combustion Engine Co., Ltd., known as "Japanese Harley". It is not only the first motorcycle produced by Japan, but also its only brand car in its early days.

Due to the good off-road performance of motorcycles, they can perform almost all tasks in the army, from towing light artillery to transporting personnel and supplies, from conducting reconnaissance to completing communication tasks. They are used everywhere in the Army of the Republic of China.

However, if the Republic of China army wanted to form a motorcycle fleet, it would first have to have a lot of money to import motorcycles, and then it would have to be equipped with specialized drivers, machine gunners, etc. It was difficult to support it in terms of financial resources or manpower.

Well now, with Ye's military motorcycle tricycle, many problems have been solved.

This was originally a major event of great epochal significance, but the people in the conference room were not too excited. After chatting, they quickly moved on to the next topic.

Because everyone knows that the second young master's ambition is more than this. Otherwise, it is just a motorcycle like this. Ye's Motorcycle can be polished by himself. There is no need to take advantage of the military cooperation project.

"I know. Then the ones we use for ourselves." Zhou Xiangsheng's eyes lit up.

He is thinking of using some motorcycles to replace taxis, reducing operating costs, increasing the net profit of Ye's Automobile, and then growing through snowballing.

"Equip it to the new guard regiment." Ye Luo waved his hand and directly decided on the destination of these one hundred motorcycles.

"New guard regiment?" Zhou Xiangsheng was dumbfounded.

"Well, Minister Song Ziwen plans to set up a corps dedicated to anti-smuggling and taxation. It will be temporarily affiliated with the military cooperation project. We will provide some people, the Garrison Headquarters and the Songhu Police Department will provide some people, and some elites will be transferred from the 32nd Army. Come over and form it together." Ye Luo simply said, "You can contact Yongzhen and my elder brother to discuss the specific matters."

Zhou Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, feeling as if his daughter, whom he had worked so hard to raise, was being treated like a piece of cake.

Seeing his appearance, several other people laughed. Ye Luo patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be like this, Old Zhou. When the things I brought back from the United States arrive in Shanghai, the production speed of motorcycles will definitely increase by leaps and bounds. Then you can get some to replace the taxis."

"Ah, yes, Second Young Master." Zhou Xiangsheng blushed as his thoughts were seen through, and he nodded obediently.

Hearing that there were still American goods arriving in Shanghai, several other people cast curious glances.

They knew Yelo was making a fortune in the United States, but they didn't know exactly what.

"By the way, Second Young Master, what about the pricing?" Zhou Xiangsheng raised his head and asked.

Ye Luo pondered for a moment and then asked: "What is the price of a Japanese motorcycle?"

"Their motorcycles are only sold to foreigners. Each one costs 8,000 yuan, not including after-sales service." Zhou Xiangsheng replied immediately.

Ye Luo sneered and said lightly: "Then we will price it at 6,999 yuan. Anyone except Japanese can buy it. Ye's Automobile will be responsible for the entire after-sales service."

In terms of after-sales issues, Yip's Automobile is already an era ahead of the world thanks to the rules originally set by Yip Luo. Compared with other foreign companies, it suffers from losses in technology and raw materials, resulting in prices that cannot be lowered and its competitiveness is not that great.

Now that there are military cooperation projects, the influx of a large number of German military talents and technologies, coupled with the principal's unremitting resource support, has gradually closed the gap in this regard.

Ye's Automobile is now fully qualified to set a price with the Japanese, and it is not afraid of competition.

"Is this too low?" Mr. Zhou frowned. "Even if most of our materials and equipment come from German support and the price is 6,999 oceans, the final profit will not exceed 1,000 oceans."

The net profit of one car is 1,000 oceans, a hundred cars is 100,000 oceans, and a thousand cars is only 1 million oceans.

With the current size of the factory, it would be good to be able to produce 3,000 vehicles a year. This is only a net profit of 3 million yuan. Compared with their efforts, it is really not worth it.

Comparing other industries under Yip's Investment, for example, Yip's Clothing Company, just an underwear brand Victoria, has a net profit of more than one million yuan a year, but the relationships, technology, and manpower involved are much smaller than yours. It's simple. Much more.

"Lao Zhou, are we doing this to make money?" Ye Luo's face gradually darkened and he asked calmly while holding a tea cup.

He knew that Zhou Xiangsheng was doing it for the good of the Ye family, but he also wanted to make a clear statement and express his position to these key executives who had invested in the Ye family.

make money.

Ye Luo never worried about making money.

If he is willing, now with Ye's strength, he can easily earn hundreds of millions or even billions a year.

But the national crisis is looming, and war is coming. What use do you have for your money?

Everyone was as silent as a cicada, not daring to answer the question.

Zhou Xiangsheng was sweating profusely, and in a trance he seemed to see the young man who was so aggressive that he wanted to buy his Xiangsheng Automobile Dealership with a check of 50,000 yuan! (End of chapter)