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Chapter 86 Sweet Harbor Storm--Death Struggle
"Read the full text of Richang Ji, Seven Thousand Stones." Feng Guangfeng followed up, "I will hand over the money later."
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 ten thousand. The total total exceeded 150,000 dan. Chen Tianxiong knew that most people still had reservations. These figures were just throwing stones at others.
However, if they are really too enthusiastic, part of the sugar that South China has collected will have to be rationed to them. This will be a huge loss. In this way, everyone will get what they have and each other will be satisfied.
"With this Sugar Industry Association, what should Haiyi Tang do?" Someone raised this sharp question. If Mr. Zhu does not allow them to join the Sugar Industry Association and insists on maintaining Haiyi Tang, how will they get along with him?
The representatives at the table shifted uneasily and began to whisper.
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, and although the participants were somewhat uneasy, they all agreed.
"The meeting was a success." Wen Tong said to Chang Shide, "But why not just start a joint-stock company to purchase and sell on behalf of others?"
"Let them enjoy some sweetness first." Chang Shide said, "They didn't believe in us enough at the beginning. Now that this year's deal is done, let them see that following us is more beneficial than that of Laoshizi Haiyitang. They have fun talking about joint-stock companies."
"The next thing is to consolidate the results, especially to guard against Zhu An's counterattack." Chen Tianxiong reminded them, "Master Zhu is still on Hai'an Street. A centipede is dead but not stiff. He is dormant. It’s not necessarily that we are waiting for the opportunity to attack. We must come up with a response plan as soon as possible.”
"It's best to eliminate 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 Zhu Sanye's influence.
"We can just kill him with a click, but doing so will make these sugar merchants feel as if the rabbit has died and the fox has died." Chang Shide held his chin and said, "Are you trying to kill a mouse?"
"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." Chen 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 is not a small amount. Chen Tianxiong calculated it after the meeting and was shocked. These sugar merchants will deliver them 375,000 taels of silver. Download the synthetic metric system and nearly fifteen tons.
"It's really a lot." Chen Tianxiong felt more and more the importance of banks. Not to mention banknotes, if there was an exchange business for such a large amount of money, a money order would be enough to handle it. Now, just transporting and storing these fifteen tons of silver is a very troublesome task.
Ever since South China started purchasing sugar, it has consumed a lot of time and energy just to store, keep, and send and receive money. All the silver that arrived was "official treasure" that was re-smelted in the furnace room in Guangzhou, with the same quality, fifty taels per ingot. It simplifies the steps in the process of packing, transporting and counting silver.
But when it comes to actual operation, things get complicated. There are always odd amounts for sugar, so we can't all pay with fifty taels of gold. So Huanan had to buy a lot of silver clips, scissors, and silver scales to measure. The large silver ingot was broken into pieces and paid out. The process is not only cumbersome but also costly.
As for the silver that is about to be handed over from various sugar shops, it goes without saying that it is also scattered silver, and the quality is very different. 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 be able to receive nearly 400,000 yuan in cash soon. Isn't this a reserve fund?"
"This name is inappropriate," Chen Tianxiong said. "The financial system must be in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Executive Committee, and it is not appropriate to create our own. Furthermore, we are not engaged in finance. It is better to let professionals do it. "
Chang Shide, who is such a person, immediately understood what he meant: "Yes, we still want the executive committee to send a telegram and ask them to set up a branch." He added, "The sugar industry in Leizhou is actually very Need a 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, we need to promote new planting technologies and promote sugar industry combinations. 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 sugarcane acquisition war. With banks, they can use financial instruments to issue low-interest loans to support sugarcane farmers' production.
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 - Mr. Zhu 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 fires to cook. What they want these for is probably to set fires. They have been spending a lot of money recently, gambling wildly Indiscriminate prostitution has obviously received great benefits.”
Zhou Shizhai wiped his sweat: "In addition, someone is spreading news among the underworld in Leizhou, saying that the South China Sugar Bank has hundreds of thousands of dollars in banknotes, but the defense is weak. As long as a few of their shopkeepers are caught, they can blackmail them greatly. A sum of silver."
"It's quite vicious. You use invisible money to lure them into working for them." Chen 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, "Li Siya and Li Ssu, what should I do if they are really kidnapped?"
"Don't worry too much about kidnapping," Zhou Shizhai said. "Scattered bandits can't do anything big, not to mention the shopkeepers who have weapons at their disposal. 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 Shizhai said that here in Leizhou, there are no large groups of bandits, but there are more sporadic bandits, as few as four or five people, hiding on the roadside, and coming out to rob single travelers when they see them passing by. There are only a hundred or so bandits. A man found 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. When it comes to money, the sugar merchants in Hai'an Street obviously have much more money than them.
"Afraid of death." Zhou Shizhai's answer was simple. There are hundreds of Xiangyong on Hai'an Street, and their wages are shared among the shops on the street - as long as such Xiangyong have enough food and salary, they 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 thought they could make a fortune here and gathered big stocks. So we must be on guard." Zhou Shizhai was completely at this time. Think of yourself as a member of the time traveling group.
"What about the militia? Can they resist them?"
"Okay." Zhou Shizhai said, "With Comrade Bei in charge of training, we should support him for a while."
The Chuanchuan people were not as confident as him. They were well aware of the problems of the militia. The workers had been busy with various tasks in the sugar factory, and even the basic militia did not have much training at all. After Bei Wei 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. Just don't let them succeed in one blow."
"Having said that, we must be on guard." Chen Tianxiong said, "We won't go out until the matter is settled. 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 yet tight. After the infrastructure is completed, it will be very difficult to set fire, and even if it is ignited, it will not spread. The main purpose is the workers' village where the unemployed workers are housed. , they are all grass and wood sheds, they can be easily lit, and it will be very serious if someone dies."
"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 -" Chen Tianxiong remembered something, "if we have to send a telegram to 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 have been captured, why didn't the navy just come and kill them?" Wen Tong wondered.
"It's difficult." Chen Tianxiong explained that the Gu family's pirate lair was not a water village on the island as imagined. They were ordinary fishermen on the shore, living in ordinary fishing villages and mixing with the fishermen. It's hard to tell when you hit it.
"Well, I think they have to come." Chen 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 produce any destructive effect except blackening a few walls. According to the information obtained by Liao Dahua, the arsonists were all from Zhao Jijiao's gang. This group of bad guys had no relationship 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 the factories and business houses themselves was ineffective, the arsonists began to target the residential areas of the sugar factory workers.
The most dangerous incident was an arson in a workers' village. A straw hut had been set alight at night, but the fire was immediately detected by the watchtower in the Huanan factory. 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 slammed into the stone. He immediately fell to the ground with blood on his face and started howling. The originally excited workers in the sugar house fell silent.
"What are you howling for?" Chang Shide asked.
"The effect is that Huanan bullied people and injured him for no reason. If we 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 off They might actually hang themselves right in front of your door, causing a lawsuit and ruining the whole family."
"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 they spend money, the most they can do is get a slap in the face and be chained for a few months. 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 as he was thinking about what to do, Ma Sanqiang squeezed through the crowd and asked loudly: "My boss, this man burned down our house and burned a child inside. I just want to ask my boss to leave it alone."
Chang Shide's mind turned around and he completely understood the situation. It was obvious that the life of a bad boy was more important than the hearts of a group of sugar lair workers.
"Of course," Chang Shide said decisively, waving his hand, "Serve this man well and be neat."
Several special operations team members brought by Bei Wei were already in the team. When they heard this, they came over immediately. One stepped on the person and the other grabbed the grass and mud on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth while yelling. The caller suddenly lost his breath, almost suffocating, and his body collapsed. Two special operations team members immediately wrapped him in a straw mat and carried him away quietly. ,.
