Hua Shufeng said: "Brother Xian, you'd better not have this idea. The officials were just asking for money. If we give them some more money, we will be strong! ”

Liu Pei said: "Brother, don't you understand? As long as we have the strength to maintain our own safety, they will not kill them! Otherwise, if our department store continues to do it, it will inevitably be blushing without high-ranking officials! When the time comes, will we be forced to surrender our efforts? Besides, I didn't want to rebel, I just wanted to protect myself. ”

Hua Shufeng was silent after hearing this, and finally said slowly: "If Brother Xian is in this mind, then I support you." ”

Liu Pei was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew that Hua Shufeng still had enough awe for the Ming Dynasty at present. So he's not in a hurry. As long as you go down step by step, you don't have to worry about him not getting on the boat! Besides, as soon as the department store opened, everyone regarded Liu Pei and Hua Shufeng as a group, and they were inseparable! So Liu Pei didn't worry about the fact that the Flower Tree Summit would not cooperate with him at all, and he continued: "From then on, I will ask my brother for logistics!" ”

Hua Shufeng nodded and smiled: "Okay, no problem." He felt that Liu Pei's subordinates were just a few workshops and hundreds of family members, and he would be able to send one or two shopkeepers himself. But how did he know that Liu Pei was about to expand his porcelain and ironware workshops. In Liu Pei's plan, there are also a series of plans such as a coat and hat workshop, a tannery, and a gunpowder factory. But Liu Pei won't say it first, just add the same size when the time comes.

A few days later, in the Hongfu Building, a group of big treasurers of Jinan City gathered together again to officially celebrate the establishment of the United Chamber of Commerce. In the United Chamber of Commerce, Hua Shufeng is the president, and Liu Pei and another wealthy businessman are the vice presidents. However, at the venue, Liu Pei made it clear that he would only provide armed protection to the Chamber of Commerce, and would not participate in the operation but only share dividends, which was strongly welcomed by everyone! But how did they know Liu Pei's thoughts. He firmly remembered Taizu's words: power comes out of the barrel of a gun! As long as Liu Pei firmly grasps the force of the United Chamber of Commerce, it is a matter of his words who the United Chamber of Commerce is, and even whether it exists.

After Liu Pei finished arranging the affairs of Jinan, he went back to Fushan Village, where there were more important things waiting for him. But the people he stayed in the city started to work.

First of all, the trained family members play an important role in maintaining the security of the mall. Moreover, they not only maintain the security of the department store, but also other stores with members of the United Chamber of Commerce are also filled and automatically included in the protection.

Naturally, the splatters in the city did not want to lose their wealth, so they had the courage to clash with them several times. And Liu Pei's family members have been trained in fighting, as well as organizational discipline, and are good at group combat. It is often a team of three, a team of five, beating a group of rabble splashes to the end. A few who dared to take the lead were all beaten by them. Coupled with the extreme restraint of Hu Lin and others, the splashes had to retreat. This made the members of the United Chamber of Commerce even more satisfied with Liu Pei! Therefore, there are many people in Jinan City who like Liu Pei, but it is these broken skins that hate Liu Bei.

The second thing is the 30 people transferred by Liu Jiang. These people did not show up, but bought a few yards directly in the city and moved in. And then wander around the city. Because they received very strange tasks.

One of the tasks is to ask them to set nails in Jinan, collect information, and infiltrate the orders of the underworld. They can understand that. Jinan City is the place where the three provinces pass through, and there are many people coming and going from the north to the south, and all kinds of information circulation is also very extensive, so it is very convenient to collect newspapers here.

But the second order made them a little confused. Because the order was to recruit as many people from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan as possible into the organization. It is easier to say that it is easier to absorb Henan people. Henan is adjacent to Shandong. Once there is a stir in that place, when the people flee the famine, the first choice is Beijing, Tianjin, and then Shandong. Therefore, there are many Henan people in Shandong, and it is not difficult to absorb Henan people into the organization.

But Shanxi and Shaanxi are different. During the Ming Dynasty, population movement was a troublesome matter. And people are no longer willing to move too much and stay away from their hometowns, so even if people flee the famine, as long as the famine years have passed, people will return to their hometowns to farm.

And Shanxi is separated by a Henan, and Shaanxi is even farther away! So it's a bit difficult to complete the second mission. But these people are still determined to complete the task assigned by Liu Pei. The reason is very simple, it turns out that most of the 30 people are beggars in the original Jinan City. It was Liu Pei who gave them a new life and freed them from the threat of death, so their loyalty to Liu Pei was extremely high!

When Liu Jiang came back, he picked up a lot of beggars who were willing to follow him. These beggars have been recuperated for a period of time, and there are martial artists who have taught them martial arts, so these people are no longer the same as before. But they are still so familiar with Jinan City.

In the end, these people were divided into two parts. A group of more than 20 people, they will gradually merge into the splash. Develop your own downline within them. The remaining few people have to take on the second task.

Gao Sheng was one of the beggars in Jinan City at that time, who were close to Liu Jiang and them. Gao Sheng was very smart when he was a beggar. You must know that the beggars in the Ming Dynasty were not the beggars of modern times, these beggars were really struggling on the edge of life and death, and all they could get was food instead of money. So most of what they get in ordinary times is leftovers. If you're lucky, you'll get some clean flatbread and steamed buns, but don't think about the money.

And Gao Sheng is precisely the person who can often beg for money among beggars. And if a beggar can get money, it takes a lot of luck and chance. In other words, you can take the initiative to create opportunities to get money. So it can be seen that Gao Sheng is a very clever person.

After careful thinking, Gao Sheng set his sights on one place, which was the Shanxi Guild Hall. As the name suggests, Shanxi Guild Hall is a club-like hall organized by Shanxi people locally. There are a series of functions such as accommodation, meals, exchange of newspapers, provision of Chinese people, and help to find buyers of goods. Behind this Shanxi guild hall is naturally the support of those Jin merchants in Shanxi. Shaanxi is poor, there are not many big businesses, so naturally there is no Shaanxi guild hall.