1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Luo and Xiao Aqiao both looked at Shi Jianqiao, waiting for her answer.

Shi Jianqiao was a little embarrassed by what they saw, and said his answer shyly: "I, I said it wrong, you are not allowed to laugh at me. I think the reason why the second young master is so strong towards the Sino-French Pharmacy, It was because he wanted to completely cut off Boss Huang Chujiu’s thoughts. There were very few Chinese drugstores in the French Concession, and foreign drugstores and hospitals were either not open to Chinese people or did not have traditional Chinese medicine departments. After going back and forth, his Sino-French pharmacy seemed to be surviving in a tight spot, but in fact, it was running smoothly. There is a lot of space and profit, and if the second young master is not strong enough, Boss Huang will take chances and bargain."

"We martial arts practitioners should pay attention to one principle when dealing with our opponents. When a lion fights a rabbit, we should use our full strength!"

Ye Luo and Xiao Aqiao looked at Shi Jianqiao in surprise.

Unexpectedly, the heroine who usually only likes to go to Jingwu Sports to fight and kill has a certain understanding of competition in the business world.

Especially the analysis of the business situation of the Sino-French Pharmacy. It is obvious that some homework has been done to enter this remote place.

"What Jian Qiao said is pretty much what I thought, but I think Brother Luo was uncharacteristically targeting Huang Chujiu specifically." Little Ah Qiao pursed her lips, as if thinking about something, but after a long time she still smiled slightly. Shaking his head, "I don't quite understand. But if Brother Luo just wants a Chinese-French pharmacy, there is no need to make such a big show of it."

"Those who know me, eldest sister!"

Ye Luo held the steering wheel tightly and smiled leisurely,

"That's right, I brought you to the Sino-French Pharmacy specifically to give Huang Chujiu a little deterrence. In fact, Jianqiao is right. If Huang Chujiu is stopped thinking about it, he will take chances and think about being with me. Bargaining, especially when he understands my attitude towards Chinese businessmen and the acquisition of Chinese business properties, he will definitely want more."

"But in fact, none of this is important." Ye Luo tapped the steering wheel lightly, his voice gradually becoming colder, "With my current power, if I want a pharmacy, who can say no to me? I have a thousand ways and ten thousand This method can not only get the pharmacy but also maintain my reputation. Jianqiao is right, even if a lion fights a rabbit, he must use all his strength! But this is a contest between two people, not two forces, two companies. In a battle with Huang Chujiu, I won’t go all out.”

"I just don't want Huang Chujiu, I only want Xiang Songmao, but I need him to work for me at this stage, so I have to use this method to forcefully annex the Sino-French Pharmacy and let him understand the gap between us. Honestly Help me work first."

Ye Luo exhaled and looked at the two women,

"Baby Qiaoer is already helping me take charge of Ye's Dance Company. Jianqiao may also get involved in the business world in the future. I hope you can understand one thing - in the business world, the most important thing is never capital and industry, but talent. . Only by seeing the essence of a person clearly can you make better use of him and make him work for you."

"Sometimes a boss is like an emperor. The ability to control people is more important than the ability to do business! Huang Chujiu is capable and visionary. He is not a bad person, but he is not a good person either. He loves success, is only interested in profit, and is greedy for money and lust. Look at him In the past history of his fortune, he would speculate on whatever business was profitable. After he became successful, all his relatives and friends who had helped him were kicked aside. The New World came from Jing Ruishan, so he went to Jing Ruishan, which belonged to Lin Ruxian. , he knelt down to worship Lin Ruxian, and now he became Zhang Wanlin’s. It’s not that he had never tried to please Yongxing Company, he was just kicked out and usurped in disguise. You see, he said he loved his wife and son, but he begged thirteen people in a row Auntie, the youngest is only fourteen years old! I work harder when I go to a brothel and gambling house than when I go home."

These are not random words from Ye Luo. As long as you send someone to check, you can get the general information.

Little Ah Qiao lowered her eyes slightly, somewhat understanding Ye Luo's intention of calling her to join him.

He sincerely wanted to teach himself some skills in understanding people, managing people, and doing business management.

This made Xiao Aqiao a little scared.

What is he planning? Or are we going to leave Shanghai without saying a word like we did six years ago?

"I never fight an unprepared battle. Baby Qiao'er should know very well that the Sino-French Pharmacy was not my goal at the beginning. It was only after the incident developed step by step that I considered coming here to take over. Because I have already arranged for Huang Chujiu and Xiang Songmao. The investigation was thorough, and a good business opportunity was discovered through the recent events."

Ye Luo smiled mysteriously,

"Huang Chujiu cannot be reused, so he will not be absorbed into Ye's Investment Company like Wu Liande, Zhou Xiangsheng and others. Ye's Pharmaceutical Company will register with the Ministry of Industry and Industry in a few days, and then it will be handed over to you to run by Baby Qiao'er. How can you Pay attention to Xiang Songmao and develop him into your right-hand man to help you manage the pharmaceutical company. You can do this yourself, okay?"

"Me? Do you want me to take care of the company?!" Little Ah Qiao was flattered.

All along, Quan Shanghai, including herself, has positioned herself as Ye Luo's extramarital lover.

There is no possibility of becoming a concubine.

Ye Luo handed over the Fengming Tower business to her, just looking for a relatively reliable woman to help take care of it.

Most of the tycoons in Shanghai are like this. There are countless women around them, and they occasionally entrust some businesses to them to run, but they are just high-end wage earners, which is completely different from truly taking over or owning.

In today's era, even people with a background like Guo Wanying, the fourth daughter of Yong'an Department Store, find it difficult to master some business industries. Women are just vassals of men.

Not to mention a lover like her who can be abandoned at any time.

The only businesswoman who owns her own property is Lin Ruxian, who inherited a huge property from Jing Ruishan.

But Ye Luo is different.

Little Aqiao finally gradually realized that he had been deliberately cultivating himself since he bought her at Shiliupu Wharf ten years ago.

When he said that he would entrust her with the management, he did not mean that he was an agent, but that he truly gave everything in the company to her.

She can do whatever she wants.

"Yes, pharmaceutical companies are an industry that I am very optimistic about. You should also know that this is a high-profit industry monopolized by big powers. If it can be done, the income will definitely be higher than that of entertainment and automobiles." Ye Luo nodded. Looking at Xiao Aqiao's expression, "Huang Chujiu is still useful now. I will let him continue to work at the Sino-French Pharmacy. Our newly launched pharmaceutical products will also be sold through the Sino-French Pharmacy and will not be labeled The name of the product produced by Yip’s Pharmaceutical Company.”

"Is there any difference?" Shi Jianqiao asked curiously.

Little Aqiao felt a chill in her heart. With her familiarity with Ye Luo, she naturally knew the deeper meaning of this sentence.

"Of course there is a difference. Things that may affect the company's reputation in the future or be easily criticized by others cannot be introduced to our main company." Xiao Aqiao nodded and chuckled. She said this set of leather bag company practices Know everything.

Fengming Tower is a brothel. No matter how much money you make or how famous you are, it is still a stain.

But now few people would argue that Ye Luo started his career in a brothel. When talking about him, they all say that he made his fortune and became a tycoon with a Chevrolet 490.

It is because Fengming Tower does not bear any label of Ye family or Ye family, and is completely managed by Xiao Aqiao.

This was also a hint of resentment and helplessness in Xiao Aqiao's heart.

She has low self-esteem and sometimes even feels sorry for herself.

It was because she felt that she was just a prostitute leader from the beginning, and she would not be able to get on the stage after all, and she would have to help Ye Luo bear the infamy.

She has no regrets and is very willing.

But if she had a choice, she wished she had a better reputation like Bai Xiuzhu, Ruan Lingyu or Hu Die.

Sensing the strangeness in Xiao Aqiao's tone, Ye Luo sighed slightly: "It's been six years, are you still blaming me?"

"I don't blame you! Really! No matter what I can do to help you, I'm willing to do it! I'm happy!" Little Ah Qiao Bingxue was smart and shook her head quickly to explain.

She is very satisfied now.

It's just that people can be a little greedy occasionally.

She didn't want this topic to cause any rift between herself and Ye Luo.

"I know you have suffered a lot for me these years. I said before the end of October, I will make you the richest woman in Shanghai!" Ye Luo repeated what he said that night again, but this time Shi Jianqiao was also present.

The tip of Xiao Aqiao's nose felt sore, and Shi Jianqiao also felt sore, but it was just because of the dog food of these two people!

October 13, the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928).

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! The Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica appointed Dong Zuobin to conduct trial excavations in Xiaotun Village, Anyang. A batch of oracle bone inscriptions, bronzes, jades and other precious cultural relics have been unearthed."

"The abolition of traditional Chinese medicine is on the agenda again! At the National Education Conference, Wang Qizhang proposed the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine for the first time, but it was not passed. If you want to know more, you can get all the general information with one application!"

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! The hatred of Huo Daxia's death nine years ago is hard to settle! Now at the Hongkou Dojo, Naoki Zesunari once again mentioned the insult of the 'sick man of East Asia' and threatened to wipe out all the martial arts gyms and sports clubs in Shanghai! The first battle is already here The Jingwu Sports Meet has begun, and on October 20th, Huo Daxia’s eldest son Huo Ting’en and Zecheng Naoki will have a decisive battle at the Hongkou Dojo!”

"Rumors! The former construction tycoon Jing Ruishan is suspected of having taken an aphrodisiac from a Chinese and French pharmacy and died. Is Chinese medicine a poison or Western medicine a poison? Jiajia News will explain the mystery to you!"

In the streets and alleys of the concessions and county towns, little newsboys shouted back and forth, selling the latest issue of newspapers. I don’t know when, the headlines of many newspapers and magazines were dominated by the debate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.

The poisoning of Jing Ruishan and Huo Yuanjia has once again become a hot topic.

The most widely circulated rumor today is that they all took the popular health care product Rendan produced by Suzuki Hospital!

Rendan is the most popular health care medicine at the moment. It has miraculous effects such as clearing away heat, detoxifying, and refreshing people.

A small box only costs nine cents, but contains more than 400 pills. Even after the tragedy in the capital of Shandong Province some time ago, the sales of Rendan were not greatly affected.

Who makes it so that there are no competing products in the country?

However, after the Ruishan and Fearless incident was brought up again, more and more people appeared in major hospitals, saying that they had chronic lung disease or a cough that would not heal for a long time. Some smoked too much, which led to physical weakness and depletion. The root cause was also revealed. Blame it on Rendan.

For a time, people were panicked, and the sales of Rendan in major pharmacies dropped again and again.

The Rendan storm swept the entire medical world.

Zhang Dingyao is now frightened. On the one hand, he decisively stopped taking the medicine and frantically searched for the connection between the Yongxing Company and the Jing Ruishan case, as well as the medicine he took. On the other hand, he did not dare to really touch the three tycoons, so as not to alert the snake and let them The person in charge behind the scenes noticed.

Therefore, he began to drastically rectify the medical industry. Since October 10, he has sealed 17 traditional Chinese medicine dispensaries and sent people to constantly monitor and follow the people of Suzuki Hospital.

The Japanese invaders are not a good thing.

They often sent spies and killers to attack high-ranking Chinese officials and celebrities in the Beijing-Tianjin area. There were also many Japanese spies lurking in Shanghai. Some of them mingled in upper-class circles, and some hid in embassies and consulates. They went to various places as civil servants. Sensitive areas.

The tragedy in the capital of Shandong Province exposed their false appearance.

The assassination of Ye Luo by the Japanese female killer a few months ago is still lingering in Zhang Dingyao's mind for a long time.

Under multiple blows, Suzuki Hospital collapsed, and the plummeting sales of Rendan made them even more frightened.

Dean Hiroshi Morishita inquired around and learned that there might be something wrong with the aphrodisiac drug prescribed to Jing Ruishan that year, and the ingredients of this drug were similar to those taken by Zhang Dingyao.

He immediately asked for help everywhere, and finally found someone who could help him solve the problem at several upper-class dance parties -

The second young master Ye Luo, the boss of Ye's Investment Company.

Ye Luo has been obsessed with helping Xiao Aqiao handle the newly opened dance halls these days. They are his cash cows, so he can't slack off.

Paramount is getting worse day by day, almost to the point where there are few people available, and Zhang Dingyao's various actions prevent Lu Yusheng and others from focusing on the dance hall business.

They were also afraid that this person might fall out with Yongxing Company on impulse.

Therefore, these days, Zhang Wanlin went around to see if he could fish out Wang Guozhen and have him "humanely destroyed", while Lu Yusheng and Huo Tianhong went to Jinling for help, at least to turn their hostility into friendship with Zhang Dingyao.

On the other hand, at Ye's Dance Company, the Black Cat Dance Hall has been open for two weeks, with an average daily income of about 37,000 yuan and a daily net profit of 19,000 yuan! In just two weeks, it brought Ye Luo a net profit of approximately 266,000 yuan, which fully demonstrated what a real money tree is!

Yip's Film Company and Yip's Motor Company are also rooted in the public, but their consumer groups are still unable to compare with the ballroom guests.

Who can't afford a white dance ticket book priced at 5 cents each?

The current situation is that there are too many monks and too few dancers, there is an extreme shortage of dance halls and dancers, and there is an endless stream of customers. Some small Chinese businessmen bought gramophones, rented some large villas, and openly opened similar pirated small dance halls to cater for those who could not squeeze into Ye's family. Guests at the dance company's ballroom were entertained.

Chinese dancers are in short supply and are advertised in newspapers every day for recruitment. Even Japanese and Russian dancers, whose business was previously average, are also accepting orders.

The commission from dance tickets is their biggest income, and it is also the bulk of the income of Ye's Dance Company.

In addition, the new dance company and dancer management system implemented by Ye Luo and the municipal government has allowed this industry to get rid of the label of gray industry and become completely legal and compliant.

Nowadays, the monthly income of ordinary dancers can reach about 100 yuan, which is not much different from that of employees in foreign companies. The monthly income of red dancers can easily exceed 300 yuan. The top black cat dancers such as Wang Ji and Chen Zhuohua, the top dancers of Black Cat Dance Hall, are said to have monthly incomes of as much as 1,200 oceans, which is not much compared to top movie stars like Ruan Lingyu.

In the past few days, someone published an article "Returning from Tired of Dancing" in "Shenbao" to comment on the income of dancers: "According to the survey of dancers' income, there is at least a net surplus of four or five yuan every night after half of the dance. According to statistics, every month there is one or two yuan. One hundred yuan. It’s beyond our reach to rack our brains and make pens. I wish I could be transformed into a daughter!”

Because dancers earn higher wages, some movie stars even changed careers and became dancers when they were in trouble.

The most famous among them is Liang Saizhen, who recently switched jobs from Tianyi Film Company to Black Cat Dance Hall, and is now the headliner at Santa Ana Dance Hall on Xieqiao Road.

She became famous after dancing in the sea under the title of movie star. Countless customers came here because they wanted to touch her slender waist, big breasts and buttocks.

According to Xiao Aqiao, Liang Saizhen's income is comparable to that of Chen Zhuohua and others.

And her departure will inevitably lead to a large number of unsuccessful female stars in the film industry to change jobs.

Ye Luo smiled. He and the Shaw brothers were fighting in the film industry. Although the Ye brothers were defeated one after another, they did not lose their armor. But now, with the strong impact of the dance industry company, Just like the impact of e-commerce on physical entities in later generations, it completely shook their lifeblood!

Ye Luo has been waiting these days, waiting for Huang Chujiu, who is out of breath and almost desperate, to come over and offer the Sino-French Pharmacy with both hands, and then he can take advantage of the good opportunity to take Rendan's business to his side.

Unexpectedly, Huang Chujiu was very tolerant and never came to the door.

Instead, Hiroshi Morishita, the director of Suzuki Hospital, made an unexpected visit and became the first to break the deadlock.