1928: The Rise of Giants

Chapter 317 Invited
The principal’s wife bought a stake in the Victoria underwear brand for NT$0, occupying 29% of its shares. She did not care about the business and only received dividends. All the money was secretly transferred to her account at HSBC Bank.

This was not something she proposed, but Ye Luo gave it to her.

He was also worried that the principal's wife would be too hesitant to take the money.

Fortunately, she was not indifferent to money, and she did not refuse the feast delivered to her door.

With this potential relationship, Ye Luo can use the name of this major shareholder to drive away all counterfeit products that imitate Victoria brand underwear!
Counterfeiting has always been the only enemy of genuine products. They not only imitate your products and everything about you, but also steal your achievements and interests that should belong to you.

And all they have to pay is to use the funds in their hands to imitate your factory, which makes no contribution to business.

During the Republic of China, a large number of counterfeit goods were rampant, forcing domestic products that were already having a hard time to go bankrupt. However, these counterfeit goods survived because they were backed by various powerful comprador groups.

This is like the Penguin Company in later generations. After having a large amount of capital in their hands, when they see a business opportunity, they pounce on it like a dog smelling shit and occupy the market. If you are unwilling to sell the company, they will completely run you out. If you are willing to sell the company, the market will be monopolized by it, which is extremely disgusting.

When any industry is monopolized, only internal corruption will remain.

We don’t have to worry about external enemies. We are either fighting among ourselves or trying to make money all day long. Do we still expect the industry to get better?

Realizing this, Ye Luo warmly invited the principal's wife to become a shareholder. She received these benefits and naturally gave Ye Luo a lot of help.

Through the matchmaking of the principal's wife, Ye Luo got acquainted with Ms. Lu Xiachun from the Chinese and Western Girls' School, and was invited to give a public lecture at the girls' school.

As for the so-called "picking up leaks" by the principal's wife, she was actually consulting for her younger brother Song Ziwen.

The war in the Central Plains is about to begin, and the principal's wallet is getting tighter. The pressure is on Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen. The former has a wealthy Kong family. When a critical moment comes, it is easy to casually spend tens of millions of dollars to provide emergency support to the principal, but not the latter. .

Although Song Ziwen made great achievements during his tenure as Minister of Finance, he could not stand up to the top-down corruption of the Jinling National Government. He himself was also a man who was crazy about making money, causing the national treasury to be in deficit all year round. Not to mention military expenditures, even the officials’ Wages cannot be paid.

So he really needs a way to make money.

Ye Luo pretended to shirk a few words and then agreed to the matter.

He was still worried that Song Ziwen and others would not take the bait.

The best way to make money nowadays is the U.S. stock market. Of course, no one thought that this way would completely turn into a talisman near the end of the year!

September 18, the 1929th year of the Republic of China (3).

Public Settlement, Yidingpan Road.

This was not a concession area originally, but the public concession forcibly built roads across the border more than ten years ago, and forcibly enclosed this area and became part of its territory.

To this day, although the City Hall often quarrels with the Ministry of Industry and Industry, the foreigners have no intention of letting go. Therefore, the famous Chinese and Western Girls' School has become the number one girls' school in the concession.

The founder of the Chinese and Western Girls' School is Lin Lezhi, the American Methodist missionary in Shanghai. The three Song sisters, Zhang Ailing and others are its famous alumni. Girls from Shanghai's wealthy families will basically attend the Chinese and Western Girls' School, so it is also associated with it. An invisible social circle dominated by women has emerged.

It was here that Bai Xiuzhu and Ye Qingqing met.

At nine o'clock in the morning, female students ran in groups from the 1922st floor towards Jinglian Hall.The May 450st Building was built in [-] and is located on the east side of the [-]th Building. It is a dormitory built with donations from female members of the Southern Methodist Church in the United States and teachers and students of the Chinese and Western Girls' School. It can accommodate [-] boarding students.

Jinglian Hall is in the Gothic American Academy style. It is a two-story, gently pointed foyer with leaf-shaped interlocking decorations, three colored pointed glass windows, and a luxurious chandelier in the foyer.

This kind of architectural style is not common in Shanghai. Only wealthy groups can build it, which shows the financial strength of the Chinese and Western Girls' School.

They are also well-known schools, but Tsinghua Academy and Peking University in the north are very shabby. Peking University can't even pay teachers' salaries.

"Junior, it is really a blessing for the children that you can come to our school to give a speech." The speaker was Xue Zheng, the academic director of the Chinese and Western Girls' School. She is 28 years old and is Ye Luo's senior sister at Tsinghua School. After graduating from Tsinghua She was hired as a teacher at the Chinese and Western Girls' School. Three years later, she served as the director of academic affairs, and in 1936, she took over as the principal.

Next to her is the current principal Yang Xizhen.

Yang Xizhen is a native of Suzhou City, and the Yang family is also a well-known scholarly family in Suzhou City. Her brother Yang Yongqing is the president of Soochow University, and her father Yang Weihan is a well-known Western medicine doctor and Christian missionary.

However, she had no time to talk to Ye Luo at this time. Instead, she followed the principal's wife closely and introduced the current Chinese and Western Girls' School to him.

Seeing that Yang Xizhen was so keen on flattery, Xue Zheng smiled awkwardly and led Ye Luo to continue walking towards Jinglian Hall: "The students heard that you were coming to give a speech, and they are all looking forward to it."

"Haha, I'm just an ordinary businessman. I can't compare to the really talented literati. I just chatted for a few words. I hope they won't laugh at me then."

Ye Luo waved his hand, looking at the energetic female students, he couldn't help but sigh,

"If there are schools like this all over the country, there will be hope for our next generation."

"Difficult." Xue Zheng sighed. She has always worked in education and is extremely familiar with the current situation of education. It is difficult to even popularize basic education, let alone popularizing high-end schools such as Chinese and Western girls' schools. I am afraid that less than half of the people in the country are illiterate. , "Chinese and Western girls' schools can have such high quality because we charge high tuition fees. For a ten-year education, the annual basic tuition and miscellaneous fees are 120 yuan. If you can afford to study in our school, your family must be rich or noble, but such a girl How many people are there?"

"It all depends on people." Ye Luo nodded slightly, "If there are suitable students who can't afford the tuition, they can ask our Ye's Charitable Foundation for help. I can still afford this amount of money."

"That's good." Xue Zheng nodded and smiled.

Several people walked into Jinglian Hall side by side. Most of the female students were already seated, and their small conversations could still be heard faintly.

"Is this the second young master? He's so handsome."

"Tall, handsome and rich, I see you are in love."

"Bah, are you talking like you don't have sex?"

"Hey, have you enlarged your breasts? Have you bought Victoria brand underwear? That underwear is beautiful and not expensive. Unfortunately, I have an A cup, so it doesn't look as sexy as those foreign women."

"Tsk, you're already inside anyway, why do you plan to wear it out and show it to others?"

"It's better than some people not even getting an A."

"Hmph, don't be proud, there is a C in our dormitory, who are you looking down on?"

(End of this chapter)