Lu Ming

Chapter 381 Special Messenger

While General Cao was visiting the boss in the city, those people in the city were actually waiting for him.

Although the big boss can't take the initiative to greet him due to the superficial rules among civil and military officials, the big boss practice is also from the bottom of his heart-suppressing bandits is one aspect, and the golden mountain behind the God of Wealth is the key point.You can make a lot of extra money by helping businessmen to match up bridges, and you don't need disabled people, so why not do it?
So General Cao's trip to Guangzhou City, who was destined to be greeted with a smiling face, began like this.

At the same time, early the next morning, beside the gate of Tiandao Temple, a white lacquered wooden sign of "Food and Fodder Preparation Office" was also hung up.

At present, it has been confirmed that the first mayor is Ding Liqiu, and the members of the city government include the current station master of Guangzhou station, Song Jia, the former intelligence station of Fuzhou station, and another cross-member who is engaged in administration.

Of course, this is just a grassroots team at the moment, and more time travelers will come to Guangzhou to work in the future.In fact, in the next few years, most of the time travellers, including Emperor Cao, will come to Guangzhou one after another, and those industries in Taiwan will also be transferred here.In the future, Taiwan will return to its original position: a super farm.

After the signboard of the logistics department was hung up, Ding Liqiu never had a leisurely time.

The first wave to harass is the labor force.

Early in the morning, driving a carriage full of chickens and ducks and carrying loads of vegetables, teams of militiamen came from Guangzhou in an endless stream.The stewards who led the team were full of sincerity, and their eyes were full of deep feelings for the people's soldiers. As soon as they arrived at the pier, this group of people clamored for labor, and assumed a posture of forcing the soldiers and civilians to have a wave of fish and water. The rumors that pass like a comb, and soldiers pass like a grate" were shattered.

Ding Liqiu, who was in charge of relocation at Tiandao Temple, came here upon hearing the news.After taking a look, Mr. Ding, who was waving his fan, first smiled, and then he told the Minister of Logistics: Since it is a gift from the labor force, we can't hurt the goodwill of the Guangzhou fathers, old men, military and civilians, and accept all these gifts as they are ordered.

After that, Ding Liqiu turned and went back to Tiandao Temple.After a while, several clerks ran out and issued a wooden sign with a number to each of the laborers' stewards.After receiving the number plates, the stewards did not hesitate, and left after unloading the presents.

So what happened to these good citizens who supported the army?In fact, it is very simple, these are the second-rate businessmen in Guangzhou who sent them to the front.

Since they are second-rate merchants, the information channels of these people are naturally worse.Those first-class wealthy merchants knew in advance that a certain army was coming, but these second-class merchants didn't know the news until they saw the warship yesterday.

So last night, the city of Guangzhou was actually very lively.Although the second-rate businessmen cannot reach the level of Ma Ali, they are big taxpayers and local tyrants who can afford it; these people have no access to the military-political agreement between Fujian and Guangdong, but their energy in Guangzhou is useless. Suspect.

So last night, almost all the senior officials in the city received a few uninvited guests who came to inquire about the news.

It only took half a night for the local tyrants to figure out all the causes and consequences.After learning that it was the God of Wealth himself who had arrived, the local tyrants yelled at the bastards who had controlled the news, and communicated with each other overnight to prepare.Early the next morning, as soon as the city gate opened, Lao Jun's team went out.

Naturally, Ding Liqiu would not reject the good intentions of local tyrants.The Ming Dynasty was dominated by the gentry, and if they wanted to overthrow this pattern, the "urban bourgeoisie", whose wealth was mostly allocated in the commercial field, were very important targets.

The crossing congregation will vigorously support this class, teach them new ideas, give them backing, sharpen their minions, and then let them go to the vast world to bite freely.

After placing the signs for these businessmen, Ding Liqiu was about to meet those real big businessmen.

These people are either the chairman of a certain chamber of commerce in the city, or the spokesperson of a certain tycoon in the capital, or the business managers of a certain gentry family. In short, they are all powerful people who can affect the political situation in Guangdong.

A big businessman naturally has the arrogance and confidence of a big businessman.Since people have already sent envoys to the senior officers and cross-travelers to make a deal, there is no need to send any labor supplies today.Sitting in a sedan chair, leading the young servants, the easy-going slaves, and the masters, they all came to Tiandao Temple in the afternoon.

After entering the door, the gentlemen took up their respective abodes next to the front hall with ease. It was not much different from when they came to offer incense on weekdays.The servant immediately put the glazed pot on the kerosene stove that came with it, and then boiled mountain spring water to make the dark red oolong tea roll in the pot.

After the masters set up their posture, they waited for Master Ding to come to the door. Today is a protracted battle. Master Ding will conduct multiple rounds of negotiations, and the time will be very long.

Master Ding came to the door soon.

Mr. Ding, who brought a few book offices with him, first had individual negotiations with several businessmen in the rest of the day.After dinner, everyone held a group meeting in the abbot's room illuminated by kerosene lamps.

All parties had candid, efficient, and constructive discussions on topics of common concern, and fully exchanged views on some important issues. Finally, ahem, all parties reached consensus in all areas and signed an agreement.

The agreement is roughly divided into two parts.

Part of it is the general business contracts such as the commodity catalogs, marketing scope, and agency fees of these big distributors.This does not include the manufacturer's rebates and various incentive tasks - in this era, there has never been a saying that the goods cannot be sold, only the manufacturer's goods are not enough, especially the industrial products in the hands of the public, so there is no rebate.

The second part is the oral agreement.The parties involved in the meeting finally reached an agreement on Wang Zunde's letter to recommend Cao and New District Land.

For these two matters, the former has been agreed before, and today it is mainly to confirm again.The latter is an important condition that has been planned for a long time by the time travelers: the land acquisition and development of the new district is a big article, and this time it is necessary to introduce some local forces to "jointly participate in the grand event".

In the upcoming tide of "entering Guangdong", it is naturally impossible for the traveler to put the industrial zone and administrative zone in the city of Guangzhou.Therefore, during this period of time, the Guangzhou Intelligence Station has secretly accompanied people from the construction department to conduct surveys and surveys around the city of Guangzhou, and identified several plots that can be used for the construction of the new district.

Among them, the land that ranks first is near the later Guangzhou South Railway Station.

The selection of the new district here is well-founded.First of all, this land is about as far away as Guangzhou City in the north and Foshan Town in the west, and it is an equilateral triangle with a side length of about 30 Li.

This location is not only in the downstream of Guangzhou, it is convenient for the treatment and discharge of industrial waste in the future, but also convenient for undertaking the industrial population of Guangzhou and Foshan. It is an ideal plot to be developed.

Foshan Town in the Ming Dynasty was a famous capital of iron smelting. All the upstream and downstream industrial chains of metal smelting can be found in Foshan. There are many original industrial workers, and it is the best personnel supplement base for future industrial zones.

Guangzhou is where the future capital of the Traveling Kingdom is located. All kinds of resources, industries, including the large number of Traveling people stationed here are all strengths.In addition, powerful monitoring, infiltration, and even force will also enter this land one after another.Therefore, in terms of power balance, the strength of the Ming government and the local gentry will be surpassed and crushed by the new forces in a short time.

In this situation, inviting local "progressive" forces to jointly develop the new area has become an optional path: unlike Shanghai Port, which hangs alone in the south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to cross the crowd and need to do things secretly.In the Guangzhou New District, the pace of reform can be stepped up a bit, because any possible backlash will be easily suppressed.

Hence, in today's plenary meeting, Ding Liqiu brought out a top-secret information for the first time: a high-scale topographic map of the surrounding area of ​​Guangzhou.Then he told several big businessmen about the idea of ​​the new district.Of course, here Ding Chunqiu only introduced the industrial area, he would not talk about the administrative area equivalent to a small capital.

After several big businessmen heard this idea, they were very interested: to clear out a piece of land specially used to set up a workshop, and then each of them would invest in the workshop, so that they could directly control the source of goods in the future.

"This is an act of consolidating the foundation and cultivating the talents. It is a good thing. As long as Mr. Ding gives an order, we will definitely go to the grand event together!"

After listening to Ding Liqiu's plans for three links and one leveling, shared power, transportation tracks, etc., which are necessary for the industrial zone, the few present immediately realized the huge benefits, so they immediately nodded in agreement.

After talking about this core issue, today's meeting can be regarded as a complete success.Afterwards, the host and guest held another simple reception, and everyone stayed at Tiandao Temple by the way. The main reason was that the city gate was closed.

After this day passed, it was time to receive those second-rate businessmen.A large number of businessmen quickly filled the front yard of Tiandao Temple, each holding a number plate, sitting there anxiously waiting for Mr. Ding Da to turn over the number, just like licking a dog waiting for a seat in Haidilao.

For these people, Comrade Ding Liqiu often let them go with a few words-many products now have Guangdong general agents, and it is OK to send someone to find their respective general agents.

While Ding Liqiu was in a hurry, the fast fleet set off again in a murderous manner.The fleet has two tasks this time: one is to go to Lamma Island to demonstrate and put pressure on Liu Xiang, and the other is to meet the support fleet and escort the other party to Guangzhou.

Soon, on the third day after the fleet set off, ten new lock ships with Chinese-style hard sails, but with a slightly weird style, followed the fast fleet back to Baietan.

As the business of the cross-country gets bigger and bigger, the displacement of the new lock ship, which is the main transport ship, is getting higher and higher.The latest standard has been raised to a displacement of [-] tons, which is already a big ship of more than [-] materials in the eyes of the wise.

Then, a total of nearly [-] tons of goods were unloaded from the Guangzhou wharf one after another.After seeing so many in-demand products, the entire Guangdong business community was shocked. The merchants who were still hesitating before finally made up their minds to become agents at this moment, and the sea-like silver was then pulled to Tiandao Temple in a carriage. Cars even lined up outside the mountain gate.

Things that surprised everyone across the world came one after another: on the second night after the fleet came back, a special envoy came: Liu Xiang, the confidant of shopkeeper Liu, Yu Xianke, was actually sitting in a small boat. He came to Tiandao Temple with two servants and asked to see General Cao himself by name.

Of course, General Cao didn't mind seeing Master Yu on his own territory, but when Master Yu entered the door, he turned sideways, revealing the short follower wearing a bamboo hat behind him.

"I'm Liu Xiang, and I pay my respects to General Cao."

(End of this chapter)