African Nationhood

Chapter 309 Annual Internal Affairs Meeting (Part )

July 1893, Jinling City (Bulawayo), Meilin Palace.

Shi Jintang held his newborn son with a smile on his face, and approached Alice to let her take a look at his son.

"Henry, what do you want to name your son?"

Shi Jintang thought for a moment and chuckled: "Let's call our son Shi Ang."

Kelly gave birth to a daughter at the beginning of this year, and Boss Shi named her Shi Jing.

He now has six sons and six daughters, which is so smooth.

Shi Jintang talked with Alice. She was tired, so Shi Jintang let her rest.

After leaving Alice's room, Shi Jintang got into a new generation "Crown" car and headed towards the conference center building in the government district.

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The conference center building covers an area of ​​more than 2 square meters and took more than four years to build.

It employed 10 indigenous contract workers and more than 2 Chinese craftsmen, and consumed 20.5 cubic meters of concrete.

In total, there are more than 400 rooms and more than 1200 windows.

Before, when I was in Anhai Town, the offices were all scattered, but now after moving to Jinling, they are all concentrated together.

The various departments of the company basically fill this building, with the agricultural department and the pharmaceutical department on the first floor.

Only some civil servants from these two departments work here. Their farms and pharmaceutical factories are scattered in different areas of Jinling City, so they often need to go out.

There is a special car hood under the conference building, and bicycles and motorcycles are standard equipment for these two departments.

The second floor is the area for the Transportation Department, the Immigration Bureau and the Commerce Department. The Immigration Bureau and the Transportation Department are the busiest, and of course the Commerce Department is not less busy than them.

The third floor is the area for the culture and education departments. The editorial offices of "Nanhua Daily" and "Nanhua Newsletter" are also on this floor. As for the printing factory, it is over there in the factory area.

The publication frequency of the two newspapers is different. Although the South China Daily is known as a daily newspaper, its publication frequency is not high, with one edition published every two or three days.

After all, the company's territory is too large, and the timeliness of publishing newspapers cannot be guaranteed at all.

Therefore, the "South China Daily News" came up with a clever way, that is, to finalize the manuscript remotely over the phone.

First of all, "South China Daily" first set up branches in the large areas where the company has been administratively subdivided.

Every time when the draft is finalized, the head office first determines the content of the front page and headlines, and then the head office arranges for people to call branches in various locations to verbally announce the draft.

After the shorthand on the other end of the phone is written down, the words are exchanged, and after confirming that they are correct, the remaining parts are left to the various branches to fill in the content freely.

The local branches are also responsible for sorting out some local news items and reading them to the head office for the head office to select news materials.

After being selected, the general society will give the branch performance points. At the end of the year, the performance points of the branch will be evaluated, with good praise and low criticism.
  At this stage, the "South China Daily" only needs to ensure that the layout is consistent and the headlines on the front page are consistent.

In this way, "Nan Hua Daily News" can ensure the efficiency of publication. The current large areas of Nan Hua Company are similar to the town-level divisions of later generations.

It will not take long for newspapers to be distributed in various places. At this stage, most of these newspapers are purchased with subsidies from local and regional governments.

When the subsequent citizens develop the habit of reading newspapers, the regional government will cancel the subsidy and let the free people buy it on their own.

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On the fourth floor are several units of the finance department, the Finance Bureau, the Bank of South West Africa, the Taxation Bureau and Boss Shi's office.

There are also two conference rooms on the fourth floor, one large and one small. The large one can accommodate hundreds of people, while the small one can accommodate only a dozen people.

For internal matters within the company, large conference rooms with hundreds of people are generally not used. As for the justice system and the police department, they work independently in the bailiff building near the conference building.

Today is the annual internal affairs meeting, and the attendees are still the heads of various departments.

When Boss Shi's Crown car arrived at the company's headquarters building, everyone in all departments could see it.

Without being urged, the heads of various departments took the initiative to go upstairs and enter the conference room.

Tie Lan and Tang Kui also received the report from their subordinates. They slowly walked to the conference center building, then went upstairs and entered the conference room.

Shi Ming saw the heads of various departments entering the office and informed Boss Shi directly.

Boss Shi nodded and entered the conference room. Faced with everyone's greetings, Boss Shi waved his hand and said, "Today's meeting will be as simple as possible."

Futong stood up and spoke first: "Let me first talk about our immigration situation last year and the beginning of the year."

Shi Jintang nodded slightly, "Yeah."

“The company’s immigration scale exceeded 100 million last year, mainly due to the help of Li Hongzhang of the Qing Dynasty and other local officials.

For example, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and others had a relationship with the company. Conflicts between civilians and foreign missionaries often occurred in their jurisdictions.

There are frequent teaching cases in various places. In order to prevent foreigners from causing trouble to them, they usually kill the people who lead them.

After Li Hongzhang's introduction, they discovered that they could use those criminals to trade weapons and industrial products with us, so they contacted us privately, which promoted a significant increase in the number of our immigrants.

As for the snowstorm in Qing Dynasty at the beginning of this year, we did not expect it. Judging from the current situation, we can introduce another 50 to 60 immigrants in the second half of the year.

The Qing government was unable to respond to disaster relief matters, and riots broke out frequently in various places. Local officials were reluctant to report local chaos to avoid being punished by superior officials.

As long as we have a good grasp of those important officials, the immigration project will be greatly accelerated.

But their appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and I'm worried that our immigration costs will increase and affect the company's operations. "

Futong was right to worry. Shi Jintang recently checked the shipping list of the commercial department, and 80% of it was used in exchange for immigrants.

Although the profit margin of industrial products is high, Nanhua Company's overall production capacity is limited. First, there are not enough skilled workers, and second, there are insufficient resources. These will take time to develop slowly.

Judging from the current situation, the company can only rely on the profits of overseas companies to maintain the company's normal operations, and the company's previously accumulated surplus is being consumed in large quantities.

Sansa Bruce hasn't looked very good lately, and she doesn't have the smile she used to have towards him.

"You try your best to make concessions with the officials of the Qing Dynasty. In addition, our shipyard has already formed a large scale. When you negotiate, you can sell our 1000-ton merchant ships and fishing boats to them.

If they need a 1000-ton warship, you tell them that as long as they provide the drawings, we will help them produce it, but they need to handle the weapons and equipment themselves.

Moreover, our immigrant population has reached a large base. Just relying on the natural birth of internal civilians, the company's annual population growth will be a lot. "

After listening to Boss Shi's words, Futong nodded: "Well, okay, I will negotiate with Commissioner Shi to try to win the order from the Qing people."

"By the way, when you are negotiating, make a request to the officials over there and ask them to try to arrange for some skilled immigrants to come when they immigrate.

For example, for people like the engineers of their Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, as long as they are willing to provide it, it doesn't matter if they spend more money. "

Futong nodded, "I understand, Mr. Shi."

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