Manhattan is the most prosperous, wealthy, and populous of the five administrative districts of New York City, and it is also a place where the rich gather, where the Chinese ethnic group gathers, more than 7 and a half of the residents are Chinese, and it is also known as the world's largest Chinatown, which is the safest area in New York.

The property rights of the entire Manhattan Island belong to the Tang royal family, which is a royal property purchased with huge sums of money after the defeat of the United States in 1862, including Manhattan Island, Roosevelt Island, and an independent area surrounded by the East River, Hudson River and Harlem River.

On the main roads and bridges leading to Manhattan, there are heavy troops of the Tang Empire, and unrelated people and homeless people are prohibited from entering at will, and the control is quite strict.

This investment by the Tang royal family can bring a lot of huge returns every year, and is one of the examples of large-scale investment in the world today.

The acquisition of the entire property rights of the Port Authority of New York is another proud move of the Tang royal family.

Long

More than half of the field mobile forces of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire are subordinate to the General Headquarters in North America. More than half of the garrison troops of the North American General Command are concentrated in the two states of New York and New Jersey.

The Port Authority of New York is the joint name of the Port Authority of New York and the Port Authority of New Jersey, which has an extremely wide range of jurisdictions, including seaports, streetcar terminals, land bridges and tunnels, and its core assets are the second largest port in North America ~ the Port of New York and the seventh largest port Port of New Jersey.

Among them, the abandoned shipyard next to the Port Authority of New York has been rebuilt, and more than 38,000 imperial officers and soldiers have been stationed for a long time, which is the largest overseas military base of the Tang Empire, which is called the "shipyard base".

The North American Command is located in the captain's base, and the Port Authority of New York has a total of 13 military bases, large and small, of which 5 belong to the Royal Navy base, including the Atlantic Fleet logistics warehouse, the naval station, the tram terminal naval family home, the 8th Avenue Royal Navy Second Expeditionary Division 206 Regiment station, etc., stationed in the Royal Navy personnel of all kinds more than 8,700 people.

Sir Liu Shunli's white "Chicago" sedan passed through the bustling passenger terminal, and through several Imperial cordons, to the depths of the New York Port Authority's office area.

Most of the people who come and go here are Oriental faces, and only a few blonde and blue-eyed white men can be seen occasionally, making people mistakenly think that they have arrived at some government office on the mainland of the empire.

The Chicago car was parked in front of a three-story building, and the office building had two signs, one saying "Royal Atlantic United Shipping Company New York Branch" and the other "Datang Empire Guangliang Trading Company North America Branch".

Guangliang Trading Company was one of the top ten trading houses in the Tang Empire, with tentacles involved in grain, oil and meat trade, coal and chemical derivatives (Note; excluding kerosene, diesel, gasoline, heavy oil and lubricants) and other bulk products, it is a large trading house with a strong military background, and the company's shareholders include dozens of generals and thousands of colonels, and Sir Liu Shunli is one of the minority shareholders.

If he did not have the convenience of his position, he would not be able to concurrently serve as a director of the company and have a considerable right to speak.

Just from one point, we can see how much energy Guangliang Trading is there?

Guangliang Trading is one of the major overseas distributors of the Appalachian coalfield in the United States, transporting large quantities of high-quality coal to European countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Norway, Henan, Denmark and Italy by ocean liners, with an annual trade volume of more than 2.2 million tons.

In terms of international trade in coal, Guangliang Trading Company is able to rank among the fifth largest traders, working closely with many ocean-going steamship companies in the empire, operating more than a dozen regular shipping flights from Chicago, Detroit, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia to Europe, and its strength is extraordinary.

Sir Liu Shunli came to the hall on the third floor, handed the top hat on his head and the precious ivory cane in his hand to the staff, tidied up his clothes slightly, and walked in with a smile on his face.

in the hall

At this time, there were already more than a dozen well-dressed high-class gentlemen, holding champagne glasses in their hands, gathering in twos and threes to talk, and they all seemed to be some people of great status.

"Yo, Sir Willow is here, this ...... Let me introduce you to Sir Smith from London, England. The one who spoke was Sir Fei, the director of Guangliang Trading Company, an imperial nobleman whose ancestral home was Chaozhou, and one of the former imperial officers.

A decent smile appeared on Liu Shunli's face, and he stepped forward to greet him......

Below the small building

There are several bungalows for hospitality, right next to the guard's duty room.

The bigwigs talk about things on it, and their entourage, drivers and guards usually rest and wait here, smoke a few cigarettes, drink a cup of tea, chat and pass the time, and often have some gains.

Uncle Zhong and a few acquaintances were standing at the door of the bungalow and smoking, chatting for a while, when they saw a BMW truck full of fresh cod drive in.

This is a 2.5-ton diesel truck made in Detroit, which is popular with farmers because of its durability, but it is not cheap.

"Squeak".

The truck stopped not far from the bungalow, and a big man with a beard walked down from the passenger seat of the cab in front of him, greeting a few people with a smile and a loud voice.

"Hey, Uncle Zhong, Brother Tiger and Dashan, how did you all get together today? This is very rare, especially since Brother Tiger hasn't seen him for a while. ”

"Captain Gao, you only care about making a fortune, where can you think of our old brothers?" Brother Tiger replied with a smile, took the initiative to send out a cigarette, and helped light the fire.

These people are all old acquaintances in the army, and they are also acquaintances of the veterans' club, and they are not strangers to each other.

Although after retiring, everyone went their separate ways, but after a period of time, they would gather at the veterans' club and have a few drinks to catch up.

Captain Gao was full of fishy smell, and after he retired, he did not use the money spent by the army and his own savings to buy shops, houses, and shares in companies like Guangliang Trading Company, which regularly paid dividends, but bought a 420-ton ocean-going longline fishing boat.

Don't look at the 420-ton ocean-going longline fishing boat, which seems to have a small displacement, in fact, the price is extremely expensive, the bare boat is worth 11,000 Tang Yuan when it leaves the factory, and it has all kinds of longline fishing tackle, diesel engines, generators and refrigeration equipment, with a total value of more than 16,000 Tang Yuan, which is not cheaper than the coastal ironclad patrol ships of the same rank.

For such a large ocean-going fishing boat, the number of workers on board is fifty or sixty, and there are not enough people to be busy like this.

End of the 19th century

The world-famous Newfoundland Fishery is located at the confluence of the warm Gulf Stream and the cold Labrador Current, where disturbances in the sea cause nutrient salts to flood and provide abundant fodder for fish to thrive. It is known that "you can walk ashore by stepping on the back of a school of cod in the water".

It is precisely because of the unique fishery resources in this place that many retired officers and men who dare to venture out or buy fishing boats in partnership or on their own, and they have become the main force in the marine fishing industry in the United States.

Captain Gao is such a brave and adventurous person, he pulled a few military partners to do it together, don't look at him with a fishy smell, he is an out-and-out rich man among the people.

As long as you go out to sea once, you can catch fifty or sixty tons of cod every time and return with a full load.

Sowei longline fishing is to release a fishing line more than 10 kilometers long, hang a hook every two or three meters, and hang a palm-sized squid as bait on the hook, and put it down from the sea in turn.

After seven or eight hours, the longline is fished up through the float, and the winch is driven by the electric motor to pull the fishing rope up in turn, and the fishing line is full of cod weighing 20 or 30 kilograms or even larger, and the largest can be hundreds of kilograms.

In the Newfoundland fishing grounds, which are rich in fishery resources, there is almost no empty hand when you put down a fishing rope more than ten kilometers long, and nine out of ten can be loaded, and it is normal to put a hanging rope down and drag more than a dozen tons of fish, all of which are cod weighing more than one or twenty kilograms.

Fishermen on the fishing boats are busy day and night from the moment they are loaded, chopping off the heads, emptying the entrails, packing the preliminarily processed cod, and then sending it to the freezer to bury it with crushed ice, until it fills the entire cargo hold and even the deck before returning to port.

As soon as the fishing rope is reeled, all the workers on the fishing boat work 24 hours a day without sleep.

Because more than a dozen big fish come out of the water every minute, they must be slaughtered as soon as possible, processed into semi-finished products and sent to the refrigerated cabin, buried with thick crushed ice, and so on.

So every time they go out to sea, the fishing boats are loaded with more than 30 tons of ice, which are purchased at the onshore ice factories to preserve the fresh catch.

When the fishermen were tired, they leaned against the bulkhead and slept for a while, and after an hour or two of sleep, they got up and went back to work.

Only the captain's room has a bed on the entire fishing boat, and the other fishermen who go to sea are all looking for an empty place to lie down, and they don't even have time to sleep when they are busy.

On the way back, the decks and cabins of the fishing boats were full of cod, and they had to be busy until they arrived at port.

These cod are slaughtered quickly and stored in salt yards for much less than fresh cod.

"Come on, come on...... Everyone has a share, and everyone takes two back to eat, which is a part of my boss's heart, and no one is allowed to be polite to me. With a wave of Captain Gao's bold hand, the sturdy young man who had come with him to drive climbed into the carriage and threw off the big fish one by one from above.

Good guys, all of them are fresh big guys weighing more than twenty or thirty kilograms, and there are vaguely large and small ice ballast, and the fish looks fresh and tender, which is really a good thing!

A moment of work

Twenty or thirty big fish were lifted down from the carriage, and everyone hurriedly shouted, "Enough, enough...... The young man on the carriage smiled honestly and stopped.

The people of this era are really simple, which also shows that Captain Gao is really good at being a man, at least these friends present will not take his things for nothing.

Sure enough, Zhongbo couldn't help but say; "Lao Gao, you are also sincere, my brother can't take your things for nothing. Well, you can send me a cartload of fish, and I'll give you the address later." ”

Brother Tiger over there was not to be outdone, and shouted loudly; "Uncle Zhong, don't take it to heart, I have a lot of people there, one car is definitely not enough, send me three cars."

"That's not comparable to you, we'll have half a car."

The big guy shouted "chirping" for a while, and even ordered out five or six truckloads of cod, two and a half tons per car, but fourteen or five tons of fish were sold, and the price was definitely slightly higher than that of wholesale at the harbor.

The Chinese society is such a humane society, and the white ship owner will never be able to drive his car to the big yard of the port authority, but the high captain's car will do, which shows that he has an old relationship with the port authority, which is also the ability of others.

If such a capable and discerning Chinese boss doesn't get rich, what kind of person can get rich?

(End of chapter)