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Chapter 245 The two major guilds were formally established
After staying in Tianmenzhai for another day, Lin Yifan had to rush back to Dingxi City immediately. According to his prediction, the establishment of the two major commercial firms should be negotiated soon.

Everyone hurried back to Dingxi City, and after meeting Chen Dengke and Jin Jiuyuan, they learned about the situation in Dingxi City at this time.During the ten or so days he was away, the establishment of the two major guilds went very smoothly. At present, various agendas have been basically negotiated, and they are about to be formally established.

Originally, he was worried that the establishment of these two guilds would arouse the vigilance and interference of the Dingxi Army, but he did not expect that the Dingxi Army would be completely indifferent to this.In their view, mercenaries and merchants are just a group of lowly classes, as long as their interests are not violated, they don't bother to intervene at all.Because of this, the two major guilds were established very smoothly.

After more than ten days of negotiations, in the end, Xiong Feng was the chairman of the mercenary union, and Xiao Changying was a member of the elders group under him, responsible for the affairs of Beishan County.Naturally, Lin Yifan would not let go of this opportunity to set up an eyeliner. Many members of the investigation department began to infiltrate the trade union by joining major mercenary regiments.

The chairman of the chamber of commerce is the head of the Liu family, the largest merchant family in Shazhou, who served as the first chairman. Fortunately, Jin Jiuyuan, relying on the Jin family's signboard, was also recommended by major merchants to become a member of the five major deacons , has the power of rotating president.However, according to the procedure, he will serve as the president for one year after three years.

With the establishment of the two major guilds, under Lin Yifan's secret lead, the two major guilds began to negotiate on mercenary employment rules, remuneration and benefits.Negotiations were very difficult, and the merchants immediately became angry when faced with the unreasonable demands made by the mercenaries.If you agree to the conditions of these lowly mercenaries, wouldn't it be the same as letting the other party lie on your body to draw blood?Dang even rejected the conditions of the mercenaries and required them to follow the previous rules, otherwise, all the merchants in Shazhou would stop hiring these mercenaries and let them all drink the northwest wind.

Facing the aggressive attitude of the merchants, the entire mercenary world was furious. These merchants are so inhumane that they even want to suck the blood of our mercenaries. This time we have a trade union to make decisions for us. How can we be afraid of you?

All the mercenaries pinned their hopes on the trade union, and these expectations were like a mountain, weighing heavily on the new president, Xiong Feng.

After Lin Yifan's suggestion, Xiong Feng was not to be outdone, and immediately made a firm statement that he would never accept the businessman's threat. From now on, the mercenary will no longer accept the businessman's employment request, let's see who can't stand it first.

But in secret, he immediately summoned the chiefs of the mercenaries and discussed in secret for a long time.In the next few days, there were suddenly many horse thieves and sand thieves on the long corridor ancient road, constantly looting the goods of the passing merchants.Suddenly, the originally relatively stable ancient road suddenly became dangerous.Countless caravans were looted, and they ran back to Dingxi County to cry to the master's house.

The merchants naturally knew what was going on, and they all looked in the direction of the mercenary union, cursing secretly.But at this moment, they have already turned against them, and there is no way to reprimand them.But the merchants were also looking for a way to crack it. Immediately, many notices recruiting guards were posted all over the city, hoping to resist the harassment of the mercenary group by recruiting guards.But they never expected that the mercenary group had such a great influence among the three religions and nine streams in Dingxi City. Many people with martial arts skills gave up their plans to become caravan guards after being warned by the mercenaries.

When one plan failed, they thought of another plan. Through the money offensive, it made sense for the Dingxi Army to set up a patrol team to kill horse thieves on the long corridor and ancient road.But they didn't realize that these mercenaries were basically veterans who had been discharged from the Dingxi Army or due to injuries, or retired due to old age.Although in the eyes of the middle and upper echelons of the Dingxi Army, they simply dismissed it.But in the eyes of the soldiers of the lower ranks, the mercenaries are not only their seniors, but also the few destinations they will return to after they retire in the future, so they have a natural sense of closeness.Therefore, in the previous campaigns against thieves, these soldiers did not work hard, retreated when they were strong, and drove them away when they were weak.As a result, horse thieves dressed up as mercenaries are still active on various main roads, and they are inexhaustible.

Seeing this, the businessman was so angry that his teeth itched, but he didn't dare to show his teeth to the Dingxi army, so he had to resort to the last trick, using a strategy of sowing discord against the mercenaries.Directly bypass the mercenary union and offer favorable conditions to individual mercenary groups to allow them to accept their own employment in order to break down their cohesion.Sure enough, this method started to work. Facing the conditions offered by the businessmen, they were very tempted.The entire mercenary union was in turmoil and quarreled endlessly.The interior was divided into two factions, and the abuse continued all day long.

Seeing this, Xiong Feng became very anxious, and quickly asked Lin Yifan for advice.Lin Yifan didn't care about this, because these merchants could provoke only a small part of the entire Shazhou mercenary group, and most of the mercenaries still didn't get any benefits.That being the case, then take advantage of the opportunity to completely eliminate the restless people within the trade union, and eliminate the hidden dangers of the trade union in the future.

Therefore, Xiong Feng immediately held a trade union meeting and proposed to formulate a code of conduct for the trade union, stipulating that the mercenary group must be unified under the banner of the trade union and must not violate the decisions made by the trade union arbitrarily.This proposal was immediately approved by the vast majority of members and passed with an absolute advantage.Later, at the meeting, Xiong Feng rebuked those mercenary groups who were tempted by businessmen, and announced that they would be expelled from the trade union.If we meet in the future, we will never be merciful.

Amid the curses of the crowd, these mercenary regiments left the trade union with complicated expressions. What awaited them was the hostility of the entire Shazhou mercenary community, and they could not stay here any longer.Even though this move made everyone cheer, in the eyes of some shrewd people, they have already sensed the significance of the trade union's move. In the future, the power of the mercenary union will gradually override the mercenary regiment. President Xiong Feng is really kind Means.

As the plan to sow dissension was cracked, the merchants were dumbfounded. Do they really want to accept the conditions of these mercenaries?
At this time, Jin Jiuyuan stood up and put forward his suggestions to the businessmen.Since coercion and temptation cannot make the mercenaries yield, let's continue the negotiation.Since mercenaries can raise conditions, we merchants can naturally raise conditions too.They demand benefits and we demand service and security.As long as the convenience and smoothness of our transportation channel can be guaranteed, then there is nothing wrong with accepting their requirements.

After listening to Jin Jiuyuan's words, everyone suddenly realized.That's right, bargaining is the talent of us businessmen, how can we forget this?Since the hard bar is not enough, let's take advantage of the trend.As long as the goods can be transported smoothly and the risk is reduced, even if the mercenary's treatment is improved, it is still earned.

As a result, the merchants began to negotiate, and finally formulated a series of conditions to negotiate with the mercenaries.

The two sides finally sat down to continue the negotiation. During this period of stalemate, not only the merchants were uncomfortable, but also the mercenaries were also very sad. The prolonged strike made them more and more tight. If they don't open up the situation, they really can only Be a horse thief.

In order to end this fierce fight as soon as possible, the negotiations between the two sides quickly reached a consensus.The merchants promised to increase the cost of hiring mercenaries and some related benefits, and the mercenary union also agreed to strengthen the service standards and security strength of the mercenaries according to the conditions of the merchants.Soon, the two sides signed an agreement between the guilds to jointly maintain the prosperity and stability of the Shazhou commercial road.

After these matters were settled, Lin Yifan could finally leave Shazhou with peace of mind.This trip not only achieved a series of results with the Dingxi Army, but also stabilized the southwest of Hengshan.At the same time, it also promoted the establishment of the mercenary union and chamber of commerce in Shazhou, using this platform to secretly insert a hand into Shazhou.

Following Lin Yifan to leave Dingxi City was the Flying Eagle Mercenary Group. Xiao Changying is now one of the elders of the Mercenary Union, in charge of mercenary affairs in Beishan County, Shazhou, just south of Hengshan.

(End of this chapter)