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

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "This has to start with Sheng Xuanhuai, Sheng Xuanhuai is a famous official and businessman in modern Chinese history, with countless family assets, he is also the first batch of people in China to propose the establishment of banks, telegraphs and other things, China's first big bank - China International 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, and 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 privately owned, and if he wants to follow the example of Europe and the United States, he must think that big banks should be privately run by business; Second, he believes that if the banks are run by the government, they will inevitably be burdened by the red tape of the government and will breed corruption. ”

"Sheng Xuanhuai is still one of the few people in the Qing court who understands bank construction, and now Emperor Guangxu has driven the foreigners away, and the only person who can rely on him is Sheng Xuanhuai, our bank is a private commercial bank, and it is very good for his taste, what we have to do is to let him admonish the emperor and let our bank replace the Qing Bank."

Lin Yuan continued: "To open a bank, you first need to have money, so let's go to that Sheng Xuanhuai and tell him that we are very rich, isn't this just showing off our wealth?" Let's convince him that we're wealthy, and then I'll guide him skillfully, and he'll be of use to us!"

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

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "If it can be like this, it will be simple, Sheng Xuanhuai doesn't believe in the strength of our bank at all!" We annexed all the original ticket numbers and silver villages in the Northeast for a month, and he thought that this was the result of my use of power to interfere! So I had to meet him once and show him what I was worth! ”

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

Lin Yuan smiled: "Don't you blame me for not buying you anything?" In this way, let's go to the best jewelry store in Beijing, buy a few, and let Sheng Xuanhuai take a good look at our financial resources! ”

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

Liu San said with a smile: "Of course it's Chengxiang Pavilion, that place is the best and most expensive, and you don't dare to enter it without eighteen thousand silver!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and smiled at Shen Wanqing: "Let's go to that Chengxiang Pavilion." ”

As soon as the two were about to leave, Liu San shouted from behind, "Are you two going like this?" ”

Lin Yuan looked back and smiled: "Why don't we go like this?" Do you still want to get some gifts for the boss? ”

Liu San said with a smile: "My lord, you don't know what to do, a place like a jewelry store is the best at watching people cook, you two are dressed ordinary, I'm afraid you can't enter the door of others." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "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: "It's okay this time, right?" ”

Liu San frowned again, shook his head again and again, and said: "Lord Lin, you don't have two decent objects on you, let's just say Miss Wanqing, the person is so beautiful, the clothes are so bright, but you don't even have a bracelet, people can see at a glance that you are not rich people, and you will definitely not be treated well when you go there." ”

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

Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing walked through the streets and alleys, and came to the store called Chengxiang Pavilion, the door was very deserted, there was no one inside, there was only one guy squatting on the side at the gate and eating melon seeds, Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing walked into the store, the guy immediately stood up, followed in, and said enthusiastically: "What are you two looking for?" ”

Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing both thought: "This guy is very enthusiastic, not at all like Liu San said." Lin Yuan pointed at Shen Wanqing with his hand and said, "I want to buy her some jewelry, do you have anything good here?" Bring up the most expensive ones. ”

The guy smiled heartily and said, "How can we take good things, so let's do it, you two sit first, and I'll call the shopkeeper for the two of you." After saying that, the guy shouted at the other guy: "Hurry up and serve tea and snacks to the two distinguished guests!" With that, he ran to the back.

Another guy then came up with tea and snacks, put them respectfully in front of Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing, and said with a smile: "You two, please use it slowly." After speaking, she walked to the side, Shen Wanqing pointed to those dim sum and said, "They are really enthusiastic about us, you look at these dim sum, I have never seen such a good dim sum in other places." ”

Lin Yuan whispered: "Something is wrong, why are they so polite to us?" Liu San said that we are not like rich people, they should ignore us! ”

Shen Wanqing laughed quietly: "Aren't you cheap? People are good to you, and you're not happy anymore. Lin Yuan heard her teasing hehe, at this moment, I saw the door curtain lifted, and a short and fat middle-aged man walked out of it, came to the two of them, put a piece of silver on the table, and said with a smile: "I can't let the two of you come for nothing, so let's give the two of you a little meeting gift, and help more in the future." ”

Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and thought, "This jewelry store is really strange, after we came, we didn't say anything and gave us silver first." Then he asked, "Shopkeeper, we have come to buy something, why do you give us silver?" ”

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

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

When the shopkeeper heard this, his face changed instantly, and he asked, "Do you have a lot of silver when you come to us?" ”

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

The banknotes of the People's Bank of Northeast China in Beijing are very well issued, and the shopkeeper also recognizes, so he picked up the hundred-yuan banknote, turned it a few times against the sun, and the color-changing ink in the banknote suddenly showed different colors at different lighting angles. ”

Lin Yuan smiled, put the box he was carrying on the table, and then opened it, there were neatly stacked RMB inside, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he shouted into the room: "Hurry up and invite the young lady out!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself when he heard this: "Miss? What Miss? After a while, I saw a quiet girl coming out of the house, she walked up to Shen Wanqing and Lin Yuan, bowed to Yingying, and said with a smile: "It's this sister who wants to buy something, right?" Please follow the slave family to the back to choose, will this official also follow? ”

Lin Yuan looked at the girl and thought, "There is actually a shopping guide in the jewelry store, this store is really similar to our era." However, Lin Yuan wanted to know what kind of shopkeeper Lu Dao was just about to give him silver, so he smiled at Shen Wanqing and said, "You guys go, I won't go, just come out and quote me a price after you get it." ”

Shen Wanqing followed the girl inside, and Lin Yuan asked the shopkeeper, "Why did you give me the silver just now?" What do you think we're for? ”