After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 245: Mr. Wu from the Chamber of Commerce

The next day, Jiang Xiaohe followed Shopkeeper Chen to look at shops for a whole day. As long as the shops had a good location or were larger in size, as soon as they heard that they were from outside the area doing business, they were really unwilling to sell any of them to them, and some even directly drove them out of the shop.

After being turned down all day, Jiang Xiaohe was a little discouraged and said to Chen Dafu, "How about you ask someone you know and contact that chamber of commerce? Then we can go talk to them?"

Chen Dafu nodded, turned around and went to do it immediately. He came back in the late night and was a little drunk.

Jiang Xiaohe had been waiting for his reply and had not slept. When she saw him come back, she quickly opened the door.

Shopkeeper Chen bowed slightly towards him and said, "Madam, it has been agreed that you will take us to meet the people from the Chamber of Commerce at noon tomorrow."

Jiang Xiaohe nodded, called Zhang Qingshan and asked him to take good care of Manager Chen.

The next morning, Jiang Xiaohe took a nap in the inn as a way to be lazy, and didn't get up until almost noon.

Shopkeeper Chen was sober too. He called Zhang Qingshan and they set out to meet at the place they had agreed to meet yesterday.

On a boat.

Shopkeeper Chen introduced Jiang Xiaohe, "Madam, this is my old good friend, Li Fugui."

"Hello, Shopkeeper Li."

Li Fugui bowed to Jiang Xiaohe and said, "Hello, Boss Jiang. Please come this way."

As he said this, he took Jiang Xiaohe on board.

Jiang Xiaohe frowned slightly, but immediately adjusted her expression and followed. She saw a person sitting in the boat, who looked quite old.

"Boss Jiang, this is Mr. Wu."

Jiang Xiaohe bowed slightly and called respectfully, "Hello, Mr. Wu."

Then he stretched out his hand, and Shopkeeper Chen handed over the things they had bought on the way here, and Jiang Xiaohe handed them to Mr. Wu.

Mr. Wu didn't take it and continued to practice calligraphy with his head down. Finally, a servant behind him came up and took the thing.

When he finished writing the last stroke, he put down the pen, without even looking up, and pointed to the side: "Sit down."

Li Fugui stood beside him and immediately gave him a thumbs up: "Mr. Wu's handwriting is great, it's really a masterpiece, it's pleasing to the eye."

Mr. Wu burst into laughter and turned around and said, "I didn't expect that Manager Li is also a person who knows ink. Since you like it so much, I'll give it to you."

Li Fugui took it as if he had received a favor from heaven. He immediately raised his hands and took it, with a look of gratitude on his face, as if the person in front of him had rewarded him with a huge amount of gold. He kept saying in a flattering manner, "Thank you, Mr. Wu, thank you, Mr. Wu."

Jiang Xiaohe watched from the side and felt a chill in her heart. This is the workplace!

Only then did Old Wu turn around and waved his hand, and the servant behind him served tea to Jiang Xiaohe.

As soon as Mr. Wu sat down, he waved his sleeves, placed his left hand on the coffee table beside him, and then looked at Jiang Xiaohe.

"I heard you want to do business?"

Jiang Xiaohe immediately put on a fake professional smile and stood up: "I hope Mr. Wu can introduce me to you."

Old Wu raised his hand, picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip of tea: "I can recommend you, but it also depends on Madam Jiang's sincerity."

"As long as Mr. Wu can introduce me, Mr. Wu can make the request. As long as I can do it."

Mr. Wu put down his teacup and looked at Jiang Xiaohe: "I heard that you are in the food business?"

Jiang Xiaohe nodded.

"Then I'll be direct. If you want to do business, you must join our Chamber of Commerce. If you join our Chamber of Commerce, we want you to take 30% of the profits. Do you agree to this?"

what!

Jiang Xiaohe's brows suddenly frowned, and she was asking for too much, as if she was laughing out of anger: "I haven't even started this business yet, and the Chamber of Commerce wants me to make a 30% profit?"

Hearing her reluctant expression, Mr. Wu's expression changed and he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Why? You don't agree?"

Jiang Xiaohe was a little speechless, looking at him and said: "I just want to ask Mr. Wu, if you want to join the Chamber of Commerce, you have to pay three percent interest? Is there no other way?"

Old Wu looked at her with disdain: "Do you think there is any other way? Since you want to rely on the Chamber of Commerce to do things for yourself, you naturally need to pay tribute. We only want three-tenths of your profit, not five-tenths, which is already considered merciful."

Is this kindness? This is clearly a robbery in the name of the Chamber of Commerce. How can this Chamber of Commerce survive? If all the businessmen in this county handed over three-tenths of the profits, then the people in this Chamber of Commerce would be able to live a prosperous life even if they did nothing!

Moreover, the one-third profit from the county's total annual profit is probably more than the taxes collected by the court.

Jiang Xiaohe stopped smiling too.

"What? You don't agree?"

Jiang Xiaohe chuckled: "It's not that I disagree, but my business hasn't even started yet. What if I lose money in the end?"

"If you lose money, it's because you don't have the ability. You should pay the Chamber of Commerce at least."

This is a bit too overbearing. It means that as long as you open a shop here, you must pay money to the Chamber of Commerce, regardless of whether you have business or not?

"Now that Mr. Wu has said that, I need to think about it. After all, business is not all about making money. If I lose money, I still have to pay out. Wouldn't that mean I lose twice as much money?"

"In that case, there's no need for you to waste my words here." He obviously felt that Jiang Xiaohe was a little ungrateful.

Li Fugui hurried over to comfort him and winked at Shopkeeper Chen.

Then he said, "Boss Jiang, this is the rule of doing business here. If you don't follow the rules, how can you do business?"

"Was this rule made by the imperial court? Or was it made by our county magistrate? Is there a document?"

Li Fugui had no idea how to answer three questions in a row and could only look at Mr. Wu cautiously.

Mr. Wu slammed the table and said, "You are just a small ant, why do you have so many problems? If you want to join the Chamber of Commerce, you should give up three-tenths of the profits. If you don't want to give, get out of Fuyang County as soon as possible. This is not a place for you to do business."

Seeing that he was so angry, Li Fugui almost knelt down in front of him.

Jiang Xiaohe chuckled and said, "I don't even bother to join a chamber of commerce like yours."

After saying that, he was about to leave.

Seeing her disdain, Old Wu became even more angry and cursed Li Fugui: "Don't introduce such lowly people to me in the future." After saying that, he turned his back.

Li Fugui immediately knelt down: "Mr. Wu, don't be angry, don't be angry, this is all my fault."

Who are you calling a cheap person? Jiang Xiaohe gritted her teeth as she watched this scene. Suddenly, without thinking, she rushed to the servant and took back the things she bought from him: "I won't give my things away to shameless people for free!"

After saying that, he turned around and left with Manager Chen and Zhang Qingshan.

Old Wu had never been scolded or treated like this before, and he immediately yelled at Jiang Xiaohe in anger, "I will make sure you can't stay in this county!"

Jiang Xiaohe turned around and looked at him: "It would be better if you didn't say that. Now that you say that, I want to try and see if I can survive in this county."

This time, after saying this, he went ashore without looking back.

Old Wu was so angry that he picked up the cup on the table and smashed it to the ground: "You ignorant child, a mere woman, dare to talk to me like this, I will make you pay for it!"

Li Fugui was very nervous and thought, Chen Dafu, oh Chen Dafu, you have really caused me big trouble this time.