The sun has just set the horizon. In the early winter, the warm wind blows on the face of the person one after another, which only gives birth to a slight feeling of warm winter. The turbid waters in the harbor turned golden green, and the sea breeze blew up a little waves, and the evening tide in the harbor had somehow risen, and now the ships of all the countries anchored in the harbor had risen a few feet.

At this time, these merchants of the Northern Gang, the Southern Gang, and the Guang Gang, will all gather together and talk there, what "English primary color cloth", "golden sand in the north", "rice in the south" of course, will inevitably all kinds of "domestic foreign goods" in the Special Economic Zone, the businessmen are together, and the conversation is naturally the amount of business words, bursts of southern accents and northern tones, shaking people's ears, and there are even more errands in the middle of the guild hall errand drinking, they lead new businessmen into the house from time to time. Seat.

Here every position is very particular, what identity, what position, can not tolerate the slightest difference, in the dynasty of the merchant gang according to the region is divided into the north, south, Guangzhou three major merchant gang, the north gang is mainly composed of Shandong, Zhili and other provinces businessmen, the south gang includes Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces Jiangnan businessmen, as for the Guang gang is composed of Guangdong businessmen.

Relying on the geographical advantages of a large number of people, the south gang has a wide range of business, and the Guangbang has abundant funds, the three major business gangs have their own advantages, but they take care of each other, coordinate internal development, and compete with foreigners, so they have a strong cohesion, and can give up temporary profits because of long-term plans, and this coordination is often coordinated by the Incheon Huajie business directors in the center, and the business directors and the large proprietors and shopkeepers naturally sit in the front row, and the others are based on the size of the business. and divided into three, six, nine and so on. Chinese talk about things. It's often at the dinner table, and Incheon is no exception.

Like other businesses in Incheon, this time the Chamber of Commerce, as the manager of the only Chinese-funded shipping company in Incheon, Li Mingxin, also received an invitation, which is a common practice in the past, and all the businessmen in the Chinese community have received invitations, but as a junior. As soon as he entered the Shandong Hall, under the guidance of Wang Gui, he walked towards the lobby, passing through the sounds of "gold sand" and "cotton cloth", but today more of the topic is "control", just this morning, the notice board in front of the office has been pasted with the "economic control method", and the regulations have also been sent to the firms, so naturally it has become a topic of discussion among the firms.

"It seems that everyone is in control of the economy. It's still a little resistant! ”

Looking at the refreshments on the tables full of people, Li Mingxin couldn't help muttering in his heart. He did not resist economic control, and even saw an opportunity in it -- to obtain a franchise and then join hands with Beiyang Shipping to monopolize shipping in Korea and even the East, especially in the recent past, he even purchased a number of Western-style sailing ships from Japanese merchants at low prices, and even more than a dozen Japanese merchant ships docked under his name of East Asia Shipping.

In his view, since the unified government wants to implement the control system, it will inevitably support the control industry, and then the Toyo shipping will naturally be able to obtain the support and even funding of the government, although it cannot be compared with the Beiyang shipping, but at least it can compete with the foreign merchants in the East Asian ocean, just like the Japanese shipping industry in the old days, monopolizing the Toyo shipping industry with the support of the government.

When Li Mingxin walked to a table in the middle, two voices greeted him at the same time:

"Yikes! Boss Lee! Good come, please! ”

This unanimous shout made the voices of people who were arguing about something at this table immediately stopped, and the people around them also turned their directions, and turned their eyes to Li Mingxin, who had just walked over, although he was wearing a green robe, but the short hair on his head showed that he was different from others, although many young students who only had long hairs could be seen in this special zone, but for these businessmen, they still wore braids, which was not for convenience, but in their opinion, this was " I Daqing".

But although he has short hair, everyone doesn't think that this Li Mingxin is an outsider, after getting used to it, few people say that he is a "second devil" as in the past, if he says "two devils", there are no police on the street, seeing that the words came to his body, Li Mingxin smiled slightly, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, and he walked to the table, patted a short fat man's shoulder with his left hand, and said with a smile.

"Aren't you here talking about gold sand and cotton? Well, I'm a layman. ”

Humpty Dumpty raised his eyebrows and laughed in disbelief, but his opportunity to speak was robbed by the other person next to him.

"It's not gold sand, it's not cotton, but it's not a foreign ship that you knocked on the spot. Let's sit down first. ”

Gold sand is the largest export commodity of North Korea, and at first Li Mingxin was ready to intervene in it, but in the end he gave up, and the reason is simple - the output is limited, and the profits are naturally extremely limited, and there are other more profitable transactions than gold sand, and Li Mingxin values industry more than traders--this is an industry supported by the unified supervision government, and as far as the shipping industry is concerned, the import of labor and the export of rice are enough to make huge profits for shipping companies, so there is no need to risk participating in such a regulated business as gold sand. Even in his opinion, if these traders do not turn around as soon as possible, I am afraid that time is running out -- cotton yarn and cotton cloth in the Special Economic Zone have begun to be exported in large quantities, and there are still 400,000 spindles of yarn factories under construction, and even weavers in Zhouzhuang, Shandong and other places have now begun to switch to foreign yarn from North Korea.

"Hey! I said Huang Shopkeeper! There are no good words in your mouth! My ship is also a sale, and what is there that took the opportunity to knock in, but it is all real money in exchange! This business is like this, one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer......"

Li Mingxin pretended to protest, and squeezed into this table, saying this, but with a smile on his face, taking advantage of the danger of others, perhaps in Incheon, no one better than him to understand the meaning of these four, after the Russo-Japanese War, dozens of Japanese merchant ships poured into Korea, but those Japanese shipowners were painstakingly unable to transport goods, in order to make a living or sell their ships, or hang their ships in the North Sea or East Asia, as for the Japanese-funded companies naturally could not dock - the Russians could wait to capture the Japanese ships.

For these Japanese ships, Beiyang Shipping is naturally suppressed, and then take the opportunity to buy, compared with Western sailing ships, Beiyang Shipping attaches more importance to steam ships, but for Li Mingxin, who is a small business, he has nothing to provoke, but because he is engaged in labor and bulk cargo transportation such as rice and coal, those Western sailing ships are also applicable, so he also drank a few sips of soup, but he squeezed it even more, this is because those sailboats that are only equipped with low-power steam engines are tending to be eliminated, and companies will naturally not buy this old ship, Naturally, there is room for squeezing.

"Yes, it's still your boss Li's reason, Boss Li, your merchant ship business can squeeze out a lot of Shandong ship merchants, but business, that's it, we are not in business, Boss Li, you are now the time to forge ahead, how about it, now that this system is out, what do you think!" I won't be able to wipe out your ship then! ”

Huang Kuisheng's words made the table suddenly silent for a moment, they don't know what kind of control method this economic control is, but everyone knows that after this control, I am afraid that business will not be good. Quite simply, in the future, they can no longer import cotton cloth if they want to import cotton cloth - that is a controlled material, and even the franchisor needs a quota.

This made him put these words on the stage at once, but the atmosphere on the table changed suddenly, and suddenly everyone refused to speak first.

"Okay! ……”

Li Mingxin was not excited, but said with a smile.

"If the Beiyang Company really took my ship, then it really relieved my urgency, no, there are now 2 steamboats and 16 sailboats in East Asia, and they are worth hundreds of thousands no matter what, I have been watching those factories in the Special Economic Zone make money every day, but my eyes are tight, I have thought about it, I want to make a fortune, the easiest way is to set up a factory, but I am worried about the lack of money, if someone really buys my ship, I can really sell it!"

In front of these people, Li Mingxin did not hide his idea of setting up a factory, in fact, he was telling the truth, he was really ready to set up a factory, but compared with others, what he wanted to run was a shipyard, first, to avoid the merchant ships to pay a large amount of maintenance fees when they re-entered the Incheon dock for maintenance, and second, he could also try to build a ship by himself.

"Your boss Li's family has a big business, so naturally I don't care, but we care a lot about this small business, and the rice in North Korea will be controlled by the Unified Supervision Office in the future, we just want to buy rice from the house, Boss Li, I see, this matter has something to do with you"

Doesn't it matter?

When recruiting laborers, Li Mingxin paid a settling-in fee, but it was all Korean rice, and without cheap Korean rice, this business would naturally come to an end, as soon as he said this, Li Mingxin's face sank, and he said it after a while.

"This matter, we have to look at it again, if we really implement the system, we are just small businessmen who do business, what can we do?"

Just as Li Mingxin's voice fell, he heard a voice over there.

"No way?"

That cold snort came from the front hall, and Li Mingxin didn't see clearly who was saying this, but the thick Zhili tone in the words reminded him that this person should be from the Zhili Shang Gang.

"It's true that he Lord Tang is the commander, in this North Korea, he Lord Tang is the emperor who is the same, but don't forget, he Lord Tang is also an official appointed by the imperial court, and after all, he is still an official of our Great Qing Kingdom, I still don't believe it, the court can let him come like this! Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, in fact, it is easy to solve this matter, we just need to ......" (to be continued......