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Two days later, Xiao Zhenlei sent someone to buy himself a yard in Nanshi as a residence in Nanshi, and at the same time bought a few stores in the county town to specialize in marketing Pegasus brand bicycles and rickshaws produced by Zhenhua Company. Second, riding comfortably, labor-saving, now from the foreigners or the Oriental bought bicycle riding is not in a hurry, the so-called not in a hurry is to pedal the bicycle speed is always not fast, but Zhenhua company's bicycle riding is not only comfortable and easy and very fast, just like the role of many bicycles in later generations has mostly been changed by the means of transportation to the tools of physical exercise; Third, the price is cheap, the bicycles and rickshaws produced by Zhenhua Company are about 10% cheaper than those imported from the West and the East; Fourth, Pegasus bicycles and rickshaws are domestic products, and many people support domestic products during this period, and in the case of the same price and performance, the citizens of Shanghai Tang certainly support domestic products.

In addition to several franchised bicycle shops, Zhenhua company's bicycles and rickshaws also recruit dealers or agents at home and abroad, coupled with the publicity in place and the proper implementation of marketing strategies, the products quickly opened up sales, first in Shanghai * Beach hit two hits, and then the products are sold at home and abroad.

Xiao Zhenlei has a store in the county seat and a house in Nanshi, which means that he has an industry in Shanghai. And the industry is not small, of course, there is a reason to establish a team for themselves to negotiate to protect the safety of their lives and property. For this. He was going to go to see Li Pingshu, the chief director of the Chengxiang Waiwai Autonomous Office, hoping that Li Pingshu would agree to the business group he had formed to join the Nanshi Chamber of Commerce.

Since the Qing court promulgated the "Charters of Local Autonomy in Towns and Townships". The "Regulations on Local Autonomy in Towns and Townships" stipulates that the seat of the government is the city, and the rest of the cities, towns, villages, and tunji with a population of more than 50,000 are towns, and those with a population of less than 50,000 are townships. Towns and townships are local governments. Townships set up councils and township directors, and implement the separation of deliberation and administration. The Township Council is elected from among the voters of the Township and is the deliberative body. The local self-government executive organ of the township is very simple, with only one township director and one township director. The scope of autonomy is mainly for school affairs, public health, roads, agriculture, industry and commerce, charity, public business and self-government funds.

Autonomous offices inside and outside the city are concerned with the exercise of their powers. It has some powers transferred to it by the Qing government, such as civil administration, finance and taxation, public utilities management, business administration, cultural and educational management, police power, judicial power, etc.

Li Pingshu's position is not only the general director of the autonomous office inside and outside the city, he is also promoted to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and concurrently serves as a China expert? Chief Director of Commercial Bank, Wheel? Director of China Merchants Bureau, Jiang? Director of the Suzhou Railway Company. He has successively signed wide? Aventurine? Abundant and new? Ning, then? Xizhi County was later dismissed by the Qing court for supporting the people's struggle against the French imperialists to occupy Guangzhou Bay, and the position of the general director of the Chengxiang Autonomous Office was not the court official of the Qing court, but only the position of the mayor of the town elected by the business people of Shanghai, and there was no establishment of Qing Dynasty officials.

Li Shuping's residence is also in Nanshi, and he also has a mansion in the concession. It's just that he lives in Nanshi most of the time, and none of the rich people on the beach have no villas in the concession these years, and the same is true for Li Pingshu, if there is any trouble, he can hide in the concession at any time. If the Qing court wanted to arrest people, it had to communicate with the concession side, but the concession authorities did not necessarily buy the face of the Qing court, after all, it was impossible for the patrol house to arrest a well-known person who had not committed a crime in the concession. However, Li Pingshu has not yet turned to revolution, so there is no need to worry about the Qing court not working against him.

The carriage soon arrived at the gate of Li Pingshu's residential courtyard. A typical Chinese garden-style house with rockeries and small ponds. There are pavilions and lofts, although they are not big, but they are also considered high-class mansions on this beach.

"As soon as this little brother reported, he said that Xiao Zhenlei of Zhenhua Company asked to see Mr. Li!" Xiao Zhenlei said and handed over his name post.

Zhenhua company's reputation in Shanghai in the past few months is extremely loud, there are very few people who have not heard of it, the Li family and other big families are naturally very well-informed about the outside world, the little guy who guards the door took the name and said very respectfully: "It turned out to be Mr. Xiao, please wait a while, the little one will go and report to the master!" ”

It didn't take long for the little guy to go and return and introduce Xiao Zhenlei to the Li Mansion, and after entering the door, the little guy took Xiao Zhenlei and led the way in front of the gift and soon arrived in the living room.

An old and rich voice came: "Hahaha, isn't this the young Junjie President Xiao who has been in the limelight in Shanghai recently?" The old man has lost his welcome, forgive his sins! ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked up, was it not a formal Li Pingshu standing at the door of the living room? Immediately bowed down: "The old gentleman is too high for me Xiao Zhenlei, just a little trouble, compared with Mr. Li's dominance in Shanghai over the years, it is too far behind, today I take the liberty to disturb, and I hope that the old man Haihan!" ”

Li Pingshu smiled and waved his hand: "Yes, we will not be humble and praise each other at this door, if you don't dislike it, the old man will be big, how about calling you Xiao Xian's nephew?" ”

When Xiao Zhenlei heard it, there was such a good thing? This is a curiosity, and he immediately gladly responded: "That kid is climbing, Shibo is on top, and he is worshiped by the little nephew!" ”

"Hahaha, okay, the virtuous nephew came in with the old man to drink tea!"

"Shibo, please!"

An old man and a young man immediately entered the living room and sat down, and before the two of them could speak, a maid dressed in a floral cloth dress and wearing two twist whips came in with a tea tray and served tea to the two.

After Li Pingshu made a gesture to invite Xiao Zhenlei to drink tea, he took the teacup and opened the lid and took two sips, put down the teacup and asked, "I heard that the virtuous nephew recently bought a house here in Nanshi, and we will become neighbors from now on!" In the future, we will have to communicate more! ”

Xiao Zhenlei was drinking tea. Hearing this, he hurriedly put down the teacup and said: "What Shibo said is very true, as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors." It's also very convenient to take care of each other! ”

"In the past two days, the old man still wanted to go to your side to sit, but he didn't expect you to come to the door first. That's right. I heard that the bicycles and rickshaws produced by your Zhenhua company are selling very well? Even foreigners have placed orders with your Zhenhua company? ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "Zhenhua Company has just started, and the sales are okay for the time being. ”

Li Pingshu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said happily: "Okay, virtuous nephew, you are good at what you said, you are young but not anxious, calm and capable, no wonder you can support such a large family business." And you just said that the sentence 'everyone makes a fortune together' is too good, business is an industry that promotes the circulation of commodity economy, if everyone else has no money, how can businessmen make money from others? You can only make money if everyone has money."

"Shibo has extraordinary knowledge, it seems that the kid will have to learn from Shibo in the future!" Xiao Zhenlei didn't expect that the old gentleman in the old society in front of him would have such insight in the economy, it seems that he really can't underestimate the ancients in the future, presumably compared to this old gentleman, he also figured out that guò himself played a certain role in driving the economy of Shanghai Tang, but it had no effect due to the general environment.

Then the two chatted for a while. The chat was very happy, and when a cup of tea was almost drunk, Li Pingshu asked: "The virtuous nephew came to the old man this time, not just to visit the old man, right?" Is there something wrong? ”

Xiao Zhenlei saw Li Shuping and asked. Immediately put down the teacup and said: "Shibo's eyes are like torches, the kid does have another thing to do today, you have a real estate in the kid in Nanshi." He bought six shops in the county town and is selling bicycles and rickshaws, and the kid is also preparing to open a few restaurants. To open a garment factory and a textile factory in Nanshi, such a large industry cannot be cared for without a hospital. Therefore, I set up a small merchant group by myself, the number of people is about 100 people, and there are no weapons for the time being, I want to apply to Shi Bo to join my business group to join the Nanshi Business Group Guild, I don't know what Shi Bo thinks? ”

Li Pingshu didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to come over to talk about this matter, it doesn't matter to him, the Nanshi Chamber of Commerce is not an informal government armed organization, but a self-defense group of non-governmental organizations, but the government also recognizes it, and most of the weapons and ammunition of the business group are still allocated by the government.

Before the Qing court banned smoking halls in Huajie, the government was afraid of smoker riots, so it asked the five sports clubs to send personnel to maintain local order, so the five groups organized temporary business groups, set up headquarters, and went out to defend in sections. At that time, the people in charge were Li Pingshu, the general director of the city autonomous office, Zeng Shaoqing, a business leader, and others. Before long, the five groups were recombined to form the Chamber of Commerce, in order to centralize power and command well. Soon every dusk in Hunan District, there are thugs on the street to kill people and steal goods, called "picking lanterns", passing by the business travelers are rarely vigilant, often robbed, personnel also suffer heavy losses, so the government resumed business and asked the members of the merchant group to arm the defense, and revealed the thoroughfare, if there are bandits who dare to resist the merchant group, they are allowed to be killed. The merchant groups have repeatedly worked tirelessly to serve the local government, and have won the trust of the government. So Shanghai Daotai asked the governor of Liangjiang to allocate 120 79 rifles and 5,000 rounds of ammunition produced by the Hanyang Arsenal for the defense of the merchant group, and the foundation of the merchant group was so determined, but in the past two years, the surrounding area of Shanghai Tang City was relatively stable, and there was a lack of guns and ammunition, so the merchant group also lacked training, and the personnel gradually became lazy and almost useless.

Li Pingshu said with a smile: "This is a trivial matter, the merchant group of the virtuous nephew wants to join the merchant association, then the strength of the merchant group is stronger, in recent years, foreigners have deceived me in the Qing Dynasty, in order to safeguard the interests of my Chinese businessmen, the strength of the merchant association is the stronger the better, the merchant group is no problem to join, but this weapon is not easy to solve, the first two years of the government allocated 120 guns and 5000 bullets, to now the guns are more damaged, more than half of them are unusable, and there are few bullets left, If you apply to the government for allocation, even if Lord Cai agrees, I don't know what year and month it will be when the allocation is made! ”

Xiao Zhenlei didn't necessarily have to distribute weapons and ammunition to his people in the Merchant Guild, nor did he expect the government to allocate weapons and ammunition, his purpose was only to mix his own people in the ranks of the Merchant Guild and grasp the actual command of the merchant group's armed forces in his own hands.

Xiao Zhenlei said: "It's okay, just join the business group!" After speaking, the topic changed: "Shibo, in fact, I think we should try our best to equip the members of the merchant group with weapons and ammunition as soon as possible, if the government cannot allocate it for the time being, we can raise funds to buy weapons and ammunition from foreigners to equip the armed personnel of the merchant group, as long as the government agrees!" ”

Li Pingshu was shocked and asked, "Why did the virtuous nephew say that?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei arched his hand and said: "Shibo must have known about the fact that the revolutionary party attacked the Qing army escort team and the revolutionary party robbed the law field in the county town a few days ago, right?" In the past two years, the revolutionary party has become more and more violent, and the trouble has become bigger and bigger, and our revolutionary party wants to create a rebellion against the Qing court, and we have nothing to do with it, nor do we businessmen, but looking at the strength they showed last time, it is really too scary, if they get into trouble, won't it have a great impact on our business and industry? If some soldiers burst into our homes or factories without authorization, looting or killing people and setting fires, wouldn't the consequences be unimaginable? We don't care what happens to them, but we businessmen can't afford to have the strength to protect ourselves and our industry, right? Therefore, I think we should do our best to buy all the weapons and ammunition for the armed men of the merchant group, and then select competent men to conduct strict training for them, strengthen their combat effectiveness, and ensure that they do not defect when the revolutionary party rises up! ”

Li Pingshu listened to Xiao Zhenlei's words, the more he listened, the more worried he became, and the more he listened, the more scared he became, in fact, this is also Xiao Zhenlei is alarmist, in fact, it is not so strict at all, but Xiao Zhenlei did not exaggerate too much, at least the revolutionary party's many uprisings were carried out by the army that opposed the Qing court, these people's good and bad are uneven, as soon as they hear about the rebellion, they must be robbing money, food, and women, who can guarantee that the revolutionary party will not rush into the shops or factories to kill people, set fire and loot when they get up?

"It's not unreasonable for the virtuous nephew, it seems that I'm going to convene the directors of the Chamber of Commerce Guild to discuss and discuss!" Li Pingshu said and thought about it, and immediately said: "Just tomorrow morning, I will inform the other council directors, since the business group of the virtuous nephew has also joined, then you are also a council director, and you will come to participate tomorrow!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei arched his hand and smiled: "Okay, the kid will come over early tomorrow morning!" (The novel "Shanghai 1909" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......) R1292