"Welcome back with honors, Your Excellency General." Ye Xuanping, manager of the Verak Bruce Port Company, held champagne and paid a high tribute to Brigadier General Fan Pengfei.

He was the highest-ranking upper-class person present at the drinking party, the mayor of Verac Bruce and the president of the city council in Mexico, and he could only stand on the outer layer of the Chinese upper class and echo it, with a humble expression like a slave.

After the conclusion of the "Tang-Mo Jinling Friendship Treaty", Mexico lost the sovereignty of many countries, and Mexico had de facto become a vassal state of the Tang Kingdom, and the two were deeply bound.

But if you don't

It may be that the current Mexican puppet government has already been defeated by the rebellious Aztec Republic in the south, ending the civil war and forming a situation of great unification of Mexico.

This is a situation that is absolutely not allowed to happen in the Tang Kingdom.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that the current Mexican government forces were well-armed, they were always defeated by the rebels armed with spears and knives and backward muskets, and became a stable channel for the supply of weapons and equipment to the southern rebels.

The mud can't hold up the wall!

As a last resort, the Tang Kingdom could only go into battle in person......

The port company is a subsidiary of the Royal Pacific United Shipping Company, which is a royal enterprise with strong roots.

Two years ago, the company became famous for being the first to discover the island of New Guinea (Paradise Island), and it is also the largest and most powerful ocean-going shipping company in the Kingdom, investing in ports both domestically and overseas.

The mission of welcoming and placing the expeditionary force back to China is of special significance, and it is not something that can be undertaken by any private enterprise, and the Royal Pacific United Shipping Company, with its semi-official status, has an unshirkable responsibility to undertake the mission.

In this era, the captains and sailors of the ocean-going shipping companies were additionally tasked with exploring and exploring the unknown, collecting intelligence information, disseminating culture and religion, and radiating the influence of the kingdom.

When necessary, pick up a gun and equip it with artillery is the navy.

As the supreme officer of the welcome banquet, Brigadier General Fan Pengfei raised the champagne glass in his hand and said with a solemn expression; "All glory to Your Majesty and to the Kingdom, let us raise a glass together and wish Your Majesty a holy peace."

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

Everyone at the reception raised their glasses and drank them all after blessings.

At this time

Fan Pengfei's expression softened and said with a smile; "Manager Ye, on behalf of the third batch of returned soldiers, I would like to thank your company for your proper arrangement. After three years of absence, returning to the territory of the kingdom, how can it not make people feel very emotional when they hear this familiar voice? ”

"Your Excellency the General is polite, the officers and men of the expeditionary force are fighting bravely on the front line to win glory for the glory of the kingdom, and we are just doing some small things within our ability, which is not enough to worry about."

"Hahaha...... Manager Ye was too modest. ”

Brigadier General Fan Pengfei smiled and raised his glass, took a shallow sip of champagne, and chatted happily with a kind of high-ranking military officers and local Chinese businessmen around him.

In the brightly lit manor

The well-dressed gentlemen and the well-dressed ladies came and went, chatting and socializing with smiles, and the common language was Chinese.

How can you talk if you don't understand the language?

Half an hour later

Colonel Lin Feng walked over with two middle-aged businessmen and joined the small circle that was chatting with Brigadier General Fan Pengfei.

Manager Ye Xuanping saw them coming, politely took the lead in greeting, and then said apologetically on his face;

"Your Excellency, your rich experience in Europe can be written into a wonderful book, and it just so happens that I know a few great Confucians from China, who are very knowledgeable, and I hope to be able to enjoy them if I have time. You have a new friend here, so we won't bother. ”

After speaking, he left with a few people around him.

"Brother Pengfei, this Mr. Ye is still quite good at relationships, what kind of book did you and I publish as a martial artist?" Colonel Lin Feng sneered and said with a big grin.

Brigadier General Fan Pengfei didn't care, and replied with a champagne glass in his hand; "There are thousands of people in society, there are always those who talk about fate and those who don't, besides, vassal elegance is not a bad thing. After all, you and I are already high-level military officials, and our words and deeds cannot be as casual as before, and we should not be proud of being rude, and it is appropriate to respect the real Confucian scholars. ”

"Well, the foolish brother has been taught."

After being told by Fan Pengfei, Colonel Lin Feng could only secretly say that he was unlucky, and then a flattering smile appeared on his face, and he turned his hand to the two businessmen who came with him and said;

"Brother Pengfei, these are the two proprietors from Seattle Mao Cheong Bank, Mr. Tian Mingjian and Mr. Tian Mingxue, who are businessmen who operate aquatic products and canned food."

Then he turned to face the two of them and said with a serious expression; "What I introduce to you is the star of the expeditionary force, General Fan Pengfei, who has great martial arts, and this time he will be summoned by His Majesty when he returns to the mainland, and it is a sure thing to reward him with a noble title."

Tian Mingjian and Tian Mingxue didn't dare to slack off, and they all saluted with respectful hands; "The grass people have seen His Excellency the General."

The status of merchants in the Tang Kingdom is much higher than that of Shenzhou, and when His Majesty inspects various places, he often summons merchants to discuss together, and his words are full of laughter.

This has virtually greatly elevated the status of Chinese businessmen and capitalists, and greatly increased their voice in the municipal councils and society.

If something is good, it will be effective!

Brigadier General Fan Pengfei nodded in return with a reserved expression, and looked at Colonel Lin Feng with a gaze that asked, what are you bringing these two businessmen for?

Colonel Lin Feng laughed, leaned over and said; "Brother Pengfei, Seattle Mao Chang Xing is a large local marine fisherman, with more than 27 offshore fishing vessels, ranking 6th in terms of scale, and exported more than 3,400 tons of salted fish and salted goods to Europe last year, which is a very powerful businessman.

Since the development of the canning industry, the Tian brothers have been keenly aware of the development opportunity, and have built a canning factory in Seattle to produce canned seafood of various flavors, which is in short supply in the European market.

With two canning plants under its belt, the Tian brothers are now poised to replicate Seattle's success in Verak Bruce.

The warm coast of Mexico is rich in aquatic resources, and there is a lot of potential for inshore fishing, so seafood processing plants and canning factories have been established as a bridgehead for exports to Europe, which is closer and easier to transport.

Even if the market is saturated in the future, canning factories in the Gulf of Mexico can continue to do prosperous business by virtue of their geographical and cost advantages.

They have no roots here, so ......"

Colonel Lin Feng didn't say the rest of the words, and Brigadier General Fan Pengfei could certainly hear the meaning beyond the words.

Businessman, of course, hugging his thighs!

After all, this is the territory of the Mexicans, don't look at the mayor and speaker of the Mexican parliament and the leading figures of the city, who are submissive and look like angry little daughters-in-law.

In fact, these Mexicans have N ways to manipulate the Chinese businessmen who have no roots, which greatly affects their business.

After all, they are local snakes, and just by setting up obstacles in recruiting local Mexicans to work, the Tian brothers will face many difficulties if they want to show their strengths.

Fishing and food processing factories require a lot of manpower, often one or two thousand or more, and it is not practical to hire all Chinese workers here, and it is more necessary to use cheap Mexican workers.

It's different with a military background, and the Mexicans don't dare to set up obstacles even if they have the courage to do so, this is how powerful the foreigners are.

Brigadier General Fan Pengfei frowned, he was a person with a rather traditional ideology, and he looked down on businessmen and others from the bottom of his heart, and he was unwilling to be with them.

When he was preparing for excuses, Colonel Lin Feng tugged at his sleeve, leaned in and whispered;

"The Tian brothers are willing to take out 15% of the equity, give you 10%, give me 5%, and guarantee that the annual income is not less than 20,000 yuan, and your share is not less than 40,000 yuan, I will help you agree."

After speaking, he made a "you know" look.

Although he felt that he couldn't cry or laugh, in front of outsiders, Brigadier General Fan Pengfei didn't want to lose his brother's face, so he asked in a deep groan; "How can you ensure that you don't take the military's signboard and pretend to be powerful, bully and dominate the market, and do business in a proper manner?"

The two businessmen, Nakata Mingjian, were older, obviously the managers of the firm, and he said with a respectful and deep salute;

"If you reply to the general's words, you won't dare to lend us the guts.

The Tian family has been in business for more than 200 years, and the clan motto is "to be a man first in business, and to be a child without bullying".

Adhering to the ancestral teachings, the children of the Tian family all started as sellers, and those who misbehaved and acted unfairly could not be the big shopkeeper, let alone allow such people to ruin the reputation of the Tian family.

The grass people guarantee the lives of their families, and they never dare to do evil in business and do things, and they do some illegal things as traitors.

Doing business in accordance with the law and in accordance with the rules is the original intention of the Maochang Commercial Company, and it is just hoped that it will not be bullied by its peers and local Mexicans, and that's it. ”

"In this way, you are a regular business." Brigadier General Fan Pengfei nodded, but did not comment.

Colonel Lin Feng just wanted to speak, but he raised his hand to stop him.

Brigadier General Fan Pengfei groaned and said in a serious tone; "Whether this is feasible or not needs to be verified. Brother Ah Feng, tomorrow I will send a telegram to the Seattle Garrison Command through the military telegraph line, asking about Mao Changxing's reputation in the local area and how he behaves, and then I will reason in the next step. ”

Fan Pengfei has always been a steady person, and it is impossible to listen to one-sided words, and there are many brothers in the Seattle Garrison Command who were originally in the personal guards.

It doesn't take much effort, so why take the risk?

He didn't say anything serious, but the crime of deceiving a brigadier general was not a small crime, and it was by no means something that the two Chinese businessmen in front of him could afford.

Ultimately

The Tang Kingdom is a kingdom with the feudal aristocracy as the core, although it nominally implements an enlightened constitutional monarchy, but this constitutional monarchy is not a constitutional monarchy, but in fact a dictatorship of His Majesty the King.

Preferential treatment of merchants, then it is impossible to let businessmen behave in the heads of military aristocrats, so what is the matter?

According to the criminal law of the Tang Kingdom;

Government officials, military aristocrats, and other privileged strata are not allowed to use their positions for personal gain, and violators are severely punished depending on the circumstances.

But this does not mean that government officials and military aristocrats cannot invest rationally, and the money can only be left in the house to grow moldy and rotten, and nothing can be done.

This is neither reasonable nor reasonable.

Many government officials and military aristocrats in the Tang Kingdom invested in shops, fields, factories, docks, railways or various industries, and obtained reasonable remuneration according to their investment shares, which was a normal asset allocation.

Is there any use of influence in this position?

There are more or less some, such as the enterprises in which the big nobles are shareholder, and ordinary people dare not eat and take cards, and the business of large companies with hard roots is booming, and it is unimpeded in any province, which has some background.

The first is not to occupy a controlling position, which is generally 5% to 10% of the investment shares, occupying a board seat, but not a controlling position.

The second is to avoid sensitive areas, such as the Minister of Communications Viscount Huang Yuanjia's investment in the company, can not be involved in the transportation industry, such as cement, steel, construction industry, etc., he investment in the petrochemical industry or food processing is no problem, can not be regarded as the use of power for personal fraud.

The third is to disassociate the relationship, and you can't appoint immediate family members to hold positions in the company, and the nature has changed again, and it's okay to just collect a reasonable return on investment.

Turning back to the military, many senior military generals also invest in local industries, as long as they have nothing to do with the military and are not within their jurisdiction, then there is no big problem.

For example, Mao Changxing, which was introduced by Colonel Lin Feng, intends to develop an offshore fishing industry and a canning factory in the city of Verak Bruce, which belongs to Mexican territory and is not close to the royal army, which is a reasonable investment.

Even if the lawsuit reached the Judge Advocate General's Department of the General Staff Headquarters, Colonel Lin Feng was not worried at all.

Colonel Lin Feng can be a high-ranking official at the level of a field division, but he is not a brainless person, and it is too late to close the relationship between the two sides, how can he bring Brigadier General Fan Pengfei, who is about to become a commander, to the ditch?

The reason why he dared to agree for Brigadier General Fan Pengfei was that he had carefully verified the strength of the Tian brothers' Maochangxing, and his reputation was quite good.

The further you go, the more you spend.

The aristocracy of the Tang Kingdom was formed for a short time, but it was inevitable that it was soon affected by the luxurious life, which was due to the set of things that the aristocracy admired in their bones, and it was also deeply influenced by the European aristocracy.

The nobility is there, the fiefdom is there, and there is no decent manor castle, can it be done?

His Majesty the King is building the Daming Palace, and the castles and manors built by the nobles all over the country at great expense have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, including Chinese, English, French, and expensive and labor-intensive Gothic castles, forming a trend.

Anyway, it is your own money that is spent, and you build it on your own fiefdom, and others have no beak to dispose of.

With a manor, a castle, and a family temple, then the deep-rooted concept of dispersion in the bones of the Chinese will inevitably emerge, and marrying a wife and taking a concubine is an indispensable thing.

As soon as there are more wives and concubines, there will be more children, and it is not a small expense for a large family to eat and drink.

Then it is not enough to participate in the gathering of the upper class nobles and maintain the necessary decent life, and it is not enough to rely on the output of fiefdom and mining, so it becomes an inevitable choice to buy shops, real estate buildings, and invest in some factories and enterprises to achieve a reasonable allocation of assets.

With the right guidance, this is not a bad thing.

The thriving development of various enterprises in the Tang Kingdom is indispensable for a large amount of capital injection from the aristocracy, and when everyone has a strong heel, then abiding by the rules of the game has become an inevitable choice.

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