Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

In October, Li Zhaoye from Modern Department Store came to report his funeral. His elder brother Lee Shau Kee died of illness in Guangzhou at the age of 66. Modern Department Stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong were closed for three days to express their condolences.On behalf of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Luo Xiazhi attended his funeral and sent a wreath.

After the funeral, Luo Yunze and Luo Xiazhi went to Li's house to mourn.Located on Jinling Road, this garden house full of tropical Nanyang style has lost the colorful flowers of the past and the fragrance of southern flowers, and is submerged in a piece of sad white.

In addition to his younger brother Li Zhaoye, the mourner also has Li Zhaoji's eldest son, Li Tianen.

This is not the first time this 40-year-old middle-aged man has met the two Luo brothers.Before Luo Xiazhi visited Hong Kong, he met him several times in the old house of the Li family in Hong Kong.

Luo Xiazhi has always been deeply impressed by this brown-skinned, short and lean young master Li who always looks energetic.

I saw Mr. Li kneeling on the futon today. Although his father has just lost his father, he seems to be in good spirits.Because he was wearing a white mourning dress, he looked even darker and stronger.

Because his father and uncle were on the same level as Luo Xiazhi, Li Tianen had to treat Luo Xiazhi, who was a round younger than him, as a nephew.

"When my father's funeral is over, my nephew will definitely come to visit."

Sending Luo Yunze and Luo Xiazhi out, Li Tianen said politely and courteously.

On the return journey, Luo Yunze rubbed his temples and closed his eyes wearily.He had just finished a three-month tour of Europe.As soon as I came back, I met the funeral of my old opponent, and I was inevitably a little depressed.

"This Li Tianen, what do you think?"

Luo Xiazhi told Li Ye to drive the car more slowly, thought for a while and said, "Smart and capable, ambitious. It's a bit like the Li brothers when they first came to Shanghai...but it's even more difficult to get along with."

The Li brothers have cooperated for many years and have reached an extraordinary tacit understanding long ago.Although Li Zhaoji returned to Guangzhou to recuperate because of his age, he still made suggestions to Shanghai's modern department store remotely.

Regardless of the three major department stores nowadays, Luo Xiazhi's Shimai Department Store is the most popular, and it is tit-for-tat with Sakura Department Store in all aspects, fighting one after another, rushing to the forefront of Chinese businessmen, and winning the reputation and praise of Chinese businessmen. tribute.

If you want to say that they are smart, they are still modern department stores. They have not offended the Japanese, and they have made all the money. Because of Lee Shau Kee's advice.

Luo Xiazhi went to Hong Kong to invest and start a company before, and was also guided by him.Knowing how slippery this old fox is, he won't offend anyone on the surface, but he has earned all the benefits secretly.

It is said that Lee Shau Kee believed in Bodhisattva before his death and became a vegetarian.However, when he first came to Shanghai, Luo Xiazhi never forgot the fact that he forced the floor manager of Shimai Department Store to jump off the building.

For many years, he has been a "tiger-fighting brother". Now that his eldest brother is dead, Li Zhaoye, who is more than ten years younger than Li Zhaoji, although he is still in his prime, has no ambition to fight in Shanghai. He directly announced at the funeral that he would return In Guangzhou, the property in Shanghai is handed over to the elder nephew to take care of it.

Is this Li Tianen going to "not change his father's way for three years", or is he planning to abandon his father's policy of keeping a low profile and disturbing the muddy waters in Shanghai...

"Xiaoye, pay attention to Li Tianen and see what he does in Shanghai."

"Okay, third master."

Li Ye nodded, then thought of something, and said hesitantly, "Actually... recently there is some news on the Tao, it's about the young master of the Li family, but I don't know if it's accurate..."

"On the road?"

Luo Xiazhi knew that although Liang Shaolong was in Suzhou, he still had his own way of dealing with black and white in Shanghai, just like the "Sanmao" with the upper of the leather shoes... But this Li Tianen, didn't he just come to Shanghai, how did he get on the road? Is there any news about him?

"The new 'Shanghai King' Boss Huang plans to build five conjoined buildings at the junction of Yuqiaqing Road and Aiduoya Road, and build the largest playground in the Far East called 'New World Playground'. It is said that eating, drinking and having fun inside There are everything. There are more than a dozen theaters alone, which can stage various plays at the same time. There are also five movie screening halls, concert halls, circus halls, dance halls, table tennis rooms, ice skating rinks, etc. It is said that the entire four It is not an exaggeration to put the roads vertically. In addition to Boss Huang, all the big and small "bosses" on the beach have also contributed to the construction."

In short, this is a place with a Taoist background, a veritable gold-selling cave.

Luo Xiazhi frowned, "Once his playground is built, our rooftop garden and roller skating rink will pale in comparison."

Li Ye paused, "It is said that the eldest son of the Li family has shares in it. A few months ago, he came to Shanghai once, met with Boss Huang, and confirmed this cooperation."

"Boss Huang... Hasn't he had a hot fight with the Japanese recently?"

Luo Xiazhi raised his head abruptly, "I heard...the Japanese secretly smuggled opium to Shanghai, and it was Boss Huang who sold it to them...This Mr. Li is too careless, why would anyone dare to cooperate with him in business."

"Young man, you just came to Shanghai, and you are very courageous. I am afraid that you will cause a lot of trouble."

Luo Yunze closed his eyes and said.

Luo Xiazhi nodded, looking at the constantly receding street scene outside the window, he confirmed once again that his idea of ​​doing business with peace of mind is still too naive.

This is Shanghai Bund, a place where disputes, assassinations, schemes, and scrambles have been going on every day since the opening of the port. How has there ever been a moment of peace...

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Half a month later, Li Tianen attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the "New World" amusement park before Lee Shau Kee celebrated July [-]th.At the same time, in addition to the hottest celebrity in Shanghai, Boss Huang, and Luo Xiazhi's "distant relative" - ​​Toshiki Miyamoto attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

Not long after this "brain fan" was released from the Japanese police station, Luo Xiazhi fulfilled his agreement and took Yu Meihui and Zou Xuan'er to visit his small villa.

I won’t express any of the nasty and disgusting things among them. In short, in the eyes of this "distant relative", Luo Xiazhi is closer than his own father. I want to pull him directly and call him cousin.

In the summer, the nephew of the cheap cousin, Toshi Miyamoto, had watched the whole process of the third draft of "Miss Shimai".Perhaps he was suddenly inspired by this draft, so he decided to hold a beauty pageant to select a new generation of female stars for their film company.

Yin Baozhu stopped cooking completely and might have been sent back to Japan.Jin Cancan won the contract termination lawsuit, and now she is a resident singer at the Night Shanghai Song and Dance Hall, and will never set foot in the film industry again.

In the past two years, New Era Films has also made a few movies in a piecemeal manner, but none of them became popular, and Luo Xiazhi has not made a movie specifically to sell fertilizers and rain boots. His Seven fairies, now they can be regarded as the "flowers of the countryside" in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai!Every time I go to the countryside to send a movie, I can get all kinds of local specialties and mountain goods sent by rural movie fans.

After thinking about it, this dude felt that the main reason for the film's failure was because there were no female stars who could make it.

Leaving aside Zou Xuan'er, Yu Meihui became famous because of participating in the draft.In addition, in the movies made after Luo Xiazhi, the heroines and supporting roles were all selected from Shimai Beauty Pageant, so it can be seen that beauty pageants are the first step towards becoming a movie star!

So Toshi Miyamoto has devoted himself to the draft.

But he is a Japanese, and he has no way out in Shanghai, and he is too embarrassed to ask Luo Xiazhi for help.In the end, I didn't know how to do it, and I actually hooked up with Boss Huang, and this new generation of "Shanghai King" will lead this beauty pageant.

As for him, he used his fandom expertise to engage in canvassing and publicity. He also specially set up a newspaper called "Meiya" to report on the competition and the inside information of the contestants.

"Look at the battle that Toshi Miyamoto has created, what kind of character will he choose?"

In the small villa on Petain Road, Gu Hanlin asked while standing in the garden watering the flowers.

"Come on, come on, give way... ah, cousin, why don't you come over and help, what flowers are you watering?"

Holding the two handles of the copper stove with a wet rag, Liang Shaolong rushed from the kitchen to the garden in a hurry.Burning red charcoal strips under the copper stove made the hot soup in the pot bubbling.

Li Ye came out after him, holding a tray with sliced ​​mutton slices, beef slices, egg dumplings, quail eggs, tripe, yellow throat and other ingredients for hot pot.

As for Luo Xiazhi, he was holding a big sea bowl with ingredients.

The recipe of this small ingredient was summed up by eating "Haidilao" in his previous life. He had eaten it many times in Luo Mansion and Gu's before, and received unanimous praise from everyone.

"I plan to sell the old restaurant opposite our department store. Their business is not good recently, and the boss is getting old and wants to go back to his hometown in Yangzhou. I want to sell it and change it to a hot pot restaurant."

Luo Xiazhi put down the bowl, and helped Li Ye and Liang Shaolong make a dish.After a while, the small table under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree was filled to the brim.

"Okay! You should have opened this store a long time ago, and you are guaranteed to make money!"

Ever since he ate the mandarin duck hot pot made by Luo Xiazhi in Luo Mansion last winter, Liang Shaolong has never forgotten it.Whenever you come to Shanghai, you must grab Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin for a meal.

As soon as the weather turned cold this year, he ran over to eat with all his heart.

Speaking of hot pot, in fact, Shanghai is not without it.

The Hui people in Shanghai opened the "Hong Changxing" halal shop during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. In winter, they serve Beijing copper stove boiled mutton.There are quite a few people in Shanghai who like this dish, but they make clear soup and mutton pot. There is nothing but mutton, which is a bit lonely.

There is also a kind of hot pot in Shanghai, which is also cooked in a copper stove with charcoal in the middle.In clear soup or chicken broth, layers are spread with various ingredients, such as smoked fish, salted chicken, pork skin, ham, vermicelli and yellow sprouts.This kind of hot pot should actually be called "hot pot", even if you eat a steaming hot pot, it is not the same concept as the hot pot that became popular all over the country a hundred years later.

Speaking of the "hot pot" they are eating now, which has a taste of a century later, it was a southern goods merchant from Sichuan who came to Shimai to discuss business last year and wanted to invite Luo Xiazhi to dinner.I also felt that several Sichuan restaurants in Shanghai were not very authentic, so I prepared all kinds of spicy sauces and spices I brought, and served Luo Xiazhi with red oil hot pot in the hotel where I stayed.

Then all of a sudden Luo Xiazhi's memories of hot pot were aroused.

Luo Xiazhi begged the merchant to keep the recipe of red oil, and according to his own experience of eating hot pot in his "previous life", he tossed around in the kitchen at home, prepared the small ingredients, and cooked hot pot at home.

Shanghainese are not used to spicy red soup pots, so Luo Xiazhi asked the housekeeper to find a tinsmith to make a Tai Chi mandarin duck pot.In Luo Mansion, he and Luo Yunze ate red soup, while Bai Fenghuang and Xiaoxiao ate white soup.

When we arrived at Gu Hanlin's villa, except for the local native Li Ye, everyone ate red soup pot.

Gu Hanlin and Liang Shaolong are still northerners at heart, and their acceptance of chili oil is much higher than that of native Shanghainese.

"I want to take a stake in your hotpot restaurant too. I don't ask too much, just tell my Xiaoye the soup and dipping ingredients and the secret recipe. When I go back to Suzhou, I can often eat it."

As Liang Shaolong said, he began to pour meat into the pot.

"Listen, are these human words? Are you asking too much? I don't think Toshika Miyamoto's asking is as high as yours."

Luo Xiazhi rolled his eyes at his brazenness.

"Did you know that he actually invited me to be the award presenter of his beauty pageant. Not to mention that our two families are rivals, his beauty pageant is really hard to describe."

Rorschach said amusedly.

"Who are the contestants here... The contestants who signed up the most are actually sisters from the various 'book houses' and 'tangzi' on Sima Road. There are no serious people. How can I choose a movie star? I'm picking 'Oiran'."

"Toshi Miyamoto is such an idiot, please ask Mr. Huang to host the beauty pageant. Who do you think Mr. Huang can find to participate in the competition? Those halls on Sima Road are basically Mr. Huang's property. It is not wrong to say that he is choosing the 'Oiran' I took a peek at the audition they held in the atrium of the Sakura Department Store—it's too ugly!"

Liang Shaolong originally wanted to say that the few women standing on the stage were basically "not naked" in the end. How did Shimai Department Store's beauty pageant come to such an extent?

But looking at the audience, except for him, they are all "gentlemen", so I had to swallow this sentence with the mutton.

"哓..."

For someone like Liang Shaolong to say the words "unsightly", Luo Xiazhi didn't even want to imagine what was going on at the scene.

"I really didn't expect it. Now Boss Huang, Li Tianen and Miyamoto Jun have mixed together... The Li family brothers can be regarded as a generation of heroes. I didn't expect their descendants to be so unbearable."

After taking a bite of the mutton that Gu Hanlin picked up, Luo Xiazhi said a little lonely.

"Now the Japanese in Shanghai are divided into two factions. One faction is the bureaucrats headed by Nogi Hiroshi. The other faction is the Japanese businessmen who follow the lead of Tsubaki Sakurako. Tsubaki Sakurako is different now, and they feel that following her If you are around, you will not be bullied by those bureaucrats. But the most ridiculous thing is that Hiroshi Nogi still bears the name of the chairman of the Shanghai Japanese Chamber of Commerce, but there is no one who listens to him."

Gu Hanlin caught a piece of hairy belly, and it burned up and down.

"Dog bites dog, hair on mouth..."

Liang Shaolong sneered, "It's best to have some chance to take advantage of their suspicions and get rid of one by one. It would be best if they could all die."

"Then I must buy 30 firecrackers to celebrate, and also buy fireworks to set off!"

Gu Hanlin smiled and poured wine for everyone.

The golden osmanthus petals fell into the fiery red soup pot, and everyone happily spent a lively afternoon.

Perhaps Liang Shaolong himself did not expect that such an opportunity would come soon.

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At the end of the year, under the pretense of re-interpreting "Fengshen Bang", New Era Film Company staged a nasty play comparable to Hong Kong's third-level films in the 90s.

The main plot of the plot is the beauty of Jiuchi Roulin, Su Daji and a group of goblins, and the "Misses of the New Era" who have just been selected to participate in the performance.No one cared about King Wu's defeat of Zhou, but when Su Daji was beheaded, the male audience shed tears of sadness.

The box office of this erotic drama is so good that it is hard to get a ticket. It is said that half of the men in Shanghai have watched it wearing masks and hats.

Ms. Yang who played the role of "Daji" stood out all of a sudden and became a well-known "porn star" in Shanghai.

This Ms. Yang is not a stranger, she used to be the daughter of "Big Head Match Factory".

The Japanese brought down her family's factory, and her father Yang Datou jumped into the Huangpu River.Everyone only knew that Ms. Yang disappeared later, but they didn't expect that she sold herself into the hall and became a "clear lady".

The poster of "Feng Shen Bang" was hung at the entrance of the Great Shanghai Cinema. Luo Xiazhi looked up and saw it when he passed by, and then remembered that this Yang Liuxu had also participated in the first Miss Mai's beauty pageant, and the "Black Girl Toothpaste" contestant. Yu Meihui also stood at the counter of Shimai Department Store together, selling her family's matches.

Now that the beauties are living in Fireworks and Willow Lane, it is really embarrassing.

After the movie was released, two men chased her fiercely and launched a fierce offensive.

One is Boss Huang.

Speaking of Miss Yang, he came out of the "Liuxiang Pavilion" on Fourth Avenue, but before that, Boss Huang had no impression of this little girl at all.After watching the movie, I was astonished as a heavenly being, and felt that I almost missed "Wang Zhaojun" Emperor Han Yuan.

If Ms. Yang hadn't signed a contract with New Era Movies and became a movie star, she wouldn't be considered a sister of "Liuxiangge".Boss Huang wished he could take someone home on the spot to be his No. 11 concubine.

The other one was Hiroshi Nogi.

After learning that this Miss Su was one of the most famous ladies in Shanghai before she fell into prostitution, this Nogi Hiroshi transferred all the mental energy he had towards Yu Meihui to Miss Yang.Both soft and hard, trying to make her submit.

These two men only dared to pursue her under the counter because they both had dirty thoughts, and they didn't even know each other's existence.

None of them knew that this prostitute Yang Liuxu voluntarily jumped into the fire pit to avenge her father.

One caused her to lose her father, and the other was a notorious gangster who oppressed her. Ms. Yang hated them to the bone, and took advantage of the opportunity of the new era film draft to lure them into the gang with her beauty as a bait.

Looking at today's latest Lace News, Luo Xiazhi let out a long sigh, "I didn't know that a woman could do this kind of thing... Ms. Yang from the match factory is really a 'fierce woman'. "

The day before, Yang Liuxu also asked Boss Huang and Hiroshi Nagi to meet at his private apartment.Turn off the lights in the apartment in advance for some "sentiment"

The two sneaky men just met in Miss Yang's apartment.

Since Hiroshi Miyamoto was beaten up by Toshiya Miyamoto last time, he has developed the habit of wearing a gun with him.Coincidentally, Boss Huang, who is a gangster on the road, also has this habit.

After fumbling and reporting for a long time, the two men finally felt that something was wrong, and they took out their own guns at the same time.

Fortunately, both of these two people's marksmanship was half-bad, and they beat each other in the dark. Neither of them was injured, but they just gave away all the furniture in Ms. Yang's apartment.

As for Yang Liuxu, she had already taken all her belongings and fled to unknown places without her name.Boss Huang mobilized all his disciples but they couldn't find her, so he gritted his teeth in hatred.

This gun battle alarmed the police and also alarmed the reporters.The next day, everyone in Shanghai knew that the two big men in Shanghai got into a fight over a kiln sister.

Porn stars, prostitutes, revenge, gun battles, mafia bosses, and Japanese!

It is full of elements that can catch the eye, how can it not be capitalized and close-up!

All of a sudden, this "amorous news" was filled with all kinds of newspapers, large and small. The reporters used their full imagination to "restore" what happened that night with their brushstrokes.

Boss Huang and Nogi Hiroshi were so naked that they almost met each other honestly, and they were so close that they realized that the other party was a man.

What Yang Liuxu stood outside the door, showed a triumphant smile, then laughed three times, and left the sad place of Shanghai Bund.

It seemed that they squatted under the bed in Yang Liuxu's apartment that night, listening to the corner of the wall all night.The writing is as bad as it is bad.

Forget about Boss Huang, he already eats underworld food, this kind of news is irrelevant to him, it can be regarded as "sexual talk" at most.

But Hiroshi Nogi was different. He had already been reprimanded by his father when he returned to Tokyo before, telling him to restrain his nature in Shanghai.After accumulating enough political capital, he returned to China to seek greater official space.

The reputation is too stinky, how can I get an official career in the future?Even if it is pretending, you have to pretend to be a person!

Hiroshi Nagi also repeatedly promised that he would not embarrass the family in the future, so his father and brother released him back to China.

Who knew that just a few days after he came back, he was stabbed by Jun Miyamoto and sent to the hospital.It hasn't been long since he was discharged from the hospital, and because he competed with others for a prostitute, it was published in the newspapers, and the Japanese bureaucrats were completely ashamed.

Hiroshi Nogi was completely dismissed this time, returned to Tokyo to stand by, and boarded the ship back home in desperation.

But on the other hand, Toshi Miyamoto hated him completely.

Before there was the hatred of Yu Meihui, and later there was the hatred of Yang Liuxu. Jun Miyamoto already felt that this Nogi Hiroshi was completely aimed at him. If Nogi Hiroshi didn't run fast, he really wanted to make up for him a few more times.

"Cousin aunt, this Nogi Hiroshi, I swear that I am incompatible with him! Beast, what a beast!"

In the living room of Earl Lawrence's mansion, Toshi Miyamoto, who was eating with a knife and fork, cursed fiercely.

From drafting to filming and final release, he did not know how much effort he spent this time to achieve such a blockbuster effect. "Feng Shen Bang" beat all new movies released this year to become the best-selling movie of the year.It also recovered nearly half of the cost of the loss-making investment in the new era in the previous two years.

This young man has devoted all his heart and soul to Yang Liuxu in the past few months.His enthusiasm is no less than when he was crazy about Yu and Zou when he was in Japan, and when he organized a fan club for them.

"Nogi Hiroshi, he ruined everything, and ended up slapping his ass and leaving? Once or twice, it's like this, it's so unfair!"

Putting down the knife and fork, Miyamoto Toshi said indignantly, "Is it because of his noble status? I'm really not convinced."

"Take it easy, kid."

Tsubaki Sakura wiped her mouth with a napkin, stretched out her hand, patted the back of the excited young man's hand, and exchanged a look with Earl Lawrence.

"The Nomu family will not stand forever. Whether it is Hiroshi Nogi, his elder brother and father, in their Chinese words, 'Hedong for 30 years, Hexi for 30 years'. They will not always be proud ..."

"Cousin, what do you mean..."

The young man's eyes lit up, and he looked excitedly at his elder, who was full of color.

"So what about nobility? 'Money' is the passport to run amok in this world. What's blood? Isn't it, dear?"

Tsubaki Yingko picked up the wine glass and cast a wink at her husband.

"Honey, we used to be businessmen who were looked down upon by others, but now we have all become nobles, and even consuls and consuls' wives. Isn't all this enough to prove your theory?"

Earl Lawrence picked up his wine glass, and lightly clinked glasses with Tsubaki Sakurako.

"If there is no accident, this Mr. Hiroshi Nogi will never be able to return to Shanghai. Now Japan's domestic political circle is in turmoil. The House of Lords and the House of Representatives are attacking each other in order to seize power. The military department is not to be outdone, and is setting fires everywhere... In short, the situation is complicated. "

After Li Ye finished reporting the recently compiled intelligence and news about Japan, he finally concluded.

Constitutional protection movement, economic crisis, military seizure of power... Hey!Why didn't the history class sound good at the beginning?

After listening to the report, Luo Xiazhi hit his head with a headache.

After watching so many anti-Japanese dramas, they were all filmed from the perspective of the Chinese. For that period of history and the situation in Japan, Luo Xiazhi really has no impression.

There is only one thing he can be sure of - this economic crisis affecting the world is the culmination of Japan's aggression against China.

"If it is said that this Nogi Hiroshi will never come back, that's fine."

Luo Xiazhi raised his head and frowned tightly. Behind the gold-rimmed glasses, those eyes were almost full of worry.

"I'm afraid that when he comes back again, he won't be as simple as a ruthless bureaucrat..."

The military background of his father and brother is what worries Luo Xiazhi the most.

The author has something to say: Yes, Li Tianen is a villain.

Still a villain who colludes with the Japanese.

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