Chapter 234 New trends from the mainland

In addition to the busy work in the inland residential areas, people from the Military and Police Department have also arrived at the planned location and started building the Tielugang outpost.

Due to various objective reasons, the plan for the coastal defense fort in Tieliang Port was not approved in the end. In addition, the Executive Committee believed that the military threat posed by the Wanzhou area north of Tieliang Port was very limited. Therefore, the original heavy deployment of troops was not feasible.

It was changed to a lookout post, and early warning was used instead of fire strikes. After preliminary on-site surveys, the Military and Police Department selected a commanding height on the Yalong Ridge south of the entrance to Tielugang Port to establish a lookout post.

Although the altitude here is only more than 100 meters, it is not easy to transport a large amount of building materials from the shore. The Military and Police Department deployed fifty workers for this purpose, plus a platoon of militiamen, to carry them while opening the road.

It took a whole day to transport various supplies and building materials for building the outpost to the predetermined location. After the outpost is built, a squad of militiamen will be stationed here for a long time, mainly to monitor the sea areas on the north, east, and south.

, to prevent other forces from sneaking attacks on Tieliang Port from the sea, and to provide early warning to inland residential and production areas if necessary. Its function is basically the same as the outpost at Yulinjiao in Victory Port.

Due to the proper planning and layout in advance, the colonization operation progressed very quickly. By sunset that day, the workers responsible for building the residential area had cleared a large area of ​​foundation and erected the capitals of several boat-shaped houses. According to the maritime transportation

According to the Ministry's calculations, 80% of the building materials and supplies have been delivered, and the first batch of new immigrants selected in advance can be gradually transported here the next day.

According to the arrangement of the executive committee, the administrative planning of Tielugang will be divided into two communes, the north and the south. The commune in the south will be used to plant salt-alkali tolerant crops, mountain crops and fisheries because there are relatively few nearby tidal flats.

As for the main industry, the communes in the north will make full use of the large coastal tidal area, with salt as the main industry.

The Executive Committee has decided to establish a separate Salt Industry Department within the Ministry of Industry. The Shengli Port Salt Field that has been completed, the Tielugang Salt Field that is under construction, and even the Yinggehai Salt Field that is still under planning will all be managed by the Ministry of Industry in the future.

The newly established Salt Industry Department will be under unified management. All salt export business will also be separated from the current commerce and trade department and handed over to the Salt Industry Department. As for the person in charge of this newly established unit, it will be handed over to the Salt Industry Department without any suspense.

Anxi has the richest professional qualifications and has nearly half a year of salt field operation experience. However, the relevant appointment order has not been announced yet. The executive committee will not announce the appointment decision until the Tielugang colonization site starts to be put into normal operation.

After Luo Shengdong and his friends made another shipment the next day, they said goodbye to Tao Donglai and took the fleet to the north. This time the executive committee paid him five pounds of salt.

A thousand kilograms. For the Chuanchuan Group, the production cost of this salt is less than 100 yuan. Hiring seven or eight boats for nearly two days is completely cost-effective. But for the salt dealer Luo Shengdong, these five thousand kilograms of salt are sold for

When he arrives at Qiongzhou Mansion, he will get a gross profit of one thousand taels of silver. Excluding the consumption in the past few days and the dividends distributed to his subordinates, Luo Shengdong can pocket at least half of the silver, which is a lot of money in total. Both sides have a lot of money.

We get what we need and are very satisfied with this way of cooperation.

However, Luo Shengdong had one more task to go to Qiongzhou Fucheng this time. After hearing Tao Donglai's words, Luo Shengdong's mind slowly started to move. Whether he can be promoted to Qianzong is certainly important, but if

If I can move my future father-in-law to the position of governor of Yazhou next year, I believe it will be more beneficial to me.

Although the Haihan people are currently not very interested in the land in Phoenix Town, judging from their development speed, Victory Port will definitely not be able to accommodate them. Sooner or later, they will expand outside. In this way, sooner or later, the power of the Haihan people will

It has developed to Fenghuang, Tianya, and even Nanshan Town, which is close to Yazhou. Instead of giving all the benefits to these officials who are retiring now, it is better to save them for the future and transfer all these benefits to the father-in-law in charge of Yazhou -

—Anyway, my father-in-law has an only daughter, so the benefits that my father-in-law gets are not my own benefits?

Of course, although Luo Shengdong's abacus was very good, he had to find a way to help his father-in-law ascend to the throne first. This time he went to Qiongzhou Fucheng not only to sell salt, but also to explore ways for his father-in-law to take over Yazhou. Tao Dong

He has already made it clear that he will support him. Luo Shengdong naturally understands that this kind of "support" means more than just verbal support. Haihan people have always been very generous in giving gifts to officials in Yazhou. Luo Shengdong believes that as long as he

If they find the right way, then the Haihan people will be happy to use money to help them push their father-in-law into power.

As for what kind of benefits the Haihan people would ask for from him after this matter was completed, Luo Shengdong no longer wanted to think about it in detail. Anyway, his head should have been chopped off and hung in Yazhou half a year ago.

The city gate is up, and since it is still growing on my neck, it means that the path I have chosen so far has been right, and I will just continue to go down from now on. Cooperating with the Haihan people can lead to promotion and wealth, which is also

Nothing bad.

On October 20, three large Guangzhou ships with 400 materials slowly sailed into the Port of Victory. These three ships came from Guangzhou, and one of them was a second-hand ship recently acquired by the Guangdong Office in Guangdong. Counting the ships that had already arrived in Shengli

There are currently two large ships in the port that can be used as the main transportation force in the next Vietnamese immigration operation.

The other two ships were ships of the "Fu Ruifeng". The person in charge sent by Li Jifeng to Victory Port to negotiate trade this time was still an old friend of the Crossing Group, the third young master of the Li family, Li Nai. However, this time the old steward He Qiang did not

I followed him on the visit, and it was said that he was sent to other places to handle other matters.

Li Nai's visit brought to the Crossing Group many materials purchased by the Guangdong Office, such as cloth, tung oil, leather, copper ingots, tin, sulfur, etc., as well as various handicrafts recently hired by the Guangdong Office.

There are more than 50 craftsmen, more than 30 orphans accepted by the Charity Hall, more than 30 sailors, and nearly 100 poor people who voluntarily immigrated to Victory Port to try their luck.

In addition, Li Nai's trip also brought a lot of supplies and manpower. These items were not used for transactions with the Crossing Group, but to prepare for the implementation of the cooperation agreement reached by the two parties in August and start the construction of the Victory Port area.

Establishing business stores, building restaurants, and other special industries that single young men have long awaited.

Of course, as the Executive Committee attaches great importance to health and epidemic prevention, it will not easily let Li Nai bring these people ashore. Anyone who plans to live in Victory Port for a long time must undergo necessary quarantine and quarantine in accordance with the existing system.

Isolation and observation measures are implemented, especially for young women who have clearly come to work in special industries, and must undergo a comprehensive physical examination before being allowed to log in.

Li Nai didn't quite understand the harsh measures taken by the Executive Committee and the Port Management Committee. He even went to Tao Donglai and asked for the people on the ship to be released as soon as possible. After all, they had been wandering at sea for a week, and some of them were not in good health.

The good woman almost only had half her life left, and Li Nai didn't want the person who had been transported all the way from Guangzhou to be carried directly into the coffin without doing anything.

However, the executive committee has not relented on this. The matter of cooperating with "Furuifeng" for commercial development is still quite controversial. In particular, the feminists led by Raisa have always been opposed to the Victory Port area.

They objected to the establishment of places like "brothels". If any messy diseases were to come out in these places, the few people who approved the matter would be blamed. Therefore, the executive committee also secretly issued instructions to the medical department.

After the death order is issued, the source of infection must be eliminated in the early stage, and strict monitoring and random inspections must be carried out in the later stage to prevent any scandals due to health conditions.

In order to comfort Li Nai, Tao Donglai pulled him to the planned commercial area and showed him the land belonging to "Furuifeng". At present, the foundation here has been basically leveled, and all the trees

Even the tree roots have been cleaned up, and the various bamboo and wood building materials needed to build the house have been prepared in accordance with the original requirements of "Furuifeng" and are all piled in the nearby open space. They are just waiting for the construction team to enter the site.

, construction can begin immediately.

Seeing that the preparations had been completed, Li Nai put aside his previous unhappiness and said to Tao Donglai: "Mr. Tao, according to your original request, I specially sent people to Victory some time in advance.

Hong Kong will accept the epidemic prevention inspection you mentioned, but now these women are not allowed to set foot on the shore. Is this going too far?"

Tao Donglai looked around and saw that Luo Wudan, who had been wandering around before, was gone. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Mr. Li, when you came to Victory Port last time, you should have learned about our

The existence of places like brothels is very cautious. For us, any scandal brought by such a place can be a sufficient reason for it to close down, especially in terms of hygiene. If there is any Haihan people in it

If you are infected with some mysterious and mysterious disease, not only will the brothel be closed down, but you, 'Fu Ruifeng', will probably be classified as unwelcome."

Li Nai said disapprovingly: "These women are all carefully selected and have been examined by someone when they were in Guangzhou."

Tao Donglai still insisted: "For the sake of smooth future cooperation, it is always right to be cautious. I guarantee that these people will be allowed to disembark and disembark by tomorrow at the latest."

What Tao Donglai did not say was that even if these people were able to set foot on the land of Victory Port, they would be sent directly to the isolation residence, where they would stay for at least seven to ten days and undergo another comprehensive inspection before they would be issued with local quarantine.

Residence permit. However, there is no need to explain these things to Li Nai in detail. He will be dissatisfied with the previous arrangements. What he cares about is not the future and fate of these people, but how much weight his own face has among the Haihan people.

That's all. Tao Donglai's patient explanation had already made him feel the respect of the Haihan people, and that was enough.

In addition to these, the most important purpose of Li Nai's trip was to discuss with the Executive Committee matters about further expanding the scale of trade. After Li Nai returned to Guangzhou in August, he was immediately sent overseas by Li Jifeng to Huizhou, Chaozhou and Shao

Li Nai spent nearly a month traveling to the capitals of these states to promote private salt trade, met with some local businesses and officials, and successfully reached several intentional cooperation agreements.

In the future, "Furuifeng" will provide cheap supplies, and these merchants and even officials will be responsible for local distribution channels.

The business of selling illegal salt is a capital crime for ordinary people, but for powerful people, it is a shortcut to make a fortune. The partners Li Nai has negotiated with in these states are worth every month.

The amount of salt ranges from three to five thousand kilograms to tens of thousands of kilograms. There are even some people who have proposed to cooperate with "Furuifeng" to traffic private salt to Ganzhou, Jiangxi and Chenzhou, Huguang for sale. Li Nai's second brother

Li Po has also achieved similar promotion results in Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, and Leizhou. Although there is no news about the Li family's promotion activities in Fujian yet, judging from the situation in Guangdong, the situation in Fujian will not be either.

How bad is it.

Since then, the salt trade volume between "Furuifeng" and Chuanchuan Group has rapidly increased from 10,000 jins per month to 50,000 jins, and then to the current 120,000 jins, and will continue to rise in the near future.

trend - however, the supply volume currently required by "Furuifeng" still has a small problem with the current production capacity, and it will take some time to alleviate this situation.

Of course, in addition to salt, Haihan glass products, which have become a popular trend in Guangzhou cultural circles, are also on the product list of the promotion. However, due to the current supply volume of Chuanchuan Group to the mainland,

It can barely meet the market needs of Guangzhou and surrounding areas. Therefore, when these glass products are trafficked to areas slightly farther away from Guangzhou, the price begins to rise significantly. For example, in Chaozhou, which is more than 800 miles away from Guangzhou, a set of

The price of the colorful carved glass stationery produced by Haihan has reached thousands of taels of silver, and it has been in a state of being priceless for a long time. Due to the complicated production process and low yield rate of this stuff, the total number of products sold by Chuanchuan Group so far has been

Only about fifty units have been sold.

In Huizhou, Chaozhou, and Shaozhou alone, the market demand for glass stationery in the three places where Li Nai went has far exceeded the current production capacity of Chuan Chuan Group. Li Nai said that as long as Chuan Chuan Group can provide sufficient supply, "Fu Rui

In terms of "feng", the purchase price can even be appropriately increased.

As for the matches and soaps recently launched in Guangzhou, because the current production is too small and the supply is insufficient in Guangzhou, they have not been promoted to other places at all.

In addition to these civilian commodities, Chuan Chuan Group’s key export items, arms, have also received feedback from buyers in Fujian - 500 Type 27 matchlock guns and 20 artillery pieces of two calibers, large and small, of course.

, and a large amount of special ammunition for Haihan firearms. The content of this second arms order from the mainland has exceeded the first one. Obviously, the quality and actual effectiveness of these arms have been recognized by users.

Although before Li Nai arrived, the Executive Committee had actually learned about the contents of the trade order that "Furuifeng" would bring through the radio station of the General Office of the People's Republic of China, but after hearing Li Nai say it in person, the Executive Committee still asked

You will feel the joy of success again.

At the request of Tao Donglai and others, Li Nai also briefly explained this. Last time, "Furuifeng" did not get off the ship after the first batch of arms ordered from Victory Port was shipped back to Guangzhou. It was carried out at the dock.

After receiving the supplies, they went straight to Fujian. "Fu Ruifeng" finally followed the instructions of the Cross-Travel Group and quietly sold the arms to Xu Xinsu's party in the name of a middleman.

At this time, Xu Xinsu's forces were gradually at a disadvantage in the naval battle, and even some trade routes had been blocked by the pirate ships of the "Eighteen Zhi". Not only that, the "Eighteen Zhi" began to organize manpower from the middle of the year.

Attacking multiple land targets along the coast of Quanzhou Prefecture put great pressure on Xu Xinsu. At this time, the batch of guns and artillery shipped from Guangzhou was a timely help for Xu Xinsu, and there was no dispute about the price at all.

, the other party directly accepted the order.

Although most of Xu Xinsu's men were pirates and had only shed their original skins and put on Ming army uniforms in the past year or two, many of them can handle firearms, which is much better than the peasant army of North Vietnam.

.Therefore, although the Cross-Travel Group did not provide any technical support for the firearms sold, Xu Xinsu still put the new weapons into battlefield applications in a very short period of time.

It has to be said that the use of new weapons is very effective. In a land offensive and defensive battle that broke out at Zhongzuo Station, Xu Xinsu's party, who used firearms, easily defeated more than 2,000 incoming pirates. Afterwards, it was said that "the formation killed more than a thousand pirates."

".Compared with this remarkable record, the losses suffered in this battle were so small that they were almost negligible.

Of course, the "Eighteen Zhi" was not without firearms and equipment, but they did not expect that Xu Xinsu, who had been immersed in beatings, would suddenly have such strong firepower. Half a month later, the "Eighteen Zhi" organized another attack on the Zhongzuo Institute

Attack, and equipped with a considerable number of muskets and various tiger squat cannons, Folang machine guns and other heavy weapons, but unexpectedly this time they were still defeated by the opponent, and even those men who used firearms suffered heavy casualties - regardless of the range of the weapons,

In terms of lethality and speed of reloading and launching, the firearms in the hands of "Eighteen Zhi" cannot compete with the opponent.

This does not mean that the "Eighteen Zhi" are completely helpless against their opponents. Zheng Zhilong still has many authentic Hongyi cannons that he bought from the Dutch earlier. Their caliber, power, and range are all superior to the Haihan cannons.

Above. However, this kind of cannon weighs two to three thousand kilograms each and has almost zero maneuverability. It is only suitable for use as a defensive weapon. If you want to transport it to Zhongzuo Station by ship, then move it ashore and drag it to the bottom of the city to attack.

The city is a bit too difficult.
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