The head of the report, Li Shaodong of Guangdong Furuifeng Commercial Bank, asked to meet. ”

"Oh, he's coming to Sanya again, please let him in." Schneider heard the guard's report and put down the official document in his hand.

Although there are three young owners in Guangdong Furuifeng Commercial Bank, the only person who will come to the Ministry of Commerce to visit him without making an appointment in advance is probably the third young master Li Nai, who regards Shengli Fort as his home.

Since Li Nai became the chief treasurer of the "Golden Shield Escort", he has been in Guangdong most of the time, and he can't run to Shengli Port if he has nothing to do like before, and he has been staying for two or three months. However, he still bought a house in Sanya New Town, and would go to Sanya for at least ten days and half a month every year to catch up and chat with these friends of Haihan.

"Mr. Shi, long time no see! It's always good?" Li Nai greeted Schneider very warmly as soon as he came in.

Schneider didn't see him outside, stood up and smiled and arched his hand in response: "The third young master is so free, and you have come to Sanya for a vacation again?" Or are you living an easy life, free and easy, which is enviable!"

"I'm not here to play in Sanya this time. Li Nai waved his hand solemnly and said, "I have something to do, and I just got off the boat and came directly to Victory Fort to find you." ”

"What's the matter?" Schneider said with a smile: "Could it be that you are going to marry a concubine again?" Let's talk about it first, you are in Guangzhou to set up a wedding wine, and no one can go, so I can only ask the Guangzhou Office to give me a gift. ”

Li Nai got married and started a family two years ago, and now the children are all over the age of one. However, I married a partial house last year, and at that time, I also sent someone to Sanya to send invitations, inviting familiar Haihan executives to go to Lijiazhuang, Panyu County, Guangzhou Prefecture to drink happy wine. Of course, the travelers did not have the leisure time to cross the sea to participate in this kind of social activity, so most of the people who received the invitation did not attend the wedding banquet, but they still sent congratulatory gifts and red envelopes to Li Nai through the Guò Guangzhou Office. Schneider was also one of the people who received the invitation at that time, and he happened to go to Guangzhou to inspect the work at that time, and by the way, he showed up on behalf of the Haihan Executive Committee to say a few congratulatory words, which can be regarded as giving Li Nai enough face.

Li Nai smiled bitterly: "What to marry, two women are annoying enough at home, I am not interested in marrying another one and letting them fight me as a landlord." ”

"You don't have to fight the landlord, you marry another one and go home, ≮↓dǐng≮↓diǎn≮↓小≮↓ said, .∨.@os_ (); Just four people got together on a table of mahjong. Schneider quipped.

With the increase of contact with the Ming Dynasty, some of Haihan's unique entertainment methods, such as playing cards and mahjong games improved in later generations, have gradually entered the lives of some upper-class people who have lived closely with Haihan.

"No kidding, to be honest, I really have something to do with my visit to Sanya this time. Li Nai raised his chin at Schneider: "I'm here to find you." ”

"Is that talking about business?" After all, the two have known each other for several years, and Schneider can roughly guess a few points when he hears Li Nai's tone.

"We're not outsiders, so I'll just say it. Li Nai took the hot tea that the secretary had just sent and moistened his throat, and then said, "I heard that Haihan is going to open up a wasteland and colonize Dayuan Island?"

Schneider quietly retorted, "Where did you get this news from?"

It has only been a few days since Qian Tiandun signed the agreement with the Dutch in Dayuangang, and the news has not completely spread at present, and Li Nai did not know about it when he set off from Guangzhou.

Li Nai responded: "Look at your reaction, it should be ** not far from ten." I didn't ask about this from others, but it took a lot of time to analyze it!"

"Oh, did you analyze it yourself? Schneider didn't have any urgent matters at hand, and he was also interested when he heard Li Nai's answer, wondering how this third young master Li with a strange brain circuit came up with.

"This is a long story......" Li Nai saw that Schneider was interested in listening, and he was also excited at the moment, and began to tell his own reasoning process.

Things have to start from May this year, when after the Penghu Campaign, Haihan and Fujian officials consciously carried out a lot of propaganda on the results of the battle, and the Guangdong side was secretly promoted by the Guangzhou Office, and this operation naturally caused a wave of discussion among the people. The aspects that the people in the market are concerned about are probably how many pirates the official army and the Haihan militia have killed in Penghu, how many ships have been sunk, how many stolen money and goods have been seized, and so on, and a number of rumors or legends will be born in the process of spreading. However, because of the different sources and channels, people in the upper echelons of society like Li Nai get much more detailed information than folk rumors, and the diǎn they pay attention to is more or less different from ordinary people.

The combined forces of the Ming and Haihan won a complete victory in the Battle of Penghu and drove the remnants of the Eighteen Zhi forces away from the local area, this result is beyond doubt, and Li Nai has no doubt that the Haihan militia has such combat capabilities - as for the Ming official army, Li Nai believes that they should only play a supporting role, and their role in the process of the battle is limited. The question that Li Nai was interested in was why Haihan sent troops to fight this battle, and what did Haihan want to do next after this battle?

Of course, Li Nai knows a little about the contradictions between Haihan and Eighteen Zhi, as well as the behind-the-scenes support of Xu Xinsu, the chief soldier of Fujian, so Haihan and the Fujian government sent troops to copy Eighteen Zhi's nest, Li Nai thinks it is reasonable. However, he did not expect that the Fujian government would generously hand over Penghu directly to Haihan after the war, although it was nominally a condominium, but it was obvious that this kind of condominium might not be as influential as the Yazhou government in Sanya. Coupled with the fact that Haihan then quickly announced the stationing of troops in Penghu and the construction of a port and a migrant station, Li Nai knew that Haihan was planning to repeat his previous practice on Hong Kong Island.

With the cooperation of the government, it would not be more difficult for Haihan to take actual control of Penghu than it was to take Hong Kong Island in the first place, so Li Nai's attention quickly shifted to Haihan's next plan.

Before the attack on Penghu, Haihan had set up a temporary base at the Zhongzuo Institute on the coast of Fujian at least a year in advance, and a large amount of military supplies were transported from Sanya to the local area via Hong Kong Island. Because at that time, Haihan hired a considerable number of civilian ships to carry out transportation tasks in order to cover the purpose of the war, and Fu Ruifeng, as Haihan's "old friend", also contracted part of the transportation business under his command in the process, so Li Nai was relatively clear about this.

Hong Kong Island played a very obvious role as a springboard for Haihan to expand its sphere of influence into the Fujian Strait, and the location of Penghu indicates that the local area is very likely to be the next springboard with a similar function to Hong Kong Island - but in which direction Haihan was going to jump, Li Nai had limited information at the time and could not accurately judge.

Although Li Nai was very familiar with the people in the Guangzhou Office, he did not go directly to people to ask this question, but from some fragments of information collected later, Li Nai still gradually pieced together a possibility according to his own understanding.

Haihan stationed a powerful army in Penghu, the army is known as the special operations battalion of the Haihan ace army, and the navy is an almost integrated fleet, and Haihan's biggest enemy in the local area has fled to the open sea, the west is the ally Xu Xinsu, and the east is the Dutch who have signed an armistice treaty and are unwilling to oppose Haihan, so what is the significance of this armed deployment in the local area?

Li Nai has been dealing with the Haihan people for a long time, and his way of thinking is naturally and unconsciously closer to the Haihan people, he does not think that Haihan's approach is unintentional, and it is more likely that he has a secret purpose. And for Li Nai, who is familiar with Haihan's situation, it is not too difficult to find out the truth at this point.

In line with the usual practice of the Han Chinese, Li Nai believed that they would not stop at the Fujian Strait, but would definitely look for opportunities to expand their sphere of influence, and the troops stationed there would probably become the pioneers of the next step. The relationship between the Haihan military and the Fujian military is extremely close, and Xu Xinsu can be regarded as a hardcore Haihan party, so it is unlikely that Haihan will take the coastal areas of Fujian as the next target. In addition, the special operations battalion stationed in Penghu is best at mountain and jungle warfare, and this information happens to be in Li Nai's possession.

As for why it was eastward rather than northward, Li Nai's view of Diǎn was very much in line with the opinion of the Haihan military, who believed that the size of Penghu was not enough to support the needs of Haihan's northward development, just as the Anbuna Islands in the South China Sea could not support Haihan's southward strategy. If Haihan really wants to continue to expand northward, then another larger, more resource-rich base in the Fujian Strait will be needed. From this point of view, Penghu has no advantages over Dayuan Island. Although Qian Tiandun had not yet led his troops to set foot on Dayuan Island for investigation at that time, Li Nai only inferred from the information he had and inferred that Haihan's next development goal was Dayuan Island next to Penghu.

Haihan couldn't move Dayuan Island at every turn, did he have anything to do with Li Nai and Guangzhou Furuifeng behind him? Of course, there was a relationship, and it was not a small matter.

Since Furuifeng climbed the high branch of Haihan five years ago, the development of the road can be described as soaring. Up to now, Fu Ruifeng and its many businesses related to its interests have made the Li family the leading wealthy businessman in Guangdong. But after reaching this stage, the Li family also felt that the business operation seemed to have reached the ceiling, and there was no room for further development.

The reason is very simple, Furuifeng's influence is mainly concentrated in the coastal areas of Liangguang, and this signboard is not easy to use when it goes out of the province, especially to the north. In neighboring Fujian, there is Xu Xinsu, a **OSS with a combination of government and business, and it is difficult for Fu Ruifeng to expand his business to the local area. Although it is said that they are all deep partners of Haihan, the business system implemented by Haihan in Daming is based on the local agency system, and Xu Xinsu, as the general agent of Fujian, is naturally not happy to see the agent of the next door come to his house to do business. The business scope of Furuifeng is almost 100% related to Haihan, and there is naturally a 100% conflict of interest with its counterparts in Fujian, which makes it difficult for Furuifeng's trade scope to expand to the north. The main reason why the military supplies carried by Furuifeng had to be transshipped in Hong Kong was because Fujian was unwilling to let Furuifeng's fleet pass.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, Fu Ruifeng has tasted enough sweetness in the investment projects led by Haihan in recent years, which has given the Li family a new understanding of the model of developing overseas colonies. The projects invested by Fu Ruifeng on Hainan Island include salt farms, farms, plantations, transportation lines, ports and terminals, various workshops, and even real estate fields that few foreign investors can directly set foot in, and at the same time, there are large and small investment projects on Hong Kong Island, Annam and even Anbuna Port in the South China Sea, and the long-term stable income is very considerable. In the process, the Li family also noticed that investing in undeveloped virgin land is the most cost-effective in terms of rate of return and return period.

Li Nai has carefully studied the operation mode of the Haihan in the new colonial area in the past few years, and almost all of them have carried out investment promotion activities of different scales, attracting businessmen from outside the Haihan to invest money or resources to participate in the operation, and reduce the risk of independent development and construction of the colony. Based on this, he believed that if Haihan wanted to attack Dayuan Island, then one of the necessary steps to establish a colonial area was to attract investment. And Fu Ruifeng must seize this opportunity to get his own place in the local area. If the slow action is preempted by the counterparts in Fujian, then Furuifeng is very likely to not even be able to catch half a mouthful of soup.

The reason why it is so urgent has a lot to do with the suppression of Fu Ruifeng in Fujian. Although Penghu Magong Port is already under the actual control of Haihan, the official statement is still subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, and the influence exerted by the Xu family in the local area makes Fu Ruifeng have not yet obtained an exclusive wharf and merchant inn in Magong Port, and Haihan can only remain neutral in this regard, after all, the merchant ships under the name of Xu Xinsu cannot now pass through the Pearl River section north of Lijiazhuang in Panyu, and can only choose Hong Kong Island or Wanshan Port as anchorage.

But Dayuan Island is different, the imperial court did not include this big island in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Xinsu does not have any direct influence in the local area, if Haihan occupies the land, then the local land distribution must be the Haihan people. If Fu Ruifeng can obtain the qualification to build a wharf business inn locally, then the Fujian Yan can only stare dryly.

Although Li Nai didn't know when the Haihan people would return to Dayuan Island, this matter should not be delayed, and after he figured out the key, he immediately rushed to Sanya by boat, wanting to seize the front to finalize the cooperation and development agreement with the Haihan high-level.