According to the original plan, the dividend meeting was held on the 18th day of the lunar month, before which all the members and proprietors of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce had already arrived, and everyone gathered together to make the cement building hall specially built by Hongmen for the Chamber of Commerce extremely noisy.

Until the arrival of Li Tianyang, now at the age of thirty-seven, his face has long lost the immaturity of his youth, and his every move has its own majesty, and the moment he walks in the door, even people who have never met him dare not underestimate his existence.

Many proprietors got up and greeted Li Tianyang, and Li Tianyang also politely replied with the other party, but there was no difference between relatives and strangers because of the size of the other party's business.

In the morning, the representative of the Chamber of Commerce discloses the layout, expenditure and harvest of the year, and in the afternoon, the real money is distributed to the members of the family in the gold mine and money earned in the year.

A day passed like this, and Li Tianyang didn't seem to have any other actions except to listen to the report of the chamber of commerce representatives with everyone and receive dividends, which made the proprietor who accepted Li Tianyang's invitation a little confused.

However, that night, when Li Tianyang's invitation to everyone to visit Bengang the next day was sent to the restaurants and residences where the proprietors stayed, everyone calmed down, and even a little happy.

Compared with Keelung Town, which is the head of foreign trade, even if you have never been here, most of you have heard the shopkeepers below you describe the existence and customs here; However, as the core base camp of Hongmen, although Bengang has a county, it is not easy to enter Bengang to visit.

It is convenient for the natives of the Bengang Alliance to come out and walk, and they only need to register in Bengang to get an identity certificate, but other outsiders who want to enter Bengang need to first submit an application to Keelung Town to explain their reasons for going to Bengang, and then Hongmen will review and investigate whether their identity and conditions match, and finally at least one month later, they will be issued a permit to go.

There are also many conditions for approval, such as staying in Keelung for two years, or having more than 300 taels of fixed assets on Dayuan Island, or being the proprietor or shopkeeper of a certain firm.

Although many people who may really want to collect information about Hongmen have thousands of ways to explore and understand the details of Bengang, Hongmen's restriction on Bengang still shrouds Bengang in a layer of mystery.

This time, Li Tianyang personally invited everyone to Bengang and his party, so it is bound to let everyone see all kinds of new workshops that have been hidden by Hongmen.

I have long heard that the machinery in Hongmen is advanced, but because of the strict defense of Bengang and the secrecy of important buildings, many places in Bengang are now unknown to the outside world.

Everyone boarded the Hongmen "Jiaolong-type" sea ship with great interest, occupying the convenience of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Hongmen sold a simplified version of the "Jiaolong-type", "Yang Fan-type" sea boats, most of which were pocketed by the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and very few of them were left to the outside world, so now the Western-style sea ships in the Nanyang area are no longer as rare as before, but they have also become a common sea ship in the Oriental seas.

However, compared with the sea ships sold to other merchants, the "Pioneer" warship driven by Li Tianyang is a complete version of the "Jiaolong type", in addition to the stronger armor, the warship is densely covered with various caliber artillery, so that some proprietors who rarely know artillery in the business, or know more about artillery, are full of praise.

At the moment of boarding the Bengang wharf, the proprietors who were looking forward to it were somewhat disappointed in the face of Bengang, which was not as prosperous as Keelung Town, and the only thing that stood out was the group of natives with various tattoos on their faces, but they were not much different from ordinary Hanren.

"Everyone has a hard time all the way, take a good rest tonight, and tomorrow I will take you to visit the various industries in my Bengang, which can be regarded as revealing to everyone that I have a family background!"

Li Tianyang's words brought back the slightly disappointed mood of the proprietors present, and they were looking forward to tomorrow's arrangement.

After the night, no one knows whether the other proprietors will be able to sleep peacefully, anyway, when they get up early in the morning of the next day, many proprietors have bloodshot eyes, and their expressions are not too good.

Li Tianyang saw all this in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, and after greeting everyone to have a beautiful breakfast in the canteen, he immediately took everyone to manage Hongmen's many industries in Bengang.

Now in Bengang, many polluting industries have been relocated to Li Tianyang as a support for the development of other tribes in the alliance: such as cement workshops, paper workshops, lime workshops, poultry farms, poultry egg processing factories, etc.

And Bengang still retains some industries, which are more of the heavy industries of this era: the Gun Manufacturing Bureau, the Silk Weaving Bureau, the Steel Casting Bureau, and so on!

The large dam built in a favorable area in the middle reaches of Bengang Creek provided countless kinetic energy for these industrial systems when the steam engine did not reach its practical value.

First of all, it was imprinted in front of the eyes of many members of the Chamber of Commerce, and the gray and solid dam wall that was five or six feet high made people marvel at it, and they couldn't help but be deeply proud of this human creation.

Entering the various factories, the tool work that is completely different from the knowledge of these proprietors makes these proprietors suspect that they have come to a magical place.

Huge steel tools, without anyone to provide kinetic energy, can operate tirelessly, weaving raw silk and cutting steel bars, and soon change their appearance, or become part of a piece of silk, or become the barrel of an arquebus.

Not only is the speed amazing, but also the accuracy of these tools is even more impressive, the artificially woven silk, the barrel of the gun, there will always be defective products due to various human factors, but the objects woven and created by these machines, as long as the operator does not make mistakes, there will basically be no defective products.

In front of everyone's eyes, just a cup of tea, a machine in the weaving bureau successfully weaved a piece of tight silk about half a foot small, which has to be admired for its speed.

Most of us are Jiangnan firms, and they have more or less been exposed to the most advanced weaving machines in Jiangnan, and even the most skilled workers in the Jiangnan area have to spend almost half an hour to weave such a piece of silk.

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