Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

Even if Bai Potian comes, he still has to call Bai Hewu "uncle" when he sees him.

In today's Bai family, there is no direct lineage, so Bai Huaian's line has the right to speak, because Bai Huaian is responsible for handling the sword shop and Weiguan industries.

The meeting was open, reporting on the situation of various industries.

Bai Huaian held the teacup and listened silently to the report. The results were similar to what he thought, with almost no improvement.

He sighed silently in his heart, thinking that it would not work if he continued like this. Now that the reputation of the Wei Guan was not good, the business of the sword shop began to be sluggish.

If this continues, let alone maintaining the dignity of the Bai family, it will be a problem to maintain food and clothing for hundreds of people.

It's a pity that for such a big family, there are only a few people who can hold up the lintel.

He glanced around and looked around. In fact, there are not a few men in the Bai family now, but the number of serious men named Bai only accounts for about one-fifth. The rest are either women or A person with a foreign surname.

Strange to say, those with the surname Bai, regardless of collateral or direct lineage, give birth to a very small number of boys, but there is no shortage of girls.

Therefore, the Pang family usually adopts the method of recruiting a son-in-law. At that time, he will be regarded as his own family and is eligible to participate in family meetings.

As long as you are not a noble or wealthy family, you are often not very sensitive to the surname issue of your descendants, so adding a surname temporarily is not a big deal.

In Bai Huaian's view, those who can be recruited as sons-in-law are often not particularly outstanding in their own strength and talent, otherwise who would be willing to rely on others.

While he was thinking about it, the people in charge of several industries below had begun to argue with each other, assuming the attitude of blaming each other.

"Your hotel business is really bad."

"You have the nerve to blame me. The last project was beautifully written, but it ended up losing 300% in three months. How can you have the nerve to accuse me!"

"Okay, everyone, be nice..."

"Shut up, you are the most embarrassing. This time you have the nerve to come over with the IOU and ask the big guy to help you repay the loan!"

"I didn't want to either. I didn't expect that the futures market would suddenly collapse. Who knew that the freight would suddenly be cut off? It was going well..."

"Then you shouldn't stud either!"

"It's such a big hole, do you want me to fill it in for you?!"

boom!

Bai Huaian slapped the table, and everyone quarreling in the conference hall immediately stopped.

Bai Huaian, who was in his fifties, raised his hand and snorted coldly: "You guys are still thinking about me?"

The person who just spoke immediately changed his words: "No, I just said it out of anger..."

Bai Huaian said expressionlessly: "My direct family resold a lot of properties back then. For decades, I left the ancestral property here regardless of whether I wanted to return to Daxia. During this period, did I consider the life and death of the collateral families?"

"Do you really think that if they can support you, you can sit back and relax?"

"What if they still have the idea of ​​going back?"

"What if what happened back then happens again? Do I have to sell both the sword shop and the guard hall this time?"

"Moreover, you can't even run the business well, so you still expect me to give you a fortune? Even if it is given, can you accept it?"

Bai Huaian slammed the tea cup on the table and said angrily: "The Bai family has declined to this point today. They have to bear some responsibility, but each of you can't escape the blame!"

At the end, everyone lowered their heads, looking like they were being scolded humbly.

But if I don’t really regret it, no one will know.

Bai Huaian originally wanted to discuss other things, but seeing this mess, he knew that speaking would be useless.

When the family was weak, they were the ones who were most resistant to helping. Now that the family is strong, they are the ones who want to go back and make a fortune together... They are afraid of avoiding bad things, and they are afraid of missing out on good things.

The chickens and dogs cannot be reused!

Bai Huaian also felt a bit depressed and desolate in her heart, thinking that she had worked hard for decades to maintain a bright appearance, but at the end of the day, she was still a grassroots team.

But he still had resentment in his heart. The Bai family had no shortage of outstanding people from generation to generation. If the family hadn't insisted on going its own way, taking away a large amount of property and a few mainstays, how could the Bai family have ended up like this?

"Go down." He waved his hand and motioned for everyone to retreat.

Most of the crowd dispersed, but a few people remained.

Holding a plan in his hand.

"On behalf of the Patriarch, this is a new industrial proposal, and I am confident enough this time."

"Well, my shop over there can't survive any longer. On behalf of the owner, when will the capital be injected?"

"I'm even more anxious here. The bank wants to collect the loan. If you don't pay, the collateral will be taken back. Then I will lose all my money!"

Bai Huaian said angrily: "Get down here!"

After driving away these people, he sighed, turned and left the rotunda, and went to the sword shop.

In the deepest part of Bai's sword shop, there is a very ancient furnace, which is the original sword furnace.

Today's sword furnace fire is transferred from this furnace. This is the foundation where the Lao Bai family has been here for hundreds of years.

Next to the sword furnace, a slightly stooped but still strong old man was striking an orange-red iron block, and the crisp sound of striking iron was rhythmic.

Hearing this voice, Bai Huaian's expression became calmer. No matter how impetuous he was, he would always calm down when he came here.

Bai Huaian bowed to the white-bearded blacksmith: "The son has met his father."

"Rudolph is here..." The old man Bai Hewu put the sword embryo into the sword furnace and rubbed his dusty beard.

"I prefer the name Huaian."

"Your mother gave you the name Rudolph."

"I know."

Bai Hewu picked up the porcelain cup, took a sip of water, and said calmly: "You are still the same as when you were a child. You want to prove that your surname is Bai. You even changed your name to be like a Daxia person. But you know in your heart that you don't have that. If I can't manage this group of people, I won't be able to catch up with my direct descendants."

Bai Huaian's fist hardened immediately, but when faced with his father's comments, he could only lower his head and said, "Father has said it hundreds of times."

"But you didn't listen once, you just wanted to prove that you are no worse than them, and you can live well without the support of my family." Bai Hewu picked up the hammer: "You can live well, as long as you are willing Like me, pick up the hammer and strike hard.”

Bai Huaian straightened his back and asked, "Did my father get into the sword shop back then because he felt he was inferior to Bai Ginseng Shang? Or did he already know that he would fail?"

Bai Hewu smiled, took out the iron block, and continued to beat it, making a ding-dong-dong sound.

"I never felt like I needed to compare myself to him."

"He has made a decision, and I have also made a decision. If he wants to go to Daxia, he can go. I will guard the Bai family's ancestral property. Everyone has a different path."

"I don't want him to fail. I hope he can succeed more than anyone else...and I also know that if he can't do it, then no one else in the Bai family can do it. Although the white ginseng merchant failed, he He is still an admirable person, and you should not laugh at a person who is more courageous than your father."

Bai Huaian disagreed: "He dragged down the following generations."

"How could such a thing happen? Look at his son, he doesn't live a very prosperous life."

"But we..."

"Rudolf." Bai Hewu struck hard: "Don't blame others if your own abilities are insufficient. Why do you think the Bai family, which is not big enough, wants to separate the main family and the collateral family?"

Bai Huaian shook his head.

"Because the direct descendants of the Bai family have always relied on their own ability to make a living." Bai Hewu said earnestly: "According to the rules of our ancestors, those who inherit the family business are those who are unable to support themselves. The direct descendants are monsters from generation to generation, and they do not need charity. , you can hold up the sky by yourself... So, it’s time for you to put down your stubbornness.”

Bai Huaian stopped talking.

"What, you're not convinced?"

"My son feels unconvinced and feels wronged... I have worked hard for thirty years and worked hard for the family. Do I have to cling to my family to survive?" Bai Huaian clenched his fists, his eyes were unhappy, and he was unwilling.

"That's all, you are in charge now. You don't have to tell me what you decide." Bai Hewu continued to forge.

"I just have one thing I want to ask my father." Bai Huaian paused and said, "About this time..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard an exclamation from behind.

"It's not good, Acting Patriarch!"

A sword shop apprentice ran in with a disgraced look.

Bai Huaian suppressed his displeasure and turned around to ask, "What's going on? How can you behave in such a hurry?"

The apprentice took a few breaths and said: "Something happened in the guard hall, someone came to kick the hall!"

"Kick the gym?" Bai Huaian was furious and said in a deep voice, "Who is so bold?"

The Dragon and Tiger Guards Hall has been a local landmark for hundreds of years. Who would come here to become famous?

"Yes, the Union of Guards..."

……

The Swordsmanship Guards Hall in Rome was roughly similar to the martial arts sects of Daxia, and was a higher level than the Children's Palace.

Although you can't learn serious Japanese swordsmanship in the Children's Palace, you can still learn enough to kill a little dragon girl or something.

The swordsmanship and sword skills that can be learned in the swordsmanship academy are of a higher level.

Speaking of Rome's extraordinary system, it is rather strange. Here, people pay for knowledge, such as spells. As long as you have money, you can buy advanced spell knowledge and hire private tutors. However, this is not the case with swordsmanship. The knight's body training method , training methods, ways to refine fighting spirit, and crucial sword skills, all must be learned in the corresponding guard hall.

If you steal something even if you take it without asking, it is equivalent to stealing. Any swordsmanship gym will strictly prohibit and crack down on piracy and theft.

It can be seen from this that the knight's extraordinary system, or in other words, swordsmanship, sword skills, etc., are actually monopolized.

Unlike the Dragon Vein Realm in Daxia, anyone can obtain the inheritance left by their predecessors;

In Europa, the cost of learning swordsmanship is very high. You must become a disciple of a swordsmanship school. After several years of training and the guidance of a master, you can master a swordsmanship.

During this time, you have to keep paying tuition and additional fees. For example, if the customized weapon is designated by the swordsmanship hall, you can only give money; for example, you can pay more to unlock advanced courses in advance; and For another example, if something happens in the Guard Hall, you must protect it. This is your responsibility as a disciple; in the future, when you graduate from the Guard Hall and gain a reputation, you must also show that you are a disciple of the xx Guard Hall and help The Weiguan became famous.

This series of operations has aggravated the monopoly of the swordsmanship academy.

But monopoly means that people behind can't get in the car... Too many latecomers expressed their deep disgust for this behavior of welding the door shut after getting on the car.

Basically, there were three types of swordsmanship schools in Rome.

The Royal Swordsmanship Hall is a hall endorsed by the Roman royal family. It has a transcendent status. Countless people can’t get in even if they squeeze their heads. The graduates who come out of it in Rome are equivalent to the Penglai graduates in Daxia. No matter where they go, they will be collected. to top offers;

Then there are the hundreds of famous medical schools, including the Longhu Medical School, which have great reputations and wide connections, making it easy to recruit students;

The last one is the newly promoted swordsmanship guard hall.

This is a business model that operates with new era thinking.

It is a joint health center formed by the joining of a series of small health halls.

It breaks the various old-fashioned operating methods mentioned above and implements modern business thinking. The operating policy is simple and does not pay attention to loyalty or appearance.

The first is to focus on those who are capable, and resources will be concentrated to cultivate disciples with potential; the second is to use money to open the way, and those who are willing to make money will open the vvvip channel.

There is also competition within the United Guard Hall, but its goal is still to rapidly expand the market and break the monopoly of the old swordsmanship guard halls in the past.

Although it has touched the interests of many established Weiguan, many small Weiguan have turned to it, causing its expansion rate to surge sharply.

Bai Huaian had met people from United Health Clinic several times before. The other party wanted to discuss business and hoped that Longhu Health Club could join them, and they offered quite generous conditions.

But Bai Huaian felt that in this case, the signboard of the Longhu Guard Hall would be borrowed and abused, so he refused.

The biggest problem with the current United Health Center is that there is a mixed bag of good and bad.

Large ones are out of control; small ones will be cannibalized quickly.

The Dragon and Tiger Guards were actually very weak, and it was difficult to protect themselves. Therefore, Bai Huaian refused because he was worried that once he joined, he would be eaten as a fat sheep by the few in the United Guards.

He had the right idea.

But weak prey will inevitably attract predators, and it is useless to just avoid them.

The other party still came to the door.

……

A car was parked at the end of the street.

Bai Yu looked through the car window: "It seems we came at the wrong time."

"Maybe it's just the right time?"

Melusina sat in the back seat, opened the refrigerator, took out ice cubes and threw them into the cup.

She smiled slightly.

This smile is sweet, but the darkness has already leaked out.

"If we don't let them suffer some losses, I don't think a person as strong as Bai Huaian will bow down easily."

"Do you force a cow to have its head pressed if it doesn't drink water?" Bai Yu asked, "Sister Shirley already knew that something would happen today?"