1928: The rise of giant merchants

Fengming Tower.

Ballroom.

All beauties gathered together.

Originally, the sisters in Fengming Tower each had their own jobs, especially at night. Which girl who has been in Fengming Tower for a long time does not have a dozen good benefactors?

But today is different than usual.

The hall on the first floor below is still lively and lively, but the number of girls is obviously much smaller.

The banquet hall on the second floor was silent, but the number of girls was terrifying!

Even Simei, who usually serves the eldest sister, put on her own signature clothes and sat side by side with a group of orioles, shaking the small round fan in her hand and staring intently at the door on the first floor.

At the wine table, six or seven well-dressed foreigners exchanged glasses, led by Sorey, the general manager of American Telephone Company, and Porter, the business director, chatting in low voices with George beside them from time to time, looking quite happy.

"Sister-in-law, my brother-in-law is here with his people!" Fengrou, a man with a bun in a white cheongsam, ran up to her with a crisp and sweet voice.

"Stinky girl!" Xiao Aqiao stood up quickly after hearing this, twisted her slender waist and walked towards the stairs, patting Feng Rou's little head.

"Eh~" Feng Rou covered her head and felt aggrieved.

After a while, Xiao A chuckled lightly, covered half of her beautiful face with a round fan, suddenly turned around and whispered to the beauties,

"When he comes later, you all call him this~"

"Okay, eldest sister~"

"Yes~"

All the beauties pursed their lips and snickered, suddenly full of charm, leaving several foreigners dumbfounded and curious.

Ye Luo was warmly welcomed by Hua Mei and entered the banquet living room on the second floor. As soon as he stepped in, he heard the beautiful people shouting melodiously: "Hello, brother-in-law~"

"Hello." Ye Luo smiled and looked at little A Qing.

Little Ah Qiao pretended to be careless and avoided his gaze, showing a rare and cute expression.

Ye Luo didn't care about this. He shook hands and hugged each of the foreigners who came up, and then sat down next to George.

After he took his seat, the banquet officially began.

Little Ah Qiao asked people to serve wine and food, and let the sisters with special skills show off their talents to add to the fun.

George introduced Sorey and Porter to Ye Luo in a low voice, and then he ate the food and wine by himself without interfering in their conversation.

Solei glanced at Ye Luo and was shocked by his majestic figure.

He thought that Ye Luo was also the kind of rich young man who ate, drank, whored and gambled, like Lu Xiaojia, with a strong "bumpkin" aura about him.

Unexpectedly, Ye Luo's dress was closer to Western culture, and his conversation was also polite and civilized, quite gentlemanly.

Recalling that George said that the two were classmates at Cambridge University, and that Ye Luo later went to Harvard University for graduate school, he was immediately relieved.

Ye Luo spoke very fluent English and had no difficulty communicating with Sorey and Porter, which also made the atmosphere of the meeting much more harmonious.

George was not surprised by this.

Almost every time I introduce Ye Luo to new foreigners, they will praise Ye Luo so much that they can’t believe that he is an authentic Chinese!

He is different from those international students.

Nowadays, there are many social elites in the Chinese upper class who have gone abroad to study. Some have even been completely westernized, and they try their best to imitate foreigners in every move they make.

There are also some who have just been influenced by Western culture, but still have strong contemporary oriental characteristics in their bones.

But no matter which category, they were completely different from the Ye Luo in front of them.

Yeluo is special and unique!

It must be said that it is a charming atmosphere that transcends the times!

In short, the smell makes them very comfortable and admired, and they have the urge to imitate it!

"Mr. Ye, to be honest, your appearance has greatly changed my view of Chinese people!" Solei said truthfully after drinking a glass of wine.

They foreigners basically have an innate sense of superiority. Especially in this era, the great powers have amazing fighting power. They are full of stereotypes about the Chinese, Japanese and other yellow people, as well as the black people in Africa. To put it bluntly, it is appropriate. Proper zz discrimination.

After the self-concept and opinions are finalized, a special case suddenly appears, which often brings great shock to people.

"I heard from Sir George that you have also studied our country's stock market and economic situation. You are so knowledgeable and enviable." Sorey smiled and flattered, and Potter followed suit and loudly agreed.

They were just ordinary businessmen in the concession, helping the consulate manage the American Telephone Company. Their status was completely incomparable with that of powerful consuls such as George.

Even when it comes to wealth and influence, they are not as good as the top Chinese tycoons.

Besides, they had received many benefits from Ye Luo before, so when facing Ye Luo, they did not dare to put on airs and look down on others.

George also learned the lesson this time. Before visiting them, he sent Yello's paper to the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai and showed it to the Consul General Clarence Gaoth. Gao Si was deeply shocked by Yello's paper and typed it himself. Call Sole and the two of them and ask them to have a good relationship with Yelora.

When Ye Luo heard these words, he glanced at George and immediately understood that his paper had spread among the upper class circles of foreigners. He smiled slightly, and the matter would be much easier to handle: "Manager Solei, Director Porter, you are exaggerating." Yes, if you want to understand this, we can take time to have a good chat in the future."

"Haha, Mr. Ye, I'm just a phone businessman. I know nothing about stocks and the economy. In fact, it's not us who are interested in these things, but our Consul General, Mr. Gao Si." Solei clinked glasses with him with a smile.

Clarence Goth, currently the Consul General of the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, left office around 1931.

His fame in later generations is much greater than that of Sidney Barton.

Cos Group, founded by his family in 1989, is the world's first business intelligence collection and crisis management company, and also the most influential one.

The start-up capital for the Goth family's business came from Clarence Goth, who served as the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai for 19 years.

"I see. If there is a chance, I would really like to have an interview with Consul General Gao Si." Ye Luo replied with a smile. He could never find a good relationship with the US Consulate to intervene. Unexpectedly, he unintentionally intervened this time. Liu Chengyin unexpectedly hooked up with Consul General Gao Si.

He was not worried about not being able to convince these foreigners, but he was worried that they would be too pretentious and unwilling to meet with him at all.

Nowadays, the situation in the concession is as bad as ever. Not to mention Ye Luo, there are Chinese people with great prestige in the public concession such as Zhang Dingyao, Lu Yongxiang, and Ye Yuqiao.

Clarence Goth is also famous for his weird temper. It is indeed not easy to get to know him.

Not expecting him to knock on the door himself.

"Consul General Gao Si suddenly left for Peking after reading your paper, Mr. Ye, and said that he wanted to talk to Minister Ma Murui in detail. I think you can have a good meeting after he comes back."

Solei was not stupid. He had already seen clues from Gao Si's abnormal reactions and was convinced that Ye Luo might be highly valued by Gao Si. So as a businessman who relied on the consulate for survival, how could he dare not to have a good relationship with Ye Luo?

He deliberately and unintentionally revealed this inside information to show his favor to Ye Luo.

Ye Luo naturally heard what was going on, laughed without saying a word, put the matter aside for the time being, and raised the real topic tonight.

"Manager Solei, I'm inviting you to dinner today. I specially prepared a famous dish from Guangdong province called 'Dragon and Tiger Fight'!" Ye Luo ordered a hard dish on the table and said with a smile, "That's it. ”

Solei looked at the colorful dishes on the plate and asked curiously: "Mr. Ye, what is the 'Dragon-Tiger Fight'?"