1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 787 Difficult situation
"Everyone, I can understand your anxiety. Everyone has spent a lot of money on this place, and they all want to get back the investment as soon as possible. But to be fair, we spend the most human, material and financial resources in Haihan. We are most anxious to be anxious." Anxi looked at the large group of people blocked outside the office, and could only explain to them patiently: "Everyone is stuck here, I can't do things, this delays not only our time, You are wasting your own time too!"

The representatives sent by these businessmen or big shots can all be regarded as the local funders for the construction of Hong Kong, so Anxi can't speak too hard, and can only persuade them with good words.If ordinary people dared to block the office like this, Anxi would have asked Chen Yixin to bring the militia to clear the place.

Dong Yanyun, as a representative of Fujian's business community, stepped forward and responded: "Mr. An, I am waiting here not to prevent you from handling your daily business, but just to get your investment promotion news as soon as possible."

Anxi smiled bitterly and said, "Everyone, after the local development project is confirmed, there will be an open and fair investment promotion activity, and all commercial banks will be notified in advance at that time."

Anxi said and raised a book in his hand to show everyone: "Businessmen who intend to participate in the Kaohsiung Port Investment Promotion Event have already registered here, and we will guarantee to notify you in advance so that everyone can make full preparations. .”

The investment promotion activities in Kaohsiung Port are so embarrassing. On the one hand, it is because the military’s actions have made the Executive Committee somewhat unprepared, and the temporary measures are also very hasty. On the other hand, it is because the Executive Committee’s exclusive wharf construction before that There is a clear preference for Guangdong merchants on the issue of power distribution, which has caused Haihan's credibility to be affected to a certain extent.Fujian businessmen are worried that Anxi will favor their counterparts in Guangdong again, while businessmen in Guangdong are worried that Anxi will find a balance to take care of Fujian counterparts through the investment promotion process under the pressure from Fujian.

Haihan's previous investment promotion activities were open to everyone at the same time, but this time Haihan's performance has obviously made businessmen in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces have a little doubt about Haihan's business reputation.They were waiting for news outside Anxi's office, which in itself was already a sign of lack of trust in Haihan.It's just that the fault this time is not with these Ming merchants, but mainly because of Haihan's own failure to fully prepare for the development of Kaohsiung Port.

After all, these businessmen finally left here with uneasiness, but Anxi did not breathe a sigh of relief, because he knew that these guys would continue to appear tomorrow morning, and he was almost dry-mouthed just now. , and the validity period will probably not exceed 24 hours.

"You are urging me to die, so I can only urge the executive committee to die." Anxi shook his head and went straight to the confidential room.He is now urging the Executive Committee to replenish administrative and professional personnel to Kaohsiung Port as soon as possible with the frequency of a telegram per day. Although such urging may not really have much effect, this is the only way Anxi currently has. .It is impossible for him to create a management team out of thin air in this place. If he wants to make the development of Kaohsiung Port go smoothly, he still has to rely on the support of the headquarters.

However, Anxi's luck seems to be good today. He entered the confidential room and turned on the telegraph. Before the machine started to send the telegraph after warming up, Sanya sent a message first—37 naturalized civilian cadres and technicians had already arrived. In the early morning of this morning, we set off from Shengli Harbor to head north. If everything goes well, we will definitely arrive in Kaohsiung within a week.In addition, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture have completed the investment promotion plan, which will be discussed at the meeting today, and the Kaohsiung Management Committee will be notified by telegram after the results are released within a day or two.

"With this efficiency, how could I be in such a hurry!" Anxi couldn't help complaining, and after sending a reply telegram, he shut down and went offline.The service life of these electronic products is limited, and the Executive Committee has clear requirements for the use time of public electrical equipment, and extends its service life as much as possible by reducing unnecessary loss.Although the technical principles of wireless telegraphs are not very profound, relying on the existing production capacity, it is impossible to produce spare parts for these equipment brought from the 21st century.Before Haihan's homegrown telegraph can run relatively smoothly in actual use, these off-the-shelf black technology products can earn a day for every extra day of use.

On December 100th, the first batch of personnel urgently dispatched from Sanya was finally replenished, which finally eased the embarrassment of shortage of manpower for various institutions, and the long-awaited Kaohsiung Port Investment Project Promotion Conference was also held. Finally, there is news that the next day will be held in the compound of the Kaohsiung Port Management Committee.Merchants who have registered their intention to participate in the early stage can enter the meeting with the registration receipt at that time, while others who want to come in temporarily to take a share or watch the fun must register their identity and pay [-] taels of silver sincerity to the management committee ——This is also to keep some people who try to come in with malicious intent to make trouble as early as possible.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. In previous investment promotion meetings, some unknown people used malicious bidding, driving up prices, disturbing the order of the venue, etc. to make trouble. Some of them were caused by conflicts of interests with Haihan. Enmity, some are personal grievances with merchants participating in Haihan's business plan, and some are purely trying to use this to gain a sense of presence.Although the sincerity gold of 100 taels of silver can't stop everyone who wants to make trouble, but at least it can stop the most unscrupulous poor ghost among them.

However, it has only been a month or so since Haihan moved into Kaohsiung Port on a large scale. People who are not well-informed have not even received the news that Haihan plans to build a new port here, so they can come here to participate in investment promotion. The merchants at the promotion meeting are basically old customers who maintain a cooperative relationship with Haihan, so there is no need to worry too much about any unexpected situations.

There were no innovative projects at the entire investment promotion meeting, and the main focus was on agricultural cash crop plantations.As for the deer farm project that Anxi is most optimistic about, Haihan has no intention of sharing it with investors.This is because both Anxi and the Ministry of Agriculture believe that the indigenous people on the island are more familiar with the habits of wild deer, and it will be more efficient for them to capture and raise deer, and it will also provide them with a job opportunity within their ability.

The level of civilization of these indigenous tribes is much lower than that of the Limiao cottage on Hainan Island. Apart from raising deer, the experts at Haihan really haven’t come up with anything else that can provide long-term stability and rich income for the indigenous tribes. Jobs with sufficiently low technical barriers.The production capacity of these tribes is still in the era of real slash-and-burn farming. Even if you want to teach them to cultivate farmland, it may take two or three years to let go of their hands and feet. The "rough work" of raising deer is more suitable for their actual situation.

There are no large mineral deposits or energy resources worth developing near Kaohsiung Port, which is probably the only fly in the ointment for the traversers.The few metal deposits worthy of development on Taiwan Island are mainly concentrated in the north, and the relatively abundant natural resources near Kaohsiung Port are bamboo, wood, water conservancy and fishery.

The Executive Committee has no plans to build large-scale hydropower facilities on Taiwan Island in the short term, so the local water conservancy advantages can only be used for agricultural irrigation.In addition to rice, which is to be planted on a large scale, the Ministry of Agriculture has also prepared wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miscellaneous grain planting projects for the local area.Among them, planting wheat locally is also an attempt proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Although Kaohsiung did produce wheat in later generations, it is still unknown whether wheat can be grown in Taiwan under the climate conditions of the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty when the earth's temperature dropped sharply. matter.

In terms of cash crops, the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared plantation projects for sugar cane, peanuts, soybeans, citronella, tea, bananas, pineapples, citrus, and tobacco.Sugar, oil, tea, tobacco, and fruit almost cover the most lucrative fields among cash crops.And many of them are high-yield projects with quick results, short payback period, and long payback period. As long as they are familiar with the operation mode of Haihan Plantation, they are eager to pursue them.

According to the supplementary agreement signed between Haihan and the Dutch, the Erren River south of Dayuan Port was used as the dividing line between the East India Company and Haihan's sphere of influence.Based on this, the relevant departments of Haihan planned a plantation area of ​​about [-] mu, or about [-] square kilometers, in the area south of Erren River and west of Gaoping River.Just to reclaim these areas and turn them into plantations requires more than [-] laborers. If Haihan only relies on Haihan's own strength, the implementation progress will obviously be very slow, so let investors directly participate in the development through investment promotion And management has become a necessary means.

Of course, no matter how investors inject labor into Kaohsiung’s plantations, these immigrants will gradually become naturalized people under Haihan’s rule. It is also to allow it to introduce immigrants on its behalf to enrich the population of the jurisdiction.This approach has achieved excellent results in the plantation projects that have attracted investment from various places in the past few years. It has successively brought tens of thousands of new immigrants to Haihan, and the investors of various companies are also aware of Haihan's purpose. well aware.

But they don't care about Haihan's continuous growth in strength through this method. For businessmen, the most important thing is to get real money through these business projects led by Haihan every year.Anyway, Haihan didn't show obvious hostility towards Daming now, and most of the government in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces were happy to make a fortune with the Haihan people. Naturally, the businessmen turned a blind eye to Haihan's practice of absorbing the population in disguise.Anyway, three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged people are not everywhere?I heard that after the military disaster in the northern Central Plains, there were many victims of disasters. As long as you transport a ship of grain, you can bring back a ship of young adults. There are people who specialize in this business to transport people to Hai Han. This source of labor is much lower than the cost of recruiting immigrants in Fuguang.

All kinds of news about immigrants from the north were naturally released by Haihan's side on purpose.Before Haihan introduced some immigrants from the north through sea merchants, the effect can be said to be pretty good, but the scale is far from meeting Haihan's demand for population.In particular, the plan to develop the island of Taiwan does not have a better population base than Haihan, Annan and other places. The proportion of the naturalized people who are useful is even more worrying.

At the current rate of immigrants being introduced into the Penghu base, if we want to continue blood transfusions to Taiwan Island, we can only completely stop the plan to send immigrants to Hainan and other places, and this is obviously a situation that the Executive Committee does not want to see.The most urgent task is not to divide the existing resources into several parts, but to find ways to open more channels and continue to expand the scale of introducing immigrants.

The Kaohsiung Management Committee took out a [-]-acre plantation project in one go, which is almost a "feat" that has never occurred in the past investment promotion clubs.Even in Hainan Island, where the plantation area has exceeded [-] mu, no batch of investment promotion activities has ever offered so much land at one time.

Of course, Taiwan Island has an advantage that other places do not have, that is, the land here is unclaimed land, and there will be no disputes over ownership during the land acquisition process.As for the local aborigines, Haihan naturally did not regard these aborigines who didn't even know what a "land deed" was as the local masters, and it was impossible to ask their opinions on the matter of land requisition.Provide them with a stable livelihood, let them not mess with Haihan after they have enough food and clothing, and then slowly naturalize and win them over, this is considered worthy of them.

If there are really not so interesting indigenous tribes who are unwilling to cooperate and insist on defending their so-called territory, then the mountain special forces from Annan will be happy to teach them the truth that if you lag behind, you will be beaten.When Qian Tiandun first designed the combat functions of this unit, the envisioned combat environment was the mountainous areas in southeastern China, which naturally included the central mountain range on Taiwan Island, and the natives of the high mountain tribes on the island were also part of this unit. One of the imaginary enemies during training.After several years of targeted training, these Annan soldiers are far more adaptable than other troops in the militia. They want to kill the indigenous armed forces with primitive equipment, no professional training, and no decent combat organization. , its difficulty will not be much higher than dealing with unarmed ordinary people.

The three-day investment promotion conference went very smoothly. Investors from Fuzhou and Guangzhou did not hesitate to compete for the plantation projects they were interested in and bid for them.The most difficult period in the initial stage of Kaohsiung Port development can be said to have passed smoothly since then.

(End of this chapter)