Chapter 1281

Publicity Activities

Chapter 1281 Publicity Activities
Liu Shang has always admired Haihan's ability in business operations. He knows that these people will always have a way to sell tofu for meat prices. The salt business is probably just another field that shows this extraordinary ability.

Luo Shengdong took the samples to show to Yu Xiaobao, and explained the production and sales status of these products.Standing not far away, Liu Shang pricked up his ears to listen, but he could basically hear clearly. He couldn't help being surprised again by the scale of Haihan's salt trade.

At present, the salt sold from here to foreign countries every day is as many as ten thousand catties.In the list of administrative cities and counties paying taxes to the Ministry of Finance last year, Yinggehai County ranked third, second only to Sanya City and Haikou City, and even surpassed Danzhou City, which shows the profitability of this place strong.

Ironically, most of the residents in Yinggehai County are Yanhu who moved from the southeast coast of Daming.As Haihan Salt has gradually occupied the salt market in these areas in recent years, the local salt farms have closed down one after another because they are unprofitable. These salt households have made their living from salt production for generations, and it is not easy to change to other businesses.However, Haihan launched immigration recruitment activities in these saltworks at the right time, recruiting unemployed salt households in batches to come to Hainan Island to resume their old business. These skilled workers can be competent for Haihan's improved seawater salt production process with a little training. , which is one of the main reasons why the Yinggehai Salt Field can develop to its current scale in just a few years.

After listening to Luo Shengdong's introduction, Liu Shang also felt a little speechless. Haihan defeated the government-run salt farms in the southeast of Daming by relying on the cheap salt produced on a large scale, and then recruited unemployed salt farmers to his side to further expand the production scale. Therefore, the lifeline of the salt industry in the southeast of Ming Dynasty will be gradually controlled by them, and they will not even have a chance to stand up.

If Liu Shang's perspective can be higher, he will find that the similar situation is not only in the salt industry, but also in many other technical types of work. Han was recruited to Hainan Island through various methods, and the corresponding production field of Ming Dynasty was constantly being weakened without most people noticing.

The main purpose of Luo Shengdong's introduction was to highlight the development of the local industry after he took office, and he also listed a large number of figures to highlight his political achievements - he knew very well that the top management of Haihan valued all kinds of data, and it was early for this. Be prepared.

After watching the quality inspection, Luo Shengdong took everyone out to visit the production site, and by the way, he also gave everyone a popular science about the local salt production process.Liu Shang is not very interested in the production process such as brine making, crystallization, and purification in the saltworks. He is more concerned about the errands he will be assigned at this station.Because before departure in the morning, Yu Xiaobao had already told him that there might be a presentation in Yinggehai County today, and now he was taking advantage of the time of the visit to recall the manuscript he had memorized before.

The visit to the saltworks lasted until noon, and after visiting three saltworks, Luo Shengdong led the crowd back to the county seat.However, Yinggehai County is different from Yacheng. There is no traditional Chinese city outline on the periphery, and it is completely an open town.Moreover, there are almost no military facilities in the area, so in Liu Shang's view, it is an undefended city.But this arrangement seems to be reasonable. The access channel to Yinggehai is extremely narrow, and the coastline in the harbor is almost entirely covered with salt fields except for a small section of pier.

Except for a few forts built next to the entry and exit channels a few years ago, there are basically no other military facilities in the local area, and there is only one company in the garrison. Local security is mainly maintained by the police and militia.However, the local life is rich, and Haihan has cleared the nearby waters in recent years, so there is actually no major hidden danger in terms of safety.

Naturally, there was no need to say much about the grandeur of the luncheon, but because there were business matters to be done in the afternoon, Luo Shengdong didn't invite everyone to drink.After lunch, Luo Shengdong took everyone to a pre-built meeting place outside the county seat, which was specially prepared for the inspection team to use for publicity activities.

Liu Shang was arranged to give a speech in the second place, just behind Xiaobao. Even though he had been performing in teahouses for the past month, he was still a little nervous when encountering such a formal official occasion.Before it even started, I took the time to go through the manuscript again.

After a while, the audience came one after another, at least half of them were salt merchants, and the other half were composed of local boat operators, saltworks cadres and representatives of the masses.The total number was only six to seventy people, and they were all notified by Luo Shengdong who had drawn up a list in advance. Seeing that there were not too many people, Liu Shang calmed down a little.

Seeing that the audience was basically seated, Yu Xiaobao and Luo Shengdong walked to the front together, and Luo Shengdong introduced the identities of Yu Xiaobao and his party and the purpose of coming here to preach to the audience.Those who had heard too much about Xiaobao's name immediately took the lead in applauding, hoping to leave a good impression on this rising star in Haihan's officialdom.If you don't know this person, hurry up and ask each other about his background.

In fact, it is very simple to introduce Yu Xiaobao's position, as long as the position of chief officer of the Youth League is enough.Not only Haihan nationals, but also foreign merchants who often come to Hainan Island know that the nature of the Haihan Youth League is almost equivalent to a reserve team of young officials, and the officials who manage this reserve team are of high status. The great influence is self-evident.It is very difficult to get in touch with such a big man, so everyone naturally cheered up to listen to the next lecture.

In fact, Yu Xiaobao’s speech was not very specific. The main purpose was to convey to the audience some recent major policies of the Executive Committee, such as further increasing the development of agricultural projects in Hainan Island and the South China Sea colonies, increasing maritime transport capacity, and strengthening cooperation with neighboring countries. Maritime security cooperation and so on.These issues are not of much practical significance to people who are not so politically sensitive, but if they are more active, they can understand some of the latest political trends in Haihan. The business opportunity, that is the matter of the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see wisdom.

After Yu Xiaobao finished speaking, it was finally Liu Shang's turn to perform.When the matter came to an end, Liu Shang was not so nervous. The audience present actually looked not much different from the tea drinkers in Xinlong Teahouse, except that the book to be spoken at the moment had changed.Although the content of this book is somewhat boring, Liu Shang believes that he should be able to finish the content relatively smoothly.

Liu Shang went up to the podium, clasped his fists at the audience and said, "I just listened to Director Yu's speech, and I think everyone will feel that I have benefited a lot. I will give some detailed explanations on the topic that Director Yu just said. Explain, please listen quietly."

Liu Shang was used to it. After he finished speaking, he almost reached out to touch the non-existent Xingmu, but he reacted in time, cleared his throat and started talking.The manuscript that Yu Xiaobao handed over to him contains a lot of guiding opinions for business operators, and it can be said to be very detailed and specific, except that it does not clearly say where to do business to make money .But for businessmen with a certain level of economic acumen, this level of prompting is enough for them to comprehend the spirit.

This manuscript does not require Liu Shang to perform it in the form of storytelling, and he does not need to work hard to add drama to himself.However, if he preaches with his basic storytelling skills, his speech is naturally much smoother than that of untrained people.Yu Xiaobao was sitting in the first row of the stage watching his performance, and secretly rejoiced that he was lucky, and temporarily picked someone to replace him. This replacement seemed to be a little stronger than the original candidate, and the whole speech process was unscripted. It can be seen that this person's brain is really good.With him at the top of this errand, there is no need to worry about any mistakes in the next few stops.

Liu Shang didn't know that Yu Xiaobao had already given him such a high evaluation in his heart, he just wanted to try his best to complete this task properly, and don't let Yu Xiaobao or Zhang Qianzhi have a chance to criticize.

It took Liu Shang about two sticks of incense to finish the manuscript, and he bowed slightly to the audience before stepping back.For a long time, he felt that his mouth was a little dry, and he secretly worried whether the preaching effect could meet the requirements of the Haihan people.When he finished speaking, there was not as much applause as when Yu Xiaobao finished speaking, but this is understandable. After all, the identity of this "propaganda officer" is almost like a passerby compared with Yu Xiaobao. will look weird.

When he was feeling uneasy, he vaguely felt eyes watching him from the side, but when he turned his head, it was Yu Xiaobao who nodded slightly to himself to show his affirmation, and then he let go of his hanging heart.It seems that the boss is quite satisfied with his performance just now, and now he shouldn't have to worry about being dismissed because he failed halfway.

But in this way, this errand may have to follow Yu Xiaobao to make a circle around Hainan Island before returning to Sanya. With the current progress, it will take at least half a month to complete this circle. I can only pray that Liao Yuan is in Sanya Don't wait crazy for yourself to show up.If something happened to Liao Yuan, after he returned to Sanya, he might be thrown directly into prison.

Despite such a big risk, Liu Shang believes that this errand is still worth trying. Although it has only traveled two stops so far, the level of information it has come into contact with is far beyond the reach of ordinary latent identities, and for the emerging regime of Haihan A more comprehensive and in-depth image is also constructed from this information.Liu Shang believes that if he can complete this errand, not only will he have the opportunity to be appreciated by senior officials in Haihan, but the value of the information he has collected will far exceed what he has obtained in the past few years.Even if the superiors arrange ten or a hundred people to lurk on Hainan Island, they may not be able to gain as much as the errand at hand.

Liu Shang was thinking about his own concerns, but the lectures on the stage did not end there. In addition to the economic and trade topics he lectured on, there were also topics in safety, culture, education, and medical care, which were also given special responsibility for the lectures.After the presentation by Yu Xiaobao and his party, Luo Shengdong went up to the stage again, and expressed his loyalty in front of everyone, saying that he would follow the instructions of the executive committee and continue to handle the government affairs of Yinggehai County properly and so on.

After the scene was finished, Luo Shengdong announced the adjournment of the meeting, but many people in the audience stayed. Some of them were going to ask questions that they were interested in just now, while others planned to get acquainted in the name of asking questions. Yu Xiaobao et al.So Yu Xiaobao held another small seminar on the spot. Once the chatterbox was opened, it couldn't be stopped, and everyone discussed in this open-air venue until night fell.If Luo Shengdong hadn't stopped the discussion with his voice, it is estimated that everyone would have the momentum to continue talking with a torch.

Among the people present, there were quite a few rich and powerful salt merchants, and they rushed to entertain Yu Xiaobao and his party for dinner.But in the end, no one can beat Luo Shengdong for this qualification, because the inspection team will leave Yinggehai early tomorrow morning, so Luo Shengdong's reasons are also very good-the meal at noon is to catch the wind, and the meal at night is practice .

Sure enough, Yu Xiaobao praised Liu Shang's performance during the meeting, and said that he would continue to hand over the preaching work for the next few stops.Liu Shang was overjoyed in his heart, and quickly thanked Xiaobao.

Early the next morning, Luo Shengdong rushed to the guest house ahead of schedule and sent everyone to the pier to board the boat. His attitude was quite correct.Yu Xiaobao had already figured out his request, and when they parted, he said that after returning to Sanya, he would personally explain the situation to Tao Donglai and Beks, and submit an application for expanding the use of steam engines in Yinggehai Salt Works for him.

Because the departure time was relatively early, when we left Yinggehai, we did not encounter traffic jams at the waterway entering and exiting the harbor.It takes about [-] nautical miles from Yinggehai Salt Fields to the next destination, Changhua County. It will take more than half a day for this ship to arrive, but Liu Shang is worried that he will run into Zhang Qianzhi again if he wanders around on the ship. , On this day, he simply locked himself in the cabin and fell asleep, only going out of the cabin at noon to eat something.

However, Liu Shang's worries are a bit superfluous. Zhang Qianzhi doesn't have so much energy to focus on him. The Ministry of Security has arranged agencies and manpower in each county. He also had contact with local security personnel during his previous visits. .Although these places are not under his jurisdiction, with his identity and authority, he can also ask about the local security affairs.

Haihan's security work is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. Although the security department is not well-known outside, the operation of this department has never stopped.Haihan has mastered many black technologies ahead of the entire era, and relied on some of these advanced technologies to establish a country in the South China Sea. There are quite a few forces coveted by the outside world, and these are potential opponents of the Ministry of Security.It's just that Zhang Qianzhi probably can't imagine that there are spies lurking in the same boat as him at this time.

(End of this chapter)