1928: The Rise of Giants

Minglou was indeed a professional spy. In just over a month, he successfully infiltrated the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai. Not only was he highly regarded by Iwai Eiichi, he also got to know and become friends with Okamoto Jusan.

The Ming family's financial strength in the French Concession was second only to the Feng family. Now that the Japanese had successfully recruited both Feng Jingyao and Ming Lou into their camp, the Chinese business circle in the French Concession seemed to have suddenly become their back garden.

Minglou's extraordinary abilities and the convenience of his position in the Finance Department at City Hall made Iwai Eiichi readily agree to his request to join the Intelligence Department.

Of course, if you really want to become a qualified Japanese puppet, you still need to be repeatedly reviewed and examined by people from the Japanese military, otherwise they will never let you, an outsider, have access to the core intelligence center.

Ye Luo was not worried about this at all.

The fact that Minglou could deal with the underground organization, the Jinling National Government, the Jiangcheng National Government, and the underworld gangs at the same time is already a reflection of his talent in this area.

Just when Minglou was trying every means to infiltrate the Hongkou Dojo, Ye Luo lowered the purchase price by nearly 100 million oceans, directly from 400 million to 300 million.

From the initial 500 million to the inexplicable loss of 200 million now, Okamoto Juzo was more anxious than anyone else. Therefore, he accelerated the transfer of confidential information from the Hongkou Dojo and began to think about resisting the orders of the Japanese military.

On the other hand, Mingtai, who was chosen by Dai Li, was intercepted by Ye Luo's men before he even went to the Secret Service Department.

Dai Li was so angry. He had finally discovered a good talent from Shanghai, but he was snatched away by someone else. He couldn't defeat the guy who snatched him away!

Starting from the middle of this year, the president obviously valued him and newly rising confidants like Huang Jie more and more, and became somewhat distant from old subordinates such as the Chen Guofu brothers, Kong Xiangxi, and Song Ziwen. This made Dai Li feel that he had an opportunity, and he was even more anxious to show off in front of the president.

At the end of July, the principal personally approved his formal establishment of the Fuxing Society, which would merge the current Shanghai Secret Service Office and Dai Li's other spy agencies scattered across the country. The principal would serve as the president of the Fuxing Society and Dai Li as the vice president.

This instantly spread his power from Nanjing and Shanghai to the entire country. Although his position did not change, his power increased by an order of magnitude.

At the same time, the "Party Affairs Investigation Section" under the Chen Guofu brothers, which was responsible for internal intelligence investigations of the Kuomintang, and the "Second Department of the General Staff" which was responsible for internal investigations of the military system were officially expanded into the "Special Agent Headquarters."

The two brothers hated Dai Li very much and felt that he shared their power, so wherever the Fuxing Society expanded, they followed it and held on to it like leeches.

During this period, Ye Luo had a lot of free time. After returning to Shanghai, he remotely directed the development of various Ye's investments. He had a happy family and a happy home, and he also took care of the pregnant Meng Xiaodong.

Taking advantage of the Japanese invasion's withdrawal from Shanghai and everything returning to normal, Ye Luo did not stop making money and started making trouble.

After being silent for more than half a year, Ye's Film Company joined forces with Ye's Newspaper Company and had major newspapers and magazines launch a selection campaign for the "Movie Queen", "Shanghai Dancing Queen" and "Republic of China Song Queen".

His original intention was to seamlessly bring in new pillars when the two main pillars, Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu, became his women and retired behind the scenes.

However, after major newspapers and magazines launched the event, Hu Die, who had stopped filming for a long time, topped the list with more than 2 votes, becoming the unrivaled movie queen. Following closely behind was Ruan Lingyu, who received more than 1 votes. Third was Chen Yumei, who was newly signed by Lin Ruxian.

He is also the new pillar that Ye Luo and Lin Ruxian are trying to make famous by investing all their resources.

Chen Yumei's story is also quite funny. In the original history, Shaw Brothers' Tianyi Film Company was very popular in Shanghai in those few years, and Chen Yumei, who was originally the mainstay of Tianyi Film Company, would marry Shao Zuiweng in 1934, and transformed from an actress to the boss's wife.

However, things never go as planned. After the establishment of Yeh’s Film Company, it successively defeated the three leading companies, Tianyi, Lianhua and Mingxing, and then entered Hollywood, making a name for itself overseas.

Starting in 29, Ye's Film Company began to produce talkies, which was another dimensionality reduction attack and completely occupied the film market in the Republic of China.

The Shaw Brothers fled to Hong Kong, and naturally Chen Yumei, a popular female star in Shanghai, would not follow them. So the 22-year-old fell into Ye Luo's clutches.

At this time, Chen Yumei was already very famous. She filmed nearly 30 movies in the past three years, and appeared on the screen more often than Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu combined.

But Ye Luo just clapped his hands, and she came forward with a smile, wishing she could get to the second young master's bed in one step.

Chen Yumei's abilities are quite good, at least she could be ranked in the top five in the entertainment industry in the Republic of China. However, this wave of selection activities made her the most ridiculous supporting role.

In the dance queen selection event, former Black Cat dancers almost occupied the top ten places on the list. Wang Ji even topped the list with the title of "Black Cat Dance Queen", with a cliff-like 1 votes, a full 2 votes ahead of the second place!

Wang Ji is still at the top of the list of singers. There is no other way. The song "Night Jasmine" that Ye Luo tailored for her is so popular. It is played every day in all dance halls. It is estimated that there is no one in Shanghai who has not heard it.

If you want to break this record, I'm afraid Ye Luoxin's adopted sister Zhou Xuan will have to come.

Zhou Xuan was the biggest dark horse in this selection. She was only twelve years old, but she stood out from a bunch of female singers and squeezed into the top ten of the list.

It was a surprise.

After the lively selection activities were over, Ye Investment naturally awarded trophies and bonuses to the selected actresses, expanded publicity, and then spent money to sign contracts with all these women and make them their cash cows.

As we all know, even during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when Shanghai became an "isolated island", the concession areas were still prosperous and peaceful, even better than they are now.

Therefore, Ye Luo will keep the entertainment industry here to continue making money, and only consider transferring other industries, especially industry, to other places.

As August approached, the weather became extremely hot, so Yeh's Film Company launched a "swimsuit photo" collection campaign, taking advantage of the fact that the Republic of China was desperately learning Western culture to popularize women's liberation.

This will be beneficial to the development of entertainment industries such as film and television and advertising.

Just like that, Ye Luo plunged into the entertainment industry throughout the summer, wishing he could monopolize the entertainment industry in the south.

Just when he was considering whether to directly introduce some Hollywood blockbusters into the domestic market, Ming Lou finally received good news! (End of this chapter)