Chapter 787 Difficult Situation

"Everyone, I can understand your anxiety. Everyone has spent a lot of money on this place, and they all want to get their investment back as soon as possible. But to be honest, our Haihanhua has the most human, material and financial resources.

Being anxious is what we are most anxious about." Anxi looked at the large group of people outside the office and could only patiently explain to them: "Everyone is stuck here. I can't do anything. This is not only delaying our time.

You are also wasting your own time!"

These businessmen or representatives sent by big shots can all be regarded as the financial sponsors of the local port construction, so Anxi cannot speak too harshly and can only give good advice. If ordinary people dare to block the office like this, Anxi

Chen Yixin had already been asked to bring the vigilante group over to clear the place.

Dong Yanyun, as a representative of Fujian's business community, stepped out and responded: "Mr. An, we are not waiting here to prevent you from doing your daily official business. We just want to get the investment information released by you as soon as possible."

Anxi smiled bitterly and said: "Everyone, after the local development project is confirmed, there will be an open and fair investment promotion activity, and all commercial banks will be notified in advance."

Anxi said, holding up a book in his hand and showing it to everyone: "We have already registered all the merchants who intend to participate in the Kaohsiung Port investment promotion activities. We will ensure that we will notify you in advance so that everyone can be fully prepared.

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The Kaohsiung Port's investment promotion activities were so chaotic. On the one hand, it was because the military's actions made the Executive Committee somewhat unprepared, and the temporary measures seemed very hasty. On the other hand, it was because the Executive Committee had previously constructed an exclusive terminal.

There is obvious favoritism to Guangdong businessmen on the issue of power distribution, which has caused Haihan's credibility to be affected to a certain extent. Fujian businessmen are worried that Anxi will favor their Guangdong counterparts again, while Guangdong businessmen are worried about the pressure from Anxi in Fujian.

Next, we will find a balance to take care of our Fujian counterparts through the investment promotion process.

Haihan's previous investment promotion activities were open to everyone at the same time, but Haihan's performance this time has obviously made businessmen in Fuzhou and Guangzhou have some doubts about Haihan's business reputation. They blocked outside the Anxi office

Waiting for news, this in itself is already a sign of lack of trust in Haihan. However, the fault this time does not lie with these Ming businessmen. It is mainly caused by Haihan himself not being fully prepared for the development of Kaohsiung Port.

as a result of.

After all, these businessmen finally left here with uneasiness, but Anxi was not relieved because he knew that these guys would continue to appear tomorrow morning, and he was almost thirsty for persuasion just now.

, the validity period will probably not exceed twenty-four hours.

"You are urging my life, then I can only rush the executive committee." Anxi shook his head and went straight to the confidential room. He is now urging the executive committee to send a telegram to Kaohsiung Port as soon as possible.

Replenishing administrative staff and professional and technical personnel, although such urging may not really have much effect, it is the only way Anxi can do at present. It is impossible for him to create a management team out of thin air in this place.

For the development of Kaohsiung Port to proceed smoothly, we must ultimately rely on the support of the base camp.

But Anxi's luck seemed to be good today. He entered the confidential room and turned on the telegraph machine. After preheating, before the machine started transmitting, a message came from Sanya - thirty-seven naturalized civilian cadres and technicians.

The personnel have already departed from Victory Port and headed north early this morning. If everything goes well, they will definitely arrive in Kaohsiung within a week. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture have completed the investment plan. They will discuss it at a meeting today. The results will be available within a day or two before telexing.

Notify the Kaohsiung Administrative Committee in the form.

"With such efficiency, how could we be in such a hurry!" Anxi couldn't help complaining. After sending a reply telegram, he shut down and went offline. The service life of these electronic products is limited.

The use time of electrical equipment has clear requirements, and its service life should be extended as much as possible by reducing unnecessary losses. Although the technical principles of wireless telegraph machines are not very profound, there is no way to rely on existing productivity.

Make spare parts for these equipment brought from the 21st century. Until Haihan's self-made local telegraph can run relatively smoothly in actual use, these ready-made black technology products can make a day's profit every day they are used.

On December 20, the first batch of personnel urgently deployed from Sanya were finally replenished, allowing various agencies to finally alleviate the embarrassment of insufficient manpower, and the long-awaited Kaohsiung Port Investment Project Promotion Conference was also held.

Finally there is news that it will be held in the compound of the Kaohsiung Port Management Committee the next day. Merchants who have registered their intention to participate in the early stage can enter the meeting with their registration receipts at that time, while others who want to come in temporarily to share a piece of the pie or watch it

If you are a lively person, you must register your identity and pay a sincere deposit of one hundred taels to the management committee - this is also to prevent as much as possible some people who try to come in with malicious intentions and wait for opportunities to cause trouble.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. In previous investment meetings, there have been cases where some unknown persons used malicious bidding, jacked up prices, disrupted the order of the venue, and other means to cause trouble. Some of them were caused by conflicts of interest with Haihan.

Some of them have personal grudges with the merchants involved in Haihan's business plan, and some simply want to use this to gain a sense of status. Although the earnest money of one hundred taels of silver cannot stop all those who want to cause trouble,

But at least we can stop the most unscrupulous poor among them.

However, it has only been a few months since Haihan entered the Kaohsiung Port on a large scale. People who are not well-informed have not even received the news that Haihan is planning to build a new port here and can come here to participate in investment promotion.

The merchants at the promotion meeting are basically old customers who have maintained a cooperative relationship with Haihan, so there is no need to worry too much about any unexpected situations.

There were no innovative projects in the entire investment promotion meeting, and they were basically mainly agricultural cash crop plantations. As for the deer farm project that Anxi was most optimistic about, Haihan had no intention of taking it out with investors.

Share. This is because both Anxi and the Ministry of Agriculture believe that the indigenous people on the island are more familiar with the habits of wild deer, and it will be more efficient for them to be responsible for catching and raising deer, and at the same time, it can also provide them with a job opportunity within their capabilities.

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The level of civilization of these indigenous tribes is far lower than that of the Limiao Village on Hainan Island. In addition to raising deer, the experts on Haihan really have not thought of anything else that can provide long-term stability and generous income for the indigenous people.

, jobs with low enough technical thresholds. The production capacity of these tribes is still in the era of real slash-and-burn farming. Even if they are taught to cultivate farmland, it will only take two or three years before they can let go of their hands and feet, that is, "raising deer"

"Mental work" is more suitable for their actual situation.

There are no large-scale mineral deposits or energy resources worth developing near Kaohsiung Port, which is probably the only drawback for travelers. The few metal deposits worth developing on the island of Taiwan are mainly concentrated in the north, and Kaohsiung Port is relatively rich.

The natural resources are bamboo, water conservancy and fisheries.

The Executive Committee has no plans to build large-scale hydropower facilities on the island of Taiwan in the short term, so the local water conservancy advantages can probably only be used for agricultural irrigation. In addition to rice to be grown on a large scale, the Ministry of Agriculture has also prepared wheat for the local area.

, barley, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miscellaneous grain planting projects. Among them, growing wheat locally is also an attempt proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Although wheat was indeed produced in Kaohsiung in later generations, the earth's temperature dropped significantly during the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty.

It is still unclear whether wheat can be grown in Taiwan given the climate conditions.

In terms of cash crops, the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared sugar cane, peanuts, soybeans, citronella, tea, bananas, pineapples, citrus, tobacco and other plantation projects for the local area. Sugar, oil, tea, tobacco, fruits, almost cover the current economy

It is the most profitable field among crops. Many of them are high-yield projects with quick results, short payback period, and long payback period. Businessmen who are familiar with the operation mode of Haihan Plantation are flocking to them.

According to the supplementary agreement signed between Haihan and the Dutch, the Erren River south of Danyuan Port was used as the dividing line between the spheres of influence of the East India Company and Haihan. Based on this, the relevant departments of Haihan established the boundary between Errenxi and Haihan.

In the area to the south and west of Gaoping River, about 15,000 acres, or about ten square kilometers of plantation area have been planned. Just to reclaim these areas and turn them into plantations will require more than 3,000 people.

Labor force is the key. If Haihan relies solely on its own strength, the progress of implementation will obviously be very slow. Therefore, it is necessary to allow investors to directly participate in development and operation through investment promotion.

Of course, no matter what method investors use to inject labor into Kaohsiung's plantations, these immigrants will eventually gradually become naturalized citizens under Haihan's rule. Haihan gave part of the profits to Ming businessmen, and part of them were considered

It is also to allow them to introduce immigrants on their behalf to enrich the population in the jurisdiction. This approach has achieved excellent results in the plantation projects that have attracted investment in various places in the past few years, and has successively brought tens of thousands of new immigrants to Haihan, and each company

The investors are also well aware of Haihan’s purpose.

But they don't care that Haihan continues to grow in strength in this way. For businessmen, the most important thing is to get real money every year through these business projects led by Haihan. Anyway, Haihan doesn't have it now.

They showed obvious hostility towards the Ming Dynasty, and the officials of Fuzhou and Guangzhou were mostly willing to make fortunes with the Haihan people. Naturally, the businessmen turned a blind eye to Haihan's practice of absorbing the population in disguise. Anyway, three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged toads are hard to find.

Aren’t people with legs everywhere? I heard that after the military disaster in the northern Central Plains, victims were everywhere. As long as they transported a boatload of food, they could bring back a boatload of young people. There are people who specialize in this business to transport people to Haihan. Haihan does

Yes, of course I can do it myself. This source of labor is much cheaper than recruiting immigrants locally in Fuguang.

All kinds of news about northern immigrants are naturally released intentionally by Haihan. Previously, Haihan introduced some immigrants from the north through maritime trade. The effect can be said to be pretty good, but the scale is far from reaching Haihan.

The demand for population, especially the plan to develop Taiwan Island, is no better than that of Haihan, Annan and other places that already have a relatively good population base. The total number of indigenous people on the island is only a few tens of thousands, and the degree of civilization is low.

The proportion of people who can be recruited into the ranks of naturalized citizens and put to use in the short term is even more worrying.

At the current rate of immigration introduced by the Penghu base, if we want to continue transfusing blood to the island of Taiwan, we can only completely interrupt the plan to transport immigrants to Hainan and other places, and this is obviously a situation that the Executive Committee does not want to see. The top priority is

It is not about dividing the existing resources into several parts, but about finding ways to open more channels and continue to expand the scale of introducing immigrants.

The Kaohsiung Administrative Committee came up with a plantation project of 15,000 acres in one go, which is almost a "feat" that has never happened in the past investment promotion clubs. Even in Hainan Island, where the plantation area has exceeded 100,000 acres

, and no batch of investment activities has ever offered so much land at one time.

Of course, Taiwan Island has an advantage that other places do not have, that is, the land here is ownerless land, and there will be no disputes over ownership during the land acquisition process. As for the local aborigines, Haihan naturally

They do not regard these natives who do not even know what "land deeds" are as local owners, and it is impossible to seek their opinions on land acquisition. Provide them with a stable livelihood so that they can have food and clothing.

After that, don't make trouble with Haihan, and then gradually naturalize them and win them over, then you can treat them well.

If there are really unintelligent indigenous tribes that are unwilling to cooperate and insist on guarding their so-called territory, then the mountain special operations force from Annan will be happy to teach them the truth that they will be beaten if they fall behind. Qian Tiandun originally designed the combat functions of this force

At that time, the expected combat environment was the mountainous areas of southeastern China, which naturally included the Central Mountains on the island of Taiwan, and the indigenous high-mountain tribes on the island were also one of the imaginary enemies during the training of this unit. These Annan descendants

After several years of targeted training, the soldiers' adaptability in mountainous areas is far beyond that of other units in the militia. It is very difficult to kill indigenous armed forces with primitive equipment, no professional training, and even decent combat organization.

It's not much better than dealing with unarmed ordinary people.

The three-day investment promotion meeting went very smoothly. Investors from Fuzhou and Guangzhou did not hesitate to bid for the plantation projects they were interested in. During the most difficult period in the early stages of the development of Kaohsiung Port, it was possible

He said things have been going smoothly since then.
Chapter completed!