In addition, Hong Tao also arranged a very special department, called the Statistics Department, which was responsible for clearing and settling the accounts of individuals and businesses with business ties with Jinhewan. There is no opposition to this matter on the board of directors, doing business, my brothers settle the accounts, and it is naturally very necessary to calculate everyone's accounts clearly, it is a big matter that concerns the vital interests of everyone in Jinhewan, who can oppose it? As for who should be the head of this statistics department, Hong Tao proposed that Cixi go.

Cixi is a relatively large contributor to Jinhewan, although he was originally a slave, but now many people have forgotten that he was a slave. Because he loves this land more than the people of Jinhewan, he resolutely supports everything that is good for Jinhewan, and he opposes everything that is harmful to Jinhewan, and his position is very firm. In terms of loyalty, if Cixi said that she was the most loyal to Jinhewan or to Hongtao, even Bozhu would not dare to object. He has always implemented 100% of what Hong Tao said, no matter whether it makes sense or not, as long as Hong Tao says it, he thinks it makes sense, and no one can object to the truth.

There is another advantage of letting Cixi be the supervisor, that is, it can let other Jinhewan residents who have changed their identities from slaves see that slaves are only in the past, not forever, as long as everyone wants, anyone can live happily in Jinhewan. Going to Guangzhou to manage an institution alone, this is already a great official in Jinhewan, the power is very large, and the degree of freedom is also very high, if there is discrimination against people from slave origin, will Cixi be sent to this position? Through Cixi, Hong Tao also wanted to set a rule for everyone in Jinhewan, that is, only ask about the future. Don't ask before. Don't talk about your origin, your nation, and your country all day long. Useless! These truths are useless, if they are practical, Cixi is an example pushed by Hong Tao, and the power of example is infinite.

"Cixi, remember what I said, protect yourself, don't be rash. You haven't been an official yet, maybe it will be even bigger in the future. So don't rush to death! When Luo Youde took Cixi off the boat, Hong Tao told Cixi again.

This statistics department is not for accounting at all, but for intelligence. It's not just the intelligence department, it's also responsible for a series of tasks such as rebellion and assassination, and it has to do anything as long as it needs to. Now it's not that strong, it's just the development goal that Hong Tao gave to Cixi. He will use Guangzhou as his headquarters, use the cover of Luo Youde's shops, and slowly infiltrate the business and political circles of the Southern Song Dynasty, and develop his tentacles through various ways that can and cannot be said. This development model is a bit like a gangster. But it's not too economic, and it's a bit like a religious organization. But there is no doctrine either.

After it really gained a foothold in the Southern Song Dynasty society, it would secretly collude with Goryeo, Japanese, and Han Chinese merchants in the north, and then slowly infiltrate the Mongol occupation areas. Either way, Hong Tao had already applied for a secret fund in the board of directors, which was specifically provided to the Ministry of Statistics as activity funds. This department doesn't make any profits, it's a money-only organization, and it spends a lot.

If the statistics model succeeds in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongol occupation zone, Hong Tao will also consider adding Arab, European and Southeast Asian branches. Not only did he want to dominate the world's oceans and exchange goods, but he also wanted to use these trade routes to spread the word from all over the world. In this way, he can lie on this big web with peace of mind, like a big spider, and watch the changes in the world while weaving the web. If there's something going on somewhere, he won't know it right away, but he won't know it too late. In this day and age, news from half a year ago is already news, and you can't expect everything to be instantaneous.

This task was originally intended to be handed over to Luo Youde, but after thinking about it, he was not suitable. First of all, Luo Youde's personality is not suitable for this kind of too dark work, on the whole, he is still quite sunny, and his heart is not so tenacious. This kind of work will touch on a lot of standards and bottom limits of life, for example, you have to use various means to blackmail, blackmail effective goals, to achieve the goal of controlling the other party, sometimes the means may be more intense, more despicable. These methods are normal in Cixi's opinion, he has no psychological burden at all, and he will do it happily, but the same thing, put it on Luo Youde, he is afraid that he will have to fight with Hong Tao for a long time, and he may not be able to do it in the end. Even if you pinch your nose, the effect is not necessarily good.

In addition, Luo Youde really can't do so much work, not only does he have to slowly develop the business outlets of the Global Universe Development Co., Ltd. in the Southern Song Dynasty, but also has to undertake a lot of specific management affairs of the Strait Company, and the racecourse has to be concerned, and now he wants to build a shipyard in Zhenzhou with several major shareholders of the Strait Company, specializing in the manufacture of salmon-class merchant ships, and he is already busy with his feet on the ground. Since he is a little bee in business, let him help himself in business, this kind of thing of being a hornet to harm others, Cixi is better than anyone else.

This shipyard Hong Tao originally wanted to hand it over directly to the shareholders of the Strait Company to toss, but Luo Youde was very unwilling after hearing about it, he was not afraid of being tired, so he had to get involved, so Hong Tao handed over the preparation of the shipyard to him. He became the major shareholder of Zhenzhou Shipyard in the name of Huanqiu Universe Company, and there were shares of Jinhewan in it. Coupled with the drawings and technical shares provided by Jinhewan, in fact, the major shareholder of this shipyard has become Jinhewan again, but it is difficult for ordinary people to see it from the bright side.

The technical difficulty of building salmon-class merchant ships is not very high, and it would be too wasteful to build these merchant ships by the Jinhewan Shipyard. It's like using a shipyard that builds aircraft carriers to build a freighter, which is obviously not cost-effective when it comes to making money. At present, Jinhewan Shipyard will build two more salmon-class merchant ships, and about four months later, when everything is ready at Zhenzhou Shipyard, Jinhewan Shipyard will send technicians here for technical guidance, and bring the shipwrights of Zhenzhou Shipyard to jointly build salmon-class merchant ships. It is estimated that after the construction of two or three ships, most of the technology will be spread, and in less than two years, it will be able to independently build salmon-class merchant ships without relying on Jinhe Bay. At the same time, Zhenzhou Shipyard will also train a large number of shipwrights, and they will also spread this technology to other places, which is equivalent to directly raising the shipbuilding level of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Of course, this technology will also spread abroad, maybe to the Mongols and the Great Cannibals, and even further. But Hong Tao is not worried at all, the spread will take time in the first place, maybe three or five years, maybe more than ten years. Even if in three or five years, the Mongols and the Great Cannibals will build this kind of merchant ship that can sail far away, will there be any other purpose besides making it easier for everyone to run the business? Anyway, Hong Tao didn't feel where it was.

Sailing is not just a boat, you have to have a large crew and captain who know how to navigate, and you have to have sophisticated navigation skills. Especially the last point, Hong Tao doesn't want to spread to others, even if he wants to, it is very, very difficult. Unless you go to the advanced class of the navigation school and study it from scratch for three years, even if Hong Tao writes all these things in a book and distributes them all over the world, there are not many people who can understand them, maybe not even one of them. It takes a long, long time just to understand these functional formulas from scratch.

If you take 10,000 steps back, even if the sea is full of salmon-class merchant ships, and even the navigator is there, then Hong Tao is still not afraid. The Salmon class is a simplified, deformed version of the Jiaosha-class battleship, if the two ships collide on the sea, the Jiaosha-class may be hit with minor injuries, but the Salmon-class can only sink. It is slightly stronger than those ships of the Southern Song Dynasty, but in essence, it is still a merchant ship with thin skin and big filling, not a warship with rough skin and thick flesh, and the design concept is fundamentally different. It is simply impossible to reverse the structural diagram of the Jiaosha-class battleship from the Salmon-class hull, and there are few structural similarities between the two ships except for the appearance of the same.

There is also the issue of weapons, it is useless to ship bareboat on the sea, you have to have the right long-range attack weapons. If you still plan to solve the problem by engaging in the broadside battle, Hong Tao will be happy to death, and he will sink as much as he comes, without exaggeration at all. Without a 155-mm gun, with just 135 mm solid shells, a large hole in the salmon-class hull could be easily carved out from a distance of 200 meters. If this distance can be reduced to less than 100 meters, a 135-mm solid bullet can be fired from the port side of the salmon-class hull, and then through the starboard side, and everything in the middle will have to be shattered. It is estimated that a salmon-class cargo ship will not be able to hold back even ten shells, and it will have holes all over its body and become dead fish.

In fact, there is another problem that is more serious, and that is the cost problem. The cost of a salmon-class cargo ship is almost as high as that of three Guangzhou ships or ships of the same size, which is not only expensive to build, but also expensive to use. It is not easy to train those sailors, and at present, there is only a crash course for sailmen in the Sailing School in Ximaozhou, which can only be used for half a year, and can only operate a simple mast when they come out, and can neither be a captain nor a navigator. Without the officers provided by Golden River Bay, the ship still couldn't move.

It is very difficult for a country to raise a large fleet without a sufficient number of overseas market shares. Its cost is too expensive, even for the merchant fleet, a ship is hundreds, hundreds of trees, not all countries have this natural resource. Therefore, Hong Tao is not afraid that the Mongols, the big cannibals or the Europeans will blow up the sailboat and fight for their own consumption after learning their own shipbuilding skills, they can't afford to fight at all. (To be continued.) )