"Dr. Wang, Dongzhu Liang, and Dongzhu Huang, please come inside. Dongzhu Chen and the others are all in the side hall. I will ask someone to bring the three proprietors there." Butler Tian greeted them warmly.
After speaking, he raised his hand to summon a servant of the Tian family.
Wang Dayu, who walked up to Steward Tian, stopped and asked, "Steward Tian, why did your proprietor invite us all here with so much fanfare?"
"I don't know about this little guy." Butler Tian shook his head.
Liang Jiabin laughed and scolded, "You old cunning guy, you kept it a secret from us."
Butler Tian hurriedly apologized and said, "I really don't know, so the two proprietors should not embarrass me."
"Okay, don't embarrass the housekeeper. We are all here anyway. Sooner or later, we will know what is going on. Let's go in and see Boss Chen and the others." Huang Yunfa greeted the other two people.
"Three proprietors, please come with me." The servant of the Tian family bowed and made a gesture of invitation.
The side hall of the Tian family is in the front house. There is a landscape painting screen in front of the door after entering. Going around it, there are two antique round tables.
"Dongzhu Liang, Dongzhu Wang, Dongzhu Huang."
The proprietors sitting at the table stood up to say hello.
"Sit down, sit down, we are all guests invited by the landlord, there is no need to be so polite." Huang Yunfa smiled and greeted the proprietors at the table.
Compared with these people here, Huang Yunfa, Wang Dayu, and Liang Jiabin are relatively powerful businessmen.
The servants of the Tian family who were waiting in the side hall led them to sit down at the main table.
Only Chen Liyun was present at the main table. The arrival of the three of them made the main table more popular.
"Dr. Chen." Huang Yunfa took the lead and cupped his hand towards Chen Liyun on the table.
Chen Liyun smiled and said, "Dr. Huang, Dongzhu Liang, and Dongzhu Wang, you guys are late. Chen has been here a long time ago."
"It's not too late, it's not too late. Isn't the master here yet?" Wang Dayu said with a smile.
"It seems that if Tian doesn't come, proprietor Wang will be angry with Tian."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tian Shenglan walked out from behind the screen with a smile on his face.
"Tian DongZhu."
"Tian DongZhu."
"Tian DongZhu."
The guests in the side hall stood up to say hello.
"Everyone, please sit down, please sit down." Tian Shenglan raised his hand and pressed down.
After everyone was seated, he walked to the main table, picked up the wine bottle, poured a glass of wine, held it in his hand, and said, "Tian is late for something, so this glass of wine is an apology to all the proprietors."
After saying that, he raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking, he poured himself another glass and held it in his hand. He did not drink it immediately, but said, "Today Tian invites you to the banquet. There is something I want to discuss with you here, and this matter can only be good for you." There’s no harm.”
Wang Dayu asked, "Mr. Tian, you have said so much, what exactly is going on? Don't lie about it."
"Why didn't Master Fan come?" Liang Jiabin suddenly said.
Hearing this name, the other proprietors at the table all subconsciously looked around.
Tian Shenglan said, "You don't have to look for it. Tian did not invite Fan Dongzhu to the banquet this time."
"What? I didn't invite Dr. Fan!" Suddenly someone said subconsciously.
However, the person who said this hurriedly covered his mouth and lowered his head, knowing that he had made a mistake.
Tian Shenglan took a long breath and said, "I believe you have all heard about what happened to my Tian family recently. The convoys heading to the grassland encountered horse bandits one after another."
"Do you want Boss Tian to say that this matter has something to do with Boss Fan?" Liang Binbin said.
Tian Shenglan glanced at Liang Jiabin on the table, and then said, "As Dongzhu Liang said, the robbery of our Tian family's motorcade is indeed related to the Fan family, and the person behind it is Fan Yongdou."
At the end of his words, he seemed a little excited and spilled some of the wine in his hand.
The proprietors at the table were in an uproar, and many people lowered their heads and whispered.
Chen Liyun, who was at the same table, said, "Boss Tian, don't talk nonsense without evidence."
"Tian really has no evidence." Tian Shenglan said, "But my Tian family's motorcade has been robbed by horse bandits several times in succession. Don't you think it is too coincidental?"
Chen Liyun shook his head and said, "That doesn't prove that Dongzhu Fan did this!"
"That's why Tian said there is no evidence." Tian Shenglan said, and then added, "Before the accident in the Tian family team, Fan Yongdou had approached Tian and wanted to cooperate with Tian, but Tian refused, and then the Tian family incident happened The convoy was robbed by horse bandits several times."
For a moment, everyone at the table was whispering to each other.
At this time, Huang Yunfa spoke up and said, "The Tian family's motorcade was robbed by horse bandits. Boss Tian just suspected that Boss Fan did it, but there is no evidence. Let's not mention it for now. It won't be too late to come to a conclusion later."
"What Huang Dongzhu said is true." Tian Shenglan nodded apologetically, and immediately said, "Tian asked you to come here. I have a big matter to discuss with you."
Huang Yunfa asked, "I wonder what big event caused Boss Tian to go to such trouble to invite us over?"
"Establish a merchant." Tian Shenglan said word by word.
"Establish a chamber of commerce?" Chen Liyun repeated, then frowned.
There were many people on the table with the same expression as him.
These people here are all Shanxi merchants who make money from smuggling with the grasslands. Some families have been doing this for generations, and they have no interest in Tian Shenglan's proposal to establish a chamber of commerce.
"Everyone, listen to me first." Tian Sheng Lanxu pressed his hands and said, "Tian has been thinking about the establishment of a chamber of commerce for a long time. For this reason, Tian made a special trip to Lingqiu to find out more about the Lingqiu Iron Works How does the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce operate, so Tian invited everyone here because he wanted to establish our own chamber of commerce with all the proprietors here."
"Dr. Tian, are you talking about Liu Heng of the Tiger Flag?" Wang Dayu asked.
"Otherwise." Tian Shenglan waved his hand and said, "We Shanxi merchants in Xuanfu established a chamber of commerce, how could we let a bandit join in?"
In his words, he made no secret of his disdain for the tiger-character flag.
"My Liang family does not need to join any chamber of commerce." Guest Liang said, and immediately stood up from his seat and said, "Liang has something else to do, so I won't disturb everyone's interest."
He cupped his hands and cupped his hands, then turned and walked behind the screen.
"Mr. Tian, I have something to do at home. Please take my leave." Wang Dayu stood up, cupped his hands, and turned to leave.
As the two of them left, everyone else at the table also said goodbye, and in a blink of an eye everyone was gone.
Tian Shenglan's face turned pale as she stood in front of the table, holding the wine cup in her hand tightly.
There were two tables placed in the side hall, and in an instant one table became empty, leaving only a few people sitting alone at the main table.
Huang Yunfa turned to look at Chen Liyun, who was still sitting on the table, and said in surprise, "Mr. Chen, your Chen family and Fan family have a good relationship. Now that everyone else has left, why don't you leave with them?"
"Chen is quite interested in what Boss Tian said about the Chamber of Commerce." Chen Liyun took a sip from the wine cup, then put down the glass and said, "It seems that except for me, no one else is interested in the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce." Don’t care.”
Tian Shenglan's expression changed several times, and finally she raised the wine cup in her hand and drank it all in one gulp.
