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The next morning, Xiao Zhenlei came to Li Pingshu's mansion early as promised, and chatted with Li Pingshu for more than half an hour while drinking tea.

Soon after, Mu Xiangyao, the director of the autonomous office of the Hunan Shanghai Society and the head of the southern district, Yu Huaizhi, one of the general directors of the autonomous office of the Hubei Shangyu Society, and Li Pingshu established the Wang of the Nanshi Gymnastics Association. Zhen, Dong Wang Xin and others, the autonomous office that initiated the Huxi Gymnastics Association, arrived one after another. The Chinese Merchants' Gymnastics Association, which was initiated by Zhu Baosan, Yu Qiaqing and others, did not send representatives because they had joined the International Chamber of Commerce in the concession two years earlier.

Everyone arrived, everyone sat in the living room, each chair, Li Pingshu sat on the head of the morning main seat, and the others sat on both sides of the wall, Xiao Zhenlei took the initiative to sit on the last seat because he was relatively young and had little experience in the business world.

Li Pingshu pointed at Xiao Zhenlei and said with a smile: "Let me introduce to you financial owners, this is Xiao Zhenlei, chairman of the board of directors and president of Zhenhua Company, who has recently become famous in Shanghai, I think you are no stranger, right?" ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Mu Xiangyao smiled: "Not only is he not a stranger, he is simply too familiar, in the past two months, I have seen him on the front lines of the newspaper every day." Even our family members think that this young man is a good golden beetle son-in-law! ”

"Ahh

Xiao Zhenlei also smiled and stood up amid everyone's laughter. "The kid is new to him, young and shallow. In the future, in the business world, please ask for more support from your predecessors! ”

These people here all have their own industries, their own businesses, not competitors, and Xiao Zhenlei has no conflict of interest, not only is there no conflict of interest, but Xiao Zhenlei's Zhenhua Company can buy many raw materials from the factories and companies of these bigwigs.

Wang Xin, a native of Huxi, said with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's right to carry out, but you also have to take care of your Zhenhua company and take care of our business, I heard that your company's workers are about to break through the 3,000 mark." There is not a small amount of food eaten every day, and it just so happens that the old man has a rice mill under his name, do you buy some rice from the old man's factory? ”

Xiao Zhenlei doesn't matter, everyone has to eat every day, where does Zhenhua Company's staff restaurant buy rice from? You can buy dozens of tons or hundreds of tons from Wang Xin, and he waved his hand: "Since Wang Caidong said so, how can I not do it?" When I go back today, I will let my company's logistics department go to Wang Caidong's rice factory to purchase 1,000 stone and eat it, if it is delicious, the workers like it. Then go buy more! ”

Wang Xin was satisfied, nodded and said, "Okay, you young man is very good, I like it." Hahaha??????".

"Ahem!" Everyone made fun of it, and they heard Li Pingshu cough twice and knew that he had something to say. So they all stopped, and someone looked over. Someone picked up a teacup and drank tea.

I only heard Li Pingshu say: "Xiao Xian's nephew is a good person, he does such a big business but he doesn't have the impetuousness of other young people." Old Cheng is serious, and he also respects us old guys, I don't want other people to have a little bit of achievements on the five people and six people are indispensable, I like this young man very much, I think you should take more care of him, we old guys are going to die sooner or later, we can't die a hundred and let the Chinese business community have no successor, what do you think? ”

Yu Huaizhi nodded and praised: "Yes, yes, Allah also likes this young man, I heard that he has subdued all the foreigners, and he has accepted him as a little brother, a little bloody, just by virtue of this, Allah will support him!"

Several others looked at Xiao Zhenlei very pleasantly, but as for how many people were telling the truth, and who was telling a lie, it was not clear.

Li Pingshu said: "These days, Xiao Xian's nephew has also purchased a lot of properties in Nanshi and the city, in order to protect his own industry and his own safety, he has set up a hundred-person business group, but he is worried that the weak force will cause some forces to peep, so if you want to join our Nanshi Business Association Guild, do you have any opinions?" ”

Mu Xiangyao shook her head and said, "What can you say about this?" It is best for Xiao Xian's nephew to join in, our merchant group guild has a total of more than 400 people, but we have to assist in many areas such as Nanshi, Huxi, Zha, and Bei, the personnel are too scattered, so the strength is insufficient, if Xiao Xian's nephew's merchant group joins in, it can just make up for the lack of personnel! ”

Seeing Mu Xiangyao say this, several other people also said that they had no objections, and in the end, Li Pingshu decided that the matter was settled, and he only needed to report to the autonomous office inside and outside the city, and these people were all the leaders of the autonomous office, so naturally there was no problem.

Then Li Pingshu said another thing, "Okay, let's talk about the things that I invite you to come over to discuss today, that is, the theme of today's meeting, the matter of adding guns and ammunition for the merchant group and sending personnel to strengthen military training for armed members. ”

Yu Huaizhi said: "The security of Shanghai Beach today is indeed much worse than in previous years, not only the foreigners are more arrogant, even the revolutionaries have also made a fuss, if it goes on like this, the situation in Shanghai is worrying, I have no opinion on adding guns and ammunition for the merchant group guards, there should be some surplus in the autonomous office in terms of funds, not enough, each of us here should have a complete set of parts, but all of us here have added so many guns at once, it is difficult to say whether the Daotai Mansion will allow it!" ”

At this time, Xiao Zhenlei got up and arched his hand: "I think it is not difficult to persuade Lord Daotai Cai to allow us to buy guns and ammunition by ourselves to arm the merchant group in the current form, for three reasons: first, there is no need for the government to take silver, which can save the government a lot of expenses; Second, after the merchant group was rearmed, the protection of the city was increased, which was of great benefit to economic development, and in fact it was also escorting economic development. Third, although the merchant group armed forces are not the regular military force of the government, the government can be mobilized, and the government does not need to pay a penny of money and gets a battalion of troops, I think as long as Lord Cai's head is still normal, he will definitely allow it! ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Li Pingshu said with a smile: "Nephew Xiao Xian, the points you analyzed earlier are very good and convincing, the old man agrees, and I believe that everyone here also agrees, but your last sentence is better not to be known by Lord Cai!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei immediately smiled and said: "That's it, I just say this kind of thing in front of a few elders, how dare I say it in front of Lord Cai?" ”

Everyone was very happy to be told by Xiao Zhenlei, and Li Pingshu asked again: "Do you have any objections?" If there is no objection, then the matter is settled, and the autonomous office will send a letter to the Yamen of the Daotai Prefecture, asking for permission to raise funds to purchase weapons and ammunition at its own expense, rearm the merchant group, guard the smooth traffic inside and outside the city, maintain local law and order, and cooperate with the government to arrest the revolutionaries! ”

In fact, the last sentence is the point, the autonomous office and the armed merchant group will not do anything to the revolutionary party, that is the matter of the Qing court, the last sentence is just talk, used to show the government the position of the autonomous office, and only in this way can the government agree to the autonomous office to raise its own funds to buy firearms and ammunition for the merchant group.

Everyone nodded and agreed when they heard this, adding weapons to the merchant group and strengthening the combat effectiveness of the merchant group is also beneficial to themselves, and the cost of buying weapons and ammunition is not to let one person pay for it, and everyone will share it equally.

Li Pingshu calculated: "Plus Xiao Xian's nephew's 100 people, the merchant group now has a total of 500 people, if there are more, remove some thorns, only 500 people remain, now the merchant group still has about 60 guns, and you still need to buy 450, the excess is used as a backup, according to the current market price, a rifle counts about 90 to 110 oceans of bullets, and it is calculated according to the average price of 100 yuan, 450 rifles plus matching bullets are a total of 45,000 oceans, Mu Caidong, how much silver can the autonomous office take out now?" ”

Mu Xiangyao thought about it, and then calculated and gave a more pleasing figure: "In addition to the daily expenses that must be left, it should be possible to move 30,000 yuan!" ”

Li Shuping said again: "Then there is still a gap of 15,000 yuan, we have a total of six people here, each of them will take 3,000 yuan out, and the excess will be left temporarily, if the funds are not enough to purchase it, it can be used as an addition, but now in Shanghai, I am afraid that I can't buy such a large number of guns and ammunition, if you want to buy it, you can only have it if you go north to Tianjin, so who will you send to purchase?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei saw that none of the people present said anything, and he knew that these people must not have time, or that they were too old to run away, so he had to stand up and say: "Elders, the boy is young, of course this kind of thing is the most appropriate for me to go, and after the approval of the Daotai Mansion comes down, I will immediately go and do this matter!" ”

Everyone smiled and nodded with satisfaction, and they all thought that Xiao Zhenlei, a young man, had a flexible mind, could observe words and feelings, but was not impetuous, and knew that he was really a good young man to share his worries for the elderly.

"There is another thing, I would like to ask the elders to discuss, that is, after the guns and ammunition are purchased, the armed members of the merchant group must be trained, and the purpose of the training is to strengthen the combat effectiveness, I don't know who the instructor of the merchant group is now? Who will be in charge of the next training of the merchant group? ”

Li Pingshu said: "Actually, there are no instructors in the real sense of the word in the merchant group now, and they usually invite Xu Tonghao, Shi Yunqian, the acting platoon leader of the Chinese team of the International Merchant Group in the concession, to come as instructors, and they are all from St. John's College." (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