Naturally, it has been discussed to set up a chamber of commerce, and Zuo Houde naturally sent someone to prepare immediately, of course, the only trustworthy candidate around him is Yao Ping.

Zuo Houde summoned Yao Ping and said, "You immediately go and set up a chamber of commerce!" ”

At this time, Yao Ping was a little hesitant: "The head of the family, the minister has never been a businessman!" ”

Zuo Houde smiled slightly: "It's okay, you go to General Li Yu first, and ask him to find you a few shopkeepers, those shopkeepers know it, Ping mainly watches what they do, just follow the study!" This chamber of commerce was established by me and several generals, and when the time comes, you can go to a few generals if you have difficulties! ”

After Yao Ping heard this, he immediately went down to prepare.

Zuo Houde thought alone in his seat, about this chamber of commerce, in fact, in Zuo Houde's view, this is the most important link, with this chamber of commerce, Zuo Houde can form an alliance of interests with the high-level generals in the army.

Zuo Houde liked a sentence very much in his previous life: "There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests!" ”

An alliance that benefits everyone is often indestructible!

As long as this chamber of commerce is established, Zuo Houde's layout in the army can be said to be roughly completed.

As long as Zuo Houde's personal guards are slowly devolved into the army, and there are people all over the country from top to bottom, Zuo Houde can control it.

At the same time, this chamber of commerce has more purposes, the chamber of commerce needs people, Zuo Houde can arrange his own family members, so that Zuo Houde can not only give them benefits, but also give them family benefits, and naturally can subdue them.

Of course, the news that Zuo Houde was going to establish a chamber of commerce was not hidden from the twelve chambers of commerce in the city after all.

These twelve naturally regarded Zuo Houde's Chamber of Commerce as a great enemy, so they came to the door together!

……

On Zuo Houde's house, Zuo Houde watched the representatives of the twelve families come to the door.

Zuo Houde was not surprised at all, after all, the establishment of his own chamber of commerce would inevitably lose their interests.

Zhao Pingde, the leader of the twelve families, looked at Zuo Houde and said: "General, you have to take 200,000 taels from each of our families every year, but now you have established another chamber of commerce!" ”

Zuo Houde took a sip of tea and said: "Mr. Zhao, Zuo Hou's Chamber of Commerce has Zuo and the rest of the generals together, I think Mr. Lai knows!" ”

Zhao Pingde nodded, and the other eleven also nodded.

Zuo Houde slowly put down the teacup and said leisurely: "I don't know if you are willing to join in!" I and the rest of the generals can represent the officials of the entire Dingcheng, Mr. Zhao and others have been doing business for many years, and they have their own network of relationships and countless goods that can be collected, and the cooperation between you and me is naturally just right! Our business can be expanded countless times, and more choices will appear for our goods! ”

Zhao Pingde and the others didn't expect that Zuo Houde actually wanted them to participate together, and they were still hesitating for a while. Of course, Zuo Houde's words are clear to them, with the official cooperation of the entire Dingcheng, the business is simply not too easy to do.

Of course, he is a businessman after all, so naturally he will not get along with money, but he was stunned, Zhao Pingde immediately agreed, and the other eleven also agreed.

The crowd reached an agreement, Zuo Houde knew that the next step was to discuss the division of interests, Zuo Houde just stretched out four fingers and said: "Our entire military only needs forty percent, and we guarantee that you are safe enough in Dingcheng!" ”

……

Time passed quickly, and the new firm was organized quickly with the help of the remaining twelve families, and of course the manpower of the firm, Zuo Houde was almost all recruited by his own personal guards and the families of ordinary soldiers.

The Chamber of Commerce soon began to operate, and there was a network of the remaining twelve families, and there were constantly prohibited items of weapons and armor transported from Dingcheng to Nanming, and Zuo Houde and others made a lot of money.

Of course, in Zuo Houde's view, money is very important, and more importantly, he takes this opportunity to arrange his own family members in the business bank to make them return to themselves.

At the same time, Zuo Houde's restaurants and shops in the city also continue to recruit people, all of whom are the families of the soldiers in the army.

……

A year later, Zuo Houde's personal guard battalion.

In the past year, Zuo Houde has continuously delegated his personal guards to the army to serve as grassroots officers in the army, and it can be said that Zuo Houde has now been able to control the entire army through these personal guards.

Now there are only twenty or thirty people left in Zuo Houde's personal guard camp, these twenty or thirty people are all people who Zuo Houde seems to be loyal enough to himself and capable at the same time, they are all unwilling in the army, Zuo Houde gave them a future, and at the same time Zuo Houde also recruited their families to his own restaurants and shops, so that they have no worries.

Zuo Houde was still very useful to them, so he didn't put them at the grassroots level, and after staying in the guard camp for a while, Zuo Houde entered his own military tent.

From time to time, Zuo Houde recruited the rest of the generals, and when everyone arrived, Zuo Houde looked at them, smiled, and said, "Everyone, do you know how much the firm has earned today?" ”

The twelve comptoirs have always been in charge of operation, and Zuo Houde is in charge of supervising, and these generals will look through the account books from time to time, but they only know that the comptoir makes money, but there is no accurate number.

So when they heard Zuo Houde's words, their eyes lit up.

Seeing them like this, Zuo Houde didn't sell it, stretched out a finger and said, "Ten million taels!" ”

Everyone took a deep breath of cold air, even Zuo Houde didn't expect so much, Zuo Houde, as the guard of Dingcheng, he naturally knew that Dingcheng's annual military expenditure was less than one million.

But this businessman can earn ten years of military spending in a year!

Zuo Houde then began to distribute: "According to the rules, our military wants forty percent, that is, four million is ours." Four million miles ago said that I accounted for forty percent, Li Yu and others accounted for one percent, which is 400,000, and the remaining three generals accounted for 20 percent, that is, 800,000. ”

After finishing speaking, Zuo Houde ignored the thick breathing of everyone present, and said: "I feel that I will take out one million from my income and distribute it to the people below the army, so that everyone in the army can have a share!" ”

Li Yu and the others looked at Zuo Houde with a look of surprise, and then said, "The general is merciful!" ”

Zuo Houde waved his hand and said, "I'm waiting to eat meat, and the people below will also eat soup!" ”

In just one year, Zuo Houde can be said to be running Dingcheng like an iron bucket, there are people from Zuo Houde up and down in the army, and many of the families of the soldiers have benefited from Zuo Houde, and Zuo Houde can be said to be popular.

Of course, self-pollution is also something that Zuo Houde has to do, especially after the cooperation of the twelve, through their business network, Zuo Houde's bad reputation of "greedy for money and lustful" has spread to the ears of Hong Zaixing in Youzhou, and it makes Hong Zaixing feel that Zuo Houde's "not greedy for power" is very good!