After greeting Mrs. Wang who opened the door, Qin Chuan walked straight into the yard of his eldest brother's house with two bottles of French red wine.

The light shining from the glass windows of the villa made a black car in the yard sparkle.

This is an American Lincoln sedan that Qin Chuan bought for his eldest brother with his royalties. It cost more than 4,000 yuan.

At this time, private cars in the Republic of China were mainly found in large cities such as Peking, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangdong. According to statistics, in 1934, there were nearly 5,000 cars in the Shanghai Public Settlement alone, and two full-time drivers were registered with the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

There are thousands of people, and nearly 20,000 people have registered driver's licenses. If expanded to the entire Shanghai, the number of cars is estimated to be around 20,000.

At this time, the cheapest car was the Pepe Austin. This cheap car was a bit like the Charade of later generations.

The most popular cars are Ford's Model T in the United States, Chevrolet and Citroën in France. These cars are equivalent to later Volkswagen models, and the price is only about 1,000 oceans.

Even higher-end cars are the American Dodge and Pontiac.

Higher-end cars, such as Lincoln, Buick, and German Mercedes-Benz, cost more than 3,000 to 4,000. The car Qin Chuan bought is a luxury version, so the price is naturally more expensive.
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No matter how expensive a car is, the price is even for a newly wealthy person like Qin Chuan, and it gives him a toothache to look at it.

For example, the first-generation British Rolls-Royce produced in 1927 and the Bentley produced in 1929 were ridiculously expensive. It is said that there was only one Rolls-Royce in the Republic of China at this time, and it was driven by foreigners.

The car of choice for domestic wealthy people is still Lincoln, with Buick being more common, but the later-generation Mercedes-Benz is rare.

In addition, during this period, Shanghainese, who have always pursued fashion, were already very particular about license plates. Du Yuesheng, a boss who owned nine cars, had four 7s on the license plate of his Lincoln sedan, and the license plate tax for ordinary cars was 6

Ten yuan, this special license plate costs hundreds to get.

Moreover, Du Yuesheng's license plate is not the most expensive. The most expensive license plate in the public concession, 0001, is owned by Ningbo wealthy businessman Zhou Chunqing. For this most awesome license plate, Zhou Chunqing paid a full sixty taels of gold. This license plate alone can be almost enough

Bought a luxury car.

Although Qin Ying's Lincoln has an average license plate, its interior decoration is luxurious and it will definitely rank among the top 100 in Shanghai.

Of course, this does not include personal assets.

Qin Chuan was taught a lesson by his elder brother and sister-in-law about this super expensive gift that Qin Chuan bought.

However, the eldest brother Qin Ying still treasured this decent and stylish car. He refused Qin Chuan's offer to find a driver for him and insisted on hiring a full-time driver for fifty yuan a month to drive to the car every day.

He would take this car to pick him up after work, and then drive it home for his sister-in-law to use. Whenever Qin Ying needed the car, he would just make a phone call and get home, and his baby car would immediately arrive at the Citibank building on the Bund.

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Qin Chuan also helped his eldest brother to pay off the loan for the villa, which was several thousand yuan, which was the author's royalties for ten days and eight days for the wealthy writer Qin.

Qin Ying's current salary is more than 400 per month, so there is no problem in supporting such a car, so Qin Chuan no longer insists on paying the driver's salary.

Hearing the doorbell, he knew it was Qin Chuan who was coming, and his sister-in-law also welcomed him out. The food in the villa restaurant had already been laid out. There were not many dishes, just two cold dishes, a steamed sea bass, and a large bowl of cooked turtle soup.

The nephew had already finished his meal and was going to wait in the restaurant to ask his second uncle Qin Chuan about the subsequent plot developments of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" so that he could brag with his friends, but his sister-in-law rushed him back to his room to study early.

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Seeing the two bottles of red wine Qin Chuan was carrying, the eldest brother's face became gloomy and he said unhappily, "Although you are making a lot of money every day, you can't spend money randomly. I'm afraid these two bottles of red wine won't be cheap!"

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Qin Chuan hurriedly explained, "Brother, I didn't buy this. It was given to me by Manager Liu of the Commercial Press when he came to discuss the royalties of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". According to Fu Sinan, a bottle of this wine is enough."

It’s more than a hundred.”

Hearing that Qin Chuan didn't buy it with money, the eldest brother became more energetic. He sat up straight and took a bottle and checked it in his hand. He found that the production date was 1878. He couldn't help shouting "good wine" and asked his sister-in-law to put the wine in the bottle.

In his wine cabinet, Qin Chuan made a soft sound over there and opened a bottle first, then walked straight over, took out two goblets from the wine cabinet, and poured them for his eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Wine.

The panicked elder brother hurriedly put the remaining bottle of wine into the wine cabinet. The elder sister-in-law was so happy that she couldn't stand upright.

Afterwards, the family happily had a dinner. At the dinner table, the eldest brother did not mention the Qinchuan loan. Instead, he and his sister-in-law carefully inquired about the affairs of Qinchuan University and the publication of his new book.
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After that, the eldest brother briefly talked about his work situation at Citibank.

After dinner, the eldest brother Qin Yingcai brought Qin Chuan to his study. The eldest sister-in-law wanted to make tea for him, but he stopped him. There was still about half of the bottle of red wine, so he also took it over. Qin Chuan was still old.

Following the rules, he opened two bottles of beer and poured it himself. After the sister-in-law went out, the eldest brother put away his smile, looked at Qin Chuan and asked, "Today, HSBC transferred 100,000 French currency to your account. How did this money come from?"

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Qin Chuan did not answer his elder brother's question first, but took out Wang Xiaoyong's secret letter from his pocket and handed it to his elder brother, "This is what one of my intelligence officers reported to me today. You have to read it first."

Qin Chuan looked at his elder brother's expression and said, "I think this will be HD's people. You should have friends there. You can leak the news to them. If they are their people, they'd better take necessary measures immediately."
Chapter completed!