The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 16 Recruiting people
  In the deep courtyard of a tall house in the south of Surabaya city
  After drinking morning tea, the boss Qiao rushed to the ancestral home of the Qiao family here and saw the second master Qiao, Qiao Yunnan, who was already waiting here wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looking fair and wealthy.

"Fourth uncle, you have worked hard this morning. Let's sit down and have a cup of tea. How was the conversation with that reckless guy from Nanyang Company?" Qiao Yunnan was also very concerned about the outcome of the conversation and asked straight to the point.

Boss Qiao smiled bitterly, shook his head and sat on the chair next to Qiao Yunnan. He just went to the tea cup and took a sip before saying;
  "Bian Du is from Yong'an Prefecture. He joined the rebel army at the age of 11. He followed the Changmao rebels and traveled north and south to cause trouble in the southeastern half of China. He is truly a ruthless person!
  Yu Dankun, the boss of Shunhaitang, wanted to show off his power, but his red stick and black hair Quan were cut off when he reached out, and his white paper fan was killed on the spot when he pretended to greet him.

Yu Dankun himself was still not convinced and jumped three feet high.

As a result, Feng Guohui pulled out a gun on the spot and hit him with bullet holes all over his body. He died on the spot.

This person is highly skilled and ruthless, and he regards the rules of the world as nothing. He is really difficult to deal with.

Feng Guohui repeatedly emphasized that Nanyang Company was engaged in honest business and did not open incense halls, establish sticks, or admit that he was a Jianghu person.

If you become anxious and say that you are a member of the Holy Army of Heaven and believe in God, what do you think you should do? "

"That's right...it's really tricky."

Qiao Yunnan was stunned for a moment, and after casually responding, he frowned and began to think.

"Yunnan, can you ask the red ghost guy to come forward? Send out a musketeer team to wipe them out." Seeing that he didn't speak, the boss Qiao rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Yunnan's face instantly turned cold. After giving him a cold glance, he directly rebuked him;
  "Fourth Uncle, I think you are getting too old. What bad idea have you come up with?

The red ghosts never intervened in the internal struggles of the Chinese. Instead, they liked the bigger the fight, the better. This was their colonial policy of checks and balances.

Do you think all ghost guys are fools?

As long as I dare to reveal this intention, want to use Gui Lao as a gunman, and then get involved in this mess, the Qiao family will immediately face disaster.

The red ghost guys want obedient dogs, not people who make decisions for them. They really want to blind your heart.

Go ahead, go ahead, just keep the Anxi Society's one-third of an acre, and don't start any border provocations. Nanyang Company is not a master that is easy to fool. "

"If you are always disliked, then I can't leave." After being scolded a lot, the boss Qiao lost his face and simply walked away.

As soon as he left, two young men, a man and a woman, came out of the back hall. They were Qiao Yunnan's children. They had obviously been eavesdropping.

The man has an elegant and fair temperament, and looks to be in his early twenties. He is Qiao Zhongxing, the second son of Qiao Yunnan. He obtained the title of scholar in China, but returned to Nanyang due to the turmoil of the current situation.

The woman has a tall figure and bright eyes. She is a pretty girl in her twenties. She is Qiao Yunnan's youngest daughter Qiao Peiyun, and she is also his most beloved daughter.

"Daddy, I see that Fourth Grandpa left with an unhappy face. Were you talking about Nanyang Company?" Qiao Peiyun came over with a bound, took Qiao Yunnan's arm and shook it, and even took a sneak peek. Father's face.

Every frown and every smile shows the full vitality of a young girl.

Qiao Yunnan's expression softened a little. He had not yet thought of a suitable way to deal with Nanyang Company, so he would wait and see for a while to be prudent.

So he still warned with a straight face; "This is not something you should be concerned about. Stay away from the people from Nanyang Company in the future. He is not the same as us."

"Hmph, there is a lot of buzz outside that a group of fierce dragons have arrived in Sishui City. It's hard not to know." Qiao Peiyun twisted her body in an unhappy mood.

Qiao Yunnan patted Qiao Peiyun's little hand gently to comfort her. Then he turned to his second son, Qiao Zhongxing, and asked with a solemn expression;
  "Bank of China, you have been studying in the mainland for a long time and have a deep understanding of the local situation. Do you have any insights on this?"

Qiao Zhongxing knew that his father was testing him in school. After a moment of expression, he folded his hands and made a bow, and then said;

"Reporting to my father: The Changmao Rebellion started in Jintian and has lasted for more than six years. It has spread to half of the country along the southeast coast, along the Yangtze River to Huguang, and Sichuan. It has become a common phenomenon.

The long-haired bandits made their capital Jinling, named Tianjing, and ruled across the river from Zhengshuo, the Qing Dynasty. They claimed that they had 300 million people, and they had the potential to aspire to the Central Plains.

Nowadays, Southeast China is completely in ruins, with only a few provincial governments remaining, most of them are training troops to protect themselves. It is difficult for the Qing court to control the local area, and it is gradually out of control.

Who will win in the future is yet to be determined. "

"Is it already such a mess?" Qiao Yunnan was stunned for a while after hearing this, and his mood suddenly became much gloomier.

There was still a glimmer of thought of designing a plan to deal with Nanyang Company, but now it was completely gone, and there was no more idea.

The long-haired thieves are powerful. The Qiao family is just a merchant family living in Southeast Asia. Why should they fight against others?
  At present, these dozens of long-haired thieves cannot be dealt with. If the Nanyang Company calls on friends again and comes across the ocean to have hundreds or thousands of them, wouldn't it overthrow the entire city of Surabaya?

Although this possibility is small, it does exist after all!

The usual caution and timidity in the businessman's thinking prevailed. Qiao Yunnan gave the brother and sister a few words to tell them not to get close to the Nanyang Company people. If they couldn't afford to offend them, they could hide away.

After saying that, he asked someone to prepare the carriage. He wanted to talk to the speakers of several other Chinese families to unify the steps and speak to the outside world with one voice.

Nanyang Company can establish a foothold in Surabaya City and develop, but it cannot cross the line or break many potential rules, otherwise everyone will work together to fight against it.

Qiao Yunnan forgot something

From the beginning, Nanyang Company never paid attention to these Jianghu gangs in Surabaya City. They regarded them like chickens and dogs, which could be destroyed with a single hand.

When it really develops and grows, will it still take these so-called rules seriously?
  It can't be said that Qiao Yunnan didn't think carefully, but that he was a businessman with the limitations of his thinking. It's hard to imagine how bold and ambitious Feng Guohui was?
  The small city of Surabaya could not satisfy his appetite at all.

The warehouse of Nanyang Company is commonly known as "Old Camp".

The place in the old camp is large, and the recruited people were sent over in batches for training. Like everyone else, they all put on new coarse cloth coats and new shoes, and their whole spirit and spirit immediately changed.

Because too many people came to apply, the recruitment conditions became much stricter after the afternoon, and only one person was recruited out of three or four people.

Even so
  In one day, 252 people were recruited, and all of them were good young men, which made Feng Guohui very satisfied.

With a wave of his hand, he raised the recruitment quota to 400. After recruiting the remaining people tomorrow, there will be no need for manpower for the time being.

Feng Guohui took out 1.2 silver dollars from the seized Jinyulou public account, and purchased some more mules, horses and carts from all over, and equipped them with big mules, which once again increased the transportation capacity.

There are a total of 15 Western four-wheeled carriages. Each four-wheeled carriage is carried by two large mules. Each carriage can carry 2200 pounds of cargo.

36 local traditional mule and horse carts, each loaded by a large mule, can each carry more than 700 pounds.

Total transport capacity doubled again from 3 pounds to more than 6 pounds.

This part is organized by Nanyang Company itself, mainly bulk goods such as sugar, flour, foreign cloth, shovels, and hoes.

The prices of these goods are stable and the demand is large. If they are transported to the mainland, the profits will be more than twice as high.

The premise is that it can be reached safely.

(End of this chapter)