1928: The rise of giant merchants

The entire March of 1931 in Shanghai was full of vitality due to the arrival of Huixin and the reform of the textile industry.

Since Ye's Textile successfully opened the way for foreign trade of domestic products, the southern textile industry has finally made new progress. Those bosses who were not optimistic about Ye Luo before or boycotted Ye Luo's Textile have also joined Ye Luo's Textile Association, hoping to learn from him. Here's a piece of the pie.

Ye Luo was not as ruthless as the Rong family and the Sheng family. As long as these factories that joined later were willing to follow the footsteps of Ye's textile and carry out a series of reforms in labor systems, machinery and equipment, and talent introduction, Ye Luo would be happy to win over them. Order some soup.

In this way, under Ye Luo's overall planning, the southern textile industry, which was once on the verge of collapse, regained its strength and became able to compete with foreign companies and Japanese companies.

But in fact, because the initial investment cost was too high, and the reform inevitably caused dissatisfaction among old-school businessmen, and it was difficult for workers to adapt to the new rhythm quickly, Ye's Textile has been losing money.

Those bosses who formed an anti-Yeluo alliance earlier, but later saw that the situation was not good and sold their factories to Yeluo, beat their chests and felt that they had made a loss in that low-price sale.

Maybe if they wait a little longer, when the Second Young Master really can't afford such a high cost of reform, they can raise the price and sell the factory at a more expensive price!

So the current Southern textile industry presents an interesting and bizarre bipolar phenomenon.

On the one hand, due to Ye Luo's radical reforms, the textile industry became vibrant. Countless new bosses came to defect and continue to expand the advantages and scope of the industry, as if they could overthrow Japanese companies and other foreign companies at any time.

On the one hand, the bosses who joined in were shocked to find that the factory had not started making money yet, so they had invested a lot of money in it. The second young master was rich enough to do this, but they couldn't do it.

New people come and go, and the old people are basically gone.

No matter how you cover it up, it is difficult to explain the fact that Ye's Textile has been losing money.

This made Mu Ouchu and Sheng Aiyi very distressed.

Ye Luo didn't seem to care about this, and let them continue with the reform, not even stopping those with ulterior motives from going to the north to develop.

Many textile industry bosses have suddenly discovered that the northern textile industry is still in a state of development. As Japanese companies slowly retreat, it seems that there are many vacancies in the market, and they have the opportunity to invade.

Seeing more and more people being called to the north, Mu Ouchu couldn't sit still and called Sheng Aiyi to come to Ye's house to talk to Ye Luo about expanding Ye's textile business to the north.

March 20, afternoon, Ye Mansion, lobby.

Xiaoli served a cup of good tea to Mu Ouchu and Sheng Aiyi each, and then happily ran back to take Ye Hongdou - Huixin's daughter was also taken into the Ye family, becoming the third and fourth generation of the Ye family (previously) The three are Ye Zhuohua, Ye He, and Ye Hao).

"Second Young Master, as of yesterday, we have spent nearly 5 million oceans on reform, which is not a small amount." Before Mu Ouchu's own textile factory was sold to the Rong family, its total value was only 1 million oceans. It is the leading presence in the southern textile industry.

Nowadays, many emerging popular industries, such as the dance industry, film industry, amusement park, etc., have a total annual profit of only more than 5 million yuan in Shanghai.

It can be seen that this reform consumes a lot of money.

Compared with the reform plan Ye Luo gave him, it is still in the early stages of reform. It is hard to imagine how much money will be spent in the future. Can this really be earned back?

"It's quite a bit, but not too much. We are carrying out comprehensive reforms in terms of worker treatment, equipment resources and introduced technology, which is almost subverting the entire industry. This amount of money is already very little."

Ye Luo smiled and said,

"As for the funding issue, didn't I tell the two managers before that I should use it boldly and declare it to Ye's Investment boldly. As long as it is reasonable, I will approve it."

Until now, Mu Ouchu and Sheng Aiyi still don't know how rich this big boss is.

But there is no doubt that Ye's investment valuation has reached 1 billion oceans.

So when Ye Luo said this, they never felt that he was trying to trick them.

The boss is definitely powerful.

But the problem is, they dare to ask for money, but they can't guarantee that they can break even in the future.

"Young Master Luo, it's not that we're worried about funding, but" Sheng Aiyi hesitated and didn't say anything.

Ye Luo did his best to them, but they couldn't repay him. He doubted himself at the beginning. As soon as the words came out, Ye Luo would definitely be disappointed with them.

Sheng Aiyi wondered if there was a better, more tactful way of saying something that would allow Ye Luo to understand the situation and express their thoughts reasonably.

Seeing her hesitant expression, Ye Luo smiled and pointed out: "Is Manager Sheng worried that he won't be able to make back his money?"

"No, I'm a little worried." Sheng Aiyi didn't expect that he would point it out to her face. She nodded with a blushing face and added in a low voice, "Also, many of my colleagues went to the north to develop. I, I think we have to make plans earlier. That’s it.”

Just now I was worried that too much money would be consumed and I would not be able to recover the capital.

Now I want to persuade the boss to spend money to develop the northern market.

As soon as Sheng Aiyi said these words, she couldn't help but want to secretly scratch her ears.

Is not this contradictory?

But the fact is so contradictory!

If we don’t follow suit to develop the northern market, the situation may be even worse.

But doing so may also cause Ye Luo's funds to be further depleted.

Mu Ouchu was also embarrassed and at a loss.

When Ye Luo came to him to be the general manager, he was indeed moved by Ye Luo's words. He felt that the textile industry would definitely rise after tariff independence, and he fully agreed with Ye Luo's plan.

But when they actually started implementing it, he and Sheng Aiyi discovered the huge difference between reality and imagination.

The cost of this reform is too high!

At this time, not only were issues surrounding the subsequent development and profitability of the textile industry entangled them, but communication with their boss, Ye Luo, was also very difficult.

It is very difficult to convince Ye Luo that this reform may not be a good thing.

And it may have refuted Ye Luo's face.

The two were silent again, and the atmosphere became awkward again.

"I understand." Ye Luo looked at them and couldn't help but feel a little funny, "You came all the way, but you actually want to tell me that you found that the reform may be a bad move on my part, and you hope that I will stop the reform and invest the funds To expand into new markets. At the same time, you are worried that speaking too clearly will embarrass me and lose face, so you are just so coy, right?"

"Absolutely." Mu Ouchu wanted to find a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

They were the ones who said they agreed at first, and now they are the ones who oppose it. They have said all the good and bad things, which really embarrasses Ye Luo.

As soon as the words were spoken, Sheng Aiyi simply let go and said bluntly: "Second Young Master, to be honest, I think we should do this. Otherwise, if this continues, our funds will drain away like a bottomless pit, and they will develop more and more in the north. The sooner, I really don’t think just some newly arrived foreign trade orders can turn our losses into profits!”

After saying this, she felt relieved and then looked at Ye Luo.

If Ye Luo was furious at this moment and wanted to fire her, and even asked her to take back the things he gave her, she would admit it.

In short, she couldn't continue to watch Ye Luo continue to reform like this and leave the North alone.

"Manager Sheng" Mu Ouchu was shocked, but seeing that she had already shown her cards, she simply slumped down on the sofa and nodded, "Second Young Master, I see it that way too."

"Yeah. What you said makes sense. I'm grateful that you could come here and tell the truth at the risk of being scolded by me."

Ye Luo looked at them, actually understanding and agreeing with their approach.

Because from the perspective of both of them, this is indeed the case, and there is no solution.

The fact that they were able to speak out and give advice at the risk of being fired showed that Ye Luo had not chosen the wrong person.

but it is not the truth.

Because soon, the north will be occupied by the Japanese, and a puppet Manchukuo will be established as their puppet regime.

At that time, no matter how good the business in the north is and how great its potential is, it will only become an asset of the Japanese.

This is why Ye Luo not only did not explore the northern market, but also asked Xiao Aqiao to recover the assets.

"But I reject your proposal." He replied with a smile.