1928: The rise of giant merchants

At 6pm on June 15th, check into the hotel.

The Ford V8 slowly entered the parking lot. This was Ma Yongzhen's first time at such a high-end hotel. The best restaurant he had ever eaten at was the Washington Hotel at No. 636 Xiafei Road in the French Concession. He happened to stay up late that day to feed Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu. The young lady stayed at home and went to the Washington Hotel for breakfast and lunch with Zhou Xingxing and Ding Li in the morning.

Ma Yongzhen was extravagant and ordered a set meal, two large salted pig's feet for five yuan and one cent, a prawn salad for two yuan and sixty cents, and a Hungarian goulash for three yuan and eight anise. The taste was good, but it was a meal. The meal cost him eleven yuan and five oceans, and his body ached.

I heard that Xu Zhimo, a professor at the university, earns less than ten dollars a day.

Ma Yongzhen once thought that the Washington Hotel was a relatively high-end restaurant.

Until he followed Ye Luo into the Licha Hotel.

"It seems that the anti-Japanese sentiment is stronger than we thought." Ye Luo glanced at a group of Chinese waiters at the Licha Hotel. They also had red sleeves with the word "anti-Japanese" on their arms. It seemed that the store had begun to ban Japanese invaders. Admission.

Richa Hotel is a British-owned enterprise, but due to the current anti-Japanese atmosphere in Shanghai, it can only follow the trend and do such things.

"These people are members of the Shanghai Committee Against Japanese Atrocities. They work here. After work, they rush into various shops to check and ban Japanese goods. All shops that specialize in selling Japanese goods have to pay a high amount of 'National Salvation Fund' "The problem is that they don't dare to open real Japanese goods stores, so they only open Chinese stores that sell Japanese goods on consignment." Ma Yongzhen wanted to spit on the ground, but finally gave up.

I'm afraid it will affect the second young master's image.

"Isn't this random? Who ordered it?" Ye Luo smiled curiously and walked towards the private room.

"Who else could it be? Chen Dezheng, the editor-in-chief of the Republic of China Daily. He organized an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign of his own, and even named himself the president of the anti-Japanese association." Ma Yongzhen shrugged. There are different opinions among the public about this current director of the Shanghai Bund Education Bureau.

You could call him a bad person. He engaged in so many anti-Japanese movements and even wrote many anti-Japanese articles and published them in the Republic of China Daily. He was patriotic.

But if you say that others are doing well, then such an incident will cause big thunder but little rain. It will bring suffering to the Chinese businessmen who sell Japanese goods. Next year, Hu Shi will be forced to resign and go abroad, and Lu Xun will be forced to escape to a bookstore owned by the Japanese invaders.

To put it bluntly, he is the biggest troll in the Republic of China.

Fortunately, the spray didn't hit him, and soon he wouldn't be able to spray anymore.

Ye Luo estimated that the so-called public opinion poll conducted by the Republic of China Daily to elect the greatest person in the country during the Republic of China was about to happen.

It is said that Chen Dezheng suddenly had the idea to test the public sentiment, so he published an anonymous voting test in the Republic of China Daily to elect the greatest man in the country. Good guy, the final election result was Chen Dezheng first and the principal second.

He himself liked to mention the title of the greatest man of the Republic of China, and actually announced it to the public!

The principal was so angry that he sent someone to arrest him and take him to Jinling. He was imprisoned for several months and then ordered that he would never be used again.

Ye Luo has seen many powerful trolls in later generations, but this is the first time he saw trolls dare to play like this. There are really trolls who are not afraid of death.

After telling Ma Yongzhen not to worry about these things, he walked into the luxury box reserved by Galt.

Galt and Henry were both present. When they saw him walking in, they asked the tall white Russian beauty sitting on their legs to get up and leave the box.

Ye Luo also waved Ma Yongzhen out.

"Boss Ye, we meet again." Galt raised his glass with a smile on his face, "I never thought that one day we would be able to sit together and talk business like friends. Don't you think the world is amazing?"

"Yes, we meet again." Ye Luo sat down with a smile and poured himself a glass of wine, but ignored Galt's toast, "President Galt, it is impossible for us to be friends. This kind of Just use less false polite words.”

Galt felt a little uncomfortable being choked by him, smiled awkwardly, and turned to look at Henry.

Henry quickly smoothed things over: "Boss Ye, we know you feel very uncomfortable, but this meaningless war should end. Are you right?"

"Two questions." Ye Luo took another sip of red wine. He didn't know if it was because of the two disgusting ghosts in front of him. He felt that the taste of the red wine was very bad. "First, your company sells Give it to me, how much does it cost? Secondly, when will you leave Shanghai?"

This time Henry and Galt choked at the same time.

They looked at Ye Luo and felt very uncomfortable.

The tone and demeanor of the other party's words were completely different from the Chinese people they usually interacted with.

He claims the spoils as a victor.

But the two of them were helpless.

This feeling of suffocation made Galt a little crazy. He subconsciously yelled: "Asshole! Do you think we have no retreat and will definitely give in to you?"

"Then there's nothing to talk about."

Ye Luo stood up and walked towards the door.

"Wait, wait, Boss Ye." Henry didn't want to make things worse, so he quickly got up and pulled Ye Luo to the door.

The corners of Ye Luo's mouth curled up slightly.

The two ghost guys are used to being arrogant and domineering in front of Chinese businessmen, but now they seem to be completely unable to stand the challenge.

It is an art and a knowledge to firmly control the other party's emotions during negotiation and then take the initiative.

Ye Luo returned to his position and looked at Galt with a smile.

The angry Galt took a sip of strong wine and said sadly: "300,000 yuan, transfer it to me through Citibank. As soon as the money is received, I will leave Shanghai."

"200,000 oceans." Ye Luo smiled, shook his head, and stretched out a finger.

"Are you crazy! Yunfei Company is the largest automobile company in Shanghai. We have the distribution rights for various American cars. Basically all the upper class people are our customers. 200,000? You..." Galt suddenly shouted Get up.

Ye Luo interrupted him directly: "I mean 200,000 yuan to buy Yunfei and Tailai companies at the same time."

"???"

Henry was also confused now.

200,000 yuan was used to acquire both Yunfei and Tailai. Doesn’t it mean that only 100,000 yuan was used to buy the automobile market in Shanghai?

"Two bosses, you know better than me. The dealership rights for American and British cars are not of much use. Sooner or later, the business in this area will belong to our Ye family. Unless you can persuade the consulate to cancel our permission to sell overseas cars, I I don’t think anyone would be willing to give up cooperating with Ye and turn around and do business with losers like you." Ye Luo shook the red wine glass and smiled calmly, "It’s not your company I bought, just Yunfei and Tailai. It’s just a signboard, your connections and drivers.”

The price of two hundred thousand is indeed a high price, but it must be within the acceptable range of the two people.

Sure enough, seeing that Ye Luo had no intention of raising the price, the two sat back down and started talking in a low voice.

After a few minutes, Galt looked unhappy, but still nodded with difficulty: "Yes, two hundred thousand oceans, I will transfer Yunfei and Tailai to you, but we require cash, no bank transfer. "

Are you planning not to return to your country and just go somewhere else?

Ye Luo looked at them curiously. Two hundred thousand dollars was not a small amount of money. With the blessing of foreign status, they could still live a prosperous life in the concession in the north with this money.

Yunfei and Tailai were actually "state-owned enterprises" belonging to the consulate. The so-called sale to Ye Luo was just a matter of changing to another agent.

Ye Luo is also interested in the resources and talents obtained after this wave of acquisitions, as well as the "fame" brought by his complete defeat of the automobile business association.

In his mind, these two declining companies were not worth 200,000 yuan at all.

"Okay, let's drink to our happy cooperation." Ye Luo finally picked up the wine glass.

At this moment, there was a knock on the box door.

"Sir, the red wine you ordered has arrived." Speaking in awkward Mandarin, a short woman walked in slowly holding a plate.

"Who ordered the red wine? Is it you, Boss Ye?" Galt asked, spreading his hands.

Henry also looked confused.

Ye Luo suddenly became wary.

Awkward and unpleasant Mandarin, a short woman.

"Yongzhen?"

"careful!"

Almost at the same time, Ye Luo turned over and rolled, and then gunfire suddenly started!