As of March 1929, the assets controlled by Qin Di were mainly divided into the following categories.

The first category is pharmaceutical-related enterprises.

The first is the Cathay Pacific Pharmaceutical Factory and Pharmaceutical Marketing Company, which are the main force that makes money, making tens of millions of profits every year.

It is followed by the Institute of Medicine, Ci'an Surgical Hospital and Ci'an Medical College. The institute invests a lot of money, but the patents it develops make a lot of money; the annual profit of the surgical hospital is controlled below 15%, and all the money earned is used for its own maintenance and expansion; and the school loses money, losing more than one million yuan a year.

Finally, there are medical device factories, which produce gauze, bandages, and surgical tools, and do not make money for the time being.

The second type is the Qin's grain store supervised by Qin Hancheng, which grows at a profit rate of 10% every year, which is not high, mainly to lower the price of grain, which is equivalent to doing good in a certain sense.

The third category is EMI Records and Li Jinhui's "Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe". The record company is managed by Zhou Tianlin, and there are three platinum albums to support the scene, "Words to the Evening", "Night Shanghai", and "The Ballad of the Great Wall", which will be prosperous for a long time, and can be sold no matter how many copies are released. Therefore, Qin Di rarely goes to the Little Red Mansion, and only shows up when he is filling records. As for the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, he just invested a sum of money and did not interfere with the operation of the song and dance troupe, and it didn't matter if he made money or not.

The fourth category is real estate in the magic capital, which is a big investment because it has been increasing over the years, and the scale has become larger and larger.

Since the end of the First World War, most countries around the world have been in a peaceful era, and there are many people who want to do business and make a lot of money.

And in this part of China, the French Concession and public rent in the magic capital, similar to a country within a country, a paradise, has a rapid population growth, and housing prices have risen all the way, tripling compared to ten years ago.

Because Qin Di started early, he had insight into business opportunities in advance and seized a lot of good places. Many prosperous areas have the capital of the Qin family behind them.

For example, there are more than 30 dance halls in the magic capital, of which five properties are owned by the Qin family, and three of the land belong to the Qin family.

In the twenties and thirties, the magic capital, known as the "Paris of the East", foreigners came and went, and mainlanders also flocked over, the lights were bright, the paper was drunk and golden, and the singing and dancing were leveled, so people like Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong liked to open dance halls, and some national officials also liked to open dance halls for parties and exchanges.

To open a dance hall, you need to have a big house, a large area, and it must be in the downtown area.

Some people took a fancy to a suitable venue, but after inquiring left and right, they learned that it belonged to the Qin family.

Qin Di has two real estate managers, one is called "You Long", who was introduced by Du Yuesheng and has a background in the Green Gang, so he took such a nickname;

To be honest, Qin Di only needs to hold the deed and title deed in his hand, and he doesn't care too much about whether he wants to rent it out or build a house on vacant land.

But the two managers were not, they felt that this was a big business and needed to be tossed, so as early as three years ago, they applied for a fund with Qin Di, and they tried to build a building in a prosperous place, and then rented it out, and several of them were used to open a dance hall.

For this reason, Qin Di is equivalent to the boss behind the scenes, and if he appears in the dance hall, he is called "Qin Ye" by people in the underworld. Qin Di was twenty-nine years old, and he had already become a "master".

And his father is different, even if Qin Hancheng appears in the dance hall, no one will go up to the pole to chase him.

Because Qin Di told You Long and Zhang Bin early on, don't report the matter of operating real estate to Qin Hancheng. Because Qin Hancheng is old, he is close to sixty years old, and too much management is not conducive to health and longevity. Moreover, the people who run the dance hall are not good things, either gang gangsters or corrupt officials of the government, these people are not easy to approach.

Qin Di didn't want his father to be hurt. He doesn't care about himself, he's bored all day long, and he can't wait to fight with people.

Sometimes, Qin Yue would also go dancing with a group of literati.

Sometimes, Qin Di would also take Yan Xue in for a spin.

In these years, there were many dancing girls in the magic capital, and the total number was at least two or three thousand.

Dancers are the product of ballroom dancing introduced to Middle-earth, without ballroom dance, there would be no ballroom, and without ballroom, there would be no dancer.

Before the emergence of dancing girls, those who sold their bodies were prostitutes, and those who sold their bodies were also tricks, collectively known as "merchant girls".

Dancers make a career out of their waists, not directly selling their bodies. Of course, there are also meat sellers.

When ballroom dancing first entered the magic capital, it was always popular in foreigners' nightclubs and clubs, and it was a kind of entertainment that was quite distant from the life of the Chinese.

In 1922, Yipinxiang Hotel held a "ballroom tea dance" modeled on foreigners, without selling tickets, and the participants were all dignitaries, which opened the prelude to the ballroom dance of Chinese in the magic capital.

In the second half of 1927, the Paris Ballroom, a commercial dance hall with dancers to accompany dancers, opened, attracting fashionable young men and women because of its magnificent decoration.

In view of the booming business of dance halls, the Chinese people competed to set up dance halls, and dance halls such as Dahua, Xinxin, Juelu, and Yuegong rose rapidly, and in less than a year in April 1928, they had reached more than 30, among which the Moon Palace and Juelu were opened on the territory of the Qin family.

The economic income of dancers far exceeds that of other female practitioners.

In 1928, an article in the "Declaration" recorded the income of ordinary dancers: "According to the income survey of dancers, they can earn at least four or five yuan per night and the dance hall, ranging from one or two hundred yuan to one or twenty yuan. ”

The economic income of an ordinary dancer can not only enable herself to live the life of a modern woman, but also have the ability to improve the life of her family.

This was still at the end of the 20s, and in a few years, the income of dancers would increase several times.

The high income of dancers not only attracted ordinary family girls, but also led female film actors, high-class prostitutes and schoolgirls to join the dance hall as dancers. For example, Li Lina, a popular dancer in the magic capital, was born as a movie star, "I was an actor in Guoguang Film Company at the beginning, and my films have achieved good results." Guoguang stopped production and reverted to becoming a star actor, and then entered Juelu as a dancing star". Dancing star Huang Xiuying is a high-level prostitute who turned around.

Not only did the girls in Qinglou want to be dancers, but also some high-level students in famous girls' middle schools were willing to get off the dance floor, becoming one of the sources of dancers in the late twenties. Juelu dance star Li Xiangbin is a highly talented student of the patriotic girls' school; Parisian dance star Xu Xiaoman is a highly talented student of Zhende Girls' School.

Being a dancer is not an easy thing to do. Circling among the dignitaries and nobles, literati and foreigners from all over the world, being a dancer requires some housekeeping skills: in addition to dancing, she must also be able to speak foreign languages, understand Western etiquette, be able to ride horses, swim, play tennis, and so on. In addition to being proficient in these Western affairs, having a deep foundation in Chinese culture and being able to talk about lyrics and poetry while dancing with guests is also a skill that dancers must master.

Qin Di entered the dance hall, not to dance, but to get information.

Because foreign foreigners, government officials, the Big Red Party, the Qingbai Party, and people from the three religions and nine streams, all come to the dance hall to join in the fun, relying on people to come and go, cover their identities, and better convey information.

Qin Di's ears are very sensitive and can listen to all sounds, so he gets a lot of information.

Sometimes, he even heard the members of the Great Red Party secretly deliberating on how to get rid of the traitors.

Sometimes, he can also hear that the Qingbai Party members collude with each other to manipulate stock prices, or coerce and induce others to embezzle other people's properties.