Liang Cunhou smiled reluctantly and said: "In the relief of the next grain disaster, one is that he can't bear to see the people displaced and starve to death on the road, and the other is that he is afraid that the poor people will be forced by hunger and cold and take risks. How many hungry people have been pouring in and out of Guangzhou recently? Roughly calculated, no less than 30,000! It's still the autumn harvest now, and when the spring famine season is scarce next spring, I don't know how many hungry people will come! If someone makes a noise, it's not the place where it is eroded! How many gentry are ridiculous, proclaiming to be the children of saints. On the contrary, I deliberately sold my reputation and won people's hearts, as if I had ulterior motives. Amusing! Amusing! After saying that, he probably felt a little gaffe, and hurriedly arched his hand, "Gaffe!" ”

"There are only two people missing." Xiao Zishan muttered to himself.

"What is the shopkeeper talking about?" Liang Cunhou was puzzled and asked.

"No, no, nothing." Xiao Zishan hurriedly took the conversation, "Liang Gongzi, I still want to recruit some hungry people in Guangzhou and send them to Qiongzhou to open up the wasteland, I don't know if there is a problem with the government?" ”

"Wasteland?" Liang Gongzi smiled dumbly, "Don't blame me for pouring cold water." You have to spend money on the wasteland, I'm afraid that Zuihou won't even be able to pay for the money and food, and after a year of hard work, you will cheapen those officials in vain. Recruiting refugees is a good thing, and they are afraid that if they don't do it, they will be displaced. ”

An important instruction given by the Executive Committee to intelligence officers was to collect all kinds of social information in the Ming Dynasty, and when Guo Yi saw this, he deliberately said: "Why did Liang Gongzi say this? ”

"Qiongzhou, I haven't been to it before. But I heard that this place is hot and humid, and there are many miasma, and there are many hurricanes. There are also Li people who are in rebellion. Although there is a lot of wasteland, I am afraid it is not easy to live. Besides, you are all businessmen, and none of you have a reputation, aren't you a fat sheep in the eyes of the local officials! It's so light that you have no money, and it's so heavy that you're afraid you're going to go bankrupt! Alas, the way of the world! ”

Guo Yi had no choice but to say yes and didn't dare to say more. As he was talking, he saw a servant come over and whispered something to him, and Liang Gongzi stood up, saying that he still had something to do, and said goodbye. Everyone said goodbye, and they didn't walk for long, but a family member came and asked respectfully: "My son-in-law, where is your whereabouts?" He came to worship another day. ”

Everyone looked at each other: he was in a state of resignation in front of him just now, that is, he didn't chant anything "thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting", and he didn't talk about human rights, democracy and freedom and other things, what did Liang Gongzi, who was born in a family, like their group of businessmen?

Guo Yi hurriedly said: "Our next place is on Huifu Street, and the name Zizhen Zhai is." ”

The servant asked, and took out a piece of plum-red paper from the worship box: "This is the name of my son-in-law." Please accept it. ”

The first time we met, I gave a name sticker, which is very important to each other, Guo Yilai listened to the "Ming Dynasty Customs" series of lectures by Eshui before, but he was busy pushing but said "I dare not accept it". After repeated refusals, I accepted it.

Xiao Zishan couldn't rest assured, and rushed to the mule and horse shop of the dart bureau, seeing that the people who came had settled down under the arrangement of the dart bureau, Sun Kecheng was also stunned at first, I heard that they were going to buy some family members, but I didn't expect so many people to come overnight.

Back to Huifu Street, everyone discussed, the goods have not been bought, but people have already bought more than 200 mouths, staying in Qiwei's mule and horse shop is not a long-term solution, one is to disturb people, and the other is to feed people, their minds will be active, and they are not jailers to guard, 24 hours a day to watch, simply transport people back first, and then come to transport the goods.

This initiative was warmly approved by the crew, which surprised Xiao Zishan, who thought that these people had only been here for a few days and were unwilling to go back immediately. I don't know how many people are carrying Xiao Jiujiu. At that moment, it was decided to let the purchased population rest in the mule and horse shop in Qiwei for two days, and then the crew would be responsible for transporting them back, while the others would stay in Guangzhou to continue the construction of the advance station.

The renovation of the house is also in full swing. According to Jihua, the house on Huifu Street has been transformed into a front-shop and back-of-the-house treasure shop, specializing in selling all kinds of luxury goods made by the public. Some of the post-processing and assembly work can be done here, leaving only the key processes in Bairencheng. Yan Maoda, the former manager of the jewelry company, has studied the design and processing of jewelry, and brought with him a lot of information on new jewelry, saying that as long as he recruits a few skilled craftsmen, he can make these jewelry pieces - this is better than blindly selling glassware, and also to avoid conflict with the promotion of their products.

Xiao Zishan took advantage of his relationship with Gao to recruit many workers to carry out the renovation project. Fortunately, they had money in their hands, and under the pretext of opening treasures, the entire courtyard and houses were built with strong barriers. Although it hasn't become the appearance of the U.S. Embassy, it's not much the same. Imitating the security measures of Shanxi money houses and pawns in the past, an iron grille was installed on the ceiling to prevent snitches from falling from the sky. The wall is made of stone strips, and the top is built with blue bricks to the joints, which is very solid, except for the traditional long windows in the front part of the house, the buildings in the backyard only open ordinary windows, and install iron grilles. The most fortified of these is the courtyard, which was built in the name of a vault, and the three houses in it are all made of masonry and stone, without the need for a single piece of wood. There are no windows, and the gate is an iron door with locks brought from the 21st century. It is similar to the safe house in the embassies of various countries, which is used for confidential matters, one of which is a telecommunications room, one is a conference room, and the other is a real vault - not only gold and silver, but also more important materials, weapons, and reconnaissance equipment are stored in it. In addition to the radio, BFIPU has equipped the advance station with walkie-talkies, pistols, binoculars, night vision goggles, digital cameras and laptops, and in terms of electricity, in addition to a hand-cranked generator, a set of solar panels — more than enough to supply the radio and laptops, although the power is limited.

The monitoring and security facilities in the former Jihua could not be solved due to the power problem, so the implementation had to be suspended. However, the advance station still set up an infrared alarm at the door of the safe house.

In terms of water, there are two wells available in the whole house, and Sun Chang has already asked someone to dig deep when he was making initial repairs to the house. In order to prevent the delicate modern people from adapting to the soil and water, the advance station also brought a set of simple water filter sterilizer, the filter element of this water filter can be replaced for one year, which is quite convenient.

The Dengyingzhou brought more than 30 tons of supplies and 5,000 taels of silver, and all the start-up funds of the advance station were these.

Everyone was busy, and Guo Yi was alone in the room thinking about how to carry out the future work. The tasks given by the Executive Committee to the advance station can be summed up in two things: to gather intelligence and to conduct trade.

Whatever the goal, it is necessary to establish a wide range of social relations. They now have two entry points, the Gao family and the Qiwei Dart Bureau, and the next is to work more broadly at all levels of society.

Guo Yi recalled the course "Social and Economic Living Conditions of the Ming Dynasty" given to them in Eshui before they set off. While thinking about what level to open the gap.

As a businessman, it is very difficult to directly make friends with middle- and upper-level officials, and even if a lot of money is spent, it is only a little glory on the scene, and it is rare to be able to hook up officials and businessmen to the extent that their interests do not distinguish between each other. But the bureaucracy has great purchasing power and political power, which is part of what they will struggle to run in the future.

The second is the local gentry and wealthy businessmen, who are either famous or colluding with the interests of the officials, and belong to the rich and powerful landlords. Gao Ju is such a figure, to the point that it is relatively easy for them to make friends, and they have a deep connection with the middle and upper bureaucrats, and this level is the main direction of the work of the advance station at this stage. After arriving in Guangzhou, he befriended a Liang Cunhou, although I don't know what the purpose of his friendship was, but he was a lifter, and his energy in the gentleman's class was much greater than that of exaltation, and more use could open up a big situation in this class.

the masters, long-term followers, stewards, and cleaners around the officials; Although the scholars of the various yamen, the civil and military patrols, and the officials did not have a high status, they had great energy for their activities, and they were well aware of the dynamics of the officials and the various yamen, and if they wanted to engage in political intelligence, they could focus on them. Qiwei Dart Bureau has a lot of dealings with these characters, and can use their relationships to carry it out.

As for ordinary people, from their mouths, they can know a lot of market news and public opinion. Intelligence in this area should also be gathered.

However, there are only six people in the entire Guangzhou station, namely:

Stationmaster: Guo Yi

Business leader: Yan Maoda, Zhang Xin

Operator: Zhang Yuchen

Intelligence: Lu Rong, PEPI

It's still a little more difficult for just a few people to afford so many things. Yan Maoda and Zhang Xin are both from sales backgrounds, not to mention veteran shopping mall bastards, as long as they adapt to the environment here, learn the official dialect of Guangzhou a little better, engage in business entertainment, organize sales and other things will definitely be handy.

Zhang Yuchen is a telecommunications worker, and he doesn't like to talk, so he can only be responsible for housekeeping.

It seems that only he, Lu Rong and PEPI are responsible for the intelligence work. How to use PEPI is really a nerve-wracking thing, seeing that she herself doesn't care, and she looks confident-Guo Yi suspects that he has not thought about the seriousness and danger of underground work at all, and simply uses this place as a stage to satisfy her desire to perform--there are more than a dozen large and small suitcases in her luggage alone, and Guo Yi knows that it must be his outfit with his feet.

He sorted out his thoughts and drafted the work objectives and the rules and regulations of the advance station at the present stage. Before Xiao Zishan went back, he was going to have a meeting with the advance team members who stayed behind to arrange the work.