1928: The rise of giant merchants

June 18, the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928).

Public opinion from all walks of life that had been deliberately suppressed was finally liberated.

Major newspapers such as Xinwen, Shenbao, and Republic of China Daily put the Ye Luo assassination case on the front page of their newspapers. Liangyou Pictorial even gave up the most precious advertising space on the front page and posted the detailed story of the case, as well as exclusive photos of the scene. !

For a moment, Galt, the boss of Yunfei Company, died in the box seat, Henry Liushenwuzhu, the boss of Tailai Company, was crouching on the ground, while the heroic second young master Ye Luo lowered his head and bent over to inspect the body of the female killer, without any panic. , talked about by countless people in Shanghai.

It doesn't matter to the people which country the female killer is or where she comes from.

What they were eating was that a foreigner was killed, and the second young master killed the murderer, wiping out his rival in the automobile industry in one fell swoop!

Nowadays, the streets and alleys of Shanghai are full of newspaper vendors shouting: "The second young master of the Ye family was assassinated and killed, Yun Feitai came to admit defeat and sell out the company!"

Tan Si also asked the Pier Gang to deliberately publicize and exaggerate the matter everywhere. For a time, even the prostitutes in the brothel, the gamblers in the gambling house, and the drug addicts in the opium den were all talking about the second young master of Shanghai Beach.

The earlier Ye Luo's momentum grew, the more famous his reputation as a Chinese businessman became. On the contrary, this assassination killed a foreign boss and injured a foreign boss and a Chinese boss. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau couldn't even try to settle the matter. .

If this case cannot be properly handled, the special city government, the Ministry of Industry, and the consulate will all lose face.

After Inspector Shen Da sent the body of the female killer to Ye's Security Company, he received an order from the foreign chief inspector above to fully cooperate with Ye Luo in investigating the real culprit behind the scenes!

The more Ye Luo built up momentum but did not take any action, the more panicked the three tycoons of Yongxing Company and other people became.

Three days is the deadline for U.S. Consul General Gao Si to conclude the assassination case. Today, a result must be given.

However, as the client, Ye Luo was the most leisurely. In the past few days, he first sent people to adjust the business of Ye's Automobile Company, then completed the handover procedures with Henry, and with the help of Gao Si, he took over Yunfei Company. Ye's Automobile Company, which has expanded several times, has opened ten branches all over Shanghai.

Seeing the Yunfei and Tailai signboards being torn down and replaced by Ye's neon signs, countless Chinese people around cheered. The craze for taxis and rentals has risen again, and the number of people riding on the tram has even exceeded that of the tram!

This kind of impulsive consumption can bring a huge wave of traffic and income, and Yeluo can use this to make up for some of the losses caused by the previous "dragon-tiger battle".

After handling the automobile business, Ye Luo replaced Galt as the president of the Automobile Traders Association, merged the automobile industry associations that had only Chinese businessmen before, and submitted a new application for the establishment of the Automobile Traders Federation.

Now the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau is eager for Ye Luo to quickly settle the assassination case. Naturally, such a small application will be passed without even looking at it.

That morning, Henry left Shanghai, a place of right and wrong, with 100,000 yuan of his own, completely ignoring the generous gift from Yongxing Company.

He just wants to get away from Ye Luo as soon as possible, for fear that if he stays with him for too long, he will suffer misfortune.

As soon as Henry left, Zhang Wanlin's last hope was shattered.

Following Lu Yusheng's wishes, he placed his hope again in the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the female killer is Japanese. As long as the Japanese invaders take over the blame, both Japan and Britain and the United States are powerful foreign countries, and the diplomatic conflicts are nothing more than mutual concessions. In this way, Ye Luo will not be able to use this matter to punish them.

However, Zhang Wanlin just brought people to the Japanese consulate, and found that the door was closed tightly, and there was no intention of seeing anyone at all. After asking, he found out that Ye Luo had sent the body back, and added the sentence "Falled leaves return to their roots, let bygones be bygones"!

Ye Luo would rather let the Japanese invaders go, than kill them first!

After learning about this, Zhang Wanlin and his group became even more panicked.

While everyone was waiting for Ye Luo's next move, Ye Luo had just finished his car business, but had no intention of contacting the three Yongxing tycoons, or Yu Likui, Ye Chen and others. Instead, he called George and a group of foreigners, I played polo with Gao Si for a long time, and then suddenly ran to the British Army Headquarters to practice shooting.

In short, he just lived his life leisurely and didn't take the assassination seriously at all.

The attitude of the special city government is the attitude of Jinling towards the Ye family. After understanding this, Ye Yuqiao also breathed a sigh of relief. It felt like a dream. From the decline in March to the end of the second Northern Expedition in June, he even planned to After fleeing to Xiangjiang, Ye Luo took charge of the Ye family and decided to fight to the death. The whole family hid in the consulate.

Now the family is being taken back to Ye Mansion by several brand new Chevrolet 490s.

It's like a dream, it's so sad.

At this time, the few people who still stayed in the Ye family were extremely lucky to have a second young master in their family, while the group of snobbish relatives who were scattered after the tree fell down were dumbfounded.

"Xiao Li, take the money first and go to the labor market in the next two days to see if you can buy some maids." Li Shuzhen handed a check to Xiao Li and asked Uncle Fu to go to the labor market to see if there were any workers who could. Hired to work in Ye Mansion.

Looking at the deserted Ye Mansion, Li Shuzhen suddenly felt that this was not bad. A disaster could see the faces of countless people clearly.

"Sister Xiaoli, can I go with you?" Zhang Anyi, who lives temporarily in Ye Mansion, asked curiously.

She will not be able to officially enroll in the Chinese and Western Girls' School until the end of the month. She has been lying in the Ye Mansion for the past few days, bored, and is looking for something to do.

"Sister Anyi, you're crazy! That's a black market for buying and selling people. Why are you going to see a grown-up girl?" Ye Qingqing put her arm around Zhang Anyi's waist and poked her cheek with a smile, "Why don't you stay at home and my sister will take you? Let’s play mahjong.”

"But I can't." Zhang Anyi pursed her lips.

"You can learn if you don't know! It's okay! Another day I'll call sister-in-law Shu Qiao and sister Xiuzhu, and the four of us will peck each other. Without the second mother and little mother, we wouldn't have lost money." Ye Qingqing thought that she almost lost money. I am about to flee overseas. I have been frightened in the consulate these days, but now I am finally at ease, and the burning mahjong soul is ignited again!

"I don't know how to fight either." Biyunxia Nuonuo said.

Seeing that the women at home were smiling again, Ye Yuqiao also let out a sigh of relief. He looked at Lin Yuan aside: "Ayuan, where is Luoluo? Are you not coming back tonight?"

"Abba, just now Yuan Bei and Zhang Shibo called, saying that they would accompany their second brother to the New World Amusement Park in the evening." Lin Yuan and Ye Qingqing, who were worried about their honeymoon, felt relaxed at this time, and their faces There was also a hint of a smile, "Big brother said he was going to take some people to deal with some goods, and he didn't plan to come back."

"New World Amusement Park? Why is he going there?" Ye Yuqiao frowned. The New World Amusement Park is in the French Concession and is the territory of the three Yongxing tycoons. It originally belonged to the tycoon Jing Ruishan.

After Jing Ruishan's death, the orphans and widowers took over such a large property, and countless people coveted it. In the end, they were forced to sell it to Jing Ruishan's former concubine Lin Ruxian.

Lin Ruxian is as famous as the eldest lady, Ah Qiao, and now she has the halo of a pretty widow. I don’t know how many people are staring at her. Ye Yuqiao doesn’t know how Ye Luo got related to Lin Ruxian.

"Pay your respects. Dad, have you forgotten? Jing Ruishan and his second brother are sworn brothers. I heard that today is not the anniversary of his death?" Ye Qingqing suddenly interrupted, "But I think the second brother has taken over the new world. You mean playground, right?”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Ye Yuqiao glared at his daughter. This girl was spoiled by her two brothers and was so lawless that she dared to say such things casually.

There is a lot of trouble at the widow's door.

Nowadays, one Bai Xiuzhu and one little Ah Qiao are enough to deal with. Why does his son still fall in love with the widow?

"Old Ye, you're here again!" Li Shuzhen is a child protector. She rolled her eyes at Ye Yuqiao and snorted coldly, "Luoluo can do whatever he wants. You have to care about him so much. Without Luoluo, you are now Can you sit here?"

"Then, you can't go to Lin Ruxian." Ye Yuqiao was speechless for a moment.

"Why not? I think Lin Ruxian has a big butt and is easy to give birth to. If Luoluo really likes her, why not marry her and become a concubine? It's not like the Alaye family can't afford it!"

Li Shuzhen continued to roll her eyes at Ye Yuqiao,

"I don't know who he inherited this romantic energy from."

A few people were chatting and laughing, but no one really thought that Ye Luo would have an unclear relationship with Lin Ruxian. His target was most likely the New World Amusement Park, which was unstable in the wind and rain.

At the same time, the French Concession and the New World Amusement Park.

Bang bang bang!

The fists were fierce, and the rickshaw pullers with yellow faces and skinny muscles were blasted into the hall one after another.