Chapter 28: Oppression

86_86612 The sea gradually recedes behind it, and the passenger and cargo ship "Nishiichimaru" rides the wind to break the 'waves', setting off bursts of foaming 'waves' and 'flowers' at the entrance of the harbor! Under the sunset, a small coastal town shrouded in red glow - Jemulpo!

Li Mingxin, who was wearing a suit, was standing on the bow deck of the "West One Maru" at this time, looking at the embryonic commercial port of Jewpool, he felt that his blood was boiling, at the age of twenty-three, he chose a different path from others, to be precise, the Li family was born in the Li family in Surabaya, he was not the son-in-law of the family, there are 26 brothers on it, according to the rules of the Li family, starting a family also means leaving home, his brothers either went to Singapore, or went to Penang, and some went to Shanghai, and he chose another way to go - to the north, but he did not go to Tianjin, but to Jewupo, well, according to the Chinese should be called "Incheon" -

The reason why Inchon was chosen was only because of the influence of a merchant on the ship, where there was a Chinese concession, and the Chinese, who were of the highest rank as Koreans, could travel freely in Korea and enjoy all kinds of privileges in Korea.

Privilege!

Coming from the colony, he knew very well what privilege meant, what wealth meant, and that there were endless opportunities in this vast land, where he would start his own business, like his great-great-grandfather, who had crossed the ocean to Surabaya to start his own business.

Li Mingxin has had the habit of taking a bath in the evening since he was a child, and as soon as he took a bath, he rushed to the deck to blow the wind, and the gentle sea breeze reminded him a lot. Jemupo, like North Korea, is an unexplored wasteland that is full of opportunities that not everyone can see. You can see it all.

Despite being backed by a million dutch guilders at the time of the separation, he knew that the money seemed like a lot, but it could not afford to take risks, despite his ambitions for North Korea. But the purpose of his trip was to find an opportunity for him here.

You must not disgrace the Li family!

Li Mingxin muttered to himself, although after the separation, according to the family rules of the Nanyang Chinese, the family no longer has any responsibility for him, at most, when his business fails, the Li family will give him a monthly firewood and rice money. However, the pride and ambition in their hearts have made several generations of Li family members rather starve to death than accept the "charity" of the big house, and even go away to change their names and live in seclusion due to business failure.

You must not lose the people of the Li family!

The night has quietly fallen, I don't know if it's because of the 'color' of the night after the sunset fades. Or because of the proximity to Jewpool, a burning blush appeared on Li Mingxin's swarthy face, which was as dark as a plantation labourer.

Although he was wearing a suit, his swarthy face on the plantation and the hands full of silkworms he had chopped down while chopping cane on the plantation made him look a bit like a laborer in the eyes of outsiders, so that no one on this ship would notice this Li Mingxin who spoke some stiff official words.

The tavern was 'messy' and unkempt, and the air was filled with the smell of food and wine with the smell of sweat. The deafening sound of punching is heard from time to time, this Shandong restaurant is the place where the Chinese workers at the Incheon wharf gather, these laborers from Shandong, carry heavy goods on the yard every day, get off the ship, they are tired all day long, every night, they will gather in the restaurant, stand a few taels of spirits, paralyze the tired body.

"It's Jajangmyeon again!"

Eating the jajangmyeon in a bowl. Li Mingxin couldn't help muttering that in the Chinese Concession, jajanjang noodles are the most popular and cheapest kind of food, and the reason why the workers on the docks like to eat jajangmiso noodles is because they are cheap. And it's fast, but Li Mingxin, who has been used to eating rice since childhood, is getting used to fried noodles.

Although rice can be eaten in North Korea, you always need to order a la carte to eat rice, and if the price of a meal is changed to jajangmyeon, it is enough to eat for a day, for Li Mingxin, who has been in Jewupo for a month and a half, in order to save money, he lives in a 16-person Chase shop, and eats the cheapest jajangmyeon.

Li Mingxin, who had eaten fried noodles for a month and a half, did not have much appetite, looking at the Chinese workers crowded in the restaurant, although they spoke Shandong, but he was no stranger to Chinese workers, there were thousands of Chinese workers from Guangdong and Fujian in the sugarcane at home, except for the voice, there was no difference between them.

"What kind of business should I do?"

At this time, all Li Mingxin thought about was business, which was why he came to Incheon, but Incheon did not have many business opportunities, and even the merchants who had been engaged in trade with North Korea all the year round were still engaged in unilateral trade - selling foreign goods to North Korea, and returning with gold, silver dollars or red ginseng, North Korea had almost no special products.

"Brothers, according to me, there must be a profit in this matter, a head of a man and an ocean!"

In the noisy sound of fists and conversations, a shout reached Li Mingxin's ears.

Head? Ocean?

"Look at what you said, that's not like a traitor!"

"It's not selling people, it's recruiting workers, isn't the Unified Supervision Office opening a port in Incheon now, and what kind of special zone is being built? Also in the Datong River in Nanpu to open a port, there is nothing, build a house to people, build a port to people, this is not their side is now full of recruitment, tooth people recruit a worker, just give the tooth money a piece of ocean, I estimate, if our buddies go to do this business, this year can earn at least one or two hundred thousand oceans, then use this power! ”

It is not news that the Incheon Special Zone will be established, but in fact, the Incheon Office has recently been requisitioning land to open the Incheon Special Zone.

Can Nanpu recruit?

What's going on?

Li Mingxin immediately paid attention, as soon as he came to Incheon, he heard about the establishment of the unified supervision office, compared with the narrow Chinese concession, the special zone is as large as 10,000 acres, but what can be done in such a big place? Starting a factory? All of Incheon's coal needs to be imported from Japan.

"One or two thousand? You're so beautiful, what do you want so many people to do in this place? It's been a few years since Incheon opened its port, and only a few people have ......"

"You don't know, Nanpu is different from this, the Inspector doesn't want to have a factory in Incheon, he needs raw materials, yes, he has to mine there or something, it needs people, after this village, there will be no such shop, we can't miss this opportunity, don't talk about other places." Even in our hometown, there are tens of thousands of people who go to Kanto every year, and if we 'get' a few thousand people, it will be all white 'flowers' and 'flowers' of silver......"

What the next table person said, Li Mingxin was not interested. Holding chopsticks, he thought about the information he had heard before—Nanpu, the construction of a port, the opening of mines, factories, and so on—and so on, and sorted them out in his mind one by one, although he knew that it was indeed profitable to recruit Chinese laborers, and many people in Dutch East India made their fortunes from this. But the people of the Li family didn't have to earn this silver.

"Ports, Factories, Mineral ......"

Repeating these words in his heart, Li Mingxin only felt a shortness of breath, maybe others didn't know what it meant, but he knew that what minerals mean to a port means the development potential of the port.

"Maybe. You should go to Nampo to see it, maybe there are new opportunities there! ”

Li Mingxin whispered to himself in his heart, through a month and a half of observation, in his opinion, at least in the next ten years, limited by the barren native export of North Korea, the development of Incheon will be severely restricted, but if Nampo finds a suitable mine. In addition, the construction of a modern factory in Incheon may limit the future development of the area.

Then after quickly eating the noodles in the bowl, Li Mingxin left the restaurant, and maybe, now he can buy a ticket to Nampo from the East Asia Steamship Company!

When he walked out of the restaurant, walking on the street, he grew up in the tropics, and felt that the midsummer was similar to that of the South Seas, and on the way to the Japanese concession with the gentle sea breeze, he heard a noise in the distance.

"Take this guy and go to see the hall master!"

In the midst of that hustle and bustle. Li Mingxin saw a group of Chinese businessmen and their employees escorting several North Korean officials, led by a North Korean official in official uniforms, who seemed to be a third-rank official, tightly tied with ropes, his black gauze hat had long been thrown to a certain place, and even the North Korean officials on the side were also tied by ropes. Like the officials, covered in dust.

"What's going on?"

In astonishment, Li Mingxin followed the crowd towards the "Ya 'Gate'", that is, the Incheon Commercial Office in the former Chinese Concession, and the current Incheon Affairs Office, where people were already crowded in front of the tall Ya 'Gate', and there were several policemen wearing black 'color' police uniforms standing outside the 'gate', and they were standing there with loaded guns.

When everyone crowded to the entrance of the ya' 'gate', they saw a young official in a green robe come out of the ya' 'gate', that was the director of the affairs department, it seemed that his surname was Li, and he seemed to be a student of the general supervisor.

"What's going on?"

When the young official asked in a solemn voice, he only heard one of the Chinese businessmen say.

"Lord Han, this guy is really too annoying, we are ordered by the Commander to set up a foreign fire factory in the Special Administrative Region, in order to build a factory but just bulldoze a few lonely graves, he didn't know where to find the owner of the grave, he actually threatened at every turn, saying that he wanted to bulldoze the factory, we are angry, I specially tied him up to see the adult, thought it was compensation, and asked the lord to make the decision for us......"

Listening to the justified lawsuit, Li Mingxin almost couldn't believe what his eyes saw, although he had already seen the Chinese in North Korea after coming to Incheon, but who would have thought that a group of businessmen would directly tie up the North Korean third-rank officials, this, this is too ......

Just when he was surprised, he only listened to the director surnamed Li shouting.

"You are really too rude, don't you know that Lord Jin is a member of the three grades of the dynasty, and he was ordered by the king to assist my Unified Supervision Mansion in establishing the Special Economic Zone, how can you be so rude and not quickly retreat......

Director Li said as he walked over to Lord Jin, who looked depressed, and casually accommodated him.

"Lord Jin, you have offended many people, please forgive me, don't meet with them in general......"

Then he ordered someone to untie the rope on Lord Jin's body, and looked at this Director Li to deal with the matter in a few words, but although that Lord Jin was full of grievances, he just lowered his head and was willing to admit it, Li Mingxin's eyes suddenly widened, this, what's going on?

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