Chapter 632: Industries Spread Across Japan and the United States

Jin Bihui stayed, Wanrong stayed, and appeared openly on the prosperous streets of Shanghai.

The Japanese, who had just launched the September 18th Incident, could no longer sit still.

The Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Shichitaro Yada, jumped out and clamored that four Japanese expatriates were murdered by employees of Ye's Security Company in the International Settlement, and claimed that this was a revenge incident against the Japanese by Ye Luo, and asked Zhang Qun and the Jinling National Government to give an explanation.

The principal has not stepped down yet. Although he adopted a policy of non-resistance to Japan, it does not mean that he will support the Japanese invaders' support for Puyi to establish the puppet Manchukuo.

The country within the country is a taboo among taboos, and no warlord would agree to it.

The Japanese invaders forced Zhang Xueming away in Tianjin City. The newly appointed Zhou Guanglong was timid and dared not provoke anyone. He could only watch the underground security team reorganized by Ye Luo continue to quietly maintain order in Tianjin City.

After all, it was still Zhang Hanqing's territory, and the Japanese invaders could not be too blatant. They could only organize various sabotage activities in secret by Kenji Doihara.

After successfully transferring Puyi, Wanrong was intercepted by Ye Luo, and his spy chief was revealed to be Ye Luo's mistress.

Doihara Kenji couldn't sit still, and he called the principal many times, asking him to give an explanation.

The principal was still asking Ye Luo to do something, and Ye Luo's actions had dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese's momentum, which was also good for him, so he kept being vague and said that he would solve it. In fact, he had already called the Shanghai City Hall to tell Zhang Qun not to care about it.

In early November, Feng Yong and his friends who came to Nanjing to petition returned in defeat, and dissolved the Northern Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association in Nanjing.

The principal breathed a sigh of relief, and Ye Luo was still reliable and powerful.

Song Ziwen was still arguing in Jiangcheng, and Ye Luo had already done the first thing he asked.

Anyway, no matter what method Ye Luo used, Feng Yong and others did leave honestly, and dissolved the National Salvation Association on the spot, which was enough.

On the other side, Dai Li was watching from the sidelines, sweating coldly.

He was glad that he had held back. If he had troubled Ye Luo because of Feng Yong, Zhang Xueming and others coming to his door, it would have become a boomerang and hit him on the head now.

As he was about to step down, the principal called him to remind him not to trouble Ye Luo in the near future, otherwise he would be sent back to Nanjing with a transfer order!

Without the various obstructions from the Kuomintang, Huixin's business was getting better and better. She came to the Republic of China and mainly engaged in various foreign trade businesses. Originally, all this money would have fallen into the pockets of Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi.

Now Ye Luo has replaced Kong Xiangxi as a big shot in front of the principal, and Huixin has both the identities of an American chaebol and a senior politician. The two of them have replaced the Song family and the Kong family. The Ye Investment hidden in the United States has become the largest partner of the Nanjing National Government during the Republic of China.

Don't underestimate these foreign trade businesses.

During the Republic of China period, many equipment and resources of the Jinling National Government were imported from the United States, including the various military resources aid from the US military during the war, which actually came from the major financial groups in the country.

This is an invisible business chain. As long as you control one of the links, you can create several millionaires in the 1930s and 1940s!

Not to mention businessmen like Ye Luo who control the entire business chain.

From weapons and ammunition to daily necessities, matches and cigarettes, everything is money!

Because they didn't know that the war was approaching, Morgan, Rockefeller and other financial groups did not pay attention to the business with the East -

They are now busy dealing with various domestic economic affairs. The Great Depression has just begun. If there is no savior to save the US economy, they will be finished!

How can they care about such a small foreign trade business?

Ye's Investment is hidden in the United States, backed by the Livermore Group, and relies on the money earned in the US stock market to acquire various small and medium-sized industries. The overall scale has now exceeded 4 billion US dollars and is still rising.

Even if Hoover and others are unwilling to admit it, Ye's Investment has become the largest overseas capital outside the local consortium, and has a deep-rooted trend in the United States.

The only thing they are thankful for now is that Ye Luo seems to be uninterested in politics. Ye's Investment is only involved in commercial capital and rarely involves military and military industry.

The same expansion also happened in Japan.

After Hamaguchi Yuyuki died, the transaction with Ye Luo was naturally terminated. The militarists in the Army and Military Department were not as friendly as politicians and consortiums.

They wanted to seal up many of Ye Luo's industries and companies in Japan, but as soon as they arrived, they found that things were not as easy as they imagined.

Ye's Investment mainly does two things in Japan. The first is investment. After taking away 300 tons of gold, Ye Luo followed their wishes and invested in many consortiums, becoming the second, third or fourth largest shareholder.

With the penetration of Ye's Investment capital, it has been less than a year, and many consortiums headed by Mitsubishi cannot do without the capital of Ye's Investment.

These consortiums are the wallets of the Army and Military Department.

They found that if they really cut off Ye's investment, it would be like killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own, which was not worth the loss.

But if they did not care, Ye Luo would continue to secretly inject capital, place people, squeeze those local financial groups and families, and infiltrate more and more.

It is not terrible if it is just capital infiltration, but after such infiltration, no one dares to say whether Ye Luo's people have infiltrated the military!

Although Ye Luo does not play politics, when he plays casually, they find that all of them together are not enough for him to play.

The second business of Ye's investment is various entertainment industries and emerging industries.

Ye Film Company has made a name for itself in Hollywood, and now it has many celebrities under its banner, so it is naturally far ahead of Japan in this area.

Cultural and entertainment invasions are even more terrifying and hard to guard against.

In order to get sponsorship and support, they agreed to all kinds of outrageous requests from Ye Luo, but now they are trapped in their own trap.

There are only two ways for the military.

Either they cut off the company with pain and let the economy return to the Great Depression, or even worse, the country may collapse before the war.

Or they can only watch Ye Investment take root and sprout, and try to curb it, but they cannot stop its steps.

Many times, the money bags in the hands of businessmen are basically no match for the pens in the hands of politicians and the guns in the hands of warlords.

But in this chaotic period, when most people are poorly clothed and hungry, and the lower-class people in various countries are suffering, businessmen who are willing to spend money are powerful.

Ye Luo's business and life are connected with thousands of ordinary people.

When Ye Investment left, the first people who disagreed were ordinary people in Japan, and the second people who disagreed were local politicians.

Just these alone are enough to give the military a headache.

The situation in the Republic of China is exactly the same.

Qing City and Lu Province are the best examples.

They just opened a hole for Ye Luo to get in, and they found that they couldn't do without him.

This is also a major feature and benefit of doing business in the Republic of China.

During this period, even if the domestic warlords had a monopoly consciousness, they still couldn't monopolize the livelihood and basic industries such as transportation, finance, medical care, and education.

Even highly confidential industries such as military factories have to be entrusted to businessmen to work together, not to mention other industries.

The rise of Japanese and Korean consortiums depends on the upcoming World War II and the fact that they can do some industries that were originally only done by the government.

In China, these were later called state-owned enterprises. (End of this chapter)