In Shanghai in the 1980s, many people walked on the road to see an old lady sitting gracefully in front of her house smoking a cigar. Judging from her temperament, sitting posture with a cigar cigarette and the fragrance of a cigar, she must have been a rich and prestigious Miss Qianjin, but the specific Miss Qianjin was, and the average person is not clear, only those who have seen her or neighbors in the early years know that she is the famous Miss Sheng Aiyi of the Sheng family in the Republic of China period.
Many people do not know about Sheng Aiyi, but his father was rarely unknown at that time, and he was Sheng Xuanhuai, who was known as the "father of Chinese industry". His life experience is full of legends, and he has founded many pioneering businesses, including steamship, telegraph, railway, steel, banking, textiles and many other fields, and is the largest capitalist in Shanghai.
As Sheng Xuanhuai's daughter, Sheng Aiyi has collected thousands of pets since childhood. When Song Ziwen was not developed, she also worked as her tutor, and there was a relationship between them, and even Song Ziwen's later coils to Guangdong were sent by Sheng Aiyi, which was not an ordinary silver circle but a handful of gold leaves, which shows how rich the Sheng family really is.
Unfortunately, after the death of Sheng Xuanhuai and Lady Zhuang, several sons of the Sheng family wanted to enter the family's property and prepare to exclude Miss Seven and Miss Eight. Sheng Aiyi is not a simple person, directly according to the legal provisions of the Republic of China on equality between men and women, she successfully obtained the inheritance that belongs to her that is enough for him to live a lifetime.
Later, when she learned the news that Song Ziwen had married Zhang Leyi, she was naturally devastated, and finally chose to marry Lady Zhuang's nephew Zhuang Zhujiu. Soon after, he took out 600,000 taels of silver from his original inheritance and purchased the Jing'an Temple underground camp to build the Paramount Ballroom, which was praised by the outside world as the "First Music House in the Far East".
At this time, Sheng Aiyi transformed from a thousand gold in the Republic of China to become the first female entrepreneur in China to set foot in the entertainment industry. On the opening day of the Paramount Ballroom she founded, even Wu Tiecheng, who was the mayor of Shanghai in the Republic of China government at the time, personally attended the congratulatory speech, which shows that even and the beginning of the fall of Sheng Aiyi is still not to be underestimated. What's more, after the opening of Paramount, Zhang Xueliang, Chen Xiangmei and many celebrities at that time were regular customers here, even when Chaplin and his wife later visited Shanghai.
However, when it was later handed over to a Frenchman, Paramount suffered a great loss due to the excessive cost of charging. Soon after the dismissal of the Frenchman, due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, his business became worse and worse, and he was in a state of deficit. Finally, because of the serious deficit of the year, it was directly taken over by the relevant government departments. As for Sheng Aiyi, after the public-private partnership, all the fixed assets were confiscated, but he could still get a fixed interest rate on a quarterly basis, and his life was still quite peaceful and comfortable, and he lived until he was more than eighty years old.