1928: The rise of giant merchants

Hearing that Ye Luo was also coming, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang both appeared at the train station. Wang, who was more active, stood in the center of the crowd and regarded himself as a leader, as if all the greeters were headed by him.

"Boss Ye, I have admired you for a long time, and I finally meet you today." Wang smiled and shook hands with Ye Luo, "Welcome to Peiping."

Mr. Wang was a talented person. In the early years, he relied on his appearance, temperament and family background to get along well. He followed Mr. Sun to fight against the Qing Dynasty and became one of the top leaders of the Kuomintang.

In March 1925, when Mr. Sun was critically ill, Wang was ordered to record his will.

After Mr. Sun's death, he emerged as a "leftist" supporting the three major policies and a disciple of Mr. Sun.

After the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" occurred, Wang was forced to resign and fled France. He left France in late February 1927 and returned to China by train via the Soviet Union.

Later, during the overt and covert struggle with the principal, Wang resigned from office on September 13, 2007, and went to France.

After returning to China this year, he continued to stir up troubles, and now issued orders in the name of the "Second Joint Meeting of Central Executive Committee Members", issued letters of appointment and numbers to various "National Salvation Army", and invited them to come to Peking for a meeting to discuss anti-Chiang.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang." Ye Luo was neither humble nor arrogant, but his title of Mr. Wang made Wang very unhappy.

Wang put forward the "six no's principles" of "not being an official, not being a member of the parliament, not prostitution, not gambling, not taking concubines, and not smoking opium", in order to establish that he was above politics and only concerned about the country and the people. image of a great man.

But privately, he is actually very passionate about power and wishes others would call him "President."

His subordinates usually call him Mr. Wang, which means that he is on an equal footing with the principal. Although he does not hold an official position now, in their hearts he is the prime minister of the Jiangcheng National Government.

Ye Luo's words to Mr. Wang were equivalent to quietly alienating him.

Someone Wang and Ye Luo had an unpleasant quarrel. Yan Xishan on the side took advantage of the opportunity and ran over to say hello to Ye Luo.

Yan Laoxi had specifically consulted Ye Luo about investment matters before, and insisted on entering the U.S. stock market with Hongxing United Group. In the end, he did not listen to the advice and did not leave the market as soon as possible, resulting in a huge loss.

But Yan Laoxi was not discouraged. Instead, he regarded Ye Luo as a god and became more and more superstitious about this business wizard who was well-known at home and abroad.

In fact, Yan Laoxi did quite well in Jin Province, but he was not very bright and could not take on big responsibilities.

Ten years ago, Ye Luo would definitely have made friends with him to see if he could do some coal mining business on his territory. But next year is 1930, and the Central Plains War is about to begin. Now, with defeated troops like Yan Laoxi, They will make friends, but the trouble will continue in the future, which is not worth it.

And in December, Yan Laoxi did another stupid thing.

A few days ago, Tang Shengzhi joined forces with Yan to overthrow Chiang, and Yan Xishan secretly agreed.

After Tang Shengzhi sent out the telegram, Yan Xishan saw that he was not ranked first. Under the dissuasion of Zhao Daiwen and others, he reneged on his promise and turned to Zhang Hanqing and others to telegraph to support Chiang and rebel against the Tang Dynasty, which severely defrauded his allies.

In today's situation, you can either firmly join forces with Wang to fight against Chiang, or you can occupy the middle position like Zhang Hanqing and only support the National Government and not actually participate in the warlord struggle, or you can simply submit a vote to the principal and become a supporter of Chiang. part of it.

But Yan Laoxi rebelled against the principal for a while, supported him to mess with others, and now came to attend Mr. Wang's Peking meeting.

This kind of behavior will definitely arouse everyone's disgust.

If your name hadn't been Yan Xishan, they would have killed you long ago.

Yan Laoxi couldn't understand this, and now he was just like a die-hard fan, surrounding Ye Luo.

Feng Yuxiang, who was standing not far away, was embarrassed.

After the Second Northern Expedition, he first served as the Minister of the Military and Political Department of the National Government and concurrently as the Vice President of the Executive Yuan. He was Bai Xiongqi's immediate boss (Bai Xiongqi was still the Minister of the Military and Political Department of the Shanghai Bund City Hall at the time), and he also had An old subordinate Zhang Zhijiang.

These are all connections that can be made with Ye Luo.

The problem is that Yan Laoxi, a wallflower, had imprisoned himself before. On December 1, Feng Jun's anti-Chiang campaign failed, and he became a wanted person by the Jinling National Government. He really couldn't find a reason to go up and talk to Ye Luo.

While Feng Yuxiang was struggling, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who also came to the meeting, ran over and greeted Ye Luo directly.

"Damn, these Gui people are so shameless!" Feng Yuxiang cursed in his heart, and without caring too much, he pushed his way into the crowd.

In March 1929, the Jianggui War broke out between the Guangxi warlords headed by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi and the principal.

As everyone knows, the Guangxi clique was defeated and fled back to its base.

The principal expelled Li Zongren from the party and was exempted from all positions on the charge of "rebellion against the party and the state."

In the autumn of 1929, Li Zongren returned to Nanning, formed the National Salvation Army, and appointed himself commander-in-chief. Bai Chongxi was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, under the jurisdiction of the Third and Eighth Route Army.

A few days ago, the two of them admitted the number given by someone Wang and rushed to Peking to attend the meeting.

Compared to himself, Feng Yuxiang felt that Li Zongren and the others were more distant from Ye Luo. How could they be so shameless in getting close to each other? How could he be so reserved?

He leaned in to listen, and happened to hear Li Zongren say: "Boss Ye, I heard Dingyao and the others talk about you last year, and I'm lucky enough to meet you today. You are indeed well-deserved!"

How shameless!

Feng Yuxiang secretly complained about Li Zongren.

Zhang Dingyao, the former top leader in Shanghai Bund, was transferred to Jinling by the principal because of his status as a general of the Gui Clan, and was later replaced by Zhang Qun. Wang Hu, the original director of the Songhu Police Department, was also a backbone of the Gui Clan, but he was knocked down by Ye Luoshengsheng!

Can this relationship be established?

"Boss Ye, I have admired you for a long time. Before I drank with Zhijiang and the others, they always mentioned you." Feng Yuxiang also started to become shameless.

Ye Luo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He talked to them one by one and got close to each other. He didn't offend anyone and didn't have close friendship with anyone.

Zhang Hanqing, who was standing by, did not forget to fan the flames: "Aluo, I told you that you should enter politics. Look, you are more popular here than me."

"Sixth brother, please don't ignore me. I'm just a businessman. I'm afraid that all the elder brothers can think highly of me." Ye Luo didn't want to really send this kind of signal to the principal.

My base camp is still in Shanghai.

Everyone was chatting and laughing, and someone invited them, friends from afar, to have dinner at the Peking Hotel.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the people were satisfied and finally saw the legendary second young master.

Thanks to Ye Luo's tallness, he stood out among the crowd and people could easily see him.

Arriving at the hotel, as soon as he sat down, Mr. Wang raised his glass and toasted Ye Luo pretendingly: "Boss Ye, I toast you with this glass of wine. Your fame overseas this time has greatly boosted my Chinese aspirations in the United States. I deeply feel that admire!"

"What the hell, Mr. Wang is overly complimentary." Ye Luo also picked up the wine glass.

"What makes me even more gratified is that Boss Ye is willing to come to this meeting. It shows that people with the surname Jiang are extremely unpopular in the south." Wang said as he set a trap for Ye Luo.

Ye Luo paused slightly with the wine glass in his hand: "I will not attend this meeting, and I have never said that I will oppose the principal. I wonder where Mr. Wang heard the rumor?" (End of Chapter)