Chapter 303 Business Discussion

The executive committee is willing to give relatively large discounts and concessions to "Furuifeng" in the cooperation agreement of "Qiong Lianfa". In addition to taking into account the previous friendship, it also takes into account the future operation of the "Golden Shield Security" organization.

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Schneider and others encouraged the Li family and his son to set up "Golden Shield Security", an armed escort agency, not just to transport illegal contraband through legal channels. On the one hand, He Xi's intelligence agency needed to rely on the information channels established by "Golden Shield Security"

To expand outward, on the other hand, the Military and Police Department also plans to use this layer of skin to deploy small-scale armed forces near Guangzhou.

With the increase in the business projects of the Guangdong Office, it is foreseeable that the scale of the entire Guangdong Office will expand. After the land is purchased and expanded within the year, the staffing of the Office will definitely increase a lot, and due to various

With the development of trade and financial services, the cash flow of the Guangdong Office will become very large, and security issues will inevitably be put on the agenda of the Guangdong Office.

Although the Garrison Office in Guangzhou now has a platoon of security personnel, in the eyes of the Military and Police Department, the more armed forces the better. In a regional important place like Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Military and Police Department wishes they could set up a military base on the Pearl River.

That would be great - of course this is just a wish that is unlikely to come true at the moment.

Directly deploying armed forces in Guangzhou will inevitably arouse Ming Dynasty's vigilance. After all, the Jinyiwei, who have been famous for hundreds of years, are not vegetarians. If they move too much, they will be targeted by these "court eagle dogs" soon. But the "Golden Shield Security Guard" can

Taking a curve to save the country has given the Military and Police Department’s plan a layer of legality. The Military and Police Department has long had a plan to control the Pearl River Estuary, and plans to do something in the Wanshan Islands at the Pearl River Estuary. In terms of distance,

Guangzhou, which is very close at hand, is undoubtedly a better logistics base than Victory Port. Only after Guangzhou is well laid out can the Military and Police Department confidently and boldly plan to establish a military stronghold at the Pearl River Estuary to realize the strategy of monitoring Guangzhou's sea channels.

intention.

In the more than half a year since its opening, this is the first time that the General Office has received so many guests at the same time. Near noon, the more than 20 banquet tables set up in the courtyard were almost full, and the people watching the excitement outside finally dispersed.

, after all, ordinary people will not be able to participate in the subsequent games.

Schneider delivered a passionate toast on behalf of the Guangdong Office, highly affirming the strength of "Golden Shield Security", and said that in the future, "Haihan Development Bank" and other industries under the Haihan name will cooperate with "Golden Shield Security"

Through in-depth cooperation, all the escort work of Haihan's various products in the mainland will be completed by "Golden Shield Security". At the same time, Schneider also said that as long as they are long-term fixed customers of "Haihan Development Bank", they can enjoy a 20% discount on

Enjoy the escort service of "Golden Shield Security" at a reasonable price.

Schneider's statement is actually an endorsement of the newly established "Golden Shield Security" in the Guangzhou business district. The economic strength of Haihan people has been well known in the Guangzhou business district in the past six months. With the statement of the Guangdong Office, "Golden Shield Security"

"Even if I can't get a single business from outside, I will starve to death just relying on Haihan for food. Moreover, the merchants here can also detect another relatively obscure message from Schneider's words - Haihan people should be prepared

With the help of "Golden Shield Security", we have established our own sales channels and network.

In fact, many people have already guessed the intention of Haihan people when they learned that Haihan and "Furuifeng" cooperated to establish the "Golden Shield Security" agency, and the evaluations of various merchants are naturally mixed. Some people think that

By doing this, the Haihan people are completely competing for the market with the Ming distributors. If the Haihan people established their own sales network, then it can be said that businessmen like Daming would not have even the slightest competitive advantage. However, there is another opinion that the Haihan people are not doing this.

It is not to drive away the distributors, because Haihan people have never shown the bad habit of eating alone when doing business - those who hold this opinion are basically big merchants who have been invited by "Qiong Lianfa" to invest in the company.

These merchants have relatively close trade relations with Haihan and are relatively familiar with the behavior of Haihan people. After learning the information about the two organizations "Golden Shield Security" and "Qiong Lianfa", some of them are smarter.

People have guessed a bit about the intentions of the Haihan people - the Haihan people probably hope that the Ming merchants will divert some of their attention from Haihan's fancy products to bigger businesses.

As long as the business owners who have been individually interviewed by the Guangzhou Guangdong Office about the "Qiong Lianfa" related content, they are all shocked by the Haihan people's ideas. Among the projects in the "Qiong Lianfa" plan, any one of them is ordinary.

It’s a big guy that businesses can’t control, and the Haihan people don’t seem to be content with letting these ideas stay on paper, and they also plan to carry out multi-line operations and run several projects at the same time.

How big the “money prospects” of these projects are, some are relatively obvious, such as mining and iron smelting, planting large-scale sugarcane fields, building large ships for the shipping industry, etc. There are also some projects that are hard to understand, such as rail tracks.

Transportation, infrastructure construction, etc. But no matter what kind of project it is, Haihan people have shown full confidence in its profitability. For some of the projects, Haihan people even gave a guaranteed profit margin.

Compared with the huge profits from the distribution of Haihan products in the mainland, these big projects of Haihan people do not seem so attractive, but everyone has to admit that as the number of distributors of Haihan products in the mainland increases, the sales profits

It is no longer as lucrative as it was in the first few months. Even established agents such as "Fu Ruifeng" have to face the emergence of more and more competitors in the same industry. Distributors want to ensure huge profits, so

More time and effort must be spent to transport Haihan products to areas far away from Guangzhou for sale, but in this era of inconvenient transportation, it is not easy to sell bulk goods to other places.

Under such market trends, for large businessmen, the "Qiong Lianfa" operating model proposed by Haihan people seems very attractive. Although it does not seem to be very profitable, it is better because there is less worry and less trouble, and the project

The whole process is implemented by Haihan people. In addition to providing the necessary human, material and financial resources, shareholders basically do not need to worry about the problems in the operation process. They just need to wait for the money to be distributed with peace of mind. Another extremely important point is that

Haihan promised that the income of shareholders can be cashed in cash or bank notes from "Haihan Development Bank", which means that this income can achieve complete tax avoidance, which is much simpler than doing sea trade.

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Although they still have various doubts, the merchants who received the invitation from "Qiong Lianfa" to invest in shares were still invited to come here to see what the Haihan people have to say at today's meeting.

After all, no one wants to easily miss such an opportunity to earn stable long-term profits.

Today's banquet still adheres to the principle of "cultural stage, economic performance". After Schneider's toast, Li Jifeng also said a few words briefly, and then the temporary stage set up in the yard began to babble.

Started singing. This was the "Guangfu Opera" performed by the Qionghua Guild Hall specially invited from Foshan by the Guangdong Office, which was the prototype of Cantonese Opera.

After singing a play, Schneider went on stage in person to preside over the auction and lottery ceremony. Before starting the auction, Schneider gave a brief explanation of the auction, saying that the proceeds from the auction of these twenty sets of commemorative stationery today, regardless of

Regardless of the amount, the Guangdong Office will donate it without leaving a penny. Half of it will be used as funds for Haihan Shantang to provide relief to local refugees and orphans in Guangzhou, and will send those homeless children without care to Shengli Port for treatment.

Unified education and management. The other half of the funds will be used to establish a special "Haihan Scholarship Foundation" to support poor scholars in Guangzhou. Scholars from poor families can apply for subsidies from the foundation, and this

This financial subsidy will be free and without any additional requirements.

Relieving refugees, donating culture, and promoting philanthropic deeds are the best ways for businessmen in this era to gain a good social reputation after making a fortune. Schneider's statement also received a round of applause. Of course, although the money was in the name of charity,

They don’t intend to spend their money in vain. Most of the refugee orphans rescued by Yizhuang Shantang will be sent to Shengli Port to enter the naturalized citizen system after being screened. It can also be regarded as one of the legal channels to obtain immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the support for poor lower-class literati, in fact, the Guangdong Office in Guangdong has been engaged in related work before, but it has not been made public. Considering the current population size of Victory Port, the literacy rate of ordinary people is still far below the

The expectations of the Executive Committee, and the existing teaching staff are too thin to carry out universal literacy education. The shortcut to solve this contradiction is probably to introduce intellectuals from the Ming Dynasty and gradually increase the literacy rate of the people through popularizing basic education.

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As of the end of February, the Liaison Office in Guangdong Province had recruited more than 30 down-and-out scholars from the mainland. Most of them had been sent to Shengli Port to receive training from relevant departments. Their future destinations will be through various primary education institutions under the control of the group.

Organizations, as well as some positions in various units that require a basic level of education to be competent. This kind of recruitment will be more convenient after being put on the cloak of a "foundation", and the scale of recruitment will gradually increase.

The Executive Committee set a very low threshold for recruiting intellectuals from the Ming Dynasty. As long as they could read through the basic books such as "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Thousand Character Essay", and "Young School Qionglin", they would be considered qualified.

As for the Four Books and Five Classics, there are no hard requirements for the knowledge content of the classics and history. It is of course better to have studied it. If you are a scholar or above and voluntarily move to Shengli Port to settle down, you will also receive a special settling-in allowance.

After displaying the items, the auction begins. The most active people in this kind of auction are not the top people in Guangzhou's business district, but some middle-level businesses with the strongest desire to buy. The reason for this is also very simple.

Almost all the big merchants have their own channels to order goods from Haihan people, and there is no need to compete for a limited number of sets of auction items on such occasions. Moreover, Haihan people also told them clearly at the beginning that these so-called collector's editions were limited editions.

Editions and commemorative editions are all just gimmicks to hype up products, and limiting their quantity is purely to increase market value. Those who really want to collect them usually place individual orders for custom-made ones. For example, Li Jifeng’s family has several unique sets.

Customized glass stationery.

On the contrary, those merchants with medium strength, because they cannot get the first-hand source of Haihan products, attach great importance to Haihan products that flow out through abnormal channels. Twenty sets of limited editions were finally sold for 13,000 yuan.

More than a thousand taels of silver, Schneider, who was presiding over the auction on the stage, never closed his mouth from beginning to end. With a fraction of this money, he had already made back the cost of these things together with the cost of today's big reception. He earned it in Guangzhou

It is so easy to make money in the pockets of Ming merchants.

After that, there were various lottery activities, which basically copied all the methods used by later companies to hold annual meetings. However, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty obviously liked this method very much, and they yelled and laughed during the lottery.

It was a great pleasure. About 30% of the participants won prizes of different levels. For those who were unlucky and didn't even win, the Guangzhou Guangdong Office also thoughtfully prepared a consolation prize - a new product.

Two pieces of Haihan soap.

After eating, drinking and having fun, a large group of ticket holders left the Guangdong Office with their trophies satisfied. Of course, some people quietly took a detour to the "Haihan Development Bank" on the other side of the yard after leaving the gate and completed the account opening procedures.

——You never know when you will use the escort service of "Golden Shield Security". You need to get qualified for the discount first.

A few scheming people noticed that some big local businessmen did not leave immediately after the banquet, but outsiders could not imagine the scale of the business these people were discussing at this time. It would be an exaggeration to say that they were staying here now.

The combined wealth of the people in the Guangdong Office can buy almost half of the city of Guangzhou.

The influence of this group of people on the entire Guangzhou business district and even local society has been carefully evaluated and screened by the Guangzhou Liaison Office, and some people who have always been inconsistent with Haihan or whose work concepts are not in sync with each other have been eliminated.

At least those who are left behind are relatively neutral in political attitudes and have not shown any obvious hostility or rejection towards Haihan. This way, they will not react in the future when they learn of some of Haihan's methods that are detrimental to Ming's interests.

Too intense.

The participants staying here today have all had individual interviews with the Guangdong Office in Guangzhou, and have a certain degree of understanding of the business content and direction of "Qiong Lianfa". This is the last discussion before the listing of "Qiong Lianfa"

For this meeting, Schneider prepared a speech specifically to encourage these businessmen to invest.

"Dear bosses, since ancient times, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have always been ranked at the bottom of the four people. No matter how much money a businessman can make, it is difficult to obtain a corresponding social status. The imperial court and the government have always only regarded businessmen as As a money tree, shake it when necessary. If the tree is too big to be shaken, simply cut it down. Even if he is as rich as Shen Wansan, the court can bankrupt him and exile him to the frontier with just one sentence. I think all the bosses now hire the best teachers for their children, that is, so that their children can get a good name and get rid of the social status of the last among the four people. But what I want to tell you today is that there is actually another There is a way to get rid of this status quo that makes you feel unwilling but unable to change."

Schneider pulled down a curtain on the wall, revealing a five-foot-square map of the South China Sea with Hainan Island as the center.

"Dear bosses, I believe everyone is familiar with Qiongzhou Island. Nine out of ten of you here should have been to Qiongzhou Island, and almost half of you have visited Victory Port. I believe that anyone who has been to Victory Port can You can feel the difference between there and the Ming Dynasty. You can think about it, why does Victory Port attract everyone together, and why do you have to transport goods to Victory Port for delivery even though you have traveled thousands of miles?"

"Because it's tax-free!" Someone replied. Of course, the attraction of Victory Port now is not only the local tax-free policy, but also the good port conditions, complete armed defense means, and the current currency exchange between Victory Port and Guangzhou. The deposit-and-exchange business is a temptation that merchants find difficult to refuse.

Schneider nodded and continued: "That's right. Some people may say that doing so is against the 'Great Ming Law', but what I want to tell you is that the financial situation of the Yazhou region has not been adversely affected by the tax-free policy of Shengli Port. The impact of Various problems, including refugees, pirates, prisoners, high unemployment, and high prices, have now been gradually solved by us. I can boldly tell you that the various policies we implemented in Victory Port have all been achieved. The tacit support of the Yazhou government office. If you don’t believe me, next time you visit Victory Port, I can take you to see how many of the people serving labor in Victory Port are prisoners who should be detained in Yazhou Prison!”

"As long as we can create more wealth for local government, allow officials to pay taxes higher than the previous year's figures, and make their political performance during their reign more impressive, who else can become our golden light?" What are the stumbling blocks on the road? What we have done in Shengli Port and Yazhou can be replicated in other places on Qiongzhou Island. You no longer need to worry about being single and weak, and the hard-earned money will become the government's money. Chinese food, as long as we unite under the sign of "Qiong Lian Fa", I will definitely let you see the true power of capital! Look at how those officials who either claim to be aloof or greedy bow their heads in front of capital. !”
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