After the end of the year, the town of Keelung in Hongmen not only did not fall cold because of this, but seemed to be more prosperous in these days.

A flat boat slowly sailed from the sea, looking at its hull structure and appearance, it was a "Yang Fan type" Western sea ship, and when the sea boat docked steadily at the dock of Keelung Town, the people who got off the boat did not belong to Hongmen.

With the sale of Western-style sea vessels in Hongmen open to the outside world, the boom of Hongmen's "Yang Fan" and "Jiaolong" sea boats has not stopped for a long time.

The trend of Hongmen sea ships has even reached the hands of coastal maritime merchant gangs, and if there are not a few Hongmen Western-style sea ships, they are embarrassed to go out to discuss business with others.

Therefore, the profits earned by Hongmen in shipbuilding even caught up with He Yong's ocean-going trade, and secured the position of one of the most profitable industries in Hongmen in recent years.

"Yo, Boss Chi, it's such a coincidence that you're here today?"

Before the group of people who walked down from the "Yang Fan-style" sea boat walked out of the dock, they were recognized by another group of people and greeted them cordially.

"Oh, it turned out to be Boss Yang, looking at you like this, you didn't come long before me!"

The two seemed to be old acquaintances, and they chatted with each other without introduction.

"Who says it's not, after the end of the year, things in the shop are one after another, and when the arrangement is almost done, I can only come to Keelung Town at this time. Fortunately, there are still two days before the meeting time of our Chamber of Commerce, so we are not late! ”

The person called Boss Yang, named Naixi, is the proprietor of a medium-sized firm in Fujian, and the boss surnamed Chi who dealt with him has a single name and a heavy character, but he is a member of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang firms.

The two came to Keelung Town this time, but they were invited to participate in the year-end dividend meeting of 59 members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

The so-called dividends are naturally dividends for the gold mining in the Luzon Islands in the past two years.

There are too many reasons why we want to get together and pay dividends after a few years, such as the battle with the Spaniards last year, the slow collection speed at the beginning of the gold mine, etc., all of which have made this gathering of many members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce invest in a huge gold mine as soon as the mine is built, and it is only now that the first dividend is distributed.

In order to allow more contact and communication between the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so that everyone can slowly integrate and communicate, Li Tianyang also sent the benefits of dividends directly to the hands of various businesses, and made it like this, inviting many members of the Chamber of Commerce to Keelung Town, everyone can share the joy, and at the same time, the contradictions and disputes of the Chamber of Commerce in the past few years can be sorted out.

As the initiator of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Li Tianyang became the first president of the Chamber of Commerce.

Over the years, driven by interests, the members of the Chamber of Commerce have cooperated with each other privately, although there are also many contradictions, but overall, the positive impact of the last time is more.

For example, in the chamber of commerce, if there are members whose capital turnover is inconvenient and they want to borrow funds, they naturally go to usury such as money banks to borrow in the past, and the interest is distressing, but they have to bow their heads and admit it; But now, under the leadership of Li Tianyang, the proprietor of the meeting, who has sufficient funds, can also act as a borrower, with an interest rate much lower than that of usury, and lend funds to merchants in need to turnover, and no longer have to deal with those usury industries.

Of course, at the beginning, Li Tianyang would take the lead in doing this, in fact, it was also due to the inconvenience of Hongmen's own capital turnover, so he had this idea, but after the introduction of this initiative in the Chamber of Commerce, it brought great convenience to all members.

For example, in the procurement of in-demand things such as Jingdezhen porcelain in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, most members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce basically competed with the big giants in the Ming Dynasty because of their limited costs, and there were very few sought-after things that could fall into their hands in the end.

However, with the establishment of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the members of the chamber of commerce have communicated with each other, and in this kind of industry that requires large-scale capital investment, several or more medium-sized firms have joined forces to jointly fund the purchase of a certain kiln or several kilns.

Anyway, with the dividend shares of the Luzon Medan Mine there, everyone doesn't have to worry about what these partners around them will do, and naturally they have more foundation for cooperation.

The two proprietors came to Keelung Town to participate in the dividend conference, and when they were looking for a restaurant to stay, they found that they were really late.

After discovering that many other business owners who had dealt with Zhang or had known for a long time had come to Keelung Town to participate in the council in person like himself, the two of them looked at each other in unison, and sighed in their hearts that the general trend of this chamber of commerce had become a reality.

Li Tianyang is also very happy, these days he has received more than a dozen groups of business owners from all parties who came to visit him, and the proprietors who can let him personally receive them can naturally get Li Tianyang's attention in terms of strength or friendship, otherwise a total of fifty-nine proprietors will visit one by one, then he Li Tianyang can still work hard.

More members of small and medium-sized businesses were handed over by Li Tianyang to An Xianming and Dong Haoran, who were high-level officials of the Hongmen Gate, but it was not a slow treatment of these proprietors.

Many members of the Chamber of Commerce attached more importance to this dividend conference than Li Tianyang expected, even Jirentang had not heard of the real proprietor of the world for a long time, and now Xu Haibin, who was nearly sixty years old, came in person, and even Defuxuan also sent their young proprietor Xu Zhiyou to come.

The entire Keelung Town was particularly lively because of the arrival of this team of nearly sixty merchants, because they didn't expect everyone to attach so much importance to it, and Li Tianyang naturally didn't have the idea of uniformly placing these members in the early stage.

Anyway, there are a lot of restaurants and inns in Keelung Town, and those small and medium-sized business members are all shopkeepers who come to the council, so naturally it is impossible to be willing to spend too much money on food and accommodation, so they have to choose.

Now, it seems that in order to show the strength of their business name, or to have a long face in front of many colleagues, these business proprietors who came first came up to charter an inn or live in a certain green building, which suddenly made the entire Keelung Town stay nervous.

By the time Li Tianyang noticed it, almost all the inns that were not too bad were rounded up by these wealthy business owners, and the latecomers could only consider themselves unlucky, looking for a small inn that barely looked good, or renting it directly in a family's house.

(End of chapter)