Chapter 550: Chapter 552 Learn More_1 Chapter 550: Chapter 552 Learn More_1 “If there’s anything important going on in the Business Association, you must let know!” Ye Ge once again hugged Nan Feng.
“Okay!”
Nan Feng went to a eting the following afternoon.
The governor, however, only made a brief appearance.
He was a very thin elderly man with a long beard and white hair.
Nan Feng thought he didn’t look as good as Song Cheng.
The governor asked everyone present at the eting to introduce themselves.
All those called for the eting were top traders from a variety of industries.
Nan Feng was invited because she now owned Plant Beauty Hall.
After everyone introduced themselves, the governor said a sentence which made Nan Feng think he must be senile, because he rambled on: “The benevolent rise by their wealth, while the heartless grow wealthy by exploiting others.
In the old days, there were n like Fan Li who repeatedly amassed and dispersed fortunes.”
Nan Feng was utterly lost.
After the governor finished speaking, he explained in plain language: “These words an that as rchants, you’re not just here to make money.
You must understand the principle of ‘take from the people, use for the people’.
The environnt you operate in was created by the court.
When the court needs you, you should also do your best.
In order to improve your business acun, you should study more.”
Was he suggesting that rchants should study more about culture?
After saying this, the governor left.
The chairman of the eting then took over the proceedings.
The chairman of the Provincial City Business Association was a man in his forties nad Wan Hui.
He was also elected.
He was the owner of the largest bank in the provincial city, and seed quite steady.
Chairman Wan didn’t say much, but just reiterated the governor’s point: “Fellow rchants, whether we are rivals or aligned, please pay attention.
Rumors are spreading that rchants don’t recognize big characters and are ruthless in their pursuit of wealth, guilty of dishonest business practices.
We must first enhance our cultural knowledge.
I will distribute paper and pens to everyone present.
You’re required to write down the first few passages of ‘The Great Learning of the Book of Rites’.
Those who can’t write it must co to the Association every day to study for an hour until you can.”
Nan Feng was stunned.
‘The Great Learning of the Book of Rites’?
What the hell?
Did ancient rchants really have such a lowly status that they had to know all this just to do business?
Many of the rchants present also seed unsure, scratching their heads and tugging their ears, unable to write anything for so ti.
A few people wrote out the full text sporadically.
So wrote half but couldn’t recall the rest.
So, like Nan Feng, didn’t write a single character.
The man next to her, from a family of swordsmiths, didn’t write because he didn’t know how.
He started chatting with Nan Feng: “Lady, you don’t seem like an uneducated person, you’re dressed so finely and you look very smart.
Not like us rough swordsmiths who start working at the age of five.”
“Five years old?
Aren’t you afraid of getting burnt?” Nan Feng asked.
“It’s not that easy to get burnt.
We have protective asures.
At that age, they’re only there to watch and learn.”
“So, are your shop’s swords selling well?
Is there high demand?
Are they usually bought by wandering martial artists, or are they custom made for the governnt?” Nan Feng began to probe into soone else’s business.
Typical rchant.
“A little bit of both, by those in the Jianghu and by officials.
There are more official orders though, they mainly want broadswords and flat-bladed knives for killing enemies.”
“That must be quite profitable, right?”
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