When he went home in the evening, Gao Yi specially chose a small Phoenix and drove along Songjiang Road, a trail on the north bank of the pidgin that he had never walked before.

Li Pingshu's words just now touched him a lot, since he crossed over, because he did not want to participate in the chaotic and complicated political affairs of this era, so he rarely took the initiative to change the course of history, but if changing history can allow him to obtain huge profits, it is a completely different matter.

For example, this time, Li Pingshu and the others hoped to open a gap from him, so that the Chinese could also join the life circle of the rulers of the concession, so they did not hesitate to increase the membership fee to 50,000 taels of silver. Although the income of more than ten or two hundred thousand taels is better than nothing for him now, if he can really promote the rise of the Chinese in the concession, what will be the profit? You must know that the population of the Chinese in the concession is forty times that of the Westerners, and this number will increase exponentially with the future turmoil of the domestic situation.

As far as Gao Yi knows, the French Concession will set up Hua Dong before and after World War I, and the appearance of Hua Dong in the public concession will be more than ten years later, but it will never exceed 1930. If this process can be advanced by ten years, it is actually not too difficult for him, especially in the French Concession, and his influence on Julaida can be said to be getting bigger and bigger. Although the public concession is more difficult, there is no need to set the target on Hua Dong from the beginning, it can be done step by step, and for the Chinese, the more grassroots and more influential Jockey Club is a good place to start.

In a few years, the Chinese-funded Wanguo Stadium covering an area of 1,000 acres will be opened, saying that the stadium is actually the Chinese racecourse, because it is located in the east of Jiangwan Town, and because the Shanghainese are accustomed to calling the racecourse, so it is also called the Jiangwan Racecourse. After the completion of the International Stadium, the Jockey Club was forced to open a South Stand specially designed for the Chinese. Therefore, it is not an impossible task to get the Jockey Club to admit Chinese members, but there is no motivation and there is no strong person to push for it.

Gao Yi's current social status has given him full qualifications to play the role of such a powerful person, among his close friends, the former chairman of the Jockey Club, Berkyll is the current chairman, Grison, Anderson, and Plandis are all directors, and at least more than ninety percent of the club's other directors are also members of his new car club. If he is 50% sure about the establishment of Hua Dong in the French Concession Board of Directors, then it can be said that it is a 10% thing to get the Jockey Club to agree to the Chinese to join the association. It's really not good, won't he follow the wisdom of later generations, go to Jiangwan to buy a thousand acres of land, and open one himself? That kind of rural place only costs 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver.

And the idea is thus expanded, and there is not only such a thing that can profit by changing the course of history, such as the pidgin around us, is it necessary to keep it until 1914?

In fact, the French Concession had long wanted to fill in the border river that hindered the traffic between the two concessions, but for the public concession, this did not do much good, and it might even disperse the resources of the public concession due to the improvement of transportation.

Originally, such a policy had nothing to do with Gao Yi, but now that he has bought No. 1 on the Bund and is ready to continue to buy the land along the river on the north bank of the pidgin, it has become a matter of interest to fill the pidgin as soon as possible. Especially after more than 60 years of uncontrolled use, this small river can be said to be terminally ill, and the water quality is gradually black and smelly, even if it is dredged several times, it will not help. It is to be expected that this situation will only get worse in the next decade.

Songjiang Road is a dead-end road that extends westward from the Waiyangjing Bridge at the mouth of the pidgin into the river to the Daxin Bridge connecting Guangxi Road in the public concession and Xinqiao Street in the French Concession. After crossing the Daxin Bridge, Gao Yi turned the car onto Confucius Road, a small road on the south bank of Pidgin. Confucius Road also became a dead-end road after reaching the French Concession, and there were several round gas bags by the river. It's just that the gas company in the French Concession went bankrupt and liquidated ten years ago, and the nearby area was abandoned, and the land price would not exceed 3,000 taels.

Gao Yi went south along the East Street of Tap Fire and turned right on the first cross road, which is called Ningxing Street, but Shanghainese people call it Caishi Street, which is the central vegetable market of the French Concession and the earliest open-air vegetable market in Shanghai.

After sunset, the businesses on both sides of the vegetable market closed, and the whole street was empty and no longer bustling in the daytime, except for the sour smell of rotting organic matter. After driving through two intersections, Gao Yi slowed down the speed of the car, if he wanted to go home directly, he should go straight from the Central Baxian Bridge to cross the landfill Zhou Jingbang, but after hesitating for a moment, he turned right and drove north onto Baxian Bridge Street, crossing the pidgin again.

After crossing the North Baxian Bridge, there is a huge garbage heap on the left side of the road, and all the garbage cleaned up from the river was buried in this place before the French Concession landfilled Zhou Jingbang, plus the domestic garbage dumped by nearby residents later, the air was filled with a terrible smell, even if the weather gradually cooled down in October, it could not reduce the intensity of this smell.

However, this will be the place where Xizang Road and Yan'an Road will meet in the future, and the Great World will be built on this huge garbage heap.

The car continued north, turned west when it reached the intersection of Beihai Road, and then crossed Nichengbang at the end of Beihai Road from Nannicheng Bridge. Between the west bank of the mud city and the ring road of the racecourse, there is also a large area of abandoned land that no one cares about, as long as the mud city can be filled, this land is estimated to bring hundreds of times more profits. In Gao Yi's memory, Nichengbang should have been landfilled earlier than Pidgin, Zhoujing, Nichengbang, and Pidgin, which is the landfill order of the three boundary rivers of the concession in history. Zhou Jingbang has missed the opportunity to lay out in advance, and the remaining mud city and pidgin must not be let go, and after he has laid out, it is time to speed up the process of the two.

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In mid-October, the Shanghai Motorsport Federation held a series of closed-door meetings, after which all members agreed that Gao Yi would set up a fraternal club that would allow Chinese to join, and that the federation would accept members of the fraternal club to participate in the association's activities, but in exchange, the club's membership would have to be reviewed by a nine-member committee set up by the association. At the same time, all members of the General Association will automatically become members of this brotherhood club.

At the end of October, a new club called Huayang Automobile Association was established, and the club adopted a graded membership system, and the membership fee was divided into three grades: 50,000 taels, 10,000 taels, and 1,000 taels. One thousand taels is an associate member and can only participate in the activities of the Huayang Club; 10,000 taels of regular members, after being invited, will be eligible to participate in the activities of the Shanghai Racing Federation; The 50,000 taels of senior members are automatically eligible for the same status as members of the General Association of Motor Racing.

At the same time, Gao Yi's series of land acquisitions also kicked off, and silver poured out, but it was soon replenished by a steady stream of Huayang Club.