"Warmly celebrate the convening of the Beijing Coal Merchants Conference!"

On the sixth day of the lunar month, in front of the Songhe Tower, a long red silk slogan was hung.

"Who wants to pay attention to this?"

"Who knows, it's fresh......"

"Everyone, I'm sorry, Songhe Tower is closed to the public today." The guys in Songhelou all wore new clothes with a red ribbon pinned to their chests, and words were written on them.

"Come on the fun, feel at home!"

Although it is a bit nondescript, for the coal boss who is familiar with some pen and ink, it looks very comfortable.

"Shopkeeper Jiang is here, please inside!" Jiang Feng personally stood at the door to greet the shopkeeper who participated in the conference.

"Shopkeeper Jiang, a little heart, please smile!"

"You're welcome, you're welcome, please come in!"

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After careful selection, Meng Yan chose to send invitations to 36 powerful coal banks in the capital.

However, only 14 companies were confirmed to attend, and some small coal banks said they wanted to participate!

In the end, Meng Yan selected six relatively good coal banks.

In this way, with the addition of Meng's Coal Bank, there are 21 coal companies attending the first Beijing Coal Merchants Conference!

As for those who were invited to not attend, or who were still hesitating to wait and see, what were they thinking in their hearts, Meng Yan didn't want to care, and he couldn't care about it!

Meng Yan calculated, with the current 21 coal banks plus some small coal banks willing to join, the coal supply under his control accounts for about 30% of the market share!

Although 70 percent is not one of them, it is enough to form a price alliance that advances and retreats together.

As long as the remaining seventy percent are not united. This alliance will become the largest business alliance in Beijing.

Dominating coal mining and coal prices will have a huge impact on coal mining and coal prices in Xishan.

Of course, there is also a real problem, and that is the issue of mining licenses!

The imperial court was actually opposed to the mining of coal at first, and there was a big reason for this, that is, the problem of feng shui.

It was feared that coal mining would have a huge impact on the feng shui pattern of the capital, which was not conducive to the inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.

The people of this era, from the emperor to the common people, are convinced of this.

But if the Xishan Coal Mine is not mined as fuel, it will not be long before the green mountains and green waters around the capital will become bare!

This is a real problem of strict zhòng!

So. Even though the imperial court expressly did not allow mining. But we still have to stop mining, what if we don't mine, where does the fuel for millions of people in the capital come from?

So the imperial court adopted a tacit attitude, and the consequence of this was. The coal kiln must find a powerful backer. Otherwise. The imperial court's policy changed that day, and these coal kiln bosses were unlucky.

More than 90 percent of the coal kilns in Xishan have the background of the princes and magnates of the capital, and the remaining 10 percent. Those are some people who don't want to die, just find a place, dig a few times, dig coal, continue to dig, and if you can't dig it, change places!

In addition, the imperial court also set up a coal tax supervisor in Xishan, which was also a semi-public permission to mine coal, and these coal tax supervisors were all filled by eunuchs, whose purpose was to collect wealth for the emperor to squander.

Of course, while collecting money for the emperor, they did not forget to make money, and half of the price of coal was actually piled up because of these coal tax supervisors.

If you don't pay a high coal tax, the price of coal could fall by at least a third overall.

A pound of rice and a pound of charcoal, this price is simply outrageous!

Because of this extensive and unmanaged mining, the living environment of coal diggers is very bad, and accidents often occur, and those who collapse in the middle of the digging, are buried, and explode!

A large number of coal diggers are killed and injured every year!

The coal kiln is crudely designed and has almost no safety features.

As for production, it is manual mining without any technical content, and only some large coal kilns use hoisting equipment, of course, from Meng Yan's point of view, it is nothing at all.

Although it is not possible to enter mechanized production overnight, it is still possible to make some standardized production systems and safety improvements.

To put it simply, equipping workers with certain rattan helmets can make them less likely to be injured by falling stones when they are working in the tunnel?

There are also labor protection products such as masks and gloves, which are not expensive, but can play a big role.

Completely squeezing production, first, will reduce the enthusiasm of the workers, second, it will destroy the health of the workers, so that their working life will be reduced, and third, it will accumulate hatred, this kind of thing is not new, every year there are coal kiln workers who can not bear the insults and whipping of the supervisors and rise up to resist and kill.

Most of the people who came to participate in the coal merchant conference today still look at the background of Jinyiwei behind Meng's Coal Bank!

What's more, Jinyiwei also has its own coal kiln in Xishan, and now that the south and north are in the house, Jinyiwei's coal kiln will definitely be integrated together, and there is no problem with the raw materials of Mengji Coal Bank!

There are few people who can stop the rise of Meng Kee Coal Company.

Some well-informed people already know a little about Meng Yan's relationship with Guo Nu, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard!

This is a son-in-law, what is the relationship?

Although Meng Ji Coal Company is still very weak, relying on the development of briquette furnaces and honeycomb coal to open the coal market in the capital, if there is no strong force to protect it, I am afraid that it has already been swallowed by people and there is no bone slag!

If you dare to weigh it with your hands, if you offend Jinyiwei, even if you are in the limelight for a while, it is much easier for people to find you trouble!

This is actually a backstage era!

Those who came today are all agents, that duke, that marquis, the first-line princes are all in real power, the second-line princes are at most idle, and the third- and fourth-tier ones are not to mention, and the profiteering industry of coal is not something they can play.

The Coal Merchants Conference was initiated by Meng Yanti, but he could not attend it in person. Otherwise, it's a broken rule.

However, Meng Yan sent elite soldiers, Jiang Feng, Jiang Xiaodie's brothers and sisters, and Wen Xiaoyu, a new shareholder.

Meng Yan personally designed and transformed the largest room on the second floor of Songhe Tower into a conference room, with a huge oval conference table placed in the center!

There are also two plates of flowers in the middle as decorations, simple, simple, but not elegant. 、

The chairs around the room were specially designed for this meeting, and were personally selected and built by Carpenter Tan and his team of carpenters.

Each attendee had a nameplate in front of them with their name and the coal bank they belonged to.

"Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. Please sit down at your seats! ”

"Lao Jiang, are you here too?"

"Brother Liu is also here, let's take the two positions together, let's go. A piece of the past? ”

"This arrangement is intimate. Look. This sits together and talks, everyone is high and low, okay. Good! ”

"Yes, there is a master behind this Meng's coal shop!"

"It's not just a master, it's just unpredictable!"

A group of maids in colorful jackets walked in with tea in their hands and placed them one by one in front of everyone.

"Please use tea!"

Wu Nong's soft words, sweet as honey, listen to that is called a pleasant ear!

Jiang Feng walked in with his head held high, and half a step behind him was Wen Xiaoyu, who was full of charm, and then Jiang Xiaodie!

Today's protagonist is Jiang Feng, he is the shopkeeper of Meng Ji's coal store hand-picked by Meng Yan, and it is Wen Xiaoyu who cooperates with him, after all, these shopkeepers in Jiang Feng's capital are not familiar with it, but Wen Xiaoyu is different.

In fact, Wen Xiaoyu was here to put Jiang Feng on the line, if it weren't for Meng Yan's inability to appear, he would have gone into battle himself.

As for Jiang Xiaodie, as the second-in-command of Meng Ji Coal Company, she can be regarded as an official appearance today.

Of course, when necessary, you can also help Jiang Feng control the situation!

"Today's coal merchant conference, I heard that the shopkeeper is such a delicate beauty, and he also came to mix with our big business?"

"The little girl is also open to business, as long as she can make money, she can do anything." Wen Xiaoyu smiled and said.

"Really?"

The energy behind Wen Xiaoyu is not small, which is also clear to the shopkeepers here, and she is also involved, which shows that today's coal merchant conference really has some weight.

"The shopkeeper has already invested in our Mengji Coal Bank, accounting for 30% of the shares, and the shopkeeper Wen's shopkeeper will serve as an independent director and marketing director of our Mengji Coal Bank!" Jiang Feng duly threw out the news that Wen Xiaoyu had invested in Mengji Coal Bank.

These shopkeepers and agents were all taken aback, and they turned around and started talking.

"Smell the shopkeeper, is what the shopkeeper Jiang said true?" Jiang Dahai, the big shopkeeper of Fuhai Coal Bank, stood up, hugged his fists, and asked solemnly.

Wen Xiaoyu bowed slightly and nodded: "What General Manager Jiang said is true!" ”

"General Manager Jiang?"

"This is the name of our Meng Ji Coal Company, Jiang Feng is actually the same as you, at best he is a big shopkeeper!"

"The proprietor of Meng Ji Coal Company is the Jinyi Guard, a hundred households of the Jinyi Guard, Meng Yan, who has recently been assassinated by the Tatars?"

"There's nothing to hide from this, Jiang Feng's owner is Lord Meng Yan of the Jinyi Wei Nanya, the Baihu Household!"

"Dare to ask Lord Meng what is the relationship between Lord Meng and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Guo Nu, and Lord Guo?"

"Jiang Mou knows, you have more or less heard some news, and the news you got is correct, our owner did make a marriage contract with the daughter of the Jinyi Guard's command Guo Daren's family, and they will get married soon after the year, and when the time comes, you will have to prepare a congratulatory gift!"

"Congratulatory gifts are naturally indispensable, but will Master Meng invite us to a glass of wine?"

"This ......" Jiang Feng was not easy to answer, after all, he couldn't overstep the lord yet, not to mention that this was Meng Yan's private matter.

"No problem!" Wen Xiaoyu took the words for Jiang Feng.

"Wen shopkeeper can also call the shots?"

"If Lord Meng doesn't invite you to drink, I'll invite you!" Wen Xiaoyu smiled and said.

"It's still refreshing to smell the shopkeeper!"

"Okay, that's the digression, this time the shopkeeper is entrusted by the owner to invite you to this meeting." Jiang Feng sorted out his rhetoric and said, "What is the purpose of convening this meeting, it is not that we Mengji Coal Bank should be the boss of this industry, but to join forces to make a fortune together!" ”

"How to get rich, how to get rich?"

"Our 21 coal banks together account for 30% of the coal sales in the capital, with 583 coal kilns of various types, with a daily output of 600,000 catties of coal, of which more than half of the coal is supplied to the capital ......."

"The price of coal remains high, in addition to the backward technology of our mining, there is also a tax burden is too heavy, which must be very clear to everyone, here I only say that the first benefit of joining our coal association, that is, the coal tax mined by each coal kiln can be reduced by two or three percent!"

"May I ask how the shopkeeper Jiang can ensure that the tax burden will definitely drop?"

"As you know, in fact, only a small half of the taxes collected by the coal tax inspectors are handed over to the inner court, and most of them are intercepted by themselves.

"Can it really come down?"

"What you can't do doesn't mean others can't do it!"

"This second good thing, Meng Ji Coal Guild will transfer the formula and production technology of honeycomb coal to you!"

Hula, the sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground!

When someone heard the news, they were so excited that they almost didn't fall off their chairs. (To be continued......)