Shanghe town.


    When the sun tilted slightly to the west, after a short break at noon, the whole town returned to a busy scene.


    In the town, cattle carts, carriages and wheelbarrows flow continuously, or bricks and stones are transported to various construction sites from the north, or goods are transported to various warehouses from the south. Unloading, loading and handling are busy.


    Such a scene was unimaginable in Shanghe town six months ago, but today, all Shanghe town people seem to be used to it except for sighing in their spare time.


    What exactly is "reform" and what will it change? The vast majority of Shanghe town people can''t answer this question at all.


    All they know is that Shanghe town has become much more lively than before. Businessmen who could not be seen once a few months ago can now be seen almost every day. In hotels in the southeast, the sound of mercenaries drinking and shouting will not stop until late at night.


    In addition to the excitement, there is also beauty. Think about Shanghe town half a year ago, and then look at Shanghe town now. Although land is being prepared and houses are being built everywhere, compared with the past, everyone is convinced that Shanghe town will become as beautiful as other big towns in the kingdom.


    Although, they have never been to other big towns.


    Of course, all the beautiful changes are far less than their growing pockets!


    For half a year, most people are happy to find that they actually have savings. Although not much, but this is never the case before!


    Especially the farmers in the three villages, in the past, they didn''t need money bags at all, because they didn''t have money at all! Even if there is, it can''t reach the point where they need a money bag. If they put it on their chest, they can detect it immediately!


    But now, if you put the coins on your chest, silver coins are OK. If it''s copper coins, it''s bigger than women''s - and jingling!


    Reform is a good thing and a good thing! Lord count, you''d better change it forever! The civilians in Shanghe town thought so.


    In addition to ordinary civilians, there are a group of important participants - businessmen in this unprecedented wave of reform.


    Compared with ordinary people, businessmen have a much deeper feeling about lingfengbao''s reform.


    This profundity does not mean that they know much about lingfengbao''s reform measures, nor do they know much about Arthur''s reform.


    However, compared with ordinary civilians, as important participants in the trade of Shanghe Town, they can more clearly feel how much gold coins flow into Shanghe town from all parts of the Kingdom, and then back to all parts of the kingdom from Shanghe town!


    As merchants, they know very well what kind of amazing profits are hidden in this huge gold coin, which is like a river, from dispersion to aggregation, and then from aggregation to dispersion.


    Businessmen who have been to Shanghe town know that in Shanghe Town, there is a chamber of commerce mainly composed of businessmen in the East.


    There are only a dozen people in this chamber of Commerce. They have a special cooperative relationship with lingfengbao.


    First of all, these dozens of businessmen have specific business areas, a collar or a county. They only sell goods in their own areas. In addition, they will never enter the business areas of other merchants to sell iron products.


    Then, Lingfeng Castle only cooperated with them. In a specific business area, except for a businessman in the chamber of Commerce, iron products will not be sold to any other businessman, and a unified price is set.


    This is terrible! As businessmen, they all know what profits monopoly will make.


    Businessmen heard that some guys in the East took letters from local nobles and a carriage of gifts to Lingfeng castle. Finally, the gift was accepted, but the cooperation was rejected.


    Some businessmen outside the east came to visit the mayor Gustav with gifts. It is said that someone offered the benefit of 500 gold coins, hoping to become a member of the chamber of Commerce and enjoy the same treatment as the businessmen in the East, but they were still rejected.


    Hundreds of gold coins were not given away, but these businessmen were not happy at all. Because they know that compared with the possible profits, this gold coin can be earned back in two or three months.


    After a succession of people were rejected and a successful news failed to spread, businessmen everywhere gradually extinguished the idea of bribery. Since then, looking at the eyes of more than a dozen businessmen in the East, there was only envy and hatred.


    They know that except for individuals, those guys in the chamber of commerce are not big businessmen at all, but they have today''s situation because of luck. Wherever he went, he took several guards.


    Pooh! Lucky guy!


    Non chamber of Commerce businessmen, although they envy the businessmen in the chamber of Commerce and wish they were one of them, their faces are often disdainful.


    Such scenes can often be seen in hotels in the southeast of Shanghe town.


    Two businessmen who are not members of the chamber of Commerce, each holding a wine cup, while eating delicious Shanghe town food, disdained to say that they would never join the Shanghe leading chamber of Commerce.


    He claimed that all the guys in the chamber of commerce were fools and offended the local nobles. No amount of gold coins can buy his own life in the future.


    Only today, businessmen who once said "they will never join the Shanghe leading chamber of Commerce!" and "those who join the Shanghe leading chamber of commerce are all desperate fools!" gathered in the conference hall of mayor Gustav one by one.


    In the conference hall, more than 70 businessmen, big and small, gathered together.


    Many of them have never been to Shanghe town in the future. Only because they heard the news half a month ago, they rushed to the party.


    Because of the large number of people and the limited space at the conference table, most businessmen, except the original members of the chamber of Commerce, can only stand and wait.


    Watching another guy with sweaty head and messy hair enter the conference hall, a businessman standing against the wall couldn''t help complaining: "Damn, how many people are there in this room? It''s just a party. Where do these guys come from!"


    "Tomar, if you feel crowded, you might as well leave now. It''s very spacious outside."


    "Shut your mouth, iris," said the merchant named Tomar. "I paid twenty gold coins to enter this door! But you, who don''t stay in the arms of women, even ran to Shanghe town."


    Both of them are from Westminster County under the leadership of the king. They have a good relationship. If they meet each other at ordinary times, they will certainly smile and greet each other, or go to find some girls to have a good time together.


    But from the moment they met in Shanghe town yesterday, the eyes they looked at each other were full of hard to hide boredom and caution, as if they wanted each other to disappear from Shanghe town immediately.


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