Chapter 10 The Shen Family at Sea
The Shen family at sea.
The kind old man carefully took off his shoes, opened the bead curtain, and stepped on the soft carpet. At first glance, he saw exquisite handicrafts placed everywhere on the walls of the table, from Yixing's purple clay teapots, Jingdezhen's porcelain, or soft silver-plated wine glasses, Silla's pink and green sand ware, and even Tiele's crystal daggers, all of them were all there, but the owner's careful arrangement did not feel any messy, but instead gave people a feeling of meticulousness.
The whole room, apart from the owner's slight abacus sound, seemed quiet and distant.
On the table in the middle, a beautiful figure held a tablet in his left hand and pressed his right hand on the account book. From this perspective, he saw a head of black hair shawl, a perfect face like porcelain, a thin jade neck, and a petite and delicate figure, which would make any man feel like he would hold her in his arms and be kind and pity.
But I knew what kind of strong person was in front of me, so I trembled with a telegram and said, "Miss! The four great men of Jiaodong raised an army to attack Liu Jingxiao and asked us to borrow one million yuan for military use!"
The tone of the superior seemed to reveal an indescribable grievance: "I guess it has passed the Presbyterian Church! Then ask me what else to do?"
The old man replied carefully: "The Presbyterian will wait for your wise decision!"
The tone of the superior was full of sarcasm: "The Presbyterian Church wanted to take the opportunity to attack the power of Shandong merchants!"
The rise of Shandong businessmen has threatened the status of Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital in recent years. Although Liu Jingxiao's political achievements are mediocre, the peaceful environment that has not been seen for many years and the low tax level have given Shandong's private business forces a wing to take off, and even confronted Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital across the Huaihe River.
Faced with the threat of Shandong merchants, some elders of the Shen family on the sea also hoped for some immoral means in addition to using legal business methods. However, a lady who held the highest power of the family obviously did not appreciate this practice. She said in a tough tone: "Tell them for me, I will not give a single point!"
The old man did not understand the thoughts of the superiors, so he could only say the questions in his heart: "Why? At least the war in Shandong will be delayed for one more day? It will be more beneficial to us. Is it because he is afraid of affecting our consistent neutral position?"
The Shen family at sea has been hailed as "value neutral" and "eternal neutral" since the early years of the Republic. Countless generals who left the wing, and powerful men transferred their property to Shanghai one after another. Even though they were actually closer to the south, since the Republic, the voices of peace talks between the north and the south of Shanghai have been endless. The excuse for the Shanghai Shen family to mediate was: "absolute neutrality."
"Because of this!" Waving a booklet from somewhere, the superior's mouth was a bit arrogant, and the "Witch of the Thousand Changes" was indeed true.
"Our Shen family can do business that loses money, but they will never invest money in careers without prospects."
The old man carefully opened the booklet thrown by the superiors. If Lin Baihe saw this small mountain, he would definitely beat his chest and stamp his feet in pain. This is the strategy plan for Shandong that the dozen elders of the four masters of Jiaodong spent more than a year to formulate. From the establishment of troops, combat operations to logistics supplies, everything is included, extremely detailed, but now it appears in places that should not be.
After decades of operation, the Shen family's business empire has penetrated its tentacles into every corner of the Republic. With the entry of the Shen family's caravan, countless commercial spies danced in the dark. Of course, they would accidentally bring one or two extremely confidential military and political information in the business information.
Yue Zhonglin replied: "Brother Yang, no! No!"
"What's wrong?"
"Everyone is five steps away from the military academy and ten steps away from each other. There are troops who are strictly prohibited from passing by in the name of martial law. Our people have tried their best to get in but they have never been able to get in."
"It is impossible. The cabinet will not agree to such a major issue as martial law. Do you know which unit it is?"
Chapter completed!