XXXXI Arrive in Hawaii
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A few days later, Duan Fei and Chen Ping completed the handover, looking at the list that was several pages long, this iron-blooded man who dared to fight in and out of the gang alone, he also had to say his admiration. It can be seen from this list that in just one year, Chen Ping has completed all the arrangements from scratch, and now, the basic skeleton has been completed, and all he has to do is to enrich it, optimize it, and make the tentacles of this big net more delicate and flexible.
Subsequently, the two of them selected assistants who set off for Europe, the Far East, and even the distant Americas and Africa, so that the tentacles of this large net could begin to extend outward with these fires.
It's just that there is one thing that the two of them don't understand, that is, when they went to Master Li to name the organization of this network, they actually got a name that no one could understand the meaning, and the name was only three words.
"Kercob."
What does it mean? No one knows, they are all confused, according to the small internal report, after the young master gave a name, he hid in the room and laughed all day.
Since the name was given by the young master, everyone can only start operating with this one who doesn't know the name, but then again, they are originally a group of people who don't see the light, what does the name have to do with it?
Li Mo was originally going to wait for Thomas to start the auction before leaving the United States, but that guy was obviously addicted to building momentum, throwing out a big iron ore mine at one time, throwing out a coal mine at the other, and learning his own set of things thoroughly, so after meeting George and talking about the search for a large oil field in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and even the later mapping and development, Li Mo took the six newly launched freighters, along with a thousand other personnel, and embarked on the road to Hawaii.
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The four days of turbulence in the sea were enough to make many people who were not familiar with the sea feel soft, although Young Master Li was not among them, but after the ship docked, he was the first to rush out of the cabin.
"It deserves to be a holiday paradise in the future market!"
Li Mo, who had just gotten off the boat, took a deep breath, looked at the white sand around him in the bright sunshine, as if he had seen the scene of his previous life coming here for a vacation.
I am afraid that Li Mo will not believe that he killed Li Mo two years ago, he actually had the opportunity to return to Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century!
At this moment, the busyness of the first port in the Pacific Ocean has not yet been revealed, in the huge Pearl Harbor harbor, there are more than a dozen freighters docked, but the tonnage is quite large, not the kind of offshore boats, but most of them are flying the American flag, only a few are flying the flags of other countries, Li Mo glanced at a few times, and even saw a few freighters flying the national flag.
"It's a pity that there is no Great Qing Kingdom, this is the gap! it! It seems that if the young master comes one step later, this place will really be taken over by the Americans! ”
Young Master Li stood at the bow of the boat, looking into the distance, and originally wanted to try to guide the country and have a good time, but a small head appeared behind him, but he pushed him out of the hatch.
"Young master, is this Hawaii? Why is the sun still so strong in winter? The little head came out of the cabin, as if frightened by the fierce sunlight, and shrank back quickly, and after a long time, it came out again.
"Yes, this will be our home from now on!" Young Master Li laughed, and in the eyes of everyone, he forcibly took the little girl into his arms, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, there is no winter and summer here, this weather is like this all year round, so people call this place the pearl of the Pacific Ocean!" ”
"Ahh It's like this all year round, so will I get a tan? ”
Before Xiaoxiao could speak, another head came out of the cabin, but this little head was not so easy to mess with, and he glared at Young Master Li, who was eating tofu, and then made his first sentence.
"Women in the world are generally ......." Master Li.
As the next few freighters docked at the port one after another, the people who came to Hawaii to do the first step came to the dock to greet the young master, Li Fu and others also quickly stepped off the ship, looking at the scenery around them that is very different from Canada, and stopped to check, pointing from time to time, which was more lively than the tour group in later generations.
"Let's go, or we'll be onlookers." Young Master Li hugged the little girl's thin waist, and regardless of the little girl's red face and red ears, he struggled desperately, and took the lead towards the crowd that had been waiting for a long time.
"Big horse monkeys?" Duan Yue'er looked around puzzled, only to find that the dock was already crowded with people inside and outside, and it seemed that the arrival of her own line with six brand-new freighters had caused a sensation.
Thinking that if he didn't leave, he would really become a big horse monkey in the mouth of that stinky guy, so he hurriedly quickened his pace, and when he passed Li Mo, he didn't forget to turn his head and snort, before he left triumphantly.
"Huh? Dare to stare at the young master! Pack up, you wait! Facing the flying white eyes, Young Master Li was furious, and in the eyes of everyone crying and laughing, he "chased and killed" the past.
After the ship docked at the port, the procedures were naturally taken care of by others, so Master Li would not bother with such idle things, and under the guidance of Chen Ping, he soon came to a private garden not far from the port.
The garden villa is built in the middle of the mountainside, covering an area of hundreds of acres, it can be seen that its former owner knows how to enjoy it very well, not to mention the area and those flower beds, just the villa built entirely of granite, I am afraid it will cost a lot of money.
The person who received him was called Lin Yongxiang, an old man brought out by Chen Ping, who turned out to be the procurement supervisor of the Guangzhou Navy Division, that is, the petty officer in charge of logistics, and was later incorporated into Beiyang, and because he was too upright like Chen Ping, he offended Shangguan, but fortunately, with Chen Ping's help, he was not dismissed in the end, but he also became a small soldier cleaning the camp.
Lin Yongxiang is not the kind of material that leads troops to fight, and he does not show off his scheming, the original ability to slap horses, the reason why he entered Beiyang as a soldier is just for his livelihood, after the dismissal and demotion, he originally wanted to leave immediately, it happened that Chen Ping had an accident at this time, so he spent a lot of thought to rescue people, and later after Chen Ping and Long Guozhang escaped, he also gritted his teeth and came out together.
Now, this superintendent who is familiar with logistics has become one of Chen Ping's most important assistants, with the delivery of the cargo ships ordered in the United States, Li Mo set up a Pacific freight company, and selected the registered place in Hawaii, handed over to Chen Ping to manage, Lin Yongxiang became Chen Ping's assistant, plus the six ships that came this time, now he has eleven large ocean freighters under his hands.
From scratch, from a small German ship that he snatched to more than ten large ocean-going freighters, Lin Yongxiang watched Li Mo turn over the clouds with one hand and establish his own family foundation in two years, and he was shocked by Master Li's unpredictable methods, and at the same time, he couldn't help but raise a trace of expectation.
Since Lin Yongxiang is also an acquaintance, everyone didn't greet each other much, especially after a few days of sea bumps, everyone was a little tired, and after arranging everyone, Chen Ping took Lin Yongxiang to Li Mo's room.
Master Li's room is naturally the best, not only is it sunny, but also from the balcony, the whole Pearl Harbor is in full view, although the sky is dark at this time, but the bright moon is hanging high, reflected in the harbor, but it is more artistic conception than the artificial light source that I was used to seeing in my previous life.
Seeing the two coming, Li Mo hurriedly welcomed the two to the balcony, and after letting Xiaoxiao make coffee for the two, he immediately asked the somewhat sleepy girl to rest first.
"I'm not used to drinking this, it's better to have clear tea!" Xiaoxiao was not around to serve, and the three of them also wrote casually, so Lin Yongxiang smiled and took the initiative to make a pot of tea before sitting down again.
"Knowing that the two of you must have come to me, is there anything wrong?"
One is the internal boss of his future super company, and the other is his right-hand man, and he will definitely not just come to drink tea when he comes to him so late, so Master Li is also free and easy, and after taking a sip of coffee, he asked directly.
Lin Yongxiang first glanced at Chen Ping, and then said a little nervously: "Young master, there is no problem with the Spaniards, but I am afraid that the land behind you will not be able to take it?" ”
"Can't take it off?" Li Mo glanced at Lin Yongxiang and frowned: "Why?" ”
Seeing that the young master was just frowning, Lin Yongxiang, who thought that he would be scolded for being unfavorable, was a little more relaxed, and hurriedly took out the whole map of Oahu Island from his arms and spread it on the table.
"This is the shipyard and plantation that the Spaniards are going to sell us." Lin Yongxiang spread out the map, took out a pen from his pocket, and circled the southwest of the port. "I have measured that this land plus the shipyard is about 30 square kilometers, although it is all mountains and hills, and the quality of the sugarcane plantation is not good, but we don't plan to use it to grow sugarcane, so it's nothing. But as you said, Master, we have to open up the passage from Pearl Harbor to the western seas, so we have to go through here, here. ”
Lin Yongxiang drew two thick lines with the tip of his pen, clicked twice, and continued: "Other places are better, the land here is not suitable for plantations, those small farmers heard that we paid several times the price, they were a little tempted, I believe that after taking the shipyard and the big land here, even if they don't sell it, they will do nothing under our squeeze, and sooner or later they will succumb, but this piece near the sea." Lin Yongxiang walked north along the seashore and drew an oval circle: "This is a man who bought it himself, to say that the quality of his sugar cane orchard is not as good as ours here, and I promised to exchange it with him better on Maui, but it is worn out, no matter what price he offers, he is not willing to sell it." ”
"Myself?" Li Mo's heart jumped twice, it seemed that he was not the only one who took a fancy to this treasure land, it seemed that the plan that was originally going to smash a piece of the sky with money might not go so well.
"Yes, it's a man named Ono-kun, and I heard that it's still a nobleman." Lin Yongxiang added, seeing Li Mo's strange face, he thought that he was not doing well, so he said again: "In addition to here, other places are still going well, we have also enclosed a few plots of land on Maui, Hawaii Island, and Kahulawe Island, but those places can only be used for growing sugar cane, and if you want to send other uses, I'm afraid it won't work!" ”
"That's a good job." Li Mo nodded, looked away from the map, and looked at Lin Yongxiang.
Lin Yongxiang in front of him is almost forty years old, maybe his sideburns have turned a little white with his wandering over the years, although he has not been able to buy all the land he wants, but this guy can do so many things in such a short time, and he can be regarded as having some ability.
Thinking of this, Li Mo's heart moved, and he shifted and said, "Yongxiang, how many cargo ships do you think will be needed if I want to achieve the volume of ocean-going trade to control the Pacific?" ”
As soon as the words came out, Chen Ping glanced at Li Mo in surprise, not understanding why the young master suddenly changed the topic. And Lin Yongxiang is even more headed, everyone says that this Young Master Li's thinking has jumped a lot, but it's not so amazing, right? Are you still calculating the purchase of land just now? How did you jump to the freight company all at once? Also control the volume of trade in the Pacific! God, he doesn't think the Pacific Ocean is the size of a footbath.
Fortunately, after Lin Yongxiang took over the fleet, he really thought about it seriously for a while, and after thinking about it, he said stubbornly: "Young master, I haven't calculated the amount of trade control, although the total amount of freight in the Pacific Ocean is less than one-third of the total amount of the Atlantic, but the Pacific Ocean is too big, and there are so many countries along the coast, if it is developed, I believe it will be more promising than the Atlantic!"
If we want to seize the advantage as soon as possible, then with our current 3,000-ton ship, at least a few hundred, of course, it is better to have the kind of ship with a cargo of 5,000 tons that the Americans have just launched, if so, there are more than 100 ships, and they can dominate this water! ”
"A hundred!"
Chen Ping rolled his eyes when he listened to it, this Lin Yongxiang, why didn't he see it before? How can you have such courage and thought?! However, the funds needed for more than 100 new ocean-going freighters are probably astronomical!
Lin Yongxiang finally finished speaking, he glanced at Li Mo without a bottom in his heart, only to see that the young master didn't say a word, just looked at the harbor in the distance and didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't dare to disturb, fortunately, after a while, the young master Li broke the silence: "I have thought of a new way of freight transportation during this time, can you listen to it." ”
Young Master Li once again shamelessly pirated some of the experience and methods of container transportation in later generations, but he is also a layman, not a professional, so he can only talk about it, pull a piece of Xila, and say a rough idea, fortunately, just standardization, containerization, these two points are enough to make Chen Ping and Lin Yongxiang, two people who have been dealing with the sea all year round, their eyes light up.
"Why did the young master suddenly say this?" After Lin Yongxiang listened, his heart jumped violently, and before he could speak, Li Mo had already said his thoughts: "Brother Yongxiang, I want to hand over all the Pacific freight to you to take care of, can you do it for me?" ”
This sentence made Lin Yongxiang suddenly feel hot all over his body.
Coupled with the young master brought today, there are now a total of eleven cargo ships, and the Pacific Freight Company is now considered to have a rich family, and at this time, shipping is still a lucrative business, with the increasing volume of maritime trade in the Pacific Ocean, plus the method of selling money in the size of a box mentioned by the young master just now, Lin Yongxiang saw not cargo ships, but gold.
That's a fat gap! can be in charge of such a company, and he, Lin Yongxiang, can be directly promoted from Chen Ping's assistant to Li Mo's sole leader!
Especially Lin Yongxiang, he also really wants to do shipping business full-time in his heart, but this kind of thing is not something he can decide, now the young master opened his mouth, and he was so happy that he hurriedly said: "Thank you, young master, Yongxiang will definitely be able to do a good job!" ”
Seeing the excitement on Lin Yongxiang's face, Li Mo smiled and said, "Don't thank me first, I'll give you the goal." After speaking, he stretched out five fingers and swung back and forth: "Ten years, I will buy you a ship, or after the shipyard is expanded, we can build it ourselves, but after ten years, you must bring me a Pacific freight company that can control fifty percent of the trade volume of this sea!" ”
"Do you dare to do next!" After Li Mo finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on Lin Yongxiang.
"Fifty percent?" This is not a small amount, although Lin Yongxiang is also confident, but at this time, he is still a little hesitant, but thinking that he has worked hard for so many years, isn't it just to have a good future? Now that the future is in front of you, are you still hesitating?
Thinking of this, Lin Yongxiang gritted his teeth and nodded: "I'll do it!" ”
"Hehe, Lao Lin, congratulations!" Seeing Lin Yongxiang nodding, Chen Ping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, patted him on the shoulder and congratulated.
"Hehe......." Lin Yongxiang touched his head and smiled like a child, but soon he seemed to think of something, and suddenly stopped and said: "Young master, a few days ago, a Chilean warship came, I heard that it was going to the Far East, and it was going to visit our Great Qing Kingdom and Yueben, I originally wanted to ask again, but I didn't expect to run away after adding coal the next day, so I didn't inquire about it all." ”
"Chilean warship? What are you doing in the Far East? Li Mo was stunned for a moment, quickly forgot about it, and said, "Leave the map, you all go and rest!" ”
Soon, as Chen Ping and Lin Yongxiang disappeared outside the door, Li Mocai stood up, looked at the piece of land that Lin Yongxiang circled on the map, his face was gloomy all of a sudden, and after thinking about it, he suddenly clapped his hands, and in less than a moment, two big men dressed in black appeared in his room.
"You two, go and touch that one named Ono-kun these days to see what the origin is!" Li Mo tossed the map to one of the men in black.
"Yes."
Soon, two black shadows disappeared into the deep harbor of twilight.