When others were thinking about getting some prescriptions, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were preparing for the New Year at home. This was the first time they were spending the New Year outside. The one in Huayuan County was not counted. After all, it was not far from Sanshui County, and they were closely next to each other.

The customs of the Tang Dynasty's New Year's Day are a bit different in different places, but the difference is not too big. Some of them are gradually evolved later. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan wanted to build a large stage and let more than 30,000 people celebrate the New Year together.

Fortunately, we can take this opportunity to make the local people support Zhang Zhong more, so the money can only be paid by the Zhang and Wang families. To be precise, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are paid by them. It is not a small amount of money, but also includes some red envelopes to be given.

"Xiaobao, where do you think you can arrange this New Year together? Should you be in a place that is not far from several counties? You can let the people of several counties go over and walk for a few days. After all, it is not like when I was working together, just organize it casually.

There are many stalls now, and people are doing things in every place. You can’t spend the New Year and let them walk for half a month. If you only walk with your feet, it will take half a month. That’s not the New Year, but the pain. Unfortunately, there is no TV now, otherwise you can see the show no matter how far away.”

Wang Juan followed Zhang Xiaobao, and the two of them were walking around the yard, thinking about how they should have been here this year.

Zhang Xiaobao was also thinking about it. It would be great if it was like before. Everyone worked in the same place and just recruited them, and those individuals would come over. Now they have houses and the situation in their own homes is different. If you want to continue to learn how to go up the mountain at that time, it would not work.

After walking a few more steps, Zhang Xiaobao stopped and said to Wang Juan: "We can't recruit everyone together for the New Year, so we can celebrate each other's own. Based on the county, each county must organize a New Year's event. Let's tell them some methods and ask them to find someone to learn crosstalk or sketches by themselves.

We use some local songs and dances. Let’s think of a few more. The main thing is to make fun of it, make some small games, and let everyone participate. We will also take care of firecrackers, dumplings, etc., as well as new clothes. My father will stay here at that time. You and me will go to the same place, let your father go to the same place, and then find the people in the inner courtyard to go to other places."

Zhang Xiaobao actually wanted to celebrate the New Year with his family, but judging from the current situation, this idea could not be achieved, so he could only disperse people and let the people here feel the kindness of the government.

After hearing this, Wang Juan shook her head, "If I don't leave, I will be with my family. Are there so many people in the inner courtyard? Let them go and represent me. I'm here in Wulei County and spend the New Year with the people here."

"That's fine, but the people in the inner courtyard are all unable to achieve their original purpose. After all, if we go to somewhere in person, our identity will be different." Zhang Xiaobao saw that Wang Juan disagreed, and he had the same idea, so he agreed.

"How can it be bad? The people don't think so much. As long as you give those clothes or something, they will care about who is coming. Send individuals to represent the government. When there is still time, let your father deliver these things one by one. You don't have to deliver them to the people. If your father goes there and brings things with you, the local people will know what it means.

Now those officials are honest, and there is no need to worry that someone will be greedy when distributing things. When you give more things to the officials, they will be happy to do the things."

Wang Juan has always been very unfamiliar with this place. This kind of unfamiliarity is spiritual. Even though she has been able to arrange the people here very well, she always feels that she is not from the same place. If she leaves her relatives during the Chinese New Year, she will feel very lonely.

"Then let it be. Remember to sort out the things you gave at that time. Giving less things in the spiritual sense is the main thing to be helpful in life. Go and go back and take a order to see what you need."

Zhang Xiaobao then said, pulling Wang Juan into the house to write a list. Although the family will take out a lot of things during the Chinese New Year this year, these things will be worth it for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. People in other states around will also know about this matter.

Maybe some individuals can come, so that there will be more people in Luzhou. In this era when production tools are not so developed, people are the best productivity. When they are waiting to leave here, the people here can provide a lot of money to the Zhang and Wang families every year.

This is not to say that the people give it directly, but that the various chambers of commerce are running. The more people, the richer the more they are, the higher the output value of the chamber of commerce will be.

The two of them were busy with the New Year, and the others were also thinking about it, especially in the places where they were affected by the disaster. Although they had obtained the things from the court, the recovery speed was as fast as Luzhou, which was in the sky and the underground.

The officials of these states are not fools. They know that it will be beneficial to the people when they are during the Chinese New Year and let the people have a good New Year. They have already learned about Zhang Zhong from their respective channels, that is, they spent the New Year with the people during the Chinese New Year, and the Zhang family also paid for some New Year goods to buy for the people.

They thought this method was good, but they couldn't get so much money. In the end, they all thought of a solution, which was to let local merchants pay the money and buy New Year's goods to the people, so they could still leave some of the money.

Those businessmen didn't know that the men in the state had already put their ideas on them and were still doing business with Luzhou. At the same time, they applied to join the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce, which required negotiations.

They want to join directly without any money or be strictly managed by the Chamber of Commerce. In other words, businessmen from some states want to reach unrestrained cooperation with chambers of commerce in Luzhou.

Zhang Xiaobao had known this, so of course he would not do it anymore. This was clearly a threat made by the chambers of commerce relying on being able to control trade activities around Luzhou. The original meaning was that if they cooperated, then the goods shipped from Luzhou would be given to them as part of the goods, which was the one with a relatively low price.

At the same time, the chamber of commerce in Luzhou itself is not allowed to go to their place to buy and sell things casually. If you want to buy and sell things, you have to pass them first. If you don’t agree, they will *** the transactions from Luzhou to various places, so that Luzhou’s goods cannot be sold.

This *** is not just blocking the road, they dare not do this, they are targeting Luzhou. They will unite and not sell any goods here or buy anything from here. They feel that they and others are capable of doing this. As long as they join forces, it will be difficult for Luzhou to buy and sell.

For example, if there are good goods to buy, they can raise the price of such goods in the local area first. Instead, they are united and will not lose money to each other. Even if the people want to sell the things in their hands to Luzhou, they must consider whether they still want to buy things from the hands of them and others in the future.

Their plans are good, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are willing to cooperate, but it is definitely not a cooperation under this weakness. The two of them proposed a new solution, that is, outside merchants are willing to join the chamber of commerce, but the price of goods needs to be unified according to the price given by the chamber of commerce.

It is not allowed to raise prices at will or reduce prices at will. If you have any needs, you can apply to the Chamber of Commerce separately. You cannot make a private decision without applying.

Another point is that these merchants need to pay two portions of money when joining, one is the membership fee. The money is fixed and collected according to the size of each merchant. If the payment is large, the proportion of goods distributed from other places will be large. At the minimum, one needs to pay one hundred coins. If less than one hundred coins, it means that the scale is not good and the Zhang family does not cooperate.

This hundred or more money cannot be obtained, but the Zhang family’s chamber of commerce has obtained it. Another amount of money is a deposit. In order to prevent some people from not following the regulations, secretly selling goods or raising prices, they need to take out a deposit. If the regulations are not followed, the deposit will not be returned.

The same is used to collect according to their respective scales. In addition to this, there is also an additional guarantee for outside merchants, that is, in terms of sales volume, it is impossible to give you as much goods as you want to take away. What if you can't sell them? What if you deliberately collect all the things, then suppress the goods, and finally hit the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce?

The benefit given by the Zhangjia Chamber of Commerce is to help them advertise, including their local advertisements. The money is paid by the Chamber of Commerce and they don’t have to take it themselves. Of course, if they want to improve their sales, they can advertise themselves. If they sell more goods or buy more goods the Chamber of Commerce needs, there will be additional rewards at that time.

The merchants also had to admit that this method is very good for controlling the people who joined, but they just don’t want to be so embarrassed, so they are still negotiating with the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also thought of some solutions for this matter, that is, to break each one. As long as you loosen the gap, it would be a good idea. This method is very useful. I found some businessmen with not strong strength to get benefits first and tear open the gap there, and other businessmen would have to compromise.

Then they naturally would not get the same benefits as those of the previous merchants. When Zhang Xiaobao was about to take action, he was stopped by Wang Juan. Wang Juan felt that he should wait. If he used such a method now, it would make the merchants turn against each other. If they had a vicious competition, it would not only cause losses to them themselves, but also affect the local economy.

Of course, this kind of vicious competition can benefit the people, as well as the various chambers of commerce in the Zhang family, but it will have a bad effect on the future development of the entire region.

Zhang Xiaobao stopped then, otherwise he would have taken a big advantage after messing up the mess.

But at this moment, the officials of the surrounding prefectures helped. They wanted to learn from Zhang Zhong to win over the people, but they couldn't get so much money, so they reached out to these local merchants.

Local merchants will only recover recently, relying on goods transported from Luzhou. They bought them not locally, but sold them to unaffected states nearby. This way, they made some money. After all, it was expensive to sell them in Luzhou.

Fortunately, Luzhou did not do anything at all. Otherwise, after selling the goods to them, they would sell the goods left at a lower price to the place they were going to sell, and they would smash the goods in their hands. Even at the same price, they would not be able to bear it. They would have to add a freight to enter.

The local area was affected by the disaster, and their business was greatly affected. Now, I finally made some money and just passed the crisis, but the officials of the government asked me to have dinner.

The Chinese governor of the prefecture of Lianzhou came to accompany them in person. If it were to be normal or when the disaster was not affected, the people in the government would be very happy to find them, even if they were given some money to the officials, they might be good at waiting for them.

But the local area is still recovering, so what are the benefits? The Chinese New Year is coming soon. When the merchants heard about this, they were scared when they received the invitation. It probably wasn't a good thing. Otherwise, how could an official as big as a state governor send them invitations?

Some people with relatively strong strength can't accept an invitation. This post looks pretty, and the price during production will not be low. The problem is that these small businessmen who usually do business also received invitations. What does this mean?

The little businessman couldn't take out too much money to work with the government. Since that's the case, why would hello? The businessman couldn't figure it out and dared not to go there, so he could only give his family instructions and go there in person.

When we arrived at the place, this place should be at the entrance of the most expensive restaurant. Governor Fang actually stood there to greet him. Such kindness made the merchants even more worried.

As the merchants arrived one by one, Governor Fang asked someone to count. After that, he followed him upstairs. In order to facilitate everyone to be together, more than a hundred merchants were arranged to the adjacent houses. Those with screens removed the screens and those with walls blocked them, and these wooden walls had to be demolished.

The place suddenly became bigger, and more than a hundred merchants sat there nervously, waiting for the arrangements of Governor Fang. They had already decided that if Governor Fang asked for money, then the family would get less and give it to Governor Fang directly at that time, so that Governor Fang would have a good New Year.

"Everyone, I am lucky to get together with you today. Oh, there are so few at this time. It seems that this is the first time since I took office. It doesn't matter. It's better to gather more in the future. There is always a first time? No matter what distance you are, you can come here, so I will give you this face. I will respect you first."

Seeing that everyone was all, Governor Fang put down his airs, picked up his glass and said the opening words first. Everyone immediately followed and said that they should be respectful to Governor Fang to do this. They drank a glass of wine like this.

Everyone continued to wait for what happened to Governor Fang, but they didn't believe it. Governor Fang, who usually had no requirements for him at this time, was not allowed to meet him.

"Everyone, the waters in the past few months really caused the local people to suffer. I think you have a deep understanding of the people, the people are the fundamentals. Without those people, you will not be able to make a deal. Is this the truth?"

Before the governor was waiting for someone to eat a few bites of food, he stood up with a glass of wine and said, seeing everyone nodding, and then said, "Here, I want to thank you. It is because you have tried your best to buy and sell the things outside, and it is because you sold the local things that have gradually recovered. At this time, I will be more proud of you. Without you, there would be no prosperity in Lianzhou."

As he spoke, Governor Fang drank the cup in one sip. Of course, the other merchants did not dare not drink it. Listening to Governor Fang's praise, they all became even more scared. If the officials could say such words, what price would they have to pay for?

After drinking, Governor Fang sat down again and prepared to eat two bites of food. Among the merchants, some smart ones stood up immediately, and also held the wine, saying to Governor Fang: "Master Fang, it is all the credit for Lianzhou to survive. Without the hosts to arrange the dispatch, how can those people know how to do it? Those who do some small business will not make some money again.

I don’t know the money I have made these days. I can make up for it and make up for the money I lost some time ago. This is thanks to the adults. I will make more money in a few months and will definitely repay the adults.”

What this means is that I don’t have money yet. I just made a fortune and wanted money to be said in two months. Other businessmen also learned to say it, and the main thing was to praise the governor Fang and mention the fact that he had no money.

How could the governor Fang not know what the merchants think when he could sit in this position? Seeing someone taking the lead in crying and poor, he turned his eyes to the person, and just looked at him without saying anything until he kept sweating. Then he said with a smile:

"Dong Zhang family, right? I heard that you are doing some food transactions, and you have exchanged a lot of good grain from Luzhou, and then sold these good grains to other places, and bought some bad grains for local people to eat. If you do this well, otherwise the people may starve to death. You have made a lot of contributions, so I must praise them well.

Well, okay, who said that businessmen don’t care about the lives and death of the people? I don’t think so. At least, the Zhang Dong family can think about the people when they are affected. How rare is the people. The people will definitely remember you. There are also a few people who are the same. I will write a message in a while to let the people understand who is helping them behind their backs.

Don't worry, I know that yours is considered a big deal. I won't ask for your money. Yes, don't want this money to benefit yourself. Although my family is not too rich, I can still take out more than a hundred guan. Today, I brought 100 guan over.

It's not for you. This money is used by me to celebrate the New Year for the people. After a year, I have suffered another disaster. It's not easy for the people. Do you think so? It would be difficult to count on the people to spend a good New Year with their own abilities. Therefore, I thought about it and thought about it. Do you want to know what I am thinking about?"

As the governor Fang said, he stopped talking. He asked someone to bring the 100-month money to the next door, and asked at the merchants.

"I wonder what you are thinking, sir? Do you want us, those of you who do some small business, to help transport some goods? Don't worry, even if there is no goods locally, as long as the people need them, I will help you buy them back. The price is not expensive. If it really doesn't work, you will charge some capital."

At this time, the Zhang Dongjia had to come forward. Who told me that what he said just now? When the governor Fang looked at him again, he immediately started to speak.

"No, no, no, you only think of one aspect. Indeed, this time you need to transport things, especially some goods that are not available locally. You must help transport them. What I think is that since you can help the people to survive, you can definitely let the people have another good New Year.

I know that one hundred coins are actually a lot, but if this money is used to celebrate the New Year for the people, it is far from enough. Do you know that the governor Zhang of Luzhou? Many merchants joined forces on his side and were willing to spend money to buy New Year's goods for the people.

I was worried about this matter, but now I don’t have to worry about it, because I found that everyone here is more kind and righteous than the merchants in Luzhou. They can now unite to pay for money. I think you will do better than them. This is the hearts of the people. You are all good people and should be loved by the people.

This is just this. I know that you have been thinking about finding opportunities to do more for the people, but you have not found it. Thanks to Luzhou, otherwise I would not have thought of such a good way. It can not only fulfill your wish to do good things for the people, but also help the people have a good New Year.

Come, for this year, let’s have another drink to make the people happy and make you and the officials feel at ease. After drinking this glass of wine, you can say how much money you are willing to pay. Seeing that someone like me who doesn’t do business like this is not worth the wealth of the people, I can only give out a hundred coins. I am ashamed, ashamed."

As soon as he finished speaking, Governor Fang drank the wine. The other merchants were so stupid. They hadn't said anything yet, why did they have to take the money? No wonder the adults said he didn't want money. He thought he really didn't have to pay out this time. Only then did he realize that it was not that he didn't have to pay, but that he had to pay more. At least one hundred coins had to be taken out. If he had less, he would not be as good as an adult who had no money.
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