Dragon Sea Empire

Huaxing United's Quanzhou branch is right next to Zengjiahao's firm, and the relationship between the two companies has always been good; originally, many of Huaxing's associates were from a good brand, so the relationship could not be bad.Xu Xinsu, the person in charge of inland affairs of Zhonghua Company-Huaxing United, is currently supervising the accounting in the semicolon, because Yin Feng will come back soon, and he will definitely come to check the accounts.The shopkeeper of the Quanzhou Branch is Mai Xiaoliu; he has been in charge of the camp of the Penghu Commercial Center for half a year, turning the entire camp into a fortress, and he has a good relationship with the Xun soldiers who come to patrol every year, which fully reflects his work. He is flexible and has the characteristics of overall view, so Yin Feng transferred him to Quanzhou Branch to be the shopkeeper, first to exercise his ability to handle affairs before talking.There is no way, now we can only rely on a little digging and discovery of talents, and the Chinese company still lacks talents who can be independent.

Mai Xiaoliu has a natural aversion to numbers, but he is very persistent and insists on learning all kinds of knowledge. Now he is quite a shopkeeper.

He was reading the latest issue of "Business Daily" in his room, which was printed by the Business Intelligence Department of the company's Ministry of Commerce. The company clearly ordered that all branch managers outside must read it.It has only been two years since Mai Xiaoliu started learning to read and write, and it is still very difficult to read these things now.

His advantage is that he is open-minded and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask, as long as others know more than him, he will ask.Therefore, at this time, there was an accountant sitting next to him, so that he could ask questions about words he didn't understand at any time.

There was a sound at the gate of the semicolon, and someone shouted: "...Who throws stones? You want to die! You ghost!"

Mai Xiaoliu raised his head: "Sir, go and see what's going on."

The accountant was sitting upright and depressed, wishing to get up and walk around.He walked to the outer room in two steps in three steps, and after a while he came in with a piece of torn paper with a panicked expression. "Shopkeeper Mai, this, this, this is..." He was a little awkward in speaking.Mai Xiaoliu raised his head and took the note curiously. The paper was of poor quality, like the paper wrapped with herbs in a pharmacy, with four words written in red on it. "Be careful, what are you careful about?" Mai Xiaoliu asked the accountant suspiciously, while spreading the papers on the table.

"Be careful of assassination!" The accountant said carefully, his eyes full of panic.

"Assassination?" Mai Xiaoliu repeated the word several times, and suddenly his face turned pale. He stood up and asked in a trembling voice, "...Captain, when will you come back?" In the entire China United Company, who is the most worthy of assassination?Mai Xiaoliu could figure out this question with his toes.

"Today..." Before the accountant could finish speaking, Mai Xiaoliu had already rushed out of the door, passed through the main room at an unprecedented speed, and directly crashed into the accountant's room. "Bang!" The door was almost knocked off the bolt, and the accountants who were busy in the settlement were shocked and raised their heads together; Xu Xinsu said very dissatisfied: "Mr. Mai, what are you doing?"

Mai Xiaoliu didn't bother to explain, and handed the note under his nose. "What's the matter..." Xu Xinsu gasped after just one glance, overturned the chair and stood up regardless of anything; "What's going on? When and who brought it?"

Mai Xiaoliu said: "There was a commotion at the door just now, the accountant Mr. Qian brought this after he went out. I don't have time to trace the source of the note. Today is the day when Captain Yin enters the city. Send someone to inform him immediately!"

During the purge at the beginning of the year, Xu Xinsu's status was not affected at all, and his stand was very firm. He publicly stated that Zhonghua Company was invested by Li Dan, so he would definitely support it.At this moment, he also understands that once something happens to Yin Feng, the Chinese company that has just started to improve is bound to collapse.Therefore, he quickly ordered five men who could fight and kill to rush to the south gate where Yin Feng was going to enter the city, and stop Yin Feng's carriage; Each city gate, in case Yin Feng enters the city through other city gates, he can be stopped in time.

At the same time, Mai Xiaoliu also asked about the situation: It turned out that two beggars passed by the gate of the Quanzhou branch of Huaxing United just now, and suddenly threw stones into the gate of the branch.It was only after the man chased them away that there was a stone wrapped in paper.Written on the paper were the words "Be Careful Assassination".

He ran back to Xu Xinsu, who had just sent out the third group of people; two men who could ride horses rode out of the city to intercept Yin Feng on the way, and told him to be careful about the assassination.At this moment, Mai Xiaoliu is holding two latest flintlock pistols produced by the Taiwan Armor Workshop of the Chinese company, and two more are pinned to his waist, and his whole body is full of murderous looks; the Lord.Xu Xinsu knew that Mai Xiaoliu would definitely go to rescue Yin Feng himself, but felt that it was not good for him to be on Quanzhou Street in full armor, so he kindly said, "Xiaoliu, you look like this, I'm afraid..."

Mai Xiaoliu glared at him with murderous eyes, Xu Xinsu immediately stopped the topic with interest.

Mai Xiaoliu said unceremoniously, "Master Xu, can you lend me your carriage?"

Xu Xinsu nodded: "Okay, you go now."

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From Haicheng County to Quanzhou, Yin Feng also met many people along the way, many nearby businessmen and aristocratic families came to invite him as a guest.Some want to do business, some want to buy shares, and some want to arrange for their nephews to work and study in Chinese companies.

So Yin Feng was delayed a little longer on the road, and it was already three days later when he arrived at the city of Quanzhou.At this time, there were two carriages in his team, his own carriage was behind, and the one in front was the carriage of Anhai merchant Chen Hai; this Chen Hai was the distant house of Chen Di who sold the boat to Yin Feng when he went to Manila. nephew.

Now, Yin Feng is not in his carriage, but with Chen Hai.Chen Hai invested 1 taels of silver in Zhonghua United Company, which is also a considerable shareholder.Everyone knows that Zhonghua Company has a high level of industry, food and silver. He wants to arrange for his younger brother who failed the imperial examination to work in the company, and he is recommending it to Yin Feng.

Yin Feng is persuading him: "Let the brother-in-law follow you to learn physics first? Why go all the way to Taiwan, I don't know the place well."

Chen Hai smiled wryly: "My younger brother has failed several times in the imperial examinations, but he still has a very high temper. He is afraid that he will be ridiculed if he studies physics in his hometown..."

"It's the right way to do business. Don't be afraid of being ridiculed! It's not that the company has high requirements. Your brother has only read sage books since he was a child and knows nothing about it. Our company pays attention to technology and has a specialization; under the Ministry of Commerce, there are construction departments and materials departments. , Transshipment Section, Money and Grain Section, Duzhi Section, Accounting Section and many other titles, crafts, construction, and cultivation are all knowledge, and I am afraid that we will have to learn from scratch by then!"

Although Zhonghua Company has recruited many failed imperial examinations, Yin Feng still lacks practical talents.His concept of talent utilization is to let professional people do professional things.However, the scholars produced by the traditional imperial examination education all cover a comprehensive basic education, and then wait until the imperial examination, and then reconsider the actual government affairs based on their individual qualifications. Those who do practical things may offend their colleagues and superiors and be dismissed. In fact, it is rare to do practical work; most of the local government bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty still depended on those subordinates and staff masters, so it was easy to collude with the local government. ; Therefore, most of the local officials have spent their time and energy in the struggle between the upper and lower personnel.

After all, it is difficult to find a talent like Wang Shouren who can be promoted to the prime minister in hundreds of years, and it mainly depends on personal nature and has nothing to do with education policy.Therefore, Yin Feng is very disgusted with those scribes who think that they have a high self-esteem because they think they can learn to do stereotyped essays.

Seeing that Yin Feng seemed to be evading, Chen Hai felt embarrassed; he knew that his younger brother's sour talent temper might indeed not be suitable for doing practical work.Yin Feng thought for a while and said: "Well, if he is willing to come to Taiwan to teach, I welcome it. He can go there to teach the company's children."

Chen Hai made a bow and said, "I'm just kidding, thank you so much for the captain. I'll go ask my brother first."

A guard riding a horse outside the carriage shouted: "Boss owner, Quanzhou City has arrived."

Chen Hai and Yin Feng bowed and bowed to each other on the side of the avenue, saying goodbye to each other.

Yin Feng returned to his carriage, looked at Mai Wan'er's bright red face with a smile, and teased, "Is it boring to sit alone? Miss your husband?" He picked up Mai Wan'er's delicate body, put it on On his own lap, he said to the outside of the carriage: "Ji Zai, let's go to the city!" Then, he aimed at the little woman's mouth and kissed it, making Wan'er so delicate...

Satisfied, Mai Wan'er leaned on Yin Feng's chest, and said softly, "This year, take my father over too? The new Yazhou brother said: The tax envoy will come to pick pearls again, and our village will suffer again." It's..."

Yin Feng nodded: "Okay, I'll send someone to pick up your father right now, and let Xiao Liuzi go."

Chen Zhongji and Yan Siqi were chatting and laughing at the position of the driver in front of the carriage; "When will you marry that Xi Lan home?"

Ji Zai blushed: "Who said you want to marry her?"

Yan Siqi made a face: "She is studying in a foreign school, who visits her every day?"

"Pull it down, where did you go?"

There are 10 personal guards on the left and right sides of the carriage, and only two of them have horses.At this moment, no one knew what was going to happen, so they all looked relaxed.In fact, there are not many pedestrians on the left and right. It is the busy harvest season, and everyone is working in the fields, so there is no time to pay attention to them.

In front is the South Gate of Quanzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty, Quanzhou was originally located in Wurong Prefecture, and the state government was in Fengzhou Town, Nan'an City.Toyosu is an inland port with inconvenient transportation and narrow ground, which is not conducive to economic development.At the same time, due to changes in the geographical situation, the land in the urban area of ​​Quanzhou today has risen, and the water under the Qingyuan Mountain has alluvially flowed, and the water has turned into land, with convenient transportation and a wide range.Therefore, in the second year of Tang Jingyun (711), the state government moved 5 kilometers southeast and south, which is now the urban area of ​​Quanzhou.Marco Polo called Quanzhou Erythrina, but there are not many Erythrina trees in Quanzhou now.

Today, a few soldiers guarding the gate of the city were wearing uniforms, sitting listlessly at the gate of the city and watching the pedestrians coming and going, without the slightest enthusiasm for performing official duties.When Yin Feng's carriage entered the city gate, they didn't even bother to take a second look.

"Boss, don't you need to check this carriage?" Little Soldier A asked.

Xiao Bing's head was as steady as a mountain on his chair: "You don't have eyes, have you seen whose carriage it is?"

Little Soldier A took a closer look and patted himself on the head: "Yo, it's Captain Yin's carriage, it's tricky!"

Xiao Bingtou said: "Check other people's carriages and get some small money by the way. That's robbing the rich and giving to the poor. If you go to check the carriage of Captain Yin, your wife will definitely not let you go to bed when she comes home."

Little Soldier A laughed and nodded: "That's right, my brother-in-law eats and works in the ship's owner's shipyard. Captain Yin is a hero, unlike those heartless rich men, he..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a shrill scream from the other opening of the city gate, and at the same time there was the sound of swords and soldiers colliding.A few soldiers were immediately frightened and stunned.