1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Luo went to Tianjin City.

At this time, Yip's Transport and Yip's Department Store there were already the largest enterprises in the city.

Tianjin City is ruled by Zhang Hanqing again, and the newly appointed mayor Zhang Xueming is Ye Luo's ultimate fanboy.

Therefore, as soon as the second young master arrived in Tianjin City, everyone from actors and prostitutes to officials and dignitaries looked at him and thought of ways to curry favor with him.

When they learned that Ye Luo had come to express condolences for Yuan Kewen and prepare for the funeral, those who were originally afraid of getting involved with the Yuan family came to help.

The warmth and warmth of human relationships are evident.

On the day of Yuan Kewen's funeral, prostitutes from all over the city came out en masse. There were thousands of people in the funeral procession, and more than a thousand prostitutes voluntarily wore white-head ropes to mourn at the grave.

If a person can achieve this level, his journey in this world is actually not in vain.

After a grand funeral, Ye Luo walked around accompanied by Zhang Xueming, and then mentioned the possibility of Japanese invasion.

Zhang Xueming believed this deeply and had already prepared for it.

Although he couldn't convince his brother, at least in Tianjin City, he could lead some people to resist.

Before leaving, Ye Luo followed Chen Youde around Ye's Transportation several times.

Chen Youde has now successfully become one of Ye Luo's true confidants.

Although he was first discovered by Xiao Aqiao, he later worked with Lin Ruxian, and then took over Yip's Department Store to assist Meng Xiaodong.

But Ye Luo was still impressed by his extraordinary ability.

After careful investigation, Chen Youde finally came into contact with one of the relatively core businesses of Ye's Investment——

transportation industry.

After Ye Luo won the Steamship Merchants Company, he did quite well in the shipping business.

But in this market, the British and Japanese have a near monopoly. In the past, the Steamship Merchants Group only held a 5% share, but now Ye's Transport has increased its share to about 12%.

Compared with other core industries invested by Ye, it is very different.

At first, Chen Youde didn't understand why the transportation industry was so valued by the second young master.

Now he had a vague feeling.

The second young master is planning to go to sea!

This is the most intuitive feeling.

It was also because the second young master did not hide it from him.

In the past year, the second young master has invested nearly 100 million yuan in the transportation industry!

100 million oceans!

The current market value of Ye's Investment is estimated to be just over 2 billion.

And in just one transportation industry and one Tianjin port, the Second Young Master actually invested nearly 100 million oceans of capital.

If you tell me this, it will shake things up.

Looking through the pipe, Chen Youde also realized that the money in the hands of the second young master may be far more than two to three billion oceans.

Otherwise he wouldn't play like this.

The second young master has huge properties in the United States, and the amount may be staggering, at least equal to another Yip investment.

That is a total capital of almost 5 billion oceans.

Chen Youde felt scared just thinking about it.

Ignoring Chen Youde's inner thoughts.

Ye Luo adheres to one principle in employing people: don't use them if you doubt them, and don't trust them when you employ them.

Now that we have left the transportation industry to him with confidence and boldness, let him do it well.

In the future, there will not be only one port in Tianjin City.

You can't put your eggs in one basket.

After finishing all these things, Ye Luo set off back to Qingshi without stopping.

It's almost time, and it's time for the little girl Kong Lingjun to hand in her homework.

Every time he ran around like this, Ye Luo would always miss the convenient transportation in his previous life.

You can kill people in a car these days.

The train is uncomfortable and slow, and the plane is unsafe and accident-prone.

This is one of the reasons why he vigorously develops the transportation industry, for the sake of others and himself.

August 20, the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931).

Disaster relief!

This is an eternal topic in China for thousands of years.

Even the Jinling Nationalist Government, which is rotten to the core, must immediately come up with a disaster relief plan when faced with a large-scale natural disaster.

Throughout the ages, countless empires and dynasties have been destroyed due to natural disasters that caused people to rebel.

The nationwide flood in 1931 actually had its first signs in June, and by August it had spread across the country.

Not only that, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and other places also encountered severe drought and insect disasters.

This has caused a tragic phenomenon. In the same province, one half of the province suffers from floods and the other half suffers from drought.

People died of despair in the two realms of ice and fire.

Data from the Statistics Department of the Jinling National Government show that there are more than 80 million people affected by the disaster nationwide. In fact, in the Jianghuai region alone, the number of people affected by the disaster has exceeded 100 million.

By mid-to-late August, floating corpses, orphans crying alone, and people separated from their wives and children could be seen everywhere.

The principal was busy fighting among himself while also busy implementing the disaster relief plan.

The Jinling National Government has raised funds through the issuance of public bonds, domestic and foreign donations, and additional tax items. Currently, it has raised 20 million yuan, and in history it has finally raised 70 million yuan.

However, a large part of this money has been embezzled and misappropriated, and has not really reached the people.

Ye Luo, who knew this well, said bluntly when the principal called for consultation that Ye's Investment was willing to donate 10 million yuan.

But the premise is that the organization responsible for disaster relief is led by the Yip Charitable Foundation.

There are currently two agencies responsible for disaster relief.

One is called the Relief Committee, which is a permanent organization for disaster relief.

A special organization called the National Government Flood Relief Committee was set up for this flood.

Neither of these two things worked, so Ye Luo rejected it directly.

The principal was in a difficult situation, but thinking of the 10 million and the various help that Ye Luo would provide in the future, he gritted his teeth and ordered to follow Ye Luo's arrangements.

All disaster relief funds were coordinated to the Ye's Charity Foundation, which was headed by President Ye Qingqing and supervised by Vice President Xiao Aqiao.

The Jinling National Government would naturally send several officials to assist, but the actual power fell into the hands of Ye Luo's younger sister.

Song Ziwen, the current Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, Liu Shangqing, Minister of the Interior, Kong Xiangxi, Minister of Industry and Minister of Industry and Commerce, and Xu Shiying, Chairman of the Relief Committee, these five people are the officials who supervise Ye Qingqing.

Ye Qingqing was a little scared. Three years ago, she was a girl who married her teacher after graduating from the Chinese and Western Girls' School. In the eyes of many people, she relied on the light of the Ye family and the title of the eldest daughter of the Ye family to be so smooth.

Later, Ye Luo was angry that she did not fight for it and always played mahjong at home, so he asked her to go to the United States for further studies, go to the north for disaster relief, and be responsible for the Ye's Charity Foundation.

Over the past three years, Ye Qingqing's changes are obvious to all.

Now, like Ye Hao and Ye Luo, she is worthy of the title of the second-generation pillar of the Ye family.

Even so, Ye Qingqing is still afraid.

With so much money and such a big thing, she is afraid that she can't do it well.

Ye Luo doesn't care.

Because he knows the nature of the Jinling National Government better than anyone else.

Even if Ye Qingqing does a bad job, it is better than those people doing it.

And it is time for a close relative like my younger sister to do some big things to gain experience.

After all, in the next ten years, this country and this world will no longer be so peaceful! (End of this chapter)