At the same time that General Cao went into the city to visit the big guy, those people in the city were actually waiting for him.

Although the big guy can't take the initiative to meet the superficial rules between civil and military officials, the big guy's practice is also sincere - suppressing bandits is one thing, and the gold mountain behind the God of Wealth is the key. You can make a lot of extra money by matching businessmen casually, and you don't have to be disabled, so why not?

So General Cao's trip to Guangzhou City, which was destined to be greeted with a smiling face, began.

At the same time, early the next morning, next to the gate of Tiandao Temple, the white lacquered wooden sign of "Xingying Grain Preparation Office" was also hung out.

At the moment of listing, the "Guangzhou Special Administrative Region" in the secret is officially established. This administrative district is a city-level establishment and capital establishment, somewhat similar to the DC special district of later generations.

At present, the first mayor of the SAR has been determined to be Ding Liqiu, and the members of the city government include the current head of the Guangzhou station, Song Jia, the former intelligence station of the Fuzhou station, and another administrative crosser.

Of course, at the moment, this is just a grass platform team, and there will be more crossers to work in Guangzhou in the future. In fact, in the next few years, most of the travelers, including Emperor Cao, will come to Guangzhou one after another, and those industries in Taiwan will also move here. In the future, Taiwan will return to its original positioning as a super farm.

After the sign of the logistics department was hung up, Ding Liqiu was never idle again.

The first wave to harass was the labor army.

Early in the morning, driving a carriage full of chickens and ducks, and carrying a load full of vegetables, a group of people came from the direction of Guangzhou in an endless stream. As soon as they arrived at the wharf, they clamored for the labor army, and put on a posture of forcibly asking the army and the people to fish and water, and immediately smashed the rumors of "bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates" at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Ding Liqiu, who was directing the relocation and resettlement in Tiandao Temple, rushed to hear the news. After taking a look, Master Ding, who was shaking the fan, first smiled, and then he told the Minister of Logistics that since it was a gift from the labor army, then we could not hurt the goodwill of the military and the people of Guangzhou, and these gifts would be accepted in full.

After that, Ding Liqiu turned around and went back to Tiandao Temple. After a while, several clerks came out and handed out a wooden sign with a number written on it to one of the stewards of the labor army. After receiving the number plates, the stewards did not hesitate, and took their leave after unloading the gifts.

So what's going on with these good citizens who support the army? In fact, it is very simple, these are all sent by some second-rate businessmen in Guangzhou City to fight the front station.

Since it is a second-rate merchant, the information channels of these people are naturally a little worse. Those first-class businessmen knew in advance that a certain army was coming, and these second-class businessmen didn't know the news until they saw the warship yesterday.

So last night, the city of Guangzhou was actually very lively. Although the second-rate merchants are not up to the level of Ma Ali, the large local tax payers and local tyrants can afford it; These people did not have access to the military-political agreement between Fujian and Guangdong, but their energy in Guangzhou was not doubtful.

So last night, almost all the high-ranking officials in the city received a few uninvited guests who came to inquire about the news.

It only took half a night for the local tyrants to figure out all the causes and consequences. After learning that it was the God of Wealth himself, the local tyrants scolded the bastards who controlled the news, and communicated with each other overnight to prepare. Early the next morning, as soon as the city gates were opened, the ranks of the labor army went out.

Ding Liqiu naturally would not reject the kindness of the local tyrants. The Ming Dynasty was the world of the gentry, and if they wanted to overthrow this pattern, the "urban bourgeoisie", which had most of their property allocated in the commercial field, was a very important target for wooing.

The Crossing Congregation vigorously supports this class, teaches them new ideas, supports them behind their backs, sharpens their minions, and then lets them go to the vast world to bite freely.

After putting the signs on these merchants, Ding Liqiu was about to prepare to meet those real businessmen.

These people are either the president of a certain chamber of commerce in the city, or the spokesperson of a certain Beijing tycoon, or the business manager of a certain gentleman family, in short, they are all powerful people who can influence the political situation in Guangdong.

Big businessmen naturally have the arrogance and confidence of big businessmen. Since the people had already sent an envoy to the Dayuan and the crossing crowd to make a deal, there was no need to send any labor and army supplies today. Sitting in a sedan chair, with a small servant, a long entourage and a slave, several masters came to Tiandao Temple in the afternoon.

After entering the door, the old men easily occupied a house next to the front hall, and there was little difference between the incense on weekdays. The next person put the glass pot on the kerosene stove that came with it for the first time, and then boiled the mountain spring water, so that the dark red oolong tea rolled in the pot.

After the old man set up his posture, he waited for Master Ding to come to the door, today is a protracted war, Master Ding has to conduct many rounds of negotiations, and the time will drag on for a long time.

Master Ding soon came to the door.

Master Ding, who took a few booksellers, first negotiated separately with several businessmen for the rest of the day. After dinner, we held a group meeting in the abbot's room, which was illuminated by kerosene lamps.

The parties had frank, efficient and constructive discussions on topics of common concern, and had a full exchange of views on a number of important issues.

The agreement is broadly divided into two parts.

Part of it is the general commercial contract of the product catalog, marketing scope, and agency fee of each of these large distributors. This does not include the manufacturer's rebate and various incentive tasks - in this era, there has never been a saying that the goods cannot be sold, only that the manufacturer's goods are not enough, especially the industrial products that pass through the hands of the people, so there is no rebate.

The second part is a verbal agreement. The parties at the meeting finally reached an agreement on the matter of facilitating Wang Zunde's letter to protect Cao and the new district land.

These two things, the former has been agreed on before, and today it is mainly determined again. The latter is an important condition that has been planned for a long time, and the land acquisition and development of the new area is a big article, and this time it is necessary to introduce some local forces to "participate in the grand event".

In the coming tide of "entering Guangdong", it is naturally impossible to put the industrial zone and administrative area in the city of Guangzhou. Therefore, during this period of time, the Guangzhou Intelligence Station has secretly accompanied the construction department to conduct surveys and surveys around the city of Guangzhou, and have identified several plots that can be used to build new areas.

Among them, the first plot of land is near the Guangzhou South Railway Station in the later generations.

There is a reason for the choice of the new district. First of all, the land is about 30 miles long and equilateral triangle about 30 miles long from the city of Guangzhou to the north and the town of Foshan to the west.

This location is not only downstream of Guangzhou, which is convenient for the treatment and discharge of industrial waste in the future, but also convenient for undertaking the industrial population of Guangzhou and Foshan, which is an ideal land to be developed.

Foshan Town in the Ming Dynasty was a famous iron smelting capital, and all the upstream and downstream industrial chains of metal smelting can be found in Foshan, with many original industrial workers, and it is the best personnel supplement base for the future industrial zone.

Guangzhou is the future capital of the country, and all kinds of resources, industries, including a large number of people stationed in the country themselves, are all forces. In addition, powerful surveillance, infiltration, and even force will also enter the land one after another. Therefore, in terms of the balance of forces, the strength of the Ming government and the local gentry will not be long before they will be surpassed and crushed by the new forces.

In this situation, inviting local "progressive" forces to jointly develop the new area has become an alternative path, unlike the port of Shanghai hanging in the south of the Yangtze River, where it is difficult to cross the forces and need to do things secretly. In the Guangzhou New District, the pace of reform could have been a little bigger, because any possible backlash would have been easily suppressed.

As a result, at today's plenary meeting, Ding Liqiu for the first time produced a top-secret topographic map of the surrounding areas of Guangzhou with a high proportion of top-secret information. Then he told a few big businessmen about the idea of the new district. Of course, here Ding Chunqiu only introduced the industrial area, which is equivalent to the administrative area of the small capital, and he will not say.

When several big businessmen heard about this idea, they were very interested in clearing out a piece of land dedicated to setting up a workshop, and then everyone invested in the workshop, so that they could directly control the source of goods in the future.

"This is a good thing. As long as Mr. Ding gives an order, we will definitely go to the grand event together! ”

After listening to Ding Liqiu's plans for the necessary plans of the industrial zone, such as three links and one leveling, shared power, transportation tracks, etc., several people sitting here immediately realized the huge benefits, so they immediately nodded and agreed.

After discussing this core issue, today's meeting can be regarded as a complete success. After that, the guests and hosts held a simple drinking party, and everyone stayed at the Tiandao Temple by the way, mainly because the city gate was closed.

After the day passed, it was time to receive those second-rate merchants. A large number of businessmen quickly blocked the front yard of Tiandao Temple, holding number plates one by one, sitting there anxiously waiting for Mr. Ding Da to turn over the cards, just like licking dogs waiting for seats in Haidilao.

For these people, Comrade Ding Liqiu often let them go after a few words - many commodities now have a general agent in Guangdong, and it is OK to send people to find their respective general agents.

At the same time that Ding Liqiu was busy, the fast fleet set off again in a murderous manner. The fleet had two missions this time, one was to go to Lamma Island to demonstrate and add pressure to Liu Xiang, and the other was to meet the supporting fleet and escort the other party to Guangzhou.

Soon, on the third day after the fleet's departure, ten new lock boats with Chinese hard sails, but a little odd in style, and slender ships, followed the fast fleet back to Baietan.

As the business of crossing the public became bigger and bigger, the displacement of the new lock ship, which served as the main transport ship, became higher and higher. The latest standard has been raised to a displacement of 600 tons, which is already a large ship of more than 2,000 materials in the eyes of the Ming people.

Then, a total of nearly 5,000 tons of goods were unloaded from the Guangzhou wharf one after another. After seeing so many in-demand goods, the entire Guangdong business community was a sensation, and the merchants who were still hesitating before finally made up their minds to be agents at this moment, and the sea-like silver was then pulled to Tiandao Temple by a horse-drawn cart, and the silver cart even lined up outside the mountain gate.

Even more surprising things followed, on the evening of the second day after the fleet returned, a special envoy Liu Xiang, Liu Da's shopkeeper, and his henchman Yu Xianke, actually sat in a small boat, and only brought two servants to Tiandao Temple, and asked to see General Cao himself.

Of course, General Cao didn't care about seeing Master Yu on his own territory, but when Master Yu entered the door, he flashed sideways, revealing the short entourage wearing a hat behind him.

"Under Liu Xiang, meet General Cao."