Chapter 611: A Small Contribution

Water conservancy projects are the weakest link in Shandong Province's municipal engineering. Shandong Province has been deeply affected by floods for many years due to poor water conservancy projects.

But Han Fuju did not want to spend a lot of money on this.

The reason is simple, the difference between input and return is too big.

If water conservancy is well developed, it will benefit the people and oneself, but it does not make money!

Now that the Central Plains War has just ended, Han Fuju can be regarded as a "winner", but he did not get any benefit from this battle.

The most powerful Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and others in the past have fallen, and the principal and Zhang Hanqing took over the banner of ruling the north and the south. Although a local warlord like him cannot compete with the principal, he can also dream of becoming the second Feng Yuxiang or Yan Xishan.

To grow into such a warlord, you must have enough money and troops.

Obviously, water conservancy projects cannot meet his needs.

"Water conservancy projects can be done. If the second young master wants to come and help with water conservancy, I will definitely welcome him with both hands. But." Han Fuju looked embarrassed, and said leisurely while leading Ye Luo forward.

Ye Luo knew what he was thinking, but still asked: "Just what, Chairman Han, just tell me directly."

"It's just that this water conservancy project is a non-profit project. I'm afraid that the second young master's idea of ​​making money from it is difficult to realize." Han Fuju considered the wording and felt that he couldn't be too straightforward and scare this God of Wealth away.

"You can only know this after you do it." Ye Luo smiled.

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Han Fuju didn't say much. In short, keep this God of Wealth first. How to cooperate in the future, or even squeeze money from him, is a matter for the future.

"In this case, then I'll have to trouble the second young master. If you encounter any difficulties in doing business, you can come to the provincial capital city hall to find me at any time." Han Fuju agreed readily.

Since he had the title of the first businessman in the Republic of China, and with the perfect shields of the president and Zhang Hanqing, Ye Luo felt that his business career in China was much easier.

Han Fuju was a difficult traitor, but due to his fame and ability, he chose to submit.

The two had lunch together at the booked restaurant, and then Han Fuju called many female students and dancers to accompany Ye Luo and his group, giving them enough face and letting Ye Luo see how corrupt the upper class was and how miserable the lower class was in Shandong Province under his rule.

Most of these warlords in the Republic of China were not good people.

It was just that when the country was in crisis, they were given a chance to wash away their own stains a little, but their inherent bad nature was still so disgusting.

Many of the female students called by Han Fuju to accompany them were students of Shandong Women's University and Shandong University. They were obviously at the best age, when they were studying to serve the motherland and find a way out for themselves, but they were faced with such a ruler.

Ye Luo released these girls with a wave of his hand. At the same time, he also told Han Fuju about this matter and asked him not to embarrass these students who are still studying.

Some of them are the future pillars of the country, and some may become capable generals under his command. Why kill the goose to get the eggs?

Han Fuju didn't care about Ye Luo's statement. He felt that Ye Luo was just a scholar. This kind of thing was done by warlords in various places. Some were even more excessive. They married more than a dozen female students as concubines in one breath.

What's the big deal?

Thinking of the very famous incident of a female student from Lu University accompanying a black man in later generations, Ye Luo felt sick.

Well, I didn't expect that I would be a black man this time.

Although I have various dissatisfactions with Han Fuju in my heart, I still have to rely on Han Fuju's dominance in Lu Province when I come here to do water conservancy projects this time.

According to the memory of the previous life, Ye Luo marked several flooded places that he could remember, and immediately sent an engineering team to repair them, and asked Han Fuju to come forward and all departments to cooperate fully.

Han Fuju had various plans in mind. When he saw Ye Luo start to act, he fully supported him in repairing the water conservancy, and quietly stuffed people into Ye Luo's team.

If the water conservancy project doesn't make money, then he can stuff some people in and embezzle some money from the project.

This is an obvious unspoken rule, which is equivalent to asking Ye Luo for labor fees.

If it were a serious business in the past, Ye Luo would turn his face on the spot. No matter who you are, you can't get money from me.

But this time, Ye Luo came here to distribute money to help the disaster, so he didn't care about the project money of tens of millions of dollars.

After all, Han Fuju's decree did make the project go much more smoothly, so he just turned a blind eye.

With the repair of the water conservancy project, the flood in the Yangtze and Huaihe River regions has gradually shown signs.

In fact, it has been raining here since June 28, and the continuous rainy weather has slowed down the progress of the project.

Fortunately, it was Ye's Construction that started the project, so the project did not fail.

The book "The Great Flood in Chinese History" has a detailed statistics and description of the "rainfall" in the Yangtze and Huaihe River Basin that year.

The general situation is as follows: the rainfall process can be divided into three stages. The first stage lasted from June 28 to July 12, which lasted for about half a month. Many places had rainfall of more than 400 mm, and some places had rainfall of more than 200 mm a day.

The second stage lasted from July 18 to 28, which lasted for 11 days. Whether it is near the river or some places far from the river, there are records of continuous heavy rains, such as Anqing in Anhui "heavy rain for several days", Tongling "sudden rain for more than ten days and nights", etc.

The third stage is from the end of July to August 15. At this time, the main rain area moves north to the area between the Yellow River and the Huai River and the lower reaches of the Han River. There are records of about 370 mm of rainfall in Pingyin, Shandong Province in two days and more than 250 mm of rainfall in Zhongxiang in three days.

This is at the end of the first stage. There have been several days of continuous rainfall, and the estimated rainfall has exceeded 200 mm.

Under the continuous heavy rain, many people gradually recognized Ye Luo's behavior of doing water conservancy projects.

However, everyone, including Han Fuju, couldn't figure out why Ye Luo had to travel thousands of miles to Shandong Province and spend 10 or 20 million yuan to do this.

It's a thankless job.

As the project progressed, Ye Luo's work in the capital of Shandong Province was almost completed, and the next thing was for his subordinates to coordinate.

He recently observed the situation in the business community of Shandong Province.

The business community dominated by Han Fuju was not much better than Qing City.

Ordinary businessmen had no way to make a living, and the businessmen who could make money were not human at all. They colluded with warlords and exploited the people.

The people in this place are really suffering.

In the end, Ye Luo didn't make up his mind and agreed to Han Fuju to build a branch of Ye's investment in Shandong Province in the capital of Shandong Province, and slowly let Ye's investment expand here.

Of course, he would definitely not invest in core industries and truly good industries here.

That would be courting death.

Once the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Shandong Province would have a hard time, and Han Fuju was a coward, and the industry here would most likely be blackened.

But thinking of those poor people, Ye Luo still left a batch of entertainment industries such as dance halls and amusement parks.

This kind of industry is also convenient for subsequent evacuation and sale, and some people take over.

The core operating model of Ye's dance industry is updated every year, relying on Ye Luo's experience in later generations, and those people can't imitate it.

The Cinnamon of Sassoon is a typical example.

The tiger is not painted, but the dog is painted.

When Han Fuju heard that Ye Luo was going to start a company, he immediately became interested, helping to manage various departments, inviting him to dinner, sending women, and treating him well in various ways.

In this way, Ye Luo stayed in Lu Province for another half a month before setting off to return to Qing City. (End of this chapter)