To be honest, the people of the Kong family are a little dissatisfied and think why is the Qin family ahead?

Kong Xiangxi, from Taigu, Shanxi, is from Qufu, Shandong. He is the 75th generation grandson of Confucius. He graduated from Yale University in 1907 and obtained the exclusive agency rights of Shell Petroleum Company in Shanxi in 1912. He made his first pot of gold by selling kerosene. Later, he became the premier and the minister of finance. While serving as an official, he made a fortune.

That night, the Kong family rarely got together for dinner.

There are six people here, in addition to Kong Xiangxi and his wife, there are two sons and two daughters, Kong Lingkan, Kong Lingjie, Kong Lingyi and Kong Lingjun. Among them, the second son Kong Lingjie and the eldest daughter Kong Lingyi are all honest people and have not left a bad reputation in history. The eldest son Kong Lingkan and the second daughter Kong Lingjun have outstanding bad records and are notorious.

At this time, Kong Lingkan was only 18 years old and was still studying at St. John's University. He often did not return all night and went to major dance halls.

The second lady Kong Lingjun is only 15 years old and is not yet domineering.

During the meal, Mrs. Kong talked about the new rankings of the six major families in the newspaper and said: "Yongzhi, do you guess how much wealth does the Qin family have? As the richest man in the Republic of China, can it be considered worthy of it?"

Her implication: "Our Kong family is also very rich, but it's not shown!"

Kong Xiangxi has been the head of the Ministry of Finance since 1933, vice president of the Executive Yuan, president of the Central Bank, and chairman of the Farmers' Bank. Therefore, he can understand how much deposits the Qin family has in major domestic banks. As for the situation of foreign banks, he cannot understand in-depth.

Therefore, he just smiled slightly and said, "The Qin family cannot be the richest man in the Republic of China based on those deposits alone. However, it is an unknown number of how much grain reserves the Qin family grain store has."

The wife said: "The newspaper said that according to customs statistics, the Qin Family Grain Bank has imported 30 million tons of grain in the past three years. Especially last year, it was like crazy. Large ships drove in one after another, and I don't know what they wanted to do. Since this year, their imports have slightly decreased, but they have increased cotton, sugar, cooking oil, canned food..."

Kong Xiangxidao sighed lightly: "The Qin family has no power and no power, but it has made such a big business. I also admire it. However, the food imported by the Qin family is indeed taking out at low prices. They can't make much money based on this. I just don't understand how they accumulate wealth? Could it be that they are just authorizing patents and selling drugs?"

"It seems that Cathay Pharmaceutical's profitability is very high! It has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people."

"No, according to the secret report of Fuxing Society, Cathay Pharmaceutical makes no more than 30 million yuan a year. It cannot support the import of so much grain."

"You mean the Qin family still has foreign wealth?"

"I don't know, I just think it's weird. For example, this time, the Qin family inexplicably sold the property north of Suzhou River three months in advance, recovered a large amount of silver, and converted it into US dollars, making a lot of money! How did he do so accurately?"

"Qin Hancheng studied in the UK and Zhang Naijing studied in the United States. Maybe they met American lawmakers?"

"Hmph, I also study in the United States, why didn't I get the news?"

"this……"

Kong Xiangxi said again: "And I have a question. Why do you think the Qin family wants to sell real estate north of the Suzhou River? But retain most of the industries on the south bank of the Suzhou River? Could a Suzhou River change the situation of real estate on both sides?"

Mrs. Confucius said: "Yongzhi, you are thinking too much. Maybe they are concentrating all industries in one place for convenience of management!"

Kong Xiangxi shook his head and said, "Yesterday, the US Embassy sent a telegram to understand the general situation of the Qin family."

"Hey, how could Americans be interested in the Qin family?"

"I don't know, it wasn't said in the telegram."

At this time, the youngest daughter Kong Lingjun suddenly laughed and said, "I heard that the eldest young master of the Qin family is one of the four beautiful men in the Republic of China. I wonder if it is true? I have a pictorial here. For some reason, it is a bit blurry and I can't see his appearance."

Kong Xiangxi snorted softly: "Men look at talent! They don't look at appearance!"

Kong Lingkan smiled and said, "Dad, you are wrong. I have met Master Qin, who has extraordinary appearance and is a charming person!"

Kong Lingjun asked: "Where did you see it? Can you take me to take a look?"

Kong Lingkan said, "Hehe, I passed Paramount that day and saw it occasionally!"

Kong Xiangxi glared at him: "You are still studying, you are not going to that kind of place in the future!"

Kong Lingkan lowered his head to eat and did not speak anymore.

Paramountain is the most famous leisure and entertainment venue in the Magic City. It is located at No. 218 Yuyuan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai. It is equivalent to the Republic of China version of Heaven and Earth, and is known as "the No. 1 Yuefu in the East". It is called "paramounthall" in English, and is homophonic to "Paramountaill". It is a brand new dance hall built by Gu Liancheng in 1931 and opened in 1933. However, most people don't know that its land and feet belong to the Qin family! There is no way, who told Qin Di to start early, bought such a good place more than ten years in advance, and the truly prosperous place in the Magic City will become more and more expensive and in every inch of land!

Paramount has three floors, with a construction area of ​​2,550 square meters. The ground floor is a kitchen and a store, the second floor is a dance floor and a banquet hall, the dance floor is more than 500 square meters, and the reinforced concrete structure is supported by car steel plates. The floor will sway when dancing, so it is called a spring floor. There is a small dance floor around the big dance floor, which can be divided at will for people to dance or for people to have a try. The two-story dance hall is all open, which can be used for thousands of people to dance at the same time. The room is also equipped with heating and cooling air conditioning and luxurious furnishings. The third floor is a hotel, and a huge cylindrical fiberglass tower is installed on the top floor. When the dancers are about to leave, the waiter can call out the guest's car license plate or other code on the tower. The coachman can see it from a distance and drive the car to the door of the dance hall.

The sign at the door clearly marked price, and the dance hall is charged according to different times: tea dance from 1:00 to 4:30 pm, the ticket is 40 yuan per person per holiday, and 50 yuan per person per holiday; the champagne dance from 4:40 pm to 8:00 pm, the ticket price is 100 yuan; and the ticket price is 200 yuan for the evening dance hall from 8:00 pm to 1:00 pm, and the remaining consumption is calculated separately. The evening dance hall has a jazz band accompaniment and singers singing English songs live, and professional male and female national standard dancers accompanying dance. The price of female dancers is 35 yuan per session, and each session is 10 minutes.

Therefore, Paramount is not something that ordinary people can enter! The consumption in one night is enough for ordinary people to eat for half a year!

Paramount is the representative of the old demon city, and it is also a symbol of the so-called "Golden Ten Years of the Republic of China". It shines with the brilliant light of economy and culture day and night. Without "Parouche", the demon city will be overshadowed.

The most fashionable entertainment activities at that time were eating Western food, watching movies, and finally dancing in Paramount.

Senior Kuomintang officials such as Zhang Xueshan were frequented by him; when the Chaplins visited Shanghai, they also came here to dance; this was also a place where gangsters such as Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng often gathered. Paramount became a part of the upper life of the Magic City, and jazz became popular in the Ten Miles of the Western Conference, forming the "Parolemon Dance Style". The word "modern" quickly reproduced and became a symbol of this era.

To this day, no one can win. Most of the popular classic "Shanghai Beach" is backgrounded by Paramount.

Such a beautiful girl, Suijin Cave, is of course attractive to Master Kong. He is a regular visitor there and occasionally meets Master Qin.

However, Young Master Qin rarely goes down the dance floor to dance, often sitting in the tea room next to him, quietly watching the figures rotating in the dance floor.

And half of the people singing there are singers from EMI. But only people like Zhou Xuan, Bai Hong, and Gong Qiusha have the opportunity to know Qin Di, and other singers may not know that he is the boss behind the scenes.
Chapter completed!