Chapter 2166

Compared with other countries in this era, Haihan has invested much more in administrative agencies at all levels, especially providing phased refresher training for officials at all levels, which is a means that other countries do not have. In addition,

, the institutionalization of management functions of administrative agencies at all levels is also far ahead of contemporaneous countries.

Although some drawbacks of the bureaucracy are still unavoidable, compared with other countries, the efficiency of Haihan's administrative agencies is quite high, and the governing concept of officials at all levels is not just to seek "peace in the world", but also to seek "peace in the world".

It is to develop the economic level of the areas under the rule as much as possible while in office. A governance style such as "protecting people's livelihood and promoting growth" can be said to be the basic requirement of every grassroots official of the Executive Committee.

Therefore, even in island colonial areas like Zhoushan, which has a weak industrial foundation and can only rely on re-export trade to drive its economy most of the time, officials at all levels are still doing their best to discover and organize characteristic industries for each region to boost the local economy.

level of development.

Small villages like Gaoxie Village, Fuqiang Village, and even the entire Baiquan Town, relative to the economic scale of Zhoushan Colonial Area, their output and foreign trade are only a very small amount, but if compared with the neighboring Ming Dynasty, the situation is much worse.

It's a level better.

Officials at the town level may not fully understand why their superiors ask them to do this, let alone concepts such as "land ownership", "production relations", and "collective economy", but they know that the implementation of these systems is indeed

Being able to change the local economic situation and people's living standards at a visible speed makes you know that you are doing the right thing.

As a newcomer to this system, Xiunian obviously has difficulty understanding the purpose and significance of these systems in the short term, but by visiting local villages in Zhoushan, he can intuitively feel Haihan's system.

Advantages. If you go back and read this code of work, it will be easier to understand some of its contents.

Of course, if all villages could operate like Gaoxie Village and Fuqiang Village, the town office would indeed be much easier. Maybe even Xiu Nianlai could make do with it as the mayor. But the actual situation is not.

It's so simple. The two villages Xiunian visited are above the horizontal line, and the management and management conditions of most villages are actually not comparable to them.

After all, there are only a handful of village chiefs with the caliber of Wang Dagui and Ren Song. However, phenomena such as limited ability, conservative thinking, and family control of the village are the norm in reality. The collective economy promoted by Haihan cannot be supported by everyone.

, there are still many people among the people who think that such a system is poisonous, and they are just unable to resist under the strong rule of Haihan. However, such people are often unwilling to cooperate with the government honestly, and even rely on it to fight in the countryside.

The influence of the government secretly confronts the government, and the town office has to face these resistances from the people head-on.

What is written in the work code is not only how to develop the economy, but also how to deal with those who are conservative or even disobeying orders. Xiunian had an excellent start in Baiquan Town, but this does not mean that he

The work here will be smooth sailing. Perhaps after he visits the ten villages in Baiquan Town, he will have a clearer understanding of this.

Yin Changxing, a North Korean who arrived in Zhoushan on the same day as Xiunian, had a less smooth experience there than Xiunian.

Since he was unfamiliar with Zhoushan, Yin Changxing restrained himself and did not rush to set up his own business. Instead, he continued to run errands for Yu Chengli, a Ming businessman. He used this job to gradually familiarize himself with the local situation and then slowly find a business that suited him.

There is nothing wrong with this idea. Yu Chengli also agrees with his approach and is willing to provide him with some help within his ability, such as keeping him temporarily so that he does not need to incur large additional expenditures on food and accommodation.

However, since he is working for others, Yin Changxing cannot put his own affairs above his work. Yu Chengli is so busy these days that Yin Changxing naturally has no time to take care of himself.

Something happened.

Yu Chengli's main business is textiles, but almost all the goods in his store are purchased in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and then transported to Hirado Port by sea. This time, Hirado Port suffered a disaster, although the Haihan Army allowed him to transfer his goods to Hirado Port.

The goods were shipped from Hirado, but after such a round trip, the cost of these goods also increased, and there was no advantage at all in the Zhoushan market.

After visiting several local cloth shops, Yu Chengli realized this disadvantageous situation. Because almost all of the local textile merchants' supply sources are in the nearby Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, transportation costs alone have great advantages, and some merchants

As a producer himself, his operating costs can be lowered. Compared with these merchants, Yu Chengli can hardly compete with others in price even if he sells the goods he transports back from Hirado at a loss.

But having these goods in the warehouse means that Yu Chengli's large amount of funds will be backlogged, which is by no means good news for a businessman.

When Yu Chengli withdrew to Zhoushan with the East China Sea Fleet, he still had the intention to open a business store here for long-term operation. However, if he invested a large amount of money to build a business store and the funds in his hand could not flow to generate benefits during this period, there would still be problems.

relatively high economic pressure.

For Yu Chengli, the wisest thing to do is to trade in your goods as soon as possible. Even if you lose a small amount, there are more benefits to holding it in cash. First, it is easier to store, and you don’t have to worry about insects, rats, or water or fire disasters.

secondly, it can save the cost of renting a warehouse for a long time; thirdly, it can flexibly use this part of the funds to make new investments, and there is an opportunity to earn back the loss of selling goods at a discount in a short period of time.

But who to sell these goods to and how to sell them is not a simple matter in practice. Yu Chengli is not familiar with the market conditions in Zhoushan and can only understand the market conditions through constant visits and judge how to proceed.

That's what's best for you.

As one of Yu Chengli's followers, Yin Changxing could only follow him everywhere. Yu Chengli could sit in a soft sedan and roam around leisurely, but he could only rely on his own two legs to keep up.

After a few days, Yin Changxing was very tired, but he still gained some achievements. At least he had an understanding of the textile market in Zhoushan, and he also learned to identify dozens of fabrics produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Yin Changxing recalled that when he was a fisherman in Seogwipo, he would wear out his coarse cloth clothes for three to five years until they were worn out and could not be repaired. He couldn't imagine that one day he would study these advanced clothes in a foreign country.

Fabrics, listening to the bosses talking about big deals worth tens of thousands of taels of silver around him, made him feel like he was in a dream.

But Yin Changxing is also very self-aware. With the little capital he has in Haihan Bank, he will definitely not be able to do high-end textile business in Zhoushan. The price of this piece of high-quality fabric ranges from a few taels to dozens of taels.

A hundred taels or less, he couldn't enter this circle with his little capital, and a slight price fluctuation in the market would make him vomit blood.

So even though he learned a lot about the textile business, for Yin Changxing, who has neither enough capital nor operational experience, this is more like a useless dragon-slaying skill. His current situation is not suitable for entering the industry.

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Yin Changxing was afraid that he was not knowledgeable enough, so he took the opportunity to ask Yu Chengli for advice. However, Yu Chengli's answer also disappointed him. He believed that his situation was not suitable for dealing in bulk goods such as textiles. Even if he wanted to enter the industry, it would be best to

After Yu Chengli opened a business in Zhoushan, he had to work in the store for a year and a half and become truly familiar with the operation of the business before he considered setting up his own business.

The advice given by Yu Chengli was very benevolent. Even though he knew that Yin Changxing's purpose in coming to Zhoushan was to be able to stand on his own one day, he was still willing to give him a hand.

"The threshold for this kind of large-scale transactions is extremely high, and it requires connections and channels. You won't be able to do it for a while. Otherwise, you can change your profession, start with small transactions, and do what you can." Yu Chengli kindly reminded him not to be too aggressive.

Yin Changxing thanked Yu Chengli, but he still had no idea where to start the "small business".

What he had seen in the urban area near Dinghai Port these days was that most of the businesses in the market were large-scale businesses with open shops. Most of the so-called small businesses were setting up stalls to sell food and drinks, but Yin Changxing had no cooking skills.

I'm afraid you'll have to lose money even more if you do this business.

This is actually Zhoushan's special trading environment. More than 80% of the businessmen who come here to do business are engaged in cross-border trade, so the scale of business is naturally not too small. Having said that, it is difficult to operate in a business like Dinghai Port that mainly relies on retail sales.

The place where every inch of land is at a premium can be maintained for a long time.

Although Zhoushan Dinghai Port is more prosperous than Yin Changxing imagined, it is not easy to find a business that can be entered into, and it is even more difficult than he expected.

In addition, foreigners like Yin Changxing will inevitably have some discomfort in the local living conditions. The society here is full of all kinds of weird rules, many of which Yin Changxing cannot understand, such as

Why do horse-drawn carriages, sedans, and rickshaws all drive on the right side by default on the road? Why do large transactions have to be settled with banknotes issued by Haihan Bank? Why is there a threshold for joining Haihan nationality?

There were some questions that he could find answers to on his own, but there were many more questions that troubled him, and since he had no relatives in the local area, it was difficult to find anyone who could answer these questions for him.

Yin Changxing couldn't help but think of Xiunian, a monk he met in Seogwipo. He didn't have time to say goodbye to Xiunian when he disembarked at Dinghai Port, so he didn't know his specific whereabouts. But he knew that the Japanese refugees brought to Zhoushan were all

After being sent to the immigration camp, he will definitely want to be naturalized as Haihan in the future. If he has the opportunity to meet Xiunian, he may be able to get answers to some questions from him.

Although Yin Changxing only thought of Xiunian as a friend when he was free, the chance to see Xiunian again came sooner than Yin Changxing imagined.

After Yu Chengli walked around the city for a few days, he basically gave up the plan of selling his own inventory. He put some samples on consignment in several stores. If they sold, he would give the store a commission. In this way, the store would not have to spend a lot of money to buy Yu Chengli's goods, but

If you help him sell it, you will still get a profit, which is considered a win-win operation.

Of course, the store was only responsible for helping Yu Chengli negotiate the deal, but Yu Chengli still completed the delivery and settlement by himself. That day, a cloth shop notified Yu Chengli that they had sold twelve pieces of silk cloth, and asked him to deliver the goods and collect the money.

Although it is not a big deal, considering Yu Chengli's current situation, it is good to be able to recover his health as soon as possible. Moreover, the store told him that the buyer is a town office on the island, which is equivalent to doing business with the government. This business

Very stable.

Yu Chengli did not dare to be careless because of this. Based on his experience in doing business in Hirado, how could the government's money be collected so easily? It might end up being a tribute to a certain official. However, the silk cloth ordered by the buyer was also

It wasn't a high-end product, and he couldn't afford the money. Yu Chengli had nothing to do, so he decided to go there himself, deliver the goods and check out, and get to know the buyer at the same time.

Yu Chengli hired a large truck to pick up the goods from the warehouse, and took Yin Changxing with him before leaving.

The destination was only a few miles away from the city and connected by official roads, so they arrived at the delivery location quickly.

Yin Changxing jumped off the carriage and saw a familiar figure at a glance. He couldn't help but say hello: "Master Xiunian?"

Xiunian didn't expect to meet an old acquaintance at the door of the town office, and hurried over to meet Yin Changxing and Yu Chengli.

"Why is Master Xiunian here?" Yin Changxing asked in surprise.

"I will be on duty here." Xiunian pointed to the door of the town hall, and then asked, "Why are you two here?"

"Are you working here as an errand? That's great." After hearing what Xiunian said, Yu Chengli suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and pointed to the carriageway: "Baiquan has calmed down a batch of silk cloth, and I'll transport it over right away.

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"So that's what happened!" Xiunian nodded to show that he knew: "Then put the goods in the car temporarily, and you two will follow me in to go through the formalities."

This batch of silk cloth was indeed ordered by the town government, but it was not for private use, but part of the town government's labor plan. There are twelve families in Baiquan Town who have children serving in the East China Sea Fleet and participated in this expedition. Jiang Zian and

After everyone discussed it, they decided to distribute some physical rewards to these twelve military families. The batch of silk cloth ordered from the city was also part of the physical rewards.

During the meeting and discussion, Xiunian was listening on the side, so she also knew about the arrangement of the town office. However, she did not expect that the person who took over the business was an old acquaintance, and that she could see them at the town office.

"I've been looking at each other with admiration for three days, but I didn't expect that Master Xiunian was already working as an errand in the government after not seeing him for a few days!" Yu Chengli sighed repeatedly, thinking that Xiunian had really encountered an excellent opportunity.
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