Chang Shide was half lying and half leaning on the bed, drinking some sobering soup. Although he was dizzy, he was very happy. Just when he was about to go to bed, he saw Wenxiu walking into the room quietly, wearing only a close-fitting gown. , his hair was untied and combed back, his face was full of peach blossoms, and his almond-shaped eyes were full of spring. Chang Shide was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he was doing with this look.
I saw Wenxiu beat him like a woman and whispered: "Wenxiu is waiting for the master to go to bed." After saying that, she came up to undress him and take off his belt. A pair of soft little hands gently massaged his body, calling softly with all her charms. :"master--"
Chang Shide stayed for about five seconds, and suddenly all the wine in his body escaped from his pores. A chill rushed from his heels to his forehead, and goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body.
"No -" he wailed, quickly pushed Wenxiu away, and rolled down from the bed. Mummy, what kind of era is this? Servants sexually harass their masters - it doesn't matter if they are sexually harassed by maids, actually He is a man - No matter how beautiful Wenxiu is, he is still a man.
This small commotion caused a chaos, and Zhou Shizhai broke in immediately. Seeing this scene, the bodyguard's expression also changed drastically, and he quickly said: "Master, please use it slowly." He bowed his head and backed out.
"No, Lao Zhou, please listen to my explanation -" Chang Shide didn't even wear shoes and hurriedly chased him out. Outside, Li Biao was looking around. Several bodyguards had gathered in the yard, holding knives and sticks.
"What are you looking at? Go back!" Zhou Shizhai waved his hand impatiently, and quickly said to the disheveled Chang Shide, "Chief Chang, you are such an eyesore-"
"Yes, yes, I understand." He quickly went back and put on his shoes.
Wen Tong also came out here. He was drafting a report on improving sugar production under the lamp. When he heard the noise, he didn't understand what was going on. He saw Wen Xiu in disheveled clothes and humiliatingly following Chang Shide's instructions. When he came out of the room, he suddenly misunderstood and his face darkened:
"Old Chang, I've always known you to be a playboy, but I didn't expect you to have this habit!" Wen Tong doesn't discriminate against gays, but he despises people who eat both men and women for physical pleasure.
"It's nothing!" Chang Shide was so anxious that he scratched his head and even wanted to die. It was obviously this dead demon who was trying to harass him, so why did everyone think that he was plotting something against his chrysanthemum?
"Old Wen, you have to believe in our revolutionary comrades. You can't disbelieve me, right? We were in the same dormitory in Lingao! You know what kind of person I am!"
"It's hard to say. Once you break away from the collective, many of people's ugly nature will be exposed."
"I was wronged -" Chang Shide pointed to the sky and the earth, swore and explained, and finally Wen Tong reluctantly believed that Wenxiu was harassing him. At this time, Hou Liao Dahua came, and Chang Shide was depressed and had nothing to do. Being blamed once, I couldn't help but complain to Liao Dahua. He also scolded Guo Yi - why did they bring up a rabbit to serve them?
Liao Dahua smiled and said: "Master Chang, there is no need to be angry. This is what the boys would have mistakenly meant. It is common for children like them who specialize in serving the uncle to serve tea during the day and serve as maids and concubines in the evening. Yesterday, shopkeeper Wen said not to buy Maid, it’s convenient to use child servants on the journey. There must be a misunderstanding. Since Master didn’t mean this, I’ll give them a good scolding.”
"What? Is there such a thing?" Chang Shide suddenly had a shocking subversion of the ancient people's sexual concepts.
"It's very common. Scholars who carry books, swords, and piano cases often take a small child with them when they go on study tours. First, they can use it when going out, and secondly, they can use it to relieve anger at night when they can't bear it anymore. In the imperial court The high-ranking officials also have their own special breeds, and some of them are so intimate that they love them better than their maids and concubines."
"Holy shit, what kind of society is this!" Chang Shide couldn't help but cursed.
Liao Dahua only smiled apologetically, knowing that Wenxiu was too eager to be flattered, so he came to "self-recommend pillow mats", which was flattering and flattering. Neither of them seemed to be masculine. He was thinking about finding someone as soon as possible. Just have a maid come over.
The storm that night passed. Chang Shide was still a little suspicious at first, and he was afraid that his majestic image would be made fun of. Later, he discovered that the natives had no interest in gossiping about this matter, and even Wenxiu remained calm the next day. I came to bring him face wash. Probably as Liao Dahua said: This kind of thing is nothing at all.
The next day, the two continued to ride in the sedan, protected by a group of people from the Qiwei Escort Bureau. They spent almost half a month touring various sugar cane farms and sugar houses under their names, and initially understood the situation. During this period, Needless to say, the journey was tiring and dusty, and I also encountered several roadblocks and robberies by bandits. Fortunately, I was protected by powerful bodyguards, and all of them passed without incident.
The situation in each Zhuangzi and sugar factory is similar, some still have a few long-term workers left, and some have simply left the building empty. Wen Tong now knows the situation of sugar production in Leizhou: this is a typical combination of Zhuangzi and Liuzhou. There is no Tutangliao, which is purely engaged in processing. They are founded by sugarcane farmers or landowners with many sugarcane fields and are attached to sugarcane farms. There are also joint ventures of sugarcane farmers. Tutangliao mainly processes sugarcane produced in their own fields. . Taking into account external processing. The utilization rate of equipment is very low, so the scale is small and the equipment is crude.
Sugarcane field cultivation is not the common tenancy system in rural areas. Small plots of land are planted and harvested by sugarcane farmers themselves, and a few day laborers are hired during busy periods. Large plots of land are completely planted and managed by landowners hiring long-term workers. There is already a system of agricultural hired labor. prototype.
Therefore, once the land changes hands, all the labor force on the land disappears, which is completely different from changing landlords but not tenants under the general tenancy system. This puts forward urgent requirements for supplementary labor force.
On this day, the group returned to Zhuangzi in Xuwen. Zhang Xin, as the liaison officer of Guangzhou Station, also came to Xuwen. As the future main seller of Leizhou white sugar, Guangzhou Station also attaches great importance to this.
According to the proposal of the Guangzhou Station and the approval of the Executive Committee, Wen Tong and Chang Shide formally established the Leizhou Sugar Company in Xuwen. The capital for starting the sugar company was allocated by the Guangzhou Station. The sugar cane farm outside Xuwen City will serve as the company's headquarters. Wen Tong plans to conduct a pilot project to improve the sugar industry in Xuwen.
"Can we get sugar?" Zhang Xin was very concerned about this question and asked again and again.
"No problem, we can produce better sugar than any other company in Guangdong." Wen Tong is very confident about this, "But if we want to have an advantage in terms of price, we have to see if the machinery department can help us build equipment."
"Some British people have recently arrived in Guangzhou." Zhang Xin told him a message. "They are very careful and are looking to buy goods. White sugar is also a big commodity. If the sugar can be produced before April, it will not be a problem to sell 20 to 30 tons.
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"Yes, but I want Guangzhou Station to give me enough manpower." Wen Tong said, "It is difficult to supplement the local labor force."
"How many people are needed?"
"At least three hundred people are needed." In Wen Tong's plan, this group of people will be the first batch of workers in sugar cane farms and sugar mills. Each village will need at least 20 additional laborers, and those with sugar mills will also need to add about 20 laborers.
Get more.
“Do we all need to strengthen our labor force?”
"Women and children are also required. This can restrain young adults. Besides, farm women in Guangdong and Fujian are very capable and have good physical strength. I don't think they are worse than men. By the way, we will find about ten people with experience in raising cattle."
"Okay. I can give you five hundred people." Zhang Xin agreed. Due to the continuous immigration work, there has been a gap in Lingao's reception capacity. A purification cycle is 40 days, and the quarantine camp in Lingao can only
About 400 people were accommodated at the same time. Many of the immigrants who had been recruited could only be placed in Guangzhou, waiting for shipment. For this purpose, Guangzhou Station set up a village similar to an isolation and quarantine area in the suburbs, where some preliminary "purification" was carried out.
Work. There are now more than a thousand people stranded in the camp. In order to prevent the local officials from becoming suspicious, Guo Yi is already trying to send some of them away as soon as possible.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to accept five hundred people." Wen Tong said, "Let's start with three hundred people. There are too many complicated things here, and I also want to recruit some more cadres from Lingao."
"It's very difficult to be a cadre," Zhang Xin said. "Those who are powerful are very reliable. You can choose some of the key members to become military cadres." Seeing Wen Tong's stunned look, Zhang Xin added: "Leizhou is a very chaotic place.
, as a big sugar factory owner like you, you will naturally be jealous of all kinds of heroes. Not to mention bandits, it may also be troublesome if the local tycoons get interested. To protect your personal and property safety, you must be armed.
Let's gather a militia team first. We will replenish you with weapons from Lingao."
"Okay." Wen Tong thought that he would leave this matter to Chang Shide - he knew how to use the ghost sword anyway.
"I plan to start a sugarcane combination here in Xuwen, and then expand to places like Haikang and Suixi."
“Will you continue to buy sugar cane land to expand plantations?”
"I hope to start a plantation," Wen Tong said. "The current business model here is still based on small-scale farming, and the planting and management levels are too backward."
During the half-month trip, Wen Tong had already learned a lot about the sugar cane planting situation here. The cultivation of cash crops under the small-scale farmer economy is very random: there are varieties of fruit cane, sugar cane, etc.
As for field management, some can be seen to be very attentive, while others are careless and careless, completely depending on the weather. There are even people growing sugar cane in places that are not suitable for growing sugar cane...
For a cash crop like sugar cane, the best business model is naturally a large-scale plantation: these small pieces of land are combined to form a large sugar cane plantation. Whether it is a labor system or slavery, the production efficiency is very high.
Much higher than what small farmers grow now.
But it is not easy to acquire the land of sugarcane farmers. Sugarcane farmers rarely go bankrupt or have operational difficulties. Even if they pay the horribly high interest rates, planting sugarcane fields is still profitable. If there are no natural or man-made disasters, you want to annex land in large tracts.
It is difficult to do. Unless the time travelers manipulate sugar prices, force all these small farmers to go bankrupt, and then buy them one by one. Wen Tong does not agree with this plan, not because he has much kindness, but because he feels that the time travel group does not have the ability.
"My idea is to create a sugarcane combination." Wen Tong came up with his plan: organize farmers who produce the same crop, and under their auspices provide unified technical guidance on the use of improved seeds, unified purchase of fertilizers, and unified production of sugarcane.
Unified sales of sugar will reduce costs and increase profits. Wen Tong estimates that this plan will attract many small growers to participate.
"This plan will definitely not yield much results in the first year, but as time goes by, as soon as the benefits come out, farmers will naturally be willing to participate. There is no way, we are not the government and cannot forcefully implement it. We can only rely on word-of-mouth and word-of-mouth benefits.
Achieve their goals."
"Then you have to take root in Leizhou." Zhang Xin looked at his huge plan, "This plan won't be effective for three to five years. It just convinces each farmer and there are dividends after the harvest... That's good.
A group of people will assist you."
"Is it okay to put down roots? Enjoy the life of a big landowner." Wen Tong was very interested in his career. "I applied to the Education Committee for some managers and technicians here. How many can I match?
If it is not enough, I will prepare my own training. As for persuading small farmers to join, I can persuade as many as I can. After three to five years, if everything goes well, I will be the largest sugar supplier in Leizhou. Sugar will be abundant and good.
At that time, there will be a price dumping, the purchase price on the market will be beaten to pieces, and all those who refuse to join the rural cooperative medical system will go bankrupt, and I will buy them all together with the land."
Zhang Xin nodded repeatedly, never expecting that a technician like Wen Tong could use such vicious methods.
"Just ask if you need anything, and Guangzhou Station will definitely cooperate."
"We are just a sugar production base here. We don't have intelligence personnel or anything like that, but I really want to know the specific situation of Hai'an Street. This place is called 'Sweet Harbor' by the locals. Sugar is exported from here. There are also people on the street.
There are many sugar shops. These merchants from Shantou will be our opponents sooner or later——"
"It's easy to say, we will arrange people to be undercover in the local area. When the time comes, if the normal means cannot be used to deal with it, something abnormal will happen. The people from the special investigation team are having itchy hands."
"Haha, it's best not to do it. But our time is limited and we can't afford to start a commercial war. It's better to make quick cuts and mess around."
The two parties agreed on a series of contact methods, because Leizhou is not an official dispatch station, but a secondary stronghold. There is currently no radio distribution, and the communication with Lingao mainly uses carrier pigeons as a tool. In addition to using carrier pigeons to communicate with Guangzhou,
, you can also use the escort route of the Qiwei Escort Bureau to deliver letters. According to the instructions of the Executive Committee, unless it is absolutely necessary, do not send people directly across the sea to contact Lingao - the less direct contact between the two parties, the better.
The Executive Committee also has a line in Leizhou with salt merchant Liu Gang, who lives in Haikang County. However, after consideration, the Executive Committee decided to have separate lines of contact with both parties to avoid contact. Liu Gang was the one who smuggled illegal salt to the mainland.