1928: The rise of giant merchants

In the evening of that day, Ma Yongzhen drove Ye Luo and Zhang Hanru to the public concession in a Ford V8. Other members of the charity foundation went to major news newspapers to truthfully describe what they saw and heard along the way, and implored the major newspapers to report the incident. This launched a series of reports and wrote warning articles to draw the public's attention to the Japanese aggressors.

The Yamei Radio Factory is located at No. 323 Jiangxi Road in the Public Concession, which later became Jiangxi Middle Road in the HP District. This road was built in 1855, when the concession was first opened, and is bounded by the Holy Trinity Church of Shanghai, an Anglican Church, to the west of the middle section of the road. Got its name.

Since 1900, more than 30 banks have been opened on both sides of the road, which is nicknamed "Bank Street". The most important governing body of the public settlement, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau, is also located on this road.

Speaking of the Yamei Radio Factory, it can be traced back to 1923. At that time, the three brothers Su Guoguo, Su Zugui, and Su Zuxiu, who had just moved to Shanghai with their families, were passionate about radio technology, so they rented the building at No. 323 Jiangxi Road as a laboratory, and soon expanded The factory was established, with Su Zugui as the manager, Su Zuzuo as the deputy manager and engineer, and Su Zuxiu as the factory director.

The three brothers worked tirelessly to study radio technology, and in 1925 they developed self-differentiating two-band radios, amplifiers and various radio parts.

In order to promote domestic products and boycott foreign products, they constantly introduce new technologies, new processes, and new materials to improve quality, reduce costs, enhance competitiveness, and compete with foreign companies for the market.

In 1926, the Yamei Radio Factory also developed and used various new materials such as high-frequency insulating phenolic resin bakelite powder and impedance colloidal graphite to once again enhance its competitiveness.

However, the radio broadcasting industry at this time had long been controlled by the American Kailuo Company. Like Xiangsheng Automobile Co., Ltd., it was difficult to survive in the cracks and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The car slowly stopped at the entrance of the factory.

Ye Luo and the others got out of the car and as soon as they walked into the factory, they were attracted by the sound of various mechanical equipment.

There are only a few employees in the factory, all of whom are Chinese in simple work clothes.

Seeing an outsider approaching, a female worker wearing gray and white gloves came alertly and stopped Ye Luo and the others.

"Who are you? Are you here for business?" She was young and quite beautiful, but she was quite different in stature from Ye Luo, so it was a little difficult to look up at him.

After last year’s Tianmu Movement and the Women’s Liberation Incident, young women gradually left home, cut their hair short, abandoned their feet, and liberated their breasts from corsets, pursuing freedom and individuality. Many of them even went to work in factories. They were generally not very old, and generally had only Sixteen or seventeen years old.

This girl is a typical new era female worker.

"I am Ye Luo, the boss of Ye's Investment Company. I would like to talk to your Director Su." Ye Luo smiled and handed over a business card.

Seeing that the business card in the other person's hand was so exquisitely made, the female worker believed it. When she heard that it was Ye's Investment Company, a smile immediately broke out on her face.

"I heard from my brothers that you are the second young master who went against the trend to set up a charity foundation and made a lot of money using foreign cars! Wait a moment, I will call them!"

The female worker's eyes lit up, she wiped her hands, put away Ye Luo's business card, and ran towards the back room as fast as she could.

"The second young master is famous and admirable." Zhang Hanru couldn't help but feel emotional when he saw this scene.

To be able to gain such great fame and respect in the Chinese circle shows that Ye Luo has indeed done a lot of great things that the Chinese people are proud of!

"Brother Zhang, please don't ignore me. I'm just an ordinary businessman." Ye Luo smiled and waved his hand.

After a while, a middle-aged man wearing engineering clothes and stained with mechanical oil came towards them with a smile under the guidance of the female worker.

"Second Young Master, I have admired you for a long time. Please come and sit in my office. Lily, go and get the good tea leaves I have collected!" The middle-aged man enthusiastically welcomed the three of them to the back room office.

"Okay, I'll go now!" The female worker happily ran towards the second floor.

The sound insulation effect of the office is pretty good. Once the door is closed, you can hardly hear any noise from outside.

"Second Young Master, you see I was so excited that I forgot to introduce myself. I am Su Guoguo, the deputy general manager and chief engineer of Yamei." The middle-aged man asked them to sit down, and then looked at the two people beside Ye Luo.

"Hello, Su Gong. This is Brother Zhang Hanru who went to the capital of Shandong Province to negotiate with the Japanese invaders. He was an orderly of Director Cai Gongshi and was killed by the Japanese invaders for several days. My foundation convoy luckily ran into Brother Zhang along the way. I took him back to Shanghai."

"He is my personal bodyguard Ma Yongzhen and one of my most trusted brothers."

Zhang Hanru and Ma Yongzhen stood up and greeted Su Guoguo.

Su Guoguo was shocked when he heard this, and quickly came up and held Zhang Hanru's hand: "Brother Zhang, you have suffered!"

"What's wrong with me? I'm just a deserter! Alas!" Zhang Hanru shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The three of them sat down, and Zhang Hanru briefly recounted the truth of the matter. Even though he had heard it once, it still made people angry when he heard it again!

"Such a thief is not worthy of being called a human being!" Su Guoguo's face turned pale, then he looked at Ye Luo and asked seriously, "The second young master is here to visit, is there anything I can do to help?"

"Gong Su, I heard that your factory's radios are cheap and good-quality, but they have been suppressed by Kailuo Company for many years, which makes them difficult to sell. I would like to ask Su Gong to ask Brother Zhang to conduct an exclusive interview on your Asia-American Radio station on this matter. Broadcasters must tell the truth verbatim and warn the people."

Ye Luo said seriously, then took out his checkbook and wrote down a series of numbers, tore off a check and handed it to Su Guoguo respectfully.

"This is a check of 10,000 yuan as a reward for this matter and the payment for my order for 100 radios from your factory."

10,000 oceans!

Su Guoguo and Zhang Hanru were both shocked.

Nowadays, the most expensive radio imported by Kailuo Company only costs NT$80 per unit. The crystal radios sold by their factory are priced at NT$35 per unit. If 100 units are purchased in batches, Yamei can also discount the unit price to NT$30 per unit.

Even if you spend all your money, you can't even get 5,000 oceans.

But Ye Luo gets 10,000 oceans as soon as he makes a move!

It seems that for him, money is just a number.

It was a lie that Su Guoguo was not interested in the ten thousand yuan, but this matter was not trivial. Some of the money he made was unscrupulous, so he immediately returned the check of ten thousand yuan to Ye Luo: "Second Young Master, what are you doing?! Give it to me!" Brother Zhang records a special interview program, which is our honor at Yamei. Even if you don't buy these 100 radios, we will help you with this!"

"Gong Su, the 100 radios I bought are indeed useful, so don't worry too much." Ye Luo smiled and returned the check to him, "If you think this is too much money, then treat it as my investment." Yami, is this okay?"

Su Guoguo knew exactly what was going on in his own factory.

Today Su Zugui and Su Zuxiu are not here, they just went to major banks to seek loan help. At this stage, it is a scam to accept other people's investment money.

"Brother, what are you doing? The door is still locked!"

The young female worker came in with tea, kicked her slender and beautiful feet, and closed the door.

"Second Young Master, please drink tea~!"

She handed the tea to Ye Luo and was shocked when she saw the denomination of the check on the table.

Ma Yongzhen reacted immediately and caught all the tea that almost spilled, so that Ye Luo and Zhang Hanru were not wet.

"You're rough, look at you." Although Su Guoguo was reprimanding his little sister, his eyes were full of doting, "Sorry, sorry, second young master, this is my little sister Su Lili, who dropped out of a girls' school last year. When I came back, I have been helping out in the factory at home."

"It's okay." Ye Luo took the teacup and smiled back at Su Lili.

When Su Lili saw his handsome appearance, her cheeks turned red, she jumped to the side and watched from a distance without disturbing him.

"Second Young Master, let's be honest about investment. Yamei's current business situation," Su Guoguo sighed.

"Su Gong, feel free to accept it. I'm very interested in the radio business. There may be many opportunities for cooperation in the future. You can just treat it as my prepayment for future cooperation." Ye Luo still refused his return, "Say something. If you are arrogant, my current net worth is no less than several million dollars, and this ten thousand is just a drop in the bucket to me. If you continue to refuse, Su Gong, you are just looking down on me."

Ye Luo knew that investment and acquisition matters must be considered in the long term. Businessmen cannot only pursue immediate interests, but must have a long-term vision.

Just like the Chinese Advertising Company, they had cooperated several times and made Lin Zhenbin and the others money, but Ye Luo never mentioned his intention to acquire it.

People are more important than factories, and people's hearts must be treated with sincerity.

Sincerity is the most powerful nirvana.

"Okay, then I'll be disrespectful!" Su Guoguo was indeed short of the money, so he stopped refusing and accepted it generously.

Su Lili looked at them dumbfounded and was shocked by Ye Luo's words about millions of dollars.

Millions of oceans!

Their factories were all sold, and they probably didn’t even have 300,000 yuan!

After discussing the business, Ye Luo and Ma Yongzhen said goodbye and left, preparing to go to Fengminglou for a banquet. Tonight, they also hosted a group of foreign leaders from the American Telephone Company and Manager Solei for dinner to discuss the phone number.

These days, George spared no effort to live and drink with this group of people, all of which was paid for by Ye Luo. Within a week, he was very familiar with everyone in the telephone company.

Ye Luo is personally treating guests to dinner tonight, and he is bound to get the "40000" phone number.

Zhang Hanru stayed in Asia and the United States to discuss the recording of the program with Su Guoguo, striving to complete the program in the near future.

After Ye Luo left, while Zhang Hanru went to the toilet, Su Lili couldn't help but said: "Oh my god, second brother, ten thousand oceans, he didn't even blink!"

"What ten thousand oceans?"

Before Su Guoguo could reply to her, the ajar door was pushed open again.

Su Zugui and Su Zuxiu returned to Asia and America with faces full of dust and helplessness.

"Eldest brother, third brother! We are talking about the second young master of Ye's Investment Company! He just left not long ago and left a check of 10,000 yuan for our factory!" Su Lili ran to get the clothes of her two brothers.

The two of them were not paying much attention at first, just thinking about which bank they should go to and try to borrow money tomorrow. At this time, when they heard the younger sister say "Second Young Master" and "10,000 oceans", they were stunned at first, and then suddenly He jumped up from his chair.

"Brother, third brother, this is what happened." Su Guoguo picked up the still-warm check and sighed in his heart, telling the story of Ye Luo's visit.

"So that's it! Why did my little sister have such a rare moment of love today? The famous second young master came to invest!" The eldest brother, Su Zuxiu, couldn't help but tease his sister.

Su Lili's cheeks turned red: "He is handsome, tall and rich, and it's not embarrassing to like him! What's wrong!"

She was heavily influenced by the thinking of women in the new era, and she often wrote letters and exchanged letters with her former classmates from a girls' school. She felt that girls should dare to love and hate, without having to be coy!

The three brothers laughed and did not argue with her.

After the joke was over, Su Zuxiu asked seriously: "What do you think about investment?"

"Now the sales of the factory's products are going from bad to worse. I really can't think of a way to turn losses into profits. If the second young master really wants to be in the radio industry and the factory really reaches that point, we will sell it to him at a low price!" Su Guoguo pondered for a moment. Said slowly.