Liang Cunhou forced a smile and said: "I am providing food relief. On the one hand, I can't bear to see the people displaced and starving on the road. On the other hand, I am afraid that the poor people will take risks due to hunger and cold. Do you know how many people have come to Guangzhou and outside the city recently?
Hungry people? At a rough calculation, the number is no less than 30,000! It’s still the autumn harvest now, and when the spring famine comes next, I don’t know how many more hungry people will come! If someone makes a noise, it’s not just the place that is rotting! How many gentry are making fun of it?
, claiming to be a disciple of a saint. Instead, he said that I am deliberately trying to gain fame and win over people's hearts, as if I have ulterior motives. Ridiculous! Ridiculous!" After saying this, he probably felt that he had made a mistake, and quickly threw his hands away, "It's a shame!"
"There are only two people missing." Xiao Zishan muttered to himself.
"What is the shopkeeper talking about?" Liang Cunhou asked, puzzled.
"No, no, it's nothing." Xiao Zishan quickly interrupted, "Master Liang, we also want to recruit some hungry people in Guangzhou and send them to Qiongzhou to open up wasteland. I wonder if there is any problem with the government about this?"
"Opening up wasteland?" Mr. Liang laughed dumbly, "Don't blame me for pouring cold water on you. You spent money to open up wasteland, but you are afraid that you won't even be able to pay out the money and food in the end. After a year of hard work, you have benefited those subordinate staff in vain. Recruiting refugees is a good thing.
I'm afraid that if things don't continue, they will be displaced."
An important instruction given by the Executive Committee to the intelligence personnel was to collect various social information of the Ming Dynasty. When Guo Yi saw this, he deliberately said: "Why did Mr. Liang say this?"
"I've never been to Qiongzhou. But I heard that this place is hot and humid, has miasma, and has many hurricanes. The Li people are also causing trouble. Although there are many wastelands, I'm afraid it's not easy to live there. Besides, you are all merchants, and you don't have any fame, isn't it?
He is a fat sheep in the eyes of local subordinates! He is so light that he loses all his money, and he is so heavy that he may lose his fortune! Alas, what a world!"
Guo Yi had no choice but to say yes and didn't dare to say more. As he was talking, he saw a servant coming over and whispered something to him. Mr. Liang stood up and said that he still had something to do, so he said goodbye. Everyone left.
After that, not long after walking, a servant came over and asked respectfully: "My young master, may I ask where your servant is? He will come to pay his respects another day."
Everyone looked at each other: they had been very submissive in front of him just now, that is, they did not recite "Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow falling", nor did they talk about human rights, democracy and freedom. After all, Mr. Liang, who was born in an aristocratic family.
What do you like about these businessmen?
Guo Yi hurriedly said: "I live in Huifu Street, and the shop is called Zizhenzhai."
The servant asked clearly and took out a piece of plum-red paper from the worship box: "This is my young master's name card. Please accept it."
Giving him a name tag when they first met showed that he valued the other person. Guo Yilai had heard a series of lectures on "Customs and Customs of the Ming Dynasty" given by Yu E Shui before. He declined the offer but said "I dare not accept it". After repeated rejections, he accepted it.
Xiao Zishan was worried and rushed to the Escort's mule and horse shop again. He saw that the people who came had already settled in under the arrangements of the Escort. Sun Kecheng was stunned at first. He heard that they wanted to buy some family members, but he didn't expect that they would come overnight.
With such a large number of people, the entire bodyguard bureau mobilized to cook food and boil water, and also asked doctors to treat several patients and prescribe medicines. It was only appropriate to be busy until midnight.
Returning to Huifu Street, everyone discussed that the goods were not fully purchased yet, but people had already bought more than 200 items. Staying in Qiwei's mule and horse shop was not a long-term solution. Firstly, it would disturb others, and secondly, they would eat them when they came.
When you are full, your mind becomes active. They are not jailers and keep watch 24 hours a day. They might as well transport the people back first and then transport the goods.
This initiative was enthusiastically approved by the crew, which surprised Xiao Zishan. He thought that these people had just arrived for a few days and were unwilling to go back immediately. I didn't know that several of them had Xiao Jiujiu in their pockets. At that time, he decided to let the purchased population
Qiwei rested for two days in the Mule and Horse Store, and then the crew was responsible for transporting it back. The others stayed in Guangzhou to continue the construction work of the advance station.
The renovation project of the house is also in full swing. According to the plan, the house on Weifu Street will be transformed into a front shop and back shop style treasure store, specializing in selling various luxury goods made by Chuanzhong. Some post-processing and assembly work
It can be done here, leaving only the key craftsmanship in Bairencheng. Former jewelry company manager Yan Maoda has done some research on jewelry design and processing, and has brought a lot of information about new jewelry with him. He said that as long as he recruits
A few skilled craftsmen can make these jewelry pieces - this is better than just selling glassware, and it also avoids conflict with the high-end dealers who represent their products.
Xiao Zishan took advantage of his relationship with Gao Ju and recruited many workers to carry out the renovation project. Fortunately, they had plenty of money, and under the pretext of opening a treasure house, the entire courtyard building was heavily fortified. Although it did not look like the U.S. Embassy,
But they are almost the same. Imitating the security measures of Shanxi banks and pawnshops in the past, iron grilles are installed on the ceiling to prevent snitches from falling from the sky. The walls are made of stone strips at the base, and the upper part is made of blue bricks with seams lying on them, which is extremely strong.
Except for the traditional long windows in the front part of the house, the buildings in the backyard only have ordinary windows and iron gates. The most strict one is the courtyard built in the name of the treasury, and the three houses in it are all made of bricks.
It is built without any wood. It does not even have windows. The door is an iron door with locks brought from the 21st century. It is similar to the safe rooms in embassies of various countries and is used to handle confidential matters. One of them is
One of the telecommunications rooms is a conference room, and the last one is a real treasury - not only gold and silver are stored in it, but also more important information, weapons, and reconnaissance equipment. In addition to radio stations, the intelligence team also equips advance stations.
It has a walkie-talkie, a pistol, a telescope, a night vision goggle, a digital camera and a laptop. In terms of power, in addition to a hand-cranked generator, a set of solar panels is also provided - although the power is limited, it is more than enough to supply the radio and laptop.
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The originally planned monitoring and security facilities could not be solved because of the power problem, so the implementation could only be suspended. However, the advance station still set up an infrared alarm at the door of the safe house.
In terms of water, there are two wells available in the entire house. Sun Chang had already asked someone to dig deep when he was initially repairing the house. In order to prevent delicate modern people from becoming acclimatized, the advance station also brought a set of simple water filtration and sterilizers. This
The filter element of the water filter can be replaced for one year, which is quite convenient.
The Dengyingzhou shipped more than 30 tons of supplies and 5,000 taels of cash. This was the entire start-up capital of the advance station. According to regulations, the advance personnel could not withdraw and use the 200,000 taels from Gaoju.
Everyone is busy, and Guo Yi is alone in the room, thinking about how to carry out future work. The tasks assigned to the advance station by the Executive Committee can be summed up in two points: gathering intelligence and conducting trade.
No matter which goal they want to achieve, they must first establish extensive social relationships. Now that they have two entry points, the Gao Family and the Qiwei Escort Bureau, the next step is to carry out more extensive work at all levels of society.
Guo Yi recalled the course on "Social and Economic Living Conditions of the Ming Dynasty" that he gave them in Eshui before departure. At the same time, he thought about what level to open the gap.
As a businessman, it is very difficult to directly make friends with middle- and upper-level officials. Even if you spend a lot of money, it is just a bit of glory on the scene. It is rare for officials and businessmen to hook up to the extent that their interests are irreconcilable like in later generations. But bureaucrats are powerful
Purchasing power and political power are part of what they will work hard to manage in the future.
Secondly, there are the local gentry and wealthy businessmen, who are either famous or have interests in collusion with the officials. They are rich and powerful local snakes. Gao Ji is such a person. It is easier to make friends with them and they have deep connections with the middle and upper-level bureaucrats.
Connection, this level is the main direction of the work of the advance station at this stage. After arriving in Guangzhou, I made acquaintance with Liang Cunhou. Although I still don’t know what his purpose of befriending the time traveler was, he was a Juren, and his energy among the gentry was much greater than that of Gaoju.
If you use it more, you can open up a lot of opportunities in this level.
Although the status of the masters, attendants, stewards, and guest purifiers around the officials is not high, they are very active and know the dynamics of the officials and various yamen very well.
When conducting political intelligence, you can focus on them. Qiwei Escort Agency has more dealings with these characters, so you can use their relationships to do so.
As for ordinary people, we can know a lot of market news and public opinion from their mouths. This aspect of intelligence must also be collected.
However, there are only six of him in the entire Guangzhou Station, namely:
Webmaster: Guo Yi
Business person in charge: Yan Maoda, Zhang Xin
Operator: Zhang Yuchen
Intelligence agent: Lu Rong, pepi
It is a little difficult for just these few people to take on so many things. Yan Maoda and Zhang Xin are both salesmen. Needless to say, they are experienced shopping mall bastards. As long as they adapt to the environment here,
If you learn Guangzhou Mandarin better, you will definitely be able to do things like business entertainment, organization and promotion, etc.
Zhang Yuchen is a telecommunications staff and doesn't like to talk much, so he can only be responsible for internal affairs.
It seems that only he, Lu Rong and Pepi are responsible for the intelligence work. How to use Pepi is really a troublesome thing. She seems to be nonchalant and confident - Guo Yi doubts that he has never thought about underground work.
Due to the seriousness and danger of the situation, she simply regarded this place as a stage to satisfy her desire to perform. There were more than a dozen large and small boxes in her carry-on luggage, and Guo Yi knew with just her feet that there must be something for her inside.
Outfit.
He organized his thoughts and drafted the current work goals and the rules and regulations of the advance station. He planned to hold a meeting with the remaining advance team members to arrange the work before Xiao Zishan returned.