"Ri Chang Ji, seven thousand stones." Feng Guangfeng followed up, "I will hand over the silver later."
Two colleagues followed up, and each of the companies that had been waiting and watching also recognized the numbers one after another. Some were three thousand dan, some were five thousand dan, and some were 10,000 dan. The total total exceeded 150,000 dan. Chen Tianxiong
You know, most people still hold back. These numbers are just asking for directions.
However, if they are really too enthusiastic, part of the sugar that South China has collected will have to be rationed to them. This will be a huge loss. In this way, everyone will get what they have and each other will be satisfied.
"With this Sugar Industry Guild, what will Haiyi Tang do?" Someone asked this sharp question. If Mr. Zhu does not allow them to join the Sugar Industry Guild and insists on maintaining Haiyi Tang, how will they get along with it?
The representatives at the table moved uneasily and whispered.
Everyone knows that Mr. Zhu will never give up, at least he will inevitably have a fierce fight. He is rich and has the ability to instruct various evil forces to act, which should not be underestimated.
Chang Shide responded to this question: Huanan will properly handle this matter. As for the specific negotiation matters, Huanan will take the initiative. If Mr. Zhu wants to cause trouble for everyone, Huanan will definitely stand up for everyone and will never break his promise.
"I think everyone must know: South China has the ability not to break its promise."
Chang Shide spoke categorically, and although the participants were somewhat uneasy, they all agreed.
"The meeting was very successful." Wen Tong said to Chang Shide, "But why not just set up a joint-stock company? What purchasing and sales agency will come first?"
"Let them enjoy some sweetness first." Chang Shide said, "They didn't believe in us enough at the beginning. Now that this year's deal is done, let them see that following us is more beneficial than that of Lao Shizi Haiyi Tang, and then we can
When they talk about joint-stock companies, it’s a big deal.”
"The next thing is to consolidate the results, especially to guard against Zhu An's counterattack." Chen Tianxiong reminded them, "Master Zhu is still on Hai'an Street. A centipede is dead but not stiff. He is dormant.
It’s not necessarily that we are waiting for the opportunity to attack. We must come up with a response plan as soon as possible.”
"It's best to eliminate him as soon as possible, otherwise the night will be long and full of dreams." Chang Shide warned them: Whether the Leizhou Sugar Industry Association will eventually be established depends on whether South China has the ability to quickly eliminate Zhu Sanye's influence.
"We can just kill him with a click, but doing so will make these sugar merchants feel as if the rabbit has died and the fox has died." Chang Shide held his chin, "Are you trying to kill a mouse?"
"Ignore this for now, let Feng Guangfeng be the contact person and tell them that all the money must be paid within three days, otherwise the contract will be invalid." Chen Tianxiong said, "This money is also their investment certificate, so that no one will be swayed.
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"Okay, I'll ask Liao Daxing to handle this matter. By the way, I'll ask Liao Dahua to prepare people and cars to pick up the money on An Street in Shanghai."
This was no small sum. Chen Tianxiong calculated it after the meeting and was shocked. These sugar merchants would deliver them 375,000 taels of silver! The combined metric system would be nearly fifteen tons!
"That's a lot!" Chen Tianxiong felt more and more the importance of banks. Not to mention banknotes, if there was an exchange business for such a large amount of money, a money order could handle it. Now these fifteen tons of silver alone can be settled
Moving and storing is a very nerve-wracking thing.
Since South China began to purchase sugar, it has consumed a lot of time and energy just to store, keep, and send and receive silver. All the silver that arrived was "official treasure" that was re-smelted in the furnace room in Guangzhou, with the same quality, fifty liang per
Ingots. Simplify the steps in the process of packing, transporting, and counting silver.
But when it comes to actual operation, things become complicated. There are always parts and parcels for sugar, and you can't pay them all with fifty taels of ingots. South China had to buy a lot of silver clips, scissors, and silver scales.
To measure, the large silver ingots were crushed and paid out. The process was not only cumbersome, but also resulted in great losses.
As for the silver that is about to be handed over from various sugar shops, it goes without saying that it is also scattered silver, and the quality is very different. Liao Daxing has reminded them that they should find a few furnace room guys to check the quality as soon as possible, otherwise
If you regard tide silver as snowflake silver, you will suffer a big loss.
"The Executive Committee has already opened a bank in Guangzhou." Wen Tong handed over the latest internal bulletin sent by ship to everyone for circulation. "I think we can also ask to open a bank locally."
"Call it South China Sugar Bank!" Chang Shide suddenly thought, "We will soon receive nearly 400,000 yuan in cash, doesn't this become a reserve fund?"
"This name is inappropriate," Chen Tianxiong said. "The financial system must be in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Executive Committee, and it is not appropriate to create our own system. Furthermore, we are not engaged in finance. It is better to let professionals handle it.
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Chang Shide, who is such a person, immediately understood what he meant: "Yes, we still want the executive committee to send a telegram asking them to set up a branch." He added, "The sugar industry in Leizhou is actually very
Need a bank.”
"Yes," Wen Tong said, "After we control the sales rights of the sugar industry, the next step is to help sugarcane farmers increase production."
To increase production, we need to promote new planting technologies and promote sugar industry combinations. It is not easy to gain the trust of sugarcane farmers. Fortunately, they have already achieved a good reputation in this sugar acquisition war and laid the foundation. After having a bank,
Financial instruments can be used to issue low-interest loans to support sugarcane farmers' production.
During the discussion, Zhou Shizhai asked to see him.
"Someone is trying to do harm to South China." He said straight to the point.
Everyone looked at each other and realized that the time had come - Mr. Zhu was indeed determined to kill me. Now he was desperate and there was no guarantee that he would use some despicable means.
"what's the situation?"
"Liao Dahua's people got some news. Zhao Jijiao's people are buying oil and dry firewood - they are a bunch of bad guys, and they don't have fires to cook. What do they need these for? They are probably planning to set fires. They have been spending a lot of money recently, and they are crazy.
Gambling and prostitution have obviously resulted in huge benefits."
Zhou Shizhai wiped his sweat: "In addition, someone is spreading news among the underworld in Leizhou, saying that the South China Sugar Bank has hundreds of thousands of dollars in banknotes, but the defense is weak. As long as a few of their shopkeepers are caught, they can blackmail them greatly.
A sum of silver."
"It's quite vicious. You use money you can't see to lure them into working for them." Chen Tianxiong commented.
"Don't be ridiculous, it would be ugly to go there with a ticket tied up." Wen Tong's face looked very ugly.
"If I'm kidnapped by Li Siya, you probably want it. By the way, you are the same clan as Mr. Wen."
"Stop joking," Wen Tong said anxiously, "What about Li Siya and Li Ssu? What if they are really kidnapped?"
"Don't worry too much about kidnapping," Zhou Shizhai said, "sporadic bandits can't do anything big, not to mention the shopkeepers who have weapons at their disposal. The most worrying thing is that strongmen gang up to rob, so we must be on guard against this."
"A gang?" Chang Shide asked, "What kind of gang?"
Zhou Shizhai said that here in Leizhou, there are no large groups of bandits, but there are more sporadic bandits, as few as four or five, hiding on the roadside, and coming out to rob single travelers when they see them passing by, and there are only a hundred or so.
When they find an opportunity, they go down to rob the sugarcane farmers. To rob a large trading house like Huanan, it is impossible without gathering four to five hundred people. The thieves attach great importance to the power of numbers. Even if there are not many people, they still have to recruit a group of farmers.
Temporary workers come to support the scene and intimidate good people.
"Hai'an Street is not richer than us, why don't we go there to rob?" Wen Tong felt strange. When it comes to money, the sugar merchants in Hai'an Street obviously have much more money than them.
"Afraid of death." Zhou Shizhai's answer was simple. There were hundreds of village warriors on Hai'an Street, and their wages were shared among the shops on the street. As long as such village warriors had sufficient food and wages, they would be very effective in fighting.
Bandits need good teeth if they want to gnaw.
"When we first arrived in South China, the gangsters didn't know how powerful we were. If they were really instigated, they thought they could make a lot of money here and gathered big stocks. So we had to be on guard." Zhou Shizhai was completely at this time.
Think of yourself as a member of the time travel group.
"What about the militia? Can they resist them?"
"Okay." Zhou Shizhai said, "With Comrade Bei in charge of training, we should support him for a while."
The Chuanchuan people are not as confident as him. They are well aware of the problem of the militia. The workers have been busy with various tasks in the sugar factory, and even the basic militia has not had much training at all. After Bei Wei took over the training and defense work, the situation changed
It can only be considered slightly better.
"Don't worry too much. This is the gate of the county after all. The strong men don't dare to stay too long. They come and leave quickly. Just don't let them succeed in one blow."
"Having said that, we must be on guard." Chen Tianxiong said, "We won't go out until the matter is settled. We need to strengthen the gate posts and have some militiamen on standby at any time. It's the people like Liao Da, Liao Er, and the Wen brothers who go out.
When the time comes, we should also provide them with bodyguards."
"You also have to be prepared for enemies to set fire." Chang Shide added, "The factory area is not yet tight. After the infrastructure is completed, it will be very difficult to set fire, and even if it is set on fire, it will not spread. The main purpose is to house the workers' villages for the unemployed workers.
, they are all grass and wood sheds, they can be easily lit, and it will be very serious if someone dies."
"Old Wen, please arrange for Liao Daxing and the others to go down and have a look. You might as well give them a heads up!"
"Also -" Chen Tianxiong remembered something, "If we need to send a telegram to Guangzhou and Lingao, the situation on the sea may not be calm. We have killed Gu Dachun, but we may not be without Wang Dachun. Li Dachun is jealous of this piece of meat.
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"Yes, and the Gu family pirates have not been completely eliminated. Their main force has been destroyed, but they still have money and people. They may come back at any time for revenge."
Lingao has compiled a summary of the enemy's situation based on the confessions of the pirates caught in the Battle of Juhua Island and sent it to South China for reference. According to the confessions, there are still about twenty or thirty people in the Gujia pirate gang, and they have a single-masted ship.
For communication purposes.
"Since the prisoners were captured, why didn't the navy just come and kill them?" Wen Tong was puzzled.
"It's difficult." Chen Tianxiong explained that the Gu family's pirate lair was not a water village on the island as imagined. They were ordinary fishermen on the shore, living in ordinary fishing villages, and mixed with the fishermen. It was difficult to tell them apart.
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"Well, I think they have to come." Chen Tianxiong leaned back, "Xiao Zhanfeng said that Mr. Zhu has a little wife who is Gu Dachun's sister."
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. In the following days, the patrolling militia put out the fire several times. Because various fire prevention measures were in place, the arson did not produce any destructive effect except blackening a few walls. According to Liao Dahua's inquiries,
According to intelligence, the arsonists are all from Zhao Jijiao's gang - this group of bad guys have nothing to do with South China. Such frequent attacks are obviously under the instigation of Master Zhu.
Arson was so frequent that almost every night there were one or two. After finding that setting fire to factories and businesses themselves was ineffective, the arsonists began to target the residential areas of sugar factory workers.
The most dangerous incident was an arson in a workers' village. A straw hut was set alight at night, but the fire was immediately spotted by the watchtower in the Huanan factory. The fire brigade on duty immediately went out to put out the fire, and the flames were extinguished within ten minutes.
The person who set the fire was caught on the spot by the sugar industry workers. Under the firelight, someone quickly identified him as one of Zhao Jijiao's gangsters. Seeing that he couldn't run away, he took advantage of others and slammed into the stone.
As soon as he hit him, he immediately fell to the ground with blood on his face and started howling. The originally excited workers in the sugar house fell silent.
"What are you howling?" Chang Shide asked.
"The effect is that Huanan bullies people and hurts him for no reason. If we don't accompany him with his injuries and money, he will die at the gate of Huanan." Liao Daxing said with a bitter smile, "These bad guys are not afraid of anything and everything. They are annoying.
They might actually hang themselves right in front of your door, causing a lawsuit and ruining the whole family."
"Oh?" Chang Shide knew that this kind of person is a piece of meat who is not afraid of being killed. When he is sent to the Yamen, he will probably go in with the front foot and come out with the back foot. Even if he spends money, at most he will be slapped on the wall and yoked for a few months.
They are not afraid of this at all - most of the bad guys are connected with various "public servants" in the county. Sometimes even if the officials want to take charge, they will be hijacked by the subordinates below, and the big problems will often be reduced to trivial matters.
It becomes extremely difficult to punish.
Just as he was thinking about what to do, Ma Sanqiang squeezed through the crowd and asked loudly: "My boss, this man burned down our house and burned a child inside! I just want to ask my boss, I don't care."
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Chang Shide's mind turned around and he completely understood the situation. It was obvious that the life of a bad boy was more important than the hearts of a group of sugar lair workers.
"Of course!" Chang Shide said decisively and waved his hand, "Serve this man well and be neat!"
Several special operations team members brought by Bei Wei were already in the team. When they heard this, they came over immediately. One stepped on the person and the other grabbed the grass and mud on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth while yelling.
The caller suddenly lost his breath, almost suffocated, and his body collapsed. Two special forces members immediately wrapped him in a straw mat and carried him away quietly.