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"Compared with a year ago, since the beginning of the Second Northern Expedition last year, down-and-out politicians and landlords in the north have flocked to the French Concession, which is a self-contained country within a country, and has regarded the self-contained French Concession as a place of difficulty

Before He Jing's Oriental Xinran Society moved in, he bought the most luxurious baroque three-storey villa in the community as an office building, and the surrounding two independent courtyards with two-story houses became the department, the printing house and the workers' dormitory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Ministry of Industry of the French Concession, which judged the situation and saw the rich and literati who bought the real estate in the community, immediately convened a board meeting, and decided to expand the central street of the community, renovate and add 16 European-style villas with gardens in the community, and at the same time suddenly doubled the price of the real estate.

After the completion of the wide and flat main street and the greening on both sides, not many buyers came to inquire, and the directors of the Ministry of Industry felt that the price might be set high, and the network demolished most of the old buildings and courtyards on both sides of the entire central street, and there was not enough construction funds without the high payment of buyers. In May last year, the Ministry of Industry had to hold another board meeting to reduce the purchase price by 20 percent, and at the same time, it also revised the deposit clause of paying half of the property price in advance, and the deposit was also reduced to 30 percent.

The resolution of the board of directors was reported on the website, and a wealthy man named Chen Yu in Nanjing came to negotiate and bought the real estate of the six units of the foundation laid on the opposite side of the newspaper in one go, and then Zhou Chong'an, the general manager of the famous Jiangnan Enterprise Group, accompanied by the French consul in Shanghai, came to buy the three properties under construction on the left and left sides of the newspaper in one go, and asked to merge the two properties on the left side of the newspaper office facing the small garden in the center of the street into one, and build a baroque three-story western-style building covering an area of 500 square meters in a space of nine acres. Two more annexes, garages, and front and rear gardens for handymen were built. The magnificent granite gate stone pillar has the word "Yi Yuan" underneath, promising to immediately pay the full amount of the three properties with a total price of 1.1 million yuan, but it is required to be completed within half a year.

Seeing that it was profitable, the authorities of the French Concession immediately agreed, organized the best designers to transfer the best construction companies to undertake the construction, and vigorously publicized Zhou Chong'an's generosity in the newspapers.

The Ministry of Industry was shocked and regretted, so it could only decide to demolish and expand the northwest of Xincun again to meet the needs of the rich and speculators who flocked to China and Shanghai, and made a lot of money, but it was much worse than Chen Yu and Zhou Chongan. The new western-style building network was capped, and Chen Yu immediately sold the six properties under his name, and immediately earned back Zhou Chongan's 1.1 million investment, so Zhou Chongan and An Yi both had their own concession properties, and An Yi's industry was called "Yi Yuan". The three-story garden house on the right side of the newspaper office belongs to Zhou Chong'an and is named "Anyuan." ”

Inspired by Zhou Chong'an's shrewdness and influence, the French Concession authorities named the beautiful 100-meter central street of Anhe New Village as "Jiangnan Road", which has become a small legend of Greater Shanghai.

At the breakfast table, Gong Qian and Ye Qing, who were in Shanghai for an interview, listened to He Jing's introduction and were full of admiration, the two beauties didn't expect that the luxurious "Yi Garden" where they are now would be like this. Ye Qing praised Zhou Chong'an's business acumen, and said that it was no wonder that Feng Jingyao, a wealthy man in Shanghai and a veteran of the Qinghong Gang, was ready to marry his precious granddaughter to him.

An Yi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that it was not a taste in his heart: "The granddaughter of Old Feng's predecessors? Is Sister Qing talking about Miss Feng Jieyun? ”

"No, Jieyun.com has not been studying in the UK for a long time, how is it possible? It is Jieyun's cousin Jieqiong, two and a half years older than Jieyun, tall, beautiful, gentle and virtuous, stayed in the United States at the age of seventeen, obtained a master's degree in the West, and met Zhou Chong'an at the Shanghai social meeting when he returned from studying in the UK.

Ye Qingmei said with a fluttering eyebrow.

An Yile said: "No wonder Lao Zhou said that Mr. Feng wants to see me, the Feng family and our Jiangnan Group's business contacts are getting closer and closer, it seems that Miss Feng Jieyun's father is in charge of the family business, he asked me to visit if I have time, I still want to take some time to go tomorrow after today's wedding, and it's good to take a look at Lao Zhou's beauty, haha!" ”

"Look at you like this, do you also want to be the Feng family's golden beetle son-in-law?" Ye Qing asked half-truthfully, staring at the apricot eyes.

Everyone laughed, and An Yi shook his head thoughtfully: The little brother is a person who has passed through the flowers, and the leaves do not touch his body! Pure white people, although the younger brother despises the suspected eunuch Liu Xia Hui who claims to be undisturbed, and also despises Liang Shanbo, who has been a classmate for three years and pretends not to know that Zhuo Bian's friend is his daughter, but the idol of the younger brother who thinks he is still a righteous gentleman is Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, hehe."

The hall burst into laughter, Gong Qian was also happy to cover her lips, laughing violently, Ye Qing took off the boiled carnation in the small vase in front of her and threw it to An Yi's shelter, hugging Gong Qian beside her and laughing, Chen Jianxuan laughed and hurriedly said that he wanted to publish An Yi's words on the entertainment page of the newspaper, indicating that An Yi said it, An Yi hurriedly asked Chen Jianxuan to stop and must not come nonsense, otherwise it will affect the glorious image too much. A cheeky quip once again caused everyone to laugh.

An Yi suddenly remembered the song called "Farewell My Concubine", then thought of related movies and the current film industry, motioned everyone not to laugh, and turned to He Jing and his assistant, Chen Jianxuan, the former current political news reporter of Shanghai "Times" and now the editor-in-chief of "Oriental News":

"Lao He, Jianxuan, what is the current popularity of Shanghai's telegraph industry and phonographs?

He Jing and the delicate and elegant Chen Jianxuan looked at each other for a moment, and immediately guessed An Yi's thoughts, He Jing said that he was too busy to pay attention to it recently, and asked Chen Jianxuan to introduce to An Yi:

"Go home to the cinema every day to show some silent films are full, business is quite good, the ticket price for watching foreign movies has risen from six jiao three years ago to one yuan five jiao or even two yuan, and now a load of rice on the beach is only eight yuan, which is profitable! I heard that Mr. Du Yuesheng also has plans to invest in films, Star Film Company launched a "Burning Red Lotus Temple" online last year, and the time when the film was on the film was terrible, and five or six people were trampled on and seriously injured on the first day of buying tickets, but compared with foreign films, our film production level and interpretation level are very low in all aspects. As for the phonograph, the popularity is quite fast, Germany, the United States imported machines have, the record has Europe and the United States and Japan "Saki's and Taiwan Nichi Trading Co., Ltd.'s production, since last year, Taiwan's record sales are very large, there are Peking opera, Yue opera, Hokkien opera, quite popular, our newspaper reporter has investigated the popularity of radio, feel that the popularity of the phonograph is not slow, but at present they all rely on imports, the price is expensive, not to mention, Chinese records are still very few, the upper class likes European and American piano music. ”

An Yi looked at the gold-carved ceiling stupidly, and didn't speak for a long time, Ye Qing couldn't help but shout loudly: "Hey! What's the matter with you? Silly?

An Yi lowered his head and glanced around, turned to He Jing and Chen Jianxuan and asked, "Lao He, Jianxuan, immediately organize manpower to carry out an in-depth investigation of the film industry, the market penetration rate of phonographs and records, and radios, as well as exhibition trends, and the investigation report must be handed over to Lao Zhou within a month."

At present, the production plant and workshop of the radio manufacturing plant have been built in the old Nanchang, and the introduction of manufacturing equipment and technology by Mr. Ou came to the United States to negotiate, and it is estimated that it can be introduced in April, and it is recommended to do it in June at the latest.

Since the Zhonghuo government has clearly stipulated last year that no individual or foreign institution can engage in radio, broadcasting and other business operations in China, I will open a radio broadcasting station in the name of the Jiangxi provincial government, and the central government's approval is by no means a problem, we must not only shrug our own newspapers, but also have our own voices, we have resources in both aspects, we can share Everyone looked at Ai Yi in shock, An Yi wiped his hands and continued: "I have always had the plan to build a film company, and also prepare to build a record company to make Chinese movies, Propagating the moral concepts of the Chinese people and showing the world the 5,000-year-old civilization and the national spirit of the Chinese people is an important political task, and it is also a major force for us to occupy the national film and record market and win high profits.

If you are willing, I want to put the film company under the management of your news agency, this is a shortcut to make money quickly, I will quietly invest in you, you only need to set up a catty, film institutions, and Lao Zhou, Mr. Ou to contact the introduction of equipment, the talent of the film company you can find it back by yourself, it is really not good, you can also hire from Europe, America and Shanghai Tang Belarus, and at the same time you can send outstanding artistic young people out for further study, and slowly cultivate their own talents, if there is no script, I can write more than a dozen or twenty for you, there are more than a dozen of them on the theme of the Northern Expedition alone, not to mention those dramas that cry and cry, a collection of short stories that Sister Qing is writing can be made into several movies, including everyone here, as long as they are willing to appear in movies, they are all talents, how about it? ”

There was silence in the spacious and elegant restaurant, no one expected An Yi to suddenly propose such a huge plan, Ye Qing was even more surprised, everyone looked at An Yi, they all felt breathless, and they didn't know how to answer An Yi's question for a while.

He Jing took a deep breath and turned to Chen Jianxuan: "Jianxuan, you are more familiar with this aspect than we all, and several young reporters under your command who are in charge of the entertainment page like to sing and dance, and like to catch up with fashion, if you want, take over this arduous task, I will let Liu Hong follow you for a while, if you decide to come down, let Liu Hong take over your current position and work, and you will open up a new career, how about it?" ”

Chen Jianxuan hesitated, stood up and walked to the bright and wide floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the scenery outside the window for five or six minutes, returned to his position and sat down, and looked at An Yi with blazing eyes: "If the boss can be trusted, Jianxuan will go all out!" ”

"Deal! Jian Xuan, your name will go down in history from this, haha! An Yi laughed heartily: "Sister, Sister Qing, let's go shopping, haha, Lao Shen, prepare the car!" ”

"Yes!"