Zhu Wencong brought Fu Mengqiu to Jiuding Bank next door for lunch, and there was still a meeting to attend in the afternoon.
Tsarist Russia's bureaucrats were clueless about finance, as they were still in an agricultural mindset, slowly transitioning to an industrial one.
A country that preys on the weak does not believe in self-reliance; why engage in commerce to acquire wealth when you can plunder it?
Zhu Wencong needed to change their old perspectives; otherwise, it would be impossible to get foreign businessmen to invest with confidence.
"Now Jiuding Bank is getting more and more customers!" Fu Mengqiu exclaimed.
"Ha ha! The main reason is that there are too few banks in Tsarist Russia. This place should have been the forbidden zone of finance, but my arrival changed that.
When the Ruble currency plummeted, it caused a large batch of new banks to go bankrupt, which was a vivid lesson for them.