Chapter 14 The Momentum of the Chu Family
The two came to Chu Ze's study, Chu Ze waved his hand, retreated left and right, and stood outside the door, leaving only the two of them in it.
Chu Ze's study room is very large, and the big one is somewhat like a library.
The ceiling is covered with checkered wallpaper and inlaid with glass lamps that glow golden. The floor is inlaid with marble, and several large bookcases are scattered among them, in which there are many beautiful calligraphy and paintings posted on the gilded walls.
Chu Ze strolled among them and selected books, and Bao Guowei didn't say a word beside him, but followed step by step.
He pulled out a copy of Chekhov's Collected Novels and flipped through it.
"For this reason, didn't you say that your tuition is unaffordable, why did you buy this dress?"
Chu Ze teased with a smile on his face.
Before coming to visit Chu Ze, Bao Guowei had considered this issue.
Also, don't you know what you're trying to do, and you want me to help you say it?
Bao Guowei thought to himself, but it was impossible to really say it.
"When I see Brother Wen Chen's mansion, how can I wear that vulgar clothes again. What's more, if the younger brother doesn't wear this clothes, the little guy at the door won't let me in. ”
Chu Ze didn't speak, just looked at Bao Guowei. His meaning is obvious, and he wants Bao Guowei to translate this sentence again.
Seeing that Chu Ze didn't speak, Bao Guowei was silent for a while, thinking about what Chu Ze wanted to hear.
"Uh, besides, Brother Wen Chen's meaning is not quite obvious."
"What's the obvious law?"
"The younger brother's family is poor and he is very short of money, probably Brother Wenchen thinks I am a little clever and wants to pull the younger brother along. If the younger brother becomes an official one day, you will earn a hundredfold and a thousand times. If you look away, the loss of a few dozen dollars is only a drop in the bucket for you......"
"Kind of interesting, go on."
roughly determined what Chu Ze meant, and Bao Guowei gave up his thoughts.
"Brother Wen Chen must have had more than twenty yuan on him at that time. I think you are worried about giving too much, but it makes me feel that this is what you gave casually, and I feel that this money is light, and I don't know how to be grateful. ”
"Oh? How do you know I didn't have twenty dollars on me? ”
"I said I guessed, Brother Wen Chen, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it. Okay, I won't tease you. ”
Chu Ze closed the book, stared at Bao Guowei expressionlessly for a while, and looked at him all over his body, Bao Guowei just kept a smile and looked at him.
After a long time, Chu Ze showed a smile and slapped his right hand on Bao Guowei's shoulder.
"For this reason, you and I can still be honest with each other, you are the best at your age, you don't have to be false to others all day long! Alas, as the saying goes, the children of the poor are sensible early in the house, but they are all suffering from reality. It would be nice if my brother could meet you earlier, you have such a mind, and you have suffered a lot of hardships to hone it. ”
"What Brother Wen Chen said is extremely true, no matter what you think, the help to the younger brother is real. The little brother is grateful, if he achieves something in the future, he will be willing to drive for you, go up the knife mountain and go down the sea of fire and never give up! ”
Hearing Chu Ze's words, Bao Guowei couldn't help but feel a little moved.
The status between the two is like a gap of thousands of chasms, but people can be polite and honest to themselves, and it is not an exaggeration to say that "a soldier dies for his confidant".
Chu Ze only used twenty yuan, plus less than two hours of getting along before and after, and he had already succeeded in making Bao Guowei extremely grateful to him.
"I will instruct the housekeeper, if you are short of money in the future, you can ask him for it, and you can see how much you want."
Bao Guowei suddenly felt a burst of surprise in his heart, he thought that Chu Ze would get at most thirty or forty yuan this time, but he didn't expect to directly let himself take as much as he needed......
Oh, my God! Bao Guowei was really moved this time, and he somewhat understood why many ancients were loyal to their lords and did their best to die.
"The little brother doesn't dare to refuse, today he is appreciated by Brother Wenchen, and he will not give up!"
Bao Guowei subconsciously wanted to excuse himself, but when he thought that Chu Ze didn't have to be false and wronged with others, he expressed his heart with true feelings.
Chu Ze also heard Bao Guowei's emotion, and smiled and bowed his head.
"I'm done with my visit to Gusu, and I have to go back to Shanghai tomorrow."
"Brother Wen Chen should really leave here, Gusu has not been peaceful recently. When I went out this morning, I encountered a group of green gang members fighting in the street, and they were almost killed. ”
"Oh? That group almost killed you? That's my fault. ”
Bao Guowei froze when he heard this.
As soon as the front foot of the Green Gang became reckless and rampant, Chu Ze was about to end the trip, could it be that Chu Ze did something behind this? By the way, Chu Ze said that his hometown is Shanghai! And the Qinggang came to Gusu City from Shanghai.
Sure enough, how could the elite children of this kind of wealthy family waste their time "traveling" on this kind of thing, and they came to Gusu this time to open up the relationship with the Qinggang and broaden the road.
Bao Guowei asked with a clear pretense of confusion:
"Why did Brother Wen Chen say this?"
"I told you before that I am from the Chu family in Shanghai, and you should know that the Green Gang has been in full swing in recent years, and it was in Shanghai that they were born."
But how could this family gate valve have anything to do with the forces of the Green Gang, could it be that the people behind the scenes of the Green Gang are the Chu family, shouldn't it be Du Yuesheng and others?
Seeing that there was some doubt in Bao Guowei's eyes, Chu Ze stretched out his finger and pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose and explained:
"Although the Shanghai Chu family is not a top-level big clan, it will not be directly involved in this kind of low-level business."
"Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaotian have the ability, and if they want to be based in Shanghai, they have also been approved by our wealthy families. Otherwise, no matter how powerful they are, can they beat the warlords? ”
When the Shanghai Youth Gang was booming, it was at a time when the warlords were fighting, and the big clans mostly served as the economic support of the warlords, and the power they could mobilize was far from being comparable to that of a single Green Gang.
Bao Guowei has a basic understanding of these clan gate valves.
This group of big clan lords has a long heritage, and they have money and power. Tian Lianqian Mo, his family is rich, and there are many children in the clan who are in high positions, but these are relatively not worth mentioning.
The most terrifying thing about them is the intricate and intricate network of relationships that spread all over the world. There are countless people who have been sponsored by it, and if they move and move their whole bodies, they may pull out some bigwig relationships.
This is an interpersonal network built on a deep heritage, the stronger the interpersonal network, the stronger the heritage, the stronger the heritage, the more interpersonal networks can be developed, forming a virtuous circle.
In ancient times, even the emperor needed to regulate the multi-party struggle to curb the development of the gate valve and prevent one family from becoming the dominant one.
The thoughts in Bao Guowei's brain are flowing rapidly, and he can roughly figure out these truths. But he still pretended to be confused and asked:
"Then you came this time to personally use your identity as a child of the Chu family to put pressure on the magistrates to stop caring about the affairs of the Qing Gang?"
"Hehe, I can't talk about it. This Gusu City was the boundary of the Chu family's development a long time ago, and the police director of the Governor's Office was single-handedly raised by my Chu family. Almost ten percent of the officials in the city, large and small, have a relationship with my Chu family, so the mayor of Gusu also wants to sell my Chu family a few thin noodles, and I just came here to talk to him. ”
Bao Guowei gasped.