The German mission did not know the handling of the church in East China, but only saw tall and gorgeous churches, complete religious facilities, and professional priests who could hold their first week after they landed in such a church.

Although Prince Heinrich knew the strategy of East China to treat the church, he was very wise and did not say it out loud. After all, this is the internal affairs of East China, and there is no German church here.

After the week, the group took a bus back to Shanghai New District to visit the clothing display show held at the Shanghai New District Shopping Center.

After more than four years of operation and construction, the Shanghai New District Shopping Center has become a commercial center in the entire Shanghai area, integrating shopping, leisure, entertainment and sightseeing. Under normal circumstances, the daily traffic can exceed 100,000 yuan, and the turnover amount reaches more than 300,000 silver dollars. This commercial operation model also made the original foreign merchants in the Shanghai Concession very interested. After carefully examining the operation model of the Shanghai New District Shopping Center, the foreign merchants in the Concession also planned to join forces to start a similar commercial shopping institution. A commercial shopping institution of a large scale cannot be borne by a single merchant. However, at this time, East China ** took back the concession, so this plan was still in the womb.

The clothing display show is also a fixed event in the Shanghai New District Shopping Center. It is held by Wuren Clothing Company, run by Jiang Yi, Wang Chi and Zeng Linghan, and is held every three months. On the one hand, it is to release new clothing launched by the company, and on the other hand, it also imitates the Victoria's Secret show in the old time and space to conduct some exhibitions of completely performative nature.

After the establishment of Wuren Clothing Company, it has been expanding continuously, and almost every year it will invest 60% to 70% of its net profits into expansion regulations. At the same time, East China also gave Wuren Clothing Company great support. Most of the working uniforms, school uniforms, and even some military clothing were handed over to Wuren Clothing Company for work. After Yang Yuxin was dismissed, he joined the management team of Wuren Clothing Company. He realized that the Far East War was about to be a great opportunity. Therefore, he not only insisted that the clothing company should expand its industry, but also marched to the upstream of the garment industry, and set up spinning mills and weaving factories, thus forming a one-stop production chain for spinning, weaving and garment. At the same time, Wuren Clothing Company also officially developed into Wuren Group.

Sure enough, after the beginning of the Far East War, the demand for cloth and clothing increased greatly, and orders from various factories were lined up. Yang Yuxin's side continued to expand the scale of the group, and on the other hand, he focused on product quality. Therefore, the clothing and fabrics of Wuren brand were also widely praised by the East China National University and the army. In early 1907, the East China National University experienced financial tensions and the payment of funds began to be delinquent.

However, Yang Yuxin served as a senior official. After careful analysis, he believed that East China's ** was actually about to win. The current financial tension was just the darkness before dawn. So he tried his best to convince other shareholders that they should fully support ** at this time. So he continuously credited the product of about 3 million silver dollars, which made the group bear heavy debts. Several shareholders took out their private savings to maintain the group's operations.

However, after the Battle of the Taiwan Strait, the situation also improved significantly. After receiving the first compensation, East China ** first paid off the debts of Wuren Group and gave them a large number of clothing and cloth orders, which greatly improved the business volume of Wuren Group.

Now Wuren Group has garment companies, weaving factories and spinning mills. It has more than 2,500 sets of various garment machinery and equipment, and can produce more than 3 million pieces of various garments annually; more than 1,200 looms, with an annual weaving volume of more than 800,000 pieces; 15,000 spindles, with an annual spinning volume of more than 600,000 bags, and more than 8,000 employees. Its annual turnover is expected to reach 8-10 million silver dollars, and its net profit can reach 2-2.5 million silver dollars. The entire output accounts for about half of the textile industry in East China. Among the private enterprises run by veterans, it can be regarded as the largest in the current scale.

Of course, the main product of Wuren Group is still finished clothing, and the clothes produced are mainly divided into two categories: custom-made finished uniforms and daily clothing.

When it was Wuren Clothing Company, a performance event was held to showcase new clothing. Later, as the scale of the clothing company expanded, the number of clothing of various types and styles also increased. At the same time, the professional requirements for performers were getting higher and higher. Several shareholders of Wuren Clothing Company were not professionals in performance. They simply took a few steps in wearing clothes, but they could not meet the needs of performance. Professionals were responsible for it.

Just as the shareholders of Wuren Clothing Company began to discuss whether to set up a professional performance team, and Yang Yuxin suggested that professional matters should be left to professionals. It is better to include all the costume display and performance troupes in East China ** to do it, and only pay them a performance fee, and even sign a long-term performance contract.

There were originally three performance teams performed on passenger and roller boats in the Elders, and there was also a professional media group. When the East China ** was just established, these people formed a choir and jointly organized a concert with the main-pitched and positive energy during the negotiations between the East China ** and the eight countries invading China in Shanghai. It was a huge success at that time, and it performed more than 100 performances in succession, which were widely praised by all walks of life in Shanghai.

However, the choir was temporarily formed, and many of them were students, so they were disbanded after the performance. However, some veterans believed that they should keep the choir or form a new performance troupe to train professional actors and engage in various performance activities in East China.

This suggestion was also approved by the leadership of the East China ** at that time. After all, culture and art belong to the country's soft power and are also a very important national force. Moreover, East China ** itself also has a large number of publicity activities and requires such a professional performance team. Moreover, it is not much money to raise a troupe. It is mainly to approve some old and empty equipment, such as sound, playback equipment, professional lights, etc. However, these things are not useful when kept, so it is better to grant them to the performance team so that they can play a role. Of course, full-time members of the troupe must be adults and can use minors to participate in the performance, but they can only be part-time and can only be trained in spare time. Except for special circumstances, the maximum time for taking leave for performances must not exceed one week, and the cumulative leave for a year must not exceed 30 days.

There are now 11 veterans in the troupe, and it has grown to a scale of more than 150 people and more than 100 actors, and can engage in various forms of performance activities.

When Yang Yuxin was working in Tianjin and Shanghai, he had a cooperation with the theater troupe, so he immediately thought of them. The two sides basically hit it off and soon signed a 10-year performance contract.

After professionals took over, it was indeed different. After the troupe's research, they provided a plan to Wuren Clothing Company. First, they determined that the clothing display show will be held regularly every year according to spring, summer, autumn and winter. Of course, it can be combined with some traditional festivals, and there are other celebrations and events, and the number of events will be increased. In addition, it is divided into two parts in form: one is to display new clothes, and the other is to display purely performance, that is, the Victoria's Secret show that imitates the old time and space. The ultimate goal is to build the clothing display show into a fashion business card for Shanghai, or even East China, and it is also a brand of the troupe.

This suggestion was supported by several shareholders of Wuren Clothing Company. After all, the veterans all knew the title of the Victoria's Secret Show. If this clothing show can be really held, it would be a huge achievement.

In this way, starting at the end of 1905, the troupe held a costume display show in Shanghai for three quarters. Due to the huge changes in the form and regulations, the content was much richer than before, so it was even more popular among the people.

Of course, there were some controversies in these two costume display shows, mainly in the pure performance stage later. Although compared with the old time and space, the costumes performed were quite conservative, almost not even exposed their arms and thighs, most of the costumes performed were mainly slim and tight. However, from the perspective of this era, this scale is still quite large. Therefore, after the first costume display show, many people accused this costume display show of being an indecent and moral degraded, and some people even wrote to the Shanghai New District ** to request the cancellation of the costume display show. However, the Shanghai New District ** of course would not care about these things, not to mention that in the eyes of the veterans, this is so conservative that it cannot be conservative. To be honest, some female veterans have much larger daily clothing standards than this. If they can't even accept this scale, what's the point of life?

No matter how much the Shanghai New District **, the clothing display show can certainly continue to be held, but the people like this form of performance very much. In fact, there are too few entertainment activities in this era, killing individuals can attract a large group of people to watch. Although there are at least 5 or 6 different forms of traditional performances in shopping malls every day, the clothing display show has a novel form, strong visual and auditory impact, and can blatantly look at beauty, which is naturally very attractive. Of course, no one dares to make trouble here on the territory of East China **.

However, the costume display show only lasted for two quarters. Just when the troupe was planning to do a big show, it was stopped because of the emergency of the war. This suspension lasted almost half a year, and it was not restored until the East China ** and Russia signed the [Harbin Treaty]. Therefore, this is also the first performance held after the costume display show was restored.

The troupe, Wuren Group and the New District Shopping Center all plan to make this performance lively and more grand. The three leaders of the troupe, Yang Sen, Gong Wenbo and Li Weibo, all personally took the stage and selected elite soldiers and began organizing, rehearsing and training one month in advance. The Wuren Group also made a large number of performance costumes for this performance. After clearing the venue at night every night, the New District Shopping Center also specially retained people to open the atrium of the performance to the troupe, allowing them to perform program rehearsals, and specifically avoided two rooms to make locker rooms. The atrium was closed one week before the performance, so that the troupe could build a stage and install equipment. At the same time, the shopping center in the new district also carried out extensive publicity.

It happened that the German delegation came to Shanghai at this time, so after Li Songchen communicated with the New District Shopping Center, he decided to invite all members of the German delegation to watch the performance and show the Germans the literary and artistic level of East China.

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