1928: The Rise of Giants

Chapter 66 Changes and the Dawn of Victory
September 17, the 1928th year of the Republic of China (6).

Neither Galt's shameless price cuts nor the insidious interference of Yu Likui's rickshaw drivers could stop the Chevrolet 490's hot sales and rental frenzy.

The advertising slogan "Forty million compatriots, dial the 4 number, take the [-] car!" is too shocking. In addition, Yip's Automobile Company is not a false person, purely improving its own quality in terms of service and welfare. , after the initial suppression period, more and more customers called to rent cars, and even customers from many other car companies came to experience it after hearing the news, which once aroused heated discussions among people from all walks of life.

The most outrageous thing is the speed that Ye Luo repeatedly emphasized.

Many guests have just left theaters, casinos, brothels and other places. Before they even set foot, a brand new Chevrolet 490 was already parked. The highly professional driver provided enthusiastic service, which made people feel like spring breeze.

Once there are rickshaw pullers nearby who intend to interfere with soliciting customers, the suit hats from Ye's Auto Security Company who have been waiting for a long time will immediately rush out to show them what a professional bodyguard is.

The special interview program of Asia-American Radio is broadcast in the streets and alleys. The 100 crystal radios purchased by Ye Luo are distributed all over Shanghai Bund County. As long as people want to listen, they can go to the store to listen for free, which has greatly improved the quality of life of ordinary people. , and the Yamei Radio Factory also survived through this wave of publicity. Even though it was still heavily in debt, the Shanghai Comprehensive Savings Bank was willing to lend money to them.

Zhang Hanru took a Chevrolet 490 to the Songhu Police Headquarters today. What awaited him might be imprisonment and torture, but he was not afraid. He declined Ye Luo's suggestion to send him to Xiangjiang and insisted on returning to the headquarters to resume his duties.

"Brother Zhang, you are not a deserter, you are a hero."

Ye Luo's words always echoed in his ears, and then he smiled happily.

Whether it is right or wrong is up to future generations to judge.

He had done everything he should have done. As an iron-blooded soldier, it was a sign of discipline to go back to collect his crimes.

6 month 2 day.

The funds Ye Luo raised from everywhere were about to bottom out again. Fortunately, he had more money from his family and Bai Xiuzhu, so he could continue to fight in the ring with Galt desperately.

It was also on this day that Marshal Zhang, seeing that the situation was over, finally issued a call for departure, stating that he would completely leave Peiping on June 6 and return to the three northeastern provinces.

At this point, the Feng clique and the Beiyang warlords will completely leave the stage of history.

At night, No. 32 Xiafei Road.

Ye Luo lay on the bed, hugging Xiao Aqiao's alluring white body, enjoying the beauty's meticulous "snake-like" service from head to toe, listening to the faint singing of Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu next door, and looked up at the calendar.

When the wind blows, the calendar rattles, and all kinds of calendar girls are posing. In order to make money, many film and television stars even do not hesitate to appear on a large scale, and shoot this kind of calendar cover, just for a little extra money.

The film and television industry has collapsed, but the drama industry is still booming. Just like Jinling Fang, who was once unpopular, and Beiyang Warlord, who was unbeatable in the past, they have taken turns to go through the motions and sing great dramas on the historical stage.

But who could have known that in a few years, with the strong rise of talkies, the quintessence of Chinese culture such as drama would gradually withdraw from people's entertainment circles.

Ye Luo put his hands behind his head and responded to Xiao Aqiao's passionate kiss. The two hugged each other tightly on the bed, lingering together, and June 6rd came.

April 6st morning.

Ye Luo was still in a sweet dream when Ma Yongzhen knocked on the door.

"The Second Young Master, the Second Young Master, Boss Wu and the others are here." Ma Yongzhen looked at her newly bought watch and felt that it was past 10 o'clock, and it was time for the Second Young Master and the others to get up.

Unexpectedly, the person who opened the door was little Aqiao, who was only wearing silk petticoat pajamas and a shawl casually thrown over it.

She made a shushing gesture and looked tenderly at the bed, where Ye Luo was still sleeping with her head covered.

Ma Yongzhen quickly fell silent, shook her head, and pointed downwards, appearing flustered.

Xiao A pursed his lips and smiled: "Okay, you go down and greet the bosses first, and I will come back after changing my clothes."

"Yes, Second Young Master." Ma Yongzhen nodded like a fool. It was not that he deliberately disturbed their dreams, but that there was a more important guest among the guests. "The foreigner who cooperated with Second Young Master is also back, and he is here too." It’s downstairs.”

"Which foreigner?" Xiao Aqiao hugged her cloak with both hands and her expression became much more solemn.

Ma Yongzhen gestured. The other person's name was too hard to pronounce, and he didn't understand foreign languages.

Little Ah Qiao Bingxue was smart and immediately understood that it was Alfred Sloan!
President of General Motors.

"I know, I will take care of it." Xiao Aqiao looked at Ye Luo again. The two of them did it several times last night, and then he got up and stayed up late to write the paper for some reason, and now he is being held on the table to finish it. "On the Last Madness of the U.S. Stock Market in 1928 and the Coming Rise of Investment."

"Then I'm going down." Ma Yongzhen scratched her head, then turned around, and was stopped by Xiao Aqiao again.

"Who told you to call me Second Young Mistress?" Xiao Ah pursed her lips and smiled.

"Well, I shouted it myself, I shouted it myself." Ma Yongzhen smiled awkwardly. He really meant it, but it was just that there was more than one second young lady.

"Don't yell in front of outsiders from now on."

"Ah, I understand, I understand. Sister!"

"But it's okay when it's just me and him." Xiao Aqiao added, smiling and closing the door, "Yongzhen, from now on, the elder sister will introduce you to a beautiful wife~"

Ma Yongzhen went downstairs happily.After a while, Ye Luo, who had dark circles under his eyes, hugged little A Qiao and came to the office area on the second floor.

Everyone present immediately stood up and said hello, "Good morning, Second Young Master." Then as soon as they sat down, the impatient Wu Liande couldn't help it anymore and started chatting: "Second Young Master, the sales of Liangyou Pictorial have been getting better and better recently. The total sales of one issue reached an astonishing [-] copies! Especially the report where we exclusively interviewed Mr. Zhang Hanru, some people even paid for that article alone!"

"Very good. If you keep up the good work, you can try the new method I mentioned." Ye Luo smiled. Liangyou Pictorial was his unintentional work. It was beyond his expectation that it could reach such a high level.

Nowadays, each issue can make a net profit of [-] yuan, and the money distributed to him in a month is also [-] yuan. The revenue capacity is not even much worse than that of Fengming Tower!

"What is the new method?" Wu Liande asked curiously.

"First, sell your good friends overseas and distribute them all over the world. In fact, foreigners are also very curious about this ancient oriental country of ours. With the curiosity and curiosity of those Chinese wandering abroad, the overseas sales may surprise you even more. As for the person responsible for overseas affairs, you decide. By the way, you can go abroad with Miss Huang Liushuang in the past few days."

This was a strategy that Ye Luo had long thought of. In fact, it was also the measure that Liangyou Pictorial later took when its sales reached its peak, but he just proposed it first.

"The second is to change to photogravure printing to greatly improve the quality of our pictorials, and to inform all readers that the price will also increase from 8 cents to 42 cents per copy. I have calculated that it will be implemented in about August. At that time, the length of the new issue was increased to 3 pages, with three colorful pages."

Improving quality and increasing prices when sales are at peak is actually a very risky move.

Alfred Sloan, who was listening on the sidelines, couldn't help but nod his head under Xiao Aqiao's translation, admiring Ye Luo's boldness.

He originally wanted to speak out to stop it, but when he thought that his GM company was saved by this young man's bold behavior, he stopped talking.

Wu Liande had already obeyed Ye Luo's orders and nodded in agreement with this risky strategy. He was in a hurry. After talking about this, he hurried back to the headquarters of Liangyou Pictorial. Ma Yongzhen immediately called someone to send him back.

"Editor Wu is really a workaholic." Zhou Xiangsheng said with emotion. He is older and has a family. In fact, he has not worked so hard in business for a long time, but this time he fought with Yun Fei. He abandoned his wife and children, moved to the company, ate and slept with the employees, and concentrated on dealing with this bloody battle.

The results are also gratifying.

This batch of 500 Chevrolet 490s newly arrived in Shanghai arrived at Shiliupu Pier with Alfred Sloan. Counting the previous 1000 vehicles, there are a total of 1500 vehicles. 1231 vehicles have been sold and 200 vehicles have been retained for self-employment. For a rental car.

Alfred Sloan was also shocked by such amazing sales.

In more than a month, Ye Luo actually sold 1231 cars in Shanghai!
To say it is shocking is an understatement.

Ye Luo didn't pay much attention. He just took the sales change curve table and customer portraits, and after careful consideration, he said: "Is it because people from the capital of Shandong Province and the north have started to flock to Shanghai in large numbers?"

"The second young master knows things like a god!" Zhou Xiangsheng couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

At first, he was curious as to why car sales were boosted again, and why 200 cars were not enough for car rentals!

Later, when I looked back, I found that many northerners came to me with gifts from Ye's Charitable Foundation and asked by name to buy the second young master Ye Luo's car.

It turns out that Ye Luo's deeds of vigorously rescuing the tragedy in the north have been spread throughout the north through word of mouth.

In fact, the amount of donations made by Ye's Charitable Foundation is not high, and it does not do many things, but in this industry, it all relies on the support of peers.

Other foundations exist in name only, and no real facts can be seen at all. In contrast, the Ye's Charitable Foundation is naturally famous!

I heard that Dashuai Zhang and Principal Chang who were on the northern front sent people to ask where this charity team under the banner of Ye's came from, and gave them high praise and affirmation.

Naturally, they like this kind of businessman very much.

Their troops were fighting to the death at the front, causing wailing and resentment among the people. At this time, someone was helping them wipe their butts. Can they not be happy?

Now that summer is approaching, countless corpses in the capital of Shandong Province are left undisposed of. It is said that a great plague will break out. Under various rumors, just as Ye Luo expected before, many wealthy people began to go south and poured into Hangzhou and Suzhou. , Jinling and Shanghai are several southern cities.

Especially in Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East, the immigrant population has suddenly increased dramatically.

The platform of the railway station was overcrowded, and the rickshaw pullers were busy harassing the taxis and failed to catch the good time. Naturally, those rich people took the Yip's Automobile Company, the only one that could enter the platform.

This sudden business surprised Galt and others and was unexpected.

They felt that God was helping Ye Luo do business.

However, in fact, this was all Ye Luo's personal plan. A group of key players present knew that when this move was originally planned, Ye Luo had mentioned that something similar would happen.

They didn't believe it at first because the changes in the Northern Expedition were too great.

But it doesn’t work anymore, even if you don’t believe it!

"Don't relax. The most important thing is whether Marshal Zhang is out of seclusion today." Ye Luo looked at them with a smile.

Several people were stunned.

Can Marshal Zhang still be able to escape seclusion? !
(End of this chapter)