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Chapter 168 Dress Store

This time Qin Hanxu came back and closed the door with Qin Di and had a long conversation.

As Japan seized the Northeast and took the lead in getting out of the Great Depression, the Japanese industry gradually stabilized, so Qin Hanxu failed to find a suitable opportunity to invest in more industrial companies. However, with the help of his brother-in-law, Kamesaburo Inoue, he obtained part of the shares of "Qingyuedo" and "Hamada Saburo".

Qin Di praised: "Well done! These two companies are century-old brands. I will leave them to Qin Xi as a dowry in the future."

Qin Hanxu said: "That's not possible. This is all your money. If you take the majority of all companies, you can leave me 30%!"

Qin Di said: "The family will not speak two people. When Qin Xi grows up, all Japanese companies will be handed over to her to manage."

Qin Hanxu was very worried and said, "Are you really going to run these companies seriously? Don't you want to hype it up and sell it in two years? I don't want my daughter to stay in Japan. I am a dignified Chinese! Seeing that Japan is about to invade China on a large scale, how can I stay in Japan with peace of mind?"

Qin Di smiled slightly and said, "Look at the long term. War is short-term, and interests are long-term. We hold some shares in Japanese companies, just like Sun Wukong gets into Princess Iron Fan's belly, which is also part of the Anti-Japanese War!"

"You are a fallacy! I don't dare to let my subordinates know about these companies in Japan. Otherwise, I'm afraid Mr. Qing would be angry."

"Well, it's better not to tell them."

"A Di, do you say war is a short-term act? When will the Japanese withdraw?"

"When I count on my fingers... it will take about 12 years... Japan will be defeated..."

"12 years, 12 years... At that time, Ah Xi was 13 years old... Do you think China and Japan can still live in harmony?"

"This is not easy. War has torn apart human nature. If you want to be friendly between China and Japan, you don't know how many years it will take to wait."

"I hope I can see that day in my life..." Qin Hanxu studied in Japan and married a Japanese woman again, so he didn't want his wife to be in a dilemma.

After a while, Qin Hanxu said: "I came back this time and received a notice about the Steamship Merchants Group. Because the company is going to be renovated, the official stocks need to be in, and the private capital must be released. How much should I transfer it?"

Qin Di said: "Transfer all of them, don't keep any of them!"

"Ah? Why is it so clean?"

"Because the war is about to go to war! Maybe the Nanjing government has a fever in its head and will sink the ship into the Yangtze River!"

"Why do you sink into the Yangtze River? Isn't that throwing money into the water?"

"Because we want to prevent Japanese warships from entering the inland areas!"

"According to what you say, we cannot withdraw our shares, so we will lose our losses! If we withdraw our shares now, wouldn't we make money from the national crisis?"

"The problem is that even if the ship sinks, it cannot stop the Japanese warships!"

According to historical records, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, China took the initiative to sink more than 200 ships, but in the end, the Jiangyin Fortress was still lost! After that, it had to work hard to fish the ship up to restore the Yangtze River water transportation.

Qin Hanxu sighed: "You gave me the shares of Steamship Merchants Group, worth 5 million yuan. If you withdraw all of them now, you will probably get about 10 million yuan. For me, this is a great fortune. I feel embarrassed when I heard what you said just now."

Qin Di said: "Uncle San, you don't have to worry. If you don't withdraw your shares, I will help you make up for all the losses in the future. Anyway, I still have a lot of yen in my hands, and I won't go to Japan in the short term, so it's useless to keep it. I'd just give it to you all!"

Qin Hanxu was very surprised: "Ah? Do you still have yen in your hands?"

Qin Di smiled slightly: "Uncle San, come with me!"

Qin Hanxu and he came to the attic, looked closely and found that the yen piled up like a hill! He was shocked!

Qin Di snatched 50 million yen from the Northeast, but only took out 30 million last time. Later, he snatched more than 8 million from Tang Yulin, so there was still 28 million yen left!

"Uncle San, I've given all this money to you! From now on, we will open 55% of your investment in Japan, including all the shares! Half of it belongs to me, and half of it is left to Qin Zhan and Qin Xi!"

"Then I will benefit from your wealth!"

Qin Di said again: "In addition, I will give you another 20% of the shares of Mingzhou Home Textiles. After all, this is my grandfather's hard work, and I don't want to monopolize it."

Qin Hanxu's eyes were a little wet, and he sighed deeply: "Oh! I won't talk about the past. I will go to Ningbo to visit the grave and burn paper for the old man..."

"Uncle San, I'll go with you."

"What are you going to do?"

"A few days ago, my father forwarded me a letter saying that a cousin from my grandfather's side raised funds to open a 'foreign clothing store'. My father was too lazy to go there, so he asked me to go over and take a look."

Qin Zhaoji's brother Qin Zhaoan has been dead for more than ten years.

Qin Zhaoan had two sons, the eldest son Qin Hanzhong inherited thousands of acres of land, and the second son Qin Hanhou did business in Ningbo City.

Qin Hanhou has three sons, the eldest son Qin Meng, raised funds to open a "foreign clothing store", which means doing suits. It will be opened in two days, and a letter was sent to the Demon City.

Logically speaking, such trivial matters would not alarm Qin Di.

However, the suit shops are not simple these days.

Qin Di didn't know the situation in Ningbo, but he knew the market in the Magic City.

At that time, the complete set of gentleman's set was as follows: a woolen hat or straw hat (wee hat should be a British hat or stayson, and some were domestic "Little Luzon" or "Sheng Xifu); a three-piece suit (first fabric is imported towntex or domaflre or other British tweeds, and domestic "Zhanghua" or "Xiexin" woolen materials are second); underwear, shirts and tie or bow tie (first shirts are van heusen or arrow, "Simitu" or "Kangpaisi"); socks and leather shoes (left shoes should be worn with imported saxson or freeman). Others: belts, suspenders, cufflinks, tie buckle pins, placket needles, lighters, pipes (dunhill or 3b brand), incense handkerchief, key chain (swank brand gold-plated key chain), wallet.

In addition to looking fashionable, wearing a decent outfit in that era would also bring many tangible benefits.

As Zhou Changgeng wrote in "The Girl of the Demon City": "Living in the Demon City, it is better to wear fashionable clothes than rustic ones. If you wear old clothes, the car on the public tram will stop according to your words, and the park guards will check the entry tickets very carefully. The doorman of a large house or a large guest house will not allow you to walk through the main entrance. Therefore, some people would rather live in a room and feed bed bugs. A pair of foreign clothes and pants must be pressed under the pillow every night, so that the creases on the legs of both sides of the pants have edges every day."

There are guilds in all walks of life, and the suit industry is no exception. In October 1927, the Magic City planned to establish a new service industry guild, which stipulated that suit industry members were divided into four levels according to their capital size.

The pricing of suits is divided into five types: A, B, C, D, and E. In US dollars, the currency unit is US dollars, the best lass is 600 yuan, the best lass is 330 yuan, the fitlass is 275 yuan, the second lass is 250 yuan, and the third lass is 220 yuan.

Even if it is put into the 21st century, the price of a suit is just that!

Although the suits in the Magic City in the old days were purely handmade, and most of the suits in the future were made by machines, the US dollar at this time was not comparable to those in the later US dollar.

Qin Di had no intention of investing in the clothing industry and did not want to defeat many small businessmen. At this time, the demon had more than 400 suit stores. If he entered, it would be like an elephant jumping into a pond, and there would be no way out for small fish and shrimp.

Qin Hancheng said in the newspaper that the men of the Qin family were all useless people, and he was so angry that he didn't like anything, so he instructed his son to go to Ningbo for a while.
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