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Shen Wanqing asked, "Show off your wealth? Why do we show off our wealth?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "It starts with Sheng Xuanhuai. Sheng Xuanhuai is a well-known official and businessman in the modern history of China. The first big bank, China Commercial Bank, was established at his request."

"The most useful point for us is: Sheng Xuanhuai believes that banks cannot be run by the state, but must be run by businessmen. The reason why he has such an idea is because of two points: First: In this era, the big banks in Europe and the United States are all If it is privately owned, he wants to follow the example of Europe and the United States, and he must think that big banks should be commercially owned and privately owned; second: he believes that if the bank is run by the government, it will inevitably be burdened by the red tape of the government and will breed corruption.”

"Sheng Xuanhuai was one of the few people in the Qing court who knew how to build a bank. Now that Emperor Guangxu drove the foreigners away, the only person who can rely heavily on him is Sheng Xuanhuai. Our bank is a privately owned commercial bank, which suits his taste very well. What we have to do is to let him persuade the emperor to let our bank replace the Bank of Great Qing."

Lin Yuan went on to say: "To open a bank, you first need to have money. Let's go to that Sheng Xuanhuai and tell him that we are rich. Isn't that just showing off our wealth? We first let him believe that our family is very rich, and then I will subtly tell him that we are rich. Give it a go, and he'll be usable!

Shen Wanqing thought for a while and said, "No, we don't need to go by ourselves, can't we just show him our bank account?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "It would be easy if we could do this. Sheng Xuanhuai didn't believe in the strength of our bank at all! We annexed all the original bank accounts and banks in the Northeast within a month. He thought it was my use of power. The result of interference! So I have to meet him once and show him my financial resources!"

Shen Wanqing nodded and asked, "Then how should we show off our wealth?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Aren't you blaming me for not buying anything for you? How about this, let's go to the best jewelry store in Beijing and buy a few pieces, so that Sheng Xuanhuai can take a good look at our financial resources!"

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he called Liu San and asked, "Which jewelry store in Beijing has the best products?"

Liu San smiled and said: "Of course it's Chengxiang Pavilion. The things in that place are the best and the most expensive. If you don't have [-] silver, you don't dare to go in there!"

Lin Yuan nodded, then smiled at Shen Wanqing, "Let's go to the Chengxiang Pavilion."

Just as the two were about to leave, Liu San called out from behind: "Are you two going like this?"

Lin Yuan turned around and said with a smile: "Why don't we go this way? Shouldn't we still get some gifts for the boss?"

Liu San smiled and said, "My lord, you don't know that a place like a jewelry store is the place where people order food. You two are dressed in ordinary clothes. I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the door."

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Then let's change into good clothes." Lin Yuan then asked people to take out two gorgeous clothes to change into, and then said to Liu San: "This time, shall we?"

Liu San frowned again, shook his head again and again, and said, "Master Lin, you don't have two decent things on your body, let's just say Miss Wanqing, she is so beautiful, and her clothes are so bright, but she doesn't even have a bracelet. It can be seen at a glance that you are not rich people, and you will definitely not be welcomed there."

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is the most interesting." After finishing speaking, he carried a suitcase of money, then turned to Shen Wanqing and said, "Let's go." Liu San had never heard of "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." The word "tiger", when he was about to ask, Lin Yuan had already walked out.

Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing crossed the street and came to the store called Chengxiang Pavilion. The entrance was extremely deserted, and there was no one inside. There was only one clerk squatting at the gate eating melon seeds. Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing Walking into the store, the guy immediately stood up, followed in, and said enthusiastically, "What are you two looking for?"

Both Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing thought: "This guy is very enthusiastic, not like what Liu San said at all." Lin Yuan pointed to Shen Wanqing and said, "I want to buy some jewelry for her. Are there any good ones? Just bring the most expensive one."

The clerk smiled heartily and said, "How can our servants take good things? How about this, you two sit first, and I will call the shopkeeper for the two of you." After speaking, the clerk rushed to another clerk and shouted: "Hurry up and serve tea and snacks to the two distinguished guests!" After finishing speaking, he ran to the back.

Then another guy came up with tea and snacks, put them respectfully in front of Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing, and said with a smile, "Please take your time, both of you." After speaking, he walked to the side, and Shen Wanqing pointed to the snacks and said : "They are so warm to us, look at these dim sum, I have never seen such good in other places."

Lin Yuan whispered: "It's not right, why are they being so polite to us? Liu San said that we are not like rich people, so they should just ignore us!"

Shen Wanqing laughed softly: "Aren't you cheap? You are not happy when people treat you well." Lin Yuan was amused when he heard her teasing. The fat middle-aged man came out from the inside, came to the two of them, put a piece of silver on the table, and said with a smile: "You can't let the two of you come here for nothing, how about this, I will give you a little meeting gift, and I will help you a lot in the future." .”

Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, thinking: "This jewelry store is really strange. After we arrived, we didn't say anything and gave us money first." So he asked: "Shopkeeper, we are here to buy things, you Why give us silver instead?"

The shopkeeper asked, "Are you really here to buy something?"

Lin Yuan replied: "Of course, what else can we do here?"

The shopkeeper's expression changed instantly when he heard this, and he asked, "You need a lot of money to come to us, do you have any?"

Lin Yuan took out a hundred-yuan bill from his sleeve and put it on the table, and said, "Can I use this to pay?"

The banknotes issued by the Northeast People’s Bank of China are doing very well in Beijing, and the shopkeeper also recognized it, so he picked up the hundred-yuan bill and flipped it a few times against the sun. Different colors, the shopkeeper knew that this banknote was real, and then said: "In our place, only one such banknote is not enough."

Lin Yuan smiled, put the suitcase he was carrying on the table, and opened it, the RMB was neatly stacked inside, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he rushed into the room and shouted: "Hurry up and get the lady out! "

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Miss? What Miss?" After a while, a quiet girl came out of the room. She walked up to Shen Wanqing and Lin Yuan and bowed gracefully, and said with a smile, "It's this girl." Is the elder sister going to buy something? Please go to the back with the servant to choose, will this official also follow?"

Lin Yuan looked at the girl and thought, "The jewelry store even has a shopping guide lady. This store is really similar to our era." But Lin Yuan wanted to know why the shopkeeper wanted to give him money just now, so he told Shen Wanqing He smiled and said, "You guys go, I won't go, just give me a price when you finish it."

Shen Wanqing followed the girl inside, and Lin Yuan asked the shopkeeper, "Why did you give me money just now? What do you think we are doing?"