Liu Feng understood what he had heard.
This merchant group was a way for them to stick together and support each other.
It has developed into a severe form of local protectionism.
Otherwise, they simply couldn't withstand the impact of a behemoth like the Big Tree Trading Company.
This time, Jia Huating used his position as a member of the Chamber of Commerce to convene a meeting with various parties.
As the leading forces of the merchant guilds, each of the three would send important figures as representatives to participate in any meetings they initiated.
The time is set for this afternoon.
"Since you are a business gang, you should have a leader to oversee important matters."
Liu Feng asked with a smile.
"It's tough. The three families are all roughly equal in strength, and each family has a different focus in their business. No one is willing to concede to the other."
"This is how a gang leader is chosen."
Jia Huating replied.
"You three are all about the same strength, does that mean you can't select people from other places?"
Liu Feng smiled faintly.
Jia Huating looked at Liu Feng strangely.
If none of the three of us are qualified to provide this assistance, then who is?
"If none of the three of us can do it, then who can?"
"You can choose me as the gang leader."
"I think there is no one more suitable for the position of gang leader than me."
"Follow me, and you'll not only have business to do, but you can also do a lot of business that others can't do."
Jia Huating was speechless, revealing a look of bewilderment.
It's not even evening yet.
Why are you dreaming?
Liu Feng rested at the restaurant for two hours.
Soon, it was afternoon.
By this time, the restaurant we had booked was already packed with people.
Those seated at the first table were naturally the Jia family and other prominent local figures.
What's even more surprising is that this meeting seems to be taken very seriously by all the major families. There are seven people from the Li and Yong families alone at the first table.
Only Jia Huating represented the Jia family.
Other small business owners also gradually took their seats, totaling more than thirty people.
"I didn't expect that there would be so many merchants in these cities. You didn't just temporarily pull all the street vendors here to serve as storefronts, did you?"
Liu Feng said jokingly.
"What a joke! Two or three days have passed, so naturally we need to bring all the larger merchants from the cities over."
"These are all the large-scale businesses in the four cities east of Qingzhou."
"So, how big of a business qualifies someone as a member of your merchant guild?"
Liu Feng asked with a smile.
"A business with a scale of 300,000 taels of silver is sufficient."
Liu Feng's eyes widened immediately. Although this number referred to the scale of the business, it was still quite a large sum.
Three hundred thousand is no small sum. With a business of this scale, the owner's personal wealth and family fortune must be tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Thinking back to when I first acquired Deqing Hall, I didn't even have the opportunity to join this merchant group.
Liu Feng stood up from the main table with a smile.
"Then I'll sit at the table downstairs; I can't sit here."
"General Liu is joking. If you're talking about silver, the three of us combined probably don't even have as much silver as you alone."
Jia Huating laughed heartily and quickly pulled Liu Feng back.
As the two playfully tugged at each other, they laughed and joked, while people at the tables below began to discuss the situation.
"Who is this person?"
"Why haven't I seen this before?"
"I don't know, maybe it came from Yicheng."
"Yicheng is remote, so it's normal that you haven't seen it before."
“Look, this person is very close to the Jia family.”
"It's understandable that we're close, but even if we are close, we still can't sit at the first table."
"Who are those people at that table? It's a place where only the top figures of the three major families in the eastern part of Qingzhou can sit down and discuss matters."
Just as they were whispering and talking, two figures walked over, chatting and laughing.
The two people's voices suddenly stopped, immediately drawing everyone's attention.
"Oh dear, what's going on today?"
"This is the first time I've seen everyone so neatly assembled."
The one speaking was Li Jianping, the head of the Li family, and walking with him was Yong Xubo, the head of the Yong family.
Others were even more surprised that the three major families would appear at the merchant guild's council meeting at the same time. This was a rare occurrence in the memories of many of the merchants, and each time the three families gathered, something of great significance was bound to happen.
Many merchants found this strange.
As Jia Huating had just taken over the Jia family business, he had been attending these meetings recently.
There's nothing strange about that.
But the appearance of the heads of the Li and Yong families was unexpected.
You should know that they have already sent representatives.
Even Jia Huating was slightly taken aback by this scene.
Hearing the murmurs below, Liu Feng slightly raised his head.
The manager of the Li family, Li Jianping, was in his forties. He had jet-black hair and a somewhat plump but not fat figure.
His gait was very steady, his expression was calm, and his back was straight. Liu Feng could tell at a glance that this person must have been a martial arts expert when he was young.
As for Yong Xubo, the head of the Yong family, he was an old man who looked quite old and had a kind of otherworldly air about him.
But he walks with vigor and energy, and is physically strong.
This person seems to know how to maintain good health; they do it very well.
Judging from their aura, you can tell that these two are seasoned veterans in the business world, and they won't be easy to deal with.
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