1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1718
The cruelty on the intelligence front is not much worse than the real battlefield where the two armies fight, and sometimes the test of human nature is even worse, especially the intelligence personnel working on the front line. It is difficult to persist for a long time.Whether these people recruited by Cheng Dapeng from Xingdao can be used, their will quality is also a condition that must be tested. If they can't even stand up to some bloody scenes, if they are caught by their opponents in the future, they will definitely be tortured. Will recruit everything I know.

For the execution scene today, Cheng Dapeng also wanted to test the psychological quality of these people, but the reactions of the rookies seemed to be pretty good, at least no one immediately fainted and vomited on the spot.Although some people still had relatively serious physiological reactions after the incident, in Cheng Dapeng's view, it was already justifiable.When he saw the execution scene for the first time, his reaction to that cruel scene was much more intense than that of Qin Huacheng and others.

As an intelligence officer who has worked in the industry for many years, Cheng Dapeng has directly or indirectly learned of many cases of defection by intelligence personnel. He was an accountant, and was later captured when he sneaked into Sanya, and finally defected and joined the Haihan Security Department.And Li Qingyang didn't shy away from this period of history, and even with his own understanding of Jin Yiwei, he helped Haihan win many confrontations with Jin Yiwei on the intelligence battlefield.Even the operation plan for the Ministry of Security to instigate against Daming's intelligence personnel was formulated by Li Qingyang himself.

In terms of his qualifications for entering the Haihan Security Department, Cheng Dapeng is Li Qingyang's younger generation. He has also read Li Qingyang's plan to instigate rebellion, and it can be summed up in four words - intimidation and temptation.And this kind of operation is not only used to instigate enemy intelligence personnel, but also can be used as a training program for one's own intelligence personnel to increase their loyalty.

The execution that Cheng Dapeng arranged today was a means of "coercion", but it was only a psychological impact, and it did not pose a real threat to Qin Huacheng and others.And the corresponding "lure" method has actually been launched on these people. The unlucky ghost who was ordered by Cheng Dapeng to chop off his hands was the serious consequence caused by his inability to restrain his greed.

As for Qin Huacheng and the others, nothing happened, not because of how strong their resistance was, but because they were in different environments, and some people hadn't encountered the opportunity to be greedy for money.For example, Qin Huacheng has been in Dacheng Rice Co., Ltd. for the past few days and is still receiving training on grain trade, so he has no real opportunity to get in touch with the delivery of money and money, and naturally there is no corruption.However, since Cheng Dapeng wanted to conduct comprehensive training for them, he naturally arranged many corresponding means to test them.

After Qin Huacheng returned to Mihang, although he felt a little uncomfortable, in order to avoid attracting others' attention, he insisted on continuing to work after changing clothes.The work arranged for him by Dacheng Rice Bank is actually quite easy. It is to assist the manager Wang to handle some contract documents for grain sales, so that the manager Wang can explain to him some places that need special attention in this industry at any time.

Qin Huacheng is not good at dealing with such things as contract documents, otherwise he would not have suffered a big loss in the cooperation in Manila, but now this is his ability to eat, even if seeing these things is a headache, he has to be tough on the scalp.

Today, shopkeeper Wang handed him three grain contracts from the local area. Buying two and selling the other requires reviewing the contents, and then shopkeeper Wang will come forward to sign a contract with the other party.What Qin Huacheng had to do was to check if there were any inaccuracies in the contract, and if there were any loopholes, he had to find out in time to prevent Mihang from suffering unnecessary losses during the transaction.

Although Qin Huacheng was a rookie, after carefully looking at the contracts, he still found something unreasonable, so he took it to Shopkeeper Wang to find out what happened.

"Shopkeeper Wang, I'm afraid the prices on these contracts are a bit wrong." Qin Huacheng pointed out his discovery to him: "Why is the price of the purchased grain almost the same as the selling price? Then isn't this transaction in the rice Let’s go here and pass a hand, not only can we not make money from it, but we also have to pay the shipping cost?”

Shopkeeper Wang glanced at him and saw that his confused expression did not seem fake, so he explained to him: "You can see clearly the two people we bought the grain from."

Qin Huacheng nodded and said, "Both of them are local farms in Batavia. The villain can see clearly."

"Do you know who the owners of these two farms are?" Shopkeeper Wang continued to ask.

Qin Huacheng frowned, thinking that this was probably the reason for the strange price, but he still shook his head honestly and said, "I don't know, so please ask the shopkeeper for advice."

Shopkeeper Wang said: "The owners of these two farms used to be old guys from the rice company. Do you understand?"

Qin Huacheng said: "The Mihang bought food from them at a high price, not just to take care of their business, right? It's just that the villain is stupid, and he still can't figure out the key point."

Shopkeeper Wang said: "It's easy to understand when you explain it. The purchase price of grain is high, and that's for outsiders to see. Dacheng Rice Co., Ltd. is the largest local grain merchant in Batavia, and our purchase price is the market guide price. After raising the market price, they will never let us sell the grain to the Dutch at a loss. At most, they will not make any money to equalize it. But it seems that they are not making money, but in fact they are still making money. Do you understand? ?”

These words were quite convoluted, and it took Qin Huacheng a few seconds to understand what shopkeeper Wang said.According to the agreement between the two parties, the grain sold by Dacheng Rice Company to the East India Company can only be sold at the market price, so that the rice company can hardly make much money, but the rice company deliberately asks the local farms that produce grain to increase the field purchase price. In the future, the market price has also risen. Even if it is sold to the Dutch according to the purchase price in the field, the rice company is still profitable.

Qin Huacheng said: "Then why don't the Dutch bypass the rice shop and directly make purchases from these farms? That way they can lower the prices."

Shopkeeper Wang said: "There are two reasons. One is that these farms will not sell grain directly to the Dutch. Even if they do not obey our orders, they will worry that we will deliberately suppress the price of grain. Don't forget that it is still operating under the name of Mihang. Thousands of acres of grain fields, the annual production is enough to affect the local grain market. If anyone wants to bypass us and trade with the Dutch, then we will lower the market purchase price until he loses money. We have strong capital and can afford it. The farmer can't keep up, so he can only follow our arrangement."

Qin Huacheng nodded, agreeing to Shopkeeper Wang's explanation.

Shopkeeper Wang continued: "Secondly, the Dutch who are in charge of purchasing food will not take the initiative to bypass us. You can always figure out the reason for this, right?"

Qin Huacheng had heard from shopkeeper Wang that the Dutch would take kickbacks from grain transactions earlier, so he immediately nodded and replied, "I understand that if you buy from other grain merchants, after lowering the price, the cost is small and the profit is small, so there is nothing to spare." The money can be paid to the Dutch who handle the purchases.”

Qin Huacheng couldn't help but recall that before this, it was the shopkeeper Wang who kept telling himself that Mihang didn't make much money from selling grain to the Dutch, and it was just in exchange for some franchise rights granted by the East India Company.However, after seeing these three grain trading contracts today, shopkeeper Wang obviously couldn't continue to justify himself, so he confessed the methods Dacheng Rice Bank used in the grain trade.And through these methods, the seemingly unprofitable business will actually have considerable profits, but the outside world may not be able to figure out the business methods of Dacheng Rice Bank, and those who know the inside story are all vested interests, and they will not at all Take the initiative to destroy the rules of the game in the middle.

Shopkeeper Wang said: "Even if the Dutch know that the grain price may be manipulated by us, they will deliberately pretend not to know for the sake of market stability. As for the specific standard for the annual grain price, it will ultimately depend on the year's price. It depends on the grain production. The price in this contract is a market reference price, but the final execution price has to be negotiated with the Dutch by the treasurer of Chengda."

Qin Huacheng raised the contract in Yang's hand and said, "Since the execution price has to be finalized, isn't this thing useless?"

Shopkeeper Wang replied: "Of course it is useful. The price on this contract is the market price that Mihang intends to control. If the other party wants to get more rebates, Mihang will increase the market price on this basis. And this The grain delivery time and payment method are generally agreed upon in the contract first, and major changes will not be made."

Qin Huacheng suddenly said: "So that's the case. Then the villain has finished reading the three contracts, so there should be no other questions."

Shopkeeper Wang said: "You will take this contract tomorrow, go to the transaction party to confirm the above content, and discuss the signing time. Are you okay with this errand?"

Qin Huacheng pointed to his nose in disbelief: "The shopkeeper asked me to handle this matter alone?"

Shopkeeper Wang said: "Otherwise, how many people do you want to go? Do you need to work hard on this matter? If you can do it, I will arrange others to go."

Qin Huacheng quickly responded: "If you can, you should do your best."

It was the first time Qin Huacheng encountered this kind of opportunity to go out to do errands alone after he came to Batavia, so he naturally didn't want to miss it easily, regardless of whether 21 or [-] should be settled first.If this errand can be handled well, Qin Huacheng feels that he may gradually have the authority to act independently in the future, which is of course very important to him who has always longed for freedom.

Watching Qin Huacheng leave excitedly, shopkeeper Wang smiled imperceptibly.This arrangement was not his intention, but Cheng Dapeng's instruction. Although he didn't know why Cheng Dapeng put the newcomer to the test so quickly, if this guy got bored outside while doing errands, Wang The shopkeeper is also very happy to watch the excitement.You must know that the few clients who asked him to visit next are not easy to dismiss. If Qin Huacheng is not careful, he will easily be tricked by the other party.

Qin Huacheng didn't know that he was about to face a test. What he cared about was whether he could win more attention from Cheng Dapeng after finishing this errand.Now five of the six are from the Xingdao hard labor camp, Qin Huacheng seems to face less competitive pressure, but he wants to complete the training as soon as possible, because only then can he become a full-time employee of the security department and get more freedom to act. authority.

The next day, Qin Huacheng took the contract and went to see the relevant people to confirm the transaction content according to the arrangement of shopkeeper Wang.These two farms that supply grain to Dacheng Rice Co., Ltd. are located on the plain south of Batavia City. After leaving the city, Qin Huacheng walked for more than half an hour before arriving at the location of the first farm.After Qin Huacheng signed up to come here, someone took him to meet the farmer.

The farmer's name is Chu Huo, who is in his 40s. After meeting Qin Huacheng, he was very enthusiastic and called him a brother without hesitation: "Brother Qin just came to work in Mihang recently? No wonder I didn't have any impression when I saw it just now." ... But it doesn't matter, we will keep in touch in the future, brother, I used to work for Master Cheng in Mihang, so I can be regarded as your senior!"

Qin Huacheng talked with Chu Huo for a while, and then carefully mentioned his purpose of coming: "Brother Chu, the younger brother came here today to bother you, I want Brother Chu to look at the proposed grain trading contract, if there is no need to do it again Changes can be arranged to sign the contract."

Chu Huo took the contract handed over by Qin Huacheng and looked at it for a while, then pondered and said, "There is no big problem, but there is still a small problem. Brother Qin can see if he can change it."

Qin Huacheng quickly asked what needs to be changed, and Chu Huo said: "The local area has been dry and rainless since the beginning of this year. The rice grown on my farm has to hire people to water the land day and night with water trucks to fight drought and protect seedlings. The cost of this kind of grain It’s at least [-]% more than in previous years, and I’m afraid it won’t work at the previously agreed grain price, and if I sell it to the rice shop at this price, I’ll have to lose a lot of money to get in.”

The grain price in this contract is the summer grain purchase price agreed upon by the rice bank and the farm when planting in spring. It is not impossible for one of the parties to change the price, but it is definitely not something that Qin Huacheng can decide, so he can only express that he will ask the king. The shopkeeper reflected Chu Huo's meaning.

Chu Huo said: "Since shopkeeper Wang sent you here, he must have a lot of trust in you. We might as well open the skylight and say something bright. If brother Qin can make this happen, I won't let you work in vain. Two hundred silver coins As a reward, what do you think, brother Qin?"

Qin Hua thought to himself that it was not easy to increase the price of grain, and there was such an operation, but he didn't dare to agree casually, and immediately said that this matter still needs to be decided by Shopkeeper Wang, and he is just an errand, so he can't say anything.

Chu Huo said: "I will naturally prepare a heart for the shopkeeper Wang. There is no need to worry about this. Brother Qin, I intend to make you a friend. Don't you want to give me face?"

(End of this chapter)