Chapter 786 Integration of government and business

Dong Yanyun focuses on the details when looking at problems, while Xu Xinsu focuses more on analyzing the strategic intentions of the Haihan people based on their performance. The Haihan people consciously concealed the situation from the Fujian side during the preparatory stage for the development of Kaohsiung Port, and allowed Guangdong's competitors to get ahead of them.

Xu Xinsu believed that this was because Haihan was worried that Kaohsiung Port would become dominated by Fujian merchants due to its geographical location, so he took corresponding measures to limit the time when Fujian business circles could enter Kaohsiung Port.

However, Xu Xinsu believes that this artificially created gap in the early stage is not enough to suppress Fujian merchants. The voyage from Zhongzuo Station off the coast of Zhangzhou to Kaohsiung Port is only half of the distance from the Pearl River Estuary to Kaohsiung Port. Assume that the two sides have equivalent maritime transportation capabilities.

Under the circumstances, Fujian's transportation efficiency will definitely be much higher than that of its competitors. And this efficiency gap is particularly important in the early stage of development when a large number of personnel are needed to transport materials. As long as Xu Xinsu is willing, he can use the official name at any time

, organized thousands of civilian workers to go to Kaohsiung Port to carry out port construction. If Guangdong's opponents use the same method, they will probably have to pay more.

According to what Dong Yanyun saw at the Kaohsiung Port Terminal construction site, Fulifeng currently has a construction team of less than 100 people working locally. The number one merchant in Guangdong only has this kind of investment, and it is conceivable that other merchants will not be much better.

Go. Since his family has geographical advantages, Xu Xinsu naturally wants to make full use of them. As for the Haihan people deliberately favoring their counterparts in Guangdong in this matter, Xu Xinsu doesn't have much grudge. He has been dealing with the Haihan people for several years.

, knowing that these overseas visitors like to form cliques rather than fight alone when it comes to business operations. At the port operated by Haihan, there is no one who can allow it to implement exclusive trade policies.

Dong Yanyun reminded: "Sir, since we need to use a large number of manpower, would you like to inform Mr. Wang?"

The Lord Wang mentioned by Dong Yanyun refers to Wang Yun, the current magistrate of Zhangzhou. This magistrate is also married to Xu Xinsu, so he is not an outsider. However, because Xu Xinsu has money and soldiers, this three-acre land in Zhangzhou is not

Like other places under the Ming Dynasty, civil servants had the final say. The role of the Wang Prefecture in the local area was more like a political symbol, symbolizing the Ming Dynasty's right to rule here. Of course, in terms of the management of local civil affairs, the Wang Prefecture still had the final say.

The scope of responsibility is wider, such as recruiting civilians and supplies, but the military rarely directly intervenes.

Xu Xinsu nodded and said, "You are right. When I complete the book, you can take it to visit Mr. Wang."

At that moment, Xu Xinsu put down a pen and paper, wrote a private letter to Wang Yun explaining the general situation, put it in an envelope, stamped it with wax, and handed it to Dong Yanyun: "If Mr. Wang wants to participate, do you know what to do?

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Dong Yanyun bowed and took the envelope and said, "Don't worry, Sir. If Sir Wang asks, we will operate according to the previous model."

Among the industries that Xu Xinsu operates in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, there are quite a few businesses in which local officials have invested shares. For example, the Wang Zhifu in Zhangzhou holds a certain proportion of shares in Xu Xinsu's shipping and spice business, and he can earn more or less from this every year.

Bian was given several thousand taels of silver. Therefore, when Xu Xinsu was unable to take charge of some matters, he would entrust this old man to do it for him.

Dong Yanyun took the secret letter and left Xu Mansion, then took a sedan chair to Zhangzhou Mansion without stopping. However, he happened to meet Wang Yun in a meeting with other officials. Dong Yanyun waited in the concierge for more than an hour before finally seeing him.

Wang Yun.

Wang Yun quickly read Xu Xinsu's letter and pondered for a while before asking: "Master Xu needs to requisition so many civilians for labor service, and the location is located in a remote overseas place. This is a safety issue..."

"Don't worry, Mr. Wang, Mr. Xu will send troops to escort him. The destination is on the land of the Haihan people, and there are also Haihan militia stationed there." Dong Yanyun didn't wait for Wang Yun to finish, and quickly answered and explained.

"Since we have left Fujian, it would be unreasonable if we don't pay some wages to the peasants." When Wang Yun heard that Haihan people were involved, he stopped dwelling on this issue and turned to the topic of remuneration.

question.

"The wages will naturally be paid. Mr. Xu said that the wages will be converted according to the market price." Dong Yanyun paused and then said: "These related expenses will be advanced to the government office in advance. There is Mr. Lao Wang's property.

It will be distributed to the next generation."

The purpose of prepaying the fee to the government office is to facilitate Wang Yun to distribute the money in advance. How much is distributed and how much is deducted is up to Wang Yun to decide. With the scale of thousands of people required by Xu Xinsu

, calculated based on the three-month construction period, the wages alone are not a small amount. Wang Yun can deduct a little from it and it can be used as his official salary for more than half a year.

After hearing this, Wang Yun's face immediately became much brighter: "Master Xu and I are a family, so trivial matters are nothing to worry about."

Dong Yanyun wasted no time in complimenting him a few more words, which made Wang Yun smile with joy, and immediately issued a warrant to recruit civilian laborers. It wasn't until he was about to leave that Wang Yun asked again: "This time, Master Xu will mobilize civilian laborers to build the port.

But the Fujian Chamber of Commerce will come forward?"

Dong Yanyun felt excited, then remembered that he had almost forgotten something important, and immediately expressed his position: "If Mr. Wang's relatives and friends are interested in this, I will say hello to the Chamber of Commerce, and they will be included in it."

Wang Yun pretended to decline and said: "Isn't this not good?"

"What's wrong with operating a business legally? Besides, the good news doesn't go to outsiders. Mr. Wang is one of our own. It should be done!" Dong Yanyun quickly rectified his negligence just now.

Xu Xinsu specifically mentioned him before coming here, but unexpectedly she forgot about it during the interview with Wang Yun. For such a big deal, how could a well-connected person like Wang Yun miss the opportunity to participate in it? This matter should have been done by

Dong Yanyun took the initiative to bring it up, but in the end it was Wang Yun who said it first, which can be regarded as Dong Yanyun's work mistake.

After the Zhangzhou Prefecture is settled, the remaining matters are relatively simple, mainly the deployment and arrangement of materials, tools and ships. There is no need for Dong Yanyun to bother with these trivial matters one by one. He only needs to give instructions and everything will be done on his own.

It is much easier for the stewards and shopkeepers of the organization to take charge of the organization than to deal with people in the officialdom.

Seven days later, the first batch of 483 engineering personnel organized by Zhangzhou rushed to Kaohsiung Port in Tainan by ship. This group of personnel included blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, plasterers and other craftsmen, accounting for about one-third.

The ratio. The number of craftsmen alone has exceeded the total number of engineering personnel from Guangdong in the first batch to go to Kaohsiung Port. At the same time as this group of personnel set off, the second group of 500 people was already being organized and mobilized. At the latest

We can set off from Zhangzhou in seven to ten days. Considering the level of this era, the organizational efficiency of the relevant departments is still quite good.

At the same time as this group of engineering personnel, there was also a naval force led by Xu Xinsu's fourth son, Xu Yuzhuo, with a total of four ships and more than 170 people. Of course, the main task of this small armed fleet was to maintain civilian life.

As for the internal security of the group and external defense, Xu Yuzhuo, who had fought side by side with the Haihan people, would not be ignorant to compete with the Haihan people.

While organizing people in Fujian, Haihan also seized the time to continue transporting personnel and materials to Kaohsiung Port. By the end of November, Haihan had settled more than 2,200 immigrants in Kaohsiung Port. This was almost considered the beginning of Haihan's overseas expansion.

The population expansion was the fastest in the history of the colony. Three or four ships arrived at Kaohsiung Port every day carrying supplies, most of which were various building materials transshipped from Hong Kong. The northern immigrants accepted by the Penghu base would also be intercepted.

The next part will be shipped directly to Kaohsiung Port after a quarantine period for observation - of course, this measure was approved by the Executive Committee and is not a wanton move by Penghu.

Entering December, maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangzhou provinces probably felt the pressure of competition, and began to increase their investment in Kaohsiung Port, striving to build their own wharves and business stores before their competitors, and expand their business.

Let’s talk about it. Although so far, the Kaohsiung Port Management Committee has not officially invited investment for business projects outside the port, but it has actually begun to organize people to cultivate wasteland and farm in the wilderness near the port. There will definitely be more in the future.

Large-scale plantation projects will be included in investment projects.

Due to the pressure to eat brought about by the rapid increase in population over the years, the basic output of the grain planting project developed by the Ministry of Agriculture in Haihan is for domestic supply, and grain is not included in the list of export goods. Every time a new colony is reached, operations are first started.

There are generally two agricultural projects in China, one is grain, and the other is livestock breeding, and then commercial crops will be planted one after another.

And Anxi has indeed been very busy recently, so much so that he can only hand over the investment promotion plan to the Ministry of Commerce in Sanya, which makes the investment promotion time this time much later than the previous progress of the new trade port.

The main thing holding Anxi back is the establishment of local administrative institutions. If we follow the normal colonial development process, the corresponding personnel and allocation should have been prepared during the planning preparation period, but the situation at Kaohsiung Port is an exception.

The exception is the exception. The Executive Committee had not fully determined before that it would develop this place as the next colony. The selection of this place was more a result of the military's unique approach, from planning, on-site investigation to target selection.

, almost all are completed independently by the military, and the main role of the executive committee in this process is to vote after receiving the military's report, and the options are only "yes" and "no".

Since the executive committee did not make corresponding preparations in advance, the entire development plan seemed very hasty. There were no corresponding development projects, no complete development plan, and even the personnel to build the administrative organization needed to be temporarily deployed - for example, Anxi himself is an executive committee member

After the Council voted to develop Kaohsiung, he was confirmed to be the head of the management committee here. Except for the military, which had already prepared for this, it had ready-made personnel who could be immediately transferred to Kaohsiung Port for garrison. All other units and institutions had to temporarily

This unprepared move to redeploy personnel meant that Kaohsiung Port almost had to rely on Anxi and Chen Yixin to continuously issue verbal orders according to changing circumstances to maintain normal operations during the nearly one month since it opened, while more than half of the corresponding administrative agencies remained on paper.

Could not arrive in time.

Managing thousands of people is not something that a time traveler can accomplish with just a few followers. Taking the Kaohsiung Port Management Committee as an example, there are quite a few subordinate agencies. Institutionally speaking, there are two parallel administrative and financial systems.

In addition to the management system of the military, there is an independent system of the military. From an organizational point of view, the management committee includes judicial and public security, internal affairs and logistics, technical research, agricultural production, financial and taxation affairs, civil affairs and health, port and shipping, and commercial trade.

and other management agencies in many fields.

Specific to a field such as agricultural production, it must be divided into multiple projects such as technical support, production organization, personnel management, material allocation, etc. And then specific to the scope of communes or plantations, there must be corresponding management teams

.After the labor force population reaches a thousand people, it is difficult for one or two professionals to take care of all these things, and full-time personnel must be allocated. However, the preparation time of the Executive Committee for the Kaohsiung Port Development Project is too short, and in terms of staffing

Completely unable to meet demand, relevant personnel can only be gradually deployed from other regions to work at Kaohsiung Port. This process undoubtedly slows down the progress of the entire development plan.

Chen Yixin is actually okay. The area of ​​affairs he is in charge of is relatively small. As long as he manages public security and military defense, he is qualified. But Anxi has too many things to be responsible for, including administration, finance, civil affairs, production, trade, transportation... Kaohsiung Port...

He has to personally take care of almost all aspects involved in the operation. Although he always says "Bai Nuo" wherever he goes, which looks very beautiful, the intensity of such continuous work is really tiring. Anxi has not yet worked in Kaohsiung Port.

After a month, he started to complain that he had been deceived, claiming that he had been deceived by the executive committee into becoming the leader of migrant workers.

Complaints are complaints. In addition to urging the base camp to send more naturalized cadres to assist in management, Anxi can only continue to stick to his own job. While managing Haihan's internal affairs, he also has to deal with Ming merchants every day

Various questions about local investment projects. Especially the Fujian maritime merchants who lost the opportunity at the beginning went to work at the same time every day. When Anxi arrived at the office, Dong Yanyun also arrived with a group of people.

After a few days, this group of businessmen stopped urging, and just stayed in the Anxi office drinking tea and chatting every day, hoping to get news about the investment project as soon as possible. If someone who doesn't understand the situation sees this situation,

You might think that they are here to block the door and collect debts, but who would have thought that these businessmen are not blocking their peers who have failed in business and owe debts, but local parents and officials.
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