1928: The rise of giant merchants

January 10, the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930).

Tianjin City is extremely lively these days. Celebrities from all over Beijing and Hebei are rushing here because Ye Luo, the second young master from Shanghai Bund, suddenly visited Tianjin City and only invited people from all walks of life to do new business together.

I still remember that in August last year, he also held a charity party in this way, inviting senior military and political figures in Shanghai to buy shares in Hongxing United Group, and then took their equity to the United States to speculate in stocks.

Everyone knows the outcome.

At first, the second young master was unstoppable, defeating the Americans and winning the title of stock god.

Later, the U.S. stock market encountered a bubble crisis that was rare in a century. Er Shaoye predicted it in advance and warned shareholders to evacuate as soon as possible and not to sink too deep and lose everything.

No one listened to him, they were all obsessed with profit, and died tragically in the US stock market one by one.

Those shareholders who obeyed and left made a lot of money, and relied on a large amount of money to prosper in the Republic of China. Some of them even relied on this money to get into the middle and high-level positions of various forces.

Rumor has it that the second young master has earned tens of millions of dollars in the United States, and his total assets are comparable to those of the Kong and Song families. Now that they are doing business together, who dares not to listen to the second young master?

Businessmen are proud to invest and cooperate with Ye, and some even secretly enshrine Ye Luo's black and white photos in their homes, making it mysterious and mysterious, making Ye Luo dumbfounded.

Staying in Tianjin City these days, Ye Luo has not been idle. He often goes around with the warlords who are out of town. At the same time, he has close contacts with foreigners in the concession, looking like he wants everyone to know that he is going to do a new business.

Tianjin Evening News reporters followed Ye Luo around day and night, compiled the information collected into a volume, and sent it back to the newspaper headquarters, where the most famous editors found the most famous writers to publicize the matter.

In less than a week, everyone in the city knew that the second young master’s big business could earn hundreds of millions of dollars, and even the ordinary people in Tianjin City came to the door one after another, wanting to drink some soup.

Lishunde Hotel, presidential private room on the top floor.

"Second Young Master. This is the list of shareholders of Tianjin City who have invested in three new products respectively. This is the list of companies that agreed to our Ye's investment. This is the list of companies that agreed to our acquisition. And this is .It is a list of companies that do not want us to invest in it.”

A young man named Chen Youde laid out the information he had collected recently and placed it in front of Ye Luo. Then he stood aside respectfully, bowing his head and waiting.

He is a native of Shanghai. His family has been in business for generations and runs a small business.

I came back from studying in Japan in early 2028 and worked in the domestic business world for a year. I joined Yip's Investment at the end of 2028. I relied on my talents and abilities to rise through the ranks. Finally, I was selected by Xiao Aqiao to join Yip's Investment's secretive "talent training plan". ”, who has been working in the middle and senior management of Ye’s Clothing Company last year. After making great achievements, he came into Ye Luo’s sight and became one of the participants in this business.

There are many such middle and high-level managers investing in Ye's. They all start from the bottom, rely on their personal strength to join the talent training program, and work their way up step by step, becoming the right-hand man of the Ye family.

This is also one of the things that Ye Luo values ​​most after making money.

The Ye family cannot always produce talents. If the Ye family investment wants to become bigger and stronger and last for several generations, it must start from the rough days to cultivate new blood and continuously inject talents into the company. Only in this way can it stand firm and stand apart from other consortiums. gap.

During the Republic of China, many talents were unable to show their talents due to their background and financial problems. Especially during the war, many economic and management talents rushed to the front lines and sacrificed their lives for the country. It was a pity.

In peaceful times, they could have created a career and shined better.

The Yip investment talent training plan formulated by Ye Luo at the end of last year is aimed at this group of people.

Liu Xuenong was also partly responsible for establishing the plan.

This was the confidant that Ye Luo brought up after he went to the United States. Unfortunately, he was blinded by the huge interests in the end and embarked on a path of no return.

Talent, available talent, loyal talent, this is the real commodity that Ye Luo needs to spend a long time of energy and wealth to pursue.

Fortunately, in the Republic of China, this progressed smoothly.

"You did a good job." Ye Luo nodded, picked up the materials and read them one by one.

As he expected, the cheongsam business has the most investors, followed by condoms, and finally sanitary napkins.

Therefore, Ye Luo raised the investment threshold for the cheongsam business to the highest level. The starting price was 100,000 yuan.

Among these businessmen and important military and political officials, the rich will want to get involved in all three, and the poor will want to choose the best. If it is not possible, it is not bad to ride on the worst. If the money is really not enough, in today's vast world Under the momentum, many people have changed their minds and would rather give up the property at hand and follow Ye Luo to drink soup.

This is Ye Luo's true purpose.

"You taught me well, Second Young Master." Chen Youde's attitude was very humble. The longer he stayed at Ye's Investment, the more terrifying he felt about this Second Young Master.

Nowadays, other senior executives of Ye's investment, such as Xiao Aqiao, Ye Hao, Bai Xiuzhu and others, although he also admires these big guys and can learn a lot from them, the feeling they give Chen Youde is still inseparable. Word - person.

No matter how powerful they were, they were still in the category of "human beings" and did not make him feel like he was looking up to gods.

But the second young master is different.

Almost every employee who joined Ye's Investment can recite his resume, from studying abroad in 1922, to returning to Shanghai after his younger sister got married in 1928, and making bold statements at Miss Ye Qingqing's wedding banquet, until now.

Every step was terrifying.

Like a god.

Looking at the second young master, knowing that he was only a year or two older than her, she felt like she was facing a tens of millions of years old monster.

Just glancing at yourself slightly can bring you an extreme sense of oppression.

"Do these companies that don't want us to take shares have any intention of doing business together?" Ye Luo asked, looking through the information.

Chen Youde nodded and said: "Yes. Most of them do it because their company is a family business inherited from their ancestors. Asking them to dedicate the company to us is equivalent to asking them to abandon their ancestors. It is a bit difficult."

"It won't work with me. If these people are unwilling to pay and want to get benefits, then teach them some lessons." Ye Luo closed the document and sneered, "If someone leaks business secrets, or If you set up your own business and want to compete with us, don’t let them go.”

"Second Young Master, what do you mean?" Chen Youde came all the way. In fact, he was vaguely aware of the Second Young Master's intention, but it was not clear enough.

Now it seems that he cares about those people's property very much.

"We won't make the first move, but if they make the first move, they will all take over." Ye Luo knocked on the table and gave the clearest instruction.

Chen Youde understood, nodded and said: "I understand, please rest assured, Second Young Master." (End of Chapter)