1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 177 Li Nai's Investment Advice

Regarding the overall construction plan of Shengli Port, the executive committee has already started to formulate it long before the crossing.After the preparatory committee at that time determined the crossing destination, the development plan of the relevant area was included in the discussion agenda of the Ministry of Construction.

According to the long-term planning plan, the Shengli Port area will gradually become a military port in a few years, and the future central administrative agencies and major military forces will also be deployed in this area.The inland Tiandu Industrial Zone will focus on the "high-tech" deep-processing industry, and even ore smelting will gradually migrate there after the Shilu Iron Mine is put into production, and the Sanya urban area will be the future The main residential and commercial areas.However, such a plan requires a huge amount of manpower to be developed, and the current population level under the management of the Traveling Group is far from reaching such a population level. The plan on paper cannot be implemented in the short term, and can only be temporarily placed in the committee archives.

As for the current construction of the Shengli Port area and the landscape avenue leading from the port area to the No. [-] base, they are all transitional construction plans.For a period of time to come, Shengli Port will continue to undertake the dual missions of a military port and a commercial port, and as a trading port, relevant departments have already begun to make functional plans for the land here.

As guessed by Wei Ping, Li Nai and others, the open land on both sides of the landscape avenue in the port area is exactly the area designated for the construction of the future Shengli Port business district.In addition to the commercial warehouses, warehouses and warehouses of foreign merchants, some supporting facilities such as hotels, restaurants, restaurants and shops will also be built here.In addition to meeting the consumption and living needs of the immigrant population, these facilities can also stimulate local consumption to a certain extent.

Li Nai's requirements for the construction of commercial warehouses can be divided into three parts in detail, one is the warehouse for storing materials, the other is the living place for the resident personnel and the personnel who come to Hong Kong for trade every month, and the third is the external Small shops that directly sell some goods from Guangzhou to the local people.

After Tao Donglai and Yan Chujie listened to his request, the three executive committee members went to the side and discussed in a low voice for a while before returning to the negotiating table.

Tao Donglai replied in a deep voice: "In principle, we agree to your bank's application for establishing a long-term commercial warehouse in Shengli Port, but for the construction land, we have to collect a certain amount of land use fees, and the collection time is in units of years. If here During this period, we need to requisition the land, and we will refund your land use fee for that year, and we will set aside another area as compensation."

Li Nai frowned and said, "Money is not a problem, but I hope that I can buy the land directly to avoid disputes in the future. If you suddenly need to expropriate the land, how about the time and cost of building a commercial warehouse?"

"We will not sell the land. Anyone can only use the land under our name in this way. Regarding your concerns, we will assess the expenses during the construction of your bank, and your bank can also provide A list of construction costs, so that when the land needs to be acquired, we will give some compensation according to the corresponding amount, such as the reduction or exemption of land use fees when moving to other places for construction, or the land area and some locally available building materials and labor Discounts will be given on the expenses.” Tao Donglai explained Li Nai’s doubts in detail, as a former real estate developer, he is very familiar with this issue.

After pondering for a while, Li Nai nodded in agreement with Tao Donglai's proposal.For "Fu Ruifeng", if it wants to cooperate with Haihan people for a long time and firmly occupy the distribution rights of some products in Fuzhou and Guangzhou, it is very necessary to set up a local business store, and this business store Whether the land is bought or rented will not affect the plan to build a commercial warehouse in Victory Port.The Haihan people insisted on renting instead of selling and collecting land use fees, and Li Nai had no better solution for this.

Of course, Li Nai's intentions are not limited to this. He then proposed a further investment plan: "Bihang intends to build a restaurant and a hotel in Shengli Harbor. If you allow, I also want to build a gambling stall and a brothel." .”

The three executive committee members were all taken aback when they heard the words, restaurants and hotels were nothing more than that. They didn't expect that Li Nai, a dignified man of the Ming Dynasty, would openly propose to open a gambling brothel.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the government strictly banned gambling. Zhu Yuanzhang once built a "Xiaoyao Building" to detain the captured gamblers.In the 30th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang personally supervised and formulated the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", which has very clear regulations on how to define gambling behavior and punish players who participate in gambling.During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, he also issued a special decree stating that all the members of the Imperial College who participate in gambling should "provide their hair for the people", while the soldiers who participate in gambling should "provide all the border guards for the army".However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the prohibition on gambling was gradually relaxed. Not only did the folks start to re-gamble, but even some dignitaries, civil servants and military generals were addicted to the gambling table.Such as Puxi, Shuanglu, dominoes, horse hanging, throwing money, cockfighting, and cricket fighting, etc., were all common gambling methods in the late Ming Dynasty. Gambling also gradually changed from a banned underground entertainment method to a semi-public one.

"Fu Ruifeng" does not openly operate gambling stalls and brothels in Guangzhou, but it also has shares in several places privately, so Li Nai is no stranger to the profits that these businesses can obtain.In his opinion, if these businesses can be opened in Shengli Port, a place outside the law that is not under the control of the Ming Dynasty, the money owners who come here to consume will not need to have any scruples at all, and Shengli Port will gradually prosper in the future. After that, it will definitely be able to earn more lucrative profits than places like Guangzhou.

Another reason that prompted Li Nai to make this suggestion is Wei Ping, the inspector in Yulin who is currently imprisoned in Shengli Harbor.Wei Ping proposed to Li Nai to build some commercial facilities in Shengli Port, including gambling stalls and brothels.For Li Nai, Wei Ping's reason is very convincing-these Haihan people are very good at making money in business, there is no reason to let go of gambling stalls and brothels, and more importantly, according to Wei Ping's Observation shows that there are very few women among the Haihan people, estimated to be only one or two tenths. With such a gender ratio, if you don't open a brothel in Victory Harbor to do business with the Haihan people, you will be sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth.

Tao Donglai coughed dryly and said, "For the construction of restaurants and hotels, your bank can come up with a plan first to see how much land is needed. In principle, it should not be a big problem. But gambling stalls and brothels... this is still a problem. It needs to be discussed."

Li Nai was puzzled and said: "But do you intend to participate in the shares? This can be discussed. Bihang does not intend to operate alone. If it is convenient, Bihang also hopes to invite people from Yazhou officials to participate in this business together. .”

Tao Donglai heard Xiange and knew it, and immediately asked: "Mr. Li is talking about Wei Ping from the inspection department, right?"

Li Nai nodded and said: "In the future, the number of merchants in Shengli Port will definitely increase gradually. I have discussed with Wei Xunjian. If you want to do these businesses in Shengli Port, you must face people of all kinds in the future. If you only rely on Your side maintains order, and some people may not buy it, but if there are officials from Yazhou sitting here, the effect may be different, after all, the people of Daming still have to be ruled by the laws of Daming."

Before Tao Donglai could answer, Yan Chujie who was next to him spoke up: "Mr. Li, I don't quite agree with what you said. What is it that people in the Ming Dynasty should be ruled by the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Let me say something rather arrogant, Wei Ping himself In this place, we must abide by the rules set by our Haihan executive committee! Whether it is now or in the future, as long as you come to the three-acre land of Shengli Port, everyone must follow the rules here. If you don’t obey , we naturally have a way to deal with it!"

Yan Chujie can be regarded as a hawk in the executive committee. Hearing Li Nai's harsh words, he immediately showed a tough attitude.After several months of hard work, the executive committee has finally established a preliminary social order here. How could Yan Chujie agree to let people like Wei Ping jump to the stage to perform again because of some business needs.

Tao Donglai was not as excited as Yan Chujie, and helped to smooth things over: "Well, I think we should look at it from a dialectical point of view. What is the purpose of letting Wei Ping stay here? One is to reassure Yazhou and express We are not hostile, and the second is to reassure the merchants who come and go to Shengli Port, saying that this place is still under the jurisdiction of Daming. I think Mr. Li’s proposal is still of reference value. In some cases, it is inconvenient for us to come forward to deal with it. It is possible to consider asking the inspection department to come forward. Of course, this matter depends on Wei Ping's own attitude. If he is not willing to cooperate with us, then there is no need to force it."

In Li Nai's ears, Tao Donglai's words felt more unscrupulous than Yan Chujie, which basically confirmed his previous guess about Wei Ping's situation - even though Wei Ping did not mention that he was under house arrest in the previous conversation However, from Tao Donglai's words, it can be felt that Wei Ping is now just a prop displayed by the Haihan people in Shengli Harbor to the outside world.

At this time, Li Nai also understood why Wei Ping wanted to persuade him to cooperate with the Inspection Department in the future investment in Victory Port.If this plan is successful, then the inspection department will finally have a little role to play, and he, Wei Ping, will naturally no longer be just a display on the wall.And if the plan fails, then Wei Ping will have to continue his life under house arrest and be used by the Haihan people as a ruling puppet.

But having said so much, Li Nai still didn't understand why Tao Donglai didn't agree with the proposal to open a gambling stall and a brothel.Judging from Tao Donglai's response, I am afraid that the shares are not the main reason why Haihan people are moved and worried about this. So what are their worries?
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