Chapter 96 Jiangnan Headquarters
As Zhao Yingong's work in Hangzhou gradually unfolded, the Foreign Intelligence Agency's network in Jiangnan began to be laid out. [Read the latest chapter] Companies in Shanhailu and Shanhailu are gradually opening in various places. This step of work is progressing relatively slowly: it is not easy to open a semicolon in an unfamiliar place, let alone start a business.
Among all the font sizes, the layout of Qiwei is the most important to the Foreign Intelligence Service. As a transportation and logistics company on the Shanhai Road, Qiwei Escort Bureau plays a vital role in the future transfer of refugees and must make preparations in advance.
Because Qiwei's expansion in Guangdong was too violent, even if Sun Kecheng recruited every available fellow villager and relative from his hometown in Jiangxi, they would not be able to send enough personnel to serve as clerks and escorts on every outer cabinet. Not to mention taking on the escort business - it takes many years to train a qualified escort, and only those who have practiced martial arts since childhood can enjoy this job. Originally, there were not many people doing this business. Under the operation of Zhang Xin, who actually controlled Qiwei's business, Qiwei had to open the door to recruiting escorts.
Most of the escort bureaus in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta region were originally struggling to survive under the pressure of rising power. If Sun Kecheng had not been more "moral" and refused to force his colleagues to follow the northwest wind, leaving a small amount of escort business to his colleagues. , they have all closed down long ago. Now, under the command of Zhang Xin, this kindness has changed its appearance: Qiwei has extended an olive branch of "joint operation" to its peers.
The so-called "joint venture" means annexation, which is nothing more than giving the merger a more attractive appearance. Starting from the second half of 1630, Qiwei embarked on the road of annexing his peers, taking advantage of the prestige after the Chengmai victory.
After three or four months of integration, Qiwei annexed all the escort bureaus in the Pearl River Delta. Although the other escort bureaus still retain their brands, they are all "joint franchise brands". For Zhang Xin, the biggest gain is not the branches of the various escort agencies throughout Guangdong and as far away as Guangxi, Fujian and Jiangxi, but the most valuable property of the escort agencies: the escorts.
Bodyguards have the strongest and most conservative social ethics in ancient Chinese society, and are a group of very reliable and loyal characters. And their participation in business makes them less conservative and pedantic than Rufu.
Such a person, as long as he can win people's hearts a little, will become a reliable force that can drive freely. And these people are also the most urgently needed personnel around the expatriate veterans. The elders need such a group of people who are highly skilled in martial arts, sophisticated in the world, understand the social situation and can be trusted to serve as attachés and expatriate staff of the intelligence bureau.
Zhang Xin first sent a large number of Jiangxi personnel from various branches in Qiwei in Guangdong to Jiangnan and the capital to serve as pioneers, further causing a situation of personnel tension. Then he took advantage of the emptiness of various branches in Guangdong to transfer these "joint operations" New forces quickly filled in, completely dismantling the situation where the powerful Jiangxi personnel were dominant. Later, he transferred a group of naturalized citizens from Lingao who were originally engaged in business to fill the management positions of shopkeepers and managers of each branch.
After a thorough transformation, Qiwei has completely fallen into the hands of the Senate. Although Sun Kecheng still holds half of the shares, he no longer has control over the overall operations and personnel. In the past, the General Administration of Political Security has sent young people with "promising training prospects" from Qiwei to Lingao for "training." Now this training has been completely open to the public. Zhao Manxiong formulated a rotation training schedule for the intimidating personnel. It is planned to complete the registration, political review and "training" of all personnel of the Qiwei Escort by the end of 1632, and finally completely control Qiwei in the hands of the Senate.
At the same time, Qiwei, as an important chess piece in Shanhai Road, has been expanding. Because escorts are no longer available, most of the newly opened semi-colons and cabinets appear in the guise of inns, warehouses, car and boat shops, and the like. The bodyguards only serve as a security force to protect their own facilities and vehicles - the Foreign Intelligence Service positions Qiwei as a transportation and logistics company. Bodyguarding is just one of the business items.
In order to do a good job in the next step, Jiang Shan and Li Yan of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau; Zhang Xin of the Guangzhou Station, together with the veterans of the Ministry of Commerce and the Planning Institute, made further adjustments to the layout, equity and structure of Qiwei.
After the adjustment, Qiwei still uses the name of "Escort Bureau", and reorganizes Qiwei Escort Bureau into Qiwei Escort Bureau United Co., Ltd. In addition to the shares of the Senate and the original Qiwei personnel, a part was separated as the shares of the annexed "joint" escort bureau. After some intense planning, a new share allocation was formed.
The shares of the new Qiwei Escort United Co., Ltd. are 51% owned by the Senate, 40% by the original Qiwei Escort personnel, and 9% by "joint" personnel. The annual net profit is divided into fourteen shares for dividends: six and a half shares for the Senate, one share for the Development Fund, one share for the Charity Provident Fund, and five and a half shares for all escort personnel.
All escort personnel listed on the roster are subject to Lingao's salary system. Naturalized workers who work and live outside the green zone and blue zone and in areas where negotiable coupons are not circulated are all paid in silver and copper coins. All personnel are paid in accordance with the "Provisional Occupational Classification and Salary Guidance Standards Version 1630" and the "Provisional Occupational and Technical Grade Evaluation Standards Version 1631" promulgated by the People's Committee on Civil Affairs. Escorts as a type of job were not originally included in this document. The Labor Management Bureau of the Civil Affairs People's Committee specially formulated a special occupational category and technical level for escorts.
After the implementation of the new system, everyone in the escort agency will receive a payslip on the 10th of every month, detailing the components of remuneration: monthly salary, night shift allowance, business trip allowance, seniority allowance, and the last item is skill allowance. Liu Muzhou found a few people to make a "Martial Arts Rating Table". The higher the level, the higher the skill allowance you can receive.
In addition to disbursing money, there are also deductions, and the deductions are mainly in the welfare field. The Ministry of Finance and Finance has officially implemented a social insurance system among naturalized citizens. Currently, pension and work-related injury insurance are deducted from remuneration every month. Since the Senate was not ready to engage in an insurance company, the insurance business was handled by Delong Bank.
Institutionally, Weibao United Co., Ltd. has set up the Weibao Bureau Board of Directors and the General Administration in Guangzhou. There are three general numbers. They are: Guangzhou head office, Shanghai head office and Jingshi head office. Each head office has a chief steward, who is a naturalized citizen sent by Lingao.
Each general account is directly responsible to the General Administration and the Board of Directors, and conducts business locally under the command of the General Administration. In terms of specific jurisdiction, the General Administration of the Qiwei Escort Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade, the Guangzhou Headquarters is under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Station, the Shanghai Headquarters is under the jurisdiction of the Hangzhou Station, and the Jingshi Headquarters is under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Station.
Under the new management system, Qiwei Escort Bureau's head office in Guangzhou was reduced to one of the three main offices, and it has actually been reduced to a branch. Completely lost its original influence.
In order to facilitate management, Zhang Xin from Guangzhou Station serves as the director and chairman of the General Administration. Sun Kecheng has the title of Chief Security Officer and Vice Chairman, but is actually unable to control specific affairs.
Zhang Xin once did a lot of work to transform Qiwei Escort into a large transportation and logistics enterprise. He formulated a fairly complete management system for Qiwei's transportation and logistics business based on the social conditions of Guangdong in this time and space. This system has proven to be very successful in practice. Qiwei Escort Bureau has continuously improved the operation of the transportation and logistics network established in Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta, allowing Qiwei to extend its tentacles throughout Guangdong within three or four years. The three provinces of Guangxi, Fujian and Jiangxi are adjacent to Guangdong and have convenient transportation.
In the Pearl River Delta region, Qiwei Escort Bureau has almost achieved a monopoly on the transportation and logistics market - of course, this is with the strong support of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Ministry of Commerce.
Now, as the person in charge of the Shanghai headquarters, Zhao Yingong is preparing to replicate this model in Jiangnan. This is not only to prepare for the next step of transporting refugees, but also to control local economic circulation. Zhao Yingong knew that the Senate would "digest" Guangdong in the next step, completely incorporate it into Lingao's new economic order, and at the same time start operating Jiangnan. It is also his important task to lay a good foundation before that.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang were relatively stable areas in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was still possible to open large-scale logistics and transportation companies. Therefore, long before Zhao Yingong arrived in Jiangnan, the first group of people who had raised their authority had already set off to Jiangnan and the capital to open up the situation and do basic work for the subsequent dispatch of veteran intelligence agents.
In order to ensure that Zhao Yingong's work could be carried out smoothly, Zhang Xin not only transferred a number of business backbones from Weizhong to Jiangnan for layout, but also asked the Senate to select several people from among the elders who were willing to travel on business to go to Shanghai to supervise this work.
In order to ensure the smooth development of the work, he also requested that several special investigation teams be dispatched to Shanghai to await call.
The first expansion move carried out by Qiwei Escort Bureau in Shanghai was to establish a long-distance passenger transport company with Shanghai as the center.
Long-distance travel in this time and space already has certain requirements, especially in densely populated areas like the Pearl River Delta, where people move very frequently. Rich people certainly bring their own carriages, horses and sedans, but ordinary people either rely on their own feet or hire boats or sedans.
Sedan chairs and boats already have specialized sedan and boat companies in Jiangnan in this time and space. However, the scale of the sedan and boat companies is not large, and the business level is very low. The sedans and boats used are old and the sanitary conditions are poor. Most of the bosses in this industry don't care about business and only want to exploit customers and boatmen. The wages of the bearers and boatmen are meager and they can only earn extra income by extorting tourists during their travels. The inns and porters along the way also regard tourists as Tang monk meat. Therefore, ordinary people at that time regarded traveling far away as a dangerous journey. ro@.
