The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 91 Relieved

While several people were talking, Fan Dali, the new camp commander, hurriedly walked in to report;

A sailboat from Batavia secretly docked at Huangjia Port, carrying more than a hundred white plantation owners, wealthy Chinese businessmen and their families who had fled to Batavia through various channels. fish.

This person called himself Lin, and wanted to see the commander in person and present a secret message from the head of the family.

Feng Guohui understood it as soon as he heard it. His eyes swept across Lin Zongyi's face intentionally or unintentionally, and he saw Lin Zongyi's rare expression of embarrassment.

"If you ask Fugui to take some people over to take over the ship, you must keep them from contact with the outside world to prevent information from leaking.

In addition, please ask Mr. Lin to move to the mansion. This is our friend. You must be polite and don't neglect the guests. "

"Follow the commander's command."

Fan Dali solemnly raised his hand in a military salute, turned around with a standard movement, and immediately carried out the order.

At this time, Lin Zongyi could no longer sit still. He stood up with a sneer on his face, raised his hands and said, "Commander Mingjian, Zongyi is currently busy with the bank's affairs. Since the development charter has been set, I won't bother you any longer. "

Zheng Xiucai, Feng Zhaoliang and others also stood up one after another, saying that they were busy with municipal affairs and could not stay for a long time, and left together.

Feng Guohui did not persuade him to stay, and immediately served tea to see the guests off.

Feng Guohui always has a sense of urgency that time cannot wait;

He was worried that when the Dutch colonial army pressed on the border, the Nanyang Army was not ready yet, and all the beautiful homes under construction would be destroyed...

A mission will be dispatched to negotiate in the near future, and additional troops are planned to be sent to Semarang in Central Java and several towns in the central hinterland next month, with a total strength of approximately 1600 to 2000 troops.

The soldiers were heavily guarded along the way, which frightened him.

Among them, there are about 400 white troops, and the rest are indigenous servants.

Lin Zongxin brought precise news from the Governor-General's Office in the Dutch East Indies;

Driven by this mentality, Feng Guohui has worked selflessly for more than six months, always urging his subordinates to take action together, setting off one construction climax after another.

There is also an important mint in the West Cross Courtyard. There are daily guards with one post every three steps and one sentry every five steps. No stray people are allowed to wait. Ordinary people can't even get close to the gate.

Without this pragmatic attitude, it would have been impossible to build more than 8 factories, 13 to brick kilns and coal kilns, and Nanyang daily necessities department stores such as Semicolon and Tieshan in just over months. Town, Seven Star Fortress and Taniguchi Fortress and a series of large-scale infrastructure projects.

Feng Guohui retreated from everyone and secretly met with Lin Zongxin. The two met privately for a short while, and they didn't know what they discussed specifically.

It was also under his leadership that Nanyang Company embarked on a path of rapid rise since its establishment.

This is a better situation than Feng Guohui expected. He has a soul from later generations, pays attention to practical results in his acting style, is vigorous and resolute, and cannot tolerate the procrastination and laziness of today's political situation.

Such news undoubtedly bought valuable development time for the Nanyang Army.

Judging from the information compiled above, it seems that the Dutch are unable to launch a large-scale war against the Nanyang Army before the year. As for the situation next year, it is difficult to say.

The ore processing plant and steel plant, which represent the advanced level of the current era, were completed and put into operation in just five or six years. This speed is nothing short of miraculous even in the UK, which is striving towards industrialization.

In the yard

Before the end of the year, there may be an unknown number of white soldiers or mercenaries recruited from Europe arriving.

Feng Guohui stood under a big tree that blocked out the sun. The moonlight shone through the mottled tree shadows, reflecting his tall profile, with a relieved smile at the corner of his mouth.

After the sky darkened, Lin Zongxin left quietly...

Soon

Lin Zongxin, the fifth master, wearing a top hat and hurriedly came in through the side door with his head lowered, and entered the Feng family mansion under the guidance of Fan Dali, the commander of the personal camp.

The Feng Family Mansion was the residence of Feng Guohui, the commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Army. The East Cross Courtyard was the spice warehouse and now also the bank.

The soldiers were wearing uniforms and leggings, and looked particularly energetic.

It would take at least 2 to 3 years to build the same set of factories in the UK.

Not to mention anything else, just planning the factory site and building the factory building is a series of tedious tasks that take more than a year.

Still in Feng Guohui's hands, everything was progressing simultaneously. While ordering steel plant equipment, planning for the iron ore mine, mineral processing plant and steel plant site had begun.

The iron ore mine was restarted in just half a month. The building facilities of the ore concentrator and steel plant were just completed after more than three months of surprise construction. The installation of tracks, mine cars and related equipment began one after another.

After the steel plant equipment arrived, they immediately mobilized elite troops and began the battle to install the ironmaking blast furnace equipment...

The first set of steel blast furnace equipment has not yet started trial production, and the second set of ironmaking blast furnace equipment is already under planning. This is speed, this is efficiency. If the British know about it, they will be shocked.

Feng Guohui walked toward the backyard garden with his hands behind his back, facing the cool night breeze, thinking about the next step of construction.

He plans to make a deal with the British MacGeeley Trading Company in the near future, and plans to use his inventory of more than 70 tons of spices, more than 400 tons of cane sugar, less than a hundred tons of cocoa and other goods in exchange for a complete set of British shipyard equipment and no less than 10 British engineers and 100 British skilled workers.

In this era, if you want to talk about the technical level of building iron ships, it has to be the British.

冯国辉手中的这批货价值约50万银币左右，仅70余吨香料价值就达到36万至38万银币，是欧洲极为抢手的货色。    50万银币约合10万英镑左右，这笔钱足够买三套造船厂设备。

The so-called shipyard equipment in this era is nothing more than some steel bending machines, plate rolling machines, steam winches, oxygen bottles, etc. The technical content is not much higher.

The most important thing is a set of oxygen preparation equipment and high-pressure oxygen bottles, which are the core equipment of the shipyard for cutting steel plates and are indispensable no matter what.

This thing must be imported from the United Kingdom, and the steel plants affiliated to Nanyang Company really cannot produce it.

Even the high-temperature and high-pressure resistant nozzles of oxygen spray guns, oxygen hoses, three-way valves and other components must be imported from the UK.

There are also British shipbuilding engineers and skilled workers, precious talents that cannot be bought with money.

in the UK

To assemble this set of shipyard equipment and workers, the cost would be at least 3 to pounds, and it would be enough to meet the employer's needs for less than pounds.

This includes settling-in expenses of no less than 300 to 400 pounds per person for ship engineers, and about 80 to 100 pounds for each worker.

If you want to persuade outstanding British workers to travel across the ocean, you must pay a corresponding price.

in this era

Generally, the annual salary of outstanding workers in British shipyards is between 30 pounds and 35 pounds. This settling-in allowance is probably their total income for three years.

The annual income of a naval engineer is around 65 to 90 pounds, and will never exceed 100 pounds. That is the treatment that only senior naval engineers can enjoy.

In the novel "Wuthering Heights", the heroine works as a tutor, with an annual salary of 20 pounds, a maid of 13 to 15 pounds, and a housekeeper of pounds.

If Feng Guohui wanted to purchase a set of British shipyard equipment and talents, he would have to pay more than three times the high price, which is almost comparable to the huge profits from spices.

Without so much money, the British McGeeley Trading Company would not do its best to raise funds.

Feng Guohui knew the importance of industrialization, so he would not care about the price. He would establish his own shipbuilding industry no matter how much it cost.

Only in this way can the Nanyang Army develop its naval power and eventually move out of Java Island into the broader Nanyang region.

Rebirth in this life

Feng Guohui's initial idea was to become a wealthy man stably, but with the rapid rise of Nanyang Company under his leadership, his idea also quietly changed.

He is stronger and more ambitious. He wants to live a more exciting and brilliant life and cannot let go of this precious opportunity of rebirth.

On the stage of his motherland, China, there may not be room for him to perform.

But in this backward East Indies colonized by white people, Feng Guohui firmly believed that there must be a stage for him to show his talents.

Today's Surabaya area is quite famous in the surrounding area. Nanyang Company recruits Chinese immigrants without quota, attracting Chinese children from surrounding areas to come in droves.

The entire first half of the year

There are 21622 new Chinese immigrants in the Surabaya area, % of whom are young and strong Chinese men and women, many of whom are younger children in the family, hoping to find a job here.

After entering July, the number of immigrants in the first week exceeded 7, showing a trend of further growth.

The population of Surabaya City has increased from more than 11 to more than 13, and is expected to further exceed the 15 mark by the end of the year, showing a rapid growth trend.

The large number of factories established by Nanyang Company best digested and absorbed this newly increased labor force, transforming it into a steady stream of industrial strength.

The rice factory and oil pressing plant have been completed and started to operate one after another. The sugar factory has also reached the final stage of equipment installation and will officially start production in mid-July.

These large-scale agricultural product processing enterprises will greatly increase the added value of locally produced agricultural products, bring more economic benefits, and create a large number of employment opportunities.

Based on the copper mines and sulfur mines it took over from the Qiao family, Nanyang Company plans to deeply process the above-mentioned minerals, build a copper ore dressing plant, a smelting plant, and build a gunpowder plant based on the sulfur mines. Related plans are in progress.

In the future, copper ore will no longer be exported, but copper ingots whose value has increased more than ten times will be exported. Sulfur ore will no longer be exported, but finished black powder products can be exported.

nowadays

The iron farm tools produced in Surabaya have been widely sold to East Java and even Central Java, and are exported to the Luzon Islands and the British Channel Colony through trading sail cargo ships.

In the next step, a large number of iron farm tools will be exported to Indochina and the Indian subcontinent, and even returned to the vast market of mainland China.

The high-quality iron farm tools produced in Surabaya surpass the products of small handmade iron-making workshops in both quality and price, and are extremely competitive in the market.

(End of this chapter)