"Your brain is really good at pondering......" Schneider spent an hour listening to Li Nai's narration, on the one hand, he couldn't laugh or cry, but on the other hand, he really admired his brain: "Fortunately, you are just a businessman, if you go to work as a Jinyi guard, it is estimated that you will have been promoted to a commander!"

Li Nai replied with a smile: "Since Mr. Shi praised me so much, it means that my speculation is correct, right?"

"It's not all in the middle, it's not far away. Schneider rarely used two sentences of classical Chinese to evaluate Li Nai's expression: "There are still some deviations in the details, but the general direction is indeed correct." ”

When Li Nai heard this evaluation, he immediately felt greatly encouraged, and hurriedly asked, "Which detail is the deviation?"

Schneider is such a character, how could he be so easy to be tricked, and changed the topic with a slight smile: "Did you tell anyone other than your father about this inference of yours before coming here?"

Li Nai shook his head again and again and said: "My father doesn't know about this, if he says that he knows, with his temper, I'm afraid that he will have to think about it for ten days and half a month before he can make a decision, then maybe he will miss the opportunity a long time ago." ”

"You are really decisive!" Schneider could only praise Li Nai's action. It is not easy for this guy to come to the conclusion that Haihan wants to take action against the island of Taiwan by relying on his brain, and he actually ran from Guangzhou to Sanya on his own initiative without communicating with his own leaders, and discussed this kind of major matter with Haihan on behalf of Fu Ruifeng, which can indeed be regarded as a very maverick approach.

However, if Li Jifeng, who is old and serious, knows this news, it is probably really possible that he will wait and see the changes for a while before making a decision, as Li Nai expected. After all, the amount of investment that may be involved in this matter is not at the level of eighteen thousand taels of silver, and its nature is also different from that of ordinary business cooperation, Li Jifeng will definitely be extra cautious.

In the past, even if Fu Ruifeng heard the news in advance, he would wait for Haihan to take the lead before intervening, and Li Nai took the initiative to talk to Schneider about the colonial development project that Haihan had not yet implemented, which was the first time in the cooperation between the two sides. Even the well-informed Schneider rarely felt a little uncomfortable at this moment.

It is true that the Ministry of Commerce has begun to prepare the future investment plan for the Taiwan colony after receiving the information from Fujian, but since Taiwan ≯∝dǐng≯∝diǎn≯∝小≯∝ said, .2★3.os_(); The shape over there is changing too fast, and all other departments except the military have not been able to keep up with Qian Tiandun's rhythm, and the matter of attracting investment has not even been skimmed, and then it is necessary to discuss specific arrangements and plans with civil affairs, shipping and other departments. Li Nai wanted to seize this opportunity to discuss cooperation with Haihan, but Schneider's side couldn't bargain with the other party with too many dry goods.

"Third Young Master, you are not an outsider, so I'll just say it. As for the matter of Oyuan Island, it is not yet time to discuss cooperation. Schneider pointed to the text in front of him and explained: "This stack of documents is all about Dayuan Island, and I will spend at least another three days reading these materials, and then discuss with other departments how to organize immigration and what development projects need to be prepared, and then make a plan to attract investment." You came too early, and I estimate that you will have to wait until the second half of the month at the earliest, and the corresponding investment brochure will come out. ”

"It's okay, I can wait in Sanya. Li Nai's attitude was very resolute, and it could be seen that his dedication to this matter was not just talking about it.

"When you talked to us about business in the past, I never saw you take it so seriously. Schneider quipped, "Your dad would be very pleased to see you now." ”

"It's not the same. Li Nai waved his hand and said: "In the past, the business was taken care of by my father and brother, so I just showed up." This time, I want to operate it on my own to prove that I am not an idle boy or a rich young master who only eats and waits for death. ”

"Ambition!" Schneider diǎndiǎn head affirmed Li Nai's determination: "Since you want to insist, then I will not object." When I have news from here, I will send someone to inform you immediately. But don't spread this to anyone else, it's a commercial secret and a military secret, understand?"

"Understand, understand, understand. Thank you Mr. Shi for taking care of me, then I will temporarily live in Sanya these days, and wait for Mr. Shi's good news!" Li Nai finished talking, and no longer delayed Schneider's time, and got up to say goodbye.

As soon as Li Nai left, Schneider picked up the phone and called Yan Chujie: "Old Yan, Taiwan's affairs have to speed up the progress." Just now, Li Nai came to me and asked me if I was going to do it in Taiwan recently and wanted to participate in the follow-up development. ”

Yan Chujie didn't realize what was wrong when he heard this: "That's a good thing, anyway, most of our overseas industries, Furuifeng is involved, just do it according to the previous operation mode!"

"We did not inform him about Taiwan, but he himself speculated on the basis of the information he had. Schneider had to add one more thing.

Yan Chujie came back to his senses at this time: "Then did Li Nai publicize this matter?"

"Not yet, but he can think of it, and others may also think of it, so we can't drag it out any longer, we have to come up with a plan, and set the rules first so that it won't be messed up, otherwise my threshold here will have to be trampled on in a few days." Although Schneider was joking, his attitude was very strict.

Yan Chujie naturally knew the seriousness of this matter, and immediately said: "Okay, it just so happens that Yue Zhiyun is also holding a coordination meeting with me, wait for me to go to Ning Qi with him, and we will unify the general caliber first, and then slowly adjust the details." ”

The main departments involved in the development of the island of Taiwan are the military, shipping, civil affairs, and commerce, and at most the Ministry of Construction. However, in the construction process of the Haihan colony, the Ministry of Construction often only produces planning drawings and a few foremen, and the construction personnel take the nearest solution. These yamen will decide more than ninety percent of the affairs in the process of Taiwan's immigration and development, and will also decide whether the Haihan colony on the island of Taiwan will attract foreign investment, when it will start to attract investment, and the details of the terms and conditions of the investment promotion.

According to the general process of doing things, the signing of an agreement with the Dutch at the Penghu base means that the main obstacle to Haihan's landing on the island of Taiwan has been basically cleared, and then the departments will start to communicate on the next steps to build a colonial Diǎn and specify the corresponding plan. However, the work that needs to be done is also a thousand things, and it takes a month to get to the step of attracting investment. If it involves the development of some agricultural projects, it is very likely that the Ministry of Agriculture will have to send a field trip to the past before the corresponding plan can be formulated, and then foreign investment can be introduced.

However, Li Nai's sudden arrival really disrupted this step-by-step work arrangement, because Haihan really planned to adopt some new methods in the process of developing the island of Taiwan.

In the past, the tendency of localism was still obvious, and most of the projects would give priority or consciously take care of local investors, such as the plantation project developed locally on Hainan Island, where the investors were mainly from Hainan and Guangdong, while the seaport built in Annam was to first take into account the investment needs of the officials and dignitaries of Annan, and then to allocate the share to the Ming merchants. Large regional agents such as Fu Ruifeng and Xu Xinsu are more vigilant about the involvement of foreign merchants in local projects, and generally require Haihan's investment promotion measures to impose various restrictions on foreign competitors to protect the interests of local businessmen.

Although the business promoted by Haihan is based on regional agents, the purpose is to be able to concentrate the power of resource allocation and utilization in more places into its own hands, which requires more cross-regional business circulation activities. To achieve this goal, more neutral free trade ports need to be built, but existing ports are often subject to more obvious localism and do not live up to Schneider's vision.

Regardless of whether Haihan sets up the port in Hong Kong or Penghu, this kind of interference and impact is unavoidable, but the operation process of Ambuna Island has brought new enlightenment to the Ministry of Commerce, similar to this kind of territory taken from the hands of opponents, or terra nullius, there will not be so much external interference in the development process, whether it is Annan, Daming or investors from other places, will better follow the rules of the game stipulated by Haihan, and participate in development and competition in a fairer way.

However, there is an insurmountable shortcoming of the island, which is that it does not have good port conditions and cannot become a large trading port in the South China Sea. In contrast, the conditions of Taiwan Island are much better, although there are indigenous and foreign colonists, but in the eyes of today's Haihan, this is a terra nullius with great development potential.

Neither the wealthy Guangdong business community nor the Hsu interest group in Fujian, which has a single hand in the sky, have no direct influence on the island of Taiwan. This means that the ports and other industries that Haihan has established on the island of Taiwan no longer need to take care of anyone's feelings, and can be realized in full accordance with the plans of the Haihan Executive Committee, or more accurately the Haihan Ministry of Commerce led by Schneider, provided that Haihan can do all the necessary preparations before making the relevant information public.

But if someone like Li Nai noticed some subtle movements and detected Haihan's plans on the ground in advance, then the direction of things is likely to change. When Qian Tiandun first led his troops to inspect the Turbidity River Basin, he was already conducting a secret mission, in order to prevent the Fujian military from discovering Haihan's intentions prematurely. After going to the west coast of Taiwan for the second time, Qian Tiandun also went to sea with the fleet in the name of sea training, and he did not even bring a training personnel belonging to Daming. The contacts with the Dutch representative Philip, and the subsequent treaty with Hans, the chief officer of the East India Company, outside the port of Dayuan, were all classified as top secret, and all military personnel with knowledge of the inside were given gag orders.

The main reason why the military is so cautious is that it is worried that Xu Xinsu will get the news in advance, and in his style, eighty percent will propose to Haihan to directly participate in the development process - just like he had been involved in the development and construction of Penghu before.

After the Battle of Penghu in May, Xu Xinsu took the initiative to express to Haihan that he could send a large number of laborers to Penghu to assist Haihan in building ports and other infrastructure, and that the materials needed by the local people could also be transported from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou nearby. As for the lack of capacity of Haihan, Xu Xinsu also said that it can be solved with one effort. Of course, such assistance is not provided unconditionally, after all, the exchange condition for Haihan to expel Eighteen Zhi is the right to govern Penghu, and the Fujian government is not obliged to undertake the rest of the matter.

Xu Xinsu gave Haihan an exclusive terms of operation in Penghu, that is, businesses outside Fujian must set up exclusive wharves, commercial inns and other facilities in the local area, in addition to obtaining Haihan's consent, they must also obtain permission from the Fujian government. This also means that although foreign maritime merchants like Fu Ruifeng can anchor in Penghu for supplies and even trade, they cannot have long-term business institutions in the local area, and can only act as passers-by all the time and cannot become merchants, which weakens the competitiveness of foreign merchants in a large way.

At that time, in order to quickly stabilize the Penghu outpost and save the time and cost required for the initial construction, the Haihan Executive Committee agreed to Xu Xinsu's quid pro quo. Therefore, although the Fujian government no longer has any direct influence in Penghu, these conditions are written in black and white into the cooperation agreement between the two sides, and there will be no change at least in the short term.

However, the island of Taiwan is a place outside the law, and if there are no protective measures, businessmen from Guangdong, Annam and even other places will definitely be stationed in Haihan's ports on the island of Taiwan in the future, and this will undoubtedly affect the interests of the Hsu interest group in the waters of Fujian. If Xu Xinsu had learned of Haihan's plans in Taiwan, he would definitely not sit idly by and watch Haihan slowly revise its development plan and then openly solicit investment.

The changes in Taiwan's shape can be concealed for a while, but not for a lifetime, even if all the people under Qian Tiandun can keep their mouths shut, the Dutch will definitely not be able to cover it after a long time. But Haihan and his gang really didn't expect that there would be a commercial spy like Li Nai who ignored himself, and was able to piece together Haihan's strategic intentions in Penghu and Taiwan Island with some fragmented information. If Li Nai wasn't so familiar with the high-level officials of Haihan, then Schneider probably didn't call Yan Chujie, but directly notified Hao Wanqing of the Ministry of Security.

What Haihan has to do now is to start the resettlement and construction work on the island of Taiwan as soon as possible before the external forces exert their influence, and then come up with a more appropriate way to deal with it to attract investment.