May 25, 1642, Sunday, April 27, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Empire.

The flagship of the Huamei Asian Fleet, the Jincheng Princess, appeared in Hong Kong port for a rare time, and the beautiful snow-white warship attracted the admiration of Hong Kong fishermen and a number of Daming maritime merchants who went to sea. On the streets of the port area, the officers and men of the infantry battalion of the Gray Wolf Brigade of the Foreign Legion, which had just been transferred from the Viceroy of South Africa, were marching majestically and vigorously towards the city under the guidance of military music.

In the rhythmic piccolo and drumming of the "March of the Foreign Legion", more than 500 armed Foreign Legion soldiers lined up in a company of nine people, moving like neat pieces of tofu on the street. The North American gray wolf badge on the armbands of officers and soldiers has sharp teeth and sharp teeth, and the new Type 40 army uniform has more luxurious tassel decoration details, which also makes the soldiers look more heroic. While opening the eyes of the onlookers, it also stunned a few young people dressed as Ming scholars who were mixed in the crowd.

"It is said that bandits are like a sieve, and soldiers are like grates, and the soldiers of Huamei Fanguo are so fierce and vicious, and they are swaggering through the market, and the people are happy to look at it, which is really strange...... However, the formation of hundreds of people, that is, the momentum of thousands of troops and horses, when my dynasty was first established, the style of the king was no more than that. And what does Brother Nong think? ”

Just looking at its shape, Brother Zhongqing will inevitably say this. Angry horse fresh clothes, it's hard to say that it's not gold...... However, the cost of raising soldiers in such a luxurious way can be imagined. ”

In the crowd, Gu Jikun and Wang Fuzhi were talking quietly, and Zheng Sen behind the two of them stared at it with wide eyes.

"My father is also the head town of Haiphong in Fujian Province, and he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and his younger brother is also common...... Just looking at the spirit, spirit, and qi of these gorgeous soldiers, they are very different from our Ming officers and soldiers, and they are by no means flashy and ordinary. The white-lacquered giant ship in the bay is afraid that it was only when the three treasure eunuchs of the Yongle Year of the National Dynasty were born. ”

Waiting for the Huamei Foreign Legion to pass by, Zheng Sen finally took a deep breath, and then expressed his opinion to the two friends.

"Hmm. After more than a month of studying, I have indeed benefited a lot. The civil and commercial laws are strict, the people obey them without complaint, and the soldiers are not afraid of the past. Although it is said to be a leopard in the tube, but after careful thinking and speculation, the national spirit of this gorgeous fan country should be above my Ming Dynasty...... Unfortunately, we can't go any further. Gu Jikun, the eldest of the three, is much calmer than Wang Fuzhi, and Zheng Sen, who knows that he has known military affairs for a long time, will never praise the military strength of an overseas state for no reason.

"Hong Kong is only a commercial concession agreed between Huamei and the imperial court, and I heard that it is only for ten years, and it is not a system of righteous land. If you can travel to the beautiful country, you can solve it. It's a pity that there is no way. How do I do it? Wang Fuzhi closed the fan, looked at the back of the army in the distance, and sighed.

The hearts of the three of them seemed to be thinking of one piece at this time, and they all showed knowing smiles.

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At this time, an extraordinary meeting was being held in the Hong Kong Governor's Palace, which was attended not only by Hong Kong Governor Elson and An Shaoqing, leader of the Congressional Far East Research Group, but also by Fan Li, head of Far East Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had just arrived from Pearl Island, and Jin Xiaohan, head of the Asian Intelligence Department.

“…… The Foreign Legion's troops from the Viceroyalty of South Africa are already in place, and it will take about a month for the two frigates of the Navy Command to deploy to the Asian Fleet, the Republic and the Pearl, to arrive in Hong Kong. Dayuan and Zheng Zhilong. We have given hints that we hope they will take this as a warning. ”

Holding the text that had been prepared a long time ago, Fan Li gave a detailed introduction to the current work situation to those present.

"Luzon is quite smooth there, and Li Guozhu has been actively organizing Chinese businessmen to hoard grain and move in to Chinese young people in the early years. For confidentiality. Now there are not many Luzon maritime merchants that Li Guozhu has in contact with privately, but they are all Chinese businessmen with very high status in the local area. Hundreds of Luzon Chinese who retired from the Foreign Legion, and Luzon mercenaries from Blackwater Security Company, are returning to Luzon one after another. Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu have reached a cooperation intention. In the future, Liu Xiang will be responsible for the arms we smuggle into Luzon, and we will officially close the smuggling channel with Luzon next month. ”

Jin Xiaohan, who is directly in charge of the Far East "Hermit Crab" program. He also briefed the audience on the situation in Luzon.

"OUCC has set up a delegation in Hong Kong and is ready to leave for Dayuan Dongning City. In addition, the cabinet has agreed that the Oriental Union Group will imitate the Qiongzhou model and officially export industrial technology projects from the Hong Kong port to Guangzhou. However, Guangzhou is not as good as Qiongzhou, and in order to be cautious, OUCC intends to entrust the business to Luo Huide, who will organize it in the border between the two regions, and the Hong Kong Metropolitan Government will provide some relevant support. Hong Kong Governor Elson also spread out his diary book and sorted out the recent work, "Your Excellency, there are really too many things that we need to deal with in the Far East alone, but there are simply not enough people. ”

"Everyone is the most effective Far Eastern expert in China, and those who can work hard." An Shaoqing looked around at everyone with a smile, and did not directly interfere with the local administrative work, "By the way, I have walked around in the past few days and found that many Ming scholars are staying in Hong Kong. Have you received any applications over the years to study in Huamei? ”

Several people looked at each other and shook their heads.

"There are a lot of curious people who are interested in visiting, but when it comes to being willing to really study abroad, we haven't met them for more than ten years, and in their eyes, we are barbarians. Very few of the down-and-out Ming scholars basically stayed directly on Pearl Island and followed Zhao Mingchuan to do things, just to eat. At present, the state's non-governmental propaganda affairs in the entire Far East are still dominated by economic and trade affairs. "Fan Li has the most say in this regard, and his views are the most representative.

"Hey...... Maybe it is not at the moment of the country's survival, it is rare for the eyes of Daming scholars to open up, and people with Xu Guangqi's vision are indeed non-mainstream...... Forget it, it is better to cooperate with our industrial output and implement the Daming technician training project. I will provide Congress with a report on the analysis of the Far East in the hope that the work will be expedited. An Shaoqing has been thinking about her daughter's opinion these days, and she has also germinated some ideas, but the reality is so embarrassing that she can only sigh secretly.

In fact, Zhao Mingchuan had such an idea about ten years ago, but because the penetration and influence of Huamei on Liangguang at that time was far less than now, and even the image was a little negative, it could not be implemented. Except for Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu, who 'consciously' sent their children to Huamei to school, only some craftsmen from Qiongzhou or Dayuan had a short period of accelerated training on Pearl Island, and Guangzhou was a blank slate.

"Well, this is more important, and it can change the direction to promote our industrial improvement of the two Guangzhou. I think that Luo Huide is good. It's better to contact him. In terms of the Oriental Union Group, Zhao Mingchuan is also a good middleman. Fan Li has long known a certain Guangzhou businessman who is clinging to his gorgeous thighs in Hong Kong, and he feels that this person's vision is much higher than that of ordinary Daming maritime merchants.

Soon, a number of complicated affairs were sorted out with the assistance of An Shaoqing. The "intimacy" of working in Hong Kong was very strong, and for a time An Shaoqing had the idea of resigning from the Senate in the future and going to the Far East to do things.

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In the western suburbs of Hong Kong, in a small joint industrial zone, Zhao Mingchuan, accompanied by Luo Huide, visited the garment factory founded by the Luo family in the Governor's District of Hong Kong.

Guangzhou merchants who are jealous of the gorgeous seafood of the South Seas abound, and those who are jealous of Qiongzhou are even more jealous. But Guangzhou is not as remote as Qiongzhou, and there is no special combination like Zhao Youheng and Liu Yaoyu. The Hong Kong port has indeed brought unprecedented trade facilitation, and the merchants of Guangzhou have been very content, but there are few who really dare to join forces in depth on the territory of "Miyi". In the past few years since the establishment of the Hong Kong Governor-General's United Industrial Park, only Luo Huide, a Guangzhou businessman, has purchased an industry on Hong Kong Island. One of the biggest reasons is that Luo Huide made up his mind to move to Hong Kong Island from the beginning.

Unlike the Qiongzhou gentry who still needed to pull and pull at the beginning, Luo Huide hugged the thigh of the Oriental Union Group almost with a unique eye. Not only did he get the favoritism of many Oriental Union Group, but he also got a set of ready-to-wear production lines. Far more efficient than Luo Huide imagined, the assembly line large-scale cutting and sewing technology, plus a variety of high-quality and low-cost fabrics imported from Huamei. Luo's Daming garment products quickly spread out the market at a price far lower than that of Liangguang, and now it is already a well-known garment merchant in Guangzhou.

In the mechanically driven garment workshop, hundreds of women in headscarves nervously deliver cutting fabrics or changing sewn parts in front of the equipment assembly line, and almost no one has time to peek at the big people passing by.

Most of them are family members of migrant workers who have gone to Hong Kong to work. There are also a small number of homeless families recruited from Xin'an County, Guangzhou, where they can get one or two yuan a month and three yuan of overtime pay, and they can buy an extra stone of rice for their family a month, which is almost an income that they never dared to imagine before.

"There are huge orders for Chinese military uniforms. Now that the contract term is almost half, and less than 30% of it has been completed, ...... "looking at a certain process link of an equipment channel, there is an artificial "cut off". The expression on Luo Huide's face was quite distressed.

"Well, the maintenance master is coming from Qiongzhou, probably the day after tomorrow. Zhao is ashamed, or the Oriental Union Group is not thoughtful, so that your factory is not effective...... Senator An has advised the government to expand the Pearl Island Technical Repair Society to solve the worries of Brother Luo and other Daming Fang industries. Zhao also clarified the original situation with Party A of the contract, and added a note, and the construction period can be graced for another two months, so Brother Luo does not need to worry. ”

Zhao Mingchuan explained again and again with an apologetic smile, while picking up a military uniform top from a basket that was about to complete the last buttoning process, and carefully checked the stitches.

"Mr. Zhao, as I said last time, the mulberry and hemp industry in Wuzhou is quite prosperous, and my family also intends to buy Huamei silk machine and set up a silk reeling workshop in Wuzhou. Therefore, I asked one or two below, I don't know what OUCC Group thinks? As for the Wuzhou place, Mr. Zhao can rest assured that there will be no difference with his family's hometown and connections...... "Luo Huide saw that the other party took his own affairs so seriously, and his heart fell to the ground, but he still did not forget the original intention of inviting the other party to visit today.

Speaking of Wuzhou, Zhao Mingchuan remembered the great gift that Luo Huide gave a few years ago. Since Luo Huide's introduction, a large number of lacquer, pine resin and tung oil sources from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces have joined the ranks of exporting Huamei, which is one of the few places that the Oriental Union Group has done in recent years to be unanimously praised by domestic counterparts.

Wuzhou may seem far from the economic center of Guangzhou, but it has convenient water transportation for small and medium-sized sea vessels to enter the interior of Guangxi through the Pearl River Estuary and the Xijiang River. Purely from the perspective of transportation, if the Oriental Union 800 merchant ships were allowed to enter the country, Wuzhou would be no different from Guangzhou or Qiongzhou.

Luo Huide in front of him is really good at drilling camps, and from a positive attitude, he is far better at seizing opportunities than his original friend Liu Yaoyu. Now Wuzhou Luojia has become the general distributor of Huamei commodities in Guangxi, and it is naturally undesirable to continue to deepen the cooperative relationship.

"The inland areas along the Yangtze River are not as good as those of Qiongzhou and Guangzhou. However, listening to what Senator Ann said recently, Mr. Luo's request should be a matter of course. How about waiting for Zhao to inquire in the future, and then reply? ”

Zhao Mingchuan knows that the Oriental Union Group is still relatively cautious about the industrial output in the inland of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, mainly because it is worried about causing uncontrollable political and economic risks, so it is only in Qiongzhou, where the relationship is mature, and Guangzhou has just begun.

"Then there is Mr. Lao Zhao!" Luo Huide was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed.

At this moment, two figures flickered in front of the factory, and Luo Huide's face was black and white again, and then he sighed heavily. The figure passing by was none other than his unfilial son Luo Jian, and the eldest lady of the An family, An Jie, who liked to come over to see the strange when she had nothing to do.

"Shopkeeper Luo, Zhao has a sentence, I don't know if to say it or not?"

Zhao Mingchuan has probably heard rumors that the son of the Luo family has a relationship with the daughter of Senator An Shaoqing's family these days, and he even knows that An Jie proposed to his father to let Luo Jian study in Huamei, which brought up Zhao Mingchuan's wish that had long been extinguished.

"Don't dare to be, Mr. Zhao, please speak!" Thinking that the other party also saw his son's behavior of not knowing etiquette, Luo Huide hurriedly gave up.

"It's not a secret, the noble son is gifted and intelligent, and he is almost self-taught about the learning of Huamei and ingenuity, and he can be called a genius. This kind of talent, if you are confined to the Ming Dynasty, is really a tyrannical thing. Zhao traveled to Huamei many years ago, and he still has nothing to do, and the noble son he sees today is talented, and if he gets the guidance of Huamei masters, the future is limitless. ”

The meaning is obvious, Zhao Mingchuan saw in Luo Jian the hope of the younger generation of Daming to break the shackles. It is hoped that Luo Huide will not only actively participate in Huamei's industrial export plan in the East, but also allow his son to study in Huamei and open up a new situation for the future.

Quietly looking at the big man in front of him, Luo Huide was also churning in his heart. He desperately befriended these gorgeous businessmen, not because he had joined the religion at that level, but for financial gain, so he never thought that one day his family would "enter the country". For example, although I have settled in Hong Kong, I still have a temporary status of "business visa".

"The dog is clumsy, I am afraid that I will be embarrassed, but I will be laughed at......" Luo Huide stiffened his head and bowed slightly, once again clarifying his attitude that he did not intend to let his baby son get along with Huamei excessively.

"Hey......" Zhao Mingchuan turned around in disappointment and stopped persuading.

"Mr. Zhao! Is Mr. Zhao there? When the atmosphere at the scene was gradually awkward, suddenly a staff member of the Oriental Union Group rushed into the factory.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Mingchuan saw that it was someone from the local branch, so he hurriedly sorted out his clothes.

"There are several Daming scholars who have come to the branch and asked to see you, saying that they want to take our merchant ship to Pearl Island to study overseas!" The staff was sweating profusely and looked very anxious, "One of them is still the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, the chief soldier of Fujian coastal defense!" ”

"Huh?!" Not only Zhao Mingchuan's eyes lit up, but even Luo Huide was stunned.

"Good! Take me there! Zhao Mingchuan's feelings rose all of a sudden, and he didn't care about any politeness or impoliteness, so he walked out of the workshop directly without Luo Huide. (To be continued......)