Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What the hell is going on, hurry up and talk to me."

Xie Ning said: "We have prepared a million worth of banknotes and want to exchange them for the people, but who knows that after several days, there is no one to exchange those banknotes. ”

Lin Yuan then asked, "The people didn't come to exchange, so what about the business?" ”

Xie Ning said: "Not to mention the merchants, not only did they not come to exchange, but our Zhang's Industrial Company wanted to settle the goods with them in RMB and they were all refused." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Did you investigate the reason?" ”

Xie Ning said helplessly: "We really don't have enough manpower, so we haven't had time to investigate. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, I'll personally take someone to investigate the reason for this." Lin Yuan came out of the bank and said to Shen Wanqing: "Let's change our clothes and investigate the reasons why the people are reluctant to use RMB." ”

Shen Wanqing agreed, and the two dressed up as a businessman couple and came to the street, Lin Yuan pointed to a teahouse with a smile, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go there and have a look." ”

When I entered the teahouse, I saw the four words of Dou Da posted on the wall: Don't talk about state affairs, Shen Wanqing asked Lin Yuan in a low voice: "Isn't it posted here to talk about state affairs?" Would anyone else say these things? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Of course there will be, people are like this, the more you don't let him do anything, he must do something, so although there is a sign here that says 'don't talk about state affairs', people talk about state affairs the most." ”

Shen Wanqing nodded, pointed to the room and said, "There are a lot of empty seats here, let's find a table at random." As he spoke, he walked to a table by the window, and was about to sit down, but Lin Yuan stretched out his hand to pull her and said, "Let's go out first, and come back later." ”

Shen Wanqing asked curiously, "What are you doing?" ”

Lin Yuan pointed to the few people around and said: "If we want to investigate now, then we have to sit next to those people, so that they don't dare to say these things, they are all worried that we are spies of the imperial court, and if we say the wrong thing, we will lose our heads, it is just time for lunch, so there are few people, and we will come back later." ”

Shen Wanqing said "oh" and followed Lin Yuan out of the teahouse, Lin Yuan said, "Let's go around the street first and see how we are doing business." "Shanghai is the most developed city in China's commodity trade in this era, and its prosperity even exceeds that of the rapidly developing Northeast.

The two of them were walking, when they heard a female voice next to them say, "Sir, madam, buy some flowers." ”

Lin Yuan turned his head to look, and saw a grocery stall opened by an elderly woman on the side, with needles, threads, brains and other objects on the grocery stall, and the most surprising thing was that there were several large baskets on the side of the stall, and the baskets were full of flowers!

Shen Wanqing squatted down, looked at those flowers, and said in surprise: "Look, these flowers are actually roses!" Now it's even popular to give roses! ”

Lin Yuan also felt incredible, and thought: "Sending roses is very common in my time, but how can there be in this era now?" It seems that Western culture has influenced China much faster than I thought. Lin Yuan then asked, "Auntie, how do you sell these flowers?" ”

The old woman smiled and said, "One copper plate at a time!" ”

Lin Yuan said in surprise: "This is too cheap!" Now is not the time for such a flower! It must cost a lot of money to keep this flower so well, can you make money by selling only one copper plate at a time? ”

The old woman smiled from ear to ear and said, "Let me tell you the truth, I bought these things from a foreigner, and it only cost five copper plates in total!" The foreigner brought several boatloads of flowers, but no one bought them at all, and he saw that if he put them down, he would have to throw them away for nothing, so he sold them cheaply! ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Alas, this must be a good thing done by a whimsical foreign devil businessman, and he doesn't want to think about whether the Chinese have the habit of sending roses, how can they be sold when so many flowers are shipped!" ”

Shen Wanqing said in surprise on the side: "There are really such stupid foreign devils!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Of course there is, don't you remember the foreign devil I met when I first made Black Suojin?" He even thought about transporting animals to China to make money for exhibitions, alas, there are so many unreliable foreign devils! ”

At this time, the old woman smiled and said, "Do you want to buy some?" The foreigner said that in their country, men buy for women. ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Buy!" Why not buy? Bring me seventeen. ”

The old woman counted the flowers happily, and Shen Wanqing asked with a smile on the side, "Who are you going to give the roses to?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Anyway, it wasn't given to you." Shen Wanqing suddenly thought: "There are so many girls who like him, and they are all beautiful, I don't know who he wants to give it to?" Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Lin Yuan laugh and say, "I'm going to give them to a person named Shen Wanqing!" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled, her face turned crimson, and she asked shyly, "Then why do you want to buy seventeen flowers?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Do you know how many days we have known each other?" ”

Shen Wanqing shook her head again and again and said, "I can't remember clearly." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "The first time we met was at the party for the Beijing ship, at that time you sang a song, the cranberry flowers bloomed, and today it is a total of 1358 days, and these four numbers add up to seventeen." ”

When Shen Wanqing heard this, she thought to herself: "He even remembers such a small thing!" Her tears flowed out, and Lin Yuan was reaching out to take the old woman's flowers, not seeing her crying, Lin Yuan said: "A total of seventeen copper plates, I will take care of your business and give you twenty copper plates, what do you think?" ”

The old woman nodded with a smile, Lin Yuan took out two one-yuan yuan yuan from his pocket, smiled and handed them to the old woman, the old woman quickly smiled and said, "This gentleman, what are you giving me?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "RMB, what happened to the money issued by Lin Shuai's Northeast People's Bank?" Can't it be used? ”

The old woman waved her hand again and again, and said, "No, sir, I don't dare to use it." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Don't dare to use it?" What is there to dare to use? ”

The old woman said: "I am a small business, I can be half full in a day, you give me such money, I take it to buy rice and noodles If people don't accept it, my business is not done in vain?" I'll have to see when everyone uses the money before I dare to use it. ”

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought: "It seems that this is the attitude of small businessmen, they are afraid that this kind of money is not worth much, as long as there are more people who use it, they will naturally dare to use it, and I will go to the teahouse after a while to see what the attitude of ordinary people is towards this kind of money, and only by prescribing the right medicine can the problem be solved." ”

Lin Yuan turned around and handed the flower to Shen Wanqing, but suddenly saw her eyes red, and couldn't help asking, "Why are you crying?" ”

Shen Wanqing choked up and said, "I didn't cry, the sand got into my eyes......"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, this reason is rotten, as long as you don't want others to know that you are crying, you must say that 'sand has entered your eyes'." Lin Yuan suddenly changed his words as he spoke, and sneered: "You shouldn't be moved by me, right?" It's a shame that you're still an agent, why haven't you seen anything in the world, and you were moved to cry by a few roses! ”