Chapter 161 Money Travel (4)
Daxing Port in late summer and early autumn has begun to appear cooler. The temperature only rises slightly to over 20 degrees at noon every day, and it is very cool the rest of the time. ︽ The herdsmen in the wild even wear long-sleeved autumn clothes in the morning and evening, and the children who have been playing in the river in the summer are gone. They are now being pulled into the fields by adults. While caring for the crops that have just grown, they plant some cereals such as taro, black beans, broad beans and other grains on the ridges.
There are dense cactus planted by the fields. These cactus are so dense that they all form a thorny barrier - in fact, this is the barrier, a barrier that prevents wild animals from entering the farmland to destroy the farmland. The pioneering East Coast farmers not only have to compete with the Chalua people for living space, but also have to fight with ostrichs, pumas and other animals, which is extremely hard.
Of course, what caused the biggest troubles to the pioneer farmers on the east coast were neither the Chalua nor the cougars, but the large thistle clusters gradually spread from afar to the nearest. These old continental crops that followed the Spaniards to "immigrate" to America grew unscrupulously on the wilderness, constantly competing for nutrients with the grass, and providing an excellent way to hide for indigenous or criminals.
However, no matter how stubborn the "enemy" is, it cannot be compared with the tenacious pioneering farmers on the east coast! With the arrival of batches of new immigrants, the controlled areas of Daxing Port continue to expand outward, villages are becoming denser, roads are becoming longer and longer, farmland is becoming wider, and countless wastelands are being reorganized by pioneering farmers into the best mature land. Wherever the hoe goes, the growing madly thistle bush has to retreat, which makes people sigh at the courage of the people on the east coast to fight against the sky and the earth.
Under an old cypress tree at the entrance of the village, Sun Chengren stared blankly at the steam plow that was busy in the fields ahead. The carburized iron plowshare was pulled by a straight rope and stubbornly digging forward. Then a deep ditches were plowed out on the soft land. These were all lands for newly arrived immigrants. A few months ago, it was still deserted, but in the early stage, some people came to pick up some stones and cleaned up the roots of the shrubs. Now, with the large investment of the General Administration of Development of the State, the wasteland has been developed on a large scale. As long as the newly arrived immigrants have put in a little effort, it is still possible to grab some time to replant some forage.
"Shopkeeper Sun, the mayor has approved the land you chose. In addition, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau has also obtained the business license and can be obtained tomorrow. Sun Chunyang South Goods Store, at least legally, does not have any obstacles to opening it." A 17 or 18-year-old Corps Fortress student soldiers walked gently behind Sun Chengren and said with a smile.
"Oh, thank you so much." Sun Chengren turned around and said in surprise. Then, he touched his pocket, took out a golden coin worth 50 yuan, and quietly stuffed it into the hands of the scholar, saying, "I don't mean anything. Is it a big deal. Cadre Huo has worked hard these two days ago. I'll take this little money to buy some tea and drink."
"Cadre Huo" obviously hesitated and struggled for a while, then he "resolutely" stuffed the gold coins back into Sun Chengren's hand and said, "Shopkeeper Sun, we have our rules. I dare not accept the money for fear of something wrong. Besides, the things I have been busy with these two days were told by my superiors to do. There is no hard work. I also accepted a can of camellia tea. I'm sorry to accept more gifts, I hope you understand."
For a moment, Sun Chengren looked at the student soldiers in front of him with a look of a fool. After a long time, he sighed deeply, patted the student soldiers on the shoulders, and said nothing. He felt that these baby cadres had been studying in school for ten years and were afraid that they would not have been foolish. They would not have received any money from the door. Is this still an official?
Could it be that all the officials on the East Coast are honest and honest? Thinking of this, Sun Chengren shook his head, because whether in Ningbo, Dengzhou or the so-called Nantietree, some local officials collect money. The baby cadre in front of him does not charge money, it can only be attributed to his bad mind or little things - maybe he will get used to collecting money after working for seven or eight years, right?
Sun Chengren arrived at Daxing Port at the beginning of this month (March). He traveled thousands of miles from the Ming Dynasty through Araukan Port to the east coast. In fact, he was carrying an important mission, that is, how to introduce the Sun Chunyang South Carolina store, which has a relatively good development momentum in the Heishui area, into the east coast, and began to seize the markets of various counties and townships.
As a rapidly rising commercial chain institution in the Heishui region, Sun Chunyang South Carolina has opened four stores (Penglai, Yantai, Jeju and Dinghai), and its operating conditions are quite good. Three of them have good profits, and one has just turned losses into profits, earning a lot of profits for investors.
However, the ambition and insight of investors (the Hei Shui Development Team is the largest shareholder, and Far East military and political giants such as Shao Shude, Mao Desheng, Wei Boqiu and other Far East Military and Political Giants are also vaguely involved in it) is far beyond the reach of the Sun family who actually run the store. They have just opened four stores and have already turned their attention to the hot East Coast. So, Sun Chengren went from the sea to the East Coast to open a store in the local area, and he also carried Shao Shude's handwritten letter with him - and this is obviously the reason why he is highly valued in Daxing Port. Otherwise, the local area is busy with land reclamation, so who has time to take care of a businessman who crossed the sea from Mingguo?
As for why the store is not opened in Dongfang County, Ping'an County, Zhenhai County, etc., which have a dense population, strong purchasing power, and strong purchasing intentions (this is particularly critical), it is open in Daxing Port, which has a population of only 2,500 and has just been reclaimed for a few years. It is mainly to avoid fierce competition. Because the richer the place is, the more fierce the competition among state-owned department stores, private convenience stores, and vendors traveling around the world. Sun Chunyang's South Goods Store has made a strong breakthrough in the competitive attitude.
Entering may not be a good choice. Therefore, open the store in the newly opened Wujiang River Basin and then deeply manage it for a few years. After the entire basin gradually develops, the South Freight Store in Sun Chunyang, which has long been rooted here, naturally took advantage of the situation. What's more, Daxing Port is relatively close to Tieling County, the second industrial center on the east coast, and is the endpoint and outlet of the Northwest Railway. It has great development potential. It is suitable to layout at the minimum cost and then wait for a hundred times the future harvest.
In order to support Sun Chunyang's southern goods store's local layout on the east coast, the Far East Ming Kingdom also invested a lot of resources. For example, they introduced new investors, and Sun Chunyang's southern goods store also experienced a new round of capital increase and share expansion. At present, the Hei Shui Development Team has increased its shares to 45% after the capital injection, making it the largest shareholder; and the Sun's Suzhou headquarters also quietly sent a number of core children to Hei Shui to invest in shares, so the shares were maintained at the same time, still 40%. The shares of individual investors who originally occupied 20% of the shares were diluted, and currently only accounted for 15%. However, the proportion of personal equity in the hands of the Far East leaders such as Shao Shude and Wei Boqiu has steadily increased and has not suffered any loss.
This time, Sun Chengren came to South America with a huge sum of 200,000 yuan (transferring money from the East Coast through the Black Water Treatment Office of the Northwest Reclamation Bank). He has already planned to open at least three new branches, namely three shops located in Araukan Port, Jingjiang Port and Daxing Port. These three shops will uniformly register the Sun Chunyang South Goods Store's signature. In the future, Far East specialty products will be used as the main selling point, that is, focus on the Far East medicinal materials, tea, raw silk, porcelain, high-quality leather (bear skin, mink skin, green fox skin, etc. that are not available in South America), and then transport some East Coast specialties back to Black Water for sale to obtain huge profits.
In order to achieve this plan, Sun Chunyang South Carolina Store had to first buy one or two large ships that could carry out ocean-going sailing on the east coast and recruit enough sailors to transport goods. Otherwise, everything would be nothing more than empty talk. Sun Chunyang South Carolina Store could only operate local daily necessities on the east coast like those stores in the eastern coastal areas, make some meager profits, and live a life of neither salty nor bland.
Of course, the Sun family refused to just live like this! After handling the opening procedures of the Daxing Port branch, Sun Chengren will go to the eastern region to take a "Messenger Line Company" ship to Yancheng Port to participate in a new naval privateer auction to be held at the end of April - several captured foreign merchant ships.
Sun Chengren, who holds a huge sum of 200,000 yuan, will become the most popular figure in the auction if nothing unexpected happens. Investors from all walks of life who intend to buy and capture merchant ships will be frightened by the rich rich man who spent a lot of money. It is no problem to spend three or five ships. But the ships have to be bought, so this sailor will not be able to recruit! Yes, I can't say that I have to spend a lot of money to poach. Anyway, he has the signs of Shao Shude, Wei Boqiu, Mao Desheng, Huang Yi and others on his head, and he will not be afraid of being under the influence of the east coast. He has a lot of money to dig up a few masters of sailing, and then recruit some stupid Italian farmers, and they will be able to learn from behind the ship, and go directly to the Ming Dynasty along the ocean. Sun Chengren imagined that he did not consider such ships and such personnel configurations at all. At that time, there will be several ships that can only arrive in the Far East Ming Kingdom safely.
Chapter completed!