Zhang Tie stepped off the airship and glanced around. This airship landing base was not very large, more like a private airship base...
Outside the airship base, green trees encircled the area, mountain flowers bloomed in riotous profusion, and spring brimmed with life. Within the landing base, several exquisite buildings and courtyards could be seen faintly amid the distant shade of the trees.
This was outside the city, not within it.
A black sedan was already waiting at the airship hatch. Its driver and a round-faced middle-aged man stood solemnly beside it.
"Elder Mu Shen, I am the manager of the Golden Crow Merchant Group's Yingzhou branch. My name is Zhang Cheng!"
Before Zhang Tie could say anything, the round-faced middle-aged man took the initiative to introduce himself.
Zhang Tie nodded. He had never met this man before, but since his surname was Zhang and he had risen to the position of provincial manager within the Golden Crow Merchant Group, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that he came from Huaiyuan Hall.
Call it feudal or call it conservative, but nearly a thousand years of facts since the Great Cataclysm had proven that, at any time, those born of the same family and bound by blood were far more reliable than outsiders. Therefore, not only the Golden Crow Merchant Group but all the great clans of Great Xia placed members of their own families in many key positions. So-called professional managers had their place too, but mostly in newly established small merchant groups. As for large-scale families and major merchant groups, such families themselves trained great numbers of professional managers. The abilities of these family-trained managers varied; those with ability naturally rose higher, while those without would not go to waste either.
Judging by the shrewdness in Zhang