Ruins of the past

A member of the Zhenmo Division stood beside Chu Qiguang and Yang Ling and introduced to them the people attending the shareholders' meeting.

The name of this household is Liu Fang. At this moment, he is pointing at a middle-aged man in the distance and saying: "This is Fei Yixian, the eldest son of Mr. Fei Ge."

"That is the great virtue of Dao Gangsi in Lingzhou, the real King Wang Xi."

"That is Prince Hui..."

Prince Hui was a fat man weighing more than two hundred kilograms. He stood out among a group of warriors. He was talking and laughing with Wu Wei and Sun Bin.

With Baihu's introduction, Chu Qiguang connected the names and faces one by one.

Soon after, the conference was officially convened, and hundreds of representatives were seated one by one.

Zhong Shan'e sat at the head of the table, looked at everyone and said, "Everyone, I don't need to say more about the situation of the two major chambers of commerce, Qingyang and Yunzhong."

"The stock price has plummeted, and gentry everywhere have suffered serious losses. In the past two days, the government offices at all levels in Lingzhou have almost been breached."

"If we continue to leave things alone, I'm afraid a turmoil will break out."

"The imperial court attaches great importance to this. I have specially invited you to gather today to calm the chaos in the stock market and stabilize people's hearts."

"If you have anything to say, why not speak freely."

In fact, Zhong Shan'e is a member of the Zhenmo Division, and theoretically has no control over textile and stock matters.

But who calls him a martial god who has entered Taoism? He also represents the current emperor after his death.

If he really wanted to intervene, there would be few things in Lingzhou that he couldn't interfere with.

One by one, family representatives began to speak, nothing more than crying about poverty, misfortune, and describing their heavy losses and hardship.

Zhong Shan'e listened patiently, and suddenly a man stood up and said, "The stock price fell because some demons spread the blueprints of the hydraulic textile machine. This hydraulic textile machine is a unique tool of our Qingyang Chamber of Commerce."

"As long as the imperial court can prohibit other businesses from circulating blueprints and manufacturing hydraulic textile machines, the stock price will naturally rise instead of falling."

Each family representative stood up and began to echo, hoping that the imperial court would order a ban on other chambers of commerce spreading and manufacturing hydraulic looms.

These are all shareholders of Wu Wei's chain. Their purpose is not to truly ban hydraulic textile machines, but they just need such a slogan.

With this slogan, when they secretly buy high and sell high, they will have the opportunity to raise the stock price, and then find a taker to exit safely.

Hearing their strong appeal, Zhong Shan'e looked into the distance: "Yang Ling, Chu Qiguang, what do you think?"

Yang Ling got up and introduced himself and Chu Qiguang.

Everyone's eyes changed slightly when they heard that Yang Ling was actually sent by the emperor to investigate the Lingzhou stock market.

There is no way, Emperor Yong'an's reputation of squeezing out immortal cultivation materials is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

One year, he even misappropriated disaster relief money to buy elixirs.

Seeing Yang Ling now... many shareholder representatives began to worry that the emperor was coming to get a piece of the pie.

As for Chu Qiguang, although he is slightly notorious among the Tianyu School, and some people know that he was the one who created the original Qingyang Chamber of Commerce, no one cares about him at this juncture.

Facing everyone's gaze, Chu Qiguang stood up and said, "I'm afraid the way these people said it is not appropriate."

Sun Bin has been frowning since Chu Qiguang appeared on the stage, and now his face darkened after hearing this.

Wu Wei on the side was even more angry. After all, Chu Qiguang's opposition... seemed to him to be blocking his way of making money.

Moreover, he blocked a financial path involving hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In particular, Chu Qiguang was supposed to be on their side, which made Wu Wei even more angry.

He stood up and said: "Chu Qiguang! If we don't prohibit those unscrupulous people outside from abusing hydraulic textile machines, how can we guarantee the stock price?"

Prince Hui, who weighed more than 200 kilograms, also said: "Chu Qiguang, I'm afraid you have been away from the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce for too long, and you no longer know how involved the stock market is today. All the shareholders here today have already lost millions. Two pieces of silver."

Sun Bin said sternly: "What Prince Hui said is exactly what he said. If we don't prohibit the random spread of hydraulic looms among the people, I am afraid that all the people in Lingzhou will lose their money in the future. Can you shoulder this responsibility?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Isn't it because the blueprints of the hydraulic textile machine were spread because monsters were mixed into the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce's workshop and were stolen by them?"

Sun Bin snorted: "Now is not the time to talk about this. The top priority is to save the market. If you can't think of a way, leave quickly and don't disrupt the conference."

Prince Hui waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, Chu Qiguang, please step back. What's the use of holding people accountable now."

Chu Qiguang smiled slightly: "Dear shareholders, the reason why the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce's stock price soared was because of the hydraulic spinning machine."

"Now that the hydroloom has been leaked, the stock price is starting to fall again."

"But if there are better machines, the stock price will naturally rise again, and the leakage of the hydraulic textile machine will not matter."

Hearing Chu Qiguang's words, everyone present was slightly surprised.

Then when Chu Qiguang brought everyone to the workshop where the mule machine was installed, all the shareholder representatives showed different expressions of surprise, suspicion, excitement, etc.

As the mule machine was running, Chu Qiguang slowly introduced:

"This device is called a mule machine."

"I led the craftsmen to improve the original water-powered spinning machine..."

"This machine combines the yarn-drawing drum wood and the main slide of the yarn-making spindle..."

"The number of spindles has increased from 400 to more than 900..."

"The yarn that comes out is not only denser and stronger, but the efficiency is also increased several times..."

Following Chu Qiguang's introduction, the eyes of all the shareholders present lit up.

They are all people who have already experienced the benefits of new equipment. Now faced with the mule machine that has once again increased productivity, how can they not understand the benefits?

Fei Yixian, the eldest son of the former chief assistant Fei Yi, couldn't help but said: "Mr. Chu, I'm offering you ten thousand taels for this mule machine. You can sell it to me."

Wang Xiwang, the Dade Master of the Dao Gang Department in Lingzhou, sneered and said: "You just bought this new appliance for ten thousand taels? Do you think everyone is a fool?"

As the two spoke, the scene instantly became noisy, and shareholders wanted to buy the mule machine.

Wu Wei and Sun Bin looked at each other in confusion, neither of them expected that Chu Qiguang had such a skill.

Facing the shouts of the crowd, Chu Qiguang waved his hands and finally calmed everyone down. Then he said: "To be honest, I originally wanted to sell this mule machine to Mr. Wu Wei."

"It's a pity that Mr. Wu didn't want to see me the last time I came to visit him."

Hearing this, many shareholders of Qingyang Chamber of Commerce looked at Wu Wei angrily.

Even Prince Hui couldn't help but glare at him.

Wu Wei looked confused and couldn't remember when Chu Qiguang wanted to sell his mule machine.

Sun Bin's face turned pale and he was on pins and needles for a moment.

Chu Qiguang continued: "But then I met Yang Ling and Yang Baihu, and he persuaded me to directly open my own chamber of commerce, with the Emperor and the Zhenmo Division as shareholders."

Hearing this, everyone present felt their hearts sink.

If Chu Qiguang, Zhenmo Si, and Emperor Yong'an all rely on mule machines to open a chamber of commerce, their stocks will be even less valuable.

But Chu Qiguang changed his subject and said: "But making money is a small matter, and national affairs are more important. Now that the Lingzhou stock market is in turmoil, I am willing to take over for the country."

"This general meeting of shareholders wants the chamber of commerce under my name to acquire Yunzhong and Qingyang..."