I want to do research even if I have no money

Mr. Bao said honestly: "I don't want to know, so don't tell me. Some things become more dangerous the more you know. I just want to be with my sons and grandchildren and share the family happiness."

Jing Shen glanced at him, and was quite satisfied with his answer in his heart.The more people know about the content of the secret decree, the easier it is to reveal its flaws. Even Situ Meng only has a half-knowledge of his mission this time. Ji Lao knows the most, but he doesn't have to worry that Ji Lao will leak the secret.

Greeting guests is the most boring thing. After Jing Shen and Mr. Bao finished talking, the two had nothing to say, but as a core member of the Jiangnan General Chamber of Commerce, he still had to greet the guests and introduce Jing Shen, the world nephew.

Depth of Field still used the pseudonym "Liu Shen", and he sang along with Mr. Bao while scrutinizing every visitor.

"Isn't Brother Bao's in-laws surnamed Zhou? Why is this nephew's surname Liu?" Many of them had low EQ, and they became suspicious after hearing Mr. Bao's introduction.

Mr. Bao said calmly, "This is my mother's relative."

"Oh, I see."

Mr. Bao watched them enter the door with a smile, and Depth of Field also squinted his eyes at their backs.

"They are the old people of the Chamber of Commerce. They have been members of the Jiangnan General Chamber of Commerce since the previous generation. The weight is still very important, but the people of their generation are really not very good. The boss of the family doesn't care about anything. Instead, the two younger brothers are taking care of the family. industry, but they do things too commercially, you know, sometimes, in shopping malls, they also need to be more humane, and many businessmen don’t just care about profit.” Mr. Bao explained to Jing Shen.

Depth of Field retracted his gaze and looked at Mr. Bao, "How popular are they in the chamber of commerce?"

"Not so much," Mr. Bao said, "Businessmen and businessmen are just ordinary people after all. Interests are a very important part, but aside from interests, there are many things that interests cannot give. Just like I promised Ji Lao to help you, There is no benefit to me, and of course, there is no harm, so for the sake of Ji Lao, I helped you."

"The same is true in shopping malls. In many cases, favors are more useful than benefits."

Depth of Field nodded half-understood, and after a while, Situ Meng, Situ Li, and a strange man came in.

In front of outsiders, Jing Shen and Situ Meng pretended not to know each other, but Mr. Bao, Situ Li and the people around him were very familiar.

Situ Meng gave his invitation to Jing Shen to check the records, Jing Shen took the invitation, and the two touched their hands briefly, Jing Shen looked at Situ Meng and the others, and then looked at the two invitations in his hand, "Situ Mr. Meng and Mr. Situ Li...the other Mr., do you have an invitation card?"

Mr. Bao patted his head exaggeratedly, and said, "Oh, I forgot to introduce you, this is my nephew, Liu Shen; this is Gao Haosi, the youngest son of the chairman of Jiangnan General Chamber of Commerce."

Gao Haosi was not angry at being neglected at all, but happily shook hands with Jing Shen, "So you are a relative of Uncle Bao, hello! From your accent, you are from the north? Are you still used to living here?"

Jing Shen was a little surprised by his familiarity, but soon entered the role, singing with Gao Haosi.

After sending Situ Meng and the others inside, Mr. Bao and Jing Shen continued the work just now, but after a while, all the guests waiting outside entered the door. Jing Shen picked up the sign-in book and looked through it, and saw that everyone had arrived.

The doors closed and the luncheon began.After the lengthy summary meeting, it is free time before the dinner. The guests can choose to rest in their own rooms, or enjoy the scenery in the garden.

Depth of Field came with a mission. Naturally, it was impossible to go back to the wing room to take a nap like Situ Meng did. He let the guards scatter in various yards to observe these businessmen secretly, while he took a jug of wine and wandered in the garden. Appreciating the scenery is actually observing the group of people staying in the garden.

I don't know who started the conversation first, but the object of discussion among the businessmen gradually changed from the aimless business process to Chengning Villa.

Chengning Villa is not an unfamiliar name. Until the death of Situ Meng's grandfather, Chengning Villa was active in Yangzhou Prefecture as a philanthropist.

But after the grandfather passed away, Chengning Villa had no successors, and soon fell down.Situ Meng was kicked out of the house by his grandfather and came to Ningshan County to observe filial piety for his deceased parents. He took over Chengning Villa by the way, and changed the label of Chengning Villa from a philanthropist to a businessman.

"You say, the owner of Chengning Villa, if he doesn't do his charity work well, and interferes with us businessmen, what's the point?"

"It's just a yellow-haired boy with no hair yet. He opened a workshop and opened a fire to close the factory, and recruited a group of bandits and bandits... Tsk tsk tsk, this villa has been turned into four by him... Do you know? That fireworks The director of the factory turned out to be a woman! Such an important position was given to a woman by going through the back door, so these children are really unreliable!"

Jing Shen recognized that the two people who spoke just now questioned his identity at the door, and indeed some people are really annoying with just one word!

The businessman who was listening to the two brothers said doubtfully: "But didn't the owner of the Chengning Villa also deal with the Ru River's cessation? I heard that if it wasn't for him at that time, those manor fields beside the Ru River would have been destroyed. Suffered."

"That's right, the Huahuo Factory is still the long-term partner of the Jiangnan General Military Camp. Even if the factory director is a woman, if the technology is not up to standard, it is impossible for the military camp to seek cooperation with them. The commander of the military camp is the Jian family!"

The rise of Chengning Villa surprised many businessmen, and made the name Chengning Villa firmly engraved in some people's minds.

No one thought that a teenage boy could re-promote the villa that had been abandoned for many years, and created his own brand, leaving his footprints in various industries, especially the appearance of the fireworks factory, which made Chengning Villa famous in Yangzhou. It is not just as simple as a brand, but a dark horse backed by the Jian family army, which has a good reputation in the hearts of the people.

The annoying voice sounded again, "So, the hero is sad and beautiful, otherwise why did he find a woman as the factory director? Then the leader of the Jian family must have been seduced by her, so he gave Chengning Villa so many opportunities ! Also, have you seen the owner of Chengning Villa? He looks like a rabbit, who knows how many people's beds he climbed to get in?"

Jing Shen listened at the side, and with a strong hand, he pinched the jug to pieces, and the strong smell of alcohol overflowed, he sneered, and recorded the appearance and names of these people in his heart.

Listening further down, the objects of this group of people's gossip are still Chengning Villa and Situ Meng, they both praise and depreciate.Most of the businessmen who cooperated with the manor expressed their praise for the new Chengning Villa, while some businessmen who had never cooperated before, or those who came from other prefectures than Yangzhou, expressed their appreciation for Chengning Villa and Situ Meng because of the words of the two brothers. scoffed.

At the end, Jing Shen felt that there was nothing worth inquiring about among these people, so he turned and walked elsewhere.

Woke up too early today, Situ Meng took a nap in the wing room, changed his clothes after waking up, and joined the circle of businessmen in the garden discussing in detail.

The products produced by Chengning Mountain Villa have always been famous for their high quality and reasonable price. The Huahuo Factory is even more famous for its novel design and practicality, and almost everyone in Yangzhou has one.

Several well-known businessmen from outside the Yangzhou government chatted with Situ Meng for a while under the recommendation of a familiar Yangzhou businessman, and then talked about cooperation issues.

Jing Shen pretends to be Mr. Bao's nephew, and also follows Mr. Bao into their conversation.

Although these foreign businessmen came from afar, they have just heard a lot of bad things from the new owner of Chengning Villa from the local businessmen, and two of them expressed reservations about the cooperation.

Mr. Bao looked at the direction they were leaving, and comforted Situ Meng: "You don't have to care too much about their opinions. In the shopping mall, there are no less intrigues than in the court. Some people think highly of you because of your hard work, and naturally there are others because of various interests. and belittle you."

Situ Meng nodded to show he knew, "Thank you, Mr. Bao, I won't take this to heart."

After finishing speaking, he felt Jing Shen's gaze, turned his head and looked at Jing Shen, and quickly turned his head away.

The banquet of the Jiangnan General Chamber of Commerce was just an introduction, and Depth of Field remembered the faces of many people, most of whom secretly belittled Situ Meng and Chengning Villa, but he didn't hear any news about reselling lighter oil.

But he had expected this result a long time ago, so he didn't care about returning empty-handed this time.

Jing Shen stayed in Chengning Villa, and the room was chosen next to Situ Meng.

The two of them seemed to be back in the past, he always followed behind Situ Meng like a little tail, and Situ Meng seemed to be more tolerant of him than before, and Situ Meng often accepted all the unreasonable demands he made .

Walking in the manor with Situ Meng, he found that the manor has changed a lot, and there are many people who have never met before.

On the other hand, Situ Meng completed the tasks assigned by the system in a steady manner, and gradually, the accumulated reputation was getting higher and higher, especially on the second day of attending the banquet of the Jiangnan General Chamber of Commerce, he added another one to the [tenant's reputation] [Reputation of the Chamber of Commerce].

After the reputation points have accumulated to a certain level, the system finally unlocked a thing called [Prestige Point Store], which is divided into [Common Items] and [Special Items]. Situ Meng can use his own reputation points to exchange for what the manor needs. of any item.

Situ Meng exchanged almost all of the [tenant's reputation] for the reward of "establishing a school".

The next day, the school belonging to Chengning Villa was put into construction. At the same time, the first batch of volunteers who went to sea with the sea caravan finally returned. They not only came back by themselves, but also brought a foreigner with them.

The foreigner's name is Stephen, and he is a missionary of the British Empire. He is very yearning for the Chinese culture, and even taught himself the official language and culture of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

By coincidence, Stephen ran into Gao Haosi's sea caravan, and followed the caravan to Chengning Villa.

Speaking of which, Situ Meng himself brought up this matter on his own initiative - he believes that the sea caravan is a very good breakthrough, which can not only bring extra income to the manor, but also bring new technologies and new technologies from other countries. He wants to start with Chengning Mountain Villa, slowly radiate to Yangzhou Prefecture, and then the entire Dazhou, so that everyone can understand that the current situation of Dazhou is actually not as optimistic as they imagined. Their technology, their Ideology and even culture are stagnant, and compared with other countries, it has fallen behind a lot.

But what he didn't expect was that he could find such a suitable person when he went to sea for the first time.

Stephen was curious about the manor everywhere, just like the people in the manor were also curious about him.At the beginning, Situ Meng was worried about the communication between the two parties, but he didn't expect that Stephen's official language was very good, and there was no difficulty in communicating.

With Stephen, Situ Meng added a course in the school. This course is different from other courses. Stephen will teach the children of these tenants overseas knowledge, overseas culture and overseas technology in the class.

Situ Meng and Jing Shen attended several classes. I have to say that Stephen is indeed an excellent missionary. His class is always the most lively. The students also like this humorous and patient foreigner very much.

In the past two years, Chengning Villa has a faint image of a leader leading the trend in Yangzhou Prefecture. Every time Chengning Villa does something, other owners of the manor will follow suit.

Seeing that Chengning Villa had built a school, they followed suit and built a school in their own manor.

One day, Situ Meng, Jing Shen and Mr. Bao had dinner in a restaurant in Yangzhou. After the meal, they came out of the restaurant and saw a mother and son on the street, surrounded by a circle of people.

"What happened?" Situ Meng asked a middle-aged man who was also watching.