Chapter 3 - Yangcheng Chamber of Commerce (I)
The streets of Yangcheng are not as prosperous as the old nest of the Chen family in the north and Weicheng, the capital of the country, but at least in a few cases, this mountain city can be regarded as a relatively prosperous territory. Moreover, more importantly, because of the addition of the two foreign forces to the feudal state of Qi, the largest city closest to the location of their two forces was also mixed with a large number of people sent by the feudal state of Qi. Therefore, the streets of Yangcheng have reached a relatively prosperous situation at this time.
On the most central street of Yangcheng, on the right side of the central street is a relatively narrow passageway, where there are dozens of retail shops on the road that stretches for most of the street, and it is also a place where small merchants are concentrated. The shops here are not very spacious, like ordinary small merchants live, and there are not no high-rise buildings like three or four floors. From here, you can hear the shouting of many vendors along the streets.
On the left side of Central Street, the road leading to the mountains behind the city is filled with a completely different existence from the right side. The buildings on the left are mainly wooden buildings with at least two or three floors above ground. Such a building also indicates in many cases that the buildings here are relatively high-end and stable buildings.
However, even so, among the buildings on the left side of Central Street are mainly restaurants and inns, as well as two secluded and fairly good green buildings and a pawnshop and department store. Here, it can be regarded as a relatively luxurious existence, and it is not a place where ordinary people dare to come.
At this moment, a pair of similar-looking brothers and sisters appeared on the street, and the two brothers and sisters were now wearing almost identical book shirts. In this early autumn season, the clothes that the two siblings are wearing now are a little strange in the current environment. Naturally, although the two siblings are not aware of the situation around them now, many people are now secretly watching their siblings' every move.
But the two siblings didn't seem to notice the environment around them or the people at all, and their attention was always on both sides of the street. As soon as they turned Central Boulevard, the two siblings had already turned the central street and walked directly to the street on the left side of Central Boulevard.
These two brothers and sisters were none other than Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, who had lived in the largest drunken Yang restaurant in Yangcheng before, and they had no interest in practicing after they talked to Su Yao before. After weighing the pros and cons, the two siblings decided to take a stroll around these two famous streets in Yangcheng first. Of course, in the entire Yangcheng, except for Su Yao and a few of his personal guards who knew the true identities of their two brothers and sisters, the other Yangcheng, whether it was ordinary soldiers or ordinary people, did not know the true identities of their two brothers and sisters. Even, when many people saw the figures of their two brothers and sisters, they thought that they were just two ordinary children who escaped from home.
But Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two siblings, are very fearless, anyway, the more people who don't know them at this time, the better. For them, such a concealed identity is very simple and convenient to act, but before this, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two brothers and sisters, got a token made of his own special silver from Su Yao, plus the white jade pendant given to them by Chen Xinyu, not to mention anywhere in the country, even in the power realm of the Chen family of the royal family, ordinary people did not dare to deal with them rashly and easily. Besides, the two brothers and sisters have a soul aura, which is by no means something that ordinary people can deal with. Thinking of this, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two siblings, didn't worry too much, and they walked through the street silently.
At the end of the street on the right side of this central street, there is the final place that Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan want to go to this time, this place is also the most famous place in Yangcheng, and it is also a place that Su Yao once recommended when he introduced various locations in Yangcheng to their two brothers and sisters. That is, now that Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two siblings, have arrived, a large compound composed of several four-story mahogany buildings. At the gate of this compound, there is a big red plaque hanging, on which are written four big characters "Leaving the Chamber of Commerce".
This place is also the place that Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two siblings, mainly want to see this time, Su Yao told them that the Leaving Chamber of Commerce was a major chamber of commerce force established by Chen Xinyu's father when he was in power. The main task of this chamber of commerce is to obtain a more sensitive opportunity through the current opportunity, and with the great help of Chen Xinyu's father, this newly established chamber of commerce has developed a large force in less than three years. Even, the current Chamber of Commerce is not only engaged in trade and commercial activities in various parts of the country, but even they have secretly contacted many businessmen in the sphere of influence of the royal Chen family and carried out internal trade with them.
After Chen Xinyu ascended the throne, this chamber of commerce still undertook a great task, and their task was to weaken the internal power of the Chen family in disguise through various ways that were not very popular. In the past ten years, this expatriate chamber of commerce has received strong support from Chen Xinyu and promised them a lot of benefits in many cases. As a result, the Chamber of Commerce of the Imperial Family purchased a large number of materials circulating within the Imperial Chen Family through various channels, and even purchased not many weapons and armor within the Imperial Chen Family through the unilateral relationship of a certain general, so that the Imperial Chen Family has no chance to form an army to compete with each other in the Imperial Family. If it weren't for that crucial battle on the Weiku Plain, I'm afraid the royal Chen family would not be able to support it. But even so, the ability shown by this expatriate chamber of commerce is not comparable to that of ordinary businessmen.
The main meeting place of the Chamber of Commerce is not in Weicheng, the capital of the country, but in Yangcheng, which is relatively easy to be discovered by the spies of the Chen family of the royal family. And now, the location of the two siblings, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, is where the headquarters of the Leaving China Chamber of Commerce is located, and in normal times, in addition to the head of the Chamber of Commerce, there are only a few elders of the Chamber of Commerce and a few servants and guards who take care of them. Nearly a hundred merchants in the entire Chamber of Commerce will not be in this general meeting during this normal working period. These nearly 100 businessmen usually conduct their own business in various places in ordinary times. It is only during the Spring Festival that they return here for this meeting of the year.
Of course, at this moment, the two siblings, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, did not come here because they wanted to participate in such an event, they just wanted to get some opportunities through such an opportunity. This is because they know that this foreign chamber of commerce has a strong voice in leaving the country, and they still have a lot of things worth observing in the second phase of the second phase. This is the real purpose of Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two siblings who came here. Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two siblings, wanted to do all they wanted to do was to see the situation in this, and by the way, they wanted to understand the existence of the forces in this Chamber of Commerce, they believed that with the two tokens in their hands now, they still had no difficulties that they could not overcome for the time being.
So, Feng Yu, who stepped forward and knocked on the door, rushed Feng Shanshan, and the two siblings saw a middle-aged man who came to open the door. The middle-aged man looked at the two young and young people in front of him, and he looked at the very ordinary bookcoats they were wearing, and the middle-aged man asked with some confusion, "Who are you?"
Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two siblings, did not hesitate at all, and Feng Yuchong took out the silver-white token that Su Yao gave them from his arms. This token can be regarded as having a relatively high status in Yangcheng, after all, it is the token of the governor of Yangcheng. The middle-aged man in a gray robe who opened the door was slightly stunned, "Who are you?"
Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the two brothers and sisters, didn't say anything more, Feng Shanshan lowered her voice and said slowly: "You don't have to worry about our identity, now at this time, we naturally won't do anything unfavorable to you, I don't know if the master can be here?"
The middle-aged man's expression was slightly hesitant, originally he didn't quite believe the two brothers and sisters in front of him, but now the two brothers and sisters Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan directly held up this piece of Su Yao's token made him dare not believe it. So, after hesitating for a while, he still let the two siblings enter the center of the chamber of commerce compound.
For the two siblings, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, the interior of this chamber of commerce compound is not very prosperous, and in many cases it is just the central area of the courtyard of ordinary large families. The middle-aged man in a gray robe walked through a front yard with Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two siblings, and led them directly to the lobby.
There was no one else in the lobby, and in the middle of the larger lobby sat an old man reading a book. The old man looked very wise, and the traces of wind and frost were written on his face. The middle-aged man who came here with Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two brothers and sisters, stepped forward and bowed, and said slowly: "The meeting master, the envoy of Governor Su Yao has come to see the meeting master, I wonder if the meeting master wants to see them now?"
The child-haired old man put down the book in his hand and said with a slow smile: "In that case, let them in, anyway, we don't have anything to do now, so let them in."
Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two brothers and sisters, entered the hall in response, and in the middle of the hall they saw the figure and movements of the old man, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two brothers and sisters, stepped forward and said slowly: "Junior Feng Yuchong Feng Shanshan, I have seen the master."