Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

The voting room is completely enclosed, with a huge ballot box and ground pen and ink inside.

Voters only need to enter the room with their ballots, write the name of the person they want to vote on the ballot, and then put it into the ballot box.

After everyone entered the room one by one according to the waiter's arrangement and cast their votes.

Chu Mo shouted to everyone in the hall: "Now that all the votes have been cast, we will enter the voting period."

As soon as the words fell, the guys who were maintaining order immediately walked into the room where the voting had been done, took out several ballot boxes, and sent them directly to Chu Mo.

After all the ballot boxes were placed, Chu Mo randomly selected a few honest-looking people in the crowd and said, "Can you read?"

Those who were clicked nodded their heads to show that they were literate.

Chu Mo chuckled, pointed at the people who were called, and said, "Since you are literate, please come up and read the votes for me, so that no one will suspect."

After hearing what Chu Mo said, everyone in the audience expressed their belief in Chu Mo's character.

Chu Mo was not moved at all, and in front of everyone, he explicitly asked these people to come up and help count the votes, while he stood aside and became a supervisor.

Seeing Chu Mo being so calm, most people couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration in their hearts.

However, even if they were beaten to death, it would be impossible to believe that nearly half of the people here were arranged by Chu Mo.

When everything was ready, a group of people, under everyone's "supervision", began to take out their ballots and sang.

While counting the votes, in order to convince everyone, Chu Mo also asked those who were counting the votes to turn over the votes for everyone to see, to show fairness.

When everyone saw that Chu Mo had no reservations and acted so fairly, they immediately burst into appreciative voices.

However, when the final result came out, everyone was dumbfounded.

Because among the ten final winners, from five surnames and seven large families, except Cui Yingying who managed to squeeze into the top ten with 21 votes, none of the others were on the list.

As for the nine people in front, except for two well-known merchants in Chang'an City, the rest are just unknown people.

Although this result was far beyond everyone's expectations.

But after thinking about Zhu Laosan coming to disrupt the situation at the last moment, and Chu Mo making a concluding speech, everyone was not unable to accept this result.

There were only a few family heads with the five surnames and Qiwang. They had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but they couldn't find any reason to blame Chu Mo.

In desperation, they could only grit their teeth and accept this fact, but it was definitely impossible for them to surrender.

Just when they were preparing to secretly plan how to have some fun for Chu Mo.

Several guards suddenly rushed in at the door, and then Li Shimin, dressed in casual clothes, walked in quickly.

Seeing Li Shimin come in, some respectable people recognized him immediately. Just as he was about to salute, he heard Li Shimin laugh at Chu Mo who was upstairs, and then he cupped his hands and said:

"I don't know that Brother Chu is very happy today. I just came now. I wonder if it will disturb your good deeds?"

Chu Mo rolled his eyes: "Old Li, don't talk to me in such a tone. People who don't know really think that I want to have a wedding ceremony today."

With that said, he walked downstairs.

When those who were about to salute saw Li Shimin like this and were warned by the surrounding guards, they also gave up their plans to salute and gave up their positions one after another, wanting to see what His Majesty the Emperor meant by coming today.

Chu Mo walked up to Li Shimin and looked him up and down.

After not seeing each other for a few days, the other person had obviously lost weight. Not only were his eyes dark, but they were also bloodshot. It looked like he had indulged in too much.

Chu Mo clicked his tongue twice, sighing that Li Er was such a cool guy. His wife hadn't even been buried yet, and he started messing around with her. At the same time, he was envious of his good fortune.

If Li Shimin knew Chu Mo's dirty thoughts at this time, he would probably stage a drama that would tear people apart.

"I heard that you established some kind of Datang Chamber of Commerce. Why, you didn't notify me of such a big thing. Are you not prepared to be friends with me?"

Looking at Chu Mo's lewd eyes, Li Shimin felt a chill and looked at Chu Mo dissatisfied.

Chu Mo sighed: "Old Li, what is our relationship now? You must be forcing me to know more clearly. What is the original intention of the Chamber of Commerce in my city? Don't tell me that I don't know."

"Besides, I don't seem to be very familiar with you. Whether you come to establish a chamber of commerce or not will not have a great impact on me. Why should I invite you?"

"You... Chu Mo, do you really think your chamber of commerce can continue to operate without my consent?"

Chu Mo shrugged and chuckled: "I don't know whether the Chamber of Commerce can continue to operate. I only know that if you want to suppress my Chamber of Commerce, you must be prepared for my revenge."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to Li Shimin, but looked at the curious people around him and said:

"We have just elected 10 elders. Now, you will register the shops you run and the goods in your hands with those elders. After we have set the price in two days, we will notify you."

Seeing that Chu Mo and Li Shimin stopped talking after a few words, the merchants who originally wanted Chu Mo to persuade the other party to lower business taxes suddenly became a little dissatisfied and looked at Chu Mo with suspicion.

When everyone saw this, Chu Mo couldn't help but sneer and said: "Why are you looking at me like this? I will naturally do what I promised you before. In addition, if anyone is dissatisfied with the way I handle things, welcome You withdraw."

When Chu Mo said this, the crowd that was about to move fell silent instantly.

Several merchants who wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble also hurriedly stopped their actions.

Several family heads with the fifth surname and Qiwang also began to ponder after hearing Chu Mo's words.

Only Cui Yingying smiled sweetly and said to Chu Mo: "President Chu, we all know that you are extremely resourceful, and you have convinced us of your previous methods."

"It's just that this tax reduction is of great importance. We hope that President Chu will consider it more for us and don't miss the opportunity."

As soon as these words came out, everyone who knew Li Shimin changed their expressions.

If it weren't for Cui Yingying's words, then Chu Mo might still be able to help them bargain in front of Li Shimin.

But now Cui Yingying speaks directly and points out Chu Mo's purpose in front of Li Shimin. Isn't this the same as telling him directly: I am going to talk to you about tax reduction under the pressure of everyone. You can use the butcher knife to cut your flesh as much as you like. .