Liang Cunhou forced a smile and said: "I am sending out food for disaster relief. On the one hand, I cannot bear to see the people displaced and starved to death on the roads. On the other hand, I am afraid that the poor people will take risks due to hunger and cold. [Read the latest chapter] i. Does anyone know the recent news about Guangzhou City? How many hungry people are pouring in from inside and outside the city? A quick calculation shows that the number is no less than thirty thousand! It’s still autumn harvest right now, and when the spring famine comes, I don’t know how many more hungry people will come! If someone makes a noise, the rotten It's not a place! It's ridiculous how many gentry claim to be the descendants of saints. On the contrary, they say that I am deliberately trying to gain fame and win over people's hearts, as if I have ulterior motives. Ridiculous! Ridiculous!" After saying this, he probably felt that he had made a mistake, so he quickly threw his hand away and said, "It's a gaffe. Gaffe!"
"There are only two people missing." Xiao Zishan muttered to himself.
"What is the shopkeeper talking about?" Liang Cunhou asked, puzzled.
"No, no, it's nothing." Xiao Zishan quickly interrupted, "Master Liang, we also want to recruit some hungry people in Guangzhou and send them to Qiongzhou to open up wasteland. I wonder if there is any problem with the government about this?"
"Opening up wasteland?" Mr. Liang laughed dumbly, "Don't blame me for pouring cold water on you. You spent money to open up wasteland, but you are afraid that you won't even be able to pay out the money and food in the end. After a year of hard work, you have benefited the subordinate staff in vain. Recruiting refugees is a good thing, I’m afraid that if things don’t continue, they will be displaced.”
An important instruction given by the executive committee to the intelligence personnel was to collect various social information of the Ming Dynasty. Seeing this, Guo Yi deliberately said: "Why did Mr. Liang say this?"
"I've never been to Qiongzhou. But I heard that this place is hot and humid, has miasma, and has many hurricanes. There are also Li people who are causing trouble. Although there are many wastelands, I'm afraid it's not easy to live there. Besides, you are all merchants, and you don't have any fame, isn't it? He is a fat sheep in the eyes of local subordinates! He is so light that he will lose all his money, but he is so heavy that he may lose his fortune! Alas, what a world!"
Guo Yi had no choice but to say yes and did not dare to say more. Just as he was talking, he saw a servant coming over and whispered something to him. Mr. Liang stood up and said that he still had something to do, and said goodbye. Everyone said goodbye, and not long after they left, a servant came over and asked respectfully: "My young master, may I ask where your subordinate is? He will come to pay his respects another day."
Everyone looked at each other: I had been very submissive in front of him just now, that is, I didn't recite "Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow falling", nor did I talk about human rights, democracy and freedom. After all, Mr. Liang, who was born in a noble family, What do you like about these businessmen?
Guo Yi hurriedly said: "I live in Huifu Street, and the shop is called Zizhenzhai."
The servant asked clearly and took out a piece of plum-red paper from the worship box: "This is my young master's name card. Please accept it."
Giving a name tag to the person they met for the first time showed that they valued the other person. Guo Yilai had heard a series of lectures on "Customs and Customs of the Ming Dynasty" given by Yu E Shui before, but he hurriedly declined but said, "I dare not accept it." After repeated refusals, I accepted.
Xiao Zishan was worried and rushed to the Escort's mule and horse shop again. He saw that the people who came had already settled in under the arrangements of the Escort. Sun Kecheng was stunned at first. He heard that they wanted to buy some family members, but he didn't expect that they would come overnight. With such a large number of people, the entire bodyguard bureau mobilized to cook food and boil water, and also asked doctors to treat several patients and prescribe medicines.
Returning to Huifu Street, everyone discussed that the goods were not fully purchased yet, but people had already bought more than 200 items. Staying in Qiwei's mule and horse shop was not a long-term solution. Firstly, it would disturb others, and secondly, they would eat them. When you are full, your mind becomes active. They are not jailers and keep a watch on them 24 hours a day. They might as well transport the people back first and then transport the goods.
This initiative was enthusiastically approved by the crew, which surprised Xiao Zishan. He thought that these people had just arrived for a few days and would not be willing to go back immediately. I don’t know how many people are carrying Xiao Jiujiu. It was decided at that moment to let the purchased people rest in Qiwei's Mule and Horse Store for two days, and then the crew would be responsible for transporting them back, while the others stayed in Guangzhou to continue the construction of the advance station.
The renovation project of the house is also in full swing. According to the plan, the house on Weifu Street was transformed into a store-in-the-back-style treasure shop, specializing in selling various luxury goods made by Chuanzhong. Some post-processing and assembly work can be done here, leaving only the key craftsmanship in Bairen City. Yan Maoda, a former jewelry company manager, has done some research on the design and processing of jewelry. He brought a lot of information about new jewelry with him. He said that he only needs to recruit a few skilled craftsmen to make these jewelry-this is better than just selling glass. The equipment should be better, and avoid conflict with the promotion of agents for their products.
Xiao Zishan took advantage of his relationship with Gao Ju and recruited many workers to carry out the reconstruction project. Fortunately, they had plenty of money, so they used the excuse of opening a treasure house to build tight barriers in the entire courtyard. Although it didn't look like the U.S. Embassy, it was pretty much the same. Imitating the security measures of Shanxi banks and pawn shops in the past, iron grilles were installed on the ceiling to prevent burglars from falling from the sky. The walls are all made of stone strips, and the upper part is made of blue bricks laid side by side. They are extremely strong. Except for some houses in the front that have traditional long windows, the buildings in the backyard only have ordinary windows and are equipped with iron grilles. The most rigorous one is the courtyard built in the name of the treasury. The three houses inside are all made of bricks and stones without any wood. There are no windows, and the door is an iron door with a lock brought from the 21st century. This is similar to the safe rooms in embassies of various countries, used for handling confidential matters. One of them is a telecommunications room, one is a conference room, and the last room is a real vault-not only gold and silver are stored in it, but also More important information, weapons, and reconnaissance equipment. In addition to radio stations, the intelligence team also equipped the advance station with walkie-talkies, pistols, telescopes, night-vision goggles, digital cameras and laptops. In terms of power, in addition to hand-cranked motors, a set of solar panels was also allocated - although the power is limited. , it is more than enough to supply radio stations and laptops.
The originally planned monitoring and security facilities could only be suspended due to power problems that could not be solved. However, the advance station still set up an infrared alarm at the door of the safe house.
In terms of water, there are two wells available in the entire house. Sun Chang had already asked someone to dig deep when he was initially repairing the house. In order to prevent the delicate modern people from becoming acclimatized, the advance station also brought a simple water filter and sterilizer. The filter element of this water filter can be replaced for one year, which is quite convenient.
The Dengyingzhou shipped more than 30 tons of supplies and 5,000 taels of cash. This was the entire start-up capital of the advance station. According to regulations, the advance personnel could not withdraw and use the 200,000 taels from Gaoji.
Everyone is busy, Guo Yi is alone in the room thinking about how to carry out future work. The tasks assigned to the advance station by the Executive Committee can be summed up in two points: gathering intelligence and conducting trade.
No matter which purpose you want to achieve, you must first establish extensive social relationships. They now have two entry points, Gaojia and Qiwei Escort Bureau, and the next step is to carry out more extensive work at all levels of society.
Guo Yi recalled the course he gave them on "Social and Economic Living Conditions of the Ming Dynasty" when he was sent to Eshui. While thinking about how to open the gap.
As a businessman, it is very difficult to directly make friends with middle- and upper-level officials. Even if you spend a lot of money, it is just a bit of glory on the scene. It is rare that officials and businessmen can get along with each other to the extent that their interests are not divided, as in later generations. But bureaucrats have strong purchasing power and political power, which is part of what they will have to work hard to manage in the future.
Secondly, there are the local gentry and wealthy businessmen, who are either famous or have interests in collusion with the officials. They are rich and powerful local snakes. Gao Ji is such a person. They are relatively easy to make friends with and have deep connections with middle- and upper-level bureaucrats. This level is the main direction for the work of the advance station at this stage. After arriving in Guangzhou, I made friends with Liang Cunhou. Although I still don’t know what his purpose was in meeting the time travellers, he was a Juren, and his energy among the gentry class was much greater than that of Gao Ju. If you use it more, you can open up a lot of opportunities in this class.
Although the masters, chief attendants, stewards, and purifiers around the officials; the bureaucracy, civil and military patrols, and officials in various yamen have low status, they have great activity energy and are well aware of the dynamics of the officials and various yamen. When engaging in political intelligence, you can focus on them. Qiwei Escort Agency has many dealings with these characters and can use their relationships to do so.
As for ordinary people, we can know a lot of market news and public opinions from their mouths. Information on this aspect must also be collected.
However, there are only six of him in the entire Guangzhou station, namely:
Webmaster: Guo Yi
Business person in charge: Yan Maoda, Zhang Xin
Operator: Zhang Yuchen
Intelligence agent: 6 Rong, pepi
It is still a little difficult for just these few people to bear so many things. Yan Maoda and Zhang Xin are both salesmen. Needless to say, they are experienced shopping mall bastards. As long as they adapt to the environment here and learn Guangzhou Mandarin better, they can engage in business entertainment, organize promotions, etc. Things must be within reach.
Zhang Yuchen is a telecommunications staff and doesn't like to talk much, so he can only be responsible for internal affairs.
It seems that only he, Lu Rong and Pepi are responsible for intelligence work. How to use pepi is really a troublesome thing. Seeing that she doesn't care about it and is confident - Guo Yi suspects that he has never thought about the seriousness and danger of underground work, and purely regards this place as a way to satisfy her. This is the stage for his desire to perform - his luggage alone contains more than a dozen large and small boxes, and Guo Yi can tell with his feet that what is inside must be his outfit.
He organized his thoughts and drafted the current work goals and the rules and regulations of the advance station. Before Xiao Zishan goes back, he is going to hold a meeting with the remaining advance team members to arrange the work.
