In 1943, Zhang Ruohan was pregnant.
After being pregnant for ten months, she gave birth to a son for Xiaodouzi.
Xiao Douzi personally named him Cheng Mo, which means "ten thousand words are worth a thousand words, but one word of silence is not as good as one".
Xiang Nan thinks that his name is very good and very artistic.
During this year, Juxian was busy arranging concubines for Xiang Nan.
Because they were married for seven years, Juxian gave birth to no more sons and a half daughters to Xiang Nan except Xinyi.
Now Xiaodouzi has sons, but Xiang Nan still only has one daughter. Therefore, she felt guilty and hoped to take a concubine for him so that she could continue the Duan family lineage.
At that time, the "Qing Law" was still implemented in Macao, and it was not illegal to take concubines.
Xiang Nan was stunned when he heard Juxian said that she wanted to take a concubine for him. He didn't know whether to praise her for being virtuous or feudal.
But overall, this matter did no harm to him. Besides, it was Juxian who suggested it first, so Xiang Nan happily obeyed.
He just wants to marry a virtuous wife and take concubines. He is not just casual, he is willing to get any woman.
Finally, after some searching, Juxian helped him choose a stunning woman.
The girl’s name is Xie Yaoqin. She was originally a wealthy lady with a huge family fortune. But unfortunately, due to the war, the family fortune withered and the family was forced to live in Macau.
Now he is hungry, cold, and desperate, so he has no choice but to sell his daughter. But they are a wealthy family after all, so they don't want to send their daughter into a pit of fire. I just hope she finds a wealthy family, even if she is to be a concubine.
Xiang Nan has seen Xie Yaoqin's appearance and is quite satisfied with it. He thinks she looks quite like Chen Derong, a popular Qiong Yao girl in the 1990s. Her facial features are delicate and her eyes are full of eyes, pure and lovely, making people feel pity for her.
Therefore, he paid a betrothal gift of two thousand yuan and took Xie Yaoqin as his concubine.
Unexpectedly, these two thousand oceans did not bring food and clothing to the Xie family, but instead brought disaster to them.
It turned out that the local gangsters in Macau knew that they had made a fortune by selling their daughters, so Qiye broke into their room and not only looted the two thousand yuan, but also killed all the Xie family members.
At that time, there was a war, and human life was worth less than grass. As many as hundreds of people die every day in Macau, and the local police are unable to control them at all. Therefore, this tragic case of family extermination was eventually left unsolved and became an unsolved case.
Xie Yaoqin naturally burst into tears when she found out about this.
In the end, Xiang Nan paid for the burial of the Xie family's six members.
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In 1944, Xie Yaoqin was pregnant and finally gave birth to a son.
Xiang Nan named him Duan Nanxing.
Xiang Nan gave him this name because he wanted him to thrive.
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Time flies, another year passes in the blink of an eye, and finally in 45 years, Dongyang was defeated and surrendered.
On the day the news was announced, the streets across Macau were filled with celebrating crowds, and long-lost cheers erupted.
Xiaodouzi and Zhang Ruohan also decided to return to Xiangjiang to find a job.
After all, as graduates of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, staying in a small place like Macau would be a bit humiliating. If it weren't for the war, they wouldn't be here. Xiang Nan also decided to leave Macau and go to Xiangjiang for development.
Because Macau is far behind Hong Kong in terms of strength and potential.
Macao’s area is only one-fortieth of that of Hong Kong, and its population is only one-tenth of that of Hong Kong. Macao does not have a decent industrial base, but Xiangjiang's textile industry, construction industry, plastics industry, clothing industry, etc. are all very developed.
Xiang Nan did not go to Xiangjiang before because he knew it would be occupied by the East, so he did not want to suffer the three years and eight months of military chaos.
Now that Dongyang has surrendered and Xiangjiang has great potential, he naturally has to rush there.
Juxian always listened to Xiang Nan's words, and Xie Yaoqin didn't hesitate either. For her, her family is gone. Now Xiang Nan, Juxian, and Nan Xing are her only family members. If she doesn't go with them, where can she go?
So everyone agrees and is ready to develop in Xiangjiang.
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After arriving in Xiangjiang, Xiang Nan did not continue to open a drug store, but started planning a real estate business.
He knew that although the war of resistance was victorious, the civil war would soon begin.
At that time, millions of people will flock to Xiangjiang to seek refuge. With the influx of so many people, the accommodation problem must be solved first, so the real estate industry must have great potential.
So Xiang Nan did not hesitate to invest heavily in buying land on the Kowloon Peninsula, and then built houses for rent and sale.
He has as much as one million oceans of funds, equivalent to about 20 million Hong Kong dollars. In the 1940s, this amount of money was no less than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars today.
Hence Xiang Nan's wealth is quite astonishing, so he naturally bought a large area of land for the construction of new buildings through investment.
Things developed just as he expected. The civil war soon started, and then a large number of people poured into Xiangjiang.
At the beginning of August 1945, the population of Xiangjiang was less than 600,000. But by the 1950s, Xiangjiang's population had exceeded two million, an increase of more than three times. By the 1960s, Xiangjiang's population had increased to three million, a five-fold increase.
The surge in urban population has made the real estate industry in Xiangjiang booming.
Xiang Nan made the most profit because he invested early. By 1950, his original net worth of 20 million Hong Kong dollars had soared to 200 million Hong Kong dollars.
HKD 200 million in the 1950s was an astronomical figure, and Xiang Nan became one of the richest Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong.
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After getting rich, what Xiang Nan likes most is to support the younger generations.
He is willing to sponsor Bao Yugang, Li Jiacheng, Stanley Ho, Zheng Yutong...as long as they are willing to visit.
Because Xiangjiang was the territory of England at that time, foreign-funded foreign companies were showing off their power here, and many monopoly industries were controlled by them. Such as electricity, telephone, telegraph, gasoline, gas, ports, aviation, securities and even tap water, etc.
If Chinese businessmen are not strong enough, they will only be suppressed by foreign banks.
It seems that Xiang Nan is attracting attention now, and his business is often suppressed. For example, water, power, steel, sand and gravel were cut off from time to time at the construction site, all because of the troubles caused by those foreign companies.
Therefore, it is imperative to support Chinese businessmen.
Xiang Nan knows that you can never make enough money, and eating alone will never end well. So he wants to unite a group of people and form a force of his own.
Now he only spends hundreds of thousands or millions to support these younger generations. To him, it was just a drop in the bucket, and he could help them solve a huge problem.
After they rise, Xiang Nan’s investment in them will be returned a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times.