The most prosperous place in Suzhou is not in the city, but on Qilishantang Street outside Changmen.

Shantang Street is named after the river. Shantang River connects to the Jiangnan Canal in the west and Changmen in the east. It is the main transportation route between Suzhou and the Grand Canal. With mountains of goods, flowing water, and shop signs, it is truly a prosperous and elegant place.

The headquarters building of Jiangnan Group is located on Shantang Street, where every inch of land is valuable. It is two miles away from Changmen and covers a full area of ​​36 acres.

Since the beginning of winter last year, Jiangnan Group has started to purchase land, demolish old buildings, and start building. Now it has taken shape. The three-story buildings facing the street have been tiled and the workers are painting the exterior walls.

Jiang Xueying, surrounded by the group's management, came to inspect the construction progress early in the morning. Including her, everyone followed the safety rules set by Mr. Zhao and wore rattan safety helmets on their heads.

President Jiang pays extraordinary attention to this headquarters building, which is the result of his and his brother's hard work.

At the end of the month, she came to inspect the progress of the construction after the Chinese New Year. She had just finished a three-month signing trip around Taihu Lake, and as soon as she returned to Suzhou, she came to check the progress again. And she was very strict, and the design of the drawings must be fully expressed. If there was any sloppiness, it would be required to rework.

This made Mr. Wenshui, who was in charge of the construction of the headquarters, feel a lot of pressure. He was almost seventy years old, and he had to keep an eye on the construction site all day, fearing that the workers would be lazy and the president would find fault with them.

Speaking of which, Mr. Wenshui was the second son of Wen Zhengming, a famous painter of the Wuzhong School, and also a famous scholar in Jiangnan at that time.

There is no way, Mr. Zhao really gave too much. Celebrities can also become contractors.

After looking at the front row of buildings, Mr. Wenshui, supported by his son, took Jiang Xueying through the lobby that was under renovation.

There is another row of three-story buildings in the back, which is parallel to the front row of buildings and more than 100 meters away. The two rows of buildings are connected by a long two-story corridor on the central axis.

This was a common form of palace architecture during the Tang and Song dynasties. The front and back halls were connected by a corridor, which was called an "I-shaped hall" or the axis house.

Among the various plans presented by Mr. Wenshui and others, Zhao Hao immediately chose this grand and spacious structure. There are 88 spacious offices available in the corridor on the central axis alone.

Moreover, it does not have the petty-mindedness of traditional Jiangnan literati garden construction, which is very important.

However, Mr. Wenshui still insisted on creating a seven or eight mu garden in the west courtyard of the Axis Building. The reason was very good. Since it was called "Jiangnan" Group, how could there be no garden in the headquarters?

Chairman Hua and President Jiang both agreed to this. Besides, the headquarters also needed a place for employees to rest and relax, so Zhao Hao nodded in agreement.

However, in the east courtyard, a luxurious cafeteria that can accommodate two thousand people was built according to his wishes... although there are only about a hundred employees in the group headquarters at present.

At this moment, even the basic civil engineering has not been completed, let alone the soft furnishings and gardening. The entire construction site looks gray and dusty, with no highlights, but Jiang Xueying looked at it very carefully.

The reason is simple. The exterior decoration of the project is clear to everyone, and I believe no one dares to fool around. However, if there are quality problems in the internal project, once they are covered up by the exterior decoration, they will never be discovered again in a short time.

She didn't want her brother and her headquarters to be splendid on the outside but rotten on the inside. They must withstand the wind and rain and stand for a hundred years!

"Just like, just like..." President Jiang didn't know what she was thinking of, and her little face under the helmet suddenly turned red. It seemed that only when she thought of Zhao Hao would she behave in a way that matched her actual age.

Suddenly, the sound of hurried footsteps interrupted her reverie.

Jiang Xueying took a deep breath and returned to her cold and frosty look. Then she turned around and saw Mi Li, the director of her president's office, coming in with sweat all over her forehead.

Mi Li is Uncle Mi's daughter. Although her name is so delicate, she is already over 30 years old. Her mother died when she was born, and she grew up with her father on the boat. She was used to the days of fighting and killing. After getting off the boat, she did not get married and always followed her father to work in Wu Ji's carriage and horse business.

At present, the group is in its infancy and short of manpower, so Jiang Xueying asked her to come over and be the director of the president's office. The director of the president's office is responsible for connecting with the various companies in the group, supervising the various matters assigned by the president, and tracking the completion of the group's various plans. It is also a high-ranking position with great power.

She came here in person at this time and was so anxious. Something big must have happened.

"Let's stop here for today." Jiang Xueying nodded to Mr. Wenshui and said, "You've done a good job. Keep up the good work."

"Okay." Mr. Wenshui was relieved. This was the first time he had heard a good word from this picky CEO since the start of the project.

Then he led everyone to retreat tactfully without interrupting the president's speech.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Xueying looked at Mi Li with slightly frowned brows.

"Miss, I received a letter from a carrier pigeon in Xuzhou. Our branch there was maliciously run on!" Mi Li handed over the decrypted pigeon letter with both hands.

Xiao Yuner hurriedly took it and handed it to the young lady.

Jiang Xueying unfolded the note and took a look at it. There was no trace of surprise on her face. She just smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry. Everything is as expected by my brother."

"Ah." Mi Li was so surprised that her mouth couldn't close. "Did you expect that?"

How could she, the director of the president's office, not know about this?

"This was decided by the Strategic Decision Committee and has only been reported to the board of directors." Jiang Xueying explained, then handed the piece of paper to Mi Li and said, "Notify all directors of the group immediately to attend the interim board meeting at the head office."

"Yes." Mi Li kept the piece of paper close to her body and immediately turned around to go out to deliver the message.

"Let's go back too." Jiang Xueying took a deep look at the group's construction site, then took Xiao Yuner back to Suzhou City.

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Among the group's board members, except for the elderly chairman who is in Wuxi and Mr. Zhao who is away on business, the rest are in Suzhou.

Hua Bozhen is naturally the island owner of Xishan Island. Wang Mengxiang is also the chairman of Jiangnan Development Corporation and also has an office in Suzhou. Wang Shimao and Yu Ben, the secretary of the board, are both members of the "Salary and Rank Committee". They are busy with various employee ratings, professional title examinations, and textbook approvals... They are so busy that they can't leave Suzhou.

So that afternoon, the group's board members in Suzhou gathered at the Jiangnan Bank's head office in Leqiao to listen to Jiang Xueying's report on the run on the Xuzhou branch.

During this half day, Jiang Xueying received further reports from Xuzhou, and it has been confirmed that Hengtongji was the one leading the bank run!

The directors were naturally furious when they heard this. They had always been the ones bullying others, but this time they were tricked by others!

This is intolerable, what is intolerable? My uncle can tolerate it, but my aunt can’t tolerate it either!

"These canal transport people are crazy!" Wang Mengxiang slammed the table in anger and said, "We are always thinking about them. In order to protect their jobs, we can even reduce the sea transport to 100,000 dan. They dared not agree and even used tricks against us!"

"Yes, it's too much." Hua Bozhen also said angrily: "It is said that if someone respects me one foot, I will respect him ten feet. Why is it that when it comes to them, it becomes shameless?"

"If the young master hadn't been prepared, we would have suffered a great loss this time!" Wang Shimao sighed with fear on his face, and then asked in disbelief: "How could the young master have expected that they would use this trick against us?"

"Brother, you didn't rely on guesswork." Jiang Xueying, who sat in the second-in-command chair, explained proudly, "Instead, you used a science called 'Monetary Banking'."

"Money and banking?" The directors asked, not quite understanding, "About banking?"

"The bank is only part of it." Jiang Xueying said with admiration, "According to the knowledge my brother taught me, I set up a risk control department in Jiangnan Bank and sent vice presidents in charge of risk management to all branches. These vice presidents have an important job, which is to observe the changes in various accounts of the branches and find abnormal situations."

As she spoke, she smiled slightly, and the ice and snow melted away. "Since the beginning of the new year, the branches in Jiangnan have reported that new depositors have opened accounts in various places and deposited large amounts of current deposits."

"Our bank pays interest on fixed deposits, and it is not troublesome to convert fixed deposits into current deposits, so depositors who deposit large amounts of money generally choose fixed deposits." She knew that the directors did not know much about banks, so she further explained:

"There are usually only two situations where depositors will choose current deposits. One is that they need to use the money in the near future, and the other is that they are going to withdraw money from other places... because only current deposits support foreign exchange."

"If it was just one or two people doing this, it would be fine. But when dozens of people deposited more than one million taels of silver into current accounts at the same time, no matter which possibility it was, it would attract the attention of the risk control department." Jiang Xue greeted and said, "In February, another one million taels of silver was deposited. We completely concluded that someone was trying to harm us."

"Every depositor has detailed information left in the bank, and a guarantor is required to open an account. It doesn't take much effort to find out that these people have some kind of relationship with Hengtongji and the shopkeeper Song." She finally explained: "The former boss asked people to deposit money in Jiangnan Bank, of course, not to help us rise. What Hengtongji and the shopkeeper Song are going to do is obvious."

Everyone finally understood what was said, but they were even more shocked.

Who is Song Xiaoming? He is the business genius who has controlled Hengtongji for thirty years and pushed Wanyuanhao off the throne of the leader. He is known as "one person suppresses all Hui". Although their Mr. Zhao and President Jiang are undoubtedly business geniuses, they are a little green compared to the experienced shopkeeper Song.

So in February, when Jiang Xueying informed the board of directors that Hengtongji might maliciously run on Jiangnan Bank in a few months, the directors actually didn't quite believe it. After all, the methods of the shopkeeper Song were so clever, how could it be discovered by the little girl a few months before the launch?

This is unscientific...

However, at this moment, the original prophecy came true. The famous Song Xiaoming was really seen through by two kids whose combined age was not even as good as his.