The Executive Committee is willing to give "Fu Ruifeng" relatively large preferential treatment and concessions in the cooperation agreement of "Qiong Lianfa", in addition to taking into account the previous friendship, more or more to consider the future operation of the "Golden Shield Security" organization.

Schneider and others set up the "Golden Shield Security", an armed escort agency, with the Li family's father and son, not just to be able to transport illegal contraband through legal channels. On the one hand, He Xi's intelligence agency needs to expand outward with the help of the information channels established by the "Golden Shield Security," and on the other hand, the military police department also has some plans to use this layer of skin to plant small-scale armed forces near Guangzhou.

With the increase in the number of business projects in the Guangzhou Office, the expansion of the scale of the entire Guangzhou Office is already a foreseeable thing, and after the purchase of land within the year to complete the expansion, the staffing of the Guangzhou Office will definitely increase a lot, and due to the development of various trade exchanges and financial services, the cash flow of the Guangzhou Office will become very large, and the security issue is bound to be mentioned on the agenda of the Guangzhou Office.

Although there is now a platoon of guards in the Guangzhou Office, in the eyes of the Military Police Department, the more armed forces the better. In a regional important place like Guangzhou, the capital of Guangzhou, the Military Police Department is eager to set up a military base on the banks of the Pearl River, and of course, this is just an unlikely wish at present.

The direct deployment of armed forces in Guangzhou will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the Jinyi Guard, whose reputation has been spread for hundreds of years, is not a vegetarian, and if the action is too big, it will soon be targeted by these "court eagle dogs". However, the "Golden Shield Security" can take the line of saving the country with a curve and put on a legal cloak for the plans of the Military Police Department. In terms of distance, Guangzhou, which is close at hand, is undoubtedly a better logistics base than Shengli Port, and only after Guangzhou has made good arrangements can the Military Police Department confidently and boldly plan to establish a military base at the mouth of the Pearl River, so as to realize its strategic intention of monitoring Guangzhou's sea lanes.

In the more than half a year since the opening of the Guangzhou Office, it is the first time that the Guangzhou Office has received so many guests at the same time. Approaching noon, the more than 20 tables of banquets set up in the courtyard were basically full, and the people who were watching the excitement outside finally gradually dispersed, after all, there was no ordinary people to participate in the games behind.

Schneider delivered an enthusiastic toast on behalf of the Guangzhou Office, highly affirmed the strength of "Golden Shield Security", and said that in the future, "Haihan Development Bank" and other industries under the name of Haihan will carry out in-depth cooperation with "Golden Shield Security", and the escort work of various products of Haihan in the mainland will be completed by "Golden Shield Security". At the same time, Schneider also said that as long as it is a long-term regular customer of "Haihan Development Bank", they can enjoy the escort service of "Golden Shield Security" at a 20% discount.

Schneider's statement is actually an endorsement of the newly established "Golden Shield Security" in the Guangzhou business district. The economic strength of the Haihan people has been well known in the Guangzhou business district in the past six months, and with the statement of the Guangzhou Office, the "Golden Shield Security" will not be able to receive even a transaction outside, and they will not be able to starve to death just by relying on Haihan to eat. Moreover, the merchants present can also perceive another more obscure information from Schneider's words, and the Haihan people should be preparing to establish their own sales channels and networks with the help of "Golden Shield Security".

For the intention of the Haihan people, in fact, many people have guessed a few points when they learned that the Haihan people and "Furuifeng" cooperated to build the "Golden Shield Security", and the evaluation of various businesses is naturally mixed. Some people think that the Haihan people are doing this completely to compete with the Ming distributors for the market, if the Haihan people themselves have established a sales network, then the Ming merchants can be said to have no competitive advantage. However, there is also another opinion that the Haihan people did not do this to drive out the distributors, because the Haihan people have never had the bad habit of eating alone, and they are basically large merchants who have been invited by "Qiong Lianfa" to buy shares.

After they learned the information of the two institutions of "Golden Shield Security" and "Qiong Lianfa", some of the smarter people guessed a little bit of the intention of the Haihan people, and the Haihan people should hope that the Ming merchants would shift some of their attention from the bells and whistles of the Haihan to a larger business. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

As long as the business owners who have been interviewed by the Guangzhou Office alone about the content of "Qiong Lianfa", they are all shocked by the ideas of the Haihan people. The projects in the "Qiong Lianfa" plan are just one of the big guys that ordinary businesses can't control, and the Haihan people don't seem to be satisfied with letting these ideas stay on paper, and also plan to carry out multi-line operations and run several projects at the same time.

Some of these projects are relatively obvious to how big the "money scene" is, such as mining and ironmaking, planting sugarcane fields on a large scale, building large ships to engage in the shipping industry, and so on, and there are also some projects that people do not understand well, such as rail transit, infrastructure construction, and so on. But no matter what kind of project it is, Haihan people have full confidence in its profitability, and even some of the projects Haihan people have given a guaranteed commitment to profitability.

Compared with the huge profits of Haihan goods distribution in the mainland, these big projects of Haihan people do not seem to be so attractive, but everyone has to admit that with the increasing number of distributors of Haihan goods in the mainland, the sales profits are no longer as lucrative as in the first few months, and even the old agents such as "Fu Ruifeng" have to face the emergence of more and more competitors in the same industry. Distributors who want to make good profits have to spend more time and energy transporting Haihan products to areas far away from Guangzhou for sale, but in this era of inconvenient transportation, it is not easy to sell bulk goods abroad.

Under such a market trend, for large businessmen, the "Qiong Lianfa" operation mode proposed by Haihan people is very attractive, although it seems that the profit is not high, but it is better to worry less and do not bother, the whole process of the project is implemented by Haihan people, shareholders in addition to providing the necessary manpower, material and financial resources, basically do not need to worry about the problems in the business process, as long as they wait for the money with peace of mind. In addition, it is extremely important that Haihan promises that the income of shareholders can be cashed in cash or the bank notes of the "Haihan Development Bank", which means that this income can achieve complete tax avoidance, which is much simpler than doing sea trade.

Although there are still all kinds of doubts, these merchants who received the invitation of "Qiong Lianfa" to buy shares were still invited to come here to see what the Haihan people had to say at today's meeting, after all, no one wants to miss such an opportunity to obtain long-term stable income.

Today's banquet also still implements the principle of "cultural stage, economic singing", after Schneider's toast, Li Jifeng also said a few words, and then the temporary stage built in the courtyard began to babble and sing. This is the "Cantonese opera" performed by the Qionghua Guild Hall specially invited by the Guangzhou Office from Foshan, that is, the prototype of Cantonese opera.

After singing a play, Schneider personally took the stage to preside over the auction and lottery ceremonies. Before the auction began, Schneider gave a brief explanation of the auction, saying that the proceeds from the auction of today's 20 sets of commemorative stationery, no matter how much the amount, will be donated by the Guangzhou Office without leaving any money. Half of it will be used as funds for Haihan Shan Tang, which will help refugees and orphans in Guangzhou, and will send those street children who have no one to take care of them to Shengli Harbor for unified education and management. The other half of the funds will be used to set up a special "Haihan Scholarship Foundation" to support poor scholars in Guangzhou, but all poor scholars can apply for subsidies from the foundation, and this financial assistance will be free of charge and without any additional requirements.

Helping refugees, donating to culture, and promoting good deeds are the best means for businessmen to gain a good social reputation after making a fortune in this era, and Schneider's statement has also received a lot of applause. Of course, although this money is in the name of charity, it is not intended to be spent in vain. Most of the refugee orphans rescued by Yizhuang Shantang will be sent to Shengli Port to enter the naturalized people system after screening, which can be regarded as one of the channels for legally obtaining immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the subsidy for the poor and lower-class literati, in fact, the GJO has been engaged in related work before this, but it has not been made public. In terms of the current population size of Shengli Port, the literacy rate of the general population is far from meeting the expectations of the Executive Committee, and the existing teachers are too thin to carry out national literacy education.

By the end of February, the Guangzhou Office had recruited more than 30 down-and-out literati from the mainland, and most of them had been sent to Shengli Port to receive training from relevant departments. This kind of recruitment will be more convenient after putting on the cloak of "Foundation", and the scale of recruitment will gradually increase.

The Executive Committee has set a very low threshold for recruiting Ming intellectuals, as long as they can read through the primary reading materials such as "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", and "Kindergarten Qionglin", they will be considered qualified. As for the knowledge content of the Four Books and the Five Classics and the subset of the classics and history, there are no hard requirements, and it is of course better to have studied them. If you have a reputation for talent and voluntarily move to Victory Port to settle down, you will also receive a special settling-in allowance.

Once the lots have been showcased, the auction begins. The most active in this kind of auction is not the top people in the Guangzhou business district, but some middle-strength merchants who buy the strongest **. The reason for this is also very simple, almost all of the top big merchants have their own channels to order goods from Haihan people, and there is no need to compete for a limited number of lots on this occasion. Moreover, the Haihan people also clearly told them at the beginning that these so-called collector's editions, limited editions, and commemorative editions are all just gimmicks to hype up goods, and limiting their quantities is purely to increase market value. If you really want to collect, you often place separate orders and tailor-made, like Li Jifeng's house, there are several sets of unique customized glass stationery.

On the contrary, those middle-strength merchants, because they can't get the first-hand source of Haihan goods, attach great importance to this kind of Haihan goods flowing out of abnormal channels. Twenty sets of limited collector's editions were finally auctioned for more than 13,000 taels of silver, and Schneider, who presided over the auction on the stage, never closed his mouth from beginning to end. A fraction of this money has already earned back the cost of these things together with the cost of today's big reception, and it is so easy to earn money in the pockets of Ming businessmen in Guangzhou.

After that, there were all kinds of lottery activities, which basically copied all the means at the annual meeting of the company in later generations, but the Ming businessmen obviously ate this set, and they shouted and had fun during the lottery process. About 30% of the participants won different levels of awards, and for those who were not lucky enough to even get a hair, the GJO also thoughtfully prepared two new Haihan soaps for consolation prizes.

After eating, drinking, and having fun, a large group of voters left the Guangzhou Office with the spoils of war satisfied. Of course, there are also some people who quietly detour to the "Haihan Development Bank" on the other side of the courtyard when they go out of the gate, and go through the account opening procedures, and they may not know when they will use the escort business of "Golden Shield Security".

A few scheming people noticed that some of the big local merchants did not leave immediately after the feast, but outsiders could not imagine the scale of the business they were negotiating at this time. To put it an exaggeration, the net worth of these people who are now staying in the Guangzhou Office together can almost buy half of Guangzhou City.

The influence of this group of people on the entire Guangzhou business district and even the local society has been carefully evaluated and screened by the Guangzhou Office, and some people who have not been very right with Haihan's side have been eliminated, or who are not very compatible with their work philosophy, and those who have been left are at least politically neutral and have no obvious hostility or rejection towards Haihan. In this way, in the future, when they learn about some of Haihan's methods that are detrimental to the interests of the Ming Dynasty, they will not react too violently.

The participants who stayed here today have all been interviewed separately by the Guangzhou Office, and they have also gained a certain understanding of the business content and direction of "Qiong Lianfa". As the last symposium before the listing of "Qiong Lianfa", Schneider specially prepared a speech for this purpose, which was used to encourage the investment enthusiasm of these businessmen.

"Bosses, since ancient times, Shinong industry and commerce, business has always been ranked at the bottom of the four people, even if a businessman can make more money, it is difficult to get the corresponding social status. The imperial court and the government have always only regarded merchants as cash cows, which they shake when needed, and if the tree is too big to shake, they will simply cut it down. Even if he is rich enough to be like Shen Wansan, a word from the imperial court can bankrupt his family and exile him to the frontier. I think all the bosses have now hired the best teachers for their children, that is, so that their children can take the test and get rid of the social status of the last of the four people. But what I want to tell you today is that there is actually another way out of this situation that you feel unwilling to change and cannot change. ”

Schneidra lowered a curtain on the wall, revealing a five-foot-square map of the South China Sea, centered on Hainan Island.

"Bosses, I believe everyone is familiar with this place of Qiongzhou Island, and there should be ten out of ten people here who have been to Qiongzhou Island, and almost half of them have visited Victory Port. I believe that anyone who has been to Victory Port can feel the difference between it and Daming. Can you recall why Victory Port attracts everyone to come together and bring goods to Victory Port for delivery?"

"Because it's tax-free!" someone replied. Of course, the attraction of Shengli Port is not only the local duty-free policy, but also the good port conditions of Shengli Port, complete armed defense means, and the current deposit and exchange business between Guangzhou and Guangzhou, which is difficult for merchants to refuse.

Schneider nodded, then said, "That's right. Some people may say that this is a violation of the 'Great Ming Law', but I would like to tell you that the financial situation of the Yazhou area has not been badly affected by the tax exemption policy of Shengli Port, on the contrary, under our operation, the fiscal and tax revenue that Yazhou has paid to the Qiongzhou government is more than before, which is a fact that can be found in the Yazhou official office. The problems of Yazhou in the past, the vagrants, pirates, prisoners, high unemployment, and high prices, have now been gradually solved by us, and I can boldly tell you that the various policies we have implemented in Shengli Harbor have been tacitly supported by the Yazhou government. I don't believe that the next time you visit Shengli Harbor, I can take you to see how many of the people who are serving labor in Shengli Harbor are prisoners who should be imprisoned in Yazhou Prison!"

"As long as we can create more wealth for the local government, so that the parents and officials can pay more taxes than the previous year, and make their political performance during their reign a little better, who else can be a stumbling block on our Cotai Strip? What we have done in Victory Harbor and in Yazhou can be replicated in other places on Qiongzhou Island. You don't have to worry about being weak and weak, and your hard-earned money has become a meal on the plate of the government, as long as we unite under the sign of 'Qiong Lianfa', I will definitely let you see the true power of capital! Look at how those officials who are either pretentious or insatiable bow their heads in front of capital!"