1928: The rise of giant merchants

Jinling, Qilu.

This luxurious villa is the principal's private residence. The construction team of Ye's Construction helped him build it half a year ago. Before that, he and the principal's wife had been living in the Presidential Palace at the entrance of Sanyuan Alley.

In the past few years, Liu Jiwen, the first mayor of Jinling, immediately carried out drastic urban construction after taking office.

He wanted to build a main road (Zhongshan Avenue) and many houses had to be demolished, so many people took the opportunity to raise housing prices and start speculating on land.

After Liu Jiwen learned of the situation, he ordered all government officials not to purchase real estate in Jinling, which offended many people.

The president's presidential palace at the entrance of Sanyuan Alley was rebuilt from the capital of the national generals. Now it is also facing the problem of demolition because Liu Jiwen wants to build a road.

At this time, Liu Jiwen also served as a member of the Military Medical Supervision Committee, a member of the barracks design committee, a member of the National Government Construction Committee, and a standing member and secretary-general of the Capital Construction Committee. He was one of the principal's able men. Although he offended many people, he had the principal's support. , no one really dared to touch him.

From a distance, Qilu looks like a magnificent two-story Western-style building with a red exterior wall and faces south. Next to it is the Central Military Academy (Whampoa Military Academy has ceased operations). If there is any trouble, the troops and students of the military academy can quickly come to support.

A large photo of Mr. Sun and the principal hangs on the wall of the living room. In the photo, Mr. Sun is sitting upright in his Chinese tunic suit, while the principal, dressed in military uniform and wearing a long sword, is standing behind him.

The petition in the photo shows Mr. Sun's handwritten note: "Safety will come one day at a time when we must believe in it, and when hardship comes, we must share hardships together."

At this moment, the principal, Zhang Jingjiang, Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen were sitting in the living room drinking coffee. This coffee was ground by the principal's wife herself.

The principal held the coffee cup and stirred the spoon. Rebellion.”

The principal has directly regarded Yan Xishan and others as rebellious traitors and wants to get rid of them quickly.

"If you want to convince Zhang Hanqing, you must first convince Ye Luo." Kong Xiangxi smiled calmly, "The two of them are truly sworn brothers."

These words were partly mocking the principal. Previously, Zhang Hanqing changed his banner and the two became brothers with different surnames. However, when the China-Eastern Railway incident occurred, the principal dug a big hole for Zhang Hanqing, which caused him great harm.

Zhang Hanqing probably didn't recognize the principal as his sworn brother.

But he must recognize Ye Luo as his sworn brother.

Song Ziwen also laughed.

Zhang Jingjiang, on the other hand, didn't believe it and asked: "Can a mere businessman without official status really influence the judgment of the northern leaders?"

"No official position? That's just because he doesn't want it." Kong Xiangxi sneered at Zhang Jingjiang's words and sneered, "If he wants to be an official, he can choose any position in the Jinling Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, or in the north."

Zhang Jingjiang was dumbfounded. He looked at the principal and found that the principal did not refute. He immediately realized that the rumored second young master from Shanghai was probably a god and was deeply loved by all forces.

"Several adjutants around Zhang Hanqing said that during the Middle East Road incident, although Ye Luo was in the United States, he sent a telegram and called him to remind him, analyze the situation clearly and persuade him not to make the matter a big deal. It is a pity that Zhang Hanqing is too He was overconfident and did not follow his advice, and was ultimately defeated at the hands of the Soviet Union." The principal revealed the secret he did not know where he got it from, "After the defeat of the Northern Army, Zhang Hanqing regretted extremely and paid more attention to Ye Luo."

"We all know what A Luo is capable of. If nothing else, he went to Tianjin City, and Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and others came thousands of miles to meet him, just to do business with him and raise military expenses! This shows that they have high regard for his business ability. He values ​​​​him." Song Ziwen smiled and said, "People say he is the God of Wealth in our Jiangnan region."

Most of his words were sour, and he specifically mentioned the rebellious friendship between Ye Luo and Yan Xishan in front of the principal, which seemed a bit sowing discord.

In fact, Song Ziwen didn't really want to repay the 87 million yuan that Ye Luo lent him, and seeing that Ye Luo, with the help of the Ministry of Finance and other forces, managed the tax police group that he originally didn't think much of in an orderly manner, he Regret it!

Song Ziwen felt that if he could bring down Jiang Keting, he could bring down Ye Luo. Even if he couldn't completely destroy Ye's investment, he could at least find a way to get rid of the debt of 87 million yuan.

When the principal's wife, who was cutting fruit not far away, heard this, she suddenly became anxious and rushed over with a fruit knife: "Song Ziwen, listen, are you talking in human language? Why, do you think my godbrother is... Are you helping those bastards raise military funds to fight us?"

"Ahem, cough, cough." The principal immediately coughed a few times, "Everyone is here, you are dancing with knives and guns, what do you mean? If you want to speak, just say it nicely and put the knife back!"

The principal's wife glared at Song Ziwen and threw the knife aside angrily. She was now wearing a cheongsam from Ye's clothing and holding the shares of Ye's clothing. The debt of the U.S. stock shortfall was also paid for by Ye Luo. Compared with Song Ziwen, who always had something to do. Her biological brother who had no trace of her, Ye Luo, her godbrother, treated her much better.

At least everything is answered.

"I said, little sister, am I wrong? This is all true. He blatantly took money from Yan Xishan and the others, and the subsequent dividends are just to support their military expenses? If you ask me, this matter is fair. And you guys are too used to him." Song Ziwen crossed his legs and said, "If you don't beat him, what's the big deal?"

"I see you are jealous of the foreign trade business that I want to do." The principal's wife sat down according to the hem of her cheongsam and said something bitter to Song Ziwen.

This sentence entered Song Ziwen's heart.

At first, when Wang Zhengting talked about tariff independence, he only knew how to make money, but he didn't know how much money he would make.

Ye Luo is now purchasing many private enterprises in Tianjin with great fanfare, targeting industries that will benefit from tariffs in the future. The investment alone exceeds tens of millions. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ye Luo is very confident in these businesses.

What happened to the business that Ye Luo was interested in before?

All explode!

It is even said among the people that the second young master makes money faster than a tobacco farmer!

The cigarette business has a 300% profit increase!

Recently, Song Ziwen's pockets were tight again due to the war, so he started to think about these foreign trade business ideas.

"Don't talk about this." The principal waved his hand to interrupt their bickering. "Now the war is not good for our Central Army. Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army is too powerful. Sun Liangcheng and Ji Hongchang teamed up to defeat Chen Cheng's elite main force. The Central Army We were surrounded several times and suffered heavy casualties. If Chen Cheng's troops were not well-equipped and had strong machine gun fire, they would not even be able to break through and would have to be completely wiped out! We need Zhang Hanqing's help."

The battle situation is still stable now, mainly because the northwest army has a group of pig teammates. The Jin army on both wings is advancing slowly and cannot cooperate with the attack at all. This gives the central army a chance to breathe.

"Besides, I almost had an accident at Guide Airport." Talking about this, the principal broke into a cold sweat.

Not long ago, the fierce general Zheng Dazhang of the Northwest Army led his cavalry to attack Guide Airport at night, burning 20 aircraft and capturing more than 50 pilots and ground crew members. After completing the mission, he retreated safely.

Zheng Dazhang did not know that the principal was at the nearby station at that time, otherwise he would have arrested the principal and the war would have been over.

The principal was so frightened that he withdrew to the frontline headquarters overnight, and then returned to Jinling after the war reached a stalemate. While seeking Zhang Hanqing's advice, he also dealt with some people who were plotting to cause trouble in Jinling. (End of chapter)