1928: The Rise of Giants

Chapter 307 Undercurrent
September 18, the 1929th year of the Republic of China (2).

The Spring Festival celebrations are gradually coming to an end in Shanghai. The flow of people in the two concessions is increasing. With many shops and units opening their doors, there are more and more Ye's Forever bicycles on the streets.

A bicycle that costs NT$50 is not like a Chevrolet 1000 that costs NT$490. Nowadays, middle-class people like employees of foreign banks have their monthly salary rising to nearly NT$50. As long as they squeeze out a month's salary, they can buy one.

After the largest rickshaw shop in Shanghai was owned by Ye Luo, the rickshaws seemed to have disappeared from Shanghai in an instant and were hard to find.

At the beginning of 1928, the total number of rickshaws in Shanghai was about [-]. This was only the rickshaw drivers with fixed rickshaws. Counting the floating population, the total number of rickshaw drivers exceeded [-].

Later, trams were introduced, and cars such as the Chevrolet 490 were promoted. The rickshaw market shrank somewhat, but by the end of the year, there were still about [-] rickshaw drivers entrenched in Shanghai.

And at least 5% of these 80.00 people belong to Yu's Rickshaw Company.

For example, Hua Mei's cousin used to be a coachman, earning only a few cents a day, and his monthly balance of ten yuan was not enough.

Now, Ye Luo has completely banned the rickshaw shops with a wave of his hand.

After the mountain-top worship ceremony, Yu Likui disappeared. The remaining coachmen looked at each other, wondering what kind of fate awaited them.

Regarding this issue, Zhang Dingyao and others specially approached Ye Luo and asked him to handle it properly to avoid causing a large number of people to be unemployed and causing social unrest.

Ye Luo's approach is simple.

Let the brothers from Ye's Security and Ye's Sports work overtime, and take advantage of the fact that there are fewer people in the year and everyone goes back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year, to conduct centralized screening of these coachmen.

The batch that was not clean at all was handed over to Wu Shikui and others for training. If they could not be corrected, they were sent to Shanxi to dig coal, giving Yan Laoxi a headache.

Those with a clean foundation were dispersed to various factories invested by Ye. As long as they were willing to work hard, basic food, drink, diarrhea and sleep were no problem.

After the Hua-German military cooperation project started, what was actually in short supply was workers who were willing to endure hardships and do dirty and tiring work without requiring much wages.

As the scale of the factory expands, such cheap workers can quickly establish Yeluo's industrial empire. In the new era, this type of workers cannot be found at all. During the Republic of China, Yeluo hired them and became deeply loved by society. Praise from all walks of life, and even the workers themselves are grateful to Ye Luo——

There is no way, ordinary people in this era are too miserable.

If it wasn't really so hard that there was no food to eat, and they would starve to death or freeze to death, who would be willing to fight to rebel?
If the Jinling National Government had been more restrained from top to bottom and not pushed the people to a dead end, how could it have reached the final stage?
It's a pity that Ye Luo understands such a simple truth, but the principal doesn't. In other words, even if the principal and others understand it, at the stage where it's too late to lose, the decree can no longer be enforced.

Employing more than 1 people at once, their daily expenses and wages alone exceed 50 yuan each month. This gap is currently filled by the Jinling National Government’s Ministry of Finance and newly received funds, but it will take up to two months. The Ministry of Finance will no longer provide money.

why?
Because the Central Plains War officially started in April.

"Properly follow the arsenal technicians sent by Han Qing. We will slowly transport the assets there to the south through the fleet of Ye's Charity Foundation. Yes, the base is still placed in the suburbs of the county. Well, the operation must be secret and cannot be too public. Many people are aware of it.”

Ye Luo whispered into the receiver,

"Also, you won't come back during the Chinese New Year. How do you want me to explain to Guangzi? She still thinks that I am exploiting you every day and is a black-hearted boss."

"." Chen Zhen on the other end of the phone was obviously silent.

Ever since Ye Luo captured Suzuki Hospital and Huo Tingen killed the Hongkou Dojo master in the ring, the relationship between Ye's investment and the Japanese invaders has become worse and worse. If Tanaka Yiichi hadn't wanted to win over Ye Luo, the Japanese invaders would have made it public. Invested in Ye's business.

Even so, their militarists' secret little moves never stopped.Not long ago, a Japanese invader was killed in the French Concession, and the finger was directed at Chen Zhen. Fortunately, his female classmate Mitsuko Yamada when he was studying in Japan appeared in court and proved her innocence, so Chen Zhen was spared from prison.

Ye Luo only learned about this after the fact, because Chen Zhen is now also the vice president of the Ye's Charitable Foundation and often travels between the north and the south, so Ye Luo takes on the responsibility of taking care of Yamada Mitsuko.

During the Chinese New Year, Chen Zhen deliberately went to the north to work in order to avoid Photon. He has not come back until now, giving Ye Luo a headache.

"Anyway, I don't care. When your motorcade comes back, I will be your wedding master of ceremonies." After Ye Luo finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Chen Zhen's reply.

The Central Plains War was about to begin, and various wars never stopped. At this time, Ye Luo also began to transfer many assets to Aocheng, and those factories and other entities were sent to Nan City, a suburb of the county.

He didn't believe that just because of the investment of another Ye family, the Japanese invaders would dare to charge all the way through the two concessions and come to Nanshi to run wild.

Coming out of the phone room, Ye Luo asked Xiaoli to bring him his travel clothes. He had an important meeting to hold today.

"Second Young Master, you have just turned out for the new year and you are about to go out." Xiaoli stood on tiptoes to help him adjust his collar. Her height of less than 1.6 meters looked like a cute little kitten in front of Ye Luo, who was 1.8 meters tall.

Every time Xiaoli helped him sort out his clothes, she wanted to move a small bench to stand on.

"Well, you should spend more time with Xiao Aqiao at home. She is almost five months pregnant. She has been asked to go out less recently." Ye Luo patted Xiao Li's head. This girl who has been with him since childhood is a well-behaved and sensible girl. Thank you. The housekeeper is in charge of the outside, and she is in charge of the inside. Thanks to the two of them, the huge Ye family can be in order.

"I know, I'm staring at the second wife every day now." Xiaoli curled her lips and put her hands on her hips, as if she was dissatisfied with Ye Luo's uneasiness about her.

"And madam, you can't be left in the cold." Ye Luo added before leaving.

"I understand, I understand, Second Young Master, walk slowly!" Xiaoli shouted to him with her hands in the shape of trumpets.

Walking out of Ye Mansion, the cold wind hit my face.

Now is the coldest time, the temperature is probably almost below zero, and there is no heating and air conditioning these days. Ye Luo tightened her clothes, waved to the heroic Shi Jianqiao, and got into the Rolls-Royce with her.

"Second Young Master, those Japanese invaders haven't stopped recently, you have to be more careful today." Cao Fan turned the steering wheel and reminded in a low voice, "Many of our brothers who were monitoring the Japanese Consulate General replied that they seemed to be doing something secretly. Planning something."

"Well, keep a close eye on them." Ye Luo leaned on the back seat, closed his eyes and thought about the next meeting.

After Yongxing Company was acquired by him and renamed Ye's Yongxing, Ye Luo held 75% of the shares, and Zhang Wanlin gave the 25% to the Japanese invaders. Therefore, he held a shareholders' meeting today to discuss this year's work charter, and he had to invite Representatives of the Japanese invaders came over.

After Zhang Wanlin surrendered and became a traitor, the Japanese invaders have been sneaking around, making few but many moves, and doing nothing on the surface, making people suspicious.

These guys are full of bad intentions. During the negotiation between Ye Luo and Galt, they dared to send killers to openly rush into the Majestic Hotel to kill people. They are so ambitious that they have to guard against it.

"I heard that Hiroshi Morishita returned to Tokyo and slandered our Yip's investment, saying that our Dragon Tiger Human Pill copied their Rendan, grabbed the market, and occupied Suzuki Hospital. Your reputation in Tokyo is not good."

Shi Jianqiao didn't know where the news came from, so she reminded him worriedly.

Ye Luo smiled faintly: "Don't worry, they will have time to ask for me later."

(End of this chapter)