The Lantern Festival has been around since the Yongping reign of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.
Since the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has been held for ten days from the eighth to the eighteenth day of the lunar month. This situation continued until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the folk lantern festival was shortened to five days.
Xujiazhuang is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, which is no less lively than the New Year's Eve.
The first month has not yet passed, and there are not many caravans coming to Xujiazhuang. The caravans coming to Xujiazhuang are all caravans from several surrounding state capitals.
"Dr. Xu."
A man on horseback came to the gate of Xujiazhuang and bowed his hands when he saw Fatty Xu getting off the carriage.
Fatty Xu said with a smile: "Proprietor Wang came early enough."
"Haha, of course you have to come early if something good happens." Boss Wang laughed and got off the horse.
"Two proprietors, please come inside." Zhao Yutu came out and extended his hand to make a gesture of invitation.
Dongzhu Wang said: "Dr. Xu, please!"
Fatty Xu nodded and walked into Zhuangzi.
"Proprietor Wang, please." Zhao Yutu said to Proprietor Wang on the side.
"Mr. Zhao, you're welcome." Boss Wang smiled and followed Fatty Xu into the village.
With the arrival of the two of them, Yang Yuqian, Li Lidong and other owners of the Dongshan Iron Works came to Xujiazhuang one after another.
Outside the village gate, there were many carriages parked, and horses were tied to the hitching posts.
Zhao Yutu brought the proprietors of Dongshan Iron Works to the meeting hall.
The so-called conference hall is made up of two main rooms with a partition wall in the middle to make the room longer. A plaque with the name of the conference hall is hung outside the door.
There is a long table in the middle of the meeting hall, with more than a dozen fruit plates filled with dried fruits placed on it. There are more than a dozen chairs placed in a circle around it. On the table opposite the chairs, there is a triangular wooden board with a A piece of white paper with someone's name written on it.
"Dear proprietors, there are names on the table. Please take your seats according to the positions of your names." Zhao Yutu introduced each of the iron shop proprietors he brought in.
When opening an iron yard, there is often some accounting work, so everyone is literate, and soon these iron yard proprietors find seats corresponding to their names.
After settling the owners of the iron yard, Zhao Yutu left the meeting hall.
"If you look at this long table, you might think it's a dining table!" Yang Yuqian said with a smile.
"Your dining table is so long." Li Lidong said angrily, "I really don't know what Dongzhu Liu of Hutou Village thinks. Do you think it's awkward to have such a long table and have everyone sit face to face?"
Fatty Xu said: "I think it's good. It's a lot easier to talk when we sit at the same table to discuss things. We don't have to worry about sitting too far away to hear clearly."
Proprietor Wang smiled and said: "What proprietor Xu said makes sense. Sitting at the same table, I feel that I have become closer to all the proprietors."
"Proprietor Wang, I remember that you and the Xu family were close, and you were thinking of joining the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. You couldn't be a spy sent by Xu Youcai!" Yang Yuqian's eyes fell on Proprietor Wang.
Hearing this, Boss Wang smiled and said: "There are many benefits to joining the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. As long as we have coke ironmaking technology, our Dongshan Chamber of Commerce will make a lot of money in the future. Who can still make trouble with the money? Dear proprietors, what do you think? Yes or no?"
"Whether it's rough words or not, proprietor Wang is still thinking clearly, but some people just can't see this." Li Lidong said in a muffled voice.
After establishing the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce, he, Fatty Xu and Yang Yu informed all the iron yard owners in Dongshan one by one and explained the benefits in detail. However, even so, there were only eight iron yard owners who came to Xujiazhuang today. .
Originally, two owners of the Dongshan Iron Works had agreed to join the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce, but they had not shown up yet. They obviously did not plan to come, which made Li Lidong very angry.
The two people who didn't come had the closest relationship with his Li family, so he personally persuaded them, but he didn't expect that in the end they would go along with him.
"Dongzhu Liu has arrived."
As the voice fell, Liu Heng walked in from the door.
"Dongzhu Liu!"
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The proprietors of the iron yard who were sitting around the long table stood up one after another and bowed their hands to Liu Heng in greeting.
Liu Heng walked to the seat behind his nameplate and said with a smile: "All proprietors, please take a seat."
While he was talking, he sat down, and the eight owners of the iron yard around the long table also sat down in their seats.
There were more than a dozen seats arranged in a circle around the long table. In the end, only eight seats were occupied. There were only empty name tags on the tables in front of the other seats.
Two people from Xujiazhuang came in with Liu Heng. These two people did not sit on the edge of the long table, but sat behind the desk next to the wall.
"These two are..."
Fatty Xu looked at the two people who came in at the end with confusion, wondering what the other two desks and those two people in the conference hall were doing.
Liu Heng explained with a smile: "These two are clerks who record the contents of our meetings and then organize and archive them."
"That's it." Fatty Xu nodded.
Yang Yuqian said: "Our Dongshan Chamber of Commerce is called the formal one. Even the contents of the discussions must be recorded and included. Let's look at the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. Every time he calls us to discuss matters, it is Xu Youcai who has the final say and says it is a matter of discussion. In fact, it’s just a notification, regardless of whether everyone agrees or not.”
While talking, he glanced at Liu Heng from time to time.
He was talking about the Dongshan Association, but the owners of the Iron Factory here all understood that this was a reminder to Liu Heng that the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce could not be like the Dongshan Association.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "Don't worry, Boss Yang, our Dongshan Chamber of Commerce has a president, directors, and shareholders. All decisions are made by the president and directors through voting. Only the party with more votes can pass or reject the resolution. Even if I am The president only has one vote."
Yang Yuqian said sarcastically: "Don't get me wrong, Mr. Liu, I'm talking about Xu Youcai from Dongshan Club."
Liu Heng smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, there is no rule without rules. Since everyone is willing to join the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce, then you must abide by the rules. I have a copy of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce's rules here. Take a look at it first. If you agree, you can sign your name on it. name."
The clerk sitting behind the table by the wall stood up and placed a copy of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce's bylaws on the long table in front of each proprietor.
The content in the detailed rules is related to the interests of every member of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. Every owner of the Dongshan Iron Works carefully reads the above content.
After a long time, Yang Yuqian raised his head and looked at Liu Heng and said, "Dr. Liu, what does it mean that this president has veto power?"
"Let me give you an example." Liu Heng said, "If someone colludes with all the directors who have voting rights and wants to remove me as the president, but if there is no legitimate reason, I have the right to veto this proposal."
Yang Yuqian frowned and said, "Does this mean that as long as we want to remove the president of Dongshan Chamber of Commerce, Dongzhu Liu can use his veto power to veto our proposal?"
All the proprietors of the Dongshan Iron Works present looked at Liu Heng.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "If I cannot lead everyone to make money, all the directors and shareholders have the right to remove me as the president."
"I understand. If I sign, it will be better than Dongshan Club to remove the president." Yang Yuqian said, picked up the pen and signed his own words on it, and stamped it with his seal.
With Yang Yu's anterior band, others also signed their names and officially joined the Dongshan Society.
