Song Siyuan looked at Yue Guanchao: "This Huasheng firm is still a time-honored brand in Yueyang, probably around 1905, taking advantage of the opening of the port in Yueyang, a commercial bank was established here, when registered, the main business was book publishing, map surveying and mapping, art trading, and it happened to be the company that Yueyang authorities invited to survey and map the Cao Canal. ”

"In the past 20 years, their income from the main business is almost negligible, and how can they persist in 20 years without obtaining stable profits? These circumstances either indicate that Huasheng Commercial Bank has concealed its profits, or it indicates that there are other gray profits supporting Huasheng Commercial Bank. ”

"If you think about it, in this case, they all have to control Huihetang, so it can be seen that Huihetang must be related to interests." She paused, and her tone became mysterious: "Luo Shi Niang once stayed in the Golden Rat Club, and she knows the inside story of Guanyin, I'm afraid that even the news of the treasure ship of the Southern Song Dynasty is clear to her, and if these foreigners are interested in this, they can explain why they want to control Huihetang." ”

"Are you saying that these foreigners sell dog meat with sheep's heads, pretending to be law-abiding on the surface, but in fact they are also stealing ancient tombs and reselling antiques?" Yue Guanchao understood her words and gradually narrowed his eyes.

"This is impossible, how can Sister Luo be in collusion with foreigners, maybe she doesn't know that Huasheng Commercial House is reselling antiques, although she says hatred, she is not a person who does all kinds of bad things." Yue Qingshan obviously didn't want to believe this, and retorted.

Song Siyuan said: "Second uncle, if Huihetang has no interests at all, how can Huasheng Commercial Bank control it for twenty years, and vice versa, Senior Luo can cooperate with Huasheng Foreign Bank for twenty years, and he must also want to get something from Huasheng Commercial Bank." ”

"According to the above report, the plush on these corpses is a kind of mycelium in the laboratory, which is not something that ordinary people can get, if there is no Huasheng Commercial Bank, a folk opera troupe in Huihetang, what ability can they get these things."

"If you think about it again, the fact that the golden rats will set up camp on Yugou Island, it is estimated that they are rushing to the official silver, or even the treasure ships of the Southern Song Dynasty." This word and word explanation can't get rid of the relationship between Luo Shi Niang and Huasheng Commercial Bank, Yue Qingshan is no longer willing to believe these speculations, and he can only accept reality in the face of conclusive evidence.

Yue Qingshan's brows were full of doubts: "But I don't understand, if she wants revenge, she will take revenge, why should she cooperate with foreigners?" Even if it is digging a grave, you can swallow it by yourself, so why let foreigners get involved. ”

"Probably, it's a deal with a foreigner, right? If Senior Luo doesn't love money, but she wants to dig the grave, does it mean that there are other things she needs in the tomb? After cooperating with a foreigner, the treasure is swallowed by the foreigner, and she wants to get the thing that belongs to her? "This situation is not impossible, foreigners do these things, it is very familiar.

In the last years of the previous dynasty, the country was poor and weak, and foreigners opened the country with strong ships and cannons. At first, it was only open to shipping, allowing trade, with the fiasco of the previous government's large and small battles, the territory of trade and opening ports is also constantly expanding, first along the Yangtze River, then along the Pearl River, and finally throughout the entire Jiangnan, Southwest, Lingnan, and even, in order to please foreigners, even inland shipping has to be opened for them.

Since then, the foreigners of the Western countries have entered the country with the embassies of other countries, and they have set up factories, foreign firms, business missionaries, practice dispatches, residence adventures, teaching and research, and cultural exchanges.

Looking at the purpose of these foreigners coming to China, they came all the way here for fame and fortune, or for money, or for fame.

Because of "Marco Polo's Travels", foreigners have long felt that the East is a rich and mysterious world, and foreigners in the age of navigation are quite adventurous.

When these people arrive in the country, they like to walk to the northwest and northeast, the grassland plateau and the Hexi Corridor, and the farthest can even go to Central Asia from the Hexi Corridor.

Of course, in the face of these mysterious cultural relics of the Oriental world, they also have a great interest, as long as they come across antiques, they will either buy and sell, or steal them, in short, they must get their hands on them.

Because, the antiques of the East are so valuable that they are worth dozens of times more than An'an Shengsheng's business.

When the British and French troops looted the Old Summer Palace, they took away a lot of royal treasures, these royal treasures are the best things, they are all complicated and exquisite, the skills are superb, foreigners have never seen such good things before, as long as these treasures are auctioned, they will definitely be able to get a high price, so that the auction house makes a lot of money.

As mentioned earlier, foreigners are extremely pragmatic, in business, since antiques are profitable, it also means that the antique business is also very good, for a time, antique dealers in the Western world, smelling the sweet smell of oriental cultural relics, already know that the antique business is promising.

However, although they completed the industrialization of civilization earlier than the East, they are only a younger brother in the face of the 5,000-year-old Oriental civilization, and these antique dealers will face a very serious problem even if they open an art trading firm in China.

They don't know anything about oriental cultural relics, and the domestic antiques are uneven, if they forcibly accept the antiques, they will suffer losses because they don't understand the market.

At this time, most antique dealers will find a knowledgeable antique dealer in the local area and check them out.

Those who collect antiques to sell in this way are still honest, and even less honest, they must be foreigners who dig antiques in the grave by themselves.

These foreigners will entangle the tomb robbers, provide equipment for the tomb robbers, and ask the tomb robbers to go down to the tomb to bring up the antiques, as long as they make a move, the tomb robbers can share the profits, and at the same time, because the foreigners' trading houses have preferential treatment in the country, they can also temporarily shelter the tomb robbers, and even directly turn them into business house partners to hide people's eyes.

When Song Siyuan was studying in the West, she was also favored by some businessmen and asked her to be a cultural relics agent in China, but she refused because she was not here.

One thing is certain, in the West, the antiques of the East have no owner, whoever digs it is who's who, and they are not shy about talking about the antique business, as long as there is profit, they can form a team to come to China at any time.

Song Siyuan looked at everyone: "In my opinion, most of Huasheng Foreign Bank is engaged in tomb robbery under the guise of business activities, and in order to let people check them, they just cooperate with Luo Shi Niang." ”