As the downfall of the Republic of China, there was a Taoist priest named Uncle Jiu

Xiao Hongyi smiled: "We are only eight years apart. We are said to be masters and apprentices, but in fact we can also be called sisters. Calling me sister or master is just a title, and the relationship between us will not change."

Xiao Meiwu heard the words, her red lips parted lightly: "Sister."

A smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Hongyi's mouth: "Yes, sister."

Xiao Meiwu breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward and took Xiao Hongyi's hand, and the two walked forward side by side.

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Walking around the corner, seeing two women walking side by side, holding hands, Gu Zhou swallowed nervously, and greeted him with a smile on his face. Before he could speak, the two women rolled their eyes and snorted coldly, Get around him (Wang Haohao) and walk away.

"This……"

Gu Zhou stood there dumbfounded, his heart was uneasy, thoughts collided in his mind, he was thinking about a question:

Xiao Hongyi, do you know?

For the next whole day, Gu Zhou observed the state of the two women, making indirect remarks, probing words, and encouraging Ren Tingting to help, but the two women dealt with each other seamlessly, and Gu Zhou insisted that he did not see any flaws.

"Hey, the blessing of Qi Ren is not so easy to enjoy."

Gu Zhou let out a long sigh, feeling that there was a long way to go, so he put his worries to the back of his mind and started busy with the stockings.

After the steel factory was built, the silk stocking factory was also built, ready to start selling.

During this time, all major distributors came to Qingshan Town, preparing to bid for the right to sell stockings.

Seeing these dealers, Gu Zhou seemed to see a lot of money rushing into his pockets.

Chapter 252 Bidding Auction

After the stocking factory is completed, it is estimated that its income will be astonishingly large, if not as good as that of penicillin.

Before building the stockings factory, Gu Zhou sold some stockings to Desheng Trading Company. Desheng Trading Company was keenly aware of the business opportunities. First, they let the stockings appear on several of the most famous female stars in Guangdong, and then they were regular stockings. The advertisement in the newspaper caused a sensation.

Finally, it will be sold in limited quantities in major shops.

In just half a month, almost all the young ladies and young women of the upper class in Guangdong had a pair of silk stockings, as if going out without wearing a pair of silk stockings would be shameful.

As one of the most commercially prosperous provinces in the country, Guangdong has businessmen from all over the country. Naturally, such a commodity with huge benefits will not be missed by them.

So rich and powerful businessmen waved banknotes to buy goods, trying to sell silk stockings all over the country.

Among them are foreign firms from all over the world.

According to statistics, there were close to 1911 foreign firms in China in [-], and the capital of some foreign firms in China exceeded ten million yuan, which was a huge amount. Some foreign firms held monopoly positions in certain regions or industries.

When the timing was right, Desheng Trading Company 633 announced that if you want to buy stockings, you can come to Qingshan Town.

As a result, businessmen from all over the country, and even from all over the world, poured in one after another, and Qingshan Town had more than a thousand immigrants in a short period of time.

Gu Zhou's way of making money from silk stockings is very simple, one saves one agency right, whichever is auctioned will become an agent, and can buy from Gu Zhou.

The agency right in Guangdong Province is naturally handed over to Desheng Commercial Bank.

In addition to Guangdong Province, there are 21 provinces, as well as Beijing and Shanghai, and Tianjin has auctioned agency rights in 24 regions in total.

As for foreign countries, Japan, the United States, the sun never sets, Germany, France... also set up ten agency regions.

Like penicillin, nylon stockings are also Gu Zhou's exclusive business.

To put it bluntly, I like to buy or not.

If you don't buy it, go away, some people will buy it.

Gu Zhou is not afraid at all that someone will reverse-engineer nylon stockings in a short period of time based on nylon stockings.

Nylon technology is very simple in modern times, but in this era, it is a very high-end technology.

Historically, the largest chemical industry company in the United States had a general direction and decided to pay $25 a year as a research fee. It took more than ten years to develop nylon.

And even if nylon is developed, it is still a long way from industrialization.

Now that there is a finished product, it can be studied in reverse, and it will take at least five years to produce results.

It is enough to be an exclusive business in the world for five years.

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The auction venue was a makeshift wooden shed that housed hundreds of people.

The hundreds of people who participated in the competition for agency rights included old people in their 70s and 30s, young people in their [-]s and [-]s, men and women, some in suits and coats, some Westerners and some Orientals.

Those who speak Northeast dialect, Wu dialect, Cantonese, Xiang dialect, Gan dialect, Hakka dialect, Mandarin, English, Japanese, French, and German are simply the noisiest people Gu Zhou has ever seen in the world. place.

Fortunately, most of the foreigners bring their own translators, and a small number of them can speak Mandarin.

Boom boom boom!

The huge drumbeat suppressed all the voices, and hundreds of people looked at Gu Zhou who walked up the high platform.

"I'm Gu Zhou, some of you know me, some don't, but it doesn't matter, as long as you know that I am the owner of a nylon stockings factory, then I will personally host this proxy auction."

After finishing speaking, Gu Zhou stopped for half a minute to translate his words for the translators.

"I don't want to talk nonsense. The first area, Shanghai stockings sales agent, the starting price is [-] oceans! The minimum price increase is [-] oceans."

Naturally, Shanghai's sales area (agfc) is far inferior to the provincial sales area. It can be regarded as the most prosperous area in this land, and Shanghai's competitiveness can be ranked among the top three.

After ten seconds of silence, a businessman held up a +10000 sign.

"Okay! Sixty thousand oceans!"

"There are [-] oceans over there!"

"One Hundred Thousand Oceans!"

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"The sales agency right in the Shanghai area costs 18 oceans, is there any bids!"

"18 once! 18 twice! 18 three times! Congratulations!"

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"Once for 10, twice for [-], and three times for [-]! Congratulations to this gentleman for obtaining the sales agency right in Hunan!"

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The auction was held for a whole day, and finally the agency sales rights of 24 regions were all auctioned out. Among them, the agency sales rights of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian ranked the top three, with 25 oceans, 24 oceans and 22 oceans respectively.

Shanghai and Beijing ranked fourth and fifth.

Xinjiang, Gansu, and Guizhou rank among the bottom three, with only [-] oceans, [-] oceans, and [-] oceans.

The top ten foreign sales regions are as high as 50 oceans and as low as 30 oceans.

After the auction ended, according to statistics, more than 700 million oceans were sold just for the agency rights.

This does not include payment for goods.

In the next five days, the major agents paid all the money, and then millions of stockings were shipped from Qingshan Town to Guangzhou, the national cargo distribution center, and then shipped from Guangzhou to all parts of the country and even countries around the world.

Ten days after the auction, nylon stockings began to be sold on a large scale across the country.

On May 1940, 5, the first mass-produced nylon stockings went on the market, and 15 pairs of stockings were sold out within one day.

The price at the time was $1.5 a pair.

At that time, the output of nylon stockings was very small, and the supply was far less than the demand.

But this time, Gu Zhou prepared enough nylon stockings.

According to the summary of telegrams from various provinces, on the day of the large-scale sales, a total of 50 pairs of nylon stockings were sold across the country, and one pair of nylon stockings cost three oceans per pair.

It took a few days for foreign data to be compiled, and the sales volume exceeded 100 million pairs a day, and a pair of nylon stockings cost $1.5 a pair.

News related to nylon stockings can be seen in major newspapers all over the world, and they are regarded as rare things and rush to buy them.

There was a huge stir when nylon stockings were sold under the influence of advertising and word of mouth.

In the advertisement, nylon means new life and future, and the superiority of human beings over nature.

Nylon is soft and tough, and will not rot or wrinkle.

Newspapers praised this fiber with the words "as thin as spider silk, as strong as steel wire, and as beautiful as silk", and the shops rushed to buy it. The chaotic situation forced the public security organs to dispatch the police to maintain order.

Chapter 253 Nylon Riot

The New York Times devoted a lot of space to the sensational scene: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time today and were warmly welcomed by women.The stockings are placed in selected stores for experimental sale, and the stockings at the first check-in cabinet will be released until the afternoon

Tell Xin at one o'clock.

During most of the day, there was always a long queue of customers in front of the locker, many of them were men, and many of them came to

from other places.

A store selling silk stockings was even crushed by crazy buyers, causing several women to faint on the spot.

Of course, this one must not be the only one that has been squeezed through the threshold.

It is estimated that the entire United States will buy 800 million pairs of nylon socks within a year.

Since the birth of nylon stockings, women have added a transparent sexiness on their legs. This dark translucent thing has wrapped the whole of America.

Stockings ostentatiously express women's charm and romance, and show women's charming sex appeal and pursuit of fashion. Some people even say that stockings are a powerful weapon used by women in a patriarchal society to conquer men.

These nylon stockings are not only smooth to the touch, durable and inexpensive, but also make women who wear them look more sexy.

It quickly became popular, and owning a pair of nylon stockings became every woman's dream.

However, because the agents in the United States were not fully prepared and did not purchase enough, the supply exceeded demand. This shortage caused serious dissatisfaction among some women. They began to attack stores and even smashed them.

Known as the "Nylon Riots" in history.

Also because of the short supply of silk stockings, a strange trend has been set off in the society in the United States.

They began by painting a dark stripe on the back of the calf to mimic the "seam" of nylon stockings.

Some women even have their entire calves painted in a color similar to nylon stockings.

The fad is so prevalent that it has spawned shops that specialize in painting nylon stockings for women, much like modern eyelash and nail salons.

People call it "beautiful legs make-up bar".

The "Nylon Riot" in the United States is just a microcosm of the whole world's love for stockings. It can be said that there are few women in the world who do not like this new type of product.

Whether it is the United States or France, or Japan and the sun never sets, nylon stockings set off a storm of stockings, and the country is not far behind.

This country has a population of [-] million. It is true that there are more than [-] million people who are not customers of stockings, but the market for the remaining tens of millions of people is also extremely huge.

A pair of stockings cost three oceans, which is equivalent to a month's wages for an ordinary person. Most people are hesitant to buy them, but even those with a little money can buy them with a bite.

It's like modern people who have a monthly salary of three or four thousand, and will use one or even two months' salary to buy a mobile phone for their girlfriend or wife.

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Changsha, Hunan.

People have a common problem. As long as they have done something, or encountered something, they will not be able to help sharing or showing off to others. There are almost no exceptions. Those who can hold back are not normal people.

Zhang Fei is married to a small businessman, so she will not be rich, but she also has enough food and clothing. She takes care of her husband and raises her children at home, and occasionally gathers with a group of wives to play mahjong when she is free. same topic.

When we arrived at the mahjong parlor, seven or eight women were chatting.

"Zhang Fei is here, have you eaten yet?"

A woman greeted.

"have eaten."

She passed in front of him and raised her leg deliberately.

"Hey, do you know that Li Hao in the north of the city, his father died last month, his mother died this month, and today his wife broke her leg. Misfortunes never come singly." Another woman said.

"Is that so? This is too miserable."

Zhang Fei walked to her side again.

"There's no one left for this bad luck. I think he offended someone and was cursed."

"These days, there are no curses, it's just a bad tone."

A group of women talked and talked, getting farther and farther away.