Although merchants used to sell porcelain, most of them were resale, and the profits were not the same as their own production. The famous kilns in South China near the trade port are only one of the Dehua kilns in Fujian, and the porcelains produced in other places such as Liling kilns in Hunan, Jingdezhen kilns in Jiangxi, Cizhou kilns in Hebei, and Longquan kilns in Zhejiang Province are quite expensive to be trafficked to South China. Nowadays, the Haihan people want to build a porcelain production area near the export port, and the knowledgeable businessmen will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity to sit and make money.

For projects like the ceramic industry, the business department is willing to put it in the "Qiong Lianfa" to share with shareholders, mainly because of the resources in the hands of shareholders. If the crossing group wants to sing a one-man show, then this project can naturally be done, it is just that the speed will be a little slower. After bringing these shareholders in, in order to get more profit from them more quickly, they will definitely try to find the technical personnel needed for this project in the mainland, and those foreign merchants who have traded porcelain with them in the past will probably move the place of trading from the mainland to Victory Port in the future.

Of course, this kind of new store opening business wants to compete with those famous kiln works that have been inherited for hundreds of years on the mainland, and it is not possible to dig some craftsmen from other houses, and the business idea of "Qiong Lianfa" will also uphold the consistent style of the group, and reduce production costs and form basic competitiveness with industrialized production methods. In terms of high-end products, it may not be able to compete with the craftsmanship of old famous kilns, but in the low-end daily porcelain production, the group can use its own technical advantages and management advantages to achieve cost control and gain competitive advantages with production capacity.

To reduce costs by production capacity and compete in the market by cost, this can almost be said to be the ability of the group to organize production, and it is difficult to find rivals in this era. Even agricultural production has been completely detached from the small-scale peasant economic system of its contemporaries and replaced by a collective farm style of operation, with a unified planting plan.

Whether it's industry or agriculture, this mode of operation is very new to shareholders. Some of them may have thought of running their business in a similar way, but both the level of production and the means of management limit the possibility of turning these ideas into reality. In this day and age, only the Crossing Group has the experience and technology to realize these vast and complex projects.

Due to the delay of the listing ceremony in the morning, it was already lunchtime after the IPO process of the ceramics industry was completed. In the afternoon, the schedule is just as tight, and shareholders have to participate in the product promotion meeting that they are interested in, as well as the education briefing that everyone is very concerned about. As for the rest of the project briefing, everyone is not in a hurry to meet at this time and a half, after all, the money invested in these projects will take about half a year at the earliest to see the hope of return. And according to the explanatory materials, the funds required for follow-up projects are also increasing, and everyone needs a little time to digest the explanatory materials and make a careful decision.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Ning Qi walked into the venue of the education briefing with his briefcase in his hand, and was surprised to find that there were many more people who came to join in the fun than he had expected. Due to the shortage of space for meetings, the education department had to temporarily requisition an empty warehouse in the port business district. In advance, the name of the meeting was pasted in black and white at the entrance, and the tables and chairs were simply arranged.

According to Ning Qi's estimate, it would be good if more than ten or twenty people could come to listen to this briefing, after all, there would be some conflicts with other promotions in terms of time. But what I saw in front of me was that the five rows of benches were full, and there were more than a dozen listeners who had come late and did not occupy seats standing and waiting. Ning Qi hurriedly ordered the naturalized people who were doing chores here to go to the cafeteria and bring some more chairs and stools.

Ning Qi looked around the venue and saw that almost all the shareholders of "Qiong Lianfa" were present, and he sighed a little in his heart. As a somewhat arrogant literati, he originally did not approve of the Executive Committee's use of various industrial technologies as sweeteners to attract these foreign merchants to send their children to Shengli Port to study, after all, this method seemed too philistine. However, he also understands that the Executive Committee's decision is actually forced by the situation, and it is necessary to win over a number of influential interest spokesmen in the mainland in the shortest possible time, and to make this interest relationship as stable as possible, so as to prepare for the future mainland strategy.

But after seeing the scene in front of him, Ning Qi also had to admit that the effect of the executive committee's trick was indeed quite good, if it wasn't for the propaganda of these businessmen, then the deserted courtyard of today's briefing meeting was also a foreseeable scene, after all, everyone wanted to send their children to the imperial examination of the imperial court, and it was no good who would want to send their children all the way to this place to learn some strange and clever things.

"Thank you for coming here today to listen to our briefing, first of all, I would like to state one thing, our Haihan education system does not teach traditional content such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, so if you have any plans to let your children take the imperial examination, you may as well find another way out, so as not to delay the future of your children. After Ning Qi sat down, he opened the book and explained the direction of education.

Ning Qi looked at it, and no one in the audience seemed to plan to leave, and it seemed that they were all mentally prepared to come. Ning Qi coughed dryly and continued: "So everyone here, did you receive the promotional materials we distributed when you entered the venue? ”

The so-called promotional materials, in fact, are similar to the content of the project description, which mainly briefly explains the content and direction of the external enrollment plan of Haihan Educational Institution.

In response to the fact that non-naturalized immigrants want to take the initiative to enroll in school, the education department has developed a special program to divide the students into two categories. One is the students who are willing to stay in the area of the group or enter the group after graduation, and the other group is those who come to Shengli Port to learn technology and will return to Daming or other places to work after completing their studies. To put it simply, it is basically the orientation students and commission trainees of this era.

If they are willing to sign a contract, students who will work in the relevant units for five years after graduation according to the assignment of the crossing group will be able to reduce all tuition and miscellaneous fees, and can give priority to extending the future employment contract. These students can choose their own majors, but their future employment destinations will be determined by the crossing group.

The wealthy businessmen's preferred model of returning home to start their own business is to pay a lump sum of tuition fees that are not low, and if they drop out of school halfway, the excess tuition fees will not be refunded. In addition, there are a few majors that will not be open to enrollment, such as the arms manufacturing major, which makes both "Fu Ruifeng" and Fujian Xu Xinsu Group extremely itchy.

The school system is divided into three years of primary, secondary and tertiary education, and the entrance ceremony will be subject to a literacy test to arrange the corresponding academic year. Only after completing primary and secondary school studies can students enter the university to formally study specialized courses. The primary and secondary school curriculum is pressed to six years, which is also a last resort, whether it is internal or external, it is impossible to apply the education system of later generations and spend more than ten years to slowly cultivate talents. Because there are not so many teachers available, the rapidly expanding units facing the shortage of personnel do not have enough patience to wait that long.

In fact, most of the students who are currently enrolled in Shengli Harbor Primary School will be directly assigned to work after completing three years of primary school and completing literacy and basic numeracy learning, and only a small number of students who are more intelligent and outstanding will have the opportunity to enter a higher secondary school. As for the "university", it is still only a paper institution, because there are no students who need to receive higher education in batches for the time being.

Wealthy merchants want to send their children to Shengli Harbor to learn the secret art of Haihan, and if they start from scratch, then they need to study and live here for more than nine years at the shortest. If nine years have not been able to wash the minds of these students into a party with their own dry food, then Ning Qi can almost resign and retire early. Maybe by the time they graduated, they would have already become a firm-minded Haihan faction, and returning to the territory of the Ming Dynasty would be able to better promote the culture and values of the Haihan Dynasty to the outside world, if there was still a Ming regime at that time.

Although this study time is very long, it is still a lot shorter than the more than ten years that Tao Donglai initially claimed. And the wealthy businessmen who have been accustomed to the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty will not feel that there is anything wrong with this time span, after all, relying on the imperial examination to test for fame in the Ming Dynasty is not something that can be completed in a short time. From being a child in Mengxue to being a famous talent in the examination, it will take several years, and those who can be admitted to Xiucai in their teens are all talented talents. And the difficulty of going up is gradually increasing, many scholars can only be famous for a lifetime, and there are very few people who can take the test like Li Nai, the third young master of "Fu Ruifeng", and only 3,000 people are taken once every three years in the country, and the proportion is similar to that of Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations. As for the higher level of Jinshi, the admission ratio is only one-tenth of the lifter, so it is not just a matter of personal knowledge, and people with self-knowledge will not continue to waste time to take the exam when they get the lifter.

If there is no other way out, you will only have to rely on the government to earn a subsistence allowance for the rest of your life. The rich children take the test for a show of fame, but in fact, it is just good, and it does not have much practical effect, and many rich people simply buy it with money. For businessmen who are more practical, instead of fighting for character and waiting to be mixed into the civil service system to fill the vacancies, it is better to send them to Shengli Port to learn a little practical skills from the Haihan people, which is a good thing that can really earn gold and silver!

According to the two different enrollment forms of orientation and commission training, a number of majors are listed in the explanatory materials, and a simple explanation is attached. And the questions in the minds of the wealthy businessmen are obviously much more than the content of the enrollment brochure at hand, so after Ning Qi briefly retold the enrollment brochure, the wealthy businessmen immediately began to ask various questions.

"Mr. Ning, if the juniors sent here are already familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, can they skip primary and secondary schools and go directly to this university?"

"Mr. Ning, this student doesn't charge a penny, but the commission trainee has to pay the tuition fees for the first six years at once, it's too unfair, right?"

"Mr. Ning, if this commission trainee wants to change to an orientation student halfway, will the tuition fee be refunded?"

"Mr. Ning, if the child is stupid and can't finish this course, what should I do?

In the face of this chaotic situation, Ning Qi felt as if he had gone back to the 21st century in a trance, and when he went to various places every summer to promote the school's admissions policy, was it not the same situation that he faced with those excited parents?

Of course, the essence of things is still different, those eager parents who faced before the crossing are basically planning for the future of their children, and now these guys are just using their children's descendants as a tool for long-term investment. They were in such a hurry just to figure out what they could do to ensure that they could reap the maximum benefits in the future.

Thinking of this, Ning Qi couldn't help but feel a little more disgusted with these fat-brained guys in front of him, and knocked on the table with his fists: "Quiet and quiet! Please be quiet, don't ask questions together, so that I can't hear any of them clearly! If you want to ask a question, sit down and raise your hand, and I will answer them one by one, and each person is limited to one question at a time!"

Ning Qi was furious, and sure enough, the order of the venue was much better. Even if some people don't think so in their hearts, they can only endure it for the time being when they think that their children will study under this Mr. Ning in the future.

The Q&A session was far more cumbersome than the morning briefing, because there were no ready-made achievements in the Haihan education system for these businessmen to visit, and it was not an easy task to deepen their understanding and build confidence in Haihan education by simply paying lip service. Rao is Ningqi has always been known for his mouth, but later he was also dizzy by this gang of people, and he almost called someone to let the police maintain order in the venue.

In the end, Tao Donglai, who had completed another promotion meeting, arrived in time and helped Ning Qi to prop up the field together. And with Tao Donglai's endorsement, the doubts of the businessmen seem to have really decreased a little. By the end of the afternoon's educational briefing, more than 20 businessmen had already registered to select school-age children to study in Victory Port.

After all, the high commission tuition fee starting from 100 taels per year is really scary, and if you can complete the primary and secondary school courses and enter the university to study professional courses, the tuition fee will go up to a higher level. Coupled with the cost of living in the local area for a few years, this is not a small amount. Besides, this orientation is not a bad thing, after graduation, working in a designated unit of the Haihan people for five years, isn't this just being an intern apprentice? Not all walks of life do this, but the rules of the Haihan people sound more special.

Most of the stronger businesses have registered for admission to several majors, which means that they will have to send the corresponding number of students. For example, Dong Yanyun, the representative of Xu Xinsu Group, unceremoniously and directly chartered the majors announced by Ningqi, whether it was orientation or commission training, each major had a quota of two people in advance, and it seemed that he was planning to form a team of international students to come here. Dong Yanyun hurriedly signed the letter of intent and left, because he had another very important promotion meeting to attend.

Compared to the educational briefing here, the situation at the other promotion session was much quieter, and the total number of participants was less than 10. This venue is not in the port business district or Victory Fort, but on the east bank of the estuary of the Tiandu River.

In the first product promotion meeting after the establishment of "Haihan Military Industry", only three representatives were invited to participate in the Xu Xinsu Group in Fujian, the "Fu Ruifeng" in Guangzhou, and the official delegation of North Vietnam. So far, only these three parties have been able to directly buy all kinds of light and heavy weapons produced by the Crossing Group.

For "Fu Ruifeng", the good days of relying on reselling weapons to Fujian in the past few months are gone, and due to the strict export control of weapons by crossing the group, "Fu Ruifeng" will not have other sales objects for the time being, so their current purchase ** is not very strong, and this meeting is basically to play the role of a spectator.

The other two buyers are both at war, and the demand for arms is so great that it can be said that they can buy as much as they want through the group. After watching the previous amphibious military exercises, the two buyers were even more determined to equip Haihan weapons in large quantities, after all, on the battlefield they are now in, there will be amphibious landing or anti-landing battles, and the Haihan people's combat method of making full use of hot weapons undoubtedly gives them an excellent reference. If the strength of the Haihan militia's equipment can be reached, then it should only be a matter of time before the opponent is defeated.

Although the military industry is already developing weapons with higher technical content, there are not too many new products launched for the time being. At present, the crossing group itself is expanding its army, and most of the flintlock guns produced have been digested by itself, and for a period of time it will still use arquebuses as the main export weapon. As for the artillery, I am afraid that it will disappoint the buyers who rushed to the sea, because the port fortifications and the navy still have a large demand for artillery equipment, and now all the production capacity of the artillery workshop is used to make zuò shore defense guns and naval guns, and as for the army guns of the export model, the production will not start until at least May. This time, the only products that can make buyers feel free are replaceable parts and ammunition that match the weapons that were previously exported