Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes, just like Qi Xuansu will always be wrecked when he takes a flying boat, and Qi Xuansu always encounters accidents when he visits Hu Songting.

As soon as he came to Hu Songting's side, a message was sent from Tianfu Palace, saying that the representative of the Xipo Suozhou Company wanted to see the chief deputy mansion master.

Speaking of this representative gentleman, it is not the first time that Qi Xuansu has dealt with him. However, the last time I dealt with it was not a direct dealing, it was barely an indirect dealing, not in Shenglong Mansion, but in Fenglin Continent.

This representative gentleman's name is Maginow, a grand duke in the West, and during the Fenglinzhou War, he went to Xiujing to ask for a meeting with Qingwei Zhenren, who was the real person in charge of the army, because of the prisoner of war.

Although Qingwei Zhenren did not see him, he still appointed Li Tiangang, the second deputy head of the Fenglinzhou Provincial Mansion, to meet him on his behalf.

It can be seen from this that the status of this Grand Duke of Maginot is quite not low, and he thinks that he has the qualifications to meet Qingwei Zhenren in person, even if Qingwei Zhenren is unwilling to meet him, he has sent a second deputy lord.

In other words, Qingwei Zhenren thinks that this Grand Duke is almost the same level as the second deputy mansion master, and he is now going to see someone from the Dao Mansion, and Xu Jiaorong is not in Lion City, and only Qi Xuansu himself is the most suitable.

Xie Jiaofeng is inappropriate, besides, with Xie Jiaofeng's oily temperament, even if it is suitable, he will not rush forward.

Qi Xuansu has some understanding of Maginot and his people, and in the year before the fall of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Xipo Suozhou Company was officially established, and the original official full name was

"The company of the merchants of Lune trading in the continent of Si Po Sa". It was made up of a group of influential merchants who obtained a fifteen-year trade patent granted to them by the royal family of Luen for 160 years in the Western calendar.

The company has a total of 125 shareholders and a capital of 80,000 gold crowns. Over the next 100 years, the company continued to grow and develop, and soon transformed from a trading company into a separatist force, or even a country.

The composition of its shareholders has also become more and more complex, with most of the original merchants being squeezed out, and the new shareholders are mostly large merchants, large nobles, large workshop owners, a small number of princes from the Western Peninsula, and the clergy from the Holy See.

Soon, the clergy and the nobility completely took control of the company of Si Po Chau, and with the impetus of these clerics and nobles, Si Po Chau was given some auxiliary ruling and military functions.

According to the Western corporate system, the highest decision-making level is the board of directors, which is a business decision-making body composed of directors, who are in charge of the company's affairs internally and represent the company externally, and are elected by the general meeting of shareholders.

In general, elections are held every three years. Now there are a total of thirteen members on the board of directors of the company, and White, who used to secretly fund the Zun faction in Fenglinzhou, is one of the directors, and Maginot is also one of the directors.

However, there is a difference between the two men, White is an independent director, and Maginot is an executive director. It is relative that executive directors are non-executive directors.

The so-called executive director participates in the management of the company as a director. Independent directors have no relationship with the company, can independently express their own views, and independently express their opinions on the company's board of directors' decisions, including some major issues.

Its status is relatively detached, and it will not be too involved in the interests of internal factions. In general, the number of independent directors cannot be less than one-third of the total number of members of the board of directors.

As a priest of the Holy See, White mainly performs various duties on the part of the Holy See, and naturally cannot be deeply involved in the operation and management of the company, so he is an independent director and generally plays the role of supervision.

Maginot was a nobleman, and making money was the primary purpose, and in addition to investing a lot, he was also personally involved in the operation and management, so he was the executive director.

The behavior of the two in Fenglinzhou also reflects the difference in their identities. White financed the Honorable Sect, with the Apostle Toronus behind them, apparently to carry out the strategy of the Holy See.

Maginot wanted to carry out the slave trade and buy prisoners of war from Fenglinzhou, and did not care about the outcome of the war in Fenglinzhou, obviously from the position of Xiposuzhou Company.

However, this does not mean that Maginot will not follow the instructions of the Holy See, only that there is a different division of responsibilities between these directors.

In addition, although the board of directors makes decisions on a one-person-one-vote basis, including the chairman of the board of directors, the board of directors is elected by the shareholders' meeting, and even many directors are concurrently held by the shareholders themselves, and the chairman of the board of directors is generally concurrently held by the largest shareholder.

According to the procedure, the shareholders' meeting is the highest authority of the company, and the board of directors is the highest executive body.

In the resolution of the shareholders' meeting, the votes are not counted according to the head, but the capital majority, that is, the person who contributes more capital will bear more risks, so the weight of the speech is heavier, that is, the shareholders' meeting votes according to the proportion of shareholdings, and more than half of the shareholding ratio will have absolute control of the company.

Maginow's identity is very special, he is not only a shareholder, and the shareholding ratio is very high, not the largest shareholder, but also belongs to the list of major shareholders, and is also the executive director, and the highest decision-maker of Xipo Suozhou Company in Nanyang and Fenglinzhou, so his identity is higher than that of ordinary directors, and he cannot be benchmarked against ordinary deputy owners, but also against the level of chief and second.

Qi Xuan had no intention of seeing it, so he asked the Taoist friends of the ancestral hall branch to meet on his behalf, but considering the impact and the attitude of Qingwei Zhenren towards this person, he still had to temporarily change his itinerary and go to see the director and the Grand Duke first.

In fact, the power of seeing and not seeing is completely in the hands of Qi Xuansu, not that Qi Xuansu has to see it, but Qi Xuansu also wants to find out the movements of the Holy Court through Maginow, a big man in the Western world, after all, he also has another mission, that is, to deal with matters related to the Holy Court.

Trade itself is a kind of exchange, you come and go, and the infiltration that accompanies trade exchange is always unavoidable, so it needs to be weeded regularly.

As for how to weed, not to scare away those ordinary merchants, and not to affect normal trade, it is a test of ways and means.

It's just that after Qi Xuansu arrived in Borneo, the Holy Court didn't make much move, and even when Chen Shuhua made a big fuss in Shenglong Mansion, the Holy Court didn't come forward.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the situation changed too quickly and the Holy Court did not react, after all, the Dao Mansion almost did not react as a party, coupled with the special location of Thang Long Mansion, the strength of the Holy Court is relatively weak, and it is powerless to want to participate in it.

The Lion City is different, this is the most developed place in Nanyang commerce, and even the foreign population can be equal to the local population, so the Lion City is a place where the Holy Court has been infiltrated more seriously, and many people from the Holy Court can come to the Lion City openly under the banner of doing business, and the situation is more complicated.

Now, the Holy Court finally couldn't hold it anymore and jumped out. This will undoubtedly bring some variables to the situation.

After Qi Xuansu returned to Tianfu Palace, he let Xiao Yin play by himself and took Chen Jianqiu to meet the director. Chen Jianqiu is actually a very talented person, he is proficient in five languages, in addition to the Central Plains Mandarin and Borneo Tu, there are also Lune, Ibia, and Posazhou Tu.

He and Chen Jianqiu can communicate normally in Lune, which is a huge plus, because they can also act as interpreters when necessary.

However, after seeing Maginow, Qi Xuansu found that this was too much, Maginow, as the highest decision-maker of the Xipo Suozhou Company in half of the Oriental world, was naturally proficient in the official dialect of the Central Plains, and his accent was authentic, and he was familiar with the various words and habits of the Central Plains people, and he did not have the weird feeling of ordinary Westerners speaking the official dialect of the Central Plains.

"Qi Zhenren, in the Central Plains dialect, I have been admired for a long time, and I am just on the side of fate." Maginot was arranged in a Western-style living room, and Maginow, who was originally sitting on the sofa, saw Qi Xuansu walking into the living room under the guidance of a female Taoist priest, and immediately stood up and asked Qi Xuansu to give him a hug very enthusiastically.

Qi Xuansu politely rejected this kind of overly intimate Western etiquette, and arched his hand: "Mr. Maginow's prestige, I have heard of it as early as when I was in Fenglinzhou, and that time it was Mr. Maginot who received Mr. Maginot from Fenglinzhou Provincial Mansion. ”

"By the way, at that time, Qi Zhenren also worked under the account of Qingwei Zhenren." Maginot said suddenly,

"It's just that Qi Zhenren at that time was not a real person." Qi Xuansu smiled: "So you can't get into Mr. Maginow's eyes." ”

"Qi Zhenren is making fun of me." Maginot also laughed,

"Sarcasm: I don't know the real person in front of me."

"I don't mean that." Qi Xuansu waved his hand and said,

"At that time, I didn't expect that I would be able to become a second-grade Taiyi Taoist in such a short period of time, it can be said that it is a coincidence, or it can be said that it is a chance to meet at the time, and there is no hero at the time, so that the erector becomes famous." Maginot had the characteristic smile of Western aristocrats, his eyes were very cold, there were no waves, but the lower half of his face was very enthusiastic: "Qi Zhenren is too modest, there is an ancient saying in the Central Plains called "Heroes come out of teenagers", judging from the length of a hundred years, today's Qi Zhenren is still a teenager." Maginot should be a flattering word, but Qi Xuansu is not very happy, because now many people are very critical of his age, it is nothing more than a hairless mouth, and Maginot still counts Qi Xuansu into the young man, Qi Xuansu has no interest in thirty years of Hedong.

So Qi Xuansu said: "There is an ancient saying in the Central Plains, called Don't bully the poor of the youth, I will shout poor now, and someone should scold the mother." So this young man is still inappropriate. Maginot also realized that his horse's fart might have been slapped on the horse's hooves, and skipped the topic: "Anyway, Qi Zhenren is the youngest official second-grade Taiyi Taoist in the entire Eastern World. Qi Xuansu made a gesture to please take a seat: "Mr. Maginow, let's sit down and talk." After the two sat down, Qi Xuansu said: "Mr. Maginot is a person who has a lot of opportunities, and everything is complicated, so if you are in a hurry to see me this time, you will not drink tea with me, you might as well say it bluntly." Maginot slowly restrained his smile and said, "I heard that the government plans to seize the Nanyang United Trading Company, is there such a thing?" ”