The news that a businessman surnamed Yan from Sichuan had spent millions of dollars to buy machinery from Jardine Matheson and return to Sichuan to build an industrial industry soon caused a sensation in Shanghai.

However, when the big leaders of the major foreign banks in Shanghai were angrily scolding their subordinates, and they didn't even notice such a large business, Zhang Jian, who was in Nantong, only sighed sadly when he learned the news, and then said quietly. "If only I could have been as rich as this businessman..."

There is another large industry in China, Zhang Jian is of course very happy, he just remembered the hard work of his early years when he was preparing for the Dasheng Yarn Factory...

When Zhang Jian built the Dasheng Yarn Factory in his early years, unlike later, he often broke his leg in order to raise thousands of taels of silver, and the ugly thing to say was that he was tired like his grandson, and the actual capital raised before the Dasheng Yarn Factory started was less than 200,000 taels.

And until the start of construction, Zhang Jian also spent "Chinese New Year's Eve" almost every day. He was in other places, and every time he received an urgent letter from Shen Jingfu, he was often at a loss, and from time to time he lamented in his memoirs that "fundraising through the factory has failed in success" and "fundraising through the factory has not been harmonious so far." He presided over Wenzheng Academy in Nanjing most of the time, relying on this salary to support his family, and in the more than four years of preparation, he did not use a penny of college students, and several other directors probably did the same.

When he was running in Shanghai at the most difficult time, he even reached the point where he didn't even have travel expenses, so he could only sell words on the street to raise travel expenses, but fortunately, he was born as a champion so that he didn't have to worry about not being able to sell...

"If I could have had so much money back then, no, as long as I could have 100,000 yuan, it wouldn't have been so hard..."

Just when Zhang Jian was thinking hard there, the shareholder who accompanied Zhang Jian to check the start of the factory spoke.

"Ji Zhi, this Huasheng company won't have any impact on us, right?"

Although Dasheng is no longer as embarrassed as when it first started, and all the capital together has exceeded one million, capital is not equal to capital, so they are still a little afraid of Yan Guang, who can take out more than one million yuan to build a factory at a time.

Looking at the worries on the faces of several shareholders, Zhang Jian smiled bitterly in his heart, but still spoke to reassure him.

"Don't worry, I've already sent someone to inquire, the main scope of this Huasheng company is Sichuan and several surrounding provinces, and it can't pose much of a threat to us."

"And what if he expands again?"

"Expansion?" Zhang Jian said with a smile. "Expansion is not just about buying machines, but also about the site, the plant, the installation of equipment, the training of employees, and the sales channels." As he spoke, Zhang Jian looked around at the female workers who were constantly producing cotton yarn. "One million pieces of equipment need at least five or six thousand people to get all of them running, and if you count the night shift workers, you're afraid you'll need tens of thousands. And if you want to train these workers, no matter how great the ability of this surnamed Yan is, I'm afraid it won't be until the Xinhai Year to complete the training..."

"As for the Xinhai year," Zhang Jian smiled proudly. His surname Yan may be very rich, but are we vegetarians? ”

"That's true." Thinking about the difficulties at the beginning of the business, and then thinking about Zhang Jian, who led them out of the difficulties, the worries in the hearts of several shareholders disappeared, and the smiles on their faces became more.

This is the difficulty of the shareholding system, although Zhang Jian is the founder and leader of Dasheng, and has a very high prestige in the company, but he needs to take care of the interests of shareholders and calm their tension in normal times.

Because shareholders will follow you when you can bring them benefits, and when you can't bring them benefits, such as in 1923, when Dasheng Company was in trouble, no matter how much benefit Zhang Jian had brought them, it was useless...

(However, the decline of Dasheng does have a lot to do with Zhang Jian, which Zhang Jizhi himself cannot deny.) ）

In contrast, Yan Guang is much easier, because the money for starting the factory is his own, and the entire Huasheng company is completely his, and he doesn't need to take care of anyone's emotions at all, everyone just needs to do what he wants.

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While Zhang Jian was smiling proudly in Dasheng's factory, Yan Guang was taking notes in the Shanghai police station, and the gray suit he was wearing had turned black because of the blood spatter.

About three hours ago, Yan Guang took Wang Er and them shopping in Shanghai, and was a little itchy to think about whether to visit some technical workers, after all, men have to learn bad when they are rich, and Yan Guang doesn't want to break the iron law in the mouths of women friends...

But the thief's heart was still defeated by the thief's courage after all, and just when Yan Guang was about to go back with a depressed face, five masked people suddenly rushed out from the corner, and one of them was still holding a revolver in his hand.

Before Wang Er and the others could react, the leader had already grabbed Yan Guang and shouted in his mouth. "Don't !! Move"

It's just that the word has just been exported, and the gun has not yet been pressed against Yan Guang's head, and Yan Guang, who has already reacted, fired five or six shots in a row with a shell gun against his stomach...

He probably didn't expect that a rich man like Yan Guang always carried two pistols with him, and he had killed several bandits on the Yangtze River.

At this time, Wang Er and the others also reacted, and hurriedly took out their pistols and shot at the remaining few people.

After a shootout, Wang Er's shoulder was shot again, and it happened to be the same position that Ruan Qi had hit, and one of the other two bodyguards was also wounded in the thigh, and Yan Guang was only splashed with blood by the leader.

And the five masked guys, although the head of the group expected that Yan Guang and his party would have guns, but they didn't expect that Yan Guang, as the boss, also had guns on him, and they were two shell guns, but they were shot five or six times in the stomach by Yan Guang and returned to the west, and there was also an accomplice who let Wang Er hit him in the thigh, and when he fell to the ground, he was shot in the head by Yan Guang.

Although the remaining three are all made in Hanyang, they are inferior to Yan Guang and their five shell guns in terms of firepower, but they are stronghold and they can't rush through Yan Guang, but after a stalemate for a while, Shanghai is the financial center of the Far East after all, so soon the police from the police station arrived and surrounded them.

The three guys were also single, and as soon as they saw that they were surrounded by the police, they threw away their guns and walked out with their heads in their hands.

Wang Er and the injured bodyguard were then taken to the hospital, while Yan Guang and another bodyguard went to the police station to take notes.

Because Yan Guang has the false title of the seventh grade, the police at the police station were also polite to Yan Guang, and when Yan Guang took out a hundred taels of silver tickets, these policemen were even more polite with tea and water...

Yan Guang paid the money here, and the police in charge of interrogation over there naturally redoubled their efforts, and they were soon sent over.

It turned out that these five people were just a gang of kidnappers, who often traveled around Shanghai to kidnap some rich people and then ask for ransom.

After observing for a few days, they found that Yan Guang and the others did not have a gun on their bodies (who had nothing to do to take out the pistol to show off), and they had been living in the room arranged by Jardine Matheson. Originally, if Yan Guang and the others were only active in Jardine Matheson, these guys didn't have the courage to do it, after all, the power of Jardine Matheson was not trivial in Shanghai, but after discovering that Yan Guang often went out, he ambushed the place where he would pass every time he went out.

In fact, they also thought that the three bodyguards were carrying pistols, so they thought about controlling Yan Guang first and letting them throw rat traps...

They just didn't expect that Yan Guang, as the boss, would actually like firearms, and would always carry two shell guns with him...

Because there are a lot of crimes committed by this gang, the final result can only be the death penalty, but Yan Guang doesn't care about this.

Although this incident did not bring any harm to Yan Guang, it reminded Yan Guang of a real example that had happened in history.

In 1946, Rong Desheng, who enjoyed the reputation of "flour king" and "textile king", was kidnapped in Shanghai, and the kidnapping happened at the door of Rong Desheng's house, and the kidnappers offered to extort millions of dollars, and finally the Rong family paid money to release him. (There is a theory that the Kuomintang did the kidnapping this time, because the bandits used the car of the Songhu Garrison Command and the "arrest warrant" of the Kuomintang Third Front Army Headquarters.) At that time, public opinion was in an uproar, believing that the military organs had colluded with the bandits to commit the crime, and the Shanghai authorities were forced to dispatch military police to "crack the case." As a result, Rong Desheng was released and part of the extorted money was returned. It is said that eight bandit leaders were also executed. The Rong family has paid more than $600,000 to "reward" the military and police authorities and relevant parties. ）

Although not many people know about Yan Guang's worth of tens of millions now, the whole of Shanghai knows about his millions, and the group of two hundred and five that he was lucky enough to meet this time may not be the next time...

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Ask for collections and tickets ~~~