In the city of Guangzhou, a palatial building, this is the headquarters of Jardine Matheson in China. Jardine Matheson was founded in Guangzhou by William, a British, engaged in **, tea trade, and later gave up ** trade, diversified business direction, in addition to trade, but also in the mainland and Hong Kong to invest in the construction of railways, shipping, all kinds of factories, mining, shipping, banking and other industries. In Guangdong and even in the entire Qing Dynasty, Jardine Matheson was an absolute predator, the vanguard of the West's plundering of China.

The cotton trade is also the industry operated by Jardine Matheson, and the self-improvement cotton yarn factory sells cotton cloth in Guangzhou is equivalent to pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth, and Jardine has already noticed it, and its quality and price are very advantageous, just because the number of cotton cloth sold by Ziqiang is small, and it has not aroused the vigilance of Jardine. With the expansion of production of Ziqiang cotton yarn factory, a large number of cotton cloth entered the market, and the cotton cloth operated by Jardine Matheson began to appear unsalable.

"Manager William, this is the cotton cloth produced by Huizhou Ziqiang Cotton Yarn Factory, you see, the quality of these cotton cloths has been significantly improved from the cotton cloth produced by the Qing court in the past, and it is no less than our cotton cloth. The products of the Shanghai Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, the Hubei Weaving Layout, and the local textile factories in Guangzhou are not a threat, but from the perspective of the shipment volume during this period of self-improvement, although it does not surpass us, it has already posed a threat. "William is the founder of Jardine Matheson. A descendant of Jardine's, Ren is the manager of the Jardine Matheson Cotton Trading Company, and reports to Todd, the business manager under William.

"I didn't expect such a large textile factory to appear under our noses, have you figured out where their background, material sources, and machinery and equipment come from?" William asked.

"I have already sent someone to check, I believe that I have entered Huizhou at this time, do you want to put pressure on the Qing court in Guangzhou through the embassy?"

"Not for the time being, let's find out the details of self-improvement first."

In the residential area of the base, Lu Liang is listening to Lu San's report, and Lu San serves as the leader of the genetic human escort team and is responsible for the protection of the base.

"Chief, as the size of the plant increases, our defense of the base becomes tricky. This is mainly due to the lack of manpower at the Tamura Transit Base. "The 100-person genetic guards are mainly responsible for the surroundings of the base, and the materials produced by the base are transferred to the Tamura transit base at night, and then transported by the workers to the factory area, in order to keep the base secret to the greatest extent. As more and more materials are piled up in Tamura, the transit base and the transfer road will become a hole in the defense, and a hundred genetic human soldiers are not enough to defend such a large area, so that ordinary people are not at ease to defend the soldiers, so the number of genetic human soldiers needs to be increased.

"Our core is the base, and the factories outside are not afraid of being viewed, but the base, transit station, and transfer channel cannot be made public, and the steel base is ordered to produce two hundred genetic soldiers." It would take a month for the 200 Gene Human Base to be produced, as it would still need to produce machines and other materials. According to the plan, three hundred genetic soldiers were divided into three companies, and the protection of the entire base would be in the best condition.

As soon as the order was issued, an unfavorable news came, the five genetic human soldiers guarding the transit base had caught a spy and was now detained there, waiting for Lu Liang's order.

In fact, Lu Liang was not afraid of the outside world's spying, but took it for granted, but it was inappropriate to let people enter the core area of the base, but fortunately he didn't let him run away. Previously, Lu Liang sent a submarine mining truck to San Francisco, USA, carrying five Western face genetics, forged identity documents, and then set up Ambrera Company there. All the raw materials, machinery, etc. on the SITC side are forged import certificates, and Ambrera even has tax payment certificates, which are real tax payments, and even have goods issuance certificates, procurement certificates, of course, this involves a series of documents, signatures, etc., and the steel base has all been forged, even more real than the real documents. After the background is created, the American company that can make that kind of large-scale purchase is not something that anyone can provoke, and even Lu Liang asked the gene people to buy off the San Francisco congressman as an umbrella!

In this way, as long as the secrets of the base can be protected, no one will notice it in a short time. "Order, dig up the person who instructed him from the spy's mouth, and then imprison the spy forever, as to whether the spies will arouse suspicion after the spies disappear, I think it will, but at the same time it is also a warning to the outside world. Placing three Western Face Gene Men in the transit base I believe will have a certain deterrent effect. Speed up the production of genetic human soldiers, suspend the production of other materials except food, and strive to complete the formation of 300 genetic human soldiers within 10 days. After that, 100 soldiers will be placed in the transit base, 100 in the transit channel, and 100 around the base. "The arrival of the spy has raised Lu Liang's sense of urgency, although there is no big danger now, but trouble is indispensable, wait for the spies' confession.

The news was quickly fed back, the spy was just a pawn, sent by a cotton cloth shop in Guangzhou, and the background of the cotton cloth shop was about to be further investigated, and the spy did not know. After discussing with Lu Yi, Lu Liang and Lu Yi thought that they were either foreigners or people in the official face, and now the newly transferred governor of Liangguang, Li Hongzhang, was carrying out an anti-gang operation, and it was estimated that the official face did not have the heart to find trouble for himself, and that was a foreigner.

"Lu Yi, I will take a few people to Guangdong to find out who our enemy is and what his purpose is as soon as possible. Don't let the Wu family know this time, this is our own business, the less we know, the better. You protect your base here, and if anyone comes near and has bad intentions, you are allowed to shoot, and if you enter by mistake, you can be imprisoned for a while until I get back. Also, the ordinary people's guard team will also be expanded, and now the security work on the factory side is all in charge of the family members sent by the squire, which is not a good thing for us, the guard team has been expanded to 1,000 people, and the 200 people who have been trained in advance will go to the Ziqiang factory in batches to be responsible for the security work, and I will talk to Wu Shimin before leaving, they can't wait to let their people go back. Lu Liang said to Lu Yi that he decided to go to Guangzhou in person to develop his influence in Guangdong, although there are Huizhou squires to shelter himself from the wind and rain, but he still does not know enough about this era, and he needs to experience it himself. On the side of the convoy, most of the factories are under construction, the flour mill has been completed, the machines are being commissioned, and they will start work immediately, and there are more than a dozen factories, tens of thousands of workers, and a thousand security personnel are not much.

In the evening, Lu Liang came to Wu's house, "Old man, seeing that our career is getting bigger and bigger, there are many restless people outside." ”

"Mr. Lu, this is normal, we Huizhou squires can stop the official and local troubles, but if it is a foreigner, we can't do anything."

"We don't have to worry about foreigners, Ambrera is not a small company, and it can block a lot of trouble. Tomorrow I will go to Guangzhou, and today I came to say to the old man that the security personnel I have trained can replace you and the squires, please let them go, and they can take over tomorrow. Wu Shimin was so happy to hear this, his family's family usually had to farm, and he had to pay for it to be a guard in the factory, and he came back just right.