Chen Mo pointed to the middle of the field, and said with a smile: "This mountain pass Yangcheng is the territory of the Xie family, don't you know, the mountainous area to the north here is said to be a good place to dig sand gold, and this Xie family made a fortune by mining!" ”

"Brother Chen, you won't make a big show! How do I feel like you're talking with the barrel of a gun? What kind of negotiation is this? Wan Dafu was somewhat surprised by this negotiation scene, remembering the purpose of valuing peace explained by Lord Qin when he left, he couldn't help muttering a few sentences, it seems that they are all compatriots here!

Chen Mo smiled and pointed to the field, "Wan Guan Belt, you will know it when you see it, most of the Chinese here are from southern Fujian and Guangdong, they occupy a piece of territory here, and they have accumulated some strength, but they are not simple roles, let's not show our strength, and then use the hat of the imperial court to buckle it, but in the end, they are all people of the Tian Dynasty, like this, it is much easier to talk about!" ”

Don't look at the large number of Chinese here, and each of them works for the family, claiming to be 100,000 Chinese, everyone is a soldier, but it is really organized, but only the personal children of each family, and the weapons are also from the American businessmen in the Philippines to get some obsolete equipment from the Civil War, and the rifles of this era, without efficient training, it is even more difficult to exert power, otherwise the French are still dangling in the strange circle of guns until now!

Several of the heads of the Xie family who were sitting were talking softly to each other, just now Lu Zhiyuan read out a cooperation agreement of Nanyang Company, and at this time, Liu Asheng had already pulled the old man in his 60s to the side to exchange opinions privately, this old man was Xie Qing, who was now the head of the Xie family.

"Brother Xie, what are you going to do, I was the first to come to you, and that is also because of the relationship and connections between the two of us! If we rely on our own strength, the natives and Dutch people on the Indonesian islands in the west and north now, I think sooner or later they will come to find trouble, and your gold mine is a sweet pastry! ”

Xie Qing naturally understands today's situation, Liu Asheng is iron-hearted to hold the thigh of China South Ocean Company, this Lanfang Company is a situation where the trees are falling and scattered, the current Lanfang Company is completely different from the situation a hundred years ago, the indigenous tribes in this vicinity used to obtain some benefits by trading with the Lanfang Company, and now the Dutch and the British have begun to do business on the island, plus the natives on the island of Indonesia, under the command of the Dutch, often gang up to loot, it is already a situation where everyone is in danger.

It's not that their family didn't want to move to Malaya, but the Chinese there rely on the British for food, and although the output of their own mine is not large, it is enough to feed the family and the people of this mountain pass and foreign city.

It's just that...... Earlier, Lu Zhiyuan proposed that the conditions for participating in the China South Ocean Company were too harsh, and proposed two ways to participate in the company, one was to invest in the purchase of shares of the China South Ocean Company, and 1,000 taels of silver were one share, but it is said that a number of shares were given away according to the family power.

I don't know what Liu Asheng is thinking, the Liu family has invested 600,000 taels to buy 600 shares, in addition to receiving 200 shares, which makes Xie Qing can't figure it out, he has a basic understanding of the strength of the Liu family, and 600,000 taels is almost more than 8% of the Liu family's savings.

He looked at Liu Asheng and opened his mouth to speak, "Brother Liu, we have been friends for decades, what kind of industries does this Zhonghua Nanyang Company have, why are you so willing to invest in it?" ”

On the first day to Pontianak City, where Liu's family is located, the shopkeeper Liu of Mawei Shipping went to visit Liu Asheng, and took out every piece of goods, counting the value, of course, this is the sales value after deducting the profits of Mawei Shipping, and Liu Asheng, who has been doing business from Malaya to the Philippines and Indonesian tribes, was stunned.

Shopkeeper Liu calculated an account for him, after joining Zhonghua Nanyang Company, the company will not give any dividends, but according to the number of shares, the corresponding amount of goods will be obtained, and their family is responsible for selling these goods, and the profits obtained and the company will take half of each.

What makes him even more excited is that if there is a loss in sales, if it is not for human reasons, the company will help them bear half of the loss, such a condition is absolutely incomprehensible to them, and this is the franchise store model commonly used by Qin Kai in later generations, but this plagiarism is very rough, but now his focus is to attract Nanyang Chinese to join, rough, then rough, the effect is the most important. ,

The abacus of the shopkeeper Liu crackled and crackled, and Liu Asheng was very moved when he heard it, and the Nanyang minister held such a big sign, it was difficult to believe it or not, so he went back to convene the clansmen of the Liu clan to discuss, and immediately decided to support the resolution of the imperial court, this is definitely the parent official of the Nanyang Chinese!

As a result, after he briefly introduced the products and sales methods of Zhonghua Nanyang Company, Xie An also heard that the benefits were coming, and after looking back, he decided to follow Liu Asheng to participate in the new company, but the specific investment amount, I want to go back to the family to discuss it, after all, this is a large investment.

And Qin Kai gave them a second industry, but it was to make full use of the island's indigenous productivity of the sugar industry, the unique conditions here are definitely the power of the sugar cane plantation, and the local tribes do not have any stable agricultural products, as long as this industry is spread, it is very light to be able to gather these tribes that originally belonged to the Lanfang Company again.

In this era, it is still very precious to be able to win over a qiē force, you must know that in a short period of time, it is difficult to immigrate from a large area of the country, this overseas territory mainly depends on the local Chinese, and there are those natives who are willing to rely on, Qin Kai naturally has his own transformation methods for these natives!

The negotiations lasted for two whole days, but in addition to some tense tensions at the beginning, the two sides were engaged in the interests of the two sides, but with Lu Zhiyuan's army, no matter how much they negotiated, they were all based on the Nanyang Company, and Liu Asheng quickly sent people to contact several other companies on the basis of winning over the Xie family, and after seeing that the two largest families were quickly attached to the new company, the other families naturally rushed to be the first.

After getting the report on the situation here, Qin Kai sent a telegram as soon as possible, the five major families have all obtained the jurisdiction of their respective territories in Borneo, and have obtained the appointment of the Nanyang Minister of the Imperial Court that they coveted.

But under this name, each family was required to send elite personnel to join the newly established Nanyang Company to participate in the actual operation, and for a time, more than a dozen trading companies running to the surrounding Indonesian islands appeared in Borneo trade, and began to load the horsetail industrial products from Borneo to the surrounding Indonesian islands in exchange for local agricultural products.

In the road map of Qin Kai, Indonesia has an important position, of course, now Indonesia is only the name of the local aborigines, marked on the map of Europe, there is called the Dutch East Indies, the local abundant tropical precious tree species, no matter in that era is amazingly valuable, Kalimantan and Sumatra ironwood, Nusa Tenggara sandalwood, Javana and Suwesi ebony and teak, transported to the Qing Dynasty or Europe are profiteering products.

The high-quality coal resources of Kalimantan and Sumatra have reached 40 billion tons of terrifying people, and the most coveted by Qin Kai is naturally the large copper mine on Irian Island, where the copper ore is of high quality, and the gold content has also reached the excellent quality, which is definitely a big cake, but now it is still occupied by the stupid Dutch.

The Dutch are most passionate about driving the indigenous people to grow coffee, tobacco, rubber, cocoa, and tea, without knowing anything about the region's rich minerals, or only mining them on a small scale. Coffee, tobacco, rubber, cocoa, and tea were the main targets of the trade plundering of the China South Ocean Company.

The news of the appearance of the Mawei Second Fleet in Borneo quickly attracted the attention of the Dutch East India Company, and as an important strategy for this trip, Qin Kai specially conveyed such a concept to Lu Zhiyuan.

The Netherlands is a small country in Europe, the land area is only the size of the city of Beijing, but it has a huge territory overseas, but now the Netherlands has long been a shriveled old goods inside and outside, and this time to Borneo, if it is successful, it needs to be publicized in the Dutch East Indies.

In Qin Kai's eyes, it was a big piece of fat that could pinch out oil, and the Netherlands, an immortal old man, was still using a series of agreements with the new European powers to survive on their huge colonies, but ...... We have never made a pact with this slap-slap-slap country, we believe in the idea of cannons and commercial plunder......

It's just that Borneo is just starting now, and Qin Kai will naturally not act rashly, first use trade to earn the first pot of gold from the Dutch, and then Borneo is a huge aircraft carrier, and it can attack from all sides anytime and anywhere to cut off the surrounding Dutch East Indies. ,

After the Second Fleet completed the integration of the Chinese and indigenous forces in Borneo, it immediately began to visit the Dutch East Indies, and by the way, a large number of small fleets that had just joined the South China Ocean Company were visited, and the five major families and the local indigenous tribes were very active in the trade escorted by the fleet, so that a large caravan of up to 30 ships of all sizes was quickly formed.

The fleet sailed from Pontianak directly across the Java Sea, a little more than a day's voyage, and for most ships it was a regular route, and on the other side of the sea was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in the East, Balavia (later renamed Jakarta), which had huge spending power.

The Dutch were also a little surprised by the sudden appearance of this large caravan under the banner of the China South Ocean Company, but when they saw the escort of the Great Qing fleet with the dragon flag, they also showed their rational attention. After confirming that the fleet was from Borneo on the other side of the strait, the Dutch immediately adjusted their recent offensive posture against Borneo.

The appearance of a fleet shows that the huge Eastern Empire has noticed this, obviously, what an unwise decision to deliberately provoke the other party, not to mention that in the current situation, this Nanyang company seems to be more able to create rich goods than the previous Lanfang company, and a large number of exquisite luxury goods continue to appear in the field of vision of the Dutch aristocracy.

And with the establishment of a transit station in Jakarta by the Nanyang Shipping Company, many new news has been reconfirmed that in the Dutch East Indies, the Chinese are still very strong! In the artificially created social class of the Dutch, the industrious and intelligent Chinese and Arabs were considered as a second class, who worked for the Dutch and managed the local natives!

When these news reached Guangzhou, Qin Kai was scratching his ears and cheeks, pondering how to establish a foothold in his new territory! Two days ago, he had just arrived at the ship of Mawei Shipping to come to Guangzhou to take up his post, and the entourage was very large, a personal army of 500 people, which was also a normal establishment for him who presided over the military affairs of the Nanyang Naval Division.

And the biggest change is that this time his staff team, led by Sun Fu and Chen Bingkun, dozens of attachés from Mawei Shipmaster recruited by the two, plus 50 new teachers sent by Zhang Jian, formed his huge lineup.

When the fleet arrived at the Huangpu Port in Guangzhou, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Guangzhou, did not appear, and it was Lu Xichun, the prefect of Guangzhou, who replaced him to greet the new governor, and brought officials from various yamen in Guangzhou to greet him at the wharf.

He very politely shook hands with the Guangzhou officials who came to greet him, and he did not leave any impression on this fat-headed, big-eared, official-spirited Guangzhou prefect afterwards, anyway, he remembered that this person was babbling in his ear and saying all kinds of compliments, and his gestures were all called by various titles.

However, during the introduction, a middle-aged and calm man made Qin Kai quite impressed, not for anything else, just because the middle-aged man said something when he gave his hand, which mentioned the word Saigon, and the word Saigon repeatedly appeared when someone introduced it on the side, but the scene was really noisy, he just nodded and was hugged into Guangzhou City.

On the same day, Qin Kai put out a sign that he was busy with military affairs, blocking everyone, and he gave Sun Fu full authority to these officialdom entertainment.

At this time, he was listening to Chen Bingkun, who had been in Guangzhou for more than half a month, to report on the situation of contact with the Hunan army officials here, but he, the fake governor of the Hunan army, really had no advantage in front of Liu Kunyi, who was a genuine player here, and Qin Kai felt that being young was the only advantage, and Lao Liu was in his 50s, but ...... Age in officialdom is not a disadvantage, but an advantage in seniority.

Therefore, Chen Bingkun helped Qin Kai make a good package here, and now the Hunan military department in Guangzhou knows that the new governor not only fought well, but also Ding Richang's protégé, and the Hunan army also has a lot of origins. Of course, he still recruited a few good eyeliners for Qin Kai, these are all small officials who are not ambitious, and they want to try their luck with the new governor.

After talking for a long time, Qin Kai understood his situation, the entire land of Liangguang, Guangdong is definitely the territory of the Hunan army, after Lao Liu became the governor here, this power has long been used, and it has been used if it should not be used. But this can't be blamed on him, how many soldiers and horses have been cut by the Hunan army over the years, and these people have all been born and died together, and they are all experienced and capable manpower, which is really a waste. ,

Therefore, the prefects of Huizhou, Shaozhou, Luoding, and Zhaoqing around Guangzhou are all Hunan army cadres, and the remote Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Lianzhou mansions are not arranged there, and it is estimated that they are far away and poor, but Qin Kai naturally knows very well that the wealth of Guangzhou in this era is gathered around Guangzhou Mansion.

As the earliest treaty port to open a port, the Thirteen Banks here have a strong capital that is rare in other parts of the country, and most of these capitals are merchants with officialdom backgrounds. In the future, this Guangzhou may be his sphere of influence, and he has a huge investment plan brewing in his heart, but now he is really looking for a place to stay.

Originally, as the first target was the Lianzhou Mansion, Zhang Kui's new industry in Qinzhou Fangcheng, Lianzhou Prefecture, was indeed in full swing, and more than a dozen large-scale garment factories and textile factories were established locally controlled by Qin Kai, and the construction of the Fangcheng deep-water port also provided favorable conditions for the Beihai Shipyard where to start construction.

But...... A strict problem plagued this defense city, where there are 100,000 mountains to the west and several large rivers to the north, and the Chinese bridge-building technology in this era is not bad, but the progress of bridge building is too slow, and the defense city hides too many secrets, and it is not suitable to be too open to the public.

Therefore, after thinking twice, the construction of the new heavy industrial zone, he chose to be in Leizhou, Leizhou to Fangcheng is only half a day's sea journey, to Guangzhou is only one day, and Leizhou Bay is also a good port, coupled with Leizhou's good geographical conditions, north to Guangxi Yulin, Nanning and other places, and west with Lianzhou, Gaozhou border, easy to attract labor.

And the site, Qin Kai after the light brain screening, a large area of land on the east coast of Suixi County, Leizhou Prefecture was included in his field of vision, here is Zhanjiang, an important port on the coast of China in the future, but Qin Kai in this era, this is still a wilderness, this is also a natural haven, deep-water channel, and even want to compare with Haiphong, the channel here is more suitable for large cargo ships, the channel is generally more than 15 meters deep, even the giant ships of later generations can easily enter.

This commercial operation was naturally handed over to He Xing, and the official work was handed over to Chen Bingkun.

On December 20, when 1882 was approaching, Qin Kai took Sun Fu to visit Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangguang, heavy industry is the foundation of the country, but light industry and agriculture are the foundation of the people, he has been thinking about today's visit for several days, and now he has finally completed an important program with the efforts of a large group of attachés.