Chapter 1270
Chapter 1270
Chapter 1270
This kind of fringe benefit that requires a lot of money to support, the local government of Ming Dynasty and the large and small yamen naturally cannot fully emulate it, and only Hai Han's rich and powerful style will adopt such a measure.Although Liu Shang is not a person who is greedy for small profits, he can also feel how hard Hai Han puts into these details to win people's hearts.It is said that Haihan employs as many as thousands of civil and military officials at all levels, most of them are immigrants from various countries after they became popular. These people are willing to serve Haihan with allegiance, probably not just for power , this generous treatment should also be part of the reason.
Of course, even if the Ming government is willing to tighten their belts to follow this practice, at most it will play a certain role for the lower-level officials. , who would care about this lunch.Liu didn't know whether Haihan's middle and upper-level officials would have a similar situation, but Chang Degao rejected Jiang Han and his invitation twice, and it can be seen that Haihan's grassroots officials still have certain professional ethics.
After lunch, Chang Degao took Liu Shang to go through the training procedures.This training center is not on the side of the Hong Kong Management Committee, but on the Luhuitou Peninsula.Han Zhengshan, the magistrate who went south to Xingdao before, was trained in this training center when he joined the job in Sanya.Theoretically, the civil servants recruited by Shanghai Hanxin will first receive induction training of varying lengths here, and they can only formally perform their duties after passing the basic professional assessment.
With Chang Degao in charge, the formalities will be completed smoothly, but because this is a closed training and it lasts for more than ten days, Liu Shang has to go back to his residence to pack up and bring his personal belongings here. The official registration time was changed to the next day.
After completing the formalities, Chang Degao said to him, "I won't be here when I report tomorrow. You can study on your own for the rest of the study arrangements."
Liu Shang bowed deeply and said: "Thank you for the promotion of the regular officer. After the training is over, Liu will find a chance to thank you in person."
Chang Degao waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so polite. What I do is just due diligence. Besides, if a talent like you doesn't stand up and serve the country, his talent will really be buried. You perform well here, If you are seen by the higher-ups, it is also possible to directly ask you to go to Victory Fort."
Liu Shang heard from Chang Degao before that the Propaganda Section of the Sanya Management Committee is just a subordinate organization of the Propaganda Department here, and the Propaganda Department located in Shengli Fort is the core of this department.However, in general, new recruits will only be assigned to the peripheral grassroots to accumulate work experience, and there will be very few cases where they will be called out by the Victory Fort after the training is over.Of course, this possibility exists in theory, and Chang Degao's saying this is actually a kind of blessing to him.
If there is really an opportunity to work in the core area of Fort Victory, Liu Shang will naturally try his best to fight for it. His purpose in coming to Sanya is to learn as much as possible about the operation of Haihan’s governing body and the political system of this emerging country, not Superficially collect a little military and economic intelligence.And only in the core area of Fort Victory, is it possible for Liu Shang to get close to and observe the real rulers of this country—the Haihan people who are said to have crossed the sea from thousands of miles away.
During the time Liu Shang arrived in Sanya, he hadn't really observed those Haihan people at close range.There were two times when the chief came to inspect the Sanya port area, and there were crowds of people rushing forward and back, and there were policemen on duty outside. Ordinary people couldn't get close at all, and at most they just watched the excitement.If he could lurk beside these Haihan people who are called the chiefs by the people, it would be a great achievement.
Saying goodbye to Chang Degao, Liu Shang didn't go back to his residence directly, but went to Xinlong Teahouse first.One is to retrieve some personal belongings that I temporarily put in the teahouse for the performance, and the other is to say hello to Jiang Han, which can be regarded as thanking him for his care during this time.
Liu Shang accepted the call from the government and is about to leave his job. Naturally, this kind of news cannot be hidden from the tea guests who come every day. The news spread quickly in the teahouse. Many people came up to congratulate him when they saw him He rises high.While dealing with it, Liu Shang thought to himself that luckily the interview passed smoothly, otherwise, if he came back disheartened, he would inevitably suffer some teasing.
Probably out of respect for Liu Shang's change in status, Jiang Han was more polite than the day before, and directly invited him to speak in the back hall.It was not easy for Liu Shang to take his things and leave, so he followed him to the back and sat down to chat for a while.Jiang Han is nothing more than telling him to come back and walk more after entering the Yamen. If there is anything that needs help, just ask. In the end, he is trying to maintain this friendship with Liu Shang, and wants to put the previous employment relationship to rest. Gradually it became a personal friendship.
After Liu Shang dealt with the politeness without any leaks, he took his leave and left.Jiang Han enthusiastically sent him out of the store, and planned to call another rickshaw for him, but Liu Shang politely refused this time.He doesn't want to owe Jiang Han too much favor, it's better to keep a more appropriate distance.
When Liu Shang returned to his residence, he saw Liao Yuan sitting in the yard, giving orders to several of his brothers.Liu Shang didn't go over to join in the fun, and went back to his room after saying hello.
Not long after, Liao Yuan knocked on the door. Liu Shang opened the door and invited him into the room, and said, "I went to the Hong Kong District Management Committee to meet with the publicity department. The interview went well, and the naturalization procedures have already been completed in the morning. After a few days, it will be considered as an official naturalization."
Liao Yuan had run into a wall with him before, and originally prepared some arguments to grind the tongue with Liu Shang, but he didn't expect that the other party's attitude changed drastically today, and he actually cooperated so much.Liao Yuan sighed and said, "Mr. Liu's speed of naturalization is really enviable. You can get special approval from the government after only one month here, except for those who enlist in the army. This can be said to be one of the best treatment among immigrants! "
Liu Shangdao: "Shrimps have their own ways, and crabs have their own ways. It's just that you and I take different paths. How is your situation? Do you know when you can get Haihan nationality?"
Liao Yuan replied: "I have asked my host, and it takes three months at the earliest to apply. I came one month earlier than you, so I have to wait at least another month. But he has a good relationship with the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. If he declares for naturalization, it only takes one application to pass the customs."
Haihan nationality is a threshold for all foreigners who want to lurk here for a long time. If they have no special skills and want to stay in Sanya and do not want to be assigned to other areas for resettlement, they will be approved for naturalization The time period is often much longer than three months.There are also a large number of new immigrants who have not yet been naturalized after staying here for a full year, and almost all of them are low-level laborers who mainly sell their labor.Strictly speaking, the street performances that Liao Yuan and others engaged in before also have no technical content, and the social value they can create is also extremely limited. In the eyes of Haihan officials, it must be counted as a business that simply sells labor.
If they hadn’t found a new way out, it would be impossible for people like Liao Yuan and others to pass the customs with one application. New immigrants like street performers who don’t have a fixed workplace are regarded as unstable factors in the eyes of the government. Sanya was approved for naturalization.But with the backing of Liu Zhenguo, the few of them working in the store can avoid a lot of detours.Liu Zhenguo transported more than [-] northern immigrants to Haihan successively. Officials from all levels of the Civil Affairs Bureau have dealt with each other. Naturally, they will not encounter any obstacles in applying for naturalization for their employees working in Sanya.
Liu Shang nodded and said, "Waiting for one more month is not a big deal. The law and order in Sanya is very peaceful, and one month will pass quickly."
Liao Yuan also deeply agrees with this: "That's true. There are police and militiamen on duty in the port area during the day, and there are security teams jointly funded by various chambers of commerce to patrol at night. To be honest, it doesn't matter if the commercial store invites a nursing home or not." Influence. But now the owner has a solid family background, and the sea trade business is doing a lot, so he probably won't care about such a little extra salary."
Liu Shang asked: "I heard that Boss Liu started his career as a boat dealer?"
"Now he is still a shipping company. From Shandong to the South China Sea, his ships are running on the sea. It is said that he has hundreds of sea ships working for him." Liao Yuan couldn't help but sigh when talking about this matter: "The family is so big. Many maritime merchants are also working for the Haihan people. No wonder Haihan’s shipping line has been able to advance all the way north. But then again, without Haihan, he may not be able to achieve the scale of his business today. The southeast coastal sea This is roughly the reason for the cooperation between Shangduo and Haihan."
Liu Shangying said: "Those who refuse to cooperate have already been driven to death by Haihan!"
Speaking of this, the two looked at each other, and were speechless for a while.Naturally, they had heard about Haihan's various actions in the southeast coast of Daming in the past few years, but those who dared to fight against them were almost all "killed pirates" and "killed bandits" in the Haihan foreign wars over the years. The name of the class is eliminated.Among them, the most famous one is Shibazhi, who was once invincible in the waters of Fuguang and Guangzhou.
Shibazhi used to be one of the strongest maritime armed forces in the Fuguang sea area. With the support of the Dutch behind the scenes, it was even able to use force to suppress the Daming navy in this area.But from the first year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong and his brothers appeared in front of Haihan as a challenger, and they have been at a disadvantage since the beginning of the confrontation between the two sides.Although Shibazhi tried his best in the next few years, he couldn't stop the decline of being hit by Haihan every year.Zheng Zhilong struggled to support Chongzhen for six years, and finally was captured by the Haihan Navy into Miyako Island on the east side of Taiwan, and Shibazhi was completely destroyed.
And almost as soon as Shibazhi was killed, there were also many armed maritime organizations located in Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang.Some of these large and small organizations took advantage of the wind and switched camps in time to join Haihan, while some stubbornly resisted to the end and inevitably ended up in the same fate as Shibazhi.
With such examples before, how could any maritime merchants along the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty dare to risk the disgrace of the world, and then sing against the Haihan people.In the early stage, almost all the maritime merchants who embraced the thighs of Shanghai and Han made their fortunes in just a few years. Li Jifeng in Guangdong, Liu Zhenguo in Fujian, and the three Lin brothers in Zhejiang are vivid examples of local tyrants. Naturally, there are countless.
Since there are many benefits to cooperating with the Haihan people, who is willing to fight with the Haihan people with their heads on the premise that they know they can't win?As for what kind of damage this kind of trade cooperation will cause to Daming, that is something that the government should worry about.The businessman's bounden duty is to make money, and making more money into their own pockets is their ultimate goal. What's more, there are countless officials with personal interests as their backing. The trade relationship between the two countries was severed, even if the imperial court ordered it to be impossible.
Unless the person in the Forbidden City is bold enough to change all the officials in Fuguang and Guangxi provinces, it may last for a few years.However, the feasibility of this assumption is basically zero. Under the current situation of continuous internal and external troubles in Ming Dynasty, how could the imperial court have the courage to attack the officialdom of the two provinces that were originally relatively peaceful? Therefore, Hai Han was annoyed and started a war in a fit of anger. How could the Ming army in the south be able to defeat them?
All parts of the south are becoming more and more attached to Haihan, and it is already extremely difficult to resolve this situation.After Liu Shang and Liao Yuan came to Sanya, they also became more and more aware of the national power gap between the two countries in various aspects. Simple means of military struggle or trade blockade cannot solve the conflict of interests between the two countries.And the role these little pawns can play in this chessboard is simply negligible, and there is no hope of changing this situation at all.But with the task in hand, the direction of progress is not up to them to decide. The road ahead can only be taken one step at a time, and there is no plan to speak of.
In the end, it was Liao Yuan who took the initiative to break the silence: "Since your naturalization procedures have been completed, have you been assigned an official position?"
"Official position?" Liu Shang shook his head and said, "They arranged an induction training for me, and I will live in that training base for the next ten days or so. I will pack my things when I come back this trip. What kind of job will I be assigned in the end? I have to wait for the training I only found out later."
"More than ten days... During this period, you can't go out?" Liao Yuan asked in a deep voice.
"I heard that you can't go out. Besides, I have no relatives or reasons in the local area, and I can't find any reason to go out. One more thing is worse than one thing less, so as not to attract the attention of Haihan people." Liu Shang understood Liao Yuan's purpose for asking this, and he was responsible for it. In order to monitor his own mission, it is actually a certain risk for him to cut off news for more than ten days.If Liu Shang exposed his identity during the training period, and then spit out his accomplices, Liao Yuan would not even have a buffer time to run outside.
(End of this chapter)
This kind of fringe benefit that requires a lot of money to support, the local government of Ming Dynasty and the large and small yamen naturally cannot fully emulate it, and only Hai Han's rich and powerful style will adopt such a measure.Although Liu Shang is not a person who is greedy for small profits, he can also feel how hard Hai Han puts into these details to win people's hearts.It is said that Haihan employs as many as thousands of civil and military officials at all levels, most of them are immigrants from various countries after they became popular. These people are willing to serve Haihan with allegiance, probably not just for power , this generous treatment should also be part of the reason.
Of course, even if the Ming government is willing to tighten their belts to follow this practice, at most it will play a certain role for the lower-level officials. , who would care about this lunch.Liu didn't know whether Haihan's middle and upper-level officials would have a similar situation, but Chang Degao rejected Jiang Han and his invitation twice, and it can be seen that Haihan's grassroots officials still have certain professional ethics.
After lunch, Chang Degao took Liu Shang to go through the training procedures.This training center is not on the side of the Hong Kong Management Committee, but on the Luhuitou Peninsula.Han Zhengshan, the magistrate who went south to Xingdao before, was trained in this training center when he joined the job in Sanya.Theoretically, the civil servants recruited by Shanghai Hanxin will first receive induction training of varying lengths here, and they can only formally perform their duties after passing the basic professional assessment.
With Chang Degao in charge, the formalities will be completed smoothly, but because this is a closed training and it lasts for more than ten days, Liu Shang has to go back to his residence to pack up and bring his personal belongings here. The official registration time was changed to the next day.
After completing the formalities, Chang Degao said to him, "I won't be here when I report tomorrow. You can study on your own for the rest of the study arrangements."
Liu Shang bowed deeply and said: "Thank you for the promotion of the regular officer. After the training is over, Liu will find a chance to thank you in person."
Chang Degao waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so polite. What I do is just due diligence. Besides, if a talent like you doesn't stand up and serve the country, his talent will really be buried. You perform well here, If you are seen by the higher-ups, it is also possible to directly ask you to go to Victory Fort."
Liu Shang heard from Chang Degao before that the Propaganda Section of the Sanya Management Committee is just a subordinate organization of the Propaganda Department here, and the Propaganda Department located in Shengli Fort is the core of this department.However, in general, new recruits will only be assigned to the peripheral grassroots to accumulate work experience, and there will be very few cases where they will be called out by the Victory Fort after the training is over.Of course, this possibility exists in theory, and Chang Degao's saying this is actually a kind of blessing to him.
If there is really an opportunity to work in the core area of Fort Victory, Liu Shang will naturally try his best to fight for it. His purpose in coming to Sanya is to learn as much as possible about the operation of Haihan’s governing body and the political system of this emerging country, not Superficially collect a little military and economic intelligence.And only in the core area of Fort Victory, is it possible for Liu Shang to get close to and observe the real rulers of this country—the Haihan people who are said to have crossed the sea from thousands of miles away.
During the time Liu Shang arrived in Sanya, he hadn't really observed those Haihan people at close range.There were two times when the chief came to inspect the Sanya port area, and there were crowds of people rushing forward and back, and there were policemen on duty outside. Ordinary people couldn't get close at all, and at most they just watched the excitement.If he could lurk beside these Haihan people who are called the chiefs by the people, it would be a great achievement.
Saying goodbye to Chang Degao, Liu Shang didn't go back to his residence directly, but went to Xinlong Teahouse first.One is to retrieve some personal belongings that I temporarily put in the teahouse for the performance, and the other is to say hello to Jiang Han, which can be regarded as thanking him for his care during this time.
Liu Shang accepted the call from the government and is about to leave his job. Naturally, this kind of news cannot be hidden from the tea guests who come every day. The news spread quickly in the teahouse. Many people came up to congratulate him when they saw him He rises high.While dealing with it, Liu Shang thought to himself that luckily the interview passed smoothly, otherwise, if he came back disheartened, he would inevitably suffer some teasing.
Probably out of respect for Liu Shang's change in status, Jiang Han was more polite than the day before, and directly invited him to speak in the back hall.It was not easy for Liu Shang to take his things and leave, so he followed him to the back and sat down to chat for a while.Jiang Han is nothing more than telling him to come back and walk more after entering the Yamen. If there is anything that needs help, just ask. In the end, he is trying to maintain this friendship with Liu Shang, and wants to put the previous employment relationship to rest. Gradually it became a personal friendship.
After Liu Shang dealt with the politeness without any leaks, he took his leave and left.Jiang Han enthusiastically sent him out of the store, and planned to call another rickshaw for him, but Liu Shang politely refused this time.He doesn't want to owe Jiang Han too much favor, it's better to keep a more appropriate distance.
When Liu Shang returned to his residence, he saw Liao Yuan sitting in the yard, giving orders to several of his brothers.Liu Shang didn't go over to join in the fun, and went back to his room after saying hello.
Not long after, Liao Yuan knocked on the door. Liu Shang opened the door and invited him into the room, and said, "I went to the Hong Kong District Management Committee to meet with the publicity department. The interview went well, and the naturalization procedures have already been completed in the morning. After a few days, it will be considered as an official naturalization."
Liao Yuan had run into a wall with him before, and originally prepared some arguments to grind the tongue with Liu Shang, but he didn't expect that the other party's attitude changed drastically today, and he actually cooperated so much.Liao Yuan sighed and said, "Mr. Liu's speed of naturalization is really enviable. You can get special approval from the government after only one month here, except for those who enlist in the army. This can be said to be one of the best treatment among immigrants! "
Liu Shangdao: "Shrimps have their own ways, and crabs have their own ways. It's just that you and I take different paths. How is your situation? Do you know when you can get Haihan nationality?"
Liao Yuan replied: "I have asked my host, and it takes three months at the earliest to apply. I came one month earlier than you, so I have to wait at least another month. But he has a good relationship with the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. If he declares for naturalization, it only takes one application to pass the customs."
Haihan nationality is a threshold for all foreigners who want to lurk here for a long time. If they have no special skills and want to stay in Sanya and do not want to be assigned to other areas for resettlement, they will be approved for naturalization The time period is often much longer than three months.There are also a large number of new immigrants who have not yet been naturalized after staying here for a full year, and almost all of them are low-level laborers who mainly sell their labor.Strictly speaking, the street performances that Liao Yuan and others engaged in before also have no technical content, and the social value they can create is also extremely limited. In the eyes of Haihan officials, it must be counted as a business that simply sells labor.
If they hadn’t found a new way out, it would be impossible for people like Liao Yuan and others to pass the customs with one application. New immigrants like street performers who don’t have a fixed workplace are regarded as unstable factors in the eyes of the government. Sanya was approved for naturalization.But with the backing of Liu Zhenguo, the few of them working in the store can avoid a lot of detours.Liu Zhenguo transported more than [-] northern immigrants to Haihan successively. Officials from all levels of the Civil Affairs Bureau have dealt with each other. Naturally, they will not encounter any obstacles in applying for naturalization for their employees working in Sanya.
Liu Shang nodded and said, "Waiting for one more month is not a big deal. The law and order in Sanya is very peaceful, and one month will pass quickly."
Liao Yuan also deeply agrees with this: "That's true. There are police and militiamen on duty in the port area during the day, and there are security teams jointly funded by various chambers of commerce to patrol at night. To be honest, it doesn't matter if the commercial store invites a nursing home or not." Influence. But now the owner has a solid family background, and the sea trade business is doing a lot, so he probably won't care about such a little extra salary."
Liu Shang asked: "I heard that Boss Liu started his career as a boat dealer?"
"Now he is still a shipping company. From Shandong to the South China Sea, his ships are running on the sea. It is said that he has hundreds of sea ships working for him." Liao Yuan couldn't help but sigh when talking about this matter: "The family is so big. Many maritime merchants are also working for the Haihan people. No wonder Haihan’s shipping line has been able to advance all the way north. But then again, without Haihan, he may not be able to achieve the scale of his business today. The southeast coastal sea This is roughly the reason for the cooperation between Shangduo and Haihan."
Liu Shangying said: "Those who refuse to cooperate have already been driven to death by Haihan!"
Speaking of this, the two looked at each other, and were speechless for a while.Naturally, they had heard about Haihan's various actions in the southeast coast of Daming in the past few years, but those who dared to fight against them were almost all "killed pirates" and "killed bandits" in the Haihan foreign wars over the years. The name of the class is eliminated.Among them, the most famous one is Shibazhi, who was once invincible in the waters of Fuguang and Guangzhou.
Shibazhi used to be one of the strongest maritime armed forces in the Fuguang sea area. With the support of the Dutch behind the scenes, it was even able to use force to suppress the Daming navy in this area.But from the first year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong and his brothers appeared in front of Haihan as a challenger, and they have been at a disadvantage since the beginning of the confrontation between the two sides.Although Shibazhi tried his best in the next few years, he couldn't stop the decline of being hit by Haihan every year.Zheng Zhilong struggled to support Chongzhen for six years, and finally was captured by the Haihan Navy into Miyako Island on the east side of Taiwan, and Shibazhi was completely destroyed.
And almost as soon as Shibazhi was killed, there were also many armed maritime organizations located in Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang.Some of these large and small organizations took advantage of the wind and switched camps in time to join Haihan, while some stubbornly resisted to the end and inevitably ended up in the same fate as Shibazhi.
With such examples before, how could any maritime merchants along the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty dare to risk the disgrace of the world, and then sing against the Haihan people.In the early stage, almost all the maritime merchants who embraced the thighs of Shanghai and Han made their fortunes in just a few years. Li Jifeng in Guangdong, Liu Zhenguo in Fujian, and the three Lin brothers in Zhejiang are vivid examples of local tyrants. Naturally, there are countless.
Since there are many benefits to cooperating with the Haihan people, who is willing to fight with the Haihan people with their heads on the premise that they know they can't win?As for what kind of damage this kind of trade cooperation will cause to Daming, that is something that the government should worry about.The businessman's bounden duty is to make money, and making more money into their own pockets is their ultimate goal. What's more, there are countless officials with personal interests as their backing. The trade relationship between the two countries was severed, even if the imperial court ordered it to be impossible.
Unless the person in the Forbidden City is bold enough to change all the officials in Fuguang and Guangxi provinces, it may last for a few years.However, the feasibility of this assumption is basically zero. Under the current situation of continuous internal and external troubles in Ming Dynasty, how could the imperial court have the courage to attack the officialdom of the two provinces that were originally relatively peaceful? Therefore, Hai Han was annoyed and started a war in a fit of anger. How could the Ming army in the south be able to defeat them?
All parts of the south are becoming more and more attached to Haihan, and it is already extremely difficult to resolve this situation.After Liu Shang and Liao Yuan came to Sanya, they also became more and more aware of the national power gap between the two countries in various aspects. Simple means of military struggle or trade blockade cannot solve the conflict of interests between the two countries.And the role these little pawns can play in this chessboard is simply negligible, and there is no hope of changing this situation at all.But with the task in hand, the direction of progress is not up to them to decide. The road ahead can only be taken one step at a time, and there is no plan to speak of.
In the end, it was Liao Yuan who took the initiative to break the silence: "Since your naturalization procedures have been completed, have you been assigned an official position?"
"Official position?" Liu Shang shook his head and said, "They arranged an induction training for me, and I will live in that training base for the next ten days or so. I will pack my things when I come back this trip. What kind of job will I be assigned in the end? I have to wait for the training I only found out later."
"More than ten days... During this period, you can't go out?" Liao Yuan asked in a deep voice.
"I heard that you can't go out. Besides, I have no relatives or reasons in the local area, and I can't find any reason to go out. One more thing is worse than one thing less, so as not to attract the attention of Haihan people." Liu Shang understood Liao Yuan's purpose for asking this, and he was responsible for it. In order to monitor his own mission, it is actually a certain risk for him to cut off news for more than ten days.If Liu Shang exposed his identity during the training period, and then spit out his accomplices, Liao Yuan would not even have a buffer time to run outside.
(End of this chapter)