1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Luo's arrival did not cause any splash in Tokyo. At this time, radicals and moderates in Japanese politics were fighting fiercely. Prime Minister Hamaguchi Yuyuki was assassinated and lay in the hospital. Although Acting Prime Minister Shitahara was Hamaguchi's confidant, But he is not a member of the Gerakan Party, so he has been squeezed out by many forces.

Japan's local chaebols, while paying attention to the changes in the political arena, are demanding that the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan solve the deflation problem as soon as possible.

Thanks to the $100 million injected by Ye Luo, they were able to breathe a sigh of relief and did not completely collapse in the severe deflationary environment.

Except for those extreme militarists, most Japanese business groups and politicians have a good impression of Ye Luo, and even hope that he can continue to import the products invested by Ye Luo into the country to alleviate the pressure brought by products from European and American countries.

But Ye Luo himself didn't care at all what the Japanese authorities thought of him, and he didn't like the country that was about to launch a war of aggression from the bottom of his heart. He just wanted to exchange gold for money and leave quickly.

He asked Acting Prime Minister Motohara and some chaebols to help exchange the 200 tons of gold that originally belonged to him into U.S. dollars.

The replacement price is based on the unit price of 1 gram of gold of US$2, which is higher than the current US market price.

200 tons of gold is equivalent to US$400 million!

With the current capabilities of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, these US$400 million could not be withdrawn at once. Junnosuke Inoue, then the Tibetan Prime Minister, had to mobilize US$100 million from other banks and transfer it to YB Bank through overseas channels.

The remaining 300 million U.S. dollars will be settled before the end of this year, and the remaining 150 million U.S. dollars are promised to be fully settled before the end of 1931.

At this time, the Ministry of Finance was extremely poor. Junnosuke Inoue was a pioneer in supporting Hamaguchi Yuyuki to restore the gold standard system. Under his leadership, the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan have always taken the circulation of gold as their primary goal. This wave of silver and gold bills, Almost brought down all the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance headed by him.

He really had no money, and Ye Luo couldn't forcefully ask for money.

Anyway, I spent a total of 200 million U.S. dollars to go to Japan. Now there are 100 tons of Japanese gold in the YB Bank vault, which is worth 200 million U.S. dollars. The rest of the money, the shares of the chaebol company, and everything else are all in vain.

Of course, Ye Luo's ultimate goal is to prevent the Japanese from defaulting on their debts as much as possible.

On November 20, a group of Japanese political and business representatives, headed by Acting Prime Minister Hakahara Kijuro and Tibetan Prime Minister Junnosuke Inoue, sent off Ye Luo's business group as they left Tokyo Port. The public was amazed by the huge momentum.

Under the strong request of these people, Ye Luo still left some branches invested by Ye in Tokyo and other places. However, the company's employees are basically Chinese students in Japan and overseas Chinese who have settled in Japan, and they do not exclude Japan. Local staff.

At this time, those plutocrats and politicians have not realized that Ye Luo's investment is like a mudslide. Once it takes root in any place, it can destroy the foundation of the local business community and swallow up all markets.

They are clearly trying to lure a wolf into the house!

After returning to Shanghai with the US dollars plundered from Japan, Ye Luo immediately swept away all the silver on the market and let people know in the black market.

No matter who it is or how much it is, Ye’s Investment can afford it.

If anyone dares to sell silver to foreigners in Shanghai, or is found to have engaged in private high-price transactions, Ye Luo guarantees that he will not be able to walk out of Shanghai alive!

At first, the speculators who came from afar did not take Ye Luofang's cruel words seriously. It was not until they finished the transaction with the foreigners that people from the patrol room and the Songhu Police Department arrived as scheduled that they realized that the second young master was On the beach in Shanghai, your hands and eyes are open to the sky!

These guys who know the law and break the law are naturally killed as a warning to monkeys and treated as role models.

Ye Luo didn't want to touch these dirty jobs, and Ye's Investment didn't want to be tainted with these things, which would leave people with clues in the future.

Therefore, after catching these silver dealers running around in various parts of the Republic of China, Ye Luo had them all tied up immediately and sent to the door of the intelligence office without stopping, giving the aggrieved Dai Li a headache.

Dai Li was so angry.

His main job is to help the principal eliminate dissidents and track down members of underground organizations lurking throughout Shanghai.

As for this kind of silver dealer, they have a large backing. If they are caught rashly, they will easily cause dissatisfaction from the forces behind them. If the other party has a big backing, Dai Li cannot expect the principal to help him, and he can only bite the bullet and offend others!

With Yeluo's massive purchase of silver, the price of silver in the south was instantly controlled, and the deflation that was supposed to break out like in Japan did not happen.

The principal also fulfilled his promise, allowing official newspapers such as the Central News Agency and the Republic of China Daily to publicize it, and truly promoted Ye Luo to the throne of "the number one businessman in the Republic of China".

With the strong support of the principal, those intellectuals, local warlords, and important military and political officials also understood that the rise of Ye Luo and Ye Investment was unstoppable. If they jumped out to oppose the second young master at this time, they would be seeking their own death.

Therefore, during this period, an interesting phenomenon occurred in the literary world.

No matter you are a pro-Japanese or a boycotter, no matter you are a hazy poet or a master of essays, even if we were having a spat like Hu Shi and Lu Yucai before, as long as you write an article praising the second young master, then we are good brothers. good buddies.

Many university professors even spontaneously formed a group to establish a "Ye Research Association" to study the first businessman of the Republic of China. They conducted systematic research on everything from his origin and experience to business activities and living habits. !

Soon after, the Ye Research Society also attracted a lot of sponsorship funds, and even the northern branch received the support of Zhang Hanqing, the top figure in the north, who built a research institute for them, and all actions were officially endorsed.

This wave of waves not only set off a "Ye Luo fever" in the Chinese circle, but also the high-end foreign circle was keen to talk about this legendary businessman who had been in and out of the US stock market seven times, killing the top financial groups such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Morgan Foundation.

Countless banquets and salon invitations were sent to the Ye Mansion, and Xiaoli even had to vacate a room to stack various things sent from outside to the second young master.

According to Xiaoli, if the second young master was willing to attend such banquets, he could eat delicacies from the mountains and the sea tomorrow and eat in restaurants all the way to 1940!

After the silver price in the south was controlled, Ye Luo immediately sent Xiao Aqiao to the north to use this wave of residual heat to lower the silver price in the north, and absolutely could not cause an irreversible deflation dilemma.

Since giving birth to Ye Zhuohua, Xiao Aqiao has gradually changed from a female boss to a full-time housewife. Li Shuzhen and others also hope that she can take good care of the eldest son of the third generation of the Ye family at home.

But in fact, Xiao Aqiao misses her original life more.

She feels that she lives to help Ye Luo share the pressure of doing business. She positions herself as a close-fitting female secretary who can meet Ye Luo's various needs!

This time, with Ye Luo's personal order, Xiao Aqiao happily went north, suppressing the silver price while inspecting the situation of Ye's investment in the north, and helping Ye Qingqing, who is still in the United States, to deal with the internal affairs of the Ye's Charity Foundation.

Seeing her mother leave without looking back, Ye Zhuohua cried loudly, and Ye Luo had to coax her to sleep every day.

The price of silver was controlled, and the principal was much more calm, and he focused on the struggle with the remnant forces such as Wang.

In order to thank Ye Luo for his behavior, the principal, as he said before, gave the green light to various business activities invested by Ye's investment, especially tacitly approving his acquisition of textile factories in Shanghai and his tough fight against textile giants such as Rong and Sheng.

After the fall of the Sheng family, the seventh daughter of Sheng, Sheng Aiyi, took over the family business, while the Rong family was in danger. Rong Xiang went to petition every day, but was repeatedly rejected.

Finally, near mid-December, Rong Xiang was overwhelmed and agreed to transfer all the shares of Rong's Textile Factory to Ye Luo.

Since then, the anti-Ye alliance that had once boasted about collapsed, leaving only the Sassoon Company, which was backed by the British, struggling to support it.

It was a general trend for Ye's Textile to occupy the southern textile industry. In Jinling, there was also the Zhentai Textile Factory left by Jiang Keting. Based on this, Ye's Textile quickly expanded with the support of the Jinling National Government and occupied the entire Jinling City.

The Dafeng Textile Factory, which Song Ziwen had been thinking about but had not been able to conquer for a long time, suddenly announced its merger with Ye's Textile, which made Song Ziwen depressed for several days.

When he went to the United States, he asked Ye Luo to borrow 87 million oceans.

Looking back now, the Tax Police Corps was built, the textile industry was given away, and countless commercial conveniences after the tariff autonomy became Ye Luo's things.

I always feel that this 87 million seems to be a bloody profit, but in fact it is a big loss!

The only thing that Song Ziwen can comfort himself now is that at least the initiative to pay back the 87 million is in his hands, and the worst thing is to default on the debt!

Little did he know that the notary Ye Luo hired at that time is now slowly moving towards the highest power in the United States.

Ye Luo will not let him default on the debt. (End of this chapter)