1928: The Rise of Giants

After the presidential inauguration ceremony, there will be an inaugural luncheon, where the president, vice president and invited guests will attend the luncheon hosted by the Presidential Inaugural Committee composed of the Senate and House of Representatives.

The committee is responsible for preparing and handling matters related to the presidential inauguration ceremony.

The luncheon typically features dishes from the new president and vice president's hometowns.

Ye Luo and Hui Xin were invited to attend the lunch party. Since he couldn't tell the specialties of any dish, he just ate casually with a group of foreigners.

During this period, countless waves of people came to greet them, with enthusiastic faces, and they were eager to leave their business cards and phone numbers on the spot and invite them to do business together.

Since the promulgation of the New Deal and related laws, everyone understood that as president, Franklin was going to give the green light to Ye Investment Group and Livermore Group, and no one could stop these two emerging consortiums from taking off again.

Instead of continuing to follow the Morgan, Rockefeller and other financial groups and oppose them, it is better to choose sides and become allies as soon as possible.

At least during Franklin's term, they did not dare to continue competing with Ye Luo and others.

But no one could have imagined that Franklin would be the longest-serving president in American history, serving a full 1933 years from 1945 to 12. He was also the first president in American history to be re-elected for four terms (died of illness in his fourth term).

Perhaps this run would have continued had he not died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 1945, 4.

For now, during the entire World War II, Ye Luo does not have to worry about the development of his backers and Ye’s investment.

With Franklin as its king, Ye Investment cannot keep a low profile in the United States.

Ye Luo greeted these capitalists one by one with a smile. Just as he was racking his brains over how to get out of this situation, Franklin came over here in a wheelchair.

"Ye, are these to your liking?" Franklin asked, holding up his glass.

Ye Luo bowed and clinked glasses with him, then replied with a smile: "Not bad, I don't mind the food."

"That's good. Otherwise I will help you find a few Chinese chefs to cook some of your favorite dishes." Franklin was in a good mood, and his voice was loud and clear.

The people around saw this scene and were all amazed.

Because of his disabled legs, Franklin could not get rid of his wheelchair wherever he went. Because of this, he seldom took the initiative to clink glasses with others.

When he takes the initiative like this, the other party will often find themselves in an awkward position. If you stand, it will be inappropriate; if you squat, you will lose your self-esteem and nothing will go well.

Franklin, who was well aware of this, usually only greeted his friends by kissing them on the cheek, shaking hands, or clinking glasses when sitting.

Now he actually toasted with Ye Luo like this, and Ye Luo just bowed slightly in response, which shows that their relationship is much better than the outside world speculates!

Those Americans immediately secretly raised Ye Luo's status in their hearts a few points.

"There will be an inaugural parade in the afternoon and an inaugural ball in the evening. You must be on time to attend." Franklin did not shy away from Huixin's presence and said with a smile, "I have many beautiful girls here who want to dance with the famous Second Young Master."

"Haha, I will definitely be there." Ye Luo's reputation as the second young master also spread along with the expansion of Ye's investments overseas. To make these Chinese people take the initiative to understand the meaning of this word, it really requires extremely high popularity.

As we all know, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages ​​to learn in the world. Foreigners will never understand the meaning of many words in their lifetime. While Ye Luo was participating in various social activities in the United States, the "Novel Monthly", which had a profound influence in the 20s, was discontinued.

As the Central News Agency expanded, the Nanjing National Government began to exercise strict control over the publishing industry. The Commercial Press, the major shareholder of Novel Monthly, was afraid of getting into trouble, so it ordered the editor-in-chief to strictly control the content of the serialized novels.

Ye Shengtao, Zheng Zhenduo and others were dissatisfied with this matter and resigned from their editorial positions, causing "Novel Monthly" to lose its backbone.

Not only did the quality of novels deteriorate, but the content of other sections was also drastically reduced, and old readers gave up on the magazine one after another.

Last year, when the Japanese invaded Shanghai, the Commercial Press, headquartered in the suburbs, suffered heavy losses and officially announced its closure.

Ye's Newspapers saw the opportunity and Lin Yuan, who had rushed back from the United States, bought up all kinds of newspapers and magazines and rehired those who had left, allowing them to continue production and sales with the support of Ye's Newspapers.

Of course, although Ye's Press had the support of the president, it could no longer publicly publish and promote books and newspapers that deviated from the core ideas of the Nanjing National Government.

The main products of Ye's newspaper industry are pictorials, novels and news. They only report on current affairs but do not comment on them. They also do not touch on the things that the principal is most taboo about.

In fact, Ye's newspaper company would secretly sponsor some progressive books and periodicals, and provide assistance to underground literary and art workers, including money, food, pens, paper, and everything else.

These can also be regarded as another form of support for Ye Yuqiao's Anti-Japanese and Anti-Traitor Group.

This time, Ye's Newspapers mainly promoted a new newspaper called "The World".

All sections of the newspaper introduce countries around the world, whether they are European and American powers, East Asian countries or African slums, all are covered. The main purpose is to broaden people's horizons, see the world, and understand the world situation and the conditions of other countries.

In order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of newspaper articles, Ye Luo specifically instructed Lin Yuan that the editorial department of the newspaper should employ upright intellectuals who have studied or traveled in various countries, and that writers who write manuscripts must also have corresponding life experience.

Because there were not many such people in the Republic of China, Ye Luo also planned to use money to send a group of outstanding young men and women abroad. They traveled around the world as reporters for Ye's newspapers, recording interviews, writing manuscripts, and then sending them back to the editorial department for publication.

For this purpose, Ye's Newspapers openly recruited from various universities in the country. Once the generous conditions were put forward, it immediately caused a sensation among the student community, and everyone flocked to it.

When the principal heard about this, he wanted to stop it, but after reading a few issues of the new "World" newspaper from the principal's wife, he thought it was not bad.

The content of the newspaper covers astronomy and geography, but does not discuss politics. It is a newspaper that is purely for broadening one's horizons.

And Ye Luo's trip could also help send away those progressive students who loved to parade and make noise, which made the principal even happier.

Otherwise, they would block his door every day and ask him to resist the Japanese, but he couldn't fight or kill them, which made him very upset.

In fact, there has always been a lack of this kind of newspapers and periodicals during the Republic of China. During this period, people have established similar publishing houses several times, but unfortunately they all went bankrupt in the end.

The reason is simple. If you want to ensure the authenticity and accuracy of the content, you need a lot of manpower and material resources.

The income from newspapers is not enough to fill the gaps in our teeth!
Who can bear this?

Only the Yeh newspaper company, which is a large and powerful company, can do this. (End of this chapter)