Chapter 534 Refreshing Three Views

Everyone present automatically converted Schneider's highly official rhetoric into an easy-to-understand statement in their hearts - as long as they join the South China Sea Merchant Alliance, Haihan will provide corresponding protection, and will even go to war with any party for this.

Although Schneider did not mention the name of the Ming Dynasty, everyone automatically made up this detail, because at this stage there are no other organized armed forces in the South China Sea, and the only force that can compete with the Haihan people head-on is probably the Ming Dynasty Guangdong.

The government. Moreover, Schneider also specifically emphasized that this was the commitment of the Haihan Executive Committee and not his personal commitment. Obviously, this was also to reassure the businessmen present. After all, the credibility of the Haihan Executive Committee has been greatly improved in the past few years.

It has been fully verified and is even more effective than what the government said to a certain extent. No one will doubt the validity of the Haihan Executive Committee's stance.

However, these words have a different meaning in the ears of some wavering maritime merchants - if you do not join the South China Sea Business Alliance led by Haihan, then it will be difficult to guarantee the security of the South China Sea region in the future.

, he might even become the target of attacks by the Haihan militia.

Although Schneider didn't explicitly say "get out of the maritime trade world if you don't cooperate with Haihan," his meaning was obvious enough. People who haven't understood Haihan's true intentions at this time probably don't have the same IQ.

I can't hang around in this circle anymore.

Naturally, Li Jifeng, an old fox, would not miss this opportunity to show his loyalty by showing his rhythm. He immediately responded loudly: "Since it is the promise of the executive committee, I, Li, naturally believe it. I have cooperated with Haihan in the past few years.

The business has never gone wrong. I have always admired the vision and methods of the leaders of Haihan. Mr. Shi has said so many benefits, so I will express my opinion on behalf of Guangdong's 'Furuifeng' first, 'Qiong Lianfa'

'Please count them among my family's investment projects for next year, as well as the Nanhai Business Alliance that Mr. Shi just mentioned!"

Schneider smiled and nodded slightly towards Li Jifeng. Before he could answer, another person stood up in the venue and said: "My dear Zhan Gui, I am also willing to continue to cooperate with Haihan. You may not know, but Manlajia

There are many pirates in the nearby waters, and they have become even more rampant in recent years. If we can get the Haihan warship to escort us in the future, we can avoid a lot of risks by running this route!"

What Zhan Gui said is not a fiction. Pirates have appeared in the Anambas Islands and Natuna Islands in the north of Manchuria, as well as Belitung Island in the Java Sea, Sukadana Bay and other places in recent years. Early

Some time ago, the Zhan Family Shipping Company accepted the appointment of the Executive Committee and sent people to establish trading houses in Malacca and Batavia. Its merchant ships also encountered pirates at sea. Fortunately, the ships sent to the south were all successful.

The Hong Kong Shipyard has been transformed to make it faster than ordinary Chinese sailing ships. It is difficult for pirate ships to intercept them at sea with their speed, so they can escape.

Of course, just a small number of wild pirates is not enough for Zhan Gui, who also received prior instructions, to specifically emphasize on this occasion. This is also a precaution for other maritime merchants in advance: First, there are real pirates over there.

If you want to run a single gang on your own, don't say that no one will remind you when something goes wrong; secondly, the scope of Haihan Navy's activities will definitely gradually expand southward in the future, and combating piracy is also a very high-sounding reason.

Li Jifeng thought to himself that fortunately he didn't hesitate after receiving Schneider's hint, otherwise Zhan Gui would probably have stolen the limelight. Looking back now, Zhan Gui and his whole family had already moved to Sanya to settle down, so he must have been strong.

If one's heart is about to leave with the Haihan people, they will naturally jump out to support the motion proposed by Haihan on such occasions.

However, what Li Jifeng did not expect was that after Zhan Gui, three or four large households stood up to express their support for Haihan, and would also join the "South China Sea Business Alliance" which currently only had a name. Only then did Li Jifeng know that Haihan

Full preparations have been made long ago. Even if he does not take the lead, there are still candidates who are ready to jump out and lead this wave of rhythm. The reason why these people are not arranged to stand up at the first time is, according to Li Jifeng's understanding,

Simply because their portions are not as generous as "Fu Ruifeng".

Of course, if Li Jifeng had not stood up and expressed his support for Schneider just now, then someone else would still have done it. Even if the effect was not so good, under the careful arrangements of the Haihan people, it was enough to influence the tendencies of these people in the venue.

But afterwards, the Haihan people will definitely support new businesses to gradually replace some people who have high hopes but are not so firm in their stance. Thinking of this, Li Jifeng was secretly glad that he was relatively decisive in making a decision, otherwise he might have hesitated for a moment.

The direction of things is completely different.

While Li Jifeng was still thinking about it, Schneider was already on the stage and continued to speak: "I am very pleased to see so many people standing up to support Haihan's approach. This shows that the development direction we have set is right and is in line with the bosses here.

interests. Since it is the right thing and can bring us huge benefits, then we should carry out this matter well! Everyone, please sit down and let me first explain the various plans of 'Qiong Lianfa' next year.

The announcement of the development project has been completed. If there are any questions, we will discuss it later."

Among the development plans formulated by the Ministry of Commerce for Qiongbei, the projects are basically focused on port infrastructure and large-scale collective farms. Among them, the port projects are mainly concentrated in Danzhou Bay, Qiongzhou Fucheng, and Wenchang on the east coast. The return income of these projects will

Charges will be charged for the use of port docking after completion. Although the payback period will be several years, shareholders who invest can enjoy certain special conveniences in the use of port terminals based on their share quota. For example, it is very likely that a certain commercial bank will

Exclusive pier.

The large-scale collective farm project is led by the Ministry of Agriculture. Currently, a considerable part of the food consumption in the Haihan area still needs to be imported from Annan, and the developable arable land area in Qiongbei is more than ten times larger than that in Qiongnan. As long as

If effective large-scale planting of food crops can be organized in the Qiongbei region, it is expected that the food supply gap problem in Qiongzhou Island can be solved within one or two years.

To be honest, none of the projects launched by the Haihan Ministry of Commerce this time will have particularly generous returns, and the payback period is also relatively long. Based on investment return, they are not actually good choices. But since there are

As a foreshadowing, the businessmen present here also understand that the project launched by the Haihan people this time is not just for making quick money.

This has at least two purposes. One is to use investment to tie these businessmen and their profit network to the Haihan ship. In the end, the more upper class members of society are involved, the harder it will be for Ming to take action against Haihan.

Secondly, Haihan also used this to show his absolute control over Qiongbei - the large tracts of land that Schneider circled on the map are not necessarily the "ownerless land" he said.

”, and the most effective form of expression of the degree of control over an area is the control over land ownership.

Whether to participate in the development of these new projects is no longer a simple economic issue, but also directly involves the issue of political stance. The position drawn by the Haihan people obviously does not have any gray area, either cooperate or withdraw from the Haihan economic circle.

This kind of withdrawal means giving up the trade rights of Qiongzhou Island and the entire South China Sea region, and it is very likely that all maritime trade with the Pearl River Estuary as the outlet will also have to be given up.

Sweetness is indeed a very difficult choice for these businessmen.

After finally waiting for Schneider to read out the introduction of a total of sixteen development projects, the businessmen present finally waited for the question and answer session. Schneider slowly closed the document book in his hand, handed it to the staff next to him, and then took the teacup and drank.

He took a sip to moisten his throat, and then said calmly: "Regarding the various matters announced today, if you have any questions, you can raise your hands to let me know now. I will answer any questions raised on the spot publicly here.

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At that moment, at least twenty or thirty arms were raised in the venue. Schneider glanced briefly and nodded at someone: "What advice can Mr. Wang of the Haifeng have?"

When his name was called, Wang Qin from the Huizhou Haifeng Ship immediately stood up and said: "I dare not give you advice, but I would like to ask boldly whether your various development projects in Qiongbei have been approved by the government?"

This question raised by Wang Qin undoubtedly asked the thoughts of the people here. If the Haihan people had emptied the government of the city as they did in Qiongnan, then everyone might think that this method of operation is barely acceptable.

Accept it, but considering the political environment in Qiongzhou City, the possibility of the Haihan people changing their situation in just a few days is very slim. What everyone is most worried about is that this kind of action by the Haihan people will cause disputes between Haihan and Ming Dynasty.

, or even further armed conflicts.

When gods fight, common people suffer. Even if these people here have seen Haihan's force and know that the Ming government has nothing to do with the Haihan people entrenched on Qiongzhou Island, they will still worry that their wealth and life will be affected by their cooperation with Haihan.

The Ming government had nothing to do with the Haihan people, but dealing with them was as easy as killing a chicken. Although Schneider had just made a promise on behalf of the Haihan Executive Committee, no one wanted to have a relationship between Haihan and the Ming Dynasty.

Really heartbreaking. When Wang Qin asked this question, he also hoped that Schneider could come up with a best-of-both-worlds solution, which would not only allow the Haihan people to get what they want, and allow everyone to continue their business safely, but also appease the government and the court.

, so as not to cause confusion.

Schneider responded unhurriedly: "Pirates invaded Qiongzhou some time ago and captured most of the prefectures and counties in northern Qiongzhou. I believe you all know this. In these cities captured by pirates, government officials were either killed or killed.

Well, almost all of them disappeared. After our militia army launched a counterattack to drive away the pirates, local civil affairs were temporarily managed by us."

When Schneider said this, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and someone immediately presented another document. Schneider took it and slowly unfolded the folded paper, then lifted it up and showed it to the people in the audience: "Everyone, please take a look, here

There is a people's peace notice issued by the Qiongzhou Prefecture, and the prefect has entrusted us with the post-war reconstruction and civil security work in the Qiongbei area. All the development projects I just announced here, including the land and labor that need to be acquired, are all

All have been approved by the government. Please see clearly, here is the seal of the Qiongzhou magistrate. All our actions on Qiongzhou Island have been approved and supported by the Qiongzhou government of the Ming Dynasty. Now everyone can rest assured.

Bar?"

Don't worry? How can you be so relieved? Although the Ming Dynasty government is corrupt and most of the officials are incompetent, they may not be so stupid as to completely hand over the power of local governance to irrelevant others. Is this notice of peace of mind a forgery?

, or it was obtained through some special means - for example, directly controlling the various yamen in Qiongzhou City, as well as the adults in charge of the yamen.

Wang Qin coughed twice and said: "Does this mean that you still recognize that Qiongzhou Island belongs to the Ming Dynasty?"

"Of course!" Schneider responded without hesitation: "Now, of course, Qiongzhou Island belongs to the Ming Dynasty. We have no objection to this. We are only exercising jurisdiction in some areas. We will wait until the Ming Dynasty court fills in the vacant officials.

After that, we will gradually return the transferred powers to the local officials. You can rest assured that we have not had bad relations with the Ming Dynasty officials before, and we have no such plans in the future. We will continue our previous practices, and everything will be based on peaceful development."

Of course, Wang Qin did not dare to ask further about what "the power that should be transferred" was. Schneider could answer the question to this extent, which was considered very benevolent. At that moment, Wang Qin clasped his fists and bowed, and sat back in his seat.

Although Schneider spoke tactfully, people present could still sense certain overtones from his words. Schneider specifically mentioned "continuing the previous practices" and how the Haihan people used to deal with the local officials of the Ming Dynasty.

?Isn’t it just to gradually evacuate? If this approach is continued to the Qiongbei area, can it be understood that the Haihan people plan to evacuate the entire Qiongzhou Island next?

Schneider continued: "Since the manager of the Haifeng Shipment Wang mentioned this issue, let me say it by the way. In view of the fact that the security situation on the island has not yet been restored, we will spend about three months gradually clearing up the pirate invasion of Qiongzhou Island.

area, eliminate all remaining pirate forces stranded on the island, and then notify the Guangdong government, who will appoint new local officials to restore the imperial court's rule over the local area."

When everyone heard this, they felt that their views had been refreshed once again. To sweep away Qiongbei in three months? Didn't this make it clear that they were going to make a new start to bypass the government?
Chapter completed!