Going out from the Ruili Gate in the south of King Wen's Palace, there is a wide road that runs through the south outer wall of Chengdu Mansion, and there are railings on both sides to separate the horse path, trails, and shops one by one.

Yao Ruoyu wore a fur coat, a cotton hat, black boots and breeches, and walked out of the small door next to the Ruili Gate under the entourage of Xie Kai and five attendants, blended into the crowd, and wandered along the official road.

Wenbang has occupied Chengdu for several months, and under several decrees issued by the Ministry of Officials, most of the people have accepted Wenbang, and today is the first day of the first lunar month, and the streets are crowded, with men and women coming and going, one after another, and the end is lively.

Several people visited several shops in a row, selling mostly silk clothes, and occasionally one or two pharmacies, Yao Ruoyu gradually lost interest.

Xie Kai observed his words and said with a smile: "Wang ......" Before he finished speaking, Yao Ruoyu had already thrown a glance over, Xie Kai hurriedly changed his words: "Son, there is a street in front of you, which is the branch of Wenzhou Commercial Bank, there are many things there, why don't you go there and have a look?"

Yao Ruoyu nodded when he heard this, motioned for Xie Kai to lead the way, and the group turned left at the next intersection, walked for a while, and came to the newly built branch of Wenzhou Commercial Bank in Chengdu Mansion.

Compared with the shops on the front street, the façade of Wenzhou commercial bank is undoubtedly many times larger, the width of the façade of the street alone is nine times that of ordinary shops, there are three passages, the high eaves giant door, there is a white jade elephant carving on the left and right, the flow of people at the door is endless, and it is much more lively than the previous street.

As if seeing the extraordinary identity of Yao Ruoyu and others, a shopkeeper waved his sleeves to greet him, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, are you here to shop? ”

"Go in and take a look. Yao Ruoyu smiled, and walked towards the trading house.

Coincidentally, as soon as the group entered the commercial bank, a middle-aged man walked out of them, who was Ji Lun, the second-in-command of Wenzhou Commercial Bank in Wenbang.

Seeing Yao Ruoyu, Ji Lun was slightly stunned, then showed surprise on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but was supported by Yao Ruoyu, and said with a smile: "No need to be polite, Shopkeeper Ji, I haven't seen you for a long time, how is the business of the firm recently?"

Seeing that Yao Ruoyu was dressed ordinarily, Ji Lun also knew that he was a private visit to Weifu, and he didn't break it, so he said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, Dawen's Western Expedition, we followed all the way to open branches all over Sichuan, and the Wenzhou headquarters also praised the eldest lady, but the eldest lady was stubborn, and she didn't go back for the Chinese New Year this time, so she stayed here to take care of affairs." ”

"Oh, didn't you go back to Wenzhou, so is she here now?" Yao Ruoyu raised her eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"Yes, it's in the back, here, please. Ji Lun hurriedly stretched out his hand and led everyone through the antechamber and into the atrium.

The atrium is a flower garden, with pavilions and pavilions in it, and the stream is murmuring, Yao Ruoyu glanced at it and found that the paint on those pavilions was bright, and the soil in the flower beds was also very loose, obviously it had just been renovated not long ago.

The office of Freezing Point is in an attic on the left side of the atrium, and the group came to the door, Ji Lun raised his hand and knocked, pushed the door open and moved sideways, Yao Ruoyu was not polite, and walked straight in, seeing that Freezing Point was sitting behind the desk, frowning, looking down at an account book, his face was full of unhappiness.

Yao Ruoyu was happy when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Dot, what's wrong?"

Hearing his voice, Freezing hurriedly looked up, and when he saw that it was Yao Ruoyu, he immediately flattened his mouth and said aggrievedly: "Brother Demon!"

Coming to the side and sitting down, Yao Ruoyu nodded to the table and motioned for Xie Kai to make tea, and then said with a smile: "As soon as you come in, you will be unhappy, you can hang an oil pot on your mouth, tell me, who made you angry? Could it be that you confessed to Song Kai and was rejected by him?"

Although Freezing Dian is cheerful and lively, she is an underage girl after all, how can she stand Yao Ruoyu's such straightforward ridicule, her face suddenly blushed, and she said coquettishly: "Brother Demon, what are you talking about! Who, who will confess to that guy......"

"What's going on?" Glancing at the account book in her hand, Yao Ruo suddenly realized and chuckled, "What's the matter, business hasn't been good lately?"

Freezing nodded very depressedly, got up and sat down on his right hand, held his chin, and pouted: "It's not that bastard of Yuzhou Commercial Bank, he simply doesn't have the morality that a businessman should have, and he always uses all kinds of despicable means to annex other shops in Chengdu Mansion, and then keeps lowering prices to attract customers......"

"There's nothing wrong with fighting a price war, but are you sure they are all using despicable means to annex other shops?" Raising his eyebrows, Yao Ruo looked at Freezing Point with a foolish smile.

The latter really blushed, and after squirming for a while, he pouted: "Anyway, it's very hateful!"

Yao Ruoyu was happy, and Freezing Point obviously lost the upper hand in the business war with Yuzhou Commercial Bank, but this little girl was also sincere, although she was ashamed, she didn't say anything about splashing sewage on the other party in the end.

But without waiting for this thought to turn around three times in his mind, he mysteriously came up and said in a low voice: "But Brother Demon, it's not that I'm talking nonsense, that Yuzhou Commercial Bank really doesn't pay much attention to the rules, like our Wenzhou Commercial Bank, which has been investing in Wenbang for several years, and has always been in order, salt and iron These things have never been touched, but they are different, everyone touches, it is said that they also openly sell military weapons." ”

Originally, Yao Ruoyu thought that the other party couldn't hold it back, and was finally going to splash sewage, but when he heard it, his face was slightly awe-inspiring, selling salt, iron, and weapons was tolerable, but the military-made weapons had already touched his forbidden area.

Since the rise of Hezhou and the development of Wenbang, the reason why it has been able to maintain stability internally is because Yao Ruoyu firmly controls the military power in his hands, and he will not care about selling weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc., but he absolutely cannot tolerate military weapons.

With his eyes narrowing slightly, Yao Ruoyu pondered for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Wen Bang didn't seem to have any regulations on salt and iron weapons so far.

Xu Xuanrong and Song Kai are limited to the background of modern people, and their thinking must be limited, but he doesn't believe that Bai Qiuyu, Duan Chun and others can't think of this, especially Duan Chun, who is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and the iron tool is the field he is responsible for.

With a sneer, Yao Ruoyu slapped the table and said lightly: "Where is the Yuzhou Commercial Bank?"

Seeing this, Freezing Point was immediately overjoyed, and quickly got up and said: "On Chenghui Street, not far from here, they just have an auction today, saying that there will be a lot of prohibited items, Brother Demon, let's go and have a look!"

"Let's go. Yao Ruoyu flicked his sleeves and walked out of the house with a cold face, Xie Kai hurriedly followed, and finally he was as proud as a fox stealing a fishy Freezing Point.

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Yuzhou Commercial Bank rose in Chongqing Mansion, dare to be named after Chongqing in ancient times, and the strength of the commercial bank is undoubted.

As a family business, they are not like other families with internal strife, they are extremely united internally, and there will be several clansmen with amazing business talents in each generation, and there has never been a situation of lack of success.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the president of Wenzhou Commercial Bank was born 20 years ago and controlled Wenzhou Commercial Bank to sweep China, perhaps the name of the first commercial bank in China would have fallen on the head of Yuzhou Commercial Bank.

Rao is so, after several generations of people's efforts, the strength of Yuzhou Commercial Bank has become stronger and stronger, and Song, Jin, Mongolia, and Man have their branches.

In charge of the power of the Yuzhou commercial bank is the Chongqing Mansion Xu family, whose patriarch Xu Dezhang has a wide range of connections, and he is also the guest of the Chongqing Mansion Road Envoy Xu Jingmiao.

The Song Dynasty respected Confucianism, since ancient times, the emphasis is on the agriculture and industry, the status of merchants is low, although the Xu family has strong financial resources and broad contacts, but except for Xu Jingmiao, in front of other generals and officials have never been too respected.

After Wenbang unified Sichuan and Shu, its policies gradually spread, and one of the mercantile points also attracted the attention of Yuzhou Commercial Bank. After several meetings, the family finally decided to send someone to Chengdu to open a branch office to observe Wenbang's attitude towards merchants.

Among the young people of the Xu family's generation, there are three who are dominant, and this time they went to Chengdu Mansion to serve as pioneers, one of the three, the young son of the branch Lewen Xu family, Xu Qiuling.

At this time, Xu Qiuling was standing in the attic of the backyard of the trading house, which he had specially built when he purchased this shop, with a unique angle overlooking the panoramic view of the front yard, but it was difficult to notice him in the front yard.

Unlike other shops such as the Wenzhou Commercial Bank, the branch of the Yuzhou Commercial Bank in Chengdu is more akin to a bazaar, with a square in the middle and stalls on both sides, selling medicine, cloth, food, etc.

Looking at the people coming and going in the front yard, Xu Qiuling's pupils were slightly dilated, obviously his attention did not fall on the front yard, but he was too empty to take care of himself.

Came to Chengdu Mansion, it was five days after Wenbang occupied this place, when he first arrived here, he successively annexed several small shops with a thunderous momentum, and took advantage of the opportunity of Song Kai's slaughter of the family to buy the shops left by the family of the extinction, and today, this Chenghui Street has basically fallen into his hands.

As for today, there are a total of seven large commercial houses in the huge Chengdu Mansion to build shops here, among which the first to invest in Wenbang, in the Dawen government and the opposition are well-connected Wenzhou commercial banks, but also gradually retreated under his planning.

Moreover, Wenbang didn't care about the salt and iron trade, so he set up an attic in the commercial house, sold all kinds of weapons, and dug up a few craftsmen who knew how to engrave spiritual patterns and runes, so that the reputation of the Yuzhou commercial house in the city became more and more prosperous.

Although he has made such achievements, in the past few days, Xu Qiuling's face has rarely smiled, and his face has been solemn all day long.

Only he knew that among the three most outstanding members of the younger generation of the Xu family, he and one of them had already lost in the initial competition, so they were assigned to open up the market, and only the second son of the Xu family was in charge of more than eighty percent of the Xu family's business.

As himself who was close to being exiled to Sichuan and Shu, Xu Qiuling originally planned to use Chengdu as his base and show his strength to prove his ability to the clan, but unexpectedly swallowed a few local commercial houses, which attracted the attention of Duan Chun, the minister of industry.

In just a few days, three of the many commercial banks he had annexed were seized, and the reason was nothing more than the suspicion of colluding with the Jin people, if he hadn't gone to Duan Chun's mansion in time to give gifts, maybe all the branches of the Yuzhou Commercial Bank in Sichuan and Shu would have become history.

However, difficulties are difficulties, but Xu Qiuling will not admit defeat.

During this time, he had been planning a plan, a chance to bring down Duan Chun and have a chance to fight the person in the clan, so as to grasp the Xu family.

However, the most critical thing about this plan is that the Wenzhou commercial bank has been suppressed by various means these days.

With the unyielding personality of that daughter, coupled with her deliberate and blatant smuggling of military-made weapons, she will definitely talk to the high-level of Wenbang about this matter.

And most likely, it is Song Kai, the newly appointed dean of the Mobile Communication College, and Yao Ruoyu, the master of Wenbang.

The former has a ruthless temperament, and the latter has not yet figured it out, these two are not ordinary people, and what they need is to get acquainted with them for this reason.

As long as he gets acquainted, he can look for opportunities to climb the giant ship of Shangwenbang.

In the Song Dynasty, Confucian masters often said that Wenbang was a barbarian state, did not respect the words of the sage, and vainly valued businessmen. But for him, this is the biggest chance for him to get rid of his fate and turn into a dragon with golden scales!