Section 86 Sweet Harbor Storm -- Dying Struggle

"Richang Ji, 7,000 stones." Feng Guangfeng then followed, "I'll hand over the silver later." ”

There were two peers who followed up, and the families who were originally watching also recognized the numbers one after another, some were 3,000 stones, some were 5,000 stones, and some were 10,000 stones, and the total was more than 150,000 stones. Chen Tianxiong knew that most people still kept a hand, and these numbers were just throwing stones to ask for directions.

However, if it is really too enthusiastic, some of the sugar that has been collected in South China will have to be spit out and distributed to them, which will inevitably be too much of a loss, so that everyone can be regarded as having their own place and being satisfied with each other.

"With this Sugar Guild, what should Haiyitang do?" This poignant question was raised. If Zhu Sanye didn't allow them to join the Sugar Guild and had to maintain Haiyitang, how would they get along with them?

The delegates at the table moved uneasily and whispered.

Everyone knows very well that Zhu Sanye will never give up, at least a vicious fight will be inevitable. He has money and the ability to direct all kinds of evil shili actions, which should not be underestimated.

To this question, Chang Shide replied: South China will properly handle this matter, and as for the specific negotiation matters, South China will come forward. If Zhu Sanye wants to find trouble for everyone, South China will definitely stand up for everyone and never break his word.

"I think everyone must know that South China has the ability not to let itself break its word."

Chang Shide said it categorically, and although the participants were somewhat uneasy, they all agreed.

"The meeting was a success." Wen Tong said to Chang Shide, "However, Weishenme doesn't directly engage in a joint-stock company? What is the purchasing agent first? ”

"Let them have some sweetness first." Chang Shide said, "At first, they didn't believe in us enough, but this year's deal was done, so that they could see that it was more beneficial to follow us than Nalaoshzi Haiyitang, and then talk to them about the joint-stock company." ”

"The next thing is to consolidate the results of the battle, especially to guard against Zhu'an's counterattack." Chen Tianxiong reminded them, "I wish the third master is still on Hai'an Street." A hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen. He's hibernating, not necessarily waiting for the right moment to strike. We have to come up with a response plan as soon as possible. ”

"It's best to get rid of him as soon as possible, otherwise the night will be full of dreams." Chang Shide warned them: Whether the Leizhou Sugar Association can be established in the end depends on whether South China has the ability to quickly eliminate Zhu Sanye's shili.

"We can just snap him off, but doing so makes these sugar merchants feel like they're dead." Chang Shide held his chin, "Throw a mouse bogey." ”

"Don't care about these for now, let Feng Guangfeng be the contact person, and tell them that all the payments must be paid within three days, otherwise the contract will be invalidated." Chen Tianxiong said, "This money is also their vote, so as not to shake anyone's half-heartedness." ”

"Okay, I'll take care of Liao Daxing to do this, and by the way, let Liao Dahua also prepare people and cars, and prepare to pick up the silver on Shanghai Anjie."

This is not a small amount, Chen Tianxiong calculated after the meeting and was surprised, these sugar merchants will deliver them 375,000 taels of silver! Nearly fifteen tons of synthetic metrics!

"That's a lot!" Chen Tianxiong felt more and more that the importance of the bank, not to mention paper money, such a large sum of money if there is an exchange business, a bill of exchange can be solved. Now these fifteen tons of silver, just carrying and storing it is a very nerve-wracking thing.

Since the beginning of the purchase of sugar in South China, it has consumed a lot of time and energy just to store, keep, send and receive silver. All the silver transported was the "official treasure" that was re-smelted in the furnace room in Guangzhou, and the fineness was the same, fifty taels and one ingot. Simplifying the steps in the process of packing, transporting, and counting silver.

But when it comes to actual operation, things get complicated. Sugar is always a piece, can not be paid with fifty taels of ingots, South China had to buy a lot of silver clips, silver scales to measure. The big silver of the main ingot was again crushed and paid for. The process is not only tedious, but also very costly.

As for the silver that each sugar store is about to hand over, it can be known that it is also scattered silver, and the quality-color-ten** is not the same. Liao Daxing has already reminded them that they should find a few guys in the furnace room as soon as possible to see the color, otherwise they will lose a lot if they regard the tide and silver as snowflake silver.

"The Executive Committee has already opened a bank in Guangzhou." Wen Tong handed over the latest issue of the internal bulletin sent by ship to everyone for circulation, "I think we can also ask for a local bank. ”

"It's called South China Sugar Bank!" Chang Shide suddenly thought, "We will be able to earn nearly 400,000 yuan in cash immediately, isn't this a reserve?" ”

"This name is inappropriate," Chen Tianxiong said, "and the financial system should be arranged in accordance with the unified arrangement of the Executive Committee, and it is not appropriate to set it up on its own." Besides, we are not engaged in finance, so it is better to let professional people do it. ”

Chang Shide was such a person, and immediately understood what he meant: "Yes, we still want the Executive Committee to send a telegram asking them to set up a branch." He added, "The sugar industry in Leizhou actually needs banks very much." ”

"Yes," Mr. Wen said, "after we take control of the sugar industry's marketing rights, the next step is to help the sugar cane farmers increase production." ”

In order to increase production, it is necessary to promote new planting jishu and promote sugar combinations. It is not easy to gain the trust of sugar farmers, but fortunately, they have already laid the foundation for a good reputation in this sugar buying war, and once they have a bank, they can use financial instruments to issue low-interest loans to support their production.

was discussing, Zhou Shizhai asked to see.

"There are attempts to disadvantage South China." He got straight to the point.

Everyone glanced at each other, and it was time to come-I wish the third master really died in my heart. Now it's a dog jumping over the wall, and it's hard to use any despicable means.

"What's the situation?"

"Liao Dahua's people heard some news that Zhao Jijiao's people were buying oil and dry firewood -- they were a bunch of rotten boys, and they didn't cook on the fire. What do you want these to do? Presumably preparing to set fire. Recently, they have been very generous, gambling and prostitution, and they have obviously received great benefits. ”

Zhou Shizhai wiped his sweat: "In addition, someone spread the news on the underworld in Leizhou, saying that the South China Sugar Store has hundreds of thousands of silver, but the garrison is weak, as long as a few of their shopkeepers are caught, they can greatly extort a sum of silver." ”

"It's very vicious, and you use the money you can't see to tempt people to sell their lives." Chen Tianxiong commented.

"Don't laugh, it's ugly to really tie up the ticket." Wen Tong's face - color - very ugly.

"If you tie up Li Siya, you probably won't be able to ask for it. By the way, you are still the same sect as Mr. Wen. ”

"Don't be kidding," Wen Tong was anxious, "What Li Siya Li Si is vulgar, what should I do if I really kidnap the ticket?" ”

"Don't worry too much about kidnapping tickets," Zhou Shizhai said, "The sporadic bandits can't do anything big, not to mention that the shopkeepers have good weapons." The most worrying thing is that the strongmen gang up to rob, which is unavoidable. ”

"Gangs?" Chang Shide asked, "What kind of gang?" ”

Zhou Shizhai said that here in Leizhou, there are no large bandits, but there are many sporadic bandits, as few as four or five people, hiding on the side of the road, seeing single travelers passing by, they come out to rob, and there are only 100 people, and they find an opportunity to go down the mountain to rob sugar farmers. If you want to rob a big trading house like South China, I'm afraid it won't work without concentrating four or five hundred people. The thieves attach great importance to the fact that there are many people, and even if there are not many people, they have to pull a group of peasant temporary workers to support the scene and intimidate the good people.

"Hai'an Street is not richer than us, where is Weishenme going to rob?" Wen Tong felt strange, when it came to silver, there were obviously many more sugar merchants on Hai'an Street than them.

"I'm afraid of death." Zhou Shizhai's answer was simple. There are hundreds of villagers on Hai'an Street, and their salaries are shared by the shops on the street -- as long as the food and wages are sufficient, the fighting effectiveness of such villagers is good. Bandits have to have good teeth if they want to gnaw.

"When South China first came here, the bandits didn't know how powerful we were, and if they really had to incite it, they thought they could make a lot of money here, so they gathered a lot of shares. So you can't be left out of it. At this time, Zhou Shizhai had completely regarded himself as a member of the crossing group.

"How about the militia, can you resist them?"

"Yes." Zhou Shizhai said, "Comrade Bei is in charge of training, and he should support him for a while." ”

They were not as confident as he was, they knew the problems of the militia, the workers had been busy with the work of the sugar factory, and even the basic militia had little training at all. After Bei Wei took over the training and defense work, the situation could only be regarded as slightly better.

"Don't worry too much. After all, this is the gate of the county seat. Strong people don't dare to stay too long, they all come and leave quickly. As long as they don't get a single hit, it's fine. ”

"That being said, you can't be left unguarded." Chen Tianxiong said, "Before the matter is over, we will not go out when we are idle, and the gate guard will be strengthened, and some militia will be on standby at any time." Even when Liao Da, Liao Er, and the Wen brothers go out, they must also be equipped with dart masters. ”

"You have to guard against the enemy setting fires, too." Chang Shide added, "The factory area is not tight, and it is very difficult to set fire after the infrastructure is completed, and even if it is lit, it will not spread." The workers' villages, which were mainly used to house those unemployed workers, were all grass and wood sheds, and they were all grass and wood sheds, and it was terrible to die. ”

"Lao Wen, you can arrange for Liao Daxing and them to go down and take a look, and give them a wake-up!"

"And-" Chen Tianxiong remembered something, "I want to telegraph to Guangzhou and Lingao, and I am afraid that the situation on the sea may not be calm." We knocked out an ancient Dachun, and there may not be Wang Dachun and Li Dachun in their eyes. ”

"Well, and the Gu family pirates haven't been completely wiped out yet. Their main force is destroyed, but there is still money and people, and they may come back at any time to take revenge. ”

Lingao's side has already sent a summary of the enemy situation to South China for reference in the confession words of the pirates caught in the Battle of Juhuayu. According to the confession, there were about twenty or thirty people in the Gujia pirate gang, and there was a dhow in their hands for communication.

"Now that the captives have been caught, why don't the navy just knock on the door and exterminate them?" The text is incomprehensible.

"It's hard." Chen Tianxiong explained that the ancient pirate lair, the cave, is not an imaginary water village on the island, they are ordinary fishermen on the shore, living in an ordinary fishing village, and mixing with the fishermen. It's hard to tell if it's past a hit.

"Well, I think they have to come." Chen Tianxiong leaned back, "Xiao Zhanfeng said, I wish the third master a little wife, who is Gu Dachun's sister." ”

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and in the days that followed, the patrolling militia extinguished the fires that had been planted several times, and because various fire prevention measures were in place, the arson had no damaging effect except for the blackening of a few walls. According to the information obtained by Liao Dahua, the arsonists were all from Zhao Jijiao's gang - this group of rotten boys themselves had no festivals with South China, and such frequent attacks were obviously instructed by Zhu Sanye.

The arsons were so frequent that once or twice a day almost every night, and after discovering that the arson of the factories and the trading houses themselves was ineffective, the targets of the arsonists began to turn to the dwellings of the sugar workers.

The most dangerous one was the arson fire in the workers' village, where a straw hut was lit at night, but the watchtower in the South China factory immediately spotted the fire, and the fire brigade on duty immediately went out to extinguish the fire, and the flames were extinguished within ten minutes.

The arsonist was caught red-handed by the sugar workers, and in the light of the fire, someone quickly identified that this was a rotten boy under Zhao Ji's feet. Seeing that he couldn't run away, he took advantage of the unpreparedness and slammed into the stone, and suddenly fell to the ground with blood on his face and howled, and the originally excited sugar workers fell silent

"What are you howling about?" Chang Shide asked.

"To the effect that South China bullied people and injured him for no reason, if he didn't accompany him to get injured and sick, he would die at the gate of South China." Liao Daxing smiled bitterly, "This group of rotten boys, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, they are annoyed, and they may really hang themselves at your door, causing a lawsuit and breaking the family." ”

"Oh?" Chang Shide knows that this kind of person is a hob meat who is not afraid of killing. Most of the time when they are sent to the yamen are the front feet entering, and the back feet are coming out. Even if they spend money, at most they will be beaten up and flailed for a few months, and they are not afraid of this at all -- most of the rotten boys are colluded with all kinds of "public officials" in the county. Sometimes, even if the officials want to manage, they will be held hostage by the officials below, and they will often turn big things into small things and small things, which is extremely difficult to punish.

Just thinking about what to do, Ma Sanqiang squeezed over from the crowd and asked loudly: "Dongjia, this person burned our house and burned one of the children inside!" The little one asked the owner a word, no matter what?! ”

Chang Shide's mind turned and he was completely clear about the situation, the life of a rotten boy and the hearts of a group of sugar workers, it was obvious which was more important.

"Of course!" Chang Shide said categorically, and waved his hand, "Serve this master well, neatly!" ”

A few special combat team members brought by Bei Wei were already in the team, and when they heard this, they immediately came over, one stepped on the person, and the other grabbed the grass and mud on the ground and put it directly into his mouth.