Yang Cheng didn't go out with dark circles under his eyes on this day, and he was not in a hurry to do business for a while, but had a good rest for a day, and the next day, he got into his two-wheeled carriage and went out with Steward Feng.

When he went out, Steward Feng held a leather bag in his hand, which contained several documents, one was the relevant documents of his newly registered branch, the other was the relevant documents of the glass patent authorization obtained from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the last one was the planning document that he had been thinking about all night before, and yesterday it was revised and perfected.

With these documents, the first thing he went to find was the branch of the local Royal Bank, which naturally could not be the head office of the Royal Bank in Shanghai, but only a branch in the industrial zone.

The scale of Shanghai's urban area is quite large, with two or three hundred thousand people surrounding the old city, business districts, industrial parks, and large commercial and residential areas sandwiched in the above-mentioned areas.

In such a large place, although it is a bit of a waste to open five branches, although the industry and commerce in Shanghai are too developed and the flow of capital is too large, it is an important market that the major banks of the empire are fighting for, and it is not too much for the Royal Bank to open five branches.

The branch of the Royal Bank that Yang Cheng went to, and even the branch of the Shanghai Industrial Zone of the Royal Bank Shanghai Branch, which mainly serves the major enterprises and employees in the industrial zone.

Because it is serving many customers in the entire industrial zone, the scale of this branch is also quite large, when Yang Cheng came to the branch of the Royal Bank Industrial Zone, to be honest, it was impossible to confirm whether this was a bank or an official yamen for a while.

This is a building covering an area of thousands of square meters, there are three floors up and down, this kind of building is also a new style of masonry building that has only risen in recent years, the main material is fired green bricks, lime, steel bars, of course, of course, it is inevitable that there will be a large piece of wood as the floor, but when the building was built, cement has not been applied on a large scale, and the price is expensive, so this bank branch did not use cement.

From the outside, this kind of building is actually not too different from the overall framework of ordinary buildings in later generations, of course, some of the external structure and decoration are still different, and they are integrated with certain Western elements.

This architectural style has only become popular in recent years, and the source is the Hanlin Building in the Royal Courtyard and the Imperial Study of Li Xuan's daily office.

Therefore, in the first half of the royal courtyard, a small building was built for office, which is the imperial study, which is the place where Li Xuan and the secretaries of the secretariat work on weekdays, and the area is not large, only a thousand square meters.

Later, on the periphery of the royal palace, a new office building was built, which was the Hanlin Building, most of which was used by hundreds of Hanlin officials, and some of them were used as the duty offices of the ministers on duty in the imperial study.

However, the two are separated from each other, and even the entrance and exit are not the same, one on each side.

The bricks, lime, steel and wood and other materials used by the royal family, and the integration of Eastern and Western elements of this kind of building, is also gradually imitated, but the office atmosphere of this building is too strong, so most of the imitation is also office buildings, such as when the official wants to build a new office building, it is generally a new building, rather than the original kind of old building that covers a very wide area and has a low utilization area, because the distance is too large, the personnel interval is large, and the communication time is too long.

A large number of enterprises also prefer this kind of building, especially when building office buildings in the center of the city where the land price is relatively high, they often use this, the reason is very simple, that is, the land use area is high, saving money at the same time, because the office staff is more dense, the exchange is also more convenient and fast, and the office efficiency is quite improved a lot!

In recent years, with the gradual rise in steel production, the price is gradually decreasing, and the emergence of cement has also led to a large number of steel and cement into the construction industry, which makes the current construction has a higher and higher trend.

In the past, it took expensive stone, wood, a lot of craftsmen, etc., to build a huge building, but now with the use of a large number of fired bricks, steel and cement in buildings, the cost of construction has dropped rapidly, and some relatively large and difficult construction has been possible.

At present, in the business area, invested by the Royal Assets Division, in fact, Li Xuan is interested in letting the Imperial Assets Division, known as the largest in the whole Shanghai, and even in the entire empire, the most complete facilities, the most luxurious decoration, and the consumption is also the highest, set accommodation, business, dining and other integrated Shanghai Traders Hotel, is a large use of steel, cement, glass and other materials.

And the floor has reached five floors, and the total height will reach 36 meters, which is rare in ancient times except for the construction accidents of tall towers and halls.

Running to Shanghai, Yang Cheng has seen a lot of this kind of building, and without exception, most of them are corporate buildings, or official buildings, and in addition, no one will engage in this kind of office building, the industrial branch of the Royal Bank, is this kind of new building, of course, it is not high, only two floors, it covers a large area.

This is close to the gate, that is, you can see that there are four doormen with tigers on their backs at the door, standing on both sides, looking at the guests entering and leaving with vigilant eyes, including Yang Cheng and the two.

Yang Cheng would not suspect at all that if he had any suspicious actions at this time, or if he was carrying a gun or a sharp blade or something, these guards would definitely rush over as soon as possible, and then aim at him with their waist knives and even the spears they were carrying behind their backs!

These guards are not ordinary doormen, but specially registered armed bodyguards, and they are also all retired soldiers.

At present, the Tang Empire has special laws and regulations on armed guards, and after the double approval of the cabinet and the military, a total of 34 bodyguard companies have been established, and the guards of these bodyguard companies can carry swords, long-pole arquebuses and swords in public for self-defense!

As for the pistol, this thing may only be a self-defense weapon or a cavalry weapon in terms of military role, but in the people, this weapon is the best weapon for assassination and other criminal activities, so even if the empire has released some long-pole arquebuses for civilian use, but the pistol is listed as a special weapon for the military and police, and it is not supplied to the people, and it is not allowed to be held by the people.

However, because these bodyguards are armed with guns, there are also very strict regulations on the number of people and applications, first of all, it is not as many bodyguards as there are bodyguards that the bodyguard company wants.

For the recruitment of bodyguards, there is a very strict process, that is, first you need to reach a security agreement with a certain company, or a wealthy family, before you can apply for the recruitment of bodyguards according to this agreement, vocational training, and then send to the agency or rich family that has signed the security agreement to perform bodyguard tasks.

At the same time, it is stipulated that the guards must be retired soldiers, and idle people are not allowed to serve as bodyguards.

In fact, these bodyguard enterprises are all government-run enterprises, and the management personnel are all retired military officers and civilian officials, and private individuals cannot apply for the establishment of such bodyguard companies, and at the same time, ordinary people will not be allowed to enter this type of enterprise.

These measures are not actually aimed at limiting the number of armed forces, social instability, etc., but the military's efforts to ensure that there are no uncontrolled civilian armed forces in the country.

The military can strictly prevent the emergence of civilian armed forces in the country.

In the past few years, the army has been carrying out activities to eliminate bandits, landlords' armed forces, and other illegal armed forces, and even so far, it is difficult to completely clean up, if in some remote areas, there are many bandits, and most of the landlords and powerful people also have private arms.

Of course, these landlords and powerful people will not stupidly say that they are soldiers, and they don't even use the name of guards, but use the names of ordinary tenants, servants, etc., although they dare not use large-scale guns for weapons, but there is no shortage of swords.

Even now, 11 years after Xuanping, there are still quite a lot of illegal armed organizations in China, and the military has been cracking down, but the ones that can be eliminated on the surface, but they are difficult to eradicate in the dark.

This is also the reason why the empire is now very strict in gun control, from manufacturing, to sales and use, all are officially handled, and private interference is not allowed.

Yang Cheng knew that these guards in the Royal Bank were all genuine armed bodyguards, the kind with real guns!

What he didn't know was that in addition to these four guards, there were actually more than 30 armed bodyguards in the building to monitor and guard!

Who let this be a bank, not to mention that the mountains of gold and silver in the cellars alone are worth guarding with dozens of armed bodyguards, not to mention, there are also a large number of bearer silver bills and cashier's notes, which have the same purchasing power as real money.

Nowadays, the silver notes issued by the Royal Bank, to a certain extent, have become the common banknotes in the Tang Empire, and the value of the silver bills to buy things and pay taxes is the same as directly taking the silver and gold yuan.

Yang Cheng ignored these guards, directly entered the gate, and then came to Datang, there are a lot of people in Datang, but most of them are ordinary customers, and Yang Cheng is not an ordinary customer who comes to save money and withdraw money, he is here to find a loan!

So after he looked at the signs in Datang, he went directly to a hall on the right according to the signs, there were very few people here, only seven or eight people were waiting, and there was no business window in the hall, he directly found a staff member of the Royal Bank, explained his intention, and then this staff took him to an office next to him.

After entering the office, I saw a middle-aged man in his thirties sitting inside, wearing an ordinary Hanfu robe, looking very energetic. ”

In recent years, the loans issued by the Royal Bank are basically for enterprises and other institutions, and do not carry out personal loan business, so those who can come to the bank for loans are corporate customers, and every business is a big business.

So the middle-aged man in front of him obviously didn't have any slackness, politely let Yang Cheng sit down, and then asked his subordinates to serve tea.

Then he asked: "Contemptible Shengtong, Tian is the loan manager of the loan department of this branch, I don't know what to call your customer?" Where is the immortal dwelling? ”

Yang Cheng also opened his mouth at this time: "Distinguished guests don't dare to be, contemptible Yang Cheng, Jiujiang people!" ”

Although Yang Cheng said his name and hometown, their Yang family is in Jiujiang and can be regarded as a famous gentry, but there are more famous gentry in the entire empire, and this Sheng Tong naturally doesn't know what this Yang family is.

So this Sheng Tong just said casually: "It turned out to be Brother Yang, I have been looking up for a long time!" ”

At this time, Yang Cheng naturally won't let him look down on himself, this is to take out a loan, if you don't show your strength, don't expect the bank to lend you money, after all, people are afraid that you are a liar or a nobody, what should I do if I take out a loan?

Although Datang's judiciary is strict, the means such as arrest are still very primitive, if you really have the ability to cheat out the money and escape immediately, even a behemoth like the Royal Bank is helpless.

Therefore, loans basically require collateral!

But does Yang Cheng have collateral? To say that he has it, but to say that he has not, is actually not.

So in order to increase the feasibility of the success of his next conversation, Yang Cheng continued: "The contemptible family controls Jiujiang Glass Company! ”

Needless to say, it is enough to say that there is a Jiujiang glass company.

At present, in the glass industry of the empire, because the Royal Institute of Technology controls the licensing of patents, there are only five companies in the country that can produce and sell glass openly, and as for the rest, they are all shady pirates, and if they are caught, they will be bankrupt and imprisoned.

As one of the five glass companies in China, Jiujiang Glass Company is naturally not an unknown person, at least Shengtong has heard it, and when he heard about Jiujiang Glass Company, he immediately became interested.

Because he has a hunch that he may be able to do a big business today!

This Jiujiang glass company is a well-known company in the glass industry, even if its scale ranks at the bottom of the five companies, but it is also a company that is making money every day, this kind of company comes to find loans, and the Royal Bank is naturally very welcome!

Why?

Because don't worry about it not yet!

Anyone likes a sure-fire deal!

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