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Chapter 238: Come Back Soon (Part II)

Miss Zhang, Lord Zhu, the trouble comes from the two of them, Fan Hongdao asked puzzledly: "With my understanding of them, they shouldn't be like the Zheng family who killed chickens and took eggs and forcibly took them, so what do you have to worry about?"

Yang Chaofeng smiled bitterly, turned his head and said to Sun Chaofeng: "It's better for you to talk about it." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

This Sun Chaofeng is one of the merchants with the most shops on Chongwenmenwai Street, but he can't hide from the slightest trouble, and his desire to talk after encountering trouble is also the strongest.

"Did Mr. Fan ever know that Miss Zhang really occupied the Homecoming Inn, and then demolished it with great fanfare, claiming to build a guild hall and a restaurant and teahouse. ”

Fan Hongdao nodded, and took a bowl of tea from the big teapot in the courtyard to drink. "I've heard her say this, it's not a bad thing, why are you dissatisfied with Sun Yuanwai?"

Sun Chaofeng said in one breath: "That eldest lady Zhang is still preparing to establish an alliance, and she has named it Freemasonry, encouraging my generation to join Freemasonry!"

Poof! Fan Hongdao squirted tea all over the sky, and he really didn't hold back.

It's not that he can't restrain himself, it's that the name Freemasonry is simply amazing. The youth of the 21st World Network should have read articles such as "The Masonic Conspiracy", which is said to be the oldest and largest secret organization in the world. Unexpectedly, Miss Zhang's name for the organization actually coincided with the legendary Freemasonry. [Zero ↑ nine △ small ↓ said △ 網]

"What's so strange about this name?" Yang Chaofeng on the other side was puzzled by Fan Hongdao's performance: "Miss Zhang said that the name is taken from the word "Helping Together." ”

Fan Hongdao shook his hand, forcibly removing his distracting thoughts and strange feelings about the name of Freemasonry from his mind, and then said to Sun Chaofeng, "You go on. ”

Sun Chaofeng continued: "Miss Zhang also has a lot of contact with the Chongwenmen Tax Division, claiming that as long as she joins the Freemasonry, she will receive preferential treatment in the tax department. ”

Outside the Chongwen Gate is an important business district in the capital, and the main business of the merchants is wholesale business, and a large number of goods are transported here from the south, and then generated transactions, and then transported into the city. The imperial court has set up a special branch of the Chongwenmen Tax Division, which is responsible for collecting business taxes here, and if the tax burden can be reduced, of course, it will be popular with all merchants.

Fan Hongdao continued to not understand: "This is a good thing, don't you want to be able to reduce taxes? What is there to worry about?"

Sun Chaofeng said sadly: "But Miss Zhang also hinted that if you don't join Freemasonry, the tax will be aggravated!"

Fan Hongdao said impatiently: "Then why don't you join the Freemasonry? There is no harm in joining, what is there to complain about?"

"Who said there is no other harm?" Sun Chaofeng had not finished speaking, "Mr. Fan doesn't know, in addition to Miss Zhang, there is also the Zhu Gongzi you introduced in addition to the people who are preparing to build the alliance in the block!"

"What's wrong with her?" Fan Hongdao could only continue to ask.

Sun Chaofeng replied: "Zhu Gongzi also bought the store property, and then made great fanfare to build the alliance, and her name over there is Hongxing Society!"

Poof! Fan Hongdao once again squirted tea all over the sky, and the name Hongxing Society was not much different from "Freemasonry".

Sun Chaofeng asked with great concern: "Is Mr. Fan so sick that he can't even drink water?"

Fan Hongdao coughed a few times, "It's okay, it's okay! I'll listen to you." ”

Sun Chaofeng continued to introduce the situation: "It seems that Zhu Gongzi has a very close relationship with the county government of Daxing County, and she also announced that all merchants who join the Hongxing Society can be exempted from apportionment and errands!"

Compared with other places, the biggest burden of merchants in Beijing is not only taxes, but also a variety of assessments, involving a lot of manpower and material resources.

After all, this is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there are countless yamen, large and small, and many affairs need to be spent by the county government of Jingxian County. The county government of Jingxian County has to levy manpower and material resources from the people, and the merchants in various commercial districts have become the key objects of apportionment. If this apportionment can be reduced, it will of course be a great thing for the merchants.

"It doesn't sound bad, but then?" Fan Hongdao gradually felt something.

Sure enough, I heard Sun Chaofeng say again: "Then Zhu Gongzi also let go, and the merchants who refused to join the Hongxing Society would be aggravated by the county government's apportionment of errands!"

Fan Hongdao finally understood why Miss Zhang and Lord Zhu were not clever and arrogant figures, nor were they people who could not create good things, but they would make the merchants sad!

The key is that the two have a very strong sense of competition, a strong sense of confrontation, and both have an exclusive punitive threat to the business.

If you join Miss Zhang's side, it is true that you will get benefits from the tax department, but you may be under heavy pressure from the county government; if you join the county lord's side, the county government will naturally be easy to talk to, but it may be difficult for the tax department.

Businessmen are generally reluctant to cause trouble, but no matter which side they join, they may bring unknown trouble to themselves, so Sun Chaofeng complained bitterly.

Freemasonry vs. Hongxing Society, this team is very difficult to stand. What's even more bitter is that Sun Chaofeng doesn't seem to have much right not to stand in line, if he doesn't stand in line and just watch the excitement, will he be regarded by both sides as a common enemy who refuses to obey?

Sun Chaofeng finished pouring his bitter water, and finally begged Fan Hongdao: "This dead knot can only be untied by Mr. Fan, so the old man implores, Mr. Fan, come back quickly!"

Fan Hongdao politely refused again: "I have already left the neighborhood outside Chongwenmen, and I will no longer participate in these things in the future, so Sun Yuanwai should invite another Gao Ming!"

Yang Chaofeng, who had hired Fan Hongdao to be Mr. Xixi for two days, also persuaded: "Whether it is Miss Zhang or Zhu Gongzi, it seems that Mr. Fan and you have led it in, who else can solve this problem besides you? We just want to invite another Gao Ming, but we can't find anyone to come, and only you can come and go." ”

Once you meddle in this matter, you have to deal with those two uneasy women, every time I think of this, Fan Hongdao has a headache or a headache. And Fan Hongdao has not dissipated this breath in his heart, and he doesn't want to have any contact with those two women at present.

"I'm sorry, I made cruel words in front of the two of them, leave forever, and never care about their affairs. How can a man go back on his word? Therefore you should not persuade again, but you have already made up your mind!"

Fan Hongdao's tone was very firm, not a false prevarication, but a real unwillingness to take care of this matter. Sun Chaofeng was a little anxious, and shouted in his mouth: "Mr. Fan doesn't come out of the mountain, I am desperate!"

The rest of the surrounding merchants shouted together: "Mr. Fan doesn't come out of the mountain, I am desperate!"

The classmates of Guozijian who came with Fan Hongdao were dumbfounded, how did this Fan Hongdao get mixed up, and he was regarded as the backbone of these "rich people".

If they were respected and asked for in this way, in such an atmosphere, they would have agreed a long time ago. But Fan Hongdao sighed, and still refused: "In the lower district, I am a humble Confucian, but I really have more than enough heart and not enough strength!"