Shen Xi stayed at Hui Niang's place until the second half of the night, and now that the matter was dealt with, he should go back, and Hui Niang personally sent him to the gate of the courtyard.

Shen Xi actually had an idea in his heart, if he did business alone, it would be easy for the ruffians and hooligans and the people of the government to interfere. It's naturally good to have a good relationship with black and white forces in addition to business, but if you can cultivate your own strength, that's the best choice.

But Hui Niang is a female streamer in the end, and she lacks enough appeal, and Shen Xi is too young to take on it, so she can only think of a way to see how to develop her connections and power on the basis of future business income.

The next day, Hui Niang told Zhou that the printing workshop might be troubled by the bookstore, but did not mention that Shen Xi had gone to discuss with her late at night.

Zhou was very worried when he found out, but Hui Niang had a plan in her heart and behaved calmly.

Following Shen Xi's instructions, Hui Niang made arrangements for the printing workshop, and the raw materials stored in the Sanjin courtyard and the semi-finished and finished products of the color New Year paintings were secretly moved elsewhere. Every day at sunset and dusk, Shen Mingjun led people to transport the colorful New Year pictures printed that day to the new warehouse for storage.

This was done in order to minimize the damage in the event of damage to the printing workshop.

Hui Niang's second integration of the pharmacy chamber of commerce is also in full swing, she summoned the owners and shopkeepers of all the pharmacy stores in Tingzhou Fucheng and the remaining seven counties, including Ninghua County, and took out the articles of association listed by Shen Xi before, so that the proprietors and shopkeepers of each pharmacy could circulate and discuss.

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Because Shen Xi's charter is mainly based on the monopoly and exclusivity of the Chamber of Commerce, advocating that the Chamber of Commerce colleagues should be unanimous with the outside world, share the interests and advance and retreat together, joining the Chamber of Commerce can not only prevent peers from dumping against each other, but also prevent such things as printing workshops being disrupted.

After reading the articles of association, the proprietors and shopkeepers of the various pharmacies agreed with it, but they were quite skeptical about the money and the lease of the site for the construction of the main hall of the chamber of commerce, and they thought it was a useless expense.

Hui Niang put forward her opinion on this unhurriedly, the venue of the main hall of the chamber of commerce was rented by her first, and even the daily expenses of the main hall were provided by her in the first year, because the venue does not need to be placed in a conspicuous downtown area, and it does not cost a few dollars.

As the big boss of the Chamber of Commerce, Hui Niang introduced a voting system of minority obedience to the majority and set up a "Church of Elders", not to say that every pharmacy has the same right to speak in the Chamber of Commerce, but to elect members of the "Elder Hall" according to the amount of money paid by each in the Chamber of Commerce, plus recommendation and election.

In addition to Hui Niang's business conversation person status is fixed, the "Elder Hall" is elected once a year, once a half a year, and if the elders cannot get more than half of the votes in the evaluation, the elders will be removed from their positions, and the "Elder Hall" will not elect new elders, and will be re-elected at the end of the year.

The "Hall of Elders" operates in full accordance with the constitution of the Chamber of Commerce designated by Shen Xi, and the elders not only have the decision-making power over major matters of the Chamber of Commerce, but also can be responsible for external negotiation affairs as representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, and their status is respected.

Under the premise that the Chamber of Commerce is only involved in the pharmacy industry, the role of the elders is mainly reflected in voting on the price increase and price reduction of medicinal materials, as well as negotiating with the purchase of medicinal materials merchants, which is equivalent to controlling the price of medicinal materials in the entire Tingzhou Prefecture.

The proprietors and shopkeepers of the various pharmacies heard that entering the "Hall of Elders" had such great benefits, so they naturally wanted to join, anyway, according to Hui Niang, in the first year, even the people of the Hall of Elders did not have to pay extra dues.

The "Hall of Elders" was originally set at six people, plus Hui Niang, who is the head of the Chamber of Commerce, is equivalent to seven people voting in case of trouble, and Hui Niang has a veto power, but even if her proposal is not approved by half of the Elder Hall, it cannot be passed, but this has fully guaranteed Hui Niang's status in the Chamber of Commerce.

Although the proprietors and shopkeepers of the various pharmacies were extremely enthusiastic about the position of elders, they did not see clearly the huge energy that the elders of the Chamber of Commerce possessed in the future, so at first only seven or eight people proposed to be willing to serve as elders.

Hui Niang only took three days to do the real sense of the Chamber of Commerce big boss position, she immediately found someone to rent a place, located in the west of the city in a two-story small building not far from the mouth of a private alley, although the place is remote and not very spacious, but the rent is cheap, Hui Niang set the address of the Chamber of Commerce headquarters, immediately began to go to the relationship between the government, through the Chamber of Commerce contacts to the prefect Yamen gifts.

The reason why I didn't take the road of Changting County Ya is that the county government and the government are in the same city, even if the relationship between the county government is good, if the government office comes down with an official document, it is possible to turn around and not admit it. On the contrary, as long as the relationship with the government is good, even if there are any small actions on the county government's side, the government can also suppress it.

Therefore, people in this period have a very appropriate saying, "Three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo", which means that the county seat and the prefecture or the provincial capital are in the same county, that is, the county and the prefect or governor are in the same city, and every move of the county must be restrained, "exhausted", and there is no prestige of "parental officials" at all.

The original intention of the establishment of the chamber of commerce was mainly to change the status quo of businessmen who were rich but had low social status. After some efforts, although Hui Niang couldn't contact the prefect, she finally stuffed money in Tongzhi and Tongju, and the two adults could be regarded as giving face, and greeted the official office, the officials and officials, households, and ceremonial houses, and the chamber of commerce was officially named in the Tingzhou Mansion.

Although this move is of little practical significance, it makes the people of the Chamber of Commerce feel that Hui Niang's ability to do things is extraordinary, and has won official support for the Chamber of Commerce.

On the second day of the lunar month, Hui Niang handled the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce in the main hall, hired a guest to be responsible for entertaining guests, and set up a few rooms on the second floor as a residence for businessmen.

That is, on the afternoon of this day, the ruffians and hooligans found by the bookstore in the city went to the printing workshop to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, destroyed a batch of New Year's pictures that were being printed in the workshop, snatched a batch, and even removed a lot of tools.

Fortunately, Hui Niang had already confessed, and after the incident, Shen Mingjun did not bring people to fight with these people, but covered the retreat of the female workers, which avoided casualties.

After all, it is the best place in the city, and the gangsters did not dare to make a big fuss, but only smashed and robbed it, and did not set it on fire.

After Hui Niang asked about the situation, she hurriedly took Zhou and Shen Xi over to check the situation, and finally totaled, the loss seemed to be quite serious at first glance, most of the equipment and processing materials were damaged, and the rest came from the premium of the finished color New Year paintings, but if the real loss was less than ten taels of silver according to the cost, it was completely within the acceptable range.

was smashed and robbed, even if she was mentally prepared, Hui Niang was still angry, and said hatefully: "Go and report to the official." ”

With Hui Niang's instructions, Shen Mingjun went to the Changting County Ya, and after half an hour, the county Ya sent a few errands.

In recent years, the family of officials and bandits, the ruffians and hooligans in the city also have a certain background in the government, and the county government is not very concerned.

When the county government officials left, Hui Niang originally wanted to go to the government for help, but was stopped by Shen Xi.

Although the government can indeed manage the affairs of the county government on the surface, in the final analysis, the government will not easily interfere in the affairs of the county government, if the county government is offended because of this, it will come to find trouble every day in the future, and it will be impossible to go to the government office for everything. At that time, it will not be borrowed from the government, but it will affect the prestige of the chamber of commerce.

In the printing workshop, everyone was helpless, silent, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing. Shen Xi pulled Hui Niang's sleeve and made a look, and Hui Niang nodded knowingly.

In the evening, when it was the third watch in the middle of the night, Shen Xi sneaked to the pharmacy and discussed things with Hui Niang in her room.

“…… Xiaolang, you said that the Chamber of Commerce is now integrated, but it is in vain to report the matter to the Yamen, how can it be good? If they dump our New Year's pictures at a low price, who will come to buy our goods? Hui Niang asked eagerly. She is anxious, and she always likes to think about things in the worst way, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that the future is bleak.

Shen Xi said coldly: "I'm afraid that they won't make a thief...... If they blatantly take out colorful New Year paintings and sell them at a low price to disrupt the market, then the Chamber of Commerce is vegetarian? ”

Hui Niang looked at Shen Xi puzzled: "Xiaolang, you can be more clear, my aunt doesn't understand what you mean." ”

Shen Xi said confidently: "If they sell the New Year's paintings, you will increase the price of medicinal materials through the Chamber of Commerce, and post a notice, saying that because the bookstores in the city are unscrupulous, they have to fight back by increasing the price of medicinal materials." When the time comes, in order to stabilize prices, the government will definitely come forward to make peace. ”

Hui Niang was a little stunned: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate to go against the government so blatantly." ”

"Aunt, this kind of thing must not be retreated, we are not facing the government head-on, we are targeting those bookstores, there are thieves on the market, everyone knows that the people in the bookstore did it, why can't we fight back?"

Hui Niang gritted her teeth: "Okay, anyway, we have been prepared, and there are not many New Year's paintings that have been robbed, if they really want to do this, then come with them." ”

Hui Niang finally made up her mind to fight the bookstore in the city to the end.

The next day, thieves' New Year's pictures appeared in various bookstores in the city, and the price was only 20 wen, which was clearly to lower the price. Because it has not yet reached the end of the year, the market of New Year's paintings on the market is lukewarm, as soon as this batch of New Year's paintings appeared, many small traders saw that the retail price was far lower than the wholesale price, and immediately proposed to return it.

Originally, it was basically impossible to return goods in this era, but Hui Niang was kind-hearted and gritted her teeth and should bear it, but the depreciation expense of five cents was deducted for each sheet, which was actually to recover the cost, so that even if it was rotten in your hands, there was no loss.

But in the eyes of those bookstore shopkeepers, their conspiracy succeeded, and people who don't know how to do it think that since the cost of ordinary black and white New Year's pictures is four or five yuan, this kind of exquisite New Year's pictures with color, gilt and powder, how can the cost be more than twenty yuan, they snatched a batch, plus the number of printing workshops returned to the market, it is enough for the printing workshops to close down because they can't make ends meet, and they can get the technology in their hands when they turn back.

But these people obviously greatly overestimate the cost of mass printing of color New Year's pictures, back and forth, the printing workshop has no loss at all, but the cheap color New Year's pictures on the market are selling less and less.

Subsequently, according to Shen Xi's proposal, the "Elder Hall" of the Pharmacy Chamber of Commerce decided to increase the price of all medicinal materials in the province after discussion, and widely announced that it was the bookstore in the city that bullied people and jointly suppressed the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce had no choice but to fight back.

At present, although the Chamber of Commerce is only limited to the pharmacy industry, the purpose of the Chamber of Commerce is to protect its members and advance and retreat together as soon as they join the Chamber of Commerce.

For the pharmacies in the eight counties of the province that do not do well, the price increase is a good thing, and the reason why you didn't dare to rise before was because you didn't go up if others didn't rise, and you definitely couldn't sell it, so you could only take the road of small profits and quick turnover. But now the Chamber of Commerce has come forward, and it will rise together, and if you have the ability, don't get sick, otherwise as long as it is in Tingzhou Mansion, all pharmacies will be at this price.

Medicinal materials are the necessities of the people, and after the price increase, the people's resentment boiled, and the public opinion of the pharmacy chamber of commerce did a good job, so that the people passed on the contradictions to those unscrupulous bookstores.

Approaching the end of the year, the government knows that public opinion is boiling and cannot do nothing, otherwise the officials who inspect the people's livelihood and rumors will report local matters to the court, and the officials will cut off the road to promotion.

In particular, the remaining seven counties except for Changting County, the prefecture, were purely affected by the pond fish, and immediately reported the matter back to the government government, which gave the government an excuse to intervene in the incident.

In order to quickly stabilize the price of medicine and relieve the people's complaints, with the consent of the prefect, the Tingzhou Prefecture and the general judge hurriedly convened the Changting County Order for consultation.

It was obvious that those bookstores in the city were going to provoke others first, but it was impossible for the county government to admit that they had not acted, so they called the shopkeepers of each bookstore to sign a letter of commitment not to infringe on the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce, and at the same time privately compensated Lu Sun's printing workshop for its losses.

The printing workshop was smashed, and the loss was less than ten taels of silver, but the compensation received back was as much as forty taels. It was also the two levels of government that came forward, and those bookstore managers had to suffer this dumb loss.

After receiving compensation, Hui Niang was equivalent to obtaining the endorsement of the government, so she promised to lower the price of medicinal materials, and the matter came to an end temporarily.

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