1928: The rise of giant merchants

It was just a trivial matter to persuade Lu Xiaoman, and there was no rush in the matter at the moment. After Xu Zhimo said this, he hurriedly left and prepared to fly to Peking to take up a post.

Ye Luo asked Xiaoli to call Yunshang Clothing, find Tang Ying, and ask her to help him make an appointment with Lu Xiaoman for dinner next Sunday.

"Is she okay?" Ye Luoduo asked.

These days, good restaurants have to make reservations in advance. Although he can use his status to force a temporary table, Ye Luo rarely does this embarrassing thing.

To be convenient for others is to be convenient for yourself.

"Don't worry, don't worry, even if she has a big deal, as long as you invite Brother Luo, she will definitely come." Tang Ying got to know Lu Xiaoman. The two chatted in private. Lu Xiaoman bluntly said that if she hadn't met Xu Zhimo first, and After marrying him, Ye Luo is her favorite husband!

Even after getting married, Ye Luo is still the favorite among Shanghai's socialites. As long as he wants, the ladies can line up from the bedside to the window.

After all, there are very few men who can satisfy the four qualities of being handsome, rich, knowledgeable, and gentle. But Ye Luo has all these advantages, how can he not be popular?

Five days later.

The booming cheongsam business and the shortage of condoms and sanitary napkins made Yip's Department Store and Yip's Clothing instantly famous, transforming them into a top company as famous as Yip's Automobile.

Especially condoms, a product that investors are least optimistic about. It seems that no one cares about it, but in fact it is almost sold out every day. There are a bunch of beautifully packaged condoms in front of the checkout counters of small shops all over Shanghai, including boxes. Also available in bulk, fully meeting the needs of young lovers.

Vendors in Tianjin City and Jinling also imitated Ye Luo's promotion method. Seeing the booming sales of condoms, vendors, big and small, frantically purchased goods from Ye's Department Store, fearing that if they were slow, others would make money.

Meng Xiaodong, who had just returned to Tianjin City, was still learning how to do business and manage a company. Unknowingly, she became a millionaire. She suddenly became the richest civilian woman in Tianjin City and even the entire north, which made her feel like she was dreaming.

The popularity of the three businesses also greatly increased the confidence of the warlord leaders.

They paid two sums of money, one to become the Peking University student fund, treating it as charity to please Ye Luo, and the other to invest in these three businesses. Seeing that the capital was recovered in an instant, and profits were just around the corner, they naturally wanted to start a war. confidence.

In fact, there are many people who regret not investing all the money, and some are even unwilling to sell the factory in their hands or let Ye invest in shares. In the end, they tragically missed the opportunity and failed to take advantage of this wave of making money.

This kind of merchants are now beating their chests. Some people have begun to ask, wondering if the second young master is willing to buy their company and factory and let them become a shareholder of Yip's Department Store.

The businesses that could be targeted by Ye Luo were all related to industries that would be developed after tariff independence in the future. Ye Luo wholeheartedly gathered them all under his command. Seeing that they had fallen into a trap, of course he was happy to take over them all.

However, since I was worried about the risks at the beginning, I was unwilling to sell the company's factory to myself.

Now that I see the business is making money, I want a piece of the pie.

How can there be such a good thing in the world?

Ye Luo's reply was: Yes, Ye's Investment is still willing to acquire your company and factory, but the price is half lower than the initial price.

The traders called it robbery.

Ye Luo immediately nodded and even published a newspaper article to respond to their complaints.

The shopping mall is like a battlefield, he just takes advantage of it and robs it.

But this is a conspiracy.

You don't have to sell it if you don't want to. Ye Luo is not a warlord and will not force them to sell their property.

The truth is on Ye Luo's side. Even though everyone knows that he is Sima Zhao, public opinion is still one-sided and speaks for him. Instead, they say that the vendors were deceived by lard and blinded by money.

This kind of bickering was going on for several days, but the vendors finally gave in.

Because they saw the high-rise Yip's Department Store building, saw those colleagues who made a lot of money after taking shares, and saw the miracle of Meng Xiaodong becoming a millionaire overnight.

Profit is always the best driving force.

And greed will eventually become a guillotine that demands death.

One contract after another was signed, and within a few days, Chen Youde, who was responsible for assisting Meng Xiaodong in handling the company's business, saw at least dozens of thorny vendors leaving happily with the contracts in hand.

The sight was so magical.

After so many years of business experience, this was the first time he saw someone happy to sell their company. If they were willing to accept it, it seemed that they would even be willing to sell their property, wife and children.

The power of money is so terrifying.

Chen Youde also knew what happened to those people in Shanghai, and knew that even Zhang Jingyao's younger brother was not spared.

After coming out of the talent training program, the last lesson Chen Youde learned from Ye Luo was to "be content with what you have".

Therefore, when senior executives in various places concealed sales, he still worked honestly and did not covet things that did not belong to him.

So Chen Youde climbed up step by step, and the rewards he received were far more than what they had embezzled.

At this time, he was standing in front of the Tianjin Port pier, watching China Merchants' ferries one after another carrying large amounts of cargo out of the port, and he felt very complicated.

This was the only thing he couldn't understand.

The second young master spent money to buy a shipbuilding business that was about to collapse. Everyone thought he was going to go into the shipping industry, but until now, Ye Luo has not done much to develop this business.

He mostly bought a large number of new ships and equipped them with top-notch sailing talents. For this purpose, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire generals and soldiers from the former Beiyang Navy. All he asked them to do was to take their salaries and occasionally send the products invested by Ye to Macao. and Xiangjiang, and even further to the Far East.

This is what Chen Youde knows.

But many times, he could hardly see any ship docking in Tianjin Port.

Those big ships took ten days and a half to leave. Some of them went to sea last year and have not returned yet.

The ships returning are usually empty and rarely unloaded.

Normal foreign trade shipping business will never be like this.

Although he couldn't understand it, Chen Youde never asked or paid attention.

The less you know, the longer you live.

He took one last look at the sea and the very empty Tianjin Port, then turned and headed to the post office.

The last batch of companies and factories have also been acquired.

Unknowingly, the second young master controlled a small half of the business in Tianjin City. From clues, it can be seen that the main industries are textiles, grains, matches, porcelain and other industries, and the acquisitions are very targeted.

Based on Chen Youde's understanding of Ye Luo, he must have done this because he was optimistic that these industries could make money.

But he really couldn't figure out, how could these things make money?

Textile products in China are currently dominated by Japanese goods, which are basically monopolized by Japanese companies.

Grains, matches, porcelain, etc. are domestic core industries, but the quality is so much worse than foreign products that local companies are already on the verge of bankruptcy.

With doubts, Chen Youde took out the telegram and reported the acquisition situation here to Ye Luo.

Also on this day.

Chen Youde got the answer he wanted! (End of chapter)