At the same time that Li Qingyang's matter was being discussed by the Executive Committee, the Ministry of Security had already come to talk to He Qiang, expressing the hope that a position could be arranged in the "Fu Ji Pharmacy" for a "sensitive person". He Qiang was very interested in not asking about the specific identity of this person, nor did he refuse the request of the Ministry of Security, after all, the fate of the Li family and the Haihan people have been firmly tied together, and Haihan has never done anything harmful to the interests of the Li family. Of course, the most important thing is that He Qiang is also a high-level member of the Li family, and he also knows what kind of organization the Haihan Security Department is, and this institution is something that the Li family can never afford to offend.

As the cooperation between the two sides enters its third year, the cooperation between the Li family and Haihan has long been not limited to the business field, such as cultural promotion, finance, immigration, military and even intelligence gathering, etc., the Li family is also gradually involved, becoming an important help for Haihan in the mainland. Almost all of the industries under the Li family's name scattered throughout Guangdong were tasked with collecting local military and political information and regularly collecting it to Guangzhou.

Of course, all that the hired workers of the Li family can do is to record the well-known movements of the government, not the kind of targeted intelligence gathering work done by professional intelligence officers. After the information is summarized in Guangzhou, the personnel of the Security Department of the Guangzhou Office will select the valuable information among them, sort them out, sort them out, and then send them back to Sanya for the reference of the Executive Committee when making decisions. Only a very small number of institutions in the major state cities have intelligence officers stationed by Haihan on a permanent basis. As a senior member of the Li family in the field of business, He Qiang is naturally well aware of the cooperation in this regard.

If according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, what the Li family is doing now can actually meet the standard of raiding the family and destroying the door, but with the strong backing of Haihan, the Li family is not too worried that this kind of behavior will attract the investigation of the government. As long as the Haihan people do not do anything blatant beyond the norms, the local government will not interfere, and even intelligence agencies like Jinyiwei are not spared, and they have become puppets in the face of huge commercial interests. This is also one of the reasons why the Nanjing Zhenfu Division insisted on sending people south from among its direct personnel to investigate Haihan, but did not give instructions to the Guangdong sub-office.

Lin Nan introduced He Qiang and Li Qingyang at the moment, and after the two met, He Qiang asked the clerk to take Li Qingyang to see his residence first. After Li Qingyang thanked him, he followed the clerk through the store hall and went to the staff living area behind the store.

It is said to be a residential area, but it is actually a small courtyard, with a shop hall on one side facing south, and two-story buildings on the other three sides, of which the east side is used as a warehouse for medicinal herbs, and the rooms on the other two sides are for the clerks in the shop to live. He Qiang himself does not live here, and the Li family has purchased a number of properties in Sanya, which are used to provide permanent managers like He Qiang.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Security, the "Fuji Pharmacy" arranged a small single room on the second floor for Li Qingyang, with complete furniture, daily necessities, and even a few sets of clothes prepared and placed on the bed, which made Li Qingyang unable to find fault at all after reading it. There was a small window at the head of the bed, and Li Qingyang walked in only to find that this window was not without paste, but made of precious Haihan glass, and he could only see the empty window frames when he looked at it from a distance. As a result, Li Qingyang also had a new estimate of the financial resources of this shop, and ordinary medicinal herb shops probably would not have the spare money to spend on installing glass windows in the rooms where employees live.

After Li Qingyang looked at the room, the clerk took him downstairs and informed him of the location of the toilet and shower room. The courtyard is occupied entirely by men, so the latrines and shower rooms are shared. Of course, the shop under the name of the Li family, the bathroom equipment used is naturally a full set of Haihan production, Li Qingyang suddenly felt like a hillbilly who had never seen the market after reading it. These ceramic sanitary ware look very high-end, and they are very clean and hygienic, even the toilet paper used is white, which is enough to make Li Qingyang, who came from Nanjing, feel ashamed of his previous standard of living.

When Li Qingyang visited his residence in the backyard, Lin Nan seized the time to explain the precautions to He Qiang: "...... This person came from a public family, and although he has taken refuge in us, his mind is still a little wavering. Steward He thinks of more ways on weekdays to let him feel the strength of my Haihan and slowly grind out those bad thoughts in his head. ”

He Qiang responded: "Master Lin rest assured, this matter will be done with his heart." Seeing that he has just arrived in Sanya, in fact, there is no need to do any special measures, as long as he lives here for two or three months, he will naturally feel the strength of Haihan. I think that at the beginning, those rich people who came down from Guangdong all looked down on Haihan, thinking that there were no good things in this poor and remote place, and now they are not fighting to sell their houses and properties here, and bring their children to study here. I think this little brother surnamed Li is also a smart person, and it probably won't take a few days to appreciate the benefits here. ”

Lin Nan nodded and said, "Steward He is reasonable, but we have limited the activity area for him to be within the business district, so we will try not to let him go out alone in the near future." In addition, he must also control the people he can come into contact with, and try not to let him come into contact with people who have just come from the mainland, especially those strangers who are not identified. ”

The reason why Lin Nan wants to emphasize this point is to let Li Qingyang's mentality start again. Of course, the Ministry of Security would not be stupid enough to let Li Qingyang sign a few paperwork and then be completely relieved of him, and the necessary monitoring measures would continue. In addition to this kind of control inside the pharmacy, Lin Nan of course also made other arrangements to prevent Li Qingyang from taking some irrational behavior.

When Li Qingyang returned to the store after visiting, He Qiang asked him, "Mr. Li is still satisfied with the environment in our store?"

Li Qingyang hurriedly responded: "Satisfied, satisfied, very satisfied." ”

"If there is a need, just say it, the owner is very generous. Lin Nan said with a smile.

"This is also thanks to the leaders of the Haihan who take care of the business, otherwise how can they be generous!" He Qiang responded very knowingly.

Li Qingyang said in his heart that this pharmacy has such a close relationship with the Haihan people, and it seems that it is also a conspirator. In the future, I have to be careful not to reveal any tricks, otherwise I will be denounced at any time.

I heard He Qiang continue: "Mr. Li works in our shop, what is this remuneration, it is tentatively set at ten yuan per month, and food and accommodation are calculated separately, is this good?"

Li Qingyang didn't react for the first time, and then remembered that this was the boundary of the Haihan Dynasty, and the currency in this place was not silver taels or copper coins, but paper money issued by the Haihan people, which was measured in yuan. This month, ten yuan also includes food and lodging, and the treatment is already quite good, you must know that as a military attache of the sixth grade, his statutory annual income is only more than 100 and less than 200 taels of silver, which is not higher than the income of being a bookkeeper here. And he hasn't forgotten that he can also get another income at the same time - the Ministry of Security also has to pay him a salary, and the combined income of these two sides has almost doubled the income of being a Jinyiwei, which makes Li Qingyang cry and laugh when he thinks about it.

After Li Qingyang came back to his senses, he hurriedly thanked He Qiang. He also knew that this income was purely given by people in the face of the Ministry of Security, although it was not enough to buy him Li Qingyang, but no matter how he thought about it, it was also a sum of money that could not be ignored. Since Lin Nan didn't raise his voice against it, then this income can be pocketed reasonably and legally.

After meeting He Qiang, Lin Nan took Li Qingyang to leave the "Fu Ji Pharmacy" and continued to visit the business district. Li Qingyang walked and looked, and found that this place is called the first port of Qiongzhou, and there is indeed some reason, the goods sold here are not only produced in Liangguang and Fujian, but even the products north of the Yellow River are sold, so you can imagine how much scale of commercial operation this port has driven. However, on the street, there were no showers and beggars that were commonly seen in prosperous areas, and there were no idlers who had nothing to do, which made Li Qingyang quite puzzled, so he took the initiative to ask Lin Nan about it.

Lin Nan explained: "In the areas under the Haihan Executive Committee, there will always be a shortage of labor, and there will be no good people who cannot find a livelihood and need to rely on begging for hygiene. Even if there is a physical disability and cannot do physical work, we will arrange for such people to do what they can and will not let them eat idlely. ”

Li Qingyang felt a little unbelievable when he heard this, so he asked, "Then Brother Lin is talking about it, if you are blind and can't see anything, what can you do?"

Lin Nan smiled and said, "Don't look down on the blind, you can learn some skills to make a living if you can't see things." For example, playing musical instruments, massages, and so on. I once heard the chiefs say that because the blind have no vision, their senses of taste, touch, smell, and hearing are more developed than ordinary people. There are no useless people in this world, just to see if they are on the right path!"

Li Qingyang felt that Lin Nan's words seemed to mean something else, but it didn't seem to be aimed at himself.

Lin Nan continued: "Under the rule of Haihan, everyone had to participate in labor, and we did not raise any idlers here. The leaders said that the wealth of Haihan is created by everyone together, so the strength of Haihan belongs to everyone who has contributed to it, and everyone who participates in this process will also be rewarded accordingly by their own efforts. ”

Although Li Qingyang also felt that Lin Nan had said this set of methods, as a Daming Jinyi guard, he felt that he was really a little unreasonable if he didn't refute something, so he immediately responded: "You have sheltered so many people of the Ming Dynasty, but these people have not paid taxes to the Ming government since then, does Brother Lin think this is consistent with the statement of the Executive Committee that it is not hostile to the Ming Dynasty?"

Lin Nan shook his head and said: "The vast majority of these people are disaster victims, if they don't take refuge in us, then they have to rely on the Ming Dynasty to take money and grain to relieve them, where can the taxes be collected?

"This ......" Li Qingyang always felt that there was something wrong with this, but he couldn't think of how to refute it for a while.

Lin Nan didn't leave time for Li Qingyang to think slowly, pointed to the flow of people on the street and said: "Brother Li, please open your eyes and look here, look at the expressions on the faces of the people, please tell me, can you see humbleness, despair, numbness, and misery on their faces? They know that there is an all-powerful Executive Committee, that there will be a solution to all problems, and that they just need to do what the Executive Committee has ordered. ”

Li Qingyang said: "Everything here is the final say of the executive committee, what kind of situation will the Ming court be in!"

Lin Nan smiled and said, "If the executive committee is not well governed, the people can choose to leave here on their own and go back to the place where they used to live." You can just pull someone on the street and ask to see if it's better in Sanya or somewhere else in Daming. ”

Li Qingyang said in his heart that even the tent of the pharmacy in this place can get a monthly salary of ten taels of silver, presumably the income of ordinary laborers is far better than that of the Ming Dynasty, just in terms of the rich Cheng Dù, the level here must be far beyond the Ming Dynasty, where do these ignorant people know how powerful, naturally they will say that this place is good if they see the high income here.

Seeing that Li Qingyang did not continue to argue, Lin Nan did not take the initiative to pursue further, and pointed forward and said: "In front is the first port that the leaders came here to open up Shengli Port, let's go over and take a look." ”

Since the opening of the port, Shengli Port has undergone several reconstruction and expansion projects in less than three years, and today's Shengli Port is no longer what it was at the beginning. The bluestone wharf stretches west along the bay for several miles, and there are wide trestle bridges that jut out into the sea every few tens of meters, and there are as many as two or three hundred ships docked in the harbor. Many of the trestle bridges are full of people, and laborers are constantly loading and unloading goods, a busy scene.

Li Qingyang had also seen the busyness of the commercial port in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before, and compared with the Shengli Port wharf, the prosperity of Cheng dù was similar, but the order on the wharf was far less than here. Li Qingyang looked at it for a while, and found that every wharf here has a special loading and unloading line to ensure that these stevedores working on the wharf will not cause chaos and congestion. A large number of hoisting machinery on the wharf and trestle also effectively saves manpower and improves efficiency.

Lin Nan introduced next to him: "Those who wear white vests are ordinary stevedores, those who wear yellow vests are foremen, those who wear blue vests are those who are responsible for counting goods, and those who wear red vests are patrolling labor discipline." ”