Chapter 473 What happened in Minato

While Li Qingyang's matter was being discussed by the Executive Committee, the Ministry of Security had already talked to He Qiang and expressed the hope that a position could be assigned to someone with a "sensitive identity" in the "Fuji Pharmacy". He Qiang was very knowledgeable.

Di did not inquire deeply about the specific identity of this person, nor did he refuse the request of the Ministry of Security. After all, the fate of the Li family was now firmly tied to the Haihan people, and Haihan had never done anything against Li.

Things that are harmful to the interests of the family. Of course, the most important thing is that He Qiang is also a senior member of the Li family. He also knows what kind of organization the Haihan Security Department is, and this organization is something the Li family can never afford to offend.

As the cooperation between the two parties enters its third year, the cooperation between the Li family and Haihan has long been not limited to the business field, but also includes cultural promotion, finance, immigration, military and even intelligence collection, etc. The Li family is also

He gradually became involved and became an important support for Haihan in the mainland. Almost all of the industries under the Li family's name distributed throughout Guangdong are responsible for collecting local military and political information to varying degrees and regularly summarizing it to Guangzhou.

Of course, the extent that the employees under the Li family's name can do is to record the government's movements that everyone knows, and it is not the kind of targeted intelligence collection work done by professional intelligence personnel. After this information is summarized in Guangzhou,

The Security Department personnel of the Guangdong Guangdong Office picked out the valuable intelligence, sorted it out, and then sent it back to Sanya for the Executive Committee to refer to when making decisions. Only a handful of agencies in major prefectures and cities have information posted by Haihan.

Personnel are permanently stationed. As a senior member of the Li family in the business field, He Qiang is naturally well aware of this aspect of cooperation.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, what the Li family is doing now can actually meet the standards of confiscation and extermination. But with Haihan as a strong backing, the Li family is not too worried that this kind of behavior will attract government investigation. Now

Haihan's business scale is getting bigger and bigger, and local distributors often have government interests involved behind them. As long as the Haihan people don't do anything blatantly illegal, the local government will not interfere, or even

Even intelligence agencies like Jinyiwei were not immune and turned into puppets in the face of huge commercial interests. This is why the Nanjing Zhenfu Division insisted on sending people from among its direct personnel to investigate Haihan southward, without giving instructions to the Guangdong branch.

One of the reasons.

Lin Nan immediately introduced He Qiang and Li Qingyang. After the two met, He Qiang asked the clerk to take Li Qingyang to see his residence first. After Li Qingyang thanked him, he followed the clerk through the store to the employees at the back of the store.

Residential area.

It is said to be a residential area, but it is actually just a small courtyard. The south-facing side is a shop, and the other three sides are two-story buildings. The one to the east is used as a medicinal material warehouse, and the rooms on the other two sides are for shops.

The shop assistants live here. He Qiang himself does not live here. The Li family has purchased multiple properties in Sanya to provide resident managers like He Qiang.

In accordance with the requirements of the Security Department, "Fuji Pharmacy" arranged a small single room on the second floor for Li Qingyang. It was fully furnished and had daily necessities. Several sets of clothes were even prepared and placed on the bed. This made Li Qingyang

After looking at it, I couldn't fault it at all. There was a small window at the head of the bed. When Li Qingyang walked in, he discovered that the window was not papered, but made of precious Haihan glass. Looking from a distance, he could only see empty space.

The window frame. Li Qingyang also had a new estimate of the financial resources of this shop. The average medicinal shop probably would not have the spare money to spend on installing glass windows in the rooms where employees live.

After Li Qingyang looked at the room, the clerk took him downstairs and told him the location of the toilet and shower room. All men lived in this courtyard, so the toilet and shower room were public. Of course, Li's family name

The bathroom equipment used in the shop below was naturally produced by Haihan. After seeing it, Li Qingyang suddenly felt like a country bumpkin who had never seen the market. These ceramic sanitary ware looked very high-end, and they were very clean and hygienic. They were even used.

The toilet paper was all white, which was enough to make Li Qingyang, who came from Nanjing, feel ashamed of his previous living standard.

When Li Qingyang visited the residence in the backyard, Lin Nan took the time to explain to He Qiang the precautions: "...This person comes from a noble family. Although he has joined us, his thoughts are still somewhat wavering. Manager He usually

Think of more ways to let him feel the strength of my Haihan, and slowly rub away those bad thoughts in his mind."

He Qiang responded: "Don't worry, Mr. Lin, this old man will do it with his heart. Seeing that he has just arrived in Sanya not long ago, there is no need to do anything special. As long as he lives here for two or three months, he will naturally be able to do it."

You will feel the strength of Haihan. I think that all the rich people who came from Guangdong looked down on Haihan and thought that there was nothing good in this remote and remote place. Now they are rushing to sell houses and buy real estate here and bring their children here.

Enroll in school. I think this guy surnamed Li also looks like a smart man, and he will probably be able to realize the benefits of this place in a few days."

Lin Nan nodded and said: "What Manager He said makes sense, but we have limited his activity area to the business district, so we will try not to let him go out alone in the near future. In addition, we must also control the people he can come into contact with.

Be under control and try to keep him away from people who have just arrived from mainland China, especially those unknown strangers."

The reason why Lin Nan wants to emphasize this point is to let Li Qingyang's mentality relapse. Of course, the Security Department will not be stupid enough to let Li Qingyang sign a few documents and then completely trust him. The necessary monitoring methods will still continue. In addition to

In addition to this kind of control inside the drug store, Lin Nan of course also made other arrangements to prevent Li Qingyang from taking some irrational behavior.

When Li Qingyang returned to the store after visiting, He Qiang asked him: "Mr. Li, are you satisfied with the environment in our store?"

Li Qingyang responded quickly: "I am satisfied, I am very satisfied."

"If you need anything, just ask, my boss is very generous." Lin Nan said with a smile.

"It's all thanks to the leaders of Haihan who take care of the business, otherwise we wouldn't be so generous!" He Qiang agreed with knowledge and interest.

Li Qingyang thought that this drug store had such a close relationship with the Haihan people, and it seemed that they were complicit. If he settled in this drug store in the future, he would have to be careful not to reveal any clues, otherwise he would be reported at any time.

Then I heard He Qiang continue to say: "Mr. Li works in our shop, and the reward is tentatively set at ten yuan per month, and food and accommodation are not included. Is this good?"

Li Qingyang didn't react for the first time, and then he remembered that this was the territory of Haihan. The currency here was not silver taels or copper coins, but banknotes issued by Haihan people, in yuan. This month, ten yuan is still included.

Food, accommodation, and remuneration are quite good. You must know that as a sixth-grade military attache, his statutory annual income is only more than one hundred and less than two hundred taels of silver, which is no higher than the income of a bookkeeper here. Moreover, he also has

He didn't forget that he could also get another income at the same time - the Ministry of Security also had to pay him a salary. The combined income from these two sources was almost double the income from being a royal guard. Think about it

It also made Li Qingyang dumbfounded.

After Li Qingyang came to his senses, he quickly thanked He Qiang. He also knew that this income was given purely for the sake of the Ministry of Security. Although it was not enough to bribe him, Li Qingyang, it was still a sum of money that could not be ignored no matter how he thought about it.

. Since Lin Nan didn't object vocally, this income can be pocketed reasonably and legally.

After meeting He Qiang, Lin Nan took Li Qingyang away from "Fuji Drug Store" and continued to visit the business district. Li Qingyang looked around and found that there was indeed some truth to this place being called the first port of Qiongzhou.

The goods for sale are not only produced in Guangdong, Guangdong and Fujian, but also products north of the Yellow River. It can be imagined how large a scale of commercial operations this port has driven. However, there are no performers on the street that are usually seen in prosperous areas.

, begging, and not seeing a few idle people, which puzzled Li Qingyang, so he took the initiative to ask Lin Nan about it.

Lin Nan explained: "In the area under the jurisdiction of the Haihan Executive Committee, there will always be a shortage of labor force. There will be no people who are good at it and cannot find a livelihood and need to beg for health care. Even people who are physically disabled and unable to engage in manual labor will

, we will also arrange for such people to do some things within their capabilities, and will not let them have nothing to do."

Li Qingyang felt a little incredible when he heard this, and asked: "Brother Lin, tell me, if you are a blind man who can't see, what can you do?"

Lin Nan smiled and said: "Don't look down on the blind. You can learn some skills to make a living if you can't see. For example, playing musical instruments, massaging, etc. I once heard the leaders say that blind people have no sense of taste, touch, and smell because they have no vision.

, the hearing is more developed than ordinary people. No one is born useless in this world, it’s just to see if he is on the right path!"

Li Qingyang felt that there seemed to be something else in Lin Nan's words, but it didn't seem to be directed at him.

Lin Nan continued: "Under Haihan's rule, everyone must participate in labor. We do not support any idlers here. The leaders have said that Haihan's wealth is created by everyone, so Haihan's prosperity belongs to everyone.

Those who have contributed to this and everyone involved in this process will receive corresponding rewards for their efforts."

Although Li Qingyang also thought that what Lin Nan said was a good idea, as a Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty, he felt that it would be a bit unreasonable for him not to refute anything, so he immediately responded: "You have taken in so many people of the Ming Dynasty, but these people have

From now on, we will no longer pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty government. Does Brother Lin think this is consistent with the Executive Committee’s claim that it is not hostile to the Ming Dynasty?”

Lin Nan shook his head and said: "The vast majority of these people are disaster victims. If they don't take refuge with us, then they have to rely on the Ming Dynasty to provide money and food to relieve them. Where will the taxes be collected? We will contribute money and efforts to help the Ming Dynasty.

Isn't this enough of a show of goodwill to save the expenses of providing relief to the victims?"

"This..." Li Qingyang always felt that there was something wrong with this statement, but for a while he couldn't think of how to refute it.

Lin Nan did not leave time for Li Qingyang to think slowly. He pointed at the flow of people on the street and said: "Brother Li, please open your eyes and look here. Look at the expressions on the people's faces. Please tell me what you can see from their faces."

Have you seen the emotions of humility, despair, numbness, and misery? I think you can’t find them here, because the people living here don’t have to worry about food and clothing. They know very well how much reward they can get for their work, and they don’t have to count on it.

For God's sake, there is no need to worry about the evil hands of the tax collectors sent by the government. They know that there is an omnipotent executive committee, and all problems will have solutions. They just need to follow the orders issued by the executive committee."

Li Qingyang said: "Everything here is decided by the Executive Committee, and what situation the Ming Dynasty will be placed in!"

Lin Nan smiled and said: "If the executive committee does not govern well, the people can choose to leave here on their own and go back to where they originally lived. You can just ask someone on the street to see whether Sanya is better or Sanya is better.

Daming is better elsewhere.”

Li Qingyang thought that even the accounts of drugstores in this place could get a monthly salary of ten taels of silver. The income of ordinary workers must be far better than that of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of wealth alone, the level here must be far higher than that of the Ming Dynasty. These

Ignorant people don't know how great it is. Naturally, they will say that this place is good because of the high income.

Lin Nan saw that Li Qingyang did not continue to argue, so he did not take the initiative to pursue. He pointed forward and said: "Ahead is Victory Port, the first port opened by the leaders here. Let's go and take a look."

Since the opening of Victory Port, it has undergone several reconstruction and expansion projects in less than three years. Today's Victory Port is no longer what it was at the beginning. The port pier made of bluestone extends westward along the bay.

A few miles away, there are wide trestles extending into the sea every tens of meters. There are densely packed sea-going ships docked in the harbor, as many as two to three hundred. Many trestles are full of people and workers are busy.

The ground was loading and unloading goods, making it a busy scene.

Li Qingyang has seen the busyness of commercial ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before. Compared with the Victory Port Wharf, the level of prosperity is similar, but the order on the wharf is far less than here. Li Qingyang looked at it for a moment and found that every place here was

There are special lines for loading and unloading cargo on the wharf to ensure that the loading and unloading workers working on the wharf will not cause chaos and congestion. The large number of hoisting machinery on the wharf and trestle also effectively saves manpower and improves efficiency.

Lin Nan introduced from the side: "Those wearing white vests are ordinary loaders, those wearing yellow vests are foremen, those wearing blue vests are responsible for counting goods, and those wearing red vests are inspecting labor discipline."
Chapter completed!