Chapter 312 Everyone is here

Zhan Gui's request is actually not that many. He just wants to buy a homestead in Shengli Port and build a house, and then move his favorite one-room concubine and her children to live here. In addition, he also hopes that his children can enroll in Shengli Port.

Elementary school - he visited it personally, and was very satisfied with the school's environment and teaching methods. Of course, another reason is that the concubine's child is a daughter, not a son, and there is no need to study the Four Books and Five Classics to take the imperial examination.

Just studying and being literate is enough. And there are many girls in the Haihan people's schools. When Zhan Gui visited last time, he even saw two Western dolls attending school here - the two daughters of Bearded Johnson, Jay.

Sikka and Emily.

Even those barbaric Westerners sent their children to school here. Zhan Gui felt that this had fully proved the educational capabilities of the Haihan people, so when he made a request to Ren Liang, he specifically asked about the enrollment of his children.

As for the difference between land ownership and use rights that most people attach great importance to, Zhan Gui doesn't care much - it's just a matter of a few hundred currency notes inside and outside, and it can be solved by transporting a ship of salt to the south. Besides, the Han people in Hainan

In terms of credibility, Zhan Gui is not worried about things like the land being taken back by the Haihan people after the house is built.

Ren Liang's answer to Zhan Gui has also solved the matter satisfactorily - the executive committee will specially grant Zhan Gui two acres of homestead land. The cost is slightly lower than the commercial land in the port business district, and his daughter can use it at any time.

Enrolled in Shengli Port Elementary School. However, because he was not a naturalized citizen, the tuition and miscellaneous fees had to be paid in full. Of course, this small amount of money was just a drop in the bucket for the wealthy Zhan Gui.

As for whether there is any meaning behind Zhan Gui's move of moving his family to Victory Port, and whether he intentionally used this to show his goodwill towards Haihan, the Executive Committee does not intend to make it clear.

As the Sanya area gradually prospers, it is only a matter of time before the middle- and upper-class people in society move in. Eventually, Zhan Gui's case will gradually develop into a common phenomenon. The Sanya urban area in the executive committee's long-term plan is actually for China.

The living area prepared by the upper class, and the middle and upper class population living in Sanya area in the future will obviously have a very high proportion of outsiders. However, by that time, there should be further changes to the household registration system for the settled population.

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Whether it is the first time to set foot in Victory Port or an old customer like Zhan Gui, almost everyone in the inspection team has some special requirements. Those who have not established an agency in Victory Port are eager to figure out how to go through various procedures.

Those who have taken root locally hope to start discussing the specific project of "Qiong Lianfa" as soon as possible - coming so far and not talking about money? What a joke, everyone is so busy.

In the end, it was Schneider who came forward to appease the enthusiastic businessmen of the Ming Dynasty: "You must have been working hard after being at sea for so many days. Let's settle down and have a good rest today. There will be a reception dinner for you in the evening. Let's take care of ourselves first.

Let’s talk about the spirit. As for the questions you just raised, don’t worry, we will arrange for personnel to go to your resting place to solve them one by one.”

There was a large crowd of people in this inspection group, with as many as seventy or eighty people. Although several inns and hotels in the business district had been notified by the management committee long ago and tried their best to free up some rooms, they still could not accommodate this group.

Help people. So a small number of merchants who were considered reliable were fortunate enough to settle in the shack guest house in Base No. 1.

It is worth mentioning that at the plenary meeting two days ago, one of the last resolutions left by the previous executive committee was to rename the No. 1 and No. 2 bases "Victory Fort" and "Tian Du" respectively.

"Fort". When the inspection team arrived today, it happened to be the opening ceremony of "Fort Victory". Of course, as guests of the ceremony, the wealthy businessmen of the inspection team had to give some money to congratulate them. But this money is not enough

Not for nothing, each family got a souvenir - a glass paperweight engraved with the words "First Anniversary of Fort Victory", and this thing is definitely a limited edition that will not be sold on the market. The value of this rare thing is not a little bit

What can be measured by silver.

In the afternoon of the same day, the "Lightning" sent to Yacheng to pick up the people also turned around smoothly. Wei Ping's brother-in-law Wang Tongzhi and Luo Shengdong's father-in-law Zhang Tongsuan arrived on the same ship. Although these two people have been dealing with the time traveling group, they have not been together for a short time.

, but this was the first time for them to come to Shengli Port in person. Although they had heard Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping's various descriptions of the Shengli Port area many times beforehand, when they really came here and saw the barren mountains and ridges, they were incomparable.

The human bay has turned into the bustling port it is today, and the visual shock is truly indescribable.

As the official representatives of the Ming Dynasty, these two people and their entourage received the best reception. A two-story simple shack has been specially set up for them in the Victory Fort. As for the reception banquet in the evening, these two people

They will also keep a distance from other inspection groups to show their official dignity. Of course, the money spent to invite these two people to come forward is not in vain. At the celebration ceremony tomorrow, the two local officials will appear in public, so that

Both local people and foreign businessmen can confirm the influence of Chuanchuan Group in the Yazhou area.

In addition to superficial articles, the more important thing is the next trend of Yazhou's political situation. The term of the currently serving magistrate has expired, and when he recovers from his illness, it will be almost time to sign and resign. And the successor is in the Chuanchuan Group

Thanks to the desperate activities, Luo Shengdong's father-in-law, Zhang Tongpan, has basically been finalized. Among them, the current magistrate of the state, Wang Zhiqu, He Shenzhen of Shuizhai and Zhang Qianhu of the Wei Suo Army have all taken the position of the Cliff Office.

The good thing is that they jointly wrote a letter of recommendation to Qiongzhou Fucheng. With the joint recommendation of local senior military and political officials, things are almost guaranteed to work. After all, Yazhou is located in a remote place, and it is not a big deal to be an official here.

What a good job - of course that was before the Haihan people appeared, so the future situation needs to be discussed separately.

These senior local officials, who have reached the threshold of retirement this year, all received a lot of benefits from the Crossing Group before resigning. Compared with their colleagues who are officials in the north, at least the harvest this year is quite good. If

If they have any dissatisfaction, they probably think that the Haihan people appeared too late - if they had come here ten or eight years earlier, how much money could they have made by now?

A lot of money has been spent, and the Executive Committee also wants to let them use their residual energy as much as possible before they leave office, such as the ownership of land along the Linchun River and Sanya River, or the Executive Committee's special projects in the Sanya area

The issue of law enforcement power.

According to the development plan of "Qiong Lianfa", the entire southern part of Qiongzhou Island, especially the coastal plain area between Shengli Port and Yacheng, will become the implementation area of ​​various construction projects. This includes both urban construction plans and large-scale projects.

Large-scale agricultural development, but no matter what kind of project it is, it will eventually involve the issue of land ownership.

Most of this area is ownerless land, but there are also some fields that have been reclaimed. Some farmers or small landowners have legal land registration procedures in Yacheng. If the Crossing Group wants to expropriate these lands, it will inevitably end up with someone.

There is a conflict between some stakeholders. If the land purchased can be directly redeemed with money, then naturally it is best to resolve it peacefully. Anyway, there are a large group of shareholders holding money behind "Qiong Lianfa", so there is no need to worry about lack of funds. I am afraid that it will be a bit stubborn.

If the elements refuse to accept hard and soft policies, it will be more troublesome to deal with it. It is not that the executive committee is unwilling to carry out forced demolitions, but it just does not want to affect its reputation for this. If Yacheng can provide some "convenience",

That would be the best.

The main negotiator on this matter was, of course, Zhang Tongpan, who was about to take office. After settling the team of the two officials, Tao Donglai asked Luo Shengdong to come forward to find an excuse and invite Zhang Tongpan alone.

Discussion in the meeting room of the Executive Committee.

Together with Tao Donglai, he met with Zhang Tongpan, Luo Shengdong, Schneider and Ning Qi. After a few pleasantries, the two sides quickly got down to business. Ning Qi stood up and hung a map on the whiteboard in the conference room.

The judge could see this map of Yazhou at a glance, but the mountains, rivers, and coasts on this map were all very clear, and the quality was obviously much better than the rough map used by the state government.

"Master Zhang, please look, this is Yacheng, and this is Victory Port." Ning Qi explained while marking two locations on the map: "The two places are only a hundred miles apart. Currently, more than 80% of Yazhou's population is concentrated in Chengdu.

We live in these two places, but the level of development in the middle area is quite poor. According to our statistics, between Fenghuang Town and Nanshan Town, there are only 237 households, less than a thousand people, and

The total number of people in Yacheng and Victory Port on both sides has exceeded 30,000."

"It's a pity that this area is so abandoned, so we are going to develop it." Ning Qi drew a large circle in the two river basins with his hands: "Here we will build a residential complex that can accommodate 10,000 households.

New towns and river ports.”

Then he drew a circle to the north of Fenghuang Town: "This area has flat terrain and sufficient water resources. It is perfect for agricultural development. We plan to build several large farms here. In addition to planting crops, we are also preparing to develop

Livestock breeding.”

"Between Nanshan Town and Tianya Town..." Ning Qi moved his hands quickly to circle the area: "...we are going to use it to grow cash crops, that is, crops such as sugar cane and spices. The cultivation time of such crops

It is relatively short, and you can get results within one or two years after planting. If it can be developed on a large scale, the annual income will be very considerable - of course, the taxes that Yazhou officials can receive will also

Many times more than now.”

Luo Shengdong had already given his father-in-law various vaccinations before coming here. Zhang Tongpan also knew that the Haihan people were always bold in doing things, but he never expected that the other party had such a big plan.

All the coastal areas were enclosed. And the style was so natural, it seemed as if these places had long been in their possession.

Zhang Tongpan coughed dryly and said, "Mr. Ning, do you know how big this area is?"

"It's not a problem to be big. We have plenty of manpower available. Currently, the number of imported workers in Victory Port every month will not be less than 2,000. Now the population is basically the same as Yacheng, and it will be at least double that of Yacheng within the year. There are so many available

Mr. Zhang does not need to worry about the manpower shortage." Ning Qi immediately answered.

Zhang Tongpan did not expect that Ning Qi answered so fluently. He seemed to be completely confident. He quickly added: "What I am talking about is not the land area, but the cost of developing such a large area. It should not be

A small amount, right?”

"Ah, it turns out that Mr. Zhang is worried about our financial problems!" Ning Qi pretended to have a sudden realization and nodded: "Since it is a financial problem, let's ask Mr. Shi to explain it."

Schneider responded with a smile: "Then I will briefly explain the funding issue to Mr. Zhang. In order to develop this area, we have established a new business name called 'Qiongzhou United Development Company' together with twelve commercial banks in the mainland.

The required construction funds will be jointly spent by 13 shareholders. In terms of financial strength, there is probably no other company in South China that can match us. So far, we have received nearly 150,000 taels of development funds.

Silver, if the project is confirmed, it won’t be a big problem to raise one or two times more funds. If you throw hundreds of thousands of taels of silver into it, there will be changes in this place, right?"

What does it mean to be wealthy? Compared with Mr. Shi, who is said to be the financial director of Haihan, Zhang Tongpan feels that the so-called wealthy gentry in Yacheng are simply weak. Small businessmen are still struggling for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in business.

By the time he was racking his brains, the wealthy man had already planned a business worth hundreds of thousands of taels. Of course, Zhang Tongpan had done some homework to understand whether the Haihan people really had such economic strength. Regarding this aspect,

, his good son-in-law Luo Shengdong gave him a lot of valuable information.

The Haihan people have purchased nearly 30 ships with 400 materials during this year. They are still building and buying them at the same time. It seems that they have no intention of stopping at all. And based on the current level, what they have

There are already more large-scale sea-going ships than all the ports on the island.

The private salt sold by the Haihan people, handled by Luo Shengdong alone, already exceeded 50,000 kilograms. And according to Luo Shengdong’s knowledge, the private salt shipped by Haihan to Daming and Annan was far more than that.

His share was several times greater. As for the most profitable Haihan Industrial products, only a few people in charge of accounting knew how much money they sold for this year, but Luo Shengdong knew very well that the number would definitely be able to make a lot of money.

Few people were so frightened that they peed.

The most powerful one is the bank called "Haihan Bank". Nowadays, almost all merchants coming from the mainland do not bring cash. They only need a few flimsy silver notes to settle accounts. After returning to Guangzhou, they can settle accounts.

Exchange cash at the local "Haihan Bank". Luo Shengdong estimates that just for this business alone, Haihan Bank needs to prepare at least hundreds of thousands of taels of cash in Guangzhou. And with the financial resources and vision of Haihan people

Among the selected cooperative merchants, if you pick just one at random, their wealth will not be much worse than that of the Haihan people - at least half of these twelve shareholders, Luo Shengdong has dealt with them to some extent.

, and also have a little knowledge of its economic strength.

Even if Schneider had just said that he could raise one million taels, Luo Shengdong would not have been surprised at all. In fact, when he heard the number reported by Schneider, he subconsciously thought that Schneider had reservations and did not reveal it.

The real trump card. But this is actually scary enough. For Yazhou, whose annual fiscal revenue is less than 10,000 taels, and local fiscal expenditures still need to be subsidized by superior allocations, hundreds of thousands taels and one million taels are actually the same.

Pretty much, it's just an untouchable number.

Seeing the calm look on his son-in-law's face, Zhang Tongpan knew that the leader of Haihan named Shi was not bragging, but actually had such strong strength. After hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were thrown at him, Zhang Tongpan couldn't imagine what he was doing at that moment.

There would be no changes, but at least one thing he was sure of - the Haihan people were already determined to capture these areas, and anyone who stood in the way would be in trouble with these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Zhang Tongpan didn't know whether others would have trouble with so much money, but he knew that he would definitely not do such an unwise thing. Now in Yacheng, anyone who can get in touch with the Haihan people ranges from literati to talented people.

From the traffickers to the people, they are all trying to find ways to move to Victory Port and settle down. Why? In the final analysis, it is not for the money of the Haihan people.

The old horseman of the state government used to live comfortably with an annual salary of more than 20 taels. Last year, he heard that he went to Shengli Port to raise horses for the Haihan people and he could get a monthly salary equivalent to 10 taels of silver. He immediately resigned and ran away.

As a result, there are no horses left in the state government. Even the handymen in the government who only know how to carry water, cut firewood, and clean the house have actually quit their jobs and gone to Shengli Port. It is said that as long as

If you work under the Haihan people, your minimum income can be twice as much as what you get here in Yacheng.

The poor scholars in Yacheng Academy had little means of making a living, so they used to rely on their fame and get state subsidies to survive. According to the "History of Ming Dynasty: Shihuo Zhi", the scholar's treatment was "Linshan rice, one meal a day"

"Fish, meat, salt and fermented meats are given by the officials". Although they don't have to work, they can barely live on the food, and they can receive a living allowance of one tael of silver every month. But after the Haihan people came, they went out directly

From the 15th to the 20th of January, the high price of all-inclusive food and accommodation will drive all the poor talents who are not enterprising to work in Shengli Port.

This kind of economic penetration by Haihan people is not just targeting ordinary civilians. In fact, it starts with the government from the beginning. Zhang Tongfang knows very well why several colleagues who usually seem to be in harmony with each other jointly write letters of recommendation for him when they leave office.

, and also knew why his son-in-law was able to make frequent military exploits during this year, and at the same time make a lot of extra money. The Haihan people had penetrated Yacheng's officialdom so thoroughly that he was not allowed to say "no".

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