The Ministry of Communications' plan for the construction of the Chiwan Wharf and the Chiwan Nantou Railway has aroused widespread discussion among the survivors, and has also caused a boom in the establishment of subordinate enterprises by various ministries and commissions.

Following the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Construction put forward a plan to build its own cement plant. The cement used in the engineering department has always been transported from the original time and space, but now the inventory is getting smaller and smaller, and there are more and more places to use it. The management committee approved the application of the Ministry of Construction, and then the Ministry of Construction began to demolish a cement factory from the original time and space to the new time and space.

The second to get approved is the trading company of the Ministry of Commerce. The Ministry of Commerce has been engaged in export trade, from the beginning of stainless steel products, plastic products, chemical fiber textiles, to the later daily chemical products, haberdashery, glass products, small hardware and other modern commodities, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, has become the main financial source of the Liberation Army. It's just that there has been no formal subject for such business activities, and the salesmen are also registered in the Ministry of Commerce, but now the overall trade volume is not large, and the businessmen who come to the door are admired, and basically modern marketing methods are not used at all.

The Ministry of Commerce is also preparing to do a big job when the trading company is set up this time, with the minister concurrently serving as the chairman, and the general manager is Liu Lanji, the former president of the trading company. Liu Lanji's original company headquarters was in Guangzhou, and when the "cataclysm" occurred, he was taking his secretary to inspect the branch in Shenzhen, and then he also ventured back to Guangzhou to find his family. It's just that he found out that his family members have become victims of mutants, and he returned to Shenzhen in sadness, after all, his little secretary is still here. And his little secretary is a mainlander, and he doesn't dare to go home alone to find his family, and he is not familiar with life, so he has to rely on him. Soon the two formed a new family, Liu Lanji was already close to the age of not confused, and his little secretary was only in his early twenties, so some survivors of grape acid naturally came up with rumors such as "taking advantage of people's danger". It's just that considering his skill and courage to dare to go to Guangzhou alone, these envy, jealousy and hatred only stay in words. When he reorganized the troops, he happened to go to Guangzhou, otherwise how could he be a senior officer, and when he came back, the pits of various departments were occupied by turnips, and he could only do miscellaneous work under the Ministry of Commerce.

In the establishment of a trading company this time, many members of the committee are interested in him for the position of general manager, after all, he has personal ability and experience there, and no matter how you look at it, he is the most suitable candidate. Dongguan, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong are all predominantly commercial cities, so many of the survivors are engaged in commerce and related industries accounting for almost one-tenth of the total, which also makes trading companies one of the most abundant human resources. The first thing Liu Lanji did when he took office was to appoint the heads of various subordinate departments.

The first person he appointed was his little secretary's wife, who was appointed as the assistant to the general manager, not only as an assistant at work, but also as an assistant in life. As for the directors, managers, and supervisors of other marketing, planning, advertising, finance, and personnel departments, some of them are appointed by their superiors, and some of them are self-recommended by Mao Sui.

Because it is its own subsidiary, the Ministry of Commerce has completed the registration and has become the second holding company of the Guangfu Army. The name of the company is Global Commerce, which was voted by the absolute majority of the company's colleagues, and it also shows everyone's determination to make the company an international large enterprise. However, it was also ridiculed by some survivors, the name is always reminiscent of those leather bag companies called Huanyu and Guanqiu, and when it comes to Universal, the survivors unconsciously think of the United States Film Company.

After opening the trade route of Guangzhou through Wang Ju for the first time, the Ministry of Commerce set up a trade point in the former Xin'an county town to receive merchants from Guangzhou. Later, one was also set up in Longgang, responsible for contacting merchants from Huizhou and even Meichaoshan. With the establishment of Global Commerce, the two trading points will also be upgraded to branches, and personnel will also be adjusted.

The headquarters of Global Commerce will be located in the future central business district, but it still only exists on the drawing paper, so for the time being, a prefabricated house can only be erected next to the material warehouse of the base as office space. After the company's sign was hung out, Liu Lanji recruited all the staff to hold the first working meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, there was no leader's speech, but the introduction of the heads of various departments, but there were only more than 1,000 survivors, and everyone had worked together for a while, and they were already familiar with each other, but now the position and the relationship between superiors and subordinates have been officially clarified, which also makes some people a little unaccustomed. Then Liu Lanji introduced the company's situation, the company's registered capital is 100,000 yuan, of course, this is only the number on the books, "as long as the wormhole is in one day, we have countless sources of goods, these are not costly." These words made everyone smile, the fierce competition in the original time and space to do trade, in order to sell things to use all their best tricks, in order to recover the payment for the goods to ask grandpa to sue grandma to run away and break his foot, this kind of suffering people sitting here have basically experienced. And now everyone has suddenly moved from a society with a surplus of products to a society with excess demand, and their status has suddenly dropped. Because it is not possible to produce modern products by itself for the time being, the Ministry of Commerce has adopted a strategy of starvation sales, and the situation of short supply has made foreign businessmen lose their smiles, which also makes the salespeople raise their eyebrows.

After everyone laughed, Liu Lanji continued: "After the trade points in Bao'an and Dapeng counties were upgraded to branches, the sales strategy remained unchanged. In addition, the head office decided to set up a branch in Kowloon, mainly responsible for exports, not only Britain, France, the United States and other Western countries, Annam, Siam, Nanyang countries are also our potential customers. There are merchants doing this business on the island of Hong Kong, both Chinese and Westerners, and we can attract Southeast Asian merchants to trade through the propaganda of these merchants. At the same time, we also import the materials we need through the channels of these merchants. "Global Commerce was founded not only to sell the products of modern industry, but also to import all kinds of materials. With the development of industrial production, the demand for labor in the Guangfu Army is increasing, and in addition to attracting people from other places, the local labor population is also likely to be attracted into factories by lucrative wages, which will inevitably lead to a decrease in agricultural labor and then a decrease in agricultural production. And more and more fields will be turned into factories, and production cuts are inevitable. At this time, there are already three or four thousand more people in the three counties than before, and if it is not supported by the granary of the original time and space, there may be a shortage of food within the Guangfu District. Although grain could be purchased from other parts of Guangdong, as were merchants with close ties to the Liberation Army, the supply was limited and could not meet the needs of the Liberation Army, and there was a danger that it could be blocked by the Qing government at any time. Annam and Siam have been grain-producing areas since ancient times, and they are exporting grain to China even in the original time and space, and the management committee hopes that global commerce and trade will turn these two places into the main grain supply areas of the Liberation Army, and it is believed that the Qing government does not have the ability to blockade the Liberation Area from the sea.

The meeting then entered the discussion session, and the topic was what other products in the original time and space could be sold in the new time and space. The industrial production capacity of the original time and space was unimaginable to people in the nineteenth century, and the output of iron nails in half a month in a hardware factory of the nature of a township enterprise may exceed the output of the whole country in a year at this time. Mechanical production outweighs manual work too much, and in view of the consumption habits of people in the nineteenth century, the goods sold to them must be of the quality they need, better than similar goods of this era, so that they will be marketable. At present, the best sales are stainless steel products, but according to the feedback of Wang compradors, the final consumers of such goods are mainly Westerners, which is also because most of the stainless steel products sold are tableware, and only Westerners will buy table knives and forks. There are also plastic products, now also gradually appear in wealthy families, plastic basins, plastic buckets began to replace the bulky copper basin barrels, plastic products with their light and strong characteristics, by more and more people welcome. Another popular commodity is chemical fiber textiles, compared with traditional silk, chemical fiber cloth has the advantages of wrinkle-free, heavy, wide width, etc., and the color is dazzling, variety, and not easy to fade, and now it has become the first choice for rich women in the three counties and surrounding areas to make clothes. Even if a middle-sized family marries a daughter-in-law, it is a very face-saving thing to have two pieces of silk in the dowry.

Others, such as daily necessities, daily chemical products, and small hardware, are also changing the living habits of people in the Guangfu District and surrounding areas. Towels have replaced washcloths, toothpaste and toothbrushes have replaced willow leaf salt, and soap has replaced soap horns, although it is only a change in the living habits of middle-aged and above families, and everyone attending the meeting believes that with the development of the survivors' own industries, the expansion of production capacity and the decline of prices, even ordinary people will become the final customers of global commerce.

In addition to the above, there are still a large number of goods idle there in the original time and space that cannot be sold, mainly household appliances, automobiles, and other large items, "mainly without electricity!" Qin Tuo said with emotion that he is a supervisor of the marketing department, and it is his job to open up a wider market. If there is electricity, the electric fan will definitely be sold. Now that the weather is so hot, it used to be the peak season for fan sales. Listening to his words, some people subconsciously looked at the corner of the room, where a bladeless fan was shaking its head back and forth, bringing a cool breeze to everyone.

"Power plants won't be able to generate electricity until the end of the year, and fans will have to wait until next year." Although the general manager also believes that this is a sales growth point, after all, due to the popularization of electric energy, sales will always be restricted.

"How's the bike?" The newly appointed manager of the Kowloon branch, Wu Fusheng, proposed. Now the bicycle has become the main means of transportation for indigenous civil servants, environmental protection, energy saving is its advantage, but also exercise, some of the gentry who are close to the Guangfu Army, such as Pan Xieqing has also been gifted, you must know that in the countryside of Xin'an, that is, small and medium-sized landlords go out by 11 roads, only like Chen Shirong can afford to raise a sedan chair. Now with bicycles and smooth roads, it will be an hour to get from Longgang to Luohu. Therefore, this two-wheeled bicycle has become a status symbol among the natives, similar to driving a BMW in the original space. "We can buy it in Europe and the United States, and the price might as well be raised. Moreover, the prototype of the bicycle has already appeared, and Westerners should be able to accept this new type of transportation. ”