That night, Zhang Tie asked Wang Yongan for leave, saying that he would come back early tomorrow morning and that he wanted to go home to see his parents, and Wang Yongan granted leave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After a night's rest, Zhang Tie came back and brought back his younger brother Zhang Xi, who was not as good as Zhang Tie in martial arts, but his personality was calmer than Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie said that his younger brother was unwilling to guard the braised meat shop at home to be a running boy, he hoped to achieve something in martial arts, Wang Yongan thought about it, and asked Zhang Xi to learn with Zhang Tie and be his own guard.

After Wang Yongan had breakfast, Wang Yongan explained to his wife that he would take his subordinates to the French Concession for inspection.

Yuan Nianzhen advised: "You have time to inform my second brother, I am very worried about him." Yuan Kewen has been staying in Shanghai since he left Henan Province in a negative mood, he is young and golden, his status is noble, he has learned calligraphy since childhood, he writes well, and his life is carefree. And Yuan Shikai also felt that he was not safe in Yu Province, the second son Yuan Kewen was having fun in Shanghai, which could be regarded as preserving the incense at home, if someone in the court made trouble, the descendants of the Yuan family would not be wiped out, so he let him go, and only let the housekeeper Yuan Naikuan remit enough money to Yuan Kewen every month, as for what Yuan Kewen was doing in Shanghai, the family did not know.

Wang Yongan nodded, promised that he would definitely go to Yuan Kewen when he was free, and then led his men to cross the boundary of the French Concession and came to the French Concession in Shanghai, which was later known as Huangpu District and Jing'an District. As for the county seat of Shanghai, it was the Luwan District of later generations, which was under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty at this time, and a patrol battalion was stationed to announce the Qing government's survival in Shanghai.

Later, after the British and the Americans negotiated, the Americans gave up the concession in China and merged into the Anglo-American Concession in 1862, which was later renamed the Public Concession. As a result, the Shanghai Concession is now roughly divided into two parts, one part of the public concession administered by the British, and the other part of the French concession administered by the French.

Because the British had a serious discriminatory policy against the Chinese in the process of governing the concession, they deliberately let the second-level colonies bully the third-level colonies, and let the third-level colonies bully the fourth-level colonies, in order to transfer the contradictions of the colonies, so the Chinese especially hated the Indian patrols and guards in the public concession, and also made the public concession rarely have Chinese rich people living in it.

The French governed the concession colonies in a diametrically opposed way to the British, and they applied the principle of low-level autonomy in the colonies around the world, with all the senior positions held by the French, but all the positions of contact with the people were held by natives. Therefore, in the French Concession, the French rely on the Chinese to govern the security and people's livelihood in the Concession, for example, the most famous inspector in the French Concession is the Qinggang boss Huang Jinrong.

Compared with the British using Indians to manage the Chinese, the French using the Chinese to manage the Chinese is obviously more clever, and a large number of Chinese people and wealthy people poured into the French Concession (later Huangpu District Jing'an District) to settle, so the French Concession area has always been the most prosperous and rich area of all the concessions.

The British were jealous, but they could not let go of the arrogance in their hearts to change their own methods, until the Japanese rose up and set up a "Japanese concession" in the public concession, and the British gradually changed their methods of managing the Shanghai concession and cultivated a large number of Chinese.

The French Concession was established in 1849, and the original area of the French Concession was only 986 acres, less than one square kilometer. In 1940, when Wang Zhaoming recovered all the concessions in Shanghai, the area of the French Concession had been expanded to 15,150 mu, and the reason was that in the past 100 years, the French Concession had expanded the concession three times.

The first expansion of the French Concession occurred in 1860, due to the Taiping Army's rebellion in Jiangnan, many wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the people from southern Jiangsu, poured into Shanghai, and the French took the opportunity to ask the Qing government to expand the boundary and expand the territory by 130 acres. The second expansion was when Cixi declared war on the foreign powers, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition army marched into Beijing, the French took the opportunity to expand by 1,112 acres. The third expansion was in 1914, when Yuan Shikai ascended the throne, and Yuan Shikai went on a large scale to arrest opponents, especially the Southern Revolutionary Party. In order to be able to send the police into the Shanghai Concession to arrest the **** hiding in the French Concession, Yuan Shikai secretly allowed the Shanghai Concession to expand, and the French Concession took the opportunity to expand the area of the concession to 15,150 acres, which was almost 15 times the area lost during the reign of the Qing government.

However, unlike the phenomenon of later generations, the people of Shanghai welcomed the expansion of the border, especially the expansion of the French Concession, which was strongly supported by the local people.

Unlike the British, who imposed cultural domination and the majesty of the British Empire when governing the Concession, the French pursued commercial interests on the one hand, and paid attention to enjoyment on the other hand, so they invested heavily in the construction of people's livelihood, and the French Concession gradually became the most prosperous commercial city in Shanghai.

At the end of 1909, the French Concession had not yet been expanded for the third time, but business in the French Concession was also very prosperous. Although it is Christmas in the West, for many Chinese people in the French Concession, today is a good day for them to sell to foreigners - foreigners especially like to spend money on Christmas.

Probably the French did not expect that their Christmas in the hands of the Chinese actually became a shopping street, full of shops open for business, full of snacks and snacks, French expatriates shopped the streets, talking and communicating with each other, and the entire French Concession was in a lively and festive atmosphere.

Due to the bullish stock market all the way now, a large number of wealthy Chinese investors have invested their money, gold and silver in stock speculation, resulting in a sharp drop in housing prices. So after looking around, he decided to invest in the French Concession real estate, in addition to some real estate, he was ready to buy idle land and build standard buildings for future generations.

Thinking of this, Wang Yongan wondered whether he wanted to register a trademark first, what Evergrande Real Estate, Greenland Real Estate, Vanke Real Estate, Poly Real Estate, China Overseas Real Estate, Country Garden Real Estate, R&F Real Estate...... However, after thinking about it, Wang Yongan still decided to forget it, or founded Yanghua Real Estate Group under the name of Yanghua, becoming the first predator in China's real estate.

After returning to the county seat, Wang Yongan couldn't help but be startled when he saw the soldiers of the patrol battalion standing outside the inn, so he hurriedly stepped forward for fear that Yuan Nianzhen would be hurt. It turned out that Wang Yongan brought a team of troops to the arrival, which attracted the attention of the Shanghai police station, and the investigation learned that the younger brother of Yangzhou Wang Xietong, known as Yangzhou Xiao Zhuge Wang Yongan, came to the county seat of Shanghai, and the county ordered Liu Yi to visit and ask Wang Yongan about the purpose of his trip to Shanghai.

Wang Yongan laughs and says that the purpose of his trip is only to buy some land in the French Concession, and of course, if possible, he also wants to buy some land on the outskirts of Shanghai County, such as the southwest section of the new French Concession in a few years. (i.e. the central areas of Putuo District, Changning District, and Xuhui District)

Liu Yi hurriedly asked the fourth prince why he was carrying a soldier's weapon, Wang Yongan retreated left and right, and said with a smile that he was just to protect his property. Liu Yi immediately nodded sympathetically, three years of Qing Governor's Mansion 100,000 snowflakes of silver, find more people to protect yourself to feel at ease, the fourth prince is understandable to do this.

Although Liu Yi is not a big corrupt official, but he has earned more than 100,000 taels of silver in these two years, and he is afraid that he will be robbed of silver taels every day, so he is open to Wang Yongan when he leads troops into the city.

Soon after Liu Yi said goodbye, he sent an invitation, and the person who sent the invitation said that the escort was also the former Shanghai Daotai Nie Jichun (same as the same rule), Wang Yong'an wanted Liu Yi to send an invitation on the front foot and the back foot, could it be that this Nie Jichun wanted to feast himself? It is unknown whether the invitation can be sent or not, Wang Yongan agreed with a smile, and said that he must go tonight.

Wang Yongan knows that this Nie Jichun is not an ordinary person in Shanghai, it can be said that in the Shanghai market at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Nie Jichun's reputation is known to everyone. This person was born in Hengyang, Hunan Province, not only the little son-in-law of Zeng Guofan, but also Li Hongzhang's right-hand man, successively served as the General Office of Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Songhu Daotai, Zhejiang Province Political Envoy, Jiangsu Province Political Envoy, Suzhou Province Governor, Hubei Province Governor, Anhui Province Governor, Zhejiang Province Governor, Shanghai Hengfeng Textile New Bureau.

Nie Jichun was in power when Li Hongzhang was in power, but after Li Hongzhang lost power due to the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Nie Jichun was immediately framed by political enemies, thanks to Li Hongzhang relying on his face to intercede in front of Cixi, he was lucky to escape with his life and was dismissed and went home. Nie Jichun learned from the pain of the court struggle, closed the door, and put forward a request to the descendants of the Nie family the next day, and from now on, the Nie family will never be an official.

Nie Jichun was not far from contact with officialdom, so he moved to the French Concession, but because Hengfeng Textile Factory is in the county seat of Shanghai, it often travels between the concession and the county, and now that he is older, his third son Nie Yuntai presides over the Hengfeng Textile Factory of the Nie family.

was expected by Wang Yongan, and the reason why Liu Yi entertained Wang Yongan in the evening was in response to Nie Yuntai's request, and Liu Yi was the east, and Wang Yongan's Yanghua Garment Factory could cooperate with Hengfeng Textile Factory to deal with the impact of Japanese textiles on the country.

Wang Yongan didn't know Nie Yuntai, but he had also heard of his name, Nie Yuntai strictly followed the family motto and was not an official all his life, but he was indeed the first person in China's machinery manufacturing, he cooperated with Zhang Qian and Huang Yunqi to create the first and largest machinery manufacturing plant in the Republic of China China Iron Works, starting from the copycat Toyota-style automatic textile machine, and gradually improved. Because the quality is comparable to similar products in Japan, the price is moderate, the textile is easy to obtain, the transportation is convenient and time-saving, and the factory abides by the contract, and the yarn mills across the country have come to purchase. During the Anti-Japanese Period, Nie Yuntai's Shanghai factory was occupied by Japan, but at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the factory was occupied by the bigwigs, and the Nie family appealed in many ways but was never able to get back the property of the Nie family.