1928: The rise of giant merchants

The Peking Conference organized by Wang did not go well.

At dinner time, Ye Luo followed Zhang Hanqing to the Peking Hotel and found that at least one-third of the attendees had not come to eat.

The conference was originally scheduled to last for three days, but on the first day, one-third of the people left Peiping. Wang's organizational and field-control abilities were really worrying.

During dinner, Mr. Wang hurried over and toasted Ye Luo and Zhang Hanqing with a glass of wine each, then left the table not knowing where to go.

After Zhang Hanqing waited for him to leave, he smiled and told Ye Luo interesting things about the meeting during the day.

It turned out that Zou Lu and Xie Chi insisted at the meeting that the Xishan Conference faction must also participate.

Chen Gongbo firmly opposed this, believing that the Peking meeting was held to oppose the president, and the participants should mainly be members of the second Central Committee headed by him.

Now not only the members of the third term can participate, but also the illegal members of Huanlong Road are required to join. Doesn’t that mean we are also breaking the law?

"Using the law to fight against the law, if the name is not right, the words will not go smoothly, and if the words are not right, things will not be accomplished. Why confess to the world?"

Finally, Chen Gongbo said these words and left Peiping angrily, taking a group of people with him, which made everyone very unhappy.

The so-called Second Central Committee was a new organization initiated and established in the winter of 1928 by Chen Gongbo.

Its central headquarters is located in Shanghai, with Wang Renren, Chen Gongbo, Gan Naiguang, He Xiangning, and Guo Chuntao as leaders. Wang Leping is responsible for "organization and Shanghai steering committee", Pan Yunchao is responsible for "training", Zhu Jiqing is responsible for "democracy movement", and Gu Mengyu is responsible for " Propaganda", Shi Cuntong served as "Secretary-General" (later changed to Mei Zhezhi).

Its local branches are located in Jinling, Shanghai, Peiping, Tianjin and other provinces and cities, and even have members in France, Japan, Vietnam and other countries, with a total membership of more than 10,000.

In fact, most of them are just important members of the Kuomintang who are unwilling to tolerate being squeezed out by the principal's power group and think they can compete with them.

This group of people consider themselves the "grand unification" after Mr. Sun, and believe that the factions organized by the Xishan Conference and other regional organizations are "unorthodox" and "illegal". If they are not merged into their faction, they should act like they are against the principal. and against them all at the same time.

But Wang's real idea is to use all these chaotic forces to form a six-sect siege of Guangmingding, in order to defeat his ultimate enemy, the principal.

Therefore, Wang wanted to win over members of these forces and widely invited them to participate in the Peking Conference.

However, Chen Gongbo and others held objections, and Wang's internal leadership was not as good as that of the principal in the Jinling National Government. The meeting was originally scheduled to be anti-Chiang, but in the end it evolved into a discussion about who is the unification and who is illegal. What will happen next? How to organize and other issues.

Another group of warlord leaders, such as Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and others, were unwilling to get involved in the fights between these scholars, but like Zhang Hanqing, they took this opportunity to see Wang's embarrassing side.

The Peking Conference actually came to an end.

These second-term Central Committee members were what was later called the Kuomintang reorganization faction. They had forced the principal to resign once before, but in reality they were just a bunch of people who only spoke for their own interests.

"Aluo, you're right, these people are unlikely to succeed." Zhang Hanqing whispered to him, holding up his wine glass, and completely gave up the idea of ​​relying on them to control the principal.

"Brother Six, you should just stay in the north safely for now." Ye Luo nodded, "The more you get involved with them, the worse it will be for you."

"You're right. I'll just paddle for a few days. When the meeting is over, we'll go to Fengtian together. Your Winter Emperor is still waiting for you there." Zhang Hanqing looked at him with a strange smile.

Before Ye Luo could fight back, a big head suddenly came over.

"What are you two talking about? Let me, Yan Laoxi, also talk about it."

Yan Xishan sat down between the two of them with a bottle of wine in his hands. His face was red, and he seemed to have drunk a lot of wine.

He himself is a fence-sitter. Today, he felt very comfortable when he saw that Mr. Wang was being criticized in various ways and that there was countless civil strife in Beiping.

If Yan Laoxi was the only one who had an uncomfortable life, it would be very frustrating.

It's fine now. None of Zhang Hanqing in the north, the principal in the south, these fellow warlords, and the Jiangcheng reorganization faction are living comfortably, so he feels very comfortable.

"General Yan, we are discussing business matters." Ye Luo smiled at him.

Zhang Hanqing's head was full of questions.

"Business? What business? Count me, Yan Laoxi! They all said that if you do business with the second young master, you don't have to worry about not making money! Hehe." Yan Xishan got closer.

He is really short of money.

In 1929, he fought for many years and was always defeated. Military expenditure alone cost him tens of millions.

If it weren't for the strong foundation of Jin Province, he would hardly be able to support his large number of soldiers.

He used to speculate in stocks with Hongxing United Group and originally made a small profit, but he refused to listen to Ye Luo's advice and ended up losing even his capital, which made him even worse and suffered even more.

This time I finally bumped into Ye Luo in Peiping, and I had to follow this second young master to make a fortune.

"Study fund. General Yan is also interested?" Ye Luo looked at him.

"Pig blood and chicken essence? Can you make a lot of money selling pig blood and chicken essence?" Yan Xishan rubbed his hands and asked, "I have a lot of this stuff over there."

"Brother Yan, Aluo is talking about the scholarship fund! What about pig blood and chicken essence? Do you think we are a vegetable market?" Zhang Hanqing rolled his eyes at him and felt speechless.

He has always admired scholars and literati, and looked down upon the military elite. Yan Laoxi's low level of education happened to be the type of person Zhang Hanqing disliked the most.

"What the hell, I don't understand." Yan Xishan asked Ye Luo sincerely.

"It is to provide funds to students and teachers to help them study scientific research, similar to the original Gengzi Scholarship." Ye Luo gave him a brief introduction to science.

"Oh, it's just to give money to college students." Yan Xishan suddenly realized, "How can we make money from this? Aren't we providing money?"

"General Yan, don't you use capital to trade stocks?" Ye Luoxiao asked him.

Yan Xishan nodded thoughtfully: "Oh, of course I still want it. So we want to go to college?"

Zhang Hanqing became increasingly speechless.

Although he didn't know how to make money from student funds, what was the point of speculating on college?

No wonder this fool was defeated by the principal.

The IQ levels of the two people are probably not on the same line.

The messy tricks in the principal's belly are enough for Yan Laoxi to drink several bottles.

It is estimated that he was still giving people money after being sold.

"This process and model are quite complicated and I can't explain it clearly for a while, but I plan to use it as a pilot project at Peking University and invite some business friends to invest money to help Peking University overcome the financial difficulties first." Ye Luo has no intention of making money through this. , But this is just like building a fund. If you don’t create a high-end project to deceive people into investing, where will the money come from?

"Oh, anyway, Second Young Master, whenever you do it, I, Yan Laoxi, will be the one to take part." Yan Xishan patted his chest and said with a smile, "I still have this capital."

"Okay, in that case, let's count it as General Yan's share." Ye Luo readily agreed. (End of chapter)