Chapter 464 Return to Annan

Ruan Xinggui was one of the first party leaders to surrender before the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime. Therefore, the treatment he and his family received after the war was unmatched by the elders and children of South Vietnam. After Ruan Xinggui arrived in Victory Port, he was quickly asked to work in the business affairs department by Schneider.

The plan of the executive committee at that time was to subdue him and send him back to the South Vietnam region to work, so that he could make full use of his indigenous identity. His younger brother Ruan Wenwen was also reused and was absorbed into the police department.

With his qualifications as a military officer, as long as he remains loyal to the Executive Committee, it is basically only a matter of time before he is promoted and reused.

After Ruan Jinggui entered the Ministry of Commerce, in addition to serving as Schneider's personal assistant, he also began to gradually take over some trade affairs related to Annan. As the current trade volume with Haihan is second only to the Ming Dynasty, it is even on par with the Ming Dynasty in terms of immigration import.

Haihan's main trading partner, Haihan, still attaches great importance to Annan. There is a dedicated Annan Affairs Office in the Ministry of Commerce, which is responsible for handling the daily trade between Haihan and Annan.

Different from the trade strategy adopted by Haihan in the Ming Dynasty, the commercial department did not open the door to Annan's trade through smuggling. Instead, it reached a trade agreement with Annan's ruling class from the beginning and openly informed Annan.

Importing industrial products. This was largely due to the fact that Annan was caught in the war quagmire at that time. A large number of laborers were forced to go to the front line to serve the war. Even salt needed to be imported on a large scale from Haihan. Now Annan

Although the civil war has been declared over, in the past two years, high-quality and low-priced Hai Han refined salt has occupied the main market in the former North Vietnam region. Every time the trade agreement between the two parties is revised, salt will still be included in the agreement as a major commodity.

Go in it.

Along with the salt, there are numerous other industrial products that entered Annan, such as glassware, soap, matches, iron farm tools, etc. Not only that, but even cheap agricultural products were used by the commercial department in every possible way.

It has a good reputation and is sold to Annan at a high price. For example, palm oil, which has only been produced this year, has a small output. The commercial department has used the signature gimmick of "Royal Edible Oil" to promote it to the nobles of Annan. This kind of palm oil is said to be only pure sea oil.

The high-grade edible oil that Han people are eligible to enjoy has been a hot seller as soon as it was launched in Annan. The price of palm oil per ton is three times that of the commercial department when it was tested in Guangzhou.

But it’s no wonder that the name Haihan is much more authoritative in Annan than in Ming Dynasty. After all, he is a strong man who can change the situation of Annan’s civil war. Both ordinary people and high-level society are willing to imitate Haihan’s lifestyle.

As for the price, this kind of clearly positioned product will not be sold to the poor in the first place, and its sales targets will not consider the price too much when purchasing. They have already formed a certain mindset in the past two years.

——As long as the Haihan people say it’s good, it’s definitely not bad.

The person who proposed this sales plan was Ruan Jinggui, who had recently joined the Ministry of Commerce. Although the South Vietnamese court did not establish official trade relations with Hai Han at that time, Hai Han products were continuously transported from Victory Port to Daming Hai for sale in South Vietnam.

Trade has never been cut off, so the customs in South Vietnam at that time were actually similar. Sometimes even because of the shortage of goods, the same goods were much more popular in South Vietnam than in the north. Although the dignitaries in South Vietnam were all right in court,

Haihan was filled with indignation because of his participation in the Annam Civil War, but almost everyone had a collection of high-end glass stationery produced by Haihan in their homes. It was out of his understanding of the domestic situation in Annam that Ruan Chinggui proposed such a sales method.

Relying on concept hype to improve product quality, thereby driving up product prices. This business operation model is naturally nothing new in another time and space. The so-called direct selling companies on the market all use this routine. But in this era, Ruan Jinggui

Being able to come up with this sales strategy without a teacher shows that he does have some extraordinary talent in business. After Schneider confirmed this, he handed over the planning of Vietnam's business strategy to Ruan Jingui.

follow up.

Ruan Jinggui really lived up to Schneider's trust. He quickly followed this path and worked out a hype plan for other agricultural products. After the commerce department made corresponding adjustments, the agricultural products exported to Annan in the first half of the year were compared.

The expected revenue has more than tripled. This is not the concept of a roadside grocery store selling more bottles of oil and kilograms of vinegar. The increase in benefits brought about by the adjustment of the agricultural products sales strategy is enough for the Navy to add two more ships within the year.

Big ship.

It is precisely because of his outstanding performance in the Ministry of Commerce in the past six months that Ruan Xinggui finally gained the trust of the Executive Committee, which appointed him to go to Da Nang as the Hai Han commercial representative to be responsible for negotiating and handling the local trade situation and participating in the planning of the local trade.

Construction of port business area.

Originally, according to the agreement reached between Hai Han and the Annan court, the South Vietnamese ministers who were sheltered by Hai Han after the Battle of Hue were not allowed to return to Annam. However, because the Hai Han Concession enjoyed extraterritoriality, even if someone like Nguyen Chinh Quy arrived in Da Nang

Hong Kong, as long as he did not intentionally leave the concession area, Annan officials could only pretend not to see anything.

For Ruan Jingui, it was an unexpected surprise to be able to set foot on the land of Annam again. When he boarded the ship outside Hue, he thought that he would never have the opportunity to return to this land.

Unexpectedly, only half a year had passed before I returned to my hometown - of course, this place no longer had the surname Ruan, but changed its surname to Zheng.

Although Nguyen Thanh Kui shoulders the duties appointed by the Hai Han Executive Committee, to be honest, he does not feel like returning home in glory. Instead, he looks like a down-and-out man who was sent to a remote place to be a county magistrate. Although the geographical environment of Da Nang is good, the former South Vietnam

The imperial court did not have enough capacity to carry out large-scale commercial development, so for a long time it was in an almost primitive state. It was only in the past two months that people gradually moved here to settle.

These people did not come here by chance. In fact, they were workers prepared by the Annan court for Haihan. According to the agreement between the two parties, after completing the local construction projects, these workers will have the option to join Haihan.

It can be said that the essence of this project is that the Annan court exchanged the population for a port that Haihan was responsible for building and Haihan actually controlled. Annan only enjoyed nominal ownership rights and part of the use rights.

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Not only did Annan have to swallow this loss, but he also had to try to get the Haihan people to start implementing the Da Nang development plan as soon as possible, because the maritime trade in South Vietnam was stagnant, which was an absolute must for the Annan court, which had a serious shortage of treasury revenue.

big problem.

When the Haihan people attacked Hoi An last year, they took away almost all the local Ming merchants and drove away the Portuguese, the only Western partner. It can be said that they directly killed the maritime trade of South Vietnam at that time. If the Annan court had

From a personal standpoint, there was nothing wrong with what the Haihan people did, and it was very good. In one fell swoop, they cut off the largest source of income for the South Vietnamese court. But after the war, the drawbacks of this matter gradually emerged.

The Annan court had tried to roll up their sleeves, but the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants who had good connections said that without the recognition of the Haihan people, they did not want to take the risk of going to Annan to do business again. The Portuguese said even more

Directly, they believe that Haihan is a more important partner than Annan. Portugal will not unilaterally discuss trade cooperation with Annan before Haihan makes a clear statement.

Of course, the Portuguese did not behave like this out of respect for Haihan, but probably more out of awe. After the Portuguese became Haihan's arms agents, they have trafficked a large number of Haihan.

Guns and artillery were sent to the European battlefields. Not that no one thought about using these weapons to deal with the Haihan people. However, the Portuguese who have visited the Haihan shooting range all know that the Haihan people still have many advanced weapons and equipment that are not for sale.

Armed with these advanced weapons, the Haihan militia had to deal with an enemy with only matchlock guns and small-caliber smoothbore cannons, just as easily as an adult with a stick bullying an unarmed child. What's more, the Haihan people's naval power is not weak, so if they are provoked

, then the future of the Portuguese resident in Macau will be worrying. Relying on Wanshan Port and Lijiazhuang, Panyu, the Haihan people can easily blockade the Macau area, including the surrounding waters. By then, let alone doing business, the Portuguese will

Even whether he can continue to stay in the Far East will become a problem.

The Annan court could not persuade the Ming maritime merchants and the Portuguese to cooperate directly with them, so the only partner they could choose to cooperate with was Haihan. Even if the conditions proposed by Haihan were very harsh, the Annan court could only knock out their teeth and eat them.

Swallow inside.

This time the official sent by the Annan court to Da Nang to handle specific affairs was still Zheng Lin, who had a good relationship with Haihan. Although the last time he went to Sanya to discuss cooperation with the Haihan people to develop the four southern ports, the results were not ideal, but Annan

The imperial court believes that it cannot find a more suitable candidate than Zheng Lin for the time being, so Zheng Lin will still be responsible for communicating with Haihan regarding the follow-up development of the four southern ports.

This task cannot be said to be arduous, but it is by no means easy. Zheng Lin has been dealing with the Haihan people for almost two years. He knows very well that although these Haihan people are very particular about business credit, the problem is that their skills in squeezing others are really hard to guard against.

The reason why Annan is now in a rather passive position in the process of business cooperation and even has to give up part of his interests in exchange for Haihan's compromise is that the Haihan people took advantage of too many loopholes when they first negotiated various cooperation agreements.

, so that now we have to pay more to pay for the previous sloppiness.

"Ruan Jinggui, the commissioner of the Annan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Commerce in Haihan, met Special Envoy Zheng!" After Ruan Jinggui got off the ship, someone introduced him to Zheng Lin.

Zheng Lin slightly cupped his hands and said, "I've admired you for a long time! I heard that Commissioner Ruan is a local!"

Ruan Jinggui heard a hint of sarcasm in these words and responded without changing his expression: "I am a naturalized citizen of Haihan, so I don't care about my place of origin. When I work for the executive committee, I never ask about my origin.

Loyalty required!"

Zheng Lin snorted coldly and said: "Loyalty? You haven't committed suicide and sacrificed your country, yet you dare to talk about loyalty!"

"Marie your country? If I die for your country, what will your Zheng family's small court be?" Ruan Jinggui immediately caught the loophole in Zheng Lin's words.

As soon as Zheng Lin said this, he knew he had made a mistake, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "I heard that the person leading the team this time is Mr. Liu, who specializes in engineering construction at Haihan. Why haven't you disembarked yet?"

"Chief Liu is receiving the message from the Executive Committee and will disembark later." Speaking of this, Ruan Jinggui's face became a little more solemn. The Haihan people's ability to transmit messages through the air is difficult for outsiders to see.

It was more like a magical spell. Although Ruan Jinggui knew that the Haihan people used a magical tool to achieve this effect, he was still full of awe.

Zheng Lin actually knew about the same situation as Ruan Jinggui. When he lived in Heitu Port, he saw many times at close range the Han people who had crossed the sea using radios, walkie-talkies and other equipment to communicate through the air. But what was the principle and how to operate it?

He didn't understand at all. But one thing he knew was that Haihan people were not allowed to be disturbed by others when they were talking to each other over the air. If Liu Shanxia was indeed talking to the Executive Committee, let alone Zheng Lin.

, even if the King of Qingdu came in person, Liu Shanxia might not be willing to cut off the call right away.

The identity of these two people was that they were life-and-death opponents half a year ago. Now, although the civil war is over, one side has not won thoroughly enough, and the other side has not accepted the defeat. However, they will meet again in such a situation that requires cooperation. The two people stared at each other.

Xiaoyan, no one wants to lose their temper first.

After being speechless and silent for more than ten minutes, Liu Shanxia finally got off the boat. He was not showing off just now, but he was really receiving messages from the base camp. Although it was just a routine call every day, Liu Shanxia did not

He would change his arrangements for the sake of Special Envoy Annan who was waiting on the shore. This was exactly what Zheng Lin had expected.

After Liu Shanxia got off the boat, he saw that the expressions of the two people were not right. He roughly knew Ruan Jinggui's background. Zheng Lin had met him at Heitu Port earlier, and he was not unfamiliar. He understood the cold situation in front of him in a second thought.

What was going on? He immediately laughed and said: "Envoy Zheng has been waiting for a long time!"

Zheng Lin hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed: "Master Liu, you are polite, just for a moment. Master Liu came across the sea and worked hard all the way. I have prepared a table of wine to catch the wind. I hope Master Liu will not dislike it and will definitely appreciate it!"
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