Richang Ji, Qian Qian Feng Guangfeng then followed up and said, "I will come with the silver...five thousand"
Two colleagues followed up, and each of the companies that had been waiting and watching also recognized the numbers one after another. Some were three thousand dan, some were five thousand dan, and some were 10,000 dan. [Full text reading] The total is over 150,000 stone. Kan Tianxiong knew that most people still had reservations, and these figures were just throwing stones to ask for directions.
However, if you are really too enthusiastic. Some of the sugar that South China has already collected will have to be spit out and rationed to them. This would be a huge loss. In this way, each can get what they want and be satisfied with each other.
"With this Sugar Industry Association, what should Haiyi Tang do?" Someone asked this sharp question. If Mr. Zhu does not allow them to join the Sugar Industry Guild and insists on maintaining Haiyi Tang, how will they get along with him?
The people on the table moved uncomfortably and started whispering.
Everyone knows that Mr. Zhu will never give up, at least without a vicious fight. He has money and the ability to direct various evil forces to act, so he should not be underestimated.
Chang Shide responded to this question: Huanan will properly handle this matter. As for the specific negotiation matters, Huanan will take the initiative. If Mr. Zhu wanted to cause trouble for everyone, Hua Nan would stand up for everyone and never break his promise.
"I think everyone must know: South China has the ability not to break its promise."
Chang Shide spoke categorically. Although the participants were somewhat uneasy, they all agreed.
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"The meeting was a success." Wen Tong said to Chang Shide, "But why not just set up a joint-stock company? What kind of sales agency will come first?"
"Let them enjoy some sweetness first." Chang Shide said, "They didn't trust us enough at the beginning. Now that this year's deal is done, let them see that it is more beneficial to follow us than to play with Laoshizi Haiyitang, and then we can They have fun talking about joint-stock companies."
"The next thing is to consolidate the results, especially to guard against Zhu An's counterattack." Mou Tianxiong reminded them, "Master Zhu is still on Hai'an Street. A centipede is dead but not stiff. He is dormant. You may not be waiting for the opportunity to attack. You must come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible
"It's best to get rid of him as soon as possible, otherwise the night will be long and full of dreams." Chang Shide warned them: Whether the Leizhou Sugar Industry Association can eventually be established depends on whether South China has the ability to quickly eliminate Master Zhu San.
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"We can kill him directly. But doing this will make these sugar merchants feel sad." Chang Shide held his chin. "Is it a rat-proof weapon?"
"Ignore this for now, let Feng Guangfeng be the contact person and tell them that all the money must be paid within three days, otherwise the contract will be invalid." Kan Tianxiong said, "This money is also their investment certificate, so that no one will be swayed. .”
"Okay, I'll ask Liao Daxing to handle this matter. By the way, I'll ask Liao Dahua to prepare people and cars to pick up the money on An Street in Shanghai."
This was no small sum. After the meeting, Tianxiong calculated it and was shocked. These sugar merchants would deliver them 375,000 taels of silver! The combined metric equivalent is nearly fifteen tons!
"That's a lot!" Kan Tianxiong realized more and more the importance of banks. Not to mention banknotes, if there is an exchange business for such a large amount of money, a money order can handle it. Now, just transporting and storing these fifteen tons of silver is a very troublesome task.
Ever since Huanan started purchasing sugar, a lot of time and energy had been spent just to store and keep the cash register. All the silver that arrived was "official treasure" that was re-smelted in the furnace room in Guangzhou and was of the same color, fifty taels and one lock. It simplifies the steps in the process of packing, transporting and counting silver.
But when it comes to actual operation. Here's where things get complicated. Sugar payments always come in small amounts, and they can't all be paid with fifty taels of gold. So Huanan had to buy a lot of silver clips, scissors, and silver scales to measure. The big silver that was the key was broken and paid out again. The process is not only cumbersome but also costly.
As for the money that will be handed over from various sugar shops. It goes without saying that it's just broken silver, but it's of perfect quality but not the same. Liao Daxing had already reminded them that they should find a few furnace men to check the quality as soon as possible, otherwise they would be in trouble if they mistook tide silver for snowflake silver.
"The Executive Committee has already opened a bank in Guangzhou." Wen Tong handed over the latest internal bulletin sent by ship to everyone for circulation. "I think we can also ask for a local bank."
"Call it South China Sugar Bank!" Chang Shide suddenly thought, "We will soon receive nearly 400,000 yuan in cash. Doesn't this become a reserve fund?"
"This name is inappropriate," Zhan Tianxiong said. "The financial system must follow the unified arrangements of the executive committee, and it is not appropriate to make our own thing. Besides, we are not in finance, so it is better to let professionals do it."
Chang Shide, who is such a person, immediately understood what he meant: "Yes, we still want to send a telegram to the executive committee and ask them to set up a branch." He added, "The sugar industry in Leizhou actually needs it very much. bank.
"Yes," Wen Tong said, "After we control the sales rights of the sugar industry, the next step is to help sugarcane farmers increase production."
To increase production, new planting techniques must be promoted. Promote sugar portfolio. It is not easy to gain the trust of sugarcane farmers. Fortunately, they have already gained a good reputation and laid the foundation in this sugar acquisition war. With banks, they can use financial instruments to provide low-interest loans to support sugarcane farmers.
Produce.
During the discussion, Zhou Shizhai asked to see him.
"Someone is trying to do harm to South China." He said straight to the point.
Everyone looked at each other and realized that the time had come. Zhu Sanye was indeed determined to kill me. Now that the dog has jumped over the wall, there is no guarantee that he will use some despicable means.
"what's the situation?"
"Liao Dahua's people got some news. Zhao Jijiao's people are buying oil and dry firewood - they are a bunch of bad guys, and they don't have a fire to cook. What do they need these for? They are probably preparing to set a fire. They have been spending a lot of money recently, gambling wildly You have obviously received huge benefits from prostitution." "You can extort a huge amount of money."
"It's quite vicious. You use invisible money to lure them into working for them." Kan Tianxiong commented.
"Don't be ridiculous, it would be ugly to go there with a ticket tied up." Wen Tong's face looked very ugly.
"If I'm kidnapped by Li Siya, you probably want it. By the way, you are the same clan as Mr. Wen."
"Stop joking," Wen Tong said anxiously, "What about Li Siya and Li Ssu? What if they are really kidnapped?"
"Don't worry too much about kidnapping," Zhou Shizhai said. "Scattered bandits can't do much, let alone the shopkeepers who have weapons. The most worrying thing is that strongmen gang up to rob. This is something we must guard against."
"A gang?" Chang Shide asked, "What kind of gang?"
Zhou Shicheng said that here in Leizhou, there are no large groups of bandits, but there are more sporadic bandits, as few as four or five, who hide on the roadside and come out to rob single travelers when they see them passing by. There are no more than a hundred or ten people. Find an opportunity to go down the mountain and rob the sugarcane farmers. To rob a large trading house like Huanan, I'm afraid it would be impossible without gathering four to five hundred people. The thieves attach great importance to the power of numbers. Even if there are not many people, they still have to recruit a group of temporary farmers to support the scene and intimidate good people.
"Hai'an Street is not richer than us, why don't we go there to rob?" Wen Tong felt strange. Talking about silver. There are obviously many more sugar merchants on Hai'an Street than they do.
"Afraid of death." Zhou Shizhai's answer was simple. There are several carts of Xiangyong on Hai'an Street, and the wages are shared by various shops on the street. As long as the food and salary are sufficient, the Xiangyong can fight well. Bandits need good teeth if they want to gnaw.
"When we first arrived in South China, the gangsters didn't know how powerful we were. If they were really instigated, they gathered big stocks thinking that they could make a lot of money here. So we had to be on guard." Zhou Shizhai was completely aware at this time. Think of yourself as a member of the time traveling group.
"What about the militia. Can you hold them off?"
"Okay." Zhou Shizhai said, "Bei Zaizhi is responsible for training. It should last for a while."
The Chuanchuan people were not as confident as him. They knew the problem of the militia. The workers had been busy with various tasks in the sugar factory, and even the basic militia did not have much practice at all. After Sister Bei took over the training and defense work, the situation could only be considered slightly better.
"Don't worry too much. This is the gate of the county after all. The strong men don't dare to stay too long. They come and leave quickly. As long as they don't get in the way with a single blow."
"Having said that, we must be on guard." Kan Tianxiong said, "We won't go out until the matter is over. We need to strengthen the gate posts and have some militiamen on standby at any time. It's the people like Liao Da, Liao Er, and the Wen brothers who go out. When the time comes, they should also be paired with bodyguards."
"You also have to be prepared for enemies to set fire." Chang Shide added, "The factory area is not close yet. After the infrastructure is completed, it will be very difficult to set fire, and even if it is ignited, it will not spread. It is mainly the workers' village where the unemployed workers are housed. , they are all grass and wood sheds, they can be lit at any time. People can’t be killed if they die.
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"Old Wen, please arrange for Liao Daxing and the others to go down and take a look. You might as well give them a heads up!"
"Also" Kan Tianxiong remembered something, "if we need to telegraph Guangzhou and Lingao, the situation on the sea may not be calm. We have killed Gu Dachun, and there may not be Wang Dachun and Li Dachun who are jealous of this piece of meat."
"Yes, and the Gu family pirates have not been completely eliminated. Their main force has been destroyed, but they still have money and people. They may come back at any time for revenge."
Lingao has already compiled a summary of the enemy's situation with the confessions of the pirates captured in the Battle of Juhua Island and sent it to South China for reference. According to the confession, there are about twenty or thirty people in the Gu family pirate gang, and they have a single-masted ship for communication purposes.
"Since the prisoners were captured, why didn't the navy just come and kill them?" Wen Tong was puzzled.
"It's difficult." Mou Tianxiong explained that the Gu family's pirate lair was not a water plug on the island as imagined. They were ordinary scumbags on the shore and lived in ordinary scumbag villages. Mixed with the fishermen. It's hard to tell when you hit it.
"Well, I think they have to come." Kan Tianxiong leaned back, "Xiao Zhanfeng said that Mr. Zhu has a little wife who is Gu Dachun's sister."
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. In the following days, patrolling militiamen extinguished the incoming fire several times. Because various fire prevention measures were in place, the arson fire did not cause any damage except blackening a few walls. According to the information gathered by Liao Dahua, the arsonists were all from Zhao Jijiao's gang. This group of bad guys themselves had nothing to do with South China. Such frequent attacks were obviously under the instruction of Mr. Zhu.
Arson was so frequent that almost every night there were one or two. After finding that setting fire to factories and businesses themselves was ineffective, the arsonists began to target the residential areas of sugar police workers. “The most dangerous incident was an arson in a workers’ village. A straw hut was set alight at night, but the watchtower in the Huanan factory immediately burst into flames. The fire brigade on duty immediately went out to put out the fire, and the flames were extinguished within ten minutes.
The person who set the fire was caught on the spot by the sugar industry workers. Under the firelight, someone quickly identified him as a bad guy under Zhao Jijiao. Seeing that he couldn't run away, he took advantage of others and hit the stone hard. His face was covered with blood and he started howling on the ground. The originally excited workers in the sugar village fell silent.
"What are you howling?" Chang Shide asked.
"The effect is that Huanan bullies people. I injured him for no reason. If I don't accompany him with his injuries and money, he will die at the gate of Huanan." Liao Daxing said with a bitter smile, "These bad guys are not afraid of anything and everything. They pissed me off." They. Maybe they will hang themselves right in front of your door, causing a lawsuit and ruining the house.
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"Oh?" Chang Shide knew that this kind of person was a piece of meat who was not afraid of being killed. When you go to the yamen, you usually go in with the front foot and come out with the back foot. Even if it costs money. At most, it's just a slap in the face and a few months of shackles. They are not afraid of this at all. Most of the bad guys are connected with various "public servants" in the county. Sometimes, even if an official wants to take charge, he will be hijacked by the subordinates below, and the big issue will often be reduced to a trivial matter, which will be extremely difficult to punish.
Just thinking about what to do. Ma Sanqiang squeezed through the crowd and asked loudly: "My boss, this. Someone burned our house and burned a child inside! I want to ask my boss, do you care?!"
Chang Shide's mind turned around and he completely understood the situation. It was obvious which one was more important, the life of a bad guy or the hearts of a group of candy workers.
"Of course!" Chang Shide said decisively and waved his hand, "Serve this recommendation well and be neat!"
Several special operations team members brought by Beifu had been in the team for a long time. When they heard this, they came over immediately. Taking advantage of the situation, he stepped on the person. The other one grabbed the grass mud on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth. The bad guy who was yelling suddenly stopped breathing, almost suffocating, and his body collapsed. The two special forces members immediately wrapped him in a straw mat and quietly He was carried away silently. ! ~!
