Zeng Siwu finally walked out of the governor's palace in a daze, and the feeling was like he walked out of the examination room. It's just that the latter's mood is disheartened. But this time, Zeng Siwu was very excited.

He couldn't remember exactly what he had said to the young governor. I only knew that the other party communicated with me with a pleasant face, and appointed him to set up a research team on the spot. At least three other members of the team were members of his team, who were responsible for researching and improving gunpowder. As for the rest, led by a blacksmith, it seemed as if they were trying to forge something—he was so excited that he only remembered what was relevant to him.

All the military materials can be reported to the Ministry of Industry, and the governor of the site for the study is also provided. For the sake of safety, it was not arranged in a densely populated city, but near a horse farm in the suburbs. This was the only regret, but it was nothing in the face of the governor's weight and high salary.

Even the Nariyadhians and the missionaries from the western continent did not say anything, and happily agreed.

However, it was later learned that the governor of Songjiang had not summoned them alone. After meeting them first, several groups of people were met one after another. There are those who specialize in ironmaking, those who can cast molds, those who can burn glass, and even literati who make money by writing some unpopular histories and novels.

At the moment, no one could clearly understand the significance and importance of Chen Wu's summoning of these people. In the future, these foreshadowings will continue to show their amazing value, and bring unimaginable help to Chen Wu when necessary.

Because there were not many people summoned secretly, and they were strictly required to keep it secret, it didn't cause any waves. Soon, as the time entered the second half of December, after Dengzhou ushered in the first cold wave to the south, Dengzhou's east street intersection was pasted with a list of hired people on big red paper.

In total, more than 300 people were hired by Dengzhou.

A large number of talents from all over the country gathered in Dengzhou are crowded here waiting for the results of the list, blocking the entire Donglin Street. Seeing the name on the list is certainly excited, calling friends to get ready to celebrate. Those who didn't make the list were not completely disappointed.

Because, the Dengzhou government unexpectedly released the instructions for the second screening.

Many of the people who came to take the exam probably didn't get hired because the conditions were a little poor, or because there were too many people applying for the same position. However, there is also a huge talent gap in the upcoming Yuyang, Chishang, Lockdown, Wushan and other prefectures, as well as further political reforms.

If you are interested, you can go to the Dengzhou Administration Office to report, leave the address, and someone will be sent directly to notify you!

There are already so many vacancies in Dengzhou, and if they are delegated to the entire Songjiang, it is conceivable that there must be more positions. Maybe the future is not as good as staying in Dengzhou, but the corresponding pressure and competitiveness are not so great. What's more, the truly outstanding talents have basically been selected in the first batch. The rest of them know that their strength is not good, and their requirements and appetites will naturally not be so picky.

In the end, more than two-thirds of those who were not selected chose to report to the Administration Department to keep a memory.

No matter how you look at it, this recruitment of talents by the Dengzhou government is a very successful operation. It not only further beat the reputation of the Songjiang Army for seeking talents, but also gave the children of the poor family a hope. As for the interior, after recruiting more than 300 officials and talents of various colors in one go, the manpower gap of the Dengzhou government has been greatly alleviated. Although there are still some positions that fail to recruit even one suitable candidate, they can be held by people and have no harm to the overall situation.

After receiving an effective supplement, the administrative capacity of the Dengzhou government was quickly restored and it began to operate in full swing.

Among them, there are some inconvenient benefits. For example, the positions that the local forces in Songjiang originally thought were in their pockets were at least nearly 100 divided out. The foreign faction of the Dengzhou government suddenly gained momentum. In addition, they were recruited by the Songjiang Army, and they had no local roots, so they could only rely on Chen Wu's original Taiping Army faction if they wanted to open up the situation. In this case, the local power was greatly reduced.

Chen Wu struck while the iron was hot and announced the establishment of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce.

This body, which has an official background, direction and coordination character, is attached to the name of the Home Affairs Agency. In Chen Wu's vision, it will be linked with some policies of the Home Affairs Bureau, replace the government to exercise some functions similar to macro market regulation, and at the same time provide an official platform for communication and exchange between chambers of commerce and businessmen, thereby promoting the development of commerce in the two counties.

After the emergence of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, the government did not recognize all organizations of a similar nature established by private individuals. In other words, the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce Alliance, which was originally formed early under the influence of the Taiping Army, has become an illegal organization - or at least a non-governmental assembly that the government does not recognize.

The only way out of legalizing it is to merge it as a whole into the Southeastern Chamber of Commerce and transfer the dominance to the government's Home Affairs Agency!

Of course, the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce Alliance, led by the Chifeng Chamber of Commerce and the super-rich Zhou family, can also choose to fight with the government. But in this way, they will not be able to enjoy the preferential treatment and guidance of some government policies, and may even be implicitly excluded and suppressed. Not to mention anything else, Chen Wuke planned to formulate a policy that in the future, the Songjiang Army's private procurement would only be considered from the chambers of commerce under the Chamber of Commerce.

This article alone is enough to make the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce Alliance itself have irreconcilable conflicts.

Those big chambers of commerce in Dengzhou may not worry about the sales of goods, so they can ignore this. But for those dozens of small and medium-sized chambers of commerce, if they can have something to do with the Songjiang Army and the government, it is simply a dream. After all, the reputation of the Songjiang Army since its inception is still very good, and Chen Wu is the current governor of Songjiang and the envoy of Tiannan recognized by the empire!

When this news was released, even if Chen Wu had not found a suitable candidate at all, and even the structure of the entire business federation had not yet been set up, only three clerks had been temporarily arranged, which had already caused a huge sensation in the business circle of Dengzhou and even the entire Songjiang.

It had only been a few days since the "Recruitment Order", and the local forces in Dengzhou had not yet recovered from the dark losses, and Chen Wu immediately played this second card, and had to let the merchants of Dengzhou City cheer up and deal with it.

In the evening of the same day, in the Chunjiang Pavilion on the top floor of Wanghai Tower, the businessmen of the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce Alliance held an unprecedented meeting to discuss the matter.

Almost all the forces that participated in the Chamber of Commerce Alliance sent a leader-level figure to come.

As the Hongwen Chamber of Commerce, which has mastered three percent of Songjiang cotton cloth shipments, took the lead in speaking, all chambers of commerce rushed to express their demands. They were so arrogant and passive in the matter of the shortage of government officials in Dengzhou that they suffered a big loss. Now, these chambers of commerce are afraid that the Songjiang Army will once again seize the initiative and hold them by the neck.

However, the meeting turned into a doomed quarrel from the start.

The six largest chambers of commerce insisted that the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce should not join the government's Southeast Chamber of Commerce, which meant that they would completely lose their dominance - the businessmen who had been used to running amok in the Wei Chichang era would not be willing to give up these privileges and obediently become a wealthy businessman. Smaller chambers of commerce, on the other hand, advocate cooperation with the Songjiang Army, or at least talk to the government. If joining this federation really has additional policy inclination, then it is not necessary to compromise with the Songjiang Army.

After all, times in Dengzhou are no longer the same as they were a few months ago.

If you can't see this clearly, and you still want to deal with the old Wei Chichang against a rebel foreign force, it can only be to destroy their existing situation!

Both sides insisted on their own words, which made Chi Kaifeng and Zhou Tianrui, who initiated this meeting, look ugly. After the leaders of the chamber of commerce broke up unhappily, the two only exchanged glances before realizing the difficulty of their opponents. The Songjiang Army only threw out one piece of news, and even before the specific organization was set up, it had already put the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce Alliance on the verge of splitting and infighting!

"Is this new governor of Songjiang really just a villager from Changshan Town?"

Chi Kaifeng muttered to himself, and couldn't help but ask the question that the Minister of the Interior, the former governor of Taiping County, the former governor of Songjiang County, and even the two emperors of the Qianyuan Empire and the Kingdom of Oman had wondered. This can't be blamed on him for being suspicious or uncommon, but Chen Wu's skill is really hard to imagine.

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While the chambers of commerce in Dengzhou were arguing over an organization that had not even been fully recruited, the Songjiang government, which had already begun to operate in full operation, planned its first important task at the request of Chen Wu. People from the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Department of Finance participated in this mission.

Get in touch with the Song family in Yanyun County in the north and make the first transaction.

As early as when the Great Prince sent an envoy to congratulate him, Chen Wu had already reached a secret deal with the other party. It's just that due to the war and the impact of Dengzhou's reforms, the Songjiang Army has never been able to draw out enough manpower and material resources. Right now, the second crop of rice, which was harvested at the end of October, is just in time to be harvested. With the warehousing of new rice, coupled with the initial results of military reform, administrative reform, and talent recruitment, Songjiang Army has the ability to execute transactions.

Ganxing's military intelligence department has taken the lead in sending people to take over with the Song family. Probably because the weather was not good this year, and the already small grain output in Yanyun County was more seriously affected, the Song family temporarily modified the conditions, and the first transaction was as high as 120,000 stone of grain, plus 10,000 horses of fine Songjiang cotton cloth.

Obviously, the troops secretly recruited by the Song family brought a heavy burden and pressure to the Great Prince faction. Food, winter clothes, are a tricky situation.

This made Chen Wu feel that maybe he could raise the price a little and knock on the bamboo pole of the Song family and the eldest prince