Lu Ming

Chapter 532 Before the Merchants Fair

"Mayor, here is the shareholder of the cement factory, the local 'progressive' gentry Bai Shenming, next to him is Wu."

A young man with black and thin skin, wearing a plain cotton jacket with straight-leg pants, a cowhide briefcase under his arm, and a secretary's haircut in [-], gave a brief introduction to the visitor in a low voice in Ding Liqiu's ear.

Ding Liqiu nodded slightly when he heard this, and interrupted the young man's words: "I don't need to introduce the one behind, I know him, shopkeeper Wu, a friendly person."

Speaking of this, Ding Liqiu put on a professional and friendly smile on his face, and stepped forward to meet him with outstretched hands.

Bai Juren, who was also full of smiles, came hurriedly, passed through the crowd, stretched out his hands and shook Ding Liqiu clumsily and uncomfortably: "Oh, mayor Ding is here, the students are far away to welcome you!" !"

The word "city" dates back to the Qin and Han Dynasties before the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It mainly refers to commercial markets, square markets, and rural market areas, etc., without administrative attributes. The Ming Dynasty is similar to the administrative unit of the city. It is "fu".

For the city to be truly a specific administrative region, it will have to wait until the Ming Dynasty after the Revolution of [-].In the ninth year of the Republic of China, the local self-government movement flourished. Chen Jiongming, a senior official in Guangdong, wanted to make Guangzhou a city not under the jurisdiction of the old administrative divisions, so he entrusted Sun Ke to draft relevant regulations and organize a modern municipal system.

So Sun Ke wrote the "Interim Regulations of Guangzhou City", which was approved by the provincial government in February of the tenth year of the Republic of China (1921).This is the first time in our country that the municipality has been used as the administrative unit to formulate regulations, which is beyond the scope of local self-government.

Time and space turn around, and when we come to the plane of the time-traversing people, perhaps it is a hidden induction. The first city-level administrative district in the Ming Dynasty in the true modern sense was also set up by the time-traveling people in Guangzhou, across the river from the old city.And Ding Liqiu, the first "mayor" of the special zone, also brought a huge shock to the people of Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, seeing people expropriating land outside the city, Ming people who had access to some inside information at that time, the most daring imagination was nothing more than a big market, which was in line with Ming people's perception of "city".

However, today, as the modernized new district rises from the ground at the speed of the natives, the title of "mayor", which was spread for some reason and even seemed a bit teasing in the eyes of the wise, has become a real one. , no less than the authoritative title of the prefect of Guangzhou.

Although Ding Liqiu is fundamentally just a low-level private "counselor" of the General Military Mansion, but now, from the gentry to the officials, no one who knows the inside story dares to take advantage of Mayor Ding.Even Master Hong Yunzhenghong of the genuine Guangzhou Futai would treat Ding Liqiu with equal courtesy in private.

"Haha, Bai Xiaolian is polite, I just came to the cement factory to see the progress of the construction. How about it, are the local elders satisfied with the construction?"

"Satisfied, satisfied! Dagong does not disturb the people, but also gives poor people a chance to make money. Mayor Ding is doing a good deed!"

"Hehe, Bai Xiaolian is profoundly knowledgeable, he should know the truth that water can carry a boat. The world is in turmoil now, we as courtiers, spending some money and food to stabilize the hearts of the people can be regarded as doing some practical things for the court."

"Small words and big righteousness, small words and big righteousness."

At this moment, Bai Juren had an admiring look on his face.He, who is well-educated and well-read in history books, nodded repeatedly after hearing these indistinguishable words of loyalty and treachery, as if he hadn't realized that the other party was a traitor at all.

In this way, Shareholder Bai joined Mayor Ding's team, and the two sides inspected various construction sites in the wasteland that were under intense construction.

Later, accompanied by other local "elders" who came after hearing the news, Mayor Ding also had lunch with everyone.During the lunch, Mayor Ding announced an important news to these local leading parties: At the beginning of next month, there will be a Nanyang Business Promotion Fair in Guangdong New Area, and you are welcome to attend it.

Although the plan to travel across the South China Sea cannot be officially launched yet, the preliminary preparations, including the pioneering army, are already slowly underway.Among them, the organized participation of Ming investors in the plan was originally an important part.

It is impossible to take a group of poor ghosts to develop in Nanyang through time travel, and there is a lack of an important link/class: investors.

As mentioned earlier, the current economy of the Ming Dynasty is stagflation.On the one hand, the lower class was displaced due to lack of food, and on the other hand, the landlord class buried precious metals in the cellar of their homes, which felt a bit like an economic crisis in later generations.

Therefore, the crossing crowd must not only attract a large number of low-level people to the vast new world to find food and land, but also guide the landlord class of the Ming Dynasty to invest in the new world as much as possible, so as to loosen the stagnant water that has frozen and do not need to hire people to dig holes and fill them up. Traveling through the crowd only needs to create a strong and fair investment environment, and then teach these ancient capitalists how to invest and make profits.

This was also mixed with the impetus from the pioneering army headquarters, the cabinet and the parliament, so Ding Liqiu started to deal with this matter after the current work was over for a while.After meeting the local rich owners in the Zengcheng area today, he revealed the information about the opening of the Merchants Association.

This news undoubtedly aroused the interest of everyone present.Now that these people have already invested money in the comprehensive project of the cement plant and got into the car, they have already relied on it. Naturally, they are not opposed to the new way to make a fortune, but are very interested in it.

Mayor Ding also made it very clear here: "Perhaps you gentlemen who bought shares in the cement factory meant to be close to my General Cao. We all understand this, and the General also knows it. However, the way to buy land in Nanyang is not for our Ming gentry. Ancestral handicraft. Handed down from generation to generation, family property cultivated in four seasons and produced by general underwriting”

Under Ding Liqiu's diligent introduction, the participating gentry quickly understood the meaning of the so-called "Going to Nanyang": Isn't this the same as everyone going to the countryside to buy a farm, but the farm is a little farther away. In Nanyang, in addition, it is different from Daming. , Nanyang's property undoubtedly rested on General Cao.

After thinking about this point, Bai Juren, who had a quick mind and dared to place a bet, was the first to express his opinion at the dinner table: General Cao intends to expand the territory, and Bai Shen stated that he must help one or two!This time, no matter how big or small, he wants to set up a plantation to plant some rice laborers!

The other rich locals who had reacted also expressed their intention to get involved.It's a joke, everyone in the cement factory can't figure out the way, but to open a farm, whether it's a rich man or a gentry in Ming Dynasty, every one of them is brought out by experts.

Seeing the lively atmosphere, Mayor Ding stretched out his hand and patted Master Bai's shoulder affectionately: "It doesn't have to be rice planting either. Come here, make some coffee and cocoa from the Dutch, and then Bring the album here, and I will invite the old men to enjoy the paintings."

The next moment, after Master Bai took a sip of the slightly bitter coffee, before he had time to complain, he was again attracted by a beautiful picture album in front of him: "Master Bai, this kind of big tree is called a rubber tree. The output, the General Mansion bought it at a high price."

(End of this chapter)