1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 771 Sanya's New Look
With a history of nearly 300 years of rule, a vast territory, and a large population, it seems that a local force occupying the island has nothing to do. Li Nai believes that this is the current situation between Daming and Haihan.If it was Li Nai five years ago, he would probably feel unwilling and saddened by this situation, but after a few years of contact with the Haihan people, he can already face this reality with a more peaceful perspective and attitude.The Haihan people have told him more than once in an affirmative tone that the difference in civilization between Haihan and Daming is several hundred years. Territory and the root cause of hundreds of thousands of people.

The degree of civilization in the population of Haihan does not refer to achievements such as poetry and poetry, but the gap in social systems, structures, and productivity.Li Nai believes that the Haihan people's statement is not baseless depreciation, because they have indeed shown abilities far superior to their contemporary competitors, even Franji and Holland, which seem to be very powerful in Da Ming's eyes. Fan, the Haihan people also claimed to be hundreds of years ahead of them.

The Haihan people started their business on Qiongzhou Island with hundreds of people, and it only took five years for the business to reach its current scale, and the speed of expansion is getting faster every year. It is hard for Li Nai to imagine that they will have ten times the land in the future And after the population, what kind of development speed will be achieved.At that time, let alone Daming, I am afraid that these surrounding countries and Xifan will be tied together, and they will not be opponents of the Haihan people.Anyone should be amazed by this situation, but the Haihan people themselves take it all for granted.Li Nai once heard more than one Haihan people say that the purpose of their coming here is to do something big to expand the territory and establish a state power. For them, it is just a step in the whole plan.

Of course, according to the Haihan people, there is no such thing as a "king" or "emperor" in this country, and the leadership and management of the entire country will still be a political model consistent with the existing system.If he hadn't witnessed Haihan's family history with his own eyes, it would be hard for anyone to believe that this ridiculous-sounding model could work well.

Li Nai once discussed this issue with Tao Donglai——if the civilization of Haihan is hundreds of years ahead of Ming Dynasty and other countries at the same time, then after hundreds of years, will the monarchy be no longer have?
"There are, but the remaining royal family will basically become decorations." Tao Donglai's answer at that time, he still remembers clearly: "Any country that wants to become stronger must eventually get rid of the monarchy. However, this process requires the blood and lives of many people in exchange, and may even need to go through many iterations. Fortunately, our Haihan's civilization level has already passed this step. Therefore, in the future, this world will not There will be no country that can catch up with us."

Although Tao Donglai's words were not particularly straightforward, he had already expressed his meaning very clearly - as long as it is a monarchy country, it is impossible to become an equal opponent to Haihan.In the foreseeable future, such countries are probably unlikely to appear in the surrounding area of ​​Haihan.

"Young Master, we've arrived!" After his attendants reminded him softly, Li Nai recovered from his endless contemplation and got up to get off the car.

Before leaving the station, the aroma of all kinds of food filled the air.Outside the Sanya Station is the Sanya Port Center on the banks of the Linchun River, which is the area around Luhuitou Square in the urban area of ​​Sanya in later generations. Ships and personnel entering and leaving Sanya Port must register and go through various procedures at the Port Center, and go to Shengli Port and Shengli Fort for business. People also need to transfer here by car, so the flow of people in this place is huge, which has spawned a large number of service industries. There are even more hawkers and restaurants supplying various catering than there are commercial warehouses on the wharf.

In addition, all kinds of goods unloaded from Sanya Port also need to be transferred here to surrounding areas by trains, pack horses, manpower, etc., and the state of flatbed convoys and pack horses can be seen on the street at any time.Fortunately, the Haihan executive committee has considered the future development when planning, and built the road to be extremely wide. There are black-clothed police officers waving batons to direct traffic at intervals on the road. I quickly learned the basic traffic rules such as keeping to the right and leaving lanes.

In terms of the prosperity of the market alone, Sanya Port is comparable to the Pearl River Wharf outside Guangzhou, and it is far more tidy and orderly than the Pearl River Wharf. You can see brooms in bamboo baskets cleaning the streets at any time There are garbage cleaners, and all kinds of animals carrying goods have dung pockets on their buttocks, so that outsiders will be amazed at the clean environment here.

In addition, the social order here is much better than that of the ports in the area under the Ming Dynasty. Police teams of five can be seen patrolling on foot at any time on the street.The powerful police force ensures that it is difficult for thieves to act recklessly here. Anyone who is caught for a thief or other crime will be sentenced to a minimum of three months of hard labor. The place picks quarrels and stirs up trouble.

The villa Li Nai purchased was still some distance away from the station, and the entourage kindly asked Li Nai if he needed to take a rickshaw or horse-drawn carriage on the street to his destination.

Li Nai waved his hand and rejected the entourage's proposal: "I haven't been here for more than half a year, so I will take a walk along the road, just to see how the Sanya Port has changed in the past six months."

Going north from the station square, you basically leave the port area and enter the town.Haihan has built a lot of commercial properties here in the past few years, and provided them to foreigners in the form of lease and sale.Some Haihan naturalized residents with higher incomes also bought real estate here.When Li Nai bought a house here, the scale of real estate development was only two or three hundred households, but now the population that only settles here has exceeded two thousand households.Most of them are outsiders, like the members of "Qiong Lianfa" that Li Nai is familiar with, almost all bought real estate here, and some big households even bought several sets, like Zhan Gui, the owner of the shipping company, who moved with his family. There are also many examples of people who settled in Sanya.

However, Li Nai knew that none of Haihan's top executives lived here, and some of them still lived in Victory Fort. In addition, on the coastline of Yalong Bay to the east of Shengli Harbor, it is said that there are many buildings specially built for Haihan's head to live in. The large villa, but Li Nai has not been to the site to see it yet, and he is not quite sure what the specific situation is like.

When we got here, the number of people who knew Li Nai obviously increased, and after walking not far, someone greeted him, and then stopped to exchange some pleasantries.Most of them are businessmen traveling between Guangdong and Sanya. Even if these people don't know the big figures in the executive committee of Haihan who don't often show up, they must know the third young master of Guangzhou "Furuifeng" firm, "Golden Shield Guard" Li Nai, the big shopkeeper of "Luck".After all, at least [-]% of the valuable money and goods sent from Guangzhou to other parts of the province are taken over by the "Golden Shield Escort". To be able to make friends with Li Nai, not to mention how much cheaper the business is, At least it can make the other party more interested in the corresponding transaction.

Of course, there is another reason that is well known but will not be easily announced, and that is the close relationship between Li Nai and the Haihan people.There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that "Fu Ruifeng" was able to take the ship of Shanghai Han to fly all the way to prosperity, mainly because of the result of the negotiations between the young master Li San and the Haihan people in Sanya.Although I don't know the specific terms of exchange between the two parties, Haihan has always brought "Fu Ruifeng" along with him for any good things in the past few years, and he has made the Li family the most popular family in Guangzhou along the way.The most valuable items produced by Haihan have always been controlled by the Li family as the agent in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. It has not changed in the past few years. This alone is enough to make the Li family earn a lot of money, which is enviable and hateful. up.

Moreover, Haihan's support for Li's family was not only reflected in business. In the first year of Chongzhen, they sent hundreds of soldiers to Li's village without saying a word, and defeated the besieging local rogue army.After that, he assisted the Li family to start a bodyguard business. With the current strength of "Golden Shield Escort", they can pull out seven or eight hundred fully armed bodyguard teams at any time. As long as it is not a rebellion, self-protection is definitely safe up.People with a discerning eye can naturally see clearly that the bodyguard team of this "Golden Shield Escort" is basically the same as the Haihan people's militia except for the uniforms they wear. Most of the bodyguards leading the team are retired from the Haihan militia. Veteran, as long as the guards change their skins, they can immediately transform into the Haihan militia.

Even if few people in Ming Dynasty know the title of "Leading the Party", as long as they have some status in the shopping malls and official circles in Guangdong and Guangxi, at least they can see that the interests between Haihan and the Li family are extraordinary.He is familiar with the third young master of the Li family, and maybe he needs help when he encounters something in Sanya. Let the third young master Li come forward and say hello to the Haihan people, and it will be settled.

Li Nai himself has been the shopkeeper for more than two years, and the edges and corners have been smoothed out a lot. He is not as self-conscious as before. When people he knows or not know greet him, he will respond one by one with a smile.Although he also knew that many people just wanted to get acquainted with him, or use his name to get acquainted with Haihan's senior management, but this didn't make him appear impatient.

From the station square to the villa where Li Nai stayed, it was only two miles or less than three miles away, and it took more than an hour to greet people all the way.When he arrived at the gate of his yard, it was already time to light the lamps.Fortunately, when he disembarked before, he sent other attendants to stand in front, but at this time he was already packing up and getting ready.The three servants resident here stood at the gate, bowing their heads to welcome him.

Li Nai's two-storey villa covers an area of ​​about one acre, and it is completely built according to Haihan's design style, rather than a traditional Chinese courtyard.The first floor is the reception room, dining room, kitchen and servants' quarters, etc., and the second floor is his private space, including two bedrooms with full Haihan bathroom facilities, a living room and a study.The doors and windows of the villa use a lot of locally produced plate glass, and the furniture and floor tiles are all shipped from Guangzhou. The money spent on the decoration alone is enough to buy a mid-range garden apartment in a nearby residential area. .

The villa faces south and faces north, and one of the bedroom windows can see the Linchun River very close at hand. The Haihan people call this location a "river-view room". This alone makes this villa closer to the east. The villa that can't see Jiang is [-]% more expensive.Of course, this is just a small amount of money for Li Nai, who was already rich a few years ago. Why not spend a little money to make him feel happy physically and mentally?

Li Nai went upstairs to wash up, changed into a set of comfortable home clothes, and went downstairs to eat.One of the three servants staying here is a specially selected cook, who goes to the chef training class held by the Haihan people twice a year for further study to ensure that the taste of the dishes he cooks is comparable to that of the head of Haihan in Fort Victory. They ate exactly the same.Of course, the various seasonings and spices used in the kitchen are basically copied from the standard equipment of Fort Victory. Even the stove in the kitchen was entrusted by Li Nai, and Tao Donglai sent a special person over there. The supervisor built it to ensure that the fire can also meet the same standard.

Li Nai admires Haihan people's way of paying attention to quality in some details of life, so he will follow suit consciously or unconsciously, and try to keep his lifestyle consistent with the imitated objects.He thought it would help him to experience and learn the way of thinking of the Haihan people. As for whether it would have any practical effect, Li Nai believed that the reason why he came to Sanya this time was the best proof.If you don't fully understand the way of thinking of Haihan people, and look at the changes in the situation from their perspective, it is indeed difficult to deduce Haihan's next plan.

Because Li Nai came in a hurry this time, the chef of the villa didn't purchase some fresh ingredients in advance, but he still overcame various difficulties and made a full set of Western-style steak set meals for him according to Li Nai's personal preference.

Li Nai once ate a steak cooked by Haihan's chief chef Fan Wei in Fort Victory, and Dang even included it in his private menu, and then sent the chef to Fort Victory to learn this dish.Of course, in exchange, this dish cannot appear in restaurants under the Li family name, and can only be enjoyed as a private dish.

It is said that the cooking of this dish comes from the Europa continent where the Spanish country is located. However, after being introduced to Haihan, many improvements have been made, and the cooking method has been somewhat different from that of Westerners.For example, the selected position of this steak must be the sixth to eighth pair of ribs on the cow, and it must be cut along the bone.And the spices used to marinate the steak to make it shortlisted, there are many varieties that are not in the European recipes.

(End of this chapter)