Thinking of this, Lord Zhizhou could only suppress his heart, the unhappiness caused by the shopkeeper Qin's blunt statement that the gift giving was too vulgar and did not cover it up with other elegant things, and responded to the shopkeeper Qin's words in a low voice.

"The shopkeeper Qin really has a heart, and the local trade is also a must on the entire Grand Canal, so it is natural to carry it forward.

Since those proprietors are gone, the official must fully support Weihai Trading Company to comfort the spirits of the seven proprietors in the sky.

If there is anything difficult in the future, please don't hesitate to open your mouth, if you can do it, the official will definitely not excuse you. ”

said this, then it really put the posture to a very low level, which is almost a bottom line for the Ming civil officials who pay attention to face.

In fact, judging from the history before Chen Xin's crossing, the bottom line of many Ming civil officials, over time, will become extremely low at some point, until there is almost no bottom line.

And the shopkeeper of Qin, after hearing Lord Zhizhou's words, made a gesture of victory in his heart, and then, taking advantage of the victory, he said, "Since this is the case, there is really a reluctant request below, I hope Lord Zhizhou can help." ”

Lord Zhizhou had already expected this, and the giver of the gift must have something to ask for, which was already something that any official knew.

The officials who could rise up in the fierce local battles would not be pure little white rabbits, and he knew that the other party would never send it silver so easily, or more than the previous seven families.

So, he hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper Qin, please don't be polite, just say it directly." ”

"Well, actually, this is the most important thing in the next arrival.

Many merchants were forced to do business in other places by the chaotic local situation, which was really unfavorable to the expansion of the local business scale.

Adults can know that many local shipwrights and porters have been left without a living and starving because of this situation.

The root cause of this is entirely caused by the wanton and reckless corruption of trade rules by certain local business colleagues.

Therefore, I would like to ask the adults to come forward and support the establishment of a local trade guild to rectify the chaotic business operation procedures in the local area. ”

Lord Zhizhou was a little embarrassed, in fact, he knew what the other party wanted to do, this so-called guild was indeed an old calendar that had existed since ancient times.

However, unlike what the shopkeeper Qin said, the normal guild belongs to an organization that is in the same region and between the same industry, and it is an existence that strives for the interests of the industry.

However, what the shopkeeper Qin said, it is a local trade guild, this is obviously not an industry guild, but a direct net of local merchants.

The local area is a large trading city on the Grand Canal, and commerce is the foundation of this place, if the other party controls this trade guild, doesn't it mean that the other party directly controls the local economy?

It's a pity that Lord Zhizhou himself is a scholar, and his understanding of the economy is not as strong as that of later generations, he just vaguely feels that it is a little inappropriate, but what is not appropriate at all, he can't say at all.

However, in his opinion, no matter how influential the trade guild is, this matter has no impact on him as an official at all. Anyway, it would never have been more impactful than the Qin shopkeeper sitting in front of him.

So he immediately replied, "This is nature, this is nature, this is virtue and politics, it is a great thing, and this official should be the leader of the local business community." ”

He knew that the establishment of the trade guild by the Qin shopkeeper in front of him was obviously not the kind of person who worked for the benefit of everyone, and he wanted to establish this trade guild by himself, which should be to tell the local gentry that he, the Lord of Zhizhou, was on the side of his Weihai trading company, and then the Qin shopkeeper just wanted to control the guild, and he could suppress the local small workshop owners through the official office and the guild.

The local place near the Grand Canal is close to Zhili, and the goods from all over the north and south are gathered again, and as the governor of a state, he really can't afford to fight with a trading company, and besides, this trading company will give him silver like other merchants.

Since the other party had already made a request and made a condition, he relaxed instead, because he knew that he finally didn't have to worry about it, and he would suddenly be cut off by someone.

After relaxing, Lord Zhizhou finally recovered the skills he had exercised in the process of climbing up, and was ready to directly finalize this matter, so as to send this evil star away quickly.

"It's rare that the shopkeeper Qin has such a vision, and the official admires it. This official has heard that if people's words and deeds are not understood, they are scattered. The Weihai Trading Company run by the shopkeeper Qin is famous, and the shopkeeper is also good at this, and the president of this guild, the official will first set the shopkeeper of Qin.

The proprietors of the seven local big families who died, if they could see that this trade guild had been established locally, they would surely be happy and laugh underground, and the official also asked the shopkeeper Qin not to shirk this position. ”

Shopkeeper Qin smiled in his heart, so far, things have gone completely according to the plan he prescribed, and there is basically no deviation in the slightest.

But at this moment, from the courtyard next to him, there was a sudden hissing and exhausted cry, and several people present were a little silent.

After listening to it for a while, I realized that it seemed that in the official room next to me, the family members of the deceased officials had committed suicide.

Lord Zhizhou looked a little cramped and uneasy when he heard this, and the shopkeeper Qin smiled indifferently, stood up and said, "I haven't said anything about resigning from this position, Lord Zhizhou said well, in order to comfort those owners and let them feel at ease underground, I plan to continue to use their respective brands for production." This is also a thought for business colleagues.

Also, the large piece of land in their workshop area also looks good, and he originally planned to buy it from his family.

But when I inquired this morning, I learned that the seven family members in the owner's mansion were all killed by those murderers last night.

Hey, I don't know what to do now, so I can only temporarily occupy that piece of land and use it for the time being, lest the land be forcibly occupied by those unscrupulous people.

In the future, if one day, the relatives of the 7 proprietors come to recognize their relatives, the son can return them and help them re-establish the workshop. ”