The so-called guild hall refers to the merchant association established in a different place, which can be used as a trading place or a guest house, and also has the function of exchanging information, anyway, it serves fellow businessmen.

But the Quzhou Guild Hall has a reputation. It is said to be the "thoroughfare of the four provinces", and the "four provinces" are Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, and Fujian Province. In the immature era of shipping, geographical location is very important, so people pay more attention to the four words "four provinces", of course, Quzhou Hall is also the largest hall in Jin County, some business activities are also borrowed for a venue, everyone is happy to see the lively.

At this moment, the hall is holding a "recruitment meeting" activity, and Zhang Yingquan and Zhang Hengshan are just in time.

The so-called "recruitment meeting" is a small business gathering that has risen in Jinxian County in the past two years, through the so-called talent competition of rising stars in the business world, with the way of open competition to attract merchants and citizens from the north and south to watch, the actual advertising.

The outstanding refer to the mode of lifting people, and hang flowers at the door of the hall to turn around, and the picture is lively. As for the participants, they are eclectic, the county's merchants, foreign businessmen, as long as you want, Tongsheng, Xiucai. In fact, it has nothing to do with recruitment, and it is more appropriate to say that the selection of talents is more appropriate.

Last year's "head" was born after a businessman in this county, and since then, he has been born because of his strength in the "Recruitment Club", and he has immediately become a small shopkeeper with a semicolon.

The requirements of the "competition" are very relaxed, there are more than a dozen tables in the middle of the field in front of the door, there is pen and paper on them, the participants themselves go forward to take what they need, just stand in the air, by Mr. out of the question, just the competition on the line, you can withdraw at any time if you want to retreat, you can also go on again, when others can't answer, you can also insert it outside the circle to make up the answer, after answering the business name, who is the surname.

This is a product placement campaign, and of course, the most popular answer is "head".

When Zhang Yingquan arrived, the first question in the venue was not over, competing for the addition and subtraction of abacus, and an old gentleman quickly reported the number, how much in and out, continuously, only listening to the crackling sound of abacus beads. After a while, several participants reported to answer the question, and two people answered correctly.

"Li Zhengqian Qian Zhuang guy Qin XX, correct! Li Jiaqu Tong Bu Apprentice Chapter XX, correct! ”

The Qing Dynasty inherited the business pattern of the past dynasties, no matter how big or small the business, the internal personnel positions are similar, there are: the owner, the big shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, the hall official, the buddy, the apprentice, most of the people who come here are the descendants below the shopkeeper, the younger generation, and everyone has to see the excitement.

"The second question, a certain firm enters iron ingots, neatly stacked them into square piles, with 79 ingots in a long row, 71 ingots in a wide row, and 70 layers in a high base, how many ingots are there in total?"

Isn't that multiplication? It's good, nineteen get nine, seven seven forty-nine: "Hmm! I'll go up and try it. ”

"Wow!"

Zhang Yingquan strode forward: "Count me in!" ”

"With abacus? Or is it a calculation? Please choose for yourself"

"Pen count!"

attracted a lot of white eyes, last year there was a two hundred and five, on the field painted a pig's head, was bombed off.

In fact, Zhang Yingquan had already calculated half of it in his heart, four thousand nine hundred and nine multiplied by seventy, he took out a charcoal pen and calculated on paper, and soon stopped counting: "Three hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred and thirty yuan." ”

At this time, the abacus is still playing, multiplication is not addition, and the abacus is much more difficult.

"That's right!"

When the word "correct" is heard, the others stop and throw in the towel.

"Please sing the treasure number, your surname?"

"Zhang Shao shopkeeper of Zhangjia Iron Bank" Zhang Hengshan sang first, and there was a special person on the sidelines to record that this Zhangjia Iron Company was actually the name of the Zhan family's goods store.

"Here's a question!"

Zhang Hengshan made a gesture to continue, and if he continued, he would continue to see if this Quzhou Hall had the ability to stump Young Master Ben.

"A merchant enters 70 catties of goods per piece, 60 catties of goods per piece of B goods, a number of each, mixed packages when delivery, weighs a total of 1,799 catties, and a total of 23 points, asks how much A and B each send? Inventory adjustments are not considered. ”

Binary equations, too pediatric, the level of junior high school students in later generations.

"11 pieces of goods A, 12 pieces of goods B"

"Hey!" It was too fast, Zhang Hengshan shouted excitedly.

The old gentleman was a little surprised, and even reported many questions, and was answered by this young shopkeeper for the first time, which was a bit of a "kick out of the hall" meaning, the old gentleman couldn't hold back the stubble, anxious, and the other people were all looking at the position, because in front of the masters, it was in vain to use their brains.

"Let's have a shorthand competition! I'll report to everyone to remember, you can remember it in any way, and finally repeat it to see who is right. Begin! ”

“·￥￥%￥……”

How much noodles, how much rice, how much oil, how much cloth, a hammer in the east, a stick in the west, it seems to be a library, too much memorization, too fast notes, Zhang Yingquan simply replaced it with the initials of Pinyin in later generations, wrote Arabic numerals, plus charcoal, writing paper, and kept up, other people are pitiful, stop writing early, this is shorthand? The whole pit person, but who is the pit, everyone looked at Zhang Yingquan together.

The old gentleman is proud, he is not smarter than you, let's play extreme games, you don't have three heads and six arms, right? See if you can keep up this time? I didn't want to take a look, I was confused, what did I write? There are earthworms, there are tadpoles, I can't see it.

"Shhh This is also special, but can you pronounce this word? ”

"Yes! M337J Y2387D ............" word for word.

"God!"

At this time, a young man stood in front of the stage and directly pointed at Zhang Yingquan, "Let me try a question?" ”

This seems to have become a bully of the little shopkeeper in Quzhou Hall, and the other participants seem to have become spectators watching the excitement, Zhang Hengshan has no bottom in his heart, is it time to quit? Zhang Yingquan shook his head.

"I learned a set of English letters some time ago, I read them out, see if you can remember them?"

"......" is not mistaken?

"Listen! A b c d e f g h i j k Okay! Do you repeat it and see how much you can remember? ”

Everyone is not stupid, this is too bad, these strange tones, all of them are not next to each other, I don't know how this sound came out, I can't remember, I can't write, it's difficult to learn the tongue for a while, isn't this a trick?

"Do I start with K, or do I start with K and go back?"

"You know foreign languages?"

"......" must have taken the wrong medicine!

"We have only been back from Nanyang for a short time." Zhang Hengshan answered.

"Disrespectful, disrespectful!"

"No wonder!"

"I prepared a lot of questions, but I didn't expect it to be too shallow, so I changed it to an interesting quiz question." Another middle-aged man, with the temperament of a shopkeeper, came to the stage with a smile.

"Clever question, listen well, a woman with a child, someone on the way asked, 'Is this your mother?' The child replied, 'Yes,' and asked the woman, 'Is this your son?' Replying 'no', please, their relationship? ”

"It's a girl!" Isn't it just a brain teaser? Zhang Yingquan lost interest.

"Good! Yesterday, I got a question occasionally, I don't understand, please ask! It is said that there are five peaches in the blue seed, and five people divide it, but there is another one in the blue seed, how to explain it? ”

"What a stupid! The last person didn't catch the peach, and directly took the blue seed away. ”

"Hahaha" everyone laughed.

"Why don't I come up with a question, how about everyone having fun?" Zhang Yingquan shouted at the onlookers.

"Good!" The crowd is on the rise.

"There's a word that everybody mispronounces, do you know what it is?"

"Is there such a word?"

"And ...... word?"

"Wrong is wrong! What's there to think about? "A boy with a rammer, almost dancing and shouting.

"It's a 'typo'!" All had an epiphany.

"Huh? The second rammer is illiterate, how can he read a typo? ”

In this world, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts; On the contrary, the fool's gibberish is once in a while.

"Of course the literate know what is wrong, but how can the illiterate know what is wrong?"

"Hahaha" crowd music.

This "recruitment meeting" is considered a flow meeting, this is not a kicking hall, what is a kicking hall? In the market, a post-generation elite is rising, there are few shopkeepers in Zhangjia Tiexing outside the city, small proprietors in Zhan's goods stores, and small businesses are talented!