That night, Gao Junshan left Marven by his side, the father and son had not seen each other for more than a year, and he wanted to hear about Marven's achievements after becoming the mayor of Manchuria.

Gao Junshan lives in a suite on the third floor, the chandelier in the living room illuminates the hall as if it were daytime, and there are two French yellow sofas against the wall on the east side, Gao Junshan and Marven sit on the sofa and chat while drinking tea.

Gao Junshan first asked about the import and export of goods in Manchester City, Marven prepared a lot of data, one by one to Gao Junshan, from the data reported by Marven to analyze, Manchester City's exports to Europe goods have declined, but the value of exports is increasing, which shows that Gao Junshan's export policy has played a significant effect.

In the past, exports were very blind, and as long as foreign merchants needed them, they would sell them in large quantities, and even compete with each other at low prices, so that foreign merchants would benefit.

Gao Junshan adjusted the export policy of the previous dynasty, using export tariffs to regulate the export of excessively low-value goods, and at the same time strictly controlling the export quantity of best-selling commodities in order to increase the prices of China's export products.

After listening to the report on the import and export materials, Gao Junshan asked Marven about the issue of rice that he was most concerned about.

"Is there any rice in the supplies exported from Manchester City?" Gao Junshan asked.

"Back to my father, since my father strictly banned the export of rice, we have not had a grain of rice flow overseas."

Gao Junshan asked remindedly: "Is there any smuggling?" ”

Marven replied: "We have a strong navy to assist us in carrying out our customs policy, and no one dares to take risks in front of our navy. ”

Gao Junshan said: "The export of rice must be strictly controlled!" Don't forget that there is still the Dutch East India Company here in Nanyang, and there is not a day that they do not dream of their lost paradise, and they will not give up the destruction of our export policy in China, and they are even more eager to get rice from Indochina, and we must be vigilant against them! ”

"Remember the teachings of the Emperor!"

Gao Junshan asked again: "Is the transportation of rice to the mainland still smooth?" ”

Marven replied: "Everything is going well, our rice internal transportation is in charge of the General Affairs Bureau, and no one dares to set up obstacles in front of the General Affairs Bureau." ”

Gao Junshan nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is also the reason why I let the General Affairs Bureau be in charge of the internal transportation of rice, the power I gave to the General Affairs Bureau is supreme, except for me, no one can listen to their orders." ”

"It's ......, it's ......," Marven hesitated for a moment, and then said, "It's just that the transportation capacity is not large enough, and now a lot of rice is stuck with us." ”

Gao Junshan said: "This is indeed a serious problem, our transportation capacity is not enough, which will inevitably create a waste of rice." ”

Marvin proposed: "Can we speed up the construction of the railway from Manchester City to Yangon, as long as the railway is opened, the pressure on transportation can be greatly eased." ”

Gao Junshan said: "The railway from Manchester City to Yangon was built, but the rice was transported to Yangon, and Yangon itself also hoarded a large amount of rice and couldn't transport it, so you transported the rice to Yangon, which is not very significant!?" ”

Ma Wenyu reported: "My father didn't know that there was a land route in Yangon to transport rice back to the mainland, and as long as we increased manpower, we could increase the transportation capacity. Moreover, once the Beijing-Yangzhou railway is opened, the domestic transportation of rice will no longer be a problem. ”

Gao Junshan agreed with Marven's opinion and agreed: "You not only have to transport the rice produced in the region, but also be responsible for transporting the rent paid by the Siamese state, and the transportation pressure is indeed very great. I agree with your suggestion to build the railway from Manchester City to Yangon as soon as possible. ”

Marven pleaded: "Father, it takes labor to build a railway, can you allocate some labor to us?" ”

"Yes." Gao Junshan stood up and walked back and forth, in order to move his sedentary body, "I'll transfer 100,000 laborers to you!" ”

"It's only 100,000?" Marven didn't give up, his gaze kept moving with Gao Junshan, "Don't we have five million laborers?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Marven! You have to have a holistic mind, how many of the five million workers are left on the eight railway lines across the country? The opening of eight railway lines is the most important thing! You can't be self-centered! ”

Marven defended: "Father, if you put the child in the position of Manchester City, the child has to think about Manchester City, and the child begs the father to give an extra 100,000, okay?" ”

"No way!" After Gao Junshan sternly rejected Marven, he sat back on the sofa and asked about the rent of Siam: "Can Siam pay us the rent on time?" ”

"Father, there is a lot of rice handed over by Siam, and the color is also good." Marven emptied the tall mountain teacup on the coffee table and re-made him a cup of hot tea.

Gao Junshan took a sip of his teacup and asked, "How much grain do you export to Persia every month?" ”

Marven replied: "Back to my father, Manchester City does not export grain to Persia, the grain exported to Persia is shipped from Rangoon, and we only provide food supplies for the combined fleet in Persia. ”

Gao Junshan instructed: "You will send a telegram to Ma Jin tomorrow on my behalf, asking his Persian combined fleet to cooperate with Dabao's actions, I mean: let Ma Jin be Dabao's negotiating adjutant and accompany Dabao to London." ”

Marven replied: "Father, I'll send a telegram to Ma Jin now, if I don't send it earlier, maybe Dabao has already set sail from the Persian Gulf." ”

Gao Junshan said: "You go now, I'm tired, so I'll sleep first." ”

Marven said goodnight to Gao Junshan, then exited the room, and went down from the third floor to the second floor, where Marven's telegraph group was located, and he immediately sent a telegram to Ma Jin.

……

In the port of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf, where the headquarters of the Sino-Polish Combined Fleet is stationed, Ma Jin is drinking with the prince Gao Hongbing, who has not long arrived here.

Ma Jin was opening a bottle of red wine and said to Gao Hongbing: "Dabao, this is red wine from France, mellow and not intoxicating." ”

"How does it compare to sake?" Gao Hongbing asked, because Gao Hongbing had only drunk the sake of the island country.

Ma Jin poured wine for Gao Hongbing and said, "You can taste it yourself." ”

Because this is the naval camp of Persia, unlike the territory of the Chinese Kingdom, there are electric lights, and the room is lit with candles, and under the reflection of candlelight, the red wine reflects a ruby-like luster.

The two were raising their glasses, and the operator knocked on the door and came in to report: "Commander Ma, urgent call." ”

Ma Jin put down his glass and asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

The operator replied: "The telegram was sent by the Mayor of Manchester, Marvin. ”

Ma Jin heard that it was an urgent telegram sent by his younger brother, so he took the telegram from the hand of the telegraph operator and read it, and after reading it, he handed the urgent telegram to Gao Hongbing, and said: "This is what my father asked Ma Wen to send, Dabao, you can also take a look!" ”

Gao Hongbing took the emergency call and looked at it.

After reading the telegram, Gao Hongbing said: "Father asked you to go to England with me to negotiate with the British, you can prepare, we will leave early tomorrow morning, don't delay my father's important affairs." ”

Ma Jin asked, "Dabao, how are we going?" ”

Gao Hongbing said: "Didn't Marven's telegram make it very clear, let's drive the battleship to show the strength of our Huaxia Navy." ”

Ma Jin asked again: "Won't it be for our entire fleet to go?" ”

Gao Hongbing said: "When I came, it was a Wuchang-class and a Zhenghe-class, and you can bring another Wuchang-class and a Zhenghe-class." ”