"Everyone, I can understand your anxious feelings, everyone has spent a lot of money in this place, and they all want to recoup their investment as soon as possible. But to be reasonable, we have the most manpower, material and financial resources, and we are the most anxious to be anxious. Anxi looked at the large group of people blocked outside the office, and could only patiently explain to them: "Everyone is blocked here, I can't do anything, this is not only delaying our time, but also your own time!"

The representatives sent by these businessmen or bigwigs can all be regarded as the financiers of the local port construction, so Anxi can't talk too seriously, so he can only persuade him with good words. If ordinary people dared to block the office space like this, Anxi would have asked Chen Yixin to come over with the militia to clear the scene.

Dong Yanyun, as a representative of Fujian's business community, said: "Mr. An, we are not waiting here to prevent you from handling daily official business, but just to get the investment news released by you as soon as possible. ”

Anxi smiled bitterly: "Everyone, after the local development project is confirmed, there will be open and fair investment promotion activities, and all commercial banks will be notified in advance." ”

Anzay said and raised a book in his hand to show everyone: "Merchants who intend to participate in the investment promotion activities of Kaohsiung Port, we have registered here, and we guarantee to notify in advance so that everyone can be fully prepared." ”

On the one hand, it is because the military's actions have made the Executive Committee a little unprepared, and the temporary measures are also very hasty, and on the other hand, because the Executive Committee has obviously favored Guangdong merchants on the issue of the allocation of exclusive wharf construction rights before this, which has led to a certain impact on Haihan's credibility. Fujian businessmen are worried that Anxi will once again favor their Guangdong counterparts, while Guangdong businessmen are worried that Anxi, under the pressure of Fujian, will find a balance to take care of their Fujian counterparts through the investment promotion link.

In the past, Haihan's investment promotion activities were opened to everyone at the same time, but this time, Haihan's expression has obviously made businessmen in Fuguang and Guangzhou provinces have some doubts about Haihan's business reputation. They waited outside the Anxi office to wait for news, which in itself was already a manifestation of a lack of trust in Haihan. It's just that the fault this time is not on these Ming merchants, but mainly on the consequences of Haihan's own lack of adequate preparation for the development of Kaohsiung Port.

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In the end, the merchants left the place with unease, but Anzai was not relieved by this, because he knew that these guys would continue to appear tomorrow morning, and the persuasion he had just made almost dry mouth would probably not last more than twenty-four hours.

"If you rush my life, then I can only rush the life of the executive committee. Anzay shook his head and went straight to the confidential room. He is now urging the Executive Committee to do its best to replenish the administrative staff and professional and technical personnel of the Kaohsiung Port with the frequency of a telegram a day, although such a urging may not really have much effect, but this is the only way for Anxi to do so. It is impossible for him to conjure up a management team in this place out of thin air, and if he wants the development of Kaohsiung Port to go smoothly, he will have to rely on the support of the base camp in the end.

However, Anxi's luck seems to be good today, he entered the confidential room and turned on the telegraph, and after the warm-up was completed, before the telegram was delivered, the news came from Sanya first--37 naturalized cadres and technicians had already set off from Shengli Port in the early hours of this morning and headed north, and if they were in the air, they would definitely arrive in Kaohsiung within a week. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture have completed the investment promotion plan, and they will discuss it at the meeting today, and notify the Kaohsiung Management Committee in the form of telegram after the results are available within a day or two.

"If you have this efficiency, how can you be so in a hurry!" Anxi couldn't help but complain twice, and after sending a reply telegram, he turned off the phone and went offline. The service life of these electronic products is limited, and the Executive Committee has clear requirements for the use time of public electrical equipment, so as to reduce unnecessary losses to extend their service life as much as possible. Although the technical principles of wireless telegraphs are not very esoteric, it is not possible to make spare parts for these devices brought from the 21st century by relying on existing productivity. Before the Turkish telegraph machine manufactured by Haihan itself can run relatively smoothly in actual use, these ready-made black technology products can be used for one more day to earn one day.

On December 20, the first batch of personnel urgently deployed from Sanya was finally replenished, so that various agencies finally relieved the embarrassment of insufficient manpower, and the long-awaited Kaohsiung Port Investment Promotion Conference finally had news, which will be held in the compound of the Kaohsiung Port Management Committee the next day. Merchants who have registered their intention to participate in the early stage can enter the meeting with the registration receipt at that time, while others who want to come in temporarily to get a piece of the pie or watch the excitement must register their identities and pay a sincerity fee of 100 taels of silver to the management committee - this is also to stop some people who try to come in with malicious intent and wait for the opportunity to make trouble in advance as much as possible.

This kind of thing is not uncommon, in the past investment conferences, there have also been some unidentified people using malicious bidding, price gouging, disrupting the order of the venue and other means to make trouble, some because of the conflict of interests with Haihan and the hatred, some are with the business involved in the Haihan business plan have personal grudges, and some simply want to use this to gain a sense of position. Although a hundred taels of silver of sincerity gold could not stop all those who wanted to make trouble, at least it could stop the most unscrupulous poor ghosts among them.

However, it has only been a month since the large-scale entry of Haihan in Kaohsiung Port, and people who are not well-informed have not even received the news that Haihan plans to build a new port here, and the merchants who can come here to participate in the investment promotion meeting are basically old customers who maintain cooperative relations with Haihan, so there is no need to worry too much about any unexpected situations.

There are no new projects in the whole investment promotion association, and it is basically based on cash crop plantations in agriculture. As for the deer farm project that Anxi is most optimistic about, Haihan has no intention of sharing it with investors. This is because both Anthy and the Ministry of Agriculture believe that the island's natives are more familiar with the habits of wild deer, and that it would be more efficient for them to be responsible for capturing and raising deer, while also providing them with an opportunity to work as much as they can.

The civilization of these indigenous tribes is still a lot worse than that of the Li Miao cottage on Hainan Island, and apart from raising deer, the experts on the Haihan side really haven't come up with other jobs that can provide long-term stability for the natives, with good incomes and low enough technical thresholds. The productive capacity of these tribes is still in the real slash-and-burn era, and even if they are to be taught to cultivate farmland, it will take two or three years to let go of their hands and feet, so the "rough work" of raising deer is more suitable for their actual situation.

There are no large mineral deposits or energy resources worth developing near the port of Kaohsiung, which is probably the only fly in the ointment that makes the traversers feel that they have a fly in the ointment. The few metal deposits worth developing on the island of Taiwan are mainly concentrated in the north, and the relatively rich natural resources near the port of Kaohsiung are bamboo, wood, water conservancy and fishery.

The Executive Committee has no plans to build a large hydropower facility on the island of Taiwan in the short term, so the local water advantage will probably only be used for agricultural irrigation. In addition to rice to be planted on a large scale, the Ministry of Agriculture has also prepared projects for the cultivation of wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miscellaneous grains. Although it is true that wheat was produced in Kaohsiung in later generations, it is still unknown whether wheat can be grown in Taiwan under the climate conditions of the earth's temperature falling sharply during the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of cash crops, the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared plantation projects for local areas such as sugarcane, peanuts, soybeans, citronella, tea, bananas, pineapples, citrus and tobacco. Sugar, oil, tea, tobacco, and fruits cover almost all of the most lucrative areas of cash crops at present. Many of them are high-yield projects with fast results, short payback period and long payback period, and businessmen who are familiar with the operation mode of Haihan plantations are eager to do so.

According to the supplementary agreement signed between Haihan and the Dutch, Errenxi south of Dayuangang was used as the demarcation line between the East India Company and Haihan's sphere of influence. Based on this, the relevant departments of Haihan have planned about 15,000 acres of plantation parks in the area south of Erren River and west of Gaoping River, which is converted into about 10 square kilometers. More than 3,000 laborers were needed to reclaim these areas and turn them into plantations, and it was clear that the implementation would be very slow if it were to be relied on by Haihan alone, so it was necessary to involve investors directly in the development and management of the plantations.

Of course, no matter how the investors injected labor into the plantations in Kaohsiung, these immigrants would eventually gradually become naturalized citizens under the rule of Haihan, who gave part of the profits to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and partly considered it to bring in immigrants on their behalf to enrich the population of the jurisdiction. In the past few years, this approach has achieved excellent results in plantation projects in various places, and has successively brought tens of thousands of new immigrants to Haihan, and the investors are also well aware of Haihan's purpose.

However, they don't care about the continuous growth of Haihan through guò in this way, for businessmen, the most important thing is to get real money from these business projects led by Haihan every year. Anyway, the Haihan did not show obvious hostility towards the Ming Dynasty, and the government of Fuguang and Guangzhou provinces was also happy to make a fortune with the Haihan people, so the merchants naturally turned a blind eye to Haihan's disguised absorption of population. I heard that after the military disaster in the northern Central Plains, there were people everywhere, and as long as a boatload of grain was transported, a boatload of young people could be brought back, and some people specialized in this business to transport people to Haihan, and Haihan did it, and of course he did it himself, and the source of this labor force was much lower than the cost of recruiting immigrants in Fuguang.

All kinds of news about immigrants from the north are naturally deliberately released by Haihan. In the past, Haihan Tong Guò maritime merchants introduced some immigrants from the north, and the effect can be said to be quite good, but the scale is far from meeting the needs of Haihan for population. In particular, the plan to develop the island of Taiwan is not as good as Haihan, Annam, and other places that already have a relatively good population base, and the total number of indigenous people on the entire island is only a few tens of thousands, and the process of civilization is relatively low, and the proportion of people who can be incorporated into the ranks of naturalized people in a short period of time is even more worrying.

With the current rate of introduction of migrants to the Penghu base, if it wants to continue to transfuse blood to the island of Taiwan, it can only completely stop the plan to send migrants to Hainan and other places, and this is obviously a situation that the Executive Committee does not want to see. The immediate priority is not to divide existing resources into separate parts, but to find ways to open more channels and continue to scale up the inflow of migrants.

The Kaohsiung Management Committee came up with a 15,000-acre plantation project in one go, which is almost a "feat" that has not appeared in the past investment promotion meetings. Even on Hainan Island, where the plantation area has exceeded 100,000 mu, no batch of investment promotion activities has ever taken out so much land at one time.

Of course, the island of Taiwan has an advantage that no other place has, that is, the land here is terra nullius, and there will be no disputes over ownership in the process of land acquisition. As for the local natives, Haihan naturally did not regard these natives who did not even know what the "title deed" was as the local masters, and it was impossible to seek their opinions on land acquisition. Provide them with a stable livelihood, so that they don't make trouble with Haihan after they have a well-to-eat life, and then slowly naturalize and win them over, which can be regarded as worthy of them.

If there are less savvy indigenous tribes who are unwilling to cooperate and defend their so-called territory, then the mountain operations forces from Annam will be happy to teach them that if they fall behind, they will be beaten. When Qian Tiandun first designed the combat functions of this unit, he envisioned the mountainous environment of southeastern China, which naturally included the central mountain range on the island of Taiwan, and the indigenous people of the alpine tribes on the island were also one of the imaginary enemies during the training of this unit. After several years of targeted training, these soldiers of Annamite origin are far from being able to adapt to the mountains compared to other units in the militia group, and it is not much more difficult to kill the indigenous armed forces who are primitively equipped, have no professional training, and do not even have a decent combat formation, than to deal with unarmed ordinary people.

The three-day investment promotion conference went very smoothly, and investors from Fuzhou and Guangzhou did not hesitate to bid for the plantation projects they were interested in. The most difficult period in the early stage of the development of Kaohsiung Port can be said to have been smoothly passed since then.