Yuehui Restaurant is also a top-notch restaurant in Yingtian Mansion. It is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. This time, the branch president election will be held here.
Although the meeting started at 6 o'clock, most people had already arrived early.
The venue was a courtyard, which was filled with chairs and coffee tables. The members sat down individually, but they went around chatting with each other.
"Have you heard that the store owner of Shengfa Department Store and Wei Ji Xian are the same person?"
"Now everyone knows about this, and looking at the report in the newspaper, it is obvious that they want to compete for the position of president of this branch."
"Hmph, this person's methods are vicious. If he becomes the branch president, can we still live a good life?"
"No, I'm afraid there aren't many people in our chamber of commerce who haven't been tricked by him. Even President Chang Sun was tricked by him."
"Everyone has been cheated by him, who will vote for him?"
"Yes, no one will vote for him. Let's boycott him together. We still want to dream of becoming our president."
"Speaking of which, the grand newspapers always favored him. Shopkeeper Cui couldn't publish a clarification in the newspaper. He just made any statement and published it immediately."
"..."
These words immediately put an end to the topic. The shopkeepers who had been talking about it just now changed the topic while laughing.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yang Xuan must have a certain relationship with Shengbao. With such a mouthpiece for public opinion, who would dare to challenge him?
Just when the time was approaching, Yang Xuancai suddenly appeared at the venue.
He was accompanied by assistant Yang Jie and little tail Lu Jing.
Lu Jing heard that she was running for branch president, so she came to watch the excitement.
Apart from Guan Yunrong, Lu Jing is the person who can best keep up with Yang Xuan's thinking.
When Yang Xuan first entered the venue, the people who were still talking about each other suddenly fell silent. Everyone looked at Yang Xuan, but no one said hello.
Some people saw Yang Xuan for the first time and were shocked by his age.
It turns out that the person who brought the entire Yingtianfu branch into chaos and brought down President Chang Sun was actually a brat?
The entire venue suddenly fell silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on Yang Xuan. If it were anyone else, he would probably become nervous in this situation, or even make a fool of himself in public.
But who is Yang Xuan? He has hosted large meetings, press conferences, and experienced big scenes with thousands of people watching. There are only a few dozen people here. To him, it is just a small scene.
The tables and chairs in the venue are all sitting in rows, and the row of tables and chairs at the front is opposite them, which is obviously the position of the rostrum.
Originally, Yang Xuan didn't know where he should sit, but when he saw Zhang Zhongliang sitting on the rostrum, he walked over unceremoniously, sat down directly next to Zhang Zhongliang, and even turned to fight with him.
Say hello.
Yang Xuan took the initiative to say hello, and Zhang Zhongliang responded.
"Mr. Zhang, when will the election start?"
"That's it."
After Zhang Zhongliang finished speaking, he stood up and announced the start of the meeting. He first gave an opening speech and then explained that Chang Sun Teng had to resign as branch president due to physical reasons. Today, a new branch president will be elected.
Currently, there are three candidates for branch president. Except for Yang Xuan who volunteered, the other two are relatively prestigious old members of the chamber of commerce.
Originally, these two people did not want to be presidents, but they were forced to become presidents by Zhang Zhongliang.
Speaking of which, merchants who are really powerful and have a good background will not look down on this chamber of commerce at all. Only businessmen with insufficient strength and background will join the chamber of commerce in order to stay together.
Of course, Yang Xuan is at the same level as them in terms of strength, but he has a profound background, and Shengfa Department Store is gaining momentum. Everyone can see how far Shengfa Department Store will develop, and we have to
Take a high look.
After speaking his opening remarks, Zhang Zhongliang announced that voting had begun.
This voting is not a show of hands, but everyone has an invitation. They only need to write down the candidate they support in the invitation, and then put it into the wooden box on the rostrum. Finally, the votes of the three candidates are tallied, and the one with the most votes is counted.
The person can serve as branch president.
When Zhang Zhongliang explained the rules, Yang Xuan pursed his lips and smiled, but did not use secret voting. In this way, his chance of winning would be even greater.
There are names on the invitations, and it's clear who voted for them and who didn't.
Yang Xuan has already flexed his muscles a little through the inaugural speech in Shengpai. If these members don't want to offend him, they will vote for him.
There were not many members, only about 60 people. The voting ended quickly, and the next step was to open the boxes and count the votes.
Zhang Zhongliang came on stage in person, took out an invitation from the box, and began to vote: "Shopkeeper Cui of Cui Ji Trading Company, vote for... Yang Xuan of Shengfa Department Store."
When the first song was sung, the whole audience was shocked.
This Cuiji firm was one of the eight firms that started Ming Pao together with Chang Sun Teng and the others. Apart from Chang Sun Teng, they were the ones who suffered the most misfortune, but even he voted for Yang Xuan.
However, the next series of votes turned out to be for Yang Xuan. Basically, these voting members were cheated by Yang Xuan.
Even those people who kept saying they wanted to boycott Yang Xuan in the previous chat also voted for Yang Xuan.
There were a total of sixty-five votes, and fifty-nine of them voted for Yang Xuan, and those who did not vote for Yang Xuan were businesses that had nothing to do with Shengfa Department Store or Weijixian.
This scene was unexpected by Zhang Zhongliang, not to mention the shopkeepers.
He had imagined that in this chamber of commerce, there would always be people who would take advantage of him or be afraid of Yang Xuan and have to vote for Yang Xuan, but he did not expect that Yang Xuan actually received almost unanimous votes.
However, Yang Xuan just smiled slightly at this situation, as he expected.
He spent three thousand taels of silver to collect a lot of dirty information about these merchants from the Police Department, and then sent it to them one by one.
Although there are no threatening words in those black materials, they can all imagine that if they don't vote for them, these black materials will appear in the newspapers.
Those eight companies, including Changsun Teng, fell on the black material exposed by Shengbao. Who dares to feel uncomfortable?
You must know that those eight shops have closed down recently. Let alone doing business in Yingtianfu, even survival is a problem.
Who wants to go out and see people glaring at them?
It feels uncomfortable to have someone poke your spine from behind all day long.
And why they kept saying they wanted to boycott Yang Xuan before was mainly because they had to vote for Yang Xuan, but they didn't want Yang Xuan to be elected president, so they all hoped that others would not vote for Yang Xuan.
As for why the seven firms other than Chang Sun Teng also voted for Yang Xuan, it was because Yang Xuan had talked to them privately and said that he would make a reasonable arrangement for them.
Anyway, they couldn't survive in Yingtian Mansion, so it didn't matter who became the president of the association to them, so they simply agreed to help Yang Xuan and see what benefits they could get from Yang Xuan.
