Chapter 98 Inventions That Change People's Ways of Life
Lin Zixuan didn't want to get involved in the entanglement between Song Ziwen and Sheng Aiyi.
He actually had an idea about the Sheng family in his heart. After all, this is a capital tycoon. Lin's Commercial Bank currently has a deposit of only more than 2 million yuan, and he can control less than 800,000 yuan.
This little money is just a fraction of the wealth of the Sheng family.
He maliciously guessed that Song Ziwen's true intention in pursuing Sheng Aiyi was probably thinking about the wealth of the Sheng family.
So how much wealth does the Sheng family have?
It is said that when Sheng Xuanhuai died, he left more than 11.6 million taels of silver for his descendants, and his funeral alone cost 300,000 taels of silver. This data should be true.
The following case can also be proved.
In 1927, the Sheng family divided the property and did not share the money to Sheng Aiyi. So the seventh lady of the Sheng family sued her brother and nephew.
In the past, there was no share of women in the family's family's property, but the Republic of China advocated equality between men and women. Sheng Aiyi believed that since it was equal, women should also divide the property.
This is China's first feminist case and has caused a sensation across the country.
In the end, the lawsuit won, and Sheng Aiyi got a 500,000 yuan property, which was only the share of a woman in the Sheng family.
It can be seen from this that the wealth of the Sheng family should be more than 10 million, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is the number one wealthy family in Shanghai.
What's more, Shengjia has many industries. Hanyeping Company is the largest steel joint venture in Asia, accounting for 90% of China's steel production, which is almost monopolized. Many real estate industries in Shanghai are under the name of Shengjia.
Lin Zixuan and Song Ziwen are a poor boy in front of the Sheng family, and Sheng Aiyi is a real white and rich beauty.
According to later generations, being able to marry Sheng Aiyi is equivalent to working hard for twenty years.
Lin Zixuan couldn't help but think about it in his mind, if he had mastered tens of millions of assets...
Well, in fact, Feng Jingyao's property is also quite large, and there is always one or two million, but there are problems with the source. However, in this era, no one cares, as long as it can be used.
He was thinking so randomly, dealing with other people's conversations at will.
Most of the people at this party worked in banks or foreign banks, and were well-informed. Most of the people talked about domestic and foreign financial situations, national economic policies, etc. Lin Zixuan was not very interested.
On the other hand, Feng Chengcheng and the ladies and ladies were probably absent-minded.
But this is the life of the upper class, and I can only get used to it slowly.
"I heard that an American wanted to create a private radio station in Shanghai and was looking for someone to cooperate in investment." A man who worked as a manager in a foreign company mentioned this topic, "Broadcasting has just started abroad, so it is very difficult for Chinese people to accept it."
"Americans like to make these new things. No one listens to them and cannot develop them. They will soon go bankrupt." Another person said disdainfully.
"Not necessarily. Americans must be trying to sell radios, but it's not easy to handle in China. It's okay to play music. If you broadcast the news, there will be trouble." Someone worried.
After a few conversations, they changed the subject, and Lin Zixuan kept the news in his heart.
This is the radio and the radio!
Before TV, radio was the best publicity method, and Lin Zixuan immediately saw the opportunity.
As long as you have enough listeners, radio can make money by broadcasting advertisements, and can also promote your own movies and banking business, and even paid song ordering business.
This is an entertainment project that has existed until later generations.
It occupies the commanding heights of publicity before others realize it.
Of course, the person’s concern just now makes sense, but as long as you just play entertainment programs, it will not attract the government’s attention.
Besides, you can also sell radios, although Lin Zixuan doesn’t know what radios in this era look like.
He pretended to be interested and asked the foreign bank manager about the broadcast and learned that the news was revealed by insiders of the Mainland Newspaper.
The Mainland Daily was an English daily founded in Shanghai on August 20, 1911. Both China and the United States each own half of the capital.
The newspaper's remarks represent the interests of American expatriates in Shanghai, and are popular among readers.
Later, due to the turbulence of the situation, China withdrew its capital and transferred most of its equity to American companies operating the real estate and insurance industries in Shanghai. The newspaper's operating rights gradually became owned by American businesses.
It is said that an American named Osbon is preparing to cooperate with the Mainland newspaper to create a radio station.
If you get this news, this party will be worth the trip.
After the party, Lin Zixuan said goodbye to Song Ziwen very friendly, and even chatted with Miss Sheng Qi for a while for a novel, telling him what he thought when he created the characters in the novel.
And I hope to chat next time I have the chance.
This intimate move made the future uncle puzzled, and he didn't know what Lin Zixuan was selling in his gourd.
He was sure that Lin Zixuan and Miss Sheng’s seventh lady had no affair, but judging from Lin Zixuan’s appearance, were he moved by Sheng Aiyi? He added a competitor?
This is Lin Zixuan’s purpose. If you make me worry for a long time, I will make you insomnia at night. Let’s think about it slowly!
The next day, Lin Zixuan sent someone to the Mainland Newspaper to secretly inquire about the broadcast, and he also learned about the development of broadcast in the United States from Douglas Sheila.
On December 25, 1906, the Massachusetts Experimental Radio of Fanston made its first broadcast. Judging from the technical standards of broadcast engineering, radio was born.
On August 31, 1920, the 8m laboratory station in Detroit, USA broadcasted the news that Governor Michigan had initial victory.
On October 27, 1920, KDK Radio, Pittsburgh, USA was officially established. It was the first radio station with legal operating rights. Its broadcasting marks the official birth of the radio industry.
As for radios, there are two types: one is ore radio and the other is electronic tube radio.
Ore radio refers to a passive radio composed of antennas, ground wires, basic tuning circuits and ore detectors without amplifier circuits. It is the simplest radio receiving device.
This type of radio does not require power, is easy to make and is available for life.
As long as the materials are available, Douglas Sheila can make them himself.
Lin Zixuan was surprised when he heard this. He remembered that there were projects to make radios in the social practice of science in universities in later generations, but that was assembled with prepared parts.
He didn't expect that the radio of this era was so simple.
However, such a simple radio is not cheap. The price of an American ore radio is about 30 yuan, while the electronic tube radio is as high as hundreds of yuan.
Lin Zixuan thinks selling radios is a good deal.
However, this is a business of a foreign company, and it has no way to purchase goods.
What he valued was the propaganda role of radio. The emergence of radio changed the way of information dissemination from static to dynamic at once, which was a revolutionary invention.
Chapter completed!