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July 1926.

In one of the city's most palatial mansions, a lavish reception is taking place. This is the Lu family, the richest businessman in Malaya and perhaps in the whole of Southeast Asia, at a banquet for the national political axe delegation.

The reception was placed in the garden of the Lu family's mansion, looking at the past, the courtyard was spacious, and the building was luxurious and exquisite. Coconut groves dot the lawns around. A colorful parasol was spread out in all directions, and the neatly dressed local Nanyang ladies and gentlemen were already standing and waiting on the lawn. Dining tables have been set up. The chef in a white top hat stood with his chest protruding. The servant in a white shirt and holding a wine tray also bent slightly to wait. Seeing the arrival of the delegation, there was a round of warm applause.

The sun is shining, the green shadows are swaying, the ladies are colorful, and it has the style of a European-style social drinking party, but most of the characters here are yellow-skinned and black-eyed Chinese children.

Since the death of Huang Zhonghan in Semarang, Indonesia, the Huang family has been oppressed by the Indonesian Dutch colonial authorities, and has now lost its status as the richest man in the South Seas. The Lu family, which was close to the British colonial authorities in Malaya, became more prosperous after Lu You's death. Today's cocktail party was invited by Lu You's three sons, Yun Huai, Yun Yi, and Yun Tao.

Speaking of this cocktail party, it was really unexpected, and the original delegation had no intention of meeting with these rich people in Nanyang. The activities of the Kuomintang in Nanyang have always been operated by the veteran faction, and they have little to do with the two rising stars of Lao Chiang and Luo Yaoguo, who are relatively close to the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium. It's just that last night, Tan Kah Kee's relative, Chen Liu, a wealthy businessman who runs a rubber plantation in Nanyang, suddenly came to visit Lao Jiang and Luo Yaoguo on the Princess Mary, and made an invitation on behalf of the Malayan Chinese Chamber of Commerce......

Luo Yaoguo is wearing a silk caftan today, and next to him is Natalie who is wearing a Chinese-style cheongsam without makeup and a plain face. Comrade Lesinskaya. Natalie's main purpose in dressing up like this is to avoid robbing some noble but not ...... The limelight of a particularly beautiful royal sister.

Sister Song is naturally the most fond of this kind of European-style social activity, I saw her wearing a small flower umbrella, wearing silk hollow gloves, wearing a silk long skirt, and holding a small fan decorated with tassels in her hand. A group of celebrities and noblewomen, dragging the bald old Jiang around him to shuttle through the crowd, communicating and chatting with those high-level Chinese people in fluent English.

"General Luo Fuwen." A dark and thin middle-aged man, wearing a straight dress and a ribbon issued by the British colonial authorities, appeared in front of Luo Yaoguo, and nodded slightly at him: "The contemptible person is Lu Yunhuai, I am honored to meet General Fuwen." ”

Luo Yaoguo hurriedly turned around and glanced at the other party with a smile: "It's also an honor to meet the major shareholder of China Railway Company here." ”

China Railway Co., Ltd. is a large consortium that monopolizes the construction of the entire South China Railway, and the current general manager is Tan Kah Kee. Tan Kah Kee is a wealthy overseas Chinese businessman in Malaya, with a net worth of more than 10 million yuan, and the Lu family is said to be ten times richer than him! The wealth of this Nanyang Chinese...... It's immeasurable. Like Chen Jiageng, the Lu family was also a sponsor of Sun Yat-sen's revolution, so Li Sodang could also enjoy the "revolutionary dividend" and invested in a railway company with a lot of money.

"General Fuwen, a few friends and I hope to talk to the general alone, we want to know about the issue of investing in steel plants, I don't know if we can ......"

Lu Yunhuai smiled slightly, looked at Luo Yaoguo and didn't say any more.

If South China is still in a situation of division and chaos, and these capitalists are absolutely unwilling to invest, it is simply risking their lives. Capital has always sought profit and hedged against risks, and now that the rule of the Kuomintang in the south has been stabilized, a large number of construction projects have been started in a hurry, and the profits of this steel plant have naturally rolled in. How can this Nanyang capitalist not be hot?

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In a luxurious and comfortable living room of the Lu family's mansion, a few cups of tea wafted with the changing aroma of Yuanna. Luo Yaoguo, Chiang Kai-shek, and Song Meiling are now sitting leisurely and contentedly, the three brothers of the Lu family, the owners of the Lu house, the Huang brothers from Lanyin, Hu Wenhu, a wealthy businessman from Malaya, and Chen Liuzhi, who invited the delegation to come, are also sitting in a staggered manner.

While sipping fragrant tea, Luo Yaoguo looked at the Nanyang tycoons sitting in anticipation, and secretly estimated their worth in his heart. Nowadays, this Nanyang tycoon is the real capitalist! Big Rich. The "national capitalists" in China are, well, basically at the level of "small owners". I heard that in the previous life, when the great god divided the family after seizing power, he could get a capitalist's hat with 2,000 yuan of capital to leave a disaster to his descendants. And who is sitting here who is not worth 20 million? The three brothers of the Lu family, each of whom is estimated to be worth tens of millions of coins, add up to more than 100 million. It's almost equivalent to hundreds of millions of fiat currency, right? The pair of Huang brothers, although they are now "broken", still have a net worth of hundreds of millions of guilders. There are also several people surnamed Zhang who are said to be the proprietors of Changyu wine, and their family had a net worth of 80 million taels of silver in the former Qing Dynasty, which is more than the annual financial income of the Manchu court...... How much do they plan to invest this time?

A room of bureaucrats and capitalists chatted and laughed for a while, and it was Lu Yunhuai, the head of the Lu family, who first went straight to the topic. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was fluent in official dialect, without a trace of Cantonese accent: "We discussed it and felt that the domestic environment is much better now than in the past, and we can do some business." It's just that...... At present, many good investment projects have been monopolized by your Ministry of Armaments, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Communications, and it seems that we businessmen do not have a part in the fundraising except for a few government-run enterprises. This is not conducive to absorbing investment, and it is also inconsistent with the practice of the great powers. ”

Listening to the other party's words, Luo Yaoguo was secretly happy in his heart, and now the ones that are monopolized by the national political axe are some heavy industry projects. In fact, it is not that the political axe wants to monopolize, but that those "small owners" in China do not have the strength to invest. At that time, the wealthy businessmen in Nanyang were not interested in this kind of heavy industry, and now they probably see good investment prospects, right?

"I don't know, what projects do you want to invest in?" Lao Jiang smiled slightly, and interjected first.

Lu Yunhuai exchanged glances with the two brothers, and replied with a smile: "We want to invest in China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., but instead of taking one or two percent of the shares, we ...... Holding. We intend to invest £20 million to become the controlling shareholder of the company, and we will run the steel company in the future. I wonder if you can agree? ”

It turns out that the vision of these wealthy businessmen in Nanyang is excellent, and in the next ten or even twenty years, it will inevitably be the first in the construction of the southern country, and the demand for steel is naturally extremely high, so there is no need to worry about not making money. In contrast, the rubber and sugar industries in the South Seas are saturated and suppressed by the colonial authorities, and they are no longer as lucrative as they used to be.

As soon as Lu Yunhuai spoke, the room suddenly fell silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on Luo Yaoguo. These businessmen have already inquired clearly, whether Lao Jiang said this matter or not, the Ministry of Armaments has always been controlled by the Luo family.

Twenty million pounds! That's 80 million US dollars, nearly 300 million fiat currency! With this money, the capital of the steel company will be close to 500 million yuan! More than the total capital of the steel industry, these overseas Chinese are really rich! The Kuomintang is capitalist here, so naturally it doesn't care about private holdings, the question is ...... There are a lot of investment in special steel projects that are slow to produce results, are these capitalists willing to invest?

Probably seeing Luo Yaoguo's thoughts, Lu Yunhuai smiled and said: "If General Fuwen is worried that no one will do those special steel projects with huge investment, then it will be easy to do, we can sign an agreement with the Ministry of Armaments, and take out 30% of the annual pre-tax profits as a military steel investment fund, and the specific investment will be instructed by the Ministry of Armaments, and we will be responsible for the operation." If...... Exceeding this fund, the Ministry of Armaments is required to provide a subsidy of 20% of the total investment, so that we can do it at a loss. Is this okay? ”