On January 1, 1935, the Red Army forcibly crossed the Wujiang River. On the 15th, the Zunyi Conference was held, and the Chinese revolution began to take on a new look. On the same day, the Japanese army created the "Chadong Incident", forcing the Qingbai Party to give up most of the sovereignty of Hebei and Chahar.

The masterminds of the Chato incident were Kenji Dohihara and Mijiro Umezu.

Kenji Dohihara was a Japanese army general and spy chief, and was convicted of a "Class A war criminal" in 1948 and the first to be hanged.

Umezu Mijiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army, was also convicted of a "Class A war criminal", but only to life imprisonment, and died of cancer in Tokyo in 1949.

At the beginning of January 1935, managers at all levels under the Qin family came to the demon capital to report on their work.

Qin Di and Yan Xue received them respectively and asked about the company's development status, what gratifying progress there was, and what were the major difficulties.

When Qin Di met with Zhu Shi, the manager of Qin's grain store, he specially instructed him to build a granary in Kunming.

Zhu Shi was a little puzzled, because Qin's grain store was mainly laid out along the Yangtze River, and there were several branches along the Yellow River, but except for Hancheng, the other branches were very small.

"Eldest young master, tell me, why do you want to go to Kunming? Kunming is not close to the sea, nor is it connected to waterways, so it is not easy to transfer grain!"

Qin Di said: "Take the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and spend money to let the Railway Bureau transport grain." ”

Zhu Shi was a little embarrassed: "That will cost a lot of money, and this business will definitely lose money." ”

Qin Di was silent for a moment and said, "I have to do it at a loss, at least reserve 500,000 tons of grain there!"

Zhu Shi gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll figure it out." ”

During the Republic of China, Kunming was a very strange city, and the railway did not connect the country to the outside world. There is only one meter track leading to Vietnam, which is known as one of the "Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan".

However, because of this, Kunming became the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, and many factories, enterprises, banks, and schools were relocated, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Nankai.

Qin Di felt that since there was still time and money, he should take precautions and make some preparations.

But he couldn't say what he thought in detail, so in Zhu Shi's opinion, this was pure madness!

Zhu Shi is Zhu Wan's distant cousin, and he can't bear to see the Qin family lose money, so he secretly went to Qin Hancheng: "The eldest young master wants to come out of it, and you don't care about him, Master Qin." ”

Qin Hancheng had already thought about it, he was too lazy to care about these little things!

He waved his hand at Zhu Shi: "Whatever he tosses." Old Zhu, you are not too young! You can retire and rest! Isn't your eldest son Zhu Jian also in the grain store? You are ready to let him take over!"

Qin Han can't manage other companies, but he has a strong control over Qin's grain store, because he founded it single-handedly and spent a lot of effort, so he is unwilling to let go completely.

Qin's grain store is different from other enterprises, it does not have too high technical content, and the grain import has long been arranged by the American "skyfood" company. You don't need to hire college graduates as managers, as long as you have a flexible mind and a reliable character.

Zhu Jian has been working in the grain industry for six or seven years, and in the eyes of Qin Hancheng, he can be regarded as a smart and capable young man.

January 12, Laba Festival.

Qin Hanliang invited Qin Hancheng and Qin Di to the banquet.

There were only six people present, including Qin Di's three cousins. Neither women nor the third generation are eligible to participate.

Qin Hanliang's illness has been cured, and his face has a little luster.

He opened his mouth and smiled: "I originally invited the third child, but who knows that the third child went to Japan, what is going on? Could it be that he was abducted by his mother-in-law?"

Qin Hancheng didn't know the real purpose of the third child's trip to Japan, so he was quite worried, and said: "I will persuade him to go back, now that the relationship between China and Japan is tense, if he always runs to the east, he will either be arrested by the Japanese military, or scolded by the Chinese people as a traitor, then it will lose the face of our Qin family." ”

In his opinion, the Qin family is no longer short of money, and more importantly, it has a good reputation.

Qin Di smiled and said, "Dad, the third uncle is in his fifties, and you still need to take care of his affairs?"

Qin Han admitted: "Hmph, no matter how old you are, it's also my younger brother!

Qin Di didn't say much, because the people present were all businessmen, and they didn't have any family and country affairs in their hearts, and if they said it rashly, it was likely to hurt Qin Hanxu.

The three cousins sat opposite, looking at Qin Di with mixed feelings.

Earlier, the boss Qin Mu was taken away from Mingzhou Home Textiles, and his hatred for Qin Di was unbearable, but later he heard that Mingzhou Home Textiles doubled its capital in Qin Di's hands, introduced a lot of new machines, and increased the output by three times, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At the same time, Qin Di took 42% of the shares of Cathay Pacific Cinema and gave it to the uncle, who handed over the cinema to Qin Mu to manage.

In this way, Qin Mu has become the boss again, although the number of people under him has been greatly reduced, but there is light on his face when he says it, plus he still holds the 800,000 oceans distributed to him by his father, he is cautious, and has never found a good way to invest, and now it has inexplicably appreciated greatly, almost becoming 800,000 US dollars, which is a good thing that fell from the sky!

Because of this, his hatred for Qin Di dissipated a lot.

The same is true of the third Qin Bo, he deposited 800,000 yuan in Siming Bank, and did nothing, relying on the appreciation of the silver dollar, so that the family's assets increased by two or three times!

The most unlucky thing is the second Qin Jian, he did the opposite, he thought he was smart, so he bought real estate, and all of them were real estate on the north bank of Suzhou Creek! After the appreciation of the silver dollar, the price of real estate went down, and those real estate has lost 30%!

Therefore, Qin Jian complained to his eldest brother and brother a lot, saying that he was too unlucky.

This time, he spoke again at the wine table: "Well, why am I so unlucky?

Qin Di thought to himself: "There are only two years left before the Japanese fully invade China, and I can't watch them fall into the mud pit." ”

So he spoke: "There are no outsiders here, let's talk behind closed doors." Don't say a word when you go out!"

At this time, Qin Di controlled the huge family property, and his speech was more than Qin Hancheng, so everyone listened attentively.

Qin Hanliang said: "Ah Di, I know that you have a wide range of knowledge, and you are much better than a few of them. If anything, just say it. I'm not dead yet, and the Qin family hasn't dispersed yet. If anyone goes out and talks nonsense, I don't recognize this son!"

Qin Mu, Qin Jian, and Qin Bo all nodded: "Brother, you say, let's all listen." ”

Qin Di said: "You all know that the Japanese have occupied Northeast China, and have occupied most of Hebei and Chahar, as well as a part of Shandong, plus Taiwan, what has become of our China?"

Although it is said that all of you here are businessmen, and you don't pay much attention to national affairs on weekdays, but hearing Qin Di say this, I don't feel good in my heart.