If they want to set up a newspaper in Guangzhou, there are many things that need to be dealt with one by one, and the two of them will not be able to finalize all the details in a short time. Therefore, even if Ning Qi verbally agreed to Li Nai's suggestion, it was only a rough agreement of intent at present. Ning Qi also had to report the matter to the Executive Committee, and then coordinate with relevant agencies and deploy personnel to Guangzhou to prepare for the implementation of the project. In addition, the equipment, paper, ink and other materials required for printing newspapers probably have to be transported from Sanya, and there are many departments that need to be arranged as a whole.

The next day, Li Nai visited Fort Victory, but was told that the senior officials of the Executive Committee were meeting behind closed doors and that they would not be entertained. After inquiring with a familiar staff, it was estimated that the relevant meeting agenda would take two or three days to complete, although Li Nai was anxious to know Haihan's attitude towards the development of Dayuan Island, but he had no way to urge Haihan, so he could only continue to wait patiently for news.

After another three days, Schneider's side finally sent someone to inform Li Nai and asked him to go to Fort Victory for an interview.

"The Executive Committee has approved in principle the two things you mentioned this time. After the meeting, Schneider gave Li Nai good news: "It can be implemented as soon as next month." ”

"Then what do I need to prepare for?" Li Nai's face couldn't hide his joy to show his current mood. If these two things can be implemented, it will definitely have a great effect on the future development of the Li family. In particular, being able to step on the springboard of Dayuan Island will be of great help to the Li family to expand their business to the north, and there is no need to worry about the almost monopoly of the strait channel by their counterparts in Fujian.

"Let's talk about the arrangement of the newspaper first. Schneider responded: "It is best to place the newspaper office outside the city, close to our office in Guangzhou. Well, in the early days, it was almost enough to have a three-entry courtyard, the front was a visitor, the middle was an editorial department, and the last courtyard was a printing workshop and warehouse. You have a lot of contacts on the ground in Guangzhou, and you have done everything you can to get the venue done, and we will do our best to send people and materials over. ”

"It's easy to do, I'll send a telegram when I go back, and let the family do their best to get the things done in the venue. Li Nai replied with confidence: "At most, in seven days, this matter will be finalized." ”

Fort Victory has now opened up a paid telegraph service to a very small number of partners, which can transmit the information that needs to be conveyed to ▽↖dǐng▽↖diǎn▽↖小▽ ↖ to say, .◆.▽os_(); The Haihan Office in Guangzhou will then be sent by the Guangzhou Office to deliver the letter to the recipients. Of course, this kind of communication, which is regarded as "immortal art" in the eyes of outsiders, is also quite considerable, and the content of each word of the telegram requires two Han yuan, which is equivalent to two taels of official silver, which is basically the average monthly income of an ordinary Guangzhou citizen at this time.

This price is not too expensive, because ordinary people are not eligible to enjoy this kind of high-end service even if they have money, and those who can be qualified to use it will not particularly care about this diǎn small money. After all, the voyage from Sanya to Guangzhou takes several days, and the efficiency of information transmission is extremely slow, but Haihan's wireless telegraph service can deliver the message in place within half a day.

"In addition to the venue, we also need to recruit a group of people from Guangzhou. Schneider carefully explained to Li Nai: "The people on our side are mainly responsible for collecting and editing news, organizing printing and distribution, but it is more convenient to recruit people from the local area for those who do typesetting, printing, and sales." ”

"That's no problem. Li Nai diǎndiǎn head said: "Lijiazhuang Academy has been running literacy classes in the past few years, and there are more literate people, so it is more reassuring to use your own people." ”

"I heard Ning Qi say that you will come forward to fight the relationship in the officialdom, you are more professional than me in this regard, so I won't get an axe. Schneider laughed.

Li Nai waved his hand again and again and said: "Mr. Shi's words really hurt me, my diǎn methods, not all of them were learned from the leaders of the Haihan. ”

Li Nai's words are really not deliberately modest, when he first started to contact the Haihan people a few years ago, he was still a half-witted person who had just abandoned literature and business, and he was also ignorant about things about human feelings and interests entanglement. However, later he often mixed in the Guangzhou Office, and was very familiar with Schneider, He Xi, Marik and others, and these people were all old fritters who had worked hard in the officialdom of shopping malls for many years, and all kinds of fancy routines emerged in endlessly.

Schneider said with a straight face: "Now Director Ma Kema, who is in charge of Guangdong affairs, is also an old acquaintance with you, although he is not from a propaganda background, but he still holds policy things relatively steadily." If there is anything you don't understand about the management of the newspaper, you can also ask him for advice. ”

Li Nai responded: "I put this matter in my mind, and when I return to Guangzhou, the first thing I will do is send a post to Director Ma to invite him to dinner." ”

Schneider smiled and changed the subject: "Let's talk about the newspaper first, and then talk about Taiwan." Well, Dayuan Island has always been marked as Taiwan on our map, and you know that. ”

"Knowing and knowing, in fact, it doesn't matter what the name is, it's who owns the place. Li Nai replied with a grin.

Li Nai's words have been quite substantial, and the Western colonizers who first arrived on the island of Taiwan called it Formosa, which means "beautiful island". But across the sea across the Ming Dynasty do not use this name, the folk call the northern part of Taiwan Island "chicken coop", the west coast "Beigang", the south called "Dayuan", "Taiwan", "Taiwowan" and so on, the official also called it "Taiwan" or "Dongfan" mentions. But the real mainland regime took the island and officially named it "Taiwan" during the Qing Dynasty. At present, there is no recognized title for this large island across the sea from Fujian, whether official or non-governmental.

Li Nai has done so much homework about the island of Taiwan, and naturally knows that the name of this place by the Haihan people is different from the more common public perception, just as they call Qiongzhou Island Hainan Island. However, the changes to place names of the Haihan people often coincided with the expansion of their control area, and only if they had been or were being incorporated into the area under their rule, would the area be renamed. As for the name of the local area by the Western Fan people, probably only they will use it, and the Haihan people will definitely not buy it. In the future, when the Haihan people take over the actual control of this Taiwan island, they will call it Taiwan or Wantai, that is, the matter of the executive committee issuing an official document.

"You are your own person, and I won't deliberately hide some situations from you, but you also know our confidentiality system, so it's best not to spread the news you hear from me. After all, when it comes to the future investment plan, you also know that this spread is actually not good for your family. Schneider slowed down his speech so that Li Nai had enough time to digest the meaning of his words.

Li Nai naturally understood, and said again and again: "I understand the rules, Mr. Shi can rest assured." Even if it's for the sake of future business, I'm sure to keep my mouth shut. ”

Schneider stood up and walked to the wall behind him, where a large map of two meters by two meters was located, and in the upper right corner of the island of Taiwan was located.

"The west coast of Taiwan Island is basically a coastal plain, and there are not many natural ports. Schneider's finger poked at the coastline of Tainan, but did not point to a specific location. However, Li Nai was also curious not to ask for such details, and since Schneider is now willing to talk about the local development plan in detail, it is only a matter of time before he gets specific information.

"When we landed on the island of Taiwan, the biggest scruple was the Dutch. But before that we had already dealt with the Dutch and told them to shut up and not interfere in our colonial plans. Schneider said proudly: "As long as the Dutch don't get in the way, we will not have too many problems with sending immigrants to the local area and building the preliminary works." ”

"Why don't you just get rid of them? Letting the Dutch stay there won't do you any good for your future plans, right?" Li Nai asked puzzled, but looking at Schneider's smiling and silent appearance, Li Nai suddenly came to his senses: "No! With your shrewdness, how can you just ask the Dutch to do something that doesn't interfere? I'm afraid that there must be some kind of dirty deal hidden behind this!"

"What is a dirty deal! You guy don't talk about the market slang you learned from He Xi all day long. Schneider replied with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the Dutch are willing to trade people in exchange for a period of peace." ”

"Use immigrants to buy peace?" Li Nai immediately understood what Schneider meant: "They have found the pulse and know that there has always been a gap in your population needs." But where are they going to get people for you? There are only one or two thousand people in Dayuangang, right?"

"Bringing in immigrants from Japan and North Korea. The Dutch have their own channels, and since they are willing to prescribe such conditions, let's first look at the implementation. If they can only pay lip service and fail to meet the promised conditions, then it is not too late to consider the option of expulsion by force. Schneider did not try to hide this, because the two countries were not within the reach of the Li family's commercial empire, and the Dutch did not compete with the Li family in any way in their trade.

"But isn't this the Dutch tantamount to feeding the enemy on the battlefield and making you stronger?" Li Nai shook his head, feeling incomprehensible at the Dutch's strategy.

"They don't have a choice, and the blood transfusion will at least ensure that we don't take drastic measures for a while, and if we don't, they may not have a chance to stay in Dayuangang until the end of the next year. Schneider boasted unabashedly.

In the past, the military had indeed proposed many times to pull out the nail of Dayuan Port in order to ensure the safety of the strait's shipping lane, and the General Staff Department had even drawn up several sets of operational plans for attacking Dayuan Port. If the Dutch were hostile to Haihan's entry into the island of Taiwan, then the militia troops stationed in Penghu might have taken some more radical measures to deal with the Dutch in Dayuangang.

Of course, the conditions offered by the informed Dutch did make it impossible for the Haihan high-level to refuse, and after weighing the pros and cons, they still reached an agreement with the Dutch to continue to live in peace. Although both sides are well aware that the binding force and timeliness of this agreement are quite limited, on the one hand, they are unwilling to waste military power for useless battles, and on the other hand, they hope to use this to survive, get by, and mix as long as they want, so there is such a strange agreement as the "Penghu Supplementary Terms".

Although they knew that it was a drink to quench their thirst, the Dutch could only pretend not to know and continue the business. As for whether the headquarters of the East India Company on the Batavia side would be furious with Hans after knowing that he had signed this agreement, it was not a question for Haihan to worry about. Of course, judging from the current situation, Batavia City will not be able to care about such a far place as Dayuan Port for a while because of the damage caused by this year's war and how severe it is.

However, Li Nai is not particularly concerned about the future of the Dutch, as long as there is a Haihan militia in the local area, he feels at ease enough. He is concerned about another question: "Is the local development still carried out according to the previous investment model?"

Schneider did not respond directly to his question, but continued to explain the situation: "The port we inspected there is very large, and the coastline that can be used to build the dock is longer than the existing large ports on Hainan Island combined, so in terms of civil terminals, we will leave enough space for attracting investment." ”

Li Nai asked tentatively: "That means that even if my family competes with the Fujian one at the same time, there is enough space for us?"

Schneider smiled: "Ten or eight more can accommodate it." ”

"Is there anything that needs to be prepared in advance?" asked Li Nai as he continued.

"It's not the first time that your family has participated in the construction project of the colonial area, don't pretend to be a novice, okay?" Schneider ruthlessly exposed Li Nai's purpose.

Li Nai didn't care, and said with a smile: "If you can learn more about the situation of Diǎn, you can also make more preparations." However, the planned port is so large, I'm afraid it won't be built in a year or two, right?"

"If it doesn't work in two years, it will be five years, and if it doesn't work in five years, it will be ten years, and infrastructure construction can only be completed slowly. Schneider saw this very clearly: "The main reason for the slow time now is that there is too little available labor, and the more people we have under our rule in the future, the faster the infrastructure will be built." I wanted to build this Victory Fort at the beginning, and it took more than a year before it was completed. By the middle of this year, the Penghu base will be built, but it will be put into use in a month or two, which is progress. ”